Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-09-18
Health Talks by DR.. Brady
REST for the Sick LING.

The most valuable. and unfortunately the
very last lesson tho tuberculosis subject learns
is tina, rest heals the sick lung. II Is sad
to contemplate the great number Of victims
of this disease who feel they know moro in :
stnctivry or intuitively than a doctor knows
and who indulge in daily walks. deep breath
ing or other exercise TO keep up streng h
when they should bc enjoying the advantage
Of absolute rest. SO far as insurins recovery
is concerned TR subjects largely grouped
in ca,csorcs: Those who refuse to take
tho doctors opinion that they've got it, and
victims who finally admit that maybe the doc :
tor right AMI then proceed to experiment
on their own. The mistaken and his
friends have not Tot learned that tuberculosis is
is the most durable serious chronic disease
II managed !ntellIgently.
II has long been the practice In hospitals
and sanatoriuma to teach patients with tuber-
culosis 10 control cough: that Is not merely
TO muzzis nose and mouth while coughing.
but 10 resist and suppress the desire to cough.
Much Of the coughing Of persons III OF this.
as Of other lung and bronchial diseases. IS
unnecessary. unproductive and even harmful
10 tho patient. Coughing often becomes bad
habit and II is surprising 10 many tubercu-
losis patients how we'll they can control the
impulse To cough after a little practice and
how much more comfortable they arc when
they do avoid needless coughing. or course.
this docs not apply to all chest troubles. nor
even TO all OF pulmonary tuberculosis
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is not only necessary. but highly beneficial TO
tho condition in the chest.
Or. s. Adolphus Enopf famous as an au-
thority on tuberculosis. proposes To tho med l.
cal profession novel idea, what he terms
physiological adjuvant In the rest cure OF
pulmonary tuberculosis namely, that the pa :
tient breathe much more slowly tina n the msua
rate Of r-spira ton and with the lower ches
and diaphragm only. He made the nrst ex-
permcrts himself and was able to reduce
his own breathing 10 eight. six and sometimes
only Ave inspirations a minute without dis
comfort, IN place OF the usual fftocn to TWEEN
~ Inspirations a minute. Then he sugEested
IL to some or his patients who readily reduced
their aspirations from twenty or thirty 4
minute 10 ten or eight minute for periods
of half hour time. several times da y
without discomfort or harm OF any kind and
as several OF them declared. with apprccin bl o
benefit.
Every SUDDEN; ~ tuberculosis knows,
writes br. kn"pf. ",!It il we could put every
case of carly tuberculosis at complete rest and
also limit. as much as possible. the movement, :
OF the involved area. we would have fewer ad :
vanctd cases. In my earlier career taught
respiratory exercises as prophyIactic e
ure in tuberculosis and still DO =: hut as
a curs tive means. feel more than ever tina
anything which will put the infamcd lung n,
rest II even only AT comparative rest, is the
idea! trca tincnt In The ma jority of cases. when
In addition to restricted respiratory move
mrnts tho patient trains himself to cough onl y
when the accumulation of pulmonary or bron-
chial secrctions dema nds It. he will be doubly
benefited.