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results to the Paris Academy of Sciences (1901). They discovered 

 that the respiratory changes become greater in consumptive patients 

 than in healthy persons, thus completely overturning the general belief 

 on the subject. The volume of inspired air was nearly doubled. 



The investigators therefore believe that the old name "consumption" 

 is a good name for the disease. To cure the disease, it is not sufficient 

 to remove the bacillus. The labored and exhausting breathing due to 

 abnormal functional and nutritive trouble brings the lungs into a con- 

 dition favorable to the development of the bacillus, and these troubles 

 must first be removed. 



2. The Cure of Consumption. D. M. Appel, major and surgeon, 

 United States Army, makes the following statement : 



" We have demonstrated at the Fort Bayard sanitarium for soldiers 

 that we can cure consumption in any stage. I don't mean to say that 

 if people come to us with lungs so far gone as to destroy their breathing 

 power we can cure them, but I do say we can cure what has long been 

 regarded as hopeless the third stage of the disease. The treatment 

 is merely that which has been for years followed by the practitioners of 

 the rational system. It consists of open-air living, generous diet, and 

 rest. During the daytime the patients are not allowed under cover, and 

 at night all windows are wide open. It is a common thing for these 

 patients to gain ten pounds a week. One increased from 140 to 190, 

 another from 128 to 210, and another from less than 100 to 160." 



3. "The degree of vital activity of which we are capable is gauged 

 exactly by the amount of oxygen we breathe. The bird which soars 

 above the clouds has enormous lungs ; even its hollow bones are util- 

 ized for breathing purposes ; it may almost be said that a bird breathes 

 to the very tips of its toes. The frog, on the other hand, has no chest, 

 has merely a small breathing bag, which it fills at comparatively long 

 intervals. Compare the activity of the swallow, easily keeping pace 

 with the lightning express, with that of the frog, croaking amid the 

 slime and miasma of a stagnant pool" (J. H. Kellogg, M.D.). 



4. "The Greeks, whose figures remain everlasting and unapproachable 

 models of human beauty, wore no stays. The first stays mentioned 

 that I have ever found, is in the letters of Synesius, Bishop of Cyrene, 

 on the Greek coast of Africa, 400 A.D. He tells how, when he was 

 shipwrecked on a remote part of the coast, and he and the rest of the 

 passengers were starving on cockles and limpets, there was among them 

 a slave girl, out of the far East, who had a pinched, wasp waist, such as 

 you may see on the old Hindu sculptures and such as you may see on 

 any street in any British town. 'And when the Greek ladies of the 

 neighborhood found her out, they sent for her from house to house to 



