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Life and Health 



507. The Outdoor Life. The outdoor life is one of the 

 great essentials in the treatment of consumption. It is in 

 striking contrast to the common indoor existence of most 

 city people. The patient is out of doors from seven to ten 

 hours every day, at rest a part or the whole of the time. He 

 also sleeps out of doors, or with the windows of his sleeping 

 room wide open, whatever the weather or temperature. 



FIG. 174. The Open-Air Treatment of Tuberculosis. 

 Service of Dr. J. H. Pratt, Boston. 



(This consumptive patient is taking the treatment in a canvas tent, 

 in a vacant lot in the rear of his home. The tent is converted into 

 a canopy by fastening up the sides and ends.) 



Outdoor sleeping is advised, and is now frequently prac- 

 ticed by those in good health as well as by the consumptive. 

 For this purpose either a piazza, a so-called "shack" (which 

 is a small open building), or a sleeping porch (which can be 

 added to almost any house at a small expense), may be made 

 use of. 



Outdoor conditions of sleeping may also be obtained by 

 means of the "window tent," which can be applied to any 

 window, and by this device the body remains indoors while 



