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proper tonics and supportive treatment, it will surprise those who try it, if 

 not already past the reach of benefit from any medical treatment. (See Chronic 

 Diarrhea, "Muscovite," or Raw -Beef Cure for, to obtain nourishment in very 

 feeble and debilitated cases.) 



8. Consumption Cure, by Simple Home Means, if Taken in 

 the Beginning. — Mary Maybee, of Farmington, Conn., says: " Take 1 pt. 

 of vinegar, 1 table-spoonful of tar, boil 15 minutes, Dose — Take 2 table-spoon, 

 fuls every time you cough." 



.Be7»arA». — " Maybe " it will cure the difficulty. Certainly it will bo 

 foimd good for common coughs; and some of these " simple means " are aston- 

 ishing in their effects, if persevered with. Our American people change too 

 quickly, hoping for something better. Stick to a good thing as long as there is 

 a perceptible benefit. 



9. Consumption— Climatic Changes are Believed to Have 

 Much to do in its Ciire. — Dr. Talbot Jones, in a communication to the 

 New York Medical Journal, says there are 3,000,000 of persons who die annu- 

 ally of consumption ; and also says that the medical resources are baffled by this 

 disease and confesses "that climate is the physician's only dependence for the 

 cure of his consumptive patient." He makes the following statements in rela- 

 tion to the disease: 



I. "No zone enjoys entire immimity from pulmonary consumption. 

 II. " The popular belief that phthisis (consumption) is common in cold 

 climates is fallacious, and the idea, now so prevalent, that phthisis is rare iu 

 warm climates is as untrue as dangerous. 



III. " The disease caxises a large proportion of deaths on the sea-shore, the 

 mortality diminishing with elevation up to a certain point. 



IV. ' ' Altitude is inimical (opposed) to the development of consimiption, 

 owing chiefly to the greater purity of the atmosphere in elevated situations, it3 

 freedom from organic matter, and its richness in ozone. [This agrees with my 

 own opinion, that high and dry situations, especially rolling and, consequently, 

 dry pine lands, are the best places to take up a residence in if one has to change 

 at all.] 



V. " Moisture arising from a clay soil, due to evaporation, is one of the 

 most influential factors in its production. 



VI. " Dampness of the atmosphere, from whatever cause, or in any alti- 

 tude, predisposes to the development of the disease, and is hurtful to those 

 already attacked. 



VII. " Dryness is a quality of the atmosphere of decided value. 

 VIII. " The most unfavorable climate possible for a consumptive is one of 

 uniform high temperature and a high dew point (warm and moist). 



IX. "The effects, due to change in the atmosphere, are by no means so per 

 nicious as are generally supposed, and on this subject present views require 

 modification." 



Bemarks. — Dr. Jones commends the climate of Minnesota for those predis- 

 posed to consumption, or laboring under its first stages, and thinks " that a 

 residence there would be very likely to cure or materially benefit them," and 

 adds: " Between the pleasant rolling prairie, the wooded lake region, and the 

 dense pine forests of the northern section of the state, they can choose what 

 «eems most agreeable and best adapted to them, while the dry, bracing atmoi- 

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