OCTOBER 79 



wished very much to visit this sanatorium myself, but 

 circumstances rendered it impossible. 



A good account of it was published just after I came 

 home, in the ' Practitioner ' for November, by Dr. Karl 

 Hess, senior physician to the establishment. 



It cannot fail to strike us as we walk or drive past the 

 Brompton Hospital, with its airless situation and its closed 

 windows, how hopelessly different its conditions and treat- 

 ment must be from those recommended and apparently 

 so successfully carried out at Falkenstein. In Germany 

 twenty sister establishments have been started, and the 

 medical management is supposed to be now so complete 

 against infection that German parents have no fear of send- 

 ing delicate children to these cures, at the age of sixteen 

 or seventeen, to be benefited by the outdoor treatment as 

 a strengthener against the possibility of their catching 

 tuberculosis. At Falkenstein, the parent institution, much 

 meat is insisted on ; but I am told that at Nordrach 

 Dr. Walther now gives very little meat, and sends away 

 patients if they take any stimulant at all. He does cram 

 them, but it is with enormous quantities of milk, cheese, 

 butter, brown bread, and other farinaceous foods. 



When I came home from Germany last year I noted 

 three things which I hold to be of the utmost importance, 

 and in which we seemed in England to be decidedly 

 behind other nations. First, I wished to see estab- 

 lished public slaughterhouses, duly inspected, not only 

 in large towns, but in every village where beasts are 

 slaughtered. It seems to me absurd to expect that the 

 man who buys a beast, kills it himself, and counts on 

 selling the meat at a profit, should forego his gains solely 

 for the public good. Meat is constantly eaten which is 

 rejected by the Jewish priests, and I believe it is a 

 statistically established fact that Jews have a great 

 immunity from both consumption and cancer. It used 



