Consumption and its Cure.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5454, 24 August 1901, Page 1

Consumption and its Cure.

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Professor Clifford Allbntt recently delivered an interesting addresses ring which he said :—

As to the possibility of banishing tuberculosis from the world, he might allude to what had been done In regard to the plague to which our country wu subject 300 years ago: Like the plague, tuberculosis might be eradicated and yet come back occasionally. Typhoid, too, would be practically eradicated through sanitary methods.

At present, however, we did not know enough of tuberculosis to say it could be eradicated altogether. What we were trying to do now was not merely to afford solace tod comfort to the individual, though that was an important matter, hat to discover the habitat of the germs of the disease and to destroy them in their Beat. This was a long and a slow process, and for that reason our efforts must, not ba slackened. We know that tuberculosis was propagated by tuberculous mankind—be spoke now specially of pulmonary consumption, which was on the Increase—and this occurred entirely through expectoration from the lungs. It was necessary that such expectoration should not be carried abroad and inhaled by healthy people, Then glancing at the open air method of cure, he traced the course of auccesbful expfriments on the 'highlands of Peru, the steppea of Tartary, Dr Bennett's life at Mentone, and the Swias arrangements But everyone could not go to the high Alps, and, as Dr Dettweiller had shown, a high altitude was not absolutely necessary, so long as patients could camp out in pure air. And fresh air, he incidentally remarked, was not only a cure for consumption, but a* cure for other diseases, aa his .colleagues!- had found at Cambridge.

A& to the rate of euro, he raretrtiooccl that if patients were treated in tlm early stages of ooßiitraplion some 80 per cent could be cured, In caeei where ths complaint was more manifest the perceotage of re«;overiei wan 60 or 60. If the lungs were nfFeoted pretty ooDßiderably,2s per cent could be cured. • If, however, you catch your eas?i early, ' eaid he, in conclusion, • t'uere it no reason why all Bhould not be cured. 1 These words practically sum up the whole position with regard to the open air treatment of consumption:; and they should be borne in mind by all those interested in the luatter..'

* All that glitterß is nob gold,' A proverb old and true. Neither is a cough or cold, What iti appears to yon. Do cob treat it lightly, for *1 is better to be sure, 4? That you suffer never more, - tied Woods' Gbeat Pkppebmint Curb.