ANGLING AS A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 304, 22 December 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

ANGLING AS A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

The medical faculty now recommend outdoor treatment as the only remedy for this terrible disease.

If a lad is the one attacked let him take to angling. There is no exercise so beneficial to health as angling- It brings every muscle of the body into play, and especially the muscles of the chest, when at the river-side with a rod in hand one goes over a mile or two of ground searching with his lure every bit of water where he thinks he will find a fish. At every inspiration the blood is osydised, purified, sent circulating to the extremities, throwing off effete mat-

Herein lies the sheet anchor of hope to the afflicted. The angler, when at the riverside with rod in hand, is in the midst of nature's art gallery. The beauties of nature give joy and hope to the heart-

It is very likely the family doctor would recommend cod-liver oil, which to some is nauseous, and with others does not agree. But there is a substitute at hand—namely, soft brown cane, sugar and butter. Chemically, they are the same as codliver oil, and much more pleasant to take. The butter and sugar are taken with the food. The butter -s laid thick en the brc.a and then press cd down on the sugar, which makes ii toothsome to eat. Take also of milk. Pasture-fed milk contains the virtues of a thousand herbs, and is far superior to town dairy milk. The bread to be eatpn should be made from wheat meal. Analysis reveals to us that wheat meal contains all the elements necessary for the human system. Such bread is far superior to bread made from fine dressed flour. If a young lady is sent to the country for open-air treatment the same applies to her except angling. But I have met in with some lady anglers during my long experience who could handle the fishing rod to some tune. Let her take long walks in meadows and fields and climb hills and spend all her time in the open. If she has an attendant so much the better- If the ground is dry let her not be afraid to lie down and take a sound sleep. With the exception of meal-times, all the time should be spent in the open. The hectic flush will disappear from the face and the bloom of health will take its place.

T will state a case to illustrate what I have been saying. My grandchild is more than 20 years of age and a strong man. When he was a boy about nine years of age he was, to use a quack doctor's figure of speech, a hopeless case, and given up by the doctors. I took him to the country (Peebles), got lodgings for him, made him sleep with an. open window: his meals were porridge and milk; dinner, mutton chop (and this was his own choice) with some vegetables and wheaten bread; milk in place of tea, and drink of milk befcrre going to bed.

He soon formed acquaintance with other boy?, and entered into all their games. At the end of four months he was brought home wonderfully improved. The hacking cough had completely left him. As I said he is now completely well, and a married man.