HOW CONSUMPTION IS CURED AT NORDRACH. (Public Opinion).

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9410, 7 March 1899, Page 4

HOW CONSUMPTION IS CURED AT NORDRACH. (Public Opinion).

Kcom Hit) moment of arrival until leaving Nordrach the patient novor btctibhfB one breath of any bub purest air, as Nordraoh in in the Black Forout, at an elevation of 1500 foot, etttroondod by trees, and n long way off a town. The oaoernoot windows of tho sanatoria are k^jib wide open day and nigh', winter and summer, and in some inabaooea bho windows are taken ' completely oat of the frames. Thua ib is practically an outdoor life bho patient llvon. Thero is thorofor no danger ]of chills on going out in any kind of weather, or ab any hoar, as tho temperature within and without is equal. -So pleasant doea thia living in bho open become and so hardy is bho pablont made, that on bis roturn journey to this country it ia the greatoab misery for him to romain in a room with cloaod windows, Being at »uoh a conaiderablo height 1500 feo$, wibb ariaoin tho longer walks of another 1500 feet — - tho patient, to get the «flmo amount of oxygon into tbo tiystem, rnuob breatho more of the tarifted air, and thus oxpand tho lunga. •, ' In this way the lungo aro complotoly flooded with pure air; all bbe . odd corners and crann'os, whiob ho hardly used for years aro venbilatod, v/h ch tho easy walking upb 11 is eminently calculated to effeob, when at the ,'aamo timobho almost absolute root bho "pttbient onjoy'a allow bho luogo bo bo - poetically undisturbed, and perrmta the healing proceafi bo proceed, Tho climabo ia much tho daixto an , ub homo. Thero ia quite rmt high a rainf ill, and in winter ib is ho much ooldor, But it has been demonstra od boyond a'doabt l)hut c'.iraito hag nothing bo do with tho CA80. There the potfenfcs, who go out re* gulnrly, in nil kinds of woatbor, some* times walking for hours in tho rain, without ever thinking of changing their web clothes afterwards, Tbia course I utili adopt, and fiad that Buoh a wetting— -somotimoa twice in one j day — nevor doas rce any barm whatever. I afilcod Dr Walthor if he thought | hifj oyutom oould be earned on with hops of mcotm in thia country, Ho oaltl thab ib oould bo worked hero quite tin well ao at Nordraob, or ae in tho buimioot clime; that all that wau re* (juirod was a place where pure air wao to be had, situated well away from a town, at a fair elevation, and tbo man to see that tho system was properly carried out. J am now convinced that this la per' fecoly true. Absolutely nothing olse in needed. Freedom fcom wind, a high average of sunohino, dry climate, and all euch other things as nro gen orally nnppoaod to bo nooeBBary, go for no.hiDg, And bhio is the crux of the whole caabbor, Ib k poesible to cure hero almost all tho people of this country who are ill of phthieie. Why then, are sanatoria coft erected ut onco to euro tho bundrodaof fchounande of those who are ill, and who have not tho me*ne of going abraa'i-— hundreds of thousands wlio aro ro certainly doomed to death ae if thoy were al» ready under tho fiod t if some euoh ! atopa be not at once taken. It is a»d to think that) all of tboeo pooplo taunt d o, when they mighb easily b o waved,