TREATMENT OF THE CZAR’S CONSUMPTIVE SON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 11, 18 March 1893, Page 262

TREATMENT OF THE CZAR’S CONSUMPTIVE SON.

The Grand Duke George, the Czar’s second son, who, ever since bis enforced teturn through illness from his Indian tour, has been under medical treatment for pulmonary disease, has been passing his time at Abbas-Tuman, in the Caucasus Mountains. His Imperial Highness is undergoing a most remarkable course of treatment. The walls in his apartments are bare and unpapered, the furniture is of plain wood or cane, without upholstering or stuff covering of any kind, and his bed consists only of the thinnest of mattresses. Throughout the coldest weather only a very moderate fire has been kept up, while the windows of the Grand Duke’s rooms have been continuously open. His attendants have suffered frightfully from the cold ; but his medical advisers hold that this low temperature is very beneficial to their imperial patient, as it tends to destroy the bacillus and prevents the formation of tubercle. They maintain that the progress of the disease has been arrested, and express hopes that if the treatment which they prescribe is persevered with, the Grand Duke will in two years’ time have completely recovered.