Show THE CURING OF CONSUMPTION Great Work Being Done in New York PostGraduate Hospital For the benent of poor coiwumptUrs unable to leave their work or to go from homo to a more congenial climate cli-mate the New York IostOradutte Hospital some years ago set apart a portion of Its free illspensai Some of the methods employed me described in IVnrsons i The patients I report at the hospital I twice dally and these dally gatherings idve the physicians In charge an op port tinIly to crossexamine tho pa tltiits to correct their faults of living and Instruct them how to make tin most of their means The patient are bidden to cat all they can ot wholesome food allowing an interval of five hours between meals Things specifically barred are tea coffee cocoa co-coa chocolate vinegar alcohol In any form beef tea and meat extracts II Is preferred that tho patients do not ISO ohncco Fresh air and cleanliness of person and surroundings are Insisted Insist-ed upon Frequently the patients occupation oc-cupation will not permit of his condoling con-doling I his supply of air during the day < but he must sleep with his windows win-dows wide open In all kinds of eath fr Why do we hear all this talk about the great necessity of fresh air tu curing consumption The reason is I that heat and energy are convertible terms that If the fat you take into your system Is to bo utilized as energ It must be lilndled and that to kindle anything you must have oxygen which Is found In proper quantity only In air that Is fresh Women patients who wear corsets must take thorn off Ilesldcs being Instructed as to tho method of cure the patients are taught that tho curing of tt cause of tuberculosis depends as much If not more upon the detcrmlratlon and will of tile patient as upon the skill of the plnslclan Some heroic struggles are made by some of the patients who arc determined deter-mined to get well The writer tells of one poor woman who with both lungs affected and a cavity In her chest sat bundled up a whole winter In a room with the windows wide open while she sewed with fingeiles gloves blowIng blow-Ing on her hands now and then to relieve re-lieve the numbness Her perseverance was happily rewarded with recovery |