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Show Tuberculosis Among the Indians. (From the Craftsman.) Fresh air and sunlight are the great preventives and curatives. Consumption Consump-tion cannot maintain a hold upon people peo-ple who take plenty of pure oxygen into their lungs sleeping and waking. Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis in any of its forms was extremely ex-tremely rare among the Indians, if not entirely unknown to them, before the advent of the whites. Like the negroes and other members of savage racts that have been brought under the influence of civilization, the ahoriginees of this continent displayed an unusual degree of susceptibility to pulmonary diseases. Since the Indian has begun to change the manner of his life, taking insufficient insuffi-cient exercise, overclothing himself, consuming alcohol and living in a stuffy log cabin, tuberculosis has laid a constantly con-stantly increasing hold upon him, so that now it is much more frequently manifest in the red man than in his white neighbor. |