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Show oo WHY CONSUMPTION ISN'T CURED., Brown had moved In tho month of May into a house In another part of the town where ho had always lived By fall he had contracted tuborculosls It was discovered later that several different dif-ferent families who had occupied this samo house in succession had lost several sev-eral members from tuberculosis No attempt had over been made to disinfect disin-fect the house Brown went to Arizona, Ari-zona, pitched his tent on a cerlnin spot and never made any change from, that one spot until his death. Note that fact As a result, the soil over which he slept, night after nlghL became be-came saturated with the accumulated germs which he oxnelled In coughjng, so that he was continually, at night, rebreathlng Into his system the verv "seeds" which cause tho disease. Ho was repolsonlng himself nightly, and didn't know It His system would have been able to throw off the original origin-al "germ polt)n" which It contracted, hut It was not strong enough to withstand with-stand a new dose of tho poison every nigbt Had he changed tho location of his tent dally, he could have slej each night la an atmosphere practical ly gorm free. There Is a lesson in tills. Tnt open-air treatment Is all right, but It must bo carried out bv right methods. meth-ods. All early cases of consumption which have failed to recover by outdoor out-door treatment must lav the blnmo to faulty treatment Jons. who recovered, recov-ered, you will remember, did change his locitlon every day. having no lent to bother him, and in doing so, avoided avoid-ed the fatal mistake of Brown. How about Smith? Tho case of Smith is. rf the greatest importance He had recovered, re-covered, you will romember, and returned re-turned to his home feeling fine back to what' To tho vory same plagjo-rlddon plagjo-rlddon room in which ho had first contracted con-tracted the disease a room reeking with tubercular gorm life, ajid walch had beon occuplod, it was learned later, lat-er, by five different consumptives at various times The disease g.' a hold on him a second tlm for the stm pie reason that he came back to the original source of his diceaso Ho should have sought new quarters or else the house, and particularlv In' room ho occupied, should have hcen disinfected beforo being ocuplc.l bv him or anv one else Thojc three cases cited are but typical instincc3 There are thousands upon thousands of Browns, Joneses and SmUhs, living and dving this very Hay, whose sicr If told In its true llcht, would maid-exactly maid-exactly tho slmplo lut pathoU his tory of these three men. Technical World Mngnzino for May. |