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XXV

ON SUGGESTIONS FOR PATIENTS

"In pulmonary tuberculosis the notes of personal experience mature too late and cannot be discounted."

It has been thought wise to reprint the following summary of suggestions for patients. The explanations of these suggestions have been given elsewhere.

Eggs-2 to 6 a day

Milk-2 to 6 glasses

Meat (at 2 meals)

Food

Lunches-10:30, 3:30, 9, when ordered

No alcohol

Baths

Warm, at least one a week at bedtime

Cold sponge to the waist at least every morning

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Sleep out of doors or in tent, except in winter
No draughts on head

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8.00

8.30

10.30

Milk (hot if desired) if necessary

Warm water for washing. Cold sponge
Breakfast

Out of doors in chair or on bed

Lunch when ordered

11-1 Exercise or rest as ordered

1-2

2-4

Dinner. Indoors not over one hour, less if possible

Rest in reclining position. Reading, but no talking allowed. Take temperature

3.30 Lunch when ordered

4.00 Exercise when ordered

6.00 Supper

7.00 Out on good nights 8.00 Take temperature

9.00 Lunch and bed

Once or twice a week a hot bath, followed by cold

sponge

Always stop any medicine that upsets stomach. A hemorrhage does not mean that you are hopelessly worse, or cannot be cured.

Remember that the porch is the most essential feature of the house.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“My never failing friends are they with whom I converse day by day."

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New York, 1912, The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis

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FLICK (LAWRENCE F.) Consumption: A Curable and Preventable Disease. Philadelphia, 1903, David McKay

GALBREATH (THOMAS CRAWFORD) Chasing the Cure in Colorado 289 Fourth Avenue, New York, 1915, Journal of the Outdoor Life Publishing Company

GALBREATH (THOMAS CRAWFORD) T. B. Playing the Lone Game Consumption. 289 Fourth Avenue, New York, 1915, Journal of the Outdoor Life Publishing Company

GARDNER (CHARLES)

The Care of the Consumptive

New York, 1900, G. P. Putnam's Sons

Gibbs (Winifred F.) Lessons in the Proper Feeding of the Family New York, 1909, Association for Improving the

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New York, 1908, Ginn & Company

HAWES (JOHN B., 2d) Consumption: What It Is and What to Do Boston, 1915, Small, Maynard & Company

About It.

HUTCHINSON (WOODS)

The Conquest of Consumption

New York, 1910, Houghton, Mifflin & Company

KNOPF (S. A.) Tuberculosis: A Preventable and Curable Disease New York, 1909, Moffat, Yard & Company

KNOPF (S. A.) Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and How to Combat It. New York, 1913, F. P. Flori

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