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Taking the Open Air Cure During the Day at Sharon Sanatorium,

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Sharon, Mass.

is preferred, especially in a city, as it is more secluded.

In the country an open lean-to or shack will do nicely for a sleeping-out place. Such a shack is closed on three sides, open in front, can be built of rough boards and roofed with waterproof paper. Its depth should be sufficient, when combined with a marked projection of the roof, to keep rain from beating in, and there should be a small room at the back with a stove, where the patient can get warm, wash and dress. These shacks can be buiit at small cost.

For night clothing many things will suggest themselves to the individual "sleeperout." Some wear a long woolen night shirt and over this a sleeveless sweater to protect the chest and shoulders. For the head one can use a skull cap or knitted helmet which fits the head tightly, covers the neck, comes down over the shoulders and leaves only the nose and mouth exposed to the open air. In such a climate as the Adirondacks bed socks are necessary, and some persons even wear woolen slippers or thick woolen socks, such as lumbermen use. A woolen abdominal bandage may be found desirable by some.

At first so much clothing will seem awkward and unpleasant, but one soon gets used to it. If one's nose grows cold when sleeping out, he is apt to nestle so far down in the bedclothes that he breathes the same air over and over again, thus defeating the very purpose of sleeping out. The utmost care should be taken to avoid this, for it would be far preferable to sleep in an ordinary well-ventilated room than to stick one's head under the bedclothes outdoors.

The warm breath passing through the nose makes that organ less susceptible to cold than other parts of the body, still there are some who may require a covering for the nose, and these persons should be careful not to use anything that will interfere with breathing fresh air. Care should also be taken to avoid having the breath reach the "nose guard" and form particles of ice. It might be suggested here that the face be rubbed with cold cream or vaseline at night to prevent chapping.

As a protection for the nose one sleeper-out we know of used, with satisfaction, a small piece of flannel which was held in place by means of elastics slipped over the ears.

An ordinary iron bed, with woven wire springs, is, perhaps, the best, though, if the

sleeping-out quarters is to be used also as a place to sit-out during the day and the space is limited, a folding bed may be found preferable. A moderately thick hair mattress will be found sufficiently warm by many people, especially if a blanket be spread under it. Several layers of newspapers under the mattress or a blanket or bed-pad of quilted cotton over it will provide extra warmth. Some persons may even find two mattresses necessary in very severe weather, perhaps a woolen one over the hair.

Feather beds are undoubtedly warm, but they are now quite generally condemned as unhygienic.

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Over the mattress, of course, goes the usual cotton sheet. Blanket sheets are warm and for many persons necessary. Individuals vary so in their sensitiveness to cold that it is impossible to fix upon any given quantity of bed clothing that will answer in all cases. However, in a large sanatorium where sleeping-out is practiced even when the temperature is considerably below zero, the covering of the patients, unless they ask for more, consists of a blanket sheet, four pairs (eight folds) of blankets, one counterpane and one comforter of lamb's wool. A comforter of eider-down is lighter and warmer than lamb's wool, but less sanitary. On top of all a woolen horse blanket will be found of service in protecting the bed from rain and snow that may beat in

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and there should be a blanket, quilt, shawl or some such protection suspended between the posts at the head of the bed.

Some persons spread a fur robe or fur coat over the bed, but the objection to these is their heavy weight, which presses down upon the body and leaves one in the morning with " that tired feeling." The fur robe or coat will do well enough to spread over the feet, but further up on the body they may cause decided discomfort.

If additional covering be desired, half a dozen layers of newspapers, sewed between flannel covers, will be found both light and

warm.

If possible, the sleeper-out should go to bed in a warm room and have someone roll him out. If this cannot be done, a warm dressing gown should be at hand for use going to and from the bed. When it is necessary to leave the bed out all day it should be warmed with a hot-water bottle before being used. A hotwater bottle may also be left in one corner at the foot of the bed. Wrap it in several thick

nesses of flannel so that it will give off heat slowly.

If one or two pillows be placed in the or dinary way with their long axis perpendicular to the long axis of the bed, it will be found when one turns over in bed or lies on one side that an open space between the body, the mattress and the pillows is almost always formed. This allows cold wind to blow down one's back. To avoid this arrange your pillows in the shape of a V, with the apex at the head of the bed. On getting into bed place your head on the parts of the two pillows forming the apex of the V. In this way you nestle snugly between the pillows and one protects you in front and the other in back from drafts.

To be well tucked in bed by an attendant the last thing at night is desirable, but by no means necessary.

While requiring some courage at first, it is seldom that a person who has tried sleeping out cares to go back to the old way of sleeping indoors.

Medical Press Not Enthusiastic Over Professor Behring's New Cure.

The announcement made at the recent tuberculosis congress in Paris that Professor Behring had found a cure for tuberculosis, has not aroused so much enthusiasm in the medical press as it did in the lay press. The British Medical Journal says:

"It may be pointed out that as far as the material which Dr. Behring has laid before us is concerned there is no reasonable justification to anticipate any important progress in the treatment of tuberculosis. Dr. Behring failed to convince the majority of scientists in Europe that he had done a great work when he delivered his address in Cassel, and it is not too much to say that if it were not for his name having become great in connection with the diphtheria antitoxin, this work would not have aroused much notice.

"It has not been accepted, and therefore one fails to see how this new research, which is to a certain extent built up on immunizing experiments, can be even provisionally ac

cepted. Going a little further into the inquiry, we are given to understand that active immunization, which he believed he had previously produced, could be substituted by a passive immunization, and by means of these antibodies a curative process can be achieved. This, of course, applies to laboratory animals, such as guinea pigs and rabbits, so that even if Dr. Behring can show later, and others can confirm his work, that true passive immunity can be produced on these animals, it does not by any means follow that the same applies to man."

The Lancet says: "Dr. Behring is a pathologist of world-wide reputation, with a splendid record of past achievements, and we may hope that his confidence in his own work will again be justified. None the less, we cannot but deprecate the great publicity which has been given to an investigation which at the present time is very far from complete.

"It appears to us that such congresses as

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