. The human body and health : an elementary text-book of essential anatomy, applied physiology and practical hygiene for schools . consumption if they continue amonth or more. A physician should be consulted. Longexperience has shown that patent medicines are of no usewhatever for the consumptive. Some may seem to help for a time becauseof the alcohol orother tonic theycontain, but thehelp is only tem-porary, and manyof them hasten theprogress of thedisease. Scientistsagree that the useof any alcoholicdrink advertised tocure consumptiononly makes it worse, because the alcohol has been shownto
. The human body and health : an elementary text-book of essential anatomy, applied physiology and practical hygiene for schools . consumption if they continue amonth or more. A physician should be consulted. Longexperience has shown that patent medicines are of no usewhatever for the consumptive. Some may seem to help for a time becauseof the alcohol orother tonic theycontain, but thehelp is only tem-porary, and manyof them hasten theprogress of thedisease. Scientistsagree that the useof any alcoholicdrink advertised tocure consumptiononly makes it worse, because the alcohol has been shownto weaken the germ-killing power of the blood. The one treatment which has been tried by over 100,000patients and found most successful, is living a hygieniclife to increase the germ-killing power of the in the fresh air by day and by night, drinkingdaily a quart or more of rich milk containing a half dozenraw beaten eggs, in addition to eating three nutritiousmeals, and exercising according to strength has curedfifty-five per cent of the tubercular patients taking thetreatment in the early stages of the Fig. 191. — Open shed facing southward wherethe consumptive patients breathe pure air allday. METHOD OF MAKING THE BODY IMMUNE 285 The Danger from a Consumptive. — If proper care istaken, there is but little probability of contracting con-sumi^tion from living in the same house with a germs are given off in the ordinary breathing, and incoughing, a clothto be later burned,should be heldbefore the sputum mustbe received into aparaffined papercup with a coverto keep out theflies and burnedat the end of theday. More than10,000,000 germsare known to begiven off daily bysome drinking cupand other tableware should bescalded immedi-ately after use. Observing these precautions and livinga more hygienic life has decreased the yearly deaths fromtuberculosis in this country one fourth during the lastfifteen years. Artificial Metho
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