Interstate medical journal . lders forward and downward. The accompanying illus-tration (Fig. 6) will help to explain this exercise. Repeat this exercise 6to 8 times and, if convenient, repeat it after half an hour or an hour. If the dug-outs and trenches can be ventilated to admit fresh air, thisshould by all means be done. In tents and barracks and all other sleepingquarters the soldier should, of course, make it his business to see that thosehabitations are always well ventilated. Fresh air by day and by night isthe best preventive as well as curative agent against tuberculosis. What should
Interstate medical journal . lders forward and downward. The accompanying illus-tration (Fig. 6) will help to explain this exercise. Repeat this exercise 6to 8 times and, if convenient, repeat it after half an hour or an hour. If the dug-outs and trenches can be ventilated to admit fresh air, thisshould by all means be done. In tents and barracks and all other sleepingquarters the soldier should, of course, make it his business to see that thosehabitations are always well ventilated. Fresh air by day and by night isthe best preventive as well as curative agent against tuberculosis. What should the soldier do so as not to spread tuberculosis? The first symptoms of tuberculosis have been previously described. Withthese he should make himself familiar, and if he coughs and expectorates heshould gather a specimen of his sputum and take it to the doctor for examina-tion. Until he has seen the doctor he should use all the precautions pos-sible, that is to say, spit in a piece of cloth or in a receptacle which he should. Pig. 6.—Breathing exercise with rolling of shoulders. empty into the trench latrine, water-closet, or drain. During the cough heshould hold the hand before the mouth and should never swallow his ex-pectoration. If the soldier perceives any of the symptoms described, he need not thinkat once that he has tuberculosis, but it is his duty as a soldier to report hiscondition immediately to the surgeon in charge of his company. He will thenbe carefully examined and proper care will be taken of him. If the ailmentis not tuberculosis, the examination will demonstrate it; if it is tuberculosis,the early diagnosis and timely treatment will save the individuals life: forlet it be known right here that, of all the chronic diseases human flesh is heirto, none offers so favorable a chance for cure as does pulmonary tuberculosisif discovered early. Special Articles 1075 Should the American soldier in France greatly fear contracting tuber-culosis after what has been sai
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