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Title: Wisconsin medical recorder
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Janesville : Hall & Thorne
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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atmenl ; viz. he feels that he cannever again gel too much fresh air inhis bedroom. This he can obtain, on thefarm where he is employed, withoutdanger of freezing oul every one ion the place, only bv sleeping in thebarn where the plentiful crack- in the . WISCONSIN MEDICAL RECORDER 205 sides of the building afford him thatcharacter of air, no matter what theseason, his kings became accustomed toin Texas and which those organs stillcrave. This class of cures invariably cravetheir bedroom windows wide open atnight, regardless of the temperature orother character of the weather outside;consequently these people remain well, tients without other reasons than themere fact that they had tuberculosis;for we know that home sickness fre-quently hastens the death of consump-tives far from home, and Ave also nowknow, from experience that cures ef-fected in the home climate in which thepatients will have to reside and earntheir living after their restoration tohealth, are more lasting and assured
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Winter Shelter Massachusetts State Camp for Consumptives while many others, especially in thisclimate, sleep in rooms where the win-dows are seldom opened in the winter,even during the day, and often fallvictims to this great plague and thenwonder how. Despite this and many other similar-ly successful experience with my pa-tients in milder climates away fromhome, I would not today recommend achange of climate for this class of pa- than cures obtained in more genialclimes. Almost the first question put to thephysician by the family of a consump-tive is: Shall we tell him the truth? Most certainly: If he be curable. The profession is today almost unan-imous in the belief that it is impera-tive for a patient, if he be a curableone, to know his condition, and that itis a remnant of the Dark Ages to keep 206 WISCONSIN MEDICAL EECORDER this knowledge from bim with the mis-taken QOtion that it .-pares his feeliand increases his chance.- of recovery. his true condilion maykill him. We can eas

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