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Title: The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Foreign influences Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Radiant Life Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Yet I deliberately called campby the side of a great snowbank. The fearful invalidwanted to know what I was stopping there for. I toldhim it was to afford him a good sleeping place onthe snow. He expressed his dread, and assured methat such an experience would kill him at once. Itold him that if it did I would see that he was decentlyburied, but that did not seem to dissipate his fears.After a good camp-fire was built, and he had had a warmand comforting supper, and his blankets were stretchedout on the snow, and he was undressed and wellwrapped up, with a hot rock at his feet and the cheeryblaze lighting up the scene, he felt less alarmed. Italked him to sleep, and when he awoke in the morn- 71 INDIAN AND SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS ins it was to confess tliat his throat and hin^^s feltmore comfortable than they had done for many longmonths. A month of this open-air sleeping gave himnew ideas on the subject, and sent him back east to fitu)) a cam)) in the Adirondacks, where he could get a
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BOSTON MILLIONAIRES SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS ON THE SANDS OFTHE COLORADO RIVER. great deal of outdoor life, and sleeping with doors andwindows wide open. The outdoor treatment for tuberculosis is nowalmost universal. Here is what one eminent authoritysays on the subject: Tuberculosis is a direct result of over-work,either mental or physical, and rest is largely its cure. 72. INDIAN AND SLEEPING OUT OF DOORS This life in the open air is best carried out in a sittingor semi-recHning posture. Every hour of the day in allseasons of the year and in all kinds of weather shouldthus be spent, together with sleeping in a tent, protectedveranda, or in a house with windows wide open. Itwill be found that the colder the weather, the moremarked and permanent the results. One does notneed to be uncomfortable; one can be well wrappedwith heavy blankets. It is the inhalation of cold airthat is so effectual in stimulating appetite, as a generaltonic and fever reducer. A consumptive should havefor his mot

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