Eat plenty of nourishing food three times a day, especially of milk, eggs, and meat.

Sit or work in a gentle current of air, keep away from those who have the disease, sleep with your windows open, take plenty of exercise in the open air, and you need have little fear of consumption.
In the camps, or sanatoria, for the cure of consumption, these methods are simply carried a little further, to make up for previous neglect.
The patients sit or lie out of doors all day long, usually in reclining chairs, in summer under the trees, and in winter on porches, with just enough roof to protect them from rain or snow.

They sleep in tents, or in shacks, which are closed in only on three sides, leaving the front open to the south.

They dress and undress in a warm room, or the curtains of the tent are dropped, or the shutters of the shack closed night and morning until the room is warmed up.

In cold climates they dress day and night almost as if they were going on an arctic relief expedition, and spend twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four in the open air.
[Illustration: A TUBERCULOSIS TENT COLONY IN WINTER] They eat three square meals a day, consisting of everything that is appetizing, nutritious, and wholesome, with plenty of butter, or other fats; and in addition, drink from one to three pints of new milk and swallow from six to twelve raw eggs a day.