[A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson]@TWC D-Link bookA Handbook of Health CHAPTER XIV 32/36
You would think they would burst on such a diet, but they don't; they simply gain from two to four pounds a week, lose their fever and their cough, get rid of their night sweats, and usually in from two to five weeks are able to be up and about the camp, taking light exercise.
When they have reached their full, normal, or healthy weight for their height and age, their amount of food is reduced, but still kept at what would be considered full diet for a healthy man at hard work.
If sick people can be made well by this open air treatment, those of us that are well ought not be afraid to have a window open all night. Two-thirds of the treatment that would cure you of consumption will prevent your ever having it.
While tuberculosis chiefly attacks the lungs, it is really a disease of the entire body, or system, and cannot attack you if you will keep yourself strong, vigorous, and clean in every sense of the word. How to Recognize the Disease in its Early Stages.
To recognize the disease early is, of course, work for the doctor; but he must be helped by the intelligence of the patient, or the patient's family, or he may not see the case until it is so far advanced as to have lost its best chance of cure.
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