Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — Consumptives. [ARTICLE]

Consumptives.

A physician who writes for the Continent about the curative powers of nature is positive in his conviction that it is better for a consumptive to stay at home, where he can be comfortable, than subject himself to the discomfort of hotel life, or the greater inconvenience of a camp. He says that the camp cure may be fairly tried by sleeping on one’s own housetop. Another ihedical man replies that the summer conditions of spruce forests are eminently favorable, and consumptives have recovered in the most surprising way living under canvas in them, where the air is impregnated with the healing emanations peculiar to the nondeciduous tree growths. There are consumptives whose lungs crave the salt air of the ocean; others to whom the dry atmosphere of Colorado is in finitely soothing; and others, again, who are benefited by the climate of Florida or Southern California. “To prescribe Florida for one person might mean death, while if he went among tße Northern paradise of spruce recovery might follow.” It is hard to act a part long, for, ■where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another.— Tillotson. Tennyson smokes clay, pipes, taking a fresh one every day.