In order to carry out this regimen, it is necessary to live out of doors day and night, winter and summer.
The tubercular patient should sleep in a tent, or upon an open piazza every night, regardless of the weather or the temperature of the atmosphere. If these rules were observed the white plague would lose some of its terrors.
In cases of Consumption:
| OMIT | EAT | |
| Coffee | Cheese | |
| Meat | Eggs | |
| Stimulants | { Preferably— | |
| Sweets | { Carrots | |
| Tea | { Dried beans, | |
| Tobacco | Fresh | { Onions |
| vegetables | { Peas | |
| { Parsnips | ||
| { Potatoes | ||
| { Pumpkin | ||
| { Squash | ||
| Figs | ||
| Milk | ||
| Raisins |
HEART TROUBLE
The heart, a sentinel of the body
The heart may well be called the thermometer of the body. Under normal conditions it is never heard from, but under abnormal conditions it is the first and the most reliable sentinel of the body. It stands eternally on duty and sends its danger signals to the brain with truthful accuracy, whether the trouble be of physical, mental, or emotional origin. A word or a sound sent through the air enters the ear and is analyzed by the brain, but the heart registers accurately its effect upon the physical body. We see a face or an occurrence a block away, and through the optic nerves it is comprehended by the brain, but the heart alone registers or gives back to the brain the effect upon the body.
Necessity for heeding the symptoms of the heart