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376 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
The wet jacket may be worn night and day. Sweat
ing is of advautage, if the patient
can bear it. The
dripping sheet or cold sponging is good for the nightsweats;
cold water injections for the diarrhoea.
By these means many have been saved. Some have
been cured, who seemed marked for death; others
have had their lives prolonged, and made comfortable
for months and years.
No ever drug cured —all are consumption drugs mis
chievous ; and none is more so than that which is almost
universally given, and which enters largely
composition of nearly
into the
all the nostrums in use. I mean
opium. After a time all the soothing effects of opium
are lost, and the disease is made more painful.
Change of climate may be favorable. A soft, pure
air is better than a harsh, one. damp, impure But I
distrust the enervating effects of warm .climates. In a
mild one,- the patient gains by being much in the open
air. Change of scene may remove some cause of dis
ease, but going north may be as well as going south.
Some think a cold air better than a warm one. It may
be, if you can be out of doors. There seems no doubt
that a dry atmosphere is better than one loaded with
damps and fogs. Either is better than close, hot rooms.
When we have lost the use of any portion of the lungs,
we should get the best air we can, and breathe as much
of it as possible. I think much of strengthening the
chest by exercises, and systematic, deep breathing.
Eat pure food, and but little ; use up no vital force in
digesting and excreting unnecessary
food. Breathe
pure air, and much of it ; the blood wants all the oxy
gen it can get. Keep the skin clean, and promote its