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with its


confined


sea or the farm, to


nd poisoned a
out-door work


food, sound wine, fewer hours


only


remedies,


alternative.


we- must


do the


When


best we


hygienic rules as can be observed.


You


must


and regular
work," etc.
we cannot 


can.


take


to the


exercise, good
We are driven
et the proper
prescribe such


We prescribe cod-liver oil,


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' +'


phosphorus


compounds,


palliatives


cough,


etc.,


and we thus lengthen and render more tolerable


cannot save.


stances,


we do


lives we


Sometimes, even under these untoward circum-
p save life. All do not die, by any means. The


physician who, at this day, consigns
to the realms of despair even in the
the disease, without an effort to save


consumptive


patient


more advanced stages of


him


, scarcely appreciates


his mission to its fullest extent.


* Suppose, then, that our inva-


lid knows that he has incipient consumption, or that condition
of lung, call it by whatever name you will, which under ordi-


nary circumstances


almost


surely


result in


actual


con-


sumption.
chance fo


those


able


He is cheered by the confident assurance that his


complete
to avail


recovery
themselves


is good


are speaking


of our advice);


that,


at all


events,
greatly


if he


does


prolonged.


completely recover,


But,


understands


may


that


is, so to speak,


in his own hands


that he must, in a measure,


work out his own salvation.


He knows that he banishes him-


self from home, perhaps from friends also, to make a fightbor


4fe.


He ought to know, likewise, that the fight


a short one;


is not to be


that perseverance is necessary, and a patient


quiescence in all the minute of the


advice


of his


physician,


however muck and often it may conflict with iis oishes and


his temporary pleasures.


Without this knowledge, it is almost


impossible to get the patient to avoid the most outrageous in-


fractions of the most simple


rules.


The physician


must


that his


patient


is not hampered


by too


much


advice


and too strict roles.
nual character come
signment to the ba


Here, judgment and a study of


into play.
okwoods, to


Some patients may


interior


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ear con-


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