Consumption : what it is and what to do about it

Consumption : what it is and what to do about it

Author: Hawes, John B. (John Bromham), 1877-1938

Year: 1915

1. What consumption is and what it does -- 2. How germs of tuberculosis get into the body -- 3. Bovine tuberculosis -- 4. Early and important symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis -- 5. What to do if you think you may have consumption -- 6. What to do if you are told and know that you have consumption -- 7. Home treatment -- 8. How to live and sleep in the open air -- 9. Treatment in a local ornot far distant sanatorium how to get these and what it costs -- 10. Saranac lake where it is what it offers to the consumptive and how to get these -- 11. Colorado and the West -- 12. After the sanatorium then what? -- 13. Tuberculosis in childhood -- 14. How parents can help in the prevention and cure of tuberculosis in children -- 15. Fresh air rooms and open air schools what they are and what they are for -- 16. Consumption and marriage what should consumptive parents do about their children? -- 17. The problems of paying the bills in consumption and how they have been solved -- 18. Drugs and cures for consumption their use and abuse -- 19. Diet in consumption -- 20. How to keep from giving consumption to others -- 21. General remarks -- 22. Hints and helps for tuberculosis patients