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Updated: June 15, 2025
Not only do these two diseases not occur in the land of perpetual cold, the frozen North, except where they are introduced by civilized visitors, and scarce a single death from pneumonia has ever yet occurred in the crew of an Arctic expedition, but it has actually been proposed to fit up a ship for a summer trip through the Arctic regions, as a floating sanatorium for consumptives, on account of the purity of the air and the brilliancy of the sunlight.
The statements of these observing and reflecting men are of the first importance, and require no scientific deductions to prove the benefit certain classes of consumptives may receive by a residence in Minnesota; but if it is found that whatever of data in meteorology there is bearing on the climate of this State, confirms the universal public judgment, this then becomes a matter of most agreeable interest.
"And all the work we've done there is useless?" "Absolutely." "We've got it all to do over again from the beginning?" "Certain sure." Bob adjusted his mind to this new and rather overwhelming idea. "I saw Senator What's-his-name from Montana made a speech the other day," spoke up Elliott, "in which he attacked the Service because he said it was a refuge for consumptives and incompetents!"
And the victims of hydrocephalus followed, with the dancers of St. Vitus, the consumptives, the rickety, the epileptic, the cancerous, the goitrous, the blind, the mad, and the idiotic.
But I think I have discovered the origin of the great Ventnor myth. The place is a winter resort of consumptives; and Mr. Frederick Greenwood, who was the chief charm of Ventnor, told me that you may take coffee on your lawn in November. The town, then, is warm in winter. The popular mind, with its hasty logic, thinks that this is tantamount to saying it is broiling hot in summer.
One of the white-domed ceilings is covered with a thick scroll-pattern traced in black, and consists entirely of bats, which take up their winter quarters in these caverns, and fare better in them apparently than the consumptives.
One compartment was entirely occupied by women, ten pilgrims closely pressed together, young ones and old ones, all sadly, pitifully ugly. And as nobody dared to open the windows on account of the consumptives in the carriage, the heat was soon felt and an unbearable odour arose, set free as it were by the jolting of the train as it went its way at express speed.
Dirty shops and stores, it says; dirty saloons and dance-halls weak lungs can't stand them." "Let's get out of here." "Aw, look! How pretty she is in this first picture; and look at her here nothing but a stack of bones on a stretcher. Aw! Aw!" "Come on!" "Courage is very important, it says. Consumptives can be helped and many are cured. Courage is " "Come on; let's get out of this dump.
Excitable and neurotic, like all consumptives, his imagination made of those waiting moments a veritable hell. She would never get down in safety an old and hastily knotted rope, a disregard of all ordinary precautions, and her body in the hands of men who handled human lives more carelessly than most people would handle stones. He bit his lip till the blood ran down to his chin.
The sea-gulls screamed about his head, the sea-lions barked with the hollow note of consumptives on the outlying rocks. On the horizon was a bank of fog, outlined with the crests and slopes and gulches of the mountain beside him. It sent an advance wrack scudding gracefully across the ocean to puff among the redwoods, capriciously clinging to some, ignoring others.
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