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Excerpt from Exercise and Food for Pulmonary Invalids These two essays have elicited considerable commendation from brother physicians. My patients, too, have seemed to need just such an opportunity as here presented, to study into the important aids to cure. The necessity of much talking on the part of the physician is avoided, and it is well for the invalid to transfer so much of the advice given from the consulting office to his own home and kitchen. I have, therefore, been led to believe this combined issue would meet a popular demand. The "rest cure" is much in vogue just at present. There are also many writers who even decry (though rather vaguely) the exercise as well as the high-altitude treatment of consumption. I wish, therefore, to say -that I feel the responsibility of thus defending physical development in disease. These pages are written advisedly, and are backed by a certain right on my part to speak with some authority on the subject of exercise, as well as of food, for invalids. In college I was an instructor in gymnastics, and afterward having neglected exercise I came to Colorado an invalid. So personal experience and the advising of over 3,000 invalids in Colorado seem to warrant some positiveness on my part. The dedication of this little volume is to the many living examples of the benefits furnished by the observance of the principles here imperfectly expounded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.