Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden.

  • Theophil Mitchell Prudden
Date:
[1890], ©1890
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Credit: Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    removal will, of course, depend largely upon the simplicity of the furnishing and the intelli- gence which is used in the work. The relega- tion of the work of sweeping and dusting of rooms to ignorant and careless servants, with- out intelligent and persistent supervision, can- not be expected to result in clean living-places. We realize more fully now than ever before, weighing the accumulated experience of years in the light of the new knowledge about the cause of consumption, that this disease is by no means always a hopeless or fatal one. Many persons get well, and many more so far recover as to enjoy years of comfortable life. We do not yet know any particular drug or any especial medical treatment which can be depen- ded upon to cure consumption. But we do know that, by putting the body under certain favor- able conditions—proper food, suitable climate, appropriate regimen, and aiding these, when occasion requires, by drugs,—the physician can often hold out to his patient this well-grounded hope, that the body's natural safeguards against the invasions of bacteria reinforced in this way may lead him to recovery and a new life. But
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