[Sidenote: Suggestions for the treatment of mild cases of consumption] If the patient is not far advanced, he should seek employment which affords constant exercise in the open air, preferably in the hills or mountains, and the labor should be of such a character as to cause normal activity of the liver and the bowels, and to enforce deep respiration. A spirometer or lung-measuring machine should be secured, and the patient should practise upon this night and morning, endeavoring each day to register from one to five cubic inches more than the previous day, until every air cell of the lungs is opened and the full capacity is reached, which should be about 315 cubic inches for the average man, and 250 for the woman of normal size. [Sidenote: General rules of hygiene in consumptive cases] Contrary to usual customs and theories, the patient should take a cool sponge bath every morning, in a warm room, except in very cold weather. It should be followed by a vigorous rub down and deep breathing. Wear thin cotton under-clothes. Dress as lightly as possible, except when exposed where exercise or motion cannot be taken, such as riding in an open car or vehicle. Nature's method of producing hardihood and increasing endurance is by means of exposure. The house-plant life is conducive and favorable to tuberculosis. [Sidenote: Importance of perfect oxidation] The most important thing in the treatment of this dis-ease is perfect oxidation (breathing). Every cell of the lungs should be filled at every breath. The lungs should be filled to their extreme capacity, one hundred or more times a day, with pure, fresh, dustless air. The patient should never breathe the same breath twice; especially should he not breathe the air that has been used by other people, or by pet animals in a closed room. In order to carry out this regimen, it is necessary to live out of doors day and night, winter and summer. The tubercular patient should sleep in a tent, or upon an open piazza every night, regardless of the weather or the temperature of the atmosphere. If these rules were observed the white plague would lose some of its terrors. In cases of Consumption: OMIT EAT Coffee Cheese Meat Eggs Stimulants { Preferably-- Sweets { Carrots Tea { Dried beans, Tobacco Fresh { Onions vegetables { Peas { Parsnips { Potatoes { Pumpkin { Squash Figs Milk Raisins HEART TROUBLE [Sidenote: The heart, a sentinel of the body]