One lady in South Africa charted an aeroplane from a Flying Club and arranged to taken on a high altitude flight, in the hope that by breathing the cold, germ-free air the lungs and air passages cold be stimulated, and thus the body would be given a chance of self-healing.
The club officials having guaranteed the fight, but, incidentally, not the cure, she was taken up 16000 feet above sea level and a cruise lasting nearly half an hour was sea level in the extremely cold air. The lady, I understand, expressed no opinion as to effect of this drastic treatment.
Of course, it would be useless to suggest such a trip of the big majority of folk, but surely something might be done in the way of providing cubicles containing germ free circulating air which patients suffering from chest troubles might be treated.
In cases of Pneumonia it is well know that patients are helped by the administration of oxygen and this is now provided in “tents”. But howsoever good the effect of these tents may be, my experience, when I had the opportunity of popping my head inside on the other day, was of a nasty waterproof smell and too fresh air
One other point which would do with more consideration than some folk seem to give it is to avoid taking other peoples breath. Even in these enlightened days, some people,s breath. Even in these enlightened days, some people are exceedingly careless as to how they cough and breath over; this perhaps applies specially to those folk who make a habit of self-pity and are given to sighing–surely they dont realize how objectionable they are!.
I was early taught the the potential danger of exhaled breath. Had I not been, it was well knocked into my head in my student days. One of our lecturers-whose children incidentally are well- known comedians and who himself had strong element of the comic in his make up–assured us that if fellow passenger in an omnibus made himself too objectionable in this way, he used to make his protest by opening up his umbrella and getting behind it.
