Identifier: germannaturecure00aida (find matches)
Title: The German nature-cure, and how to practise it
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Aidall, I
Subjects: Hygiene Therapeutics, Physiological Hygiene Therapeutics
Publisher: London : Nichols & Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ere the purest air is breathed by night and day, and everyray of light can be used as a relative sun bath. In most Nature-Cure establishments, these Rikli airhuts are now to be found, situated singly or in groups, singleand double ones, fitted up in the usual German fashion, as bed-sitting rooms. They are built of wood, in a fanciful style,raised from the ground either by a stone plinth or on piles,with movable steps for entrance, and a solid roof to keep out AIR HUTS. 77 the wet. They are either fitted up with door and windows onthree sides, that can be closed or opened according to theweather, and ventilators above for further circulation of air, orare completely open in front, with waterproof curtains to letdown at night or in bad weather. In fact, in every place, thestyle differs more or less. (Fig. 22.) Tents, of course, can be made to answer the purpose. Weknow, for instance, how healthy camp life is in India, how wellthe soldiers are on a march; how, in times of epidemics, they
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Fig. 22. are sent out to live in tents, to recover from, or escape con-tagion. It is the unlimited supply of fresh air and vivifyinglight which purifies the blood and juices, promotes digestionand excretion, and keeps all the vital functions in healthfulactivity. Living, and especially sleeping in air huts, as anadaptation of tent life to European climates, must, it is evident,have a very beneficial effect during a cure, or indeed at anytime. * A full supply of fresh pure air is of the greatestimportance for the cure of all complaints, be it a cold, ortyphoid, typhus or cholera, rheumatism or gout, nervousness 78 THE GERMAN NATURE-CURE. or consumption, cancer or syphilis, a wound or an open sore.Health is for man the foundation of all earthly happiness, andhe can only enjoy earthly good according to the health hepossesses. Only as he understands this better, will light-airhuts be used and valued. There is no need to fear that in an open-air hut in a cooltemperature it will be cold, fo

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