Fresh Air and Sunshine

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 16, 1879

Fresh Air and Sunshine.

Dr. Young says: "A professor in one of the medical schools in San Francisco, in a lecture, describing the case of a young lady, pale, sickly, with headache, nervous, unable to study, in short, 'going into a decline,' said to the students: 'Now, what shall be done with such a case? Tell her parents to take her out of school, and give her, in place of school books, a skipping-rope, rolling-hoop, and a pony; to give her plenty of fresh air and sunshine, to give her good wholesome food and a loose-fitting, comfortable dress; tell them that for want of these she is sick, and it is only by them that recovery can be hoped for; that, with these conditions, she will recover without medical treatment, and that, without them, medicine will be powerless. This you must tell them, though you might as well talk to the wind; they will not heed a word you say. She is a young lady, and will be fashionable, IF SHE DIES FOR IT.'"