The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-01-03
Interesting TO Consumptives Minnesota Gil
mate.
correspondence of the New York Herald

ST. Paul, MINI, December "a, 1853
! 1t is not the object OF your correspondent 70
court any argument upon the relative merits
| of a Northern or Southern climate for the cure
! of consumption, but merely TO give his expert
ence as an invalid during solourn OF several
months in country which is last becoming
one of the most popular resorts lot lhVahas
from all parts Of the Union. Neither do
wish to be understood rs claiming for Mime
, sofa that the climate is sovereign remedy tor
all cases Of consumption.
In it's first stages, consumption appears
10 Weld readily 10 the peculiar influence OF
| the climate; and even in the more adj
vanced stages of the disease, the patient, by
continued residence in this country, finds per-
manent relief and comparative good health. l
find that three classes OF cases arrive IN TINS
country in search of relief:-l. Those slightly
affected who take time by the forelock, get
well in q few months and return TO their homes
perfectly cured. .. Those more seriously al
fected who never fully recover the use OF their
lungs but BY q permanent residence in Min
nesota enjoy comparative good health. 3. Ihose
who wait until 1t is too late, and arrive mere
only to linger few weeks and die among
strangers.
Go where you will through Minnesota, and
you will meet persons, apparently in good
health, who could not exist two years under
the cold, moist winds of the Atlantic
States. Many of them arrive here quite low,
but, with the help of good constitution and
the peculiar salubrity of the climate, they
manage TO rally and enjoy toieraply eoou
health. In one or two instances Whlcn came I'LL.
der nv observation the patients had 10 be re-
moved from the steamboat In carnage, ana
several months elapsed before any visible I'M
proyement could be noted but tnally the pa
tients commenced to mend, and the clear, bra-
cling atmosphere of winter soon restored them
10 health A few Sundays ago we buried one
If the oldest residents Of this city, who had
heen i'll with consumption for fifteen years
He had been sick with the disease three years
when he entered the State, and did not expect
RI live many months but he rallied, and by q
Continued residence in the country, managed to
nrolong his existence n dozen years. Some OF
the leading business men OF this city, men
noted for their enterprise and success in life,
belong to the second class, and although to all
onnearance in the full possession of health,
tell YOU that it would be impossible for them
| to exist East.
OF the third class not much need be said.
They never sought TO come here, as the IA
| tigue and eycitemtnt of the Journey only tends
| to hasten death. Some die on their way up
| the river some at the hotels and boarding
/ houses, before they have been domiciled among
! us a fortnight and others, feeling that death is
! inevitable, start for home before they have
been a week in the country.
| A very intelligent gentleman from New
York, whose acquaintance made when first
arrived in ST. Paul, estimated that about
| three out of every ten persons who came here
| afflicted with lung complaints recovered so as
! to be able to return to their homes, and that
| over fifty per cent of the invalids were af-
forded permanent relief. My informant, who
| is an invalid himself, has spent three years in
| the State, and, although In the enjoyment
of apparent good health, says he will
! never be able 10 live in his native place
| again He has, therefore, sent East for his
| family, and intends going into business here.