The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-03-13

mucn Information Tor lnOsc mNillue WI.
are asking, l. Colorado the place which
should visit? He says:
A residence in this bracing climate has
peculiarly rcyiying influence on most all
phthisical patients who com here quite
early in the progress of their disease. Dys-
pepsia. too. andalmost all ailments due "a
mal-nutrition. are usually banished OF
very much relieved by a sojourn here.
But the salutary influence OF rariiied at
mosphere Is best shown In the relief OF
asthma. Ii j. said that few ESTIMATES
have come here without permanent or
marked benefit, the chief exceptions being
those who have organic diseases of the
heart or marked emphysema. Not long
since the estimates held a convention in
Denver. The object was 10 gather their
evidence. that those similarly afflicted
throughout the States might be benefited
thereby. Ii was "A commendable under
taking. and quite successful. Over a hum
dred eases were iabulated of those who
had found entire or decided relief in Colo
RADIO.
The influences which seem TO combine.
in Colorado. 10 benefit sufferers from tho
acic diseases are various. Probably more
important than is usually recognized is
altitude. which it would seem. is chiefly
mechanical in its effect. for consequent
upon il there Is lessened atmosphere pres
sure, and it is positively necessary for
lungs 10 have a proportionately greater
expansion, in order 10 get the needed
amount of oxygen, than on the coast.
$500 feet below Denver.
The circulation. OF course. acts in har.
mony with this increased respiratory
power. which results in increased COM
hn.ffnn klnzfa aud tarafr - both
more rapid and complete adiposei il called
into requisition and animal economy be-
comes dominant. The average ranchman
OF Colorado gives one an idea of the
effect of outdoor life in elevated regions.
He i a lean fellow. with well-browned
complexion. good. hard muscles and great
endurance. The idea of such a man hay
ing tuberculosis would seem almost pre-
posterous. His blood is habitually well
Oxygenized and even If he had tubercular
matter in him 10 deposit. the room could
hardly be spared for il in his lungs. He
may get pneumonia. perhaps. resulting in
gangrene or pneumonia phthisis; but il
seems the %originatiOn of military tubercle
rarely occurs above the altitude OF five
thousand feet. The increased amount of
electricity. too. due to altitude. very likely
has a salutary influence in strengthening
enfeebled nervous systems.
After describing the temperature. rarity
of the atmosphere. etc, he adds /:
From what nav written above as to the
mechanical effect OF altitude. il would APP
pear, on reflection. that this element might
prove injurious a well as. If not. bene-
ficiai that 10 some, who hardly had lung
surface enough 10 get a fair amount OF
below. the rarified atmosphere of
l.nrnr Inlax.1A Y.s.Is .As - -
appropriate. In the evidence Of probable
deaths from altitude were needed TO sub
stantiate this statement il could be given.
Generally speaking. patients on coming
here do well to take life easy for a while
till they get somewhat acclimatcd: not to
allow the buoyancy and exhilaration of
this light air TO deceive them into too
great confidence in their powers of endur-
ince till the circulation and respiration get
used to the change.
As to the central part of Colorado. when
We think OF the multitude OF people who
insidiously gliding into confirmed
in low, damp homes i'm the States
could here almost certainly be re-
stored 10 health; and of the many who
,Ome here 10 be- fastened TO their graves oil
.eEt back East disappointed. the words of
seem appropriate:
'it's hardly in a body's power
To keep, at times, ira bein' sour,
To see now things are shared
And vet il is very difficult to give a rule
which should decide, in all eases, who
.hould come a. high as this. and the meth
vi of their coming. But were | 10 decide.
n a general way, who should not come di-
here. feeling that they could better
20 elsewhere, in winter, | should name the
blowing class of cases: Phthisis pulmo-
nails, complicated with organic disease OF
he heart {; phthisical patients. one-fourth
DR. more of whose lungs are seriously dis
.ased or rendered useless, especially ifthey
any cavities in patients ofdecidedly
lemOrrhagic diathesis. or those whose
pulse j. uniformly very rapid. and in wo-
men. or patients OF delicate constitutions,
whose lungs are quite liable to take on fire.
recurring attacks OF infiamma-
ion.
As.March aud April are said to be winter
here, rs well as in many places
East, perhaps the time specified above
ought TO be- extended toward May. Even
IN summer considering the imperative de-
mand. with each decided elevation. for in
expansion OF the lungs or breath
capacity, 1t would seem that "A sudden
from below a thousand 10 five
thousand feet above the sea would gener-
ally be- an extreme measure for such rs |
have specified and this, too. notwithstand-
ing ii j. said there are those living here
abonts who once had cavities in their lungs,
and In whom the disease seems now to be-
arrested.
Some of the most remarkable instances
81 the arrest Of phthisis have been in those
who came up by degrees In wagons through
and 1t may be that the ratio of
leaths from all diseases in Colorado would
be very much lessened ii all patients in
To the lower Rocky Mountain re-
gions resorted to the old-fashioned means
Df travel by ox-team across the plains.
W~akefnlness.