The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-08-18
CllmatOlOgy of Florida.
By Charles J. Kenworthy, NJ. d., Jack sonrille
Florida.
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Florida.
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Difference of opinion exists in the
profession regarding the effects Of
climate in the treatment of pull
monary and other diseases Having
been a member Of the profession tor
over the third OF century, and
having treated disease in private
practice, as well as in several hospi-
tails in the United States and in
other lands, l have reason to believe
that am justified in expressing mine.
My reason for settling in this State
was my wife's health. She was
a sufferer from phthisis, aggravated
by Northern climate. From my
personal knowledge of the climatic
advantages of this State, acquired by
frequent visits, the first in 1914, 1
resolved upon settling in this city.
AS result OF change of climate,
combined with rational medication,
my wife was restored to health. In
1S49, l was connected with Bellevue
and Blackwell's Island Hospitals,
New York, and contracted typhoid
fever AMI cholera, followed by post
mortem poisoning, and impaired
health was the result. Tracing my
family history, l found that my
mother and fourteen of her brothers
and sisters had died OF phthisis.
With impaired health, a laryneeal
affection and hereditary predispo-
sition to tuberculosis, | bad any
thing but bright prospect before
ME. looked to climate as my
sheet anchor, and sailed for Austria
liza; and dry and warm climate i'm,
proved my health, and to day, as you
can all perceive, l am in the enjoy
ment OF as good health as usually
falls TO the lot-os men OF my age.
After permanent residence in this
State of nearly six years. / am con.
vinced of its healthfulness and the
superiority of its climate, and deem
myself warranted in expressing an
opinion.
When invalids visit Southern
cline, they expect to find perpetual
spring. and climate made to order,
ga wonderful paradise, and cry out
like naughty children when their de-
luslon is exploded" But model
climate does not exist, and no coun-
try is perfect in this respect. The
physicians object should be to
select for his patients the situation
presenting the greatest advantages
and the fewest Objectionable features
for the case under consideration.
Annually, patients migrate to health
resorts merely to find grave, as a
sequence OF being sent from home
when beyond the hope Of cure, or
because "a situation unfavorable to
the particular malady has been Sc
lected, the laws of climate being i'll
understood, and in some measure,
because it is difficul. to persuade the
sick that simple change from one eli.
mate to another country or section,
is only one of the means by which
they are TO regain their health. For,
although there can be no doubt that
in change of air, physicians have an
efficient remedial agent, yet, it is GER
tain that this remedy, like all others,
is not of indiscriminatc application,
but must be prescribed with judg-
ment."* "Of the large and annually
increasing number OF invalids, more
especially consumptive patients, who
are now sent abroad to winter in
various health resorts, probably as
many are injured by wrong, or by
TOO tardy change OF climate, as are
saved by the timely aud judicious
use of this most valuable remedy.
Patients, as rule, will not abandon
the comforts of home, or the avoca.
tions of their life, SO long as they
can ching TO them, nor do physicians
generally prescribe this step until
other treatment has failed, and then,
when perhaps the disease is far ad
vanced, the patient may be induced
10 try change OF climate as a last
resource."t
What climate shall be chosen for
the invalid, is a matter of vital i'm.
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