The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-05-02

are 70 greater oegIee PromotiFe OF destructon OF
lung tissue in phthsis.
In diseases of
the cool nights, pure water and air soon produce
change in the baby wasted by the diseases incident
to the period of teethng or, from marasmus
DR. D. J. Cain, eminent as physician, says that.
in practice of twenty years in Western North Caro-
lima he has known but one infant brought from the
low unty suffering from such conditions that did
not recover health and they have come to Asheville
Table B. shows the healthfuIness of the region for
children Of course what reduces mortality of those
under five years of age reduces the general mortality
See table c.
DYsPEpsIA AND LIVER DISEASES.
Topersons with such affections it offers such clim.
attic conditions did the physician in treatment and
make recovery almost q certainty.
MALARIA. (@bad airy
This Is an unknown quantity among the mountains.
Eor more than fifty years. the weelthy planters Of the
nea4tainss 70 be exemIt front the bahefui snluences
OF aiAra and to rid after its having been
invaded BY 4. The freedom of this country from
malafia may Be easily understood. when, according
to Dr.. Henry Q. Marcy, of Boston, mot lake or
swamp is to be found in the entire region.'
Those who are filled with this poison, whether
contracted in the owands of the South the river
Ta'lles OF the North, uniting them for the enjoy
ment of life or the of money getting can here
flnd region where malaria is unknown and recovery
from its effects is assured.
TO WOMAN,
the heiress to diseases that sap the fountains of
health and leave thousands to drag out miserable
existence the climatic conditions aid the physician
to restore them to health other climate seems
to. DR.. John Hey Williams, whose extensive prac.
tee in this class of cases. here and in the North has
gwen him ample opportunities for comparison of
results OF treatment, says that conditions that in
New York and Philadelphia would require tedious
treatment will here yield to simpler measures and
like result obtained in shorter time than there The
diminished atInO> Dherc nreS of
congestion; the air acts as tonic and the cool nights
tend to that rest so necessary to woman
Finally, COL Hatch furnishes the following as hay
ing bearing the subject ofthe climate The three
persons quoted by him, in their lives, stood among
men as the peers of any in trustworhiness and clear
ness of judgment:
"Fifty years ago DIR. Sam1 Henry Dickson, then
OF Charleston, S. c., made his summer home in
Buncombe county, near Asheville. He was after
wards connected with the Medical Schools of New
York and Philadelphia. The year after the war
told him in the latter city that intended removing
from Charleston to Buncombe. With emphasis he
said, "You will then live the best climate in the
world; Immediately adding, "I will take that back
81 do not know about all the climates of the world"
but will say the best climate in America and think
do know to that" His brother Dr. Iohn Dick.
son almost as well knowa as Presbyterian clergy.
man and teacher said to me in Charleston can
not stand March here' In Buncombe can wi
slight clothing do hard work He too had built and
lived here. Over confident to his repained health
he took charge of large Female School in Ohio but
had to ieturn here where he died. l had known the
elder DR. Hardy for thirty years curing all of which
time had supposed him to be robust as the best
of the broadway policemen. To my surprise heard
him say when he must have been seventy,
81 came to Buncombe more than forty years ago
with less than one lung"
Years ago used to hear Dr. Hardy's name spoken
OF in Charleston in connection with difficult and sue
cessfu surgical operations. These and others
of seemingly impossible recoveres fxcdmy attention
and caused to urge the Importance of
this section of country for hospitals during the
war"