Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-12-23
STUDYING THE CLIMATE.
Three Physicians from Chicago Now
Investigating Santa FEES Claims
to Superiority.
The Representative of the H. Sanche
Sanitarium Company Here to
Establish an Institution.

DR.. A. W. Sullivan, of Chicago, who has
several brothers also engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine, is guest at the Palace
hotel. He comes to study the climatic
advantages of Santa Fe. He is delighted
and will return home with facts and fig
ures at his command that ought to make
him immensely popular among certain
class of patients. DR.. Sullivan is one
of the few physicians who is frank
enough to admit that the ignorance of
the profession at large on the subject of
climatic cure is little less than astound-
ing, though he thinks that, so far as Santa
Fe is concerned, the citizens here are
themselves not unblamable for not more
widely advertising their superior climatic
features.
In this connection it may be also stated
that two other Chicago physicians are
here on similar mission. These are DR..
Sanger Brown, who has brought his fam
lily and comes to remain for an indefinite
period with view to making an exhaus-
tive study of this climate as cure for
sufferers from pulmonary Affections, and
DR.. s. R. Ward, friend of Gen. E. F..
Hobart, also of Chicago. .
These gentlemen express themselves as
more than pleased with their investiga-
tions thus far, and the reports they will
make to their patrons and friends will
doubtless go long way toward enlight-
ening suffering humanity upon the bene-
fits to be had by residence in this city.
TO LOCATE A sANITARIUM.
Major s. G. Spann, of Dallas, Texas,
representing the H. Sanche Sanitarium
Co., of Detroit and New York, is visiting
the city on an important mission. He
seeks to interest local physicians and the
business community in general in the es-
Enlistment here of sanitarium for the
cure of consumptives. With this end in
view Major Spann is this afternoon in
conference with a number of physicians
He is just from Silver City, where sani-
tari1m is to be erected by his company,
and second one he would like to estab
fish in Santa Fe.
DR.. Hercules Sanche, of Detroit, Mich,
is the head of the company. He has sani-
tariums at 264 West Fort street, Detroit;
at 80 Fifth avenue, New York City; is
now erecting large institution of the
same class in Chicago, and also has one
in operation in Berlin. "We rely on
atmospheric remedies exclusively" said
Major. Spann, "and we seek to fraternize
and cooperate with local physicians
wherever we locate. We find by actual
tests at Silver City and elsewhere through
out the territory that New Mexico has
climatic advantages over all the bal
ance of the world, and our OBJ
ject is to utilize this--you may call
1t resource-to extend our
business and bring relief to pulmonary
sufferers. 1t is estimated that one-seventh
of the human family is to-day suffering
from this disease, so you may see very
readily what vast field we have in which
to labor. In New Mexico we find that
cases readily yield and are cured in three
months, whereas in other sections six
months or year fail to break down
resistance"
Major Spann said in case sanitarium
were built here his company stood ready
to put in as much money as the COM
munity would subscribe, and he ex planned
that this plan was adopted in order to
give the institution from the start "a
local habitation and name" and enlist
in its success the leading men of the COM
mupity.