The herald., 1897-04-18

local railroad companies, the Phoenix
| electric road and about all the other cor
porations in the vicinity that employ
physician or surgeon Besides all these
considerations his personal popularity
and success give weight and respecta-
bility to his professional opinions. And
DR.. Helm rather dissents from the gen.
eral opinion that the summer or hot sea-
son here can by any possibility be con-
sidered a generally preferable time for
the majority of pulmonary patients. He
believes that during the period of ex-
treme heat in the valley ma ture designed
the mountains near by as a refuge to
many of the afflicted. Within a very
short distance of Phoenix almost any
modification of valley climate may BE-
| found. so that even those patients who
are not benefited by the extreme heat of
| the valley do well to remain still in
| Southern Arizona, where the atmosphere
is dry and pure and the days bright and
| invigorating.
| FROM A HOMEOPATHIC POINT OF
VIEW.
| For the past three years DR.. A. M.
| Tuttle has filled in the most efficient and
| satisfactory manner the position of city
| health officer of Phoenix. He came here
| in 1892; is of the homeopathic school, and
has a large practice. Regarding his ex-
perience with the climate here, the doc
tor empha tically declares that ii is un-
excelled for the alleviation and cure of
asthma and also rheuamtism, except
that form which attacks the tendons
and sheaths of the nerves. For con-
sumption it is the best region in the
world The summer season here. with
it's heat, is wonderfully curative in most
cases, but to get the benefit the patient
must get out into the sun and weather,
and If too weak to do that. had better go
elsewhere. Only the sufferer who can
move about in the sun of summer and
avoid lying in the shade in the heat
OF the day WILL as a rule. be the gamer
very materially by enduring the hot
weather here. All catarrhal conditions
improve wonderfully, with proper care.
here during all seasons, but in all cases
a person might as we'll go to a mineral
spring and not use the water as to come
here and sit down idly in the town. Most
cases should get out little ways above
the irrgating canals, and all should
make the most of the opportunity TO ex-
ercise almost continually in the open air.
avoiding on the start, OF course. any
great extremes of WEAKNESS until the
system builds up the capacity to endure
it prottably DR.. Tuttle has made a
speciality of lung diseases and cured
many cases. Where there is enough
stamina left anu the patient is not too
far gone, he has never failed TO effect
cure.
AT THE ARIZONA ASYLUM.
The Arizona asylum for the insane is
very pleasantly located a few miles east
of Phoenix. During about one year past
it has been under the supervision of Dr.
H. A. Hughes, an experienced and sue
cessful physician, who has resided in
this city nearly twelve years. No other
doctor in active practice in Phoenix has
been a resident of the city 80 long. He is
a graduate of four different medical in
stitutions. the last of which was Jeffer-
son Medical college of Philadelphia.
Probably no other physician in these
parts could possibly be better qualified,
either by nature or by experience, to
manage and minister to the afflicted of
an asylum, for, personally, DR.. Hughes
is one OF the most popular, considerate
and good-natured of men. Only last
week he was reelected without opposi-
ton as member of the Phoenix High
school board. He is an ex-presdent of
the Arizona Medical association and a
member of the American Medical aseo-
citation. Since he became resident physi-
clan at the asylum here not only have
the patients been treated upon the hos
pital idea directly, but their surround
ings have been made as homelike and
comfortable as possible. Social dances,
religious services and a silver cornet
band have been introduced. These have
proved quite as efficient aid to recovery
in many cases as drugs could possibly
be. AS conducted by DR.. Hughes, the
asylum has reached the highest degree
of usefulness. an6 it il altogether wrong
that such a management should be in
terfered with for mere political reasons.
In the matter of climate in and around
Phoenix. owing to his longer practice
here, DR.. Hughes speaks from most ma
ture observation and experience. He in
clines to the opinion that the majority
of those afflicted with the various lung
troubles make mistake in not remain
ing here through the summer heat. But,
nevertheless, as every case has its pc
cullarties, so the climate and season
that would suit one best would prove in
furious to another. so that really the
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cure must be largely experimental IN
each case. The summers however, are
especially healthful as is evinced by the
fact that there is no malaria, cholera
infantum nor kindred diseases here in
hot weather. And also during the hot
months DIR. Hughes says his practice
falls of fully e-half-another in
dication of the healthfulness of that
season, as the doctors patients are
largely permanent residents rather than
interested in asylum work, recognizes
the probability of change and is ready
to hand in his resignation the moment it
is known to whom ii should be addressed.
He will go out with the consciousness
of duty we'll done, both TO his patients
and in point of economy, to resume a
private practice worth more by far than
the superintendency of the asylum.
CLIMATE AND ETERNAL YOUTH
From a circular recently issued to the
medical fraternity by DR.. Harrison E.
Stroud. surgeon general of Arizona, II
appears that the percentage of sunshine
in Phoenix during 1885, wac S5 per cent
and that though during the summer the
thermometer ranges high, it is the most
healthy portion of the year and malaria
is unknown. OF late the influence of
climate upon the cure of disease has
been much studied and as result the
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