El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-09

An FL paso Doctor Tells All About
the Effect of This Climate or
Consumptives.- the Past Fl
pdso Has Not Reached Out Fol-
Inva1lds as Medical Men Contend
That They COntdminate the
Healthy Portion of the popula
tiOns.
Ell Paso, Texas. August 8, 1899.
EDITOR HERALD:-Having noted
the publication in The HERALD OF
short items on medical subjects from
time to time, I send the following with
the hope that you may see fit to give it
place in your columns.
The new Medical Review of Reviews
for October 1898 has in it's leading ar
ticle the following observations re-
garding the climatic treatment of
tuberculosis: lover six years ago q
French commission of Medical scien-
lists was sent on q tour of the world
with the object of deciding upon the
most favorable spot for the treatment
of pulmonary diseases.
"Southern New Mexico was finally
selected by the delegates of the Soc1ete
Medicale as the most fevorab BILE site for
nation of almost perpetual sunshine,
warm winters, considerable elevation,
and dry, aseptic atmosphere found in
the southern counties of New Mexico,
affording conditions more favorable
than those of any other locality in the
world"
1t need scarcely be added that in all
respects. except for state boundaries,
Ell Paso is typical of the conditions
found In southern New Mexico.
DR.. B. p. Anderson of Colorado
Springs, Colo, in a paper read before
the Genealogical Association in May,
1899, speaks in the highest terms of
praise concerning the Mesilla valley
and the region about Ell Paso as Q
health resort for cOnsum Dtives. He
says:
"Invslids coming to.Colorado for the
cooler summer months after having
spent the winter in the valley were
the first to attract my attention.
Their enthusiasm as to dryness, sun
shine, the greater number of days one
could remain in the open air, ETC., did
not impress me so much as did the fact
OF their improvement, which could be
only to the advantages of
altitude, which averages from $500 to
$500 feet combining with the lower
the important essential of q
maximum amount of sunshine and dry
air. Commencing with the fall and
winter of 1892.
81 have regularly advised those pa
t1ents who for the most part did not
progress fsvorably in Colorado to seek
this climate. Since 1892 have re-
cord OF somewhat more than 200 cases
who spent the winter months in this
clima ate. My record embraces many
cases in the various states of advance
ment of disease. and many were COM
plicated with layngeal tuberculosis.
The subsequent history of these cases
shows that a large majority or seventy
per cent, improved and are still
living.
"Let it be noted that nearly all of
,hese were severe cases such as did not
favorably in Colorado.
I'm another place DR.. Anderson says in |
'peaking of the favorable climate of |
lis own state:
Therefore We point with pardona BILE |
bride to the unchallenged fact that the
reconstructed and cured invalid has |
been primarily the means of founding |
IN empire, has brought his environ
nent from that of barren plain. or
'ugged, Inaccessible mountain fastness, |
o the civilization of today densely
populated region with all that goes to
make the desirable in culture, refine
nent, and education
What the reconstructed and cured |
Invalid" has done for Colorado Springs
md Colorado, be is capable of doing In
act is doing today, for Ell Psso.
DR.. Andrew 81. Smith, of New York,
q speaking of the treatment of tuber-
ulosis, says: "The best results in the
vay of climatic treatment arc to be
obtained at Ell Paso, Tex" There can
'e no doubt as to this region being one
It the best, if not the very best. in the
world, for the cure of the pulmonary
Invalid. Ell Paso's favorable climate
lone will give her q population OF
0 900 within the next fifteen years.