Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-12-17
A TIMELY REPLY.
DR.. Francis Crosson Calls Down q Physi-
clan Who Questions the Benefits Of
Climate,

In a recent number of the PhiladGi.
phia Medical Journal al Iowa man, WHO
has obtained permission from some
MES the efficacy of climate in the err
of tuberculosis. The letter contains
statements hat every 1~0-year-old chill
in the southwest, by the stern logic NJ
facts, would recognize as false. TINS
same Iowa doctor would no doubt sus-
tain his patients on faith and cod live.
Oil until their money was gone and no
power on earth or in heaven could save
their lives, and her ship them off t.
New Mexico to die, proving. the "Falla-
cy of the Climatic Treatment N4H
Mexico knows to her cost that this
crime is too often perpetrated. d..
Francis Crosson, an ardent climatolo-
gist, has sent the following reply to The
publication which prints such unscieh-
tifc and untrue articles as the one re
ferred to:
Editor Philadelphia Medical Journal
Your issue of the Journal under date Of
bCCtlllDtI 1, lJuU, CDlllulllS q paper IL
titled, THE Fallacy of Climate in the
Treatment of tuberculosis by j. W.
Kline, M. D., of Fort Dodge, Ia, whi,n
to my mind will Dear criticism. Thee
are four statements made by the write",
which, according to my experience. u
terly d%isqualify him from writing au-
thoritatively upon such a subject. I
quote four statements:
/. OF all those sent, many more have
been injured and their lives have been
shortened than have eve profitel
thereby" In replying to this broad and
sweeping statement, it is merely neces-
sary to request the writer to present 10
the medical profession his statistics up-
on this question.
9. For in climate resorts there is bu5
little on no intelligent medical supervi-
sion." Perhaps such a commodity Is
limited to the environments of Fort
the personnel of the medical professi1E
of the south and southwest?
3. There is no climate in this coun-
try that is not well adapted to the
treatment of tuberculosis If this is Il
fact, her more than 80 per cent of the
profession are "daffy' on this point, for
according to the writer's own statement
so large a per cent as the above is the
estimate he places upon the number #
physicians who believe hat climate II
the treatment of tuberculosis is of great
value, and is not a "fallacy,' as tie
writer of this paper contends.
4. 1T is not a question of climate, cf
elevation. of lea and cold, of dryness
of Gods pure air and sunshine may be
had. there may this disease be success.
fully treated" l think in this Last
statement the writer has given away
his case; for this is exactly the claim
made by all writer's on climato-therapy.
If such conditions are the desideratulr.
then the logical conclusion would inev-
itably follow: That where Goods pure
air and sunshine" are to be found in ,
greatest quantity and finest quality,
hat would be the ideal climate for the |
treatment of all forms of tuberculosis.
This is all we claim for the southwest,
and this is why more than 80 per cent
of the eastern and northern physicians
point the finger to this land of sun
shine" and say to the trembling victim.
"Go!" Oh, if they would only say the |
word earlier and oftener!
FRANCIS EROSION.