Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-10

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the action and propagation Of the tu-
bercular germs. Patients treated in
close, unventilated hospitals, in damp
climates, succumb quickly to the raw
ages of consumption.
Observation and experience teach US
that the patient should live in that eli
mate where he sleeps well, eats well
and gains in flesh, all of which the ex-
~hilarating influence of the New Mexico
climate produce.
The climatic requisites are: First and
most important are pureness of air,
equability and abundant sunshine. Sec
ond, dry, aseptic air and altitude. All
of which exist in New Mexico, with her
pine and cedar clad hills. where the air
is oxidized by the vast quantities of
ozone generated by the evergreens. The
air, unlike that of our southern pine
groves, Is free from malarial contain
nation, pure as that Of mid-ocean.
Eternal sunshine should be the
watchword of the consumptive. No
where on the inhabitable part Of the
globe Is there a bluer sky, brighter sun
shine or more brilliant stars than in
New Mexico. Nowhere Is the death rate
80 free from consumption-less than
three per thousand-as in New Mexico.
A uniformly cool or moderately cold
winter, with no great or rapid varia-
tons, is best, where the temperature is
not so low as to prevent the patient
from being outdoors every day Of the
winter. These conditions hold no place
so well as at Pennington. The nights
in summer are uniformly cool, inviting
and insuring sound sleep, imparting
health. The genial influence of perpet-
ual sunshine renders the atmosphere
warm and dry, making 1t possible for
the invalid to follow the injunction OF
mi of our foremost authorities on the
subject, to olive out of DOORS"
No one ever asks what the weather
will be tomorrow. 1t will be like to-
day, and to-day Is like yesterday-clear,
bright and pleasant. So much for the
conditions required and existing. Now
to facts as regards results.
Every day one meets people who tell
you that five, ten or twenty years age
they were sent west to die; who have
been in all stages, with cavities now
healed, lung capacity rendered a little
defective, but still doing the work, nov
enjoying life and apparently good
health. We can in u brief experience
recall many poor souls and dear friends
some young and in the prime of life
gone to premature graves, who could BIT
living and in good health had they have
come to natures own sanitarium. OF
course, New Mexico cannot restore g
lung coughed and spat up; one must
come while the lung is only impaired
and the disease in it's incipiency. Many
people back east say they would rathe,
die in the east than live in New Mexico
all of whom most surely die. Think oil
the awful record in Indiana for the yea,
just past-one in every seven deaths
was due to consumption. With all 9th.
err diseases n death out Of seven wal
from tuberculosis, while in New Mexico
only two and three-fourths in one thou.
sand died from this disease. There ex-
lists IN indescribable fascination in this
perfect climate-a stimulating influence
which compels n to like the country,
People who nee live here are never
contented with a humid climate.
We will sur up the natural condi-
tons: First, a pure asceptic air, steri-
lized by being filtered through eternal
sunshine. Second, dry, porous soil
Third, minimum Of cloud and rain, a
maximum Of sunshine. Fourth, NO
great and sudden variations Of temper
ature. Fifth. the germacidal influence
Of the air.