Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-26
THE SUNSHINE CURE
New Mexico Climate Will Do Won
ders In Curing Persons Aflict-
ed With tuberculosis.
PUREST AIR In The WORLD
A Low Death Rate From Consumption In
New Mexico Oonsumptives Should
Live Out of Doors As Much
As Possible,
DIR. Q. C. McEWen.l

The a~ll-powerful influence of climatic
environment in the treatment of pulmo-
nary tuberculosis is no longer a mooted
question, but is conceded by all clini-
clans. Pure air is now recognized as the
most efficient means at our command
for rendering the field unfavorable for
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.
EXPERIENCE TEACHES.
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 ~exhilarat-
ing influence of the New Mexico eli
mate produce.
CLIMATIC REQUISITES.
The climatic requisites are: First and
most important 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 contami-
nation, pure as that Of mid-ocean.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE.
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
so free from consumption-less than
three per 1,0O0-as in New Mexico. A
uniformly cool or moderately cold win
ter, with no great or rapid variations, is
best. where the temperature is not so
low as to prevent the patient from be-
ing outdoors every day of the winter.
The nights in summe are uniformly
cool. inviting and insuring sound sleep,
imparting health. The genial influence
of perpetual sunshine renders the at
mosphere warm and dry, making it pos
sible for the invalid to follow the in
junction of n of our foremost authori-
ties on the subject, to Live outdoors"
ALWAYS PLEASANT.
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.
LIVING PROOF.
Every day meets people who tell
you that five, ten or twenty years ago
they We're 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, now
enjoying life, and apparently good
health. We ear in our brief experience
recall many poor souls and dear friends,
some young and in the prime of life,
gone to premature graves, who could be
living and in good health had they have
come to natures own sanitarium. or
course, New Mexico cannot restore a
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 rather
die in the cas- than live in New Mexi-
co, all of whom most surely die. Think
of the awful record in Indiana for the
year just past-one in every seven
deaths was due to consumption. With
all other diseases one death out of sew
en- was from tuberculosis, while in New
Mexico only two and thr%ee-fourths in
l ZOO died from this disease. There exists
an indescribable fascination in this per-
feet climate-a stimulating influence
which compels one to like the country.
People who once live here are never
contented with a humid climate.
IN A NUTSHELL.
We will sum up the natural condi-
ton: First, a pure, aseptic air, sterilized
by being filtered through eternal sun
shine. Second, dry, porous soil. Third,
minimum of cloud and rain, a maximum
Of sunshine. Fourth, no great and sud
den variations of temperature. Fifth,
the germicidaI influence of the air.
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