Arizona daily citizen., 1901-04-15

10y Ah thS OkCA All lOI IL DeI1Ou Oh sew
eral months, or, for that matter, for G
year, or several years, a climate is re
CURED which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest ap
proach to it is Arizona.
physicians rars'v send their pa; ;-nts
to the arid -egions ,xtri1g inner I'D
TINS l consider a great ..istakc. he
patients should be sent to the arid re.
glons so soon as there is evidence of in.
lection from the tubercle bacillus, and
should be made to remain there until
they are well, or until it is apparent that
the case is hopeless.
Many physicians in the east order
patients to California for the winter,
apparently with'a view of sending them
to dry climate. The relative humidity
In southern California is as great, and
IN some instances greater, than that oi
the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
their tubercular and asthrnatis patients
to Tucson. California is a beautiful
country, but the fogs which come in
! rom the sea, and the emanations from
the vast irrigated regions, make it far
inferior to the inland desert regions for
phthislcal patients. l think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. and patients
suffering from pulmonary phthisis
should never be sent to an irrigated dis
tr1ct. Indeed, some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together.
The city of Tucson has, in my opiu-
ION, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. know of no locality
where such moderate winter climate
and such low degree of relative humid
Ity are combined with the same latitude
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiar patients
to an altitude of s 1000 feet, or over. In
fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to be
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 5000 feet. The altitude of
Tucson is 2, 400 feet. and that seems to
be amply high for all but the most ex-
ceptional cases. The city is situated in
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled 10
bv massive mountain ranges. To the
north is the Santa Catalina range; to
the east, the Rincon; to the south, the
Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
son. Each of these ranges has an slti-
tudc of 5 200 feet at least. Mount Le-
mon, tht highest peak of the Catalinas,
has an elevation of 10000 feet, and
Mount Wrightson in the Santa Ritas,
reaches an attitude of nearly IL 200
feet.
THE scenery at Tucson is as impress
siye as anywhere in the Rocky noun
tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October to
June, inclusive, 1S94-5, there were but
twenty-five cloudy days, and nine OF
these were in one month. Some idea oi
the transparency of the atmosphere may
be had when state that, at midday,
and with the unaided eye, have seen
Venus when it was but ten degrees east
of the SUM-"
DIR. N. II. Matas, a Physician of II
years practice in this City, says
Since consumptives must depend on the
resisting forces of nature for the cure OF
their disease, it is evident that an early
selection of n good winter climate is the
future welfare.
winter, free from iogs, heavy frosts,
storms, chilling winds and sudden at
mospheric changes. a climate where
there is a constant sunshine and plcnty
of pure air, and where they can have
outdoor exercise daily. Treatment as
well as CLIMATE must be undertaken
early to do good when there is yet a
good foundation upon which to build
the system. We must remember that
nature alone cures. and where there is
no nature there IS no hope. Physicians
and climate can only help nature. and
they can do no good when nature is
destroyed.
"The official weather reports and sur
vcyors of the United States, as well as
the scientific climat ologists, admit that
Tucson is the center Of the most favor
able zone in the southwest for the i'm.
provcment and maintenance of hfe OF
in the United States, il
not in the world"
DIR. w. b. Purcell, County Physician,
Observcs;-"It is an undispnted fact that
climatic conditions give the
having tendency to phthisis.
when a phthisical tendency exists
great care should be exercised to prevent
it's development. AS humidity is such an
important factor in the cause of COM
those affected with or having
a predisposition to lung disease should
seek the proper climate tav-
orabie to their condition.
"Thc climate of Colorado has been re-
for its beneficial effects for
my long residence there
gave me ample and sufficient opport-
unitv of Judging climatic conditions
there existing during the summer months
The mountainous portions Of Colorado
have a beneficial effect on
subjects, but cannot re-
Colorado during the fall and
winter, as the changes are often severe,
becoming raw and cold within few
hours, and as these are atmospheric con-
ditions to be avoided, it would not be
to spend these seasons there.
Those having peculiar type of consti-
tuition with a hereditary tendency TO
would do well to avail
of an opportunity and come
here and remain exempt fronidisease.
1T is fact that those born here OF
parents seldom ever have
the disease develop, SO long as they re
main in this climate. 1t is my opinion
that there is no other section OF the
United States which will compare favor