Arizona daily citizen., 1901-04-17

| fifteen degrees between the sensible tenn
perature and that recorded by the ther-
mometer.
Climate the Only Cure for Pulmonary
Disease 1t is admitted that no medical
treatment has yet been discovered that
will cure pulmonary consumption. The
only cure is that of climate, and i'll Tue
son the warm dry atmosphere seems to
be especially efficacious. As to the special
advantage which it's climate offers for
the relief and restoration of those suffer
ing from pulmonary complaints, note
what different prominent physicians OF
the city saw:
DR.. H. W. Fenner, of Tucson, Surgeon
of the Southern Pacific r. R., says
Tucson is a city of 10, 900 inhabitants,
on the main line of the Southern Pacific
Railway, altitude 2,400 feet above the
sea level. Tucson is one of the oldest
settlements made by the Spanish con-
querors. 1t is now the commercial and
railroad center of Southern Arizona. The
climate is exceedingly dry and bracing,
the humidity being exceedingly low; the
yearly minimum and maximum being
26o and 56o respe, lively. The rainfall
is small and but little irrigation is car
ried on. The water supply is excellent.
The summers are long, the thermometer
ranges high, but the low degree ofhunlid-
| ity makes the clear warmth tolerable.
and the most healthful part of the year.
Sunstrokes and heat prostrations are
unknown. The climate of Tucson has
been found by experience to be particul-
arly beneficial to most cases of pulmon-
ary phthisis. especially those of the
earlier or pre-tubercular periods. a.
DR.. Mark A. Rogers, of Tucson, says:
My experience has Impressed upon
me the necessity for outdoor life in the
treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. In
order that the patient may live contin-
uously in the open air for a period of sew
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a climate is re
uuired 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 rare'v send their pat 'nts
to the arid -eg;c1s curing s-mner I'D
this | consider a great <istake. 4he
patients should be sent to the arid re.
gions so soon as there is evidence of in.
fiction 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 then,
to dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater, than that ot
the Atlantic coast, and many OF the best
r. Iu~ix, a
their tubercular and asthmatic patients
to Tucson. California is beautiful
ceuntry, but the fogs which come in
rom the sea, and the emanations from
the vast irrigated regions, make 1t far
inferior to the inland desert regions Tor
phthisical patients. think it may be
assumed as a general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity. andpatients
suffering from pulmonary phthisis
should never be sent to an irrigated dis
trict. Indeed, some of the California
physicians have declared that irrigation
and malaria go together.
The city of Tucson has, in my opin'
ion, advantages as health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere in
North America. / know of no locality
where such a moderate winter climate
and such a low degree of relative humid
ity are combined with the same latit udt
and altitude. 1t is no longer considered
imperative to send tubercuiaT patient:
to an altitude of 6. 900 feet, or over. In
fact. clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to b
sent to an altitude or less, rather thar
more than 5000 feet. The altitude o
Tucson is 2,4OO feet. and that seems te
be amply high for all but the most ex
ceptional cases. The city is situated IL
a basin near the underground Santa
Cruz river. 1t is completely walled II
by massive mountain ranges. To th'
north is the Santa Catalina range; t.
. the east, the Rincon; to the south, tn
: Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
son. Each of these ranges has an alti
: tude of S 900 feet at least. Mount lie
, mon, the highest peak of the Catalinas
5 has an elevation of 10000 feet, ant
f Mount Wriehtson in the Santa Rltas
= reaches an altitude of nearly II, ,0O
feet.
r "The scenery at Tucson is as impres
] sive as anywhere in the Rocky mour
l tains, and the gorgeous sunrise and sur
set beggar description. j..
p During the nine months, October t
. Tune, inclusive, 1S945, there were bu
: twenty-five cloudy days, and nine
. these were in one month. Some idea
. the transparency of the atmosphere ma
. be had when state that, at midday
: and with the unaided eye, l have see
!: Venus when it was but ten degrees cas-
r of the SUM-"
e DR.. N, H. Matas, a Physician of 1
r wears practice in this City, says
# HSince consumptives must depend on tn
= resisting forces of nature for the cure
c their disease, it is evident that an earl
t selection of good winter climate is til
most important factor for their cure an
future welfare.
"They need a warm, dry climate
= winter, free from fogs, heavy FROST
: storms, chilling winds and sudden
n niospheric changes, a climate wheI
there is a constant sunshine and plent
:. of pure air, and where they can hay
: outdoor exercise daily. Treatment
$ well as climate must be undertake
= early to do good when there is yet
n good foundation upon which to bull