Arizona daily citizen., 1901-03-29

TINE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO. ALBANIA "a
order that the patient may live contin-
uously in the open air for period of sew
eral months, or, for that matter, for a
year, or several years, a climate is re-
quired which is continuously warm and
dry. Such a climate the United States
does not possess, but the nearest APP
proach to it is Arizona.
physicians rareiv send their pa rnts
to the arid -sg;onS ,atri1g f,-m-ter nd
this | consider a GTeat Eistake. he
patients should be sent to the arid re.
gions 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 a dry climate. The relative humidity
in southern California is as great, and
in some instances greater, than that uf
| the Atlantic coast, and many of the best
physicians in California regularly send
| their tub, rcular and asthmatic patients
! to Tucson. California is a beautiful
country, but the fogs which come Ill
| from the sea, and the emanations from
| the vast irrigated regions, make 1t tar
| inferior to the inland desert regions for
pht hisical patients. think it may be
assumed as general rule that wher-
ever there is irrigation there is high
degree of relative humidity, and ndpatients
| 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 60 together.
The city of Tucson has. III my opin-
| ion, advantages as a health resort
which can not be equalled anywhere III
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 tubercuiaT patients
TO an altitude of 5000 feet, or over. In
| fact, clinical experience has proven that
more frequently patients required to b.
sent to an altitude or less, rather than
more than 5000 feet. The altitude o.
Tucsou-is 2, 400 feet, and that seems tc
be amply high for all but the most ex
ceptional cases. The city is situated il
1 X
| Cruz river. 1t is completely walled il
bv massive mountain ranges. To ths
north is the Santa Catalina range; tt
| the east, the Rincon; to the south, th'
| Santa Rita; and on the west, the Tue
son. Each OF these ranges has an slti
| tude of 5 900 feet at least. Mount LIE
mon, the highest peak of the Catalinas
has an elevation of 10000 teet, an.
Nc skrxr
reaches an altitude of nearly IL ,00t
feet.
1.-The scenery at Tucson is as lmpres
sive as anywhere i'll the Rocky noun
tains. and the gorgeous sunrise end sun
set beggar description.
During the nine months, October t.
JunessiSclusive, 1S9+5, there were bu
: twenty-five cloudy days, and nine G
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, have see
Venus when it was but ten degrees cas-
! of the sum-"
DIR. N, H. Matas, a Physician of 1
years practice in this City, says
"Since consumptives must depend on til
resisting forces of nature for the cure G
their disease, it is evident that an earl
selection of a good winter climate is tn
most important factor for their cure an
future welfare.
"They need a warm, dry climate i
|, winter, free from fogs, heavy frosts
storms, chilling winds and sudden al
mospheric changes, climate wher
there is a constant sunshine and plent
of pure air, and where they can hav
outdoor exercise daily. Treatment a
well as climate must be undertake
early to do good when there is yet
good foundation upon which to bull
: the system. We must remember tha
, nature alone cures, and where there
no nature there is no hope. Physician
and climate can only help nature, an
they can do no good when nature
destroyed.
"The official weather reports and sur
yeyors Of the United States, as well a
the scientific climatologists, admit tina
= Tucson is the center of the most favor
able zone in the southwest for the i'm
, prOvcment and maintenance of life O
. consumptives in the United States,
t not in the world"
DR.. w. b. Purcell, County Physician
Obscrves:-"lt is an undisputed fact tha
: proper climatic conditions give tn
greatest relief to those affected with o
: having tendency to phthisis.
"Whcn n phthisical tendency exist
great care should be exercised to preven
its development. AS humidity is such al
important factor in the cause of com
sumption, those affected with or havin,
a prcdisposition to lung disease shoul,
: immediately seek the proper climate tav
. orablc to their condition.