The Tucson citizen., 1902-02-03
Wbere the Climate is pure
Hnd the Hir is Balmy.aw

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advisable to spend these seasons there.
Those having peculiar type of consti.
tuition with a hereditary tendency 10
consumption would do well to avail
themselves of an opportunity and come
here and remain exempt from disease.
1T Is a fact that those born hereof
tuberculosis parents seldom ever have
the disease develop, so long as they re-
main Ill this climate. 1t is nv opinion
that there is no other section of the
United States which will compare favor
able with that in and about Tucson for
the relief OF pulmonary affections"
DR.. a. c, Jones. of Tucson. said-"The
past seven years have afforded me large
opportunities III the observation and
study OF the climatic treatment of pul-
fnonary tuberculosis. Within that time
nave visited the resorts of Florida
Texas, New Mexico. Colorado. Calitor-
MA and Arizona Five wears of that |
have devoted to active practice in twoof
the most frequent resorts of Colorado
and one wear IN this city.
Tucson, in my Judgment. POSSESSES
advantages over all the resorts of ,nvac-
| quaIntaDte, else | should not be here. |
came IN quest OF the best possible eli
| matte advantages for an aggravated
case OF bronchitis and for pulmonary
tubercniotIs IN the second stage. For
SIX months ! had been unable to dis.
charge my professional duties tor n sin.
| gle day. The former three months of
this time was attended bv two trained
nurses and halt-a-dozcn doctors, Have
been disappointed. No. ann in bet.
ter condition than when came and
nave had years respite from the ter
rors OF ii bronchial cough. have been
abie TO resume practice and have, the
pas few months, reinvaded the irving
| heid OF heavy surgery. Had given up
my professional work entirely on NV ar
rival and engaged in some more active
line OF business physically should now
be tar along the road to recovery of NV
former weight and strength"
Hon. Whitclaw Reid, in his journal. the
New York Tribune oi Arizona in Win.
ter, among othc. ssays.-"nurinp
five months resin southern Ariz-
ona IN winter the sas but one day
when the weather made il actually un.
| pleasant for me to take exercise in the
open air at some time or other during
the dav. Ofcourse there were a good
| many days which a weather observer
would describe as cloudy, an1 some
that were 'showery;' but during the FIVE
months tfrom November, 1895 to Nav,
| lS96l there were only four DAYS when
we did not have brilliant sunshine al
some time during the dav. Even more
| than Egyps, anywhere north of Luxor,
Arizona Is the land of the sunshine.
| The nights throughout the winter are
| apt to be cool enough for wood rres
and blankets. Half the time an over
coat is not needed during the dav. but it
Is never prudent for a stranger to be
without one at hand.
The atmosphere is singularly clear,
tonic and dry. l have never seen it
clearer anywhere in the world. IL seems
to have about the same bracing and ex
hilarating qualities as the air of the
great Sahara in northern Africa or OF
| the desert about Mount Sinai. in Arabia
Patraea. 1t is much drier than any part
OF the valley of the Nile north of Gatar-
act. 1t seems to me about the same in
quality as the air on the Nile between
Assouan and Wady Halfa, but some
what cooler.
"As to food, there is plenty, and it is
| good. From here the markets of Los
| supplied. Good beet, mutton and poul-
try are plenty and cheap. Quail, ducks
and venison from the vicinity can also
be had. Vegetables and fruits are abund.
ant in their season, and sometimes the
season is n long one. 1t is the one coun-
| try have lived in where straw berries
| ripen in the open air ten months in the
year. / have had them on my table,
| fresh picked from the open gardens, at
Christmas.
The man who goes to any consider
| able Arizona town with the idea of the
southwest derived from novels, or from
| The Arizona Kicker, will be greatly mysA
| tilted. He will find as many churches
as in towns otcorresponding size in Penn
sylvania or Ohio, and probably more
school houses. and yet he will find plenty
of liquor shops, too, and gambling
| houses, and yet he will see little disorder
unless he hunts late at night for it, and
he will find community of ten thou
sand people requiring in the daytime
only one policeman, and very little oc-
cupation for him."
| DR.. A. w. Olcott, health officer of Tue
son, says:-"The climate of Tucson is
Iuai aNlSit tESu ny PuiSs vi v, HhNlSUfdtiilE
air; small amount of rainfall. and an
ever-shining sun. 1t is surrounded by
mountains which cut off the chilling
winds of winter. and the dreaded sand
storms of most arid regions. Its south
ern position gives it mild winter cli-
mate These conditions render pleasant
an out -ofdoor life the entire year, and
permit those suffering from lung and
bronchial diseases daily exercise and life
in the open air. This treatment, in spite
of numberless cures for consumption, ex
plotted monthly. stands first in the con-
tidence of the people and of the medical
profession as the best single means
known of combating the dread disease,
tuberculosis. The out-of-door life, with
proper medical treatment. has afforded
relief to numbers of sufferers who are be-
yond hope of cure, and cured many in
the earlier stages of consumption.
DIR. Harrison E. Stroud says of the
Climate of fArizona.-"Thes summers are
hot. There are some warm daysin in May,
gradually increasing into June. and from