Arizona republican., 1903-05-04
THE sEARCHERs FOR CLIMATE
What the Visiting Experts Think of
 This Territory,

It will be remembered that more than 1 q year ago several members of the
 American Chronological society visit ed Phoenix in the course of a tour of
 the west. The society has recently issued report of the visitors, a mag
 niflcent and expensive work containing
 more than one hundred illustrations. ] some of them relating to this valley.
 In addition there was issued another
 report giving accounts O; meetings al
 the various places along the route and l the papers read. There was still an- other dealing only with the reception of she members in Phoenix in which the people of this town are highly praised for their hospitality.
 One of the members of the party was
 John L. Heffron, A. M, M. D., If Syra- cuse, N. Y, who last October read be- fore the Central New York Medical as sociation paper called Some Obser- Tations on the Climate of the West" In the course of it he said: If you imagine that the physicians of the west prescribe only air and sunlight you are sadly mistaken. While in every center there are a few physicians who are intelligent, educated and conservative, there are in every climatic resort at tA-G se-Ai4G llii4t d ilO5l tl IuaIho that can put to blush any of this species practicing in the east. I consider the placing of a patient under an inteIli- gent and reliable physician immediate
 ly on his arrival in the city Of his des-
 tination an absolute necessity. It is
 at first. before he has learned the cli-
 matic peculiarities that he most needs guidance and careful observation. You ,rn1I11 rT1 hn of the grossest and most ,InscrupuIous impositions on the sick which I could relate to you. The greatest pity of it
 is that irreguS IF and quixotic methods are rot conhked to those practicing
 without the degree of some recognized school of medicine but are indulged in
 by some who have a high local repu-
 tatiOn. So that Folks directory is not
 safe guide. The practice of sending patients away to a climatic resort with q medicine case and an order to keep
 you posted about the progress of the
 case is absolutely wrong. Such
 patient is practically certain to get
 into the hands of some medical fakir
 or to commit some costly error"
 Of the journey through Arizona, Dr.
 Heffron said: Tn Arizona our stops
 werz at the Grand Canyon of the Colo
 radO, Prescott and Phoenix. This gave
 opportunity of observing conditions in
 the northern and southern par.s of the
 territory. The clements which are
 common throughout Arizona are dry
 air and a maximum of sunlight
 throughout the entire year. The tenn
 perature in northern Arizona is lower
 than in the southern part due to a
 greater nearness of snow carped noun tain ranges. But Tn Phoenix when in
 the June day of our visit the thermom-
 etcr registered 100 at the governmen.
 observation station the effect of the
 heat was far different than it is with us. While the temperature that day
 was 100, the humidity was but Per cent and the result was that after d
 drive in and about Phoenix of several
 hours in the middle of the day and an
 elaborate dinner at p. m. none of us
 were in the least degree unfavorably af- fected by the heat and could not req lize from our sensations that the ther-
 mometer was SO high. 1t was here that we first observed the marked difference in sensible heat between sunlit places and the shade. It is so marked that no eastern man can properly appreciate it without personal experience. Any ob- JENN LAidN casts q ollsihON iS d NDOl lt- treat and we were brought to realize
 the meaning of that oft-quoted pas sage, the shadow O. a rock in a weary land The same conditions were ob- served throughout the trip It was curious to see the birds make use of this discovery and seek for their re- freshment, the shadow of anything. even a telegraph pole. The same causes which produce this marked difference are productive of the marked difference between the temperature by day and by night. Cool nights arc the rule and the difference is still more marked in those regions where there is an alterna- ton of currents from the mountains
 and from the plains or from the ocean.
 "The Inequalities that were show cred upon us in Arizona were typical of what we received wherever we went. Nothing that the residents of any O. the places visited could contribute to increase our comfort and to appreciate to the full the advantage of their home cities was left undone. so that it can be said with certainty that no stranger will be neglected in any of our western climatic resorts. There is a communi- ty of interest and general friendliness which is not purely commercial and ii ! prevails in all ranks of society. If there is an exclusive set we were not
 allowed to know it and if there had been some O; our party were distin- guished enough to have appealed to fl i and to have been marked by the lion
 hunter in society. No such thing was observed. The literature of Arizona climate is full and that compiled by 1 the government stations is accurate and reliable. The territory offers a wide selection of most admirable re- sorts for both summer and winter and
 is without question one of the most favorable places for those afflicted with | pulmonary diseases"
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