Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-02-17
Tent Life, Sunshine, Mountain
All and Pure Food Now
Acknowledged to Be
Prime Factors.
IN LUNG AND
BRONCHIAL CASES
Sunmount Tent City at Santa fe an
Ideal Resort. Most FayorabIy
Situated in Every Respect

The Outdoor Cure" for consumr
tion is taking the place of all othe
methods of treating tuberculosis. Coz
liver oil, creosote serums, yapor in
halations, all hailed as specifics, al
though they never cured a person 0
the dread disease, are being supplant
ed in the United States as we'll as il
Europe, by outdoor life and simple
hygienic rules. Even though the win
ter in the east has been an abnormally
severe one, the eastern papers describe
how hundreds of patients in the cite;
as we'll as at the famous resorts in the
Adirondacks, at Saranac Lake, al
White Haven, are living outdoors
sleeping outdoors even when the TEN
perature is far below zero and biz
yards are raging. In quite a number
of cases positive cures have been eff
fected and in many more cases the
disease has been checked for the time
being Fresh air, sunshine and diet
are now the sheet anchors of physi-
clans in treating tuberculosis and the
success achieved is far greater than
has thus far been gained by any other
method of treatment.
If certain amount of success is at.
tanned with the outdoor method of
treatment in the rigid climate of the
east and of the north. and under the
humid, depressing conditions in the
south, it stands to reason that under
such ideal conditions as exist at Sun
mount, cure is almost certain if the af-
ficted person comes in time. Tent
life, which is the equivalent of out
door life, can be enjoyed to it's fullest
measure at SunmOunt. The unbrOken
sunshine of the day and the compare
lively mild temperature even in De-
cember, January and February with
which this region is blessed, enable
the tent dweller to live and sleep out
doors from one end of the year to the
other without exposing him or her to
physical discomforts such as natural
ly retard cures in the foggy, cold, dis
weather which prevails on
many days in the sections east of the
Add to this the dryness of
the atmosphere, the exhilaration and
beneficial influence of the altitude, the
cool nights during summer, the alb
sence of insect pests, the healthful-
ness of the cuisine at the Tent City
and the other sanitary. factors which
mean so much in treating chronic
disease like consumption, and it is no
that those who have stayed
at the place even a, comparatively
speaking, short time have made won
1erful gains and some have gone home
cured. The man or woman threatened
with consumption or already in its
can afford to take no chances.
It is demanded that he or she seek to
shake off the destroyer under the most
favorable conditions and surround
ngs, that nothing be left undone that
might be done to aid cure. Nor can
l person ill with consumption afford
% make any experiments. He should
EEL it his duty to do the best that
science has prescribed for the cure of
he disease and science agrees that
he climate of New Mexico, especially
hat of Santa Fe and surroundings, Of
ers the very best, conditions under
which to attempt the cure of tubercu-
osis. One physician after the other,
those who stand in the lead
If their profession, are recognizing |
his and are sending their patients to
lew Mexico and particularly to Sun |
Mount at Santa Fe.
The idea that hospital air per-
AIDES Sur mount is erroneous. To see
he denizens of that place at a game
If croquet or at golf, alert, agile and
trong, one would imagine that Sun
Mount is primarily a pleasure instead
# health resort. 1t is a common re-
mark that the buoyant looking strang-
r on the streets of Santa Fe is lung
# at Sunmount. while if visitor asks
bout some haggard, careworn looking |
he is told, "Oh, that's only
native, there is nothing the matter
With him" Outdoor games are possi-
lie every day of the year at Sun
Mount for it is never too cold nor too
warm for healthful exercise. Accord
ne to the weather bureau there has
ot been single cloudy day at Santa
e since the first of October and not
day for almost a year on which the
lin did not shine. The temperature
t no time this winter has been down
D zero, and always has been above
he freezing point at its daily maxi
1um while in the sun it has ranged
rom the fifties to the eighties.
Life at Sunmount is not expensive
hat is the beauty of the outdoor treat
lent, that any one can take it with
ut extra cost at this place. The ex-
ense of one weeks stay at some IA