The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1904-08-06
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from an address of the President of
the Florida Medical Association at
the recent convention:
THE effect of climate upon dis
eases and its results are nowhere
more consfcuously pronounced than
in Florida.
ITO those of us who are familiar
with the phases of some diseases at
the North as we'll as in Florida the
change in type is 50 marked as to
lead us to sometimes doubt the cor
rectness of our diagnosis.
1T is fair to presume that in our
climate the skin in some way takes
on in some degree the function of
the kidneys in the elimination of the
products Of disease, and SO the life
is prolonged
Take the various forms of neu-
rasthenia. 1t is easy to understand
how the warmer and moister climate
relieves the nervous strain and 80
causes present comfort and ultimate
cure.
Pneumonia is rare with US, but
it is one of the diseases that when
taken seems TO run with nearly
equal violence here as elsewhere. 1t
is rarely seen under conditions of
our climate.
Chronic bronchitis or winter
cough: We need only say to those
who suffer from this trouble, come
early in the autumn and stay late in
the spring and we can promise you
almost complete immunity from this
distressing trouble. All who suffer
from it and seek our borders do not
heed this single suggestion. but
como late and stay a little while and
return to their homes to suffer all
through the uncertain months of
spring, while those who come in Oc-
tober and 60 away in the latter days
of May, in a few years have broken
up the habit and find the cough and
its attendant troubles have passed
away
In practice of more than twenty
years in Florida | can recall but
three cases of diphtheris that could
be directly traced to Northern infec-
ton, that is, cases brought down
and developing after arrival; and
even then it is easy TO prevent the
further spread Of the disease.
The air of Florida not being fav-
orable for the propagation of the
germs the mildness of the disease Of
children is well known. A member
Of our profession, now dead, who for
many years held a very prominent
place as physician in st. Angus.
tine, said that he had known of 100
cases of scarlet fever without a sim
gle death.
We are all familiar with the
number who come to us suffering
from kidney trouble, and we know,
too, how they continue to live year
after year often with improving
health.
1T is a matter Of common obser-
vation that great numbers of con-
sumptives do very well indeed in
the genial climate of Florida.
TO no health-seeker is the relief
more marked or permanent than in
those suffering from asthma.
"Variola: When a disease is 80
mild that grave doubts exist among
well informed and well observing
physicians that the disease under
observation is not this disease at all,
1t must certainly be very mild in
deed, and yet this is just what hap
pened when variola invaded the
State few years since. Men who
had seen varlola many times were
10th to be convinced that the
dreaded disease of their past obser-
yatlon had become so modified in
FloridT that it had become to be
known as pumps, and its fatality
reduced to less than per cent.
"Children's diseases, measels,
mumps and whooping cough, are
commonly so mild that little care 10
necessary in their treatment, and
rarely are there any seynella that
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