Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1908-10-13
A HEALTH SEEKER
CONFIDENT OF CURE
Delegate to the Anti tuberculosis
Congress Arrived Yesterday.

What do you think of the coun-
try?"
1t is the greatest country on
earth The more one looks into it
and sizes things up the more that
fact is apparent and it is to be re-
GREETED that so few people fully real
ize what a glorious place this is
The last speaker was DR.. John w.
Foss. who arrived here yesterday in
search of better health and who
knows of a certainty that he is going
to find it. He left here several weeks
ago with Mrs. Foss, partly for a visit
in Boston but chiefly to attend the
Anti tuberculosis congress in Wash
ington, which he did and which he
says was the greatest gathering of
medical men that was ever held in
the whole history of the world.
But about his health. He suffered
frightfully of the heat during his
first three days in Washington, then
it turned chilly and rainy and he
caught such a cold as an Arizona
man would be ashamed to be seen
with in the homeland and came home
with a cough that reflects no credit
on the bug congress. But-he will
have it thawed out in a day or two
and get his voice in trim to begin
telling the local people how much
more than ever he is enthused over
Arizona.
Local people know something of
the doctors views, especially concern
ing the valley lands but not a word
about lands goes in this talk. This
trip was professional and he would
not have missed it for the world He
says it was the unanimous concen-
sus of opinion of all the medical men
there that consumption is a prevent
able and a durable disease when pee
pie take hold of the matter vig0r-
ously as they are beginning to do.
And enrolled among the $500 dele
gates were the leading physicians of
the world; such personages as the
private physicians to the car and the
king of Spain. and the leading medi-
cal authorities of Germany. Italy.
Switzerland and nearly all civilized
countries, to say nothing of China
and Japan. By the way he said one
of the brightest men in the con-
gress and one of the best thinkers
and most pleasing takers was a Chi
nese doctor.
One of the things that weighed
heavily on Dr. Foss' heart was the
fact that this valley had no exhibit
there on climatology. as it has be-
come local policy not to adver-
tise this valley as n health resort.
Colorado was there with an exhibit
that was fine and must have cost
hundreds of dollars. If he had had
a hundred dollar exhibit with the
data available here he says he could
have made all the others look like
thirty cents from the standpoint of
the health seeker and the practi-
toner who is interested in knowing
where the best climate really is. It
was impossible for him to keep still
all the time and he did let the truth
be known to a few he came in con-
tact with personally. Among them
was DIR. +. w. Philip, one of the
most notable practitioners in Edin-
burgh, Scotland. DIR. Philip, he says,
is going to tour the country before
he goes home and. said he was COM
ing to Phoenix for a personal inves-
tigation.
The subject Of tuberculosis was dis
cussed in all its features. in various
sections, some OF them by the doc
tor alone, the entire convention on
the sociological problems connected
with it and a whole week was devot-
ed to the examination of various sec
tional exhibits. II was a great con-
gress and would require book to
describe all its interesting features.
Indeed, anybody interested in it
should secure the big book that is to
be published, which will contain the
proceedings and all the papers sub
mitted as well