The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-10-01
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
TUBERCULOSIS coNGRE

TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS
Washington, Sept. 29.-The Inter
tuberculosis Congress again
convened for the second session ia
the New Museum in this city
DR.. Frederick. knight. of Boston,
said, in reference to the question OF
the Comparative Importance of
and an Entire Change of Climate"
that sanatorium treatment was simply
the most thorough method of subject
ing a patient to proper me~teorolog1c.
h~ygienic, dietettic and any therapell-
tic measures thought desirable, in
GLIDING regulation of mental and bod
lily exercise. Climate is the average
weather conditions of a given place.
We cannot therefore compare sana-
torium and climatic treatment be-
cause the climatic element is simply
a factor of all treatment, of sanato
rum treatment as well as Of all 9TH
ers. It would be comparing the whole
with one of it's parts. The claim made
by some modern enthusiasts that vary
ing meteorologic conditions may be
ignored in all cases, DR.. Knight said
is contrary to experience, as well as
contrary to common sense. Many OF
the effects Of climate on the human
system are we'll known, he said, and
there is no reason to suppose that the
tuberculous patient is exempt from
the ordinary laws of nature in this
respect. If it is admitted nat varying
meteorologic conditions affect meta
holism, it would seem to be hardly
necessary to advance any further ar
tuberculous cases. If the proposition
is as to the relative merits of sana-
torium regulation near home, and an
unrestrained, unregulated life under
radically changed climatic conditions,
the advice would usually be for the
former. Most of those patients even
to whom expense is not a considera-
ton, would do better to begin their
treatment in a sanatorium.
DIR. knight expressed regret that
Al SohAS - ~
ment was rather losing in repute.
This is DUE" he said, largely to
false expectations of the results to
De obtained from it. These false ex-
p%ectations have been usually due to
exaggerated ideas, perhaps more pop
accomplished in the sanatorium. The
large percentage of cures Or arrested
cases reported from the sanatoria a
had an unfortunate effect, as many
of these patients on returning to ad-
verse conditions suffered relapse.
Much, however, is now being done to
prevent this.
"Now this change of weather con
ditions from indoors to outdoors
practically a change Of climate) eff
not in all. In some a radical change
in outdoor meteorologic conditions
may be desirable. Good judgment
must. however, be used in selecting
new conditions for, as Huggard found
out at Davos, the same degree of cold
WutCu WuSIS Iuc dpp0tilS anu lIl-
proves digestion in most people a
es symptoms of indigestion in others.
The relative Importance of the
climatic factor in the treatment of
tuberculosis, and the indications for
selection of meteorologic conditions
for any given case, will only be de
termined by the collation. of a large
number of statistics of patients in
all parts of the world, diagnosticated,
examined and similarly treated by
experts. who use the same classified
ton and nomenclature, and nave the
same ideas in regard to their inter
probation.
LIGHT AND SUNSHINE
AS GERM KILLERS.
At the International Tuberculosis