Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-26

Writer in Worlds Work Pays High Tribute TO Peerless Climate
of Central New Mexico and Gives Sane Advice to the Con.
sunptve who Starts "0ut West in Search of Health.

"The Way to HEALTH" the World
Work for December, carries an arti
Gle entitled THE Consumptive's Hol
Grail which is probably the strong
est tribute to the efficacy of the eli
mate of central New Mexico. in tn
treatment of tuberculosis ever pal,
by any writer. The Land of the Wei
Country the writer terms it, and h
places Albuquerque as the center o
that country. The article contains :
great deal of san advice TO health
seekers. from a writer who gives am
Pile evidence of having tried it, ant
is reproduced in part below:
am set up by a beneficent Provi
dence at the corner of the road Il
warn you to flee from the hebetud,
that is to follow
have been through the ''hebetude'
and ] know what a vale of tears it is
! have suffered and c%oughed ant
sweltered till | know the o O
body and soul which it brings. have
counted the endless. gloomy, cherries
days that come before the cure. But
ut last relief came ana I could look
back like Dante at his Inferno. 1t is
now q year since | returned to normal
life, and I am a stronger and more
vigorous man than aver before.
The country in the southwest to
which healthseekers go is a vast one,
though it Is not nearly so extensive as
il once was, Or as it is still believed
to be by many in the East . A de-
cade G Colorado was considered the
best of all places to go, with southern
California probably second on the list
while anywhere in the West was
considered good enough. Gradually,
a costly experience has pretty ac-
curAtcly marked off the country that
IS most desirable. so that it is now
possible to say something definite and
certain.
If we put.o point of a compass on
albuquerque. n. NJ. as a center, and
the other point on Boulder, Colo. for
@ radius, and describe a circle begin
ming ON the Mexican boundary line
on the west and touching the Rio
Grande on the east. we Will circnm-
scribe this Land-of-the-Well Country.
The region near the center of the cir
Gle will comprise the heart of the land
to which people now so for climate,
and, in general, the nearer one goes
to the center of the circle the more
nearly ideal will be the conditions for
the cure of the average case.
All over this great circle, and even
beyond II. we may find ''healthseek-
ers.'' but generally those who are neal
the outskirts are persons who nave
accustomed to living ana
working In the mild climate and who
arc making the country their home.
Nearer the center of the circle. lies
the great broad tableland where the
of actively curing the disease
is carried on more extensively ana
more successfully thar anywhere else
in the world. And it is this section
which. as time goes on. is likely to be-
come better and better known as "Ihe
Land-of-the-Well Country Here is a,
large territory where are to be found
the most nearly ideal conditions of dry
air, sunshine. altitude n warm
In these factors, which are
the fundamental desiderata in the cure
of tuberculosis. this section eXcels COL
as much as Colorado eXcels New
York or Massachusetts,.
The climatic conditions have made
this great section one sanatorium.
who are dying with tubercu-
losis in the East quickly respond to
his wonderfully mild and soothing eli
and with scientific treatment
of them ultimately get well, or
at least very much better. That TINS
not a reckless statement has been
scientifically demonstrated by the
of the famous sanatoria IN TINS
country. The actual esult OF one oil
them. covering "A period of eight years
and including several hundred patients
show -that--among those who went pc
fore their disease became advanced
none died, 30 per cent improved and
20 per cent We're cured.
1t is this matter of climate which
attracts the healthseeker to this count
try. and he is of course very properly
in 1t. / suppose that the
who reads this Will be
for advice whether he should
go in search of climate or remain and
the cure in his W country. n
proper answer to such a question is
very hard Ia give. Sc much depends
the individual case, n the par
circumstances of each, that 1t
is impossible to lay down any general
rule whether all should emigrate to
the new land or not.
But, after all, my advice TO all those
who can go Is to do so. | am wiser
han when | started out for this coun-
try. and have lost many of the de-
with which started. one of
the things / have learned is that eli
is not a specific for tuberculosis;
is not a ~cureall. and will not work
Miracles. I know also that cures are
made every day in all parts of
The East-which is something that
lid o know before, and could hard
have believed in face of the insist
mt advice of doctors and other per-
ons to go West But there is abb
no doubt-in spite of any ar
sumcnts to the contrary-that a land
Il climate like this offers a surer
md quicker and much happier road TO
than can be found anywhere
Else.
The peculiar climatic conditions are
1ue. of course. To the physical char
lcter of the land and TO its remote
ness from the sea. Nature has set
~ q series of great mountain barriers
the West. which keep off all the
rains from the Pacific What little
rain the country does get m dur