The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-20
ANY OTHER CLIMATE

AN Y OlHER CLIMATE
 Referring to sinusitis Git might as well be chronic bronchitis, Chronic rhinitis or "catarrh" or even lung trouble) reader says two doctors advised operation, others advised against operation, but the doctor who is treating him now advised him to go to Arizona. The patient, however, has job and family. So what?
 I have always had a suspicion, and now I am convinced, that the only advantage of one climate over another lies in the sacJ that one can wear less clothing and absorb more sunshine - ultraviolet light, vitamin Din one climate than in the other.
 In my judgment the actual bene- fits invalids and valitudinarians gain with change oi climate are
 CD more exposure to sunlight, CD better air-conditioning, and t3) evading or escaping environment which, to the individual, may be an important factor of trouble at home.
 As illustrating the effect of more exposure to sunlight l cite the ob- servation of Dr. w. E. Barron, health officer of the consolidated district, Addison, N. Y. he found all of 20 children in one school had large tonsils when examined at the end of period of two weeks of rainy days. About a year later the same children, with one to two ex- captions, had small tonsils when examined at the end of a period of three weeks of sunny weather. made (about 1929) we were still confusing vitamin A with vitamin D (the fat-soluble vitamin was call cd A at first, later divided into vitamin A and vitamin D, so we ascrlbed the difference to the amount of vitamin A the children absorbed Now we know it is vitamin D that sunshine generates in the body when it acts on naked skin.
 The second benefit of change of climate, is air conditioning, natural r-conditioning, less OVerheatlng of the air, less aridity or excessive drying out. This benefit may be had anywhere by (O spending more time out of doors, or (b) regulating household heating by thermometer or thermostat rather than personal fancy or Whim and using any ade- quate means to evaporate reason able amount of water in the arti- ficially heated air of the building each "A hours during the season of heating.
 The third benefit of change of climate may be illustrated by a specific case. A woman suffered more or less constantly from asth- ma while living in Hamilton, On- tario. She went to Southern Cali fornia one winter, and obtained great relief immediately upon arrival there, had no trouble for about three months, returned home and suffered an attack the very next day. A few months later she hap pened to visit friends in Niagara Falls, N. Y, forty miles east of Hamilton. Her breathing was easy and no wheezing occurred during the two weeks she remained forty miles from home. But within "A hours after her return home the old wheeze came back. These pecu- liar reactions aroused her doctors suspicious. He investigated her domestic Environments, discovered a parrot, made a skin test iwth parrot feather extract, obtained a characteristic reaction (hive like swelling around the point where the homeopathic quantity of parrot feather was scratched in), persuaded the patients husband, who was nothing 10th, to dispatch the raul cous bird dispatch, to send off). Within the week the asthma cleared up and has never returned. Had the