. A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route." . This airy empire has been the subject of many learned dissertations,not one of which is so convincing as the roses returning to the wannest cheek, orthe dragging step once more light and buoyant. Probably the work of , M. D., issued in 1880, is the most authentic ever published on therelations of climate and disease. Searching for the ideal clime for the pre-vention and cure of consumption, he selects the Rocky Mountain region. Hegives his reasons for this, and d
. A description of the western resorts for health and pleasure reached via Union Pacific system, "the overland route." . This airy empire has been the subject of many learned dissertations,not one of which is so convincing as the roses returning to the wannest cheek, orthe dragging step once more light and buoyant. Probably the work of , M. D., issued in 1880, is the most authentic ever published on therelations of climate and disease. Searching for the ideal clime for the pre-vention and cure of consumption, he selects the Rocky Mountain region. Hegives his reasons for this, and defends them from the stronghold of science andexperience. He cites the humid, low resorts of Florida and the Carolinas andTexas, and shows that in none of their advantages can they compete with theirhigh and dry rivals. If possessing any advantages, they are enervating, andmore apt to bring the entire system down than to build it up. Of absolutecures, there are none to place to their credit. There are many credited to thegreater altitudes. The book referred to is full of tabular illustrations of thepoints it
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