A text-book of practical therapeutics . and thirdly, see thatthe resort chosen has comfortable accommodations, good food, gooddrug-supplies, and a capable physician at hand in case of need. In a case of tuberculosis and in all patients suffering from thepulmonary complaints named above the following rules may be MINERAL SPRINGS AND CLIMATES 625 adhered to, except in persons suffering from attacks of acute bron-chitis, who always need a climate providing moisture and tubercular patients do best in a high, dry air, and others ina lower and more moist temperature—the first being repre
A text-book of practical therapeutics . and thirdly, see thatthe resort chosen has comfortable accommodations, good food, gooddrug-supplies, and a capable physician at hand in case of need. In a case of tuberculosis and in all patients suffering from thepulmonary complaints named above the following rules may be MINERAL SPRINGS AND CLIMATES 625 adhered to, except in persons suffering from attacks of acute bron-chitis, who always need a climate providing moisture and tubercular patients do best in a high, dry air, and others ina lower and more moist temperature—the first being representedby that of Colorado Springs (6000 feet) or Silver City in Americaand by San Moritz (6000 feet) and Davos Platz (5000 feet) in Switzer-land, where the altitude is not only very great, but the air very coldin winter. The days in these places are many of them clear, butin Colorado they are apt to be windy. Feeble persons cannot standhigh winds, as a rule. The second climate is represented by thatof Florida and Southern Fig, 118. -Ghest outline before residence at Davos — solid, (Williams diagram.) After residence at Davos In those cases in which a mild climate is useful, this can be obtainedat San Diego, a place where there is virtually perpetual summer. AtAsheville, N. C. (2200 feet), or Thomasville, Georgia (330 feet),the air is moderately dry. A spot is desirable where a patient canremain the year round, and, if well enough, engage in business,avoiding cold, sharp March winds of the Middle, Eastern, or North-western States, and the necessity of leaving Florida on the advent ofsummer. Physicians have attempted for years to formulate rules for phthis-ical patients as to the climate to be sought. In very many cases thevarious health resorts have to be chosen by experiment, not byjudgment beforehand. In cases of phthisis with profuse bronchialsecretion, a high, dry climate is generally the better unless the heartis feeble, but in cases which suffer from dryne
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