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Here in Colorado, however, the invalid can find comfortable and 

 adequate accommodations at reasonable rates. lie can enjoy the com- 

 forts of settled communities at the same time that he is putting him- 

 self under superb climatic conditions. He will have access to a market 

 which can amply supply his demands, even should he desire such deli- 

 cacies as a live lobster or oysters in the shell. He will be in direct 

 telegraphic and postal communication with his home, and, should oc- 

 casion demand, can walk the streets of Boston within three days of 

 leaving Denver. 



These are considerations of no little weight to the invalid, for he 

 is a human being, sensitive like other human beings — in fact,* rather 

 more dependent on the comforts of life than other men — and he pro- 

 tests, and rightly too, that it is cruel to impose conditions on him 

 which would depress and render sick even a strong and able-bodied 

 man. 



The idea which has been so prevalent, and which even now is not 

 entirely eradicated, that to regain health it is necessary to " rough it," 

 and the greater the privations one endures, the more he roughs it, the 

 sooner he will get well, is an erroneous and most cruel one. 



It is not necessary to pander to the consumptive so as to make him 

 a hypochondriac ; and yet, on the other hand, we protest against the 

 rough usage so often entailed upon him, which would seem to justify 

 the idea that the only way of curing the disease is by fairly knocking 

 it out of a man. 



We consider the proper regulation of an invalid's life as regards 

 exercise, diet, hygienic conditions, accommodations for living, etc., as 

 of great importance — equal, it may be, to considerations of climate. 



We have already * given to the public our opinion of what they 

 can expect to find, on such scores, in Colorado, and need not now 

 weary the reader with a repetition. 



We at that time took occasion to mention the kind of cases that, 

 in our opinion, should not come to Colorado, and we will now briefly 

 repeat the advice. It is an excellent place for persons in whom a re- 

 covery can reasonably be expected, but it is not a place where con- 

 sumptives should be sent as a last resort. 



In conclusion, we can only say that, if the figures and arguments 

 we have adduced are not convincing, or if the reader is skeptical about 

 the ranges of temperature and unbelieving in regard to the heating 

 effects of the direct solar rays, or the further fact that low tempera- 

 tures do not feel so cold in our light and dry air as at sea-level, or if 

 he can not reconcile the facts presented with any theory he may hold, 

 we can only say to such a one, " Come and see." 



The theories in regard to the beneficial elements of elevated regions 

 may be entirely erroneous. Men's theories are constantly changing, 

 and it may or may not be true that elevation, dryness, and sunshine 

 * "Colorado for Invalids," " Topular Science Monthly," July, 1884. 



