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Thomasville, in Georgia, sixteen miles from the Florida line, 

 and Aiken and Camden, in South Carolina, have long had a reputa- 

 tion for the relief of pulmonary affections. Asheville, North Caro- 

 lina, is more elevated (2,300 feet) and has an excellent " all the year 

 round " climate. Special attention is given to tuberculous patients 

 at this resort, and this is something" that cannot be said of all the 

 g-ood places. In Pennsylvania, suitable places are found in the 

 Pocono Mountains, at White Haven, Kane, Cresson, Mont Alto and 

 Hamburg-. In New Jersey, there are Lakewood, Brown's Mills, 

 Haddonfield, Vineland, and, for special cases, such as chronic fibroid 

 phthisis, we may advise Atlantic City. 



In New York, there are the Adirondacks, especially the vicinity 

 of Saranac ; Loomis, in Sullivan County, where there is an excellent 

 sanatorium. In New England, there are institutions at Rutland 

 and Sharon, Massachusetts ; Wallum Lake, Rhode Island ; Walling- 

 ford, Connecticut. But, as we have said before, the choice of a 

 place, whether near home or at a distant point involves all the ques- 

 tions of diagnosis, of temperament, of financial resources, all of 

 which the physician must weigh as conscientiously as though his own 

 life depended on it. 



Of late, English physicians have been making more extended use 

 of the higher Alpine resorts. Among these, Davos Platz, altitude 

 5,200 feet; St. Moritz, 6,000 feet; Arosa, 6,100 feet; and Leysin, 

 4,712 feet, are usually chosen. Their chief characteristics are an 

 atmosphere of dry, still, cold, rarefied air ; absence of fog, few 

 clouds and very little wind. There is, therefore, strong sunlight 

 with a grateful warmth in the sun's rays. 



In selecting cases for treatment by change of climate, we must 

 exercise as much discrimination as in applying any other remedial 

 measure. Indeed, more caution should be used, for the patient will 

 pass out of observation and in most cases the advice given involves 

 the most vital consequences. 



CHAPTER V. INFLUENCE OF INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC 

 PRESSURE; CONDENSED AIR 



Celsus, in treating of pulmonary tuberculosis in the first century 

 A. D., advocated a change of climate and to " seek a denser air 

 than one lives in." ^ 



A few places in California and in Asia Minor are below sea-level. 



^ De Medicina, Paris edition, Delahay, 1855. 



