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Wc all know the after history of this patient. Thank God, he is 

 still living, still working, and there are thousands living to-day who 

 owe their lives to the example which he has set them. lie seized the 

 principles of climatic treatment and adapted it to the individual. 



I recently sent the following question to the deans of medical 

 colleges in Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Mon- 

 treal. T knew nothing of the views of these men on this su1)jcct 

 except one; of course wc all know that every one from California 

 has decided views on climate. The question was : 



What would you do for yourself climatically if you were told for 

 the first time that you had incipient pulmonary tuberculosis? 



Here are the answers : 



I would strike for the wild pine woods of northern Michigan or Wisconsin 

 and stay there. — A. R. Edwards, Chicago. 



In answer to your question I may say that if I had incipif-nt tuberculosis 

 r should either go to Saranac or St. Agathe in Canada and employ the open 

 air treatment. — F. J. Shepherd, McGill University, Montreal. 



In answer to your question of December 26, I would say that I would 

 treat myself as I do patients on whom I make the diagnosis of incipient pul- 

 monary tuberculosis, that is, refer them to a local man who sjtecializcs in this 

 disease, and ask him to look them over and refer them for climatic treatment 

 in accordance with his knowledge of climatic conditions suitable to the indi- 

 vidual case. Were I to start out to select a climate for myself, I would be 

 much more influenced by the physician under whose care I would come in the 

 new place than by the actual climate, and would probably select either Saranac 

 Lake or Asheville, N. C, as I know and have confidence in physicians in each 

 place. Were they to decide that I was better suited to some other climate, 

 I would move on under their advice. If it were possible, I believe that I 

 would undoubtedly leave Boston, had I incipient tuberculosis. 



Very truly yours, 



Hknry A. Christian, 



Boston. 



If I had to answer your question categorically I would say that I would 

 ask the advice of one or two men living in my own community as to what 

 I should do for myself climatically if I were told for the first time that I 

 had incipient pulmonary tuberculosis. 



The practice among the profession in New Orleans is to send patients to 

 St. Tammany Parish, in Louisiana, where the growth of piney woods is thick 

 and ozone plentiful. When the particular case justifies, the patient is sent 

 to the plains of Arizona or New Mexico, and, rarely, to El Paso, Texas. A 

 few patients go to Colorado. — Isadore Dyer, Tulane University, New Or- 

 leans, La. 



Perhaps I can best answer this personally by telling you what I did when I 

 was told this very thing fifteen years ago. Having contracted tuberculosis 

 in New York city I sought a better climate for an outdoor life, spending 

 the first summer in the Adirondack Mountains and in November of that year 



