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phere wfll enable them to live mucli of their time out of doors without fear of 

 taking cold." He insists, however, as I have always done, that " 'tis no use to 

 send patients thither who are in the advanced stages of the disease." And this 

 I know to be a fact. Some physicians think Colorado or Florida, New Mexico 

 or Texas or Aiken, S. C. , or Ashville, N. C. , to be preferable places, whether it 

 be consumption or bronchitis, with loss of voice, etc. 



The following items by E. R. Ellis, M. D., in the Detroit News, in Novem- 

 ber, 1880, are so sensible and so pertinent to the subject, as to the climate of 

 Michigan or Texas for consumptives, I give it in full. He says: 



10. Texas for Invalids or Consumptives.—" The cold and bleak 

 winds of winter, now so fast approaching, impel me to say a few words to a 

 class of invalids now quite numerous in our state, which your paper may reach. 

 The list of deaths from consumption and other debilitating diseases, while not 

 large in Michigan, does every year include a few in every community. 



" While there is no way known to remedy all this mortality, yet a large 

 share of it is avoidable. This last consists in a change of climate. For some 

 years I have given this matter considerable attention, and am satisfied that there 

 is no locality in the United States, and perhaps not on the western hemisphere, 

 equal to the highlands of central and southwestern Texas. 



" The climate there is dry, mild and salubrious. The elevation takes one 

 above the damps and fog which are so fatal in Florida and on the sea coasts gen- 

 erally. Incidentally I might say that there is nothing more fatal to human life 

 in any country than the near presence of marshes or lowlands, where fog set- 

 tles, or where dampness collects, as it does in many habitations wliich are too 

 much shaded with trees and shrubbery. In such houses the physician encoun- 

 ters an odor of mildew, and its intensity determines the activity of his business 

 at that place. I should estimate that there are two or three thousand invalids 

 now in this state who would be cured or greatly benefited by a temporary or 

 permanent residence in Texas. If we have a severe winter and they attempt to 

 remain here, by the end of March next, three-fourths of them will be ' chirping 

 with the angels;' and while they make rich harvest for doctors with their ton- 

 ics, syrups, elixirs, inhalations, etc. , one-fourth of them only will survive, and 

 not many of these fully cured. A removal to Texas will cure or greatly benefit 

 three-fourths, which makes an amazing difference in mortuary results. 



" It is lamentable that the pecuniary condition of many will not permit 

 their removal, but many others are blessed with wealth and will gladly do what- 

 ever will prolong their life or that of their dear ones. Consider well the mat- 

 ter before it is too late, and act promptly. 



" Physicians are usually, and sometimes excusably, reluctant to advise 

 invalids to go away from home and friends, and thus the matter is delayed until 

 a fatal result is inevitable. 



" But every consumptive patient of mature years may knoAV this for him- 

 self. If, in spite of the favorable weather of summer and autumn, he is 

 declining with increased cough and shortness of breath, and occasional spitting 

 of blood, his condition is alarming. He should change his physician or climat^^ 

 •r l90th, immediately. 



