SANATORIÜM FOR TUBERCULOSIS 



IN THE VALLEY OF MÉXICO. 



BT DOCTOR 



DANIEL VEEGARA LOPE, M. S. A. 



Lauréate of the Smithaoniaa 



Institution of Washington D. C— Profesor of the ln»titut Medico Nitftioiial 



from México. &. 



In the central table-land of the Mexican Republic, and 

 most specially in the Valley of México, are found excepcio- 

 nal climatie conditions for establishing in them and in the 

 environs of the Capital, especial Sanatoriums for the cure of 

 a great number of different diseases and of those of the res- 

 piratory apparatus. This class of Sanitary establishments 

 has been very useful to suífering humanity and at this very 

 epoch, when Medical Science knows better how to take advan- 

 tage of the f orces of Nature, the therapeutico-climatic Sana- 

 toriums and particularly those in high altitudes acquire eve- 

 ry day much more importance. The English gather in search 

 of health in the hills of the Himalayas, and in the highlands 

 of the Andes. Europeans, in general, drawn by the same ob- 

 ject popúlate the habitable valleys and passes in theheights of 

 the oíd world, and so have arisen Davos, Arosa, Valentiner, 



