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etc. ; which stand forth so pieturesquely, at tlie f eet of the 

 Alpine glaciers, and of other cordilleras in Europe. In the 

 U. S. A. Denver the Capital of Colorado, is also the point 

 elected by the inhabitants of that Country, to search for the 

 cure or alleviation of pulmonary affections and of the terrible 

 and inexorable tuberculosis. But none, absolutaly none of 

 these places mentioned, although they are of the first stan- 

 ding of their sort, could compete in advantages with those of 

 a Sanitarium established in the declivities of the cordilleras 

 which surround the most beautiful Valley of México. ' i 



The establishment of a special Sanitarium for the treat- 

 ment of consumtive patients is of great importance, in as much 

 as we are daily more experienced that the beneflcial results 

 are more or less in conformity with the treatment as to the 

 régimen or mode of living which we ought to submit our pa- 

 tients and which are only realized by subjecting them to a 

 vigilent surveillance and medical cure, by sequestring them 

 in the salutary establishments and enforcing a rigourous me- 

 thod, so as to improve their way of living, inculcating a phy- 

 sical and moral education. The more we study this infirmity 

 by obtainig furt her insight of its numerous pathologio quali- 

 ties and the habits of this patients the more ardous appears to 

 be our task, not with standing that we apply ourselves by using 

 the best known remedies and council of experienced persons, 

 besides the best climatic conditions, it is all useless unless 

 we can exercise absoluto vigilance on the physical and moral 

 state of the patients, aiid by all means procurable, endeavour 

 to better their mode of living and supress all bad habits, 

 which are so often to be met with. 



Dr Otis in reference to this subject, compares the re- 

 sults obtained in the treatment tubercle, according to the sta- 

 te of the patient wethér he is entirely at liberty or subject to 

 the prescriptions and solitude of a Sanatorium, and those that 

 might be obtained in any other dangerous sickness before or 



