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Climatic Treatment of Disease: Western North Carolina as a Health Resort

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  • bacillus tuberculosis following inoculation and infection of animals does not in any wise differ from the laboratory experiments carried on in the large cities. Dr. Harold Williams, of Boston, in a carefully prepared paper read before the Massachusetts Medical Society during the present year, reviews certain phases of the question of the adaptability of climate to individuals, and in summing up says: "It seems to me that we must admit, in the present state of our knowledge, the meteorological differences of climate have been proved to be of little importance in the treatment of phthisis; and, furthermore, that clinical evidence would support this conclusion, for the burden of proof lies with those advocates who plead in favor of special climates, and such proof it seems to me is yet to be forthcoming." This is more than I am willing to admit, since we should look for aid to the infected individual from climatic change, not in the breathing of an "anti-bacillary atmosphere," but in the placing of the patient in surroundings suitable, if possible, to strengthen his weakened, vital, resisting powers, and reinforce his tissue development, so that it may be superior to the attack of the would-be destroyer, and although we do not know all the conditions requisite for counteracting the growth of morbiferous bacilli, we are assured that healthy tissues and blood imperfectly furnish the required pabulum. Were it only necessary to breath an anti-bacillary atmosphere, science could solve the problem and give ' to the sick-chamber an antiseptic air fatal to bacterial growth. Many have builded hopes upon such remedial agents and, perhaps, in certain measure correctly; but, given a "pneumatic cabinet" and antiseptic inhalations, we should not expect to affect a diseased gland, a caseous nodule; and only in a certain limited degree, a cavity even, since the air inspired goes almost wholly into the less diseased and healthy portions.
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