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

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  • i9 " I have made observations in regard to pulmonary diseases generally, and hereditary tubercular phthisis especially, to which I wish to call your attention, and which I know will influence you in selecting a place of refuge for your phthisical patients. My observations and the opinions I have formed are based upon a large practice for twenty years. I can show you sons and daughters of ancestors who came to this country and died from tubercular phthisis. Many of them are far past the meridian of life, and are in good health, with fair prospects of attaining to ripe old age. The grandchildren of these ancestors are in all respects healthy, and are entirely without indication of tubercular or strumous cachexia." The Tuckaseege and Little Tenneesee rivers water beautiful, wide, elevated valleys, with out-stretching expanse of surrounding forest. Their headwaters are in the mountains, which form the dividing chains between South Carolina and Georgia. A considerable village, called the Highlands, has been advertised extensively as a health resort. It is situated on a broad plateau, covered with oak growth, at an elevation of about four thousand feet, but it is of very difficult access for invalids, being fifty miles from the Western North Carolina railroad and about thirty from rail in South Carolina. The roads are never good, and at times well-nigh impassable. The rainfall here is excessive, being over seventy inches yearly average for the two years during which observations have been made. The changes of temperature are sudden, and during much of the summer, clouds and rain prevail. The cooler elevations cause condensation of rain from the moisture-ladened winds blowing from over the heated lower lands stretching away to the East and South. Westward is the Nantahala Valley, which is less a valley than a plateau, between the ranges about three thousand feet in elevation. Twenty miles by fifty long, it lies in picturesque loveliness, an almost un-
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