CLIMATE AND


HEALTH.


Logan, one of the most distinguished physicians in Atlanta,
Georgia, contributed a valuable article on Climate-Cure"
to "Gaillar 's Medical Journal," for March, 1881, and from
it I e (by permission) the following extracts:

 "Without undertaking to cover the whole ground em-
braced in the subject under consideration, or to engage
for the present in the discussion of the speculative theo-
ries now so rife in regard to the details of special influ-
ences of climate upon disease, I propose as a rule, in
general terms, that the best climate for the invalid suffer-
ing from any disease is that which furnishes the largest
opportunity for interesting, comfortable, and healthful
out-door exercise, thoroughly ventilated sleeping-rooms,
and in which there is the least necessity for burdensome


clothing.
 While for many years the weight of evidence in favor
of the State of Florida, as furnishing these conditions to a
higher degree than any other portion of the United States,


has been
ful discril
ing perso
sumption
most hop
in the eff
of that re
made by
establish
it was to
the great
Texas, or


very decided, yet, owing largely to a want of care-
mination upon the part of medical advisers in send-
ns in the fully developed or advanced stage of con-
to that State, and the natural anxiety of even the
ieless sufferers to exhaust every possible resource
ort to prolong life, doubts as to the real advantages
gion have arisen, and repeated efforts have been
enthusiastic members of the medical profession to
a climatic sanitarium elsewhere. At various times
be found among the snow and ice of Minnesota,
 elevations of Colorado, the plains of western
 the sand-hills and uplands of South and North


Carolina, or Georgia; but the writer is strongly impressed
with the conviction, after a number of years' consideration
of this subject, and such opportunities of observation as in
his judgment authorize him to put upon record the opinion,
that all these attempts will in a large majority of cases of
tubercular disease, and more strikingly so with reference to
the other diseases to which reference has been made, prove
illusive.
 "His testimony is, that while from the causes mentioned,
and the want of judgment in various ways upon the part of