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 In this age of rapid, cheap, and comfortable traveling,
the advantages to health of a change of climate should be
considered by every person suffering from pulmonary or
chronic disease, or broken health. It is a pleasant, and in
many cases a valuable, remedy if judiciously advised. 'It
would be difficult,' says Sir James Clark, the standard au-
thority on climate, 'to point out the chronic complaint, or
even disordered state of health, which is not benefited by
a timely and judicious change of climate.' The diseases
most likely to be benefited or cured by change of climate
are phthisis, laryngeal and bronchial affections, asthma, dis-
order of the digestive organs, chronic gout and rheumatism,
affections of the kidneys, and broken health. A change of
climate is beneficial to strumous children, is invaluable dur-
ing convalescence from acute and chronic disease, and more
especially is it one of thz chief resources of restorative med-
icine.
 "A large majority of patients require a moderately
warm, dry, and bracing atmosphere, and the few demand a
warm, sedative climate, where the atmosphere is not alone
warm, but humid; and here steps in that knowledge that
should be possessed by medical men who recommend cli-
matic change as a remedial agent. A moderately warm,
dry, and bracing air, with but few sudden and great atmos-
pheric changes, is especially adapted to tuberculous disease
in its early stages, catarrh, chronic bronchitis, chronic rheu-
matism, debilitating mucous discharges, renal diseases, dys-
pepsia, and some cases of asthma. A moist, warm, and sed-
ative climate is best adapted to many cases of advanced
phthisis, dry asthma, chronic bronchitis, accompanied with
great irritability of the pulmonary mucous membrane, and
a hard, dry cough. The particular locality, or what climate
shall be chosen for a winter resort in any given case, is a
matter of great importance, and should not be based on
this or that letter or publication. Facts, figures, experience,
and favorable factors of climate should determine the ques-
tion. An error in this direction may be fatal, and, before a
physician advises a patient to resort to any particular local-
ity, he should carefully investigate each particular case,
arrive at a correct diagnosis, and familiarize himself with
the factors of each winter resort. Many an invalid who
would be restored to comparative health, or at least survive