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Title: The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: New Mexico. Bureau of Immigration Frost, Max., 1873- , comp Walter, Paul A. F New Mexico. Board of managers for the Louisiana purchase exposition, 1904
Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: Sante Fe, N.M., New Mexican printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s to combat this enemy of the race. The early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis is of the ut-most importance for it is in the beginning of the disease thatthe greatest benefit is derived in the largest proportion ofcases from the climate or the out-of-door plan of treatment. New Mexico is essentially a land of sunshine and blueskies. Here there is a dry and bracing climate, with no extremeheat or cold, a climate, which for the most part, admits of anexistence out of doors almost all the year round. It is thesequalities of air and sky that have caused this favored regionto be known today over the entire civilized world as the Landof Sunshine. The peculiar adaptability of such a climate tothe successful management of consumption and other diseasesof the lungs and respiratory tracts is causing invalids to flockhere in great numbers, experience and observation having de-monstrated beyond further question the fact that the seacoast resorts have proved dismal failures in exercising either
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THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 105 a corrective or retarding influence upon the diseases men-tioned above. The past few years the medical profession, as well as thelaity, have been made aware, through various channels, of thevastly superior chmatic conditions existing throughout theTerritory of New Mexico, and patients are seeking relief hereby the hundreds where formerly they came only by the score. Osier says : The requirements of a suitable chmate are apure atmosphere, an equable temperature not subject to rapidvariations and a maximum amount of sunshine. Given thesefactors, and it makes httle diffei-ence where a patient goes, aslong as he lives an outdoor life. The purity of the atmosphereis the first consideration, and it is this requirement that ismet so well in the mountains and the forests of New Mexico. The problem of the prevention of the further spread of tu-berculosis and its ultimate and complete eradication from thehuman race will be solved when physicians realize the import-ance

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