EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT.

MY DEAR DR. HATFIELD-Regarding the sanitarium at which I spent last year, and others that I know of in Europe, the most popular one is that at Davos, Switzerland-the most successful, at Falkenstein, Germany.

Recently attention has been attracted to Leysin, in the Canton Vand, Switzerland. It is a comparatively new climatic station, having been established in 1890. Its situation, at an altitude of 5,300 feet on the southern slope of a mountain range, is especially favorable, as it is sheltered from the cold winds. In this respect it claims superiority to Davos. The scenery is especially beautiful. Across the valley the Dento de Midi rise majestically, and far to the south the snow-capped summit of Mount Blanc; while deep down in the valley below, the Rhone river winds, like a silvery ribbon, among the fertile fields. The mountain slopes are covered with flowers, and pine forests resound with the songs of birds; while the distant tinkling of the herd-bells furnishes the accompaniments to this invisible feathered choir.

Leysin is a winter resort only, and at that season of the year the climate resembles that of the Adirondacks. The air is extremely pure, cold and bracing; but in the spring the place is enshrouded in clouds of mist and fog for weeks at a time during the melting of the snows. The number of clear sunshiny days is not especially great, averaging about the same as our eastern climate (and in this particular falls far behind Colorado). Nor is the atmosphere especially dry, except in the extreme cold weather when the moisture is frozen out.

The sanitarium is built on the newest and most approved plans. No expense has been spared in furnishing it to suit the tastes of the most fastidious invalid. The rooms are large and airy, with windows opening out on little balconies; reclining chairs and couches everywhere, with screens to shield from draughts; beautiful inlaid floors that are daily mopped-all that comfort and sanitary science could suggest.

But the most important feature is the long galleries, open to the

south, with awnings to protect from sun and wind. Here the patients must spend the day, wrapped in furs, with hot water bottles for cold hands and feet, and stretched out on rattan couches; shelves and tables for books and papers, electric lights for the "evening cure," and electric bells to call attendants.

One of the greatest merits of a sanitarium depends upon the directing physician, who must look well after the details and care of the patients. He visits the galleries twice a day to see that all are obeying orders. The slightest change is noted. This treatment is very trying to patients who have been accustomed to an unrestrained social life, and it takes a firm hand to control them. The patient who deliberately disobeys orders is instantly dismissed from the sanitarium.

These severe measures are necessary, but in a recent case it cost the physician his life. A rebellious patient was dismissed at the door. He at once shot and killed the physician.

No one is allowed to expectorate upon the ground, but must carry with them a pocket flask for the sputa. The accompanying drawing will give you an idea as to the construction of the glass flask, with metal ends which can be removed and contents cleansed out, a precautionary measure against infection. Sincerely yours,

LOUISE FOUCAR.

Das Taschenflachchen fur Hustende (The pocket flask for those who cough).

Patented by Dr. Deltweiler, of Falkenstein, Germany.

THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SANITARIUMS, WITH NATURE'S DISINFECTANT.

BY MRS. MARY M. HATFIELD, M. D., DENVER, COLO.

The sanitariums of our Rocky range, in a climatic point, surpass all others known to the medical fraternity.

Space will not admit of the meteorological statistics of Colorado climate, however much the desire to emulate the climatic properties to the law of cure.

The boundary lines of Colorado do not limit the climatic zone for pulmonary phthisis, neither is the Rocky mountain region a panacea for phthisis alone.

The disease of consumption is so prevalent that the larger number of sick cannot be treated in distant places, but must be cared for in the country where they live.

The successful treatment of consumption is possible, wherever pure air, good food, warm clothing to protect against sudden climatic changes, with careful out-door exercise, can be secured.

An intelligent physician is as essential as climate. Hence the advisability of sanitariums in different localities.

The most suitable climate for consumptives lies between the thirtieth and forty-fifth parallels of north latitude, and between the one hundred and seventh and ninetieth meridians of west longitude.

The patient alone can determine whether the dry heat of the south, the cold of the north, or the intermediate temperature, will prove the exterminator of his store-house of accumulated microbes.

The choice of climate greatly depends on the size of the pocketbook. During the past eleven years that I have been roving over the "wild and woolly west," I have had good reason to be a close observer of climatic conditions, influences and benefits.

It is evident that the "rest cure," so much in vogue in Europe, has become fashionable for the invalid with a full purse. Then, ́upon the advice of the "expert specialist," who has never been to Europe (and knows less of the climate of the Rocky range), there is no end to mistakes made by the health seeker.

There is no comparison between Davos, Riviera, Mentone and Rome with the Rocky region.

There is not a square mile in Nebraska or Kansas that would not show a greater percentage of cures of tuberculosis, under similar care, than that of the European health resorts.

Colorado, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico comprise one vast sanitarium, however obnoxious the "undesirable western states" may be (and cases of egotism have been cured "out west"). There is no climate perfect for all invalids.

The one disagreeable feature of Colorado climate is the east wind, which is injurious wherever encountered.

Accessible altitudes, varying from 3,000 feet to 7,500 feet above sea level, where invalids may bask in the warm sunshine 300 days in the year, are abundant.

The therapeutic range of this climate cannot be told. "Going to the rockies" does not mean Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Tucson or El Paso, but there are hundreds of other health-restoring localities, preferable to that of the Pacific coast. The coast air is more detrimental than it is beneficial to the tubercular patient than the mountain air.

While it is evident that the climate of the coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego is a panacea for Bright's disease, it should be avoided by consumptives.

The southeast side of the San Barnardina range is by far the best locality in southern California for cases where the lung tissue is breaking down.

Dr. King, in his sanitarium at Banning, east a few miles from Beaumont, is a living testimony of the efficacy of that climate.

The lamented Dr. George Barnes told the writer that "no where from Cleveland, Ohio, to the Pacific coast was he safe from violent hemorrhages except at San Diego.”

While the rainfall of San Diego is much less than that at Los Angeles, the salt air, with the daily fog, I deem far more detrimental to the consumptive than any rainfall except in miasmatic districts.

The sudden change from sun to shade is extremely trying upon the depleted system of the pronounced consumptive.

To carefully write of the comparative climatology of California and the southwestern states would keep one very busy for a time. However, it is a good climate for the worn-out nerves of "the good old family physician." Try it, doctor. Take a dose of your own medicine.

"DONT'S," FROM AN ARTICLE ON

CYCLING.

BY G. H. SOMERS, M. D., CHICAGO.

Don't ride because someone else does, but because it will do you good.

Don't ride for pleasure alone, but for pleasure and profit.

Don't ride to become a professional. It costs too much-a sacrifice of health.

Don't ride with any object that is not subservient to the making of one stronger and better physically.

Don't give up to dyspepsia, to a sedentary and inactive life, to loss of strength and ambition; but learn to ride a wheel.

Don't forget the full bath after each considerable spin.

Don't forget that riding should be moderate and regular, proportioned to the strength of the individual.

Don't try centuries.

Don't cultivate the bicycle hump; it may be considered hygienic but don't you believe it. It interferes with the natural spinal curves, impedes circulation and does not allow free and easy chest dilation. Don't keep your mouth open.

Don't ride if you are suffering from any heart disease, bronchial trouble, or any disease of the nose that causes the person to breath through the mouth.

Don't ride if you are suffering from hernia, epilepsy or are subject to fainting spells.

Don't ride if you have varicose veins, any acute inflammatory trouble, or are convalescing, especially from typhoid fever.

Don't forget that the morning is the best time for riding if time be reserved after for the bath and a half hour's rest before breakfast.