Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1881 — The Dry Climate of Colorado. [ARTICLE]

The Dry Climate of Colorado.

A medical man, writing from Colorado, says he has been paying particular attention to the effect of the climate of that State upon healthy and consumptive persons, it having been advertised as highly beneficial for invalids troubled with affections of the lungs. The doctor finds that healthy persons lose flesh rapidly when coming into the rare atmosphere of Denver and Leadville, which are situated at a great height from the sea, any many of them are taken with a dry catarrh which results rapidly in quick consumption and death. Invalids usually run a very short course, and die within a few days or weeks. Not wishing to appear biased, at all, in his opinion, the doctor asks invalids to judge for themselves whether they think they would enjoy basking in such a climate as Colorado.