enso_.

"A committee appointed by our citizens having requested the County
Medical Society to select one of their number to write an article,
for general publication, upon the qualities of this locality as a
health-resort, the choice fell upon me, and the following pages have
been written to comply with this request. The opinions therein
expressed are set forth upon my individual responsibility, and not as
being the combined outcome of the views of the County Society at
large. I am, however, indebted to my colleagues for several valuable
suggestions and points of experience, but with respect to a subject
so complicated as Climatic Influences the saw applies '_Tot homines,
tot sententiae._' Nine years ago I resigned the practice of medicine
in England to try the influence of the Colorado climate upon my
health, with satisfactory results, and the opinions and statements
here advanced are founded upon my experience and observation as a
practitioner of medicine in this locality for the last nine years.
The article being limited did not permit the publication of clinical
records or extended discussion of the many interesting problems
referred to, but is put forward as an effort to assist physicians and
their patients in answering the often recurring question of the
wisdom of a change to Colorado, from some safe standpoint and not
merely from hearsay reports unsupported by evidence or reasonable
inference. Viewing this subject of Climate as resting upon a
scientific basis, and not alone upon empirical knowledge gained in
particular regions, I have followed the plan of first stating the
facts and opinions that are generally known or accepted concerning
the features and essentials of climates in general, and their
influence upon the healthy body; secondly, giving the general
features of elevated climates and their effects both in health and
disease, and finally, comparing these general effects with the
special effects observed in this particular locality. Thus I have
endeavoured to show good reason for the faith that is in me, by
connecting this fragmentary study of climate with the whole great
subject of climatology."

"S. EDWIN SOLLY."
"Colorado Springs, 1883."

Colorado Springs is thus described by Mrs. Dunbar.

"Pike's Peak Range is the most eastern spur of the Rocky Mountains,
taking its name from the Peak itself, which rises high above the
rest, viz. 14,150 feet above sea level. This eastern sentinel of the
vas