The health resorts of Colorado Springs and Manitou / by S. Edwin Solly ; also a prize article, descriptive of scenery, resources, etc. by Mrs. Simeon J. Dunbar.
- Solly, S. Edwin (Samuel Edwin), 1845-1906.
- Date:
- [1883]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The health resorts of Colorado Springs and Manitou / by S. Edwin Solly ; also a prize article, descriptive of scenery, resources, etc. by Mrs. Simeon J. Dunbar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![places. Patients can come at any time, can remain with ad- vantage throughout the year, and in the majority of cases it is the chro7tic effects of the cHmate that overcome the chronic effects of the disease. Change of Locality.—Many pass the summer and fall in town and sleep in a tent in the garden, or camp in the foothills around, with advantage; others v/ho are slightly affected or in whom a year's residence has procured a recession of their symptoms, can spend a month or two at this season camping in the mountains with pleasurable profit. But during the re- mainder of the year, especially in the winter time, there is no place certainly in Colorado or New Mexico where the majority of the invalids can combine more comfort.and advantage than in Colorado Springs. CHAPTER X. Manitou. The statements, concerning the climate of Colorado Springs apply to Manitou, with important mpdifications owing to its beiag in a valley instead of on a plateau. The gene- ral modifying influences of valleys, as stated upon page ']6, are confirmed by our local experience. The summer is somewhat cooler and damper, while the winter is slightly less dry and warmer, being more sheltered, the only wind blowing with di- rect force being the west, which though it comes from the mountains is usually warm. The hours of daylight are shorter. Tlie Springs all contain a moderate quantity of carbonate of soda and minor ingredients, and some also iron and Glau- ber's salts. They are cold, and charged to saturation with carbonic acid, which increases the activity of their properties and makes them extremely palatable. They are peculiarly adapted for drinking and bathing in cases of anaemia, and in most chronic stomach, liver, and kidney affections occurring in debilitated persons with whom the climate agrees. A de- tailed account of these waters will be found in my pamphlet on Manitoi', published by the Gazette Publishing Company, Colorado Springs.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21078543_0152.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
