Sanatorium Treatment for Tubercular Cases in India

himself. Switzerland, the South of France, and Australia hare all been visited and lived in for years. He eventually turned to India, much against the wishes of his friends and medical advisers who said that by going to India he was courting a sure death. By some chance or other he lit on Kotagiri in his wanderings, in which place he settled. Just before going there he was, I believe, told by a medical m in in Ceylon that he was practically in articulo mortis. A year after this prognosis he rode up to Ootacamund on horseback, a distance of about 18 miles, and visited me. The other day I wrote and asked him for his opinion on the various climates he has experienced. I quote his reply " It (the climate of Kotagiri) is undoubtedly the best and most equable climate in India. I have tried Switzerland, South of France, and Australia and find none to suit me as this does. I can lead an invalid's life pleasantly here and yet be in the open air. Parts of Western Australia are undoubtedly fine, only I found the life too strenuous and of course diet is a difficulty there." Now if Kotagiri without proper treatment and without proper advice (he treats himself and will not take advice, and knows nothing about the height of his opsonic index) can do so much good, how much more good would sanatorium treatment, with the daily attention of physicians versed in that treatment, do. I hold no brief for Kotagiri and indeed have spent only