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Show other eight months. Meantime they directed di-rected a sojourn in the famous Blue Uidgo mountains in Virginia. Dr. Staudard went thither but found no relief. re-lief. He thereupon removed with his family to the Sandwich islands and, practicing medicine in a way to afl'ord him tho greatest amount of out-door exercise mostly on horseback in that genial climate, ho soon began to improve, im-prove, but his improvement did not continue long, and discouraged he wended his way back to the United States. It was by accident that the doctor stopped over in Salt Lake, for at that time the sanitary climate of this city was not known to the outside world, on his way to Butte, Montana. A few days sufliced to convince him that this was the place for him to regain his health if he could regain it anywhere. Accordingly he sold his tickets to Butto and became a worthy and respected citizen of Zion. That was seven or eight years ago, and Dr. Standard is not only still living notwithstanding the unfavorable diagnosis of f tho great lights of New York, but ho is actually improving, and while not a robust man by any means, he expects in time to recover re-cover his entire health. This case is merely one in a hundred and the eminent gentleman who related tho above facts to The Times is of the opinion, based upon careful and continued con-tinued observation, that if taken in time nineteen out of every twenty cases of consumption could be cured in this climate. Ho predicts that some day there will be hotels built here at different differ-ent elevations, five hundred or one thousand feet apart, to suit tho different stages of the patient's ailment. The dry atmosphere, uniform climate, reasonable rea-sonable altitude, absence of wind storms, and sunny skies, combined with tho closo proximity of the sulphur baths and the Great Salt Lake, will conspire to make this some timo the world's great sanitarium. THE WORLD'S SANITARIUM. Speaking of Dr. Standard's paper read before the Climatological society held in Denver this week and the brief remarks made thereon by Thk Times, an eminent physician recounted tho experience ex-perience of Dr. Standard which enabled him to speak with greater authority upon the salubrity of the great Salt Lake basin than any other man that he kuew of. Some ten years ago Dr. Standard went to New York and placed himself uuder the treat ment of the greatest lights in the medical profession for pulmonary trouble. They made a diagnosis of the ease and pronounced him incurable. He could not, they said, survive an- |
