OPEN-AIR TREATMENT OF PHTHISIS.

The sanitarium treatment for tuberculosis is becoming familiar to the profession, but is usually associated in one's mind with specially favoring conditions of climate, altitude, etc. The experience of one or two establishments in this country, that near Boston, for example, has to some extent corrected these impressions, but they still exist and further evidence that with ordinary climatic surroundings the open-air treatment can still be carried on, is of interest. The July number of the London (Eng.) Practitioner is chiefly devoted to this subject, the five original papers it contains being reports of the success of this method under what we would not call specially favoring natural conditions. Dr. R. W. Philip, who works in what the editor of the Practitioner calls "the most villainous climate in the kingdom," that of Edinburgh, gives a tabulated statement of the number of hours each of his patients spent in the open