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A lot of people with “consumption” came to Colorado because of the dry air, including Doc Holliday. National Jewish Health, perhaps the premier lung disease hospital in the world, started here because of that.

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High altitudes and dry air seemed to be the prescription / belief right up into the 20th century. Nixon’s brother died of TB I think, in a sanitarium in AZ or NM.