CLIMATE AND HEALTH. 195

for years, if he wintered in a temperate climate, is sent to
a region where zero is frequently reached, where atmos-
pheric changes are frequent and great, and where the pa-
tient is confined to heated rooms for days together, and
debarred from taking exercise and enjoying the health-
giving influence of sunlight and pure air. Others are
sent to a warm and relaxing climate, when they require
a temperate, dry, and bracing one. Fashion and the
influence of some leading physician have much to do with
this.
 "In this active business country, we find many persons
who have been overworked, and present a breach in the
chain of those vital processes whose continuity constitutes
health-a condition popularly known as 'broken health.'
 S. In Florida, the worn-out man of business, suffering
from 'broken health,' will find the necessary relaxation' from
'brain-fag,' opportunities to take out-door exercise, plenty
of sunshine, pure and bracing air, and other necessary ad-
juncts to relieve -a condition affecting the many. In this
connection, I can not refrain from referring to what I con-
sider an important fact. From my observations in the
United States and in foreign lands, and in hospital as well
as private practice, I have been forced to notice the infre-
quency of chronic disease and broken health in Florida.
In my visits to various portions of this State, I have met
with many persons, old and young, who live from year to
year on improper food, and who drink water from shallow
holes, near marshes, and yet, singular to say (although such
persons are somewhat anemicc, they do not present any
manifest diseased condition. In cities, towns, villages, and
rural 'districts, where residents are supplied with proper
food and drink pure water, a case of chronic disease or
broken health is seldom met with. And if we have a cli-
mate in which these conditions rarely occur, are we not jus-
tified in concluding that it will exert a powerful influence
in restoring the invalid to health? As most of you are
aware, I have, at various times, visited' many portions of
the Etate, and have been surprised to meet so many persons
who have settled in it as invalids and have been restored to
health or comparative comfort by the climate-a large pro-
portion of them having been sufferers from pulmonary dis-
eases. And what surprised me most was the fact that none