206 FLORIDA.

Dr. Wilson, late Medical Inspector of Camps and Hospitals,
United States Army, remarks': 'Neither upon the south-


ern coast of
skies, can a
nial to the
joyed in ou
 Dr. II.
fifty patient
came back
isted, were
staid in Illi
latter stages


France, nor anywhere under the brig
winter climate be found so equable a
delicate nerves of most invalids as ca
r sanitary stations in Florida.'
A. Johnson, of Chicago, states: h
;s last winter in Florida and Georgia,
better. Even those in whose lungs ca
better than they would have been
nois. I will, therefore, advise patient
S of consumption to ro to Florida.'"


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ht Italian
nd so ge-
Ln be en-

ad about
and they
vities ex-
had they
ts in the


 To this cumulation of evidence and facts it would seem
that nothing more need be added; but the following sug-
gestions, by Dr. D. II. Jacques, of Fernandina, are inserted
because of their great practical value to invalids, and to all
those who visit Florida primarily from considerations of
health:


 The error into which
posing that the benefit to
South, and especially in
warmth. Now, while th
benefit to a large class o
come South for that aloi


artificial means. There are t
invalid can not get at the Nc
their fullness-in connection
gested,fresh air and sunshi
come South for, and coming
appointment. The fresh air
day and night. You can not
for the sunshine, one bathes i
every pore, till it permeates
is no medicine like it. It i
does not get enough of it;
"sunny" if one will shut hii
An open-air life is easy and
The invalid should, according
exercise in the open air. Hi


invalids generally fall lies in sup-
the health to be looked for in the
Florida, comes directly, from the
ie warmth is, in itself, a great
pf invalids, it is not necessary to
ie, when it can be got at home by


wo things, however, which the
north in winter-at least not in
with the artificial warmth sug-
ine. These are the things to
for these there will be no dis-
you will get every hour of the
shut it out if you would. As
n it, breathes it, drinks it in at
the whole system; and there
is the invalid's own fault if he
and to what end is the South
nself up in a darkened room?
pleasant here, the year round.


ig to his strength, take daily
)rseback-riding (and Southern


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