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offered from it for 'moe than eighteen months, had


failed to


get relief from a hammer's residence in Saratoga Springs, and
have never had an attack since my arrival in Florida last De-


member, though I remained


there


until the 10th of May, and


although the


winter was


an exceptionally favorable one for


the development of malaria, owing to the drought.


Dysentery and diarrhSq of


a mild type, and easily man-


aged,


occasionally attack the winter visitor.


Statistics, which


have


space


quote, show


that phthiis


gives


deaths than in any other portion of the United States.


fewer
Yellow


fever, even when it appears


in other Southern


States, rarely


appears in Florida,


except at Key


West and Pensacola.


It is


almost unknown in East Florida.


time,
fever


," says


Forry, alluding


has prevailed


" This


is only the second
 bt


Augustine,


city for. twenty


" that


years;


yellow


while, at


Charleston,


we are told by


Prof. Dickson that in


twenty-four


years' practice but


three have passed without his knowing of


the occurrence of yellow fever.


As regards the essential cause


of yellow fever,


we still remain in the dark.


It is


manifest,


however, that, to develop tile cause, and to keep up its action,


requires


a high


range 0of


atmospheric


"temperature


and,


this condition seldom attains on the coast of Florida, it would


seem


afford, in


part, an


explanation of its


infrequent ap-


pearance in this region."
 Wh'o should go to Florida ?


When one thinks of our cold


weather at
June, with


North
last tt


, extending from


three


months


October


of alternate


almost into
freezing and


thawing, cold and damp, with their attendant crops of
influenas, diphtheria, pneumonia, etc., one is disposed


colds,
to an-


swer,


"All


who


afford


The


mass


of visitors,


who


now pour into the. State to enjoy the winter, are


not invalids


the strict sense of the


term;


many


of those who


are in-


valids are not perceptibly so to the general


observer, and


avenge tourist is not therefore annoyed, as he feared he might


b., by constant


contact with


suffering people.


com .of the invalid clam, those afflicted or threatened with
$ fl~huU and its allied affections constitute the majority of the


to'all southern climates.


Although I do not coun-


(''r praetel of banishing those in


the last stage df


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