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felt by tens
the empire;


of thousands


metropolis and throughout


but I do not know that it has ever been described.


It is not curable by physic, though I at rehend it makes much
work for the doctors ultimately, if not for the undertakers. It


that


WEAR AND


TEAR


of the


living


machine, mental


corporeal, which results from over-strenuous labor or exertion
of the intellectual faculties rather than of the corporeal pow-


era, conducted


in anxiety of mind and in bad air."


For this


cerebral


consumption,


we may


it, Florida affords as


soothing a


balm


as for


pulmonary variety.


It is as un-


satisfactory to
and exciting


treat


atmosphere of


as the other in


the stimulating


our Northern Babylons.


There,


everything is energy, hurry, and rush,


at all times and at all


seasons;


when


body is at


tendency is always


mind is


in the opposite direction.


)t. Here,
Here, the


Northern blasts, as they approach


our borders, are gradually


hushed into whispers. The
along their rocky beds as if


re, the very streams seem
afraid lest winter should


to rush
congeal


them


before


they


reach


their


ocean-goal;


here, the swiftest


currents have


not enough


energy to form a ripple.


ture wears so subdued and peaceful an aspect, as one floats on


broad


placid


bosom of the St. John's, that the most


restless mind soon becomes


attuned


same


measure of


repose.


Rest


has come again


the wearied spirit, sleep


the fevered pillow.


" All that surrounds one in Florida," says


Ledyard,


" is suggestive of, and in unison with, rest;


and noth-


ing is more grateful."
 When shall one go to Florida 7


This will depend on cir-


cumstances, extrinsic and


intrinsic, as regards the


and may be left to the judgment of the physician.


individual,
But, if an


invalid has only a limited winter vacation, he had better spend
it at the end than the beginning or middle. When shall one


Iave Florida or the South 1"


is a more important query.


Many


not only sacrifice all the benefit obtained by a winter residence


in the South, by yielding


to an


impatient desire to get home


too early in the spring, but are actually darrtaged to a greater


extent


than


they had remained


at home.


Even healthy


w