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SANITARY INFLUENCES OF THE CAVE. 
BEFORE quitting the Cave, we will refer to its 
sanitary influences. This was an interesting 
question some years ago. It has been asked 
what diseases are benefited, and what diseases 
are aggravated, by a brief Cave residence. 
Persons afflicted with pulmonary consump- 
tion at one time resorted to the Cave for the 
benefit of its pure air and uniform temperature, 
in the vain hope of recovery. Several of them 
died there, and all of them succumbed soon after 
exposure to the external air. One patient did 
not see the light of the sun for a period of five 
months. 
Several cottages, previously spoken of, built 
over twenty-five years ago, for the residence of 
consumptives, at the entrance of Audubon’s 
Avenue, and within the Gothic Arcade, are 
still to be seen. The idea that consumptive 
patients could be cured by a residence in the 
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