CHAPTER XX. 



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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