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" If, with the above, his pulse is habitually up to or over 100 in a minute, 

 a destructive process is going on, vrhich, in this climate, the most skillful phy- 

 sician can arrest in not more than one case in four. 



"In all such cases go south at once, if not too far gone already. The 

 quack here will encourage you to stay and make you brilliant promises up to the 

 time of your death, but it is your own loss and folly if you believe him." 



11. Where to go to in Texas.— As to the best place to go to ia 

 Texas, A. G. Hayson, M. D., of Minden, La., in Medical Bnef, '83, page 508, 

 says to the editor: 



"If ' F. H. G.' (a man who previously inquired through the Journal will 

 go 80 miles west of San Antonio, Tex., he will find a beautiful valley lying in 

 the gap of the mountains, with an average width of 4 miles by 18 long. This 

 valley, or ' Sabinul Canyon,' as it is called there, has gushing mountain springs 

 and bright, clear running streams that never go dry. I met there, in 1875, two 

 gentlemen who had, previous to going there, pulmonary hemorrhage. Both 

 seemed to be in perfect health, and so expressed themselves. 



"This canyon, with its pure-aired atmosphere, its mountain scenery, witii 

 beautiful stretches of prairie and timber, and here and there, standing alone in 

 the distance, knots of live oak and pecan, make it one of the most beautiful as 

 well as romantic places I have ever seen. I do not think a better place for 

 consumptives can be found." Another physician, B. F. Rowls, M. D., writes 

 to the same journal, from Union, S. C, and directs attention of physicians to 

 western North Carolina, "known," he says, "as the land of the sky, Ashville 

 being the principal town in the vicinity, which is 2,250 feet above the level of 

 the sea. This climate is one of inestimable value in the disease, consumption- 

 Very dry, and neither the heat of summer nor the cold of winter is at all un- 

 beneficial to the patient." Just such a place is wanted by invalids with any dis- 

 ease; then, persons in the eastern or northeastern States can take this place, Aiken, 

 S. C, or Florida; while those of Michigan and the northwest or western States 

 can take the San Antonio section of Texas, or go on to Los Angeles, or San 

 Antonio, in the southwestern part of California, if they choose, and enter into 

 the cidture of oranges, lemons, etc., as a friend of mine did, and regained his 

 health. Let there be no confusion about the two San Antonios spoken of; that 

 in Calfornia is in Monterey county, and the other is the county seat of Bexar 

 county, Texas. 



12. An Alabama Physician's Idea of the Best Place for Con- 

 sumptives to go to. — I learn from O. F Harrell, M. D., also given in the 

 Brief, that he considers Healing Springs, Ala., where he now lives, or in that 

 neighborhood, which is a ridge of considerable extent, and heavily timbered 

 with pine, to be the best place for those to go who have a tendency to, or 

 actual consumption. The land, being unsuited to farming is now an almost 

 unbroken turpentine orchard, giving employment to many hundred people 

 engaged in this industry. "Along this elevation," he says, "commencing 

 at Citronville, Ala., and going northward 40 or 50 miles, I believe to be the 

 best location tor consumptives, or for persons predisposed thereto, in the United 



