11« DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



States." Dr. Harrell then went on and gave a history of his own case and the 

 reason for the faith that was in him, t. «. , as to the region of Healing Springs 

 being the best place for consumptives to go, as he was predisposed to it from 

 his mother, who died with this disease. While the doctor was engaged in 

 active practice in 1863 he had to give up, was confined to his room, and all his 

 professional brethern pronounced his case to be a clearly -defined, well-developed 

 case of tuberculosis — consumption. From this on it was a struggle with him 

 for life. In his efforts to find a location — after rallying in 1864 — suited to hia 

 condition, he says: 



" I have been made familiar, I believe, with all the states embraced in the 

 area of New York on the north and east, Missouri on the west and Florida on 

 the south. In the winter of '79 I went to Florida, where, after a stay of two 

 years, I was much worse than when I went there." [The author will state here, 

 what he afterward learned by letter, that he spent these two years on Pensacola 

 bay, which is a low section of the state like St. Johns river, Fla., neither of which 

 sections, nor any other low places along any of the rivers, should any one allow 

 himself to remain in, but get to the highest and dryest pine sections he can 

 find, as mentioned further on.] " In the winter of '81-'82, with a distressing 

 and uncontrollable cough, profuse, purulent expectoration and frequent (some- 

 times daily) hemorrhages from the lungs, I was finally brought to my bed again, 

 upon which I was brought to this country in February, '82. Since I arrived 

 here I have steadily improved in health, and gained in flesh from 125 to 160 

 pounds. 



" I have never had a hemorrhage since I came here, and with almost a 

 complete absence of the cough and expectoration, I think I can claim that the 

 country has restored me; relieved me not only of my lung trouble, but also 

 cured me of an obstinate vesical catarrh (catarrh or chronic inflammation of 

 the bladder), from which I have greatly suffered for more than 20 years. For 

 the relief of the latter disease, however, it is perhaps proper that I should give 

 credit, in part, at least, to the waters, of which I have drank here." 



Remarks. — He says there is no malaria there, referring to an inquiry as to 

 a " place that was free from it." In conclusion he says: " I do think that a 

 large majority of persons suffering with this disease (consumption)," or in whom 

 there may be a predisposition to it, would find relief here. " So it seems to the 

 author; and possibly some persons who are not very bad, and yet have net 

 large means, might find employment in the turpentine orchards of that section, 

 or start it up for themselves, so as to stay among the pine hills, at all events. 

 Dr. Harrell's town. Healing Springs, has a charm in its name that leads me to 

 hope that every one who may go into this region of country will derive a great 

 advantage from it. I will only add here, let whoever goes into this, or any 

 other section, ramble as much as possible among the pine forests, for they cer- 

 tainly have an advantage over those places where there is no pine, as I fully 

 believe. 



13. Places in riorida Where Consumptives May Visit.— 

 Any place in Pensacola bay, or upon the streams emptying into that bay, or 

 anj of the towns along the St. Johns river, are but very little above the sea. 



