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level, and, consequently, mxist be damp and foggy, and not the sections that 

 consumptives should locate in; but there are sections which, although hilly, like 

 some other states, are sufficiently rolling and timbered with pine, which makes 

 them far better to locate in for those seeking health. 



I. Such a place is Brockville, the coimty seat of Hernando county, which I 

 see spoken of by a lady who has been there, and reported through the Free Press, 

 of Detroit. She says of this section: " It is said to be a splendid country to 

 cure even bad tempers. Chronic grumblers (referring to those who had com- 

 plained of Jacksonville and the low country along the St. Johns river) have 

 been here, to succumb under the combined influences of balmy air, moonlight 

 and orange flowers." 



How to Beach Brockville. — Take a boat at Jacksonville, up the St. Johns, 

 to Astor, 134 miles. Then the cars through the pine forests, via. Fort Mason, 

 on Lake Eustice. 



II. ° Twin Lakes, Orange county, is also reported to the Rural Next Yorker 

 by another lady, who was there for her health, to be a very desirable place for 

 consumptives. She first spoke of the fact that the country along the St. Johns 

 and all the other rivers of the State is damp and unhealthy. She says to those 

 who might be coming, " Come up to the hills, where there is no damp." And 

 I would add that those who do may really expect to be greatly benefited if 

 they stay long enough to* allow the climatic changes to take place in their sys- 

 tems. For this lady closed by saying: "When we left home every breath 

 seemed to rasp and last, but now 'tis all gone, and with it the weariness and 

 languor." Then, surely, if one stays long enough, the same " balmy air, full of 

 the resinous aroma of the pine forests," as she expresses it, will accomplish a 

 cure. There may be many other places in Florida equally dry and salubrious, 

 vrith pine forests, making them equally valuable as health resorts, but I leave 

 every one to judge of this fact for himself, relying upon the statements of 

 friends who know, or upon enquiry when they reach there: but do not stay in 

 the low, marshy grounds of any section whatever, if health is to be regained, 

 or even retained, in any country. I will only add one thought further on the 

 subject of going south, or to any point, for a change of climate; do not wait until 

 nothing but a miracle can cure, for I fully believe that God works by the use of 

 means — medicines judiciously administered, change of climate, care of one's 

 health, etc. Where one lives may make a difference as to where they might or 

 should go. Living at Toledo, O., as I do, if I had to go south on account of 

 consumption, I should go to the Healing Springs section of Alabama, as it is 

 about south from here. If I lived in the east, or New England States, I sboula 

 goto the neighborhoods of Ashville, N. C, Aiken, S. C, or Florida; if in Illinois 

 or the west, I should strike for San Antonio, Texas, or southwestern Califorma, 

 as before mentioned, as circumstances made it appear best. 



I will give an item or two more for consumptives, hoping thereby to benefit, 

 if not actually cure, many persons suffering from it. The following I take 

 from a report by Wm. H. Hull, M. D., in the June number of the Medical Bi-ief 

 of 1877, upon the use of gallic acid, with which he had been very successful, as 

 you will see in the heading of the recipe, and I shall also mention a case wher« 



