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As to the benefit accruing to those with lung trouble, 

 consumption, asthma, catarrh, we need not speak, for in 

 this Florida's reputation is Avorld-wide. 



Children who are racked and nervous, and stand at 

 death's door, from the attacks of measles, scarlatina, or 

 whooping-cough, almost invariably recover rapidly if they 

 are brought to Florida, and that too with little if any med- 

 ical treatment. 



In the adult nervous dyspepsia, which is becoming more 

 common every year, finds immediate relief and generally 

 cure in the quiet, peaceful, out-of-door life of Florida. 



There is one widesj^read disease, for it really amounts to 

 that, for which, as Dr. Lente tells us, " Florida affords as 

 healing a balm as for the pulmonary variety " of consump- 

 tion. Dr. Lente calls it "cerebral consumption," but fifty 

 years ago it was described thus by James Johnson, and no 

 one can fail to recognize the picture: " There is a condi- 

 tion of body, intermediate between sickness and health, 

 but much nearer the former than the latter, to which I am 

 unable to give a satisfactory name. It is daily and hourly 

 felt by tens of thousands, but I do not know that it has 

 ever been described. It is not curable by physic, though I 

 apprehend it makes much work for the doctors, ultimately, 

 if not for the undertakers. It is the wear and tear of the 

 living machine, mental and corporal, which results from 

 overstrenuous labor and exertion of the intellectual fac- 

 ulties rather than of the corporal powers, conducted in 

 anxiety of mind and bad air." 



For such as these, victims of nervous prostration, Flor- 

 ida does indeed offer a healing balm and a bower of rest 

 and quiet. 



Is it not with good reason that we claim for our sunny 

 Florida that none need fear to trust their lives in her 

 hands, when both facts and figures — the former widely 



