202 ISLES OF SUMMER. 
Gen. James Watson Webb, said in 1870, that “‘from the first 
of November to the first of June, there is not, in all probability, 
any spot on the face of the earth so desirable for persons suffer- 
ing from pulmonary complaints.” From the facts and opinions 
we have given, the reader will judge whether this mngvaltied 
recommendation is not too broad and sweeping. 
Dr. F. A. Castle, editor of ‘‘ New Remedies,” with more dis- 
crimination, and we think truth, said in 1877, that ‘‘in those 
forms of lung trouble where there is profuse expectoration and 
perspiration, we should hardly think of recommending patients 
to visit the Bahamas. But in the early stages of chronic pneu- 
monia and catarrhal pneumonia, in tubercules, convalescence 
from acute diseases, and in exhaustion from over-work and worry, 
the advantage of being able to live, if necessary, out of doors, 
without the fatigue of heavy clothing, the comparative freedom 
from risk of catching cold, and the purety of the atmosphere, 
render this one of the most healthful as well as available resorts 
of which we have any knowledge.” 
The Rev. Dr. Nelson Millard, writing from Nassau in March, 
1876, said, ‘‘ Such a climate, if resorted to in time, often works 
with wondrous curative power upon affections of the throat, 
bronchia and lungs—as in the case of bronchitis, I can testify 
from personal experience.” 
Epes Sargent, Esq., a gentleman of considerable literary cul- 
ture, but whose opinion may be unconsciously biased from the 
fact that he keeps a boarding house at Nassau, says, ‘‘ that for 
all [?] diseases of the lungs, throat, liver, kidneys, or spine, there 
is no climate on the face of the earth superior, and I doubt if any 
equal, to the climate of Nassau.” And again, ‘‘some most won- 
derful cures of pulmonary diseases, asthma, rheumatism, neural- 
gia and bronchitis have been performed almost entirely by the 
climate. In the first stage of the disease, recovery is almost 
