SOUTHERN PLANTER. — ADVERTISING SHEET. 



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HYGEIA HOTEL, 

 Old Point* Comfort, Virginia. 



This most delightful Summer Resort — the 

 "bright particular" locality of all the sunny South- 

 is now the sole property of the undersigned and will 

 be opened on the 1st of June next, and each succes- 

 sive June following. I engage to make it to the seek- 

 ers for health, recreation, gayety, and good living, su- 

 premely attractive. 



For health, no mountain retreat can be safer, at any 

 season of the year. It is as exempt from disease in 

 August, and September, and October, as in April, 

 May, or June. Indeed, the first three are infinitely 

 the most pleasant of the season. The weather is mil- 

 der, the sea breeze balmier, and the luxuries of the 

 salt water, are to be had of finer quality, and in greater 

 profusion. There is no more inviting spot on the whole 

 Atlantic Seaboard. It is strictly true of it, what the 

 Poet hath said : 



"Oh! if there be an Elysium on earth, it is this, it is 

 this!" 



That visitors may safely seek its attractions at all 

 seasons of the year, I submit the following letters of 

 Drs. Jarvis, Archer, Semple, Shield, Hope, Mallory, 

 Simkins and Vaughan, and of James S. French, Esq., 

 who, for nearly ten years, was the proprietor of the 

 establishment. My own experience and observation 

 for more than thirtv years past, ate to the same effect. 



JOS. SEGAR, Proprietor. 



Old Point Comfort, April 25, 1857. 



Fort Monroe, Va., Feb. 11, 1857. 

 My Dear ■Sir — I acknowledge the receipt of your 

 letter of yesterday asking my opinion as to the "char- 

 acter of Old Point Comfort for health, and particularly 

 as to its exemption from diseases of a bilious charac- 

 ter." 



A residence of three years at Old Point Comfort as 

 the Surgeon of this Post, enables me to bear full tes- 

 timony to its well known salubrity, and the reputation 

 it has heretofore enjoyed in its exemption from the or- 

 dinary forms of disease, especially those of a malarial 

 or febrile nature, usually prevailing during the spring 

 or autumnal months in other sections of the country 

 and neighbourhood. 



The records of the military hospital for years past 

 further confirm my own experience, not only in this 

 fortunate exemption from that class of disease ordina- 

 rily arising from malaria, but in the less frequency as 

 well as diminished severity of those epidemics that 

 have, from time to time, prevailed in almost every por- 

 tion of our country. 



1 remain vours, very respectfully, 

 N. S. JARVIS, M. D., Surgeon U. S. A, 



Jos. Segar, Esq., Roseland, Va. 



* Richmond, Aug. 7, 1856. 



My Dear Sir :— Your favor requesting my opinion 

 as to the general healthiness of Old Point Comfort, is 

 received, and I hasten to reply. 



I resided st Old Point, as Post Surgeon and as 

 Physician, upwards of twenty ye^rs, and I have no 

 hesitation in saying, that there are few, if any locali- 

 ties in the United States, more healthy at all seasons 

 of the year. 



1 know of no place more exempt from bilious dis- 

 eases, and 1 have never known acase of intermittent fe- 

 ver to originate there. 



In fine, I consider visitors from any climate as safe 

 from disease, at Old Point Comfort, during the autumn 

 months as they would be in the mountains; or any 

 vvnere at the North- 

 Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

 R. ARCHER. 



Joseph Segar, Esq., Old Point Comfort. 



Hampton, Aug. 18. 1856. 



Dear Sir: — It gives me pleasure to comply with 

 your request to state my opinion of the salubrity of 

 Old Point Comfort, during the summer and autumn. 



Having practised medicine for the last ten years 

 among the residents and visiters, and having been fre- 

 quently employed to attend the Garrison, I am entire- 

 ly satisfied that the place is entirely exempt from 

 bilious fevers of all kinds — the very few such cases 

 which have fallen under my treatment, having been 

 clearly traceable to exposure at some notorious mias- 

 matic locality. 



Visitors at Old Point are as perfectly safe, at any 

 season, from intermittent and remittent fever, as they 

 would be in any mountainous region. Patients suffer- 

 ing in such regions from bronchial affections, particu- 

 lar asthma, are uniformly benefitted by a visit to Old 

 Point. 



.1 can also state that several army surgeons have in- 

 formed me that the sick reports show less sickness at 

 Fort Monroe than any military post in the Union. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

 G. WM. SEMPLE, M. D. 

 Joseph Segar,*Esq., Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Com- 

 fort. 



Hampton, Aug. 23rd, 1856. 

 Dear Sir : — Yours of yesterday's date, asking my 

 opinion of the health of Old Point Comfort, is before 

 me. 



I have been practising medicine in Hampton and 

 Old Point for 15 years, and consider it as healthy a 

 place as any that 1 know on the face of the earth. I 

 do not remember having seen there a case of remittent 

 or intermittent fever that was not contracted else- 

 where. Verv respectfully, 



S. R. SHIELD. 



Joseph Segar, Esq,., Hygeia Hotel. 



Hampton, Aug, 22nd, 1856. 



My Dear Sir : — In reply to your queries contained 

 in your note of the 7th inst., it gives me pleasure to 

 state that, in my opinion, Old Point Comfort is as 

 healthy a locality as any on the Atlantic coast. 



Persons from any part of our country may remain 

 there through the entire year with perfect safety. 

 The endemic diseases of all this region, I may»add. have 

 become very much modified of late, as any one at all 

 familiar with the causes which produce them, might, 

 upon the slightest observation, perceive. An ordinary 

 case of bilious fever seldom requires more than two or 

 three days' treatment. 



I have not, during a practice of more than five years 

 in this vicinity, seen a case of intermittent or bilious 

 fever which originated at Old Point. 



Yours, truly, JESSE P. HOPE. 



JosEpH Segar, Esq,., Roselandf* 



Norfolk, Va., Aug. 25th, 1856. 



Joseph Segar, Esq., friygeia tfotel. 



Dear Sir :— In regard to the health of Old Point, I 

 have only to remark, that having been familiar with 

 the place ever siuce my boyhood, I speak confidently 

 when 1 declare it to be among the healthiest spots on 

 the Continent of America. Bilious and ague fever 

 are unknown there, while in all our epidemics it has 

 escaped unharmed. I would sooner take my. chance 

 at Old Point to avoid those disea.-es in summer and 

 fall than the mountains, or even at the White Sulphur. 

 For 8 years 1 resided in the vicinity of Old Point, and 

 for the remainder of my lile in Norfolk, thus affording 

 me ample opportunity of ascertaining the fact in ques- 

 tion. Since 1819, when the extensive public works 

 were commenced) Old Point has contained quite a 

 large population, made up of the Military and persons 

 connected with the Engineer Department, to say 

 nothing of other citizens and visitors. These have en- 

 joyed, at all seasons, an unexampled share of excel- 

 lent health. 



