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Excerpt from Florida and South Carolina as Health Resorts The constantly increasing travel of invalids to southern latitudes every year more and more arrests our attention, and it need hardly be said, in this presence, that this crusade after health is too frequently begun at the wrong time, imperfectly carried out when rightly begun, and, in very many instances, brought to a premature termination. Whether an invalid - and especially a pulmonary invalid - should go from home at all, should be left implicitly to his physician to determine, who, in addition to careful reflections upon the nature and stage of the malady, will do wisely to inform himself as to the "surroundings" awaiting his patient in the proposed place of his temporary sojourn, and also to assure himself of his ability to command comforts and attention when among strangers. It is worse than useless for those who have not means sufficient to be Well cared for, to leave their homes - the invalid cannot "rough it." Not every place where people get well from time to time, deserves the name of health-resort. No more - indeed, very often - than the earth-bath about which we were told, not long since, wherein, somewhere "out West," six victims of scurvy were buried, "up to their necks," and left over night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.