Bethesda.

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BETHESDA.

Aiken.

To many, there is no place in the country where the climatic combinations and local atmospheric influences are more favorable to health than here; nowhere else is the air so pure, so light, so dry.

We have only words of commendation for Aiken. It is some six hundred feed above the sea, and from the piazza of the hotel, which is located on the brow of a hill, a most commanding prospect of miles of forests is obtained.

The soil is loose sand, white on the surface, but of every conceivable hue, as we pass through the different strata. The soil rapidly absorbs the moisture, so that, even after heavy rains, in a very short period the roads and paths are perfectly dry. These roads and pathways through the pine woods are fragrant with the peculiar balsamic odor which we all love so well, and which is undoubtedly very beneficial in diseases of the throat and lungs. It must be remembered that in Aiken there are frosts as late as the middle of March, and sometimes in April. In 1873 the latest frost was on April 26. In 1875 frost departed April 18.

It is of the utmost importance that in invalid should, before he leaves home, find out what locality is best suited to his particular case.

The most distressing sight one can witness at these health resorts is the transportation of exhausted invalids on chairs or mattresses from place to place, in search of a favorable locality for the relief of their particular malady. Such persons, neglecting the advice of physicians and friends, drift from place to place, until, at last, the good angel, Hope, departs, and they either return home to linger out the brief remainder of their miserable existence, or die among strangers.

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NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON.

Dr. Field, in an admirable essay on the "Balsamics," suggests that the patient may, in his own home, derive great benefit from this simple method: "Drop particles of Balsam of Peru into a bowl of boiling water, the whole to be covered with an inverted funnel, and thus the balsamic vapors are conveyed directly to the throat and lungs of the patient. A like result obtained by the use of the steam atomizer, or by dropping small fragments of Balsam of Peru upon glowing coals, and inhaling the vapor."

Undoubtedly, the atmosphere thus saturated with this balsamic vapor, would have a soothing and healing influence upon the inflamed air-passages. But we can obtain those same tonic influences in equal force an curative power at home. The panacea for prostrated nervous systems, malnutrition, and general debility is NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON, regarding which

W. H. Leonard, M. D., Webb's Mills, Chemung Co., N. Y., says :

for more than tow years I suffered so greatly from general debility and nervous prostration that I was compelled to entirely relinquish my medical practice, and was confined to my bedroom the greater portion of the time. I consulted the most eminent of my professional brethren, and tried all the preparations of bark and iron with which I and they were acquainted, but without the slightest relief to my symptoms. Through the courtesy of Messrs. Gerity & Morrell, of Elmira, N. Y., I received a bottle of your "Nichols' Peruvian Bark and Protoxide of Iron," — an entirely new combination to me, and which, after my past experience, I had no faith in, but yet I determined to give it a fair trial. I commenced with the smaller dose of a teaspoonful morning and night ; at the close of the first week there was such a marked improvement in my physical condition that I felt a different man; and by the time I had taken the first bottleful, the change in my personal appearance was to great that my friends and neighbors noticed it and expresses their surprise. In a work, I was so far restored to health and strength that I was able to resume my medical practice, which I still pursue. My appetite is good ; I have gained fully ten pounds in weight ; the feeling of lassitude has

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