Bethesda.

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BETHESDA.

cates the disease germ, or susceptibility to take on infection. It is a tonic and alterative. Physicians always prescribe it, and speak highly of it.

From C. W. Swartz, M. D., Huntingburg, Ind.

I have used your NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON in my practice, as a tonic, and like its action very much. As a tonic and alternative, it is invaluable in all cases of general debility and recovery from exhausting diseases.

The reader may have conceived the idea that climate was the "BETHESDA" of which we spoke. But we unhesitatingly assert that proper medical treatment is infinitely better than climate.

The heat of the tropics has an enervating and depressing effect upon the human system, while the cold regions chill the enfeebled invalid.

Is there any place where a temperate climate, a place sheltered from the cold northerly winds, just he right atmosphere, not too dry nor too moist, pure water, no malaria, sunshine and flowers, green fields and singing birds, can be found, and where suitable medical treatment can be obtained?

We have visited various health resorts between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean twice in search of this "BETHESDA," and purpose to investigate still more thoroughly in the future ; and if the demand for this little book gives us sufficient encouragement, in another edition we shall publish the results of these personal and practical investigations.

Healthy people do not discuss climate, but there are hundreds of thousands who are at this moment discussion climate, and it is a matter of regret that our limits will not permit of a more detailed description of the localities in the United States commonly designated as health resorts.

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NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON.

Colorado.

More invalids are to be found in this locality than in any other State in the Union, in proportion to the population, all of whom have gone there in search of the healing "BETHESDA."

The invalid has journeyed hundreds of miles over the arid plains between the wheat-fields of Kansas and the base of the Rocky Mountains.

No words can express the relief as the long car-ride comes to an end, and we find ourselves in the Queen City of the West, —

Denver

A day or two of rest, and we walk out upon Capitol Hill. Surely this must be the "Bethesda." The atmosphere is so invigoratin, and so clear and pure, that objects a hundred miles distant seem only two or three miles off. The land is 5,200 feet abouve sea leve, Pike's Peak 80 miles south, Long's Peak 50 miles north, the mountain range connecting these two colossal sentinels. In the foreground the foot hills rising 2,000 and 3,000 feet, seamed with canons and gorges : then beyond the second tier, gray and dark rock ; and still beyond, the snow range, 13,000 or 14,000 feet above sea level. Our invalid may have for his objective point

Colorado Springs.

This resort is 6,023 feet above sea level, and only five miles from teh fot-hills in which the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains terminate. Or possible

Las Vegas,

on the southern slope of a spur of the Rocky Mountains.

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