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 BRANCH STO^E, 
 
 PACIFIC, Cor. New York Ave., 
 
 (Open All the Year,) 
 
 ATLANTIC CBTY, N. J. 
 
 Where visitors to Atlantic City can depend upon having all their wants 
 supplied, as we keep a complete stock of Reliable Drugs, Chemi- 
 cals, Ajs'D Pharmacedtical Preparations ; also, Toilet Articles, 
 Perfumery, Buushes. Confectionery (Whitman's), Segars. 
 
 BLAIR'S 
 
 PREPARED 
 
 W^h#at P^a#d!. 
 
 A Nutritious Diet for Infants and Invalids. 
 
 A true Extract of Choice Wheat, coutaining more of the Ni- 
 trates and Phosphates (muscle and bone-forming elements) than most 
 Farinnceoiis foods. It is thorougldy cooked, which produces both phy- 
 sical and chemical changes, the tendency of which are to facilitate mas- 
 ticiition and tlie subsequent action of the fluids of the stomacli, thus 
 rendering it more easily digested. This article, containing all the nour- 
 ishing and strengthening properties of choice Wheat in a form so ac- 
 ceptable, is 
 
 THE VERY BEST FOOD FOR INFANTS. 
 
 We recommend our WHEAT FOOD in ihe various forms of dis- 
 ease caused by imperfect or enfeebled digestion, and it has been found 
 especially beneficial in Intestinal diseases (Dysentery, Cholera Infantum, 
 &c,) 
 
 Ask your druggist or grocer to get it for you. 
 
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 -^icJUST WHAT IS NEEDED BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 3}h- 
 
 Extract of Malt and Hops in a Fluid State. 
 
 NOT TOO SWEET AND CLOYING. NOT THICK LIKE TAFFY. 
 
 Your attention is respectfully directed to 
 
 DUKEHART & CO.'S 
 
 Pure Fluid Extract of Malt and Hops 
 
 AND COMBINATIOKS. 
 
 This elegant preparation is submitted to the Medical Profession as representing a re- 
 sult heretofore unattained in the manufacture of Malt Extracts, being a highly concen- 
 trated Fluid extract of proper consistency for mixing promptly with water or milk, yet 
 free from alcohol and not liable to ferment. We claim that it is richer in diastase and in 
 the specific nutriments of malt and hops thna any e.\tract in the market. To mothers nur- 
 sing, with a deficiency of milk, it is of the greatest service. Retail Price, 50 Cts. 
 
 Niemeyer's Emulsion, Extract of Malt and Cod-Liver Oil, 
 
 Contains forty per cent, of best Cod Liver Oil and the soluble hypophosphites of Lime, 
 Soda and Potash, three grains of the combined salts to the tablespoonful, ten per cent, of 
 Glycerine and fifty per cent, of the Fluid Extract of Malt and Hops. We have evidence 
 from the experience of physicians and others that it is the most easily assimilable form of 
 Cod Liver Oil yet introduced to the Medical Profession. It is a perfect Emulsion, mixing 
 readily with water, if desirable and is well fitted for administering to children and persons 
 whose stomachs are too sensitive to retain the simple oil. Dose — Tablespoonful three times 
 daily. Half this quantity for children. Retail Price, 75 Cents. 
 
 Extract of Malt and Hops with Hypophosphites. 
 
 Three grains to the tablespoonful in perfect solution. Dose one to two tablespoonsful 
 three times a day. Retail Price, 75 Cents. 
 
 Malt, Wine, and Iron. 
 
 This combination consists of two parts Extract of Malt and Hops, and one part pure 
 Imported Sherry Wine and four grains to the tablespoonful of Ammonia Citrate of Iron in 
 solution. Dose. — A tablespoonful three times daily. Retail Price, 75 Cents. 
 
 Extract of Malt with Citrate of Iron and Quinia. 
 
 Extract of Malt and four grains to the tablespoonful of the soluble CITRATE OF 
 IRON AND QUINIA. Dose— A tablespoonful three times daily. Retail Price, .«1.00. 
 
 Physicians will be highly gratified at the results of a trial of any of the above prepa- 
 rations in cases where indicated, and their fluidity makes their administration easy and 
 agreeable. For sale by all Druggists. Respectfully, 
 
 DUKEHART & CO., BALTIMORE, MD. 
 
Important to Physicians and Invalids. 
 
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 DUKEHART'S^PORTER:* 
 
 The superior quality and absolute purity of this porter 
 causes it to be especially desirable as a tonic and mild stimulant 
 for the debilitated and invalids. On account of these valuable 
 properties it has entirely displaced beer and all other malt li- 
 quors for general use or medicinal purposes. A wine glass 
 may be taken when desirable, at meals, or at intervals during 
 the day. 
 
 The ingredients of this superior Porter are specially se- 
 lected as to their purity and perfection, and the process of man- 
 ufacture is cautiously observed. It is especially manufactured 
 as a medicinal tonic for the invalid, and is stored in subterra- 
 nean vaults of a uniform temperature the year round. This 
 Porter is not surpassed in purity and superior qualities by any 
 Porter manufactured in England or this country. 
 
 It is bottled with great care for medicinal use only, exclu- 
 sively by Emile Sinsz, Pharmacist, Corner Pennsylvania 
 Avenue and Mosher St. ; Corner Fremont and Townsend Sts. ; 
 and Corner Patterson Avenue and Strieker Street, Baltimore, 
 Md. 
 
 Orders for this superior Porter will receive prompt atten- 
 tion, and sent by express or otherwise. 
 
The Au^'lo-F!" 1S& Cnndensorl Milk Co., of 
 Cham, Switzerland, the largest nianuf aeturers 
 of Condensed Milk in the world, having dis- 
 covci-ed a superior method of combining milk 
 and cereal foods, have begun the manufacture 
 of a reliable food foi- infants and invalids. In 
 order that the medical profession and others 
 interested may know precisely what the con- 
 stituent parts of this preparation are, a chem- 
 ical analysis is printed upon the label of every 
 can. Persons interested are invited to try 
 this article and compare the results with 
 those obtained from other foo>ls. The advan- 
 tages offered by the Anglo-Swiss Company 
 are scientific preparation upon a large scale, 
 tlius assuring superior quality aba reasonable 
 price. The name is 
 
 ANGLO-SWISS MILK FOOD. 
 
 The Ji^ff/o-.SV/ssbrnnd of Condensed Milk 
 is also asup<'ricir article; twenty-five millions 
 of cans sold in 1880. 
 
 Ask your Druggist or Grocer for one of the 
 little pamphlets issued by the Anglo-Swiss 
 Company, telling how Condensed Milk and 
 Milk Food should be prepared for infants. It 
 has saved many lives. 
 
 ^TliestnrcIiT rnnstlluonts, nnlinnrilv olijprflniiahip in Infants 
 Food, lire rhiinci'd to Doxtrine unit Sucnr, anil rrnderpd soliilile 
 and easily diitostalde by hpnilni; An^lu-Sniss Milk Food. 
 
 Tie Trade Snpplled DyH.I k F.B.TliurDer k Co.N.Y. 
 
 whowill miiil pamphlot if nut obtainable elsewhere. 
 
ATLANTIC CITY 
 
 Winter Ssnitjirium. 
 
 Its Geology, Climate, and Isothermal Relations, 
 
 AND 
 
 ITS SANITARY EFFECT 
 
 Upon Di^^eases and Ii^valids. 
 
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 C< PYRIGHTEU. 
 
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 B A L 1' I jM O R E : 
 
 B. H. James & Co., Fine Book and Job Piuntrks 
 
 No. I Mercer Street. 
 
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PHlLADELPHJyl TO /TLAfiTIC CITY A^D C/IPE MjlY. 
 
 West Jersey Railroad 
 
 3..)UNDER PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD MANAGEMENT. (-^g* 
 
 ROUTE. 
 
 Mtirket St. Ferry to Camden, N. J. Depot of West Jersey Railroad. 
 
 This road is under the management of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 and in construction, equipment, and service is in keeping with that 
 world-famous perfection, safety, and comfort so eminently cliaracteristic 
 of Miat great Railroad Corporation. By this route the total distance 
 from Pliiladelpliia to Atlantic City is 64 miles. The track is laid with 
 steel rails. The spaces between the ties are filled with gravel below 
 the surface, tlius etfectually preventing any annoyance from dust at 
 any season. It is equipped with Wharton switches; water tanlis are 
 laid between the rails by which the engine can be supplied with water 
 without stopping the train. From Philadelphia to Atlantic City this 
 route is a perfect Air Line! The schedule time from Philadelphia to 
 Atlantic City is li hours, with close connection with all Northern, 
 Western, and Southern trains. 
 
 The West Jersey Railroad has erected at Atlantic City a large 
 and ornate Excursion House for the accommodation of excursion 
 parties, where every accommodation and comfort is furnished. 
 
 Baltimore Sc Pliiladelpliia Steamboat Company. 
 
 1881. Ericsson Line for Philadelphia, 1881. 
 
 The Steamers of this Company leave DAILY (Sunday excepted) at 
 3 P. M., from wharf corner Liglit and Pratt Streets. Cabin Fare, |2.00; 
 Deck Fare, $1.50. Freiglit of all kinds taken at lowest rates. 
 
 J. ALEX. SHRIVER, Agent, 
 
 No. 3 Light St., Baltimore. 
 
jlTLAp CITYjlS A WItiTEt[ SANITARIUM. 
 
 TO PHYSICIANS. 
 
 ^^^^HE extraordinary sanitary benefit to be derived from a Winter's 
 sojourn at Altantic City is so important to the invalid that the 
 following pamphlet has been compiled for the infm-mation of 
 Physicians and the benefit of Invalids. 
 This pamphlet will be sent gratuitously, postage paid, to a large 
 
 number of Physicians all over the countrj\ 
 
 Physicians to whom it is mailed will please acknowledge receipt. 
 
-IHMNTIC^CITY.h 
 
 The Sea. 
 
 Thou glorious mirror, where the Ahiiighty's l'(_)rm 
 
 Ghisses itself in tempests; in all time 
 
 Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale or storm. 
 
 Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime 
 
 Dark -heaving ; — boundless and sublime — 
 
 The image of eternity — the throne 
 
 Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime 
 
 The monsters of the deep are made; each zone 
 
 Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. 
 
 And I have loved thee. Ocean ! and my joy 
 
 Of youthful sports was on thy breast 
 
 Born, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy 
 
 I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me 
 
 Were a delight; and if the freshening sea 
 
 Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear. 
 
 For I was as it were a child of thee. 
 
 And trusted to thy billows far and near, 
 
 And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here. 
 
 How few realize that the sea is aught else than a lonely 
 boundless waste of water, to be regarded with dread, and 
 avoided with aversion. 
 
 Comparatively few contemplate it as the teeming abode 
 of millions of countless varieties of strange, wonderful, living 
 organisms, from the microscopic amorphous monad to the un- 
 wieldy leviathan, horrid octopus, and great whale. 
 
 The bed of the sea is the counterpart of the dry land. In 
 it are high mountains, and long valleys, and broad plateaus. 
 
Upon many of these submarine plateaus the water is but a few 
 feet in depth, while in the deep subaqueous valleys a depth of 
 eight miles has been found. 
 
 What a vast expanse and varied home for the inhabitants 
 of the sea ! how wonderfully the Creator has adapted it to their 
 nature! how fit an abiding place! Truly the bottom of the At- 
 lantic Sea is diversified with mountain ranges and sublime pre- 
 cipices inconceivable in grandeur, with their perpendicular fall 
 of water over ten miles in height and more than two thousand 
 miles in breadth — from New Foundland to Ireland, and it is 
 a demonstrable fact that there are vast submarine prairies 
 constantly decked in gorgeous floral garniture, over which the 
 great leviathan and whale and the lesser fishes disport and 
 roam. 
 
 In some regions of the submarine continents crops of 
 golden sheen and fructiferous vines grow in inconceivable lux- 
 uriance and wave upon the surface of the sea, for thousands of 
 square miles, looking like a vast and boundless prairie of ver- 
 dant garniture. 
 
 In the sea are immaculate coral mountains with perpendi- 
 cular escarpments thousands of miles, in which are deep grottoes, 
 caverns, and lofty arches, with innumerable coral pinnacles, and 
 domes, that appear like the ornately chiseled facade of some 
 vast and gorgeous cathedral, and the beholder would be fasci- 
 nated and awed by beauty, magnitude, and grandeur, and 
 would doubtingly ask — could this have been been built and 
 so adorned by the insect world ? 
 
 The sea is divided into three liquid strata or layers of 
 water of different densities and properties. In the lowest strat- 
 um or deepest part of the sea we find the home of the Crustacea, 
 such as crabs, lobsters, and other like species; at a depth of 
 five or six hundred feet we enter the domain of the invertebrate 
 and vertebrate fishes and the various mollusks; in the third 
 and superficial stratum we find minute animalculae, mostly ob- 
 servable by the microscope. 
 
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 To what provision of the Creator do the countless milUons 
 of the sea owe their existence and subsistence? What preserves 
 the vast bulk of water and maintains its fitness f6r the support 
 of animal life? Science shows that millions of tons of chloride 
 of sodium or common salt is held in solution, and that it con- 
 tains also vast quantities of magnesia and lime. 
 
 The innumerable currents and tides, and the continual 
 agitation from winds that incessantly blow upon some portion 
 of its surface, and the unceasing evaporation and uninterrupted 
 contribution of rain from the clouds, — all these chemical and 
 physical phenomena, with a thousand others, render the sea a 
 fit and beautitul realm or abiding place for its inhabitants. 
 
 The color of the sea is not only a form of beauty, convey- 
 ing pleasure to the mind, it is for an all-wise purpose. It is an 
 indisputable fact that the color of the water of the sea is im- 
 parted to the fish which inhabit the particular locality, just as 
 the plumage of birds corresponds to the foliage and forests 
 they inhabit. Why is this? The similitude in color is a pro- 
 tection to them. They are not as noticeable, their presence is 
 not as readily betrayed to their enemies as if they were of dif- 
 ferent color. Deep swimming fishes are invariably of bluish 
 tint — for example, the well-known blue-fish. The parrot-fish 
 is of a scarlet, as vivid as that of the birds in the forests of the 
 neighboring land. The mullet is brilliant brown and gold, and 
 the cod is invariably clad in Qauker gray. Thus these vari- 
 ously colored garbs of these piscatorial gentry of the sea are as 
 multi-colored and as varied in cut as those of Broadway dan- 
 dies or the Parisian exquisite. 
 
 The temperature of the sea for a certain depth corresponds 
 to that of the atmosphere. At great depths the temperature 
 falls almost to freezing point, and it is beyond question that the 
 temperature of the sea has a like eftect upon the monsters of 
 the deep that it has upon the temperament of man. The bar- 
 racuda of the tropic seas is as ferocious and savage as a tiger 
 and cannibal cruelty and voracity is eclipsed by that of the 
 
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 horrible, treacherous, and stealthy sea pirate, the '' man-eating 
 shark." 
 
 Not only does the sea furnish a vast home to the myriads 
 of animals that live in its waters, it is the home of many of the 
 feathered denizens of the air, especially of that beautiful, tiny, 
 mysterious litde bird known as 'Mo'-her Carey's chicken," 
 This litde bird is reared and makes its home upon the sea, 
 thousands of miles from land. It daily, all day long, flits about 
 incessantly; at night it roosts upon the raging billows, tucks its 
 litde head under its wing and goes to sleep amid the roar of 
 the tempest and the fury of the blast. The great billow is its 
 cradle and the seething foam its sheet. This litde bird is safe 
 and fearless, for He who holds these waters in the hollow of 
 His hand, bids the tempest do them no harm. 
 
 The sea is the arena of the sublimest phosphorescent and 
 pyrotechnic phenomena exhibited by wonderful nature. This 
 phosphorescence is caused by coundess millions of cyclidina, 
 one i2,oooth of an inch in length. It is not uncommon in 
 tropic seas to see the phosphorescent current rushing past a 
 ship in a band of light so luminous that one can easily read the 
 time of night upon ihe face of a watch, and the billows, as they 
 are dashed aside by the bow of a ship, look like broad sheets of 
 ruddy flame. Especially is the great Gulf Stream the theatre 
 of sublime electrical phenomena. For a continuous inexhaus- 
 tible supply of fire-works and pyrotechnic beauties it is without 
 a rival. It gives an exhibidon upon the slightest occasion, and 
 no ship ever crosses that wonderful tepid river of the sea, with- 
 out being flooded with sheets of vivid lightning and a terrific 
 bombardment from cloud batteries. 
 
 These are a few of the general beauties and wonders of the 
 sea. 
 
 LAND AND SEA BREEZES. 
 
 No phenomena conn«cted with the sea is more interesting, 
 or the efiect more enjoyable, than the sea-breeze. Its diurnal, 
 
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 unfailing regularity of recurrence is a wonder and a blessing to 
 mankind. It is felt more or less on the coasts of all maritime 
 countries, many of which deprived of it would be uninhabitable. 
 It commences to blow about lo A. M., and continues through- 
 out the day to late in the evening. It is caused by the alter- 
 nate unequal distribution of heat upon the land and sea, or the 
 alternate radiation from those surfaces. It is laden with saline 
 particles, pure, refreshing, and invigorating, toning up the de- 
 bilitated system, promoting the appetite, and conducing to 
 blissful repose and restorative slumber. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 Atlantic City is called the "City of Homes," having 
 acquired the name by the beauty of the large number of its pri- 
 vate cottages. Men of business establish their families here 
 early in the season, and hither return each evening from Phila- 
 delphia and other cities, to enjoy the cool repose of their 
 cottage by the sea. 
 
 Atlantic City is built on an island ten miles in length, 
 separated from the mainland by a strait called the "Thorough- 
 fare." The hard, smooth strand stretches away in curving- 
 lines from Absecom Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet, and at 
 low tide it aifords a drive of ten miles along the hard, sandy 
 beach. Twenty -five years ago it was an almost uninhabited 
 island, consisting of a chain of sand hills thrown up by the 
 ceaseless billows. About one-third of the area of the island is 
 now covered with the beautiful city with its broad avenues and 
 streets, which are graded and laid out with good judgment and 
 taste. 
 
 Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, and Baltic Avenues run parallel 
 
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 with the ocean front; Atlantic being loo feet wide; Pennsyl- 
 vania, North Carolina, and Virginia, 80 feet; Pacific, Arctic, and 
 Baltic, 60 feet; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, 
 Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, 
 South Carolina, Tennessee, New York, Kentucky, Illinois, In- 
 diana, Ohio, Michigan, Arkansas. Missouri, Mississippi, Geor- 
 gia, Florida, and Texas (cross streets), 50 feet in width. 
 
 The city is adorned with churches of all denominations, 
 and contains schools, public and private, and two daily papers. 
 
 A city passenger railway traverses the principal avenues, 
 and several lines of passenger phaetons take passengers to all 
 parts of the city and island; a number of liveries furnish horses 
 and carriages for drives at all hours. 
 
 THE OCEAN PROMENADE, 
 
 or " Board Walk," extends along the entire city front, following 
 the beach just beyond high-water mark. On a moonlight even- 
 ing when the beach is crowded with vehicles, and the prome- 
 nade thronged with pedestrians, Atlantic City then presents a 
 picture fairer than any vision of a midsummer night's dream, 
 
 AMU-EMENTS. 
 
 In addition to the custon^ary weekly hops or balls at the 
 principal hotels, is the Museum, Aquarium, Skating-Rink, etc. 
 The city is visited during the season by some of the best talent 
 in music, and concerts and other entertainments are frequently 
 given. The principal amusements in summer are bathing, 
 crabbing, and fishing. 
 
 SOCIETIES. 
 
 Atlantic City has seven societies, viz. : "Trinity Lodge," 
 " Pequod Tribe," "American Star Lodge," "Webster Lodge," 
 "Seaside Division," "Joe Hooker Post," and " U.S. Fire Com- 
 pany." 
 
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 THE THOROUGHFARE. 
 
 The thoroughfare is composed of a sheet of water that 
 abounds in the finest fish, oysters, crabs, and clams, and is the 
 rendezvous of the fleet of graceful yachts, in which the visitor 
 can cruise for pleasure or for fishing, either in the smooth water 
 of the inlet or upon the blue briny water of the Atlantic Ocean. 
 
 BRIGANTINE BEACH. 
 
 A small steamer leaves the Inlet House daily at high tide, 
 the exact time of which is announced in the daily papers and 
 by placards at prominent points for Brigantine Beach. The 
 distance is ten miles through a tide-water course somewhat cir- 
 cuitous. A large hotel is on the beach, facing the ocean, and 
 three hundred yards from the water. 
 
 The place has been named North Atlantic City, and in 
 course of time, as its improvements progress, it is proposed to 
 build a railroad to connect Brigantine Beach with Atlantic City» 
 crossing the Inlet by a drawbridge. 
 
 Another noted place for visitors is the Absecom Light- 
 house. It is situated on a point of land directly at the mouth 
 of Absecom Bay, where it empties into the ocean. Visitors are 
 admitted only between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock, 
 and without charge. The extreme height of the tower, from 
 base to pinnacle, is 167 feet; to outside gallery, 150 feet, and to 
 focus of lamp 159 feet. The ascent to the gallery is by 228 
 steps. The light is Fox's hydraulic float fixed light, of the first 
 order, and from the deck of a vessel at sea it can be seen for 
 26 miles. 
 
 SOUTH ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 This elegant beach is free from undertow, making it safe 
 bathing for ladies and children, and also still-water bathing, ex" 
 cellent drinking water, and strict sanitary regulations, insuring 
 health to this new resort. 
 
 Among the improvements at South Atlantic City is what is 
 
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 known as the "ELEPHANT HOTEL," being in shape and 
 anatomy as that well-known animal, and can be seen for miles 
 at sea and the surrounding towns and \'illages. It is the only- 
 building in existence in this novel form, standing in the act of 
 feeding; 86 feet long, 29 feet wide, and 65 feet high, 10 feet dia- 
 meter of legs, which enclose the stairway, giving an entrance to 
 the body of the animal, which is to be used as a restaurant. 
 There are four side rooms, 6 feet by S feet, which will be hand- 
 somely decorated. The Houdah or Observatory on the top of 
 the elephant is approached by concealed stairways. The 
 kitchen will be in the head of the elephant. 
 
 The railroad has been completed to South Atlantic City by 
 the way of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, and the survevs 
 have been run by the West Jersey and Narrow-Guage Rail- 
 road, and they expect to complete their roads in the shortest 
 possible time, thus giving South Atlantic City the advantage of 
 three railroads. The Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company 
 will run street cars to South Adantic City at a low rate of fare. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY, 
 
 ^GEOLOGY> 
 
 There is no department of science more interesting to the 
 savant than the geology or cosmic architecture of continents 
 and islands. The geologist and geographer together glean in 
 this most attractive field of scientific research and are rewarded 
 with some of the richest products and enjoy the rarest pleasure 
 vouchsafed to the enthusiastic searcher in the penetralia of 
 nature. 
 
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 That the relative positions of land and sea are ever chang-- 
 ing every observer will admit. Evidences of such changes bave 
 been authenticated for thousands of years past, and mountains 
 temples, and cities that once proudly adorned the continental 
 land and the maritime coasts of countries may now be seen 
 submerged by the influent waters or encroachments of the sea, 
 and through the cooperative subsidence of the land upon which 
 they at one time stood. Along the coast of Yorkshire, En- 
 gland, there are shoals or sand-banks in the sea marked as the 
 sites of the towns and villages of Auburn, Hartburn, and Hyde. 
 
 The ancient city of Cromer stands submerged upon the 
 floor of the German Ocean, and not far distant, upon the same 
 coast, beneath the water of the ocean, are the ancient villages 
 of Shipden, Wimpftell, and Eccles. The latter submerged vil- 
 lage, as if determined that its ancient existence and locality 
 shall not be forgotten or lost, projects aloft above the watery 
 waste the ruined tower of one of its ancient churches, strange 
 and wierd testimony to time's mutations and the impotency of 
 man when measuring strength with the terrible energy of na- 
 ture. 
 
 The voracity of the sea spared not ancient Dunwich, and 
 laid his sacriligious and iconoclastic hand upon her sacred edi- 
 fices and invaded the ancient mamolea of her dead. In 1740, 
 by submarine explorations, the tombs in the churchyards of St. 
 Nicholas and St. Francis were opened where their coffins and 
 skeletons were exposed to view, the latter lying upon the sands 
 
 rocked 
 
 "lu cradle of the rude, imperious surge." 
 
 To come nearer home and to have illustrations of the mu- 
 tations of time, in respect to the ever-changing relation of land 
 and sea, we will cite one instance among many. At Cape May, 
 on the New Jersey coast, the encroachment of the sea was 
 shown by observations made consecutively for sixteen years — 
 from 1804 to 1820, to average about nine feet a year. At Sulli- 
 van's Island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor one- fourth of 
 
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 a mile of land has been submerged in the space of three years. 
 
 Thus it is evident, proven by incontrovertible facts that the 
 relation of land and sea is ever changing. That there has been, 
 within the memory of man, retrocessions and encroachments 
 and invasions of the sea, at some localities of the maritime coasts 
 of continents, present living citizens of Cape May, Atlantic City, 
 and elsewhere affirm that the coast of New Jersey has under- 
 gone such changes and transpositions. 
 
 The State of New Jersey, except its northern portion, is 
 alluvial and argillaceous sandstone, post-teriiary. Geologically 
 it is a longitudinal deposit of arenaceous silt contributed by the 
 Delaware River for thousands of years. The sea but compar- 
 atively recently covered the present area of the State and the 
 site of Atlantic City. Evidence of such fact is presented by 
 the broad savannahs or meadows that are interposed between 
 the island upon which Atlantic City is built and the high land 
 upon the west. This area of marsh or meadow now almost 
 dry land, if drained and dyked, could be reclaimed and made 
 a profitable area for agricultural and fructiferous purposes. 
 
 The island upon which the city is built is a sand dune, 
 formed of dry sand and, being permeable, water sinks rapidly 
 through it, leaving a dry surface almost immediately after rains. 
 
 This geological peculiarity is one of the agents that contri- 
 butes to the remarkable healthfulness of Atlantic City at all 
 seasons ol the year. There is no indigenous or spontaneous 
 vegetation upon the island. The only growth to be seen is the 
 arboreal embellishments of the avenues and lawns, — sylvan 
 contributions from the forests of the high land. No stagnant 
 pools or sloughs mar or disfigure the facial lineaments of the 
 island, and there is no malarial or miasmatic emanation or ef- 
 fluvium to otfend the senses or to affect the perfect hygiene of 
 the city or island. 
 
 The city and island only feel the health-giving saline sea- 
 breeze flowing in directly from the broad Atlantic Ocean, whose 
 breakers ever and anon lave the glittering strand and whose 
 
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 anthem incessantly ascends to Him who holds the waters of the 
 ocean in the hollow of His hand. 
 
 While there is evidence in many places of interchange or 
 transposition of land and sea along the littoral area of the state 
 of New Jersey, the general geographical and topographical 
 limits and features have been preserved, and the lineaments of 
 the landscape have not undergone material alteration, differing 
 but little from its appearance when it was the habitat of its ar- 
 chaeological inhabitants. All over the State are vestiges of 
 Indian occupation, and some portions of it are rich treasuries 
 of Indian handicraft in the way of paleolithic and neolithic spe- 
 cimens of savage taste and ingenuity, implements and pottery. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 CLIMSTE, 
 
 "Many fa6lors enter into the benefit or good results de- 
 rived from a residence at the seashore. The principal ones 
 are: The decidedly modified temperature; the toning effefl of 
 sea air upon the nervous system ; its soporific effects ; the in- 
 conceivably beneficial effects of sea-bathing. 
 
 The breeze coming from the ocean in Summer has a much 
 lower temperature than the land atmosphere. This sea breeze 
 prevails on a large majority-of the days during the hot weather, 
 thus making the a\'erage summer temperature much lower at 
 the seashore than further inland. On some days the difference 
 is most marked, and few have failed to experience the relief 
 afforded by the first breath of sea air, after spending a hot 
 
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 day in the city. Even when the days are hot, the nights are 
 generally cool. To the invalid, the relief thus afforded from 
 the depressing influence of excessive heat is marked in all 
 cases, but especially is it so in the Summer complaint of chil- 
 dren, in the development of which heat plays so important a 
 part. On the other hand, in Winter the temperature of the 
 sea shore is several degrees higher than that inland, owing 
 to the unequal radiation of heat of land and water. 
 
 Several elements combine to produce the tonic effe6l of 
 the sea air. Among these are the following, viz : First. The 
 presence, as shown by Schonbein, of a large amount of ozone; 
 the stimulating, vitalizing principle of the atmosphere. Second. 
 The atmosphere, being denser at the sea level than at more 
 more elevated points, contains in a given space, a larger 
 amount of oxygen. Third. As a larger portion of the breeze 
 comes from the sea, the air contains but a small amount of 
 the deleterious produ6ls of decaying vegetable and animal 
 matter. And Fourth. The saline particles held in suspension 
 in the atmosphere, the "dust of the ocean," enter the system 
 through the lungs, and aid in the tonic effect experienced at 
 the sea shore. But whatever may be the cause, the effe6l is 
 undoubted. Few who visit the sea shore fail to experience a 
 marked improvement in appetite, while to some there comes 
 an intense craving for food, which it seems impossible to satisfy 
 without indulging to an extent bordering on gluttony. 
 
 Climate is in intimate relation with the health, wealth, 
 occupation, and longevity of nations. So important are its ef- 
 fects upon the organism of animals that its contemplation or 
 consideration constitutes one of the most engaging and import- 
 ant themes that the mind is invoked to consider. 
 
 Many factors contribute to or exercise an influence in the 
 architecture of climate. Proximity and altituJe of the land 
 above the sea, average annual mean temperature, local agen- 
 cies, isothermal relations of the particular locality, relative areas 
 of land and sea, the depth of the adjacent ocean, the general 
 
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 direction of marine currents and winds, radiation, evaporation, 
 annual rain, hail and snow fall, barometrical and electrical states 
 of the atmosphere, deviation and velocity of winds, height, 
 length, and proximity of mountain ranges, are all factors in the 
 make up of the climate of any particular place. 
 
 Thus climate embraces a range of subjects and conditions 
 so multifarious as to comprise almost every branch of natural 
 philosophy. It constitutes the aggregate of all the external 
 physical circumstances appertaining to each special locality. 
 The connection between climate and medical science is of in- 
 conceivable importance. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, 
 demonstrated that the phenomena of life are not the result of 
 original organization only, but that the moral, intellectual, and 
 physical capacities of man are subject to the influence of these 
 causes, the aggregate of which constitutes climate. 
 
 Such investigations tend to show that between the cor- 
 poreal attributes and intellectual feculties of man and the 
 cosmic conditions by which he is surrounded there exists a 
 mutual dependence and harmony. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 ISOTHERMAL RELATIONS 
 
 It is now well ascertained that zones of equal warmth, both 
 upon the sea and land are neither parallel to the equator nor to 
 each other, and it is well known that the mean annual temper- 
 ature may be the same in two places which enjoy very different 
 climates. The seasons may be nearly uniform or violently con- 
 trasted. The lines of equal temperature do not coincide with 
 those of equal annual heat, or are not isothermal lines. 
 
 On comparing the two continents, Europe and America, it 
 is found that the mean temperatures differ upon the sacne line 
 
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 of latitude as much as 17° of Fahrenheit. The temperature of 
 Edinburgh, Scotland, is that of localities 800 miles further 
 South. Upon the line of 30° of latitude the difference in tem- 
 perature in Europe and America is nearly 5°, and upon the 
 parallel of 40° the difference in the temperature of the two con- 
 tinents is 11°. Upon the parallel of 50° Europe has a tempera- 
 ture of 40°. 90 and America 37°. 94. 
 
 Thus we find at New York the summer of Rome and the 
 winter of Copenhagen; at Quebec the summer of Paris and the 
 winter of Petersburg; at Pekin, China, located upon the same 
 parallel as London, the scorching heat of summer is greater 
 than at Cairo, Egypt, and the winters are as rigorous as those 
 of Norway and Sweden. In Van Diemen's Land, correspond- 
 ing nearly in latitude to Rome, the winters are milder than at 
 Naples, and the summers not warmer than those of Paris, which 
 is 7° farther north. The mean annual temperature of Iceland? 
 situated almost within the Arctic circle, differs but slightly from 
 that of the Orkney and Shedand Islands and the continental 
 land of Scotland. 
 
 These peculiarities of climate upon the same or differing 
 parallels of latitude are produced by the vast bodies of water 
 of the circumfluent seas, ^he continental coast of North Amer- 
 ica is influenced also to a wonderful degree by the adjacent 
 trending of that wonderful inter-oceanic river of tepid water, 
 the Gulf Steam, This powerful current has a temperature of 
 7° above that of the surrounding water of the ocean. 
 
 This river of warm water, starting from the Carribean Sea, 
 issues from thence through the Bahama Straits, at a velocity of 
 about four miles an hour. It trends along the coast of the 
 southern portion of the North American continent, affecting 
 the temperature of this climate, where in the latitude of Cape 
 Hatteras it is seventy miles broad, and is diverted in a north- 
 east direction. In the latitude of New Foundland it crosses the 
 North-Atlantic ocean to the west coasts of Europe, and pursues 
 its course as far north as Spitzbergen, traversing in its course 
 
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 over three thousand miles, and from the propinquity of its flow- 
 to the islands of England, Ireland, and Scodand mollifies the 
 climate of the European continent and islands, and causes 
 that continent which would otherwise be uninhabitable and 
 barren, to be habitable and fructiferous. 
 
 It is owing to the proximity of flow of this vast warm cur- 
 rent to the coast line of this portion of the State of New Jersey 
 and the locality of Atlantic City that such benignity of climate 
 is enjoyed by the latter. It causes thermal vicissitudes to be of 
 less degree of intensity, and atmospheric changes to be more 
 gradual, depriving such alterations or changes of temperature of 
 sudden violence of shock to the inhabitant or invalid. 
 
 The sea preserves everywhere a ijiean temperature which 
 it communicates to the contiguous land, so that it tempers the 
 climate, mollifying alike the he it or cold littorally, and that 
 of the adjacent land to some extent interiorly. 
 
 In consequence of the more equal temperature of the 
 waters of the ocean, the climate of islands and continental 
 coasts differs essentially from that of the interior of continents. 
 The more maritime climates being characterized by mild win- 
 ters, and more temperate summers. The sea breeze both 
 moderates the cold of winter and the heat of summer. 
 
 It is on account of the propinquity of this body of warm 
 water, the configuration of the coast, and the topographical 
 lineaments of the land, the absence of adjacent mountain 
 ranges that this portion of the New Jersey Coast upon which 
 Atlantic City is located is so mild and equable in temperature? 
 and that causes it isothermally to differ witli localities upon 
 the same parallel of latitude, thereby imparting to it a benign- 
 ity of climate in widely distant and differing localities. Thus in 
 winter the temperature of Atlantic City is nearly that of 
 Charleston, and far inore equable, in summer the range of the 
 thermometer is never as high as at New York or Boston ; it is 
 these peculiar advantages that cause Atlantic City to be so de- 
 sirable a residence for the invalid either in winter or summer. 
 
jlTLANTlC CITY AS A HEALTH I|ESORT. 
 
 Atlantic City has already acquired widespread fame as 
 a resort for the sick, in both Summer and Winter. It is spe- 
 cially famous as a Winter Sanitarium The Gulf-Stream seem- 
 ingly comes with the warm South wind, keeping back the fierce 
 blasts of the West, while the solemn sea is always full of 
 strength and health-giving vigor. 
 
 The influence of the Gulf Stream undoubtedly has very 
 much to do with it. The warm Gulf-Stream sweeps inward to- 
 ward the coast of South Jersey, describing a curve whose con- 
 vexity is nearest the shore in this vicinity. North of Atlantic 
 City it turns sharply to the eastward leaving Long Branch and 
 New York far from its genial influence. 
 
 Whatever the influences are that surrounds it, it has a cli- 
 mate unexcelled by that of any other resort in America, with 
 the possible exception of some in Southern California. 
 
 Considering the important qualities of purity, dryness, 
 equableness, and mildness of temperature without enervating 
 warmth, no other place on the Atlantic sea-board, at least, can 
 compare with it. Florida is warmer, but hot climates are not 
 found most beneficial either to exhausted nerve centres or dis- 
 eased lungs. While in summer, the mercury rarely rises above 
 80°, in winter it rarely falls much below the freezing point. The 
 means of the maximum temperatures for the months of No- 
 vember, December, January, February, and March, 1879, 
 averaged 46.4. The sandy soil is so porous, that any ordinary 
 rain is immediately absorbed, leaving the ground on the beach 
 and elsewhere, except on the much traveled streets, as dry a 
 few hours afterwards as before. Snow is seldom seen. When 
 
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 snow does fall here, it usually vanishes in a day or two ; often 
 in a few hours. 
 
 The temperature is sufficiently warm to permit invalids to 
 walk or drive out for some hours every day in the week. A 
 sunny sky, dry soil, and genial sea breezes conspire to tempt 
 even the most confirmed hypochondriac to forsake the debili- 
 itating confinement of a close, warmed room, and live more 
 out of doors. This is half the battle in most cases. When this 
 is accomplished, tonics and soporifics may be dispensed with, 
 for appetite and sleep come of themselves. Such a climate is 
 found in its perfection, on the Riviera, along the northern shore 
 of the Mediterranean, whither consumptives are sent from all 
 over Europe and America. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY AS A WINTER SANITARIUM. 
 
 The reputation of Atlantic City as a winter sanitarium is in- 
 creasing with remarkable rapidity, as is practically shown by 
 the presence here during the winter season of hundreds of visi- 
 tors or permanent guests at the hotels and cottages that remain 
 open. Invalids and convalescents suffering from diseases from 
 which it is most difficult to obtain relief, come here in mid- 
 ter and undergo a recuperation that is wonderful. The quick- 
 est and most direct cures appear to be effected in complaints 
 springing from nervous exhaustion, though the improvement 
 of those suffering from throat and lung troubles is also remark- 
 able. There seems to be in the very atmosphere something 
 that is hostile to physical debility, and a knowledge of the fact 
 is rapidly becoming widespread through the multiplicity of 
 proofs that are continually being given. 
 
 Eminent physicians in New York, Philadelphia, and other 
 cities are constantly sending patients here and seeing them 
 restored to health or greatly improved, after medicines had 
 ceased to benefit them at home. Hundreds of such physicians 
 have both spoken and written in the most flattering terms of 
 Atlantic City air. A striking evidence of its curative power is 
 seen in the wonderful development of business at the hotels 
 
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 during the winter and spring months in the last three years. 
 Previous to 1877 very few strangers were seen in the town be- 
 fore April, and not a great many then. Last year the principal 
 winter houses were crowded before the end of February, and 
 remained so during the entire spring. Most of the guests were 
 invalids or convalescents coming from the wealthier classes in 
 New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, 
 and Chicago, and were ordered here by their physicians ex- 
 pressly to obtain the benefits of the air. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY. 
 SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC FEATURES. 
 
 WHAT DISEASES ARE BENEFITED. 
 
 Of Interest to Invalids and Physicians. 
 
 Change of air is a very important medicinal agent, and com- 
 bined with the other means employed, often enables the physi- 
 cian to effect a speedy cure of cases that would otherwise be of 
 tedious recovery, or it may be, go on to a fatal termination. 
 A change to the more equable temperature, and pure air of the 
 sea-shore exerts at times a truly magical influence upon inva- 
 lids. The air in passing over the surface of the ocean comes 
 to the shore washed of its impurities and laden with ozone. 
 Sea air strengthens the vital process and stimulates the nervous 
 system, and from the more rapid oxidation of tissue the appe- 
 tite is improved, and the energy of the muscles revived. Pa- 
 tients who could scarcely walk at home, after coming to the 
 sea-shore, stroll long distances on the strand with only a cheer- 
 ful sense of weariness that soon passes away, and is succeeded 
 by a sharpened appetite, the reward of agreeable exercise. An 
 abundant supply of nerve food, so essential in the conservation 
 
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 of force is thus acquired without the whip and spur of tonic bit- 
 ters, and stimulating stomachics. Physicians are aware that 
 while the sea-air is not a panacea, it is frequently the " one 
 thing needful," and especially for " chronic laryngeal and bron- 
 chial affections ; asthma ; disorders of the digestive organs, 
 with the various forms of dyspepsia; chronic gout and rheuma- 
 tism ; functional derangements of the generative organs ; affec- 
 tions of the kidneys; is beneficial to strumous delicate children; 
 is invaluable as a restorative during convalesence from acute or 
 prolonged disease ; and especially is it one of the chief resour- 
 ces of preventive medicine. 
 
 DISEASES MOST BENEFITED BY THE AIR OF ATLANTIC CIT7. 
 
 " Nervous affections decidedly predominate. Every phase of 
 neurosthenia or nervous exhaustion is represented, from the 
 comparatively slight indisposition of the society people, worn 
 out with the season's round of parties and receptions, and the 
 more threatening depression of vital force often affecting over- 
 taxed brain-workers, to brain-softening and the worst forms of 
 paralysis. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the eminent neurologist, sends 
 a large number of his patients here. Besides the nervous dis- 
 eases proper there is represented the long list of chronic aftec- 
 tions, which result secondarily from nervous exhaustion. Next 
 in order comes the patient suffering from pulmonary, bronchial, 
 and laryngeal complaints, most of whom are benefited. Many 
 of these spend the whole winter here, with unequivocal benefit 
 from an occasional sojourn of a month or six weeks as a change 
 from the mountains or inland resorts, 
 
 " To another class of cases, Atlantic City offers relief, if 
 not positive cure, which cannot be obtained in any portion of 
 our sea-coast. 
 
 " They are those trying and refractory cases of chronic 
 
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 bronchitis, laryngitis, incipient tuberculosis, and also scrofula. 
 " In this respect Atlantic City offers a striking analogy with 
 Nice, where it is well known, all the invalids of Europe (affected 
 with chest-diseases) flock for a winter's sojourn." 
 
 WHAT THE CLIMATE OF ATLANTIC CITY DOES FOR SICK 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 The " Children's Seashore House " is a handsome cottage 
 erected some years ago on the beach. The object of this insti- 
 tution is to give the benefits of sea-air and sea-bathing to in- 
 valid children of Philadelphia and its vicinity as may need 
 them, but whose parents cannot meet the expenses at a board- 
 ing house, and often necessary medical advice. They are here 
 under the care of a resident physician, a corps of nurses, and 
 a matron. The total charge, including board, washing, medi- 
 ical attendance, bathing, etc., is not over two dollars per week. 
 This institution has cared for over 2000 patients. In addition 
 to the main building sixteen small cottages have been built in 
 the front, accommodating in all about ninety children with their 
 attendants. An institution for invalid women under much the 
 same management has been built. 
 
 " Few of the children who have been admitted to the insti- 
 tution have failed to show, almost immediately, this increase of 
 appetite, and it is, indeed, no exaggeration to say that the effect 
 of the sea-air, in this respect, has been more uniform, and more 
 powerful, than that of any therapeutic agent. 
 
 "A very grateful effect of the sea-air upon the invalid is the 
 influence which it frequently has in inducing sleep. Many sick 
 children brought to the institution have slept the first night bet- 
 ter than for many nights before. The weariness from the jour- 
 ney has doubtless had some little influence in these cases, but 
 the eftect continued. Many, even of those who are not invalids, 
 feel, after a few day's stay at the seashore, unusual drowsiness 
 in the daytime, and the afternoon nap becomes an almost irre- 
 sistible luxury." 
 
Extracts from the Medical Journals. 
 
 WHAT PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA AND ELSEWHERE HAVE SAID 
 ABOUT ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 The following extiacts from articles contributed by physi- 
 cians to prominent medical journals concernino- the effect of sea- 
 air, especially that of Atlantic City, on certain classes of dis- 
 eases, are particularly noteworthy, being voluntary testimony 
 based upon their personal experience, and written for the exclu- 
 sive information of their professional brethren. 
 
 ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 Dr. J. Walker, of New York City, read before the Medical 
 Society of King's County, N. Y., an elaborate paper on " The 
 Therapeutical Value of Sea-Air in the Diseases of Children,-' 
 a summary of which has appeared in the Half- Yearly Com- 
 pendium of Medical Science. This paper contained the follow- 
 ing, which includes a significant comparison between the 
 advantages of Atlantic City and other seaside resorts : 
 
 " The tonic properties of sea-air are due, ist. To the sa- 
 line particles found in the spray or ' dust of the sea,' and which 
 are carried hither and thither by the winds and waves ; and 2d. 
 To the freshness of the sea-breeze, which is at its best, when 
 blowing from a good point over a large extent of open sea 
 when it has not been confined by any obstacle or has not been 
 mixed in its passage with any deleterious exhalations," or is 
 not much dampened by rain-fall. These are advantages spe- 
 cial to Atlantic City, and cannot be found at any other seaside 
 locality. 
 
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 Dr. Boardman Reed, of Atlantic City, contributed to tiie 
 Medical and Surgical Reporter, of January lo, 1880, a com- 
 munication on " Sea-Air for Malaria," from which we extract as 
 follows : 
 
 " It may seem like presumption in one practicing- in a non- 
 malarial district — at a health-resort, where intermittents do not 
 originate, and can only be studied, as a rule, in the persons of 
 visitors and returning sailors — to express an opinion upon the 
 treatment of this class of affections ; yet I venture to make the 
 assertion that even the least efficient of the alkaloids of Peru- 
 vian bark will accomplish more, even in moderate doses, when 
 combined with certain other drugs, such as opium, capsicum, 
 leptandrin, gelsemium, etc., than will the sulphate of quinia 
 alone, in the most heroic doses. This statement I have seen 
 verified both in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. 
 
 ***** * * 
 
 Among the invalids sent hither from Philadelphia, New York, 
 and other cities, there are many cases of the malarial cachexia. 
 These often improve amazingly without any medicine, the sea 
 breezes laden with the alterative compounds of chlorine, bro- 
 mine, and iodine (iodine, by the way, I have found to possess 
 real power over intermittents), proving sufficiently curative. 
 
 The Hver is the organ chiefly at fault usually, in such 
 cases, and mild remedies which stimulate it gendy, at the same 
 time that they promote appetite and digestion, frequently ac- 
 complish more than quinine, or even than a too protracted ad- 
 ministration of arsenic at least, under the favorable influences 
 here existing. Cases of malarial cachexia which resist all sorts 
 of treatment in the cities, may get well with very little medi- 
 cine if sent to some non-malarial locality upon the sea-shore." 
 
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 Eminent Medical Testimonials. 
 
 Among the eminent Philadelphia physicians who bear 
 testimony to Atlentic City's value as a winter sanitarium are 
 
 JOSEPH LEIDY, M. D., 
 
 Professor of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, 
 
 1302 Filbert Street. 
 
 He says : — " I am pleased to give my testimony as to the health - 
 
 ness of Atlantic City as a place of resort. I know of no place 
 
 better adapted to invalids in general." 
 
 JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D., 
 
 Emeritus, Professor of Anatomy, fefferson Medical College, 
 Also says : — " If we had not Atlantic City to go to, we should 
 be at a loss to know what to do with some of our pulnionary 
 and infantile patients." 
 
 J. L. LUDLOW, M. D., 
 igoi Ches7iut Street. 
 
 " My opinion of it as a seaside resort, both for pleasure and 
 health, is very high. The air is at all times bracing, and dur- 
 ing the winter and fall seasons the effect of the air alone, on 
 weak and nervous people is wonderful. I have recommended 
 it and am doing so constantly to our brain-wearied men, and 
 nervous, delicate females, who cannot sleep and have lost their 
 appetites." 
 
 WILLIAM DARRACH, M. D., 
 Germantown, Philadelphia. 
 
 " For the last sixteen years I have been advising patients 
 to go to Atlantic City. I cannot recall a case that has not re- 
 ceived benefit from a sojourn there. 
 
 It was of great service in restoring tone to the digestive 
 organs of a case of phthisis during the months of January and 
 February. In cases of summer complaints in young children 
 marked beneficial results have followed. Convalescents from 
 typhiod fever and bronchial troubles, especially during the 
 spring months, have been completely restored to health there." 
 
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 Baltimore, October 24, 1881. 
 
 I have been an annual visitor to Atlantic City for fifteen 
 years, and ha\'e never failed in being benefited, and entirely 
 relieved of dyspepsia, and a troublesome bronchial affection. 
 The air is pure, dry, saline, and genial, soothing to the lungs 
 and tonic to the system. As a winter residence it has no su- 
 perior. 
 
 EPHRAIM LARRABEE. 
 
 Baltimore, October 10, 1881. 
 
 A sojourn at Atlantic City a portion of two seasons has con- 
 vinced me of the extraordinary hygienic benefits to be derived, 
 in bronchial and pulmonary irritation and morbid sensibility to 
 atmospheric changes. Its equable climate and genial atmos- 
 phere affords instantaneous relief. 
 
 JOHN T. KING, M. D. 
 
 We append also the following list of physicians, including 
 the names of many of the most eminent in Philadelphia, who 
 have endorsed the merits of Atlantic City as a health resort : 
 
 Horatio C. Wood, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania. 
 
 D. Hayes Agnew, M. D., Pi. I'essor of Surgery, University of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Walter F. Atlee, M. D. 
 
 Frank Woodbury, M. D., Physician to German Hospital, 
 Philadelphia, 
 
 Joseph Leidy, M. D., 1302 Filbert Street. 
 
 J. C. Guernsey, M. D., Corresponding Secretary Homceopathic 
 Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 
 
 John V. Shoemaker, M. D., 1031 Walnut Street, Physician in 
 
 charge of the Pennsylvania Free Dispensary. 
 
 Joseph Pancoast, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, Jefterson 
 Medical College. 
 
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 than all the medicine I have ever taken, but not feeling that I am entirelv well I enclose 
 one dollar for more. Please forward by mail. 
 
 Yours trulv, C. W. HANKS. 
 
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 Andrews ^ Thompson's Preparations 
 
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 HYPOPHOSPHITES. 
 
 Compoiiiid Syrup of Hypopliosphites. 
 
 Composed of the Hypophosphites of Lime, Iron, Soda, and Potassa. Each teaspoonfiil 
 of the Syrup contains five grains of the combined Salts : three-fonrths of a grain of which 
 is Hypopho-^phite or Protoxide of Iron. Dose. — One teaspoonful. 
 
 This preparation is prepared after the formula of our Sir. Thompson, published in the 
 .'^m. Journal Pharmacy, Vol. 20, p. 319, 1858. 
 
 Hyphophosphite of Lime and Soda, 
 
 (Church hill's Hypophosphites. ) 
 This preparation contains the two salts in a perfectly pure and soluble form. It is 
 sometimes called Churclihill's Hypophosphites. 
 
 Solution of Churchliill's Hypopliosphites. 
 
 (Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda.) 
 
 Each fluid drachm of this solution contains five grains of the 
 Ddse. — From one to two teaspoonfuls. 
 
 Syrup of Churclihill's Hypopho.sphites. 
 
 (Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda.) 
 
 Each fluid drachm of this Syrup contains five grains of the Combined Sail* 
 Dose. — From one to two teaspoonfuls. 
 
 Compound Solution of Hypophosphites. 
 
 Composed of the Hypophosphites of Lime, Soda, Potassa, and Manganese. Each tea- 
 spoonful of this solution, contains five grains of the combined salts; one of which is Hy- 
 pophosphite of .Manganese. Dose. — One or two teaspoonfuls. 
 
 Wine of Pepsin. 
 
 This preparation is a solution of Pepsin from the stomach of the Calf, in pure Sherry 
 Wine, with the addition of Lactic Acid. The best and most reliable form of administer- 
 ing the remedy. 
 
 Dose. — One or two teaspoonfuls, immediately after or during meals. 
 
 Wine of Pepsin was first suggested to us by a late eminent physician of this city, when 
 Pepsin was first introduced to tlie notice of the medical profession as a remedy for Dys- 
 pepsia and a natural aid to digestion. It was used by him in his practice with much suc- 
 cess and has since found favor with numerous physicians 
 
 PREPARED AND SOLD BY 
 
 ANDREWS & THOMPSON, Chemists, 
 
 No. S West Baltimore St., 
 
 Orders will rectuvc prompt attention. 
 
^OV^HSTOA^^ 
 
 FLUID BEEF 
 
 The only preparation wliicli 
 combines the entire insolu- 
 ble properties of the lean of 
 beef, with the extract essence 
 or soluble salts of the Liebig 
 and other processes of man- 
 ufacture, and therefore tire 
 most nutritious. Strictly non- 
 medicated, keeping with the 
 can open without taint, and 
 within the reach of all. Ton- 
 ic, nutritive, and stimulant. 
 
 BARON tlEBIG, in the Lancet, of Nov. 14th, 1865, says :— 
 
 "Were it possible to furnish tlie market, at a reasonable price, with a preparation of 
 Meat combining in itself the albuminous together with the extracltive principles, such a 
 preparation would have to he preferred to the " Extractum Carnis," for it would contain 
 ALL the nutritive constituents of Meat." Again :-"! have before stated that in preparing 
 the Extract of Meat the Albuminous principles remain in the residue: they are lost to nu- 
 trition : and this is certainly a great disadvantage." 
 
 By MM. HAKKNKSS, F. C. S. L., Analytical Chemist to the British 
 Government. 
 
 Laboratory, Somerset House, London, England. 
 I have made a very careful chemical analysis and microscopical examination of 
 Johnston'.s Fluid Beef, and find to contain in every loo parts; 
 
 Moisture 26,14 
 
 Albumen and Gelatine 21.81 \ Nitrogenous or 
 
 Fibrin in a readily soluble form 37-48 J Flesh forming Food 
 
 Ash or Mineral Matter H-ST — 100,00 
 
 " The mineral matter is rich in phosphates. The microscopical examination shows 
 the Fluid Beef to contain good, sound beef, ground to a very fine powder. There is not the 
 slightest tr.ace of fungus, spores or any other organism which would tend to produce de- 
 composition. I consider this a most valuable preparation, combining, as it does, a concen- 
 trated extract of beef with the solid l)ecf itself, — the latter being in a form easily digested." 
 
 ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., 
 
 Agents for United Slates, 
 For Sale by the Trade Generally. Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 
 ■J:- yJ^^ii^jfM.0^' -*'.S -''.^ w'-S w;S jt^R 
 
-^')To Physicians Only. A Positive Cure for Dyspepsia. (-^ 
 
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 (IDIG-ESTI^VE FX^TJXID.) 
 
 Tliis Preparation contains in an agreeable form ibe natural and as- 
 similative principles of the ditri-stixe fluiti of tlie stomach, coniprii-ing 
 Pancreatine, Pepsin, and Lactic and Muriatic Acids. Tlie best 
 means of re-e^labli^lling digusaon, in cnftebled sto iiachs, where the 
 power to asi-imilate and digest food is impaired, is to adminster princi- 
 ples capable of commuoicating tlie elements necessary to convert food 
 into nutriuKnt. 
 
 The value of Liquid Pancreopepsine in this connection has been 
 fully established, and we can recommend it with confidence to the Pro- 
 fession as superior to Pepi^in wlone. It aids in digesting animal and 
 vegetable cooked food, fatty and amylaceous substances, and may be 
 employed in all c:ises where, from prolonged sickness or other causes, 
 the alimentary processes are not in their normal condition. 
 
 It is usually given in table.-poonful doses after eiich me»l, with an 
 equal quantity of water or wine, or alcme, as it is most pleasant and 
 agreeable to the taste. 
 
 PUT UP IN SIXTEEN-OUNCE FRENCH SQUARE BOTTLES: PRICE $1.00. 
 Pkepared Only by 
 
 No. 1228 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA.