Abstract
Mr. President and Members of the American Health Resort Association: —My attention was first directed to the climate of Texas as a fit place for consumptives in the spring of 1868. Dr. J. Scoonover a classmate of mine had just graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York: and was now physically a wreck. The doctor had been a hard student for several years and had a family history that was unmistakable, having lost two brothers of consumption. Dr. Metcalf of New York, after a careful examination of the case advised him to go to Texas or Florida, he chose the former place having some knowledge of the country. Dr. Scoonover's case was an unmistakable one of tubercular deposit in the right lung as shown by physical examination and confirmed by great emaciation and spitting of blood. His case seemed hopeless, but with small means at his
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