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pantries, and all culinary arrangements are also in the basement.

FIRE-PROOF VAULTS.

Six large fire-proof vaults are provided in this building in which to
preserve, secure from observation, as well as from fire, all records of
cases examined and treated by the Faculty.

Throughout all this vast building the visitor is struck with the
wonderful order and system with which every detail is carried out.

THE BATH DEPARTMENT.

[Illustration: A glimpse at the Turkish Bath Department.]

The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, as hereinbefore indicated,
is provided with Turkish, and other approved baths, with a
treatment-room, fitted up with vacuum and movement-treatment apparatus
of the most modern and approved style. These and much more ingeniously
devised apparatus and appliances are brought into use in a great variety
of chronic affections with marvelously successful results. A perfect
system of physical training, especially adapted to the wants of the
invalid and weak, and most skillfully conducted and applied, is not the
least important among the many advantages that the chronic sufferers
here find.

THE SURGICAL DEPARTMENT.

In the Surgical Department, every instrument and appliance approved by
the modern operator is provided, and many and ingenious are the
instruments and devices that the Faculty of this institution have
invented and perfected to meet the wants of their numerous cases.

OUR REMEDIES.

In the prescribing of remedies for disease, the Staff resort to the
whole broad field of _materia medica_, allowing themselves to be
hampered by no school, _ism_,_pathy_, or sect. The medicines employed are
all prepared by skilled chemists and pharmacists, and the greatest care
is exercised to have them manufactured from the freshest and purest
ingredients. Our Faculty probably employ a greater number and variety of
extracts from native roots, barks and herbs in their practice than are
used in any other invalids' resort in the land. All of the vegetable
extracts employed in our practice are prepared in our own Laboratory.

REGULATION OF DIET.

The table is supplied with an abundance of wholesome and nutritious
food, especially adapted and prepared to suit the invalid, it being
varied to suit each particular case. The Faculty recognize the
importance of proper food as one of the greatest factors in the
treatment of chronic diseases. While properly regulating and res