p. 16 | A Growing Institution

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 7, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 32.

A Growing Institution.

A short time ago we were called to St. Helena on business. We visited the Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, three miles from the town on one of the shelves of Howell Mountain. The Sanitarium overlooks the beautiful little Pratt Valley and a lot of other mountain scenery, making one of the prettiest and most restful pictures on earth. The Sanitarium is well patronized. Since we were there, an electric lighting system has been installed, the bath-rooms are completely refitted, electric-light baths are, we believe, now in, more of the mountain’s pure water has been obtained, and great improvements are constantly being made. It has a good corps of skilled, conscientious Christian physicians and nurses. We longed to take some treatment, to have a good electric bath or salt glow, or cool spray with alcohol-and-oil rub; but we did not get time. So we are not writing this for concessions of any sort. We know that it is a blessed place for the chronic sick, for the weary, worn, weak, nervous, fagged-out people. Worn-down business men, tired teachers, plethoric politicians, despairing, dyspeptic ministers, and weary workers in all brain labor, will find the Sanitarium, for a few months or weeks, a dry dock for repairs, a haven of rest. Address the physician-in-chief, A. J. Sanderson, M. D. We did not get time to see the new food factory. We shall have something to say of that when we get time to visit it.