The Health Institute

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1874

The Health Institute.

This model health institution is situated in the most healthful and delightful part of the proverbially neat and enterprising city of Battle Creek, Michigan, an important station on the Michigan Central R. R., about half way between Chicago and Detroit.

GROUNDS.

The grounds are ample, consisting of a site of about twenty acres, a large portion of which is covered with shade, ornamental, and fruit trees. They are also high, overlooking the entire city, and affording a fine view of the landscape for miles around.

BUILDINGS.

These comprise a large main building and seven fine cottages, all situated upon the same site. The main building contains commodious parlors, dining halls, bath and movement rooms, etc., etc., while the other buildings are fitted up as private apartments for patients. By this means are secured that quiet and retirement which cannot be obtained in an institution where scores of suffering individuals are crowded together under one roof.

ROOMS

Are large and well ventilated, and are furnished much better than in any other institution of the kind, thus affording the patient all the luxuries and comforts which he enjoys at home, and many more.

OUR REMEDIES

Are Light, Water, Air, Electricity, Exercise, Cheerfulness, Rest, Sleep, Proper Clothing, Proper Food, and, in fact, all Hygienic and Sanitary Agents. All known means of restoring health are constantly employed, poisons alone being excluded from our Materia Medica.

OUR PHYSICIANS.

The medical managers of the institution comprise an adequate number of conscientious, watchful, and efficient physicians, who give personal and unremitting care and attention to their patients, anticipating, as far as possible, their wants, carefully studying their cases, and applying every available means to restore them to health.

OUR FACILITIES.

Very few institutions are provided with conveniences and advantages equal to ours. Our bath rooms are both capacious and convenient, and are furnished with an inexhaustible supply of pure, soft water.

SPECIAL ADVANTAGES.

In addition to the appliances usually employed in health institutions, we make use of the Hot-Air Bath (which possesses all the virtues of the Turkish-Bath, while avoiding its evils), the much-renowned Electric or Electro-Thermal-Bath, the Lift Cure, and the celebrated Swedish-Movement Cure, which are so successful in many cases which cannot be reached by other means.

The “Vibrator,” a machine for giving passive exercise, has also been recently added to our other appliances, at an expense of several hundred dollars. This apparatus, besides being a triumph of mechanical ingenuity, is a most effective remedy for many chronic diseases.

DIET.

While we reject from our dietary those pernicious drinks and condiments which are the potent agents in bringing thousands to untimely graves, we take care to supply our table with an abundance of nutritious and palatable food, consisting of fruits, grains, and vegetables. We do not enforce, however, a radical and immediate change from old habits, but give the patient time to accommodate himself to the new diet.

OUR SUCCESS.

The class of individuals who seek aid at our institution is very largely composed of those who are afflicted with chronic diseases, and who have been drugged and poisoned until their vitality has become well-nigh exhausted, and they are given up by their friends and medical advisers to die. Under these circumstances, they come to us as a final resort, and, thanks to a true and potent system of treatment, this last hope is seldom disappointed.

CONSUMPTION.—Many cases might be cited and references given, in which this most insidious and hopeless of all diseases has been robbed of its victims and a new lease of life given them by a few months’ stay with us.

DYSPEPSIA.—Hundreds have come to us afflicted with this most deplorable disease in its most aggravated forms, and, after staying a proper time, have returned to their friends relieved of their sufferings.

PARALYSIS.—Even this formidable disease is treated with entire success, the use of paralyzed organs often being wholly restored.

Dropsy, Scrofula, Asthma, Kidney Difficulties (of the worst forms), Chronic Diarrhea, Chronic Congestion of the Brain, Cancer, Palpitation of the Heart, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Bronchitis, Piles, Ulceration of Bowels, Tape-Worm, Catarrh of Bladder and Bowels, Constipation (in some cases without a natural passage for many years), Spermatorrhoea, and, in fact, Chronic Diseases of all kinds, are treated with a degree of success impossible with any other mode of practice. The most flattering success has attended the treatment of Uterine Difficulties, and all other Diseases of Women, which receive special attention.

ACUTE DISEASES.

Our mode of treatment is specially adapted to this class of diseases, meeting with the most uniform success with Fever, and Inflammations of every type and form, all Eruptive Diseases, etc., etc.

To the sick, we say, Do not delay seeking our assistance until your case is hopeless. Write at once for our Circular, which will be sent free on application.

Address, HEALTH INSTITUTE, Battle Creek, Mich.