Rural Health Retreat,

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 28, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 50.

Rural Health Retreat,

ST. HELENA, CAL.

The above is the Main Building of the Largest Medical and Surgical Sanitarium on the Pacific Coast.

WHILE California itself has been denominated "The Great Sanitarium of the World," the portion of Napa Valley in which this institution is located has been, by tourists and travelers, called "The Sanitarium of the State, with as fine a climate as is to be found on the face of the globe, an asylum for consumptives and asthmatics."

From the parlors of the above building, situated on the southwestern slope of Howel Mountain, some four hundred feet above the valley, is obtained a view of scenery not rivaled anywhere, even in sunny Italy. Parties who have traveled through Switzerland and all over the world pronounce the view obtained from the upper portion of the Retreat as grand as they ever saw anywhere.

Not only does Crystal Springs Health Retreat afford the advantages of a glorious climate, but it has connected with it

A CORPS OF PHYSICIANS REGULARLY GRADUATED FROM A LIBERAL COURSE IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY

who have had many years' experience in practice. They are not blind devotees to any exclusive "pathy," have no "pet theories" to follow to the exclusion of the advancing knowledge of Hygienics and Therapy. They employ no patent nostrums, nor countenance quackery in any form. They are assisted by male and female attendants who have had a liberal training in the largest Hygienic and Surgical Sanitarium in the world.

Free lectures are given, twice a week, in the parlors of the institution on the subjects of physiology, disease, health, and hygiene. It is the purpose of the managers and physicians that our patients and guests shall not only have an opportunity to recover their health, but that they may learn how to keep well when they leave the hill side.

The remedial measures employed include

Baths by Vapors, Air, Water, Electricity, Heat and Sunlight; Galvanic and Faradic Electricity, Swedish Movements, Massage, Dumbbells, Indian Clubs, Free-hand Exercises, Marching, Mechanical Appliances, and exercises for Development of Lungs, Vital Organs, and Muscular System, restoring and increasing Nervous Energy, equalizing Circulation and Curving Deformities. Treatment of Eye, Ear, Nasal, Throat, and Lung Diseases.

Bad cases of Piles, Prolapsus of Rectum, Fissure, Fistula in Ano, Consumption pronounced incurable in the East, Epilepsy, Asthma, Dyspepsia, Enlargement of Liver and Spleen, Abscess of Liver, Constipation, Diseases of Kidneys, Bladder, and Genito-Urinary Organs, Varicocele, Impotency, Nocturnal Losses, Spermatorrhea, Uterine Displacements of many years' duration, Uterine and Ovarian Tumors, Cancers, Nervous Diseases, and Paralysis have been successfully treated and cured at the Retreat. Especial inducement is offered to all suffering with ailments peculiar to females.

Crystal Springs is two and one-half miles from St. Helena, which is a station on a branch of the Southern Pacific R. R., and may be reached from Vallejo Junction, or from Suisun. A coach will meet passengers at St. Helena Station, who give notice to the Retreat before hand of their expected coming. Passengers with baggage are taken from the station to the Retreat for 50 cents each. There is telephone connection between St. Helena and the Retreat.

The expenses at this institution are very reasonable.

Rooms, with board and treatment, from $12.00 to $20.00 per week, according to room occupied. Rooms and board, without treatment, from $6.00 to $12.00 per week. Special terms by the month. A few rooms in cottages at reduced rates. Please write and obtain full descriptive circulars, and such information as you desire concerning the place, and come and see for yourself. Address,

RURAL HEALTH RETREAT, St. Helena, Cal.