, 1860-11-01
INTERESTING TO CONSUnIPTIvES,
mfnneaotu for Inva11dk-sExperlepce
OF Rev Horace Bushnell, DID,.


Of Aev. Horace Bushnell, D.D.
Dr. Bushnell, the wcll-known clergyman Of
Hartford, Connecticut, after spending nearly
scar In Minnesota on account Of disease Of the
lungs, writes the Independent as follows:
I have SO many letters to answer respecting
Minnesota as to afford evidence that consid-
rrable number Of your readers will be glad to
receive short article On the subject; for the
consnmptIve party Of these times, though not
growing quite Is fast IS that Of Ar. Lincoln,is
letter to you will take away from me the nc-
ccssity, it is presumed, Of many priyatc let
tcrs.
went to Minnesota early in July, and re-
1nained there till the latter part Of the May
following. had spent winter In Cuba with
out benefit had spent also nearly year in
California, making gain In the dry season,
aud a partial loss in the wet season returning,
however, sufficiently improved to resume my
labors. Breaking down again from this only
partial recovery, made the experiment now
Of Minnesota; and submitting myself, on re-
turning, to very rigid examination, by ply
sician who did not know ut Ill what verdict
l1ad been passed by other physicians before, he
said in accordance with their opinion, ~ You
have lad difficulty in the right lung, but it is
healed" had suspected fr0m my symptoms
that it might be so, and the fact appears to be
confirmed by the further fact that / have been
slowly, though irrcSnlar1y gaining all the
summer.
This improvement, or partial recovery, at
tribute to the climate Of Minnesota. But not
to this alone-othcr things have occurred.
First, had i naturally firm, enduring consti-
tuition, which Lad only given way under ex-
cessiye burdens Of labor, and had no vestigc
Of hereditary diseasc upon it. Secondly, ] had
ail my burdens thrown otl. and state Of COLI
plete, uucaring rest Thirdly, was in such
vigor as to be out in the open air, Oh horse
back and otherwise, good part Of the lime
1t does not follow, by any means, that one who
is dying under hereditary consumption, or one
who Is too far gone to have any power Of e9du-
rance, or spring Of 1ccupcratirc energy left,
will be recovered In the samc manner.
great many such 90 there to die, 4 somcto
be partially recovered md then die for knew
Of two young men, SO lar recovered US to think
themselves well, or nearly sc, who by over yi0-
lent exGrtion brought OIL recurrence fblced-
inyE, and died, one Of them almost instantly,
and tho other in about twenty y-four hours both
in the same week. The general opinion seem
I'd to be that the result was attributable. And
] have known Of very remarkable Cases Of re-
coycry there which has seemed 10 he hopeless.
One Of u gentleman who was carried ashore on
litter, and became . robust hearty man. All
other who told mt that he hal seen eonghc;i
up bits Of his lung, Of the size Of q walnut, and
was then, seven Or eight months nfter, Il per
fectly soundlOokinE, well.set man, with no
cough at all. fell in with somebody every
few days who had como there aud been rcstor-
cd and with multitudes Of others whose dis
c1se had been arrested, so as to allow the pros
ccntion Of business, and whose lease Of life as
they had no doubt, was mich heightened by
| their migration to TINT region Of the country.
OF course 1t will be understood that a great
! many arc sadly disappointed in going thither,
| and that rs the number Of consuMptivcs mnk-
ing the trial increases, tue funerals of the cou-
sulnptivc strangers arc becoming sadly frc-
| qucut.
The peculiar benefit Of this climate appears
] to be from its dryncss. There is as much, or
| even little more Of rain there than elsewhere,
in the summer months; but it comes generally
i'll the night, anu the days that follow brighten
out in a fresh, tonic brllllancy, as dry almost
rs before. The winter climate is Intensely
cold, and yet go dry and clcar, and still, for the
most 1,a1t, Is to create no very great suffering.
| One who is properly dressed tinds the climate
much moro enjoyable than the ampllbious,
half,auid, ,halfsolid, sloppy gravelikc chill Of
the Last. The snowsa arc light d kind Of SNOW
night. Heal knOw.stormS arc rare; there
was none the last winter. 4 little more SHOW
to make better sleighing would be an improve
nicnt. rs to rain in the winter, it is almost
unknown. There was no drop Of rain the last
winter, from the latter part Of October to the
middle, or about the middle, or about the mid
die Of March, except slight drizzle on Thanks.
giving Day. And there was not snow-1nclilng
enough for more than about eight or ten days
to Wet dccr-skin moccasin (which many :.en'
t1emcn wear nj the WINERY The following
table will show the comparative rainfall
whether in the ehnpe Of rain or rsnow, for three
different points, that may be taken to repre-
scnt the whole country; being on the i've
coasts, and at St Paul In the middle Of tht
| continent: