Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-02-21
Communicated.
The Living Home for Sick or Well and
the Delaware Home for Insane,
upAp WILMINGTON DEL,
NEAR WILMINGTON, DEL.

Wishing to have the public understand exact
10 what the above Institution IL, we have con-
cluded to publish, in as condensed form as pos
aible. q description Of a sufficient number Of the
different cases that have been admitted, to give
n general idea of the Institution. The list will
commence with the opening, and we will state
the cases in course, as far as we go, omitting
names. AS no deaths have occurred, we are
enabled to refer all inquiries to the Lining wit
ness in each case. considerable number were
attended by different physicians from the city,
hut as nursing in sickness is quite Os important
as medicine, we claim large share Of the sue
cess in such cases for the management OF tile
InstitutiOn Where bOarders employ their own
physicians, the medicine will in all cases be ad-
ministered as directed. Bathing, dieteiics and
exercise constitute the general house prescrip
tions, though medicine is not entirely dispensed
with as in some modern cures"
No. /. General Debility and Nervous lrrita-
lion inmate four months, much improved.
No. q Boarder, well, one year, No. B. Bron-
cbitis and bemorrhage, four months and cured.
No 4. Obstetrics, remained TWO months. No
6. Moderately insane, improved, still an inmate
No. g. Rheumatism, improved, inmate three
weeks. No. T. Obstetrics remained three
months No. 4. Boarder, two months. No. 0.
Neuralgia of fourteen years standing, incurable
No. 10 Insane, remained four months, pro-
nounoed ncurAblu and taken to the aims house,
unable to pay, and still there. No. II. Insane,
inmate two weeks, not able to pay, taken to the
aims house No. II. lnphriate for several
months. and 20 lebilitated as 10 be almost help.
less, was completely restored in one month, re-
manned four months, aud il now well and sober
No. 49, Mania, discharged, well, In five days
No. IA Insane, still an inmate, better, hut pro-
hably incurahe. No. 10. MANN, discharged in
five daye, well. No. IL. Mania, discharged in
four days. well. No. II. lnebriate, discharged
well in four weeks. No. Is. A boarder, well,
still remaining. No. 10. Nervous debility, dis
charged in two weeks, improved. No. ~. lne-
briate, discharged in two weeks, sober and no
desire for lqurr. No. 81. Indigestion and gen.
eral constipation of long standingi proper
diet with bathing produced remarkable change
in Two months. No. %. Mania, very bad
oase. entirely cured in three weeks. Nos ~,
"A, 20, 20 all inebrinies, and all cured for the
time in from one TO four weeks. From ~ 10
A all Typhus fever cases from Camp Brandy
wine. Several were very bad when received,
and some were pronounced hy the surgeon, to
appearance, incurable, hut all recovered, and
they Joined their regiments in from three to six
weeks. Whether the diet aud nursing cured
them or not, is, perhaps. question, but one
thing ia certain, all the medicine they took
while at the Living llome did not cost fifty
cents. Our experience has invariably been in
favor of good nursing, with very hlile, If any,
medicine, in all cases where there iA general
prostration Of the physical system, let the
disease he what it may. The twenty-six cases
first described are fair samples Of the business
of the Home, and it will be seen that it is quite
as much public boarding house as Hospital,
and the proprietor intends it shall prove to be n
real HOME to all its inmates.
J. A. BRowN
p. s, The fourth number Of the Living Home
Journal, will be issued in few days fol
gratuitous distribution, aud any person whC
wishes ono or all the numbers eau have then
free by sending one cent stamp to prepay the
postage on each paper desired.