Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-17
HOT SPRINGS.
Ehs "BiIinE7' PrOoess-The M8duE Oper-
andi-ChaTacGer OF the Patients
and Glasses OF Diseases
Cared.
A Case Of Asthma Cured by the Baths
The Springs and Adjoining
Grounds still in IiIiEa-
tion-Ehe Hotels
Etc Efe


From an Occasional Correspondent
Hot SPRINGS, July IL, 1s74-'T rise
to explain" several things not known,
perhaps, TO your many readers. In the
first place, they don't know that your
very humble and modest correspondent,
and several ether distinguished persons
from Memphis and a few mole impOr-
tant cities, arrived in the healing valley
Of the Hot Springs about three weeks
ago, and have been "biling'' from FIVE
to fifteen minutes every day since. They
don't know the DlOdU8 OpernHdi OF
"biling' here; how many followers OF
Esculapius are resident here, making
out programmes for "biling;" how many
hotels are in full blast here, and
what the permanent and floating pOpu-
lation OF iris embryo city il at the pres
ent writing-all these things your cOrre-
spOndent proposes to tell them in that
lacOnic style so much approved of by
newspaper men, and after the most i'm
proved manner of modern embellish-
ment. Immediately after arriving you
proceed to the Office OF some one OF the
many 'sM- D.'sr located here, and he
fills up 20 suit your case a printed blank
card Of Instructions for 'bIing.n In ad-
dition TO this you must have q pair Of
flannel suit, and thus equipped you enter
the bathhouse and ''biIe" according TO
Instructions. Some "bile' FIVE, some
Eine and some fifteen minutes, and drink
from two to three quarts Of hot water
per day. Twenty-One baths con-
stitute a course, and in a majority Of
cases the patient is thoroughly rejuven-
ated and reconstructed. Your CORE
spOndent has INDUCED in the luxury of
twenty billings, and already feels like
a high mettled cOurser impatient for the
race, indeed he "feels as happy as a big
sunfiOwer that bends and blows in the
5reeZes." We have now only three or
four hundred here chilling" q month
back there were about q thousand.
Physicians advise me that the greater
number OF patients are afflicted with
rheumatism and neuralgia. contracted
from imprudence aud exposure. Quite
a large class with paralysis, gout, dys-
pepsia, diseases Of the liver, kidneys,
and skin, and such as are peculiar TO
females, and even asthma, have recent
Iy been cured here. For the benefit OF
suffering humanity 1 will record a re-
markable case Of asthma, cured by bath
ing in and drinking freely Of these wa
ters. About one month ago Mr.. J. A.
Henderson, a prominent merchant Of
Troy, Alabama, who had suffered for
seven years with asthma, came here for
relief, as the skill of seven or eight
physicians (ali OF whom pronounced it
asthms) had failed to relieve him. Upon
his arrival he was examined by DR..
Shippey, one Of the most skillful physi-
clans in the valley, and his csse pro-
nouuced genuine asthma. He bathed
daily, and ank about three gallons Of
water during the day. He took his
twenty-seventh bath to-day, and will
leave for home tomorrow, feeling sat
isfied that his health is perfectly re-
stored. l am rOOming with him,
and can testify to the fact /.
that be is living monument Of the ef- |
fcacy Of these springs. Within the I
past few years many cultivated and ac- /
physicians have been added I
70 the number resident here, and pa /
tiCnis may be assured that they will .
have the benefit of all the skin that 1
medical science affords, and can "bile /
out IN the most approved style. The Z
town Ct Hot Springs is growing rapidly, F.
s9me nifty OF sixty new buildings have |
b en erected this year, and its resident
P0pQlatlon Is about twelve hundred.
N--- -A=AAaHAAEaA allal SIX w acres ELIl-
bracing the springs is still in litigation.
but under the last decision Of the su-
preme court Of this State, the three
claimants have had apportioned to them.
during the pendency Of the suit, the
property they actually occupied. Cow
erDor Rector has the rents and profits Of
the northern portion Of the valley. Ma
iOr Hale Of the central, and Major
Gaines the southern. AS the Tnifed
States government is a party to TIA
suit, the exclusive jurisdiction Of the
cause has been transferred, by act of
congress, to the court Of claims.
The hoJel accommodations Of this
place have greatly increased and
improved within the past few years,
and there are at least ten or twelve hO-
tells in full blast The largest and most
prominent are the Hot Springs house
and the SumpteT house, located in the
southern part OF the valley, and the
Rector and Grand Central, situated in