San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-28
THE HEALTH AND HABITS OF
NOTED MEN.
To the Daily LIGHT:

1Ork heT6lU Oh hc8Jtn, puDllSu6U
Aug 4th 1885, entitled" TheHealth and
Habits of Distinguished Men," This
Article, one of q series, Is devoted to
DIR. PEBBLES personal, habits, travels
In Oriental countries, consular posi-
ton in Asiatic Turkey, under Gen.
Grant, his medical achievements,
his published books and pamphlets,
together with his busy home life in q
Philadelphia eur burban town of sew
eral thousands.
81 condense the following from the
above named New York Journal:
Rising at half past O'Clock in the
morning. he tolls till o'clock with
spade, hoe, and prunipg-kuite in his
garden, vineyard, and among his
fruit trees. His diet, plain and nu.
triious consists mostly of oatmeal,
cracked wheat, granula, well baked
graham bread, roast beef, rice.
eggs, milk, berries, fruit and
vegetf bles. Coffee, tea, tobac-
co, iq iors, hot greasy pas
tries, exc he looks upon as expensive
and injurious trash, causing sickness
and premature death. His SanitO-
rum, half way between Philadelphia
and the Atlantic sea bathing coast, is
q model of beauty and comfort. After
devoting two hours TO his Ssnitorinm
patients in the morning he retires to
bis library of some ], 800 volumes, for
reading and study. He has pu blished
q dozen or more books and pamphlets
rome of which have been translated
into foreign languages. He mas trav-
eled twice around the world, filled
government positions and is fellow
OF overall learned societies, such as
the Academy of Science, New Orleans.
the Psychological society, London,
and the Victoria Institute, OF Great
Britain"
/ have personally known DR..
PEBBLES for over q quarter of cen tury
rs q lecturer, author and physician,
and say without hesitation that had
some of his cures been wrought q few
hundred years ago, they would have
been pronounced miraculous. And
yet he does not profess to cure every
body. Some invalids he will not treat:
but those that he does, he conscien.
tiously believes that he can material
Iy benefit or restore to perfect health.
Patients" said the doctor to
me . few days since, who PERSIST in
their old unhygienie and vicious
habits Of pork eating, COTE Q drinking
gormandizing and dissipating, can
scarcely expect to get well. Why,
exclaimed the doctor laughingly, the
other day, one OF my patients actually
insisted upon ham and fried eggs, hot
biscuits and strong coffee for his
breakfast, which he did not get; and
and then he grum bled, as chronics are
inclined to do, unless their abnormal
appetites and conceited whims are
gratified. Some seem born to grunt
and find fault. They are the tares In
the worlds great moral wheatfield,
pity them and pass on. Though
genial and obliging the doctor is firm
and ipf1exible IN his principles of
hygiene
1t is we'll known that thousands
flock from the north to this warmer
climate in winter in search Of health.
such was Mr.. Saml. -. Cherry, who
left Kansas City last autumn con-
sumptive, with cough, nightsweats,
and great weakness and cancellation,
caused in part by seven severe
hemorrhages of the lungs. And
yet in q few months, by the use of
DR.. PEBBLES medicated inhalations
and other remedies he was restored
10 complete health, and Is now doing
business at No. 2, West Commerce
street.
Probably there is no more acute
suffering than that called scIatics.
Mr.. Foster. OF our city, No. 2l0 w.
Nueva street, was almost wild from
sciatica and rheumatism, walking on
two crutches. Failing elsewhere of
relief, DIR. PEBBLES entirely cured him
in ten days or Two weeks.
That m ost excellent and we'll known
lady, Mrs. Vasmer, 42l Cypress street,
had been sadly afflicted with severe
rheumatism and other painful diff
culiies for some time; and was pre-
pairing to go to the Hot Springs for
relief, when she was entirely cured at
DR.. PEBBLES Sanitorium in less than
month.
On Government Hill Mr.. c. 8. Viii
lis was in utter despair from dyspep-
Fla, heart trouble, weak lungs, and
nervous debility. Four months Of
the DOCTORS home treatment restored
him to perfect health. He IL now
visiting sister in Austin, and will
soon return to his business in Chicago.
And go others-scores of others right
here In this city-as well as in differ
ent parts of the State, whose cases
were considered critical or incura ole,
DR.. PEBBLES has remarkably benefited
or restored to good sound health. OF
this character was one of our
most prominent real estate
men, Mr.. Jay f. Adams, OF
Laurel Heights. Frequently, without
invslids say ing word, the Doctor
through intuition, the law of SYM
pathy, or a long medical experience
will diagnose q case perfectly, de-
scribing persons pains and diseases
better than they could themselves.
This surprises them.