San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-03-29
THs; HEALTH AND HABITS OF
NOTED MEN.

To the Daily LIGBT:
1t has just been my privilege to
read five column article in the New
York Herald of Health, published
Aug 4th 1856, entitled 'The Health and
Habits of Distinguished Men," This
article, one of series, is devoted TO
DR.. PEBBLES personal habits, travels
In Oriental countries, consular posi-
ton in Asiatic Turkey, under Gen.
Grant, his medical schievenents,
his published books and pamphlets,
together with his busy home life in q
Philadelphia sur Durham town of sew
eral thousands.
II condense the following from the
above named New York Journal:
Rising at half past 4 o'clock in the
morning, he tolls till Z o'clock with
spade, hoe, and pruning-knife in his
garden, vineyard, and among his
fruit trees. His diet, plain and nu.
tritous consists mostly of oatmeal.
cracked wheat, granula, we'll baked
graham bread, roast beef, rice.
eggs, milk, berries, fruit and
vegetables. Coffee, tea, tobac-
co, liquors, hot greasy pas
tries, etc 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
devotiDg two hours to his Sanitorium
patients in the morning he retires to
his library of some 800 volumes, for
reading and study. He has pu blished
q dozen or more books and pamphlets
some Of which have been translated
into foreign languages. He has trav-
eled twice around the world, filled
government positions and is fellow
OF several 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 q century
as a 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
ly benefit or restore to perfect health
Patients" said the doctor to
me few days since, who PERSIST in
their old unhygienic and vicious
habits of pork eating, coffee 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
end then he grum 6led, as chronics are
inclined to do, unless their abnormal
appetites and coDceited whims are
gratified. Some seem born to grunt
and find fault. They are the tares in
the worlds great moral wheat.field,
genial and obliging the doctor is firm
and intiexible IN his principles of
hygiene.
1t is we'll known thatthous ands
flock from the north to this warmer
climate in winter in search Of health.
such was Mr.. Saml. D. Cherry, who
lett Kansas City last autumn q con-
sumptive, with cough, night.sweats,
"uu "Chhuoeb hDU 6Ul6ClatlOD,
caused In part by seven severe
hemorrhages of the lungs. And
yet In few months, by the use Of
DR.. PEBBLES medicated inhalations
and other remedies he was restored
to complete health, and is now doing
business at No. 2, West Commerce
street.
Probably there is no more acute
suffering than that called sciatica.
Mr.. Foster, OF our city, No. 2l0 w.
Nueva street, was almost wild from
sclatica and rheumatism, walking on
two crutches. Failing elsewhere Of
relief, DR.. PEBBLES entirely cured him
in ten days or two weeks.
That most excellent and we'll known
lady, Mrs. Vasmer. 42l Cypress street,
had oeen sadly afflicted with severe
rheumatism and other painful diff
culties for some time; and was re
pairing to go to the Hot Springs for
relief, when she was entirely cured at