The herald., 1896-01-12
1NE WORLD PAYS TRIBUTE
TO OUR MATCHLESS CLIMATE
Southern California Is Slowly but
Surely Becoming the Home
of the Invalid
The Chamber of Commerce Has Overlooked
This Feature of Our Development
From Every Quarter of Our Own Continent and From
Foreign Chimes an Ever=ncreasing Army of
Healtf-seekers Is Vending Its Way
to Southern California

While this vast multitude of people are health
seekers. they also home-seekers, and their
financial Importance TO southern California
is not to be lightly es imated. From the
Tehachepi to san Diego mantling our noble
hills and dotting our fair valleys, are the beau
tiful homes of these health seekers, adding
substantial evidence of our boasted greatness
The pineres of Georgia, the hills of Ashville.
N. c.. the slopes of colorado. must all soon be
forgotten as health resorts in the growing
fame OF Southern California.
The diversity of our eli mate, with its possi-
bilities OF attitudes, dryness or moisture, and
its equable rang e OF temperature, mako South
ern California natures abiding place for the
invalid.
At this moment the eyes OF the medical
world are turned towards Southern Callfol MIA
Slowly it has been dawning upon our great
medical authorities at home and abroad that
our unequailed climate offered their patients
the only hope of relief from many chronic
ailments.
Let us 'strike while the iron is hot' and in
vite the invalid world to share blessing that
is God-given.and free.
Southern California must of necessity be-
come the home of exact medical knowledge;
must attract the greatest professional minds to
its field of unusual opportunities. Where
disease follows true to its type and yields most
Ieduliy 10 treatment, tnere alone can meulc2l
investigation reap it's fullest reward. This is
the history OF all medical investigation, and l
need not here cite sucn instances as Lourdes,
Berlin, Vienna or Paris.
shortly after the Worlds Congress of Medi-
cine had completed its labors at Chicago, DUR
ing the Worlds Fair, the executive committee
OF the Illinois State Medical Institute decided
to establish the Home institution at Los Ange.
les, Cal.
1t was promised that the equipment of this
California Home of the Illinois State Medical
and Surgical Institute should be of the highest
excellence, both to its staff of physicians
and its scientific apparatus. Each member of
the staff must be not only specialist in his
department, but must have studied under
world, famous teachers both at home and
abroad. How faithfully this promise OF the
executive board has been fulfilled is amply
attested in the eminent standing and person
mel of the staff of the Los Angeles Home of the
English and German Expert Specialists.
The people have a msconceived idea of
Specialist. By simply declaring or advertising
himself a Specialist does not entit'e the Hun
dreds of Pretenders to your confidence, nor
does it guarantee any special medical knowl-
edge on their part You may humbug the
people for long time in business matters, but
in human suffering pain and distress are the
monitors who soon unmask the pretender
The English and German Expert Specialists
are eminsntly entitled to their claim of Expert
Specialists.
In the department devoted to the treatment