The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-22
Battle Creek Sanitariun.

days-even the pioneer days, when the
redmen of the northern lake region |
bent the bow and smeared their faces f.
with keal-braided their flowing locks |
with feathers of the porcupine and /
wild eagle, that they might appear |
more wild, If possible, than before. |
And as they painted the checks and |
braided the hair, the squaw-women |
sharpened the flint arrow heads and |
shaped new bows. that their lords |
might do battle to the death with !
other redmen
And here at Battle Creek, way up
in Michigan, a great battle one day
did occur, and when it was over and
the sun kissed the range to the far
west, the tom-toms were mutlled and
the sQuaw.women wrapped their heads
in varicolored BLANKETS and wcpt, for
with the going down Of the sum- many
braves passed to the proyerbial happy
hunting grounds.
But that was many, many moons
ago, as the Indians measure time and
new era has long since dawncd.
True. II Is Battle Creek to-day, just
as It was decades ago, but. instead OF
the cry of the savage, is heard the
hum of industry; the throb of life;
the greeting of men and women OF
| the Anglo Saxon race-the shouts OF
happy boys and girls, who know of
Battle Creeks former history only
| by tradition And here on the site
of the famous battle between the red
| % n
cities of the great Northwest; city
sought out among thousands, for In 1t
dwell month after month, as the
years come and GO men and women
who find within the charmed circle
that which they have long sought else
where-health.
When one speaks of health, the
mind naturally wings itself to Battle
Creek, for up there health is to be
found as at few other places on earth.
Forty years ago there began in Bat
tie Creek a return to nature move
ment, with purposes and pricinples In
many respects similar to those which
led to the famous Brook Farm EXper
iment" twenty years before and to the
Grahamite movement of that period
This movement, while religious, was
avowedly non-sectarian, and was In &
broad sense philanthropic, altruisti'
and reformatory. The immediate re
suits were the establishment of
monthly journal now known as Goot
: Health and shortly afterwards tn
erection of health institution calle'
The Health Reform Institute" Tn
chief features of the institute at thi
early period were diet reform, dres
reform and the use of water as curs
I tive agent.
In 1876 the present management
took charge of the institution and wit
q the consent and cooperation of III
7 Board of Directors (the institutio
q having been incorporated ten year
G before), thorough reorganization wa
S effected. Broader plans we're intr
r duced, the methods of treatment wei
g placed upon substantial and tho
oughly scientific foundation, and tn
e name was changed to the Battle Cree
n Sanitarium. Since this time II
q growth of the institution has been Co
q slant and rapid.
From year to year accommod
tons for patients and facilities f
treatments were enlarged to me
d the increasing patronage until Fe
n ruary, 1902, when a great fire swe
e away the two principal bull
2 ngs of the establishment. The ere
II ton of new building was speed
II begun, and the following year, May
4. 1903, the present freproof main bull
a ing, erected at cost of more this
\ 100000, was dedicated The cost
h the entire establishment incudiI
q equipment, twenty dormitories, &C
n tages and other buildings has amour
"A ed to more than Sl,20O00O.
p. The Battle Creek Sanitarium as
q stands to-day is recognized the wor
9 over as the most complete and tho
a Oughly equipped establishment of
p sort and the Headquarters for physi
logic therapeutics or natural method
I Connected with the Sanitarium Is
Training School for Nurses, in viii,
from two to three hundred nurses a
constantly under training
These principles and methods ha
| penetrated 10 the felnOJesl parts
the civilized world, and scores of M
and women who have been trained
these methods are devoting their liv
to medical missionary work in heath
lands.
The Battle Creek Sanitarium may
regarded as an epitome of the "retul
to.nature" idea in practical operate
Its success IN the restoration of 81
people to health brings to it annual
many thousands Of men and wom6
many of whom have been pronOunc
incurable, but who nevertheless, wi
rare exceptions, return a few mont
later 20 their homes prepared to ent
again upon the battle of life.
There are many sanitariums in I
world, but few, II any, that are &C
Quoted on the same plane as that
Battle Creek This haven Of rest a
health Is in no sense a money-ms
ing scheme, and every cent that
made from patients who are able