CROMWELL HALL 
HEALTH SCHOOL 
AND 
PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT 
FOR THE 
Medical and Hygienic Treatment 
of Invalids. 
OrOMWELL, middletown, CONNECTICUT. 
Founded in 1877 
WINTHROP B. HALLOCK,"M. D. 
FRANK K. HALLOCK, M. D., - Medical Director. 
CLARA M. DeHART, M. D., Assistant Physician. 
WILLIAM P. COUCH, ------ Business Manager. NOT mean, nor base. 
But of Heaven's best upbuilding is this House 
fashioned for man: The City of nine gates,— 
Wonderful, subtle, sacredto be kept 
Jair and avell garnished; 
Graced voith ornament 
Outside and in, and hardened voorthily. 
That, in its ordered precincts, angels' voings 
May float and fold, and Body help the Soul, 
As Soul helps Body. 
Edwin Arnold. CONTENTS. 
Location, 7 
PAGE. 
Railroad Connections, - - - -■ - - - - - - 9 
Buildings and Equipment, ---------- 9 
Character and Scope, - - - - - - - - - - - 11 
Class of Patients Treated, ---------- 13 
■Outline of Treatment, ----------- 15 
General Principles, ------ 15 
The Hygienic Method, - -- -- -- -- -- 17 
Special Features and Methods,— 
The Program, ------------ 19 
The Rest Cure, ---------- - - 2i 
Massage, Electricity, Hydrotherapy, - - - - - - - 23 
Heliotherapy, ----23 
Physical Culture, ------------- 25 
The Principle of Relaxation, - - - - - - - 27 
Deep Breathing, - -- -- -- ..-29 
Tone and Speech, ---------- 31 
Body Attitudes, - - - - - 31 
Diet, - 31 
Physical Deficiencies, -.--------3! 
Diversion, - ------33 
The River, - -- -- -- -- -- -- -35 
The Out-Door Fife, ------------ 35 
The Winter Season, ----------- .35 
Terms and Conditions, ----------- 39 
The Summer Season, ----------- 37 RAND AVERY SUPPLY CO., FNGR'S, BOSTON 
CROMWELL’S CONNECTIONS CROMWELL HALL. 
Cromweu Hau occupies an elevated 
situation on the southern slope of ProspeCt 
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Hill, in the Town of Cromwell, formerly called Upper 
Middletown, or Middletown Upper Houses. It is pleas- 
antly located one mile from the Connecticut river, at the 
head of the village park and conveniently removed from 
neighboring houses. The site of the institution is noted 
for commanding extensive views of the Connecticut river 
valley. David Dudley Field, in an address at the Second 
Centennial Anniversary of Middletown, in 1850, said: 
“The elder President Adams, in a journey in the month 
of June, 1771, struck the Connecticut river at Enfield, 
and passed down through Windsor and Hartford to Weth- 
ersfield, admiring the valley on the way and saying when 
at the last place: ‘This is the finest ride in America, I 
believe; nothing can exceed the beauty and fertility of 
the country.’ But when he had passed on to ProspeCt 
Hill in Upper Middletown, and the river for miles opened 
before him, with the intervals and improvements on both 
sides, with the luxuriant crops ripening for harvest, the 
body of this town, and the mountains in the distance, he 
was enraptured, and said: ‘ Middletown, I think, is the 
most beautiful of all! ’ ” Cromwell Hall-Main Building. 9 
Railroad 
Connections 
Cromwell is easy of access several 
divisions of the New York, New Haven 
and Hartford Railroad, or by carriage 
from Middletown, two and one-half miles 
distant. Express trains from New York and Boston via 
Air Line reach Middletown in two and one-half hours. 
The Valley Division passing through Cromwell makes 
direCt connections with points north at Hartford, with 
the Air Line Division and Berlin Branch at Middletown, 
and with the Shore Line Division at Saybrook. During 
the navigable season of the Connecticut river, the Hart- 
ford and New York steamers make daily landings at Mid- 
dletown. 
A public conveyance is always at the Cronrwell and 
Middletown stations. 
These INCLUDE the original Hall 
now called the Main Building, and 
an East and West Cottage. The 
first floor of the Main Building, 
Che Buildings 
and Equipment 
with the exception of the administration quarters, is for 
the general use of patients, and consists of a sun-room, a 
sitting-room or library, and dining-room with conservatory 
adjoining. The chief treatment and examination room is 
also in this building, and there is an additional sitting-room 
on the upper floor with windows looking toward the river, 
the Portland hills, and Cobalt mountain. This sitting- 
room and the bed-rooms are reserved for female patients. 
'Che CClest Cottage is also occupied by women. It is 
attractively situated a few rods from the Main Building. 
The bath-room is fully appointed for hydrotherapeutic 
treatment. A veranda, glass-enclosed in winter, extends 
along the entire west and south sides of the house. West Cottage. Che Bast Cottage is reserved solely for male patients. 
An amusement, or general meeting-room, containing a bil- 
liard table, piano, and the simpler gymnastic apparatus, 
occupies the entire ground floor of one portion of the build- 
ings. The various buiedings together furnish accom- 
modation for thirty patients. During the camping-out 
season, June ist to November ist, by means of tents and 
permanent cabins, ten additional patients can be received. 
Character 
and Scope 
The institution is provided with all prac- 
tical arrangements and detail of equipment 
common tke larger sanatoria, and offers 
in addition the advantage of individualized 
medical attention under more natural and favorable sur- 
roundings. 
A very distindl effort is made to maintain a wholesome, 
home-like atmosphere. In order to attain this end and 
preserve harmony, patients with noticeable depression or 
any disturbing characteristics, temperamental or acquired, 
cannot be received. 
The establishment is not a home for the care of incur- 
able invalids. Every patient is under adtive treatment 
and any case that cannot be truly and progressively 
helped is not retained. 
Also, it is not a sanatorium in the sense that is usually 
meant by this term. The same medical and hygienic 
methods are employed, but its scope is wider than this. 
Two features tend to differentiate Cromwell Hall from 
a simple sanatorium: one, is the specially developed out- 
of-door system of living, comparable to certain of the 
Nature-Cures and Health-Resorts of Continental Europe; 
the other, is the educational method of treatment. This 
latter feature makes the name of “Health School” not 
at all inappropriate. Ui 
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The specialty of the institu- 
tion is the treatment of nervous 
diseases, both acute and chronic. 
Cases of nervous prostration in all 
its forms naturally represent the chief class of patients 
treated. Individuals suffering from severe nervous dis- 
ease, such as epilepsy, insanity, etc., cannot be admitted. 
Invalids in general, convalescents, and all medical cases 
such as rheumatism, affeCtions of the heart, disorders of 
digestion, exophthalmic goitre, etc., requiring treatment 
away from home, are received. 
Business and professional men on the verge of exhaus- 
tion from the stress and anxiety of work can here find 
opportunity to rest and recuperate under most favorable 
■conditions. Such men, as well as those younger who are 
prostrated by the strain of severe study and preparation 
for their professional life, can frequently gain time and 
are most benefited by immediately subjecting themselves 
to medical guidance in the regulation of rest, exercise, 
diet, and their entire daily life. Foreign travel, so com- 
monly prescribed for patients of this class, too often re- 
sults, by reason of its unavoidable worries, in a failure to 
find the necessary rest and acquire the desired strength. 
Under the regime of this institution all personal responsi- 
bility is relieved, the tastes of the individual are consid- 
ered, and with a careful study of the requirements of 
each case the effort is made not only to remedy the pres- 
ent weakness but also to teach the patient the way to 
avoid a future breakdown. 
Another class of patients which the educational methods 
here practiced are calculated to benefit are the semi-invalid 
young women without definite aim in life. Capricious 
health and not having to work for a living are generally the initial fathers in developing these cases. At the same 
time high ideals are not wanting and society or the or- 
dinary duties of home do not satisfy. The feeling of 
accomplishing so little in the life of each day torments 
the individual into a restless, discontented state of mind 
which after a time reaCts unfavorably on the general 
health. Such young persons drift along, misunderstood 
perhaps by their parents and not knowing themselves 
what is the matter. The life here led and the natural 
and wholesome influences to which they are exposed are 
often most helpful to this class, who, as the phrase well 
describes, “have not found themselves.” 
Speaking comprehensively, it may be 
said that the distinctive feature of the 
treatment here pursued has for its un- 
derlying principle the education or train- 
OutUne of 
{Treatment 
ing of the individual, both physically and mentally, to 
correCt habits of living. Medical teaching and praCtice 
tend too often to limit the attention solely to the disease, 
the individual as a whole is not studied or treated. The 
real problem is not merely to make a correct diagnosis of 
the specific disorder or condition, but it also calls for a 
thorough study of the general physiological and psycho- 
logical characteristics of the patient. This analysis of the 
temperament, the physical and mental habits, the charac- 
ter of the will power and the nature of the emotional 
reactions, all contributes to the complete understanding 
of each case. 
The method of treatment therefore must consist of two 
parallel lines of effort: one is the improvement of the 
physical condition; the other is the improvement of the 
mental attitude of the patient. Summarized: I. Improvement of the physical condi- 
tion is accomplished by both medical and hygienic treat- 
ment and embraces: 
i. The regulation of diet, of rest, of exercise, and of 
the entire daily condudt; 2, treatment of the adtual phys- 
ical condition and elimination of individual symptoms by 
the various remedial agents and methods. 
Providing a suitable schedule for each individual in- 
volves a careful study and examination of each case. In 
connedtion, therefore, with the routine physical and neu- 
rological examination, special attention is given to deter- 
mining the condition of the nutritional and metabolic 
processes in the organism. To attain this knowledge 
exadt laboratory methods are followed in examining the 
blood, urine, stomach, and digestive fundtions, secretions 
and excretions. 
11. The improvement of the mental attitude or psycho- 
therapeutic part of the treatment, embraces: 
I. Giving patients an intelligent, working conception 
of their own cases; 2, the explanation of the nature and 
significance of symptoms; 3, the eradication of fear and 
erroneous fixed belief; 4, the corredtion of faulty habits 
in thought and adtion; 5, the interpretation of all phe- 
nomena from the optimistic point of view, that is, teach- 
ing a philosophy which makes optimism the duty as well 
the guiding principle of life. 
Che Rygiemc 
)Method 
The treatment of invalidism by the 
natural or hygienic method means sub- 
jecting the body to all the forces and 
agents existing in nature which can in 
any renovate and build it up. Chief among such 
agencies at our command are the following: fresh air, 
supplying oxygen to the blood; proper food, for the nutrition of the body; water, internally, for use in the 
tissues and as flushing agent, externally, for both its local 
and systemic effedts; and exposure to sunlight, for its 
stimulating and life-giving properties. Combined with 
these, two other fadtors must be included: exercise and rest. 
The former applied in graded measure from massage and 
passive motions to adlual muscle building, and the latter 
regulated in amount according to the needs of the indi- 
vidual. It follows that if a person comes under these 
agencies or influences, and allows them to operate with 
full force, progress towards health must result, provided 
any recuperative power exists in the organism. These 
influences represent the fundamental elements or sources 
of health. Certainly they are in no wise artificial, and 
the degree of health gained by their means is of the most 
solid and permanent charadter. These fadls are so simple 
and self-evident that no mention of them were necessary 
did not the success and benefit of the hygienic method of 
treatment depend upon its adaptation and corredl applica- 
tion to the individual. It is easy to tell a patient to take 
fresh air and rest, but this advice is valueless 
unless the proper manner of doing these things is taught. 
It is an art of the greatest advantage to know how to rest, 
and often a nervous person will require a number of weeks 
to learn the secret. 
The practical carrying out of the sys- 
tem of treatment for each patient is accom- 
plished by the program method. By this 
is meant that each case is given a written 
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program 
program prescribing exactly what shall be done for, or by 
the patient, throughout the entire day from the call to 
arise to the final bath or massage at bedtime. The chief advantage of this method lies in the endeavor 
to turn to more profitable account what are too often 
waste intervals between prescribed exercises. Each hour 
has its item of business, not only as to adtive treatment, 
but also in regard to the disposal of the intervening time 
as to resting, reading, playing games, and the outdoor 
life; in short, the program is a prescription for the best 
possible daily life for each individual patient to lead. 
Under the headings that follow, mention will be briefly 
made of some of the special features and methods incor- 
porated into the life and treatment at this establishment. 
Whether conducted stridlly as origin- 
ally taught by Weir Mitchell, or on some 
modified plan, this method represents an 
ideal program treatment. It stands low- 
Che 
Rest Cure 
est, however, in the scale of required cooperation on the 
part of the patient. That is, the patient is negative— 
does nothing, simply relaxes as completely as possible 
and allows the nurse to do everything. On this account 
the Rest Cure is found to be the most serviceable as a 
form of treatment in cases of nervous exhaustion of com- 
paratively recent development rather than in cases of long 
standing, unless in this latter class the degree of prostra- 
tion is extreme. With some patients, although the nerv- 
ous exhaustion is well marked, the quiet, isolation, and 
forced feeding do not succeed. In such cases the prac- 
tice is to map out a careful schedule involving alternate 
rest and exercise. Whatever the patient does, or has 
done, is followed by a stated period of rest, which, accord- 
ing to the given case, is always proportioned to the amount 
of energy expended. Gradually the interest is awakened 
to change the ratio between the amount of work done and rest required, and so by one step a day, the growth in 
strength begins. When the degree of prostration is de- 
termined, the utmost care is taken to keep the amount of 
rest in excess, and by this precaution the process of in- 
creasing the amount of work is always from behind for- 
ward, and hence advancement is inevitable. 
Swedish JMowmcnts, 
JMassage, electricity, 
hydrotherapy 
In some form, one or all of 
these well-known therapeu- 
tic agents and methods are 
always included in the daily 
life of the patients. 
Nurses with the requisite natural qualifications of strength 
and temperament are trained to give massage and Swed- 
ish movements under the supervision of a graduate and 
experienced masseuse. 
Kledtricity in its different forms is employed whenever the 
administration of this remedial agent is medically indicated. 
Hydrotherapy in its many methods of application is 
perhaps the most important single agent in the treat- 
ment of invalidism. The tonic or sedative effedts of heat 
and cold, applied locally or systemically through the 
medium of water, are obtained the various packs, 
compresses, fomentations, douches, sprays, vapor and tub 
baths. Treatments by the Schott-Nauheim method and 
by dry heat of very high temperature are also given. 
No other institution in this coun- 
try, so far as known, has emphasized 
the value of sunlight as a therapeutic 
Heliotherapy 
agent to the extent that has been done here. 
The importance of fresh air, of water treatment, of 
electricity, have been fully recognized, but light, funda- 
mentally the most important of all forces in nature, has 
not been adequately considered as a curative agent. Sun Baths at the West Cottage. The weakening effect of present day civilization has led 
physicians to urge long vacations and a freer, more nat- 
ural life out-of-doors. It would seem that the advice 
should be to return completely to nature. But seldom is 
the individual actually told to copy his primitive ancestors 
and go mother-naked in the sun. This sounds extreme 
and unnecessary. It is not. On the contrary, it is really 
the most logical advice that can be given, for it means 
subjecting the organism diredtly to the most powerful re- 
storative and developing influence in the universe. 
Rheumatic, catarrhal, and many skin affections are es- 
pecially benefited by exposure of the whole or part of the 
body diredtly to the sun’s rays. 
In anaemia and kindred disorders of the blood, results 
can be obtained by the sun treatment which are not pos- 
sible by the ordinary methods. 
In the process of developing body energy and hardening 
the physique no other single procedure can be compared 
in value to the practice of exposing the body direCtly to 
the sun and air. The cold of winter and the heat of 
summer are more comfortably borne; fewer and lighter 
garments can be worn and the tendency to catch cold is 
greatly reduced. 
To carrjr out this treatment, glass-enclosed compart- 
ments are arranged for use during the winter season and 
■during the summer months, board fence and hedge enclos- 
ures provide the necessary privacy for both the sun and 
air baths. 
Under the leadership of a competent 
and experienced teacher, aided by nurses 
instructed to assist in the work, special at- 
tention is paid to this department. 
physical 
Culture 
The general principle of the physical culture here followed 
is represented by the combination of two lines of effort; one Outdoor Resting in Winter, is the teaching of the principle of relaxing, the other is the 
teaching of the correct method of energizing the muscles; 
the result aimed at being to establish a normal personal 
balance in which the harmonious relation between mind 
and muscle is made manifest by perfedt body movements 
executed with ease and power, yet with truest economy 
of nerve force. 
The true method of energizing, the positive side of the 
work, so to speak, is taught the women chiefly by means 
of a series of exercises adapted from the best features of 
the Delsarte and other allied systems. 
In the case of men gymnastic apparatus is employed to 
a relatively greater extent. 
On account of its therapeutic value 
in dealing with pain, insomnia, and a 
variety of perplexing nervous symp- 
toms, the principle of relaxation de- 
Che principle 
of Relaxation 
serves special mention. 
Among the chief causes of nervous breakdown is the 
inability to do one’s work easily. Even if the sphere of 
activity is small we are apt to feel under a certain strain. 
We may not be diredtly conscious of this, but the chances 
are that if we carefully study the particular manner in 
which we do even simple things, we will find that a 
superfluous amount of energy is expended. In listening 
to music or ledtures, or engaged in an interesting conver- 
sation, we will often note that our feet press hard on the 
floor, that the hands clutch the chair or squeeze some 
objedt firmly; in short, that throughout the body numer- 
ous muscle groups are in an adtive state of tension when 
they could just as well be at rest. In ordinary talking 
too frequently the voice becomes raised and high pitched 29 
and unimportant words and sentences are emphasized en- 
tirely out of proportion to their significance. In many 
other ways this waste of nerve force goes on, and it will 
be readily seen that if it could be checked a great saving 
of body power would result. A strong, well-balanced 
organization under normal conditions does not usually 
display such excess of nervous strength, nevertheless the 
tendency of all civilized life is to create a feeling of pres- 
sure and to develop a habit of exaggerated tension which 
may easily become characteristic of every aCt of the indi- 
vidual. With the majority of nervous invalids it is not 
any one particular strain which exhausts, but it is the 
long continued misuse and overexpenditure of nervous 
force. They have never learned how to live in correCt 
nervous adjustment to their environment. 
With this hint at the meaning of the term “ relaxation,’" 
it will be sufficient to state that the teaching of this prin- 
ciple of “ letting go,” or avoiding all unnecessary intensity 
of adtion, involves not only the presentation of the intel- 
lectual conception of what should be done, but also the 
suggestion to the patient of some definite plan, or method 
of practice, by which the body can be trained to exercise 
its powers with effective, but not wasteful, accomplish- 
ment of purpose. 
In the department of physical culture, attention is called 
to such special features as deep breathing, use of the voice, 
body attitudes, and physical deficiencies. 
Deep Breathing, The value of deep and correCt breath- 
ing, not only as a body exercise, but also as a means of 
oxidizing the blood and promoting change of tissue, is 
in general only partially appreciated. It is here made 
a definite exercise and its importance is emphasized by 31 
instruction in the correct use of the diaphragm, abdomi- 
nal and intercostal muscles, and the appointment of stated 
times to practice the breathing movements. 
Cone and Speech* 
Closely allied with the function of 
breathing is the production of proper tone and the use of 
the voice. The art of speaking correctly, that is expres- 
sively, yet without strain, is one of the most important 
parts of physical education. It is a well-known fact that 
social intercourse is apt to be exhausting to most invalids. 
Several factors contribute to this result, but if the voice 
is managed properly, one of the principal means of avoid- 
ing fatigue will have been taken. 
correct manner of standing, walking, sitting, and holding 
the body in all its various attitudes and movements. The 
practice of control movements as well as those of expres- 
sion is of both diagnostic and psychological value, and 
forms a most important part of this department of the 
physical training. 
Body Httitudcs. 
Each patient is instructed in the 
physical Deficiencies. 
The character and amount of 
physical work to be done each patient is prescribed 
after examination, measurement, and test of the muscu- 
lar strength. In case of deficiency of development in 
part or as a whole, e.g., chest capacity, also when actual 
deformity exists, e.g., spinal curvature, the proper series 
of exercises are instituted for building up the body to its 
full capacity of strength and symmetry. 
Diet 
The subject of dietetics is very naturally of 
supreme importance in the treatment of invalids. 
The general table is conducted on a generous plan, 
the aim being to provide food of the highest grade and in 
abundant variety. The Kursaae, Except as necessity requires, the common plan of feed- 
ing invalids almost exclusively on the highty nutritious 
and easily assimilated foods is not followed. The contin- 
uance of this practice results frequently in an inactive 
condition of the alimentary tradt from too little functional 
exercise. Gradually, but as fast as may be, new articles 
are introduced into the diet. 
Patients are also constantly encouraged to expand their 
dietary, to overcome bigotry and cultivate a taste for arti- 
cles of food not previously enjoyed. 
Diet suitable to the varied diatheses and the different 
digestive disorders as determined by examination, test 
meals, etc., are planned and prepared according to the 
requirements of each case. 
As far AS practicable, physical exercise 
is prescribed in the form of outdoor games. 
Croquet, tennis, tether-ball, golf, driving, 
Diversion 
skating, easy grade tobogganing, rowing, sailing, and 
swimming are some of the most available sports. Of 
these, golf, by reason of the nature of the game and the 
ability to grade the dosage, is the most valuable. The 
links covering one mile in extent are near at hand and 
the game is played throughout the summer and winter. 
'Swimming is regarded as one of the most desirable exer- 
cises for the uniform, all-around development of the body. 
It is taught to such convalescents as are able to go fre- 
quently to the river. 
The patients are constantly encouraged to study and 
develop an interest in nature. The institution is located 
in a sedtion of country which is most favorable for this 
purpose, and possesses a nature library of several hun- 
dred volumes. The library was started by patients and represents their contribution as a memorial to Dr. 
Winthrop B. Hallock, founder of the establishment. 
The boat-house, three-quarters of a 
mile distant, stands somewhat secluded 
in a belt of cotton-wood trees and com- 
Cbe River 
mands fine views up and down the Connecticut River. 
The men patients who are able frequently spend a part 
and sometimes a whole day here on the river bank. The 
spot is sufficiently retired to allow dispensing with all 
clothing except the bathing suit. Thus meagerly attired, 
in wind and air and alternate sun and shade, the body is 
free to acquire a degree of strength and hardihood not 
obtainable in any other way. The time thus spent is not 
passed in a desultory manner. The boating, swimming, 
reading, resting, and all exercises are done according to 
program, with reasonable latitude, under the direction of 
a competent nurse. 
A neighboring island with sandy beach and shade trees, 
still more secluded and safe from public intrusion pro- 
vides the female patients with opportunity to enjoy sim- 
ilar privileges. 
"Che CCltnter Season*—During the 
cold weather season the outdoor life 
of the patients is naturally restricted. 
The water, sun and air baths are given 
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Outdoor Life 
indoors and for the weaker patients only a limited number 
of body exercises can be carried on out of doors. 
The chief feature of the winter fresh air training is the 
resting upon cots during the intervals between the more 
active events of the day. Blankets and wraps are sup- 
plied in abundance, and when carefully tucked in by the Camp Life on The Hill, nurse, the patient can rest warm and comfortable in quite 
severe winter weather. With the fear of cold once abated 
it is always a pleasant surprise to the delicate, nervous 
invalid to find acftual sleep is possible under these condi- 
tions. The wholesome stimulation and refreshment of 
outdoor resting produces a gratifying effedt upon the 
appetite, digestion, and sleep at night. The more pros- 
trate invalids have to be content with resting in their 
rooms by the open window or with the freest fresh air 
ventilation possible. 
Che Summer Season,—ln the warm months of the 
year the weaker patients are gradually weaned from their 
rooms and supplied with a cot on the veranda, or lawn, 
near the Hall. Later, as their strength increases, they 
are transported by carriage to the hill back of the insti- 
tution. Here each patient is assigned a particular tree 
under which the cot is placed, with other conveniences 
for resting and spending the day. Each tree is consid- 
ered as private as a room in the house, and promiscuous 
visiting between patients is not allowed. The view from 
the hill is very extensive in all directions, peculiarly rest- 
ful in character and altogether one of the most beautiful 
in the whole Connecticut Valley. The effect of such an 
outlook and the life here led is the most striking feature 
of a patient’s summer visit to this institution. Means 
are at hand for supplying the patients readily with light 
refreshments. Regular meals and lunches for those un- 
able to go to the Hall are brought diredt from the main 
kitchen. Tight board fence enclosures represent the 
arrangement for giving sun and air baths. Another 
compartment with water supply leading to it, provides 
the means of giving the various sprays, douches, and 
other hydrotherapeutic measures. All forms of physical exercise from relaxation move- 
ments to adtive g3Tranastic drill are given in the open air 
in the Kursaal. The patients usually have their first 
exercising alone under their own trees, and when they 
are stronger join a class in regular body training. 
Permanent cabins and tents are provided for a limited 
number of patients to live constantly on the hill. Each 
•cabin is supplied with suitable conveniences, and the free 
open-air life, day and night, corresponds to camping out 
at the seashore or in the mountains, with the additional 
advantage of close medical surveillance and the diet and 
comforts of home. Nurses and a night watchman are in 
attendance, and patients can be as safe as in rooms in the 
house. 
“ Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, 
It is to grow in the open air, and eat and sleep with the earth.” The weekly charge is from twenty- 
five dollars up, depending upon the 
nature of the case and the accommo- 
dations desired. Ordinarily the rate 
stated includes room, board, medicine, 
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Conditions 
general nursing, and the requisite medical attention. 
Extra nursing is ten dollars, and special nursing is 
twenty dollars a week additional. 
The rate for a nurse attending a patient away from the 
Hall is twenty-five dollars per week and expenses. 
No rebate is allowed for absence of less than one week. 
Half rate is charged for rooms retained but not occu- 
pied one week or more. 
Personal laundry is an extra charge. 
Except by special agreement no case is received for less 
than one month. 
The rates are payable monthly, four weeks constituting 
a month. 
Address letters to Cromwell, Connecticut. To insure 
prompt deliver}7, direCl telegrams to Dr. Hallock, Middle- 
town, Connecticut. 
Long distance telephone connections via Middletown 
Division, Southern New England Telephone Company. 
Dr. Rallock may be consulted from October to July, 
in JNew York at No. 819 Madison Avenue, from 2 to 4 
p. M. on the first Tuesday of each month; in Boston at 
Hotel Vendome, from 2 to 4 p. m. on the third Tuesday 
of each month. 
Dr* Deßart may be consulted in JNcw York at No. 30 
East 57th Street, Lester Studio, Room 4, from 2 to 4 
p. M. on the third Thursday of each month except July 
and August.