AN 
ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET 
RELATING TO 
3HTON spRlXftS. N- Y. 
TO WHICH IS APPENDED 
A MONOGRAPH 
ON THE PROPERTIES AND USES 
OF THE 
gHAPON gaiiPfiaR water. 
THEO. L. DE VINNE & CO. PRINTERS, 63 MURRAY STREET, NEW-YORK. SULPHUR BATH-HOUSES ANO SULPHUR SPRING, Sh.ron Spring*. N SPECIAL NOTICE, 
THE attention of the Proprietors of the Sulphur Baths at Sharon Springs, 
N. Y., having been directed to the fact that Pulverization and Inhalation 
Rooms have been established at all the principal Sulphur Baths of Europe, they 
have equipped at their Bath Houses at Sharon Springs a Pulverization Room, 
an Inhalation Room, and various kinds of Douches, which will be in readiness 
for the season of 1884. 
PULVERIZATION ROOM. 
This room is so arranged that every particle of air is saturated with a vapor or 
mist of the Sharon Springs Sulphur water. The clothing is protected by a water- 
proof covering, and one can thus enjoy the benefits of the Sulphur vapor coming in 
contact with all the exposed mucous surfaces, without the necessity of disrobing. 
INHALATION ROOM. 
Here will be found the most approved apparatus for making direct applications 
of Sulphurous water, Pine Needle Extract, Pine Needle Oil, and other atomized 
medications directly to the Throat, Nose, Mouth, Bronchial Tubes, and Pharynx. 
The machinery used has been imported from France, and is of the most 
approved pattern, having been selected and bought by a member of the firm who, 
during the past winter, has visited the principal bathing establishments of Europe 
for the purpose of obtaining the fullest scientific information on the subject. 
The use of Sulphur Water by Pulverization and Inhalation has received the 
highest commendation of the leading physicians at the European Sulphur Springs 
for its exceeding efficacy in alleviating and curing affections of the lungs and throat. 
The popular faith in these various modes of treatment is evinced by the increased 
facilities for their employment that are constantly being made abroad. They have 
also the merit of rendering the Sulphur Water accessible (in the ordinary com- 
plaints for which it is sought) to those who, from various complications and causes, 
cannot avail themselves of it in the tub bath, as many such can with perfect security 
and great advantage use the Pulverization or Inhalation process. Persons who have 
visited the Sulphur Springs of Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany, Aix les Bains in Savoy, 
Enghien in France, Croft and Dinsdale in England, Strathpeffer in Scotland, or 
any of the celebrated Springs of Europe, will find at Sharon Springs every curative 
aid that can be found at Sulphur Springs abroad. 
Experienced Physicians and Surgeons wdl be found at Sharon Springs. 
JOHN H. GARDNER & SONS, 
Sharon Springs, N. Y. Qapdnep Pine Pecdle Exfepaefe G® 
rT''HIS Extract is not a Patent or Quack medicine. It is a pure extract made 
1 from the leaves or needles of the PINE trees growing in the Black Forests 
of Germany (Schwarzwald), a wooded mountain chain in Baden and Wurtemberg. 
It is made only from the needles collected in the Spring months, when they are 
saturated with sap. 
The healing and health-giving properties of the air of pine woods in the Spring- 
time is known to physicians; and they advise their patients suffering from Con- 
sumption, Bronchitis, and especially Catarrhal affections to seek and breathe the 
air charged with the delightful odor of the PINE. 
In Europe the Pine Needle Extract has been largely and successfully used 
in most all cutaneous or skin diseases; but, as a cure for Rheumatism, Nervous 
Debility, and Gout, especially in connection with Sulphur Baths, has it gained its 
greatest reputation. 
It is impossible for every one to reside in a PINE forest, but the Gardner Pine 
Needle Extract Co. make it possible for every one to bring the healing proper- 
ties of the PINE forests in a concentrated form to their own ho7nes, where they can 
use it for inhaling, local applications, baths, etc., as their physician may direct. 
When used in conjunction with sulphur water, hot water, carbonate of soda, 
or aromatic spirits of ammonia, it not only makes a luxurious bath, but is one of 
the best cosmetics and beautifif.rs of the skin. 
We are permitted to refer to Dr. Howard Pinkney of the City of New York, 
who, in his practice, has used extensively aifd successfully this Pine Needle 
Extract. 
In ordej to. guard against spurious or inferior pine needle extracts, we 
have adopted as a trade-mark the device at the heading of this circular, which 
represents the pine needle shoots from which the Extract is made. 
The Extract is put up in cases of one dozen bottles each, one bottle for a bath. 
Directions for use will be found on each bottle. 
Arrangements will shortly be made to place this extract on sale at the leading 
druggists. At present it can be procured of the 
GARDNER PINE NEEDLE EXTRACT CO. 
Sharon Springs, N. Y. ShAROFl SPRINGS, Ff T. 
In order to answer the usual inquiries of strangers, the proprietors 
of the SULPHUR BATHS of SHARON SPRINGS, N. Y., 
offer the following information : 
THE village of Sharon Springs is situated in Schoharie Co., N. Y., in a valley 
about noo feet above the level of the sea; the streets are provided with 
good sidewalks, and are shaded with maple-trees. The air is pure and bracing, 
and free from malarial impurities; even in the warmest of the summer weather, 
the nights are cool and pleasant for sleeping. The Springs are easy of access, 
within the village limits, on the edge of a natural forest abounding in pleasant 
walks. The surrounding country is hilly, and affords interesting drives and 
pleasant scenery. Sharon Springs is well supplied with hotels and boarding- 
houses, many of which have a well-established reputation for excellence and 
comfort; among these, visitors can be sure of finding comfortable accommodation 
at rates conformable to every grade of expenditure. 
This watering-place has been famous for many years for its mineral springs, 
of which the most noted is the 
WHITE SULPHUR SPRING, 
which is not excelled by any sulphur spring in this country. The water is 
used both internally and externally; it is clear and bright as it issues from the 
spring, of an agreeable temperature for drinking (48° Fahr.), and free from that 
roughness or acridity which is a distinctive feature of some sulphur waters, NTERIOR GENTLEMEN’S BATH-HOUSE 5 
making them particularly unpleasant to the taste without adding to their value. 
In the Bath-houses it is heated to any degree required for bathing. 
With regard to temperature, hot or warm mineral waters are generally regarded 
as more active medicinal agents than artificially heated water, but there is no differ- 
ence between natural heat and artificial heat; nor, according to Professor Tyndall, 
are there any thermo-electric conditions that could cause any perceptible differ- 
ence between the therapeutic action of natural hot water and artificial hot water. 
As thermal springs are generally nearly devoid of medicinal ingredients, sulphur 
water, carefully heated, as at Sharon, by artificial means, is superior to most of 
them in those diseases to which it is appropriate and in which a high temperature 
is desirable. 
The old bathing buildings having been entirely destroyed by fire a few 
years ago, the undersigned have erected new sulphur bath-houses on the same 
site, which are universally commended, and pronounced to be the best Sulphur 
Bath-houses in the United States. 
The new establishment consists of an ornamental building in front, with 
two entrances, leading respectively into the ladies’ and gentlemen’s waiting- 
rooms ; from these, doors open into the Bath-houses proper, two long buildings, 
entirely distinct from each other. The ladies’ house contains forty, and the 
gentlemen’s fifty-two, bath-rooms. The interior of the buildings is entirely 
finished in hard woods, oiled. The exterior is of brick, and the roofs are 
covered with slate; neither effort nor expense has been spared to make the 
new houses comfortable and inviting in every respect. 
The Bath-tubs (from the factory of the Penrhyn Slate Company) are all of 
slate, selected for this use, and especially desirable on account of its non- 
absorbent qualities. The proprietors gave particular attention to this subject, 
feeling it to be a matter of exceeding importance to choose for the tubs a 
material that would most perfectly meet every requirement. They rejected 
marble on account of its great porousness and its well-known capacity for 
absorption and discoloration. Although less attractive to the eye before use, 
the slate remains unchanged in appearance after use. At the factory, where 
repeated experiments have been made to determine the absorptive property of 
the slate by smearing it with oil and then subjecting it to great heat, no effort 
has resulted in causing the oil to permeate sufficiently to render the extent of 
its penetration discernible by the ey*e on a close examination of a broken 
transverse section of the slate thus severely tested. This imperviability indi- 
cates the peculiar suitableness of the slate to the construction of the tubs of a 
public bath-house. EYE WATER SPRING. 
(Gardner Magnesia Spring in distance.) 7 
The White Sulphur Spring discharges about four barrels of water per 
minute, thus giving an immense supply, and obviating that hoarding of the 
water in reservoirs or other receptacles which is necessary in many other 
sulphur bathing establishments where the water supply is small. Here the 
water runs from the spring into a small tank, about the size of a hogshead, 
from which a steam-pump raises it into larger tanks (at a sufficient elevation 
to serve the tubs), where it is heated, and distributed to the bath-tubs. As 
the pump is kept constantly at work during bathing hours, the water flows 
almost directly from the spring into the bath-tubs, only being retained long 
enough to acquire the necessary heat in the hot tank. The proprietors feel 
that this is of great advantage to the patrons of their establishment, as it is a 
well-known fact that the water loses in strength and efficacy by being kept in 
any way except in bottles. 
Sharon Springs has also valuable Magnesia Springs, whose waters are highly 
esteemed for drinking purposes, and when thus taken these waters act benefi- 
cially with the sulphur water. “A Blue Stone Spring,” near the White Sulphur 
Spring (but entirely free from sulphur), has, during the past fifteen years, 
proved so efficacious in affections of the eyes that it has been popularly named 
the “Eye-Water Spring.” A Chalybeate Spring is also found within the 
village limits. 
There are resident physicians in the place who have had many years of 
experience in the use of the waters. 
Within a few years a railroad has been built direct to Sharon Springs. 
This road is leased by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., lessees of the 
Albany & Susquehanna R. R. The depot of the Susquehanna R. R. in 
Albany is now located at the foot of Maiden Lane in that city, immediately 
adjacent to the depot of the New-York Central & Hudson River R. R., and 
Boston & Albany R. R. Two express trains with Drawing-room Cars run 
daily to Sharon Springs, on the Susquehanna R. R. Through tickets and bag- 
gage checks, via Susquehanna R. R., can be obtained in New-York, Boston, 
and Philadelphia. The trains make close connections with the Hudson River 
R. R. and the People’s Line night boats. During the season there is also a 
through train that leaves Scranton in the morning and arrives at Sharon 
Springs in the evening of the same day. 
The village is also accessible from the New-York Central R. R. The 
station on this road is Palatine Bridge, from which place a carriage drive of 
nine miles brings visitors to the Springs. Carriages are always in attendance 
on the arrival of the trains at Palatine Bridge. TV Pavilioq— CotiAgts H, I. J, X, L. 9 
The Pavilion — Main Building — North Front. 
The Pavilion is the largest hotel in the place, having pleasant accommo- 
dation in the hotel and cottages for about five hundred guests. It has long 
been in the hands of its present owners, who have, from time to time, more 
than trebled its original size, and who are still constantly planning and com- 
pleting such additions and improvements as their experience may suggest to 
render it more comfortable and attractive to its patrons. Especial effort is 
directed toward making it a particularly desirable summer home for families 
with young children, for whose comfort and health every provision is made. 
Within the past few years, eight new two-story cottages have been erected. 
The Pavilion Buildings stand in the center of a fifty-acre plot, on an 
eminence in the village of Sharon Springs, and command a view extending 
over the Mohawk Valley and far beyond, to the hills around Lake George, 
eighty miles distant in a direct line. The extensive grounds around the hotel 
are laid out in private roads and paths, which are densely shaded by maples 
and elms; these grounds are reserved exclusively for the guests of the Pavilion, 
and are private and pleasant, and safe for ladies and children. A separate 
building contains the Billiard Room and Bowling Alleys, which are kept for the 
special use of the guests, and are thus free from the objectionable features of Tty# Paviliop — Collages A. B. C. The Pavilion—Cottage Building and Cottage Flats D, E, F, G. 
rooms of a more public character. A detached one-story house has been 
erected as a “play-house” for children. A band of musicians plays in the 
open air near the hotel in the afternoons, and in the parlor in the evenings. 
The Pavilion Buildings comprise the Main Building, Cottage Building, East 
Cottages, and West Cottages. The Cottage Building, on the first floor, consists 
of four Cottage Flats, each with a separate entrance and porch; these Flats 
have no communication with the upper floors of the building, which latter are 
divided into commodious bed-rooms, and are reached by an entrance at the end 
of the building, from which a covered way leads to the main building. The 
East Cottages consist of three two-story cottages, with two-story piazzas, and 
the West Cottages, of five two-story cottages. Each cottage is a distinct house, 
without communication with any other, and each has its own separate entrance 
and piazza for the exclusive use of its occupants. The Cottages and Cottage 
Flats are all conveniently planned, and neatly and tastefully furnished, and all 
overlook the view. They are let at a fixed rental, with board at a stated 
price per capita. 
The entire establishment is provided with bells in the rooms, and with 
water-closets conveniently located within the respective buildings. P(Tap of flu 
Pavilion 'Ho'Ul Coil a 9 £3 
John 'H' Gardno- St ions Proprietors. 13 
The undersigned, who are the proprietors of the Sulphur Bath-houses and 
of the Pavilion, will be pleased to give any additional information, on applica- 
tion, either concerning their own establishment, or the other hotels and the 
boarding-houses, many of which they can confidently recommend. 
jJoHN j’f. pARDNER jSoNS. 
SHARON SULPHUR WATER. 
ITS PROPERTIES, USES, ETC. 
BEFORE proceeding with a description of this particular Sulphur Spring, it 
seems appropriate to make a brief reference to sulphur springs in general, to 
their medicinal value, and to the estimation in which they have been held in all 
ages. 
Sulphur springs have been, from the earliest times, the resorts of invalids 
and seekers after health, and their beneficial effects in certain diseases have been 
demonstrated from century to century. “The oldest Greek physicians had recourse 
to the sulphur springs of Tiberius (now Taba-reah), which are still used by patients 
from all parts of Syria in painful cases of tumor, rheumatism, gout, palsy, etc.” 
The Romans resorted to the baths of Baiae, and availed themselves of its won- 
derful waters, dotting the hill-sides with their luxurious villas. In fact, wherever 
the Romans went in their triumphant progress as conquerors of the world, they 
early sought, found, and used in each country the mineral water baths peculiar to 
it. “ The sulphur baths of Aix-la-Chapelle were much frequented as early as 1170, 
and their well-proved medicinal virtues still bring yearly to that city many thou- 
sands of strangers.” The baths of Baden are described by a writer in 1420, and 
those of Bath, England, two hundred years later by Pepys. 
The great spas of Europe are too well known to need mention here; refer- 
ence to the ancient ones has been made merely to show that the habit of using 
sulphur baths is one of great antiquity, and that the confidence in their efficacy 
has prevailed through two thousand years. As the Emperor Charlemagne sought 
relief in the baths of Aix-la-Chapelle in the latter part of the eighth century, so 
the German emperor of to-day, and the other sovereigns of Europe, in the nine- 
teenth century, eleven hundred years later, annually visit the mineral springs of 
Germany in pursuit of health. Allusion is made to these, the rulers of the old world, because they are in a position to command the very l>est medical advice 
and talent, and, in addition to the affections and interests that environ each private 
individual, upon their health depend the political futures of great nations. 
Many more evidences of this unwavering confidence in the remedial effects 
of mineral waters might lie given, were it material to do so, but enough has 
been noted to emphasize the fact that, while medicines come into repute and 
fall into disrepute, while certain remedies and treatments highly esteemed in one 
age are neglected, condemned, and rejected in another, mineral water baths are 
never forgotten; the benefits and cures derived from them arc always evident, 
commending their value to each succeeding generation. 
The sulphur waters of Sharon were known and used by the Indians, who 
brought their sick long distances to the springs. The early settlers also used these 
waters as occasion required. For fifty years this spring has assumed extraordinary 
prominence, anti thousands have experienced relief or cure from it, in the various 
diseases to which its water is applicable. 
The Sharon sulphur baths are valuable in the treatment of rheumatism, anti of 
gout and paralysis. In rheumatism, in particular, which is so prevalent in our 
variable climate, the effects of this water are truly wonderful. An exjieriencc, 
founded on a close observation of the results during fifty years, justifies the broad 
assertion that the judicious anti patient use of the Sharon sulphur water is almost 
certain to afford substantial relief to rheumatic sufferers. 
It is also serviceable in cases where exudations arc to be absorbed, such as 
stiff joints and gunshot wounds ; and many of the consequences of high living, 
such as congestion of the liver and kidneys, abdominal plethora, hemorrhoids, etc., 
are almost certain to lie driven off by a season at Sharon. Klimination of malaria 
from the system is also accomplished by the same means. In chronic poisoning by 
metals this water is also lieneficial, and in secondary and tertiary syphilis it is 
valuable as a diagnosis, and in conjunction with other medicines in expelling the 
poison. It is decidedly efficacious in chronic laryngitis and pharyngitis, in urinary 
difficulties, and in biliary derangements. It often affords relief in neuralgia and 
dyspepsia, and all authorities agree that sulphur water is |>articularly adapted to the 
catarrhs of lymphatic constitutions. It is frequently useful, too, in leucorrhtra and 
dysmenorrhaa arising from certain conditions. 
Sulphur water is more efficient than any other means of treatment in diseases of 
the skin, and especially of those called dartrous, such as eczema, lichen, psoriasis, 
pityriasis, and also in acne and prurigo. 
Having thus briefly icviewed the diseases to which the Sharon sulphur water 
is peculiarly applicable, a few general suggestions may be of value. The Sharon sulphur baths are usually taken before breakfast, or between break- 
fast and dinner, and should never be taken on a full meal. The temperature of a 
bath and the time during which a patient should remain in it vary very much, and 
on these points the directions of a local physician should be strictly followed. 
These remarks apply with equal force to the internal use of the water. It is 
impossible to determine in advance how long a course of mineral waters should be 
continued, as this depends entirely upon the symptoms observed during treatment. 
As experience has shown that mineral springs do not always act according to 
theories based upon their chemical analysis, and as each spring has a medicinal 
individuality of its own, differing, however slightly, from all the other springs, a 
long and close observation of the peculiar action of each spring is required in order 
to derive from it the uttermost benefit. Therefore, it is earnestly suggested, in the 
interest of invalids, that while following the general routine marked out by their 
own physicians, they should be guided in the details, such as temperature, dura- 
tion, frequency of baths, etc., by the advice of an intelligent local physician.