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SYLVESTER E* STRONG, A* ML, M. D*, 
ELBERT A„ PALMER, M* EL, 
WALTER L* MUGGINS, M* D*, 
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JOHN Bo YATES, Marriagero 
SYNOPSIS OF APPLIANCES. 
Sun Parlor and Promenade on the Roof. Massage, Turkish, Russian, Roman, Mineral, 
Hydro-Electric, Electro-Chemical, Natural Sulphur Water, Nauheim, 
Continental Douche, Aix les Baines Douche Massage, Plunge, 
Needle, and all Hydropathic Baths. 
Faradic, Galvanic and Static Electricity, Compressed and Rarefied Air, Swedish Movements 
Vacuum Treatment, Localized Hot Air, Gymnastics, Delsarte’s System of 
Physical Culture, Mineral Waters, Etc., Etc. 
SOUTH PUBLISHING GO., DESIGNERS, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS, 195 FULTON ST. NEW YORK VIEW OF SANITARIUM FROM NORTH SIDE. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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HISTORY. 
The Saratoga Springs Sanitarium, form- 
erly known as the Remedial Institute, was es- 
tablished in 1855, by the late Dr. S. S. Strong. 
After some years of copartnership, his 
son, Dr. S. E. Strong, in 1891 became sole 
proprietor. 
In January, 1899, Dr. E. A. Palmer be- 
came associated with Dr. Strong in the man- 
agement of the institution. 
It has been enlarged from time to time, 
as its patronage compelled. During the 
Saratoga visiting season its guests overflow 
into six or eight cottages adjoining. 
The appliances of the institution have been 
supplemented as American medical science 
has contributed, and as Dr. Strong and his 
confreres have brought from the other side 
of the water after numerous European tours 
of observation. Dr. Strong has always as- 
sociated with him thoroughly educated and 
accomplished physicians in the general prac- 
tice of the institution and the specialties 
which they represent. At all times there 
are in the Sanitarium medical advisers to 
promptly meet the wants of the patients by 
day or night. 
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SANITARIUM. 
The manifold advantages of the modern 
Sanitarium as an establishment for the scien- 
tific treatment of chronic invalids have been 
widely recognized by the medical profession 
at large, as well as by the thousands of 
health seekers who need for their complete 4 
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restoration valuable and necessary appliances 
not obtainable at home. Among the admir- 
able institutions in the United States, which 
have for their aim the cure and relief of the 
innumerable ills to which flesh is heir, none 
have gained more honorable distinction or 
greater prestige for remedial purposes or 
hygienic advantages than the well-known 
Sanitarium of Dr. Strong, at Saratoga 
Springs, which has had for many years a 
distinguished clientele and established for 
itself an enviable reputation. 
A Sanitarium furnishes advantages which 
are indispensable in the management of 
some cases. There are hygienic conditions 
over which a physician can have but little 
control, except in an institution. It is often 
essential to remove the patient from the 
cares and anxieties of home and thus secure 
the benefits of change, not only of climate, 
but also freedom from domestic, social and 
business environments as well as the advan- 
tages gained by the regulation of diet and 
exercise. Change alone is of inestimable 
value from the influence which it has on the 
mental and physical condition of patients. 
A great advantage is also had in the daily 
advice and oversight of careful and compe- 
tent physicians. In this Sanitarium the 
patient has the advantage of the accumulated 
experiences acquired in the many years of 
the Sanitarium’s history in the treatment 
and observation of a large variety of diseases, 
also the exceptional benefit of the marvelous 
fountains of water and the sun-lit tonic and 
non-malarial atmosphere. 
This institution presents none of the objec- 
tionable features of invalidism, and the 
casual observer would not suspect its re- 
medial character from the general air of the 
house, its cheerfulness, its pleasant enter- 
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while, at the same time, there are always a 
large number of persons receiving treat- 
ment. It is a home for the weary—those 
suffering from nervous exhaustion, over- 
taxed by business, domestic or benevolent 
cares, and a delightful resting place for 
other guests, not health seekers, who come 
at all times, but more largely in the Sara- 
toga season, to this famous watering place to 
seek the entertainment and social life of this 
house year after year for their annual outing. 
A large number of patients come through 
those who have been restored by its treat- 
ment, and others who have been its guests 
and acquainted with the success of the insti- 
tution, while not a few are sent by eminent 
physicians in different parts of the country 
who recognize the advantages of change, 
and the great benefit of the mineral waters, 
the climate of Saratoga, and the special health 
appliances of this institution. This house 
is noted for its delightful recreations afforded 
by its parlor lectures, musicales, and other 
attractive social features. A very notable 
fact is the large per cent, of young people 
found among the guests. 
THE LOCATION. 
The location of the Sanitarium is one of 
the most charming in this delightful health re- 
sort. Centrally located, in the eastern part 
of the village, on the crest of the hill over- 
looking the valley of the Springs. Its sani- 
tary position is eminent. It possesses all 
the natural advantages of light and air to a 
marked degree. Circular street, upon which 
the Sanitarium is situated, is one of the 
finest avenues in Saratoga, richly, ornamented 
with shade trees. Looking in either direc- 
tion, north or south, the vista is a magnificent VIEW OF ANNEX AND LAWN TENNIS COURT FROM PHILA STREET. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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one, the lofty branches of the noble elms 
interlacing high in mid-air, give the effect of 
a long cathedral aisle. The Sanitarium is 
within three minutes’ walk from the most 
celebrated of the mineral springs, Hathorn, 
Congress, Patterson, etc., and of the beauti- 
ful Congress Park, the mammoth hotels and 
other chief points of interest in the village. 
THE SANITARIUM BUILDING. 
The buildings, which are of brick, cover- 
ing a large area, are of a substantial style of 
architecture, and with the grounds, produce 
a pleasant and homelike impression upon the 
observer, and include, in addition to the 
superb and complete appointments of a San- 
itarium, all the fittings, appurtenances and 
comfort of a first-class hotel. In the main 
building on Circular street, are the princi- 
pal rooms: Public office, reception hall, 
library, drawing-room, consulting and other 
offices; and running at right angles to 
this in the rear, to the north, is a fine wing 
containing dining-rooms, reading room for 
gentlemen, and many other apartments. 
Three other stories are devoted to the ample 
and generous sleeping apartments, suites 
with baths, and the various rooms required 
for the appliances and treatment of the San- 
itarium. The windows of the main building 
and this wing look upon a spacious lawn, 
where tall evergreens lift their heads sky- 
ward and afford a delightful shade to the 
guests, who, in the warm Summer days, find 
their enjoyment in the open air. A portion 
of the grounds is devoted to croquet and 
other sports, and from the extensive piazzas, 
which encircle the verdant enclosure, the 
guests enjoy their daily promenade, looking 
with pleasure upon the exciting contests THE DRAWING ROOM. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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which add life and color to the scene. 
A wing also runs to the southward in 
which are offices for private consultations, 
treatments and operations. 
The interior of the house, which has 
recently been completely remodeled and 
decorated, is particularly inviting and cheer- 
ful. 
HEATING. 
The building is heated by steam through- 
out, excepting in a few rooms with open 
fires or stoves to accommodate those who 
prefer these modes of heating. The house 
is thus free from the chill of damp days in 
Summer and cool mornings and evenings of 
late Spring and early Fall, so that indoors 
gives no sense of cold weather. 
VENTILATION. 
The house is thoroughly ventilated by in- 
direct radiation; that is, currents of outdoor 
air passing over steam pipes furnishing 
warm, fresh air to breathe. 
LIGHTING. 
In addition to the complete illumination 
of the house by gas, the reception hall, 
drawing-room, sun parlor, the promenade on 
the roof and some of the principal apart- 
ments are supplied with incandescent electric 
lights. 
PLUMBING. 
New sanitary plumbing has been intro- 
duced throughout the Sanitarium, RECEPTION HALL. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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Numerous flights of stairs lead to each 
floor, affording ample and safe egress in case 
of fire. Tne building is isolated and sub- 
stantially built of brick, and every possible 
FIRE PROTECTION. 
protection against fire is afforded. There is 
an efficient paid fire department in Saratoga, 
and the water supply is both ample and of 
great force. 
THE INTERIOR ARRANGEMENTS. 
In the recent improvements made by Dr. 
Strong in the interior of the Sanitarium 
building, the skill and artistic taste of the 
modern architect has been called into requi- 
sition. The guest is ushered into a spacious 
reception hall with hard wood floors (orna- 
mented with handsome rugs) and paneled 
walls. Open fire-place. Beyond a handsome 
and easy staircase is an hydraulic safety 
elevator. In a sheltered recess are pretty 
writing cabinets, designed for the use of the 
ladies who are numbered among the guests. 
This room communicates with the drawing- 
room on the right, furnishing ample room 
for large gatherings. 
The drawing-room, which opens from the 
reception hall, is an apartment of fine dimen- 
sions, and furnished with taste and elegance. 
It contains a parlor organ and a Steinway 
Grand piano. Beyond these rooms is the 
public office. Upon the pages of its register 
are found the names of very many distin- 
guished guests from all portions of the United 
States as well as from foreign lands. Here 
gather the guests who wish to consult the 
physicians of the Sanitarium upon questions 
of health and diet, and await by turn their 
reception into the consulting room, which 
opens from out the office. 
The consulting room is fitted up with 12 
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bookcases, upon whose shelves are to be 
found an extensive and carefully selected 
medical library. 
Through another door the guests pass from 
the office into the handsome dining-rooms, 
which have accommodations for about 200 
guests. The menu is a generous and healthful 
one, and the table is supplied with a bounti- 
ful assortment of the best foods afforded by 
the markets, according to the season. 
SANITARIUM DIETARY. 
The diet of each patient is especially pre- 
scribed. The cuisine is presided over by a 
chef ‘ whose acquirements are of a first-class 
order, with a corps of well trained assistants. 
The mineral waters of Saratoga are served 
at meals, which enable persons of feeble 
digestion to assimilate certain foods which 
they have not previously been able to digest. 
GYMNASIUM. 
In the gymnasium, a large and pleasant 
room, are to be found various appliances 
and apparatus well adapted to strengthen 
an unequally developed physique. 
THE DELSARTE SYSTEM. 
The Delsarte system of physical culture, 
so advantageous to the recovering invalid 
and the growing youth in acquiring erect 
and perfect forms combined with ease and 
graceful motion, is taught in classes at this 
institution. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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The facilities employed in this Sanitarium 
for the treatment of disease are not sur- 
passed by any other institution, and the best 
appliances and remedial agencies known and 
commended by the ablest modern medical 
authorities are provided. 
The wonderful curative powers of the 
Saratoga mineral waters are too well known 
to demand any special panegyric, and full 
advantage is taken of them in the Sanita- 
rium. The waters are used at all seasons of 
the year and form an important agent in the 
curriculum of the establishment. Many of the 
waters bottle well, but all are more valuable 
when imbibed at the healing fountains. 
Among the wonderful variety of waters 
MEDICINAL ADVANTAGES. 
are cathartic and iron, alkaline and altera- 
tive, and fine sulphur springs which also 
offer good bathing facilities. In the treat- 
ment of almost every case, no matter what 
the disease, we are aided by the use of the 
mineral waters. 
Upon the arrival of a patient at the Sani- 
tarium a careful diagnosis of his condition is 
made; the treatments and the waters best 
suited for the requirements of the case are 
prescribed. The patient is not permitted to 
follow the injurious custom of drinking in- 
discriminately of various springs, the medici- 
nal properties of which are antagonistic to 
each other, and a strict adherence to the 
waters prescribed is expected. 
THE EQUALIZER OR VACUUM TREATMENT. 
The removal of the atmospheric pressure 
from certain portions of the body by the pro- 
cess of dry cupping- has long been approved 
by the various schools of medicine. The in- 14 
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struments consist of ist, an air-tight com- 
partment in which the person sits, and from 
which without pain to the patient, the air is 
exhausted at will by means of an air-pump; 
it is so arranged that the patient inhales 
freely the outside air while the whole sur- 
face of the body is being acted upon by the 
equalizer. The instruments further consist 
of, 2d, arm and limb receivers, and, 3d, of 
instruments adapted to the spine, back, chest 
and other portions of the body. In almost 
every chronic disease the capillaries, or small 
blood vessels, which ramify through all the 
tissues are contracted so that the blood can- 
not circulate freely through them, and the 
large vessels and internal organs are con- 
gested, giving the patient a pale and sickly 
appearance. The arteries and veins are 
simply canals to carry blood to and from the 
capillaries. By means of the capillaries the 
system is nourished, the heat of the body is 
generated and the waste matter is removed. 
The equalizer enlarges the capillaries and 
restores their functions. 
By this treatment blood can be displaced 
from any congested organ, and can be forced 
at will to any part of the system; a portion 
only of the circulation or every drop of blood 
may be regulated. 
The nutrition of an organ depends upon 
the circulation through it. When this is 
normal the organ performs its work. Persons 
of sedentary habits, professional and busi- 
ness men whose nervous systems have be- 
come exhausted, and whose brains are so 
surfeited with blood that they are unable to 
pursue their calling—restless, sleepless and 
despondent—realize the benefit of this treat- 
ment. The blood is withdrawn from the 
surcharged brain, the cold extremities are 
warmed, sleep returns, and the spirits are 
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of paralysis the equalizer and electricity are 
among the most successful known. Since 
introducing these instruments into the Sani- 
tarium, cases have been successfully treated 
which otherwise would have been pronounced 
incurable. 
The various forms of electricity, with 
their most approved apparatus, are used in 
the treatment in this institution, namely : 
the galvanic, faradic and static, and these 
are applied in different ways so as to pro- 
duce a great variety of effects. Perhaps 
no one therapeutical agent possesses more 
of popular and professional confidence 
ELECTRIC1TY. 
than electricity, or is so well able to sus- 
tain itself by practical results. It has 
the highest commendation of the leading 
authorities of this and other countries. 
Each kind of electrical current has its 
pecular therapeutical use, and the best re- 
sults are obtained where all forms are 
available. 
This form of administering electricity, 
sometimes called the constant current, is 
more sedative and anodyne than the faradic. 
It is used at the Sanitarium in connection 
GALVANIC ELECTRICITY. 
with a milli-ampere and rheostat or current 
controller, which are attachments essential 
for the proper giving of this current in order 
to know its intensity or strength. 
FARAD1C ELECTRICITY. 
This form of electricity is more tonic and 
stimulating than the galvanic, which makes 
it especially adapted to the needs of those 
persons suffering from nervous prostration 
or exhaustion. 16 
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STATIC ELECTRICITY. 
Static electricity, or Franklinism, since 
the introduction of improved machines and 
methods of administration, has proved to be 
one of the most valuable forms of electriza- 
tion. It is particularly valuable as a general 
tonic and has been successfully applied in 
cases where the galvanic and faradic currents 
have failed. 
ELECTRICAL BATHS. 
In the Hydro-electric bath, the patient lies 
in warm water in a non-conducting bath-tiib, 
and currents of faradic electricity are passed 
through any portion of the body at will. 
This mode of administering electricity has 
the advantage of pleasantly penetrating all 
the tissues and deep-seated organs, and in 
many affections is more curative than any 
other method of applying electricity. Pro- 
fessional or business men, who are broken 
down by overwork, find it a valuable restora- 
tive. 
In the Electro-chemical bath, the galvanic 
electricity is used for the removal of various 
poisons from the system, the relief of deep- 
seated pains, and the discussion of tumors, 
and sometimes the introduction of certain 
remedies through the skin. Electrolysis is 
employed for the removal of fibroid and 
other tumors. The electro-cautery is em- 
ployed in the removal of various growths, 
polypi, etc., from the nose and other pas- 
sages. Pacquelin’s thermo-cautery is used 
for the relief of persons suffering from 
various spinal diseases and pains arising 
from nervous exhaustion. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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COMPRESSED AIR, 
or the treatment of diseases of respiration 
and circulation by the pneumatic method, 
has been introduced by us from Germany. 
Dr. A. Rose writes in the New York Medical 
Record as follows: 
“ A few years ago a new method of local 
treatment of diseases of the respiratory 
organs and heart was introduced into medi- 
cal science principally by Hauke, of Vienna, 
and Waldenberg, of Berlin, which, on ac- 
count of its practical importance, very prob- 
ably occupies the most prominent positions 
among the varied attainments of therapeutics 
at the present time.” 
Several years’ use of Waldenberg's pneu- 
matic apparatus has given convincing proof 
of its usefulness as a remedial agent in ex- 
pansion of the chest. 
Among the most useful, popular and 
pleasant treatments is massage, which is ap- 
plied to patients at the Sanitarium at the 
hands of skillful manipulators, thoroughly 
trained, and also mechanical massage by 
the instruments adapted to its thorough 
application. Among the diseases in which 
we have found massage to be eminently 
MASSAGE. 
beneficial, in addition to other treatments, 
may be mentioned rheumatism, neuralgia, 
nervous prostration, insomnia, various affec- 
tions of the nervous system, and diseases 
of the uterine organs. We have recently 
introduced the Aix les Bains douche 
massage which has met with so great favor 
in Europe. 18 
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SWEDISH MOVEMENTS. 
An ancient custom among natives of India, 
the Egyptians and Chinese is of treating 
diseases of the human body by a system of 
manipulation and exercise, active or passive, 
mechanical or manual. 
This admirable system of passive exercise 
has achieved great results, and has been 
successfully introduced as one of the re- 
medial agents of the Sanitarium, with other 
similar appliances for the cure of disease by 
transmitted energy. These movements can 
be adapted readily to any part of the body, 
the extent and rapidity being easily con- 
trolled, ranging from 20 to 2,000 vibrations 
per minute, as required. The variety 
of movements is large, many of which, 
without these instruments, would be im- 
possible. 
BATHS. 
From the first, baths have constituted a 
special feature in the treatment of disease in 
this Sanitarium. But the improvements in 
the variety of baths, and in the methods of 
administering them, have been so many, and 
the increasing demand for them has been 
so great, that in order to meet these con- 
ditions and keep in advance it was found 
necessary to erect an entirely new building, 
known as The A nnex. 
The structure is a substantial brick build- 
ing, four stories in height. It contains more 
than forty separate apartments, each ad- 
mirably adapted for the use to which it 
is put. The third and fourth floors are 
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proof and well lighted artistic bridges, so 
constructed as to produce no sensation of 
passing from one building to the other. The 
first floor is occupied mainly by the gym- 
nasium. It is airy and well lighted. 
The beautifully polished hard woods em- 
ployed on ceiling and floor are in perfect 
keeping with the purposes of the place, while 
the adamantine walls, curiously stippled, 
present a surface inviting any amount of 
grotesque and attractive ornamentation. 
The second floor contains suites of private 
rooms, the wall decorations of which, in soft 
colors upon the rough plaster finish, are 
pleasant and soothing to the eye. Bath- 
room with complete sanitary furnishings is 
attached to these rooms. A securely guarded 
roof promenade is provided for the exclusive 
use of guests in these suites. The third story 
includes somewhat similar suites of rooms, 
having equal finish and advantages. The 
entire fourth story is occupied by the Turkish 
and Russian bath-rooms, oriental and elegant 
in construction and finish. 
The style of architecture and decorations 
of the resting room are Moorish. The wood 
employed is mahogany, with cabinet finish. 
The floors are laid in most beautiful French 
tile, non-slippable, decorated in appropriate 
colors, with the exception of the floor of the 
largest and first approached room. The 
floor of this room is of various hard-woods, 
artistically laid. The dressing rooms open- 
ing off this room are curtained in rich plush. 
The ceilings completely overlaid with gold 
leaf, decorated with oriental designs and 
colors. The windows are of Moorish designs 
in stained glass. It is not easy to describe 
the effects of the light upon this mass of rich 
coloring. This room is elegantly furnished 
with rugs, couches, etc. The hall, from this 
apartment to the warm room, is lined with RECEPTION ROOM, TURKISH AND RUSSIAN BATHS. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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tiles of a soft, creamy color, with unique 
frieze, representing shell and seaweed. 
Porcelain sitz baths, with nickel fittings, are 
observed from this point. The warm room 
is tiled, floor, walls and ceiling. The frieze 
is an oriental design in shaded olive colors. 
The windows are Venetian glass with leaded 
designs in rich madder lake. A marble 
fountain in the centre, soothes, both as to 
sight and sound. Both the hot room and the 
Russian bath opening from this apartment 
are completely overlaid in delicate tile, and 
the colored glass admits abundant light. 
The shampooing room entered next, is of 
equal elegance with the rest, having its own 
peculiar frieze of delicate shade. A chief 
feature of the room is the needle bath, with 
its myriad deliciously stinging water jets, 
the delight of those who have once tried its 
effectiveness in stimulating the circulation. 
Through the massage room we pass to the 
plunge bath, a large apartment consisting of 
an immense absolutely water-tight tile-lined 
iron tank, supported by its own foundation, 
reaching down below the foundation of the 
building proper. Here the beautiful tile 
work reaches from the bottom of the plunge 
to the height of twelve feet. 
The plunge is floored with sea-green tiles, 
giving the five feet of water the appearance 
of an ocean bath, an effect which is height- 
ened by the delicately shaded light admitted 
through the Venetian skylight. The plunge 
is reached either by marble stairs or by the 
airline route, as the bather is possessed of 
more or less courage. The air is laden with 
the perfume of the Roman bath. The bril- 
liance of the electric light, and the music 
from a constant spray from the shaggy lion’s 
head inserted in the tiled wall a few feet 
above the frieze of water lilies which rests 
upon the surface of the water, and entirely TURKISH AND RUSSIAN BATH ROOMS. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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encircles the plunge, are entrancing in their 
effect. The temperature of the plunge is 
regulated by a circulation of water through 
a steam heated chest underneath. 
The condition of the atmosphere of the 
Turkish bath depends upon an indirect 
system of radiation, securing a change of 
air, and consequent comfort. The prosaic 
duty of taking a bath is seldom associated 
with so much that is beautiful and so well 
adapted to the end in view. 
The general arrangement and furnishings 
of these rooms is superb in every particular. 
In fact, travelers who have frequented baths 
in this and in foreign countries say that they 
have never seen them surpassed, if equalled. 
The Turkish bath is essentially a hot air 
bath, and comprises a series of rooms. The 
bather is introduced into a dressing-room, 
where he lays aside his clothing and assumes 
the bathing dress. He is then conducted 
into the Tepiclarium, or warm room, where 
the temperature is from 1250 to 1400. Here 
he reclines until gentle perspiration starts 
from the pores. The bather now enters the 
Calidarium, or hot room, where the tempera- 
ture ranges from 140° to 175 
Dr. Erasmus Wilson, a celebrated writer 
on diseases of the skin, gives the following 
graphic description of his sensations in this 
part of the bath: 
“How marvelously soothing. All care, 
all anxiety, all trouble, all memory of the 
external world and its miserable littleness is 
chased from the mind. The tyrant, Pain, 
even loses its miscreant power here. The 
headache is gone; the spasm no longer 
abides; the pang of neuralgia, of rheuma- 
tism, or gout—all are fled. ‘This is the 
Calidarium; pain enters not here.’ ” 
He now leaves the Calidarium and enters 
the shampooing room. Here, by various THE. PLUNGE. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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manipulations, the muscles are relaxed and 
the joints are made flexible. 
Then, as preference may dictate, he takes 
a dash, douche, needle or plunge bath, after 
which he is rubbed dry, and retires to the 
cooling room. When the cooling is com- 
plete the body has come forth shining like 
alabaster, fragrant as the cistus, sleek as 
satin and soft as velvet. The touch of the 
skin is electric. 
Such are its effects upon the skin, the 
blood, the nervous system, the muscular 
organism, the nutritive functions, and the 
excretory organs, that as a curative for 
disease, wide in its control, and permanent 
in its results, it deserves the high encomiums 
which have been given it by the most emi- 
nent medical men. 
The Russian bath is a steam bath, and 
derives its name from the country in 
which it has been largely used, in common 
with other latitudes similiar to our own. 
The Russian bath is a luxury. It is of 
great service to the invalid in softening the 
skin and removing enlarged glands, and is of 
eminent service in gout and rheumatism in 
chronic forms by removing the stiffness, in- 
durations and concretions incident to those 
affections in the locomotive apparatus, and 
especially about the joints. 
For cases of catarrh, laryngitis, bronchitis 
and other diseases of the air passages it is 
particularly adapted, its moisture being 
soothing to the mucus membrane, and its 
lower temperature more pleasant than the 
Turkish bath to those who are especially 
susceptible to heat. 
The Roman bath consists of a Turkish or 
Russian bath followed by an annointing with 
the most approved oils. Sometimes the an- 
nointing and the shampooing alone are given 
without the heat. It is an admirable protec- DR. STRONG'S SANITARIUM, SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. 
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tion against colds and to overcome chilliness, 
and is well adapted to the feeble and ill- 
nourished. The joints are rendered supple 
and aches and pains dissipated. It is used 
in many of the complaints mentioned in con- 
nection with the Turkish and Russian baths. 
Our list of hydropathic baths is very large, 
as may be seen by reference to the bath 
ticket, or ticket of directions on the preced- 
ing page, and includes all those which have 
met with the widest approval from hydro- 
pathic authorities. Our location, surrounded 
as we are by the most celebrated mineral 
springs on any continent, enables us to make 
our hydropathic and all our remedial agents 
more effective by the use of spring waters. 
These are valuable in Winter as in Summer. 
Two separate sets of bath rooms are in 
use for all minor baths for ladies and gentle- 
men. 
Dr. Putzel, a celebrated German physician, 
says that hydropathic treatment appears to 
be steadily gaining ground both in France 
and Germany as a valuable therapeutic agent, 
and Professor Charcot of Paris, one of the 
most illustrious authorities on nervous dis- 
eases, says: “ Hydro-therapeutics should 
enter more and more into the treatment of 
diseases of the nervous system, in which 
they must be regarded as one of our most 
powerful resources. 
We have found the Continental douche to 
be of great service in the treatment of cer- 
tain diseases of the spine and of persons 
suffering from neurasthenia or nervous ex- 
haustion. ” 
NATURAL SULPHUR WATER BATHS. 
For the administration of these baths we 
have fitted up an elegant sulphur bath-room. 
They are used in connection with other 
treatments for rheumatism and those diseases 
in the cure of which sulphur water has estab- 
lished so large a reputation. 28 
DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
THE NAUHEIM TREATMENT 
consists of carbonated saline baths with 
Swedish movements and massage. 
It is now no longer necessary to visit 
Nauheim, Germany, to attain this valuable 
treatment, which has an established repu- 
tation abroad in the cure of chronic 
heart disease, rheumatism, anaemia and 
neuralgia. 
DISEASES OF WOMEN. 
For many years after the establishment of 
the Sanitarium in 1855, the treatment of the 
institution was almost exclusively devoted to 
the diseases of women. Latterly, while these 
diseases have been more largely treated than 
any other class, the scope of the institution 
has been enlarged, embracing almost every 
variety of curable and inoffensive diseases 
which need the special advantages of a 
sanitarium. 
Women suffering from diseases peculiar to 
their sex derive great benefit at the Sanita- 
rium from the regulation of their exercise 
and rest, the freedom from social cares and 
domestic worry, the inspiration of change of 
surroundings, the power of the sunbeam in 
the Sun Parlor on the roof; also from the 
Saratoga mineral waters, and the effect of the 
appliances of the institution upon the general 
system used to supplement such other 
special treatment as the case may require. 
Surgical operations are performed in 
the treatment of these and many other 
diseases. 
The Sanitarium furnishes the most favor- 
able conditions for the strengthening of the 
system for an operation and the recovery 
afterwards. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
29 
NERVOUS DISEASES. 
For the treatment of the various diseases 
of the nervous system the Sanitarium is 
thoroughly equipped with special appliances. 
The wonderful atmosphere of Saratoga, 
second only to the marvel of its springs, is 
of great, service in the treatment of these 
diseases, both in its tonic qualities and its 
sleep producing effects. Victims of insomnia, 
after a brief residence here, soon feel its in- 
fluence and enjoy the benefit of sound natural 
sleep. Some of the spring waters, when 
drank shortly before retiring, have been 
found to induce somnolence and insure per- 
fect rest. 
Persons suffering from any disease of 
the nervous system require entire free- 
dom from care and absolute rest, with 
only the one object in view—that of re- 
storation to health. To nervous invalids 
the appliances found in a well-appointed 
sanitarium are of inestimable value. While 
we treat many persons suffering from 
nervous troubles we do not treat the in- 
sane. 
DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS. 
The Sanitarium is fully equipped with 
various instruments and appliances for the 
treatment of the nose, throat and lungs. 
Special attention is given to the medical and 
surgical treatment of diseases of the nose 
and throat. The dry tonic atmosphere 
greatly aids in the restoration of the system 
to its proper standard of health, and especially 
favors recovery from Catarrhal and Bronchial 
diseases, while wonderful changes have been 
produced especially in persons residing in 
damp localities. 
What the Adirondack climate achieves for 
the invalid in its mountain wilds, Saratoga, The Analysis of the Saratoga Waters, by C. F. Chandler, Ph. D., of the Columbia School of Mines. 
Compounds as they exist in 
Solution in the Waters. 
Hathorn 
Spring. 
Congress 
Springs. 
Patterson 
Spring. 
Excelsior 
Spring. 
Geyser 
Spouting 
Spring. 
Lincoln 
Spring. 
x 3 
High 
Rock 
Spring. 
Red 
Spring. 
X I 
Colum- 
bian 
Spring. 
X 2 
Saratoga 
Vichy. 
Chloride of sodium.... 
Chloride of potassium. 
Bromide of sodium.... 
Iodide of sodium 
509.968 
9-597 
1-534 
0.198 
Trace. 
11.447 
4.288 
176.463 
170.646 
Trace. 
1-737 
1.128 
400.444 
8.049 
8-559 
0.138 
Trace. 
4.761 
10.775 
121.757 
143-399 
Trace. 
0.928 
0.340 
269.93 
II.91 
.68 
.16 
370.642 
7.000 
562.080 
42.634 
2.212 
O.248 
Trace. 
9.004 
71.232 
149-343 
168.392 
0.425 
2.014 
0.979 
315.208 
22.950 
IO.74O 
•233 
Trace. 
2.767 
32.861 
108.571 
176.283 
Trace. 
1.400 
.644 
.410 
. 100 
.105 
Trace. 
.91 
Trace. 
• 034 
1.949 
39O.127 
8.974 
0.731 
O.086 
Trace. 
1.967 
34.888 
54-924 
I3I-739 
Trace. 
0.494 
1.478 
83-54 
6.86 
267. 
128.689 
I4-II3 
0.990 
Trace. 
Trace. 
1.760 
82.873 
41-503 
95-522 
Trace. 
o-593 
0.052 
4-235 
2.56 
Fluoride of calcium.... 
Bicarbonate of lithia.. . 
Bicarbonate of soda.. . 
Bicarbonate of magnes. 
Bicarbonate of lime.. . 
Bicarbonate of strontia. 
Bicarbonate of baryta.. 
Bicarbonate of iron.... 
2.32 
18.77 
80.20 
129.42 
•94 
15-33 
42.41 
101.26 
15.000 
32.333 
77.000 
Trace. 
15.40 
46.71 
68. 
1.22 
3-215 
*2.10 
5-58 
Bicarbonate of manganese. 
Potassium nitrate 
Sulphate of potassa.... 
Phosphate of soda 
Trace. 
0.006 
Trace. 
0.131 
1.260 
Trace. 
0.889 
0.016 
Trace. 
Trace. 
0.840 
Trace. 
• 45 
0.318 
Trace. 
Trace. 
Trace. 
0.665 
Trrce. 
1.608 
Trace. 
Trace. 
1.223 
2.260 
Trace. 
Trace. 
Trace- 
Trace. 
0-473 
0.758 
Trace. 
Biborate of soda 
Trace. 
Alumina 
• 05 
1.03 
Silica 
4.000 
3-25 
2.05 
Organic matter 
Total per U. S. gallon, 
231 cu. in 
888.403 
700.895 
518.19 
514.746 
991- 546 
674-355 
630.500 
255-68 
408.30 
367.326 
Carbonic acid gas 
375-747 
1.0115 
48° F. 
392.289 
1.096 
520 F. 
417.08 
250.000 
454-082 
1.0120 
46° F. 
416. 
1.018 
47-5 
409.458 
1.0092 
52° F. 
272.06 
383-071 
Density 
Temperature 
45° F. 
50° F. 
50° F. 
*Oxide of Iron. 
x i Analysis by Appleton. 
x 2 Analysis by Emmons. 
x 3 Analysis by Perkins. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM 
31 
with a similar atmosphere, soil and vegeta- 
tion, also accomplishes, with the added ad- 
vantage of a village of 13,000 inhabitants, 
beckoning from ennui and introspection—to 
recreation—to its health-giving fountains— 
and to the special facilities of the Sanitarium. 
The spring waters of Saratoga have at- 
tained a world-wide celebrity for their cura- 
tive virtues in many diseases. Their health- 
giving powers have given them world-wide 
reputation. Between fifty and sixty differ- 
ent springs are found at Saratoga, and these 
are divided into five distinct varieties, from 
their chemical constitution and therapeutical 
action in disease. 
A writer in The Philadelphia Medical and 
Surgical Reporter names the five varieties of 
waters as follows: 
ist. Muriated Cathartic Waters. 
2d. Alterative and Diuretic Waters. 
3d. Muriated Chalybeate Waters. 
4th. Alkaline Muriated Waters. 
5 th. Sulphurous and Sulphuretted Waters. 
SARATOGA MINERAL SPRINGS. 
The great secret of the success of Saratoga 
as a popular resort lies in the exhaustless 
abundance of its springs. These still flow 
with all the vigor of their early days, with 
curative power undiminished, while new and 
valuable springs are yearly added to their 
number. From the four quarters of the earth 
thousands come annually to test the effects 
of its far famed waters. Thousands come 
here year after year. If, by any chance, 
some fail to make their annual visit, they 
testify to lessened vigor and activity during 
the months that follow. 
While the waters of Europe are in many 
instances successfully counterfeited, such is 
the subtle chemistry of the Saratoga mineral 
water that it defies successful imitation. INTERIOR OF SUN PARLOR. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
33 
God has placed upon them his own trade- 
mark. Persons sometimes drink them in- 
discriminately, to the injury of their health, 
hence the waters should be carefully pre- 
scribed. 
There is scarcely a disease, a pain or a 
weakness to which flesh is heir that some of 
these waters cannot benefit. Saratoga is a 
natural sanitarium, the earth yields her 
Bethesda pools, and the atmosphere has in it 
the breath of life. 
Many persons with delicate stomachs, who 
are unable to take chemically prepared 
medicinal preparations, find these waters of 
Nature’s chemistry easily assimilated and 
greatly beneficial. 
The spring waters are not only valuable 
when drank, but some are also excellent 
for bathing purposes, and in this respect 
also form a part of the treatment of 
the Sanitarium. The waters of the 
sulphur springs are white sulphur, similar 
to those found in some of the Southern 
States. 
This attractive feature of the Sanitarium 
is on the roof of the main building, verging 
towards the frontage on Circular street. 
From its airy situation a magnificent view of 
the surrounding country, the Green mount- 
ains of Vermont, the Catskills and the Adi- 
rondacks, is obtained. It is literally a glass 
house catching every ray of the sun in his 
THE SUN PARLOR. 
progress across the heavens. Screens, how- 
ever, are so arranged that the intense sun- 
light of the glowing Summer days may be 
subdued if desired. The ventilation of this 
valuable adjunct to the remedial agents of 
the Sanitarium is carefully attended to, case- 
ment windows on all sides being opened 
at will to admit a free current of air. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
34 
The visitor to the Sun Parlor having 
emerged from the elevator, finds a large and 
cheerful apartment provided with easy chairs, 
tables with books and flowers, palms and 
other tropical plants. Here is a Rest Hall 
flooded with the sunbeams which give blood, 
health, vigor, warmth and life, and in its 
walls is found a southern climate without its 
debilitating or enervating qualities. It has 
a cheerful, open fire-place, which may be 
used in cold weather. 
Stepping out of the Sun Parlor the guest 
may enjoy a brisk walk on the Roof Prome- 
nade, which extends along the entire length 
of the main building, and from which a mag- 
nificent view of Saratoga and its environ- 
ments may be obtained. This is invaluable 
for its sunshine to patients who require out 
ROOF PROMENADE. 
of door exercise, especially in the Winter 
season, as the promenade is kept free from 
snow and ice and perfect security is assured 
the pedestrian from falls or accidents. It 
is a favorite resort during the evenings of 
the Summer season for its refreshing 
coolness. 
SITUATION OF SARATOGA. 
Saratoga is situated in the lower arc of the 
Adirondack zone, with its foot-hills running 
below it. 
It has the marvelously dry, bracing, seda- 
tive atmosphere of this great health region. 
Its native trees are pine, giving to the air 
their balsamic influence. Being a plateau 
surrounded by mountains, it has no high 
winds. The air is dry and charged with 
electricity, being far more tonic and salu- DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
35 
brious than a warmer temperature contain- 
ing more moisture. 
The entire region is anti-malarial. No 
class of diseases yield with greater readiness 
in this locality, and under the appliances of 
the Sanitarium, than those engendered by 
mal aria. 
Saratoga is geographically well situated 
for a sanitary residence. Much has been 
written and said of the sandy plateau of 
Saratoga, a spot of Nature’s own making for 
people who need pure air, natural drainage, 
sunshine and freedom from malaria. Those 
suffering from nervous prostration or any 
disease that comes of overwork or worry are 
greatly benefitted by this sedative atmos- 
phere. 
The phenomenal dryness of the climate 
commends itself especially to those who live 
in damp localities and need a change in this 
particular, and is also invaluable to persons 
suffering from rheumatism or any depressing 
disease where the nervous forces are lowered. 
The advantages of this climate are especially 
noticeable in the early Spring. The ground, 
protected through the Winter by its deep 
covering of snow, has but little frost, and 
moisture passes through the sandy soil so 
quickly that the change into Spring comes 
as if by magic. No depressing mists or fogs 
lie upon the plateau, and the clear, tonic 
atmosphere brightens the mind and cheers 
the spirit. The invigorating air constantly 
invites one to be out of doors, and those who 
walk or ride, find their feelings of weariness 
or exhaustion quickly dissipated. The 
climate is wonderfully equable, and the 
number of pleasant sunshiny days is far 
above the average. The air in Winter, while 
cold and bracing, has none of the raw, chilly 
feeling attendant upon a moist atmosphere. 
Again, in Summer Saratoga maintains its WINTER SCENE FROM FRONT PIAZZA. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
37 
pre-eminence as a climate station. While 
the papers from the great cities give apalling 
records of victims of sun-stroke, the guests 
of this great Spa find here cooling breezes 
from the mountains and air unladen with 
poisonous exhalations, cool, fresh and 
tonic. 
WINTER IN SARATOGA. 
As a Winter resort Saratoga has peerless 
qualities, and its popularity in this respect 
grows steadily with each succeeding year. 
It has what no other Spa in the world can 
boast of—the Winter cure. 
The vital forces weakened by the warmth 
of the Summer find recuperation in the com- 
binations by the guests at Saratoga, of the 
mineral water treatment with the out-of-door 
sports, which are unsurpassed by any other 
method for restoring life, health and strength. 
The trees have hardly lifted their disman- 
tled branches to the blue sky and the Indian 
Summer, with its gentle reminiscences of the 
pleasant, balmy days of September, has 
scarcely passed away ere the soft mantle of 
snow covers the swaying boughs and the 
faded grass, and Winter is come again. 
The succession of brilliant, sparkling 
Winter days offers health and vigor and un- 
alloyed pleasure, to those who take part in 
the sports of tobogganing, skating, snow- 
shoeing, and the swift drive over the crisp, 
frosty snow. The air lends color to the 
cheek, sparkle to the eye, keenness to the 
appetite, vigor to the body, and strength to 
the limbs, such as the seeker of pleasure or 
health in the enervating climate of the South 
cannot find. 
The Saratoga Winter cure is also a home 38 
DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
cure. Home-like virtues and indoor quali- 
ties are cultivated by the invaluable Winter 
treatment. 
The guests of the Sanitarium are keenly 
alive to the many advantages to be enjoyed 
in the Winter home. 
A DAY AT THE SANITARIUM. 
The custom is for guests to go down to the 
particular spring recommended by the phy- 
sicians before breakfast, the usual drinking 
hour being between seven and eight o’clock, 
at which time the pavilions are thronged with 
people. Returning, the breakfast table is 
sought with the appetite sharpened and the 
spirits made buoyant by the brisk walk in the 
morning air. The physicians recommend 
the partaking of fruit at the beginning of 
the meal, and abundance of the choicest, 
according to the season, is provided. Cereal 
and nutritious foods find a place upon the 
menu, which is a generous one, and the ap- 
pointments of the table are elegant. The 
diet of each patient is carefully prescribed 
by the physician who has the particular case 
in charge. 
Breakfast over, there is a prayer service in 
the parlor, consisting of devotional exercises, 
reading and music. This is often led by 
eminent divines and leading laymen, and 
while entirely optional on the part of the 
guests, it is generally well attended, as the 
society of the house is largely composed of 
religious people, and it is greatly prized as a 
special home feature and for its spiritual 
uplift. The singing of the hymns from 
“ Church Hymnary ” is led by the fine organ 
or the Steinway Grand piano, and sometimes 
the instruments are played in unison. 
Patients then seek their physicians in con- DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
39 
sultation, and baths and other treatments 
follow. After the calisthenic exercises in 
the gymnasium, a period of rest is advised, 
and the morning paper or writing desk is 
brought into requisition. The time remain- 
ing before the dinner hour may be employed 
in taking a stroll in Congress Spring Park, 
only a block away, where a fine band always 
gives a morning concert, and frequently in 
the pavilion may be heard a piano or song 
recital by unexceptional metropolitan talent. 
The grand hotels, with their fine orchestral 
concerts on the piazzas may be visited, and 
the attractions throughout the village are 
endless in their variety. Some take another 
walk to the prescribed springs, or, in the 
colder season of the year, a walk on the 
grand roof promenade and rest in the Sun 
Parlor. A variety in the occupation of the 
morning is often afforded by a lecture 
on some popular topic, a musicale, or 
else the recreation of tennis, croquet and 
golf. 
At half-past one dinner is served, and after 
the hour pleasantly occupied at the table, 
the guests plan for the afternoon’s enjoy- 
ment. For those whose cases require them, 
baths and other treatments are given during 
the afternoon and evening. A portion of the 
afternoon is often occupied by driving over 
the unusually fine roads of Saratoga. Suit- 
able equipages may be had at reasonable 
rates, and the drives to the lake and in other 
directions are unsurpassed in beauty and 
variety. Many visitors enjoy a trip to Sara- 
toga battlefield at Bemis Heights, and the 
monument at Schuylersville, or to Mt. Mc- 
Gregor, made historical by its connection 
with the death of General Grant. Others 
visit the Pompeiian House on South Broad- 
way, and forget the gayety and bustle out- 
side in the contemplation of the relics of the DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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great Roman watering place in this quiet 
spot, cool and retired. 
After the evening meal, the social side of 
the daily life at the Sanitarium is especially 
manifested. While the evening orchestral 
concerts and hops at the hotel offer great 
attractions in the way of gayety to the young 
people of the house, yet the majority find 
their chief pleasure in the enjoyment of the 
evening at home, for everything is as merry 
as a marriage bell. The house is especially 
noted for the social entertainments of all 
descriptions, arranged for the pleasure and 
amusement of the guests, and ennui finds 
here no abiding place. 
The stranger in Saratoga is especially 
struck with the quietude which reigns in the 
night time. The gayety goes on so con- 
stantly that there is no necessity to prolong 
it to a late hour, and even the hops of the 
large hotels are over by eleven o’clock. Thus 
it is, at the Sanitarium, at an early hour, the 
joys and the duties of the day are laid aside 
and quiet reigns, and the most restless or 
nervous invalid finds no disturbance. 
The home-like atmosphere of the Sani- 
tarium is one of its chief characteristics, 
which commends it to the seeker after rest 
and health, and this especial charm has been 
talked over and written about by the num- 
berless people of refinement and education 
and culture who have visited Dr. Strong’s 
Sanitarium. Coming once, they come again, 
and there are those among its clientele who 
have been regular guests for thirty years 
and more. 
Professional and medical men come to 
find the rest required from their arduous 
tasks. Literati, journalists, clergymen of all 
denominations, and men high in political 
life, all feel the charm of this elevated 
home, and tarry not to express their corn- SUN PARLOR AND PROMENADE ON THE ROOF. 42 
DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
mendations to their less fortunate friends. 
The voice of the press speaks in forcible and 
Rev. Dr. Wendell Prime writes in the New York 
Observer, of which he is the editor : 
“ Rev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler entertained the guests 
at Dr. Strong’s, in Saratoga, for nearly two hours with 
reminiscences of celebrities with whom he had been 
associated in this country and in foreign lands— 
statesmen, divines, artists and others. 
During the month of August, numerous clergymen 
have found rest at Dr. Strong’s, and at the same 
time contributed to the intellectual and spiritual 
enjoyment of the company which has filled the house 
to its capacity.” 
Dr. W. G. E. Cunnyngham, in a prominent Southern 
journal, says: 
“ The Christian traveler may never know that he is 
under the same roof with invalids seeking relief from 
painful diseases; and the invalids need never known 
that their peaceful and quiet retreat is ever invaded 
by the dusty traveler, so perfect are the arrangements 
for both, and so thorough the systems by which they 
are controlled.” 
complimentary tones of this institution as 
a sanitarium, and as a popular resort. 
Mrs. M. E. Pauli writes in The Presbyterian 
Journal: 
“The tonic properties of the air were never greater 
than during these weeks when the thermometer 
touches zero, and the extreme dryness of the air 
renders the cold delightful, even to invalids. 
“The springs flow in exhaustless abundance all 
throughout the year, with their curative powers un- 
diminished, while each year new springs are added 
to those already discovered. Thus Saratoga is a 
natural sanitarium, since air and water both become 
nature’s best remedial appliances, in almost every 
form of disorder. 
“During the Summer, the roof garden at Dr. Strong’s 
Sanitarium is a favorite resort, but in the Winter it 
is none the less so. When the leaves have fallen, 
the view from this airy situation is one long to be 
remembered. One can look across the surrounding 
country and see looming upon every side the Green 
Mountains of Vermont, the Catskills and the Adiron- 
dacks. The promenade is always kept free from 
snow, so that it is a delightful place for exercise, no DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
43 
matter what the walking may be upon the streets. 
No less enjoyable is the Sun Parlor, with its glass 
roof, which catches every ray of the sun as it crosses 
the sky. It is veritably a Rest Hall, flooded with the 
sunbeams which give blood, health, vigor, warmth 
of life to persons suffering from failure of nervous or 
physical strength. 
The Rev. Dr. Charles Parkhurst, editor of Boston 
Zion's Herald, writes : 
“A marked and very pleasant feature of the house 
is its genial, cultured society and home-like socia- 
bility, and enumerates a long list of distinguished 
patrons.” 
From One Who Knows All About Saratoga. 
The following is an excerpt from a published letter 
written by Rev. T. W. Jones, D. D., for many years 
Pastor of the New England Congregational Church 
at Saratoga Springs, and now superintendent of the 
work of the American Home Missionary Society in 
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland: 
‘ ‘ As I have often been asked my opinion of Dr. 
Strong’s house, known as the Sanitarium, I think I 
can say in strictest truth that, take it all in all, there 
is no place in Saratoga that will compare with it. 
As a social centre it is charming, and both refining 
and morally elevating to young people. There is 
always an air of cheerfulness and moral purity about 
everything. And as a sanitarium I speak from 
knowledge when I say that I have known remarkable 
cures there, and certainly a more cheerful place could 
scarcely be found for the sick.” 
A Brilliant Author and Distinguished Educator. 
Rev. William F. Warren, LL. D., President Boston 
University, writes: 
“ Having just spent two and a half months in the 
Sanitarium of Dr. S. E. Strong, at Saratoga, I desire 
to assure any persons who may be influenced by my 
experience, that in this quiet and homelike Sani- 
tarium, temporary invalids and persons threatened 
with invalidism may find a combination of remedial 
agencies, appliances and conditions of the very 
highest value. The more I have seen of its working, 
and the more I have heard of its history, the pro- 
founder has been my appreciation of the skill and 44 
DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
patience and fidelity to the interests of the suffering, 
which have made the institution what it has been 
and is. 
“It seems superfluous to speak of the exceptionally 
high character of the guests and patrons, so well 
known are the bishops and statesmen and educators 
and professional men of every kind who, Summer 
and Winter, are found beneath its roof. Not content 
with past success, its managers are constantly study- 
ing to incorporate into the institution every real 
improvement, or appliance, or method which the 
progress of the healing arts bring to light. In par- 
ticularly commending the Sanitarium as eminently 
adapted to the needs of those, who by reason of long 
continued overwork and care, are compelled to seek 
rest and nervous recuperation at a distance from 
their ordinary responsibilities, I speak with the 
greater confidence, from the fact that my personal 
knowledge on this point has come from personal 
experience.” 
Rev. John Potts, D. D., General Secretary Methodist 
Church of Canada, writes: 
* ‘ It gives me great pleasure to speak cordially of 
benefits received on several occasions at Dr. Strong’s 
Sanitarium. The medical treatment of the institu- 
tion and the healing waters of Saratoga Springs 
render Saratoga the best place in the world for me, 
when suffering from nervous exhaustion or in need 
of rest. I wish to add that the atmosphere of the 
home, for such it is, is both socially and religiously 
refreshing.” 
Rev. Joachim Elmendorf, D. D., one of New York’s 
leading clergymen, says: 
‘ ‘ Located as is the Sanitarium of Dr. Strong in 
the midst of those wonderful, health-giving springs, 
whose waters are freely but judiciously used in it; 
organized and administered by thoroughly educated 
and experienced physicians and approved assistants; 
frequented mainly by those whose annual companion- 
ship generates a Christian friendship which character- 
izes and rules its social life, it seems to me, that it 
would be difficult to imagine a more attractive place 
for the sick in search of health, the tired in search of 
rest, the tourist in search of social, intellectual and 
spiritual enjoyment.” DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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The following is copied from the correspondence 
of Rev. Charles W. Cushing, D. D., Wheeling, West 
Virginia: 
“ It has been my good fortune to spend several 
weeks in the family of Dr. Strong, at the Sanitarium, 
at several different times, and I have always left 
with one impression, that everything about the insti- 
tution is eminently adapted to the accomplishment 
of the end for which it was intended. Sick or well, 
I know of no other place where I should so soon go 
for rest cr recruit. 
“ It is not only a remedial institution of the highest 
order, but a home of the purest social and religious 
atmosphere. Moreover, all within and about the 
institute has been arranged with special reference to 
the comfort and wellfare of its inmates. 
“ Perhaps I ought to say, for the benefit of the 
suffering, that no more skillful treatment can be 
found than that bestowed by Dr. Strong. If this 
statement needed confirmation, it would be had in 
the fact that the most eminent physicians in the 
country are sending difficult cases for treatment.” 
Clippings from Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler’s 
contribution to the press: 
‘ ‘ The prosperity of Saratoga depends very largely 
on its wonderful springs. All the world has heard 
of the virtues of the Saratoga waters; but I verily 
believe that half the battle in the recuperation of in- 
valids and overworked and run down people is the 
wonderful air. I do not know of another such at- 
mosphere. It is as dry as the sandy soil of the plain 
on which Saratoga stands, and it is bracing with 
vigor, as the north winds blow down three-fourths of 
the time from yonder Saccadaga Mountains, which 
are the southern spur of the Adirondacks. To 
breathe this translucent purity to-day is a perfect 
luxury. The oldest physicians claim that a case of 
indigenous malaria has never yet been known here. 
In saying all these true things about both the 
springs and the atmosphere I am simply paying my 
humble debt of personal gratitude to the agencies 
which, under Providence, have lengthened rny life. 
‘ ‘ Dr. Strong has made some fine improvements in 
his Sanitarium and the most attractive of them is a 
Sun Parlor constructed on the roof of the main build- 
ing. It is a cheerful apartment, covered with glass 
and furnished with reading tables, easy chairs and 46 
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flower-pots. On cold days in Winter and on some of 
the chilly days we have had recently, the guests find 
it very agreeable to go up there and bask in the 
warm, bright atmosphere. 
“ A new attraction at Dr. Strong’s has been the 
new and complete suite of bath-rooms, Turkish, Rus- 
sian, etc., which may well be pronounced gorgeous. 
I have not seen anything equal them any- 
where.” 
Rev. Robert P. Kerr, D. D., of Richmond, Va., 
writes: 
“ At Dr. Strong’s charming place we are now 
spending our fourth season. An elevator, a sky- 
parlor, a roof promenade, and other improvements 
added during the past year, and combined with the 
elements of comfort, which it before possessed, make 
it to us the most delightful Summer resting place we 
have found anywhere.’’ 
The names of the following patrons are taken from 
the register of the Sanitarium: 
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., LL. D., Brooklyn. 
Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, D. D., LL.D., Philadelphia. 
Prof. H. Knapp, M. D., New York. 
Bishop Henry Warren, D. D., LL.D., Denver. 
Rev. Robert P. Kerr, D. D., Richmond. 
John Englis, Brooklyn. 
Prof. Hunter McGuire, M. D., Richmond. 
Bishop John P. Newman, D. D., LL.D., Saratoga 
Springs, N. Y. 
Hon. George G. Reynolds, Brooklyn. 
Lieut.-Gov. Charles M. Stedman, Wilmington, N. C. 
Hon. A. B. Hepburn, New York. 
Prof. J. M. Van Vleck, LL.D., Middletown, Conn. 
Rev. Jos. Parker, D. D., London, England. 
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D., Albany, N. Y. 
W. A. Duncan, Ph.D., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D., Philadelphia. 
John D. Rockefeller, New York. 
Lady Henry Somerset, London, England. 
Treadwell Cleveland, New York. 
Rev. Newman Hall, D. D., London, England. 
Hon. Wallace Bruce, New York. 
Rev. S. V. Leech, D. D. 
William S. Cheeseman, Jr., M. D., Auburn. 
L. Kittinger, M. D., Wilmington, Del. 
Prof. Lewis Howe, M. D., Louisville. 
S. W. Rowell, Albany. 
Charles T. Porter, Montclair. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle D. D., Wabash, Ind. 
B. S. Purse, M. D., Savannah. 
W. O. Stillman, M. D., Albany. 
Rev. Geo. Summey, D. D., Clarksville, Tenn. 
Andrew T. Veeder, M. D., Pittsburg, Pa. 
V. A. Whittaker, North Adams, Mass. 
C. L. Sheldon, Auburn. 
D. D. Mallory, Baltimore. 
C. P. Townsend, Baltimore. 
Bishop Edward G. Andrews, New York. 
C. N. Chamberlain, M. D., Andover, Mass. 
Rev. George M. Stone, D. I)., Hartford. 
John Dickinson, M. D., Baltimore. 
George E. Gorham, M. D., Albany. 
George Hague, Montreal. 
Rev. Homer Eaton, D. D., New York. 
Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D., LL.D., New York. 
Rev. J. E. C. Sawyer, D. D., Syracuse. 
Rev. F. A. Noble, D. D., Chicago. 
T. W. Pemberton, Richmond, Va. 
Rev. George A. Hall, New York. 
P. J. B. Wait, M. D., New York. 
L. J. Mulford, New York. 
Rev. T. A. Mills, Ph. D., Wilkesbarre. 
D. A. Budge, Montreal. 
T. D. Crothers, M. D., Hartford. 
William Lathrop Moss, Chicago. 
Rev. Thos. Harrison, Boston. 
O. F. Presbery, M. D., New York. 
Prof. I. C. Van Benschoten, Middletown. 
Henry Birks, Montreal. 
John M. Price, Patchogue. 
W. F. Lewis, Montreal. 
E. B. Cowles, Boston. 
Hugh McLennan, Montreal. 
Lady Galt, Montreal. 
R. G. Reid, Montreal. 
Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., Cambridge. 
J. Bion Bogart, M. D. Brooklyn. 
Eleanor Haines, M. D., Newark. 
Rev. John Potts, D. D., Toronto. 
Jerome Jones, Boston. 48 
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SARATOGA AS A PLEASURE RESORT. 
Charming as may be the resorts of the 
mountains, the seaside, or by the palm shaded 
rivers of Southern lands, Saratoga, as a 
watering place, stands pre-eminent, without 
a peer. Only in a place possessing such vast 
accommodations can visitors in pursuit of 
health or pleasure be found congregated in 
such numbers. Essentially cosmopolitan in 
its character, Saratoga derives its clientage 
of guests from all parts of the world. It has 
its colonies—Southern, Spanish, Cuban, Eng- 
lish, German, French—and one sees all 
nationalities represented upon the broad 
avenues of this brilliant pleasure resort. It 
has been said that Saratoga is only a place 
for the rich, but around the vast hotels, which 
entertain guests of immense wealth, are 
comfortable homes and boarding houses 
where visitors can enjoy the pleasures and 
enjoyments of the great resort at a very 
reasonable outlay. 
Saratoga is one great open house; people 
live in the open air and continually find 
pleasure in the drives and walks, of which 
there are so great a variety. It abounds in 
healthful diversions and sources of amuse- 
ment, a fact of no little consequence to any 
who are seeking either in Summer or Winter 
recovery from over-strained nervous systems. 
It is rich in its historic associations and 
charming as to natural beauty of scene. 
With such resources as the following, time 
passes without ennui: Orchestral music at 
each of the large hotels each morning and 
evening, music in the beautiful Congress 
Spring Park daily with illuminations and 
other diversions. 
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studios, or to the Pompeiian House on South 
Broadway, the reproduction of the house of 
Pansa, a valuable addition to art. The 
Athenaeum on Broadway has a well selected 
library, and is a pleasant reading room. A 
flourishing branch of the Y. M. C. A. is estab- 
lished here. 
The driving facilities of Saratoga are 
varied and magnificent. In all directions 
from the village run broad avenues and well 
kept roads, the most popular drives being 
those to Saratoga Lake, the Geyser, Vichy 
and Kissengen Springs, to Woodlawn Park 
and over the Greenfield Hills, from which a 
splendid view may be obtained. 
Many enjoy a trip by the electric railroads 
to Saratoga Lake and a sail over its placid 
waters. Others find pleasure on the fine 
links of the Saratoga Golf Club. 
At the Sanitarium much enjoyment is fur- 
nished the guests during the Summer and 
Winter evenings by addresses and familiar 
talks upon subjects of great interests by 
prominent professional men, or those made 
familiar with the world by travel. Fre- 
quently a concert or musicale given in the 
drawing-room by distinguished metropolitan 
artists, and the younger guests find ample 
encouragement to arrange delightful amuse- 
ments which have made for the Sanitarium 
an enviable reputation in this direction. The 
roof promenade, of which previous mention 
has been made, on a warm Summer evening 
is a delightful resort, cool and refreshing as 
any mountain path can be. 
Guests at Saratoga find endless enjoy- 
ment in visiting the pavilions of the springs, 
where may be found at the regular drink- 
ing hours, multitudes of people drinking 
the life-giving waters, the various groups 
forming a scene both animated and pic- 
turesque. DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM. 
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TERMS. 
The house is open all the year, and re- 
ceives permanent or transient guests as well 
as patients. When treatment is not specified 
all rates given are for board alone. Rates 
for board and treatment are from $15 to $35 
per week, depending upon the room selected. 
During the Saratoga visiting season the above 
rates are somewhat advanced. 
Treatment includes all ordinary profes- 
sional services, massage, baths, and use of 
such special appliances of the Sanitarium as 
are prescribed, but not the first examination. 
First examination or consultation fee, 
$5 to $10. Physical examination, $10. 
A moderate charge is made for meals fur- 
nished in private rooms and for night at- 
tention. 
Medicine when required, furnished at 
druggists’ rates. 
Extra attention, surgery and treatment of 
the ear, nose and throat are subject to an 
extra charge. 
Reductions are made in cases requir- 
ing consideration. Clergymen, teachers 
and physicians are received at reduced 
rates. 
TERMS FOR BOARD WITHOUT TREATMENT. 
Depending upon the room occupied. 
By the day during the visiting season, 
from $2.50 to $3.50. Other months, $2 to $3 
per day. 
By the week, June, $12 to $20. 
July and August, $14 to $25. 
September, $12 to $20. 
Other months, $10 to $20. 
Bills payable weekly. 
Address, DR. STRONG’S SANITARIUM, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 52 
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INDEX. 
Synopsis of Appliances, 1 
View of Sanitarium from North Side, . . 2 
History, 3 
Advantages of the Sanitarium, . . . 3-4 
Location, ........ 5 
View of the Annex and Lawn Tennis Court, 6 
The Sanitarium Building, 7 
View of the Drawing-room, .... 8 
Heating, Ventilating, Lighting, Plumbing, . . 9 
View of the Reception Hall 10 
Fire Protection n 
The Interior Arrangements, . . , . 11 
Sanitarium Dietary, 12 
Gymnasium, 12 
The Delsarte System, 12 
Medicinal Advantages, 13 
The Equalizer or Vacuum Treatment, . 13-14 
Electricity, 15 
Galvanic Electricity, . . . . . .15 
Faradic Electricity, . . . . . . 15 
Static Electricity, 16 
Electrical Baths, 16 
Compressed Air 17 
Massage, 17 
Swedish Movements, ...... 18 
Baths, 18 
View of Reception Room, Turkish and Russian 
Baths, 20 
View of Turkish and Russian Bath Rooms, . 22 
View of the Plunge, 24 
Ticket of Directions, 26 
Natural Sulphur Water Baths, . . .27 
Nauheim Treatment, . . . . . 28 
Diseases of Women, ...... 28 
Nervous Diseases, ...... 29 
Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, . . .29 
Analysis of the Saratoga Waters, ... 30 
Saratoga Mineral Springs 31 
View of Interior of the Sun Parlor, ... 32 
Sun Parlor, 33 
Roof Promenade, ...... 34 
Situation of Saratoga, . . .... 34 
View from Front Piazza in Winter, ... 36 
Winter in Saratoga, 37 
A Day at the Sanitarium, 38-40 
View of Sun Parlor and Promenade on the 
Roof, ......... 41 
Press Notices of the Sanitarium, . . . 42-46 
Names of Patrons from Register, . . . 46-47 
Saratoga as a Pleasure Resort, .... 48 
View of a Corner of the Roof Promenade, . . 49 
Terms, 51