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The La Fayette Dispensary Tuskegee is a retired little town, situated 40 miles east of Mont- gomery. It is a typical Southern town, with the court house in the centre, a few stores on the main street, and cows lazily browsing on the sidewalks. The natural beauty is marked; gentle sloping hills covered with grass, tall pines, stately oaks, and an abundance of flowers which bloom at all seasons of the year, making the air fragrant with their perfume. In such an Eden as this are found many suffering with diseases brought on by non-observance of the laws of health; for this is a portion of the South known as the "Black Belt," and black it is, not only with people of this despised hue, but black with disease and death. In the vicinity of our school are hundreds in need of medical attention. Children with tubercular tendencies, sore eyes, various skin troubles, and in a pitiable condition generally. Women with faces bearing the marks of pain upon them; faces which testify but too plainly that life is a burden with such diseases bodies. In the miserable log-cabins which are dotted here and there over the coun- try, will often be found a fever-tossed patient, with flushed face and bounding pulse, suffering in every fibre, but entirely without any medical aid either in the way of nurse or doctor, parents or friends, totally ignorant of their condition. Among them the most abject poverty, the blindest ignorance and the deepest apathy prevail. There is often the most stolid indifference as to the fate of the sick. This condition is to be largely attributed to the fact that medical attention, as a rule, is beyond the reach of but a few. The doctors charge $2.00 per mile for a visit, and this does not include the medicine. 106