The South Florida climate has always been a key feature of the lure of the region. Local promoters wrote waxed poetic about the warm water and tropical breezes that restored health and vigor to the tired, winter-weary visitors from the North.

Local physicians called the region a "new fountain of health," and encouraged their northern counterparts to send patients to the South Florida sun to recuperate from a variety of cold-weather ailments.  This brochure features the Miami Battle Creek Sanitarium, which operated from 1930-1959. The facility and grounds in Miami Springs were donated by pioneering aviator and aircraft manufacturer Glenn Curtiss, the developer of Miami Springs as well as Opa-Locka and Hialeah. Curtiss had been a patron of John Harvey Kellogg’s original Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, and he encouraged Kellogg to open a similar facility in South Florida.

This brochure highlights the services and amenities offered at Miami Battle Creek, whose mission was the promotion of "health, race betterment, and human welfare." Through strict regimens of proper diet and exercise, patrons could learn the way to superhealth and overcome conditions ranging from arthritis and gastrointestinal disorders to heart and kidney disease.