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Wtye Right 5PiH?e. Dr. J. H. Schenck’s 
WORLD-RENOWNED 
Mandrake pills; 
The Infallible Remedy 
FOR ALL DISEASES OF 
Stomach, Liver, Bowels 
and Blood. Entered, according to Adi of Congress, in the year 1887, by 
J. H. SCHENCK, M. D., 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. An Opening Word. 
P PRACTITIONER who offers help to others has little to say, 
His adts and remedies do the talking for him. Though 
knowing by long experience and full well the curative 
properties of my Mandrake Pills, and the wonders they have 
accomplished, yet I do not prefer to take speech out of the 
mouths of the tens of thousands who have tried them and pro- 
nounced in their favor. Their united voice is—and it is not the 
voice of a day or a year, but of two generations—that they stand 
unequaled and unapproached in Materia Medica as a specific 
for a majority of the diseases which flesh is heir to. are 
not new candidates for popular favor, but tried agents that have 
passed every ordeal. Their virtues are positive in every form of 
Stomach, Liver and Blood Disease, which diseases are to a great 
extent the father of all others. They master by constitutional 
efficacy wdiere other remedies give only temporary relief or fail 
entirely. As preventives of disease they are unexcelled. In 
point of convenience and economy they surpass all the remedies 
of the pharmacopoeia. Doctors use them as wTell as families and 
individuals. In the following pages I show when and how they 
can be used to best advantage. 
J. H. Schenck, M. D. C OMTWMTB. 
PAGE. 
AGUE, 17 
ALCOHOL, ... - 29 
AMER. DISPENSATORY, 7 
APPETITE, LOSS OF, - 12 
BAD PILLS, ... 5 
BATHING, * 24 
BILIOUSNESS, - 15 
BLOOD POISON, 17 
BLOOD PURIFICATION, 18 
BRIGHT’S DISEASE, - 11 
CATARRH, .... 17 
CELLAR, THE, - 25 
CHILLS, .... 17 
CHRONIC CONGESTION, 13 
CHRONIC INDIGESTION, 9 
CLOTHING, - 26 
COCOA, .... 29 
COFFEE, 29 
COLD AGENCY, - - 26 
COLDS, 11 
COLIC, .... 16 
COLORS, 27 
CONGESTION, - 13 
CONGESTION OF LIVER, 14 
CONTAGIONS - 26 
COOKING, .... 27 
CONSTIPATION - 16 
COUGHS .... 11 
CRADLES, .... 25 
CRAMPS, .... 16 
DANGEROUS PILLS, - 5 
DESPONDENCY, 13 
DIGESTION. - 28 
DIARRHCEA, - 15 
DYSPEPSIA, --- 10 
ENLARGEMENT OF LIVER, 14 
ERUCTATIONS, - 10 
EXERCISE, - 27 
EXERCISE, AMOUNT OF, 29 
FEET, THE, - 26 
FEVERS .... 17 
FLATULENCY, - 10 
FOOD, 27 
FOOD ACCESSORIES, - 29 
FOOD IMPURITIES, - 29 
GOOD PILLS, 6 
GYMNASTICS, - 30 
HEAD, THE, - 25 
HEADACHE, - 10 
HEAT AGENCY, - 25 
HEARTBURN, - - - , 10 
HYPOCHONDRIA, - - 13 
INDIGESTION, - - 9 
INDIGESTION, ACUTE, - 9 
INFLAMMATION, - 11 
PAGE. 
INSOMNIA, - - - 11 
JAUNDICE, - 15 
KIDNEYS, .... 8 
KIDNEY DISEASES, - 16 
LIVER 8 
LIVER COMPLAINT, - 14 
LOSS OF APPETITE, - 12 
LOSS OF VITALITY, - 12 
MALARIA, - 17 
MANDRAKE PILLS - 6 
MANDRAKE, WHAT? - 7 
MEALS .... 28 
MELANCHOLY, - 13 
MERCURIAL POISON, - 8 
MERCURY WHY NOT? - 7 
NAUSEA, - 12 
NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA, - 12 
NERVOUSNESS, - 11 
NERVOUS PROSTRATION, 11 
NEURALGIA, - 16 
NUTRITION, - 18 
PAINS .... 15 
PALPITATION, - 10 
PANCREAS, ... 14 
PILLS, 5 
PREVENTABLE DISEASES, 25 
PREVENTION OF DISEASE. 24 
ROUND CHESTS, - - 24 
SANITARY SCIENCE, - 24 
SLEEP .... 30 
SORENESS, - 15 
SOUR ERUCTATIONS, - 10 
SPLEEN, 8 
STOMACH. ... 8 
SUICIDAL INTENT, - - 13 
SUNLIGHT, ... 28 
TEA 29 
TEETH, ... - 29 
TESTIMONIALS, - 19 
THE SKIN, ... 24 
TOBACCO, ' 29 
TYPHOID, ' 17 
UNDERSTAND YOURSELF, 5 
URINARY TROUBLE. - 16 
VENTILATION, - - - 25 
VITALITY, LOSS OF, - 12 
VOMITING, ‘ 12 
WALLS, ”, ' 27 
WATER, GREASY, - - 25 
WATER, IMPURE, 27 
WHY MANDRAKE PILLS, 6 Dr. J. H. Schenck’s 
Mandrake Pills 
What They Cure, and Why. 
WHEN ill, try to understand yourself. Then find out 
all you can about your medicine. Don’t go into 
foolish experiments at a critical moment. Better 
rely on what Science has already wrested from Nature and 
proved by long usage. When disease is the target, never 
shoot at long range nor with uncertain aim. 
Pills.—Pills are the commonest, handiest, and least nau- 
seating form of medicine. They are also a convenient form 
in which to compound, preserve, and transport it. 
Bad Pills. — Many pills are badly compounded; ingre- 
dients are not rightly proportioned, and are poorly mixed. 
One ingredient may counteract the effect of another. Few 
pills are so carefully made as to preserve their properties. 
Dangerous Pills.—In olden times pills were of mon- 
strous size. Medicines were then crude, and it took large 
quantities for a dose. The pendulum swung to the other 
extreme, kittle pills got to be the fashion. Three things 
happened. Most of such pills were worthless—had to be, in 
fact; for, admitting that they were not mere blinds, there is 
a point beyond which the essentials of a good pill cannot be 
compressed, especially a vegetable pill. As a rule, when 
pills decreased in size the dose increased in number—a confes- 
sion that nothing was gained to the patient except the in- 
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convenience of taking more pills. The small pills were often 
positively dangerous, because, in order to have any virtue at 
all, they contained highly concentrated mineral poisons, like 
mercury in its various forms, which is deadly iu the end. 
G-OCd Pills.—There is both science and art in making 
pills. The science consists in adapting a remedy to a disease, 
or set of diseases, in the right proportion—in using only 
fresh, pure and active essentials—in close compounding and 
even distribution of those essentials, so that every pill will 
have the same medicinal value—in preserving those essen- 
tials so that pills will not stale. The art consists in skillful 
manipulation of the mass so as to preserve all the scientific 
proportions and properties, and in securing a product which 
shall in all respects meet the original medical intention. 
This art is now made very high and exact in Dr. Schenck’s 
Laboratory by the use of delicate and costly machinery. 
The coated pill is a refinement for the benefit of fastidious 
tastes, and in some instances to protect volatile ingredients ; 
but where a direct effect is desirable the propriety of intro- 
ducing anything into the stomach except the required medi- 
cine may be doubted. 
The Mandrake Pills. — The manufacture of Dr. 
Schenclc’s celebrated Mandrake Pills is the highest 
achievement of both science and art. They meet exactly 
the officinal standards. Every pill is a guarantee of the 
essential and curative properties of Mandrake — purely, 
freshly and highly compounded, correctly proportioned, and 
iu every medical respect calculated to introduce into the 
system just what is requisite for the cure of those diseases 
for which Nature has designed Mandrake as a specific. The 
machinery for rolling and perfecting the mass, and giving 
the pills shape and consistency, is the most elaborate and per- 
fect of its kind in the world, and its capacity would astound 
the uninitiated. 
Why Mandrake Pills?—They had to be Mandrake 
Pills because the elder Dr. Seheuck, in his long, laborious 7 
and successful search for a cure for consumption, reached the 
conclusion that the cause of that dread disease was to be 
found in chronic derangement of the stomach, liver and blood, 
and that the cause must be treated and removed before the dis- 
ease could be eradicated. He clearly saw the seeds of con- 
sumption and other deadly diseases in disturbed conditions 
of stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys, bowels and blood. Hence 
it was but natural for him, as an experimental scientist and 
student of special diseases, to look about for a remedy which 
would infallibly reach those great organs of digestion, secre- 
tion, alimentation and purification—in other words, the organs 
on which strength, vitality and healthy circulation depend, 
and whose weakness or derangement was a sure source of 
emaciation, inanition, and death. With a judgment that has 
proved a beneficence to hundreds of thousands, he settled on 
the adtive principle of Mandrake as the remedy designed by 
Nature to meet and conquer the diseases incident to the di- 
gestive, secretive and circulatory organs of the body. Hence 
Dr. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. 
What is Mandrake?—Here we let the book speak. 
The American Dispensatory says : 
“ Mandrake is cathartic, emetic, alterative, anthelmintic (destroyer of worms), 
hydragogue (driving out serum from the body) and sialagogue (promoting secretions;. 
It is an active and certain cathartic (cleansing the bowels), being equal, ifnot superior, 
to jalap, though operating more slowly. As a deobstruent (remover of obstacles, 
cleanser) it is one of the most valuable in our Materia Medic a, acting through and 
upon all the tissues of the system —and its action continues for a long time. In bilious 
and typhoid febrile (fever) diseases it is very valuable as a cathartic and emeto- 
cathartic, often breaking up the disease at once. In chronic hepatitis (liver complaint) 
there is not its superior in the whole range of medicines, being vastly more useful than 
mercurial agents, arousing the liver to healthy action, increasing the flow of bile, and 
keeping up these actions longer than any other agent with which are acquainted. In 
alterative dose.% it has been found exceedingly valuable in scrofula, syphilitic diseases, 
rheumatism, and many other forms of chronic disease. In constipation it ads upon 
the bowels without predisposing them to subsequent costiveness. It has likewise 
been found very beneficial in dysmenorrhea (difficult menstruation), amenorrhea 
(absence of menstrual flow), incontinence of urine, worms, and afife<5tions of the 
bladder.” 
Why Not Mercury?—It required a bold practitioner to 
fly in the face of Mercury pills, or mercurial treatment, two 
generations ago. And even yet, notwithstanding the facl 
that Mercury has been laid on the shelf, together with hun- 8 
dreds of other mineral poisons, by skilled physicians, there 
are some barbarians who insist upon ruining human consti- 
tutions by administering it. But we wish to deal as fairly 
with Mercury, the poisonous mineral, as with Mandrake, 
the potential vegetable. Therefore we quote from the same 
high authority — The American Dispensatory. It says : 
“ Mercury in a metallic state is inert ; but its oxides and compounds act in the 
same way, possessing sialagogue, deobstruent and alterative properties, the charac- 
ter and degree of which are frequently diminished or increased by agents in combi- 
nation with it. When long continued, and in many instances a lew doses with 
susceptible constitutions, it induces a succession of very serious symptoms, as emacia- 
tion, general debility, oedema (dropsical swelling), tremor of the limbs, diseased liver, 
pain in the bones, caries (rotting away of the bones), palsy, ulceration of the throat, 
gangrenous ulcerations of the mouth, and a sort of scorbutic marasmus (scurvy, wasting 
away). It likewise produces a febrile (fever) condition of the system, profuse per- 
spiration, several forms of cutaneous (skin) disease, together with painful nervous 
attacks. It was introduced into the medical profession by that notorious quack of 
former years, Paracelsus.” 
In all its forms it is one of the most uncertain of medicines 
in its action; and even in the common form of calomel, he is 
a very rash, foolish or dangerous dodtor who does not give 
it in connection with some adtive purgative, to save the 
system from its deadly effedts. When it once gets into the 
system—seated in the tissues or bones—it is well-nigh im- 
possible to eradicate it. It is slow death—worse almost than 
any disease for which it is claimed as a cure. And yet this 
is the very stuff that forms the basis of far too many of our 
modern pills. Can you wonder then that in seeking a cure 
for diseases of the digestive, secretive and circulatory 
organs, Dr. Schenck avoided entirely the medicines which 
produced those diseases, and others besides ? It was his 
high mission to cleanse and build up the system, not to be- 
foul it and break it down. Therefore Mandrake, the vege- 
table purifier, instead of Mercury, the mineral poison. 
The Stomach and Other Organs.—It is not our pur- 
pose here to speak of the nature and function of the stomach, 
liver, spleen, kidneys, etc. They will be found fully treated 
in Dr. Schenck’s work upon “Consumption and Other Dis- 
eases of the Vital Organs,” which will be sent free to any one 
who asks for it. We only suggest that one cannot know too much of the organs upon which health and strength depend, 
and this especially since those organs can be brought under 
such complete control by the active principle of Mandrake 
as found proportioned and compounded in Dr. Schenck’s 
celebrated Mandrake Pills. The scope of this little work 
embraces only a mention of the particular diseases for which 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills have been found to be a specific. 
In mentioning them we do not wish the fact to be lost sight of 
that nearly all the deadlier constitutional diseases like con- 
sumption, cancer, Bright’s disease, &c., find a parent in the 
long disturbed function or active disease of the very organs 
which are best treated by Mandrake, and that the only 
known cure for such constitutional diseases is a restoration 
of these organs of -digestion, secretion and circulation to 
their normal function. 
Indigestion.—A familiar complaint, and a general want 
of power of the digestive juices of the stomach to convert 
what is eaten into healthy nutriment. From it proceeds 
nearly all the diseases to which we are liable. When the 
stomach is right the man is right. Dr. Schenck’s Man- 
drake Pills are wonderful correctives of the stomach 
conditions which induce indigestion. They cleanse the 
membranes, open the secretions, correct the acids, and start 
up a healthy action of the entire organ. 
Acute Indigestion—May occur in a healthy stomach 
by overeating, or by taking uncooked or other indigestible 
food. The stomach congests—refuses to perform its function. 
There ensues pain, cramp, colic, and doubling-up. Death 
may follow, if relief is not prompt. Here Dr. Schenck’s 
Mandrake Pills must be used heroically. They rid the 
stomach of the offending matter. Then they set about the 
repair of damages, and finally restore the normal function of 
the distressed organ. 
Chronic Indigestion —Habitual tardiness of the stom- 
ach to ac5t, and may be accompanied with all the pain and 10 
inconvenience of adtual dyspepsia. It requires patient and 
judicious treatment with Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. A 
cure is sure if the remedy is pursued faithfully. 
Dyspepsia—The “American disease’’—general stomach 
disturbance and positive refusal of adtion ; pain, nausea, 
eviction of food, loss of physical stamina, nervousness, 
melancholy, etc., etc. The only cure is persistent ministra- 
tion of Mandrake through the agency of Schenck’s Man- 
drake Pills. This insures a cleansing, healing and toning 
of the disturbed membranes, an opening of all the secretive 
and nutritive organs, and the general revival of dormant 
powers. Exercise is a splendid adjundt—tending to quicken 
the circulation and encourage nutrition. 
Headache—Inseparable from stomach trouble, and in- 
variably caused by it. In treating the stomach with 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills you reach the cause of head- 
ache, and cure it. 
Heartburn—Sure indication that food is not digesting, 
but fermenting—a distressing condition, consisting of burn- 
ing at the pit of the stomach and up the alimentary canal. 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills corredt the distress by causing 
a flow of the juices necessary to proper digestion. 
Sour Eructations. — When food ferments gases are 
created. The escape of these carries into the throat the sour, 
burning sensation which is so disagreeable. The cor- 
recftive is Schenck’s Mandrake Piles. They produce 
proper digestion, and afford permanent relief. 
Flatulency.—Painful fullness of the stomach and bowels, 
with frequent belching of the wind, is a sure indication that 
digestion is imperfedt. By using Schenck’s Mandrake 
Pi ELS you can overcome this condition and save yourself 
much distress. 
Palpitation.—Hard and hasty heart-adtion is common 
to stomach disturbance. It may be sympathetic—that is, 
nervous—or it may be adtual pressure on the heart spaces, occasioned by a distended stomach. In either case the 
natural remedy is Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, which set 
the stomach right and remove the cause of disturbance. 
Mandrake has also a diredt soothing influence on the heart’s 
adtion. Hence its great virtue in fevers, which always in- 
crease the pulse. 
Nervousness.—Every form of indigestion and dyspepsia 
induces nervousness, which sometimes amounts almost to a 
palsy. Here Schenck’s Mandrake Pills are particularly 
efficacious. They not only put the stomach in trim, but 
they soothe and tone the system, lifting it above the weak- 
ness which leads to nervousness. 
Nervous Prostration. — The dyspeptic condition, 
coupled with extreme nervousness, often leads to abject pros- 
tration. The patient is “done for,” as it were, and must be 
raised by cautious treatment. The system must be cleansed, 
the secretions restored, and there must be a building up by 
the best known tonics. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills will 
surely do the first part of the work, and in the second part 
their action can be increased by use of Dr. Schenck’s Sea- 
Weed Tonic, which is as much of a wonder in its way as 
Mandrake. 
Insomnia.—Sleeplessness, due to nervous excitement in 
the stomach, is distressing. Cleanse and calm by mild doses 
of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, and you can cure it. Be- 
ware of opiates and poisonous soporifics. 
Coughs and Colds.—First take a good dose of Schenck’s 
Mandrake Pills to cleanse the stomach and bowels and 
stimulate the liver. Then take that never-failing, safe rem- 
edy, Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup, which, unlike all other cough 
medicines, contains no opium nor any other injurious in- 
gredient. It is the best cough medicine in the world. 
Inflammation.—Every dyspeptic condition, when it runs 
on awhile, turns into inflammation of the stomach, either 
temporarily or permanently. You can avoid this by watch- 12 
ing and treating carefully. But if you have been neglectful, 
and inflammation becomes a stomach condition, then you 
must use diet, and take Schenck’s Mandrake Pills in 
easy doses till all the symptoms pass away. 
Nervous Dyspepsia.—This is only a doctor’s name for 
the two former shapes which dyspepsia takes. You get at 
the cause by using Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, and this is 
the rational way of treating all diseases. 
Loss of Appetite.—When the taking of food is a source 
of misery, when nutrition is imperfedt, when vitality is run- 
ning down to zero, there is naturally a disgust for the very 
means which sustain life. This loss of appetite is a serious 
matter. You should make the stomach invite food by help- 
ing it to get rid of food. Restore its fundtions at once by 
using Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. You will wonder at 
the change in a very short while. 
Nausea—A simple refusal of stomach-adtion ; one of the 
various forms of dyspepsia or indigestion, aggravated often 
by an overflow of bile. Both stomach and liver need at- 
tention. They will get it promptly by treatment with 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. 
Vomiting.—The food comes up, sometimes sour, some- 
times bitter, often both. In the first place you must corredt 
the acids; in the second, the bile. Here the efficacy of 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills is paramount. They restore 
the retarded flow of the gastric (digestive) juices, and at the 
same time corredt the disturbed adtion of the liver, which 
has been sending down too much bile, or bile of a bad 
quality. 
Loss of Vitality.—A dyspeptic is always under par. 
No wonder! He can’t digest; he can’t nourish. He is 
getting ready for the first fatal disease that comes along. 
This condition ought not to be—need not be—if Schenck’s 
Mandrake Pills can be had. They lift one out of this 
Condition with a promptitude which shows that Nature is a kind mistress, once she has been induced to give up her pre- 
cious secrets. 
Despondency.—Everything looks blue to a dyspeptic. 
Nothing goes right. He is out with his business, his family, 
and the world. But why despond when a few judicious doses 
of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills will set the stomach and 
liver to adting, and restore vitality to the system and sun- 
shine to the countenance ? 
Melancholy—Settled despondency ; a morbid extreme 
which requires the treatment afforded by Schenck’s Man- 
drake Pills before the will can be expedted to re-assert 
itself and aid medical treatment. 
Hypochondria.—The mental organization takes on dis- 
ease. It is, so to speak, a dyspepsia of the mind. Conduct 
is erratic. Life is a burden. It requires a careful re-instate- 
ment of the stomach adtion, a restoration of the nervous sys- 
tem, and a changed nutrition and circulation by patient use 
of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills before a cure can be effected. 
Suicidal Intent.—Not unusual with hypochondriacs and 
despondent people. Keep away dyspepsia by judicious use 
of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. Keep the liver, the kid- 
neys, the bowels working, by the same kindly agent, and 
there will be no melancholy, and precious few suicides. 
Congestion.—Any part of the body is liable to conges- 
tion—that is, to sudden engorgement of the blood-vessels by 
cold. The liver is peculiarly liable to congestion. So are 
the lungs and stomach, But the stomach may be thrown 
into acute congestion by too much food—by bad, indiges- 
tible food. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills are admirable for 
reducing congestion in the stomach. Indeed, they are a 
specific for this form of disease both in stomach and liver. 
Chronic Congestion.—An habitually gorged and pain- 
ful stomach and liver, and one of the most distressing forms 
of dyspepsia. Liable to become acute at any moment, It is treatable with Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, which invari- 
ably clear away the obstructions, re-establish the secretions 
and reduce the inflamed membranes to their normal condi- 
tion. 
Pancreas.—Not much attention is paid to the pancreas. 
But it secretes the pancreatic fluid, which plays almost as 
important a part in second digestion as the bile. It is an 
organ of digestion, and as such is peculiarly susceptible to 
treatment with Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. They in- 
crease the flow of the pancreatic juice when it is tardy, and 
give it digestive potency when it is thin and weak. 
Liver Complaint.—What a wonderful organ the liver 
is! Without it we could not digest food. Without it we 
could not purify the blood. The commonest form of liver 
disease is that known as liver complaint. It is general dis- 
turbance of the action of the organ, and manifests itself in a 
sallow skin, loss of appetite, lassitude, pain in different por- 
tions of the body, soreness in right side, wasting away, mel- 
ancholy, etc. Depend upon it the organ needs immediate 
treatment, and there is none so diredt and efficacious as that 
furnished by Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. Here the de- 
obstruent virtues of Mandrake tell with wonderful effedt. 
They cleanse the organ, set it to working, and, as the Dis- 
pensatory says, “keep it working.” The result is a speedy 
cure of liver complaint. 
Congestion of the Liver. — This may be acute or 
chronic. The organ is clogged and can’t work. This pain- 
ful and dangerous condition yields diredtly to treatment with 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, and the patient is saved from 
serious complications. 
Enlargement of the Liver.—Sluggish livers run into 
chronic congestion and permanent enlargement if they are 
not kept up to their work by treatment with Schenck’s Man- 
drake Pills. By persistent cleansing of the organ, and 
insisting that it shall perform its adtion, the tendency to en- 15 
iargement can be overcome, and the system can be saved 
from untold complications. 
Biliousness.—It is easy to tell when one is bilious by the 
complexiou, tone of the stomach, and condition of the pulse. 
The liver is at fault. It is sending down bad bile or too 
much of ir, or else it is not extracting the bile ingredients 
from the blood, and the poisons are carried around in the 
circulation. You must put the offending organ to rights at 
once by Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. They are the best 
corrective of biliousness that Nature has given us. How 
many hundreds of serious diseases might be prevented if we 
were only wise enough to apply this wonderful vegetable cure 
for biliousness when the color, stomach or pulse sound the 
first note of warning ! 
Jaundice.—You have wdsted too much time. The liver 
has not taken the bile ingredients from the blood, as it should 
have done. It has shirked its duty. Those ingredients in 
the nature of impurities, or poisons, are carried around and 
around in the blood, and begin to show themselves in the 
skin. Jaundice means a poisoned system. You must get at 
the cause at once. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills will find 
the cause. They remind the liver of its duty—prompt it to 
go about its natural work. In a short while the organ will 
be busy extracting the poisons from the blood and making 
bile of them. Then, with a pure circulation, the jaundice 
will disappear. 
Pains and Soreness.—Nearly all disturbances of the 
liver are accompanied by pains iti different portions of the 
body and by soreness of the muscles. Accept these as 
Nature’s admonitions, and take a course of treatment with 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. You will come out all right 
in a very few days. 
Diarrhoea.—Possibly nine-tenths of the diarrhoeas come 
from an inflamed condition of' the bowels, caused by un- 
digested food passing into them, from a tendency to conges- bon, or from catarrhal conditions. Where aiiy of these are 
causes; Schenck’s Mandrake Pills work a sure cure, if 
used in the proper way; They assure a perfect digestion. 
They reduce inflammation and congestion. They cleanse the 
membranes of catarrhal effusion, and heal them. And so, 
reaching the sources of trouble, they eventually remove them. 
Constipation.—The refusal of action which is called con- 
stipation, whether in the stomach, liver or bowels, is effectu- 
ally relieved by patient treatment with Schenck’s Man- 
drake Pills. Use freely at first, and then gently, till the 
stubbornness is overcome. Mandrake differs from all other 
purgatives in the respect that its active use is not followed 
by constipation. Its laxative virtues lead to no reaction. 
Cramps.—Whether occasioned by acute indigestion or 
congested condition of any of the organs, cramps can be speed- 
ily allayed by active use of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. 
Colic.—This is cramp, accompanied with violent •con- 
traction and spasm. Temporary relief may be sought through 
external applications, but permanent relief must be sought 
by reaching the cause. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills re- 
move offending matter, clear the obstructions, and restore 
the deranged organ to its normal action. 
Neuralgia.—This unexplained but painful disease very 
often yields to treatment with Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. 
This is especially so where the disease is due, as it frequently 
is, to disturbed function of the digestive, secretive or circu- 
latory organs. Even where it is erratic, or nervous, the 
soothing effect of Mandrake on the system effects a cure. 
Urinary Troubles.—Wherever this class of troubles is 
due to defective secretions Schenck’s Mandrake Piles 
give relief. They are deobstruent—that is, they remove ob- 
stacles which obstruct the secretions. 
Kidney Diseases.—As glands, or organs, of secretion, 
the kidneys are as susceptible to the influence of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills as any other of the great organs of secre- 
tion. Their action can be made to harmonize with the 
healthy action of the Stomach, Tiver, Spleen, Bowels and 
Blood, and thus a tendency to Bright’s disease and others 
quite as fatal can be checked. 
Malaria.—Whether gaseous or animalcular, this is poison 
in the blood. It could never get there if the liver did its 
duty. It can only be gotten out by making the liver per- 
form its whole fundtion. Hence Schenck’s Mandrake 
Pills come into play in the nature of a specific for this com- 
mon and insidious disease—a parent of hundreds of others. 
No person living in low, flat countries, near swamps or 
rivers, or in houses with sewer connedtions, should be with- 
out Schenck’s Mandrake Pills, and they should be freely 
and regularly used. 
Blood Poison.—If, for any reason, the liver fails to adt, 
the blood is gradually poisoned. We have already seen how 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills conduce to blood purification 
by restoring the lost function of that important organ. 
Chills and Fevers.—These are one of many manifesta- 
tions of malaria in the system. They can be broken up by 
free use of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. The action of 
Mandrake is not temporary in this respedt. But their great- 
est worth in malarial sedtions is their preventive quality. 
One who keeps the stomach in good trim and the secretions 
open by occasional doses of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills 
can defy malaria and its outcrop, chills and fever. 
Typhoid Symptoms.—These are various, but in general 
the result of long neglect of the stomach and liver. As to 
the effedt of Schenck’s Mandrake Piles in breaking up 
these dangerous symptoms we refer the reader to what the 
American Dispensatory has said of Mandrake. See page 7 
of this pamphlet. 
Catarrh.—Wherever the mucous membrane extends—and 
it lines the entire alimentary system—there is a liability to 18 
catarrh. There is catarrh of the throat, stomach and bowels. 
The cleansing power of Schenck’s Mandrake Piles is 
very effedtive in this disease. In observing the effedt of 
Mandrake on the system the elder Dr. Schenck expressed 
himself as surprised at the extent of the catarrhal effusions 
carried into the stool, after taking his pills. 
Blood Purification.—It is hardly necessary to say more 
about the fundtion of the liver as a blood purifier. By con- 
trolling that organ, Schenck’s Mandrake Pills become 
the agent for assuring pure blood. But a pure blood means 
also a free circulation. As it carries nutriment to the body, 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills become equally effedtive as an 
agent for securing— 
Nutrition.—And how important proper nutrition is ! It 
is the key to that awfully solemn situation which precedes 
lack of vitality, wasting away, consumption. To hold that 
key is to be able to revive the drooping body and re-imbue 
it with life. Sciienck’s Mandrake Pills, therefore, not 
only control vital organs diredtly, and cure their several dis- 
eases, but by their general effedt on the system they restore 
its lost stamina, and thereby prevent fatal drifts toward dis- 
eases which involve the entire constitution. The experience 
of fifty years with Dr. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills fully 
confirms what the America?i Dispensatory says of Mandrake 
as a medicine. And this experience, complete from a scien- 
tific and professional standpoint, is effectually rounded out, 
affirmed and re-affirmed by an array of grateful witnesses 
whose number cannot be counted, who represent every nation 
and clime, and whose voluntary testimonials would, if 
printed, fill entire volumes. Dr. SCHENCK’S 
Mandrake * Pills. 
Pure, Safe, Prompt, Infallible! 
The Approved Vegetable Remedy Supplants Mercury 
and All Mineral Poisons. 
Voices of Thanks and Praise from Rescued Sufferers; 
A LIVING MONUMENT. 
Dk. J. H. Schenck. 
Dear Sir :—I have used your remedies in my family for over twenty 
years with most beneficial results. Twelve years ago the physicians left 
my wife to die, but, thanks to your great medicines, she lives to-day, a 
monument to their efficacy. W. D. DUYKINCK, 
13 \V. 27th St., New York City. 
a case of LIVER COMPLAINT that the physicians mistook 
FOR CONSUMPTION CURED BY DR. SCHEIMCK’S 
MANDRAKE PILLS. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Gents :—My wife was sick in 1843, and I applied to the best physician 
I could find. The doctor brought with him another physician, and after an 
examination they pronounced the case Consumption of the Lung£, and said 
my wife could perhaps live six months. 
This, of course, alarmed me, and I began to study the case myself, 
which convinced me that the doctors were wrong. She had a bad cough, 
very little appetite, and other distressing symptoms; but when I told the 
doctors she had no Consumption, they said, “She has all the symptoms.” 
I came across a box of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills and induced my wife 
to try them. She soon found they were necessary to her health, and, 
although she was called a feeble woman, she was restored to health, and 
was enabled to do the housework on a farm all alone for ten years, which, I 
am convinced, never would have been the case had it not been for your Pills. 
In over thirty years I do not know of a case of stomach or liver trouble 
that Schenck’s Mandrake Pills did not relieve. E. A. ROBY, 
Sparta, Kent County, Mich. 20 
A SEVERE CASE OF Bl LIOUS COLIC CURED BY A PHYSICIAN WHO 
RECOMMENDS DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck. 
About nineteen years ago I was attacked with my first spell of Bilious 
Colic, which was so severe that my doctor and others present thought I could 
not live. From this time on for four years I had many attacks, more or less 
severe, and so frequent that I was almost unable to get about. My stomach 
was swollen, and so sore that the least jolt in walking was very painful. 
1 was treated by a good physician, and I have no doubt that he used his best 
ability; but I got no permanent relief until, by his advice, which I think 
was his final resort, I took Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. He said he thought 
they would be good for my liver; and I am glad to say that a half box did 
me more good than anything else. All the soreness about the liver left me. 
By a little attention and occasional small doses of the Pills, I have prevented 
any further trouble in fourteen years, excepting one or two light attacks, 
and they might have been prevented had I resorted to the Pills in time. 
I keep Schenck’s Mandrake Pills on hand all the time, and always recom- 
mend them to sufferers from bilious affections. 
Yours, &c., JOHN J. WILLIAMS, 
St. Augustine, Md. 
VERTItaO.—ELLIS F. WARD, ONE OF THE WARD BROTHERS, THE 
FAMOUS OARSMEN, SAYS: 
I was engaged to row a race against John Biglin, at Springfield, Mass., 
July 15,1873. After rowing about a mile I was attacked with vertigo, and 
fell over in my boat. Being taken ashore, I felt severe pains in my head 
and chest, as also my right side, from which I suffered for two years, during 
which time I was not able to row a stroke. I was attended by four doctors, 
who tried inward and outward applications, but without any beneficial effect. 
The doctors all told me I had Liver Complaint. Through the advice of a 
friend I was induced to take Dr. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. In the course 
of a month I was able to row again. After the first or second dose the pain 
left my side and head, and I continued, taking the Pills until I was entirely 
cured. Since then, whenever I feel sick, I take a dose of Schenck’s Man- 
drake Pills, and have never been prevented from rowing or working. My 
family all use Dr. Schenck’s medicines with great benefit. 
ellis f: WARD, 
2714 Brown Street, Philadelphia. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck. 
Dear Sir :—Having suffered for a considerable time with pains in the 
left chest, together with symptoms of indigestion generally, I was induced 
to try your Sea-Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, from which I received 
immediate relief, and now consider myself entirely cured. It affords me 
great pleasure to recommend the above remedies to others who are simi- 
larly affected. W. M. ABEL, 
Kensington Depot, Pennsylvania R. R, 
IMMEDIATE RELIEF AND ENTIRE CURE. 21 
A PROMINENT U. S. ARMY OFFICER WRITES AS FOLLOWS: 
My Dear Doctor—If you will permit me so to address you; it is 
but natural to feel affection for the physician whose medicine does one good. 
You were kind enough a few months ago, when I was stationed at Wingate, 
to bother yourself with my small order for Pills. Will you now please 
send me another box ? After seven years of their use, five and a half of 
those years in the malarial districts of the South, where I learned to know 
their value well, I find I cannot do without them. When in the States I 
could procure them from the druggists; but out here, away from civilization 
almost, I have to send direct to you. Wherever I go, a box of Dr. Schenck’s. 
Mandrake Pills goes with me, be it on the road, traveling; in the field, on 
a scout; or to a new post—not that I have to use them often, but when I 
need them I need them badly, and must have them. They are far superior,, 
for me at least, to the army surgeon’s “ Blue Mass.” 
a CASE OF PAINT POISONING and GENERAL DERANGE- 
MENT of the WHOLE SYSTEM cured by the 
USE OF DR. SCHENCK’S MEDICINES. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dear Sirs:—I am a believer in Schenck’s medicines all and every 
time, for I know what they did for me. 
My case was paint poisoning and general derangement of the whole 
system, and after paying the doctors about $150.00, which did me no good 
whatever, I quit the whole of them and bought $12.00 worth of Schenck’s 
medicines, and they cured me. I felt like a new man, and was, in fact,, 
physically. 
My business now is a country grocer and postmaster, and one thing I 
always keep in stock: Schenck’s Pills; and I sell no other, nor don’t want to. 
Very respectfully, JAMES MARINER, 
Bowery Beach, Me. 
DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS GIVE MORE SATIS- 
FACTION THAN ANY OTHER. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck. 
Dear Sir:—As long back as I can remember my father sold your 
preparations, and I have been selling and using your Pills in my family fur 
fifteen years, and I am free to say that they give more satisfaction than any 
other. JOS. PASSANO, Postmaster, 
Reisterstown, Md. 
HE FOUND RELIEF ON LY IN DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PiLLS. 
I ain a great advocate of Dr. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills for Liver 
Complaint. Have used them for fifteen years, and I cheerfully say that I 
have always found them efficacious in regulating my stomach and liver. 
I liave used all kinds of pills, but found relief only in yours. 
S. A. BLAIR, Agent Globe Line, 
28o Adams Street, Toledo, Ohio, 22 
BEING UNABLE TO PROCURE DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS 
AT HOME, COMMISSIONS A FRIEND WHO IS GOING TO 
THE STATES TO BRING SIX BOXES. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck. 
Dear Sir:—I have used several boxes of your Mandrake Pills, and 
find them first class. My wife has had a bad stomach and been very much 
troubled with headache, and has taken three boxes of the Pills. You may 
not believe it, but she is not the same person ; she can now do a good day’s 
work, where before the least thing would fatigue her. I think so much of 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills that I have commissioned a friend who is going 
to the States to bring me six boxes. 
Yours respectfully, M. S. M A DOLE, 
Napanee, Ontario. 
Dr. Schenck. 
I have used your Mandrake Pills for Biliousness and Constipation, 
myself and in my family, and I consider them a good thing. For the past 
years I have taken them. There are none better. 
Yours respectfully, S. GO WEN, 
25 Washington St., Biddeford, Me. 
“there ARE NONE BETTER." 
THE WIFE OF A PROMINENT RAILROAD CONTRACTOR WHO KNOWS 
WHAT A SPLENDID MEDICINE DR. SCHENCK'S 
MANDRAKE PILLS ARE. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck, Philadelphia. 
We have used Schenck’s Mandrake Pills in our family, and know 
what a splendid medicine they are. 
My husband is largely interested in railroad contracts, and he uses the 
Pills among his laborers. We neither could nor would be without them. 
MRS. E. B. ROBBINS, 
Robbins, Scott County, Tenn. 
(Wife of A. J. C. Robbins, of Cincinnati Southern Railroad Tunnel Fame.) 
J..H. Schenck, M. D., Philadelphia. 
Dear Sir:—Two years ago I suffered with Liver trouble, and was 
permanently cured by your Syrup, Tonic, and Pills. Have had no symptom 
of a return of the disease since. You may refer all skeptical people to me. 
Yours truly, JOHN J. CRAMPTON, 
Sharpsburg, Md. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Dear Sir:—I take pleasure in announcing to the public the benefit 1 
derived from the use of your Pills. After suffering two years with dyspepsia, 
I used two boxes of your Mandrake Pills, and am entirely cured. 
Very respectfully, RALPH WORTHLEY, 
33 Friend Street, Gloucester, Mass. A DRUGGIST WHO RECOMMENDS DR. SCHENCK’S MEDICINES. 
Messrs. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Gents: —We have sold your medicines for the last twelve years, and 
feel confident they will do all you claim. 
We have used your Mandrake Pills ourselves, and know of several 
remarkable cures made by your Pulmonic Syrup and Sea-Weed Tonic. 
We cheerfully recommend them as being reliable medicines. 
E. P. BRAINERD & SON, 
Ravenna, Ohio. 
DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS ARE CONSIDERED THE 
BEST IN THE MARKET BY A PROMINENT DRUGGIST. 
Dr. J. II. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Gentlemen :—I have been in the drug business for about twelve years 
and handled all kinds of pills, but must say I consider your Mandrake 
Pills the best in the market. I always use them myself and in my family, 
and I prefer them to any other. W. H. TEAGUE, 
Of the firm of Teague & Hale, Druggists, 
28 Lisbon Street, Lewiston, Me. 
AN INDORSEMENT OF DR. SCHENCK'S MEDICINES BY A DRUG- 
GIST WHO USES THEM AS WELL AS SELLS THEM. 
Dr. J. H. Schenck. 
Dear Sir:—I have used your medicines in my family for the last 
fifteen years, and consider them the best in the market. I have sold them 
for the last ten years at my drug store in this place, and have never had a 
single complaint that they did not do all you claim for them. I cheerfully 
recommend them as first-class remedies in every respect. 
JAMES RUSHTON, 
25 Main Street, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
A DRUGGIST WHO SELLS DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS 
AND KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE. 
I have no hesitation in saying that Dr. Schenck’s Mandrake Pills are 
the best pills sold, i know that they will cure Liver Complaint and Weak 
Stomach when all other remedies fail. Dr. Schenck’s medicines all possess 
real merit, and 1 believe they will, when his directions are followed, do all 
that he claims for them. F. H. ULRICH, Druggist, 
Alton, 111. 
DR. SCHENCK’S MANDRAKE PILLS 
ARE FOR SALE BY DRUGGISTS GENERALLY. 
PRICE, 25 CTS. A BOX, OR 3 BOXES FOR 65 CTS. 
Or sent by mail on receipt of above price by 
DR. J. H. SCHENCK & SON, Philadelphia, Pa. Laws of Health and Beauty 
Sanitary Science teaches us how to care for ourselves so as to 
preserve health, strength and beauty. Its laws are called Laws of 
Hygiene. 
Prevention of Disease:—Says Dr. Pallen, “The practice of 
medicine will be revolutionized in the next few years. The prac- 
titioner of to-day will become a consulting physician only. The 
great question of the future will be not so much the cure as the 
prevention of disease.’’ The use of Dr. Schenck’s Mandrake 
Piles as a preventive of diseases falls right in with this enlight- 
ened prophecy. 
Bathing:—There are three thousand pores to every square inch 
of the human body, and each pore is the outlet of a sweat-tube. 
The total length of all the sweat-tubes is twenty-eight nples. 
The stoppage of these tubes by dirt, scales or dried perspiration 
gives rise to skin diseases, and to internal diseases as well, 
lienee the necessity for bathing. The best bath is a tepid bath, 
with plenty of pure soap. Twice a week in winter and three 
times a week in summer, is often enough to bathe, unless the 
‘System be robust and the perspiration profuse; then, bathe 
oftener. The best time to bathe is just before going to bed, as 
there is then less danger of taking cold. 
The Skin:—The skin can be kept soft and pliable by using a 
pound or two of bran in the bath, first soaking the bran for a few 
hours in water before using it. The hands can be kept soft by 
washing and drying thoroughly and then anointing with cold- 
cream. After a little, rub them vigorously with saponified 
spirits, and wipe dry with a towel. 
Round Chests:—If you would rear children with good round 
chests, first measure them with a tape. Then teach them to 
practice forced inspiration through the nostrils several times a 
day. Offer a prize for the first inch gained in circumference. 
Flat-chested children will soon grow round and full and the 
breathing spaces large. The result will surprise you. Cradles:—Cradles are fast going out of fashion. Cots are 
taking their place in nurseries. This is well. The sleep of a 
child that has been neither rocked nor swung into insensibility 
must be sweet and refreshing. 
Ventilation:—Never despise fresh air. Let it sweep through 
all the rooms of a house as often as possible. Let the nursery, 
sick chamber and sleeping room have plenty of it. There is 
nothing to fear from it, however cold, and everything to gain, 
provided you avoid direct draughts, and clothe so as to fortify 
against rapid decline of temperature. 
Greasy Water:—Never dispose of dish-water, or other greasy 
water, by throwing it into drain-pipes or down wells. It will ac- 
cumulate in pipes, and slowly clog them, and in wells it will soon 
prevent the absorption of water, even where the soil is a coarse 
gravel. » 
The Cellar:—This is the most treacherous space in a house. 
Keep it clean, dr}', well ventilated, and thoroughly disinfected. 
Whitewash often. Don’t make it a place for trumpery and offal. 
Many cases of malignant typhoid, diphtheria and other diseases 
have been traced directly to damp or unclean cellars. 
The Head:—Wash a child’s head with luke-warm water and 
pure soap two or three times a week. Brush with a soft brush. 
An adult’s scalp should be cleansed thoroughly at least once in 
two weeks. Rub the white of an egg well into the roots of the 
hair, and then wash out with warm water and pure soap, followed 
by cold water. Rub dry with a towel and use a little cocoanut 
oil. Animal oils are not cleanly. The old-fashioned way of pro- 
tecting the head with a cap while sleeping was a good one. It 
prevented too sudden a driving of the blood inward toward the 
brain. Those who are subjeCt to neuralgia, headache, dreams, 
insomnia, etc., should protedt their heads at night with caps. 
Preventable Diseases:—This class of diseases costs this country 
annually three hundred thousand lives and six million attacks 
of illness. The majority of them spring from stomach and liver 
disorders. By keeping these organs in perfect working condition 
with Schenck’s Mandrake Pills the above appalling figures 
could be reduced more than one-half. 
Heat Agency:—Heat is a wonderful disease-maker, diredtly 
and indirectly. Every sanitary law should be put into double force during a heated term. Cleanliness should be insisted upon. 
The system should be guarded by diet and by such treatment as 
Schenck’s Mandrake Pills afford. Those exposed to the sun 
should wear a wet handkerchief, sponge, or hat full of green 
leaves, next the head. In cases of giddiness or weakness a cool 
spot should be sought, and the head and neck should be rubbed 
with ice or cold water. 
Cold Agency:—Cold checks the surface circulation and sends 
tiie blood to the inward parts. This gorges and congests them, 
and that condition is a cold. Hot drinks are good in temporary 
colds; but if they are stubborn, you must relieve the congestion 
by using Schenck’s Mandrake Pills freely, and if the lungs 
are involved use Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup. Never trifle with 
a cold. 
Contagions:—Sanitary science asserts that all contagious dis- 
eases like small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, etc., can 
be guarded against. But great care is necessary, and the safe- 
guards are mostly with the family and nurse. Clothing should 
be washed, fumigated or burned. Persons should be excluded 
from the rooms. The sick-room should be in the top story of the 
building. Disinfectants should be freely used. All sick-chamber 
slops should be carried out closely covered and effectually buried 
far away from the house, or, if in the city, they should be 
neutralized by lime before being thrown into the cess-pool or 
pipes. 
Clothing:—The measure of clothing is that which will best 
guard the system against exposure to change of temperature. It 
may be light or heavy as the temperature requires ; but never fail 
to meet a fall in the thermometer with adequate clothing. Vital 
parts should be best protected. Woolen clothing is the best and 
safest kind in the Temperate Zone, if not everywhere. Hats and 
bonnets should never be so tight as to Obstruct the circulation of 
the blood in the head ; and the mother who permits her daughter 
to wear a laced corset ought to be tried and condemned as an ac- 
cessory to a great crime. 
The Feet: —Because they are so far removed from the centre of 
circulation, the feet should be especially cared for. Warmth and 
dryness there are most essential. Keep warm with wool ; keep 
dry with rubber, if there is slush or snow ; and if wet, rub dry and toast well before the fire. Don’t delay. In five minutes 
some vital organ may be congested by reason of wet, cold feet. 
Colors:—Beware of the high, fine colors, either in paper or 
dress goods—especially underwear and stockings. Most of the 
aniline colors, red, blue and other tints are dangerous to sensitive 
skins, and the arsenical colors, as green, in wall-paper are 
poisonous. 
Water :—Whenever there is the slightest suspicion that drink- 
ing and cooking water, whether from well, cistern or reservoir, is 
impure, the family should boil every drop that is used. Says a 
noted physician, “If cholera infantum, typhoid fever, diarrhoea 
or dysentery appear in your family without obvious cause, the 
chances are two to one that there is something wrong with the 
water supply, the milk supply, or the drainage of your house.” 
Walls :—Never move into a newly-plastered house ; and if the 
house be of brick or stone, remember it takes the walls a long 
time to dn- out. In a house whose walls contain 100,000 bricks, 
there are at first 10,000 gallons of'water. Better let this fluid 
evaporate before you make your home in the house. 
Food: —All food, if good for us, must supply muscle or fat. 
The muscle-foods are meat, eggs, cheese, flour, etc. The fat- 
foods are of two kinds : ist, all oils and animal fats ; 2d, all 
sugars, as bread, potatoes, starch, molasses, sugar itself, etc. 
The quantity of each must depend on the health, occupation,&c. 
The penalty for taking too little food, or food of a limited variety, 
is loss of flesh and strength. The penalty of eating more than 
is required is derangement of the stomach, liver and intestines, 
and the consequent production of dyspepsia, biliousness, diar- 
rhoea or constipation, with their innumerable attendant evils, 
the natural remedy for which is Schenck’s Mandrake Pills. 
Cooking:—Boiled meats are most digestible but least nutri- 
tious. Roast and broiled dishes are not so easily digested, but are 
most nutritious. Fried meats—indeed, fried anything—is a pro- 
cess of cooking which must have been invented by the arch- 
enemy of mankind. 
Exercise:—All mental anxiety as well as bodily exertion 
should be avoided for half an hour before and after a meal. 
Walking or work should be taken up after meals, at first moder- ately ; and exercise of some kind is indispensable after a hearty 
meal. If exercise does not come regularly into every life the 
result is constipation, liver complaint, dyspepsia, headache, 
vertigo, piles, etc. The bowels should be evacuate ! a day. 
As a help to this use Schenck’s Mandrake IAels, and keep 
using them till the habit of daily evacuation is thoroughly 
established. Mandrake is the only principle in nature which 
acts on the bowels without being followed by constipation. 
Sunlight:—Sun-baths cost nothing and are the most life-giving 
baths one can take, whether sick or well. Every housekeeper 
knows the necessity of exposing clothing, especially woolens, to 
the sunlight, after a damp spell. It is so with the body. 
The sunlight freshens and stimulates it, as it does everything in 
Nature. This is particularly so of young bodies. Nurseries 
should be flooded with sunlight. Persons who avoid the sun- 
light through fear of spoiling their complexions are violating a 
sanitary law whose observance would not only insure a good 
complexion but prevent wrinkles when the forties are passed. 
MealsSanitarians have striven hard to determine the proper 
amount and proportion of food necessary to keep an average 
human being in health. It is laid down that an American, doing 
a fair day’s work, must eat and digest, in twenty-four hours, the 
equivalent of a pound of meat and eggs, two pounds of bread 
and potatoes, and a quarter of a pound of fats ; that is, he must 
take nitrogeneous matter, fatty matter, sugary and starchy matter, 
and salt}- matter, enough to supply the drain on his system oc- 
casioned by his labors. The breakfast should comprise one-third 
of the meat and two-sevenths of the starch ; dinner should in- 
clude the remaining two-thirds of the meat and three-sevenths 
of the starch ; and supper should include the balance of the 
starchy and sugar}' matter. 
Digestion:—Observations on, or rather in, the stomach of Alexis 
St. Martin, who had a hole shot through his side so as to expose 
the inside of his stomach to view, showed that boiled rice di- 
gested in one hour ; raw eggs in an hour and a half; lamb, baked 
potatoes and fricaseed chicken in from two to two and three- 
quarter hours ; soft-boiled eggs, oysters, roast beef and bread in 
about three hours ; hard-boiled eggs in three and a half hours ; 
salt beef, or pork, in four and a quarter hours. 29 
Food Accessories : — These are tea, coffee, cocoa, alcoholic 
stimulants. Every food accessory should be watched carefully 
and its effects noted. As a rule, tea, coffee and cocoa may pro- 
mote comfort and enjoyment, but the exceptions are frequent 
and should be sacredly observed. So, as a rule, alcoholic 
stimulants beget more misery than comfort, and ought to 
be avoided, unless prescribed by a reputable physician. Tobacco 
is purely a luxury, and has no claim to a place among articles of 
diet. Like other poisons, it may have a sedative efledt on the 
system, but the habit of using it is dangerous in the respedt that 
“ it grows by what it feeds on.” 
Teeth:—Acid medicines, strong vinegar, syrups and sweet- 
meats spoil the teeth. Hot and cold liquids drunk in quick suc- 
cession crack the enamel. Brushing the teeth with a hard brush, 
especially when using soapy dentifrices, is apt to wear the enamel 
and injure the gums. Brush gently, using water and Castile 
soap, after each meal.- Have decaying teeth promptly attended 
to. The fadt is, that ever}’ effort made to preserve the teeth is 
one in the diredtion of health and happiness. All know how 
much of an ornament they are to face and expression, and how- 
important they are to perfedt articulation. But they are of vastly 
more moment to general health. Complete mastication of food 
depends on good teeth, and perfedt digestion on complete masti- 
cation, and'health and long life on perfedt digestion. 
Food Impurities:—Sanitary science finds a long list of diseases 
in impure food, as flour, butter, milk, meat, tea, coffee, eggs, &c. 
It is hard to detect some of these impurities, but others can be 
readily guarded against. Both flour and butter may be adulter- 
ated so as to avoid ordinary detedtion. Poor milk can be detected 
by the lactometer; but milkmen have become so expert as to 
bring the gravity up to par by dissolving sugar in the thin milk. 
Meats can be tested pretty well with the eyes and nose, though 
these organs cannot guard against trichinre and tape worm larva;. 
A stale egg will float on brine in which a good one will sink. 
Tea and coffee adulterations are hard to guard against. 
Amount of Exercise:—How- shall we exercise ? Prof. Parkes 
gets at it thus : ‘ ‘ The effort of a healthy man during a moderate 
day’s work is equal to lifting one hundred and fifty tons one foot 
high. This is equal to an eight and one-half miles walk fora 
man weighing one hundred and fifty pounds. Now’ supposing that house or office duties required three miles of walking daily, 
the balance, or five and one-half miles, should be made up in 
exercise. Women require less than men, thin people less than 
stout people, old less than young, and so on ; though all require 
what will thoroughly oxygenize the blood and promote proper 
secretions.” 
Gymnastics:—Some system of light gymnastics, with dumb- 
bells, rings, bars, etc., is quite essential as a stimulus to sufficient 
exercise among school-going youth. But it may be doubted 
whether the school-room is a fit place to take it in. All exercise 
should be in the open air or a well-ventilated gymnasium. And 
then, no system of exercise should be unyielding as to girls 
entering their teens. Indeed, there is a period in every girl’s life 
when it might be well to relax every rule of labor, exercise and 
study, and let nature have perfect sway. < 
Sleep:—Sleep is intended to repair the loss of power in the 
system occasioned by mental or bodily work. Its length should 
be just equal to the objedt to be accomplished. In the infant, 
where growth is the work on hand, sleep should continue for a 
majority of the twenty-four hours. In maturer years, the need 
of it diminishes, but it should never fall below the bodily or 
mental wear and tear. In age, the power to endure is weak, 
therefore the need of longer hours of recuperative sleep is greater 
again. No sanitary laws are of greater moment to. man than 
those which secure healthy, invigorating sleep. It is said that 
Napoleon required only five hours sleep. It would be better to say 
that his ambitions were such that he couldn’t spare the time for 
more. No man or woman, who does from six to twelve hours of 
work a day, mental or hand, can recover from the effedts of it 
with less than six to eight hours sleep. But, of course, no rule 
can be laid down to cover different constitutions, and fix an exadt 
quota of sleep. The law is infallible, however, that the drain of 
labor on the system must be met by sleep, else the future years 
will be discounted. 31 
ROR THE CONVENIENCE of those who cannot obtain our 
medicines of their regular dealer, on receipt of the prices we 
will send them by express at the following rates: (The Tills 
only can be sent by mail.) 
Dp. Pulmonic (Syrup. 
A CORE FOR CONSUMPTION, COOGHS AND COLDS. 
$1.00 per Bottle; or Three Bottles at One Purchase, $2.50. 
Dp. (Seaweed Tonic. 
FOR THE CORE OF DYSPEPSIA IN ALL ITS FORMS. 
$1.00 per Bottle; or Three Bottles at One Purchase, $2.50. 
2 BOTTLES PULMONIC SYEUP, 1 
. 1 BOTTLE SEAWEED TONIC, 1 
2 BOTTLES SEAWEED TONIC, 
1 30TTLE PULMONIC SYEUP, 
$2.50 
$2.50 
Dr. (Science's Pills. 
THE ONLY GENUINE. 
THEY CDRE LIYER COMPLAINT AHD ALL BILIOUS DISORDERS. 
25 Cts. per Box; or Three Boxes at One Purchase, 65 Cts. 
On orders amounting to not less than $5.00 we will prepay 
express charges to all points east of the Mississippi River. Send 
money by registered mail or postal order. 
DR. J. H. SGHENGK & SON, 
Sixth and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Wohth 
SiXdiK^H 
DR. J. H. SCHENCK 
HAS PUBLISHED A 
Hew aNDGLaBORaiE Boor 
ON THE TREATMENT AND CURE OF 
Consumption, 
£h?er Gomf>laint, 
and dyspepsia. 
Which will be mailed FREE to all appli- 
cants. If you are, or know of any one 
who is, afflicted with, or liable to any of 
these diseases, send name and address 
(plainly written) to 
DR. J. H. SCHENCX & SON, 
Sixth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Pa,