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  The  undersigned,  having  severally examined,  with
much interest,  evidences of  the  curative  power  of  a
medicinal remedy  called  "PERUVIAN  SYRUP," feel
authorized  to  say,  from  their repeated  observations of
the  uniformly  admirable  effects  of the  Medicine,  that
it*  claims  to public trial and confidence are worthy of
careful examination.
                   REV. JOHN P1ERPONT.
                   REV. F. T. GRAY.
                   THOMAS  A. DEXTER, Esq.
                   HON. WILLIAM JACKSON.
                   MOSES  GRANT, Esq.
                   HENRY LUNT, Esq.
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WITH LETTERS FROM THE
MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM PERU TO THE U. STATES,
    AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMEN OF THIS
         AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES, IN PROOF
                  OF ITS VALUE.
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                By N. L. CLAEK <fc CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
              Southern District of New York. 
         LETTER FROM  JOSE MANUEL TIRADO,

  MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY FROM PERU TO THE UNITED STATES.

                                     New York, June 5, 1854.
Mr. N. L. Clark : Mr Dear Sir—
  In reply to your letter, it  gives me much pleasure to state that
I regard  the introduction of your medicine to public notice as con-
ferring a benefit upon the world  at  large, being firmly persuaded
of its efficacy in many kinds  of disease, especially in dyspepsia,
indigestion, chronic weakness of the stomach, and in dropsy.
  From  the fact that this remedy was discovered by you in Lima,
where, as well  as in other parts  of Peru, its hygienic properties
have  been hitherto  confined,  I feel myself fully authorized  to
declare  my positive conviction of its efficacy; not, indeed, from
personal  experience, but from the high character which I  have  re-
ceived of it from persons whose respectability, entitles them to im-
plicit credit.
  In  respect to the case of Madame Albertini, I can, by reason of
the friendly relations which unite our families, corroborate the testi-
mony of her husband, under date April 10, 1854 ; but with still
more decided emphasis, would 1 refer to the case of Miss Rodiguez,
whom we have intimately known for many years.   The sufferings
of this young lady from indigestion and other pains were such that
she despaired of ever getting well,  until  she  took the Peruvian
Syrup, which restored  to her strong digestive powers and a clear-
ness of complexion, indicative of regained healthy action of the
system.
  I am well acquainted with J. G. Untitia, Esq., Chief of a Hos-
pital in Lima, and member of the Beneficent Society, with Dr. J.
A. Sanchez, physician  of the  same  institution, and with Dr.  M.
Arranda, superior officer in the  Medical Board  attached to the
Peruvian Army semce.   It  ought to be satisfactoiy to you to
possess the testimonies to the value  of your medicine of these gen-
tlemen  on account of their respectability, and the fact that their
position  in society renders their judgment in such cases  of value.
The certificates to which these gentlemen have affixed their signa-
tures, I have seen, and know to be genuine.
                       With much regard, your friend,
                                     Jose  Manuel Tucado.
-46;l44>3> 
PERUVIAN  SYRUP.
                      HISTORY.

   Not less singular than the efficacy of this medicine, is
 the history of its preparation  and introduction to public
 notice in the country of its  nativity.  The proprietor,
 dining twenty-five years, had  suffered from indigestion,
 which embittered his existence,  and frequent epileptic
 attacks, which, from  their extreme severity, threatened
 his life.   After many years of suffering, wandering in
 the search for health  from climate to climate, testing by
 faithful experiment, how powerless to cure in his case
 were all the then known remedial  agents; for not change
 of air, nor carefulness of diet, nor the prescriptions of
 physicians, could alleviate his  distress; he  was led by a
 fortunate, and, as the result has  proved, a wise adapta-
 tion of means to the desired end to compound the remedy
 which is offered under the name of " Peruvian Syrup."
 His joy was not greater than  his surprise, as he felt the
 pulses of renovated life.   Impelled by gratitude for his
 own recovery, he sought those  similarly afflicted, and it
 was his wonder and satisfaction to mark the almost in-
 variably favorable results  which  attended  the adminis-
 tration of his Syrup.  Many a sick and despairing one
found in the remedy a hitherto sealed fountain of health
during the years that  it was freely and gratuitously dis-
pensed ; and the proprietor has abundant satisfaction in
referring to  the  very numerous letters  and notes  in  his
possession, filled with  expressions  of thankfulness for the
 discovery of a medicine of such remarkable power.
  By  the advice  of friends, and  compelled by his ina-
bility  to supply,  by gift, the rapidly increasing demand
he established a price for his compound, and it assumed 
                       HISTORY.                     k

its place as an established remedy m Peru.  Finally, he
was induced to send  shipments to his friends in' this
country.  For several months past it has been  tested by
persons in Boston and vicinity, and the few letters which
may be found herewith, are a part of those  contributed
by individuals  benefited in the comparatively limited
circle of acquaintance of a friend of the proprietor.   The
uniform remarkable results which follow the use  of the
Syrup, have induced the proprietor to offer it to the
public of his native  country, with  the conviction  that
there is no remedy in  the Materia Medica possessing
equal curative power in the treatment of the disease, in
its various exhibitions, for which it is peculiarly adapted;
In selecting letters of recommendation, care has been had
to present those which are descriptive of the symptoms
of the case benefited or cured,  rather than those which
simply assert the cure of dyspepsia, for instance, without
a particular specification of the forms in which the hydra-
disease was manifested.   Patients will, therefore, be the
better able to judge as  to the adaptation of  the remedy
in each particular case.  Indeed these were given for such
purpose mainly, for the medicine must invariably win its
way by its own  merit, as it has  hitherto singularly done.
  The proprietor has a cherished theory, in accordance
with which, satisfactorily to himself, at least,  he accounts
for the  cures of disorders apparently diverse; but inas-
much as the results of experience are only to  be relied
on in the  treatment of disease, he prefers to  refer to the
letters of the patients  herewith,  rather than to "multiply
words," which to many might seem " without knowledge."
  We urge  the use of the Syrup upon none.  In offering
it, we seek to  confer a public benefit.  W^e  are  con-
vinced that its power  as an alleviating  and  curative
remedy, in the forms  of disease  to which it is adapted, is
unequalled ; and, with this conviction,  we commit it to
public trial. 
6
EXPERIMENT ESSENTIAL TO
                          EXTRACT
 From a paper ivrilten by a well-Jcnoivn author, in regard to the
    Syrup, entitled " Experiment Essential to Progress in Medical
    Science."

    " Nine years of observation and experiment on the western coast
 of South America, where  the efficacy of the Peruvian Syrup has
 been proved, and that in many cases which had  been pronounced
 and given over as hopeless, have wrought in the  mind of the pro-
 prietor the conviction that he ought to put within the reach of all,
 a remedy that has been found so wonderfully successful.
   It is admitted that, in the eyes of all such  as are so bigotedly
 attached to the old that they will not consent to  hear of any thing
 new; of all such as,  when their own health, even their own life is
 concerned, will be governed by prejudice rather than by the clear-
 est evidence, it will be a fatal objection that this may be called a
 quack medicine.  To such,  we have no proofs  to offer.  With
 those whose  all of life  is "in the dead past," we have nothing to
 do.   But to all who live in the  living, inquiring, investigating,
 scrutinizing, experimenting present, and who believe that there is
 to be a future,  brighter  and  better than either the  present or the
 past, we would say in reply  to the charge that we  are offering to
 the  public a " quack  medicine," that the objector  is simply mis-
 taken—he does not know what the Peruvian Svrup is.
   We simply deny the charge that ours is a quack medicine, un-
 derstanding that term as by Dr. Webster it is defined and explained.
 We make no  boast  or pretensions.   We  simply  lay before the
 public such proofs of the effects of the Peruvian Svrup, as we think
 might satisfy—nay, tom** satisfy—inquirers after" the'facts  of the
 case, that  it is a valuable contribution to  the present stock of
 remedial  agents.   We are confident that we do not go too  far
 when we say that our proofs  are such  as to justify a trial  of the
 Syrup, in cases where prescriptions, already  recognized as belong-
 ing to the  Materia Medica, have been tried without success   M*v
 we not even, go so tar as to ask, whether in such cases and wkh
such proofs, a  practitioner can be justified  who shall' refuse to
make a trial? and ought such a practitioner to fear being sti<nna- 
               PROGRESS IN MRDiCAL SCIENCE.             7

tized as an empiric, simply because he makes use of a remedy un-
knoivn to the profession generally ?
   There never has been a truly great physician that has not been
an  empiric;  nor can there ever be  one.  From  the nature of
things, empiricism must  of  necessity be  the  course  pursued  by
every one, by whose labors medicine, as a scie?we, is  to  make its
advances in the world.  Theorize, philosophize as you may, come
to your conclusion by the  most legitimate process of reasoning,
that a particular prescription will cure  a particular disease, you
have not established the fact, that it will, until you have tried it;
and the trial  is itself empiricism.   In other words, you cannot be
a physician till you have tried your prescription, and  in the very
act of trying it, you  become an empiric.
   From  the  structure, color, or odor of  a plant—from the form,
weight, or crystallization of a mineral—nay, from  the  known
chemical qualities of either, it is impossible to reason of their effect
upon  the animal  organism, either  in health or disease.   Trial, ex-
periment carefully conducted, and its  result accurately noted—in
other words,  " rational empiricism" is the only possible basis of
medical science.
   The truth  is, that  every man who deserves the name of  a  phy-
sician, makes experiments in his practice.  His professional life is
a life of experiment.   One medicine failing, he tries another; un-
less, indeed, he thinks that he has nothing more to learn.
   Compared  with the  man who, in his  practice, leans altogether
upon the authority of books, or of great names, an empiric, in both
the grammatical and the  technical sense of the term,  occupies the
higher and more honorable position.  The former relies ouly upon
authority; the latter upon the result of his own intelligence, and
the knowledge that experience proverbially gives.  The  one exer-
cises his own mind,  and treasures up the knowledge thus gained;
the other takes upon trust the results of other men's labors.  This
walks by faith: that, by sight.  The one discovers the  path, the
other pursues it blindly.
   Admitting, then, that the Peruvian Syrup is an empirical medi-
cine, so is, or has been,  every other recognized or prescribed by
the medical faculty; by every school  of the faculty.  To say that
it is empirical, is to say nothing worse of it than that it has been
tried.   It has been  tried.  Its claims are based not upon  theory, 
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EXPERTAfENT ESSENTIAL TO
  but upon experiment—broad and most successful experiment.  Its
  efficacy has not been merely guessed at.  It has been proved.  How
  proved, where, how long, in what diseases, and with what success,
  we show by the testimonials that we herewith exhibit; to which
  we respectfully solicit the reader's careful attention.
    We  would  not  seem to assume a position of antagonism to the
  medical profession.  The world is too much indebted to the mem-
_ bers of that profession, to permit  us voluntarily to place ourselves
  in opposition  to them.   For their researches  in physical science,
  for the  number and the grandeur of their discoveries, the world is
  under obligations, which it were  too much to hope from its grati-
  tude, to suppose that it will ever discharge, or even  acknowledge.
  But medical science is no exception to the great law that governs
  all sciences—the law of progress.  Much as has been done in this
  field of knowledge, more yet remains to be done.  This is not said
  with  a view to disparage the  splendid victories that  the genius
  and sagacity of past ages and the  present have gained over the
  latent  foes of human  life.  No!  the diseases that have been dis-
  armed,  the pains that have been soothed, the lives that have been
  prolonged by  physicians, since  medicine assumed  its legitimate
  place among the sciences, would  rise up in judgment against anv
  man who should presume to say to the great body of the medical
  profession, as  Job  said to his friends, " Ye are all physicians  of no
  value."  But this may certainly be said, with  perfect safety, that
 not all the medicinal virtues of both the mineral and vegetable
 kingdoms have as yet been discovered and recorded  in the" phar-
 macopoeias of  the  present age.   And as long  as any one salutary
 function of any one plant  shall continue to lie hid in its root, bark,
 blossom, or leaf, so long there is work laid out, there  is something
 more to be done, for the honor of the profession and for the  bene°-
 fit of man.
   And this field of medical science, that lies open and invites cul-
 tivation, is not a narrow one, nor can it  ever be so inclosed  as to
 shut  out even the  humblest lover of its beauties or the  poorest
 gleaner  of its harvests; and these last have as good  a title to the
 part of-the field which they respectively occupy, as have they who
 can bring into  it the mightiest powers and the  widest fame.   Our
 pretensions are modest.  Our claim is not grasping.   It is but a
 small corner of the field  that we have  set ourselves down upon 
               PROGRESS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.               9

But in our little nook, we do know that we  have something that
is worth the attention of our neighbors;  that we  have a fountain
of health, whose waters had never been  tasted till it was  opened
by our own hands.  We know that we can put into  the hands of
the medical gentlemen of  this country a remedial agent  that, in
both South and North America,  has  effected cures that no such
agent within the knowledge of the faculty, North or  South, could
effect.   Of this we shall  lay before our readers proofs, which  we
are persuaded that neither prejudice nor  skepticism itself  can  re-
sist.   We  set  up no  men of straw,  as our witnesses; but men
whose position and well-known character lift them above  all pos-
sible suspicion that they have been deceived, or would lend them-
selves as instruments of deception ; that they have been imposed
upon by us, or would assist us in imposing upon others.'
  Note.—In several of the letters from Peru, the medicine is called by the
name by which it is  there known.  In order to designate its nativity, it is
called in this country, Peruvian Syrup.
                                      N. L. Clark, & Co.
                                                 Proprietors.
   The originals of all the letters herewith submitted may be exam -
iwd at the offi.ce of N. L. Clark cfc Co., in New  York. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
    In all  cases, except those of extreme debility, begin with  one
  tablespoonful of Syrup, which dose  is to be taken  three times a
  day, either before or after eating, at the option of the patient.   It
  may be taken with or without water.
    Should the patient not experience a decided amelioration of his
  complaint in the course of three days, augment the doses one-half
  and in  three days  more  take  two  tablespoonfuls for  each  dose.
  Gradually increase  the same, even  to a wineglassful.  It is not
  practicable to give any rule in this respect of universal application,
  as the nervous system of one individual may be more easily affect-
 ed by half a spoonful than would be another's  by four.  If the
 patient takes more than  his case requires, a slight  and  almost
 imperceptible dizziness may  be experienced soon  after, but  its
 duration will be in general but momentary, or  may be quickly
 dissipated  by a glass of  sugared water.  This peculiar sensation
 originates in the sudden energy imparted to the  nervous system,
 and indicates that a less quantity would at that period be suffi-
 cient—therefore let  the succeeding doses be diminished until this
 feeling cease, when they should be again augmented little by little.
   Such  as may hesitate  in trying  a new remedy are assured"
 positively, that there is in the composition, not a  particle ofarse-
 mc,qutntne, or  any preparation of mercury, nor  does it contain
 an ingredient which can  possibly do harm to the most delicate
 constitution, either presently or remotely.
   DYSPEPSIA, in  its various forms, will be sure to find relief if
 not a radical cure by the persevering use of the Syrup;  the bene-
 ficiaeffecte of which are usually experienced in  less than  forty-





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32  34          '     M,'V0"S affccti0ns e^™"?: Seepages 20,
  COLIC:  See pages 19, 24.
  BOILS :  Roe pages 26, 29, 83. 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
11
  In extreme debility, resulting from habits too commonly preva-
lent among the young, the Syrup exerts wonderful reinvigorating
power.   It restores lost constitutional vigor to a remarkable degree.
  In the diseases peculiar to females its effect  is uniformly favor-
able.   See pages 14, 15, 20, 24, 27.
  In general, in all those cases where a tonic treatment is proper,
the Peruvian Syrup will  be  found of unequalled efficacy.   The
use of this delicious cordial has become common  in Peru, in the
many cases where a stimulant is regarded beneficial.   Being free
from alcohol, its energizing effects are not followed by correspond-
ing reaction.   In cases where wine or brandy is recommended, the
Syrup can be substituted, and will be found far superior in benefit.
In feebleness of old  age, and in the weakness following attacks of
acute diseases, it is especially recommended.
  After having dined generously or partaken of any article of in-
digestible food, the Syrup may be  used with unvarying and de-
cided advantage.
  For the complaints incident to the  changes of the  seasons the
Syrup is a specific*
  N. B.—Let it be remembered that every bottle of genuine Syrup
bears upon the cork the  Peruvian  Seal—a representation  of
which is given below.  Price  of each bottle, Two Dollars, f
  * By the use of the Syrup the insensible perspiration is increased, and
patients will therefore avoid exposure to draughts of air, &o.
  * Let the bottle  be kept tightly corked. 
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DKOrSY.
   Persons  who  employ  this remedy are earnestly  requested  to
send to the office answers to the following questions.  Important
suggestions may frequently be made which will be valuable to the
patient.
   What is the  nature, and what are the  symptoms of the dis-
order ?
   Of how long continuance ?
   What effects followed the use of the Syrup for one week?
   How much of the Syrup was taken, for what length of time,
and with what final effect ?
From Jose Garcia Urrutia, Lima : Member of the President1 s Private Council,
  of the Beneficent Society, of the Society for Public Instruction, and of the
  Congress of '45 and '47.
                                        Lima, January 5, 1852.
  My Dear  Sir—Having always entertained  a high opinion of
the curative powers of your Syrup since the years 1849-50, when,
being chief of the Hospital of St. Andrew, in this city, I witness-
ed its admirable effects in restoring to health several severe cases
of dropsy after the patient had been despaired of by the physicians
of the Hospital, I lately applied it to a servant of mine  attacked
with diarrhoea, which had become chronic for many years, accom-
panied with extreme pains from time to time,  and copious effusions
of blood.
 »The first wineglassful had so powerful an effect that I almost re-
pented having made her take it.  The dose was followed by very
copious discharges of  feculent matter throughout the day, and to
all appearance had rather increased than abated the evil.'   Feel-
ing, however, somewhat relieved the next day,  I ventured to give
her another wineglassful,  and  there were no mo 3  such evacua-
tions—her system seemed to be endowed with renewed strength,
and in a few days she became entirely well.
  Desirous that  the reputation, of so  admirable a remedy should
be widely extended, as  it is  justly entitled to be, I send you this
statement m aid of such a result, and you may make  use of this
letter as you may deem most favorable to humanity.
           Believe me to be yours with much regard,
                                     Josft Garcia Urruita. 
DROPSY.
n
From Dr. Jose Antonio Sanchez, Physician to the Hospital of San Andres,
                             Lima.
                                                 May 9, 1853.
   Dear Sir—Being second physician of the Hospital of San An-
dres, I  had occasion to observe the splendid operation of your
Syrup, and very particularly in tlie months of August  and Sep-
tember of 1848—in which  period the dropsical patients (seepages
22, 23,  24)  Guari, Barona,  and Carrillo were cured under the
therapeutic influence of the said medicine.
                                    Jose Antonio Sanchez.

From Dr. Marcelino Aranda, Chief Surgeon of the Peruvian Army and Fel-
              low of the Medical College of Lima, dec, &c.
                                       Lima, February 24, 1854.
   My Dear Sir—In reply to your esteemed letter, in which you
desire to be  informed whether I had ever made use of the remedy
knoAvn  here by the name of Pansirup, and what  effects I may
have  seen produced by it, I feel constrained  to  say that this re-
markable composition has  been to me  an important auxiliary in
the cure of various dropsical patients, as well as those of  the class
called anasarca  or swelling of the lower belly, as  of others who
suffered  from  water on the chest;  and by  its influence I have
effected in my own practice permanent cures of patients who have
been  treated  in vain by some of my brother physicians, upon
whom, also, I  had practised  all the resources which  the healing
art, as I  thought, possessed, without effect, before  I resolved on
trying your  remedy.  With such proofs of the wonderful  hygienic
powers of this composition I now never hesitate to  advise its use
in every such case which may come under  my observation.  I
have  also used the  Syrup with equal success in all neuroses of
the stomach,  intestines, and even in those of  the urinary organs,
and, in general, in all those complaints derived from disorders of
the digestive organs, without having been obliged to alter my pre-
scription by reason of the medicine deceiving my hopes.
   In short, allow me to  say, you have reason to feel a noble pride
in having done an  important service to humanity in the prepara-
tion of this medicine, wherefore I beg you to- receive from me this
just and true answer to  your demand, and consider me always
                        Your very sincere friend,
                                  Marcelino Aranda, M. D. 
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DYSPEPSIA.
                                       Lima, February 21, 1854,
 General Leon Cordero:
   Dear Sir—I should  fail  in one of the most sacred duties im-
 posed on us by gratitude did I omit  taking in hand my pen, in
 order to manifest the deep sense of obligation due  to  you for the
 radical cure of my sister Rosa.
   For eleven  years my sister has been a sufferer from dyspepsia,
 during which time, although attended by the most distinguished
 physicians,  she has never been  fully restored to  health.  Only
 once in twenty-four hours has she been able  to take any food, and
 this was by necessity so very moderate  in quantity and quality,
 that  if she exceeded  her daily frugal repast, never  so slightly,
 there would ensue repeated eructations and distress at the stomach.
   Providentially I had the happiness to become acquainted with
 you, and  upon making known to  you the  unhappy state of my
 sister, you were pleased to recommend  to me the Syrup as one of
 the most powerful and efficacious tonics ever discovered, and as an
 appropriate means of restoring tone to her stomach, and thus raise
 her from  the dejection and suffering into which she had fallen.
   Five bottles of this medicine have been taken by my sister, and
 her stomach has acquired such vigor that she can now breakfast and
 dine without experiencing the slightest uneasiness—her  digestive
 powers remaining active  and  perfect.
 ^ I can assure you, my dear  General, that the use of the " Peru-
 vian  Syrup" has completely cured my sister  of  a complaint that
 had become chronic, and was regarded as incurable.  It gives me
 pleasure to make this communication to you,  feeling assured that
 it  will be gratifying to you, who have taken  so lively an interest
 in her health.   Please  accept the assurance of my sincere regard.
                               Most truly yours,
                                       Eusebio Rodiguez*
   [Below we give the translation  of General Cordero's  letter to
 the proprietor  of the Peruvian Syrup, which he wrote at  the foot
 of the ongnial  of the above, and forwarded March 1, 1854.]
 >  Mr Esteemed Fkibkd—Permit  me  the satisfaction  of passim
into jour  hands this letter as  a most positive testimony of the efif-
cacyof the  Peruvian  Syr^for  complaints  of the stomach, and

                *  See letter of Peruvian Minister. 
DYSPEPSIA.
15
at the same time I feel it to be my duty to add, that I am per-
fectly astounded by the miraculous effects produced by it on Miss
Rodiguez.   This  estimable young lady has assured me  that all
her long-continued  and painful  sufferings have disappeared, and
she finds  herself in the enjoyment of the most perfect state of
health, partaking freely of every species of food, even fruit, which
she can indulge  in  at  any hour of the day without experiencing
the slightest degree of harm therefrom.
   Permit me to congratulate you on having perfected so exquisite
a composition, and accept assurances of my most friendly regard.
                                   L. Febes Silva Cordero.
  Lima March 1, 1854.

             From Maximilian Albertini of Paris,  France.*
                                    New York, April 10, 1854.
   Dear  Sir—I  beg leave to  return you  my most  expressive
thanks for the bottle of Peruvian Syrup which  you had the good-
ness to give me.
   For these past two years my wife  has  suffered continual  pains
in the  stomach, and chronic bloody menses, which became  alle-
viated after taking the second spoonful  of this  celebrated Syrup,
Before taking this remedy, every thing she ate tormented her; but
since, she  eats freely—heartily of every thing her appetite craves,
without experiencing the slightest inconvenience.  Being about to
embark for France, it would be  a source  of  much satisfaction to
me to have  you  connect yourself with some good agent  in  Paris
for the sale of this inimitable remedy.
   Receive, my  dear sir, my sincere respects and thanks;  and if it
be in my  power to serve you in any way, command me.
                                     Maximilian Albertini.
                     From A. Wendell, M. D.
                                         Lima, March, 6, 1854.
  Dear Sir—Having learned that several of the most respectable
physicians of this city, on the occasion of your leaving the country
for the United States, have most  cordially presented to you their
approbation of the virtues  of  the extraordinary medicine,  com
pounded by you, and  knowu for many years on this coast by the
* See letter of Peruvian Minister. 
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DYSPEPSIA.
name of Pansircp, I cannot refrain  from offering you also  my
testimony of its great value, as observed by me for some years
past, especially in my hospital practice in the Bethlemite hospitals
of the city of Piura, of which I have been the chief  physician and
surgeon for the last fifteen years, and therefore  have been able
to give it a fair trial  in many diseases; hence I do  not hesitate to
say that in dropsy, especially that species  called  anasarca, it is one
of the most valuable medicines that is known, having been  able to
effect many cures of this distressing disease, when all other reme-
dies had failed.
  In debility of the stomach and dyspepsia, it may  be considered
superior to all other medicines known in the Materia Medica.
  It may be used by children of the tenderest age with the great-
est safety,  and never have I witnessed  any bad effects from  its use,
as is frequently the case in the use  of drugs  improperly  admin-
istered.
  Wishing that you may continue to be useful to  humanity and
your native country, by the introduction into the  United States of
this wonderful composition,
                        I remain  your friend,
                                  Abraham Wendell, M. D.

                    From H. K Kinney, M. D.
                                       Lima,  January 16,  1854.
  Dear Sir—I have used your Syrup in my practice for upwards
of four years, and from extensive experience of its  properties, can
safely recommend  it as  one  of  the most valuable  remedies ever
offered to  the public.
  For indigestion of nearly every kind, loss of constitutional vigor,
and in all cases where a tonic treatment is proper, certainly  I never
found a better remedy.                   H. E. Kinney, M. D.

                    From John C. Uribe, M. D.
                                        Lima, February S,  1854.
  Esteemed Friend—It gives me pleasure to  state that, notwith-
standing my short  residence in this city, I have  become acquainted
with several persons who have made use of the  Peruvian  Syrup
from whichl they have derived happy results in different infirmities
such as dropsies, chronic dysentery, indigestion, &c. 
DYSPEPSIA.                       17
  On all occasions in which I have myself advised the taking of
the remedy for dyspepsia, chronic diarrhoea, and other disorders of
the digestive organs, I have perceived almost  always the happiest
results.                      Most truly, your friend,
                                      John C. Uribe, M. D.
                              Takma, Peru, September 23, 1847.
   Esteemed Friend—Permit me to express to you my most sin-
cere thanks and grateful sense of your kindness in having restored
me to health, after having lost it for more than fourteen years.
   Continued  pains in  the stomach, caused by chronic- irritation,
all the physicians whom  I have consulted have been unable  to
cure.  Both native  and foreign  physicians have  examined my
case, and various  have been their  modes  of  treatment; the far
greater portion concluding with the discouraging declaration that
my infirmity was beyond  the reach  of medicine, and would ac-
company me to the grave.
   Following the advice of many  professors, I have sought, in dif-
ferent climates, relief to my sufferings, until I  had become sepul-
tured in the solitary and gloomy village of Acobamba, but without
experiencing much relief, until I had the happiness to  become
known to  you, and began to take your Syrup,  which you  were  so
kind as to send me.
   The first dose of this medicine imparted a new tone to my sys-
tem ; and having finished one bottle, I consider myself to be radi-
cally cured, having already passed more than twelve months with-
out feeling the remotest symptom  of my long and painful disorder.
   Words  fail  to express  to  you  my gratitude for so marked  a
benefit; but you may rest assured I shall never cease to  implore
the all-wise Creator  of the universe to recompense a charity so
ardently employed by you in  the cause of suffering humanity.
                          Your ever grateful  friend,
                                      Jose  Maria Monson,
       Curate of the village of Acobamba, in the interior of Peru.
                                          Lima, June 22, 1S50.
  Dear  Sir—Notwithstanding having written to j-'ou  in  1847,
respecting the good effects produced in me by your Syrup, one 
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DYSPEPSIA.
 single  bottle having mitigated, in a great measure, the chronic
 pains which had  tormented me, I feel  it to be my duty again to
 repeat my acknowledgments, on the occasion of its total  disap-
 pearance, and give you a short account of my ailments.
    Thirty years  ago I became  first attacked with this complaint,
 which, though slight at first, kept increasing, until the force  of my
 sufferings compelled me to ask medical advice.   Many physicians
 of high standing  were successively applied to, but none of them
 weie able to afford relief, and I was frequently prostrated in bed
 with unmitigable  pains.  Thus had passed a large portion of my
 lite, until Providence ordained that I should find a remedy for all
 my complaints.
   It is now nearly three years since I took the happy resolution to
 try your Syrup,  and in all that time I have not experienced the
 most tnrling symptom of my old  complaint;  on the contrary, I
 enjoy now, at the  age of seventy years, the most perfect and  unin-
 terrupted health.
   When  I recall  to my mind how this sickness was conducting
 me towards the  grave, and feel myself  to be now, at the a<re  of
 seventy years, entirely free from it, I have not words whereby to
 express my thanks.
   Please to recognize in me ever a  true friend and servant,
                                      Manuel Vega Bazan,
                          Ex-Postmaster-General of Peru, Lima.


                                      Lima, February 12  1851
   My Dear Sm-For the period of six months, in consequence of
ante,,or lllfi   b   T   ^        .^.^         q

which caused me incalculable torments.  The most  attentive ^
sistance of two physicians of the highest rank, who, to  their tin"
knowledge, and experience, united also the interest derived  from
personal  fnendsh,p-nor change  of climate, nor seaTa hin"
nothing seemed capable of restoring  me to health            g~


to, me he had witnessed in ^^J^^^ *
  During one of the strongest attacks  which characterized
complamUtook the  first spoonful  indicated in ^^S 
COLIC.
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and must say that from  that same day I began to feel the admi-
rable effects of this remedy.
  For eight successive days I endured some returns, but when, in
consequence of a consultation with  you, I modified the dose, my
cure was progressive, and in fifteen days, to my own astonishment,
[ found  myself completely cured.
               I am, sir, your obliged friend and servant,
                                          Manuel Carassa.
                                       Lima, January 21, 1854.
  Esteemed Friend—Amazed at witnessing the good effects pro-
duced  by your Syrup, which had  been highly recommended  to
me, I make free to address you this letter, in order that you may
add this new evidence of its virtues to those already acquired.
  I have made use of it on various occasions, but will limit myself
to describing two only, as being the most notable.
  There was on  my  estate a negress, a prey to continued pains  in
every part  of her body, which seemed to be beyond the reach of
any, even  the  slightest degree of alleviation, as there is hardly a
remedy which had not been tried upon her.
  The acute pains of this poor creature were so intense as to draw
tears from  all who witnessed her sufferings.   At length a friend
"suggested to me the idea of trying your Syrup.  One bottle lasted
her nearly a week, when the woman prayed  me to give her
another, saying she felt great relief from  it—her pains becoming
daily less in frequency and force.   I supplied her with more, until
she finished three bottles, which  restored her to a most perfect
state of health.
  Another black woman, about GO years old, had, all her lifetime,
suffered from chronic  irritations of the stomach.  Tired  of admin-
istering to  her remedies which  never did her any good, I had re-
course to your Syrup.  In a few days she was relieved, and  in a
few weeks  restored to a sound state of health.  Her old  complaint
has never once  attacked her since.
  One more case in addition.  A boy of mine had an  attack  of
colic, which threw him into convulsions upon the floor, writhing like
a serpent, with agony.  I administered to  him two doses of the
Syrup; directly after  which he fell asleep most profoundly, and
awoke perfectly well. 
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DYSPEPSIA.
  I know not how to  manifest to you  the  good effects which I
have so often obtained from your medicine, and feel desirous that
its efficacy should become generally known.
               Your servant,             Domingo Cordero.
                                    Choerillo, October 10, 1849.
    Esteemed Sir—Permit  me  to express  to you  my heartfelt
  gratitude for the restoration to perfect health of my  daughter
  Teresa, as a result of taking your admirable Syrup, a discovery
  which showers upon you continually the blessings of a multitude of
  persons in this  city, and which I desire earnestly may become uni-
  versally known, for the benefit of suffering humanity.
    For the long period of twelve months my daughter suffered
  sharp pains in the stomach, which  extended  to the shoulders and
  lungs, at times almost depriving her of respiration.   When this
  pain attacked her with force, she  would fall into  convulsions so
  alarming that she seemed to be about breathing her last.   At the
  commencement of her illness these  sensations would last for five or
  six days, and then disappear for  about two months, when  they
 would return with  augmented energy.
    The best physicians of the city were in constant attendance on
 her.  Under  a  belief that her liver was affected, they applied re-
 peated blisters, but without producing any good effects.  Calomel
 was then given her in large doses in the form of pills.   Mercurial
 ointment was also freely applied,  but  still no relief was obtained
 At length, from the 7th of June to the 28th of July of the present
 year, her sufferings were almost without intermission, during which
 period it were difficult  to  enumerate even half of the remedies
 applied to her  and  the  only result obtained was an  inc'el d
 acuteness of pains.   Whenever  she  attempted to  take  a Iktle
 nounshmdit, her pains augmented in virulence, and n  ,t ief couU
 be  obtained,  except from drinking We draught, nf to  T  T
 in order to disembarrass the stomach of ev ^  ic  Xd   Tn
 consequence, the debility which ensued was LLmnl extreme


fu. of the ^^^^l^^Z^^
mainedon her stomach.  Thenceforward J     ..^ * water re- 
DKOPSY.
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a good appetite, eating with all the freedom of a person in the
best state of health, which appeared  almost  incredible, even to
those who witnessed it.   Thinking that a change of air might be
to her of additional  advantage, I resolved to take her to a neigh-
boring watering-place, and on descending the  staircase to mount
the coach, she did so with strength and great agility.
   At this present time she is with me in Chorrillo, completely well,
and daily increasing in weight.
   Reiterating to you, my dlar  sir,  the assurance of my sincere
friendship, and  with  prayers to the  Omnipotent for your health
and long life,
                    I remain your grateful servant,
                             Juliana Fernandez de Viana.
      From a Lima periodical called "ffl Comerciof of Sept. 23, 1851.
   Impelled by a sentiment of duty, and in hope of doing a public
service by declaring the effects produced  at  my estate of Gauda-
loup (Department of " La Libertad") by some  bottles of " Peru-
vian Syrup" which I sent there  some months ago, I beg leave to
affirm, through the columns of your paper, that  the  overseer of
said-estate was totally unable to work  or even to walk in conse-
quence of general dropsy, besides spitting of blood from time to
time.
   The quantity and variety of remedies which were administered
to him without producing any perceptible change in his condition
disheartened him, until  he began the Syrup, four bottles of which
restored him to complete health, not leaving the slightest vestige
of his painful and dangerous  malady.
   A lady residing at the same place, had for a long time suffered
from an affection of  the breast, without experiencing relief from
anv of the common modes of treatment, was also restored to per-
fect  health, relieved of  all her  complaints  with the use of one
bottle.
   A lad, also, on the same farm, subject to frequent violent colics,
took of  the same remedy, and in  a few days was cured, and has
so continued ever since.
   It were desirable  that a medicine of such  efficacy should  ex- 
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DKOPSY.
tend its name to all  parts, and be tried by the most scrupulous,
under the assurance that no bad consequences can possibly occur.
For my part, I feel under  deep obligation to the inventor  of a
medicine of such  rare merit, and at the same time so very agree-
able, and desire him to count me always among his best friends.
                             M. Maria Munoz Y. Ostolasa.
                  Hospital of St. Andrew, Lima, August 28, 1848.
   Much Respected Sir—It is a source of great satisfaction to me
that I embrace this opportunity of saluting you, in order to mani-
fest in some degree my gratitude for the  benefit which you have
bestowed on me in restoring me  to  health, and at the same time
give you a description of  my sufferings, in hopes it may be of ser-
vice to others who are afflicted in like manner.
   For a long time my general  health became impaired,  and grad-
ually grew worse, in spite of all the  remedies  taken by direction
of my physicians, and at  last degenerated into  a horrible dropsy,
which confined me to my bed  for four months, unable  to rest in
any other posture than that of face  up, which  situation, together
with  the emaciated  state of my shoulders and back, caused the
bones to work through the skin and form  ulcers on the spine.
   Receiving no hopes from medical attendants, I  had made up
my mind to die, when I accidentally heard of  the surprising cure
which you had effected in Major Costaneda of  a complaint simi-
lar to mine, and a friend  did me the favor  to  procure  me an in-
troduction  to you.   Immediately you extended your benevolence
toward me, and continued your attentions until  you left  me in the
enjoyment of health—a result  almost equal to  the resurrection of
Lazarus.
   Deign  to accept my sincere acknowledgments for so signal a
benefit, and should it ever be in my power to be of any  service to
you, I pray you to command me  at  any,  and at all times, since I
regard you as my benefactor and preserver.
                        Very truly,
                                   Jose Manuel Carkillo.
   [This cure took place  in the  Hospital of St. Andrew,  Lima,
Pern, and occupied somewhat more than two months.  In'March!
] 854, the writer of the above was in perfect health.] 
DKOPSY.
23
                                     Lima, November 80, 1849.
  Devr Sir—For  twenty-five years I had been suffering  from
asthmatic affections without finding any relief, although I had the
best medical advisers in Guayaquil, Piura, and lea,  as well as in
this city.
  The change of climate,  so  often  found advantageous  in this
complaint, effected  no alteration in my case :  a long residence in
Bogota, Popayan, Quito, and Cuenca, proved of no benefit to my
health.   In  addition  to  these bronchial affections I  had endured,
for the last ten years,  the loss of all digestive energy, whereto suc-
ceeded, in August last, dropsical effusions, manifested with such
extraordinary rapidity that in less than  one month I became ap-
parently filled with water, covered with  eruptions,  and  afflicted
with such varieties of pains as led me to apprehend a  speedy ter-
mination of my days.
  Finding my situation  to be so  critical, I returned to this city,
and became an inmate of the LTospital of St. Andrew, less from
expectation  of getting well, than from a desire to be where I could
receive the consolations of religion at the close of existence, which
I conceived to be not far distant.
  The chief physician of the Hospital told me, on his second visit,
that my case was a dangerous one,  and advised me to arrange my
worldly affairs without delay.  The respectable  authority of the
medical gentleman, united to my own conviction,  that in a regu-
lar course of medical treatment there were no hopes  for me, in-
duced me to listen to the suggestions of some friends, and seek an
interview with you.
  On the first visit you favored me with you seemed to  be inclined
not to take  me in hand, on account of my being under the medi-
cal  treatment of the Hospital  physicians, but on my assuring you
that I had resolved to take no more medicine from them, you  ac-
ceded to my earnest  solicitation and at once  prescribed  for me,
animating my fallen spirits at the same time with the assurance,
that if I strictly followed your instructions I should be  well within
thirty days.
   October 21st I commenced taking your Syrup, and on  the 18th
day of November I left the Hospital as completely free from any
kind  of  ailment as ever I  had been in  my life, without having 
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LETTER OF MISS VICTORIA.
been obliged to submit to the operation of tapping,  which you
strenuously opposed as wholly uunecessary.
   The following respectable gentlemen were witnesses to this ad-
mirable cure:                         Juan Sauri, Esq.
                                     Enrique Armero,  Esq.
                                     Antonio H. Perez.
                                     P. Jk Velaochaga.
                                     Jose Garcia Urrutia,
                            Chief of the Hospital of St. Andrew.
   All of these gentlemen saw in what  state I arrived at this hos-
pital, and individually despaired of my becoming well.
   God grant that this testimony of my gratitude  may contribute
to the benefit of suffering humanity.     Jose Maria Barona.*
           Translation of the Letter of Miss Victoria, of Lima.
                                     Lima, September 8, 1854.
  My Dear Sir—Suffer me to express to you the feelings of grat-
itude with which  my bosom is  filled, for the great favor which it
pleased  you to bestow on me, restoring me to complete health
after having suffered for nine years;  during which long period I
never received the slightest benefit from  the most attentive pro-
fessional services rendered me by distinguished  physicians.
  The  infirmity peculiar to  my sex, was,  for the  time I have
named,  so excessive  that I was continually suffering inquietude
and pains of unmentionable variety and severity, so that my life
was only a prolonged martyrdom.
  If I  hesitated at first to take this  remedy which you so gen-
erously offered to me, it was because I doubted  the efficacy of any
thing to relieve me;  but having been  prevailed on by you to try
its effects, under the assurance that it  would positively cure me
what was my surprise at finding that I soon felt better, and  grad-
ually improved, until I found myself, in six weeks, restored to  the
most confirmed state  of health.
  Permit me to repeat my warmest acknowledgments to you for
your philanthropic interest  in my behalf, and  believe that such
kindness can never be forgotten by
                     Your very grateful humble servant,
___________________          Natividad Luna Victoria.
                •- See letter of Peruvian Minister. 
DYSPEPSIA.
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         From Cue periodical "El Comervio," published in Lima.
                EFFICACY OF PERUVIAN SYRUP.
  For eight  months 1 had been seriously ill from a disorganized
state  of my stomach, without receiving any, the least, relief from
the numerous remedies which were prescribed to me, until one day
I was asked by Mrs. Rivero the cause  of such  emaciation, when
she recommended the Peruvian Syrup, telling me  that she herself
had, in a short time, become radically cured of a  similar disorder
by means of this remedy, after having suffered for  three years.
  I took her advice, and in a short time I found myself cured  of
so prolonged  and insupportable an infirmity.
  Animated  by a sentiment of compassion for those who may be
so unfortunate as to suffer an evil which has left on my mind such
fearful recollections, I  hasten to indicate to them this admirable
remedy, as  efficacious as it is agreeable.
                                    T. Aldon, Broker, Lima.

                                     Lima, November 25, 1853.
  Mr Friend—I have administered the Syrup to  the  dropsical
patient of the town of Iluaura, after she had been given over by
all the physicians in the province of Chancay, and  in less than one
month she has  become restored  to  perfect health.   The whole
quantity taken was  three bottles.  I have been overwhelmed with
praises and thanks  by every  member of  the family of the sick
lady, so miraculously restored to health; but as I  cannot claim  to
myself any  merit in  this matter, other than having  been the happy
means of calling their attention to a remedy whose efficacy had
been  proved  by me, I of course cede to you all their grateful en-
comiums and heartfelt expressions of kindness, as alone due to the
author of a composition so beneficial to humanity.
                           Your very humble servant,
                                 Juan Francisco Eligalde.
                                        Lima, August 30, 1854.
  My Dear Friend—Attacked with dysentery in the year 1809,
I suffered for twenty months, unable  to obtain other than  pallia-
tives at the hands of physicians who  attended me.  Ever since, I
can hardly be said to have enjoyed one whole day of health.   So 
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CHRONIC ulcers.
 debilitated  had becom 3 my stomach that even the  close diet  to
 which I had habituate . myself did me harm.  Continual diarrhoea,
 extreme emaciation,  swelling of the abdomen, excessive eructa-
 tions, colic, and various other ailments, were the annoyances which
 I experienced, in spite of the host of medicines prescribed for me.
   In this desperate state, which hardly deserves the name of life,
 a lady of my acquaintance informed me of the great relief which
 she had experienced from taking your medicine, whereupon I saw
 you and resolved to begin forthwith, stimulated by your positive
 promise to cure me.
   I  did begin, and had hardly taken  one bottle when I felt its
 good effects.  The diarrhoea  stopped, and  my stomach  acquired  a
 vigorous tone—so strong that I no longer observed my habits of
 diet, practised  for many years,—digesting  all  sorts of food with
 unusual rapidity, and enjoying always a good  appetite unknown
 for years.
  Wishing that a medicine of such worth should become more
known,  I gave small portions from time to  time  to several friends,
who were tormented  with  this infirmity,  and  all have returned
thanks to the inventor of so efficacious a remedy.
                                Your grateful friend,
                                        Miguel de Sarria,
                 Third Officer in the  War Department of Peru.
                                          Lima, June 28, 1853.
   Dear Sir—Feeling it to be my duty so to do, I have this day
sent to the " Commerce" newspaper the following communication:

                       PERUVIAN  SYRUP.
   The hope of being useful to others, who may be sufferW from
disorders, and, like myself, find themselves not possessed of means
sufficient to warrant any considerable expense in the way of medi-
cines, mduces me to make public the following facts, in order that

^tt^£ ^ ^ ' W *"* * ** ^est
  For fourteen years I had been suffering from chronic ulcers in
my shoulders.  Almost every known remedial agent had been
employed in my ease but without producing any p^nanent good
effects.  At length I lost all hopes of ever getting well, until fw„ 
AMERICAN TESTIMONIALS.
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induced to try the Peruvian Syrup.  I took this remedy for nearly
three mouths, and the consequence has been that I am thereby
restored to the most perfect, radical state of health.
                                       Dolores Salazar,
                                          No. 24  Urrutia-st,
                             New Bedford, Mass., May 27, 1854.
   My Dear Sir—Justice to myself demands that I should inform
you that for a long time after my return home with the medicine
I had of you, the  invalid, for whose benefit I craved the bottle of
you, was not allowed  to take it.   She was under  medical  treat-
ment, and  her physician was not willing that she should take a
new medicine until the result of the course she was pursuing  could
be determined.  When  this had been accomplished  he gave his
consent to have  the Syrup tried.  He had, he remarked, heard of
the new medicine, and  although he did not allow us  to suppose
that he expected any especial benefit to follow its use, he rather en-
couraged its trial.  It may be proper for me to say that the invalid
has for many years been suffering from a complication  of diseases.
The most afflicting, the longest seated, and the most inveterate, is
a humor in the face, painful  to her, and painful to look upon.   It
has been her companion for many years, and will, I fear, be her
companion through life.
  Another and  most  afflicting  complaint, is  one  peculiar to fe-
males, and  which has been,  of late years, most distressingly preva-
lent.  Her sufferings from  that  source have been long-continued
and severe.   She has recently passed  that period of life when all
the painful features of  this  complaint  become  greatly  intensified,
and during the past  year she has been the victim  of almost un-
ceasino-  a^ony.  To  that complaint has been added dyspepsia in
one of its worst forms.
  This was her condition when she commenced taking the medi-
cine I had of you.
  The result, unexpected and joyful, it will take but few words  to
relate.
  The dyspepsia has wholly disappeared.  The humor, although
not removed, has lost much  of its virulence.
  The other distressing complaint has yielded, and so nearly ap- 
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proached a cure, that great hopes are entertained that it will Dot,
in its most severe symptoms, ever return.
   The Syrup  has  performed  a gieat work  in  this case.  The
health of  the patient has not  been so good  for a long period of
time as it  is now.                    Yours, &c,
                                            J. B. Congdon.
   [Mr. Congdon is a gentleman extensively known, and is Cashier
of the Merchants' Bank, New Bedford, Mass.]
                                     Boston, December 2, 1853.
    Dear Sir—The benefit we have  derived   from  the use  of
 the Peruvian  Svrup demands some testimonial of my faith in it.
  _  When you first presented it to me, the extravagant commenda-
 tions in its favor, by its  Peruvian  and Chilian  patients, alarmed
 me lest it should prove a common quack medicine, under an  in-
 viting  name,  of high  promise  and negligent practice.  Certain
 symptoms, indicating that dropsy had assailed  an inmate of my
 family, in a formidable  form, I advised with my family physician,
 Dr. John Homans, as to the use of the  Syrup.   After an examina-
 tion of the medicine, he approved its use.
   You obligingly presented  me with  a bottle  of the  medicine.
 The instructions were  carefully observed,  and after  a few days a
 manifest change in the symptoms of the disease was apparent, and
 before  the  bottle was  exhausted  the disorder appeared to  be
 arrested.
   From time to time, as symptoms  threatened, the medicine has
 been resorted to, and invariably with beneficial effects
   You  will  understand  that  this is not a case of settled dropsy
 but  from the  effects of this medicine  in the present case I  live'
 the  utmost  confidence  that  it will prove  a most  alleviating if
 not a curative, medicine  in the most aggravated case.         °'
                             Very truly, yours,
   n\f„ r» •       • i   .   /. -i-.              Thomas A. Dextfr
 _ [Mr D. is a resident of Boston-a lawyer and gentleman of the
 highest  respectability.]                         &              '

                               Dorchester, Mass , Mav 9 1853
  Dear Sir—I take much pleasure in informing you of the Ja *
benefit I have derived from the  medicine you s^tme!  If my 
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age, 68, it would be absurd to expect to feel like a young man*
again; but I have been entirely relieved from a great difficulty of
breathing, caused by dropsy on the chest.  I had  got so bad that
I was unable to move without much pain, and it really seemed as
if I must give up to the disease and strive to be patient till death
should end my troubles.   But this medicine of yours seemed to
reach the very spot.  I began at  once  to breathe easier, and in a
few days I felt entire freedom of action in  my lungs.  I am  now
able to sleep in a horizontal posture, which had  become  almost
impossible.   I have had very little hope that any  medicine could
give me decided relief; but the efficacy of this I cannot doubt.
                                           Darius Brewer.
   [Mr. Brewer was a long-established and very respectable drug-
gist of Dorchester.]

              From Rev. Q-urdon Robins, Hartford, Conn.
                                 Hartford, September, 28, 1853.
   Dear Sir—I have the pleasure to say that the health of Mrs.
P.. is greatly improved, and is, perhaps, fully restored.
   She took  one bottle of your medicine, which  has appeared to
be the cause of effecting the cure  of a very severe liver complaint.
                                  Yours truly,
                                           Gurdon Robins.
  From E. B. Pratt, Esq., President of the Union Life Insurance Company.
                                        Boston, June 23, 1854.
  Dear Sir—After suffering severely from boils, some sixty in
number, for nearly a year, I find myself entirely relieved by the
use of one bottle of the Peruvian Syrup, which you were so kind
as to furnish me.
  I am fully convinced of the efficacy of this medicine, and in its
power to  remove from the system any impurity; leaving the pa-
tient  free  from  the  bad effects so frequently realized, and  that it
only requires to be  generally known  to  be  fully appreciated  by
the public.                       Yours truly,
                                               E. B. Pratt.
                                   Baltimore, July 15, 1854
My Dear  Sir—Learning  that  measures  are  being taken tc 
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bring the Peruvian Syrup into  notice, I take pleasure in giving
you my experience  of its  beneficial effects  in  my own case.   At
the time you preseuted me with  the first bottle of this medicine I
was suffering with a  severe  catarrhal  cough,  accompanied  by
night sweats, loss of appetite, and great  debility, which was daily
increasing.  In this state I commenced taking the Svrup.  The
effect was almost magical.  In a few days, and before I had used
the second bottle, my cough lessened, night sweats ceased, appe-
tite was restored, and with it strength and vigor  beyond what I
had enjoyed for ten years—being able to walk several miles each
day  without  fatigue,  while hitherto I  could  only walk a short
distance.                 Yery respectfully,
                                            A. S. Kellogg.
                                         Boston, March, 1854.
   Dear Sir—I have been afflicted for many years with a chronic
 inflammation or morbid state of the liver, together with the lono-
 train of complaints which are well kuown to attend  such cases
 viz.: constipation of the bowels, impaired digestion, cold extremi-
 ties, shooting pains in the side, extending toward the sternum, &c.
 so that for many months I have not been able to lie upon one
 side, nor upon either side  without pain.   I was about submittino'
 myself to  the  usual  mercurial course  of treatment (whereby  I
 hoped to gain relief, but  did not expect  to be cured) when you
 happened to communicate to me some  of the remarkable cures
 effected by the "Peruvian Syrup ;"  and (although I am  slow to be-
 lieve in the efficacy of new  remedies) having had the  pleasure of
 your  acquaintance  for a  long  time, and of course perfect confi-
 dence in the correctness of your statements, I was  induced to <rive
 it a trial.   I commenced  taking it on Monday the 6th of March
 The  following Wednesday night I found, to my surprise, that I
 could rest  comfortably lying  upon  either side.   Frid-v March
 10th, not the slightest pain,  rested as comfortably as  I ever did-
 and now, in one week after having taken  one bottle of the Syrup'
 I consider myself  cured.   But,  as I find the medicine so ple-m^
and as it can be taken without any interruption to  businesi, I sij
continue it  a few days longer.
  I feel that I should be wanting  in  gratitude  to  you, and sym- 
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pathy for my fellow-men who may be in a similar way afflicted, if
I did not make to you a candid statement of my case.
  Accept my thanks  for the interest you have manifested in my
behalf, and believe me to be
                   Truly and respectfully yours,
                                       J. II. Kendall, M. D.

               From the Editor of the Boston Traveller.
  Dear Sir—In compliance with your  desire, I take pleasure in
giving you  some account of the  observation I have had of  the
beneficial effects of the Syrup you were so kind as to recommend
to me.
   An inmate of my family has for several years suffered, at times
extremely, from an aggravated form of dyspepsia, or what is com-
monly understood to be dyspepsia.  Her digestive powers were
very much weakened, so that food of almost any description, not
only afforded no nourishment, but occasioned distress, sometimes
so severe as to  cause  acute pain.   In spite of  all efforts—by exer-
cise, dieting, and otherwise—the disease, for it became  a disease,
seemed to  settle  into  a chronic, permanently seated complaint.
The indigestion, and  the painful consequences immediately result-
ing from it, were attended with an extraordinary depression of
spirits, extreme lassitude, and almost complete nervous prostration.
 This nervous affection assumed  an alarming  form, inasmuch  that
 her mind was at times racked by almost every species of unfound-
 ed imagination.   We  have  consulted  several physicians,  whose
 advice generally corresponded with our own as to exercise in the
 open air,  carefulness in diet, &c, but no medicine prescribed seem-
 ed to reach  the disease, or to give any, even temporary, relief from
 sufferings of mind as well as of body. • We were induced, also, to
 have recourse  to some  reputed  remedies which are regarded as of
 an  irreo-ular  character.  From none, however,  excepting  the
 « Oxygenated Bitters," has  the invalid ever obtained  any help,
 and from that the relief was very slight and temporary.  In this
 desperate state  the  " Peruvian Syrup"  was welcomed in  propor-
 tion to the  hope which had  been excited by the favorable repre-
 sentations  respecting  it which you  had submitted to me  from
 various sources.  I  am happy to say that this hope has been m a
  good degree realized, and that the use of the Syrup has been at- 
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tended with decidedly beneficial results.  The disease, however, is
of long standing and of a peculiarly obstinate nature, and it would
be  too much  to say that  a permanent cure had been effected.
The change perceptible and full of encouragement is, an ameliora-
tion of the distressing effects of food, a more natural  appetite, a
marked restoration of spirits, a more cheerful and hopeful turn of
mind, an  increasing confidence in an ultimate-cure.
  These effects have been more palpable when at times the medi-
cine has been remitted, so that we  have the best  reason to  perse-
vere in the use of it.
                     I am truly yours,
                                      Ferdinand Andrews.
                                    Boston, September 4, 1854.
   Sir—I have used one  bottle of the " Peruvian Syrup," having
 at the time a severe pain in the shoulders and back of the neck
 and in the right arm, occasionally shifting up and down the above
 places, accompanied with loss  of  appetite,  and loathing of food,
 and languor of body and  spirit; and  in the  time of using  the
 Syrup, say about two weeks, all of the above afflictions  were  en-
 tirely removed, and have  not had any recurrence of either since,
 and would cheerfully recommend to all  similarly afflicted  to  try
 one or  two bottles of the " Peruvian Syrup," and have no doubt
 they will find it an  effectual remedy for all neuralgic affections,
 such as described above.
                          Yours respectfully,
                                          Barnabas Bangs.

             From Hon. William Jackson of Xewton,  Mass.
                                           September 4, 1854.
  Dear Sir—Allow me  to  thank you  for your sympathy  and
kindness in recommending for the relief of an invalid in my fami-
ly a medicine called " Peruvian Syrup."
  In December last the patient took a violent cold, which was fol-
lowed by congestion of the lungs, accompanied by a severe couo-h
prostration  of_ strength, and loss  of  appetite,  which  continued'
 hrough the wmter and spring, and in May we  were alarmed  by
the  appearance of dropsy in  the bowels.
  At this time I accidentally fell in with Rev. Mr. P. and yourself, 
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and from your joint recommendation  was induced to procure a
bottle of the medicine.  Almost immediately after she commenced
its use there was a manifest improvement.  Her appetite  began to
return, and with it her  strength and  spirits; and now her cough
is gone, her lungs apparently in  full strength, and her  dropsical
symptoms  have almost entirely  disappeared.  Probably no  man
has less confidence in the utility of medicines of any kind  than
myself,  and very few men  of my age have had less to do  with
them; and consequently, have usually been inclined to  give Na-
ture the credit of most of the miraculous cures which have come
to my knowledge heretofore; but the  relieved sufferer and all my
family iusist upon giving it to this medicine in her case, and I con-
fess that my own convictions run to the same conclusion.
                   Yours truly,           William Jackson.
           From Rev. Augustus R. Pope, of Somerville, Mass.
                                             October 17, 1854.
   My Dear Sir—I cannot but ascribe to the  " Peruvian Syrup"
 which you kindly handed to me an entire immunity from "sore
 boils"—and  I do not know, by a very extensive  experience, of
 any boils that are not sore—since  commencing its use on the 3d
 of September.  It required nearly a week  to wear out those al-
 ready then in full progress;  but no reinforcements appearing, I am
 now quite well.
   Previous to that time I had been  grievously tormented day and
 night with these patience tests, generally having several  at once,
 all the while  for  several months. And the uninterrupted suffering,
 for the intermissions were few  and  brief, so reduced  the  whole
 system as to provide seemingly for its own continuance.  As I
 made no change of diet or of any of the modes of  living when I
 commenced taking the Syrup, I am left without any cause for the
 improvement so  sudden and unexpected, if the so-called remedy
 will  not  explain  it.   At  any rate,  you may rest assured that I
 shall not fail  to advise any one  in like distress, in the most unmis-
 takable language, to give it a fair trial.
  You will please accept my thanks for the benefit which I think
I have derived through your kindness, and believe me,
                        Your obliged friend,
                                        Augustus R. Pope. 
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   From Rev. F. T. Gray, a clergyman of high reputation in Boston, Mass.
                                             October 20, 1854.
   My Dear Sir—My attention being called, not long  since, to
 the " Peruvian Syrup," as very effectual in the cure of neuralgia,
 I was induced to recommend it to a lady  who  had been a  great
 sufferer for several years.   She had received  the  best medical
 advice, and had tried many remedies without finding any relief.
   Upon taking the first bottle of the Syrup her general  health
 was much  improved.   Since taking the second she has had no re-
 turn of the neuralgia, and her health and spirits have been better
 than for the last ten years.
   Grateful for the relief afforded in this instance, and hoping that
 others similarly afflicted  may try this invaluable medicine,  I re-
 main,                   Yours very truly,
                                                F. T. Gray.

   The following, from a lady who desires her name withheld, is
 given, inasmuch as it is so fully descriptive  of the symptoms in
 her case.
               To the Proprietor of the Peruvian Sy?-up.
   From a sense of justice which I feel  to be due to you, as the
 source whereby I have become reinstated to a degree of health
 which I had despaired of realizing again, I send you the follow-
 ing statement of my peculiarly hard case, hoping that others may
 be induced thereby to seek relief from similar afflictions by re-
 curring to so efficacious a remedy.
   Neuralgia, of a  highly aggravated  character, is the complaint
which has embittered  many years of my life.  The first time I was
attacked by this disorder was about ten years ago, when a  sharp,
intense pain was felt in my right side: thus began a  series of ner-
vous sufferings which have lasted, with  slight  intermissions, for
more  than  seven years.
   At times the attack would commence  in  the arm, then  move
 to the back, and then pass to  the  stomach, and again fly to the
arm and shoulder.   For two months  at a time these pains would
return daily, and always  towards evening: then there would suc-
ceed a week, sometimes a fortnight of intermission; but even theso
cessations of pain were rendered grievous from a conviction which
experience taught me, that when they did return, it would be  with 
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augmented violence.  The only relief which I could get was from
Morphine: there was nothing else capable of giving me even  tem-
porary alleviation of pain,  and  equally unavailing were all the
prescriptions rendered by the various physicians whom I consult-
ed ;  tlteir remedies served but as palliatives, and never did me any
permanent good.  At length, in April last, a friend presented ine
with a small quantity of the Peruvian Syrup, lately brought from
I eru, which it was said had performed wonderful cures in cases of
nervous irritability.   I accepted it with pleasure, as I would have
done any thing which promised to relieve me  from the sufferings
which rendered my existence  a burden to me.   In a few days  I
became  greatly relieved; encouraged by this  indication of im-
provement, I obtained several bottles of this remedy, and took it
daily according to the directions : gradually I ventured to indulge
in certain articles of food of which  I  had deprived myself,  as  I
had experienced that they either created or aggravated the attacks,
until in less than two months I had the happiness  to find that  I
could  gratify my appetite by partaking of  any kind of food, and
at any hours, with perfect security.
   Nearly every symptom of this complaint has disappeared, and
my general health is established on a solid foundation.  In a word,
my dear sir, I assure you, and all who may read this  letter, that
the Peruvian Syrup has  restored  me to perfect health, for which
blessing please accept the grateful thanks of
                            Yours, &c.                 L. C.
  Boston, October 29,  1854.

                                 CnARLESTOwN, November, 1854.
  Dear Sir—I am happy to bear testimony  to the efficacy of the
"Peruvian Syrup" in curing boils.  During the past summer I had
eio-ht in rapid succession, with a good prospect  of as many more.
I took regularly, three times daily, before each meal, about two-
thirds full of an ordinary wineglass of the Syrup above named till
two bottles were consumed, abstained from the use of tea and coffee
for the time, and feel willing now, having been relieved from these
" troublesome comforters," to  recommend its  use to  others who
may be afflicted in like manner.
            Respectfully jours,
                    A. J. Locke, of the Custom-house, Boston. 
WILSON, FAIRBANK & CO.
Will  establish, on liberal terms, local  and  travelling
Agencies for the sale of  the  Peruvian  Syrip.   It is
with peculiar satisfaction  that  they offer to the public a
remedy, to  the efficacy of which there is  so incontestable
testimony from persons of high  reputation.  7/ will be
• lbm-rced that statements  of what the Medicine has accom-
plished in the. cure, of di.sca.tr. are left entirely to  those who
hare experienced or  obsern d  its benefits.  The  proprietor
hopes  that the  Syrup may thus  escape  the unpleasant
suspicions that frequently,  and, too  often, justly,  attach
to medicine* of a popular character. 
 
 
 
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