•) THE ( 
DISCOVERIES 
AND 
UnparalJeled Experience 
OF 
Prof. R. Leonidas Hamilton, M. P., 
WITH REGARD TO THE NATURE AND 
TREATMENT OF 
Diseases of the liver, Lungs, Blood, 
AND 
bVtbcu ronic Disease. THE 
DISCOVERIES 
AND 
UNPARALLELED EXPERIENCE 
OF 
PROF. B. LEONIDAS HAMILTON, M. D., 
With regard to the Nature and Treatment of 
Diseases of the Liver, Lunes, Blood, 
AND 
Other Chronic Diseases ; 
CONTAINING, ALSO, 
A THogra pill cal Sketch of Ilis Life, 
{From Harper's Magazine) 
WITH HIS 
Common Sense Theory of Diseases 
AND THE 
Evidence of His Wonderful Cures. 
Rij-All Letters for Prof. Hamilton should be addressed thus: 
K. L. HAMILTON, M. I)., 
Post Office Box No, 4!).~2, 
New York City. CHARLES VAN BENTHUYSEN A SONS, 
Printers, Stereotypers and Binders. 
ALBANY, N. Y. wbtarttat: 
TO 
MY PATIENTS, 
Past, Present and Future, 
Who have Solicited my Professional Services, 
From their own Homes, 
In every State, Territory, Town and Hamlet 
of the American Union, 
AND FROM 
Europe, Mexico, East and West Indies, Sandwich 
Islands, South America, China, and 
other parts of the World, 
I Dedicate this 
LITTLE MEMENTO, 
as a 
Plain Statement 
of THE 
History of my Life, 
of my 
Medical Discoveries, 
and of the 
Rational Cures which the Afflicted may Rightly 
Hope for, from the Original Discoveries 
and Immense Experience and Success 
of THE 
Friend of the Sick, 
R. LEONIDAS HAMILTON, M.D. PREFACE. 
The reader of the following pages will at once observe 
that the views therein presented are very different from 
those usually presented by the medical profession. I am 
entirely alive to this fact, and 1 have hundreds of times 
-re-examined the theories and statements herein set forth. 
The views presented arc in strict accordance with the latest 
developments of physiological and pathological science. 
They are new truths to the world at large, but they have 
long been entertained by me, and they challenge the strict- 
est scrutiny of every scientific man and student of nature. 
But this is not all-nor is this the most important to the 
alllicted: for the truth of our Theory has been abundantly 
proved by the unequaled success of our Treatment. Of this 
success we think no man can doubt, for the testimonials 
given of our cures are not one in a hundred of tl'iose it has 
been our pleasure to receive. Our experience for years has 
proved the truth of that maxim : " Success makes success 
for it is because some sufferer has obtained relief and cure, 
that that sufferer has sent us another; and it is because 
thousands have been cured,, that they have recommended to 
us other thousands. 
We can only promise for the future what we have aimed 
at in the past-an exclusive, persevering and sympathizing 
interest to cure every patient who may apply to us. All the 
variety of our cases and the extent of our experience will 
be devoted, with entire fidelity to the suffering and sick. LIFE OF DR. HAMILTON. 
The likeness of Prof. R. Leonidas Hamilton, facing the 
title page of this little work, will be recognized as a faithful 
portrait by numerous patients, in every section of the coun- 
try, who have visited him at his office. To thousands- of 
other patients whom he has never seen, and who have been 
treated by him through the medium of correspondence, he 
sends this Portrait and Pamphlet, hoping it may be an 
acceptable reminder of him who has so often had their 
cases before him, through their letters, -written by them 
when afflicted, and ever read by him with professional and 
personal interest, care and solicitude. 
There is another class of persons who may be pleased to 
give these pages a perusal-those in search of health. 
The sick and afflicted rightly desire to know the previous 
history, character and personal appearance of the Physician 
to whom they are about to confide the tender interests of 
life and health. 
For the information and satisfaction of the above-named 
classes, and also for the gratification of the friends of the 
sick, and of that portion of the general public who are, or 
may hereafter become, interested in his Medical Discoveries 
and world-wide Professional Success, Prof. Hamilton begs 
leave the following Personal Biography. It origi- 
nally appeared in that most reputable and widely circulated 
of all the American magazines, ''■Harper's Monthly" from 
the number of -which for February, 18G8, we copy. It ■ is 
merely an outline sketch; for no one but a physician knows 
anything of the filling up of the life of the faithful medical 
man, or has any conception of the daily, unceasing, never 
done cares which make up the routine of his ever-active 
life. 
From Harper's Monthly, February, 1868., 
"We present our readers with a Biographical Sketch of 
one of the 'representative men,' not only of New York, but 
of this country. We have the evidence for saying that but few professional men are as widely known ; for ho has not 
only medically treated thousands of the afflicted of every 
State in the American Union, but also numerous patients 
from all the British Colonies, Mexico, the West India Islands, 
and nearly every part of Europe and the East. Prof. Ham- 
ilton would be a representative man were he to devote 
himself to the sciences in general, or to mercantile manu- 
facturing or professional life. The marked cranial develop- 
ment and facial expression before the reader is one which 
all would recognize at once as intellectual, energetic and 
executive. 
"Blood will tell, can not be less true of man than of the 
horse and the other domestic animals whose pedigrees we 
are so careful to control. Our race has its own aristocracy- 
not, in this glorious country, always founded in wealth or 
attained position, but in the inherent mental, physical or 
moral development of the individual-and this individuality 
frequently marking a family through several generations. 
Benjamin West and Vernet would have been artists had 
they been born anywhere. Audubon was a naturalist, 
Humboldt a philosopher, Napoleon the First a roan of god- 
like energy, and Alexander Hamilton a statesman, by virtue 
of their own natural powers and gifts. 
"The genealogy of R. Leonidas Hamilton can he dis- 
tinctly traced, in common with that of Alexander Hamilton, 
to Sir David de Hamilton, almost five hundred years ago; but 
whilst the immediate ancestors of Alexander Hamilton 
lived in the island of Nevis, one of the West Indies, the 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch was among the 
early settlers of the 'Old Bay State,'from whence several 
of his brothers removed to the central and western parts of 
the 'Empire State;' from whom have sprung many repre- 
sentatives of the Hamilton family, several of whom are 
physicians of eminence and marked ability. But he of 
whom we now write, and who is engaged in one of the 
widest humanitarian enterprises of the Western Continent, 
owes notliing to ancestry, unless it be a good brain and that 
early poverty which compelled him, while yet a mere boy, 
to depend upon himself, and to brave the world for himself. 
His immediate ancestors and their relatives were men and 
8 women of marked physique., tall and erect, with great activity 
of temperament and paramount executiveness. Dr. Ham- 
ilton's father and mother died when he was only nine years 
of age, and what estate was left fell to the lawyers who 
settled it, and left our hero a struggling orphan boy, and lie 
was placed with an uncle to serve his minority upon a farm. 
But his natural taste and talent now showed itself. Medicine 
was his chosen and pet study. In mere boyhood he was 
often sought when the neighboring farmers were sick. To 
'play doctor' was his childhood's play, and as soon as lie 
had gathered a few dollars from small accumulations, in- 
stead of squandering it for trifles, he bought his supply of 
medicines and books-the forme)- for the benelit of his 
friends when sick, and the latter for his own fond study. A 
rainy day-that only time of rest to a fatherless boy ap- 
prenticed to a farmer-always found him alone with his 
books and medicines, studying out some difficult case which 
puzzled his brain. His studious habits and flrm resolve to 
be a physician were opposed by his relatives, which only 
served as a stimulus to goad his energies on. 
" But physical toil and study and discouragements wore 
upon both mind and body. In spite of every effort to rally 
his strength and courage, his stamina was soon gone. Con- 
sumption, that insidious and fatal disease, belonged to his 
family, and had taken away, one by one, his relatives, and 
now, at the early age of seventeen, his own health showed 
signs of rapid decline. 
" He was confined to the bed for nearly six months, during 
which time the most eminent physicians were consulted, and 
all the boasted remedies for consumption were used in vain, 
and he was given up to die-the consumptive's death. But 
spring came, and its genial warmth invited him into the 
open air. He seemed partially to revive, and with his 
reviving power came the resolve to throw ail medicines 
aside. He determined to live at any rate. 
" Wliile taking a short walk one day, a traveling physi- 
cian-a Frenchman-passing by, stopped and spoke with 
him. He told him of remedies for his case from the adjacent 
fields and forests, 'without money and without price,'and 
only accepted the farmer's household hospitalities. From 
9 that day strength came to him, hectic and cough left, and 
soon he ate with the hungry heartiness of a starved, grow- 
ing boy. Hope now lighted and lightened his heart; and 
his new and true physician made him fully acquainted with 
the remedies he employed, and with their magically restora- 
tive effects. He fully recovered, and vowed anew to devote 
himself to medicine. Saved, himself, he determined to spend 
his life in saving-the lives of his fellow men. At the age of 
twenty he had read much medicine, whilst yet he was only 
the farmer's apprentice, and he now determined to devote 
himself wholly to his chosen profession. He entered the 
office of a physician, and afterward studied with another, 
who devoted his whole attention to chronic affections of 
the liver, lungs and blood. Still persevering, he entered a 
medical college, from which he graduated with such honor 
that he was soon invited to be Professor of Materia Medica, 
Therapeutics and Pharmacy, and he afterwards held the 
chair of Diseases of Females and Children in the same col- 
lege. 
"He now entered the field of active general practice of 
medicine and surgery; and for fifteen years few men visited 
more families, saw a greater variety of diseases, devoted 
themselves more zealously, or independently, or with more 
singleness of purpose, to cure his patients, wherever a wide 
reputation called him. Especially did he investigate and 
pride himself upon his success in cases of incipient con- 
sumption, liver diseases and constitutional weakness - 
cases which other physicians dreaded, and which they 
declared themselves unable to cure. Here was his peculiar 
glory; not boastful, but gratefully thankful that he could 
cure those patients whose cases were like his own. He 
investigated medicines, especially the vegetable materia 
medica, with enthusiasm, and nothing afforded him so much 
satisfaction as to ' get just the right remedy' for the patient 
who consulted him. 
"After being engaged in the practice of medicine and sur- 
gery for so many years, Dr. Hamilton's health failed to 
such an extent that he was compelled to relinquish the out- 
door, night-and-day, ever-anxious and ever-varied work of 
the general practitioner. His sympathies and his tastes, Iris 
10 experience and his success, at once determined him to make 
a specialty of diseases of the Lungs, Liver and Blood, and 
other chronic diseases. Next, he was to decide where he 
could do most good-where benefit the greatest number. 
His discerning sagacity instantly pointed him to New York 
city, as the center of the Western World. 
" He planned an immense medical business, and secured 
the most competent and eminent physicians, chemists and 
pharmaceutists in the Union; and all of his vast medical 
business is daily conducted with clock-like regularity, and 
every department of it is dispatched under his direct and 
personal supervision. Nothing passes without his sanction. 
No letters or correspondence are, under any circumstances, 
opened, except by himself. 
" It is now an admitted fact that for many years past Dr. 
Hamilton has made more examinations, and prescribed 
for more sick people, than any other man in the world. He 
has evidence to show this. He has devoted much time and 
an immense amount of money to the investigation of new 
medicinal agents. He examines so many thousands of cases 
annually, by personal examination and by correspondence, 
that he is enabled to decide, with the most skilful success, 
upon just the right remedies required. His treatment is 
no one-idea patent medicine remedy-no humbug scheme; 
but, from a great variety of the most choice remedies, care- 
fully selected and compounded according to his own specific 
directions, he makes up each prescription from the symp- 
toms and condition of each case of disease, as presented. 
The number of his patients is only limited by his ability to 
see them or to prescribe for them by letter. 
, "As the popular physician with the people of this country, 
he is to them what Stewart and Claflin are as drj' goods 
merchants, or as the Harpers and Appletons and Putnams 
are as publisher-the representative man. Original in his 
reasonings, decided in his convictions, quick in his concep- 
tions, he has done, and can do, an immense labor, accurately 
and successfully; and he is reaping the harvest of gratitude 
from patients in our own and other countries. 
"As before suggested, he has remarkable enthusiasm in 
the investigation of medicinal agents, and has so many 
11 patients afflicted with the same class of diseases of the 
Liver, Lungs and Blood, at the same time, that he has the 
best possible opportunity to test the relative efflcacy and 
value of remedies; and herein, perhaps, is one of the strong- 
est features of his wonderful skill, but not by any means the 
only feature. His views of the nature of disease - and 
especially of those to which we have referred-are pecu- 
liarly his own. The conclusions arrived at from investiga- 
tions made by him years since are now fully proved by 
others to be correct, lie was only twenty years in advance 
of his age. His distinctive and peculiar discovery is that 
the liver is as important an organ, as a blood-maker and 
blood-puritier, as the lungs are as blood-wt«h'.?ers-to coin a 
word expressive of the oxygenation of the blood iu the 
latter organs. It is the thorough understanding of this 
tpecific liver function, and of its relation to disease, and the 
discovery and adoption of his own peculiar remedies, which 
have created for him a medical world of his own. Liberal 
in his views of medicine, and ever happy to receive sugges- 
tions from others, his mind is so sagacious and practical 
that he scrutinizes with remarkable accuracy, and discrimi- 
nates what is true in what comes before his active brain. 
Such a man creates faith, makes success, and eminently 
deserves all that world-wide popularity which he has already 
secured, and which is promised to him in the glorious 
future." 
12 The following was composed by William Ross Wallace, 
the celebrated poet, from hints in an elegant paper pre- 
sented to Prof. Hamilton by a committee of eminent physi. 
cians as a token of their appreciation of his noble work: 
13 
A Life Ode. 
TO PROF. R. LEONIDA8 HAMILTON, M. D., OF NEW YORK. 
Brother in our grand and sacred calling, not that word of 
ours 
Can a single new addition give unto your mighty powers, 
Nor that we can twine a single new leaf in the wreath of Fame, 
That lias grown, and still is growing, on your world-acknow- 
ledged name, 
Do we thus, at last, address you-we who blindly did so long 
War against your certain Healing-doing real Science wrong; 
Not for these we wait you greeting, but in justice to the Plan 
That your Inspiration, Study, oilers for the Ills of Man 1 
Yes. triumphant oiler, giving tens of joyous thousands 
Wealth, 
Richer than all golden ingots, in the Eden Rose of Health; 
Health that is the great foundation for the Muscle, Mind and 
Heart, 
Leading into every Science, giving lustre to all Art. 
With it only Man has manhood, sees his forces surely hurled 
On the broad, rude breast of Matter to imparadise a world. 
O, without it what's existence? How philosophy must die, 
AU unread Earth's mystic volume and Star-Libraries on high. 
What the ponderous brain of Statesman ? What the earnest 
Preacher's lire ? 
What the Patriot-Hero's saber ? What the ardent Poet's lyre ? 
What the eager man of business ? Lashed by Fiend-Disease's 
rod, 
What to Man is Earth ? A Desert, though so opulent made 
by God. 
But Disease's Demon banished, how majestically he stands, 
Little lower than the Angels, with sound brain and stalwart 
hands I 
Brother I those the truths so startling that you pondered 
long ago, 
How for Remedy you labored as you wept o'er Human woe I 14 
How you saw the Blood, the very fountain of the Human 
Life; 
There it was that with the Demon must be waged the saving 
strife. 
From the Kegal Blood all Poison must be driven ; it must roll 
Free, and Pure, and Strong, and Steady, as the God-protected 
pole. 
O, how solemnly you questioned Science on her moveless 
throne, 
"What's Main Purifier, Strainer of the Blood within its 
zone?" 
Questioned not with mere lips only, but with conscientious 
work, 
Toiling bravely as a Christian, never dreaming as a Turk, 
Soon you found the great true answer, Science opening wide 
her book. 
" Earnest, Human-loving Searcher, to the central Liveb look, 
Nor the Lungs discard in treatment; go on as you have begun, 
And Humanity by thousands will bless Natuke'S Hamilton! " 
But the Remedy ? Not Mineral it, at most, lulls the ill: 
Even if it may cure sometimes, opens way for worse ones 
still: 
Yes, the Vegetable gives it, root, and stem, and leaf, and 
Hower, 
Innocent as Eden-foliage, though so mighty in their power ?" 
Were and are they not ? Speak thousands-ye who our wise 
brother sought, 
And proclaim to those yet suffering all the victory he 
wrought I 
Tell how lied the sallow, yellow color from the skin or face- 
Nature's own red roses, lilies, taking their Heaven-ordered 
place; 
Fled all Drowsiness and Dullness: bitter, bad taste in the 
mouth, 
Frequent Headache, heat internal, and the throat's Zahara 
drouth; 
Fled tlie heart's wild palpitation; Cough so teazing and so 
dry; 
Appetite unsteady, viands hateful to the taste and eye: 
Sour Stomach, with a raising of the food; and in the throat 
Horrible Sensation, Choking over which a fiend would gloat; 
Heaviness or Vomiting, or Pain in sides, or back or breast; 
Colic Pain and Soreness through the heated bowels, without 
rest; 
Constipation of the bowels, Diarrhoea, aching Piles; 
In extremities a Coldness, deep as felt by Arctic Isles, 
To the head a swift blood rushing, Female Weaknesses the 
worst; 15 
Spirits low, Forebodings gloomy, as if by black doom 
accursed, 
Irritable and Desponding-nothing bright in all the world, 
And a very nuisance, even rainbow's peace symbolic curled. 
Yes, our Brother I these the Miseries that your chartered 
skill has slain, 
Not forgetting fell Consumption and her diabolic train. 
Brother I if we cry out *' Onward " to the Chemist, to the one 
Piercing down to read Earth's History, mystic daughter of 
the Sun, 
How much more should we cry " Onward" to the true Phy- 
sician-he 
Who in strong but modest effort probes our great Humanity I 
This Humanity still subtler than the Elemental thrall, 
For it is the Microcosm of the Macrocosm-all I 
Onward, then, in Heavenly Mission I Onward with that 
piercing eye, 
That can all Diseases Chronic in the Patient's frame descry ? 
Onward, with your Heart so feeling, so rejoicing to dispel 
From Humanity Diseases blasphemous, usurping Hell; 
O, may long, long, LONG your Mission for our aching liace 
remain, 
Heaven giving you the vigor still to bear the ceaseless strain 
By so many myraid Sufferers forced upon a soul and frame. 
To the Throne of Health devoted, with her Eden-nataleu 
flame? 
Onward, with the glad warm blessings of the myriads you 
save 
Daily from Disease's tortures-daily from the early grave; 
Blessings breathed by Mothers, Fathers, Children, Brothers, 
Sisters, all 
From whose fame restored your Healing drives away the 
greedy pall I 
Onward till a Blessing holier than is vouchsafed to the sod 
Glows upon you in that country far above the ailing Clod: 
Blessings for the true physician, from the First Physician- 
Goi> I 
Many Physicians. 16 
EVIDENCE FROM THAT EMINENT POET, WM. ROSS WALLACE, 
OF NEW YORK. 
A G-rateful Heart's Acrostic. 
Proud may you be that thus you laureled stand, 
Rich in the praises of our grateful land, 
O'er which your Genius and your Science save 
Full many thousands, yearly from the gravel 
Liver you see the very central place, 
Evermore cause within the Human Race 
Of fell Disease's ill, the terrible source, 
Not with a pigmy's spite but with a giant's force, 
If it gives not the natural movement-flows: 
Dark and corrupt the grave doomed system grows, 
All helpless as an eagle, nearing death, 
Succumbed beneath a Simoon's poison-breath. 
Hold you the mineral antidote ? It kills, 
And only I'asteM death's black stillness fills 
" Mankind," you cried, "Another power must find; 
In something else is final Rescue shrined. 
Lo, in the Vegetable, Health's from God: 
To it alone breaks the Destroyer's rod I" 
O, I do know your blest, triumphant skill, 
Now saved by you from his Demoniac Will I 
May you long live, more lives Ums to prolong; 
Day alter day the Proof how true this grateful song I 
Dear Doctor, at 516 Broadway: When I felt myself cured 
by your truly great skill, working under your true system 
of medicine, 1 saw that my avowal of my intention to show 
my gratitude in "A Rhyme," was received by you as a pass- 
ing ejaculation of joy; but I was in earnest, and I only regret 
that the necessary shortness of an acrostic prevents me from 
stating details of your triumphs; in which record would be 
made of your full success in ridding thousands on thousands 
of scores of diseases caused by derangement of the Liver. 
My little lyric is sent to you as a matter of bounden duty as 
well as pleasure. God bless you for exertions in your sacred 
profession. W. 17 
Inventors and Specialists-How Pro- 
gress is Made. 
This is an age of discovery. In all the annals of history 
there is no period described when there were so many and 
so valuable inventions. A few years since we all traveled 
in stage coaches, six or eight miles an hour; now cars, some 
of which are miniature parlors, carry us swifter than race- 
horses on the track, and steamboats transport us to distant 
cities during our sleep in a single night. Two inventors- 
Stevenson, of England, and Eulton, of our own country- 
have accomplished most of this for us. A few years since, 
our feet were kept dry only by soaking our clumsy boots 
with tallow; while now, both the most substantial and most 
fastidious tastes can be satisfied with excellent and elegant 
foot-coverings of rubber; and a Goodyear has perfected its 
manufacture in an hundred utensils and conveniences for 
the kitchen, the parlor, the nursery, and the study. The 
genius of Morse has invented the telegraph, and the mes- ' 
sages of commerce, news, legislation, and friendship sweep 
over the magic wires with lightning speed. Not many years 
since, the greatest of living surgeons, Velpeau, of Paris, 
told his medical pupils that although enthusiasts at different 
times had vainly imagined that some means might be 
adopted to allay the pain of surgical operations, yet that 
such an idea was entirely chimerical and must ever remain 
so. The thing, he said, was impossible, and all hopes of it 
but a vain delusion. In live years from that hour, Velpeau 
amputated limbs and performed other grave operations 
whilst his willing patient was sleeping from anaesthesia. An 
American dentist, Dr. Horace Wells, of Hartford, Conn., 
conceived the idea of preventing the pain of surgical opera- 
tions, and first of all took the ether himself, to have a tooth 
extracted. He devoted years to this discovery, with an 
enthusiasm not excelled among ancient or modern inventors 
or discoverers. 
Such are a few of the marks of mighty progress in a few 
years of the past. Who made these discoveries ? Always 
and ever enthusiasts and specialists. Never has the world seen men more devoted to single, definite, specific 
objects. Stevenson and Fulton loved the steam-engine, the 
steam-car and the steamboat, with all the devotion that 
Napoleon loved the victories of war, or St. Paul the contests 
for the faith on Mars' Hill. Day and night, year after year, 
did the ever-to-be-honored Goodyear, in alternate prosperity, 
poverty, and prison, develop his invaluable discoveries. So 
with Morse. So with every discoverer and inventor. Opposi- 
tion, old theories, all the knowledge of the past, was opposed 
to each and every one of them. Electricians and chemists 
thought Morse was a fool; surgeons and professors ridiculed 
Wells; and almost the whole lives of Stevenson and Fulton 
were met with obloquy and contempt. Goodyear was impris- 
oned for debt, and Dr. Wells was so disheartened by ingrati- 
tude that he died in prison by his own hands ! These men were 
specialists, and as such were denounced as enthusiasts 
and humbugs and deceivers; but the world will honor them, 
whilst their opponents will be lost in ignoble nothingness 
and absolute forgetfulness. 
Just so in medicine. Jenner devoted years to the dis- 
covery and investigation of vaccination, whilst his medical 
brethren arrayed themselves against him in united hatred. 
From these facts-and they are only a few among many 
that might be adduced-we should learn : 
1st. That no man can excel who does not devote his whole 
energies to some one definite, determined object. 
2d. That such men are always either slighted or opposed 
bj' those in the same employment or profession. 
3d. That those discoveries which look the most chimerical 
are often the most reliable and valuable, and their authors 
the greatest benefactors of their race. 
4th. That there is a want of faith which is foolish. Once 
nobody thought these men were wise; now every person of 
sense sees at a glance that these persons were, each and all, 
a hundred years in advance of their age. The world is full 
of doubters and sneerers; but the true discoverer should 
never regard their conduct, but press on to the brightest 
attainments-that he may acquire honor to himself and bless 
mankind. 
18 The True Theory of Chronic Diseases. 
WHY ARE WE DISEASED ? 
Sickness is not the natural condition of the human family. 
Man, infinitely raised above all other animals, by his intelli- 
gence, his moral capacities, and his immortal life, suffers 
more from disease than all other animals. In fact, sickness 
seems a stranger to all the beasts of the field, the birds of 
the air, and to the sportive swimmers in the brooks, lakes 
and oceans. We have only the rarest evidence of disease 
among the inferior animals. Whenever the domestic ani- 
mals-our horses, sheep, swine, and cattle-are sick, we can 
almost always ascribe it to the wrongs done to them by man 
in respect to diet or exposure. 
But how common is sickness to our race! From the cradle 
to the grave we are constantly liable to it. Indeed, the best 
writers on hygienic and medical topics concede that more 
than one-half of all our race die before they are three years 
old! From the cradle to the grave our bodies are halting 
hospitals for the frequent residence of disease. 
The average period of human life may have increased 
within the past fifty years, because the treatment of disease 
has improved, and neither men nor infants are butchered 
by blood-letting and depressing, strength-destroying and 
poisonous remedies, as formerly; but who will say that the 
American people are now as strong as were the fathers and 
mothers of the period of the Revolution I Children were far 
healthier, and men and women were larger and stronger. 
Dyspepsia was very rare, consumption scarcely heard of, 
and neuralgia unknown. 
Twenty-five years ago the greatest number of deaths 
were produced by fevers and inflammation. To-day five 
persons die from some disease arising from impure blood, 
or dyspepsia, or exhausted nervous delrility, or consump- 
tion, where one dies from fever. The race is smaller, more 
sickly and sensitive, and have neither the buoyancy, con- 
tentedness, nor strength of those who lived in the days of 
our fathers and mothers. Every man of experience, and 
every nurse of goodly years, will testify to what we say, 
and every physician knows it to be abundantly true. 
19 Why is all thia ? The race haa changed its climate. Our 
ancestors came from England, Ireland, Scotland, France, 
Germany; and the climate there was different. The coun- 
tries named had a less varied temperature, and there are 
comparatively no malarial influences there. Our country 
is, in almost all sections and at almost all seasons, exceed- 
ingly variable as to the temperature and humidity of its 
atmosphere. To-day it is cool and dry, and to-morrow it is 
chilly and wet; to-day it is hot and dry, and to-morrow it is 
foggy and sweltering, or chilly, wet, and raw. The soil, too, 
is new, and its newly upturned soil exhales the depressing 
and blood poisonous influences of malaria. Vegetable 
decay, and chilly moisture, and sudden changes of the 
weather, produce internal congestions, and, more than all, 
they develop those bilious affections which prevail in every 
section of the country. Who is not bilious ? Who does not 
have a torpid or diseased liver ? 
20 
Liver, Lung and Blood Diseases. 
Dr. Hamilton wishes it distinctly understood that his 
discoveries in reference to the above diseases have not all 
been made in a single month or year. Twenty-live years of 
unceasing labor have been devoted to the daily observa- 
tion, study and treatment of the above diseases, and those 
other chronic diseases which are mostly caused by them. 
During this time more than two hundred and eight thousand 
patients have been under his professional care and treat- 
ment. A very large proportion of these have been treated 
by letter. Some may suppose that a physician could not 
obtain a sufficiently accurate view of the condition of a sick 
person by correspondence to treat them successfully. My 
experience proves otherwise; for some of the most remark- 
able cures of the worst cases have been conducted through 
the medium of letter-writing. In most chronic (or long- 
continued) cases the patient has thought over his own 
symptoms hundreds of times. Ho has noticed the location 
of every pain, the time at which he was most subject to it, 
and whether acute or mild, constant or occasional, and 21 
under what circumstances he was subject to it. He has 
often Observed whether he was feverish or chilly, whether 
he had rush of blood to the head, with or without chilliness 
of the hands and feet; and he knows whether he is full of 
blood and plethoric, or is pale and bloodless; and he always 
states those matters with common sense and accuracy when 
writing to me; for he has a very good, if not a professional, 
appreciation of the whole subject of the circulation of the 
blood in his case. Just so in regard to digestion. He 
always states whether food distresses him, whether troubled 
with acidity or wind .in the stomach, what kind of food 
agrees with him, whether his tongue is billions and coated, 
and his mouth troubled with bad tastes, or is clean and 
healthy; and gives such other facts as lead the physician to 
intelligently and reliably infer the actual condition of the 
digestive system. 
The Patients Know More Than the 
Doctors Think. 
The people are far more intelligent in these matters than 
physicians suppose, or are willing to believe, especially 
when it conflicts with the interests of doctors to believe. 
Every person of ordinary intelligence understands that a 
coated tongue, bad breath, bad taste in the mouth, headache, 
and sometimes nausea, pain or wind in the stomach, indi- 
cate a morbid condition of the stomach and liver. They do 
not understand precisely in what that condition consists, 
but they express it all in that word-everywhere known- 
" bilious." Both the stomach and liver are subject to nume- 
rous diseases, which none but the man who has studied the 
structure and functions and diseases of these organs can 
correctly understand; but the great difficulty among almost 
all physicians in these casesis that they do not use the right 
remedies. Castor oil, rhubarb, seidlitz powders, soda, mag- 
nesia, quinine, gentian, bismuth, blue mass and calomel 
make up the great list of their remedies for all chronic dis- 
eases of the stomach and liver I A list of agents this, which 
is nauseous enough to make any man sick, and poisonous 
enough to forever keep him sick I The people know their symptoms and their sufferings, but 
they know not their diseases, nor where to go for "relief. 
They write out their symptoms just as they feel them, and 
have felt them for months, whether those symptoms refer 
to the circulation or the lungs, or the brain and the spinal 
system, or the kidneys or other organs. 
We have often noticed another feature: When a physician 
is examining a patient, that patient is often confused. The 
sufferer gives wrong answers or imperfect answers; or, after 
the physician has left, the patient finds that he has forgotten 
to give one-half of the true symptonjs. Not so in writing. 
The patient, or an intelligent friend, states just what their 
sufferings and feelings are, without being embarrassed at 
all. When he has written it all down, he looks his letter 
over again, aud sees whether he has omitted anything, or 
incorrectly stated any of his feelings, pains or other matters. 
And so it is true, entirely true, that the physician will often 
get a more exact view of his patient's case by a letter than 
by a personal questioning and careful " cross-examination" 
of his patient. In a letter the patient is entirely confidential 
and true to nature in expressing the symptoms. The timid, 
suffering lady speaks just as she feels and just as she 
Buffers; and one great reason why we have so well succeeded 
in intricate and delicate diseases of the nervous system, of 
the heart, of the liver, of the kidneys, uterus and bladder, 
when, perhaps, the visiting physician has entirely failed, 
has been because the confusion and timidity of the lady 
prevented her from giving that natural statement of her 
case to her physician winch site could write and did write 
to us in her letters. Many such letters are more perfect 
photographs of disease than can be found in the most elabo- 
rate and pains-taking medical works of French, German 
and English authors. 
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Letters Speak the Truth. 
Patients know that all these letters to me are strictly con- 
fidential, and not made the neighborhood talk through the 
" blabbing doctor" of their village. And from such unre- 
served and perfectly natural letters I have very often been led to detect some obscure valvular disease of the heart, of 
which they little dreamed; or some bilious caluli in the gall- 
duct that never had been surmised by their usual physician; 
or some fatal kidney disease that was, all unknown to them, 
pouring off the vital forces of life; or some obscure womb 
disease, from which the victim had suffered for months; or 
some poison of the blood, inherited or unknowingly caught, 
of which the patient had not the slightest idea I Hundreds 
of such have been cured by us, who would otherwise have 
died; and whose disease would have forever remained un- 
known, unless the physician should discover it by an ex- 
amination after death I What an idea I To die without our 
disease being known, and die because our disease was not 
known I 
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Our Experience of Written Symptoms. 
It requires no little experience to judge of tire contents of 
such letters correctly. What is necessary is for the patients 
to state then- exact feelings. Many symptoms which to them 
seem important are frequently not so, but our experience 
leads us to discrimmate. There is a tact in this which 
science cannot teach, nor man define. And yet the man 
who has a natural and instinctive talent will discern, as if 
by some unseen agency, the seat of the disease, and have 
the intuitive sagacity to apply the right remedy. 
How many hours, mouths and years we have thus spent 
in reading letters from our patients I No hand but our own 
ever opens these letters, and no eye knows them contents if 
the case be confidential. What mirrors of human suffering 1 
What records of pains and griefs I What pictures of every 
disease to which humanity is subject! Is it any marvel that 
we seize the significant symptoms, and interpret rightly 
from what our patient, whose letter is before us, is suffer- 
ing? Is it any wonder that, with an intuitive glance, we 
scan both the manifest disease, and also the secret enemy, 
of which the patient knows nothing? If we did not, we 
should be destitute of that instinctive sagacity which makes 
nature's true physician. Can you read the very inner thoughts of a friend by the expression of his countenance, 
when he knows not that you are even looking at him ? and 
shall not we be able, by both science and natural insight, to 
divine how and from what you suffer? And after so long 
an experience, is it any wonder that, ever questioning 
closely the records of science and the daily open book of 
disease in the patients before us, we should have made 
discoveries as to disease! Years ago an intuitive appre- 
hension of great truths was opened tq us, even before we 
ever taught, as a Professor in a Medical College, the facts 
of medical science. And as the great naturalist, Humboldt, 
learned the aspects of nature by traveling in every clime 
and every country, so we must suppose that we have seen 
almost every feature of chronic disease to which the human 
system is subject. There is no county or city, or scarcely a 
village in all the mighty domain of our vast country, which 
is not the home of one, or several, of our patients. Our in- 
creasing observation only strengthened the suggestions of 
our instinctive views in regard to those causes of disease 
Which make up the great mass of human suffering. 
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Diseases Caused, by Liver Complaint. 
These are most frequent and universally prevalent. Why 
is this ? Let us use common sense and look at this matter: 
The human system, the most perfect of all the works of 
the creator, is so constituted that, to be entirely healthy, it 
must throw off the waste, worn-out and poisonous materials 
as fast as it takes on new materials from our food and drink. 
The food is assimilated and made into nourishing and 
healthy blood, principally through theofllces of the stomach, 
liver and lungs. The worn-out materials are mostly ex- 
creted by the liver, lungs and kidneys; but all medical men 
have heretofore failed to recognize the vast importance of 
the liver as a blood-purifying and excreting organ. The 
most learned German physiologists, who base their asser- 
tions upon actual experiments only, state that the amount 
of BILE which should be manufactured by the liver and 
poured into the intestines each day is two and one-half pounds. All persons interested to know this fact and the 
experiments to prove it may consult Verdaungssaefte und 
Stoffwech»el, Leipzig, 1852; or they may see a resume of these 
facts in Prof. Dalton's Physiology. 
Remember one thing more: The bile is something more 
than the natural physic of the bowels, as lias heretofore 
been taught by eminent medical men. The bile is mostly 
made up of the waste matter of the blood-effete, worn-out 
and injurious materials. If the liver does not make this 
bile and pour it into the intestines daily, it remains in the 
blood as a poison. It poisons the blood itself, and circu- 
lates, as irritating and poisonous matter in the blood, to 
every organ .in the system. 
The blood poisoned with the daily accumulated excess of 
bile, returns from the liver to the heart, and the nerves 
of tlie heart are affected, and we have an oppressed feeling 
at the heart, and palpitation; and if this cause is long con- 
tinued we get chronic irritaMon, undue excitement, and 
morbid nutrition of the heart, developing many forms of 
Heart Disease. 
Just so with the Lungs. The bile-poisoned blood goes 
from the upper and right cavity of the heart to the lower 
cavity, and thence directly to the lungs, circulating all 
through those most delicate organs. The lung tissues are 
poisoned and irritated, and they invite the scrofulous 
humors of the blood, because they are thus irritated. 
Hence Consumption, which is local scrofula, so defined and 
proved by Lugol, and all the most scientiiic authors. The 
lungs try to oxygenize and purify the blood, and they do it 
in a great measure, but they are overworked and irritated, 
and you smell the blood-poison matters in the man's foul 
breath. Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, Nervous Cough and 
Consumption itself are the results. If the Liver had done 
its duty, made and excreted that bile, the Lungs would not 
have been diseased. 
Just so with the blood itself. It goes from the lungs back 
to the upper left cavity of the heart, thence to the lower 
cavity, and thence through the arteries and capillaries to 
every organ and tissue of the system. Among the most 
important of those organs is the kidneys, furnishing the 
25 urinary secretion-a most important excretion. But the 
kidneys themselves are irritated and congested by the pres- 
ence of the bile-poisoned blood-and they become diseased. 
Every person who has had a liver disease, knows that the 
urine is scanty, high-colored, and loaded with red deposits, 
at times, or other diseased products. Hence, diseases not 
only of the kidney, but also of the bladder. 
But this is not all-far from it. The poisonous blood goes 
also from the heart to the brain, and affects the great elec- 
trical centre of all vitality; and the brain, stimulated by 
unhealthy blood, cannot perform its oilice healthfully. The 
person has dullness, headache, incapacity to keep his mind 
on a subject, cannot remember, has a crowded and dizzy 
feeling, is sleepy, becomes nervous, gloomy, easily irritated, 
and often has a bilious or a neuralgic headache. 
And the blood itself becomes diseased, and as it forms 
the sweat upon the surface of the skin, it is so irritating and 
poisonous that the person has discolored brown spots, pim- 
ples, blotches, and other eruptions, sores, boils, carbuncles 
and scrofulous tumors. 
Disease of the Liver itself is the most common of all 
diseases. The sudden changes of the New England climate, 
the malarial influences of the West, and the heat also of the 
South, as well as the dietetic habits of the people of this 
country, and other causes, all tend to develop the Liver dis- 
ease, in some of its varied forms throughout the United 
States. This is true, both of man and beast; as every 
butcher knows that he finds the livers of cattle, sheep and 
swine diseased ten times, where he finds any other organ 
diseased once. Almost every person is bilious at some time, 
and many are constantly bilious. It may be mere conges- 
tion of the liver, and torpidity of its function, or this may 
result in some structural or organic affection. But the 
Liver can never be diseased without affecting the stomach, 
bowels and the other organs we have spoken of, and cos- 
tiveness, piles, dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrhoea and impover- 
ished blood are among the necessary results. 
By years of research, and that practical experience which 
is the result of testing his treatment in so many thousands 
of cases, Dr. Hamilton is able so to treat all those diseases 
26 which result from Liver Complaint, with remedies which 
will strike at the root oi them as by magic. There is no 
such word as fail in his treatment. By them the Liver and 
Stomach are speedily changed to an active, healthy state, 
the appetite regulated and restored, the blood and secretions 
thoroughly purilled and enriched, and the whole system 
renovated and built up new. 
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Symptoms of Liver Complaint and of 
Some of those Diseases Produced 
by Liver Complaint. 
A sallow or yellow color of the skin, or yellowish-brown spots 
on the face anil other parts of the body; dullness and drowsi- 
ness, with frequent headache; bitter or bad taste in the mouth, 
dryness of the throat, and internal heat; palpitation of the 
heart; in many cases a dry, teasing cough, with sore throat; 
unsteady appetite; sour stomach, with a raising of the food, 
and a choking sensation in the throat; sickness and vomiting; 
distress, heaviness or a bloated or full feeling about the stomach 
and sides, which is often attended with pains and tenderness; 
aggravating pains in the sides, back or breast and about the 
shoulders; colic pain and soreness through the bowels, with 
heat; constipation of the bowels, alternating with frequent 
attacks of diarrhoea; piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness 
of the extremities; rush of blood to the head, with symptoms of 
apoplexy; numbness of the limbs, especially at night; cold chills, 
alternating with hot flashes; female weakness and irregulari- 
ties, with dullness, low spirits, unsociability and gloomy fore- 
bodings. 28 
The Reason Why! 
WHY IS DR. HAMILTON SUCCESSFUL ? 
1st.-Because he has studied these diseases for a lifh- 
TIME-first becoming interested by his own sufferings. 
2d.-Because he has investigated every remedy known to 
science, and in addition he has new remedies, from the 
fields and forests, of ms own discovery, and of the 
greatest possible efficacy and value. 
3d.-Because he has no routine way of treating all cases 
alike, but treats each patient who sacredly commits his 
health to his care according to the ACTUAL condition 
OF THAT PATIENT. 
4th.-Because, having made a specialty of Liver, Lung, 
and Blood Diseases, he has an experience which has 
extended to tens of thousands of cases-a greater expe- 
rience, it is safe to say, than any other living man. 
5th.-Because he selects his remedies for each case with 
such care, uses harmless vegetable agents, and devotes 
his whole life and energies to making his practice suc- 
cessful-to get his patients thoroughly and perma- 
nently CURED. 
Synopsis. 
For greater convenience of those wishing to write me 
.about their diseases, I insert the following, which embraces 
nearly ail that I require to know in most cases: 
Have you constipation of the bowels ? 
Have you attacks of diarrhcna ? 
Have you pains in the back, sides, or shoulders ? 
Have you a pain or tenderness about the stomach? 
Have you a dry, teasing cough ? 
Have you a sallow or yellow skin ? 
Have you brown spots on your face or any part of the 
body? 
Have you a headache ? 
Are you dull, heavy, or sleepy ? 
Have you a bitter or bad taste in the mouth ? Have you an irritation or dryness in the throat? 
Have you cold chills or hot flashes ? 
Have you palpitation of the heart? 
Is your appetite unsteady ? 
Is your stomach sour ? 
Do you raise or spit up your food ? 
Have you any choking spells ? 
Are you troubled with sickness and vomiting? 
Do you feel bloated about the stomach ? 
Have you a tired or sore feeling on rising in the morning ? 
Do you have colic pains ? 
Have you wind in the stomach or bowels ? 
Have you piles or fistula? 
Have you nervous and all-gone feelings ? 
Have you cold feet and hands ? 
Have you a rush of blood to tlie head ? 
Have you uneasiness on lying on the sides ? 
Have you fainting or epileptic fits ? 
Have you great lowness of spirits ? 
Have you gloomy forebodings ? 
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What is the Evidence I shall be 
Cured? 
You have now read my THEORY, and the REASON 
WHY I am successful. Thousands of patients who have 
risen from their beds of sickness, all over tlie land, are send- 
ing me their evidence. In the limits of this pamphlet I 
cannot present the reader with one in a hundred. But 
remember one thing-there is no humbug I I will give a few 
statements from patients; write to any of them and prove 
the important matter for yourselves. 
Testimonials of Liver Cures. 
We present the following testimonials for the honest con- 
sideration of all persons who are suffering from the forego- 
ing symptoms of Liver Complaint. They are only a very 
few witnesses among hundreds. We do not need to ask for such evidence; for our patients who are cured are so 
numerous and so grateful, that they send us their own 
statements, and request us to publish them for the good of 
humanity. 
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Satisfy Yourselves. 
To know that the testimonials are genuine, you have only 
to write to those who gave them to us; as their post office 
address is always correctly given. Write to them and they 
will repeat their testimony to you. Our business is too 
extensive, our reputation too valuable, (and our expenses 
too heavy, to ever deal in any fraudulent testimoni- 
als. If we had no principle, such a course would not pay- 
especially when our genuine ones are numbered by some 
thousands-are so numerous in fact that we cannot publish 
one in a hundred of them. Were we to ask for testimonials, 
we should soon collect a mass from Texas to Newfoundland, 
from New Jersey to Oregon, which no patient would have 
time to read. They come to us unasked and unsought, and 
are the voluntary evidence of the afflicted. 
In many of the following cases, there was not only a liver 
disease, but also some other diseases produced by liver 
complaint. 
Supported by Honorable Men! 
Read!! Read!!! 
" R. Leonidas Hamilton, M. D.: 
" Dear Sir: Duty prompts me to a most grateful acknowledg- 
ment of the astonishing success of your treatment in my case. 
For nearly three years I had suffered from Catarrh, Nervous 
Rheumatism, Liver Complaint and Extreme Nervousness, inso- 
much that life had become an intolerable burden, and death was 
looked for as my only release; physically and mentally broken 
down I was utterly unable to do the duties of a minister, and was 
preparing to retire from the ranks, when providentially my eye 
fell on your advertisement in the N. Y. Methodist. I had already 
traveled far and expended so much in the vain effort to secure a 
cure, that it was with great reluctance and little hope that I 
addressed you. Your reply inspired me with hope-your remedies 
were received and taken, and the result was as marvelous to those who knew my condition as it was gratifying to myself. In three 
weeks I was again in the pulpit preaching with unusual vigor, and 
if my services are of any value to the church it is indebted to you, 
under God, for their continuance. You may refer to me at any 
time, and I shall be ever pleased to bear testimony to your extra- 
ordinary skill. Yours truly, 
" Rev. JOSEPH JONES, 
" Saint Joseph, Mich." 
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Dyspepsia and Constipation Cured. 
Mr. S. S. Parker, of Alabama, Genesee Co., N. Y., writes: 
" My wife has wholly recovered since using your medicine. 
Previous to applying to you she was unable to take the least food 
or drink, except corn starch and bread coffee. Her bowels would 
not move for eighteen days at a time, and then forced by the most 
unpleasant efforts. Since the third day after taking your medi- 
cine she has taken her ordinary meals of rational food with very 
little inconvenience, and her bowels move regular and easy. Her 
feet and limbs, which previously required a jug of hot water, day 
and night, for a long time, to keep them warm, are now warm 
enough of themselves. Her nervous debility, which was past 
endurance, is much better, and she once more enjoys her nights in 
sweet sleep. She sits up all day, whereas she was only moved 
from one bed to another for making and change. May God bless 
and cause you to live long and bless with your remedies the thou- 
sands of poor invalids that are suffering for want of medical 
treatment." 
Mrs. Abel Goodnough, of Shelburn Falls, Mass., writes: 
" The medicines you sent me were received and have been taken 
as directed. I feel that it is but an act of justice to state, and it 
gives me great pleasure to do so, that I have been benefited by 
your valuable remedies far beyond all expectations, or the most 
sanguine hopes of my friends. I shall ever feel grateful to God 
that I was led to use the means with which he was pleased to 
bless me, and to you for your faithfulness in furnishing me with 
medicines that restored me to almost perfect health, after having 
suffered tor years with diseases which were believed to be incura- 
ble, Indeed, I am well, and think I need no more medicine." Mrs. Josephine S. Hatch, Provincetown, Mass., writes: 
" Prof. R. L. Hamilton : 
"Dear Sir: Believing a statement of my sickness and wonder- 
ful cure would be a benefit to many similarly diseased, I send you 
this certificate. I cannot remember the time when I was really 
well. Two years ago I vas taken with a pain in my right side, 
which at times was very bad; but I was unwilling to give up and 
call myself sick, and the medicine I got from our family physician 
doing no good, I suffered in silence. In December, 1863, my side 
was so swollen ami so paiifrul that I could not wear my clothes. 
While in this condition, Mrs. Emeline Stover, of Industry, Frank- 
lin county, Me., came here on a visit, and told me how your valu- 
able medicine had cured her of liver complaint, and she knew I 
had it; but I could not make up my mind to send to you then, and 
after a time forgot it. My side got no better, and on the 18th of 
May, 1864, in lilting beyond my strength, I broke the ligament in 
my back, and was obliged to give out entirely and go to bed. I 
could not turn myself in bed. and to lift me from one bed to the 
other, as they did once a week to make my bed, seemed as though 
it would take my life. I was obliged to lie on my back all the 
time, my head even with my body. I took my food in this posi- 
tion. What I Buffered no one can ever know. My head ached all 
the time dreadfully, my side grew worse, was very painful, my 
back very bad; and to make matters worse, I had so much inflam- 
mation in stomach, side, and bowels, that I could not take much 
that was strengthening. I can not begin to tell one-half that I 
had to contend with; and, if I could, I doubt if it would be be- 
lieved. Shortly after I was taken sick, I commenced to have sort 
of fits, and the weaker I got the oftener I had them, and these 
alone, I knew, would cause my death if not soon cured. The first 
symptom of them would be rapid beating of the heart; next it 
would seem as though my heart did not beat at all, and my pulse 
stops, and I struggle for breath. 
" These spells would sometimes last an hour, and tjiey have 
often thought I was dying. My feet and hands would lie cold, and 
have .every appearance of death. I had a very good physician, 
but he did me no good, and I gave myself up to die. One day some 
friends came to see me, and brought me some things. After they 
were gone, I took up the paper, and noticed your advertisement- 
read it, for want of something to do-remembered what Mrs. Sto- 
ver had told me, and resolved to send. You wrote back that you 
could cure me permanently if I commenced tbeu; said my dis- 
ease was of the liver and digestive organs. I had faith and 
32 wanted your medicine. I had to talk a great deal to do away with 
the prejudices of many of my friends. I commenced taking your 
medicine on the 20th of November, and the result was glori ■ us- 
far beyond my expectations. I began to gain immediately; my 
headache left me; I slept well; was cheerful, and suffered but 
little. Still I had no use of my limbs, and no one thought I ever 
would again. The second lot of medicine I had, you said. 11 will 
have you on yonr feet in a month or two at most.' I really lau bed 
at the idea, for I then could not turn myself, move my fe< , or 
hold my head up; but, strange as it may seem, in five weeks uom 
that date I was so much better that they put me on ray feet, and I, 
for the second time, learned to walk. I have gained fast ever 
since. I sit up all day, walk out, and am about all day. M; ■ re- 
covery is looked upon as little short of a miracle by hundreds who 
know the circumstances; and I often hear the remark, ' He must 
be more than a man who has done this.' I have had many to see 
me in regard to my sad condition. I thank you many times for 
what you have done for me, and I shall ever remember with grati- 
tude the man who, under God, has cured me of one of the most 
distressing diseases, the liver complaint." 
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"Takes Pleasure in Making Known the Good 
Results." 
Mr. J. II. Moshcll, of Columbus, Georgia, writes: 
" I received your medicine and took as directed. The effect was 
entirely satisfactory. Have handed out the circulars you sent 
me, and take great pleasure in making known the good result" 
A Voice from Western New York. 
Mr. John Fletcher, Sr., of Oswego, N. Y., writes: 
" I am happy to inform you that the disagreeable, symptoms I 
had when I wrote to you first have all left me, and I do not require 
any more medicine. I followed your advice strictly and carefully, 
and the result has been successful. So long as I live, so long as 
my memory retains its seat, so long will I retain and cherish feel- 
ings of the deepest gratitude to you; and wherever I may be in 
this world, I will recommend every person I know in want of 
medical treatment to Professor Hamilton." Cured After "Long Years." 
" Dandridge, Jepkerson Co., Tenn. 
" Dear Doctor-It is with great happiness that I take my pen 
in hand to inform yo,u of the good effects of your truly valuable 
remedies. I really believe that I would, long ere this, have been 
in my grave, had it not been for your timely aid. God only knows 
the long years of suffering I endured previous to adopting your 
treatment; and, now that I am free, from pain, it seems as though 
a miracle had been wrought. I have recommended several to 
apply to you, and you may rest assured I will do all I can for you. 
May God aid you in your praiseworthy efforts in relieving poor 
diseased mortals." 
11 Ever gratefully yours, DICY ELLISON." 
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"Rests Well Nights." 
Mr. Willis De Long, of South Edmeston, Otsego Co., New 
York, writes: 
" I received your medicines in due time, and have used them 
with great benefit. Previous to taking the remedies, I could not 
lie on the left side, nor rest scarcely any nights. My sleep is now 
sound ami refreshing, and I can lie on either side. All the bad 
feelings about my stomach and sides are gone, and I begin to feel 
like my former self again." 
"Money Not Thrown Away." 
Mr. Job Costlett, of Danville, Montour Co., Pa., writes: 
" I received the medicine you sent, and before I finished taking 
it I was able to work, and have been ever since. When I expressed 
my intention to try your remedies, many of my neighbors said I 
' would throw away my money.' I feel that I have not thrown it 
away, for I received great lameiit-indeed, I may say a perfect 
cure." 
Mrs. Lethea A. Smith, of Avoyelles Parish, 
La., writes: 
" I feel and know that I am gaining rapidly all the time, and I 
know not how to express my gratitude to yon for relieving me of 
pain and misery. I have no more gloomy forebodings; menses are 
regular, digestion good; in short, I feel like my former self again. 
Anything I can do for you, by influencing others to apply, shall bo 35 
done with earnestness and groat pleasure. Send me some circu- 
lars, for I feel that one should be in the hands of every diseased 
person throughout our impoverished Southern country." 
"Her Story is soon Told." A Case of Files Cured. 
Carrie E. Phillips, of Middletown Centre, Susquehanna 
county, Penn., after making application for a friend of hers, 
adds: 
" As for myself, my story is soon told: I am well again, thanks 
to the Lord and your medicines. I believe you have saved me 
from an untimely grave; you have cured me from the liver com- 
plaint and the piles. My sufferings from the latter disease (inci- 
dent, I believe, to the former), were intolerable. I cannot express 
my thanks to yon for what you have done for me. and the prompt 
attention and solicitude you manifested while doing it. God will 
be your rewarder. If I, or any other of my friends are sick again, 
you will hear from us." 
A Cure of Salt Rheum and Scrofula. 
Miss Charlotte Rhoades, of Cortlandt Centre, Kent county, 
Mich., writes under recent date: 
" This is the first winter in eleven years that my hands have not 
troubled me with Scrofula and Salt Rheum. It is your Remedies 
that have accomplished this. When I sec any one out of health, 
I tell them to at once wriet to you if they want to be helped." 
Has Reason to be Thankful. 
Mrs. Emetine Stover, of Industry, Franklin county, Me., 
writes: 
" I had given up the hope of ever being well, before I received 
your medicine. I had been well-nigh cured, and attribute all-yes, 
all, to your great healing power. I have not had a symptom of 
that dreadful headache in over three months. Have I not good 
reason to be thankful for the good 1 have received at your hands ?" 
"Auburn Four Corners, Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
" Prof. Hamilton : I now improve the present opportunity to 
inform you of the result of your medicine. It has effected a perma- 
nent cure, as the agonizing pain in my right side, wliich has trou- bled me fbr three years, has entirely subsided. My appetite is 
decidedly better, and the various symptoms w'hich I had at the 
time of applying to you have all disappeared. My health never 
was better than at the present time, and I attribute all to the use 
of your valuable medicine, for which I shall always feel very 
grateful, and will do all I cun to induce my diseased friends and 
acquaintances to apply to you, for I believe your remedies to bo 
all and everything you claim for them. If I ever need any more 
medicine, or any of my family, I shall apply to you nt once, as I 
believe it to bo the surest, safest, and best to be had. I remain 
yours at command." Mrs. J. W. SMITH." 
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A Noble Example. 
Anna Ilay, of Hunt's Corners, Cortland Co., N. Y., writes: 
" Three years ago last spring I was in very poor health, and 
sent to you for a package of your medicines. I used them accord- 
ing to your instructions, and through them and the goodness of 
our heavenly Father I w as restored, and have been very well most 
of the time since. Beside doing the work for and taking care, of 
my family and an aged mother, I have woven over three hundred 
yards of cloth, and spun the material for a hundred yards of it, 
which I could never have accomplished were it not for the effects 
of your remedies, for which I feel under many obligations to you." 
The Truth must be Told if the Heavens Fall!-Hew 
and Wonderful Testimonials in Favor of Prof. 
Hamilton's Success in Curing Chronic Diseases- 
" Had often had Such Assurances." 
It is with much satisfaction that I invite particular atten- 
tion to the following voluntary statement of the eminent 
Divine and Missionary, the Rev. A. A. Constantine, recently 
located in the interior of Africa: 
" No. 43 Ann strbet, New York City. 
" Dr. R. Leonidas Hamilton, No. 546 Broadway: 
" My Dear Benefactor: A sense of duty impels me to say that 
your medicines have done for me what no other physician lias 
been aide to do. I have been a sulferer for many years from dis- 
ease contracted while laboring as Missionary in Africa. Last fall 
I was declining fast, and had all the symptoms of quick consump- tion. I applied to you for help. You remarked, " Before I get 
through with you I will make yoq feel several years younger than 
you have felt since you left Africa." I thought but little of that, 
as I had often received similar assurances from eminent physi- 
cians, both here and in Europe; but in less than two weeks all my 
symptoms were entirely changed, and my health and strength 
improved very fast. In a few weeks I found myself in the enjoy- 
ment of better health, and able to perform more labor, mental and 
physical, than at any previous time since I left Africa. May God 
bless you in all your researches in His great laboratory, and make 
you his agent in restoring thousands to health. 
" Rev. A A. CONSTANTINE." 
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A Sad Case, Surely! 
The following needs no comment: 
" North Egrbmont, Berkshire Co., Mass. 
" Dr. Hamilton : 
" Dear Sir: I was troubled for some years with Liver Complaint 
and Billions Colic, which at times was so severe that I longed for 
death to end my misery. Last September I was taken down so 
low my friends thought there was no help for me, and said I must 
die. My suffering was more than I can tell. I employed one phy- 
sician after another, without experiencing any permanent relief. 
At last, reading of your wonderful cures in the Independent, I con- 
cluded to write to you, stating my case as correctly as possible, 
and received your answer- that you could cure me. I therefore 
ordered the medicine (my friends still doubting), which was taken 
as directed, and after taking it two or three days I began to gain, 
and now feel quite well, having worked at my trade (carpenter and 
joiner) for some weeks past. I confidently recommend all afflicted 
as I was to place themselves under your treatment, for I am con- 
vinced you understand your business, and can do what you 
claim. Yours truly, CHAS. POTTER." 
If you doubt the Truth of the following Remark- 
able Cure, Write to Her, and She will tell Her 
own Story-Incontrovertible Testimony -The 
Case of Mrs. Palmer -A Complete and Perfect 
Cure. 
South Woodstock, Conn. 
Mrs. L. H. Palmer gives a history of her case, which, as she says, 
" was so remarkable that strangers went many miles to see her, 
the same as they would a great curiosity. " I seem," she writes, " to have all the complaints a person can have and live-indeed, I 
seem to live but to suffer. I have headache, sore throat, with a 
general disorganization of the system; am touched with a dry, 
tight cough, short breath, very costive; have night sweats, and at 
times afflicted with the piles, which are intolerably painful. Now 
I suffer with the cold, and again seem burning with the heat. I 
have not had a menstrual discharge in fifteen weeks; I have sharp, 
running pains in my hips and kidneys, and my liver is apparently 
forbid and inactive." 
The medicines needed by Mrs. P. were at once forwarded, 
and the benefits derived from them are apparent from the 
following extract from one of her substantial letters : 
"Although I had begun to be encouraged by the slight improve- 
ment, yet I felt that a crisis was coming-one which I dared not to 
contemplate. You can imagine my agreeable surprise, when I 
passed the critical period with less pain than I ever felt in my life. 
From that time I began to improve rapidly; nature seemed to have 
been aroused under the magical influence of your remedies; my 
strength returned; my mind appeared to be relieved of all mel- 
ancholy, and again the pathway of life opened brightly before me. 
Only last week I returned to my native place, from whence I was 
taken years ago on my bed, hardly expected by my friends to 
reach my journey's end alive. When my old acquaintances saw 
me returning comparatively well, they could hardly believe that 
such a miracle could be wrought by medicine; they say it seems 
' like one raised from the dead,' to see me moving around again. 
As long as I live I shall be a walking advertisement of your truly 
wonderful healing powers. Words cannot speak my gratitude. 
Once more 1 find happiness in living. If ever I succeed in accom- 
plishing any good, I shall attribute it all to you." 
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Cancer Cured. 
Extracts from a letter of Mr. Edwin Sanford, of Rosedale, 
Madison county, Ohio: 
" Do you remember the young man who came to your office last 
summer from Ohio, to consult you about a disease in his nose? I 
went from Ohio to New York to see you; but there arc many who 
go farther to see you. You treated me like a gentleman. I took 
three prescriptions of you and that dreadful cancer got well, and 
I am hearty and well now; I feel that I arm ever trust jnyself in 
your hands. I very often go and look at your picture, and think how I would like to see yon, and have a good talk with you. My 
mother is taking your remedies, and 1 think she will be cured. 
Do you remember Mr. Guy, the gentleman that you sent medi- 
cines to by me I You cured him entirely, and he now says that 
there is no one he would have to treat him but you. 
" Your sincere friend, EDWIN SANFORD." 
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How Grateful the Restored! 
"Frenchtown, Hunterdon Co., N. J. 
" Dear Sir: The medicines I received from you I have taken as 
directed, and I cannot express my gratitude for the great benefit 
derived from their use. My disease is entirely, and, I believe, 
permanently removed. I deem it providential that I was directed 
to you, after all other means had failed. Depend on it, I shall do all 
in my power to direct poor, diseased mortals to a source of relief 
which, from experience I know to be a true one. I thank you, my 
dear Doctor, for your faithful attention, and you shall always have 
my best wishes for your success in relieving the suffering of your 
follow creatures. Most respectfully, 
"Mrs. CHARLES* BERKIT." 
Hope on, Hope Ever. 
.Hudson, Illinois. 
" Dear Doctor : 
" I delayed writing yon that I might see whether the relief I 
realized from your invaluable medicines would be as lasting and 
permanent as it was unexpected and magical. I am glad to be 
ahlo to say that I have experienced no relapse, and I feel it due to 
the sick and afflicted, and your indefatigable labors in their behalf, 
that I should acknowledge your skill and success in the treatment 
of Liver Disease. 
" Having suffered three years from a very disordered and 
deranged state of the liver, and having tried the best physician in 
Jacksonville, Hl., and adjoining town, and receiving no benefit, I 
determined to try your remedies, of which I had frequently read 
and passed them by us a humbug. I tried one course, was much 
relieved; tried another, and felt so much relieved as almost to 
forget my former troubles. Since that time I have continued to 
convalesce, and am now, comparatively speaking, a new man. I 
shall never forget my indebtedness to you, nor forget to cherish 
the remembrance of your name. Truly yours, 
" ARTHUR W. HARVEY." When Doctors Disagree, Who Shall Decide ? 
Miss Mary C. Webster, of Pilcher, Belmont Co., Ohio, 
writes: 
" When I first told my regular physician who had been attending 
me that I was taking your remedies, he said: ' I tell you, Miss 
Webster, there is no use in taking Dr. Hamilton's or any other 
doctor's medicine, for you have no constitution on which to build; 
there is not sufficient vitality in your system to respond to the 
action of the medicine; no power on earth can save you, and if 
you live a month 'twill be owing to the favorable condition of the 
weather.' The fact that I am still living, and far better than three 
years ago, is evidence that the doctor was not very correct in his 
remedies. I feel that it is your remedies alone that have kept me 
out of my grave. I attribute all I enjoy to the favor of God and 
your treatment; and shall ever feel grateful for my deliverance 
from what seemed an untimely death." 
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A Clergyman's Evidence. 
Boonton, N. J. 
" R. L. Hamilton, M. D. 
" Dear Sir: It is with pleasure that I communicate the result of 
the use of your medicines. When I first visited your office in New 
York, I could scarcely walk from the cars before your door into 
the office without exhaustion. With all your prestige as a success- 
ful physician, I had but little hope that you conld cure me. There 
was nothing strange in this. Four years and four months had 
passed away, but during that period I had suffered constantly 
with chronic diarrhoea and piles. I had some of the best physi- 
cians, and used everything I heard of that I could procure, but all 
iu vain. Why should I think that you could do me more good than 
others? But, sir, justice and gratitude compel me to say that, 
after the use of your medicines for a few months, the result was a 
complete cure. I ceased the use of your medicines about the first 
of .September, and had no return of diarrhoea until the 15th of 
January, 1804, and that attack I could trace to its cause; indeed, 
sir, I cauuot expect to be freed from Ibiailities to attacks of disease 
any more than other men. I wish I had the voice of seven thun- 
ders, and could assemble all the sick in the world, I would direct 
them to you. sir, as one fully competent to heal, and whose gene- 
rous and noble nature would not allow of exorbitant charges. 
" Yours truly, Rev. GEO. 11. JONES'.' A Celebrated Physician Acknowledges Beat. 
" Waukon, Allemakee Co., Iowa. 
"Dkar Doctor; I feel that it would be injustice to you, as well 
ns to myself, not to acknowledge what you have done for me. 
Last year I was sick, attended by two said-to-be good physicians, 
and given up to die. A neighbor of mine wrote to you for me, 
stating my disease, and you answered you could and would cure 
me. Your medicines were received, and after taking them till I 
was able tp st* up to have my bed made, my family doctor called, 
and seeing how fast I was gaining, said that it was not your reme- 
dies that were benefiting me so much, but his, and made me 
believe it. I stopped taking yours, and coutinuned taking his, 
until I realized it was killing me, and then commenced taking 
yours again, and soon recovered, and have been well ever since. 
I am able to perform the most arduous manual labor, which I have 
not done in 16 years. My family physician (the one who doctored 
me) said the other day: ' Mr. Beeman, had it not been for Prof. 
Hamilton, you would have died last summer, in spite of all we 
could do.' I submit the case of my wife for your consideration, 
with every confidence that you will do as well by her as you have 
done by me. Believe me, ever gratefully and truly yours. 
" CYRUS BEEMAN.'' 
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Case of an Aggravated. Stomach Difficulty. 
Mrs. Mary A. Whitford, of East Florence, N. Y., writes: 
"Prof. Hamilton-My Dear Sir: Your medicines were all 
promptly received, and taken according to directions. Louise is a 
well girl again. I never expected to see her so well as she is. She 
can do a good day's work, and can walk a mile to Sabbath School 
and meeting. She sends her most sincere thanks, and says you 
have done a ' great thing' for her. You have restored her sinking 
health in a very short time. We shall be grateful to you so long 
as we live." 
Liver Disease of Ten Years' Standing Cured. 
Mr. George W. Crocker, of South Valley, Otsego County, 
N. Y., writes : 
" I have used a portion of the medicines prepared for me, and 
am much grat itied in informing you that I have gained twenty per 
ceut. in health. It is surprising to me, as I had not seen a well 
day for ten years previous to applying to you. I consider your 
remedies truly wonderful." "You Have Been the Means of Saving my Life.', 
" Westfield, N. Y. 
"Dr. Hamilton'-Dear Sir: I have used nearly all the medicine 
yon sent me, and herewith I inclose the money for another pack- 
age. I tliink you will find few cases more obstinate than mine 
was. My bowels and back were weak and in a bad state, and 
many of my weak points seemed to be there. I had a very severe 
time with my head, and so nervous and seemingly deranged at 
times that I got little or no rest for several weeks. I am much 
better now, and I feel almost free from disease. I think one more 
package of your remedies will complete the cure. But you will 
hear from me again, for you have been the means (under the bless- 
ing of Providence) of saving ray life. My faith is fully established, 
and I think I understand your theory, and believe you are able to 
cope with any disease to which the human system is heir or liable 
to. I had tried every other means, and every other physician 
that I had faith in; and when all had failed to benefit me, the 
Lord, by some special means, directed me to you, and from the 
first I had faith to believe that you could cure me. In fact, I have 
not for many years felt as well and free from disease as I now do." 
" Truly, your life-long friend, 
" SIMEON McOORD." 
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Mr. Charles Carroll, counselor and attorney at law, at 
Rome, N. Y.r writes: 
" It is well that I happened to be at your office in New York on 
the 5th instant, when so suddenly attacked with the first stages 
of cholera, inasmuch as the medicines you immediately adminis- 
tered to me instantly checked the progress of the disease, which 
otherwise might have proved fatal. Although greatly reduced in 
strength, I so far recovered as to be able to leave your city by the 
evening boat for Albany, and to return to Rome the following day. 
I continued to take the remedies you provided me with for a few 
days, until I entirely recovered, and have gained sufficient strength 
to be about and attend to my business. Your Lung, Liver and 
Blood preparations have been used in my family several years, and 
are invaluable. We dare not be without them. The virtues of 
your cholera and other specifics ought to be widely promulgated, 
that persons afflicted may easily and readily avail themselves of 
their use." A Lady Recommends Them. 
Mrs. Mary A. Copeland, of North Pitcher, Chenango 
county, N. Y., writes : 
" Your medicines have worked wonders in my case. Since using 
them my general health has been good, and I am able to work 
quite hard. I have faith in your remedies, and can with pleasure 
recommend to all who are suffering from the want of proper medi- 
cal treatment." 
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Liver Disease Cured! 
Read this testimony from Miss Crouch, of Schoharie Co., 
N. Y.: 
"West Conesville. 
" Dr. Hamilton-Respected Sir: I embrace the present moment 
to write a few lines to you to inform you of the effect of some 
medicine received from you last spring. The medicines were pre- 
pared as soon as received, and I commenced its use. For the first 
two or three days I felt very little effect. I was in this condition 
seven or eight days, when I discovered a change for the better 
was slowly taking place; the dull, heavy headache was gone; my 
sleep was quiet and refreshing; food seemed to nourish instead of 
distressing me; indeed, the best way I can express the change is 
this: It was like taking down an old building, repairing the waste 
places, and building up anew. We have delayed writing to see 
whether the cure was permanent or not. I have reason to believe 
it is lasting. I believe your remedies to be very efficacious in 
eradicating disease from the system, and can with confidence 
recommend them to the affiieted. 
" May you long be spared to bless the human family in the exer- 
cise of your great skill is the sincere wish of your very grateful 
friend. MARTHA CROUCH.'' 
Is Very Thankful. 
Mrs. Amos Southwick, of Chester, N. II., writes: 
" I cannot flud language to express my grateful thanks to you, 
and to a kiud Providence for his blessings on your individual reme- 
dies. They have truly acted like magic on my system in removing 
ills to which I have been subject for many years. My friends and 
neighbors begin to see and tell me how much better I look. I call 
my health good now. It has not been so good for more than thirty 
years. My appetite is good, and everything I eat sets well. Nothing seems to disagree. I think you will have patients from this vicint* 
soon, as I am recommending your treatment to the afflicted, aim 
they know how I have improved. I feel like another person. The 
pressure and rush of blood to my head, the soreness and pain in 
my right side and shoulder, and the swelling and bloat are all 
gone. I really did not believe it possible that I could be cured of 
so many ills in so short a time. Long may you live, and great suc- 
cess may you always have in relieving the afflicted, and may 
Heaven's choicest blessings ever rest upon you." 
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Strong Talk!-Read This, and be Convinced. 
Mrs. Elica Millroy, of Cranberry, Venango county, Fa. 
writes: 
" Bear Doctor : I have used your medicine as directed, and am 
astonished at the wonderful cure it has performed in my case. 
Language is inadequate to express my sufferings before I com- 
menced taking your medicine; and after suffering twenty-five 
years, I am now comparatively well. I attribute my very exist- 
ence to your great professional skill-indeed, I owe you a debt of 
gratitude I never can pay. I am prepared to say to the sick and 
afflicted, apply to Dr. Hamilton, and he will give you comfort. In 
saying this, from experience, I know what I affirm. May Heaven's 
best blessings ever be showered upon the greatest benefactor of 
his race-Prof. R. Leonidas Hamilton. 
"ELIZA MILLROY." 
I Shall Never Know How to be Thankful Enough. 
Mary Grant writes: 
" Springfield, Mass. 
" I received your medicine in duo season, and commenced taking 
according to directions, and from that time I can safely say I began 
to gain. The bloat in my side is all gone, and that dreadful weight 
that I felt when lying down has left me, and I rest well every 
night, and am able to do a great deal of work every day. I shall 
never know how to be thankful enough that I heard of you, for it 
is your medicine alone that has done me good. I am permanently 
cured; your medicine alone has cured me. I am trying almost 
daily to have the sick and afflicted apply to you for help. Long 
may you live to be a blessing to suffering humanity; and when 
you die, that you may receive a rich reward for all your labors is 
my daily prayer." A Lady's Liver and Digestive Organs Cured. 
" Wkkdsport, N. Y. 
" Prof. Hamilton-Dear Sir: I have used three-quarters of 1 he 
package of medicine you sent me, and thanks to that wise Provi- 
dence, whom all should bless, for the great good they have done 
me. I truly believe that my disease was of the liver and digestive 
organs; and had I not received timely aid from your treatment, 
my difficulties would have terminated in liver consumption, and 
that I should have been incurable. I had been failing fast for the 
last five mouths previous to applying to you, although under medi- 
cal treatment of three of the most skillful physicians in one of the 
cities of this State. Many persons are daily visiting me to see and 
hear of your miraculous skill, remarking that 'Prof. Hamilton 
must be possessed of more than a doctor's power to cure you.' 
Rome look at me with great amazement, after noticing the great 
change that has taken place in my condition and appearance in 
so short a time. I ride or walk every day, and can walk a mile. 
"Truly yours, MRS. D. C. HOWE." 
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" Groton, Caledonia Co., Vt. 
"Dr. Hamilton-Dear Sir: Having about, a year ago, been my- 
self completely restored to health by your wonderful medicines 
after suffering with diseased liver, and believing that you saved 
my life, and being now in the enjoyment of better health from the 
result of your remedies than I have been in many years, J now 
write you for my sister, who has been in very poor health for the 
last two years. I have no doubt but that you will cure her. I 
herein send you a statement of her complaints, which please 
examine and then reply. 
" I am, and ever will be truly grateful, and may Heaven reward 
you. EMILY A. ORR." 
"Benefited her more than all the Remedies she 
ever used in her life." 
Mrs. Et A. Ellsworth of Denemora, Clinton Co., N. Y., 
writes; 
"About one year ago I sent for and received your medicine, 
■which benefited me more than all the remedies I ever used in my 
life, and I now want you to let me know what you can do for a 
neighbor of mine." Mrs. John B. Parmenter, of Hammond Creek, Tioga Co., 
Pa., writes: 
"Language is inadequate to express in a fitting manner my 
deep and most heartfelt gratitude to you for haring restored me 
to health by your medicines (which I took from time to time as 
directed), after I had bceu severely afflicted for many years with 
a general debility of the whole nervous system, liver complaint, 
indigestion, and all their attendant consequences. I was much of 
the time unable to be about my house, but feel that I am now 
well and in a condition to attend to all my domestic duties. 
" I am so thankful to you for the great benefits derived from your 
treatment, that I cannot speak too highly in your praise. I rest as 
well and sleep as good nights as I ever did. and every one who 
knows me is greatly astonished to find ray health so greatly 
improved, and say that they, too, must try your remedies." 
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Read, Ye Afflicted! 
Mrs. Samuel A. Firman, of Carversville, Penn., writes: 
" My daughter now enjoys better health than she has had before 
in many years. She seems to be perfectly well. Your medicine 
has cured her." 
Why will the Afflicted Doubt When so Many are 
Saved? 
Mr. Edwin P. Cady, of Lyons, N. Y., writes: 
" I deem it mydnty to write, to you arid let you know the success 
of your medicines in my wife's case. She had not rested, day or 
night, for three years, and some of the time I did not expect her to 
live through the night. When you wrote you could cure her, 1 did 
not have much faith, but thought it my duty to use all means in 
my power to save her. She used your medicines as directed, and 
the result is that she is now well, and doing the work for five in 
the family. From such marvelous success, I have unbounded 
confidence in your ability to cure chronic diseases, now beg 
leave to lay my own case before you." 
"Woodstock, Vt. 
"Prof. R. L. Hamilton: 
"Dear Sir: Previous to the receipt of your medicines, which 
reached me about two mouths ago, I had been suffering witli a 
diseased liver of over teu years' standing" During the time I was subject to severe headache, heartburn, sour stomach, unsteady 
appetite, pains in my sides, ami low spirits, could not rest nights, 
was easily excited ami dull. I commenced taking your remedies, 
having but lit tle faith that they would help me. It was but a few 
days afterward that I discovered a great and decided change in 
my feelings. I have gained rapidly, those, bad feelings have dis- 
appeared, and I feel to-day like a new man. You have my most 
sincere thanks for your kindness and attention, and I advise all 
who are suffering from disease to apply at once to you lor relief. 
May God's choicest blessings rest upon you through life. 
" Very respectfully, , C. A. WOODBURY." 
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A Cose of Diarrhoea of Two Years' Standing Cured. 
Mr. Ira B. Allen, Postmaster at Pole Grove, Wis., writes: 
" Your medicines I have received, and used as directed. Most of 
the time for two years previous to applying to you, I had suffered 
severely with diarrhoea, and had tried most every remedy, but to 
no purpose. I have strong reasons to believe that your remedies 
will have the desired effect, as I am gaining finely." 
In His Mercy He Saves the Afflicted. 
Mr. John Lewis of Zollarsville, Washington County, 
Penn., writes: 
" The medicine you sent me last Spring acted like a charm. It 
relieved me very soon of a deranged state of the liver, stomach, 
and bowels. The marked peculiarity of your remedies is. while 
they act directly and thoroughly on the diseased organs, they do 
not depress or debilitate the system, like other Liver Remedies I 
have used. I consider you fully master of your profession, and 
from your open, fair way of dealing witli me, I deem you an up- 
right, conscientious man, as well as an accomplished physician." 
"Nbw Virginia, Warsaw County, Iowa. 
" Prop. R. L. Hamilton-Dear Doctor: I commenced tailing your 
medicine last Spring, and feel that it lias cured me. I was the 
most distressed looking being you ever saw when I applied to you 
for treatment. I was as yellow as a pumpkin; had paths in my 
head, breast, back, side and shoulders, with soreness in the bowels 
Nothing that I ate agreed w ith me. I had constant diarrhea, and my limbs seemed almost lifeless. I was gradually sinking. The 
doctors and every one else who saw me, gave me up to die. But 
through the kind mercy of Almighty God and your medicine I 
have been restored to health. 
" Your remedies relieved me in three days after I commenced 
taking them, and I continued to improve rapidly until cured. 
Were it not for them I think I would have been long ere this in 
my grave. 
"I cannot sufficiently express my thankfulness to you for the 
great and lasting benefit I have received by the use of your reme- 
dies. Yours, with respect,. 
' " Mrs. NATHANIEL HYLTON." 
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The Work Goes Bravely On! Another Clergyman 
Cured!! 
The eminent divine, Kev. J. W. Hinkley, of Athens, Maine, 
writes: 
"My health has so far improved from the effects of your treat- 
ment that I am able to resume my pastorship. Had it not been 
for your medicine I should not have been living now. To you, 
with God's blessing, do I owe my worldly existence. I am a living 
exponent of the worth of your matchless remedies, and I shall 
hereafter deem it a par t of my religious duty to recommend all 
Buffering with diseases of the Liver and Lungs to speedily apply 
to you. May God's blessing attend your worthy efforts for the 
relief of diseased and suffering humanity." 
The Afflicted Ought to Know. 
Mrs. Iluldah W. Ask, of Goldsboro', Maine, writes: 
" I rejoice in informing yon that your remedies have, contrary 
to expectations, entirely cured me. Please send me a lot of your 
circulars for distribution. I consider it a duty, and I assure you 
it will be a pleasure, to make known the value of your remedies." 
Is all this True? 
Mr. Samuel L. Furlong, of Muskcgan, Mich., writes: 
" I have cut out seventeen of the testimonials that were in the 
New York Tribune, and sent them to the persons themselves, with 
letters of inquiry about them, and also about you, and every one 
stated that they were true, and recommending your remedies very highly; also giving a history of their cases, which was, indeed, 
very cheering to a poor man, with a sick wife and three small 
childr en to support." 
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Mrs. David Barker, of West Haven, Conn., writes again: 
"I am Improving remarkably in every way under your treat- 
ment. I do not neglect one prescription, but persevere faithfully 
in taking the medicines. I have suffered beyond description. 
The pain is now leaving me. I advise all my afflicted friends to 
apply to you for medical aid and advice, believing that with your 
remedies there can be no fail of permanent relief." 
Mr. S. S. Woodman, of Cornville, Somerville County, Me., 
writes: 
" I was one year ago, one of your patients, and took your most 
valuable medicines. Before I applied to you I had taken so much 
' doctor stuff' that I feared no kind would do me good. The severe 
pains I used to have in my back and left shoulder are entirely gone. 
My naturally weak and feeble constitution has been built up, and 
(if I may be allowed to use the expression) I am an entirely new 
man. All this has been brought about by your truly effectual 
remedies. They have done for me more than I could have expected. 
Consumption. 
What is consumption ? Tubercular consumption is a dis- 
ease oi the lungs, produced by impure blood. The highest 
authorities recognize this and demonstrate it. The old 
theory that it is a local inflammation, to be treated with 
bleeding, blisters and tartar emetic, is the most cruel hum- 
bug ever put forth under the sanction of medical authority. 
Consumption itself is not so often hereditary as has been 
supposed, but tliat a condition of low vitality may be trans- 
mitted from parents to children is unquestionably true. It 
is this deficiency of vitality which is inherited-a weakness 
which makes nutrition imperfect, and leads to the deposit 
of tubercles. But thousands of persons, born with feeble 
vitality, and who grow from infancy to youth, would never 
develop the consumption if the functions of the system were 
kept correct. But when the stomach performs its office only partially, and the food is but half digested, nothing is done 
to establish vitality and keep up the supply of good blood, 
and nourish all the tissues of the system healthfully. And 
when the liver but imperfectly pours oil' the wasted, poison- 
ous materials of tlie blood, through the secretion of bile, 
these poisonous materials are retained in the blood, and 
irritate every tissue of the system. How speedily does the 
torpid or diseased liver break down tlie general strength, 
and make the person feel languid, and weak, and faint, and 
drowsy, and confused I How soon does it create pain in the 
right side, botli in the region of the liver, and a sympathetic 
pain in the shoulders, and spine, and through the lungs. 
How soon tlie patient has a dry, hacking cough-that " liver 
cough!" Tlie lungs are irritated by the liver-poisoned 
blood, and the tubercles are produced, minute at first, and 
perhaps existing for months all unknown to their victim. 
The ordinary treatment of consumption does nothing to 
remove tubercles. To cure consumption, there is no rational 
way except to purify the blood. The liver must be excited 
to action, by the very best agents, so as to make it throw off 
those poisonous materials which are causing the tubercles. 
Other medicines may be given, to nourish the system and 
support vitality, and thus prevent the development of the 
tubercles; but it is perfectly vain to cure consumption with- 
out restoring the action of the liver, liestore the liver, 
remove the blood poison, relieve the cough, correct all the 
secretions and purify the blood, and you strike at the root 
of incipient consumption, and cure the patient. 
We know all this from our own personal experience. We 
know what it is to lay on a sick bed for months, with that 
hacking, distressing cough. JFe have been there! 
We know what cured us, and we know what has cured 
thousands of others. We remember hundreds of cases of 
catarrh, bronchitis, and consumption which have yielded 
to the same remedies. To the action of those remedies we 
have given an amount of observation never given to any 
other remedies, as wo suppose, by any other practitioner. 
This will not seem extravagant to any person, even to the 
most intelligent physician, who knows the number of our pa- 
50 tients. In faot we often treat the members of the physician's 
own family, entirely unknown to the personal friends and 
acquaintances of that physician. The truth is just this: 
most physicians do not profess to have skill in curing con- 
sumption. 
We have cured in hundreds of instances, in numerous 
cases, too, where both lungs were affected. In not a few 
caes alter the patient had hectic, night-sweats, and tubercu- 
lar abscesses; and these gi-ateAd patients are the persons 
who have sent so many thousand others to us. Consumption 
is, in general practice, much oftaner cured than is generally 
supposed; and many of the profession are aware of this, 
and this fact is now noticed In all the best works on tills 
disease. We call the attention of the reader to a case illus- 
trative of this fact, and ask your thoughtful consideration 
of it. It should interest every person who has the consump- 
tion I In the Proceedings of tiie Connecticut Medical 
Society, for 18(18, page 115, maybe found: "Observations, 
Ante-mortem and Post-mortem, upon the Case of the late 
President Day, by Professor S. G. Hubbard, M. D., New 
Haven." From this article we learn that the late Jeremiah 
Day, LL.D., for twenty-nine years President of Yale College, 
was a victim whilst amere youth to pulmonary consumption. 
Mr. Day was born in Washington, Conn., August 2,1773, and 
during his infancy and boyhood his vitality was feeble. lie 
entered Yale College as a student in 1789, " but was soon 
obliged to leave college on account of a pulmonary difficul- 
ty, which was, doubtless, the incipient stage of the organic 
disease of tiie lungs which subsequently developed itself." 
He remained in feeble health for two years, and then 
returned to college, and graduated in 1795. His lung diffi- 
culties were quite severe for the next six years, and he 
repeatedly bled from tiie lungs in large quantities; but in 
1803 he had so far recovered as to accept a professorship, 
which he held until 1817, when he was chosen president, 
which office he held until 1836 without serious disturbance 
of health. 
President Day died, from " old age," August 27,1867, aged 
9-lyeaa-sll Why did not the consumption kill him? Because 
51 ho changed his physician, and was cured by altering his 
treatment from being bled and blistered and starved, to a 
treatment of nutritious food, blood-nourishing medicines, 
and tonics. Did he have the consumption? Both lungs 
were involved to a large extent, and a considerable portion 
of the lung structure was ulcerated and spit off, and large 
cavities were formed in both lungs. 
What is the positive evidence of this ? We will give this 
in the language of Professor Hubbard, who, in speaking of 
the examination of the lungs after death, says, in the article 
just referred to, p. 149: 
" On opening the thorax, only a moderate quantity, perhaps a 
pint, of serum was found in both cavities-tub lungs weiib every- 
WHERE FREE FROM TUBERCULAR DEPOSIT, AND IN ALL RESPECTS 
healthy. In the apex of each lung, however, was found a dense, 
corrugated circular cicatrix, au inch and a half or more in diame- 
ter; also a third circular cicatrix, on the left side of the loft lung, 
a few inches below the apex, each involving such a depth of 
tissue as to indicate that the vomica) [cavities] of which they 
wore the remains had been large and of long duration. Both 
lungs were slightly adherent at the apex." 
Prof. Hubbard further remarks, most truthfully: 
" Here, then, was all that remained to mark the beginning, pro- 
gress, and cure of a case of tubercular eousumptiou, occupying 
twelve years in its period of activity, aud with its incipient stage 
dating back more than three-quarters of a century. A legible record, 
surpassing in interest and importance to the human race those of 
the slabs of Nineveh, or the Runic inscriptions." 
Cases like the above are constantly occurring in our 
practice, so far as curing consumption is concerned. Wo 
could fill many pages 'with them, but President Day was so 
widely known, and lived so long, after both lungs had been 
extensively diseased, and died with lungs " in all respects 
healthy," that his case must be conclusively satisfactory. 
But we do not ask the reader to rest the evidence on what 
has been done by other physicians for their patients. Wo 
give below the evidence of a few, among many, witnesses. 
Head for yourself, sufferer-1 
52 CUBES OF CONSUMPTION AND ASTHMA. 
THE WILLING AND GRATEFUL WITNESSES. 
A Voice from the 'West-Catarrh and Incipient 
Consumption. 
Mrs. Abigail Beeman, of Waukon, AHemakee County, 
Iowa, says; 
" I have taken your medicines as directed, and cannot express 
my gratitude. I had not been able to do my work for eleven 
years, and during that time had taken medicines from the most 
eminent physicians in the West, but was constantly growing 
worse, and was not able to sit up an hour. I fear, had it not been 
for your valuable medicines, I should have been in my grave. 
Now I sit up all day, and I am able to work." 
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Liver and Lnngs Badly Diseased. 
" Webster City, Iowa. 
" Dr. Hamilton : 
" Dear Friend : I feel that it is due to you, as well as to all those 
who are afflicted with disease, to express iuy gratitude to you for 
the great benefit whichj have received from the use of your medi- 
cines. For many months I had bad a pain in my shoulders and 
side, soreness across the chest, difficulty of breathing, backing 
cough, sore throat, ringing and roaring in my ears. I was very 
nervous and my slumbers were disturbed by frightf ul dreams, aud 
it would seem almost incredible if I were to attempt to describe 
the objects which seemed to be before me when wide awake. 
Sleep was no rest to me. 1 had no ambition, and I had about come 
to the conclusion that unless I soon got relief my earthly career 
would soon be ended. I kept growing worse until I was confined 
to my bed all the time. My husband induced mo to write to you 
and your remedies came duly at hand, and in a very short time I 
began to recover, and am now comparatively well. I thank you, 
doctor, for your faithful attention, aud I shall always recommend 
you to the afflicted. With much respect, 
"MAKYE. LYON." A. Truly Wonderful Cure. 
"Denmark, Oxford County, Me. 
"My Dear Sir: Believing a statement of my case would be a 
benefit to the public, or more especially to a person similarly dis- 
eased, I seud you this certificate. One year ago last June, I was 
taken with a very severe pain in my right side ; it continued to 
grow worse until I was obliged to stop all kinds of business, and 
finally took to my bed the most of the time. The pain was so bad 
that I could get no rest night or day. I suffered beyond all 
description: I had the advice and counsel of the best physicians 
in the State, and they could do mo no good; all they gave me was 
blue pills and morphine. I continued to grow worse until about 
the middle of August, when I had au abscess break out on my 
liver; it discharged through the lungs, some pint and a half, or 
more, the first twenty-four hours, and then every twenty-four 
hours until December following, it discharged from half to one 
pint, and then commenced to fill up again for two weeks, when it 
broke again, and continued to do so every two weeks all winter 
till the middle of February, when they would rise and break every 
few days. It seems to me I raised a barrel of thick matter or pus; 
it was about the color of blood-perhaps not quite as red. It 
reduced me so I was a complete skeleton; the doctors all told me 
I must die, and that soon; they gave me nothing but morphine to 
ease the pain: they said I could not live more than two weeks at 
most; I couldn't sit up at all-not long enough to have my bed 
made. I coughed and raised more than any person in a consump- 
tion ; I tried all the patent medicines of the day, aud every thing 
that could be thought of, and grew worse all the time. My side 
was so sore (outside) I couldn't bear my clothes to touch it; and 
to sum it all up, I was in a very bad fix, any way. A friend of mine 
got one of your papers, asd brought it to me to look at; I read 
some of it, and thought I would try you-I could but die anyway; 
I had but little hope, there was so much humbug in the world. 
I wrote you, I think, in March; your answer was you could cure 
me, aud sent me some medicine. I commenced taking it the last 
of April; I commenced getting better from the first dose, and con- 
tinued to till I was quite well. The sore never stopped discharging 
to fill up until after I commenced taking your medicine, aud the 
discharge grew less every day until completely healed up, which 
was sometime in August, since which time my health never was 
better. I can do as good a day's work as any other man, and 
stand it as well; aud I do know it was your medicine that cured 
mo, aud I do sincerely and honestly believe that any person that 
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is sick (and their case is curable) that will get your medicine and 
follow your directions, they will surely get cured. My advice is, 
friends all, if you are sick send to Prof. R. L. Hamilton, and ho 
will cure you. I remain, yours forever, God bless you. 
"J. B. WATSON." 
Caso of Asthma. 
"Afton, N. Y. 
" To Prof. R. L. Hamilton.-Dear Doctor: It was between six and 
seven years I was afflicted with that dire malady the Asthma, and 
after employing the best medical skill in the country, and taking 
all the patent medicines recommended, without avail or any per- 
manent relief, I began to think there was no cure for it; but noti- 
cing an advertisement of yours in one of the New York papers, it 
was with the greatest reluctance I wrote you, as I then expected 
it would not benefit me, and would be worse than useless. In this 
I was greatly disappointed, as I had not taken the medicine more 
than two weeks before I was able to do light work on the farm. 
Before this, I could not attend to any business, being completely 
prostrated, and after taking two packages considered myself per- 
fectly cured, and my health fully established, the bronchial diffi- 
culties and all bad symptoms being entirely removed. All this is 
attributable to your unrivaled medicine, under the Divine sanction 
which I trust, with me, will ever be remembered with gratitude. 
I cannot close this communication without expression of my 
heartfelt gratitude and thanks for the timely aid you rendered my 
daughter in Consumption. The efficiency of the medicine in her 
case has been truly miraculous. That hectic cough and flush ou 
her cheek, with the other consumptive symptoms, have entirely 
left her, and now, after a period of five months, she. is enjoying 
good health and is quite robust, so much that she has engaged to 
teach school this Summer. You are at liberty to show this letter 
to any similasly afflicted, or publish it as you think proper. Any 
letter of inquiry I will cheerfully answer. I am, dear Doctor, 
with many thanks, your humble servant. JOSEPH LITTLE." 
A. Hard. Case!! 
Spine, Kidneys, Liver and Bladder Diseased. 
"Dr. Hamilton-My Best Friend and Brother: You have saved 
my life! This is not only certain to my own apprehension, but all 
my personal friends who have known my sufferings so long and 
so well join in this opinion. From a spinal disease I have suffered for years what no tongue can tell. Besides tins disease, I have 
been afflicted with aggravated affections of the liver and spleen; 
and my kidneys and bladder have been so diseased that other 
physicians have tried their skill in vain. I have laid in hospitals 
for months, and I have again and again consulted the most emi- 
nent physicians and surgeons in Boston, New York, Charlestctu, 
Cincinnati, Chicago and other cities, without regard to expense. 
They were men of learning and great reputation, but iu all hon- 
esty I must say they did me no good. After trying thoroughly 
their skill they have had to acknowledge my case as complicated 
and hopeless-' incurable ' as they have termed it. In nine weeks 
yob have cured me-made me a new man. I had nohope, nor had 
my friends; but lam now right; lam well; and I rejoice that, 
after eighteen years of suffering, I know what it is to enjoy the 
blessed, joyous feeling of health, vigor, life, freedom from pain, 
and with the power to work, think and enjoy myself. I offer you 
this testimonial gladly; I hope it will lead hundreds to you. I 
know that whereof I here testify; and I shall ever take the great- 
est satisfaction in recommending you to all the afflicted, for to 
you I owe my life. Your true friend aud brother, 
" A. G. BUTTERFIELD. 
" Monroe st., between Bedford and Franklin aves., Brooklyn, N. Y." 
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Diseases of the Elood. 
SCROFULA, SALT RHEUM, OLD SORES, ERYSIPELAS, ACNE, 
BOILS, CARBUNCLES, ETC. 
In some cases there seems to be proof, from our most 
careful observation, that these humors are hereditary- 
acquired from one or both of the parents. But in a far 
greater number it is not so. They are developed as the 
result of liver-poison. Correct the biliary system, and give 
such sanative vegetable alteratives as purify the diseased 
blood, and these diseases vanish as if by magic. 
" The Blood is the Bife." This is as true as a mathemati- 
cal or any other scientific proposition; and it is a truth 
which should influence every physician. For no physician 
can excel in this class of diseases unless he makes a special, 
thorough, long-continued study of those vegetable remedies 
which purify the blood. Here, we claim, is one of our 
most signal triumphs-to discover, by most thorough RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION, THOSE PLANTS WHICH 
PURIFY THE BLOOD. 
These diseases cause years of unhappiness, disappoint- 
ment, and suffering; and persons suffering from any bad 
humor are exceedingly liable to have it settle on the lungs, 
or some other vital organ. It is always a safe rule, and it 
is the only safe one for such persons, to remove the disease 
at once, before the blood-poison has fastened upon the heart, 
lungs, or kidneys. When you purify the blood and cure 
salt-rheum, you not only cure the salt-rheum, but you 
put the system in such an improved condition that you are 
not so liable to any disease! Cleanse the fountains of life, 
and good digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, and vital 
strength will all return to us. 
We have scarcely had more grateful letters than those 
from many of our lady patients, in both city and country, 
who have written to thank us for curing those eruptions of 
the face which are so common-acne. 
Many of the impurities of the blood arise from diseases 
which it would not be right to discuss in a pamphlet like 
this, designed for circulation in the families of our country. 
The impure diseases of large cities have received from us 
no small show of attention; and we can treat those symp- 
toms of secondary and tertiary disease just as well for 
patients at a distance as for those who prefent themselves 
at our office. 
Even slight affections of this character are often the 
source of much mortification and disappointment, and 
canker many a life which might otherwise be happy. Write 
us confidentially, s» we shall know just what to do for you, 
and all will be well 11 Very frequently persons suffer from 
this class of affections who d» not dream of it until they 
write us their symptoms. " A word to the wise is sufficient." 
Remember to procure a remedy in season which shall eradi- 
cate every taint of impurity. 
We cannot give certificates in all these classes of cases, 
because to do so would violate professional confidence-a 
point dearer than life to the physician of honor. 
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Diseases of the Hea$. 
We have referred to the fact that impure blood, filled with 
irritating, poisonous materials, often affects the delicate tis- 
sues of the heart. These diseases of the heart are many 
of them only nervous, and frequently arise sympathetically 
from disease of the stomach or liver; but though only nerv- 
ous at first, they are liable to produce irritation and inflam- 
mation of the valves and lining membrane of the heart 
itself. How wise to attend to a case of this kind in season. 
How wise to be admonished, by the unnatural throbbing of 
that organ, that all is not right! How wise to be warned by 
that pain which you feel through tlie heart, that you should 
help it to beat rightly and to give you continued life, by 
your taking such medicine as shall preserve it from further 
disease. Purify the blood and remove the irritation at 
once. Patients who have suffered from heart difficulties 
for months and years are often surprised to realize how 
soon all their troubles are removed. We give no poisons to 
corrupt the blood, but prescribe those blood-purifying plants 
which an all-wise Providence has distributed in every field 
and meadow and forest. Our country is rich, it woidd 
seem, above all other countries, in the number and variety 
of these medical plants; and to the study of such agents 
we have devoted a vast botanical and therapeutic investi- 
gation. Some physicians who devote much attention to the 
nature of heart diseases are entirely unsuccessful in their 
treatment. They have not the right remedies. Other diseases 
are often produced by heart diseases. Some diseas* of 
the brain frequently results from heart disease. The lungs 
are often diseased, by the same cause; and dropsy is often 
caused by the organic heart diseases. Apply in season, 
before the disease has become too seated. 59 
Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. 
Remember that urine is always formed directly from the 
blood-never directly from what we drink. It is simply and 
solely a secretion made from the blood, which goes to the 
kidneys; but it is a most important secretion. Many per- 
sons suffering from diseases of the kidneys are entirely 
unaware of it. Sometimes they are doctored for months 
for other diseases, when the real seat of difficulty is the 
kidneys. We have often treated such cases. Not unfre- 
queutly the patient gets very much emaciated, and his 
strength mostly gone, before he applies to us. But his own 
natural statement of his feelings and of the character of his 
urine, has enlightened us at once, and he has been saved by 
remedies which purified his blood, acted magically upon 
his liver, and stayed the wasting disease. 
Patients who suffer a dull or sever# pain in the back, 
above the hips and at each side of the spine, should look to 
it at once and not neglect it. If there be tenderness on 
pressure at tlie place above named, with too profuse or too 
scanty urine, these symptoms should attract your attention 
at once. If there be cloudy flakes, or red, "brick-dust" 
deposit in the urine, no time should be lost. If it curdles 
into flakes when you heat a little of it, or add a little nitric 
acid to it,'you had better be restored from such a condition 
as soon as possible. Resort to natures's remedies at once, 
before the kidney is destroyed in its structure. 
No person, unacquainted with the structure and functions 
and diseases of the kidneys, can rightly estimate the import- 
ance of their healthy action. If they do not act rightly, the 
rheumatism may be rapidly developed, or the person is 
liable to be suddenly attacked with dropsy, or the most 
aggravated and prostrating diseases of the nervous system 
may set in. Patients should have no hesitation in speaking 
confidentially, when writing us on these things. By so 
doing, they will enable us to discriminate, with scientific 
accuracy, the nature of their individual case, and aid us to 
choose just the right remedy to cure them. In looking at 
the following cases, which are only one in a thousand that we might present, can you say that your case is worse than 
these ? Let the following extracts convince you of the 
power of our remedies. 
Most of the diseases of the bladder originate from those 
of the kidneys. The urine is imperfectly manufactured in 
the kidneys, and proves irritating to the bladder and urinary 
passages. There is no tendency, or but very seldom any, 
of the diseased bladder to become cured without treatment. 
In nine cases out of ten, restore the action of the liver fully 
and both the kidneys and bladder will be restored. When 
we remember that no medical agent ever reaches the kid- 
neys except through the liver and the general circulation of 
the blood, you will see that our treatment is rational, philo- 
sophical, and the only scientific one. We have indeed, 
discovered agents which act with much direct effect upon 
the kidneys, healing these organs and re-establishing their 
functional action; but we use them in connection with our 
own discovered agents for powerfully and kindly acting on 
the liver, and cleansing the blood from every impurity. 
Many of these diseases are of a private nature, and some- 
times when the patient does not suspect it. Be frank in all 
your statements, and assist us to understand your case, that 
we may cure you thoroughly. 
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Dropsy. 
We have hut few words to say to patients on this subject. 
That tliis disease primarily originates in liver disease, or 
impure blood, or heart disease, or kidney disease, is well 
understood by the profession. The nature of this disease 
may be very different in different cases, and in fact it is so. 
But let the disease arise from whatever cause it may, our 
treatment lias been eminently successful. We do not cure 
all cases of it, for patients sometimes neglect to apply to us 
until the gravest organic diseases of the liver, or heart, or 
kidneys complicate the case. But if anything will "strike 
at the root" of the case, it is our remedies. We cannot 
illustrate the nature of dropsy to the readers of this pamph- 
let as we would desire to, for to understand it requires a thorough knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology, 
which the general reader is never supposed to have. Dropsy 
is one of the most intricate and interesting of all diseases. 
Our special success in its treatment is owing to the fact that 
we use remedies which are different from the remedies 
usually tried by any school of medicine. To a large extent, 
our several remedies are original, and in their combination 
they are most powerful agents to cure the dropsy. There 
is now no section of the United States in which we have 
not cured cases of dropsy. 
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Costiveness and Piles 
How common are these diseases! How few physicians 
permanently cure them I Costiveness is the most frequent 
and universal of all chronic diseases. It is an affection 
peculiar to no particular section of our country, for it pre- 
vails everywhere; it is peculiar to no age, for it affects 
patients of every age; it is peculiar to neither the robust 
nor the invalid, for many who otherwise enjoy (for the time 
being at very best of health, and three-fourths of 
those invalids who suffer from chronic disease, are habitu- 
ally troubled with constipation. Torpid liver and imper- 
fect secretion of bile are the great causes of this affection, 
and in no section of the world is it so universal as in the 
United States. We remove it, by removing its cause. We 
give no drastic and weakening purgatives, but only mild 
ones and such as will restore a natural action of the bowels. 
Nor do we rely on these for a permanent mire, but we cure 
permanantly by restoring fully the deflcient action of that 
" great housekeeper " of our health, the liver. No physi- 
cian, or other man of sense, will question that this is the 
true and natural way. Hence our own unparalleled suc- 
cess I Hence the title which the American people have 
everywhere given tons-"The Liver, Lung, and Blood 
Doctor." Piles are, in nine cases out of ten, produced 
by costiveness; but occasionally they are produced by 
disease of the liver, without costiveness. The congestion 
of the blood-vessels of the lower bowel, which constitutes the essence of this disease, is owing to obstruction in the 
return of Um venous blood to the liver, and this obstruction 
is almost universally caused by functional or organic dis- 
ease of the livor. Most physicians understand the nature 
and cause of this disease. Why, then, do they not cure it ? 
Because they generally apply local treatment only-they 
doctor tlie effect, but let alone the cause. Or, if they act 
upon the liver, they give calomel or blue mass, which never 
permanently re-establishes the functions of the liver, but 
makes the patient Stillmore dependent upon using, again 
and again, these irritating, poisonous, and life-destroying 
medicines. Medical men should know better than this, for 
they ought to learn better from their want of success. But 
they seem to be utterly deficient of that enterprise and 
originality which distinguishes so many professional men 
and intelligent mechanics in other departments of labor. 
With most of them it is calomel or blue pill, live or die 11 The 
treatment by simply aperient mixtures ami pills is a little 
better. But this does not remove the cause. Agents must 
be given, if we would thoroughly cure the piles, which 
arouse Hie vital action of the livor, and so invigorate its 
action that it will be permanent. For the time being, it is 
also useful to use local treatment to the piles themselves, 
because it gives relief and aids the speedy cure; but the 
only agents which permanently cure the piles are those 
which safely and surely and permanently restore the liver 
to its natural functional action. 
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Nervous and Sick Headache, and 
Neuralgia. 
These affections are produced, in almost every instance, 
by derangement of the digestive organs and liver disease. 
It is rare, indeed, that a person who has good digestion, and 
is not costive, and who has a proper actio® of the liver, 
suffers from any form of headache or neuralgia. The great 
deficiency in the usual medical treatment is that the medi- 
cines which are given to correct the bowels do not have any 
permanent action on the liver. The cathartic medicines will give relief fbr a time, but they do not remove the cause. 
There is another mistake in the usual treatment. It is not 
true that the headache is altogether caused by the present 
state of the liver and bowels. The truth is, that by reason 
of the imperfect action of the liver the blood has not been 
properly purified, and it is this, impure blood circulating 
through the system and coming in contact with the delicate 
nerve tissueof the brain which is also a very prominent and 
constant cause of the headache. The same is true of neu- 
ralgia. It almost always exists in connection with impure 
blood, or else with blood which is deficient in red globules. 
Our treatment strikes the root. It re-establishes the action 
of the liver, and produces such a state that it keeps up a 
normal or healthy action; and our treatment also purifies 
and enriches the blood. 
There are also numerous other conditions of the nervous 
system, besides neuralgia and headache, to which the same 
remarks are applicable, and which are cured speedily and 
permanently by our remedies. 
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Rheumatism. 
Under this general head we will say a few words to 
patients alllicted with this disease, and witli other diseases 
which frequently accompany it. By referring to our testi- 
monials of cures of this disease, the reader will observe 
how quickly and surely our remedies have acted. Reader, 
is your case any worse than some of those given in these 
certificates? If not, there certainly is hope for you. Re- 
member, that all these cases are but a few of those which 
might be given. Remember, that many of those patients 
were far worse than you probably are; and remember that 
not a few of those cases here stated as cured had been under 
medical care and treatment for months or years before they 
applied to us. 
Rheumatism is most emphatically a disease originating 
In the blood, and every eminent pathologist has so decided. 
In this disease we have acidity of the blood, and imperfect 
action of the liver, kidueys and skin. These secretions are retained in the system in part, and circulating in the blood, 
they create inflammation in the fibrous tissues of the joints, 
the heart and other organs. In fact, persons not unfre- 
quently have a rheumatism of the stomach, or diaphram, or 
affecting the membranes covering the brain without their 
being aware of it. Every intelligent physician knows that 
this disease occasionally seizes these and other organs and 
tissues. 
Why do we specially excel in Rheumatism? 
1st. Because we have made its intricate nature a special 
study. 
2d. Because we re-establish the functions of the liver, 
kidneys and skin so thoroughly, kindly and permanently. 
3d. Because we have agents which act speeifically upon 
a rheumatic diathesis or condition of the blood. 
4th. Because we have tested and proved the efficacy of 
our treatment of Rheumatism, and know the effects of the 
agents which we use in this disease, and which are pecu- 
liarly and emphatically our own. 
5th. Because our external treatment, like our internal, is 
totally unlike anything we ever heard of from any other 
man, and totally unlike anything we ever read of in any 
work on the Materia Medica. It is entirely original and of 
our own discovery-as most of our remedies are which we 
use in the treatment of other diseases. 
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Rheumatism-An Awful Case!! 
William II. Nellis, Oleopolis, Venango County, Penn., 
writes: 
" I return my sincere thanks for having permanently cured mo 
of rheumatism, after having suffered severely for about seven 
years. When I had doctored with other ductors, and tried all the 
patent medicines that I could get, with no avail, and was so bad 
that I could hardly get out of my house, and part of the time not 
able to get out of my bed, as I was affected in nearly every joint, 
I thought I would try you as a last resort. To my great joy, in 
less than three weeks 1 was able to go out and jump with the 
most active man in the place. In one month I wras perfectly 
cured, and had gained seventeen pounds, and I never had better health in my life than I have enjoyed for the last six months, 
May God bless you aud your miraculous remedies." 
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" Pointville, N. .1. 
" Prof. R. L. Hamilton-Dear Sir: I have purposely delayed 
writing in order to give you the results of your remedies. The 
medicines came to baud in due time, and I commenced using them 
as instructed, and have persevered. For the first week I could 
net see much change; the second week there seemed to be a giv- 
ing way of the disease; and at the end of the third week a de- 
cided change for the better was manifest. I am now able, to walk 
about with ease and comfort. I send you my sincere and many 
thanks, and pray that God may bless and preserve your life for 
many years. I feel that, under the blessing of Divine Providence, 
you have done great things for me. 
" Yours truly, • Rev. I. HUGG." 
The People's Guide. 
"Elba, Genesee Co., Feb. 27. 
" Prof. R. L. Hamilton-Dear Sir: I feel that it is due to you, 
as well as to all persons afflicted with disease, that I express my 
gratitude to you for the great benefit which i have received from 
the use of your medicines. For some fifteen or twenty years my 
liver was in a very bad state, and my whole system was generally 
debilitated. I had been troubled with dizziness of the head so 
badly that at times it was difficult for me to stand upright, and I 
had a blindness periodically, with a continual headache. My feet 
aud hands were cold and lifeless, aud for about a year I had been 
greatly afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism. When I com- 
menced taking your remedies I could not close my hands or raise 
them to my head. While in this condition I saw your advertise- 
ment in a newspaper, giving the symptoms of a deranged liver. 
I had most all of those symptoms. I was, therefore, induced to 
write to you, and state my case. I did so, and received your reply. 
I was sensible of the fact that unless I had help soon, there 
would be none in my case. In view of this, and by the advice of 
a friend, I ordered a package of your medicines, and took them as 
you directed. In two days I was very much relieved, and con- 
tinued to mend. I sent you the money aud received a second pack- 
age; and before I had taken all of it I felt well. In about three 
weeks I had gained twenty pounds of flesh, and felt the vigor of 
youth. I had not felt that before iu twenty years. Physicians here said I never could he cured of rheumatism ; .but it is now 
four years that I have not been troubled with it. I am about 
fifty-four years old, and am able to labor hard every day. I have 
reason to thank God I learned of you, for the cure of my case was 
a remarkable one. I can most cheerfully recommend you to the 
afflicted, and have on several occasions done so. Many of my 
acquaintances have been underyour treatment, and been entirely 
cured by your remedies. Truly yours, 
"M. HOLLISTER." 
" Genesee Cttinty, ss.: M. Hollister of Elba, in said county, being 
sworn, says that the facts set forth in the above statement are 
true. M, HOLLISTER. 
" Sworn to before me, this 27th day of February, 1867. 
"H. Stillwell, Justice of the Peace." 
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Another Cured. 
Mr. Charles Sherman, of Rutland, Tioga County, Pa., 
writes: 
" My rheumatism I think is cured. Your medicine cured my wife 
of catarrh, and also helped her other complaints." 
General Debility. 
Every man knows, whether he lives in the country or in 
the city, that the number of feeble persons is vastly greater 
than formerly. In fact there are, in almost every village in 
our land, persons whose only apparent disease is debility, 
weakness. They are generally pale, though not always; 
they have cold hands and feet; they are subject to chilly 
feelings and headache, and a languid and tiresome feeling; 
and not unfrequently they are somewhat dyspeptic and 
gloomy, and are constantly wondering why they do not get 
stronger. There are hundreds of such persons now, where 
there was one such thirty years ago. 
In other cases the cause of this debility is most manifest; 
there is an impoverished condition of the blood-a deficien- 
cy of certain chemical elements without which the blood 
cannot have its vitality. The person is weak and debilitated 
because the blood is so impoverished as not to afford 
strength. It is anaemic, and the person can never have 
strength until the requisite blood medicines are given. In numerous other cases other elements are wanting in 
the blood, more especially such as nourish the nervous sys- 
tem. People are often in this condition who have incessant 
business cares, and thus exhaust these chemical elements 
of the blood. Those whose habits are sedentary and whose 
exercise is almost exclusively mental are in this condition- 
such as students, teachers, editors, clergymen and others 
whose persuits or circumstances render their lives full of 
care and anxiety. In other persons, not specially nervous 
nor having very constant meatal care or exercise, this con- 
dition of the blood exists from another and entirely different 
cause. There is some exhausting disease of the kidneys, 
or bladder or some other organ. Many persons suffer from 
great debility, prostration and mental anxiety who do not 
even dream the disease from which they are suffering. 
Many suffer from a debility of some delicate nature, con- 
cerning which they do not feel free to speak to their physi- 
cian. Many middle aged, or even young gentlemen and 
ladies apply to us to cure this loss of strength. It makes 
their lives miserable, and those of their companions and 
friends also. Cases of this kind have been supposed to 
exist mostly in the city, but we have very numerous cases 
of this kind applying to us every day from the country-in 
fact from every section of the United States. We have 
brought happiness to many a man's home, by reviving his 
vitality, and we are daily in receipt of grateful letters of this 
kind from all classes of suffering humanity. 
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Epileptic Fits. 
Our treatment of this disease is more extensive than that 
of any practitioner of whom we have ever heard. We have 
cured hundreds of cases, and each case cured has recom- 
mended others to us. This is most natural. Successful 
treatment always gives patronage, and lienee we have 
treated and cured so numerous cases, in many parts of the 
United States, British Provinces, West Indies, Mexico and 
other foreign countries. 
Let no person be discouraged from the fact that others have failed. Our treatment is entirely different from that of 
any other physician. The medicines we use are wholly 
unknown to others, were discovered by my own investiga- 
tions, and have been proved hundreds of times. I have in- 
vestigated every celebrated author on this disease, whether 
old or recent; and although their works abound in minute 
descriptions of the disease, in all its varied symptoms and 
varieties, I have not been able to obtain any information 
upon which I could rely in reference to curing these unfortu- 
nate cases. Again I say, my remedies are my own and 
peculiar to myself. 
This disease is so afflictive and unfortunate in its charac- 
ter, and it is so important to secure a cure in the shortest 
time, that I wish such person to send me a full statement as 
to the nature of the fits, how long they continue, how often 
they come on, and what the health and appearance of the 
patient is between the fits; also any other matters connected 
with the case which the persons writing me may have 
observed. Bad blood and humors are the originating cause 
of. epilepsy; but by having a full statement I am often able 
to effect a cure in a short time. These cases differ very 
much, and hence I want a careful statement to make the 
cure as quick and sure as possible. 
I subjoin a few testimonials, selected from hundreds in 
my possession; and from these I ask a candid and intelli- 
gent public to judge of my success. 
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Health is Happiness! 
Mrs. Mary A. Strong, of No. 687 1-2 Washington Street, 
Boston, Mass., cured of a terrible Dyspepsia and Diver 
Complaint by the use of tny remedies. Any who doubt it 
can easily refer to the lady herself. Dr. H. 
Bad Case in Michigan. 
" Oak Creek. 
" R. L. Hamilton, M. D.-Dear Sir : I have a litt'.e boy, years 
old, that has fits. You were recommended to me by Mrs. O'Neil 
(at present Mrs. Shannon) of Manistoe, Midi., having cured her 
daughter, that was very bad witli them. I hat) lecn a resident of Manistee for the last five years, but moved to Wisconsin lately. I 
have seen the young lady quite a number of times, and know she 
has had not one in three years. I would have got one of your 
circulars from the lady, but she had given them away. Write 
your terms, that I may place my dear boy under your care. 
" Yours respectfully, THOS. O. HERRIN, 
" Oak Creek, Milwaukee Co., Wis." 
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Important Case of Epileptic Fits. 
Read the foilowing evidence of what my treatment has 
done in a case of this disease, hitherto considered incurable: 
" Buckhart, Ill. 
" Dr. Hamilton : My wife was afflicted with fits for ten years, 
attended with great spinal and nervous debility. She doctored 
with several physicians, but all to no purpose. I read one of your 
circulars, and was so impressed with your new and simple theory 
of disease that I determined to try your remedies. As you know, 
we sent for your remedies, which, with the help of God, have 
completely and permanently cured her. She has not had a tit 
since, her back is strong, and her nervous vitality and strength 
have returned. As every attack she had was severer than the 
one previous, it is reasonable to suppose she could not have lived 
long but for the timely interference of your wonderful skill. To 
God be the praise I for so speedily and miraculously have your 
remedies worked that I can but recognize you as an instrument 
of Divine power in rescuing my dear companion from a terrible 
death. Words can but inadequately express my gratitude and 
joy. I wish you to publish this, and spread it far and near. I 
deem it my solemn duty to all afflicted with this awful malady to 
do all in my power to make known to them the true physician ; 
and if any doubt the authenticity of this let them write to me; I 
will satisfy them that it is all true. May God's blessing attend 
you in your efforts for humanity's good. JOHN 8. SHARP." 
A. Splendid Cure! 
" Guilderland, N. Y. 
Professor R. Leonidas Hamilton-Dear Doctor : I now write you 
concerning my Epileptic Fits, of which your medicines have per- 
manently cured me, and I send my grateful thanks, and can'tbut 
recognize yon as an instrument of Divine Power in rescuing me 
from a terrible death. Words cannot express my gratitude and joy, and I wish to make it known far and near, as I deem it a 
solemn duty to all afflicted with this awful malady to do all in roy 
power to make known to mankind the true physician. And if any 
doubt the authenticity of this, you may refer them to me and I 
will satisfy them that all is true, and I will verify it. I have not 
had a fit since I commenced taking your treatment, and I remain 
well and a picture of health. 
" I would write you more particulars, dear Doctor, but I know 
your time is valuable. Yours gratefully, • 
"Miss A. KELDERHOUSE." 
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Spinal Irritation. 
Because of the impurity of the blood, the humors are 
liable to settle upon any delicate organ or tissue. The lungs, 
the stomach and the uterus are the organs most often and 
seriously affected by bad humors. But the spinal nerve 
becomes affected much oftener than is generally supposed. 
Press directly with the thumb and fingers upon the spinal 
column, and some portion of it will be found to be tender, 
in a great majority of chronic cases. Or press upon the 
back, along the sides of the spine, one or two inches from 
it, and the branches of the spinal nerve will some of them 
be found very sensitive. This disease is often overlooked, 
and many persons are doctored for months for rheumatism, 
neuralgia, dyspepsia, heart disease, sciatica, womb disease, 
costiveness, nervous prostration, etc., etc., who are in 
reality not troubled with these diseases at all, but who 
suffer from spinal irritation. Hundreds suffer uselessly, 
either because this disease is not appreciated, or because 
those who doctor it have not the knowledge of its required 
remedies. Hundreds of scrofulous persons in every section 
of our land have this scrofulous humor settle upon the 
spine, and these patients become poor, nervous, wretched 
and wrecked invalids, confined to their beds for years. 
They are doctored by various doctors, " regular, irregular, 
and defective," for numerous diseases which they never 
had; or which, if they had them in a slight degree, these 
diseases were only the manifestations and developments of 
SPINAL IRRITATION. We succeed eminently in these cases, because we " strike 
at the root;" we purify the blood. Another reason why we 
succeed is because our external remedies, which we apply 
by rubbing on the spine, are so effectual and valuable- 
different entirely from anything ever published in any work 
on this much discussed subject of medical literature, and 
different entirely from those which can be learned hi any 
medical college. Persons suffering from this disease can 
judge of the efficacy of our remedies in these cases very 
soon. Only a few days will convince the most skeptical. 
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Diseases of Females. 
In a professional pamphlet like this, designed for general 
reading, we cannot speak fully and freely on the several 
diseases to which females are subject. A few words only 
we will say. Every physician, as well as every experienced 
nurse, must have noticed how common are these diseases. 
Indeed, the number of really healthy adult females is com- 
paratively few. Hundreds and thousands suffer more from 
general debility, want of strength, and nervous exhaustion 
than from any other disease. The liver and stomach, and 
other organs which prepare the food for blood, do not 
perform their duty well, and the system becomes impover- 
ished, weak, and nervous. Liver complaint is the princi- 
pal cause of this debility in a very large proportion of 
cases. Debility, poor blood, eruptions and discolorations 
of the .skin, irregular appetite, and generally costiveness 
and headache belong to this class of cases. We have cured 
thousands of them, and hence realize their frequency and 
become perfectly acquainted with their treatment. 
Wc also treat very numerous cases of deflcient or pro- 
fuse, or too frequent or painful menstruation, and send 
efficient remedies daily, through every mail, to any post- 
office in the United States. Very numerous, also, are the 
cases of leucorrhea or whites, pruritus or itching, inflamma- 
tion, ulcers, tumors, and prolapsus or falling and other 
displacements, barrenness, and other diseases both func- 
tional and organic. These diseases, together with every 
variety of private disease, have occupied much of our time 72 
and attention. Without boastful parade, we wish to say 
that we trust we merit the large patronage bestowed on us 
by the ladies of America in these diseases, by the efficiency 
of our cures and the confidential manner in which we have 
kept every professional trust. If we were to boast of 
anything, it would be that no lady, married or single, has 
ever been deceived and betrayed to those false friends who 
are forever surmising and quizzing the country doctor. 
Of course we can give no testimonials of our cures of 
these cases. It would be a breach of good faith to do so, 
even when patients were willing; for we claim that every 
case of this kind belongs only to the patient and her chosen 
physician. We will only add that our experience has been 
so large that there is no case of this kind, whether recent or 
of long standing, and whether common or rare in its occur- 
rence, which we have not seen and treated. 
Catarrh and Throat Disease. 
This disease commences sometimes in the throat, some- 
times in the passages of the nose, sometimes in the passages 
between the throat and internal ear (eustachian tubes,) 
sometimes in the upper air tubes to the lungs, and some- 
times in the stomach. Whenever this disease exists there 
is an unhealthy condition of the lining membrane-called 
the mucous membrane. Sometimes this membrane is 
• inflamed and red; sometimes it is congested and relaxed 
and flabby; sometimes it is covered witli little grayish- 
white spots, called canker, or apthae; sometimes little 
ulcers form and heal, and then are reproduced and heal 
again. In many cases the catarrh will first effect one por- 
tion of the mucous membrane, and then another portion, 
and then return to the original seat of the disease; and 
thus change from place to place, changing its seat from 
time to time. 
The nature of the disease is a weakening or degeneration 
of the membrane, wherever it occurs. The membrane has 
not a healthy condition, but one of impaired vitality, want of 
tone, or disease. So far as the development of the disease 
is concerned, this weakness or irritation, or relaxation, may commence in the throat, or in the stomach, or in the nose; 
and it may, in so far, be considered a local disease. But 
it is not a local disease as to its cause. The cause is impure 
and irritating blood, and this irritation and weakness settles 
upon the weak spot. The membrane is weakened by its 
constant exposure to the varied temperatures of our cli- 
mate, and its varied degrees of moisture. The membrane 
thus weakened becomes the seat of diseass, because it is 
weak; for it is a general law of disease that it attacks the 
weakest organ or weakest point of the system. You may 
cure this local development of the disease a hundred times 
and it may do no permanent good, unless you cure also the 
impure condition of the blood, and strengthen the system. 
Any man who has had the catarrh for years knows this to 
be true from his own experience. 
Our success in catarrh has been universally conceded. 
No person, so far as we know, has ever attempted to deny it. 
Why have we been successful ? 
1st. Because we purify the blood, and thus remove the 
cause which is so constantly reproducing the disease. 
2d. Because our method of using remedies reach every 
portion of the diseased membrane. This is a very import- 
ant point. The ordinary treatment does not reach the 
extensive cavities of the nose, lined by the Schneiderian 
membrane; neither does it reach the air tubes of the upper 
part of the lungs; nor does it ever reach the tubes between 
the throat and ears. Our directions show the patient how 
to apply it to every portion of these membranes. 
3d. Because our experience in the use of agents has 
taught us the very best agents to permanently cure this 
disease. Hundreds of formulas for the treatment of the 
passages affected by catarrh have been published; but we 
unhesitatingly declare that nine out of every ten, profes- 
sional or empirical, have done no permanent good, and 
many of them are highly irritating and injurious. 
Our cures of catarrh have been so numerous that we 
scarcely know where to commence choosing our testimo- 
nials. We will present a few of those original " voices of 
the people;" and invite the honest scrutiny of every man of 
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common sense, whether educated or not, to the views we 
habe just presented. 
Before introducing our evidence, in proof of our success, 
wc must call .attention to just one point. It is this : We all 
know that catarrh is more prevalent than almost any other 
disease, especially in all the middle and northern portions 
of the United States, and that it forms the introduction to 
consumption in more that two-thirds of all the cases of 
consumption. It is nature's warning that the blood is 
impure, and that this impurity is developing itself into a 
disease of the membrane, in the form of catarrh. Catarrh 
is nature's outlet for dieease, for if it did not exist the same 
impurities would be developed primarily upon the delicate 
tissues of the lungs and kidneys, and would be vastly more 
fatal. If you have the catarrh, remember it is a warning 
signal to apprise you of the impurities of the blood. Purify 
the blood and cure the catarrh before it is too late-before 
the irritation and inflammation and debility of the membrane 
of the throat extends to the lungs and invites the deposit of 
tubercles and ulceration of those organs. 
Various Other Diseases. 
The field of labor to which we have devoted many years 
has been that of Chronic Diseases generally. Almost all of 
these arise from diseases of the liver and blood; and almost 
all cases of diseases of the liver and blood are connected with 
other local or constitutional diseases. Costiveness, Piles, 
Prolapsus of the Rectum, Scrofula, Tumors, Eruptions and 
other Skin diseases, Dropsy, Kidney Disease, Chronic 
Diarrhoea, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Enlarged Tonsils, Diabetes, 
Rheumatism and Neuralgia have largely been treated. 
Persons suffering from these affections, like those before 
mentioned in this pamphlet, are very apt to apply to their 
ordinary medical counsel. Now the time and study of the 
country physician are most busily occupied with fevers and 
rheumatism, or some other kind of acute diseases. They 
take his thoughts and make for him a great daily responsi- 
bility. If he be a man of any considerable success and 
acumen and an agreeable and manly address, he has usually enough of these cases to task all his energy and take all his 
time. He has neither time, taste, books or patience to 
successfully investigate any original method of treating 
chronic cases. Nor does he have variety or numbers enough 
of them, to afford him a good test of the relative success of 
different methods of treatment. 
Now we have no time to visit fever cases, or acute cases 
generally: but use all our time to investigate and treat 
chronic cases. We devote our whole attention to them, 
from day to day, and year to year. The relative value of 
hundreds of plants has been thoroughly tested in so many 
cases, that for every case, we can at once decide upon the 
remedy which will be successful. 
In consequence of this course, and having largely adver- 
tised our business, the number of rare and afllicted cases 
which have been presented to us have been incredible 
indeed. As a centre of medical correspondence, our enter- 
prise is beyond all question the most extensive in the world. 
We presume that there may be many large hospitals, both 
in tliis country and in Europe, where more patients apply 
for surgical operations and surgical advice; but there is no 
institution in the known world where so many persons apply 
for medical advice as at our office. 
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A Few Words to Our Patrons. 
OUR TERMS.-Sometimes people say, " Why do you have 
pay in advance? Why not cure us, and then we will pay 
you ? " A large proportion of our patients live hundreds of 
miles from us, and are entire strangers; and our only pro- 
tection is to receive the pay before we send the medicine. 
No mercantile house in New York would esteem it a safe 
business to send goods on credit to strangers, and we must 
make our business safe. Our expenses are immense: our 
medicines are procured without reference to cost; we only 
use the best, let the cost be what it may. We invest in our 
business a large fortune every year. Our responsibility has 
now been tested for twenty-five years. Is it unreasonable 
to invest a few dollars in an enterprise which Interests your health, and perhaps your life? In this way we treat all 
alike, impartially; we devote all our energies and study to 
do them the utmost good; and we depend for our patronage 
upon our success in curing the sick, fully realizing that we 
confer a blessing untold upon those we cure, and that such 
cures increase our business and our permanent success. 
Humanity prompts us to do the very best that is possible, 
and every testimonial that w» ever published is strictly 
reliable, as any one may ascertain by writing to the parties 
who have given them. 
PRICES.-Onr prices are not high for the services we 
render and the medicines supplied; and it is entirely incon- 
sistent to always charge the same price for a supply of 
medicines. Of course, some cases require a greater quantity 
of medicine or more expensive medicines, than others; and 
even when the medicines are precisely the same, the time 
required to make up an opinion, from the letter sent us, may 
be twice as great in one case as in another. We must 
consider each case long enough to form an accurate and 
reliable opinion of its nature, and also of the best medicines 
for that case. 
HOW TO SEND MONEY. - A Money Order may be 
obtained at most of the large post offices, and sent to us, and 
this is absolutely safe; for if your letter is lost, a second 
order can be obtained. Many send money by express, but 
when persons do this, they must always pay the full express 
charge. 
It is always safe to obtain a Bank Draft on New York, 
payable to my order for the amount, and send it in a letter 
to my address; but if an individual check be sent, twenty- 
five cents additional must be sent, to cover the cost of 
collection. 
If it be inconvenient to send money in either of the ways 
before mentioned, persons can remit in a well enclosed 
letter through the mail. 
PREPARATORY TREATMENT.-To some patients, we 
send a small package of a suitable medicine, as a prepara- 
tory treatment. This treatment is entirely preparatory, and 
76 patients should not wait to see that it benefits them before 
sending for other medicine. It only prepares the way for 
other treatment, and thus makes the other treatment act 
better and quicker. As soon as you commence taking the 
Preparatory Treatment send at once for other medicines, so 
that you will receive the medicines as soon as you have 
taken the first; no time will be lost, and your system will 
be in a right state to be most benefited, and be surer of 
entire relief. 
WHY DO YOU ADVERTISE?-Some physicians profess 
to believe that it is not professional to advertise, and the 
above question is sometimes asked us. We advertise: 
1st. Because it makes our enterprise known, and thou- 
sands who have been cured by our medicines have thus 
first learned of us. Advertising multiplies our opportuni- 
ties to cure the afflicted a hundred fold. This reason is all- 
sufficient to any person who lias a spark of humanity. 
2d. Because it is honorable. Some maintain that it is not 
honorable to advertise, because " quacks advertise '' 
Villains intrude into every kind of society, but that is n<> 
reason why we should not belong to any organization 
which we deem to be useful, honorable and humane. The 
more useful and honorable the enterprise, the more ought 
it to be made known to mankind. 
3d. Because it pays us, and we pay for it, and have a mind 
to advertise. We choose to put our enterprise on record 
before the people, and we approve of encouraging every 
man to act independently, provided only that he does what 
he thinks is right. Any "code of ethics" among half- 
educated and wholly selfish medical men, which would 
forbid this is contrary to humanity, fifty years behind the 
times, and utterly unworthy of an educated, independent 
anil conscientious man. According to any such "code,', 
any man who can cure cancer, consumption, or malignant 
diptheria, should never make it known beyond his own 
circle of friends ! We should consider such a course as 
little better than manslaughter; it would be to let people 
die because a selfish organization commands us " not to 
advertise" a skill which we know ourselves to possess. 
77 Strongly Corroborated. 
" No. 113 Harrison Street, 1 
" Brooklyn, N. Y., January 20, 1869. J 
"to the afflicted everywhere. 
" During my labors iu publishing and editing a newspaper for many 
years iu this city, and also in the performance of my duties as a 
clergyman in this and other cities, I have become thoroughly and 
intimately acquainted with R. Leonidas Hamilton, M. D., the 
justly celebrated Liver, Lung, and Blood Physician of this city, 
who is located at No. 546 Broadway. The doctor was for many 
years a regular practicing physician, and also for some years a 
professor in one of our best medical schools, and during such 
extensive experience, he fully realized the inadequacy of the ordi- 
nary treatment made use of iu all chronic diseases, more especially 
that class of trouble arising from deranged functions of the Liver 
and digestive organs. He at once set himself about the study of 
the class of diseases, determined to make them a specialty. 
Laying the vegetable world under 1 ribute, he has made discoveries 
and compounded specifics on sound philosophical principles, 
which have made the most wonderful cures in the annals of 
medicine. Liver, Blood, Lung and Nervous diseases are now 
virtually under his full control, and yield to the magic, subtle 
power of his remedies. I have myself seen numbers of those who 
have been saved from the hand of death by bis power, when the 
unfortunate sufferers seemed doomed to an early grave, and all 
other treatment was of no avail. In addition to what I can vouch 
for personally, I have ample evidence from other clergymen, 
physicians aud eminent men of the highest character, who have 
also been saved by this wonderful treatment, and who speak in 
the highest praise aud gratitude of Dr. Hamilton as a physician 
and a gentleman of honor and integrity. It is but simply stating 
the positive truth when I say that it is well known throughout 
this country that where his works are known and the fruits of 
his skill have been witnessed, he is highly esteemed by the people 
as the most eminent and remarkable physician in the treatment 
of chronic diseases, of the age. As the result of a long personal 
and familiar acquaintancs with Prof. Hamilton and his unparal- 
leled success as a professional man of the highest order, I frankly 
express the hope that diseased humanity in every part of our 
land may avail themselves of his most remarkable skill, aud thus 
share the noble blessings so kindly and freely bestowed upon all. 
" Most respectfully, 
" Rev. W. B. JACOBS." 
78 Acknowledges It. 
" Lockport Station, Westmoreland Co., Pa. 
" Prof. R. L. Hamilton. Dear Sir: When I applied to you for treat- 
ment, my case was considered a hopeless one, indeed. I had been 
troubled with weak lungs and shortness of breath for many years, 
also with cold chills, aching bones, stiffness in my joints, and had 
several severe attacks of sickness. For three months I was con- 
fined to my bed with bronchitis. Ou another occasion I was for 
the same length of time confined with dumb ague, and for three 
years with ague and fever. Previous to consulting you, I had 
taken medicine eight months without any benefit, and had suffered 
much, very much from its effects. My system seemed to be a 
perfect wreck. I ceased to take medicines, and did not intend to 
use more, as they seemed to increase my difficulties instead of 
relieving them. One of your circulars was providentially handed 
to me, and I read it over and over again, until I could not reason- 
ably doubt the statements therein made. I feared it was too late 
to effect any benefit. I believed my case so bad as to.be beyond 
all hope. I had a sore throat, bad cough, pain under my shoulder- 
blades, soreness in my breast, swelling of my chest, bowels, feet 
and ankles. I was losing flesh rapidly, and growing very weak. 
I wrote out my symptoms, and forwarded them to you, and asked 
your opinion of my situation. You replied that it was truly a 
critical and dangerous one, and sent me a remedy as a preventive 
of any change for the worse until I could send for a course of 
treatment. I sent for the medicines, and I thank God for his 
goodness in causing them to reach me in time to save me. I used 
them as directed for four weeks ; and after! had taken the second 
package I felt that I was perfectly well. My complaints had all 
disappeared. The soreness in my throat was cured; the pain 
under my shoulder-blades was gone; the swelling in my chest, 
feet and ankles had left me; the shortness of breath was no longer 
a trouble to me; the stiffness and soreness in my bones Were 
removed, and my limbs were as active and supple as whan a child. 
I could walk up steep places without fatigue, and had better 
health than I had enjoyed in twenty years. 
" Wishing you may accent my lasting gratitude, I submit myself 
your ever faithful friend, RACHEL HENDERSON." 
79 
A Wonderful Cure. 
" Kintyre, Winnebago County, Ill. 
"Dr. Hamilton. My Dear Friend: I was taken sick at Camp 
Douglas, Chicago (having volunteered in the Sixty-fifth Illinois Volunteer Infantry), with what the doctors call Pneumonia or 
Lung Fever. I grew worse all the time until May, at which 
time I got a little better. On the 17th of the month I received 
a furlough of ninety days to go home, after which time I was 
taken down worse than ever. So I called on Dr. R., of Rockford, 
Ill., a practicing physician, who examined me, and said iny case 
was incurable, as my right lung was all gone, and he could 
do me no good whatever. I coughed, and raised a quart of pus 
and matter in twenty-four hours. I could not rest night or day, 
but coughed all the time, and sweat at night, and in the morning 
was dripping with perspiration, and was so weak I could not turn 
in bed. I called some of the best physicians in our town and 
county, and they said they could Jo me no good. I grew worse 
all the time, and suffered more than pen or tongue can express. 
I, too, thought I could not get well, and so did all my friends. 
I was under the treatment of Dr. S. C., of Rockford, for seven 
months. He had other doctors come and see me, but they could 
do me no good. After suffering eighteen mouths in this way, the 
doctors declared they could do no more for me. I chanced to hear 
of you from a friend, and concluded to try your remedies. 
You sent the medicine, and I used it as directed. I raised 
more pus than ever for a few days, after which time I was 
able to get out of bed and go out of doors. I was a complete 
skeleton. I got weighed the first chance I could-having recruited 
some time-and my weight at that time was but ninety pounds. 
I now weigh one hundred and fifty-five pounds, and my health is 
as good as ever, but do not feel quite so strong; yet I am going 
back to join iny regiment, and fight the rebels. Now those doc- 
tors that gave me up to die think my lungs are good yet; and if 
any of them doubt it, and want to run a foot-race, I am ready; 
and I will bet $5 that I can outrun any of them forty or eighty 
rods, or a mile, if they say so. And it is to you, Dr. Hamilton, that 
I owe my life, for I heartily believe, had I not begun your treat- 
ment, I would have been this day in my grave. I will ever remem- 
ber you. May He ' who doeth all things well ' watch over and 
prosper thy hands in every good work for the restoration of suffer- 
ing humanity. I sincerely advise all the sick, no matter how 
apparently hopeless their case may be, to apply to you; fori do 
believe, if their case is curable, you will, by the blessing of God, 
cure them. May God bless you is my sincere prayer. 
" NEIL WATSON." 
80 Important Correspondence. 
By permission, I publish below the substance of a corre- 
spondence between a well-known clergyman of this city 
and one of Chicago, 111., in relation to myself and my suc- 
cessful treatment of diseases. It explains itself: 
" To the Rev. J. T. M., Chicago, III.-Dear Sir: You write me to 
inquire about Dr. R. L. Hamilton. I have had extensive business 
dealings with him; have known him as an honored member of 
society; have received medical advice at his hands, when sud- 
denly stricken down by the dreadful visitation of Coup de Soleil, 
and have known him socially and as a friend. Dr. Hamilton 
possesses one of those natures gifted with a discriminating be- 
nevolence, an aptness in the selection of companionship, great 
versatility of business capacity, a high and exceedingly keen 
sense of honor, a ready humor, a judicious reserve when among 
rivals in his profession, a kindliness of demeanor, wholly Christian 
toward those who see fit to differ from him, a noble generosity 
toward a fallen adversary, a keen perception of the right in any 
controversy, and a gentleness mixed with dignity in his carriage, 
which marks him as a man above all mean and low tastes. It is 
true that Dr. Hamilton is an eclectic in his profession of medicine. 
This, of course, exposes him to all the batteries of the bigots and 
the partisans of the pathies, if we may coin a word. He could 
never be sectarian in religion, he can no more belong to a water- 
cure school, a pill-worshiping sect, a phlebotomy-loving class, a 
school of the sugar-pellet devotees, er expect to cure every dis- 
ease by vomiting a man down to his boots with lobelia. Dr. 
Hamilton is simply a man of good common sense, who knows 
that there is good in all things medical. The leaves of the tree 
were given for the healing of the nations, and yet there are 
mineral things, and things animal, and, best of all, the pure air of 
heaven, and the glorious Suu, and the ever-flowing waters, that 
come in their time and place to restore the sufferer. He is most 
thoroughly acquainted with all the good things of all the schools. 
Hence, Dr. Hamilton has risen to be a marvel to the narrow- 
minded of all the pathies. We need not tell you, eur friend, and 
the friend of unity in the church, how glad we are to introduce to 
you the beloved physician of our acquaintance. We who monru 
the schism in the Church of Christ can appreciate a man who, by 
a judicious eclecticism, seeks to unite the sad and often terrific 
sectarianism of the doctors. 
" Dr. Hamilton is, therefore, a specific rather than a patent medi- 
81 cine doctor. He has a 'greater faculty of versatility, and can do 
more things, and do them well, than any man I ever met. As a 
business man, he could rival Stewart, had he the heart, or rather 
the no-heart, to worship Mammon. We most cheerfully commend 
him to your confidence. He will counsel you wisely in the terrible 
battles you may have with acute or chronic diseases. 
" Yours cordially, 
"Rev. H. D. KIMBALL, New York City." 
82 
Another Appeal to the Incredulous. 
So well knowing the general custom of the American 
people to denounce all advertising Physicians as " Hum- 
bugs," without knowing anything at all in regard to their 
merits, in addition to the numerous and wonderful testimo- 
nials from some of the thousands who have been cured by 
me, I publish below the names and addresses of a few 
reliable persons who know me well as a man of reliability 
and integrity: 
John Proper, Waterford, N. Y.; Thomas B. Slingerland, Rome, 
N. Y.; Timothy Cronin, Attorney-at-law, No. 1G1 Broadway, New 
York City; J. M. Emerson, No. 83 Nassau st., New York City; 
Norval M. White, Clerk in New York City Post-Office; Dr. Palmer, 
No. 78 Fourth ave., New York City; Edward Burlingame, Troy, 
N. Y.; Harvey Wilcox, Ridge Mills, N. Y.; the Hon. R. G. McCreary, 
Gettysburg, Penn.; G. W. Lord, Attorney-at-law No. 55 Liberty 
st., New York City; Charles Van Benthuyseu &. Sons, State Printers, 
Albany, N. Y.; Joseph Anderson, No. 81 Adams st., Brooklyn, N. Y.; 
Riley Merrill, Sandford, N. Y.; Daniel Edwards, Otego, N. Y.; 
Martin Decker, Roxbury, N. Y.; Thos. Colby, Moresville, N. Y.; 
Thos. Fitch, Prattsville, N. Y.; A. B. Sands & Co., Druggists, No. 
141 William st., New York City; Win. Youngblood, No. 83 Nassau 
st., New York City; Renatos Baehmann, Chemist, No. 125 Elm 
st., New York City; John E. Van Etten, Attorney-at-law, Kingston, 
N. Y.; Oscar Hamilton, Sanford, N. Y.; Henry Biers, Chicago, Ill.; 
Coolidge &. Adams, Druggists, No. 108 John st., N. Y.; J. Tillitson, 
Clerk in the New York Post Office; E. Harmon, Gettysburg, Penn. 
It must be remembered that the above are all good, reliable 
business men, to whom any one may refer by letter or 
otherwise as to the reliability and honesty of myself its a 
man of business. 83 
Further Evidence. 
Below I give another list of responsible persons who have 
been medically treated by me with great success, any one 
of whom will answer any questions by letter or in person in 
regard to my treatment in their cases. Had I the space, 
and were it possible, I would publish the history and char- 
acter of each case in full. Some of them were most wonderful 
cures, but for want of space can only refer to them in a 
general way. I do this to give the skeptical all the evidence 
in my power of my reliability and remarkable skill. I 
further wish it distinctly understood that I do not claim 
to cure all cases, for all reasonable people must realize 
that there is a point in diseased conditions which no human 
aid can reach, however well and skillfully it may be directed. 
In many instances of these grave cases the true physician 
can do much to soothe the pathway to the grave and thus 
correspondingly elevate the undeveloped spirit and give 
time to prepare it for a higher existence. 
Tuthill Carter, Esq., Atlanticville, N. Y.; Mrs. Samuel Lee, New 
York Mills, N. Y.; W. C. Porter, Millwood, Mo.; John A. Young, 
Ravenna, Ohio; Samuel M. Wagoner, esq., Dillsbury, Penn.; Ann 
C. Bradford. Potter, Penn.; Mrs. F. S. Whipple, Cambridge, Vt., 
Mrs. Sue J. F. Barnett, Pacolet Depot, S. C.; Emily W. Reid, Elli- 
cottville, N. Y.; L. E. Fish, Esq., Moline, Ill.; Miss Ella M. Rackliff, 
St. Mary's, Ga.: Sabina E. Olds, Westport, N. Y.; Jas. A. Pickett, 
Esq.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Louisa O. Cobb, Hubbardton, Vt.; Adam 
Grubb, Louisville, Ala.; Mollie Brooks, West Point, Ga.; J. L. 
Higbee, Esq.; Cattaraugus, N. Y.; Francis E. Wood, Esq., New 
Road, N, Y.; Alice Emends, Racket River, N. Y.; Mrs. H. A. Taylor, 
East Troy, Wis.; Mrs. Mary E. Mitchell, Jersey Shore, Penn.; Mrs. 
Abirah Dedrich, Sterlingville, Penn.; J. H. Spencer, Sugar Grove, 
Ky.; Wm. Freeburn, Latrobe, Neb.; Herman Hearlein, Esq., 
Atlanta, Ga.; J. M. Vansyckle, Esq., Wallula, Washington Terri- 
tory; Wm. Walker, Esq., Wellington, Iowa; Edward Hutchinson, 
Esq., Chatsworth, Ill.; P. Schemerhorn, Bloomville, N. Y.; Mrs. J. 
Laidlow, Box No. 703, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Marion A. Crandall, Nile, 
N. Y.; E. Kate Rodney, Coatesville, Penn.; Mrs. E. W. Chase, 
Warsaw, N. Y.; M. S. Hamilton, Pine Blurt', Ark.; Charles A, 
Keeler, Esq., Attorney-at-law, Albion, N. Y.; Mrs. C. M. Welsh, 
Farmer City, Ill.; Miss Mattie Lawrence, North Leominster, Mass.; Wm. Smith, Esq., P. O. Box No. 53, Portland, Me.; N. E. Hicks, 
Wetumka, Ala.; J. J. Bisel, Lock Haven, Penn.; Mrs. Samuel Saw- 
yer, Grout's Corners, Mass.; Lizzie B. Harris, Winchester, Mass.; 
Cornelia A. Van Vliet, Jericho, Vt. ; the Rev. Washington Medaris, 
Sidney, Ohio; Mrs. II. Garrett, Kansas City, Mo.; Benjamin Berry, 
Esq., Matteawan, N. Y.; Alexander Hughes, Esq., Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y.; Wm. B. Betts, Esq., Norwalk, Conn.; S. S. Parker, Esq., 
Alabama, N. Y.; Luke Newell, Mason, N. H.; Mollie A. Brooks, 
West Point, Ga.; Mrs. S. E. Blackwell, Cokesburg, S. C.; Mrs. A. 8. 
Childs, Richmond, Mo.; II. Houghton, LaGrange, Wis.; Julia 
Sattler, MilUin, Ohio. 
84 
Reader. 
One moment, if you please, and we have done! You, who 
are now languishing upon beds of sickness and suffering, 
give ear to common sense for one brief moment, and let us 
reason together for your own welfare and happiness. 
First-. Have you carefully read the theory put forward in 
the first of this article ? Does it stand the test of your own 
reason ? Do any of the symptoms apply to your own case; 
and if not; wherein do they fail? Does Dr. Hamilton not give 
ample evidence of his skill to those who are afflicted with 
chronic disease, as treated by him with such unparalleled 
success for over a quarter of a century ? What, in all rea- 
son and justice, can you require MORE to convince you of 
his superior skill as a physician, and of his integrity and 
honor as a man? It is certainly foolish and out of place to 
cry humbug in this matter. Can you, for one moment, 
believe that ALL of the good, honorable, respectable and 
well-known business men, whose names are given above as 
references, are imaginary men ? or that their names have 
been published by Dr. Hamilton to advance his own 
interests, as an impostor to gull the people? Do you dare 
to cry "Quack" and "Humbug," after reading the strong 
testimonials which are published in this article from reliable 
persons who have themselves been saved from suffering 
and death by Dr. Hamilton's remarkable skill. 
Is it not wisdom and justice to consider all men honorable 
till they have been proved otherwise ? Is it good reason to 
turn a deaf ear to all appeals of eminent Physicians who 85 
give evidence of their skill and integrity 
although you may have never before heard of them ? 
It must be understood that every oue who have sent to 
Dr. II. their testimonials for publication as above, are good, 
honest, reliable and substantial people, who can at any and 
all times be seen or written to in regard to the truth or 
falsity of the testimonials. Hundreds of others could be 
published had we the space, all of which are real, genuine, 
truthful evidences of what Dr. II. has done, and is still 
doing daily. Again we will say, that in no instance has Dr. 
H. asked or solicited testimonials from his patients; all tiiat 
are published are gratuitous contributions, sent with a 
request that they may be published for the benefit of the sick 
and suffering, and for no other purpose. 
Suffering Reader. 
If you are afflicted with any chronic disease, throw aside, 
for once, any preconceived, erroneous notions in regard to 
an advertising physician, who gives ample evidence of his 
skill and integrity 
R. Leonidas Hamilton, M. D., 
is a thoroughly educated Physician, a regular graduate of 
our best medical schools, a man of over twenty-five years 
experience in all chronic diseases to which the people of 
this or any country are subject, who has at this moment 
patients under treatment in every State and Territory of 
the American Union, in the British Provinces, South and 
Central America, Mexico, West Indies and Sandwich 
Islands, Europe, China and the East. This will doubtless 
sound chimerical to many, but the evidence can be pro- 
duced at Dr. H.'s Office to prove every word true. It is 
also asserted, on the most reliable authority, that no one 
physician in this or any other country on the globe, of 
whatever age or position, has ever seen, examined, and 
prescribed for, one-half the number of patients that Dr. 
Hamilton lias. Again it must not be supposed that Dr. 
Hamilton's treatment consists in Patent Medicines or a few pet compounds, recommended to cure all the ills that flesh is 
subject to. On the contrary, Dr. H.'s prescriptions and 
specific compounds are always made up, chemically and 
specifically, for each individual case, as they are presented 
to him, either in person or by letter-either of which is suffi- 
cient if the combination of symptoms are properly presented, 
according to the directions given below or elsewhere in 
this article. 
Again: No Mineral remedies are used in any case by 
Dr. Hamilton : consequently patients are safe from those 
horrible mineral poisons so much used by some physicians. 
86 
Remember One Thing!!! 
Reader, do you think that you cannot be cured because 
you have tried other remedies and they have failed. It will be 
understood from my remarks, in various places in the fore- 
going pages, that many of my remedies are known only to 
myself, for many of them are discoveries of my own, and 
are compounded according to my own reasoning and exten- 
sive experience with the sick. 
All sick persons will observe that if they wish to be put 
upon a course of treatment which will cure them, they can 
write me their present symptoms, plainly; or patients can 
mark the symptoms they have, as published on page 28 of 
this pamphlet. I can, in every instance, prescribe for them 
just as well as though I saw them, for I have, constantly, 
thousands under my treatment, in various parts of the 
world, whom I never see, all of whom I cure as speedily 
and safely as those I see in person-in fact, some of the 
best cures ever made I perfected in cases I never saw, 
All I wish to know, in any case, is the most prominent 
symptoms: and they can just as well be written, as told to 
a physician, and I can treat the case as easily as though 
the patient were present. 
• All invalids afflicted with the diseases referred to, or with 
any form of chronic disease, can write me at once, and I 
will answer you promptly and to the point, and state fully 
the facts as they appear, and whether you can or can not 
be saved. Do not give up, even though your family physi- 87 
cian has done you no good; for I have saved thousands 
after all hope had fled and the grave was near. The wisdom 
and goodness of a just Providence will not withhold the 
noble means for the restoration and cure of his suffering 
and erring children. 
Also, if you expect a full and specific reply to your letter, 
always enclose ten cents. Postage must be paid in advance, 
and all persons under treatment who write us for advice, 
or any other purpose, must enclose with each letter ten 
cents, to pay for postage and time; for it must be borne in 
mind that " time is money," and having so many letters of 
the kind every day, it consumes one-half of our time. 
I am always in attendance in my office and attend to all 
cases in person; and tlie afflicted public may rely upon my 
responsibility, and that they will be dealt with justly and 
honorably. 
Conclusion. 
It would seem to us that, after carefully looking over the 
evidence giveu in these pages, all reasonable persons must 
be led to the conclusion that there can be no good reason 
for doubting the fact that Dr. Hamilton is just what he is 
represented to be-a very successful physician in the treat- 
ment of Chronic Diseases. It is useless to cry " Humbug I" 
for the patients who have been cured, and whose testimoni- 
als are here presented, have volunteered to give their evidence 
for the benefit of the suffering, and for no other purpose. 
All these testimonials are genuine-are guaranteed to be so, 
in fact; and it is easy to write to them, and get from their 
own pen the'facts. Any of them will answer all inquiries 
of this character. 
Have no hesitation in writing to me, and state to me yo»r 
case in full, and I will deal honestly and promptly with yoa. 
All letters to me must be addressed thus: 
R. LEONIDAS HAMILTON, M. D., 
No. 546 Broadway, 
Care of Post-office Box No. 4,952. New York. 
The number of the Post-office Box must be put on each 
letter to secure safety. PART SECOND. 
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE! 
Food that Makes Brains. 
It may be asked if the characteristics of brania] food do 
not vary so much as to preclude the formation of any relia- 
ble judgment in the selection of our diet. By no means, for, 
though our data is not so complete as is desirable, theory 
and practice have established much that is most profoundly 
valuable and altogether worthy of reliance. It is, indeed, 
of no small importance to establish that some kinds of food, 
even, if we do not know them, must be more valuable than 
others for nourishing the brain-for, the general principle 
being acknowledged, the minds of thinking men will not 
rest till it has been made applicable. 
The next step is, however, to notice the undeniable and 
easily substantiated fact, that with each mental action, either 
sensation, emotion, intellection or volition, there is associa- 
ted, either as cause or effect, or as concomitant, a decompo- 
sition of a corresponding portion of the brain. Whenever 
there is a great mental activity, the earthly matter removed 
by the kidneys will be invariably greatly increased, which 
fact is noticeable by any one, however he may account for 
it. These phosphates do arise from the brain, where they 
are taken into the blood, from which they are eliminated by 
the kidneys. The substance of the brain thus removed must 
be replaced; hence, a suggestion of hunger will be caused. 
It is, however, a different sensation from that usually so 
called. This arises from a necessity to provide against the 
effects of cold and of muscular exercise, and is experienced 89 
from the earliest periods of life. Tire sensation caused by 
the demands of the brain partake more of the feeling of 
exhaustion than some readily, and others never, learn to 
recognize as hunger. It is easily and only satisfied by eating 
the right kinds of food, that seem at once to " go directly to 
the spot." Our tables are usually supplied with food that 
experience testifies will satisfy a caloric and muscular 
appetite, and science justifies the arrangement, since there 
is a sufficient amount of the kind, that the ordinary activity 
of the brain requires. But when a greater activity of the 
brain produces a different kind of hunger, requiring a dif- 
ferent kind of food, or a larger proportion of one class of it, 
the mind has had time or age to become informed in regard 
to the nature and structure constituted for its development, 
and should know how to observe and interpret the corpo- 
real signals, and how to supply the materials for the special 
repairs of the body. But, alas I men have been so busy 
with the introspection of mental development and phe- 
nomena, by means of consciousness, that they have forgotten 
to trace the relations of mind to the body. Thus the mechan- 
ism becomes more and more exhausted, and they have not 
the ability to revivify it, from a want of the knowledge of 
material conditions upon which continued mental action 
depends. 
The pith of the whole matter, then, is this : the ordinary 
food of our tables is composed of the elements required for 
producing heat, renewing muscles, supplying secretions, 
and maintaining the ordinary repairs of the brain. The 
man, however, who is exposed to extreme cold weather, 
finds his appetite demands large quantities of fat, or food 
corresponding in its powers of producing heat; so the man 
who is freely perspiring has often a return of thirst; and 
the man who vigorously exercises his muscles cannot endure 
without corresponding hearty food. The same idea must 
be and is true of the man who is exercising his brain actively 
for hours together: he must either eat enormously of the 
kinds of food that contain but little of the kind lie requires, 
which is injudicious-or, which is more proper, he must 
select for his use those kinds of food in which the material 
best adapted for his use abounds. What kinds are they ? is the very question with which we 
started upon our inquiry. 
We know that from the contents of an egg-shell all the 
parts of a chicken are constructed. The shell must, there- 
fore, contain the elements of brain properly conditioned to 
be readily wrought into it. The experience of ages testifies 
that in cases of nervous debility, " a raw egg before break- 
fast " is particularly strengthening. It may be thought to 
be, because taken as a medicine. But, in fact, it is an easily 
digested branial food. Indeed, at almost any price per 
dozen, eggs taken in reasonable numbers, if properly cooked, 
are not only the best, but the cheapest kind of meat that can 
be used. Eggs, however, afford a particularly good exam- 
ple of the different value of articles called by the same 
name. Those with light-colored yolks are not so rich for 
cake nor so good for man as those with deep-colored yolks. 
Duck eggs are particularly rich. The eggs of hens fed upon 
bugs, worms, grasshoppers, and upon fish, are deeper 
colored and richer than those of fowls fed upon corn, etc. 
This leads to the remark, that many a literary man has found 
delicious refreshment in a dish of oysters, sardines, or other 
fish, more particularly those that abound in phosphorescent 
qualities; such give great content to the stomach goaded to 
appetite by an exhausted brain. Now, as phosphorous has 
been found to abound more in the brain than in any other 
corporeal organ, is it not plainly shown that there is a rela- 
tion between the kinds of food mentioned and the brain, 
and when this faithful servant asks for bread shall we offer 
it a stone ? 
Every one who has had aught to do with a horse, knows 
that he becomes a more nervously active animal if fed upon 
oats, than if fed upon grass or upon corn, and that " wheat 
will also put the life into him." Whoever, also, has had a 
Scotch master, scholar or companion, knows that great 
nervous activity and endurance will be necessary to keep 
pace with the Scotch mind. Has this fact no relation to the 
oatmeal cakes that are a by-word for the land whence he 
came ? All preparations of oatmeal will make Scotch meta- 
physics easy to take, and no other physic necessary. 
90 Again, Graham, with his " scratch the alimentary canal " 
idea, brought into vogue the fashion of eating unbolted 
wheat, overvaluing the bran, that he thought was pregnant 
with virtues. Had he bolted out the bran the bread would 
have been improved, since its virtues are latent in the 
brown part, between the bran and the white flour. The 
brown contains the chief part of the phosphate of the wheat, 
and is, for branial purposes, worth ten times as much per 
pound as the white flour. Indeed, the brown or middlings, 
or kernel, or grudgeons of the wheat, is the cheapest brain 
food that the market supplies. Unbolted wheat flour comes 
next in order, cracked wheat being in the same category. 
Wheat entire, boiled, or brought almost to boiling for several 
hours, furnishes a very delicious or wholesome food, either 
eaten plain, as a mush, or used as a basis for many deli- 
cious articles. 
The Arabs find beans an excellent food for horses, and 
like peas, if sufficiently cooked, so as to render them easily 
digested, make excellent food for the brain. 
One other article may be mentioned, that it seems would 
so readily be recognized as adapted to branial nutrition 
that no mention of it would be necessary. But it is as true 
as strange, that nine-tenths, of the American people do not 
make any use of the brains of animals, casting them aside 
as if unfit for food-which is distinctly to say they do not 
make full use of their own. Brains are, in fact, the most 
valuable per pound of any part of a creature ; easily 
digested, and can iu various ways be cooked so as to be 
deliciously palatable. It is certainly an ad captandum 
argument, that the brains of animals must form a useful 
kind of food to the man who is called upon for extraordi- 
nary branial activity. The old proverb that each part 
strengthens a part, would certainly apply in this case. The 
decisions of science and the testimony of experience agree 
that in this case the ad captandum is worthy of entire confi- 
dence. More food of this kind is believed to be thrown 
away in this State than would, if estimated at its real value, 
equal all the expenses of public education in the State. 
Science, experience, and reasoning from analogy and 
from the nature of the case, arrive at the same conclusion 
91 in respect to the character of certain kinds of food and the 
relations they sustain to the brain; and while we are thus 
shown what we should use for the best effect, it is highly 
gratifying to learn that those kinds of food that are best for 
the brain are also the cheapest in price, and may be pre- 
pared in several ways, so as to be most delicious to the 
palate. 
'There certainly is no need of a homily to awaken emo- 
tions of gratitude and admiration toward the Infinite Wis- 
dom and Goodness that has thus provided food for man's 
good and for his enjoyment, with ease in attainment. It 
will also,be gratifying to notice that when the cold winter 
is softening into the mildness of spring, and the body no 
longer needs the heat producing elements that are found in 
oats, wheat and other grains, the fowls bestir themselves to 
provide eggs for the needs of intellectual man, and immense 
schools of fish pour themselves along our coasts and into 
our rivers, inviting the net to dip them out for man's use. 
The whole ocean seems to be a storehouse to provide for 
man's intellectual development. Thus by eggs and fish he 
is in spring supplied by that which he may eat abundantly 
to supply all the wants of the brain without overloading 
the blood -with heat producing and torpifying food. Thus 
it is seen that the solid framework of the earth was laid, 
its gigantic mountain ribs built up, its sublime ocean depths 
furrowed out, and even its poles turned askant, that man 
might feed his body with food appropriate in the various 
seasons for intellectual development, as well as by the 
grandeur and adaptation of nature, directly nourish in his 
soul adequate notions of the Deity. 
92 
Cheap Bread. 
" Bread and butter " are the only articles of food of which 
we never tire for a day, from early childhood to extreme 
old age. A pound of fine flour or Indian (corn) meal con- 
tains three times as much meat as one pound of butchers' 
roast beef, and if the whole product of the grain, bran and 
all, were maae into bread, fifteen per cent, more of nutri- ment would be added. Unfortunately the bran, the coarsest 
part, is thrown away; the very part which gives soundness 
to the teeth, and strength to the bones and vigor to the brain. 
Five hundred pounds of fine flour give to the body tliirty 
pounds of tlie bony element, while the same quantity of 
bran gives one hundred and twenty-five pounds 1 This bone 
is "lime," the phosphate lime, the indispensible element of 
health to the whole human body, from the want of the natu- 
ral supply of which multitudes of persons go into a general 
" decline." But swallowing phosphates in the shape of 
powders, or in syrups, to cure these declines, has litle or no 
virtue. The articles contained in these phosphates must 
pass through nature's laboratory, must be subject to her 
manipulations, in alembics specially prepared by Almighty 
power and skill, in order to impart their peculiar virtues to 
the human frame. In plainer phrase, the shortest, safest 
and most infallible method of giving strength to the body, 
bone and brain, thereby arresting disease, and building up 
tlie constitution, is to eat and digest more bread made out 
of the whole grain, whether of wheat, corn rye or oats. 
But we must get an appetite for eating more, and a power 
of digesting more. Not by the artificial and lazy method of 
drinking bitters and taking tonics, but by moderate, contin- 
ued and remunerative muscular exercise in the open air 
everv day, rain or shine. And that we may eat the more of 
it, the bread must be good and cheap and healthful; and 
that which combines these three qualities to a greater 
extent than any other known on the face of the globe, as far 
as we know, is made thus: To two quarts of corn (indian) 
meal, add one pint of bread sponge; water sufficiently to 
wet the whole; add one-half pint of Hour and a teaspoonful 
of salt. Let it raise: then knead well, unsparingly, for the 
second time. Place the dough in the oven, and let it bake 
an hour and a half. Keep on trying until you succeed in 
making a light, well-baked loaf. Our cook succeeded 
admirably by our directions at the very first trial. It costs 
just half as much as bread from the finest family flour, is 
lighter on the stomach, and imparts more health, vigor and 
strength to the body, brain and bone. Three pounds of 
such bread (at five cents a pound for the meal) affords as 
93 much nutriment as nine pounds of good roast beef (costing, 
at twenty-five cents, $2.25) according to standard physio- 
logical tables. 
94 
Eating Economically. 
What kind of food has the most nourishment and costs 
the least, is a question of great practical importance. The 
following tables may be studied with considerable interest 
by every family. They will show the mode of preparation, 
the amount of nutriment, and the time required for the 
digestion of the most common articles of food placed upon 
our tables. A dollar's worth of meat, at twenty-five cents a 
pound, goes as far as fifty cents worth of butter, at half a 
a dollar a pound. Three pounds of flour, at eight cents a 
pound, is said to contain as much nutriment as nine pounds 
of roast beef, which, at twenty-five cents, is $2.25; that is, 
twenty-five cents worth of flour goes as far as nine times 
that much money spent for roast beef, as weighed at the 
butcher's stall. A pint of white beans, weighing one pound, 
and costing seven cents, contains as much nutriment as 
three pounds and a half of roast beef, costing eighty-seven 
and a half cents. Of all the articles that can be eaten, the 
cheapest are bread, butter, molasses, beans and rice. A 
pound of corn meal (Indian) goes as far as a pound of 
flour; so that, fine family flour at sixteen dollars a barrel, 
in New York city, in July, Itsiil, and corn meal at four cents, 
the latter is just one-half less expensive. If corn and wheat 
were ground, and the whole product, bran and all, were 
made into bread, fifteen per cent, of nutriment would be 
saved with much greater healthfulness. These are standard 
tables: 
Quality of 
Food. 
Cucumbers 
Mode of 
Preparation, 
Raw, 
Amount of 
Nutriment. 
2 ner cent. 
Time, of 
Digestion. 
H. M. 
Turnips 
Boiled, 
4 
« 
3.30 
Milk 
Fresh, 
7 
ll 
2.15 
Cabbage 
Boiled, 
7 
ll 
4.30 
Apples 
Raw, 
10 
ll 
1.50 
Potatoes 
Boiled, 
13 
2.30 Quality of 
Mode of 
Amount of 
Time of 
Food. Preparation. 
Nutriment. 
Digestion. 
H.M. 
Fish 
. Broiled, 
20 per cent. 
2.00 
Venison 
ll 
22 
ll 
1.30 
Fork 
Roasted, 
24 
cc 
5.15 
Veal 
ll 
25 
cc 
4.00 
Beef 
ll 
20 
cc 
3.30 
Poultry 
ll 
27 
cc 
2.45 
Mutton 
« 
30 
cc 
3.15 
Bread, wheat 
. Baked. 
80 
cc 
3.30 
Bread 
ll 
80 
cc 
3.30 
Beans 
. Boiled 
67 
cc 
2.30 
Bice 
88 
cc 
1.00 
Butter and Oils 
96 
cc 
3.30 
Sugar and Syrups.. 
96 
« 
3.30 
95 
Corn Against Pork and Beef, 
I believe it is not generally known that it takes about ten 
pounds of corn to make one pound of beef or pork. Never- 
theless it is a fact, which has been fully demonstrated by care- 
ful experiments. It is also an established fact, that one pound 
of corn contains more than twice as much nuitritious matter 
as a pound of average butchers' meat. Thus butchers' meat 
furnishes in all only 36.G parts in 100 of solid matter, to 63.1 
of water; while corn meal contains 90 parts in 100 of solid 
matter, and only 10 of water. 
Now in following out and applying these facts, we arrive 
at conclusions that may be, to some, not a little startling. 
We find, for example, that the change of corn into beef and 
pork, especially the latter, is a most palpable violation of 
the laws of domestic and political economy. For if it should 
be taken for granted that we raise 800,000,000 bushels of corn 
in the United States in a year (and this is estimated to be the 
fact by Mr. John Jay, of the Geographical and Statistical 
Society of New York), is it not safe to suppose that at least 
one-half of it is employed in fattening animals ? And if it 
takes as much corn to make a pound of pork as it does to 
make a pound of beef, then here is a waste of 360,000,000 
bushels of this valuable product; or, at 50c. a bushel, of $180,000,000; even though we admit that a pound of beef 
contained as much nutritious matter as a pound of corn, 
which we have seen above is not true. 
If it is said, as it may be, that this is a national loss rather 
than a loss to individuals, I should like to know how it can 
be made out. I see no reason why a national is not a loss 
to each individual making up that nation-and in general, a 
loss which falls upon all about equally. If this is so, and we 
take our present population to be 30,000,000, here is a loss of 
six dollars to each individual, or thirty'dollars for a family 
of five persons. If, however, we admit the corn to be twice as 
much per pound as the beef-I mean for all the purposes of 
human nutrition-then the loss, of course, is double that sum, 
or sixty dollars to a family. Are we able and willing to bear 
this loss? Some may say they prefer the beef and pork 
because it makes them warmer than corn bread. But if this 
were admitted, the difference in favor of the animal food 
could not be as great as ten to one. It is not to be admitted, 
however. Corn meal contains 77 parts in 100 of the heat- 
forming principle, and butchers' meat only a fraction over 
14 parts in 100. 
It may be said that the beef and pork taste better than the 
johnny cake or the pudding. Not to the inhabitants of those 
countries that are sustained almost wholly on corn. Nor 
do they, indeed, to any one whose taste is pure and unper- 
verted. It is a species of cannibalism in human society 
that makes a person relish flesh and blood, with all the tilth 
that belongs to every part and parcel of them-some items 
of which it would not do, for decency's sake, to specify. 
96 PART THIRD. 
MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 
Preserving Sinks From Foulness. 
In hot weather it is almost impossible to prevent sinks 
becoming foul unless some chemical preparation is used. 
Oue pound of copperas dissolved in four gallons of water, 
poured over the sink three or four times, will completely 
dcstorys the offensive odor. As a disinfecting agent to 
scatter around premises affected with any unpleasant odor, 
nothing is better than powdered charcoal. All sorts of glass 
vessels and other utensils may be effectually cured from 
offensive smell by rinsing them with charcoal powder, after 
the grosser impurities have been scoured off with sand and 
soap. 
Chemical Action of Light. 
Never shade a house. Let sunlight into every room and 
let every inhabitant feel its influence. Man requires sun- 
light as much as plants; sunlight and fresh air are essential 
to health. 
A Fine Cologne. 
Take one quart of good alcohol, one ounce each oil laven- 
der and oil lemon, one dram oil cinnamon, two drams 
extract or tincture of musk, and six drops otto of rose; 
mix well together. This is a line cologne if the ingredients 
are all pure and reliable. 98 
Perfume for the Handkerchief. 
Take one pint best cologne spirits, half ounce oil jessa- 
mine, one-fourth ounce oil geranium, half ounce extract of 
musk, or those that prefer it may add six drops of otto of 
rose instead; mix and bottle tight. Very choice. 
Hungarian Hair Oil. 
Take four ounces each of strong alcohol and castor oil, 
tinct. of red sanders or alkanet half ounce, oil bergamont, 
oil lavender, oil lemon, of each one dram. Mix thoroughly 
and bottle. 
To Make Sticking Salve. 
Three pounds rosin, half pound of mutton tallow, half 
pound of beeswax, and a tablespoonful of sulphur, melted, 
poured into cold water, and worked and pulled an hour. 
Indelible Ink for Cloth. 
Take soft water two ounces, nitrate silver four drams, 
spirits hartshorn two drachms. Mix thoroughly, then add 
two drams sap green, grated line. Bottle tight and use 
with a quill pen. This makes one of the most permanent 
and jet black indelible inks ever made. Cloth marked with 
this should be exposed to the strong heat of the sun half an 
hour, or a warm iron may be run over it. 
A Receipt Worth One Thousand 
Dollars. 
Take one pound of soda and half a pound of unslacked 
lime, put them in a gallon of water, and let them boil twenty 
minutes; let it stand till cool; then drain off, and put it in 
a stone jug or jar. Soak your dirty clothes over night, or 
until they are wet through; then wring them out and rub 
on plenty of soap, and in one boiler of clothes well covered 
with water, add one teaspoonful of the washing fluid. Boil half an hour briskly, then wash them thoroughly through 
one suds, and rinse well through two waters, and your 
clothes will look better than the old way of washing twice 
before boiling. This recipe is invaluable, and every poor 
tired woman should try it. With a patent tub to do the 
little rubbing, the washerwoman might take the last novel 
and compose herself on the lounge, and let the washing 
do itself. 
99 
To Prevent Hair from Falling Out. • 
Take one pint of Cologne, two ounces tincture of blood- 
root, two ounces castor oil, half an ounce tincture of Spanisli 
fiy, and half an ounce of Castile soap, grated fine. Mix 
thoroughly together. Apply once a day with a brush. 
Remedy for Earache. 
Take one teaspoonful each, of the juice of grated onions 
and blood beet; mix and drop several drops in the ear warm, 
use it often. If the pain is very great, moisten wool or 
cotton with the same, and put it in the ear every ten minutes. 
Seldom fails to give instant relief. 
Eye W ash for Inflammation of the Eyes. 
Take half a teaspoonful of common fine salt, one-eighth 
teaspoonful of white vitriol, hot sage tea one teacupful, mix 
when cold, wet linen cloths, and apply to the eyes often. 
Should it smart too much at first, reduce it with rain or soft 
water. In all of these cases Liver Specific should be taken 
to cure the blood. 
The Toothache. 
An exchange gives the following: " Sly dear friend," said 
II., "lean cure your toothache in ten minutes." "How? 
how?" I inquired, "Do it, in pity." "Instantly, said he. 
" Have you any alum ?" " Yes." " Bring it, and some 
common salt." They were produced. My friend pulverized 
them, mixed them in equal qautities, then wet a small piece 100 
of cotton, causing the mixed powde» to adhere, and placed 
it in my hollow tooth. " There," said he, " if that does not 
cure you I will forfeit my head. You pay tell this to every 
one, and publish it everywhere. The remedy is infallible." 
It was as he predicted. Chi the introduction of the mixed 
alum and salt, I experienced a sensation of coldness, and with 
it-the alum and salt-I cured the torment of the toothache. 
How to Stop the Flow of Blood. 
Housekeepers, mechanics, or others, in handling tools, 
knives, and other sharp instruments, very frequently receive 
severe cuts, from which blood flows profusely and often- 
times endangers life itself. Blood may be made to cease 
flowing as follows: Take the line dust.of tea and bind it to 
the wound-at all times accessible and easily obtained. 
After the blood has ceased to flow, laudanum may be 
advantageously applied to the wound. Due regard to these 
instructions would save agitation of mind, and running for 
the surgeon, who would probably make no better prescrip- 
tion if he were present. 
Application for Bums and Scalds. 
Mix thoroughly together equal parts of the white of eggs 
and linseed or sweet oil, apply to the parts affected linen 
cloth saturated with this mixture, and change them as often 
as they become hot and uncomfortable. If linseed or 
sweet oil is not at hand, use molasses instead, till oil can 
be obtained. This application is only to be used in scalds 
and burns where the skin is off. In all cases where the 
skin is not removed, cloths wet every live minutes in a 
mixture made of two parts cold water, with one part 
common spirits, and applied, will be of more service. 
Continue these applications till the burning and inflamma- 
tion is removed, then an ointment made of equal parts 
beeswax, fresh butter, and rosin melted together, will soon 
heal the sores and remove the scars. Burns and scalds 
must always be kept excluded from the'light and air as 
much as possible, as this increases the irritation and pre- 
vents their rapid healing. 101 
To Destroy Flies. 
To one pint milk add a quarter pound of raw sugar, two 
ounces of ground pepper, simmer them together eight or 
ten minutes and place it about in shallow dishes. The flies 
attack it readily, and are soon suffocated. By this method 
kitchens, &c., may be kept clear of flies all summer, with- 
out the danger attending poison. 
Fire-Proof Ladies' Dresses. 
Within a very short time two young ladies have been 
burnt to death, owing to their light muslin dresses catching 
fire from a lucifer match-one in London, the other in Col- 
chester. It ought to be generally known that all ladies' light 
dresses may be made fire-proof at a mere nominal cost, by 
steeping them, or the linen or cotton used in making them, 
in a diluted solution of chloride of zinc. We have seen the 
very finest cambric so prepared held in the flame of a 
candle, and charred to dust without the least flame; and 
we have been informed that since Clara Webster, a dancer, 
was burnt to death, from her clothes catching fire on the 
stage, the muslin dresses of all the dancers at the best thea- 
tres are made fire-proof. Our manufacturers should take 
the hint. 
Superior Elack Writing Ink. 
Take powdered nutgalls four ounces, cold rain water five 
teacupsful. Mix and bottle. Shake them once a day for 
three weeks, then strain through a flannel cloth. This 
forms the best and most durable black ink in use. It never 
fades or becomes moldy. Black ink should never be boiled, 
as heat destroys the coloring principle and renders it tran- 
sient and pale. 
To Make Blacking. 
Take of ivory black and treacle, each twelve ounces, 
spermaceti oil four ounces, white wine vinegar, four pints. 
Mix. This blacking, recommended by Mr. Gray, lecturer on the materia mcdica, is superior in giving leather a finer 
polish than any of those that are advertised, as they all 
contain sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), which is necessary to 
give it the polishing quality, but it renders leather rotten 
and very liable to crack. 
102 
How to Make Temperance Beer. 
Take three pounds of brown sugar,, with one and a half 
pints of molasses, four ounces tartaric acid, two teaspoon- 
fuls of essence of sassafras ; mix in two quarts of boiling 
water, strain it and cool, when it is fit for use. Take two 
tablespoonfuls for a tumbler two-thirds full of water, add 
a half teaspoonful of soda. You will lind it a cooling and 
delightful beverage for summer. 
And here is a recipe for making cream beer: 
To one gallon of warm water take two tablespoonfills of 
tartaric acid, one bowl of good broatn or coffee sugar, two 
tablespoonfuls of ginger, and one cup of yeast. Let it 
stand over night, and it is tit for use by adding a small 
quantity of soda as you drink it. Try this, and see if you 
do not call it good. 
Apple Jelly. 
Pare, quarter, and completely remove the core of the 
apples, and put in a pot, without water, closely covered, 
and put into an oven or over the fire. When pretty well 
stewed, the juice is to be squeezed out through a cloth, to 
which a little white of an egg is added, and then the sugar; 
skim it previous to boiling, and then reduce it to a proper 
consistency, and an excellent jelly will be the product. 
To Take Ont Mildew. 
Mix soft soap with starch powdered, half as much salt 
and the juice of a lemon; lay it on the part, on both sides, 
with a brush. Let it lie on the grass day and night till the 
stain comes out. 103 
Cure for Stammering. 
Those afflicted with this annoyance, at every syllable pro- 
nounced must tap at the same time with the finger. By so 
doing the most inveterate stammerer will be surprised to 
find he can pronounce quite fluently; and by long and con- 
stant practice he will pronounce perfectly well. This may 
be explained in two ways, either by a sympathetic consen- 
taneous action of the nerves of voluntary motion in the 
finger, and in those of the tongue, which is the most prob- 
able ; or it may be that the movement of the finger distracts 
the attention of the individual from his speech, and allows 
a free action of the nerves concerned in articulation. 
To Clean Black Silks. 
To bnllock's gall add boiling water sufficient to make it 
warm, and, with a clean sponge, rub the silk well on both 
sides, squeeze it well out, and proceed again in like man- 
ner. Rinse it in spring water, and change the water till 
perfectly clean; dry it in the air, and pin it ont on a table: 
but first dip the sponge in glue-water, and rub it on the 
wrong side; then dry it before a fire. 
Thirst Worse Than Hunger. 
That disturbance of the general system which is known 
under the name of "Raging Thirst" Is far more terrible 
than that of starvation, and for this reason: During absti- 
nence from food the organism can still live upon its own 
substance, which furnishes all the necessary material; but 
during abstinence from liquid the organism has no such 
source of supply within itself. Men have been known to 
endure absolute privation of food for some weeks, but 
three days of absolute privation of drink (unless in a moist 
atmosphere) is perhaps the limit of endurance. Thirst is 
the most atrocious torture ever invented. It is that which 
most effectually tames animals. Mr. Astley, when he had 104 
a refractory horse, always used thirst as the most effective 
power of coercion, giving a little water as a reward for 
every act of obedience. 
To Dip Rusty Black Silks. 
If it requires to be red-dyed, boil logwood; and in half 
an hour put in the silk, and let it simmer half an hour. 
Take it out, and dissolve a little blue vitriol and green cop- 
peras; cool the copper; let it simmer half an hour, then 
dry it over a stick in the air. If not red-dyed, pin it out, 
and rinse it in spring water, in which half a teaspoonful 
of oil of vitrial has been put. Work it about five minutes, 
rinse it in cold water, and finish it by pinning and rubbing 
it with gum water. 
Curious Mode of Silvering Ivory. 
Immerse a small slip of ivory in a weak solution of 
nitrate of silver, and let it remain till the solution has 
given it a deep yellow color; then take it out and immerse 
it in a tumbler of clear water, and expose it, in the water 
to the rays of the sun. In about three hours the ivory 
acquires a black color; but the black surface, on being 
rubbed, soon becomes changed to a brilliant silver. 
To Make Red Sealing Wax. 
Take of shell-lac, well powdered, two parts, of resin and 
vermilion, powdered, each, one part.- Mix them well 
together and melt them over a gentle fire, and when the 
ingredients seem thoroughly incorporated, work the wax 
into sticks. Where shell-lac cannot be procured, seed-lac 
may be substituted for it. 
The quantity of vermilion may be diminished without any 
injury to the sealing wax, where it is not required to be of 
the highest and brightest red color; and the resin should be 
of the whitest kind, as that improves the effect of the ver- 
milion. 105 
Sea-Sickness Curable. 
1 am much surprised at the opinion which is so prevalent 
of the utter incurability of sea-sickness. I believe this 
opinion to exist among the non-medical part of the commu- 
nity from sheer ignorance, and amongst sea-going surgeons 
from a supineness in applying remedies-a fault to which 
they are either too subject. In the greater number of 
instances I allow the stomach to discharge its contents 
once or twice, and then, if there is no organic disease, I 
give live drops of chloroform in a little water, and, if neces- 
sary, repeat the dose in four or six hours. The almost 
constant effect of this treatment, if conjoined with a few 
simple precautions, is to cause an immediate sensation, as 
it were, of warmth in the stomach, accompanied by almost 
total relief of the nausea and sickness, likewise curing the 
distressing headache, and usually causing a quiet sleep, 
from which the passenger awakes quite well. 
Balsamic and Anti-Putrid Vinegar. 
Take rue, sage, mint, rosemary, and lavender, fresh 
gathered, of each a handful, cut them small, and put them 
in a stone jar; pour upon the herbs a pint of the best white- 
wine vinegar; cover the jar close, and let it stand eight 
days in the sun, or near the fire; then strain it off, and dis- 
solve in it an ounce of camphor. This liquid, sprinkled 
about the sick chamber, or fumigated, will much revive the 
patient, and prevent the attendants from receiving infec- 
tion. 
To Make Ink for Printing on Linen 
with Types. 
Dissolve one part of asphaltum in four parts of oil of 
turpentine, and add lamp-black, or black-lead, in tine pow- 
der, in sufficient quantity to render the ink of a proper con- 
sistence for printing with types. 106 
To Clean G-old Lace. 
Gold lace is easily cleaned and restored to its original 
brightness by rubbing it witli a soft brush dipped in roche 
alum, burnt, silted to a-very line powder. 
To Clean China and Glass. 
The best material for cleaning either or glass- 
ware is fuller's earth, but it must be beaten into aline pow- 
der and carefully cleared from all rough or hard particles, 
which might endanger the polish of the brilliant surface. 
To Explore Unventilated Places. 
Light some sheets of brown paper and throw into the 
well or cavern; also, fix a long pipe to a pair of bellows, 
and blow for some time into the place. 
Black Sealing Wax. 
Proceed as directed for the red wax, only instead of tlio 
vermilion substitute the best ivory black. 
G-reen Sealing Wax. 
Proceed as in the above; only, instead of vermilion use 
verdigris powdered; or, where the color is required to be 
bright, distilled or crystals of verdigris. 
Blue Sealing Wax. 
As tlie above ; only changing the vermilion for smalt well 
powdered; or, fora light blue, verditer may be used; as 
may also, with more advantage, a mixture of both. 
Yellow Sealing Wax. 
As the above; only substituting masticot; or, where a 
bright color is desired, turpelh mineral, instead of the 
vermilion. Purple Sealing Wax. 
As the red; only changing half the quantity of vermilion 
for an equal or greater proportion of smalt, according as 
the purple is desired to be bluer or redder. 
107 
Uncolored Soft Sealing Wax. 
Take of bees wax, 1 lb., turpentine, 3 oz., and olive oil, 1 
oz. Place them in a proper vessel over the Are, and let 
them boil for some time, and the wax will be then fit to be 
formed into rolls or cakes for use. 
Red, Black, Green, Blue, Yellow and 
Purple Soft Sealing Wax. 
Add to the preceding composition, while boiling, an ounce 
or more of any ingredients directed above for coloring the 
hard sealing wax; and stir the matter well about, till the 
color be thoroughly mixed with the wax. 
The proportion of the coloring ingredients may be in- 
creased, if the color produced by that here given be not 
found strong enough. 
Blackberry Wine. 
There is no wine equal to the blackberry wine, when 
properly made, either in flavor or for medical purposes, 
and all persons who can conveniently do so should manu- 
facture enough for their own use every year, as it is invalu- 
able in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is a better remedy 
for bowel diseases. We therefore give the recipe for 
making it, and having tried it ourselves, we speak advised- 
ly on the subject: Measure your berries and bruise them; 
to every gallon adding on a quart of boiling water. Let the 
mixture stand twenty-four hours, stirring occasionally; 
then strain oil' the liquor into a cask, to every gallon adding 
two pounds of sugar, cork tight, and let it stand till the 
following October, and you will have wine ready for use, 
without further straining or boiling, that will make lips 
smack that never smacked under similar influences before. To Prepare Waterproof Boots. 
Boots and shoes maybe rendered impervious to water by 
the following composition: Take three ounces of sperma- 
ceti, and melt it in a pipkin or other earthen vessel over a 
slow lire; add thereto six drachms of Indian rubber, cut 
into slices, and these will presently dissolve. Then add, 
aeriafim, of tallow eight ounces, hog's lard two ounces, 
amber varnish four ounces. Mix, and it will be fit for use 
immediately. The boots or other material to be treated are 
to receive two or three coats, with a common blacking 
brush, and a line polish is the result. 
108 
To Make Leather and other Articles 
Waterproof. 
Dissolve ten pounds of Indian rubber, cut into bits, the 
smaller the better, in twenty gallons of pure spirits of tur- 
pentine, by putting them together into a tin vessel that will 
hold forty gallons. This vessel is to be immersed in cold 
water, contained in a boiler, to which lire is to be applied 
so as to make the boil, occasionally supplying what is 
lost by evaporation. Here it is to remain until a perfect 
solution of the caoutchouc in the turpentine is obtained. 
One hundred and fifty pounds of pure bees' wax are now 
to be dissolved in one hundred gallons of pure spirits of 
turpentine, to which add twenty pounds of Burgundy pitch 
and ten pounds of gum frankincense. The solution to be 
obtained as directed for the caoutchouc. Mix the two 
solutions, and, when cold, add ten gallons of copal varnish, 
and put the whole into a reservoir, diluting it with one 
hundred gallons of lime water, live gallons at a time, and 
stirring it well up for six or eight hours in succession, 
which stirring must be repeated when any of the composi- 
tion is taken out. If it is wanted black, mix twenty pounds 
of lamp-black with twenty gallons of turpentine (which 
twenty gallons should be deducted from the quantity pre- 
viously employed) and add it previously to putting in the 
lime water. 
To use it, lay it on the leather with a painter's brush, and 
rub it in.