SUPPLEMENT TO JOURNAL OF HEALTH 
IMPORTA1TT. 
T will tend a Trial Bottle of my SAMARITAN NERVINE, free of charge, 
to those who are atllicted with Epileptic Fits, Convulsions, Spasms, or St. Vitus 
Dance. 
Those who send for a Trial Bottle will please give me the names and post- 
office address of all the persons they know of afflicted with any of the above 
diseases. This will cost you nothing, and may make many a sad heart happy. 
8. A. RICHMOND, St. Joseph, Mo. 
tJTPlease read and hand to some afflicted friend. This is the first and largest Institution of its kind in America. 
A Clear Brain, a Steady Nerve and a Healthy Body are Stepping-Stones to Wealth 
A man may have his thousands in land and gold, but witiiout Health he is miserable. 
xjOndon 
London, England. 
ST. JOSEPH MEDICAL INSTITUTE. 
Paris, Prance. 
READERS, FRIE3VDS AKTD PATRONS, 
Once more we appear before you in a new dress, embellished by new engravings, representing our Home Institution and its Branch Offices. 
This Institution never was in so flourishing a condition. There are under treatment many thousands in all parts of the civilized world. 
To our many patrons we return our unfeigned gratitude, and to Him who appoints and rules all great works for the good of man all is due. 
Our aim in future, as in the past, shall ever be to try to lift up the downcast and elevate them to usefulness and happiness. The Home 
Institution is seen in the center, the London Branch on the left, and the Paris Branch on the right of the new heading. The branches have 
been established to satisfy the increasing demand for my medicines in foreign countries. By this means we place our treatment within 
the reach of thousands of afflicted persons who would otherwise be unable to avail themselves of its benefits. 
MEDICAL LORE. 
In view of these facts, and know- 
ing that we have cured thousands of 
the worst cases of Epilepsy and 
have never failed to effect a perfect 
cure when we have had a reasonable 
chance. We hereby offer in good 
faith, $500.00 reward for a case of 
Epilepsy that we cannot cure. We 
claim that we can cure any and every 
case of Epilepsy, if our directions 
aic faithfully followed. V*1Ty, then, 
trifle with this disease? Reader, 
why put off the sure means of cure 
we offer? Do you not know that 
procrastination is the thief of time? 
Do you not know that insanity and 
idiocy are among its frequent re- 
sults, and that thereby thousands 
of graves are filled? Is it not a 
duty that you owTe to others as well 
as yourself to get rid of this terri- 
ble disease? Do not think that the 
disease will in time wear out. On 
the contrary, it will, unless cured, 
wear you out. Do not think that 
you cannot be cured. The world 
moves, and medical science is pro- 
gressive. Many forms of disease 
which would once have been 
entirely incurable with the means 
then known, are in the light of 
more recent discoveries in medi- 
cine, very easily cured. 
The World llates New Ideas. 
“A new idea, new discoveries or 
improvements have ever met with 
the most determined opposition; 
the world opposes what it does not 
understand.”—Lord, Bacon. 
Prof. 'Morse had to surmount 
the most opposition in 
his great invention, the Telegraph. 
The Immortal Dr. Jenner, who 
discovered Vaccination, was called 
aii impostor and a quack and was 
not allowed to practice medicine in 
Loudon. How many millions now 
bless and revere his memory! 
Hundreds of examples could be 
given to show how much bigotry, 
Intolerance and persecution have to 
be met and overcome by every new 
discoverer. 
The whrst fea: ure of the present 
in medical science is, that every 
student is educated in generalities, 
and that there are ;ut few who- 
leave that beaten path to seek for 
themselves a perfect and thorough 
knowledge of a special class of dis 
RECEPTION ROOM. 
eases. Hence it is, the London Pharma- 
copeia contains, amidst its thousands of 
remedial preparations, but one absolute 
for the ague—quinine; and hence it is 
that thousands upon thousands die of dis- 
eases which no practitioner will venture to 
assert to be Incurable. 
Jenner and Harvey were benefactors to 
science and to the human species by leaving 
the beaten track and devoting themselves 
eaoh to a specialty. Their opponents were 
of the same class as those who would at the 
present day be opponents to new Jenners and 
new Harveys, viz: the members of their own 
profession—the men who are content to go 
on in the old jog trot of empiricism, having 
a smattering of knowledgo ou all diseases, 
but without the profundity of experience 
which would enable them to deal with cer- 
tainty with any. 
After having devoted our lives to the exclu- 
sive study of Epilepsy and kindred diseases 
and during the many years of practice every 
variety of this class of disease has come 
under our notice and treatment. There is 
no ordinary medical practitioner whose time 
and energies are frittered away at random 
among the thousand ills that flesh is heir to, 
can be depended on for advice or assistance 
in any but the most simple and ordinary 
cases. Nor is this the ouly disadvantage; it 
is not merely that they cannot afl'ord relief, 
but their inability too often leads them to 
suppose that because they have failed, their 
ca>es are beyond the reach of art, and con- 
sequently they give way to a state )f des- 
pondency, which not only prevents their 
seeking other aid but has such an cfl'ect on 
the general system as to lead many to an 
early grave. The be*t evidence of what can 
be done in the treatment of any disease is to 
be found in the past success of the treatment 
tc be employed. An old proverb says: 
“ What has been done may be done again 
Faith and Good «Tork$. 
Epileptic Fits Permanently Cured. 
Thousands of our best Physicians send their Patients here for treatment. Thousands are cured every year at this Institute. 
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DR. RICHMOND'S OF HEALTH. 
INVENTORS AND SPECIALISTS. 
and their authors the greatest benefactors of their j 
race. 
Fourth—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 j 
their conduct but press on to the brightest attain- 
ments that he may acquire honor to himself and bless j 
mankind. 
Answer—Where there is a will there is a way and 
human suffering demands privation, exertion and 
immediate attention, while relief inay be obtained. 
Patient—It will cost too much; I cannot afford it. 
Answer—The man does not live who cannot afford 
relief. While the cost is within his reach a clear con- 
science and such cures never cost their value. 
Patient—I have tried the doctors; they failed, and 
I am discouraged. 
Answer—You know that your doctors have not the 
vast experience and other facilities necessary to 
success. You have not failed with us nor never will 
if we undertake your case and you will follow out our 
directions. 
Patient—Do you treat all diseases? 
Answer—No, we do not; nor do we believe there is 
a doctor living who excels in all branches, for it is 
impossible in our brief existence for one man to grasp 
all the details of the healing art and be proficient. 
Concentration of time, thought and money are 
requisite to success. 
Patient—Why do some physicians .o your 
institution? 
Answer—The large majority of them do not. 
Honest ones never do. If your physician has failed 
to help you, he will advise you to come or send at 
once for treatment. If he does not, he advises you 
from envy and fear that if you are owed, his 
reputation will suffer. As to 
your doctors, they should be 
frank enough to tell you that they 
have not the necessary means and 
experience to successfully treat your 
case, and that their business is solely 
to treat the accute diseases of the 
country, and in that they excel us. 
And because they have tried without 
success, does it follow that you 
cannot be cured by careful, thorough, 
systematic treatment? 
Patient—Well, my physician claims 
that advertising doctors are bum- 
r 
Answer—Do you see, if you 
find liis card in your county paper, 
or if he has a sign over his office 
door, if so, what is it there for? Is 
it not to direct the attention of the 
public to him and his business? If 
so, that is advertising, and you 
should tell him to take down his 
sign, or brand him as a humbug. He 
advertises in his county paper and 
we advertise in a paper of our own; 
therefore, he is an honest man, and 
we are humbugs. Is that logic? 
No sir ! We are in the same boat. 
Did the doctors of our leading hospitals and lunatic 
asylums set themselves up on their professional 
dignity and cry humbug when they first saw our 
Journal of Health? No. Besides being very good 
doctors, they are sensible men. 
Patient—My friends tell me that it is foolish to 
apply to you for treatment; that I will throw my 
money away and receive no benefit. ( 
Answer—Are you obliged to die just because your 
frienus advise you to? Who set them up as judges 
to decide your fate? Can any of them cure you? If 
so, that will suit you better than such advice. If they 
cannot cure you, how do they know that we cannot? 
Have they had dealings with us, and do they know 
that wre are not what we profess to be ? If they do 
not, then who do you think are the best judges, those 
who know us and have been treated by us, or those 
who know nothing of us! 
Patient—Well, can I be treated as well at home as 
I could at your Institute? 
Answer—Yes; not one in five hundred who we 
treat do we ever see. We have no hotel in connection 
with our Institute. Therefore it is far better for the 
patient to be at home, where his family and his busi- 
ness are, besides being far less expensive. If you 
take treatment, we shall expect you to be in earnest, 
and not take medicines now and then, or just when 
you please. If you expect to do that, we advise you 
HOW PROGRESS IS MADE. 
Lius is an age oi discovery, in all the annals 01 
history there is no period described when there wer( 
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 par- 
lors, carry us swifter than race horses on the track. 
Steamboats transport us to distant cities during oux 
sleep, in a single night. Two inventors, Stephenson 
of England, and Fulton of our country, have accom- 
plished most of this for us. A few jears since our 
feet were kept dry only by soaking our clumsy boots 
with tallow; while now the most substantial and most 
fastdious tastes can be satisfied with excellent and 
elegant foot coverings of rubber, and a Goodyear has 
perfected its manufacture in a hundred utensils and 
conveniences for the kitchen, the parlor, the nursery 
and the study. The genius of Morse has invented the 
telegraph, and the messages of commerce, news, legis- 
lation and friendship, sweep over the magic wires with 
lightning speed. Not many years since the greatest of 
living surgeons, Valpeau, 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 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 five years 
from that hour Velpeau amputated 
limbs and performed other grave 
operations whilst his willing patient 
was sleeping from anesthesia. An 
American dentist, Dr. Horace Wells 
of Hartford, Conn., conceived the 
idea of preventing the pain of sur- 
gical operations, and first of all took 
the ether himself to have a tooth ex- 
tracted. He devoted years to this 
discovery with an enthusiasm not ex- 
celled ajnong ancient or moderen in- 
ventors or discoverers. 
Such are a few of the marks of 
mighty progress in a few years of 
the past. Who have made these dis- 
coveries? Always and ever enthusi- 
asts and specialists. Never has the 
world seen men more devoted to 
single, definite, specific objects. 
Stephenson and Fulton loved the 
steam engine, the steam car and the 
steamboat, with all the devotion that 
Napoleon felt for the victories of 
war; or Saint 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. 
Opposition, old theories, all the knowledge of the past, 
were opposed to each and every one of them. Elec- 
tricians and chemists thought Morse was a fool. Sur- 
geons and professors ridiculed Wells; and almost the 
whole lives of Stephenson and Fulton were met with 
obliquy and contempt. Goodyear was imprisoned 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, humbugs and deceivers, but the world 
will honor them, whilst their opponents will be lost 
in ignoble and absolute nothingness. Just so in med- 
icine. Jenner devoted years to the discovery and 
investigation of Vaccination, whilst his medical 
brethren arrayed themselves against him in emitted 
hatred. From these facts, (and they are only a few 
among the many that might be adduced), we should 
learn: 
First—That no man can excel who does not devote 
his whole energies to some one defluite, determined 
object. 
Second—That such men are always either slighted 
or opposed by those in the same employment or 
profession. 
Third—That those discoveries which look the most 
chimerical are often the most reliable and valuables 
Common Sense and Plain Talk. 
This journal, setting forth the claims of the St. 
Joseph Medical Institute, is before you. If you or 
your friends are suffering and need a cure the ques- 
tion of the truth of the within statement is important. 
If true, it is just the place to obtain relief; if false, 
you do not wish to be deceived. Were you here with 
eyes and ears to investigate and realize the fact that 
the half has not been told, further evidence would be 
unnecessary. As a patient, you say such cures look 
unreasonable and incredible. 
Answer—This is not a valid objection, for thousands 
of scientific and mechanical triumphs seem as much 
so and yet, like these statements, are facts. 
Patient—My doctors have tried, failed and charged 
I 
To procure Health should be the chief study of man during his pilgrimage on earth. 
Please read and hand this Journal to some afflicted friend. 
Mail and Editorial Department. 
me for it and then told me a cure was impossible. 
Answer—They doubtless did the best they could 
with what facilities they had, but nothing is impossi- 
ble when ample means and experience are at hand. 
Patient—I have tried those who lied and deceived 
me, and took my money without benefit. 
Answer—This we do not doubt, but you and I are 
not responsible for the crimes of others, nor do we 
like undeserved epithets or censure. If the quack 
was your home doctor, you ought to have known that 
he had not the necessary experience or facilities. If a 
traveling doctor, you ought to have known that if he 
was good for anything he would have had sufficient 
business to keep him at home. 
Patient—I would like to obtain relief and would 
apply for treatment at once if I was sure of a cure. 
Answer—You never can be cured unless you try. 
Reward is only for those who make the effort and 
persevere, and you are certain of a cure if it is 
possible anywhere. 
Patient—The case is of too long standing or too 
bad to be cured or to travel, and I must suffer on. 
Answer—You must not decide the fate of any suf- 
ferer and keep them miserable when ignorant of the 
great facilities here offered, as hundreds rejoice over 
their recovery, though pronounced by the old method 
as being incurable. 
Patient- the time or money now to take 
treatment. 
Don't destroy this, but read it and send to some afflicted friend. $300.00 Reward for a case of Epilepsy or Fits that we cannot cure. 
3DK. OP HEALTH. 
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dow that you would do better uol to couiiucuoc at all 
with ub, for your case will bo no credit to u* and the 
money you pay us will be no compensation for the 
injury to our reputation which might result. 
Let Uf* Ask a few Questions ? 
Would an institution be patronized with an over- 
whelming business, and increasing year after year, if 
it whh unworthy of their confidence f Would the very 
beat and the moat trustworthy no n of the country 
lend their names continually to private swindles ? Do 
you not think such institutions ought to exist, and are 
they not Just what the afflicted need ? This is the lirst 
institution of the kind ever established in America, 
and it is to-day more than three times the largest. If 
so, why is it not the best ? Is there u larger one doing 
as much business in America f If so, establish the 
fact nd we will pay you $500.00 ; or. if you will eome 
and ve tigate the matter and find that we are not 
doi ust what we propose, we will pay all your 
expense*. 
As we said in regard to your family physician, he 
may be skill d as a doctor in accute ’Iweases and not 
be able lp you at all. A piau aker, though 
a mechanic, muy not be able to muk a steamboat, 
or the hip carpenter a piano; a n who ntukes 
sh e la. ts may prefer not to make ox yokes, although 
it is in the o line of business—carving and form- 
ing woodwork. The makes 
boots rna prefer not to make har 
ness, ul h it is in the same line 
of business—working in leather 
One man paints portraits only, and 
another paints houses, although it is 
all th same business—painting. One 
man makes axes and hatchets and 
another makes knives and razors. 
Although they are in the edge tool 
business, all these are specialties, 
because they devote their time espe- 
cially to one particular branch of the 
business. It is better to know all 
about one particular thing and make 
that specialty your business, than to 
spread out your knowledge and sc 
ter your powers so that W»w 
very little about a great many things 
and not be entirely certain of any- 
thing. The man who is a jack of all 
trades is master of none. 
— — 
Advertising. 
Advertising is a legitimate rneuus 
in an enlightened age to acquaint 
each other and the world with our 
avocations and wants. Without it no 
people can prosper. Commerce, nut - 
igation, civil government,’all relig- 
ious, literary and philanthropic insti- 
tutions would sink in our retrogade to babarism, if 
doctors could prescribe the press in their behalf as 
they do in their profession. But our banner protects 
alike the suil'erer seeking relief and those extending 
it; the merchant and the mechanic. If a class of men 
do not wish to advertise, is it disreputable for others 
to do so ? That traveling quacks, unprincipled and 
without business at home, and patent medicine vil- 
lains are advertised, the people deceived and injured, 
it is true. Because your doctor has failed to cure and 
does not point you to an institution of this kind for 
relief, does it prove that it cannot be obtained ? 
1 The Bible and other works, good und bad, by 
p. inters’ ink, are presented to the people, but you know 
• that advertising does not give or take away value, and 
that any good may be perverted all agree. The few 
old fogy doctors who oppose advertising a good insti- 
tution for the cure of disease, will.'wfyen the light of 
progreBS convicts them of error, be as heartily 
ashamod as they are now of the old system of reckless 
bleeding, blistering, salivating, tho prohibition of cold 
water, fresh air, etc., and the doctor-ridden people 
will realize that their prejudice was blind, their 
judgment enslaved and their interests subverted to the 
doctor’s selfish ends. Is it quackery to notify a 
farmer where a seed or agricultural store may be 
found, and what is kept there ? Is the merchant a 
humbug and quack because he advertises ? 
Every good institution should be udvertsed in 
justice lu humanity. The Bible is advertised in all the 
uution* of the earth. Many medical societies find it 
to the interest of some of their members to oppose 
advertising. Is that custom regulated by the Bible, 
by the laws of our country, by any sacred obligation 
to man, or is it a custom clinging to a profession 
■which was once by its votaries a sworn secret from 
the'people, and thus kept by solemn oaths to imagi- 
nary gods ? If a merchant has sold you bad goods 
and you want better, and should see an advertisement 
of a larger store of new goods, does that merchant 
not belittle himself by croakingbumbug and deception? 
Why does he not w ait and let the party paying for the 
goods do the complaining, since he must have been a 
failure. For ordinary physicians to falsely proclaim 
extraordinary facilities and abilities is quackery. 
Thousands of ignorant physicians, quietly and unfairly 
or through the influence of friends, gain the confidence 
of communities, and through their own ignorance 
destroy health and life, sadden homes, populate grave- 
yards ; this is the vilest quackery and vandalism and is 
to-day cursing the American people under the cloak of 
the medical profession. Are doctors discharged from 
the medical profession on account of ignorance, im- 
morality, malpractice, too frequent death of patients or 
life-long sulTeaing as the result of bad treatment ? Is it 
the dear people who are so protected, oh arc 
creet practices which, being persisted in, undermine 
the constitution, induce premature decay, Nervous De- 
bility, and finally completely and perfectly emasculate 
mentally and physically the subject. A drain of a deli, 
cate yet most debilitating character i6 made upon*the 
system ; and among the earliest manifestations of its 
deplorable influences is generally a desire on the part 
of the sufl'ererto avoid society, seclusion being coveted, 
languid and tiresome feelings, debility, indigestion, 
gloomy forebodings, mental anxiety, impairment of 
memory, are also among the most frequent symptoms 
in these cases. To you we say, who are covering your 
sufferings as with a mantle by silence, look up, you 
can be saved by timely efforts, and make ornaments to 
society and jewels in the crown of your maker, 
if you will. Do not keep this a secret longer until it 
saps your vitals and destroys both body and soul. If 
you are thus afflicted, take Dk. Richmond’s Samaritan 
Nervine, it will restore your shattered Nerves, arrest 
premature decay, impart tone and energy to the 
whole system. Such persons can send their orders 
direct to me without the least fear of exposure, as I 
employ no assistants only those who will take an oath 
of secrecy that none .who confide their secrets to me 
may run the least risk of exposure. All communica- 
tions are regarded as strictly confidential, as many are 
very sensitive and fearful lest somebody will kyow 
they are taking medicine. Great 
care is always taken to send all let- 
ters and medicines, carefully sealed, 
in plain packages, that no one can 
even suspect the contents, or by 
whom sent. 
Price, $2.00 per Bottle • 
3 Bottles for $5.00; 
12 Bottles for $18.00. 
A word to the Afflicted. 
Many write that tney nave in- 
vested in medicine from different 
ones without being benefitted. Un- 
fortunately, our land is cursed with 
quacks and unprincipled men who 
seek no one’s good but their own. 
N<* riayqrehepgtblc is th» family 
physician who means well, yet fails 
because his limited practice does not 
permit him to become proficient. 
We cannot be responsible for these 
failures. Dr. Richmond has spent 
his whole adult life as a close and 
diligent student and practitioner of 
the healing art •, having enjoyed the 
rare opportunities for obtaining 
medical knowledge offered by three 
of the medical Colleges and 
largest hospitals of the day ; gradu- 
ated and received his Diplomas. 
which is evidence to the people that he is a regularly 
educated Physician, and not a mere patent medicine 
pretender, seeking to deceive and swindle the afflicted. 
The public have therefore a guarantee that the for- 
mulas of our medicines are based upon strictly 
scientific principles by one thoroughly acquainted with 
the medical qualities and effects of each ingredient 
separately, and of their combined influence when 
chemically united, by one also having a knowledge of 
the structure of the human system, and of the functions 
of each organ, both in its healthy and diseased con- 
dition. Thero is no town nor scarcely a village in this 
vast country that is not the home of one or more-of 
our patients. No hospital in Europe or America 
contains one fourth as many patients as arc constantly 
under our professional care and treatment. 
With this medicine we cure every case of Epileptic 
Fits, Spasms, Convulsions, St Vitus Dance, and all 
Diseases of the Nervous System; such as Nervous 
Prostration, General Debility, Neuralgia, Hysterics, 
Paralysis, Vertigo, Trembling of the Hands or Limbs, 
Apoplexy, Weak Back, Bilious Heudache, Swimming 
of the Head,Catalepsy, Congestive Headache, Nervous 
Headache, Infantile Paralysis, Inflammation of the 
Brain, Stiffness of the Muscles, Shaking Palsy, Urethra, 
Vaginal Neuralgia, Inflammation of the Bladder and 
Prostrate Gland, Enlargement of the Prostrate Gland, 
Irritability of the Bladder, Urethra or Prostrate Gland, 
Female Decline and Painful Menstruatiou, and during 
Look to tne interests and welfare of your children in their tender years, that Disease finds no lodgment there. 
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Ohemicnl an Drug Department. 
these rigid laws against advertising only for the 
protection of a few doctors ? Men differ in religion, 
in politics and in medicine, yet that difference 
makes neither a quack or a humbug. A physician 
desiring a practice does not live, who wishes his skill 
and knowledge unknown. Physicians want to be 
advertised; are trying daily to have it done through 
the mouths of friends and patrons, who laud their 
skill and urge others to employ them. These are only 
cheap methods of advertising. 
In conclusion, do you want to bo cured ? If so, 
and your doubts or prejudices prevent you from send- 
ing for medicines, are you willing to investigate and 
see if your doubts or prejudices are well founded ? 
If so, do yourself and us the justice to frankly, in a 
friendly business way, state your objections, that we 
may put you in the way to see the truth, or give you 
faith, evidence or explanation ; and if we are 
that we may know it and bo corrected. This we ask 
as a personal favor and in justice to humanity 
Nervous Debility. 
Youug men, middle-aged and old men, thousands 
of you are to-day filling premature graves, as the 
result of Nervous Debility or Seminal Weakness, by 
reason of a false modesty which largely prevails. The 
youths of our land are kept in ignoracne respecting 
the baneful and ruinous effects of certain solitary,indis- 
Health la the first want of the individual« the Nation and the Race. Health is God s best gift to man-—without it a man never succeeds in any enterprise. 
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jdtz. ofvhealth. 
the change of life no female should be without it. For 
wakefulness at night there is no better remedy; and 
for young, middle aged or old men who are afflicted 
with Seminal Weakness, Nervous Prostration and 
General Debility, it is without a parallel. 
Where two or more in a neighborhood desire to 
take our medicine they can order by the dozen and 
get it much cheaper, and reduce the expense by club- 
bing together, and so ordering in larger quantities at a 
time. This renders the express charges very light. 
Those living at a distance should never think of 
ordering less than one dozen at a time, so as to have 
the medicine handy and never get out of it. 
Price, $2.00 per bottle: three bottles for $5.00 ; 
twelve bottles for $18.00. 
Afflicted Females. 
Let us say that if you are afflicted with Epilepsy 
or any nervous derangement to which your sex is 
subject, do not contemplate marriage until you are 
cured and in a condition to become good wives, 
mothers and help-mates. Mothers, it is your solemn 
duty to see to this : to advise and instruct your 
daughters, that they may profit by your age and 
experience. Dear young lady, if you marry in this 
condition you may bring forth an unhealthy off-spring 
—children that are defective physically and perhaps 
mentally, and in no wise fitted to fil 
the grand purpose for which God ir 
His wisdom and goodness intended 
them. Thus, you are not only en 
tailing misery upon yourself bj 
child-bearing in a diseased condition, 
but dragging your helpless little 
babes down into the vortex anc 
whirl-pool of earthly suffering, anc 
preparing them for premature graves 
Is not all this true ? If it is not, thcr 
reason is a fiction and experience i 
lie. This is no idle fancy, but : 
solid fact that cannot be denied, anc 
to the observer, the daily walks oi 
life only add testimony to what w( 
have written. Look around you anc 
see on every hund-tho h»1£-r 
sickly and dwarfed children. Fron 
whence do all these spring ? Certain 
ly not from nature. Ah. no ! Lool 
back to the days of our forefathers 
through the dim vista of ages anc 
see to what an age human life was 
prolonged. That was nature—before 
the human family had transgressec 
God’s immutable laws—that canno' 
lie. God placed us here on eartl 
and gave us certain laws to be gov 
erned by. We have transgressec 
those laws and must suffer the penalty. 
Shall We Reform ? 
ITes, it becomes us as a people not to be bereft of 
*eason as far as within us lies, to reform the error of 
our ways as speedily as possible and elevate the stan- 
dard of morality and health to its highest point, leav- 
ing the example to our children, that they, too, may 
profit by our sad experience and neglect. If we do 
this, the time will soon come when a great and glori- 
ous reform will have been wrought. Then as benefac- 
tors to our race, let us earnestly advise you to seek 
health and then all other blessings shall be added. 
You will then be prepared to form an alliance with 
man, feeling that you are to be a wife in the truest and 
broadest sense of the word, and not a dependent, but 
one that may be proud to claim health and happiness, 
and prosperity will attend you down the journey of 
life ; and when stricken in years and ready to enter the 
portals of the silent tomb, you can look back upon 
your past life with pleasure and gratitude, and thank 
God that you are leaving a healthy, happy and pros- 
perous family behind to perpetuate your name and 
virtues. But manj", regardless or ignorant of the 
consequences, enter the matrimonial state unhealthy 
and unprepared, and find, alas, too late, that it was 
the sad misfortune of their lives. In the natural 
course of events they become mothers, which adds to 
the duties which they are unfit to perform. In this 
condition they strive to be an assistant to their hus- 
bands and toil on in silence, scorning to complain j 
until nature entirely giveaway, and they are compelled, 
though reluctantly, to confess their inability to per- 
form the duties which devolve upon them. As a first 
resort, their family physician is called—he makes 
acute diseases his study and profession,—he makes 
an examination and prescribes for the case, and after 
two or three calls pronounces the patient well or in a 
fair way for recovery and she returns to her daily 
avocations. At the flr>t over-exertion the old disease 
returns with renewed vigor. This cannot be borne 
long without becoming visible upon the wife or 
mother. The sallow skin, the sunken eye, the hollow 
cheek and slow measured steps all tell there is suffer- 
ing within. Here is a young wife, prehaps a mother, 
prematurely old at twenty or twenty-five years of age. 
She has the appearance, of being forty. The family 
physician is called again and again, but all to no pur- 
pose. He does not make diseases of the nervous 
system his study, and it cannot be expected of him 
to effect a cure. Dr. Richmond has devoted his life I 
to the exclusive study o nervous diseases, and he now 
offers you, suffering wife, sister, mother or daughter, 
the remedy that will restore you to perfect health. 
Will you have it, or will you let disease blight forever 
your hopes and your happiness for the future ? You 
may say you don’t believe it, or that it is a humbug ; 
your doctors may tell you so (if they are jealous.) J 
crates to modern times, in the vain search for the 
foot prints in the sands of time, leading to relief for 
his supplicating patron, but alas, it is not there. But 
he finds that copper, /.ine, lead, potash, strychnine 
and chance all have done their part to make the 
sufferer more miserable. The many Epileptic appli- 
cants for relief urging with constant importunity their 
claims for help, with the paucity and limited character 
of the means reccommended in medical authorities, 
induced us to make a thorough investigation of the 
pathology and treatment of this affection. For years 
the advice of the books were followed and the pitiful 
sufferer turned away hopeless and helpless. But 
feeling that duty and humanity demanded more at our 
hands, the study was commenced in earnest. Experi- 
ment after experiment was made, various plans 
adopted and discarded, theories advanced and refuted, 
hopes brightened and obliterated, years of anxiety and 
investigation were spent, but finally, after a two years’ 
sojourn in the mountains of West Virginia, we 
accidently discovered three different kinds of roots 
and herbs, entirely unknown to the medical profession, 
that, when united with other preparations wre com- 
pound, they form one of the best remedies ever dis- 
covered, and the only sure cure for Epilepsy and 
kindred diseases. Every intelligent mind at once 
comprehends the superiority and adaptation of our 
medicine and that it is philosophical and reliable. 
This nfedicine we do not extol 
as a cure-all, nor do we wish to place 
it in the catalogue of quack patent 
medicines by recommending it to 
cure eveiy disease, nor do we so 
recommend it. On the contrary, 
there are hundreds of diseases that 
we acknowledge it will not cure. 
What we do claim is this, that it will 
cure Epilepsy and all nervous dis- 
eases. 
Our medicine is now prescribed 
by the most eminent physicians all 
over the world, some of whom are 
Professors of Medical Colleges. 
Whether in town or country, hospital 
or ■>. a‘; uactice, they have invari- 
ably given the most decided and un- 
equivocal satisfaction and produced 
the most salut ry and beneficial 
effects. 
Numerous letters have been 
received from some of the most 
distinguished physicians in the 
country and from the Professors of 
several Medical Colleges, all recom- 
mending in the highest terms the 
value of our medicine, and its su- 
periority over all other preprations. 
CiLTJTIOlT. 
Some two or three parties have been making a 
counterfeit medicine and placing it in drug stores, to 
be sold as the true, genuine Samaritan Nervine, man- 
ufactured by Dr. S. A. Richmond, of St. Joseph, Mo., 
thus injuring his reputation and deceiving the afflicted. 
Those who want the pure, genuine Samaritan Nervine 
must send direct to me for it, as I am the only true Dr. 
S. A. Richmond. I have had registered and granted 
to me by the United States Patent Office the exclusive 
right to use the term Samaritan Nervine, with cut 
representing a man falling in a fit, as a trade-mark ; 
and I shall prosecute all parties infringing upon my 
rights to the full extent of the law. 
There are both located and traveling quacks, who 
are calling themselves Dr. S. A. Richmond, of St. 
Joseph, Mo., trying to ride into success on his reputa- 
tion. I offer standing reward of $500.00 for the 
apprehension and conviction of any of these ; after the 
above caution. We trust no one will be so silly, as to 
allow himself to be duped by such impostors, knaves 
and swindlers. If you receive any letters or circulars 
from any one claiming to be my Agents, you will 
please send the same to me and I will pay you hand- 
somely for your trouble. 
WHEN REMITTING MONEY, 
always send in bank draft, payable to my order, in 
Newr York, Chicago or St. Lous. If there is no bank 
near you, send in post office order or registered letter. 
When ordering Medicine, always give name of your Express Office, so as to prevent mistakes. 
Dr. Richmond’s Samaritan Nervine is free from Opium and all Narcotic Poisons. 
Represents the Lending Hospitals Using Dr. Richmond's Samaritan Nervine. 
Truth is often denied, but say what you will against 
facts, they still exist. In this circular not one word 
can be found that is untrue, and it is a solemn duty 
now devolving upon you to investigate this hatter 
and see that you are not neglecting or denying a great 
opportunity. This you must do to discharge your 
duty. 
Epilepsy, or Fits. 
This short article is not designed to give a com- 
plete history or treatment of Epilepsy, but to present 
a few practical thoughts on the subject. What more 
pitiable sight can be witnessed than the poor 
Epileptic child, pronounced by the family physician 
as incurable ? Doomed, hopeless, deprived of all the 
pleasures and enjoyments of life, every impulse or 
desire for usefulness to himself or society is an 
abortion; hopes blighted, the future but a long, 
weary life ; a maimed and useless creature, and when 
he contrasts his lamentable fate with those blessed 
with good health, enjoying life’s happiness, pleasure 
and usefulness, the society of friends, free to move, 
think and act, how his very soul must recoil and how 
sad his heart must be as he feels it w ere better had he 
never been born. 
A more lamentable fate is unknown to mortals 
here. This disease has from its earliest history been 
deemed incurable. The bewildered doctor of medi- 
cine eagerly pores over the medical lore from Hippo- 
Give honor to whom honor is due. Dr. Richmond's Guide to health. Special attention paid to Children afflicted with Epilepsy or any Nervous Disease. 
jdtz. • jotjenal op1 health. 
5 
EPILEPSY, OR FITS, 
patient remains in this state for a few minutes or half 
an hour, the pupils are dilated and do not contract on 
exposure to light, and he cannot be roused from the 
comatose state ; gradually he emerge*»from this state, 
opens his eyes, appears confused, and some time 
elapses before he is able to appreciate his situation 
and reply to questions. If he attempts at once to 
walk, he reels like a person intoxicated. Occasionally 
the patient passes from the apoleptic form state into 
one of delirium ; he talks incoherently ; manifests hal- 
lucinations, and sometimes the delirium assumes the 
form of mania, during which he may be dangerous to 
himself or to others. After recovery of the mental 
faculties there is complete inability to recall anything 
which has transpired during the paroxysm. 
Causes of Epilepsy. 
Intemperance as regards the use of alcholic 
spirits. Epileptic paroxysms occur not unfrequeutly 
in drunkards, and cease to recur in cases in which 
reformation of intemperate habits is effected. It is 
caused by lead poisoning. Epilepsy may be heredi- 
tary, and is apt to occur in the offspring of those who 
have weakened their nervous centres, and perhaps 
produced disease therein by masturbation, excessive 
veuery, or intoxication. It may also attack those 
whose parents were subject to apoplexy, paralysis, j 
tress. It is also caused by indigestion, tape-worm, 
syphilis, overtasking the mind in study, immoderate 
use of tabaeco. etc. 
How to Order Medicine. 
Those writing for medicine, should be particular 
to give their symptoms correctly, after the following 
order, never ommitting to give their postoffice, county 
and State in full; also their nearest express office, 
and to insure a reply, enclose a stamp as our mails are 
large and many small amounts make a large one. 
Have you any of the following afflictions or symptoms: 
Deranged monthly periods, faintness, deranged appe- 
tite, sallow complexion, bloating, pain in back and 
kidneys, palpitation of the heart, dizziness, nervous- 
ness, headache, restlessness, disturbed sleep, acid 
stomach, nausea, indigestion, difficult passing of 
urine, burning or irritation in the uterine organs, 
nightmare, despair, hysterics, irregular bowels, un- 
pleasant dreams, numbness and pains in the limbs, 
loss of memory, bewilderment. Are you troubled 
with night sweats ? Do you digest your food ? Do you 
feel refreshed after sleeping S’ How often do the 
spasms occur V What is the supposed cause of your 
disease ? Are you troubled with liver complaint ? Are 
you troubled with any private disease such as 
Gonorrhoea, Spermatorrhoea or Syphilis V What is 
your age * What is your occupa- 
tion ? State your complexion ? 
Are you married or single ? Are 
you regular in your monthly 
changes V Are you troubled with 
Leuchorcea or Whites ? Were your 
ancestors healthy ? Are you suffer- 
ing froui any womb disease ? Do 
you smoke or chew tobacco ? Do 
you use spirituous liquors ? Have 
you ever received any injuries 
pre\ ious to having Epilepsy ? If 
so, state when. Do you receive a 
warning of an attack of the dis- 
ease V If so, in what manner. 
Have any of your ancestors been 
afflicted y ith Epilepsy -rr-- 
„w..—- — 
Remember This. 
If you are suffering from Fits, 
Convulsions, Spasms, Nervous 
Prostration, General Debility, Neu- 
ralgia, Rheumatism, Infantile Par- 
alysis, Shaking Palsy, or any other 
Nervous Disease, 
Samaritan Nervine will cure you. 
If you are simply ailing: if you 
feel weak, nervous and dispirited 
without clearly knowing why, 
Samaritan Nevine will revive you. 
If you are a minister, and have overtaxed your- 
self with your pastoral duties ; or a mother worn out 
with care and work, 
Samaritan Nervine will restore you. 
If you are a man of business, weakened by the 
strain of your every day duties ; or a man of letters, 
toiling over your midnight work, 
Samaritan Nervine will strengthen you. 
If you are in the work shop, on the farm, at the 
uesk, anywhere, and feel that your nervous system 
needs toning, 
Samaritau Nervine is what you need. 
If you are old and your pulse is feeble, your 
nerves unsteady and your faculties waning, 
Samaritan Nervine will give you new life and vigor. 
If your vital forces are depressed ; if you have a 
feeling of general lassitude and weakness, are easily 
fatigued, perspire freely on going to sleep, are short 
of breath on every slight effort, and have a general 
feeling of melancholy and depression, you will find 
a balm in Gilead in the use of 
SAMARITAN NERVINE. 
That poor bed-ridden invalid wife, sister, mother 
or daughter, can be made the picture of health by a 
few bottles of 
SAMARITAN NERVINE. 
Do not suffer yourself or let your friends suffer, 
but use and urge them to use 
SAMARITAN NERVINE. 
it* a disease which has heretofore 
received various aauu-u; it is univer- 
sally known at the present time us 
Epilepsy, a term signifying a sudden 
»ei7.uro. As it ordinarily occurs, it is 
i paroxysmal affection, the par- 
xxysins being characterized by com- 
dete loss of consciousness, with 
;onvulsive movements. In persons 
ubject to Epilepsy, the paroxysms, 
0 cases occur without any obvi- 
ous, adequate exciting cause, in many cases not affect- 
ing the mind or heulth of the patient for some length 
of time, but invariably’ it works like a slow and potent 
poison, if left unobstructed; undermining the health, 
destroying the mind and carrying its victim to the 
grave. In a majority of cases there is a brief warning 
of an approaching fit ; generally, the warning consists 
of a sensation which the patient is unable to describe, 
the sense of a cold vapor emanating from some part of 
the body' and mounting to the head. The onset of 
the paroxysm is generally marked by a loud, short 
piercing shriek or cry, which from its. intensity and 
unnatural character is sometimes truly terrific. The 
face at the time of the seizure become «..in 
the direction in which the fall takes 
place is ulmost forw urd on the face ; 
the face is not unf requently wounded 
or bruised by’ the force of the fall, 
and severe burns are sometimes 
caused by' falling upon heated stoves 
or in the fire. The convulsive move- 
ments at once begin, the muscles are 
forcibly'contracted, and the contrac- 
tion persists for several seconds ; the 
muscles of the face, neck, urms, 
forearms, the lower extremities, the 
abdomen and chest, are frequently 
involved and present a tetanic rigid- 
ity- In most cases the muscles of 
one side of the body are more affected 
than those of the other side, and 
sometimes, though very The 
convulsions are limited to one side. 
The tonic convulsions lust for a 
period varying from a few seconds to 
half a minute or somewhat more; 
the convulsions then become clonic, 
thut is, the muscles present forcible 
contractions and relaxations in rapid 
succession. The face is hideously' 
distorted, the head is moved upon 
the trunk, the upper and lower limbs 
and the body jerk with violence, the 
tongue is sometimes caught between 
the teeth and wounded by the contraction, uontmci- 
ion of the muscles of the lower jaw more frequently 
happens during the contracting convulsions. Res- 
piration is nearly’ suspended by the contraction, and a 
quackling noise accompanies the respiratory act. The 
face during the convulsions becomes deeply congested 
and livid. Convulsive masticatory movements are 
accompanied by' the ejection of foamy saliva frequently 
commingled with blood from the wounded tongue, or 
from a portion of the cheek being caught between the 
teeth. The violent convulsions continue fora period 
varying from half a minute to fifteen minutes, and 
sometimes longer; the period to the observer seems 
to be much longer, but observed by the watch it iE 
rarely found to exceed three or four minutes. The 
convulsions now become less rapid and violent, the 
embarrassment of respiration diminishes, the patient 
fetches a deep sigh, and the paroysm, so far as the 
convulsions are concerned, is ended. The paroxysms 
in different cases differ much as regards the violence 
of the convulsive movements and the extent of the 
muscular system involved; paroxysms differ also as 
regards duration. During the convulsions the urine 
and faeces are sometimes expelled, and an emission of 
semen may take place after the convulsions have 
ceased. Consciousness may be speedily' regained, and 
the patient only experiences a sense of fatigue, with 
usunlly a disposition to sleep, but in most cases the 
9t*te of coma continues for a variable period : the 
Thousands bear testimony to their restored health by the use of Dr. Richmond’s Samaritan Nervine. 
Dr. Richmond’s Samaritan Nervine is the only known positive sure cure for Epilepsy. 
Represents the Lending Lunatie Asylums Using Dr. Richmond’s Nervine. 
cerebro-spinal disease, or to sudden and violent fits of 
passion. Indeed it may be said that the offspring of 
those who have thus labored under nervous affections 
receive that peculiar organization from their progeni- 
tors that predispose them to Epilepsy Masturbation 
is a most prolific source of this disease. Hundreds 
have already confessed to us, both rnnle and female, 
that they had been taught to masturbate, and con- 
tinued the practice for several years, and realizing 
the sinfulness of the habit, discontinued it, and were 
afterwards tormented with sexual desires and expe- 
rienced the venereal orgasm almost nightly during 
sleep. There are cases recorded where sen-ant 
women who had charge of little girls, deliberately 
taught them the habit of self-abuse, in order that they 
might exhaust themselves and go to sleep quietly. 
Such little girls have become idiotic. There have 
been cases under our observation in which persons 
had experienced the first paroxysm during the first 
act of sexual congress after marriage ; subsequently a 
paroxysm occured at each marital connection, but 
after a time paroxysms took place without this excit- 
ing cause, and they would become confirmed epilep- 
tics. The disease may arise from numerous causes, 
as gastro-intestinal derangement, acid stomach, 
worms, improper food, painful dentition, blows, 
wounds, external violence to the -head or spinal col- 
umn, uterine irritation, calculi or stone in bladder, 
violent mental emotions, as anger, fear, terror, dis- 
Rest and comfort to the Suffering secured through Dr. Ricnmond’s Samaritan Nervine. Mead the indorsements below from men of standing and integrity. 
JDJEZ. KICHMOWD'S OF HEALTH. 
6 
Read this Array of Evidence, and 
Banish Skepticism. 
For the benefit of the afflicted who have been duped 
and drugged for years with mineral poisons, and have 
become skeptics, we will publish a few of the many 
letters sent to us from patients who have tested our 
medicines and will gladly testify to their greatly 
restored health. We could furnish the readers of this 
Journal with a thousand pages of undeniable proofs 
concerning the unsurpassable virtue of our medicines, 
but space compels us to be satisfied in giving the 
following few pages, every word of which can be 
substantiated by living witnesses under oath. We 
have thousands of letters in our possession from our 
leading citizens, comprising Doctors, Lawyers, Min- 
isters of the Gospel, Merchants, Bankers, etc., who 
will willingly endorse our medicines as being no hum- 
bug, for they have tested their merits. 
GENERAL CERTIFICATES. 
Read 'What a Doctor Says Who Has Praotioed 
Over Thirty Years. 
Rochester, Ind., Aug. 10th, 1874. 
Dr. S. A. Richmond— 
My much respected Friend: My son’s case of Epi- 
lepsy, the worst case I ever saw, and as I have had an 
experience of over thirty years, I have no hesitation 
in saying his case was one of the worst. He was fast 
losing his sensibility; he would lie half a day in a 
stupid, unconscious state; he was in constant dnmrpr 
of life when alone near the wate: 
from fear of falling in, and had beer 
pronounced by all the old and worth: 
physicians as incurable, and hac 
grown worse for seven years. H< 
had fits regularly every week, am 
sometimes every day, and they kep 
growing harder and harder even 
time he had them. The first day 6 
May he had three of the hardest fits 
he ever had. They increased in vio 
lence, so that I became convince( 
that he could get no relief. I hap 
peued to see your advertisement am 
sent for some of your Sarnaritar 
Nervine. He commenced taking 
it on the loth of May, and t< 
my unspeakable joy, he has had m 
symptoms of a fit since. He has no 
lost a day’s work for two month! 
and a half, nor a meal’s victuals 
- This 1-oftKa remarkable I fee 
under many obligations to you foi 
the great benefit my son has receivec 
from your medicine. 
Respectfully, Yours, 
DR. W. B. WARDEN. 
Chicago, 111., Dec. 30th, 187(1. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: ] 
almost shrink from appearing before 
the public, but I feel it my duty tc 
make the following statement for the 
benefit of others. For several years 
I have suffered with Epilepsy, nerv- 
ous prostration and an afl'ection o: 
the womb. I applied to several phy- 
sicians who treated me, but received no Denent, and 
they finally gave up the case as a hopeless one. I was 
so reduced that my friends despaired of my ever get- 
ting well. About this time my husband noticed an 
advertisement in the papers of your Samaritan Ner- 
vine, a sure cure for Epilepsy. We sent to you imme- 
diately for a trial bottle, which came in due time. I 
experienced wonderful relief from the very first dose 
I took; I mended rapidly; in two- day’s time I was 
able to go about, and in six days I was able to attend 
to my household duties; and since that time my health 
has been better than for twelve years. I feel that I 
owe my life to your medicine, and I would recommend 
all suflering in the same way to send to you for relief, 
as I feel confident that your medicine will cure all such 
cases. Respectfully, Yours, 
LUCINDA LAUGH LIN. 
Galveston, Texas, Dec. 27th, 1876 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: In answer to one of 
your Journals of Health, which I have just received, I 
would beg leave to make the following statements, 
hoping that it may induce other poor sufferers to try 
your valuable medicine. I have been afflicted with 
Epilepsy for thirteen years, unable to attend to any 
business. I had visited the leading doctors in St. 
Louis, Chicago and New York City, and placed myself 
under their treatment, costing me not less than $1,500, 
but could receive no benefit. I at last concluded to 
sacrifice no more money. I met a friend who stated 
that he knew a man that had been cured of the same 
disease by your Samaritan Nervine, and advised me to 
try it. I acted upon the advice, and in a short time 
my fits left me, and my health is now fully restored. 
I shall ever remember you with a grateful heart, and 
I most earnestly pray that your life may be spared to 
the relief of others suffering with this disease. You 
have placed me under heavy obligations which I feel 
I can never repay you in this world. From your 
ever grateful friend, J. S. MASON. 
River Head, N. Y., Oct. 20th, 1874. 
Dear Doctor:—I received a package of your 
Samaritan Nervine early last Spring for spasms, with 
which I was troubled. It is unsurpassed as a medi- 
cine. In a few days my spasms were gone, and they 
have not returned. I have reason to consider it my 
duty to inform you of my restored health. I cannot 
but think what a wretched man should have been 
had I suffered until this day. Indeed I think it doubt- 
ful whether I should have been alive if I had not 
procured relief and speedy cure from your medicine. 
I speak of your medicine to all, and would like to do 
more in some way to extend its influence. If any one 
wishes to know what confidence is to be placed in me 
or my responsibility, let him write to llowell Depot, 
N. Y., where I preached eight years, or to Breiting 
Hollow, N. Y.,' where I preached twelve years. I 
shall write to the New York Independent, where I saw 
your advertisement. May God bless you and your 
posterity. Yours, &c., REV. AZEL DOANS. 
Niciiols, Iowa, Dec. 20tli, 1876. 
Dr. Richmond: Your Samaritan Nervine has 
cured our little five year old daughter of fits, the 
worst case here anybody had ever seen. She is now 
rosy cheeked and the very picture of health. Allow 
me to wish you success and a happy new year. 
Very Respectfully, 
MRS. SCHELPATTER. 
discontinued it. My fits left me immediately after 
taking the first dose, and have never returned, though 
there has been a lapse of nearly two years since I quit 
taking it. Before I took your medicine I would 
average from fifteen to twenty fits in twenty-four 
hours. I had almost lost the use of myself. My mind 
was destroyed and I could not recollect anything five 
minutes. I have every confidence, from my present 
condition and feelings, that it has effected a perma- 
nent cure; and will verify these statements when 
called upon. Very Respectfully, 
MAJOR H. W. HINES. 
Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 27th, 1876. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: I have just received 
your Journal of Health, and can no longer refrain 
from writing to you, as I owe you gratitude for 
restoring me to perfect health after suffering several 
years with Epilepsy. I have taken your Samaritan 
Nervine and have never had the symptom of a fit since. 
That was over a year ago. I mended rapidly after 
taking the first dose. I am now enjoying better health 
than I have for ten years. Your medicine stands 
second to none in the world, and you are at liberty to 
use my name in any way you please. 
I am, ever, yours in Christ, 
REV. G. G. MIDDLETON. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 4th, 187(5. 
Dr. Richmond—Kind Sir: For the benefit of all 
that may be afflicted with Epilepsy, I take fitiis means 
of stating that for a number of years I was a great 
sufferer from this disease. I have tried different 
remedies, but only received temporary relief. I took 
your Samaritan Nervine about eight 
months. I am confident that it has 
effected a complete and permanent 
cuie—have not a symptom of the 
disease and ffever enjoyed better 
health. I hereby voluntarily recom- 
mend patients suffering from this 
injurious and annoying disease to 
apply to you at once. 
Respectfully, Yours, 
B. 11. ALLEN. 
Washington, Iowa, May 4, 1876. 
Dr. Richmond : Our community 
are loud in praise of your medicine. 
The Journals you sent are carried 
off and asked for by all. Yesterday 
there was a lady came fifteen 
miles to borrow some of the 
medicine till she could send for 
i— imv We have such confidence in 
your Samaritan Nervine that we feel 
sure that it would empty the Mt. 
Pleasant Asylum, if given according 
to your directions. We hope in 
your prosperity that you will 
not forget that you are the instru- 
ment in God’s hands of doing great 
good. 
Very Respectfully, 
MRS. S. J. KNOX. 
Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1876. 
Dr. Richmond—J)ear Sir : 1 
hereby certify that I have been for 
many years troubled with Epilepsy. 
These fits only came on me once a 
month, at the time of my monthly sickness, at which 
time I was almost sure to have from one to ten and 
sometimes more, in twenty-four hours. I was induced 
from what I had heard of your Samaritan Nervine, to 
give it a trial. It has proved, as it now seems 
to me a perfect cure. I have not taken any medicine 
for nearly two years, and have not felt a symptom of 
the disease since I stopped taking your medicine. 
Very Respectfully, MRS. MARY HODGDON. 
Nashville, Tenn., May 28th, 1875. 
Dear Sir: I have not had a fit for over fifteen 
months, and I feel that it is my duty to inform you of 
my greatly restored health. I had been afflicted w ith 
fits for over eighteen years, and had spent over $1,200 
and never got relief until I commenced taking your 
medicine. It stopped the fits at once. Mr. Johnson’s 
sou, who is takingyour medicine, is also about cured. 
Respectfully, Yours, A. P. STUART. 
Milburn, Ky., Oct. 23d, 1876. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: I take this means to 
inform you that your medicine has done all you recom- 
mended it wTonld do. It has cured my child of fits, 
and I feel thankful to you, and will, if you send me a 
lot of your Journals, distribute them for you, and do 
all I oan to recommend your medicine to the afflicted. 
MRS. M. A. OIIENAT. 
Washburn, Woodford Co., Ills. 
Du. Richmond—Dear Sir: Enclosed you will find 
$10 for another package of the Samaritan Nervine. I 
believe it is going to cure me. It has now been 17 
months since 1 had the last attack. I don’t take quite 
as large a dose as formerly. Express the medicine as 
above. Yours, etc., JAMES CORBIN. 
Fathers, are you invalids and wish to live to rear your families? If so, we offer you the only known positive and sure cure. 
Young Men, thousands of you are to-day suffering from Norms Fimratiaii. f o you we offer the halm. 
Section of Compounding' Room. 
Portland, Me., July 10th, 1874. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: I am happy to inform 
you that I have not had a fit since I began taking 
your medicine. I feel under great ooligations to you 
for the benefit I have experienced from your medicine. 
1 have had Epilepsy or fits for twenty-seven years. 
Your Samaritan Nervine is the first medicine that has 
done me a particle of good. I think it is the best 
medicine ever oftered to the public. Little did I think 
it would do me any good when I commenced taking 
it, but to my joy the fits left me. I mended rapidly, 
and I am now in the best of health, which I never 
expected to see. Language fails to express the joy 
and gratification of so marvelous a restoration to per- 
fect health. I would average as high as fifteen and 
twenty fits in twenty-four hours. 1 had all but lost 
the use of myself; my mind was destroyed and 1 could 
not recollect anything five minutes. I was not per- 
mitted to leave the house without a body-guard to 
take care of me. I consider myself entirely cured, 
and I have no hesitation in stating that I firmly 
believe your medicine will cure every case if taken 
according to directions. 
Yours, Truly, J. SMITH. 
Boston, Mass., June 12th, 1876. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: For over twenty-three 
years I have been doctoring for Epilepsy, employed 
the best doctors in New Orleans, St. Louis, New York, 
Philadelphia, Boston, London and Paris, and strange 
to say that your Samaritan Nervine helped me ten 
times more in twenty-four hours than every physician 
that ever treated me, after paying out over $10,000. 
It was truly surprising to see the effect in so short a 
time. I commenced taking your medicine in March, 
1874, and continued its use for ten months, and then 
Health is happiness, prosperity and long life, Disease is poverty and premature death, This paper may be the means of adding many years to your life. Head ca ref ally. 
DFB. I3ICXXXs/£O2>T30’S OF HEiULiTII. 
7 
“WHITEHALL REGISTER OFFICE,” ) 
Whitehall, Ills., April 4th, 1877. / 
l)u. S. A. Richmond, St. Joiepb, Mo.—Dior Sir: 
Having heard that you cured tit*, and being referred 
to you by one Joseph Davis, formerly of Plasa, 111., 
now of Bunker Illll, who you probably know, as you 
cured him of that terrible atllictlou, and having a sor 
who Is atlllcted In that manner, I thought I would 
write to you, and ascertain whether you think him 
curable. The first tit tliat he had was when about out 
year old, and they have grown more severe on him at 
he grows older. He does not always fall down wher 
they are on him, but will sit on u chair, and muttei 
something Inaudible—sometimes only lasting for a 
few seconds. Will probably not have them for two 
weeks, but when they do come on him, has three oi 
tour a day. The boy is only fourteen years old, 
weighs 128 pounds und Is a terrible eater. Now, this 
young inun, Joseph Davis, says that you can cure 
him; and, taking his udvice, I write to you for infor- 
mation. Please write and tell me whether you think 
anything can be done for the boy. Send circular and 
state what your charges will be lor medicine. Hoping 
to receive an early answer, I remain, 
Respectfully CONRAD WEIS. 
V HR villa, Warren Co., Tenn., June 0, 1877. 
Doctor S. A. Richmond—Dear Sir: I would 
have sent this sooner, but wanted to wait until one 
year had passed, so that I would be certain that the 
cure was permanent. Your Samaritan Nervine has 
done all tliat you claimed for it. Our child, which oui 
family elector had given up to die (it having over one 
hundred tit-' in twenty-four hours) ; it was so bad thal 
it could not have lived but a 
few days longer if I had 
not got that medicine. It had been 
allllcted about four months. It was 
about eight months old when lirst 
taken. When we received that bot- 
tle we commenced with two drops 
at a elose, and increased to four drops, 
and In two days it was cured, and ha* 
uever had any tits since. We con- 
tinued the medicine on for a loim 
time, but we did not use one hall 
of the bottle that you sent us. IJ 
this will be of any use to you, you 
are welcome to publish it. Ver> 
thankful to you. 
Yours, very respectfully, 
HENRY KNEE. 
Pulaski Co., Ark., April 21, 1877. 
S. A. Richmond, M. D—Dour Sir: 
I feel under obligations to you ant 
feel thankful that your Samarltar 
Nervine so highly recommended, hai 
done a wonderful work in the cun 
of the little orphan girl. I sent am 
obtained one package for trial. It 
acted like a charm. The friends ol 
the child then moved off, the medi- 
cine gave out and the tits returned 
Some two months after, I saw the 
little sufferer and sent back am 
obtained six more bottles and seul 
them to her. I heard from her tin 
other day; the tits have almost dis 
appeared. I am not so skeptical as 
some. I am sutistled that your med 
icine is all thut you claim for it. 
can certainly, from what I have seen, recommend it 
to the public as a certain cure. You shall hear from 
me again. Yours, truly, 
DR. JOHN HARDCASTLE. 
NoRTn Manchester, Ind., July 7, 1877. 
~ S. A. Richmond, M. D—St. Joseph, Mo: Doctor, 
Mr. Walters Is feeling greatly encouraged. His boy 
has had no spasms or symptoms since taking your 
medicine, now about four months. He wants to try 
it awhile longer on this boy, and If it still proves as 
good, he wants to make some arrangement for the 
other members of his family. He has three besides 
the boy that is now taking your remedy—all older 
titan this one. He has almost spent a fortune with- 
out receiving beuetlt. We enclose herewith druft on 
New York, for tlve dollars, for which please send Its 
worth of your great Nervine Medicine, for tits, 
spasms, etc. Send by U. 8. Express, to 
J. W. WILLIAMS & SON, 
Druggists. 
Nkw Waterford, Ohio, May 18, 1877. 
Doctor—Mr. John Huston handed me one of your 
circulars. He said you cured one of his daughters 
who was subject to tits, and also advised me to send 
for some of your medicine. I have a sister who has 
had tits for about seven months. I have spent a con- 
siderable sum of money doctoring, but no doctor here 
can cure her. The doctors here never gave the ♦Its 
any name. She cannot tell when she is going to have 
one; she will fall over and sometimes she lays in one 
for four hours. Her arms, fingers and feet are per- 
fectly stiff. Please send me one bottle of your medi- 
cine, and I will try it. LEVI 8.' WARD. 
Racine, Wis., March 18, 1875. 
Dr. Richmond—bear Sir: When I employed you 
to treat my cane, in March, 1874, I was almost gone. 
Consumption, hemorrhage of the lungs, and epileptic 
fit*—the epileptic tits of nine years’ standing. My life 
had been despaired of by my attending physician and 
friends, but seeing your advertisement induced me to i 
make one more effort. I was hardly able to sit up, but 
as death was inevitable without speedy relief, I feel 
confident that the grave would soon have been my , 
resting place if you had not skillfully and successfully 
manuged my case. My neighbors said I never could 
be cured, and would only be humbugged out of my 
money by applying to you. I took your medicine, and 
bless the day that I placed myself under your care, for 
I am now enjoying good health and working every 
day. I feel better and more able for business than I 
have for eight years. I give you credit for all, and 
would say to the afflicted, do not delay until disease 
has entirely prostrated your system and brought you 
down to a premature grave, when there is medical aid 
to relieve you. I shall be happy to write to every one ; 
in ruolv *> inquiries they may wish to make about you. 
Verv respectfully, yours, 
C. F. GOODMAN. 
La Saixk, N. Y., April 2<>, 1875 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: I am happy to inform 
you that 1 have not had a fit since I commenced taking 
your medicine, some eight months ago—that is longer 
than I have ever gone since I first took them, which 
has been twenty-eight years; have doctored with Dr. 
O. Phelps Brown, of New Jersey, Dr. Price, of New 
York, and hundreds of other doctors too numerous to 
Hopkinsville, Ky., June 29, 1877. 
Dear Doctor—l have taken the medicine you sent 
me. I cannot be thankful enough for the great virtue 
it possesses. I got out of employment and could not 
send for the medicine sooner, as I should have done. 
Your medicine is all you recommend it to be. I shall 
do all I can to promote your success and the happiness - 
of the afflicted. It should be known all over the | 
world, and if you wish me to, I will send your circu- 
lars to Germany, Norway and Denmark. I have every 
confidence in it, and believe it will cure everyone who 
takes it. I have not had the symptom of a tit since I 
commenced taking your medicine. I hope that God 
will bless you with long life and all the happiness 
you are worthy of, for relieving suffering man from 
such a distressing disease. 
I am yours, with the greatest respect, 
EDWARD P. HOLM. 
Fowler, Benton Co., Ind., April 12, 1877. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: I have been suffering 
with epilepsy for about nine years, and I have been 
trying everything that I have heard of, that I thought 
was likely to do me any good, but I have found very 
little relief yet. I had* a very hard fit on last Satur- 
day. A gentleman came in after I got over it, and 
advised me to try your medicine. He said that he had 
had- them, and it cured him. I do not have them as 
often as some do—sometimes seven or eight a menth, 
and sometimes less. My health otherwise is good, 
but I am losing my memory very fast. 
Respectfully, MRS. F. E. MITCHELL. 
— 
Logan, Ind., May 6, 1877. 
Dr. S. A. Richmond—Sir: I 
can safely say that your medicine 
will do all that you claim for it in 
the cure of epilepsy. I only used 
one half of the trial bottle which you 
sent me about one year ago. Since 
that time I have not felt any symp- 
toms of the disease; if so, I would 
have sent for more of the medicine. 
I would not have written this, only I 
did not wish you to regard me as a 
skeptic. With great respect, I 
remain your humble servant, 
JOHN CAREY. 
Harrisburg, Pa., July 19, 187T. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: This 
is to certify that I was afflicted with 
epilepsy or fits, for over eight years. 
I was to i,ry your 
Samaritan'Nervine and having pro- 
cured several bottles, used it for 
about six months, which has restored 
me to perfect health. The surpris- 
ing restoration of my health has 
excited the astonishment of all my 
acquaintances and made me an 
object of curiosity to many. I con- 
sider your medicine an invaluable 
article in all such cases. 
Respectfully, J.L. PECK. 
Columbus, Kas, May 1, 1877. 
Dr. Richmond—Dear Sir: Your 
medicine has relieved my little girl 
more than anything she has ever 
taken. Please send me three more 
bottles. Respectfully yours, 
T. J. WILSON. 
Woodlawn, Monroe Co., Mo., May 24, 1877. 
Dr. Richmond—Sir: Send me five dollars’ worth 
of Samaritan Nervine. My little boy is still taking 
your medicine, and has been ever since I first began 
using it last fall. He has never shown any symptoms 
of a fit but once since he has been taking it, and that 
was last week. I gave him some of the Nervine imme- 
diately and he did not have a fit. I want some more 
right away. I have only a hal-f bottle now, so please 
send it soon. Youx-s, truly, 
JACOB MEADOWS. 
Washington, D. C., June 17, 1877. 
Dear Sir—I received your circular with much 
pleasure. I am taking your Nervine. It has bene- 
titted me very much, and I firmly believe that it will 
permanently cure me. There was a time when I could 
not walk without assistance, neither could I feed 
myself—my nervous system was perfectly prostrated, 
I could not do anything—it would almost throw me 
into a fit to move. The first bottle of your medicine 
placed me right on my feet and I feel like a new man. 
Respectfully yours, J. A. PERLY. 
Nicholas villi, Ky., July 15, 1877. 
I)r. S. A. Richmond—Dear Sir: I have no more 
of your medicine on hand now. I have been taking 
it ever since November, 1876. I don’t know whether 
it would be better to take any more or not. I have 
not had a fit since I commenced taking it. My gen- 
eral health is good, and I think I am cured, but I 
want to be certain about it. Please let me have your 
advice about it, and whether you think I will need any 
more medicine. Respectfully, J. M. WEST. 
Afflicted Females, are you suffering with Epilepsy or any Nervous Disease peculiar to your sex? If so, relief is offered you. 
Mothers, have you daughters afflicted with Epilepsy or any nervous disease? If so. do not neglect them until it is too late. 
Represents the Ware, Stock and Shipping Department. 
mention—all for no good; have received more benefit 
from your treatment than from all the other doctors 
put together—do firmly and conscientiously believe 
that you are going to make a permanent cure for me. 
Please send me more medicine if you think I need 
more. Yours, R. R. CANADY. 
Bridgport, California, April 8, 1875. 
Dr. Richmond—Sir: My wife has been suffering 
for over five years with disease of the womb, attended 
with all the harrowing symptoms peculiar to that dis- 
ease—pains in the back, leucorrluea, whites, nervous 
paralysis, or a feeling of deadness in the extremities, 
particularly on retiring to bed. Four months’ use of 
your medicine has entirely relieved her, and she is 
now stout and in better health than she has been for 
five years. Yours, truly, A. M. BLAIR. 
Jamestown, Boulder Co., Col., June 9, 1877. 
I)K. Richmond—My Bear Sir: We have tried 
your sample bottle of medicine and it has given per- 
fect satisfaction, and I fully believe that if there is 
anything on earth that will cure my daughter, that 
your medicine will do it. I have been trying ever 
since I got your sample bottle to get money enough to 
send for your medicine, which I want, and must have. 
Yours, respectfully, A. WALROSE. 
Holyoke, Mass., July 10, 1877. 
Dr. Richmond—Sir: I commenced taking your 
medicine one year ago the first of last March and have 
taKCH it ever since. Have not had a fit since I com- 
menced to take it. Before that, I had them as often 
as once in five or six weeks, and In warm weather 
sometimes oftener; had them for five or six years. 
EMMA A. BUSWELL. 
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8 
A NOTABLEJNSTITUTION. 
The St. Joseph Medical Institute*Dr. S. A. Richmond 
Founder. History of its Beginning, Growth and 
Present State. 
Among the many institutions of which St. Joseph may boasti 
there is one which has grown up so gradually and unostentatiously 
in our midst that few are fully aware either of its extent or its 
wide-spread influence. Many of our citizens will remember when 
Dr. Richmond came to this city a few years ago, a poor young 
man, without friends or influence. In the mountains of Virginia, 
he had spent much time experimenting with herbs and plants, and 
had discovered an almost infallible remedy for Epilepsy and 
nervous diseases. But when he announced this fact, soon after 
beginning his career in this city, he found only doubters and 
skeptics. Toor and unknown as he was, no one had any confidence 
in his skill or the efficiency of his medicines. But he knew their 
value and power, and was-determined to iutrodnce them at all 
hazards, being assured that he had solved the problem of the cure 
of Epileptic Fits and Nervous Diseases. He knew that if he could 
only get his remedies properly before the public, he would be 
recognized as a great benefactor of the human race. Hence to intro- 
duce his medicines, whenever he would meet with sufferers who 
were skeptical and had no faith in the curative power of his reme- 
dies, he would give them some of it to try, and as it always pro- 
duced the desired effect, they would invariably return for more 
and tell others similarly afflicted of it. In this way the medicines 
began to be widely advertised and a great demand was created 
for~them. Orders from all portions of the country soon began to 
pour in, and before he knew it almost, Dr. Richmond found that 
he was becoming famous, and that the tidings of his skill were 
spreading far and wide. The medicines advertised themselves 
wherever they went, and from peddling them around and giving 
them away, the business so enlarged that it ivas almost impossible to 
keep up the orders. To-day Dr. Richmond’s patients number 
many thousands all over the land, and he is daily in receipt of 
hundreds of letters from all portions of the 
world. He has on file in his office no less 
than 50,000 letters which he can produce at 
any time, all of which testify to the won 
derful cures which he has effected. We 
have seen and read many of these letters, 
and they certainly bear wonderful testi- 
mony to the value of his medicines. Persons 
Who had been afflicted with Epilepsy for 
thirty and forty years write to him that 
they have been entirely cured under his 
treatment, when all other remedies and 
physicians have utterly failed. The skep- 
tical need only to call upon him to be con- 
vinced of the truth of these statements. 
Of course with so wonder; ul an increase 
in his business andpractice, Dr. Richmond 
has been compelled to enlarge his quarters 
from time to time. Beginning several 
years ago in one small room on Francis 
street, he was soon compelled to seek more 
commodious quarters, and has gone on as 
his business grew, until now the St. Joseph 
Medical Institute is one of the largest insti- 
tutions of its kind, especially devoted to 
Epilepsy and' Nervous Diseases, in the 
United States. Not only this, hut the fame 
of these medicines has created such a 
demand for them in Europe, that Dr. 
Richmond is now preparingto open branch 
institutions in London and Paris, where he 
can manufacture directly to supply the 
continental trade. His Paris be >-y. will be 
■opened by the time of the oiiST.. of the 
International Exhibition and will be con- 
ducted on such a plan as will at once estab- 
lish it among the famed Medical Institu- 
tions of the French capital. The London 
house is now almost ready to be opened, 
and in a short time the proper announce- 
ment will be made. 
St. Joseph may well bo proud of such 
an institution as Dr. Richmond’s, and 
when his fame becomes world wide, she 
will point to him with pride as one of her 
citizens, and reflect with satisfaction on the 
fact that it was here where he made his 
beginning.-DfidZy Chronicle, 8t.Joseph,Mo. 
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A PUBLIC BLESSING. 
What will a man give in exchange 
for his life f A brief Sketch of a 
Beneficent Institution. 
One of the most difficult things to do 
is to separate the true from the.false, the 
genuine from the spurious. He who does 
that has found the philosopher's stone. 
In no department of life is this half so 
important as in that of health. Ever since 
man was created he has inherited diseases, and since the days of 
the first patient there has ever been a cure for the malady; but 
the secret has always been to discover that remedy. A thousand 
will cry “ lo, here! and lo I there” but it generally happens that but 
one in all that multitude has solved Nature’s enigma. We speak 
what we know when we say that, in the city of St. Joseph is one 
Shysician who has unriddled the secret of that monster sphinx. 
•isease—a terror which has slain and devoured its millions upon 
millions since the ages began. That man is Dr. S. A. Richmond, 
and the witnesses or his curative skill are a living host, found in 
every circle of society and to-day dwelling in almost every city and 
hamlet of this broad nation. We have known Dr. Richmond from 
the days of his early struggles to the proud days of his triumphs 
and assured prosperity. We remember him when a student, indus- 
trious, energetic, and giving his whole life to the noble work of 
curing his fellow men. Old medical fogies and hide-bound wise- 
acres shook their heads doubtingly, but he went straight ahead, 
diving into and ransacking the laboratory of Nature and testing 
her remedies with the touch of science and true genius, till he has 
reaped his reward. No man ever did reach the temple of fame 
without passing through a rough and narrow way beset with dif- 
ficulties and dangers. 
He discovered a sovereign remedy for certain nervous diseases 
which old gray-headed M. D’s declared incurable, and which they 
were determined should never be cured except by one of their 
gilt-edged be-velltimed and be-wigged strait-laced sect. Dr. 
Richmond appealed directly to the suffering people and their 
response has come back in a chorus of praise. His remedy acted 
like magic. Letters of thanksgiving from the cured and orders for 
his remedies from those who were lying at the gate of death, came 
upon him in a flood. We have just visited his Institute and know 
whereof we speak. Were he to receive ten letters every day for 
sixteen years, t lie aggregate would fall short of the number received 
by him since his great discovery, and now to be seen by everybody 
in his office. That will give our readers an idea of the wonderful 
business transacted by him. And we voluntarily went through, 
! letter is a benediction, voluntarily given the Doctor for his won- 
derful Samaritan Nervine. His patients from every Walk of life 
: regard it as beyond all price—for what will a man not give for his 
life ? He cures every case of Epilepsy, Spasms, Convulsions, that 
i terrible scourge, St. Vitus’ Dance, or St. Anthony’s Fire, Fits of 
i all kinds, and every species of nervous disorder. The patient 
1 who writes to him, detailing his symptoms, promptly receives 
[ sure and speedy aid. 
Of course this immense business drove the Doctor from the 
small rooms where he first located to more extensive apartments. 
To-day he occupies a suite of the most spacious and elegant rooms 
in this city, more commodious and inviting than any in the West. 
His reception rooms are models of taste and luxury, with immense 
French plate glass windows and beautiful curtains; while carpets, 
furniture, cabinet-work and upholstery bespeak the perfect taste 
and faultless design of the master hand at work here. A private 
consultation room, the immense mailing department, the spacious 
laboratory for compounding roots and herbs, the great packing 
and store rooms, are all marvels of excellence, and worth a visit 
from every person who comes to St. Joseph, but above all, and 
better than all, is that great fact which comes home to the business 
and heart of every suffering son and daughter of Adam, he does 
cure the diseases which he treats! There is no way under heaven 
among men of getting around that.. The testimony of this is per- 
fectly overwhelming and irrefutable. 
There is no institution in the Union devoted solely to the cure 
of these nervous diseases which can compare with this of Dr. 
Richmond's in size or extentof business. After acareful and per- 
sonal examination of his business, we are not surprised that ho is 
opening branch houses in London and Paris for the European and 
Continental trade. The remedies which he. has discovered will 
surely and rapidly become world-wide in their beneficence, and 
we only wonder how one man can manage, and control, with the 
ease and promptness which characterize, all of Dr. Richmond's 
movements, the immense business of which this St. Joseph Medi- 
cal Institute has already become the centre. 
Of course, in this article we can but touch upon the varions 
departments of this great institution, the full merits of which can 
Union, from great cities like New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Balti- 
more, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis, Buffalo and Cleveland, 
from small towns and from the country. They order medicine, 
and then soon after invariably follows the announcement that they 
are cured. The Sisters of Charity in charge of the hospital at 
Buffalo write that his remedy has never failed; an editor in Indi- 
ana writes that his wife has been fully restored to health after 
many years of stiffening; a leading physician of Cleveland writes 
that after seeing the wonderful effects of the remedy his preju- 
dices have been overcome, and he is now using it in his practice. 
These are only samples. Men and women write from every sec- 
tion, and many say that they have been completely cured after 
suffering for thirty to forty years. Right near home scores of 
cures have been effected. Jacob Suter, a former resident of this 
city, who now lives in Wathena, Kansas, was so afflicted that for 
many years he was incapable of business, and his friends gave up 
his case as hopeless, after ho had paid our resident physicians 
hundreds of dollars. He tried Da. Richmond’s Samaritan Ner- 
vine and was cured immediately. He is well known to hundreds 
of this vicinty, being a brother-in-law of George Schreiber, of the 
St. Joseph Ice Company. It is unnecessary to enumerate cases of 
a similar charcter, for it v culd take volumes to notice them all. 
Dr. Richmond is preparing to open branch institutes in Lon- 
don and Paris, in order to save shipping the medicine. If any one 
doubts what we have said, or looks upon this as a mero puff, let 
them visit the St. Joseph Medical Institute and be convinced, as 
we were. We would not have believed had we not seen sufficient 
evidence to convince. We write nothing but what we believe to 
be honest truth. From the evidence presented us wo firmly 
believe that every case of the diseases namod above, no matter of 
how long standing, can be ohred, and that in a short time, by the 
use of I)r. S. A. Richmond's Samaritan Nervine, and the afflicted 
everywhere should try it and be restored to perfect health.—St. 
Joseph Daily Herald,, March 21, 1878. 
ST. JOSEFH’s'pEJDE. 
Or. Richmond's Medical Institute— 
A brief history of how it began, 
rend its wonderful growth. 
St. Joseph is becoming notable for its in- 
-i itutionsof learning and science, and has a 
reputation abroad of which few of itspeople 
are aware. Among the scientific institution 
of this city the most prominent is the St. 
J oseph Medical Institute, conducted by Dr. 
S. A. Richmond. Many of our citizens 
rememberwhen ho came here that he started 
in a small office on Francis street, hut only 
those who have been through his hand- 
somely fitted up and extensive establish- 
ment on Fifth street, next to the Opera 
House, can realize the magnitude of this 
institute. The building is one of the hand- 
somest in this city, if not in the west. The 
lower floor is occupied with his reception 
rooms The front with its handsome stone 
copings and large French plate glass win- 
dows. is still further enhanced by beautiful 
curtains with gold lettering and figures of 
persons falling into a fit. On entering the 
public recep; on room yon are surprised 
and pleased with the elegance of the apart- 
ment. It is handsomely fitted up through- 
out and the cabinet work is beautiful. In 
this room are two large letter cases con- 
taining thousands of letters from every 
in the Union, the Canadas, South 
Amern-a and the different countries in 
Europe. We examined letters frbm men 
and women of every profession and in 
every pursuit of life, all bearing testimony 
to the wonderful effects of his treatment 
and remedies for Epilepsy and Nervous 
Diseases. 
Back of the general office and reception 
room is the private consultation room and 
apartment richly furnished and fitted up 
with rare taste. Next is the mailing depart- 
ment. This room is fitted up with all the 
best facilities for sending the piles of cir- 
culars and papers that line the walls, broad- 
cast over the different countries throughout 
the world. Thenextis the laboratory with 
its innumerable compounding apparatuses 
for converting the raw material, roots, herbs 
and barks into the wonderful elixirs that 
have given Dr. Richmond his world-wide 
reputation. Then we enter the store-room 
and shipping department. Here are im- 
mense cases of medicines piled up to the 
ceiling ready for use. The stock the Doctor 
keeps is simply immense. The shipping 
department is complete in every way for 
rapidity in packing and transit. After 
taking in this great institute one cannot 
help but feel proud of the city containing 
it and its founder. It has been wonderful 
in its rise, and more wonderful in its cures, 
making happy the homes of many, and Bnatching from the yawning 
gulf of idiocy and death many lives that arc now contributing to 
the world’s advancement. 
The above is a brief sketch of an institute that has taken untir- 
ing energy and perseverance to build up, and the credit due it is 
all the greater from the fact that Dr. Richmond has been unaided 
in carrying out this enterprise and building up this most credita- 
ble institution. To fully realize what we are speaking of, it is 
necessary to go there and seefor yourself.—St. Joseph {Mo.)Daily 
Gazette. March 22,1878. 
OLD PATIENTS. 
We are always glad to hear from you, and want you one and 
all to drop us a line occasionally, telling us of your progress. 
Where you can let us have full statements of your cases, it will be 
valuable to others similarly afflicted. 
WHEN ORDERING MEDICINE, 
Always inclose the amount, either in post office order, bank draft, 
or registered letter, and give with every order for medicines, your 
name, post office, county and State, very plainly written, and give 
name of the town having the nearest express office; also the name 
of the express company. We send no medicine by express, with 
bill, to be collected on delivery, as our time is too much ti.Ken up 
by correspondence, which is very large; it is therefore essential 
in all cases that the cash should accompany each and every order. 
Letters of inquiry to receive prompt attention, must contain 
stamp for return postage. 
Fo- 'irther particulars, address 
DR,. S. A. RICHMOND, 
P. O. Box 741, St. Joseph, Mo. 
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Hor Health., Happiness, Prosperity and Long Life, 
Take Dr. Richmond’s Samaritan Nervine. 
be learned by a personal visit. Of one thing, however, we are 
positive; St. Joseph will ever be proud that Dr. Richmond saw 
proper to locate in her midst his Medical Institute.—Monday 
Morning Neivs, St. Joseph. Mo., March 25,1878. 
A BENEFICENTJNSTITUTION. 
Dr. Richmond's St. Joseph Medical Institute. A Phy- 
sician that has discovered an Infallible Remedy for ■ 
Certain Diseases. 
The Medical Institute of Dr. S. A. Richmond, of this city, has 
grown to be one of the most beneficent institutions of the West. 
We visited it yesterday, and can truly say we were astonished at 
what we saw. Dr. Richmond came among us several years ago 
without friends or influential acquaintances. lie claimed to have 
discovered an infallible remedy for the cure of Epileptic Fits, 
Spasms, Convulsions, St. Vitus Dance, and all nervous diseases. 
This medicine he endeavored Ihrough the press and by means of 
circulars to make known to the afflicted. In this effort he met 
with many embarrassments. The medical profession who always 
reject everything that looks like a specialty, and are always ready 
to denounce anything outside of regularold fogypractice as quack- 
ery, discountenanced his remedy. But Dr. Richmond was not 
to be discouraged or put down. He pursued the even tenor of 
his way, and let his discovery speak for itself through its cures. 
Gradually he succeeded in procuring trials for his medicines, 
and steadily orders came for it, until now it is known in every 
portion of this broad country, and its fame has crossed the wide 
ocean and made him a name in Europe. At his Medical Institute 
in this city he has more than 50,000 letters from persons seek’-:;, 
relief at his hands. Yesterday we personally insDpet','i a large 
number of these letters, and we are willing to vouch for it that 
they all breathe one spirit. They come from every State in the 
Copies of this Journal furnished free to all who will circulate them among the afflicted.