DR. HUMPHREYS’ SPECIFICS. 
Directionr with each Vial in Five Languages, 
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French. 
No. CURES. vwi! vSC 
1. Fever, Congestion, Inflammations 25 50 
2. Worm Fever, or Worm Disease 25 50 
3. Colic,CryingandWakefulnessofInfants25 50 
4. Diarrhea of Children and Adults 25 50 
5. Dysentery, Gripings, Bilious Colic 25 50 
6. Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Vomiting 25 50 
7. Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Bronchitis.25 50 
8. Toothache, Faceache, Neuralgia 25 50 
9. Headache, Sick Headache, Vertigo 25 50 
10. Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Costiveness 25 50 
11. Suppressed Menses, or Scanty 25 50 
12. Leucorrliea, or Profuse Menses 25 50 
13. Croup, Hoarse Cough,Difficult Breathing25 50 
14. Salt ltlieum, Eruptions, Erysipelas....25 50 
15. Kheuinatisin, or Rheumatic Pains 25 50 
16. Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever 50 
17. Piles, Blind or Bleeding 50 
18. Ophthalmia, Weak or Inflamed Eyes 50 
19. Catarrh, or Influenza 50 
20. AVliooping Cough, Spasmodic Cough 50 
21. Asthma, Oppressed, Difficult Breathing 50 
22. Ear Discharge, Hardness of Hearing 50 
23. Scrofula, Swellings and Ulcers 50 
24. General Debility, or Physical Weakness.. .50 
25. Dropsy, Fluid Accumulations 50 
26. Sea-Sickness, Nausea, Vomiting 50 
27. Kidney Disease, Gravel, Calculi 50 
28. Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness.. 1.00 
Powder, in Vial, to use with No. 28 $2.00. 
Package containing 5 Vials of No. 28 and 
Vial of Powder $5.00. 
29. Sore Mouth, or Canker 50 
30. Urinary Incontinence, Wetting the Bed. .50 
31. Painful Menses, Pruritis 50 
32. Diseases of the Heart, Palpitations 1.00 
33. Epilepsy, Rt. Vitus’ Dance 1.00 
34. Diphtheria, or Ulcerated Sore Throat 50 
35. Chronic Congestions, Headaches 50 
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than half your sickness will be prevented by 
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doctor’s bills and preserve the health of the 
household. A Family Case repays itself in a 
hundred ways. 
Family Case No. 1. 
Humphreys’ Mentor, or Family Adviser, 
650 pages, royal octavo, printed on tinted paper. 
Bound in Cloth. Invaluable to those using the 
Specifics. Price, $1.00. MANUAL 
-OF- 
Dr. F. Humphreys, 
for tot: 
ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINE 
•“AND— 
Cure of Disease. 
F. HUMPHREYS, M. D., 
Late Profeasorof Institutesof Homeopathy. I’alholory, 
and Medical Practice in the Homeopathic Medical 
College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia; author oC 
“ Pysentary ami its Homeopathic Treatment.” 
“Cholera and it* Homeopathic Treatment,” ' Dis- 
ease* of the Sexunl System and “ Prover of Apia 
Melhfica, Plantago Major, etc., etc., etc. 
NEW YORK: 
HUMPHREYS’ HOM. MEDICINE 00., 
Nos. Ill & 113 WILLIAM STREET, 
61, 03 & 65 JOHN STREET. 
1890. SPECIAL PRESCRIPTIONS. 
Dr. Humphreys’ has used In his extensive practice 
for many years, particular prescriptions which have 
proved so uniformly curative and are so often called 
for, that he has been Induced to put them up In popular 
form with full directions for use, and to catalogue 
them as his “Special Prescriptions”—For List see 
Inside last cover. 
Copyrighted 1889, by 
Humphreys’ H. Medicine Company, 
Parties using HUMPHBEYS’ SPECIFICS 
in quantity will find it economical to order the 
One Ounce Yials, as they contain over three 
times as much as the usual large vial, and are 
Bold or sent at $1.00 each, or $2.00 per oz. for the 
double-price numbers (viz., Nos. 28, 32 & 33). 
Customers vnU receive a cloth bound copy 
of this Manual on direct application. For List of Specifics nnd Special ■ 
Prescriptions, ace pages {19 to 114. 
yVLANU AL. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
JLs IT IS the duty of every physician to cure 
it whatever of disease, relieve whatever of 
suffering nnd prolong whatever of life ho may; 
so I hold it to be jny duty to place the knowledge 
and the meant) for accomplishing these objects 
in the hands of the people in the manner best 
calculated to reach the greatest number and 
accomplish the greatest good. 
The first and most easily curable stage of every 
disease is commonly treated by the parent, the 
friend or the patient himself. Hence, they 
should be informed uj>on the subject and pro- 
vided with such harmleu, simple and elective 
means as will most safely and readily attain this 
end. Almost every disease may be easily cured 
at its commencement, as the experience of thou- 
sands who have long used IlrJirnRF.Ts’ Specifics 
abundantly proves, if they make timely use of 
the appropriate Spbcitics; while on the other 
hand, thousands of serious and even fatal cases 
became such by needless delay or the resort to 
unsafe or injurious medicines. 4 
If in treating ourselves, children or friends, we 
must resort to crude, injurious or dangerous 
compounds or drugs, the after effects of which 
produce evil, we might better desist for fear of 
doing harm. But in using Humphreys’ Specifics 
so such danger exists. Each and every one is 
prepared under the immediate supervision of 
an able and experienced physician, and every 
possible precaution is taken, not only that every 
Specific shall be what it represents, but that it 
is absolutely harmless. An experience of their use 
In hundreds of thousands of cases, extending 
over a period of more than forty years, under 
almost every variety of subject and circum- 
stance, has proved them to be absolutely free 
from evil and only productive of good. 
The great feature of this system is, that by 
a system of Specifics prepared by a skillful 
physician who has devoted his life to the subject, 
the layman at once knows what to give, and now 
to give it, and thus act with certainty and 
positiveness—an important element of success. 
Humphreys’ Specifics are the result of a dis- 
oovery of a particular remedy or specific for each 
particular disease This is accomplished ac- 
cording to a law announced by me to the pro- 
fession thirty-five years ago, and since elaborated 
and extended to the whole series of my Specifics. 
Their use has extended over the entire country, 
and to many foreign countries, and hundreds of 
thousands of families use no other curative mea- 
sures, but find his Specifics by far the most 
INTRODUCTORY. SIMPLE, CONVENIENT and RELIABLE OF ALB 
DOMESTIC REMEDIES. 
These Specifics are so prepared as to hold 
their virtues for tears. 
Humphreys’Specifics only cure disease. Thos« 
using them become more firm and vigorous, and 
Uu liable to the attacks qf disease. They cur#, 
not because they are strong medicines or violent 
poisons, but because they have a specific relation 
to disease, and hence cure It. 
It is a fact confirmed by the most ample ex- 
perience that those who habitually resort to 
Humphreys’ Specifics for aid and cure In their 
Illness, nAVE less sickness, better health, ret- 
ter growth, longerand more vigorous lives, than 
those treated by other methods. The fact is ex- 
plained In the circumstance that these Specifics, 
because of the method of their composition havs 
a deeper and udder range qf action than other 
medicines, and thus constantly tend to eradicate 
constitutional weakness and disease. 
The list of Humphreys’ Specifics contain# 
preventives and cures for almost every form of 
acute illness or diskase which it Is safe or wls# 
for the non-professional to treat, and with each 
Specific such counsel and directions, either In 
this Manual, or upon the wrapper, as will lead to 
the safest and hupplest results. Acute disease# 
may come at any time from exposure, and eaoh 
has Its Specific, whose timely use Is Invaluable— 
not only saving slokness, but often life Itself. 
The diseases of infanct and childhood—which 
INTRODUCTORY. 
5 6 
INTRODUCTORY. 
not only annoy, but either carry off their victims 
or lay the foundation of life-long diseases—all 
find their prompt cure in the list of Specifics, 
and have proved a veritable godsend to thousands 
of families. For a chronic disease or infirmity 
which has been the dark spot of one’s life, and 
for the cure of which one has “suffered many 
things of many physicians ” without avail, the 
persistent use of one or more Specifics, taken 
without pain or inconvenience, has proved the 
golden key which has restored the feeble to 
strength and vigor. 
Thousands who suffer from some delicate in- 
firmity or weakness known only to themselves, 
which they shrink from disclosing to a physician, 
have found in the proper Specific a cure which 
has turned the winter of life into May. 
Thousands of families find the use of a Case 
of Humphreys’ Specifics a source of relief 
and refuge in these and hundreds of instances 
which could be named. They are saved from 
undue haste and needless alarm; saved from the 
danger of drugs and injurious medicines, and 
from needless professional calls and expense. 
The health and vigor of the household is improved 
as well as a timely saving in money and expen- 
diture. The value of a Case of Humphreys’ Speci 
Ficsina family can scarcely be overestimated. 
The great advantage over every other system 
or medicine is briefly■ 
They are simple—so that no mistake is made 
in selecting or giving the remedy. They are harmless-—so that If token by mis- 
take or accident, no injury results. 
They are convenient—curing at onoe numer* 
ous Ills, ailments and diseases, to which aU are 
liable. 
They are efficient.—By their timely use five- 
sixths of all diseases may l>e arrested without 
serious illness or calling a physician, thus savin* 
a vast amount of suffering and a multitude of 
lives. 
They are reliable—In the entire lbrt there is 
not one which has not the *uarante« of the most 
ample experience over and over repeated, as to 
Its *roat curative value and efllcacy. 
They are economical.—The use of a few doses 
of pellets often saves a visit from the doctor, 
and a Ion* course of sickness, with its heavy 
expenses. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
7 
DIET AND REGIMEN FOR THE SICK. 
The diet and regimen for the sick is a matter 
of Importance. A disease may he aggravated or 
prolonged by improper food or habit, and some 
diseases at their commencement may even be 
entirely cured by observing a proper regimen 
for a few days. Other diseases again owe their 
existence to some improper habit, mode of life, 
or business of the patient. A recovery is only to 
be expected with a change in habits, business or 
living. We cannot specify for every ease: ranch 
must be left for the good Judgment nnd discre- 
tion of the patient. Usually with the treatment 8 
of each disease or class of diseases the kind of 
diet or food proper to he taken is given in the 
directions with each Specific, and ir, the Manual 
and Mentor. 
In general, sick people need but little to eat, 
and that of the plainest and yet most nourishing 
and easily digested kind that can be procured— 
not too often or too much, or too rich food. If 
there is no appetite, nature indicates that but 
little or no food should be given, as that which 
is taken, unless easily digested, will not be 
assimilated, and may hence do more harm than 
good; and while some things may be digested 
and prove nourishing, others may act as mere 
irritants, often aggravating the disease or re- 
tarding recovery. * 
Food.—When patients are confined to their 
room or bed, the following are among the most 
easily digested, nourishing and wholesome kinds 
of food: Indian-meal, oat-meal, or farina gruel 
(which should be thoroughly cooked), or milk- 
toast and boiled rice; for drink, toast-water, 
rice-water and drinks made of fruit-jellies, or 
any ripe or dried fruits, and apples or other 
fruits baked or stewed, except in diarrhea and 
dysentery. As persons recover the diet may be 
more liberal and nourishing, and yet they should 
avoid the danger of relapse from over-eating. 
Feeble persons need meat-soups, beef-tea, fish 
and fowl variously prepared; and sometimes 
wine and other stimulants, but always in moder- 
ation, as there is more danger from eating or 
DIET AND REOISTEN TOR THE SICK. drinking too much than too little. Lemonade 
may bo allowed In fever and rheumatism. Coffee 
and greeu tea are objectionable; cocoa and black 
tea are permitted. Coffee and green tea may 
be allowed to the sick where persons have be- 
come haoituated to their use and suffer from 
their deprivation. Those who are watching, or 
performing Bevere or long-continued physical or 
mental labor are wonderfully sustained by an 
occasional cup of cocoa, tea or coffee, and the 
waste of the system is thus prevented to a great 
degree. Tobacco should only be used In modera- 
tion, if at all; although its moderate use, to 
persons accustomed to It, may not be injurious 
to the action of medicines. Yet it is evident 
thnt for these mild Specifics to manifest their 
full benign effects the system must not be satu- 
rated with nurcotio or medicinal influences. 
Exercise Is important to the invalid and those 
of sedentary habits; yet, to bo useful it should be 
attended with pleasurable excitement and freo 
dom from labor or anxious thought. In walking 
for exercise, it is better to go on some errand or 
for some purpose rather than for the mere walk 
itself. In acute diseases exercise is rarely re- 
quired until convalescence is fairly established, 
and it must then be taken in moderation. If 
exercise exhaust one, excites vertigo, dizziness, 
or occasions pain or ready fatigue, it will not 
prove beneficial. Tills is especially the case with 
sick and feeble persons, and nmy be considered 
a general rule. 
DIET A HD REGIMEN FOR THE SICK. 
9 10 
HOW TO SELECT AND TAKE THE SPECIFICS. 
HOW TO SELECT AND TAKE THE 
SPECIFICS. 
In general there will be no difficulty in decid- 
ing what particular Specific is required for any 
case. Read over the account of the disease in 
the Manual and compare the same with the 
symptoms present in the person. Read the 
directions for preparing and giving the Specific, 
and then follow them strictly, using no other 
medicines and making no applications except 
such as are directed in the book or on the 
wrapper. 
When the directions are to take the Specific dry, 
six pellets should be placed in the mouth and 
slowly dissolved—better not chewed or swal- 
lowed whole. The vial should not be turned 
against the tongue or breathed into, or the pellets 
turned into a moist or perspiring hand. If 
tobacco is used, rinse the mouth before taking 
the pellets. For children two, and infants one 
pellet. 
When the Specific is to he taken in fluid form, 
dissolve twelve pellets in six dessert-spoonfuls of 
pure spring or well-water, by crushing and stir- 
ring the medicine until it entirely disappears. 
(For grown persons a table-spoonful, and for 
children or infants a dessert or tea-spoonful is a 
proper dose.) 
Two or more Specifics may be given in alter- 
nation, that is first one. and then the other, at 
the proper interval. This may be done when one HOW TO SELECT AND TAKE THE SPECIFICS. 
11 
Specific does uot seem to meet the entire case; 
or where a patient appears to have the symp- 
toms of two complaints at the same time, as for 
instance. Cough with Fever, or Catarrh with 
Dyspepsia, or Headache and Dyspepsia, or some 
Gastric Derangement, or Dysiiepsia and some 
form of Kidney or Urinary Disease. Usually it 
is bettor to give but om Specific for the most 
prominent symptom or oomplaint, in repeated 
doses, until that symptom or disease is subdued. 
Then administer the next most fitting Specific 
for the remaining symptoms. Frequently the 
Um prominent complaint will disappear under the 
action of the Specific given for the more important 
one and thus the entire disease vanish. Or, after 
having given the second Si>eeific a now trial, we 
can go back to the use of the first one again with 
better results, as the condition of the system has 
been modified oy the action of the last mediolne. 
This ai,tlunation of SPECIFICS is allowable. 
If the Specific apparently called for does not 
relieve after a fair trial, then apply the next 
most indicated one, or give the two in ai.tbrsa- 
tion. That is, give a dose of one Specific as 
directed, and after waiting the proper interval, 
give a doso of the other, and alter the proper 
interval give the first one again, and so on in alter- 
nation at such intervals as the directions require. 
The best time for taking medicine is in the 
morning on rising, and half an hour before each 
meal, and at night on retiring to rest, thus mak- 
ing/our due** per day. 12 
The repetition op doses depends upon cir- 
cumstances. In acute diseases and urgent 
cases the Specific acts best when dissolved in 
pure water, and a spoonful given every fifteen 
minutes, half-hour, hour, two hours, according 
to the urgency of the case. The frequency of 
the doses may be diminished as the patient im- 
proves. In most cases of chronic disease, a dose 
in the morning and at night will he sufficient, or 
at most four times a day; that is, before each 
meal and on going to bed. It is not the quantity 
or frequency of doses, but the specific action of 
the remedy which cures. 
DISEASES OP INPANTS AND CHILDREN. 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
Fevers are common at from one to ten years 
of age, and are often brought on from over- 
fatigue, exposure to the heat of the sun, cold 
drafts of air, improper food, worms, etc. They 
are known by the red face, swelling and throb- 
bing of the veins of the neck, hot head, quick 
pulse and rapid breathing. Such Fevers find 
their prompt cure in the Specific Xo. One, 
which soon quiets the fever, induces perspira- 
tion, and thus cures the disease. 
Treatment.—Dissolve twelve pellets of the 
Specific Xo. One in six teaspoonfuls of water, 
of which give one spoonful every hour. Then 
dissolve twelve more pellets of the same Specific 
In the same manner, and give a teaspoonful 
every two hours until profuse perspiration comes on and the disease is broken. Give freely 
of water, and often sponge off the body with 
tepid water. 
Scarlet Fever is usually considered a very 
formidable disease, but under Homeopathic 
treatment it lias lost much of its terror. The 
first symptom is, usually, vomiting, soon suc- 
ceeded by violent heat, very rapid pulte, and sore 
throat, which may be known by the pain on 
swallowing. Soon a rash nr reddish blush 
spreads over the body, commencing on the 
arms, neck, breast and face, until the disease 
has reached its height, when later it becomes 
faint-yellowish, and tlio outer.or scarf skin flakes 
off in patches, or in minute bran-like scales. 
Such is the course of mild Scarlet Fever ot 
Scarlatina, but it may become complicated from 
an irregular development, ulcerated throat, or 
other symptoms. 
Treatment.— To prevent the diteaee, while Scar- 
let Fever is prevailing, give each child two pellets 
of the Specific Xo. One morning and night. 
This protects the system, or in any event renders 
the course of the disease much milder. If the 
disease has commenced with vomiting, sore 
throat or fever, dissolve twelve pellets of the 
Specific Xo. One in a tumbler half full of 
water, and of this fluid, prepared anew in like 
manner every day, give one teaspoonful every 
hour during the height of the disease, extending 
the intervals to two hours as the disease abates. 
If the eruption remains obstinate after some 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AN1) CHILDREN. 
13 14 
days, and the sore throat or canker unyielding, 
alternate the Specific No. Fourteen, prepared 
in the same manner, with the No. One, one dose 
every two hours. This remedy is also efficacious 
at the close of the disease, to relieve the itching 
and assist desquamation, and thus prevent bad 
after-diseases. Sponging the child with tepid 
water is very grateful and useful through the 
entire course of the disease. 
If swelling of the glands uuder the ears or about 
the neck occurs, give four pellets of the Specific 
No. Twenty-Two each morning and night, and 
the No. One during the day, as above. 
If dropsical swelling of the limbs or body occurs 
toward the close or after the disease has sub- 
sided, give the Specific No. Tiventy-Five, four 
pellets four times per day until cured. Thous- 
ands of cases are thus safely carried through the 
disease every year by this treatment. 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CIIII.DKEN. 
Remember that Scarlet Fever, Measles, Vario- 
loid, Diphtheria and Whooping Cough are con- 
tagious, and unprotected persons coming into 
their presence are liable to take the disease. So 
if a child has the Scarlet Fever or other of these 
diseases, keep other children out of the sick 
room or house, or as far from the room as pos- 
sible. To permit well children to inhale the 
breath, fondle or play, or even be in school with 
them, until entirely recovered, is most sure to 
communicate the disease. In such cases remove 
the well ones or lit up a separate room for the 
sick, and excluding the others maintain a rigid qnarantlne until the entire recovery. A child 
may communicate the disease to another so Ion* 
aa there Is any <lr#<ptamat\on or peeling or scurf 
from the skin—sometimes two or throe weeks 
after the child is out. 
Measles prerail usually toward spring, and is 
generally a mild, easily managed disease. It 
commences with symptoms of a cold, sneezing, 
flow of tears and slight redness of the eyes, and 
soon a hoarse, loose cough, which Is characteristic 
of the disease. The rash appears first on the face 
in minute pimples in clusters, with a reddish 
hlush. deepening and increasing as it comes out, 
first day upon the face and neck, next upon the 
body, and third duy extending to the lower ex 
trcmeties, by which time it ptows fainter upon 
the face, and disappears in the same manner. 
There is fever, loose cough, hoarseness, etc. 
Treatment.—Give the Specific Xo. One, pre 
pared as directed for Scarlet Fever (page 18) every 
two hours, and continue this treatment through 
the entire course of the disease. If the measles 
do not come out well, do not be alarmed about 
that; keep the patient warm, give some warm 
ten or nourishing soup, or hot foot-bath. If the 
cough is troublesome, alternate the Specific 
Xo. Seven with the Xo. One. If very hoarse, 
give a few doses of the Xo. Thirteen. If the 
eyes are red, inflamed, intolerant of light, the 
Vo. Eighteen will act like a charm, and for any 
weakness of sight remaining, in consequence of 
neulee. the same Specific may be relied upon. 
DISEASES OP IWANTS AND CHTT.DREN. 
15 16 
two pellets three times per day. Care should be 
taken during the measles to preTent taking cold, 
as serious disease of the lungs may arise as a 
consequence. You will have no difficulty in safely 
treating the disease by following these directions. 
Chicken-Pox rarely requires more than a few 
doses of the Specific No. One ; if new crops of 
pox come out, No. Fourteen is the Specific. 
Mumps are known as the somewhat hard and 
sensitive swelling of the gland in front of and 
below the ear, on one or both sides. It is attended 
with fever, and pain when chewing, especially any 
firm or hard food. It passes off in three or four 
days, and is rarely dangerous, but may sometimes 
fall upon the brain, producing delirium, or if the 
patient is chilled, may fall upon other parts, pro- 
ducing swelling and other mischief. 
Treatment. — Give the Specific No. One, 
twelve pellets in six spoonfuls of water, one 
spoonful every two hours, and, two or three times 
per day, six pellets of Specific No. Twenty- 
Two. Should any swelling of the glands remain, 
the use of the No. Twenty-Two will remove it. 
Should the disease fall upon the urinary organs, 
the No. Thirty will soon relieve. 
Congestion of the Head begins in children 
with violent fever, red and hot face, swelling 
and throbbing of the blood-vessels of the neck, 
sleeplessness and delirium, or deep, drowsy sleep, 
inclination to lie down, with pain in the head, 
Increase of the pain and distress, and even 
yomiting, on being held up, great intolerance of 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN light and noise. These symptoms find their 
remedy In the Specific Ho. One, twelve pellets 
of which should be dissolved in six teaspoonfuls 
of water, of which give u spoonful every hour at 
first, and then every two hours as the case im- 
proves. Meantime, apply cloths wet in tepid 
water to the head, and renew them as often as 
they get hot. 
Congestion* of the Head occur in children and 
adults also. In a slighter or less violent form: 
with a sense of fulness and heaviness of the 
head and redness of face, vertigo or giddiness, 
especially on turning or lookiug upward, throb- 
bing headache, and sometimes intolerance of 
light, drowsy and stupid feelings, desire to sleep 
by day and sleepless at night. In mild cases, six 
pellets of the Specific Ho. One, taken four times 
per day, will afTord relief; but if the case is more 
violent, dissolve twelve pellets In half a glass of 
water, and of this take a spoonful every two 
hours until relieved, and then morning and night: 
or. If the afTection is of some standing. Specific 
Ho. Nine may be taken alternately with the 
Ho. One. 
Old Case* qf Heat, Fulness and Vertigo qf the 
lit ad. are entirely cured by tuking the Ho. Ten 
at night and Ho. Hine in the morning. 
Sore Throat Tonsillitis on Quinsy begins 
with redness, heat, swelling of the throat, tonsils, 
uvula and soft parts, difficult swallowing, and it 
sometimes terminates In suppuration. Dissolve 
DISEASES OP INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
17 18 
twelve pellets of the Specific No. One in water 
(half a glass), and take a spoonful of this solu- 
tion every hour. If not soon relieved, take the 
Specific No. Thirty-Four, prepared in the 
same manner, alternately with the No. One. 
Apply cloths kept moist with the Marvel of Heal- 
ing to the throat, and keep indoors, on low diet, 
until relieved. 
Diphtheria and Ulcerated or Malignant 
Sore Throat. It is convenient to treat these 
diseases together, as the amateur may not be 
able to distinguish the one from the other, and 
the treatment is the same. The disease may be 
mild, but is often formidable. 
Diphtheria usually commences in children, 
with dullness, inclination to sleep, swelling and 
soreness of the throat, indicated by difficulty in 
swallowing, and frequently vomiting. Fever, 
heat, and redness of the face, increased difficulty 
of swallowing soon come on, and on examination, 
the appearance of patches of dirty washlealher- 
like membrane in the throat, or ulcerations in 
advanced casqs, with difficulty of breathing and 
prostration. 
Treatment.— To prevent the disease, give chil- 
dren two pellets of Specific No. One each 
morning, and the same of No. Thirty-Four at 
night, and so alternate (while the disease is pre- 
vailing) and carefully avoid exposure to severe 
chills nr over-fatigue. 
For an attack of diphtheria or of severe or ulcer- 
ated sore throat, give alternately the Specific No. 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. DISEASES or INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
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One and the Jfo. Thirty-Four in water, thus: 
dissolve twelve pellets of the Xo, One iu a 
tumbler half full of water and the same amount 
of A’o. Thirty-Four In another gloss, with a 
like quantity of water, stirring each well with 
separate spoons. (Jive to adults a tablespoonful, 
and to childreu a tcuspoouful of the fluid, first of 
one, then of the other, at intervals of half-hour 
at first, uud later un hour, or even, in mild eases, 
two hours; and this continue until cured. The 
diet should be easily digested and nourishing, 
toast-water, farina, or other gruel; good, sweet 
milk, and beef-tea, during the disease, aud apply 
cloths wet in the MarttJ to the throat. 
The early stage of every acute disease at 
tended with ehiilt, or high fever, quick puite, heat, 
retUets touting, anxiety aud pain, will be always 
alleviated, and often entirely subdued, by tho 
uso of the Sjx-cific Xo. One, given every hour. 
In all eases when there is pain or distress, and 
you are uncertain what remedy to apply, or have 
failed to cure, resort to the Xo. One, and con- 
tinue its use for some time, or return ugaiu to 
some more perfectly indicated number. 
Worms.—Worms often cuuse much annoyance 
In children, and it is important to know the 
toms by which their preseuce is manifested, as 
well as the cure. Children most subject to worms 
have light, fair skin, soft, flabby flesh, and en- 
larged abdomen, while the legs and arms are 
comparatively small. Such children are sub- 
ject to catarrhs, mucus diarrheas and mucus 20 
vomiting. When this condition exists, worms 
will be found in the system, and a predisposi- 
tion to produce them. Unless this condition is 
corrected, the driving off of a few, either by 
ordinary cathartics or vermifuges, is of no great 
consequence. 
The more common symptoms of worms are: 
frequent itching of the nose, which the child 
picks with its finger; itching ol the anus; vora- 
cious or greedy appetite; desire for dainties, and 
often the breath is offensive, especially when the 
stomach is empty; bowels irregular, either con- 
stipation or diarrhea, in which are masses of 
glairy frog-spawn-like mucus. 
Symptoms arising from the local irritation of 
worms are: Colic pains in the bowels, which are 
worse when the stomach is empty, and often 
pass off after a meal. Sometimes the local irri- 
tation affects the nervous system, and there is 
dilation of the pupil of the eyes, distortion or 
rolling of the eyes, springing up, grating of the 
teeth, and talking in sleep, vertigo and some- 
times spasms. 
Fever is one of the most frequent results of 
worms; it is usually quite violent, pulse quick, 
heat great, noticeable for its unsteady character; 
now more, and now less, coming and going; and 
there is danger of convulsions during such a 
fever, especially if there should be sudden start- 
ings or twitcliings. If the worm predisposition 
is not cured, the child may become emaciated, 
weakly and fail to thrive. 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. Treatment.—It Is not difficult to got rid of a 
few worms by the action of any brisk cathartic; 
but this is of small consequence, foi you will 
leave many more behind, while the vermifuge 
will weaken the digestion, and thus tend to 
induce their production anew; hence, children 
who take crude medicines are subject to worms. 
To eradicate Worm* from the system, give the 
child plain diet, meat once a day little or no 
pastry, cake, preserves or candies; but substan- 
tial, nourishing food, and give it three pellets of 
Specific So. Two, morning and night, or even 
four times per day. The result will be that the 
worms will disappear. 
When worms produce violent fever, full, quick 
pulse, and hot skin, etc., dissolve twelve pellets 
of Specific So. One in a glass one-third filled 
with water, and give the child a desset t-spoonful 
every hour for four or six hours, and then pre 
pare the So. Ttco in the same manner, in water, 
and give the So. Tiro alternately with the So. 
One until entirely relieved. Then give the So. 
Tiro morning and night, or four times per day, 
to effect a radical cure. No other medicines arc 
required in order to permanently cure this affec 
tion, as the experience of hundreds can testify; 
only do not expect miracles, exercise a little 
patience, for a constitutional cure requires time 
Crying of Infants.—Infants do not cry if they 
are well, and properly cared foi. When a child 
constantly cries without apparent cause, it 
affords a Btrong presumption that It is not well 
DISEASES OP INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
21 22 
Nurses, to quiet the crying of infants, give 
them anodynes, cordials, or soothing syrups, 
which render them costive; then a cathartic or 
a dose of oil is given to physic them, which, in 
turn, deranges the stomach, and in a little time 
w’e have a permanent condition of illness fastened 
upon the child, which may continue for life. 
This is irrational and wrong. The nurse should 
never suffer the infant to cry or worry, by alwayp 
attending to or anticipating its wants, changing 
and feeding it promptly, and also avoid giving it 
drugs or doses. 
Colic.- If the child has Colic, which may be 
known by its cries and drawing it.: legs up to its 
abdomen, while the belly is hard and distended, 
give two pellets of the Specific No. Three, and 
soothe it by carrying it about, or other means, 
if no better in half an hour, give two more 
pellets, and so on, repeating every half hour 
until relieved. 
Wakefulness.—If the child does not sleep at 
night, after having had proper intervals of being 
awake during the day, give it two pellets of 
Specific No. Three before laying it down. This 
will usually be sufficient; but if necessary the 
pellets may be repeated every hour. The nurse 
should bear in mind that if she takes strong tea 
or coffee, or spirits, or such flatulent food as 
pickles, cabbage, Deans, etc., she can scarcely 
expect her child to sleep wTell, as the effect of 
the stimulus, or food, may act more decidedly 
on the child than upon her. 
DISEASES OP INFANTS AND CHILDREN. DISEASES OP INFANTS ANI) CHILDREN. 
Teething of healthy children is often accom- 
plished without seriously affecting the system; 
but frequently there is diarrhea, feverishness, 
and restlessness at night, and sometimes serious 
congestion to the head. The first teeth arc cut 
at from the fourth to the eighth month, or later, 
and usually with but little trouble first, the two 
lower, cutting teeth; then the two upper, middle 
teeth in alxmt two or three weeks after the first; 
and then two more lower, followed by two 
upper incisors—one on each side. Some eight 
weeks after these, there will be four first jaw- 
teeth—two below and two above, and after these 
the stomach und eye-teeth are cut; and finally, 
when about two and a half years old, the back 
jaw-teeth two below and two above—protrude, 
which completes the set. Variations from this 
order are, however, frequent. 
When the teeth are about to protrude, the 
child drools, and puts its fingers in the mouth, is 
more or less feverish, and the gum grows broader, 
and swells on the top. Lancing the gum is quite 
unnecessary, and if done prematurely, only 
obstructs tin' teeth by forming u cicatrix, which 
the tooth must pierce when it comes forward 
again; besides, it is not so much the piercing of 
the gum which causes the inconvenience, as a 
feverish condition of the system, which accom- 
panies any important evolution of the organism. 
During the Period of Teething, whenever there 
is any feverish excitement, restlessness, wake- 
fulness, or worrying, give two pellets of Specific 
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No. Three, four times per day. This quiets the 
system, relieves the irritation and restlessness, 
and any slight diarrhea. If, however, there 
should be very high fever and a good deal of heat, 
it is better to give two pellets of Specific No. 
One for Fever, in fluid form, a teaspoonful every 
two hours, and the No. Three morning and 
night. If diarrhea also becomes threatening, 
the movements of the bowels frequent and some- 
what prostrating, give two pellets of the Spe- 
cific No. Four every three hours until this 
trouble be relieved. 
For Slow Growth, Feebleness, Difficult 
Learning to Walk and General Debilitt of 
Infants or small children, give the Specific No. 
Three, two pellets three or four times per day, 
which often works wonders in increasing the 
muscular strength and natural growth of bone. 
For Fretfulness, Feverishness and Worry- 
ing of children three or four years old, which 
often arises from deficient growth of bone, give 
four times per day three pellets of the Specific 
No. Three. The result will soon be shown in 
improved vigor, health and happiness. 
For Sprue or Sore Mouth of young infants, 
which is frequently troublesome, and sometimes 
dangerous, the Specific No. Three will usually 
be found effectual. Given at times for other 
complaints, sore mouth will rarely occur; but if 
it is present, one pellet four times per day will 
suffice to cure. Obstinate cases may require 
Specific No. Twenty-Nine, four times per day. 
DISEASES OP INFANTS AND CHILDREN. Diarrhea or Loose Bowels.—in small chil- 
dren this disease Is often formidable, and do 
mands attention. In young and teething children 
It frequently assumes the form of Cholera 
Infantum, and is liable to be fatal. 
For Diarrhea or Loose Botcels in Young Children 
give two pellets of Specific \o. Four, three 
four or more times per day, according to circum 
stances. Let the child have for diet only breast 
milk, boiled rice, farina, or milk porridge, avoid 
ing all fruits, vegetables, and especially new 
potatoes. Any slight derangement of the stom 
ach—pain, grlpings or diarrhea—arising from 
errors in diet, etc., will be promptly remedied by 
taking Specific JVo. Four, four times per day 
Diarrhea from the use of fruit, also, will be 
promptly met by taking the Fo. Four as above. 
Cholera Infantum.—Few diseases are more 
destructive and fatal in children than this. In 
some parts of the country, in the larger towns 
and cities, numbers of children are every summer 
carried off by it. Diarrhea in young children 
In summer is liable to culminate in a cholera 
infantum, and cholera infantum has diarrhea as 
a symptom. It prevails principally among chil 
dren of from six months to three years of age. 
It often commences as a slight looseness of 
the bowels, which goes on increasing from day 
to day. until the child becomes emaciated, its 
stomach becomes exceedingly irritable, so that it 
vomits up every kind of food and drink, and at 
length it sinks into a drowsy, stupid slomber. 
DISEASES or rNTANTS and children 
25 26 
which, after some days, closes the scene; or, toe 
disease may come on more suddenly, with very 
frequent, loose, offensive stools, sudden vomit- 
ing of everything taken into the stomach, rapid 
emaciation, soon followed by coldness, collapse, 
stupid slumber, and extreme prostration. 
In the first case the disease may run from three 
to twelve weeks, until the child is reduced to a 
skeleton; and in the latter, the fatal termination 
may occur in three to six days. 
In the treatment of this disease the diet is of 
the first importance, as it is almost impossible 
for a child to recover unless it has a proper diet. 
Children who nurse do better than those who 
have been weaned or brought up by hand; for 
though the child may get but little from the 
breast, that little is appropriate for it, and quality 
in this case is of more importance than quantity. 
If the stomach is very irritable, vomiting up 
everything taken, food must only be given once 
in two or three hours, and only two or three 
spoonfuls of farina gruel, rice-water, or some 
similar light or nourishing substance; or, if the 
child yet nurses, the breast is still better; yet the 
child must not be nursed too often, nor suffered 
to take too much at a time. Also, every hour, 
give a spoonful of a solution made by dissolving 
six pellets of Specific \o. Six in six teaspoon- 
fills of water. This continue a few hours; and 
then prepare six pellets of the No. Four, in 
fluid, in the same manner, and give every hour a 
spoonful alternately of these two medicines. As 
DISEASES OP INF A UTS AND CHILDREN. the disease improves, the doses may be given 
less frequently; but bo very cautious both as to 
the quantity and quality of food or drink allowed. 
Infantile Bronchitis or Catarrh of the 
Chest of Infants or young Children is at- 
tended with fever, quirk pulae, rapid und diffi- 
cult breathing with rattling of mucus, or fine 
crepitation, and frequent, painful cough. Give 
the Specific Xo. One, in fluid, every hour for 
twelve hours; then prepare the JSo. Seven, in 
fluid, and give the two in alternation every two 
hours until relieved. 
Wetting the Bed.—Children subject to weV 
ting the bed should avoid taking fluids, fruits, or 
watery vegetables in the late evening, or even 
entirely abstain from them at such hours, and 
should take three jielletaof Specific Xo. Thirty 
night and morning. In some cases it arises from 
the Irritation of worms; in others, from an irri- 
table condition of the bladder itself; and in some 
case* from improper hubits. Gut it is almost 
Invariably the result of a morbid condition or 
Irritation of the bladder, or relaxation of its 
sphincter, and is quite beyond the control of the 
child, and is a proper subject of raedieul treat- 
ment. The Specific Xo. Ttcenty-Ttco may be 
given in obstinute cases alternately with Xo, 
Thirty, giving Xo. Tin nty-Two each morning, 
and Xo. Thirty noon and night. Old obstiuate 
or constitutional cases which resist the use of 
No. Thirty should take Dr. Ifurnphreyt' Special 
'Proicription Xo. Thirty, which always curea. 
DISEASE* OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
27 28 
Croup.—Croup in children is usually a sudden 
and sometimes fatal disorder, and it is important 
to know its symptoms, and to have a reliable 
remedy at hand with which to meet it. It often 
comes suddenly at night, after the child has 
been exposed, or out playing in a damp, rough 
wind during the day. The child wakes out of a 
sleep with a sudden, hoarse, barking cough, often 
like the barking of a hoarse dog, and sometimes, 
even at first, some degree of oppressive or diffi- 
cult breathing. In some cases there are frequent 
returns of this hoarse cough, with little or no 
fever, or difficulty of breathing for some hours, 
or even a day or so; and at others there is a high 
fever, quick pulse and red face from the first 
hour of the attack. As the fever increases, the 
cough returns in more frequent paroxysms, and 
the difficulty of breathing increases; often by 
turns becomes wheezing, rattling, and in the 
worst cases, as if breathing through fine brazen 
pipes; and becomes, by degrees, loud, harsh, and 
is heard all over the room. 
If the child improves, the breathing becomes 
easier, softer, the rattling of mucus looser; if 
worse, finer and tighter. Toward the last, the 
head is thrown back to facilitate respiration, the 
larynx rises and falls with every breath, and 
the child is bathed in sweat by the suffering 
and effort. 
These sudden cases, however, usually soon 
yield to proper remedies. But the worst cases 
are those which come insidiously, the child 
DISEASES OP INFANTS AND CHILDREN. DISEASES or INFANTS and children. 
29 
belief scarcely 111 for two or three days, little or 
no cough, or a tnild, muffled cough, but very hoarse 
or whispering speech, or entire loss of voice, the 
difficult breathing only coming on gradually. 
Such cases are highly dangerous. 
Treatment. —For an attack with hoarse, 
croupy cough, either suddenly at night or at 
other times, dissolve at once twelve pellets of 
Specific Xo. Thirteen in six dessert-siHxml’uls 
of pure water, of which give a spoonful every 
half hour at first, and until the child improves, 
keeping the child iu-doors in a warm room, and 
protected from draughts of air for a day or two, 
to prevent a relapse. 
But, if with the croupy cough there is also 
high fever, hot shin, ami some difficulty of breath, 
ing, prepare the Specific Xo. One in the same 
manner as the Xo. Thirteen, and give a dessert- 
spoonful every half-hour, alternately with the 
Xo. Thirteen, until the child is in a perspira- 
tion, and the fever is relieved, then the Xo. 
Thirteen may bo continued alone at intervals 
of an hour or more, as the child improves. 
When a hoarse or a tusjAcious cough at night 
threatens un attack of Cioup, three pellets of 
Specific Xo. Thirteen, occasionally repeated, 
will usually ward off the danger. 
In the worst cases, with hoarse cough, difficult, 
anxious, stridulous breathing, give the Specifics 
Xo. Thirteen and Xo. One, prepared as above, 
a spoonful every hulf-hour alternately. Give no 
other medicines—make no external applications. 30 
for these will do no good, and often impede th* 
cure—only when the fever is high and difficulty 
of breathing great, bathe the child’s feet and legs 
to the knees in quite, warm water, and even its 
hands, for ten or fifteen minutes at a time, then 
wiping them dry and covering them warm to 
perspire. For some days after an attack, do not 
let the child go out, or be exposed to a draught 
of cold air, and during the attack give it no fruit. 
To prevent a return of croup, and to destroy 
the predisposition which some children have 
to it, give three pellets of Specific No. Thir- 
teen morning and night, and after any special 
exposure. 
Whooping-Cough.—Whooping-cough usually 
commences as a common cold, though from the 
first the cough is rather more violent and spas 
modic than in ordinary colds, and not until after 
ten or fourteen days does it assume the true 
distinctive form of whooping-cough, with severe 
shocks of cough in rapid succession, followed by a 
deep inhalation or whoop. This disease, if uncured, 
will continue from six to twelve, or even four- 
teen weeks. 
Directions: To Prevent Whooping-Cough.— 
When children have been exposed, or begin to 
cough, give simply three pellets of Specific No. 
Twenty, four times per day. You thus either 
prevent it entirely, or destroy its force and 
violence. 
For the Cure.—Give three pellets of Specific 
No. Twenty every four hours during the day 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN. 
This is sufficient in ordinary cases, but if very 
severe, administer three pellets every two hours, 
day and night, if awake, placing the pellets in 
the child's mouth, and at longer intervals as 
the child improves. Should there be fever, or 
threatened inflammation of the air-passages, 
give the Specific No. One in alternation with 
the No. licenty, prepared in water, twelve 
pellets of each in six spoonfuls of water, sepa- 
rately, of which give a spoonful every hour, first 
of No. One, next of No. Tieenty, and so on. 
Give the child no meat, cako, rich or heavy food, 
but an abundance of mucilaginous drinks—rice- 
water, barley-water, gum-water or Irish moss 
tea. The disease will thus be broken up or ran 
a *hort. mild and safe course, as thousands of 
cases treated with Specific No. Twenty umply 
testify. 
Spasms.—Spasms or convulsions may occur in 
children from some transient irritation, such as 
teething, indigestible substances in the stom- 
ach, or congestion to the head, or from fever 
or extreme nervous excitement. There is a 
sudden straightening of the body, cramping of 
the limbs, holding the head back or on one side, 
drawing in of the thumbs, distortion of the eyes, 
arrest of breath and loss of consciousness, etc , 
after which the mu soles become relaxed, and the 
patient sinks into a sound sleep, from which he 
awakes restored. But in cases of children, or 
when the irritating cause has not been removed, 
the spasm may return again, or even several 
31 32 
times. Some families of children are subject to 
fits from slight occasion. 
Treatment.—During the attack of convulsions 
It Is better to wait; but if the patient does not 
come out readily, put the feet in warm water, 
and apply cold, wet cloths or cold water to the 
head. If the spasm has been induced by indi- 
gestible food, oranges, candies or sweet-meats, 
especially in children, give a large injection of 
warm water, repeated until free evacuations of 
the bowels take place. Give, also, the Specific 
No. Thirty-Three, six pellets every hour until 
all excitement of the system passes off; then six 
pellets morning and night. 
Epilepsy.—While Epilepsy is more common in 
adults, yet it is first shown in childhood, and 
hence may be treated here. Spasms, Convulsions, 
St. Yitus' Dance and even Hysteria all have their 
first manifestation in the years of growth, and 
are best cured during that period. In true 
Epilepsy there is loss of consciousness during the 
fits, and they recur at intervals, leaving the sys- 
tem comparatively free during the interval, and 
in general the convulsions are more severe, with 
biting the tongue, frothing at the mouth, etc. 
To Cure Epilepsy.—For an attack of convul- 
sions, treat as for spasms. During the interval 
between the attacks, give six pellets morning and 
night of the Specific No. Thirty-Three, and 
avoid all exciting causes of the attack. In old 
chronic cases of Epilepsy or Fits, give six pellets 
of the No. Thirty-Three each night, and the 
DISEASES OP INFANTS AND CHILDREN same of the 1S'o. Thirty-Fire each morning, or 
better send for the Special Prescription 1Vo 
Thirty-Three, for Epilepsy, Spasms, St. Vitus 
Dance, Chorea, Convulsions, Falling Sickness, /n- 
tvoluntary Motions, Jerkings, Twitchings of Single 
Muscles or Limbs, or Unconscious Movements, whlob 
has proven very effectual. 
Chorea or St. Vitus’ Dance is manifested 
by uneasiness, twitching and jerking of the 
limbs, or drawing of the muscles of the face, 
trembling, Inability to hold things, or to feed 
one's self, or even to swallow food without dlfB 
culty, or sometimes even to talk. 
For the Cure.—Give six pellets of Specifiej 
No. Thirty-Three, four times per day. In 
severe or protracted cases, give six pellets of 
the JVo. Thirty-Five before breakfast and 
before supper, and the same of the No. Thirty- 
Three before dinner and at night, or use the 
Special Prescription No Thirty-Three, be 
fore mentioned. 
Hysteria is a form if convulsions resembling 
Epilepsy. But there Is not loss of consciousness 
biting of tho tongue or turning in of the thumbs, 
and it occurs mostly In sensitive or nervous per- 
sons. Give SjH'eifie No, Thirty-Three every 
three hours, and the storm will soon be over; 
then morning and ni ght to prevent a return. 
Children who have twitching of the face or limbs. 
or very restless slee p, or slight convulsions, may 
take the Specific No. Thirty-Five night and 
morning, with prompt relief. 
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN 
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FEVERS. 
PETERS. 
Fevers begin usually with a precursory stage, 
lasting some days, consisting of depression, pain 
in the back or limbs, headache, coated tongue, 
loss of appetite, or general lassitude. After this 
there is either a cold chill or chilliness for a day 
or two, which is followed by high fever, with 
headache, sleeplessness, sometimes delirium, 
full, quick, hard pulse, quick respiration, vertigo 
on rising or sitting up, sometimes vomiting, 
costive bowels, etc. 
This stage continues some days, depending 
upon the character of the fever and treatment, 
after which the pulse by degrees abates, the skin 
gradually becomes moist, the tongue cleans off, 
appetite and strength improve, and the patient 
becomes convalescent. 
It is not always prudent for non-professional 
persons to assume the management of grave 
cases of Fever, even with the aid of these in- 
valuable Specifics. The responsibility is too great. 
There may be conditions and dangers which the 
amateur cannot understand, especially in the 
graver and more persistent forms of fever. So, 
while it is eminently proper and wise to know 
what to give and how to treat the milder forms 
of Fever and the beginnings and earlier forms of 
all Fevers, yet the management of the graver 
forms should be assumed only when competent 
medical aid cannot be obtained. The early 
treatment, as here directed, often arrests and 
entirely cures the milder forms, and always 35 
moderates the forte and character and violence 
of the more serious ones. 
General Directions.—In the treatment of 
all foims of fever, it is of Importance to keep 
the room well aired and lighted, scrupulously 
clean, with frequent change of linen and bed- 
ding, plenty of pure cold water to drink; the 
body, hands and face should be frequently 
sponged off with tepid or cool water. Give 
toast-water, gruel or rice-water for drink, or 
drink made with any mild, fresh or dried fruits, 
except when there is diarrhea. After the fever 
is broken, gradually return to a more substantial 
diet, beginning with toast, baked apples, rice, 
beef-tea, fish, or similar articles. 
VariefUx of Fever are not always sharply de- 
fined. Hut the non-professional reader may find 
the following sufficient for his action : 
Inflammatory Fevers are characterized by 
a strong, quick pulse, hot skin, red face, severe 
headache, hurried respiration, thirst, restless 
tossing and sleeplessness. The symptoms are 
worse in the evening and are better after mid- 
night and toward morning. 
Treatment.—In this form of fever, only the 
Specific Ho. One is required. Dissolve twelve 
pellets in a drinking-glass half full of water, and 
of this give a tablespoonful to an adult, or a 
teaspoonful to a child, every hour for the first 
day or two. or until the force of the disease is 
broken, then at longer intervals until cured. It 
generally yields after a day or two. 
FEVERS. 36 
FEVERS. 
Bilious or Castric Fevers.—The precursory 
gtage is marked by decided bilious derangement, 
with bad taste, coated tongue, headache or back- 
ache. and costive bowels. This after a day or 
two is succeeded by a strong chill, followed by 
sharp, pungent heat, violent headache in the fore- 
head, bad taste in the mouth, heavy-coated 
tongue, bitter, bilious vomiting, highly-colored, 
scanty urine, constipation, sleeplessness, and 
generally delirium, hurried respiration, and 
sharp, quick pulse, and often tenderness of the 
Dowels. 
It may continue seven or fifteen days, and is 
sometimes marked with decided remissions of 
some hours, when the fever returns again as 
before, or it may terminate in Fever and Ague. 
.j)Treatment.—In this disease the Specifics No, 
One and No. Ten are required. Dissolve twelve 
pellets of the No. One in six spoonfuls of water 
tn one glass, stirring carefully with its separate 
spoon until dissolved, and as many of No. Ten 
in another, prepared in the same manner, and 
give every hour a large spoonful alternately of 
the two glasses, first from No. One and next 
hour from No. Ten, and so on until the disease 
is subdued. After twelve or twenty-four hours, 
one dose eveiy two hours will be sufficient.'* Im 
provement will occur in a day, and the disease 
will be carried to a favorable termination. Even 
should several days of treatment be required for 
a permanent cure with the Specifics, it will still 
be much better than merely to suppress the chill FETTERS. 
37 
with Quinine or other violent medicines, only to 
have the chills reappear after a few days. 
In the precursory stage, six pellets of Specific 
Ko. Ten, onee In two or three hours for a day 
or two, will restore the system and arrest the 
outbreak of fever. 
Malaria.—Malaria was formerly considered as 
a miasm, limited to the exhalations engendered 
In low-lying lands—the margin of swamps, and 
along the margin of rivers, or where new land 
and soil have widely been dug up, and expo- 
sure to the action of the sun. But mocjm 
researches have showm that while the miasm is 
more Intense in such localities, yet It is by no 
means confined to them, and that as a fact but 
very few and narrow sections of country are 
entirely free from Malaria—cities, villages, towms 
and country all have It in greater or slighter 
degree. It was also formerly supposed that the 
only result of Malaria was Freer and Ague, or 
some of its precursors or results. But it is now 
known not only to produce this disease, but to 
produce a wide number of disagreeable and 
troublesome symptoms, w’hich fall quite short of 
Fever and Ague or Malaria Fever, and so a large 
number of people suffer from Malaria when 
attributing their trouble to something quite 
different. „ 
Its most frequent mild form is known by a 
slightly coated tongue, bad taste, diminished 
appetite, constipated or irregular bowels, head- 
ache or some form of neuralgia, vague pains in 38 
the back, joints or limbs, feeling of dullness, 
indifference, distaste for work or effort, sleepi- 
ness or drowsiness by day, and unrefreshing 
sleep at night, want of energy; sometimes with 
pale, earthy or yellow face and skin, and general 
feeling of illness. 
This first phase of Malaria, unless cured, will 
develop an Intermitting Fever, or a Remitting 
Fever, out of which will form a Fever and Ague. 
Treatment.—To cure Malaria and arrest its 
further development, take simply, in alternation, 
the Specifics No. Ten and No. Sixteen, a dose 
of six pellets every three or four hours, with 
light, easily digested food, and avoid exposure 
to the hot sun by day, or damp night air, or 
over-fatigue. This course will in a few days rid 
the system of Malaria and arrest the develop- 
ment of Fever and Ague or Bilious Fever. 
Thousands of families living in malarious regions 
are fully protected and have an entire immunity 
from Malaria in all its forms, by simply taking 
Specifics No. Ten and No. Sixteen, as above. 
Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever.— 
Treatment.—For Chills which return every day, 
take, one hour before the chill is to come on, six 
pellets of Specific No. Sixteen. Then, during 
the chill and heat, take every fifteen minutes a 
spoonful of the No. One, prepared as on page 10. 
Then, after the chill and heat and sweat have sub- 
sided, go on with the No. Sixteen, of which 
take six pellets once in four hours until the next 
chill comes on, and then proceed as before. 
FEVERS. For Chills which return every other day.— Give, 
in the sumo manner, a dose of Specific Xo. 
Sixteen before each chill; also the Xo. One 
during the chill and heat and octal, and then the 
Xo. Sixteen attain, during the interval, a dose 
of six pellets every four hours until the next 
chill, and so on until the disease is cured. 
For «’ahbs or Aui'e. or of rnixed, undefined, 
irregular A gum. that do not yield to the Sj>ecifie 
Xo, Sixteen, uive the Xo, Ten in alternation 
with the Xo. Sixteen, a dose of six i>ellets every 
four hours. Dumb Ague, chill Freer and Malarial 
Freer require the same treatment, and will be 
permanently cured by the above course. The 
doses above mentioned are pmi>er for adults. 
Children only require one half, and infants one- 
third as much. 
FEVERS. 
39 
Aroid coffee or rich, heavy food, or over- 
fatigue while you have the disease or during 
convalescence, as a hearty meal, severe labor or 
over-fatigue often provokes a relapse. The 
disease in frequently better the first chill after 
taking the medicine, and will be j>ermaj;ently 
cured by perseverance in its use. This method 
is a thousand times better than tiie use of (Qui- 
nine. Arsenic or the ordinary quack medicines 
so often resorted to. 
For the results of Fever and Ague, and the 
bad effects of the Arsenic, C'holugogue 
and other deleterious drugs so often used to 
suppress the disease, usuully manifested by 
vertigo, ringiug in the ears, deafness, enlarged 40 
FEVERS. 
spleen or ague-cake, swelling of the limbs, 
general feebleness and debility, coated tongue 
and liver complaint—for these symptoms, all of 
which may in greater or less degree follow the 
use of Old School drugs or nostrums, the Spe- 
cifics No. Sixteen and No. Ten, six pellets four 
or six times per day, in alternation, are required. 
In these bad complications the cure may require 
time, but will be perfect and permanent. Thou- 
sands of the most obstinate cases are thus simply 
and happily cured every year. 
Enteric, Typhoid and Typhus Fevers.— 
We do not distinguish these forms of fever as the 
differences to the non-professional mind are 
often not clear, and the treatment is the same. 
These fevers are marked by great weakness 
and prostration of the system, fever usually not 
so high, but early delirium, dry or dark-coated 
tongue, sleeplessness, or deep, profound sleep, 
pain in the head and back. They continue from 
fourteen to twenty-one days, or even longer, run 
a slow course, and are frequently of dangerous 
character, and should rarely be treated without 
competent medical aid. 
Treatment.—Is often successful by giving the 
Specific No. One, dissolved in water, as di- 
rected for other forms of fever, alternately with 
the Specific No. Fourteen; experience having 
shown that this latter Specific is very efficient, 
not only for Eruptive Diseases, but for low 
fevers of every grade. Give these two medicines 
alternately in fluid, a dose every two hours, FEVERS. 
prepared as directed for Billtpu Fever (page 80 , 
eo long as the disease continues. 
When Typhoid or low forms of fever are pre- 
vailing. the Specific >'o. Our, sis pellets taken 
morning and night, or even four times per day, 
will serve to fortify the system and prevent an 
attack, as experience amply demonstrates. 
Yellow Fever.—An attack of Yellow Fever is 
usually abrupt. In some cases there may be 
precursors—a slight depression, loss of appetite, 
languor, pain in the head and chilly sensations 
for a day or two. This is followed by a chill, or 
rigors, generally moderate, soon followed by 
intense fever, rapid pulse, high temperature, 
headache, backache, pain in the limbs, and some- 
times vomiting; retention of urine and costive- 
ness are also present. The eyes are reddened, 
irritable and watery. Mind usually clear, but 
sometimes delirium. 
Treatment.—A* Preventive while the disease 
is prevailing, take six pellets of Specific So. 
One, morning and afternoon, and six pellets of 
Xo. Ten at noon and at bedtime. This should 
protect the system, or render mild any attack 
which may occur. 
If the disease comes on, the patient should 
at once retire to his room and dissolve twenty 
peUete of Specific Xo. One in a glass half full of 
water, of which a large spoonful should be given 
every hour. This continue without interruption, 
except the patient sleeps, through the entire 
first, or stage of fever. 
41 FEVERS. 
42 
Accessory Means.—The importance of clean- 
liness is apparent. Discharges and all soiled 
linen must be quickly removed, and the air kept 
as fresh as possible. During the chil. give a hot 
foot-bath, and during the heat frequent spong- 
ings of the entire body and limbs with tepid 
vinegar and water. • The diet during the first 
stage should be simply toast bread or crackers 
soaked in weak black tea. In the second stage, 
rice, milk, and arrowroot may be added to the 
diet; and in the third, or stage of prostration, 
ice-cream, champagne, beef-tea, or wine-whey 
may be necessary. The patient should remain in 
bed, comfortably but not oppressively covered, 
during the entire course of the disease. 
'I do not recommend, in general, the treat- 
ment of such formidable diseases as Typhus, 
Cholera, or Yellow Fever, by unprofessional 
persons. But there are times and epidemics 
when competent medical attendance cannot be 
obtained, and where these simple directions may 
prove of inestimable value in treating and arrest- 
ing disease and saving life. * 
* Cholera and Cholera Morbus.—These are 
quite different diseases, yet tho medicines which 
cure Cholera wall very promptly also cure Cholera 
Morbus In Cholera Morbus the discharges con- 
sist of what has been taken as food, and is 
ejected again more or less changed; while in 
Cholera, the discharges, after the first two or 
three, consist only of a fluid like rice water, which 
is, in fact, the serum of the blood. The coldness. FEVERS. 
43 
blueness, cramps, etc., are also much more vio- 
lent in Cholera than in Cholera Morbus, und it is 
sometimes rapidly fatal. 
Cholera Morbus Is promptly cured by giving 
the patient six pellets jf Specific Ao, mix every 
half hour at first, and later each hour until cured. 
Cholera.—Precautionauv Measures.— During 
the Prevalence qf Cholera, care mould be taken 
that no decayed vegetable or animal substances 
be permitted ubout the bouse or yard. Keep 
the cellar dry, whitewashed and well aired ; the 
yard and kitchen free from slo|w. Use chloride 
of lime freely about the privy uud sink. Eat a 
simple but nutritious diet; for meat, beef or 
mutton is best, und use rice, farina, ripe potatoes, 
crackers and stale bread. Eat no oysters, eggs, 
clams, fresh fish or pork; and especially avoid all 
fruit und green vegetables, particularly salads, 
cucumbers, melons, cabbage, green peas, beans, 
rhubarbs, currants, gooseberries, etc. For drink, 
use pure water; avoid everything like Boda-water 
or root-beer. Excesses of every kind, mental as 
well ad physical, should be carefully guarded 
against; make no sudden changes; the usual 
habits should be maintained. Eut regular 
meals and go to bed early. Avoid irregularities 
—night-air. late suppers, late hours. Take exer- 
cise, but avoid fatigue. Take food before going 
out in the morning, and maintuin a cheerful, even 
tone of mind. Let your clothing he adapted to 
the temperature of the weather, employing 
rather more, both at night and by day, than 44 
usual, and it is well to use flannel, especially 
about the abdomen, with a view of guarding 
against sudden changes. Do not neglect slight 
indisposition, especially of the stomach and 
bowels, but attend to them at once, as they are 
often the precursors of the disease itself. 
During the Prevalence of the Disease, six pellets 
of Specific No. Six should be taken every night 
and morning by each member of the family, as a 
preventive. If this is followed up, no attack of 
the cholera will ensue, unless from some grave 
error in diet or regimen, and even then the attack 
will be much lighter and easier controlled than 
usual. Persons traveling or much exposed, 
should also take six pellets of Specific No. Six 
night and morning. 
For Cholera-Diarrhea—a peculiar diarrhea, 
which almost invariably precedes the cholera, 
consisting of frequent loose stools, and attended 
with rumbling of the abdomen, a sense of weak- 
ness or faintness in the stomach, and sometimes 
nausea or qualmishness. Directions.—At once 
retire to the room, keep perfectly quiet, and 
take six pellets of the Specific No. Six every 
hour until the diarrhea entirely subsides. Then 
for some days be particularly careful in diet, 
exposure and fatigue. 
When Cholera comes on with sudden coldness, 
prostration of strength, vertigo, giddiness, 
cramps in the calves of the legs, deathly nausea, 
and blueness of the surface, though with not 
much vomiting or diarrhea, Tinct. of Camphor 
FEVERS. is the remedy. Of this give thru drops in a 
spoonful of cold water every five minutes, until 
the coldness, blueness and cramps puss off; then 
It may be omitted, and six pellets of Specific 
No. Six, dissolved in a tablespoonful of lce-oold, 
or cold well-water, given every fifteen minutes 
until relieved. When the vomiting has ceased, 
the doses may be given every hour, and less fre 
quently as the patient improves. 
If the attack cornu on, or assumes the form of 
violent vomiting and diarrhea, with frequently 
returning cramps in the calves of the legs and 
bowels, discharges of the usual cholera char- 
acter, give six pellets of Specific No. Six in a 
spoonful of cold water every ten or fifteen min- 
utes until the symptoms somewhat abate, and 
then at longer intervals, until the disease is 
controlled. 
Persons who have had an attack of cholera, or 
even of cholera-diarrhea, should, for a time, be 
particularly cautious in reference to uudue expo 
sure, fatigue, and especially to any transgression 
in diet. A slight error in this respoct may pro- 
voke a return of the disease, whlob often proves 
more hazardous than the original attack. 
FEV £118. 
45 
During an epidemio of Cholera, Bend for a 
Special Cholera case of Specifics, with full direc- 
tions—price, SI SO to $8.00. 
Diarrhea.—This condition in adults or older 
children requires six pellets of Specific A'o 
Four, four times per day. In some cases the 
alternation of the Specific A’o. Ai* or the Afo, FEVERS. 
46 
Ft t»e with the No. Four is of benefit. And in 
any instance where the disease does not promptly 
yield to the -Vo. Four alone, the Vo. Six, if the 
stools are loose, profuse or watery, or -Vo. Five, 
if there is pain or griping, should be given 
alternately with the No. Four. As the disease 
improves, the doses may be given less frequently, 
with caution as to the quantity and quality of 
food. (See next page.) 
Chronic Diarrhea—several stools per day 
without much pain, gradual loss of strength 
requires three doses of Specific No. Four pe» 
day. If there is discharge of blood or bloody 
mucus, or of pus-like matter, the Specific No. 
Five should be alternated with the No. Four, 
taking six pellets every four hours during the 
day. The very worst cases are thus cured. 
In Traveling, the change of water, irregular 
diet, malaria, or other causes, often occasion 
diarrhea, liable to be followed by dysentery, 
cholera morbus or other grave affection. Hence 
in warm weather care should be taken to avoid 
anything likely to produce this result. Avoid 
fruit, pies, pastry, oysters, or eating in haste. 
Eat crackers, light bread, well cooked meat and 
vegetables, rice, or other plain food, taken at 
regular periods—better too little and too seldom, 
than too often and too much. Any derangement, 
will be promptly remedied by the Specific No. 
Four, six pellets, repeated as occasion demands. 
If looseness of the bowels is accompanied with 
griping or cutting pains, or blood-3tained stools forming what is called dysenteric diarrhea, the 
Specific Mo. Floe, taken every two or three 
hours, will he found, usually, more efficacious 
than the Mro. Four for this form of disease, or 
the two Specifics, Mo. Four and Mo. Fire, may 
be taken in alternation, a dose, six pellets, every 
three hours. 
FBVKVtfl 
47 
In Diarrhea and Dysentery. Morbus 
and Cholera, all fruits and vegetables are per- 
nicious. especially new potatoes, lettuce, beans, 
peas, tomatoes, turnips, radishes, cucumbers, 
and even strawberries; peaches, cherries, plums 
or apples can rarely l>e Indulged in without an 
immediate aggravation of the disease. Attention 
to these few practical hints, and the use of the 
Specific Mo. Four has been effectual in curing 
the disease, and saving multitudes of lives. 
Dysentery,—This is a disease which Is fre- 
quently fatal in summer and autumn. It prevails 
In the fall of the year, when the nights ure cool 
and the days hot. The lirst symptom is usually 
a sensation of heaviness and weight about the 
anus, soon followed by a desire for stool. Or 
there muy be looee stools for a day or two, when 
the evacuations become more tedious, very 
scanty, and attended with straining and a desiro 
to continue the effort, as if the evacuation could 
not be completed. In a little time this desire 
becomes constant, forming what is called tenes- 
mus—the patient wanting to be constantly on 
the chamlwr. The evacuations consist only of 
mucus, mixed more or less with blood; or, 48 
indeed, in some cases, of pure blood mixed with 
shreddy particles, which look like scrapings. 
Before and during the evacuations there are 
violent, cutting, pressing pains in the bowels, 
often very severe. In some cases the stools con- 
sist only of white, gelatinous mucus, like the 
white of an egg, and in others it is only greenish 
mucus, streaked with blood. In some cases there 
Is violent fever; in others, little or none. There 
is no natural fecal matter in the stools—and 
when this appears in any quantity the disease is 
broken. 
Treatment.—The patient should keep quiet, 
avoid exercise or labor of any kind, lie down, 
and confine himself strictly, during the whole 
course of the disease, to a porridqe made of milk 
and flour, well cooked, or to farina gruel, or rice- 
water and boiled rice. No vegetables or fruit 
can be allowed; nor meat, nor meat-broths; and 
spirits, or stimulants of any kind, are absolute 
poison. Use no other medicine, of any kind. 
Opium only conceals the disease, by quieting the 
pain and evacuations, while the disease rages 
more destructively. 
When the disease comes on without any par- 
ticular fever, with cutting pain in the bowels, 
colic, straining, and bloody stools, at once take 
the Specific No. Five, six pellets every hour, 
permitting them to dissolve in the mouth. As 
the disease improves, the intervals between the 
doses may be lengthened. This method, strictly 
followed, will rarely fail to effect decided relief 
FEVERS. in the worst cases, in twelve or twenty-four 
hours; In lighter ones, much more rapidly; and 
permanently cure in four or live days, as the 
experience of thousands testifies. 
If the evacuations are very frequent—every 
ten or fifteen minutes—and the tenesmus or 
straining very distressing, injections of thin 
starch may be given, or the patient may have a 
seat-bath of tepid water. If the disease com- 
mences with high fever, twelve pellets of the 
Specific Xo. One maybe dissolved in six spoon- 
fuls of water, of which give one spoonful every 
hour, two or three doses, before commencing 
the Specific Xo. Five. Then give the Xo. Fire, 
six pellets In a spoonful of water, every half-hour 
at first; then every hour or two hours as the 
disease improves. 
INFLAMMATIONS. 
49 
Inflammations are much the same, in what 
ever part of the system they occur. There i9 
usually a precursory stage, manifested by depres- 
sion and followed by a chill. When located, the 
inflammation is known by the }>ain, heat, redness 
and melting which always attend. 
Congestion of the Chest.—This is usually 
attended with a feeling of oppression, anxiety, 
tightness and heaviness; sometimes a short, 
irritating cough, with palpitation of the heart. 
It is often brought on by exposure or the use of 
etimulants, and may be followed by bleeding 
INFLAMMATIONS. 50 
from the lungs. Twelve pellets of Specific No. 
One, dissolved in half a glass of water, of which 
a dessert-spoonful should be taken every one or 
two hours, will soon remove the difficulty. In 
mild cases, six pellets of the No. One, taken 
dry, three times per day, will suffice. 
Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis and Sore 
Throat, in their various forms, are frequent 
in this changeable climate, and often lay the 
foundation of disease and early decline. Con- 
sumption often commences with what appears 
as a slight cold, to which cough, pain, emaciation 
and hectic fever are added at a later stage. 
A predisposition to take cold from slight expo- 
sure shows a weakness and irritability of the 
pulmonary organs which should not be neglected. 
Such persons should take more than usual care 
to avoid exposure to severe and sudden changes 
of the weather; see that the chest is well pro- 
tected in winter, cold, or rough weather; use 
only water, milk, weak tea or cocoa for drink— 
and men should suffer the beard to grow under 
the chin and over the throat. Six pellets of 
Specific No. Seven, night and morning, will 
allay the irritability of the air passages, and 
fortify the system against pulmonary disease or 
consumption. 
A Coi.d comes on with sneezing, dryness of the 
nose and throat, followed by cough—at first dry, 
but afterward with expectoration of thin, then 
thicker, and yellowish sputa, as the cold breaks 
up. With the cough there is pain or soreness of 
INFLA X M ATIONS. the breast, and sometimes pain in the head, as if 
it would fly in pieces at every cough. Sometimes 
a cold commences with feverisn symptoms. Quick, 
pulse, frequent, short, irritable cough, and more 
or less pain In the side or chest. At other times, 
the cold locates itself upon the throat, producing 
dryness, pain and diflicult swallowing. 
Tkeatment.—Begin with Specific So. Seven, 
and repent the dose every two hours, until the 
cough lteoomes looser and the irritation dimin- 
ishes. ami the cold is subdued. 
If the cold comes on with fever nr heat, hot 
skin or quick pulse, commence with Specific 
So. One, taking six pellets every hour until the 
fever is allayed. Then take the S'o. Seven, six 
pellets as a dose, in the same manner, or alter- 
nate the two medicines at intervals of two hours. 
You will thus arrest the disease and prevent 
the development of a pneumonia or bronchitis. 
In cases of colds, drink freely of cold water, 
live sparingly, avoid coffee, stimulants and over- 
feeding, as well as exposure. 
In cane of chronic couijh. or cold of some stand- 
ing, take the Specific So. Seven four times per 
day. or alternate with the So. One, as above 
mentioned. 
In all cases of coughs or colds where the Spe- 
cific So. Seven fails of prompt relief, always 
alternate with the So. One. 
Bronchitis is un inflammation or irritation of 
the mucus membrane linlug the air passages, 
manifested by hoarseness, cough, sometimes 
INFLAMMATIONS. 
51 52 
fever, irritation and soreness in the chest. In 
its more advanced stages there is hectic fever, 
emaciation, loss of voice, and other symptoms 
of consumption. 
Treatment.—Six pellets of Specific No, 
Seven, taken four times per day, will generally 
cure. But should there he considerable irrita 
tion, or the case not promptly yield, alternate 
the Specific No. One with the No. Seven, a 
dose every three hours. This is the proper treat- 
ment for all irritative, obstinate coughs, and will 
be found successful. , 
Cases of more serious Coughs, Bronchitis or 
Incipient Consumption, attended with cough, 
expectoration, pain or irritation in the breast or 
side, weakness, emaciation, occasional chilliness 
or moving chill and evening fever, deficient appe - 
tite and diminishing strength—all pointing to an 
incipient or even confirmed pulmonary or bron- 
chial disease—may require Special Prescrip- 
tion No. Seven, which is put up for such cases 
This is prepared in the form of two extra large 
vials of medicated pellets, which have in a large 
number of instances successfully restored many 
persons of weak lungs who have been considered 
by their friends as far advanced In consumption. 
It is confidentfy recommended as a most reliable 
cure. Price per package, with full directions, 
$2.00. Sent by mail. 
Hoarseness and Loss of Voice not unfre 
quently accompanies some forms of bronchitis, 
or even common colds; and sometimes It appear? 
INFLAMMATIONS. INFLAMMATIONS. 
53 
In certain persons from almost every exposure. 
It Is always an indication of pulmonary weak- 
ness, and should receive attention. This form 
of disease finds Its remedy in the Specific No. 
Seven. Take six pellets every three hours. In 
obstinate cases, the No. Thirteen may be taken 
in alternation with the No. Seven, and will be 
found successful. 
Clergymen or speakers, after effort, should always 
take six pellets of Specific No. Sewn, or of the 
No. One; the Irritation of the throat and vocal 
organs is at once allayed, and the voice and 
throat preserved. 
Influenza Is an epidemic form of disease, 
localizing Itself principally upon the air passages, 
often prevailing over a large extent of country, 
affecting thousands of people in a similar man- 
ner. These epidemics vary in their character 
from year to year, but in general the depression, 
fever, cough and general condition of the system 
is much more deeply affected than from common 
colds. Six pellets of the Specific No. Seven, 
repeated every three hours, will generally suffice 
to arrest the disease. If there is also sneezing, 
and discharge from the nose and eyes, the No. 
Nineteen will cure, or should be given alter 
lately with the No. Seven. 
Pneumonia or Inflammation of the Lungs 
Is a disease of frequent occurrence, and of dan 
gerous character. It may affect one or both 
sides of the chest, the double form being tho 
more serious. It often comes on after a cold 54 
insidiously, with restlessness, a chill and some 
fever, and sometimes Is well seated before its 
true character is known. There is a deep-seated 
dull pain or oppression under the shoulder 
blades, or side, or breast; feeling of decided 
Illness; frequent short cough, and expectoration 
of sticky, adhesive matter of a green, yellow or 
rust color, usually tinged or mixed with blood, 
and so adhesive that the vessel may be inverted 
without detaching it. The breathing is oppressed, 
short and hurried; skin hot over the ribs and 
armpits; the nose is dry, eyes tearless; thirst; 
speech interrupted, hurried in bad eases. The 
pulse varies, sometimes rapid and full, at others 
hard and wiry, or quick and weak; the urine is 
red, scanty, and sometimes scalding, and the 
patient lies on the affected side or on the back. 
There is dullness over the affected part on per- 
cussion, and on applying the ear crepitation may 
be heard, a sound resembling that produced by 
rubbing a lock of hair close to the ear. 
Treatment.—At once dissolve twelve pellets 
of Specific No. One in six large spoonfuls of 
water, of which give a spoonful every hour. 
Give also a hot foot-bath, and apply cloths wrung 
out of hot water to the chest, covered with dry 
flannel if the oppression is severe. After six or 
twelve hours1 use of Specific No. One, every 
hour, as above, prepare Specific No. Seven in 
like manner, twelve pellets in six large spoonfuls 
of water, of which give, in alternation with 
the No. One, a spoonful every hour, until the 
INFLAMMATIONS. breathing is easier, expectoration more free, and 
heat less, and perspiration api>ears, when the 
intervals between the doses may be increased to 
two hours. The patient must he kept in a warm, 
evenly-tempered room, very quiet and have only 
mucilaginous drinks and farinaceous diet. These 
menus will gradually relieve the oppression, 
allay the fever, induce free perspiration, and 
thus break up the disease. The i>atlent must 
avoid exposure until quite recovered. 
Pleurisy, Stitches in the Sides.—There is a 
form of J-'alee IHeurisy, which is uu affection of 
the muscular tissue of the chest, and may be 
known by the sharp i>ain and soreness along 
between the ribs, and from its coming on without 
a chiU orftver. Tnis is readily cured by Speci/ica 
A#. One and Ao. fifteen, taking six pellets 
every two hours. In alternation, until relieved. 
True Pleurisy.—This comes on suddenly, with 
a shivering chill, fever, and sharp, stabbing pains, 
called etitche* in the aide, generally just below the 
nipple, and on one side. The pains are worse by 
coughing, pressure, or deep inejriration. There is 
also short, frequent, dry cough, parched tongue, 
flushed face, hard, quick pulse, scanty, red urine. 
The patient lies on the back or affected side. Lf 
the lung is also involved, the sputa will be ad- 
hesive and etreaked with blood. If not relieved, 
an effusion of fluid iuto the pleural sac occurs, 
attended with very serious consequences. 
Treatment.—At once dissolve twelve pellets 
of Speci/ic Ao. One in six large spoonfuls of 
INFLAMMATIONS. 
55 56 
water, of which give a spoonful every hour. 
Apply, also, hot wet cloths to the affected side 
and give a hot foot-bath. After six hours, pre- 
pare Specific No. Seven in the same manner 
as No. One, and give of the two alternately, at 
intervals of one hour. Later, as the patient 
improves, two hours between doses, until the 
disease is cured. Care must be taken to avoid 
exposure and not to go out too soon. 
Hemorrhage from the Lungs is promptly 
relieved by the Specific No. One. If there is 
only a slight spitting of stained sputa, with 
some cough, six pellets taken four times per day, 
with quiet and freedom from effort or excite- 
ment, are sufficient. But if the bleeding is more 
profuse, dissolve twelve pellets in six spoonfuls 
of water, of which take one spoonful every hour, 
and the intervening half hour, a half teaspoonful 
of the Marvel of Healing. 
Vomiting of Blood.—This may be known 
from bleeding from the lungs by the blood being 
usually darker, and being thrown up in masses 
by vomiting and without much cough, and re- 
quires the same treatment. Salt water is an old 
remedy, and often serves to allay the bleeding, 
and there is no objection to its being used in 
moderate quantities (a teaspoonful at a time), 
while in the meantime the Specific No. One 
allays the internal congestion, which is the more 
immediate cause of the hemorrhage. 
A Specific Remedy of greater value, however, 
in all cases of hemorrhage or bleeding from any 
INFLAMMATIONS. part of the body, is the Marvel of Healing. Half 
a teaspoonful of this may be taken every hour, 
or even half hour, until relieved, and then at 
longer intervals; or take the Ao. One. 
Inflammation of the Bowels.-This is always 
a dangerous disease, commencing with chilliness 
and pain in the bowels, to which there is added 
extreme tenderness of the abdomen to the touch, 
often also vomiting and constipation. The fever 
soon becomes high, the pulse small, tense, and 
quick. Give the Specific 1Vo. One, six pellets 
every hour, in a spoonful of water, and at the 
same time wring a napkin out of tepid water 
and lay it on the bowels, covering with a dry 
flannel cloth, to keep the bed-clothes dry, and 
renew the wet cloth as often as it gets dry. This 
treatment may relieve the whole disease in a few 
hours, and the bowels will later move of them- 
selves as the disease abates, or if not, they may 
be assisted by an injection of warm water. 
DISEASES OF THE W0E8TIVE ORGANS. 
57 
DISEASES OF THE DICESTIVE ORGANS. 
Nausea and Vomiting frequently occurs. 
Sometimes it is the mere result of overloading 
the stomach; at others, of irritability of this 
organ, arising from some near or remote cause. 
Usually, in simple cases of nausea and vomiting, 
U Is not best at once to Interfere; but wheD the 
stomach has become emptied, or the vomiting 
severe and annoying, you may relieve it by dls- 
* • ring six pellets of specific Ao. six In a glass 58 
of water, of which take a large spoonful after 
every turn of vomiting. It will soon cease. 
Dyspepsia, Weak Stomach, Constipation, 
Bilious Complaints. — Thousands of persons 
suffer from weak stomach, indigestion and their 
kindred evils. With some, it is but a transient 
indisposition, occasioned by a chill, fatigue or 
some error in diet, and is manifested by loss of 
appetite, coated tongue, bad taste in the mouth, 
especially in the morning, dullness and debility. 
With others, it is a more permanent affection, 
with constant weakness of the digestion, so that 
even the mildest food causes heaviness or uneasi- 
ness, costiveness, and that general depression 
and lowness of spirits which mark the confirmed 
dyspeptic. Sometimes even the lightest food 
causes a sensation of fullness of the stomach, 
feeling of weight and heaviness, as if a stone lay 
in the stomach; tight clothes are insupportable, 
and there is tenderness of the part on pressure. 
Often there is acid taste in the mouth, and 
regurgitation of food, or of sour or bad-tasting 
water or air. Usually the bowels are costive, 
move tardily and insufficiently, and piles or 
hemorrhoids and flatulency are rarely absent. 
'J’his condition of things may continue for 
years, embittering the life of the patient, and 
leading to decline. The commonly used remedies 
are worse than useless. Cathartics are injurious; 
for, although they move the bowels for a time, 
their action weakens the digestion, and thus 
increases the difficulty they are intended to cure. 
DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. DISEASES 07 THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
59 
Such persons should be careful of their diet; 
eat only such articles of food as agree with them 
best; eat moderately; masticate the food well; 
take plenty of time for meals, and take but vory 
little fluid while eating; and half an hour before 
each meal and on retiring at night take six 
pellets oi Specific No. Ten, and there will soon 
be an amendment. Perseverance in this simple 
course always affords relief and rarely fuils to 
cure tlie most inveterate eases, as thousands, 
from experience, can testify. 
Constipation or Costive Bow eh is a result 
of indigestion fir torpid action of the liver or the 
lower bowel, and is always increased and con- 
formed by the use of cathartic pills or aperients. 
It will be cured in a natural und permanent 
manner by the following 
Treatment—Take, half an hour before each 
meal, and at night before goto# to rest, six pellets 
of Specific ,Vn. Ten, the last dose in half a glass 
of water. If the bowels fall to move after a 
reasonable time, take a large injection of tepid 
water, which repeat if needful. A simple enema 
of tepid water may always lie resorted to with 
benefit Tills treatment, in connection with the 
use of the Specific So. Ten, so soon as the 
system is fully brought under its influence, will 
not fall to permanently relieve the most obsti- 
nate case of constipation. 
Indigestion or Bilious Condition arises in 
consequence of too heavy a meal, or from fat, 
rich, indigestible food; or food taken at an 60 
unsuitable time, or when the system is depressed 
with grief or care. The tongue is coated, bad 
taste in the mouth, head dull, heavy or aches, 
and bowels confined. Take six pellets of Spe- 
cific No. Ten four times per day, before meals, 
and the condition will soon be relieved. 
For Flatulence or Wind in the Stomach or 
Bowels, use the Specific No. Ten, as above. 
Heartburn, a mere symptom of dyspepsia, 
requires the same Specific, in like doses. 
Piles or Hemorrhoids. —This disease, so 
common and so well known, usually depends 
upon congestion of the abdominal venous circu- 
lation. This congestion eventually results in the 
formation of tumors, and frequent hemorrhage 
or discharge of blood, or, in some cases, a dis- 
charge of mucus, or violent itching. A rational 
treatment will seek to relieve this congested 
condition, upon which the tumors depend. This 
the Specific No. Seventeen will usually accom- 
plish, and for this purpose six pellets should be 
taken four times a day until quite relieved. 
For an attack of Pile-8, with some fever, heat of 
the parts, inflammation of the tumors, which be. 
come red, hard, painful or bleeding, with pain 
extending often to the back or head—keep quiet, 
mostly lying down or but little on the feet, and 
take at first every hour, six pellets of Specific 
No. One, dissolved in water. After a day, alter- 
nate Specific No. Seventeen with the No. One 
at longer intervals, keeping the parts annointed 
with the Witch Hazel Oil. This treatment with 
DISEASES OP THE DIGESTIVE ORGAN'S. care In diet and keeping qnlet never falls to cure. 
Chronic IHU*, which are often attended with 
cotlitv bon'd*, require Specific Xo. iSeventeen, 
momlnr and afternoon, and Xo. Ten ut noon 
ami nijrht. They are infallible. 
DISEASES OK THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 
61 
For the more perfect treatment and cure 
of Piles—external or Internal, blind, bleeding, itching 
or mucus; and for Jistula in ana; for fissures in 
ano; &nd tor falling of the rectum—7)r. Humphreys 
has prepared a Special Prescription contain- 
ing full description and directions, with Oil, 
Capsules, and Medicines for Use. Price $2.00. 
Sent to any address on receipt of the price. 
Castralgia, or Cramp or tur Stomach, is a 
fixed, extremely violent pain at the pit of the 
stomach, often attended with nausea and vomit- 
ing. The pain oomes on in paroxysms, increasing 
and remitting, lasting some hours, and the region 
of the stomach is often bloated and tender to the 
touch. The paroxysms often return at periods 
of a few weeks, with a free interval between. 
Treatment.—Tocure the condition upon which 
it depends, take, night and morning, six pellets 
of the Specific A'o. Ten, as a preventive. For 
an attack, dissolve twelve pellets of the A’o. Ten 
in a glass one-third full of water, of which take 
a large spoonful every fifteen minutes. Should 
the Ao. Ten not relieve, prepare the A’o. One 
in the same manner, and take alternately with 
the A’o. Ten, Warm or hot cloths laid over the 
stomach are often soothing; sometimes a hot 
foot-bath to relax the system. 62 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS. 
Bilious Colic consists of paroxysms of most 
violent griping, cutting or rending pain in the 
bowels, often with severe suffering, sometimes 
remitting for an instant, and then returning with 
greater intensity. The paroxysms are occasioned 
by exposure, passage of gallstones, and other 
causes, and sometimes return at intervals of 
four, six or twelve weeks. 
For an attack take six pellets of Specific No. 
Five dry, dissolved in the mouth. This may 
entirely relieve. If not, dissolve twelve pellets 
in six spoonfuls of water, of which give a spoonful 
every ten or fifteen minutes, until relieved. If 
heat, fever or great restlessness comes on, or the 
bowels become painful on pressure, threatening 
Inflammation, dissolve the Specific No. One in 
water, as above, and give alternately with the 
No. Five, a dose every half hour. Use no other 
medicines, internally or otherwise—only, if the 
case is obstinate, inject tepid water in large 
quantities. This not only relieves, but also facili- 
tates a cure. 
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORCANS. 
Headache is less frequently a disease Itself 
than a symptom of some more general affection. 
Sometimes it is comparatively trivial, at other 
times of great importance, often interrupting the 
business of the patient, causing great suffering, 
and prostrating the system so frequently as to 
undermine the health. Persons subject to headaches should abandon 
the use of coffee, and also of strong tea, as the 
use of these beverages often contributes to keep 
np the disease and In some cases alone causes 
It. They should live regularly and temperately, 
and take every night six pellets of Specific Jfo. 
Ten on retiring, and six of the -Vo. -VInr in the 
morning on rising. Thousands have thus been 
permanently cured. 
For an attack take six pellets of Specific No. 
-Vine every hour until the suffering abates. If 
the attack commences with blindness, followed 
by extreme nausea and vomiting, twelve pellets 
of Specific -Vo. Vine may be dissolved in a glass 
one-third full of water and a dessert-spoonful 
of the fluid may be taken every half hour, until 
the more violent symptoms abate. Heat and 
throbbing in the head is cured by Specific Vo. 
One, which may be prepared in water, or be 
given dry every hour. 
Headaches from Constipation or derangement 
Of the riomach are cured by the Specific Vo. Ten, 
taking six pellets every hour during an attack, 
and then night and morning. 
The cure of old, long-standing headaches re- 
quires time and perseverance, but can invariably 
be accomplished by taking the Specific Vo. 
VI ne each morning and Vo. Ten at night. ” 
Sleeplessness, Nervousness and Restless- 
ness of adults finds a charming remedy in the 
Specific Vo. Three. Six pellets taken on going 
to rest, or if wakeful during the night, act like 
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORQANS. 
63 64 
a charm. Sleeplessness with fullness or beating in 
the head, or red face, such as people of full habit 
are subject to, is cured by Specific No. One, six 
pellets at bed-time, and that from indigestion, by 
the No. Ten, six pellets at night. 
Toothache is an affection too well known to 
require description. The pain is usually found in 
connection with decayed teeth, but sometimes 
also in sound ones. When badly decayed teeth 
begin to ache, it may be best to have them ex- 
tracted. Yet even here, the Specific No. Eight 
will often allay the pain, and the teeth may do 
good service for years. But when pain affects 
sound teeth, we should rarely have them taken 
out until we have exhausted every means to 
relieve without this alternative. It is a most 
insane practice when we have a toothache, which 
may be occasioned from a cold or other transient 
cause, to rush to the dentist and lose a tooth. It 
is better to exercise a little patience and judg- 
ment- quiet the system, and allay the exciting 
cause, and save the tooth. 
Treatment.—Take six pellets of Specific No. 
Eight, repeating every hour. If not relieved, 
dissolve twelve pellets in a glass half full of 
water. Also prepare the Specific No. One in 
the same manner, and take of the two alternately 
every hour a dose until relieved. Sometimes 
the No. Fifteen is very efficient, and in other 
cases the No. Ten. Toothache with swelling of 
the face requires the No. One and No. Eight 
In alternation. 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS. DISEASE* OF VARIOUS ORGANS. 
65 
It is a bad practice In toothache to hold spirits, 
camphor, or other heating stimulants in the 
mouth, or to apply creosote, laudanum, oil of 
cloves, etc. These more frequently irritate than 
relieve. Let the diet be light if the stomach is 
deranged; if there is a cold, cure that and you 
will soon find relief and save your teeth. " 
Neuralgia.—The pain is usually limited, or 
extends along the course of a branch of nerves, 
and is very acute, cutting or piercing in its char- 
acter. The pain has also its periods of increase 
and diminution, often worse in the evening and 
at night, and better In the morning. There 19 
usually no tenderness on pressure, in distinction 
from palu of an inflammatory character. Six 
pellets of Specific Vo. Might, taken every one 
or two hours, will, in most instances, afford 
prompt relief. Incase the Vo. Might does not 
relievo, alternate it with the Vo. One, as in 
other cases. Sometimes the Vo. Eight and Vo. 
Ei/tcen are alternated with great advantage. 
Inflamed and Sore Eyes and Eyelids.— 
For an acute attack of Ophthalmia or Inflamed 
Egtt. with pain, dread of light, flow of tears 
and inflamed appearance of the eye ball, dis- 
solve twelve pellets of Specific Vo. Eighteen 
in a glass half full of pure water, of which take 
a spoonful every three hours. Also dissolve 
twelve pellets of the same Specific in a tea-cup 
of pure, *oft water, and with this bathe the 
affected eye from time to time. A yet better 
lotion for sore or weak eyes is made by adding a 66 
large spoonful of the Marvel of Healing to a tea- 
cup half full of pure, soft water, and with this 
bathe the eyes every three hours. Continue this 
from day to day until cured. The eyes should 
be shaded from strong light, and not taxed by 
reading or sewing. 
In cases of chronic inflammation of the eyes or 
eyelids, bathe the eyes as above directed three 
or four times per day, and take six pellets of 
Specific No. Eighteen dry, on the tongue, at 
night, and the same of No. Thirty-Eive each 
morning. 
Persons suffering from weak, inflamed or sore 
eyes should live on plain, light food, but little 
meat or spiced food, and no coffee or stimulants. 
Plenty of exercise in the open air, but nothing to 
overheat or fatigue the system or eyes. 
Stye on the eyelids is usually promptly cured 
by taking six pellets of Specific No. Eighteen, 
four times per day. 
Weak and Deficient Sight.—For the cure of 
weak eyes, failing, deficient, blurred or weak sight, 
simply take six pellets of Specific No. Eighteen 
night and morning. Also frequently bathe the 
eyes and around the eyes with cold water, or 
diluted Marvel of Healing, avoid straining or 
fatiguing the eyes by fine work, reading fine 
print, or any long-continued effort of the eyes, 
and also the use of glasses which fatigue or 
weary the eyes. And especially avoid taxing 
the eyes when the body is weak or feeble. This 
treatment not unfrequently improves the sight, 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS. prevents Its premature failure and the early 
resort to glasses. 
Earache, Discharge from the Ear.—As tne 
result of Scarlet Fever, Measles, or from Mercu 
rial Poisonln* or Scrofula, discharges take place 
from the ear, either of pus or puriform mucus. 
Often during this morbid condition of the ear. a 
slight cold Induces an inflammatory action and 
pain, resulting, after a time, In a fresh discharge 
from the ear. These frequently recurring dis- 
charges generally terminate in noises in the head 
partial deafness, or even entire loss of hearing 
For Earache, take six pellets every hour of 
Specific 1Vo. Twenty-Two, until relieved- 
Alternate the S'o. One if there is heat or fever, 
or the S'o. Three for infants. 
For Discharge from the Ear, either in adults 
or children, simply give six pellets of Specific 
\o. Tirenty-Tico moruing on arising, and at 
night on retiring. Time must be allowed, in con- 
nection with the medicine, to perfect the cure. 
For Hardness of Hearing, Noises or Rino- 
ino in the Ears, give six pellets of Specific S'o., 
Twenty-Tico morning and night. The most 
gratifying effects In relieving the noise and im- 
proving the hearing result. 
Injections of water and castile soap fc the 
ears are generally Injurious, and should only be 
resorted to for purposes of cleanliness, If at ail. 
Chronic Catarrh, or Cold in the Head.— 
Catarrh is. in most instances, a chronic inflam 
matlon and thickening of the mucus or pituitary 
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS 
67 DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS. 
68 
membrane lining the nasal cavities, and some- 
times involving also the air-passages. 
Its principal symptom is a discharge, of various 
character, color, and consistency, sometimes 
thick and offensive, at others thin and acrid; 
there is often pain and heaviness across the 
forehead and upper part of the nose, sneezing 
and raising of the mucus from the throat, and a 
sense of something dropping in the throat. It is 
usually worse in cold and changeable weather, 
and better when dry and warm. 
For old or chronic cases, when the symptoms 
are only moderate, six pellets of Specific No. 
Nineteen, taken four times per day, will be suf- 
ficient. But if the symptoms are more violent, 
with profuse discharge, pain in the head, dull- 
ness, or similar symptoms of acute catarrh or 
Influenza, take six pellets every two hours. 
Patience and perseverance in the use of the 
Specific will cure most cases of chronic or obsti- 
nate catarrh. 
For those more obstinate, deep-seated or long- 
standing cases of Catarrh, or more properly 
Ozaena, attended with profuse discharge, thick, 
yellow or dry crusts, offensive smell, at times 
sore throat, loss of smell or taste—we offer in 
confidence a Special Prescription for Chronic 
Catarrh, consisting of two large vials—one of 
powder and one of pellets—as being by far the 
most safe and reliable remedy known. It has 
cured thousands, and none have taken it without 
benefit. Price, with directions, $2.00. If a Catairh or Influenza or Cold in the Head has 
come on from taking cold, wetting the head or 
other exposure, with sneezing, obstruction or 
discharges from the head, six pellets of Spe- 
cific No. One, every two hours, will promptly 
relieve. If not fully cured, alternate the No. 
Seven with the No. Nineteen, if there is cough 
and irritation of the lungs. 
Autumn Catarrh, Hay Asthma, and Rose 
Catarrh are the various names by which a 
peculiar yearly recurring catarrhal affection is 
known. In some cases it comes on in June, with 
the advent of roses; in others with the first 
mowing of hay; but in the vast majority, on or 
about the 20th of August. The access is sudden, 
often attended with violent sneezing, repeated, 
again and again, tearfulness, running from the 
eyes and nose of thin, irritating water; itching 
of the forehead ,nose, eyes and ears; general 
irritability and lassitude; redness and swelling 
of the eyelids and nose, and as the disease affects 
the chest or bronchial tubes, of severe dyspnoea 
or asthma, sometimes preventing lying down, 
and for days and weeks keeping the patient in 
the greatest distress and peril. The disease 
usually continues until frosty weather; is better 
in high mountainous regions, at sea, or in pure 
air; and is aggravated by dusts riding in cars, the 
pollen of hay or flowers, and in low, miasmatic 
regions. Sea-bathing is often beneficial, and a 
sea-voyage affords entire relief. It is difficult 
of cure, but the Specifics No. Nineteen and 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS. 
69 70 
Xo Eighteen may be used, six pellets In alter- 
nation, a dose every two hours, for the sneezing 
catarrh and running from the eyes. The Spe- 
cific Xo. Twenty-One will be effectual for the 
asthmatic attack, given by dissolving twelve 
pellets in half a glass of water, of which a 
spoonful may be taken every half-hour or hour, 
according to circumstances. For the better 
treatment of Hay Catarrh, we have & Special cast 
of Specifics with three vials of liquid, and with 
full directions, which has proved very effective 
Price, $3.00. 
Asthma is known by occasional paroxysms of 
difficult breathing, lasting from a few hours to 
several days, coming on at intervals, to be fol- 
lowed by remissions, during which the patient 
breathes with comparative ease. The attack 
returns again, either at regular intervals, or is 
provoked by exposure to cold, damp air, severe 
effort, or even mental emotions. During the 
attack, the respiration is labored, wheezing, 
sighing, loud, accompanied with anxiety and 
frequent cough. Sometimes the lips and face 
become bluish, and toward its close, or even 
during its entire continuance, free expectoration 
of m icus. 
The disease depends upon a variety of morbid 
conditions, usually .chronic thickening, with ex- 
treme irritability of the mucus membrane of the 
air-passages; but it may also arise from disease 
of the heart or large vessels, or other similar 
organic changes. 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS The permanent cure will depend upoa the 
curability of the original morbid condition, but 
in all rases benefit may be obtained by the use of 
Specific Xo. Twenty-One, and many, even old 
obstinate cases aro permanently cured by it. 
Treatment.—During the intervals, and to pre- 
vent a return of the paroxysm, take six pellet* of 
tipect/ic So. Twenty-One, morning and night. 
During the Paroxysm.—First take six pellets 
of Specific 2Vo. Twenty-One dry, and then dis- 
solve twelve pellets in a glass half full of water, 
and of the solution take a dessert-spoonful every 
hour. If there is heat and feverish excitement, 
prepare Specific Xo. One in the same manner 
and take alternately with the Jfo. Twenty-One. 
Xo. Sljc often promptly helps. 
Disease of the Heart is generally manifested 
by palpitation, spells of violent beating, or other 
irregular action of the heart; difficulty of going 
up stairs, or ascending a hill; suffocutlve turns; 
inability to sleep with tho head low, and similar 
symptoms of impeded circulation, borne cases 
of organic disease of the heart are incurable; but 
all may be benefited, and cases of functional 
disease's of this organ are controlled by the Spe- 
cifics hero named and proper habits. 
Treatment.—Avoid excitement, severe effort, 
running, mounting stairs, or whatever may occa- 
sion violent or irregular action of the heart, and 
take six pellets of Specific Xo. Thlrty-Txeo 
night and morning, or even four times per day. 
Even severe and long-standing cases are cured. 
DISEASES or VARIOUS OKGANS. 
71 DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS. 
72 
For simple palpitation of the heart, six pellets will 
usually suffice; if not soon relieved, alternate 
with the Specific No. One, at intervals of an 
hour, until the attack passes off; then go on with 
the No. Thirty-Two. 
General Debility, or Physical Weakness, is 
usually the result of sickness, or of some drain 
upon the system beyond its power of recupera- 
tion. The symptoms are varied—weakness, easy 
fatigue, weak or lame back, sweat on going to 
sleep, vertigo, singing in the ears, starting on 
going to sleep, are among the more frequent 
manifestations. The first element of a cure is to 
arrest the drain, and restore the wasted sub- 
stance by means of proper nourishing diet and 
regimen, such as nutritious, easily assimilated 
food, appropriate in quality and quantity; good 
wine, or even malt beer or whiskey, in small 
quantities, for old or very feeble patients; and 
good air and reasonable exercise. With this 
also take of Sjtecific No. Twenty-Tour six 
pellets four times per day, permitting them to 
dissolve in the mouth. 
Should there also be weak, feeble or imperfect 
digestion, as is often the case, the Specific No. 
Ten may be taken alternately with the No 
Twenty-Four, two doses of each per day, with 
splendid results. 
Compare carefully, so as not to confound Gen 
eral Debility with Nervous Debility. For, while 
the two conditions may have similar results, the 
treatment is quite different. Nervous Debility frequently results from 
losses whirh take place at night, and even at 
other times, resulting In weakness, nervousness, 
and sometimes In loss of strength and health. 
Not unfrequently premature decline and extreme 
nervous prostration Is the result. Nervous Irrita- 
bility. weakness and emaciation are very common 
effects, while a loss of mental power, tone and rigor. 
Is an Inevitable consequence. 
These disorders, ns well as the final cause of 
them, can be cured by proper habits and the use 
of the Specific No. Twenty-Eight. 
To Cent, remove, as far as possible, all excit- 
ing causes, avoid unchaste thoughts, fancies or 
excitement, and at night sleep on a mattress or 
a hard bed, with but slight covering—not too 
warm—and always lie and sleep upon the side, 
and never upon the bach. 
lie temperate in diet—meat only onee per day. 
and never late at night; no spirits, hot spiced 
drinks or exciting food, and be sparing of coffee, 
end tako six pellets of Specific .Vo. Twenty - 
Eight morning and night. 
In serious or long-standing cases, It Is better 
to procure a ?5.00 package for Nervous Debility, 
containing a large vial of powder and five vials 
of jHdlets. of which the powder is to be taken in 
the morning, and six of the pellets at noon and at 
night.•This course may be considered Infallible, 
with proper habits and regimen. The prostration, 
nervousness and debility are promptly relieved, the 
mental dullness and gloom dispelled, and a cure 
DISEASES or VARIOrS OROAXS. 
73 74 
follows gradually and permanently. For more 
than twenty years it has given complete satis- 
faction to thousands. The package is sent by 
mail on receipt of the price. 
Rheumatism appears mostly in two forms— 
the acute or inflammatory and the chronic. 
Acute Rheumatism usually comes on after ex- 
posure to rough, damp, cold weather, and often 
from labor or exertion during exposure. There 
Is fever, painful tenderness, soreness, lameness, 
and swelling of the affected part, and the disease 
Is liable to shift from one part to another. It is 
mostly confined to the joints and extremities, 
but sometimes falls upon the chest or heart, 
©specially if blisters or powerful applications 
we made to tbe affected part. 
i Treatment.—For Acute Rheumatism, with sore- 
ness, lameness and pain in the part, take six 
pellets of Specific No. Fifteen every hour, and 
the patient should remain in-doors, and keep 
quiet until relieved. If fever, heat and swelling 
of the part are present, or a chill succeeded by 
heat, prepare Specific No. One by dissolving 
twelve pellets in half a glass of water, of which 
give a large spoonful every hour for a day, and 
then prepare the No. Fifteen in the same man- 
ner, and take of the two alternately at intervals 
of two hours. These medicines should be con- 
tinued from day to day, until the disease is 
broken up, preparing the two Specifics fresh 
©very morning, Applications of cloths wrung 
out of tepid water, and laid on the part, are very 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS. soothing. Cold water, however, applied to the 
part i« very liable to cause its falling upon the 
heart, and thus often ending with serious results 
The Marcel qf Healing is a most valuable appli 
cation for the inflamed and swelled parts, anc 
may be applied according to directions on eaet 
bottle. Also the Mitch Hazel OH (see pages 12t 
and U6. 
• For Chronic Rheumatic Pains in the shoul 
ders, arms, hands, kneea or feet, take six pellete 
of Specific No. Fifteen four times per day. 
until relieved. If there is stiffness, lameness, or 
contraction of the tendons, rubbing the par1 
night and morning with the Witch Hazel Oil is 
invaluable. 
For Lumbago or painful rheumatic stiflfnest 
across tho loins and back, take Specific No 
Fifteen, as above, four times per day. 
Pains, stinging, stitches or soreness about the 
chest or elsewhere, soon yield to the Specific 
No. Fifteen, taken as above. 
For Sciatica, or pain extending along the 
course of the sciatic nerve, from the hip alon; 
down to the leg and foot, take the Specific No 
Fifteen, six pellets four times per day. The 
most obstinate cases have been cured by this 
Specific. 
In all cases of Rhevmathrm. Rheumatic Fain, <x 
Sciatica, when the Specific No. Fifteen fails tc 
afford the desired relief, it should be. alternated 
with the No. One, three hours apart in acute 
cases: in chronic ones, four times per day. 
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS. 
75 76 
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS. 
The consequence of a fall, shock, contusion, or of a 
wrench, overstraining or excessive labor or exer- 
tion, soon yield to the same treatment. 
Rheumatic patients should use largely, in their 
diet, of fruit—oranges, apples, grapes, pears, 
berries, either eaten alone or with milk, and 
vegetables, and little or no meat. The acid of 
fruit is a valuable curative for all forms of this 
disease, and should be partaken of freely. 
Sea-Sickness. —The peculiar sickness and 
utter wretchedness and prostration experienced 
by persons on first going to sea, and even in a 
measure by some persons from riding in a car, 
stage or wagon, is so well known as not to re- 
quire description. 
It can, however, in most cases be cured by the 
Specific No. Twenty-Six, taken as follows: 
Previous to sailing, as a preventive, take Spe- 
cific No. Twenty-Six, six pellets every four 
hours, permitting them to dissolve on the tongue, 
beginning several hours before sailing. Hun- 
dreds have thus been saved from sea-sickness. 
After sailing for the first two or three days, 
take six pellets every three hours; and should 
there, notwithstanding, be sickness, vertigo, 
nausea or vomiting, dissolve twelve pellets in 
half a glass of water, and take a dessert spoonful 
every hour, until the sickness abates. 
For Sickness, Nausea or Vomiting, from rid- 
ing in a carriage or cars, or similar motion, six 
pellets of Specific No. Twenty-Six every hour 
Boon relieve. DISEASES Or VAKIOUS OlK.ANS. 
77 
Tape-Worm Is rare In this country, but com- 
mon where people eat undercooked meat. The 
worm consists of a liejid and suckers, a neck and 
a body, which consists of flat, ribbon-like sec- 
tions, a third of an inch in width, and half or 
three-fourths of au inch in length, and of which 
there may be scores. As the eggs in these sec- 
tions or joints ripen toward the lower end, they 
are cast off and takeu into another organism 
(the hog), become there a grub, which again, 
when taken into the human system, becomes the 
veritable tape worm. All symptoms of its pres- 
ence are equivocal, except the segments of the 
worm are found in the discharges. Some patients 
have no inconvenience from their presence; 
others complain of itching of the nose, vertigo 
or dizziness; darkness before the eyes; noise in 
the ears; palpitation of the heart. For its radical 
cure, send to the Company for the Tape-Worm 
Prescription; price, $100, with directions. 
For Itching at the Anus, which often arises 
from the presence of Ascaridcs or Pin - Worms, 
give the Sped tic No. Tiro, four pellets morning 
and night. If you desire immediate relief, give 
an injection of un ounce of sweet oLL Anoint the 
anus also with lii/cA Hazel Oil ut night. 
Scrofula is usually considered as a constitu- 
tional vice of the system, manifesting itself in 
enlargement und induration of the glands, which 
may sulieequently soften and ulcerate; enlarge- 
ment, curvature or softening of the bones. The 
swelling of the glands is most frequently -manifested about the neck, beneath the ears or 
'aws, in the form of firm, hard, painless lumps. 
Scrofula not unfrequently complicates other 
forms of disease, and renders them obstinate. 
Its eradication from the system requires time 
and perseverance, but may be accomplished by 
the use of the Specific No. Twenty-Three. A 
.ife-long constitutional taint requires time as well 
as proper medicine for its cure; and if eradicated 
in one or two years, the patient has reason for 
congratulation. Old School medicine and Quack- 
ery absolutely fail to cure it. 
For Deficient Growth, feebleness, weakness, 
ear discharges, enlarged or suppurating glands, 
Specific No. Twenty-Two, three times 
per day. 
For Enlarged Glands about the neck, or in 
the arm-pits, groins, or other parts of the system, 
take six pellets of Specific No. Twenty-Three, 
morning and night; and if the swellings are 
painful or discharge, take the medicine four 
times per day. 
For Old Tumors, wherever situated, take 
Specific No. Twenty-Three, six pellets morn- 
ing and night. 
For Enlarged Tonsils, take six pellets of 
Specific No. Twenty-Three, morning and 
night; and if the tonsils or throat are sore and 
'nflamed, take the Specific No. One, six pellets 
bvery two hours, until the soreness is subdued; 
.hen return to the use of the No. Twenty-Three, 
jr use the two alternately, every four hours. 
78 
DISEASES OP VARIOUS ORGANS. DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 
DISEASE* or TIIE SKIN. 
79 
It Las been common to treat eruptions by 
means of applications directly to the surface, 
which is the particular seat of the disease. But 
no eruption forms upon the surface without the 
co-existence of a morbid oondltion of the system 
lienee the propriety of treating all such erup- 
tions with internal remedies. It Is not difficult 
to repel an eruption from the surface by active 
medicinal applications; but the disease is rarely 
thus cured, but is merely repelled, to fall upon 
some other organ or surface, and is generally 
more dangerous and difficult of cure. Hence we 
prescribe for the surface Involved only proper 
care and cleanliness, and the internal use of the 
Specific for the cure of the disease. The cure Is 
then natural, permanent and without injury. 
The Specific .Vo. fourteen is wonderfully 
effective for the following forms of disease: 
Erysipelas, either acute or chronic. The acute 
form often appears on the face, commencing on 
one cheek or ear, and passes over the face or 
scalp like a fire, with rttinm, swelling, Itching, 
heat and burning, and is followed by desquama- 
tion or scaling off of the surface. Often blisters 
or vesicles arise, fill with serum, and burst, 
covering the surface with thickish crusts. In 
such acute cases, dissolve twelve pellets of 
Specific Ao. fou rteen in six dessert-spoonfuls 
of water, of which give one spoonful every two 
hours, until the disease is cured. Make no appli- 
cation to the surface; live ou vegetable soups. 80 
DISEASES OP THE SKIN. 
toast-water, but no meat or meat-broths. The 
disease will usually pass off quietly and safely. 
In the chronic form, where simple red patches 
appear from time to time, either on the legs, 
face or other parts of the system, with itching 
and burning, six pellets of Specific No. Four- 
teen, four times per day, will be sufficient. 
Shingles, a form of vesicular Erysipelas, which 
comes out in blisters on the breast or sides, ex- 
tending partly around the body like a belt, 
requires six pellets of Specific No. Fourteen, 
four times per day—soon cured. 
For Nettle Rash, with reddish spots, which 
resemble mosquito stings, attended with burning 
and itching, in adults or children, give six pellets 
of Specific No. Fourteen, every four hours. 
If it is very itching and troublesome, alternate 
the No. One with the No. Fourteen, at inter- 
vals of two hours. 
For Eczema, Tetters, Scabby, Crusty Erup- 
tions on the face, around the mouth, on the ears, 
cheeks or forehead, with rough, scaly, chapped 
skin, attended with itching and burning; the 
crusts fall off, leaving an angry, sore surface, 
upon which the crusts form anew—for all such 
eruptions, whether called Eczema. Herpes, Tetters, 
Milk Crusts, Salt Rheum, or Barber's Itch, give to 
adults six pellets, or to children three pellets, of 
Specific No. Fourteen, night and morning, or 
even four times per day. This treatment, perse- 
vered in, will, in time, radically cure the disease. 
Special Frescription No. Fourteen — two largo vials, one of powder and one of pellets—is 
for the curcVtf those Inveterate cases of Chronic 
Eruption*, whatever may he their particular 
coarse ter or location. It has proven infallible 
Price, $2.00. 
Scald Head. —The eruption is either dry 
tcvrfy, outtiug off the hair, or movd with eruption 
of pustuleoon a red base, and discharge of thick 
yellowish matter, forming thick crusts and ex 
tending in patches over the head—five six pelleto 
of Specific No. Fourteen three times per day 
Shingle off the hair if it is difficult to keep cleat, 
and if sore or excoriated, be cautious about tha 
application of soap or water, and moisten wita 
the Til/cA Hazel Oil, every other day. 
For Salt Rheum on the hands, feet, legs 
arms, or elsewhere, if chronic or of long stand 
Ing, take six pellets of Specific No. Fourteen, 
night and morning. 
For Acne or Pimples on the face and fore 
head of young jieople, which often appears in 
the form of small red pimples, sometimes slightly 
inflamed, and frequently with a black point or 
head, and often continuing for years, take six 
pellets of Specific No. Fourteen, night and 
morning, or, if the face or pimples are red, take 
the No. Th Irty- Fire each miming, and the No 
Fourteen at night. The eruption can lie entirely 
cured and the complexion wonderfully cleared 
by the No. Fourteen and No. Thirty-Fire, it 
perseveringly used, as the experience of hun 
dreds testifies. 
DISEASES OF THE SKIJl 
81 82 
Suppurating and Irritative Ulcers on the 
body and limbs are perfectly cured by taking 
Specific No. Fourteen, six pellets tliree times 
per day, and applying the Witch Hazel Oil. 
Old Ulcers on the legs, or other parts of the 
system are cured in the same manner. Take the 
Specific No. Fourteen three times per day, and 
apply Humphreys’ Witch Hazel Oil on a clean rag 
over the ulcer, and bind over it a proper band- 
age, rolling it from the toes upward over the 
entire sore, or yet better, apply an elastic stock- 
ing. The dressing should be changed daily. In 
some obstinate forms of ulcers, the alternate 
use of Specifics No. Tieentij-Three and Four- 
teen, morning and night, is better, six pellets 
at a dose. Almost every form of ulcer is thus 
cured. 
Chapped Hands or Lips require the Specific 
No. Fourteen, six pellets night and morning, 
and apply Witch Hazel Oil, or glycerine. 
Boils are small, well-known tumors, somewhat 
conical in shape, at first hard and inflamed, and 
which gradually suppurate and discharge, at first 
blood (or matter mixed with blood) and after- 
wards pus and a core. Sometimes successive 
orops of boils appear for months, or even years. 
Cured by taking Specific No. Fourteen, four 
times per day. 
Carbuncles are malignant boils, with inflam- 
mation of the surrounding tissue, from an inch 
to six inches in diameter, hard, livid, with great 
pain, itching and burning, not suppurating like 
DISEASES OF THE SKIN. a boil, but discharging a thin, acrid fluid from 
several openings, having a whitish mass within, 
which being discharged, leaves a deep, ugly 
cavity—very painful and dangerous if large, or 
situated on the head or neck. 
Treatment.—Give six pellets of Specific Xo. 
Fourteen in alternation with Xo. One. a dose 
every two or three hours if awake or in pain, 
either dry or in water; also frequently anoint the 
tumor or boil with Humphreys’ Witch Hazel OU. 
To prevent the reappearance of boils or carbun- 
cles, take six pellets of the Xo. Fourteen threa 
times a day for some weeks. 
Small-Pox may be managed by keeping the 
patient quite cool, especially when the par ie com- 
ing out; cold room, no fire, and giving Specific* 
Xo. One and A’o. Fourteen dissolved in water, 
one dose every two or three hours, prepared as 
directed on page 10. The same treatment for 
modified Small-Pox or Varioloid. 
URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES. 
83 
URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES. 
Chronic disease of the Kidneys is usually man! 
fested by pain and weakness in the small of the 
back, and frequent discharges of scanty, muddy, 
thick urine, variously colored—sometimes de- 
positing a pus-like or brlckdust sediment. This 
condition finds a prompt relief, and by persever- 
ing treatment an ultimate cure, by the use of 
Specific No. Tirentp-Seven, taking six pellets 
three or more times per day. 84 
Catarrh of the Bladder.—Old chronic irrita- 
tion and frequent inflammations of the bladder 
are apt to result in a chronic irritation and thick- 
ening of the mucus membrane of the bladder, 
urethra and prostrate gland. There is frequent 
desire to urinate; the fluid is forcibly or spas- 
modically ejected in small quantities, and the 
passage is attended with aching, burning or 
spasmodic pain (strangury). The pain may he 
confined to the bladder or extend to the end of 
the penis, around the pelvis or down the thighs. 
The urine may or may not he unnatural; hut 
when the disease has become chronic, mucus or 
pus is passed with it, thus constituting what is 
called Catarrh of the Bladder. Healthy persons 
urinate on an average five or six times in the 
twenty-four hours, but when there is inflamma- 
tion or irritation, a slight distention is painful 
and the calls are frequent. 
Treatment. — Specifics Xo. Tiventy-Seven 
and 2Vo. Thirty are the remedies. Take the 
JVo. Thirty each morning and afternoon, and 
the No. Twenty-Seven at noon and at bed-time, 
six pellets at a time. If urgent, the medicines 
may be taken one dose every three hours. This 
treatment has relieved thousands of the most 
inveterate cases. 
In old obstinate cases the Special Prescrip- 
tion Xo. Twenty-Seven may be most advan- 
tageously employed. 
Chronic Disease or Degeneration of the 
Kidneys may vary in form, and in manifestation, 
URINARY and kidney diseases. UlllNAHY AND KIDNEY DISEASED. 
85 
and sometimes with symptoms so obscure as to 
escape attention, until incurable disorganization 
occurs. Hut more commonly there Is pain in the 
back or loins, too frequent, thick, muddy or clear 
frothy urine, general weakness, drowsiness and 
debility, or continual headache, vertigo and 
rheumatic pains in the buck, loins or limbs, all 
pointing to defective action of the kidneys, and 
most apt to occur iu middle or late life. This 
condition finds its cure in a /Special Sj>tci.fic for 
Kidney and Urinary ZHaease, which has been pre- 
pared and used by the author for many years in 
his practice, and which, from its great success, 
he has been induced to offer in the above form. 
Price, per package of two large vials and direc- 
tions, $2.00. It is infallible, and should lie resorted 
to in all suspicious or confirmed cases. 
Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys is known by 
pnin, weakness and weariness of the loins; but 
the urine is generally pale, water-llke, foamy, 
either abundant or scanty, albuminous, and in 
the advanced stage, full of minute shreds or casts 
from the diseased kidneys. It is later attended 
with some grade of dropsy; sometimes only very 
slight, as of the head, face or feet, but toward 
the last, very great and inveterate. This is a 
very serious disease and often fatal: yet scores 
of advanced cases have been cured by taking 
Sped pcs Xo. Twenty-Seren and Xo. Thirty, 
six pellets at a dose, and four times per day, in 
alternation, and hundreds of lives have been 
aaved by their timely use. URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES. 
86 
Cravel or Renal Calculi is manifested mostly 
by frequent, scanty and painful discharge of 
variously-colored urine, and from time to time, 
as the calculi pass from the kidney to the bladder, 
by violent colic pain from the region of the 
kidney, inside the illium or hip-bone, and down 
in front, along the course of the ureter. The 
pain is usually very severe, coming on in parox- 
ysms, and returning from time to time until tne 
calculi are discharged. 
For the radical cure of this disease, take of 
Specific No. Twenty-Seven, six pellets before 
each meal, and at night. ' 
For an attack of Renal Calculi—violent pain 
from the passage of the calculi—take of the 
Specific No. Thirty, six pellets dissolved in 
water, every half hour, until relieved. Uot foot 
and seat baths often afford relief. 
.nflammation of the Kidneys may be known 
by pain in one or both sides above the hip, and 
toward the spine, in the region of the kidney, 
and thence usually extending forward and down- 
ward, with frequent desire to urinate, and scanty, 
hot discharge, and numbness along the inner 
side of the thigh on the affected side. There is 
fever and sometimes vomiting. The Specific) 
No. Thirty, six pellets every hour in water, will 
afford prompt relief. 
Inflammation of the Bladder.—The pain is 
low down in front, with severe burning and irri- 
tation, difficulty or inability of passing water, 
and almost constant desire to do so. The same remedy. Specific So. Thirty, promptly affords 
relief, and may l>e relied upon for a permanent 
cure. Give medicine, six pellets dissolved every 
liour, in fluid. 
Inflammation of the Urethra, or Gonor- 
rhoea, is attended with irritation and constant 
desire for urination and inability to retain it, 
and subsequently a discharge of thick white or 
yellow mucus from the prrt. The Specific No. 
Thirty will cure simple cases; but those arising 
from Infection will require some time and 
patience. Give, in urgent cases, six pellets every 
one or two hours, or send for a Special Specific 
for that complaint. Price, with directions, $2.00 
'Diabetes.—This disease is known as a consti- 
tutional cachexy, manifested by an excessive 
discharge of pale, heavy and sugary urine, the 
sugar being formed in the system from the starch 
or saccharine matter in the food. There is 
a sense of sickness, debility and progressive 
emaciation; red, fissured tongue, and enlarged 
papillu: intense t hi ret and frequent vrination; vora 
clous appetite and sinking of the stomach; bowels 
usually costive, and stools hard and dry; harsh 
and dry skin: the breath has a peculiar violet or 
chloroform-like smell; boils or carbuncles or 
swellings of the legs nre frequent attendants; 
constant thirst is one of the most characteristic 
symptoms. The quantity of urine .s usually 
greatly in excess, amounting to from eight to 
twenty or more pints in the twenty-four hours. 
It is usually of a pale straw color, has a faint 
miNARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES 
87 88 
smell of apple, hay or milk, and is Specifically 
Heavy, according to the amount of sugar it con- 
tains. Diabetic urine may be tested in various 
ways—will ferment with the addition of yeast, or 
leave a residium like molasses on evaporation. 
There is another form of Diabetes, characterized 
by an excessive discharge of clear, colorless 
urine, but which is devoid of sugar. There is 
thirst, a harsh, dry skin, and mental and physical 
weakness present; though this form is not so 
fatal as the former one. 
Treatment.—In Diabetes the patient must 
avoid all forms of starch or sugar, and the food 
containing them; but should live on other abun- 
dant nutritious food. Fat meat, fish, oysters, 
eggs, milk and soups thickened with finely 
powdered bran, but no bread, potatoes, grapes, 
pears, berries, melons, or other sweet, rich fruits. 
As a substitute for bread, bran ground fine and 
mixed with eggs, and a little Dutter, and hard 
baked, may be used. The thirst may be gratified 
with water, which rather benefits than other- 
wise. The patient should also take Humphreys' 
Special Homeopathic Specific for Diabetes. Price, 
$2.00 per bottle; to be had on application. This 
treatment has been successful in many, even old 
inveterate cases, and has proved a God-send to 
hundreds. Full directions with the Special Spe- 
cific. The patient may drink freely of skim-milk 
For Scanty, Discolored or Painful Urina- 
tion, six pellets of Specific No. Thirty, three 
time/ per day Is effectua \ 
URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES. CHINA KV AND KIDNEY DISEASES. 
89 
Urinary Incontinence is quite common in 
persona of advanced age, and in childhood. It 
consists of frequent desire to pass water, and 
often an inability to retain it beyond a short 
period. It may irise from Catarrh of the Blad- 
der, irritability of the organs, calculi, or an acrid 
se<Tetlon. 
It is cured by taking Specific -Vo. Thirty, 
six pellets four times per day; or, in some cases, 
the Aro. Ticcnty-Seren. We have known the 
medicine to cure obstinate cases of months’ and 
even years' standing. 
For Obstinate Constitutional Cases of In- 
continence of Urine In children or adults, send 
for Special Prescription No. Thirty, for 
BnurefU, mentioned above. Price for two large 
bottles one of powder and one of pellets—$2.00. 
'Dropsy,—It should be remembered that Dropsy 
—an accumulation of fluid within some cavity or 
portion of the system—is itself less a disease than 
the result of some morbid process or disease 
which has preceded it. lienee the cure of the 
dropsy must depend upon the curability of the 
original morbid process from which the fluid 
results. In mauy instances, however, the in- 
creased action of the skin and kidneys, continued 
for some days, results in carrying off the fluid, 
thus relieving the system of a burden, and better 
enabling us to apply medicines to the cure of the 
original difficulty. 
In cases of dropsy, whether of the chest, heart, 
abdomen or extremities, take six pellets of 90 
Speciflc Ho. Twenty-Five, four or even six 
times per day, according to the urgency of the 
case. The pellets act best dissolved in water. 
Eat fresh, relaxing food, and live in a mild, dry 
atmosphere, using no other medicine. 
FEMALE DISORDERS. 
FEMALE DISORDERS. 
The comfort and happiness of women depends 
upon the healthy performance of the function* 
Incident to her peculiar system. No considerable 
derangement in these functions can exist for a 
time without drawing the entire life into sym- 
pathetic suffering. While these derangements 
are so important, and exercise so grave an influ- 
ence over the health and happiness of the sex, 
yet their nature is such as to exclude them, to & 
great extent, from observation, and often the 
sufferer groans on for years, the victim of pain 
and weakness known only to herself. 
By the use of Humphreys’ Homeopathic Specijlct 
the diseases connected with the female system 
may all be promptly averted or controlled! 
Thousands of mothers and families have used 
them for thirty years, and have always found In 
them comfort and relief. 
Menstruation.—The first menses usually ap- 
pear at about the fifteenth year — in warm 
climates earlier, and in colder, later. It is also 
subject to variation, depending upon the general 
health, vigor and development of the person. 
For a year or two it may be scanty, and not un- frequently subject to some Irregularities, which, 
however, need not excite apprehension. In 
healthy women it should apj»ear every twenty- 
eight days, and flow four or five days, varying 
again according to the constitution of the person. 
About the forty-fifth year of life, It generally 
ceases, accompanied often with various disturb- 
ances of the system. This cessation or period 1» 
termed the “change of life." 
Tardy Menses.—When menstruation In young 
girls does not come on at the usual time, It Is not 
wise to hasten to administer medicine to produce 
It. So long as the general health remains good, 
do nothing to promote this secretion, beyond 
attention to proper clothing, exercise and diet. 
The clothing should be warm, and changed to 
suit the temperature and season, and a whole- 
some, generous diet should be adopted, avoiding 
spices, coffee and high-seasoned food. This will 
generally be sufficient. Should, however, there 
be symptoms of its approach, such as flushes of 
heat, frequent giddiness of the head, heaviness 
In the abdomen and about the loins, six pellet* 
of Specific So. Elcren, night and morning, 
will usually, In due time, produce the result. 
'Scanty Menses. —If the menses become 
tcanty, pale or unusual in color, or habitually, or 
even occasionally delay their appearance beyond 
the proper time, forming what Is properly termed 
scanty or delayed menses, six pellets of Specific 
No. Eleven, taken night and morning, will soon 
Induce the desired result. 
nKiu disorders. 
91 92 
FEMALE DISORDERS. 
S u p p ressed M enses .-Sometimes in regularly 
menstruating females the discharge becomes 
suppressed from exposure to cold, especially to 
damp cold, during the flow, or just as it is about 
to commence. The flow may either cease sud- 
denly, or it may not come on at all at the next 
period, or it may come on attended with scanty, 
irregular discharge, or with severe pain and 
distress. In case of suppression, after it has com- 
menced, dissolve twelve pellets of Specific No. 
Eleven in six spoonfuls of water, of which take 
one spoonful every two hours, and bathe the feet 
in warm water. If not effective, prepare and take 
another portion, or even several, in like manner. 
When the menses do not appear at the proper 
time, take six pellets of Specific No. Eleven, 
night and morning, and bathe the feet in -warm 
water fifteen or twenty minutes, for two or three 
nights in succession. A few doses will usually 
be found successful. 
Painful Menstruation.—Many females suffer 
an untold amount of pain at every return of the 
menstrual period; not only bearing down, but 
cuttings, gripings, colic, cramps, and in some 
cases even convulsions, attend every access of 
the period, and cause her to dread every men- 
struation. Often the sufferings of one period 
are hardly over before another comes on. 
Such cases are often found in connection with 
scanty, retarded or irregular periods; and again, 
with regular or too abundant discharge, the 
feature being excessively violent pain, pressure. bearing down, and even oramps and convulsions, 
which attend every return of the monthly period. 
Treatment — During the interval between the 
periods, take, every night, six pellets of Npeci/ie 
JVo. Eleven. If pain come* on, take six pellets 
of Specific Mo. Thirty-One, every hour, and 
continue their use until relieved. A few doses 
generally answer perfectly. Perseverance In 
this oourse, using the Mo. Eleven between the 
periods, and the Mo. Thirty-tine at the time, 
for some months, will not fail to cure. 
For attack of Cramp*. Sjkvon* or lly*teria. take 
six pellets of Specifies M’o. Thirty-One, every 
hour until relieved, and then one dose each night 
to prevent a return. 
For Itching a/ul Irritation (pruritis), take six 
pellets of Sfireific Mo. Thirty-One, morning 
and night. There ure instuuces iu which this 
complaint Is constitutional, und may demand the 
use of Special J'rescript ion Mo. Eonrteen. 
Headache in Females, occurring just before 
or during the monthly jmriod. will be promptly 
relieved by the Specific Mo. Eleven, t king six 
peHets every hour. 
Too Profuse Menses.—In "omen subject to 
the whites, and dependent also upon a similar 
relaxed oonditiou of the system, the menses may 
l>e loo firofuM, returning again after a cessation 
of ouly ten. fourteen or sixteen days, and flowing 
from five to ten days. Sometimes the secretion 
is scanty for some (lavs, and then comes on very 
profuse, causing great prostration, faintness and 
FEMALE DISORDERS. 
93 94 
debility, from which the patient has scarcely 
time to recover before a new attack. 
Women subject to this difficulty should abstain 
from coffee, wine or other stimulants. During 
the interval between the periods, take six pellets 
of Specific jVo. Twelve every night on retiring, 
and the same of the No. Ten each morning. 
After the menstrual discharge has continued 
a day or two, commence by taking six pellets of 
Specific No. Twelve, morning and night, and 
Specific No. Ten, noon and afternoon, until the 
flow ceases. If the discharge is very profuse 
from the first, the medicine may be commenced 
the first day, and the Specific No. Twelve may 
be alternated with the No. Ten, six pellets every 
three hours. When the discharge lingers for 
several days, six pellets of the No. Ten at night 
generally cuts it short. 
In case there should be at any time an excessive 
flow amounting to hemorrhage, from whatever 
cause, twelve pellets of Specific No. Twelve 
should be dissolved in six spoonfuls of water, 
and one spoonful should be taken every hour, 
until the urgent symptoms are warded off, when 
the medicine may be administered at longer 
intervals. Of course the patient must remain 
quiet, and abstain from hot drinks, stimulants 
or any excitement at such times. 
Leucorrhea, or Whites.—Few affections of 
females are more common than this. It consists 
of a discharge of mucus from the genital organs 
of the female, variously colored, and of different 
FEMALE DISORDERS. degrees of consistency. It is most commonly 
yellowish or white, sometimes reddish, mostly 
mild, yet sometimes acrid and excoriating. It is 
usually most profust' immediately before aud 
after the menstrual period, ami may continue 
during the entire menstruating life of the female, 
and is sometimes known even in young girls. 
Sometimes the discharge is slight and only 
trifling, while at others it is copious, exhausting 
the system and bringing in its train other evils 
even more harassing than itself. 
Those subject to this disease should carefully 
guard their feet and abdomen from sudden 
changes or extreme cold, take moderate exercise 
in the open air, avoid coffeo nnd exciting drinks 
or spices, or highly-seasoned food, and take six 
pellets of Specific 1Vo. Tierlre, night and morn- 
ing, and the same of Xo. Ten before dinner and 
before supper. The continued use of these £pe- 
cifles. witn attention to the above simple direc- 
tions, will always afford relief and an ultimate 
cure. 
If Leucorrhta exitt* with loo ecamy meuxes. or if 
leucorrhea instead of the monthly menses occurs. 
Specific Xo. Eleven should be used Instead of 
the Xo. Twelve, six pellets four times per day. 
Prolapsus Uteri—Bearing Down.—This is 
also a very common complaint among women, 
affecting, in some degree, a considerable propor- 
tion of the sex. Bometiines it is only a trivial 
annoyance, coming on from severe fatigue or 
over-exertion, aud soon passing off from rest 
rEMALE DISORDERS. 
95 96 
FEMALE DISORDERS. 
and lying down. At others, it is a constant and 
chronic affection, forbidding any considerable 
effort, and sometimes confining the subject for 
Weeks or months to her room or couch. The pro- 
lapsus may exist in various degrees; sometimes 
only a slight displacement from the natural po- 
sition of the womb, and at others it may descend 
low down. 
It is usually attended with a feeling of weight 
and heaviness in the lower abdomen, lameness 
In the back or across the loins, and a sensation 
as if everything would fall out when standing. 
There is often a sensation of emptiness or faint- 
ness at the pit of the stomach, and sometimes 
difficulty in passing the water or stool. 
When the prolapsus exists to a serious extent, 
or can be readily reached, the patient should 
recline with the hips elevated and the womb 
should be replaced by gentle pressure. Dissolve 
also twelve pellets of Specific No. Twelve in six 
spoonfuls of water, of which take one spoonful 
every two hours. If the displacement is less 
considerable, nothing need be done further than 
to rest and take six pellets of Specific No. 
Twelve, morning and afternoon, and of No. Ten 
at noon and at night. This course, persevered in 
for a few weeks, avoiding fatigue and overwork 
on the feet, will often relieve even obstinate 
cases. There may be cases of prolapsus which, 
from neglect, etc., require the use of supportert 
or mechanical appliances, but these should only 
be called in as a last resort. Vomiting and Morning Sickness in preg- 
nant females Is often relieved by taking six 
pellets of Specific Xo. Ten, morning and night. 
But the better remedy for vomiting, morning 
sickness, heartburn, and similar sickness in 
pregnant females, is Specific Xo. Twenty* 
Xine. Six pellets morning, noon and nigh* 
rarely fails to offer relief. 
Change of Life.—The cessation of the menses, 
which usually occurs at from forty to forty-five 
years of age, is frequently attended with dis- 
turbances of the system, such as flushes of heat, 
nervousness, paleness and debility, irregularities 
in the monthly flow, either too little, too profuse 
or colorless discharge. Palpitations and throb- 
blngs of the heart are very common, and in many 
cases, disease of the heart, degeneration of some 
part, or other serious disorder, dates from this 
period. Few ladies pass this crisis exempt from 
those or Bimilar affections, while to many they 
are not only very trying, but even alarming. 
Treatment. — For the sufferings incident to 
this period, the Specific Xo. Thirty-Two is a 
cure. It should be taken, six pellets night and 
morning, and it may be continued as occasion 
requires, until this entire period is safely passed. 
FEMALE DISORDERS. 
97 98 
MEDICINES BY MAIL OR EXPRESS. 
Dr. Humphreys’ Family Specifics, Veterinary 
Specifics and Witch Hazel Oil, from a Single 
Yial to a Full Case or Box, sent prepaid to any 
address, on receipt of price. 
Send Post Office Money Order, Express Money 
Order, or Register the letter for safety. PRACTICAL 1IINTH. 
99 
Erlces of Single Vials.—Small, No. 1 to IS, 
US Cents, Laryr, SO Cents, 1 Ounce 
$1.00, Except Nos. J)H, 32 and 
33 which are, $1. and $2. 
PRACTICAL HINTS IN USING 
Humphreys’ Specifics. 
Specific No. ONE—Cures Fevern, Conges* 
tioiinauii I niln mmi> i ions ; llcat, Paiu, Rest- 
lessness | Inflammation and Congestion to tho Head 
or Brain; Inflaniniatlou of the Eyes; Inflammation of 
the Throat, or Quinsy, uloue, or In alternation with 
No. Thirty roc*; Pneumonia, or Iuiiainmutlon of the 
Chest or Lungs; Inflammation of tho Pleura (Pleu- 
risy); Inflammation of the Liver and of the Bowels; 
Fevers of Children; Scarlet Fever, Scarlatina; Measles; 
Yellow Fever; Inflammatory Rheumatism; inflain 
matory, Bilious, or Gastric Fever; Sun-Stroke; Effects 
of being Overheated; Violent Throbbing Headaches; 
Sleeplessness from Fever or Fullness of Blood. 
Specific No. Oxe Is the true Medical Treasure. 
Indispensable in every family, often needed and 
always promptly enrative. If ehllled or cold, sore, 
tired, or lame, take No. Oke. The first stage of any 
inflammatory disease or fever, Measles, Scarlet Fever, 
Croup, Mumps, Cough or Cold, or Sore Throat calls 
for NO. ore. 
It Dissipates Congestion. lirenks the 
Chill, Reduces Fever and so cures disease. It 
cannot be too biohly rraised or too urgently re- 
COMKE.V1ED. IT "trs ITS COST A T'lOCSAXDFOLD. 100 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
Specific No. TWO—Cures Worm Diseases, 
Worm Fevers, Worm Colic; Itching of the 
Anus, or Wetting the Bed from Worms; Irregular or 
Capricious Appetite, or Emaciation from Worms; 
Long Round Worms; Pin Worms; Tape Worm. Every 
morbid condition resulting from worms is radically 
cured by this Specific. 
Specific No. THREE—Cures Sleepless- 
ness, Colic and Crying of Infants or Young 
Children, such as Colic, Crying and Restlessness; Irri- 
tation and Congestion from Teething; Slow Growth 
and Feebleness of Infants; Irregular Teething; Diar- 
rhea of Infants; Retarded or Slow Learning to 
Walk; Enlargement of the Joints and Bending of the 
Long Bones; Sleeplessness of Adults from Ner- 
vousness. No. Three takes the place of all Cor- 
dials, Drops, Anodynes and Syrups, curing not only 
the Wakefulness, Colic and Crying, but by aiding 
the digestion, giving Strength and Vigor, and so 
making healthy children, Instead of Injuring them 
with opiates or drugs. 
Specific No. FOUR—Cures Diarrhea or 
Loose Bowels, in Children or Adults; Summer 
Complaint or Cholera Infantum; Thin, Loose, 
Yellowish, Greenish or Watery Stools; Diarrhea from 
Indigestible Food; Diarrhea from the use of Fruit; 
Diarrhea from Traveling or Change of Water; Pain- 
ful Diarrhea, Chronic Diarrhea or Loose Bowels; 
Diarrhea of Consumptives. Always Reliable for 
Diarrhea or Loose Bowels; with No. Five It cures 
the worst cases of Chronic Diarrhea. Mpeclflc No. F1VK -Cures Dynentery- 
Colic, l*ii i it In I or Bloody OinrrlieHi Fall 
Dysentery or Bloody Flux; Slimy, Scanty Mucusj 
Greenish and Bloody Stools, attended with violent 
Olio or Straining and Tenesmus; Painful Diarrhea; 
Colic; Bilious Colic: Hemmorrholdal Colic. For the 
cure of Painful Diarrhea anti Dysentery It has no 
equal, curing mildly, promptly, safely. For Colic 
it has no equal. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
101 
Specific No. SIX—Cures Cholera >lorhu«| 
Nnnson anti Vomiting: Asiatic Cholera; Sickness 
at the Stomach; Vomiting with Diarrhea; Thin, 
Loose, Crgent or Rice-wafer Stools, with Vomiting, 
Coldness, Paleness, Tllue I.lps and Cramps ; Morning 
Sicknesa. The promptness with which No. Six cure* 
Cholera Morbus Is something wonderful. 
Cll OI.RK A CA *»K for Families or Travelers, to 
use during nn epidemic, with a Hook of Directions. 
»T1ce, xvf.oo. OO or aeconllug to else 
Specific No. SEVEN-Cnren Coughs, 
CoMk, Bronchitis, nonrseurss, Sore 
Thront* unit luflitrnzn; Cough, with Pain 
and Stitches In ttie SMe or Breast: Cough, with 
Weakness or Emaciation, as from Incipient Con- 
•timptlon: Coughs, with Morning Chill find Even- 
tn* Fever; Cough, with Pnln or Soreness In the 
Throat and Bronchia: Hoarseness. or Ixiss of Vole* 
lii clergymen: Sore Throat i Old Chronic or Con- 
*umi>t1ve Coughs; Inflammation of the Lnngs or 
Pleura, given after or In alternation with No. ONE; 102 
Chronic Bronchitis or Laryngitis, with Cough, Hoarse- 
ness, Loss of Voice, or Weak Voice, Scanty Expec- 
toration and Emaciation. Almost every form of 
pulmonary disease is reached by it. Thousands are 
yearly saved by its use. Always reliable, always 
effective. Often used in alternation with No. One, 
especially if there is heat or fever. 
Special Prescription No. Seven, for 
Chronic Lung Diseases or Threatened 
Consumption. Cures Chronic Congh and Lung 
Disease; Bronchitis, Weakness and Debility; F.maeia 
tion; Pain in the Ride or Chest, Pulmonary Weakness. 
Two Extra Large Vials, $2.00. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
Specific No. EIGHT—Cures Neuralgia, 
Toothache, Faceache, Nervous Pains, 
Toothache in Sound Teeth, or in Old Decayed Teeth; 
Toothache in Children; Faceache; Tic Douloureux; 
Swelled Face; Darting, Sharp or Stinging Pains; 
Neuralgic Pains; Old Neuralgles. 
Specific No. NINE —Cures Headaches, 
Vertigo, Sick Headaches, Congestion to the 
Head) Bilious Headaches; Nervous Headaches and 
Sick Headaches, with Nausea and Vomiting; Conges- 
tive Headaches, also No. One; Vertigo or Dizziness; 
Swimming of the Head; Heat, Heaviness or Fulness 
of the Head, also No. One. Often used iu alternation 
with No. One, for Congestive Headaches; or with 
No. Ten, for Bilious Headaches, Hpeciflc No. TEN—Cures Dyspepsia, Indi- 
gestion, Constipation, Dillons Complaints, 
Malaria; Weak Stomach, Rising of Food; Water 
Drosh; Coated Tongue, Loss of Appetite, Loathing 
of Food; Constipation, or Costive Bowels; Scanty, 
Knotty, Small, Hard, Dry or Insufficient 8tools; 
Biliousness; Yellow or Earthy Complexion; Bad Taste 
In the Mouth; No Appetite; Drowsiness, and CoeUve 
Bowels; Acid Stomach, Everything eaten becomes 
Hour; Old Chronic Dyspepsia, when Everything dis- 
agrees; Headache from Indigestion; Old Chronic Liver 
Complaint, with Indigestion; Enlargement of the 
Liver; Chronic Constipation and Piles; Flatulence 
and Bloating of the Abdomen after eating; Offensive 
Rreath. No. Ten is a balm for old men or women. 
Invigorating the feeble Kidneys and sluggish 
Liver; improving Strength, Manhood and Energy; 
a perfect Anti-Billous and Anti-Malarial Protec- 
tive and Oure. As a remedy for poor appetite, 
indigestion, weak stomach ami constipation, It has 
cured thousands. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
103 
Hpeclflc No. ELEVEN Cures Femal* 
Irregularities) Delaying, Scanty or l'ain* 
tu l Menses; Delaying or too Tardy or I.ate appris- 
ing Menses; Suppressed or Obstructed Menses, from 
cold, fright, weakness or morbid cause; too Scanty, 
too Pale, or Colorless Menses; Green Sickness or 
Chlorosis; Headache or Colic Pains during the Menses; 
Intermitting or Irregular Menses; Leucorrhea, with 
Scanty or Delayed Menses. For the above conditions, 
Specific No. Eleven Is unquestionably the safest and 
most effective rsroe47 known. Is a thousand times 
better, safer and more efficient than all teas, doses, 
pills or forcing medicines so often resorted to. 104 
Specific No. TWELVE — Cures Whites, 
or Leucorrhea; Too Profuse Reuses and 
Pro! apsus Uteri; Yellowish, thick, offensive or 
corrosive discharge; Menses too soon and too long 
continued; too profuse and debilitating Menses; Con- 
stant Bearing Down; Old Debilitating Leucorrhea. 
Thousands are made happy from the relief afforded 
by Specifics Nos. Eleven and Twelve. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
Specific No. THIRTEEN—Cures Croup; 
Hoarse Cough, Oppressed Breathing; 
Hoarse, Croupy Cough; Inflammatory Croup; Spas- 
modic, and even Membranous Croup; Croup with 
Quick Pulse, Hot Skin, Pifllcult, Labored Breathing 
and Hoarse Cough; Laryngitis, with Hoarseness, Pain 
In the Throat, Painful Cough and Scanty Expectora- 
tion; Chronic Hoarseness, or Loss of Voice. As a cure 
and preventive of Croup, this Specific has no equal- 
prompt, mild, safe and effective. A thousand times 
better, more safe and effective than hive syrup, cough 
mixture or hot teas, so often resorted to. 
Specific No. FOURTEEN—Cures Erup- 
tions, Eczema, Snlt Rheum, Acme, Ulcers; 
Erysipelas, with Hot, Smooth, Swelled Skin or 
Blisters; Salt Rheum, or Rough, Scaly, Chapped Erup- 
tion on the Hands or other parts; Pimples or Blotches 
on the Face; Nettle Rash, like Stings of Insects; Scald 
Head; Barber’* Itch; Old Ulcers. For clearing the 
complexion of Blotches and Pimples, and giving a 
clear, healthy bloom, No. FoijiTEE.v and No. Thirty- 
Five are Invaluable. Almost every form of eruptive 
disease Is cured by Specific No. Fourteen. Special Prescription No. Fourteen, for 
Chronic Eruptions! Eczema, Tetters, Saif 
Rheum, Scold Head, Itching, Inveterate Herpes. 
Dandruff, Pimples In the Face; Chaps; Unhealthy 
Skin. Package containing Two Extra Large Vials: 
price, $£.00. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
105 
Specific No. FIFTEEN—Cures Rheum*, 
tlnm; Eaineuess, Stillness and Soreness| 
Acute Rheumatism, with Painful, Hot Swelling of th* 
part; Chronic Rheumatism, with Lameness, Still- 
ness and Soreness Of the iwirt; Sciatic Rheumatism, 
with pain In the Hip, Knee or Leg of the alTectad 
side; Lumbago, or pain across the Loins or Back; Old 
Rheumatic Pains or Lameness. In alternation with 
No. Onic, for the acute form, and In alternation with 
No. Ten, for Chronic Rheumatism, Specific Now 
Fifteen has no equal—always reliable, almost 
Infallible. 
Specific No. SIXTEEN—Cures Fever and 
Ague, Dumb AifUP, Malaria, Intermitting 
Fever, Malariul Fevers; Effect* of Mal/uia; 
Old Suppressed Agues; Ague Cake; Enlarged Liver or 
Spleen, or other effects of badly treated Agues, and 
of the Quinine, Chalagogue, Arsenic or other drug* 
taken to cure It. Specific No. Sixteen Is the best 
remedy and cure for these old drugged and mis- 
managed cases. The best protective and cure for 
Malaria, In whatever form, alone or In alternation 
with No. Ten. Hundreds of families living In Mala- 
rious regions say they are exempt from Malaria and 
Ague If they habitually use Specific No. Sixteen. 106 
Specific No. SEVENTEEN-Cures Piles or 
Hemorrhoids, Blind or Bleeding, Internal 
or External, with Fulness, Itching and Burning; 
Inflamed, Hot, Burning, Sore Tumors around the 
Rectum; Falling of the Rectum; Itching of the Anus. 
The cure of Inveterate Chronic Piles is always 
effected by the use of Specifics No. Seventeen and 
No. Ten, In alternation. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
Specific No. ElGHTEEN—Cures Opta- 
thalmy or Sore Eyes; Weak Sight; Old 
Chronic, Sore, Inflamed or Weak Eyes, with Heat, 
Redness, Scalding Tears, and Dread of Light; Painful, 
Red, Inflamed Eyelids, with constant Secretion of 
Mucus; Weak, Dim, Failing or Blurred Sight; Acute 
Inflamed Eyes or Eyelids. Invaluable for Prema- 
ture Weakness or Failing of Sight, from over-tax- 
ing the eyes. Also for Easy Fatigue of the eyes, 
from reading or effort; Intolerance of Light. 
Specific No. NINETEEN—Cures Catarrh, 
Dry or Flowing, Recent or Chronic; In- 
fluenza; Mucus Discharges from the Nose; Acute 
Catarrh, with flow of Scalding Mucus, Tears and 
Sneezing; Old Chronic Catarrhs, with profuse dis- 
charge of Thick, sometimes Offensive Mucus, Ob- 
structed Nose, and often Loss of Taste or Smell; 
Chronic Cold in the Head; Catarrh of Children; 
Offensive Breath with Catarrh; Cough, with Pro- 
fuse Discharge from the Nose, and Copious Expec- 
toration; Loose Catarrhal Cough in Children; 
Soreness, or Dry Crusts forming in the Nose, with 
Dry or Moist Catarrh. The h'abitual use of Specific 
No. Nineteen has cured Thousands of Catarrhs. Special Prescription No. Nineteen, for 
Chronic Nasal Catarrh; O/aena; Profuse,and 
even Offensive Discharge; Accumulation of Mucus In 
the Nose or Throat. Package containing Two Extra 
Large Vials, $2.00. 
For HAY or ROSE CATARRH, a special 
case of Thrf.k Largs Vials, In fluid, with full direc- 
tions. It has proven effectual not only In arresting 
the course of Hay Catarrh, but also In destroying the 
predisposition to it, and so preventing a return. 
ITice, $3.00. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
107 
Hperifie No. TWENTY—Cures Whooping* 
Coughi IrrilHling, Spasmodic and Con* 
vulsive Coughs. Given early, this Specific arrests 
the development of the Cough; and given at any 
stage, allays the Irritation, moderates the! Cough and 
winds up the disease. Specific No. Twenty may be 
regarded as absolutely infallible for Whooping* 
Cough. Patients never tire of telling of Its magical 
effect In soothing, relieving and curing this often 
must troublesome disguise. Hundreds of physicians 
constantly use it in their practice. 
hpri'ilic No. T \V EXT Y* O N F.-Curf* 
Asthma. Dilli.nli Urealhing, Cougb ant) 
Kxpect orm ion i Old Chronic Asthma, with attacks 
of Oppressed. IjilHircd, Difficult Urea tiling. Cough 
and Expectoration; Dry Asthma; Humid Asthma 
Strlduloua >>r Sighing Respiration. This SiHX'lflo lias 
proved a comfort and relief to hundreds of asth- 
matic's, continually improving their condition, and 
often making an entire cure. Every form of asthma 
Is controlled by it. PRACTICAL HINTS. 
Specific No. TWENTY-TWO-Cures 
Ear Discharges; Earache; Diseases of the 
Ear and Hearing; Noise in the Head, Deaf- 
ness; Discharges from the Ear, In consequence of 
Measles, Scarlatina or other diseases; Inflammation 
of the Internal Ear; Old Offensive Discharges from 
the Ear, with Hardness of Hearing; Noises, Buzzing, 
Hinging or Piping In the Ears; Whitlow or Pnnarls, 
or Run-Rounds on the Anger; White Swelling of the 
Knee or Hip. Specific No. Twenty-Two Is Invaluable 
for Enlarged Glands In the Neck of children; 
Scrofulous Ulcers in the Neck; Old Intractable 
Ulcers or Sores; and for Wetting the Bed, in 
Weakly, Feeble or Scrofulous children, in connec- 
tion with No. Thirty; Slow Growth, In consequence 
of Deficient Bony Deposit, and consequent Weak- 
ness of children. 
108 
Specific No. TWENTY-THREE -Cores 
Scrofulas Enin reed Glands or Tonsils; Old 
Ulcers) Diseases of Scrofulous origin; Enlarged or 
Inflamed Glands under the Jaw, around the Neck or 
under the Arm-pits; Itching and Burning of the 
Legs; Old Inveterate Ulcers and Eruptions; Cold 
Swellings. It is also effective for Habitual Offen- 
sive Breath, and Offensive Perspiration of the 
Feet; Carbuncles or Boils; Inflammation at the 
root of the nail, and Whitlow or Felon; Old Scaly 
Eruption on the Legs. 
Special Prescription for the Cure of 
Goitre, Derbyshire Neck or Enlarged 
Glands of the Throat. Has been found very 
successful, even In old advanced cases. Taken morn- 
ing and night. Price per large Vial, In Powder, $1.00. Specific No. T WENT Y - F O l'R-Curss 
General Debility) Physical and Nervous 
Weakness) Want of Strength, Lassitude, Tired, 
weary Feeling, even on Waking; Easy Fatigue; Sweat 
on going to Sleep; Debility, the result of severe Illness 
or some drain upon the system; Want of Tone or 
Iron In the Blood. An invaluable remedy for per- 
sons under severe mental or physical strain, or 
over work, or the debility resulting from It—keeping 
them up and preventing a general break down. Hun- 
dreds have used It with complete success. 
PRACTICAL HUTTS. 
109 
Hpeclflc No. T WENT Y-FI VE-Curee 
Dropsy, Fluid Accumulations with Scanty 
Hecretlons) Anasarca or General Dropsy; Dropsy 
of the Abdomen; Dropsy of the Chest, Heart or Head; 
Dropsy with Tumid, Doughy Swellings and Scanty 
Secretions. Dropsical Swelling of the Feet or Legs. 
▲ most Invaluable Specific for all these conditions. 
Quite sure to Increase the flow of urine, and so rellevs 
dropsical accumulations. 
Specific No. TWENTY-SIX—Cure* Sea- 
Mlckucs*; and Sickness from Hiding In Car- 
riage or on RailroadN; Headache from Carriage 
or Car Hiding; Nausea and Vomiting; Prevention of 
Seasickness. Has In thousands of cases rendered a 
Sea-Voyage Free from Sea-Sickness, even with 
very sensitive subjects. Often cures Lumbago or 
pains In the loins and back, and also the weak para- 
lytic feeling In the loins and back; and even paralysis 
of the lower extremities, In patients able only with 
Allficulty to drag one leg after the other. 110 
Specific No. TWENTY-SEVEN-Curea 
Kidney Diseases; Bright's Kidney; 
Gravel; Painful, Retarded, Scanty Uri- 
nation; Gravel and Renal Calculi; Catarrh of the 
Bladder, In alternation with No. Thirty; Sand and 
Unhealthy Deposits in the Urine; Thick, Turbid, 
Frothy Urine, filled with mucus and brick-dust 
deposits; Too Frequent Discharge of Urine; Nightly 
Enuresis; Pain in the region of the Kidneys and Blad- 
der; Enlarged Prostate; Difficult, Slow, Interrupted 
and Insufficient Discharge In old people; Bloody 
Urine, or mixed with blood. Specific No. Twenty- 
Sicven has perfect control over the kidney secretions, 
and either alone, or in some cases with No. Thirty, 
has relieved and restored thousands. Hundreds of 
old people have been saved from years of suffering 
and been made happy by It. It canuot be too highly 
praised or safely trusted. Compare also No. Thirty. 
Special Prescription No. TWENTY- 
SEVEN, for Urinary and Kidney Diseases; 
Catarrh of the Bladder; Degeneration and Bright’s 
Uraemia; Enlarged Prostate. Package con- 
fining Two Extra Laroe Vials, $2.00. 
For DIABETES, a Special Prescription, 
in fluid, with directions. This disease is known by 
excessive discharge of pale, heavy and sugary urine; 
debility; progressive emaciation; red, fissured tongue 
and enlarged papilla; Intense thirst and frequent 
urination; voracious appetite and sinking of the 
stomach; bowels usually costive, and stools hard 
and dry; harsh and dry skin. This Specific has been 
particularly successful, and has restored to health 
and comfort many old obstinate cases. Price, $2.00. 
Sent Free on receipt of price. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. Specific No. TWKNTY-EIW HT-Cnrei 
NrrTonn Debility; Seminal Weakness; 
Deficient Kuergy 5 Loir of Nervous Power and 
General Tone of the System; Irresolution and Mental 
Gloom, or De*[>oii(leney; Weakness from Loss of 
Vital Fluids; Frequent Involuntary Nocturnal 
Emissions, often with lascivious dreams; Seminal 
Losses at Stool, or during Urination; Depression, 
Prostration, Mental Weakness or other effects of 
F.arly Evil Habits, Overwork or Mental Strain; 
Threatened Impotence; Enfeebled Powers; Pollu- 
tions from relaxed organs; Debility, naulting from 
excesses. It Is Specific for all conditions from ex- 
hausted vital powers; Loss of vital fluids, excessive 
drain &ud mental overwork. No popular remedy, 
or other treatment, has been so efficient, so safe 
or so economical as Specific No. Twt.nty Eioht. It 
has enred thonsands, restoring mere nervous and 
physical wrecks to renewed energy, vigor and 
activity, and never falls to render good service. 
Special Prescription—Package for Ner- 
vous Debility, Seminal Weakness, Want 
ot Energy or Vital Force. Indispensable for 
old or Inveterate cast's. Put up In packages of five 
vials of pellets and one double sire vial of powder, 
$6.00. Single double sire vial of powder, $2.00. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
111 
Specific No. TWENT Y-N INE-Care* Sore 
Month or Cnnki-r: I'lcoroted Lipet Sore 
Mouth or Canker In adults, children or Infants; Nurs- 
ing Sore Mouth; Morning Sickness of Ei|>eetant 
Women; Indigestion; Ulceration or Canker of the 
Mouth; Old Syphilitic Sore Mouth: Obstinate Inter- 
mitting Fevers. Always satisfactory. 112 
Specific No, TIIIRTY — Cures Diseases 
of the Urinary Organs; Urinary lnconti- 
nence; Frequent, Painful or Scalding Uri- 
nation; Inability to Retain the Urine; Catarrh of 
the Bladder, in alternation with No. Twenty-Seven; 
Frequent Scalding Urination, with Mucus Discharge; 
Urine loaded with Mucus; Nightly Wetting-the- 
Bed in children; Nocturnal Urinary Incontinence. 
Specific No. Thirty is to the bladder and passages 
what No. Twenty-Seven is to the kidneys—hence so 
often used in connection. It has rendered hundreds 
of households happy by curing Nocturnal Enuresis 
or nightly Wettinu-the-Bed. There is scarcely a 
form of Urinary or Kidney Disease which is not 
controlled by Nos. Twenty-Seven and Thirty. 
Special Prescription No. Thirty, for Dis- 
ease of the Bladder and Urethra; Too Fre- 
quent, Burning or Scalding; Inability to retain at 
night or by day; Chronic Urinal Debility, Constitu- 
tional or from Infirmity. Package containing Two 
Extra Large Vials, $2.00. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
Specific No. TII111TY-ONE—Cure* Pain- 
ful Menstruation; Hysteria, Spasms, Pru- 
ritis; Menstruation, with Painful Bearing Down, 
Menses, with Painful, Presslve, Cutting, Griping, ami 
even Spasms; Too Profuse Menses, with Pain and 
Distress; Itching and Burning irritation of the Organs; 
Laughing, Crying, Hysterical Movements, or Cramps 
at the monthly period; Too Early and Too Long- 
oontinued Menses; Leucorrhea, like white of eggs. 
Nos. Thirty-One and Eleven cure the worst cases of 
Painful Menses. For Inflammation of the Urethra 
or Gonorrhea, see Anchor Specific, In fluid. Specific No. TU IUTY-TWO-Cores 
Ilenrt Diarnsr, Palpitations, Plushes; Ir- 
regularities and Morbid Conditions, occur- 
ring at the Critical Age of Women, or Change of 
Life; Flushes of Heat; Irregular Menses, wasting or 
Too Soon, Too Copious ami Too Long, with great 
prostration, nervous and wakeful at the turn of life; 
Palpitation of the Heart; Irregular or Tumultuous 
Heating of the Heart; Violent Throbbing or Irregular 
Heating of the Heart; Painful Spasm through the 
Chest anti Heart; Chronic Disease of the Heart; Rheu- 
matism of the Heart; Old Chronic Palpitations of the 
Heart. Reliable and Invaluable. 
PRACTICAL HINTS. 
113 
Specific No. Till UTY-TII llF.E —C’urea 
Epilepsy, ('ramps, Spasms, C'oav ulsions; 
Convulsions of children or adults, with Loss of Con- 
sciousness; Spasms or Convulsions of children, from 
the slightest cause; Convulsions of children, from 
Teething, Fright or Mental Excitement; Cramps or 
Spasms of single limbs; St. Vitus’ Dance, with 
Twitching, Jerking or Strange Motions of single 
features, muscles or parts; Hysterical Spasms or 
Hysteria; Easy Numbness of single partB. The early 
use of Specific No. Thirty Tlntr.K has averted the 
development of Epilepsy In children, nnd has also 
cured many came of Epilepsy when It appeared con- 
firmed. For Chorea or St. Vitus' Dance, It Is Infallible. 
Hperlal Proscription No. Thirty-Three, 
for Epilepsy, Cnlling Sickness nnd St. 
Vitus’ Dunce | two Vials of Powder and Pellets— 
especially Indicated and Invaluable for old or chronic 
cases—price, #2.U0. 114 
Specific No. TI1IRT Y-FOCB-Cnrei 
Diphtheria; Quinsy and Ulcerated Sore 
Throat; Diphtheritic Sore Throat; Malignant Sore 
Throat; Tonsilitis; Ulcerated or Enlarged Tonsils; 
Painful, Difficult, Impeded Deglutition; Chronic 
Enlargement and Induration of the Tonsils; Old 
Bores, and Ulcerated Throats of Syphilitic Origin 
As a preventive and cure for Diphtheria and Quinsy 
and Ulcerated Sore Throat, it is entirely reliable. 
PRACTICAL HINTB. 
Specific No. THIR T Y-FI VE-Cures 
Chronic Congestions; Headaches and Erup- 
tions; Habitual Headaches; Heat and Fulness of 
the Head; Headaches of children; Slow Growth and 
Tardy Learning to Walk of children; Difficult Teeth 
lng of Children; Scurf and Eruption on the Head 
of young children; Sleeplessness, Retarded Sleep and 
Restlessness; Liability to Take Cold from Slight 
Exposure: Bearing Down, or Prolapsus Uteri. 
Special Prescription No. Thirty-Six, for 
Diseases of the Bones; Old Ulcers; Enlarged, 
Inflamed or Suppurated Glands: Ear Discharges • 
Old Eruptions; Chapped Hands; Offensive Sweat, In 
powder; price, $2.00. 
By When Six bottles or packages are ordered at 
one time, we charge for the price of Five only. Advantages of Specific Family Practice. 
115 
I should consider myself wanting as an advo- 
cate of the truth, did I fail to urge upon all, in a 
candid and legitimate way, the advantages of 
this nunle of using medicines. An experience in 
medical practice of over forty years, and of some 
thirty years in this peculiar method, and a very 
wide observation of the general practice of the 
day, leaves me no alternative but to urge its 
general adoption: and thus I must say, entirely 
aside from any personal or professional interest 
In the result. m 
I have every day reason to deplore the impo- 
tence of the methods in constant use in the 
treatment of disease, both in the hands of old 
school physioiaus, and in the use of popular reme- 
dies. They so often fail to cure where failure is 
inexcusable, they so often fill the system with 
drugs, from which patients suffer ever after, 
that I can but urge, in the interest of our com- 
mon humanity, the use of a milder, more efficient 
and more humane system. Possibly the one 
herein embraced may not meet every want— 
failure is humun; entire success even more than 
angelio—but the route herein indicated and the 
system here presented is incomparably in ad- 
vance, in point of economy, safety and efficiency, 
to anything ever before offered the people. This 
opinion is confirmed by the testimony of thous- 
ands who have been benefited by their use. 116 
From the Thousands of Unsolicited 
Testimonials, we print, as space permits, 
the following specimens: 
Winnemucca, Ncv., Dec. 15,1885. 
The Specifics have worked wonders in my family, 
and I would not be without the family case for $100 
in gold coin. WM. PERKINS. 
Upper Norwood, London, Eng., Oct. 21,1888. 
Iam glad to tell you that the Specific No. Thirty 
has made a perfect cure of a case we were afraid was 
hopeless, and we send you many thanks. 
ARTHUR C. STAFFORD. 
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 2,1886. 
We have used your Specifics In our family for sev- 
eral years, which has saved us many a doctor’s bill. 
P. H. MOODY. 
Warwick, N. Y., Nov. 16,1885. 
Your Specific No. Twenty does all you claim, as It 
cured my little girl of that dread Whooping Cough, 
and the No. Three cure for Sleeplessness was per- 
fect In its operation. C. M. BAKER. 
Minneapolis, Minn., Mch. 20,1886. 
One of our customers, who was a victim of Dys- 
pepsia and Billiousness, tried No. Ten a few days 
since, and Is enthusiastic over the result. 
CROSMAN & PLUMMER. 
East New York, Feb. 15,1886. 
I have used your medicines for years, and have also 
been Instrumental in selling hundreds of bottle* 
around among my friends, recommending them very 
big hly, knowing them to be Just as good as repra 
eented. MRS. HARIETT T. RICK. Atlanta, Oa., Nov. 14, 1885. 
When you any “Humphreys’ Specifies” you strike 
<w In a lender spot. My wife has an old case she baa 
Mirlurcd for twenty-five year*—from way up lu Ohio 
-and 1 would like to renew It. 
A. L. HAUltlS, Manager 
Southern hulnMrial IS ford. 
Allcwe. Cherokee Nation, July 26, 1886. 
I was eured of a long standing Ague and intermit- 
ting Fever with one box of your No. Sixteen. 
WM. WIKT WIIEELER. 
Bonaparte, Iowa, Dec. 7,188S. 
Please send me two vials of No. Three as soon a* 
yon can; It Is the best medicine the world can produoe 
for children. JAMES B. FOSTER. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Fob. IS, 188®. 
For tho past fifteen >r twenty years I have used 
your Speelllca with great satisfaction uud saving of 
doctor nllls, not having had occasion to call the ser- 
vices of one but on a very few occasions. 
W. H. H. BECK, 
2SI 8. Fourth St. 
Austin, Texas, Apr. 26, 1885. 
Since I commenced to use your Specifics, two or 
three years ugo, we nave had no doctor bills to pay— 
In a family of eight. JOHN F. STOKES. 
Ontario, Cal., May 81, 188®. 
Since receiving your manual, have been using your 
Specifics for baby and myself with good results. 
Have been down with Pneumonia; doctored myself 
successfully, studying manual and following direc- 
tions using Specifics. Accept my siuuerc thunks for 
benedts received through you—and no doctor's bill. 
MRS. S. HAT.R. 
117 120 
NERVOUS DEBILITY 
Is known by a weak, nervous, exhausted feeling; 
a lack of animation or energy, often with con- 
fused head, depressed mind, weak memory or 
with debilitating, involuntary discharges —the 
consequence of excesses, indiscretion or mental 
overwork. This condition iinds a sovereign 
cure in 
Humphreys’ Specinc Ho. Twenty-Eight. 
It tones up the system, dispels the mental 
gloom and despondency, restores vitality, arrests 
the drain and rejuvenates the entire system. 
Perfectly harmless; been in use twenty years; 
has restored thousands, and is the always effi- 
cient and safe remedy. Its highest praise is 
that it is extensively imitated. It is especially 
efficient for the young and indiscreet, and the 
overworked, overtaxed or careworn in active 
or advanced life. 
Price —$1.00 per single Vial; or $5.00 for a 
Package of Five Vials and a $2.00 Vial of Powder, 
which is important in old or serious cases. 
Sold by all Druggists, and sent, Post or Express 
paid, on receipt of price. Address : 
HUMPHKEYS’ MEDICINE COMPANY, 
Cor. William and Jobu Streets, 
NEW YORK. HUMPHREYS’ MENTOR, 
or Family Adviser 
IN 
HEALTH, HYGIENE AND MEDICINE. 
Tills work lias now been before tlie publio 
twenty years, and lias everywhere received the 
highest commendation from the people and the 
press. It forms a book of 660 payees, handsomely 
bound In cloth. It contains a lengthy prologue 
upon Lite, Health and Disease, and the Method 
op Cure, together with a full discussion, and 
plain, simple directions for the diagnosis and 
treatment of all disease or conditions which 
A FAMILY WILL FIND IT PROFITABLE OR NECESSARY 
TO TREAT. 
The great point of superiority of this work and 
of treatment over all others, is the directness 
and simplicity of the treatment, leading to a 
greater positiveness and certainty in the cura 
tlve results. 
To the hundreds of thousands who have long 
used the Author’s Specific Medicine this work 
is invaluable. 
Price fl.00. Sent by mail to any address 
on receipt of price. 122 
Trade Mark Registered. 123 
HUMPHREYS’ 
Marvel of Healing. 
WITCH HAZKJi. 
Tins Pt'tit Distillation of 
THE WKU.-KNOWN PIIKCB, IIaMA- 
melis, or Witch Hazel, is pre- 
pared with great care from 
receipts used by Dr. Ilumphreyt 
for more thuu twenty tears, 
and warranted superior to any 
Witch Hazel preparation «old. 
See that eor *rade-inark i9 on each bottle. 
None other genuine. 
Trad* Hark. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is the ready cure 
for ull Injvrie*, Bruises, Contusions, Strains, 
Cuts or Lacerations. It soothes the pain, 
staunches the bleeding, arrests inflammation, 
reduces the spelling, removes discoloration 
and heals the w’ound like magic. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING Is a prompt relief 
and rapid cure for Bum*, Scald* and Sun- 
burn*—superior to every other remedy. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING Is priceless for 
all Bleeding* or Hemorrhage*. No** Bleed, 
Bleeding Gum*. Spilling of Blood, Bleeding 
Lung* or Stomach, or Bleeding I Hie*. 
TDK MARVEL OF HEALING is the sure and 
unfailing cure for PUtt or Hemorrhr*di— 
always curing, never failing. 124 
THE MARVEL OP HEARING is a prompt relief 
for Toothache, Earache, Faceache, Swelled Face 
and Neuralgia. 
THE MARVEL OP HEALING is the ready and 
valuable resource for Rhei iatlc Pain, Lame- 
ness, Soreness or Stiffness of Joints or Limbs. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is a grand remedy 
for Quinsy, Sore Throat, Inflamed or Enlarged 
Tonsils—always reliable, always efficient. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable for 
the cure of Gravel, Renal Calculi, Kidney Com- 
plaints, Strangury, or other similar disorders. 
THE MARVEL OP HEALING is a prompt cure 
for Simple Diarrhea, and has cured the most 
obstinate cases of Chronic Diarrhea. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable as 
an injection for Catarrhs, Leucorrheas and 
other debilitating mucus discharges. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable as a 
cure for Ulcers, Old Sores, Boils, Felons, Corns 
or Bunions, and Tumors. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable for 
Stable Use, for Sprains, Soreness, Breast or 
Harness Calls, Contusion, Laceration or other 
injury. 
THE MARVEL OF HEALING relieves like magic 
Chilblains, Frosted Parts, Mosquito Bites and 
Stings of Insects. Nothing like it. . 
Sold bv Druggists and Dealers. 
Price—6 oz., 30 cts.; Pints, CO cts.; Quarts, 
$1.00; Two-Quart Bottle, $1.50. HUMPHREYS’ 
WITCH HAZEL OIL 
AND PILE OINTMENT. 
125 
This Ointment is the triumph of Scientific 
Medicine. Nothing has ever been produced at 
all to equul or compare with it as a curative and 
healing application. The virtues of the h itch 
lintel have been long known and celebrated as 
u healer and pain curer. But when combined 
and applied in the form of an oil, its cubativk 
effects akk marvelous. It has been used over 
fortt tears, and is the prescription of one of 
the most renowned physicians of his day. It 
alwats afforbs relief and always gives 
satisfaction. For: 
Piles, Fissures, Illiud or Rleedimr, Ki- 
le r mi 1 or lulerunl, and Itching or Bleed- 
ing of the Rectum. For these, or any of them, 
this Oil Is Infallible. The relief is Immediate. It has 
been used In thousands of cases with absolute success. 
No one who has ever tried It will do without It. 
Flceratious, Eruptions, Cracks or Fis- 
sures of the anus or rectum are cured at once and 
like magic from a few simple applications of this Oil. 
Even old Fistulas in ano hare been cured by It. 126 
Burns, Scalds, nnd Ulceration and Con- 
traction from burns. The relief is instant, and the 
healing of the ulceration and softening of the con- 
traction is wonderful. It has in repeated instances 
cured cases of contraction from burns pronounced 
Incurable by the faculty. 
Cancers, Malignant, Painful or Corrod- 
ing Ulcers, Carbuncles and Boils are at once 
relieved of the darting, eating or corroding pains. 
Old Sores, Indolent Ulcers and Fistulas 
are promptly healed up and cured. This Oil is the 
mildest and best possible dressing for them. 
Torn, Lacerated or Cut Wounds or In- 
juries are promptly closed up and healed by this 
Oil in a manner approached by no other remedy. 
Salt Khemri, Tetters, Scurfy Eruptions, 
Chnpped Hands, Fever Blisters, Sore Lips, 
Corns and Bunions are promptly relieved and 
often cured like magic. 
For Corns and Bunions, or Sore and Lame 
Feet this remedy affords Instant relief, curing and 
rendering serviceable feet whose use under any other 
treatment was a painful burden and torment. 
Scratches or Grease in Horses, Cliaf- 
ings, Saddle or Harness Gnlls, Lacera- 
tions, Cuts, Injuries, Broken Hoof or 
Quarter Crack are all cured by this Witch 
Hazel Oil in a manner unequaled. 
For further Information see Witch Hazel Oil Book. 
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS 
OR SENT, PREPAID, ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. 
50c. and $1.00 per Bottle. 127 
HUMPHREYS’ 
VETERINARY SPECIFICS, 
FOll THE CUKE OF 
Horses. Cattle, Sheep, Logs, Hogs & Poultry. 
Mim.ion'r of Poli.aks’ worth of Domestic Ani- 
mals and Poci.try are every year loRt or sacri- 
ficed, l>eeanso owners arc not acquainted with 
their diseases, and do not know how to treat 
them. Yet sick animals under Du. HrMerfurvs’ 
SPKCirrr Ststtm are more readily treated and 
cured than people. The greatest blessing of 
modern times for Domestic Animals is their 
treatment, when sick, by this svstem. That they 
are dally so cured in thousands of instances, is 
as true as that the people ride on railroads, sew 
with sewing machines, or send messages by 
telegraph. 128 
ADVANTAGES 
Humphreys’ Veterinary Specifics 
OVER ANY OTHER SYSTEM 
—OR— 
MODE OF TREATMENT FOR STOCK. 
I.—Humphreys’ Veterinary Specifics 
tire not an experiment. They have 
been in use among Farmers, Breeders, 
Livery Stable and Turfmen, Horse 
Railroad, Express, Mining and Manu- 
facturing Companies, Menageries and 
Hippodromes, and others handling large 
numbers of horses and other stock with 
complete success for twenty-five years. 
II.—You have a Specific Remedy for any 
particular Disease or Complaint. 
For Colic, Cough, Founder, Heaves, 
Pneumonia, Indigestion, Disease 
of the Kidneys or Urinary Pas- 
sages, Strains or Lameness, you 
have, in compact, portable form, 
fihe Specific to cure it. You know just 
•achat to do, and how to do it. 129 
III.—Their use, is free from danger t* 
the Animal. In the usual treatment, 
the medicines are either rank poison* 
or the most violent alteratives. It is a 
common experience, that, if the hors* 
finally lives through the treatment, h* 
Is worthless from the effeots of the 
medicines. Thousands of good horse* 
are every year killed by drugs. In IIim- 
ruRETs’ Specific system you are abso- 
lutely free from all such danger. 
IV.—They are simple. Being Specifies 
for particular diseases, you know 
at once what to give. You can scarcely 
make a mistake. Even if you do, you 
have only lost your time, and have not 
killed the horse. When using the com- 
mon veterinary drugs, a mistake is often 
fatal. With simple Homeopathic Medi- 
cines you are never sure of giving th* 
right medicine. 
V.— They are readily and easily given. 
You need not lose a moment. The Spe- 
cific is ready Just as you want It. Th* 
Medlcator takes the dose from the bottl* 
and places it upon the tongue of th* 
horse or cow, without loss of time or 
danger. No bottling, balling, choking 
or strangling—irritating the anlmul and 
endangering the owner or his help. 130 
VI.—They cure more quickly them any 
other Medicine. Humphuits' Sn- 
011*108 act through the medium of the 
serves and the blood, rather than 
through the digestive organs They 
begin to act before other medicines 
even reach the stomach. Ton cure 
diseases with Humphreys' Vbtbrinaht 
Specifics which you cannot cure by 
any other treatment. 
VU.—Every Ten Dollars invested in 
Humphreys’ Veterinary . Specific* 
Will save you $100, and every hundred 
will save a thousand in property, be- 
sides an equal amount in time, trouble 
and care. 
VIII. —The saving in loss of stock is from 
one-half to three-fourths. This is 
the testimony of hundreds of horsemen. 
XX.—The Treatment is humane, and if 
we may be humane as well as skillful, 
surely we should prefer it. 
X.—Diagnosing the disease and giving 
of medicine is such as any sensible, 
faithful man of ordinary intelligence 
can master without difficulty. 131 
LIST OF 
HUMPHREYS’ 
VETERINARY SPECIFICS, 
AND 
Prominent Conditions which Each Cures. 
CtRI'IIU.TS NEST IK Eh OX APPLICATION. 
A.A. 
CURBS 
FEVER,CONGESTIONS, 
INFLAMMATIONS, Etc. 
Curative fur all CoiiKC»tion<t, lnllitmmn- 
tioiiN, Fevers and febrile conditional and 
hence for all conditions attended with quick, full 
AKD STRONG rnLSE, HEAT OR KXITTEMEXT of the 
system; and for the coldness, shaking or panting 
which preoede Inflammation. Cures Inflammation*, 
as of the Lungs or Pleura (Pleuro Pneumonia); 
Inflainination of the Head or Drain, Jb;yes, or of the 
liver or Dolly; Sore Throat or Qulnzy; Blind or Belly 
Staggers, or Convulsions; Hot Skin; Pulse; 
Chill or Panting; Milk Fever In Cows; Spinal Menin- 
gitis In Horses. 
B.B. 
curbs 
STRAINS*, LAMENESS, RHEU- 
MATISM, INJURIES. 
Kspeclully curative for all diseases or affections of 
the Uluwlm, 81iewi, Tendons and .lolnla. 
Curea Founder, Curl), spavin, strains. Stiffness, Lame- 
ties*, Rheumatism, Splint, Stifle. 132 
c.c. 
CURES 
Distemper, Gleet or Strangles, 
Influenza or Epizootic. 
Especially curative for all diseases of the Mucus 
Membrane and Glands. Cures Epizootic; Dis- 
temper in Horses or Sheep; Nasal Gleet; Farcy and 
Glanders; Discharges from the Nose; Farcy Buds; 
Swelled Glands; Scab in Sheep; Distemper in Dogs. 
D.D. 
CURES 
Cures all diseases arising from Bots, Grubs or 
W or ms in animals, and the morbid cause which 
produces them. Cures Diseases from Long, Round, 
Pin or Tape Worm; Colic or emaciation from Worms. 
WORMS, BOTS OR GRUBS. 
E.E. 
CURES 
Coughs, Heaves, Influenza, 
Broken Wind, Whistles. 
Cures diseases of the Air Passages and Lungs, 
especially after the more acute symptoms have been 
removed by the Specific A.A. Cures Thick Wind 
Inflamed Lungs or Pleura (Pleuro-Pneumonia. 
F.F. 
CURES 
Colic, Belly-Ache, Wind-Blown, 
Diarrhea, Dysentery. 
Especially cures the various forms of Colic or 
Euterulgia, and derangements arising from im- 
proper FOOD, DERANGED DIGESTION OR OVER FEEDING. 
Cures Colic, Spasmodic Wind or Inflammatory Colic; 
Belly-ache, Gripes, Hoven or Wind-Blown ; Diarrhea 
or Dysentery. 133 
Q.G. 
CURES 
Miscarriage, Abortion, Hemor- 
rhage, Retained After-Birth. 
Cures diseases of the reproductive system. Especi- 
ally useful os a mucvention of Miscarriage or 
Abortion. Prevents Casting of Foal In Mares, Cows 
or Sheep; arrests Hemorrhages or Flooding; throw* 
oft the After birth, If retained. 
h.h. 
CURES 
KIDNEY AND URINARY DIS- 
KASKS, DUOI*!S\ . ETC. 
Cures diseases of the urinary apparatus, K idneyn, 
Bladder and Appendages; Inflammation of the 
Kidneys, Bladder or Urinary Passages; scanty, diffi- 
cult, painful, suppressed or bloody urination; Kidney 
Colic. 
I. L 
CURES 
Eruptions, Mange, Farcy, Grease, 
Thrush, Abscess, Ulcers. 
Cunw diseases of tho SUin mid Underlying 
Tissues; A ksiTssi's and I lcerat ions; Cutan- 
eous Disease* or Eruptions, Mange, Farcy, Urease, 
Thrush, Erysipelas, Swellings, Abscesses, Fistulas, 
Ulcers, Unhealthy Skin, Rough Coat. 
Formerly J J. 
J.K. 
CURES 
Iudigrstion, Jaundice or Yellow 
Water, Constipation. 
Cures Morbid Condillows or Dernntfrmrnti 
of the Divrstivt Hyiiemi Loss of Appetite, and 
•‘Off bis Fwd”; Results of Over-Foed, Jaundice or 
Yellows; ill Condition, Staring Coat; also Paralysis, 
Stomach Staggers, ltrlttle Hoofs. 134 
Humphreys’ Veterinary Care Oil. 
HUMPHREYS’ WITCH HAZEL OIL 
has become such a favorite Ointment with Horse 
and Cattle owners, that in answer to numerous 
appeals Dr,. Humphreys has thought best to 
prepare a similar Ointment exclusively for 
Veterinary Use, making such changes in its 
make and composition as to render it even more 
cubative and better adapted for all domestic 
animals. 
It is the Jteat possible Application and 
Cure for : 
Injuries from Kicks, Nails, Thorns, Spikes, 
Barbed Wire, Stakes, or any Lacerated, Torn 
or Cut Wounds ; Eurns or Scalds; Sores or 
Indolent Ulcers; Sore, Scabby, Itching Pat- 
ches or Bare Places on the Skin; Harness, 
Collar or Saddle Galls or Chafings; Sore 
Teats; Fistulas or Deep-seated Ulcers: Broken 
Knees or Open Joints; Old Scars; Horny Places 
or Warts; Hot Swellings; Boils or Tumors; 
Scratches, Greased or Cracked Heels; Broken 
Hoof; Sand or Quarter-Crack; Corns: Tender 
or Bruised Soles; Dry, Shaly or Ill-Growing 
Hoofs. 
AS A HOOF OIL IT IS UNEQUALED. 
Apply the “CURE OIL” with the end of the 
2nger along the upper edge of the hoof after clean- 
ing at night. 
Large Jar, price .... $1.00. 135 
“APPROVAL.” 
The Hoard of Cavalry Equipment of the 
l otted Staten Army, comprising experienced 
and able officers, applied to the 
Humphreys' Medicine Company. 
for information in regard to their Veterinary 
Specific*—** the relative Loss of Stock, Cost of 
Treatment, etc.” 
After a thorough investigation, and inquiries 
made at the large Stables, Horse Kail Roads, 
and others using the medicines, 
"The Board have Recommended their 
Use in the Service.” 
The recommendation hna t>een Approved, by 
the Quarter-Master General and General 
Sherman, and the Specifies are now being dis- 
tributed to the different Catsuit REonmrra, 
Abut Posts, etc. 136 
St. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 13,1888. 
Midway Park, N. W. KITTSON, Proprietor. I have 
been using Dr. Humphreys’ Veterinary Specific* 
for the past four years in the stables of Commodore 
Kittson, and the results have been entirely satis- 
factory. We use the medicines exclusively for 
Couohs, Colds, Fevers, Eruptions, Stiffness—and 
in short any ailment that our horses may have. 
Previous to using this medicine, our losses by death 
were large; since using the Specifics exclusively, 
we have not met with a single loss. 
D. W. WOODMANSEE, Manager. 
Buffalo, N. Y. Jan. 26,1886, 
Our President, Mr. C. J. Hamlin, has for some time 
past been using your Specifics at his farm, and they 
have proved so beneficial that we have con- 
cluded to adopt them for use In the stables of the 
company. We have between 400 and 500 horses and 
mules. Yours very truly, 
THE AMERICAN GLUCOSE CO. 
Dictated by T. A. B. T. A. BUDD, P. A. 
New York, Feb. 1,1887. 
ADAMS EXPRESS CO., Washington, D. C. 
We have used “Humphreys’ Veterinary 
Specifics’’ exclusively for the past five years In all 
kinds of sickness which our horses have been afflicted 
with, and invariably, In each and every instance 
with the greatest success and most favorable results. 
We take pleasure In specially recommending them to 
all owners of horses, as the safest, most simple, least 
expensive and most beneficial that we have ever 
tested. Very respectfully, G. W. MOSS, Agent. 
I cheerfully subscribe to the above as correct In 
every particular. G. S. SMITH, Stable Manager. BEWARE OF IMPOSITION. 
137 
r The public are cautioned against buying 
medicines from 
IRRESPONSIBLE PARTIES. 
Who sell worthless Imitations by claiming to 
hare been In Dr. Humphreys' employ and to 
have learned to make his 
VETERINARY SPECIFICS, 
or others as good. Such stories are utterly 
false, misleading and unworthy of confi- 
dence. You are only safe in buying through my 
authorized agents 
HUMPHREYS’ VETERINARY SPECIFICS, 
properly labeled, Lettered, with Name and 
Trade Mark blown in liottle. 
P. QUMPliREYb, M. D. ■33»qlk Bottles, containing 50 doses 8 <=C© 
“T'Glk Bottles, Medium Size, containing 
pour times as much as small bottles— 3=0® 
•Sjbole Bottles, Large Size, containing eight 
times as much as small bottles 3.0® 
Small Stable Case, Black Walnut, Handle, 
Lock and Key, containing Manual (450 
pages). Ten bottles Specifics, Jar Veteri- 
nary Cure Oil, and Medicator 7,0$ 
SfiKDitm Stable Case, Black Walnut, Handle, 
Lock and Key, containing Manual (45C 
pages), Ten medium size bottles Spe- 
cifics, Jar Veterinary Cure Oil, and 
Medicator 120,0® 
Stable Case, Black Walnut, Haudle, 
Lock and Key, containing Manual (450 
pages). Ten large size bottles Specifies, 
Jar Veterinary Cure Oil, and Medicator, 30,00 
Humphreys’ Veterinary Manual (450 pages, 
with Chart) 50 
Medicator (for administering Specifics) 35 
Jab Veterinary Cure Oil 1.0® 
Prices of Cases and Single Bottles, 
-Sentprepaid (any quantity) to any addrett on receipt of prioi, 139 
INDEX. 
Acne, or Pimples on the Face 81,104 
Acut« Dlsnaa* a, 1 .arller stages of 19 
Advantage* of this Mode of Medication 6,7,115 
Alternation of Sj>eclflcs 10-11 
Asthma. 70,107 
Bearing Down 95, 96 
Bilious Condition 59,103 
Bladder, Catarrh of 84, 112 
“ Inflammation of 84,112 
Bleeding from the Lungs or Stomach 56, 124-25 
Bolls and Carbuncles 82-3,108 
Breath, Offensive or Perspiration 108,108 
Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys 85,110 
Bronchitis 51-2,101-2 
“ Chronic 52,108 
" of Infants or Children 27,101 
Carbuncles 82-3,108 
Catarrh, Chronic 67-8,106 
“ Hay or Rose 69,107 
“ of the Bladder 84,110 
Chapped Hands or Llj* 82,104 
Change of Life 97,113 
Chicken-Pox Hi 
Cholera Infantum 25-6,100 
“ and Cholera Morbus 42-3,101 
“ Precautionary Measures 43,101 
" Prevention of !.7. 44 
“ Diarrhea. 44,101 
Chorea or St. Vitus’ Dance 33,113 140 
Clergymen, Sore Throat of S3,108 
Coffee, Use of by the Sick. 9 
Cold In the Head 69,106 
Contagious Diseases 14 
Colic, Bilious 62,101 
“ of Infants 22,100 
Congestion of the Chest 49, 99 
“ “ Head, in Children 16,17,99 
» “ Head, In Adults 17,99 
Constipated Bowels 59,103 
Coughs, Colds, etc 50-1,101-2,107 
Cramps In the Stomach 61,103 
Croup and Prevention of 28-30,104 
Crying of Infants 21,100 
Debility, General 72,109 
“ Nervous 73, 111 
Diabetes 87-8,110 
Diarrhea and Treatment 45-7,100 
“ of Children 25-6, 100 
“ of Adults 45, 108 
“ Chronic 46-7,100 
Diet or Regimen of the Sick 7-9 
Diet During Cholera 48 
Diet In Diarrhea, Dysentery and Cholera ... . 47 
Diet In Traveling * 46 
Diphtheria and Malignant Sore Throat 18,114 
Diseases, two or more 11-12 
“ of the Organs of Digestion 57-62 
Disease, first stage of 19, 99 
Doses, Repetition of 12 
Dropsy 89, 109 
Dysentery and Treatment 47-8,101 
Dysenteric Diarrhea 47,101 
Dyspepsia and Weak Stomach 58-9,103 
Earache 67,108 
Ear, Discharge from 67,108 
nrD»X. Ears, Noises and Ringing In 57,108 
Early Stage of Acute Disease 19 
Eczema 80, 104 
Eplleiwy 82,118 
Eruptions 80, 104 
Erysipelas 79, 104 
Exercise of the Sick , 9 
Eyea or Eyelids, Sore 66, 99, 106 
Female Disorders 90-7, 108, 104, 112, 113 
Fevers 34, 99 
Fever, Simple or Inflammatory 86 
“ and Ague, Preventive and Cure o8-9, 105 
“ 1111 lous or Gastric 36, 99 
*' Enteric or Typhoid 40,99 
•• Yellow 41,99 
Fevers In Children.. 12, 99 
" Treatment of 14-16 
“ Prevention of 17 
Flatulence 60, 103 
Food for the Sick 8 
Fretfulness and Worrying of Children 24,100 
Gastralgla or Cramp of the Stomach 61, 108 
General Debility 72, 109 
Glands, Enlargement of 78,108 
Goitre 108 
Gonorrhea 87,112 
Gravel or Renal Calculi 86, 110 
Growth, Deficient In Children. 78, 108 
Hay or Autumn Catarrh 69, 107 
Headache and Treatment 62, 68, 99.102 
“ During the Menses 93, 103 
“ from Constipation 63, 108 
Hearing, Dlfllcult 67, 108 
Heartburn 60, 108 
Heart, Disease of 71, 113 
Hemorrhage from the Lungs 56 
INDEX. 
141 INDEX. 
142 
Hemorrhage from the Stomach 56 
“ Uterus 86,123-4 
Hemorrhoids or Plle3 60,106 
Hoarseness and Loss of Voice 52,101 
Hysteria 83,118 
Inflammations 49, 99 
Inflammation of the Brain 16-17, 99 
“ “ Bladder 86-7, 112 
“ " Bowels 57,99 
“ “ Eyes and Eyelids 65, i06 
“ “ Kidneys 86, il2 
“ “ Lungs 53-4,99 
“ “ Urethra 87,112 
Indigestion or Bilious Condition 59, 103 
Influenza 53, 69, 101, 106 
Itching of the Anus « 77. 107 
Kidneys, Disease of the 72, 85, 110 
“ Inflammation of 86, 112 
Leucorrheaor Whites 94, 103-4, 112 
Lumbago, or Pain In the Loins 75, 105, 109 
Malaria 37-8, 103, 105 
Measles 15,99 
Menses, too Profuse 93, 101, 112 
“ Tardy or Delaying 91, 103 
“ Scanty 91, 108 
“ Painful 92, 103, 112 
“ Suppressed 92, 103 
“ Cessation of 97, 113 
Menstruation 90, 103 
Morning Sickness 97, 111 
Mumps 16, 108 
Nausea and Vomiting 57,101 
Nervous Debility, Nervous Condition 73, 111 
Nettle-Rash 80, 104 
Neuralgia 65,102 
Palpitation of the Heart 71,113 IVDBI 
Paralysis. l'artlal iOt 
Piles or Hemorrhoids 8C, 106 
Pimples on the Face 81,1M 
Pleurisy 88, M 
Pneumonia 88-4, W 
Prolapsus Uteri 85-4,104 
Prurltta (Itching) 88, 104, 111 
Quinsy or Sore Throat 17, 88, 114 
Rheumatism 74, 88,106 
Rose Catarrh 88,107 
Salt Rheum 'it 81,104 
Bral<l Head. * 81,104 
Scarlet Fever and Scarlatina 18-15, 8* 
M “ Prevention of 18-15 
“ “ Treatment of 18, 88,106 
Sciatica 78,106 
Scrofula 77,106 
Sea Sickness 78,108 
Shingles, a form of Erysipelas 80, 104 
Sight. Weakness of 68, 108 
Skin, Diseases of 78-83, 104 
Sleeplessness of Infants 22,100 
“ and Nervousness of Adults .. 63, 89,10C 
Slow Growth and Feebleness of Infants 24, IOC 
Small-Pox 88,104 
Bore Mouth, Canker 1. 24, 111 
Bore Throat or Quinsy 17, 88,114 
Spasms or Convulsions 81,118 
Special Prescription for Chronic Lung Dls’s. 52 
“ " “ Catarrh » 
•• “ “ Diabetes Ill 
“ Eruptions 8C 
“ •• “ Goitre Cure 108 
“ f " Kidney Diseases .. 38 
“ “ “ Urln’y Incontinence 1U 
Specific* Alternation of 10-11 
143 INDEX. 
144 
Specifics, Advantages of 6-7,115 
“ Discovery of 6 
“ Do not Deteriorate 5 
“ How they Differ 4-7 
“ How to Prepare and Take 11-12 
“ How to Select 10-11 
“ Not Hurtful 5 
“ Preservation and Keeping of 5 
“ Repetition of 12 
Sprue or Sore Mouth of Infants -84, 111 
St. Vitus’ Dance or Chorea 83,113 
Stye on the Eyelid 66,106 
Sun Stroke, Effects of Over-Heating 99 
Tape-Worm 77,100 
Teething 2^4,100 
Tetters 80, 104-5 
Tobacco, Its Use and Avoidance 10 
Tousllitis 17,108 
Tonsils, Enlargement of 78, 108 
Toothache 64,102 
Tumors 78, 108 
Ulcers 82,104,108 
Urinary Diseases 88,110,112 
“ Incontinence 89,112 
Urination, Painful or Scanty 88,110,112 
Varioloid 83,104 
Vomiting of Pregnant Women 97,112 
“ of Blood 56 
Wakefulness of Infants 22,100 
Weak Stomach 58,103 
Wetting the Bed 27,108,112 
Whites or Leucorrhea 94,104 
Worm Fever 20-1,100 
Worms, Symptoms and Treatment of 19, 77,100 
Whooping Cough 30,107 
Yellow Fever 41 SPECIAL PRESCRIPTIONS. 
I)r. Humphreys has used in his extensive practice 
for many years, particular prescriptions which have 
proved so uniformly curative and are so often called 
for, that he lias been induced to put them up in pop- 
ular form with full directions for use, and to cata- 
logue them as his “Special Prescriptions” as 
follows:— 
Special Mo. Seven. — For the cure of Chronic 
Cough and Lung Diseases; Bronchitis, 
Weakness and Debility ; Emaciation ; Pain in 
the Side or Chest; Pulmonary Weakness. 
Special No. Fourteen.—For the cure of Chronic 
Eruptions; Eczema; Tetters; Salt Rheum ; 
Scald Head. Itching, Inveterate Herpes, Dand- 
ruff, Pimples in the Face; Chaps; Unhealthy 
Skin. 
Special No. Nineteen. — Chronic Nasal Ca- 
tarrh; Oztena ; Profuse and even Offensive 
Discharge ; Accumulation of Mucous in the 
Nose or Throat. 
SjM-ciul No. Twenty-seven.— Disease of the 
Kidneys; Degeneration and Bright's Disease; 
Urtemia ; Enlarged Prostate ; Catarrh of Blad- 
der. 
Special No. Thirty.—Disease of the Bladder and 
Urethra; Too Frequent Burning or Scalding, 
Inability to retain at night or by day ; Chronic 
Urinal Debility, Constitutional or from Inflrrn- 
Ity. 
Special No. Thirty-three. — For Epilepsy, 
Spasms, St. Vitus’ Dance, Chorea, Convul- 
sions, Falling Sickness, Involuntary Motions, 
Jerkings, Twitchings of Single Muscles or 
Lint bs. 
Si lecial No. Tliirty-slx. — For Disease of the 
Hones; Enlarged, Inflamed, or Suppurated 
Clauds ; Ear Discharges ; Old Eruptions ; Chap- 
ped Hands ; Offensive Sweat. 
These are put up in neat packages of Two Large 
Six Dram Vials each, with full directions, and sent 
free to any address on receipt of the price,92.00 each 
Special Cholera Case.—For Prevention 
ami Ci 'e Tiikkr Vials, in a neat case 
with Pamphi.ktand full directions for use, **2.00 
In Larqm one Ounce Vials, - - 3.00 TH<! M.LQkVH 
f HUMPHREYS' 
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