BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS. 
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 
HEALTH PRIMER 
GOUTY OR URIC-ACID DIATHESIS, INFLAMMATIONS OF THE 
BLADDER AND KIDNEYS, BRIGHT’S DISEASE, DISORDERS 
OF THE STOMACH AND NERVOUS SYSTEM, AFFEC- 
TIONS PECULIAR TO WOMEN, MALARIAL 
POISONING, &c. 
THIS WATER AS A TABLE WATER. 
Testimonials of Well-Known Medical Experts. 
Statements of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, of New York, and 
of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia. 
THOMAS F. GOODE, Proprietor 
Post-Office Address : 
BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, VIRGINIA. 
BA LT lM OEE: 
PRINTED B? KING BROTHERS, 
1® West Baltimore Street. 
1881. THESE WATERS AT THE SPRINGS. 
These Waters, fresh from the Springs, are without taste or odor 
to distirguish them from ordinary drinking water. 
€5 J3k X3T I? $ Cl JSff 1 
Since these Waters have attained so great celebrity, a number 
of waters have been placed upon the market, claiming to be Lithia 
Water, and to be in all respects similar to these. 
The proprietors of some of the waters referred to are, by very 
artful means, endeavoring to mislead the public so far as to induce 
the purchase of their waters under the impression that they are the 
waters of the Buffalo Lithia Springv, of Mecklenburg County, 
Virginia. There are manufactured waters upon the market, 
claiming to be the waters of these Springs, and there is reason to 
believe that bottles, bearing the trade mark of the proprietor, are 
sometimes bought up, refilled with the common drinking water of 
the country, and sold for these waters. Every bottle, however, of 
the genuine Buffalo Lithia Water, will be found to have the trade 
mark above given, but the surest guarantee for getting the genuine 
article is to buy only from well-known parties. BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, 
Mecklenburg County, Virginia. 
Location. 
This watering place is five hundred feet above the level of the sea, and twelve 
miles from the Scottsburg depot on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. 
The springs are three in number, known as Nos. 1, 2 and 3. That all these 
springs possess remarkable remedial virtues is a well established medical fact. 
Spring No. 2, however, is that now attracting so large a share of attention, both 
of the medical profession and of the invalid public. 
The following is the analysis of this Spring, made by Prof. William P. Tonry, 
of the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, March 17th, 1874. Results expressed in 
grains per imperial gallon. 
Sulphate of Magnesia 0.885 
GRAINS 
Alumina 9.067 
Lime 33.067 
Carbonate of Potash 29,300 
Bicarbonate of Lime 14.963 
Lithia 2.250 
Baryta 1.750 
Chloride of Sodium 4.921 
Iron 0.800 
Silica 1.873 
Phosphoric Acid traces. 
lodine traces. 
Organic matter. small amount 
Total number of grains per gallon 98.376 
Sulphuretted hydrogen 8.3 cu. in. 
Carbonic acid gas 59.2 “ 
This water is APERIENT, ALTERATIVE, TONIC, and POWERFULLY 
DIURETIC, 2 
Its Medical Uses. 
The various maladies to which this wrater is adapted is fully indicated by the 
testimony of medical men, found in the following pages, except as to its action in 
CHRONIC DIARRHOEA and in various forms of BLOOD POISON, showing 
itself in ECZEMA and other CUTANEOUS DISORDERS. In CHRONIC DIAR- 
RHOEA, where caused, as is frequently the case, by acidity of the stomach or 
intestines or bile, its action is often very happy and decided. In nothing has it ac- 
complished results more remarkable than in ECZEMA of URIC ACID origin, and 
in various other forms of SKIN DISEASE. 
Several eminent medical gentlemen, whose statements appear in the following 
pages, refer in general terms to the value of this water in AFFECTIONS 
PECULIAR TO WOMEN. It may be satisfactory to add that experience in its 
übe has established its value in UTERINE ENGORGEMENTS and ULCERA- 
TIONS, LEUCORRIKEA and in SUPPRESSED and DIFFICULT MENSTRU- 
ATION. 
This Water as a Table Water. 
It is held by most writers on mineral waters, that they should be taken, for the 
most part, on an empty stomach, and, perhaps, as a general rule, this is a sound 
one. There are many cases, however, in which this water is strongly advised 
by the profession to be taken in moderate quantities, say one or two goblets of the 
ordinary size, during meals. Taken as indicated, it will be found to increase 
THE APPETITE, PROMOTE DIGESTION, AND PREVENT AN EXCESSIVE PRODUCTION OF 
acid during the process of DIGESTION. A small quantity, taken after meals, will, 
as a general rule, relieve any disturbance resulting from any excessive or imprudent in- 
-lulgence. MANY PERSONS WHO CANNOT ORDINARILY USE MILK OR 
CREAM, WILL FIND THAT BY ADDING ONE-FOURTH PART OF THE 
WATER OF SPRING No. 3, IT WILL MAKE THEM NOT ONLY ACCEP- 
TABLE, BUT VALUABLE ARTICLES OF DIET. 
Suggestions as to the Quantity cf Water to he Taken, <fce. 
From six to eight glasses, of the ordinary size, is about the average quantity of 
this water taken by invalids a day, and this is supposed to be sufficient in most 
cases; some, however, take from ten to twelve; others only three or four. In 
derangements of the DIGESTIVE ORGANS especially, the lesser quantity has 
often been productive of great good. In GOUT, RHEUMATISM, STONE, 
GRAVEL or ECZEMA, it should be taken freely. 
It is impossible to prescribe a standard that would be applicable to all cases. 
Experience will* perhaps, prove the best guide in the matter. Nor can any general 
rule be laid down as to the length of time for which the water should be used. 
While in some cases it is prompt in its action, in others it requires continuous use 
for weeks, and sometimes for months, to make any decided impression upon the 
system. 
The Waters fur Suit*. 
These waters are put up in cases of one dozen half-gallon bottles, and delivered 
at the Scottsburg Depot of the Richmond and Danville railroad, at $5 per case. 3 
All orders for the water must be accompanied by the money, or its equivalent. 
In future this requirement will be rigidly adhered to in all cases. 
Cases of empty bottles sent to the Depot, freight pre-paid, well packed and corked, 
will be taken, refilled and returned to the Depot at three dollars ($8.00) per case. 
Glass vessels or barrels with metalic lining sent, freight prepaid, will be filled and 
returned to the depot, at 40 cents per gallon. 
£3f"Special contracts made for the purchase of the Buffalo Lithia Springs’ bottles 
in quantities. 
The attention of Druggists and of Consumers of this 
Water is specially invited to the following 
Statement of Facts i 
Occasionally one dr two bottles will be found in a case in Which sulphuretted 
hydrogen has been generated after packing, giving to the water the taste and odor 
of a sulphur water. Why the sulphuretted hydrogen is not generated in all bottles 
alike, I cannot undertake to determine. 
Complaint is often made of a vegetable substance of a brownish color, sometimes 
found as a sediment in the bottles. This substance, the presence of which cannot 
be accounted for, is frequently found floating in the Spring, sometimes in much 
larger quantities than others, and no possible care can keep it from 1 tding its way 
into the bottles. 
Thomas F. Goode, Proprietor, 
Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia. DISTINGUISHED MEDICALTESTIMONY. 
AFFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, COMPLICATED WITH 
BRIGHT’S DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS, OR WITH A GOUTY 
DIATHESIS, CEREBRAL HYPEREMIA, &c. 
Dr. Wrn. A. Hammond, of New York, Surgeon General TJ. S. Army, {retired,) Professor 
of Disemes of the Mind and Nervous System in the University of New Tork, etc. 
“ I have for some time made use of the Butfalo Lithia Water in cases of affections 
of the NERVOUS SYSTEM, complicated with BRIGHT’S DISEASE OF THE 
KIDNEYS, or with a GOUTY DIATHESIS. THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN 
EMINENTLY SATISFACTORY. Lithia has for many years been a favorite 
remedy with me in like cases, but the BUFFALO WATER CERTAINLY ACTS 
BETTER THAN ANY EXTEMPORANEOUS SOLUTION OF THE LITHIA 
SALTS, AND IS, MOREOVER, BETTER BORNE BY THE STOMACH. I 
also often prescribe it in those cases of CEREBRAL HYPERrEMIA, resulting from 
over-mental work—in which the condition called NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA exist#— 
AND GENERALLY WITH MARKED BENEFIT.” 
URIC ACID GRAVEL, RHEUMATIC GOUT, AND DISEASES GENER- 
ALLY OF THE URIC ACID DIATHESIS, NERVOUS AND ACID 
DYSPEPSIA, DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN. 
THIS WATER A POWERFUL NERVOUS TONIC. 
Dr. Hunter McGuire, Richmond, Virginia, late Professor Surgery Medical College 
of Virginia ; Medical Director on the Staff of Gen. T. J. {Stonewall) Jackson ; Vice- 
President of the International Medical Congress ; Vice-President American Medical 
Association 
“ Buffalo Lithia Water as an ALKALINE DIURETIC is invaluable. In URIC 
ACID GRAVEL, and, indeed, in diseases generally of the URIC ACID DIA- 
THESIS, it will be found a remedy of EXTRAORDINARY POTENCY. I 
have prescribed it in cases of OLD RHEUMATIC GOUT, which had RESISTED 
THE ORDINARY REMEDIES WITH WONDERFULLY GOOD RESULTS. 
I have also used it in my own case, being a great sufferer from this malady AND 
HAVE DERIVED MORE BENEFIT FROM IT THAN FROM ANY OTHER 
REMEDY. It has remarkable adaptation in diseases of the DIGESTIVE 
ORGANS. In that condition especially known as NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA, 
caused by over-mental taxation, where, too, there is an EXCESS of ACID in the 
process of DIGESTION, the happiest results may be anticipated from it. The 
general opinion as to its value in DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN, which 
I expressed several years ago, I have had fully confirmed by subsequent experience. 
IN THIS CLASS OF DISEASE IT IS UNQUESTIONABLY DESERVING 
OF VERY HIGH COMMENDATION. This water has never failed me aa a 
POWERFUL NERVOUS TONIC when I have prescribed it as such. I sometime# 
think it must contain HYPOPHOSPHITES of LIME and SODA. It mots as that 
compound does—as a TONIC and ALTERATIVE.” THE GOUTY DIATHESIS, CHRONIC INFLAMMATIONS OF THH 
BLADDER, &c. 
Dr. Alexander B. Mott, of New York, Professor Surgery Bellevue Hospital Medical 
“ I HAVE MADE SUFFICIENT USE OF THE BUFFALO LITHIA WATER 
TO BE SATISFIED THAT IT POSSESSES VERY VALUABLE THERA- 
PEUTIC PROPERTIES. IN THE GOUTY DIATHESIS, CHRONIC IN- 
FLAMMATIONS OF THE BLADDER, AND OTHER DISEASES AFFECT- 
ING THE URINARY ORGANS, IT MAY BE RELIED ON TO GIVE THE 
MOST SATISFACTORY RESULTS.” 
College, Surgeon Bellevue Hospital. 
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER, WHETHER RESULT- 
ING FROM STONE, ENLARGED PROSTATE OR NEGLECTED 
GONORRHCEA. 
Dr. Robert Battey, of Georgia, Suggestor of Battey's Operation, Member of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, &c. 
“I WOULD STATE THAT I HAVE BEEN USING THE BUFFALO LITHIA 
WATER No. 3, IN MY PRACTICE FOR THREE YEARS PAST, IN CASES 
OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER, WHETHER IN- 
DUCED BY STONE, BY ENLARGED PROSTATE IN THE AGED. OR 
BY NEGLECTED GONORRHCEA, AND HAVE SECURED EXCELLENT 
RESULTS, WHICH ENCOURAGE ME TO PRESCRIBE IT FOR THE 
FUTURE.” 
CHRONIC INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS OR INFLAMMATIONS OF THE 
KIDNEYS, GOUTY AND RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS. 
Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, of New York, Professor of Institutes and Practice of Medicine 
Medical Department University of New York, Visiting Physician Bellevue Hospital, 
Consulting Physician Charity Hospital, New York. 
“The Buffalo Lithia Water is a potent ALKALINE DIURETIC, and wherever 
such a remedy is required, its action is very happy arid decided. For the past four 
years I have used it in the treatment of chronic INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS 
occurring in GOUTY and RHEUMATIC subjects, with the most MARKED 
BENEFIT. In all GOUTY and RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS, I regard it as 
HIGHLY EFFICACIOUS.” 
GOUT, STONE, VOMITING OF PREGNANCY, ACID DYSPEPSIA, 
BRIGHT’S DISEASE, &c. THIS WATER A NERVOUS TONIC 
AND EXHILARANT. 
Dr. Harvey L. Byrd, of Baltimore, Maryland, Formerly Professor of Materia Mediea 
and Therapeutics, and of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, arto tote Professor 
of Obstetrics and of Diseases of Women and C hildren. 
“I have witnessed excellent results from the action of the Buffalo Lithia Water 
in CHRONIC GOUT, RHEUMATIC GOUT, RHEUMATISM, GRAVEL, and 
STONE in the BLADDER. In CHRONIC FEMALE diseases, especially those 
connected with the URO-GENITAL ORGANS, it may be regarded as well nigh 
specific. I have found it valuable both as a remedy and prophylactic in the PAR- 
TURIENT or PREGNANT condition, for the relief of troublesome VOMITING 6 
and the prevention of PUERPERAL ECLAMPSIA or CONVULSIONS. It is all 
admirable general TONIC and RESTORATIVE, increasing the appetite, pro- 
moting digestion, and invigorating the general health. It is POWER- 
FULLY ANTI-ACID and especially efficacious in what is commonly known as 
ACID DYSPEPSIA. It is strongly commended to a very large class of sufferers 
by a peculiar power as a NERVOUS TONIC and EXHILARANT, which makes 
it exceedingly valuable where there is nothing to contra-indicate its use, in all 
cases where NERVOUS DEPRESSION is a symptom. This Water has an ascer- 
tained value in BRIGHT’S DISEASE. A knowledge of its action in that 
disease thus far, would seem to warrant the belief that it would in many 
instances, at least in its early stages, arrest it entirely ; and in its more 
ADVANCED STAGES, PROA'E A DECIDED COMFORT AND PALLIATIVE.” 
NAUSEA AND VOMITING OF PREGNANCY, UREEMIC POISONING, 
COMPLICATING THAT CONDITION, &c., MENSTRUAL DIS- 
ORDERS, &c. 
Dr. William 11. Doughty, of Augusta, Georgia, Professor of Materia Medica and Ther- 
apeutics, Medical College of Georgia ; Burgeon in charge of General Hospital, Con- 
federate Army ; Member of American Medical Association, &c. 
“ Over the NAUSEA and VOMITING of PREGNANCY, particularly in the 
latter months, where URH3MIC CONDITIONS are possibly established, and in 
PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS, UR/EMIA co-existing, the Buffalo Lithia Water 
often exerts marked co7itrol. In GENITO-URINARY DISEASES, especially 
CATARRH of the BLADDER in FEMALES, I have fouud it very efficacious. 
Whenever MENSTRUAL or UTERINE DISORDERS are produced or intensified 
by such a state of the BLADDER, it becomes a valuable adjunct to other treat- 
ment. I prescribe it with the utmost confidence in all forms of INDIGESTION, 
due to CHRONIC CATARRH of the MUCOUS MEMBRANES, WITH EXCESS 
OF ACID; also in the secondary or symptomatic DYSPEPSIA of UTERINE 
and RENAL origin. In the GOUTY DIATHESIS its value is well established.” 
GOUTY DIATHESIS. 
Dr. Horatio C. Wood, Professor of Materia Medica, &c., in the Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania, in the Medical Times, of July 20,1878. 
“The water of,the Buffalo Springs, of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, was 
brought to our notice by a Baltimore physician, who had been relieved by its use 
of some very troublesome and alarming symptoms, believed to be due to an in- 
herited GOUTY DIATHESIS. Trial in one or two cases of inveterate 
CHRONIC GOUT has afforded much satisfaction to us, free diuresis being pro- 
voked and FOLLOWED BY RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS.” 
DIABETES MILLITUS. 
“On the 12th day of April, 1878,1 was called to see Mary, a child about seven 
years of age. I found her with decided fever, distressing nausea, insatiable thirst, 
a dry skin, very restless, torpid bowels, with extreme emaciation and debility. She 
was passing an unusual quantity of water, about three gallons per do.y. 
*Dr. Thos. M. Darnall, Griffin, Ga. 
* The relief inthi« cage was from Spring No. 1. Both No*. 1 and 2 have accomplished remark- 
able results in DIABETES. The former, however, ia regarded as of much greater potency and 
of much more unhorm efficacy in this disease. 7 
“ On examination, I found it had the characteristic color and smell of DIABETIC 
URINE. Under Trommer’s test it yielded abundant evidence of the presence of 
Glucose, (DIABETIC SUGAR.) Its specific gravity was found to be 1030. Under 
treatment, she improved sufficiently to be sent to the Buffalo Lithia Springs of Vir- 
ginia, which place she visited in the month of August, when her condition was so 
much improved that she returned home in the fall almost entirely free from disease. 
She is now, March 6th, 1879—about a year from the attack—enjoying good health, 
lively, cheerful and playful. 
INFLAMMATIONS OF THE UTERUS AND BLADDER, GOUTY, RHEU- 
MATIC OR ACID DIATHESIS, NEURALGIAS AND DYSPEPSIAS, 
SCARLET FEVER, ALBUMINURIA OF PREGNANCY. 
Dr. James B. McCaw, Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the Virginia Medical 
College. 
[Extract from the proceedings of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, October 15, 
1878, taken from the Virginia Medical Monthly of December, 1818.] 
“Buffalo Lithia Winters, of Mecklenburg County, Va., in Female and 
other Diseases.—Prof. James B. McCaw, (PROFESSOR of the PRACTICE of 
MEDICIN E in the Virginia Medical College at Richmond,) reported two cases of 
great irritability of the UTERUS and BLADDER, when all other treatment 
had failed—both local and general—which were very much relieved by the 
use of the ‘Buffalo Lithia Water.’” 
Dr. McCaw also spoke of the great value of these waters in the “ GOUTY, 
RHEUMATIC or ACID DIATHEbIS,” in “ NEURALGIAS and DYSPEPSIAS,” 
in the management of “ SCARLET FEVER,” and in “ ALBUMINURIA of 
PREGNANT WOMEN.” 
GOUT. 
Dr. John T. Metcalf, of New York, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine, College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. 
“ 1 have for some years prescribed the Buffalo Lithia Water for patients and 
used it in my own case for GOUTY trouble, with decided beneficial results, and I re 
gard it certainly AS A VERY VALUABLE REMEDY.” 
Dr. J. S. Wellford, Professor of Diseases of Women and Children, Medical College of 
URIC-ACID DIATHESIS, GRAVEL, GOUT, ECZEMA, &c. 
Virginia. 
“1 have paid a great deal of attention to URINARY TROUBLES, and have 
frequently and freely prescribed the Lithia Water in their treatment, with the very 
best results. In all the valious forms of the URIC-ACID DIATHESIS, whether 
as well-formed GRAVEL or GOUT, or in the milder forms of GOUTY DYSPEP- 
SIA or NETTLERASH in their varieties, I KNOW OF NO MINERAL WATER 
WHICH I CONSIDER AT ALL EQUAL TO THAT OF SPRING No. 2. 
“In many SKIN DISEASES of old age, dependent on the URIC-ACID DIA- 
THESIS, such as ECZEMA, etc., this water acts most beneficially.” 8 
NAUSEA AND ALBUMINURIA OF PREGNANCY, DISEASES OF THE 
UTERINE SYSTEM, URIC-ACID DIATHESIS, &c. THIS WATER 
AS A NERVOUS TONIC. 
Dr. P. W. Young, of Oxford, North Carolina, Member of the North Carolina Medical 
Association, Surgeon in charge of General Hospital Confederate States Army, 
“ The Buffalo Lithia Water possesses, in an eminent degree, the power of allaying 
NAUSEA and GASTRIC DISTRESS. While in the NAUSEA of PREGNANCY, 
all remedies act with great uncertainty, the most satisfactory results which I have 
obtained from any remedy in this condition, have been from this water. I recom- 
mend it with much more confidence, however, and have seen results much more 
remarkable from it in the latter months of PREGNANCY, when there is OEDEMA 
from imperfect action of the kidneys, and when ALBUMEN is present in the urine. 
Its action in this condition of the system prevents PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS. 
Prominent among the virtues of this water is the decided and uniform control which 
it exerts over diseases of the UTERINE SYSTEM. In the obstructions to which 
young women are more particularly subject when in any way resulting from, or de- 
pendent upon, IMPAIRED DIGESTION or NERVOUS DEBILITY, / know of no 
remedy of equal value. I prescribe it with great confidence in all cases of NERVOUS 
DEPRESSION or EXHAUSTION, unattended by organic lesion. Its general 
adaptation and EXTRAORDINARY REMEDIAL POWER in AFFECTIONS 
GENERALLY of the KIDNEYS and BLADDER, is neither questioned or 
questionable; and the same may be safely said as to its efficacy in GOUT, RHEUMA- 
TISM, and diseases generally dependent upon URIC-ACID DIATHESIS.” 
RENAL CONGESTION AND JJR.EMIC POISONING, COMPLICATING 
PREGNANCY. 
Dr. Martin L. James, of Richmond, Virginia, Professor of Materia Medica and 
Therapeutics, Medical College of Virginia. 
“ At a meeting of the Richmond Academy of Medicine, December 16th, 1879, Dr. 
M. L. James, its President, reported to that body a case of CONGESTION of the 
KIDNEYS in a lady eight months advanced in PREGNANCY, attended by marked 
(EDEMA, both over the extremities and surface, and by URHCMIC POISONING 
to such an extent as very seriously impaired the vision of the patient. The symptoms 
had filled him with the gravest apprehension as to the issue of the labor. Under the 
influence, however, of the Lithia Water, freely administered for three weeks, the alarm- 
ing features of the case disappeared, and she icas delivered without any untoward 
symptoms. Other remedies, said Dr. James, were used in this case, but the favorable 
result seemed dearly attributable to the action of the water." 
[Proceedings of the Richmond Virginia Academy, December 16th, 1880.] 
MALARIAL CACHEXIA, ATONIC DYSPEPSIA, AFFECTIONS PECULIAR 
TO WOMEN, &c. 
*Dr. 0. F. Manson, of Richmond, Virginia, Professor of General Pathology and 
Physiology in the Medical College of Virginia. 
“I have observed marked sanative effects from the Buffalo Water in MALA- 
RIAL CACHEXIA, ATONIC DYSPEPSIA, some of the PECULIAR AFFEC- 
*This communication was made before the discovery of Spring No. 2, and consequently refers 
exclusively to the original Buffalo Spring, now known as No. 1. 
Both waters have, to a great extent, a common adaptation, but No. 2 is regarded, as a general 
rule, as most efficacious in the maladies in which they are indicated. In some exceptional cases, 
especially in CATARRH of the BLADHBU and in HiABKTBS, No, 1 has proved more efficient 
than No. 2. 9 
TIONS OF WOMEN, ANEMIA, HYPOCHONDRIASIS, CARDIAC PALPI- 
TATIONS, &c. It has been found ESPECIALLY EFFICACIOUS in CHRONIC 
INTERMITTENT FEVER, NUMEROUS CASES OF THIS CHARACTER 
WHICH HAD OBSTINATELY WITHSTOOD THE USUAL REMEDIES. 
HAVING BEEN RESTORED BY IT TO PERFECT HEALTH IN A BRIEF 
SPACE OF TIME.” 
URINARY CALCULI. 
Dr. Henry M. Wilson, of Baltimore, Ex-President Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of 
Maryland. 
“My experience in the use of the Buffalo Lithia Springs’ Water has not been 
large, but it in of such a positive character that I do not hesitate to express my prefer- 
ence for it, as a DIURETIC in URINARY CALCULI, OVER ALL OTHER 
WATERS THAT I HAVE EVER USED.” 
ALBUMINURIA OF SCARLET FEVER. 
Extract from communication of Dr. G. W. F. Brock, of Richmond, Va., {member of 
the State Medical Society,) in the Virginia Medical Monthly for November, 18T8. 
“ During the epidemic of SCARLET FEVER, which has been prevailing for a 
year in this city, and is yet scarcely ended, I have been giving my patients Buffalo 
Lithia Water ad libitum, and to the exclusion of all other water for drinking pur- 
poses. In no case since I have pursued this course have I seen even a 
TRACE OF ALBUMEN IN the urine op scarlatinal patients, either during 
the attack or thb convalescence. With this experience in a number of cases, 
and hearing of favorable results in the practice of other physicians in this city who 
have used the same means, I have thought it worthy of note in your journal. If 
this result is propter hoc, we are enabled to rid SCARLET FEVER of one of its 
MOST DANGEROUS CONCOAIITANTS.” 
NAUSEA AND URAEMIC POISON OF PREGNANCY. 
Dr. Caleb Winslow, 23 McCulloh street, Baltimore, Member of the Medical and Chirur- 
gical Faculty of Maryland. 
“ I .have found the Buffalo Lithia Water of marked service in relieving the 
NAUSEA OP PREGNANT WOMEN. 1 frequently resort to it at intervals 
during the whole course of Pregnancy. Being antacid, laxative, diuretic and tonic, it 
seems well adapted to relieve the disturbances usually attendant upon GESTATION, 
and I have no doubt its free use might remove URAEMIC POISON, AND PRE- 
VENT CONVULSIONS PRODUCED THEREBY.” 
URIC-ACID DIATHESIS, DISTURBED MENSTRUAL FUNCTION, 
BRIGHT’S DISEASE, &c. 
Dr. Thomas P. Atkinson, at one time President of the Virginia Medical Association. 
“No intelligent observer, I think, can fail to note the decided action of the 
Buffalo Lithia Water in diseases belonging to the URIC-ACID DIATHESIS. 
“In GRAVEL, of URIC ACID origin, it is well nigh specific. In INFLAM- 
MATION, ULCERATION, HAEMATURIA, and other affections of the KIDNEYS 
and BLADDER, requiring an ALKALINE ALTERATIVE and DIURETIC, it 
is scarcely less potent. 10 
“The best results which 1 have known from any remedy in BRIGHT’S DIS- 
EASE have been from this water, and I regard it as promising more in the treat- 
ment of this malady than any other now known to the profession. 
“In CHRONIC GONORRHOEA, and SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS of every 
character in a Secondary form, it is a remedy of great excellence.” 
NAUSEA OF PREGNANCY. 
Dr. Roy B. Scott, Trinity Mills, Dallas County, Texas. 
“My wife, in three PREGNANCIES, suffered from extreme gastric IRRITA- 
BILITY—so much so in two of them as to result in the birth of seven-months 
children; in the third, the symptoms were so aggravated as to excite serious appre- 
hension as to the result. After using, without a palliation of her sufferings, every 
other remedy that medical intelligence could suggest, I put her upon the Buffalo 
Lithia Water of Spring No. 2, which afforded prompt and permanent relief; its 
continued use enabling her to carry the fetus to its full time. I regard this water 
as invaluable in such cases. It allays NAUSEA, regulates the bowels and kidneys, 
and affords a relief for which women in this condition often look in vain.” 
CACHEXIA AND SEQUELS INCIDENT TO MALARIOUS FEVERS, 
ATONIC DYSPEPSIA, AFFECTIONS PECULIAR TO WOMEN, &c. 
* Dr. Wm. T. Howard, of Baltimore, Maryland, Professor of Diseases of Women and 
Children in the University of Maryland. 
[Note by the proprietor, stating some differences in the action of Springs Nos. 1 
and 2, especially in DIABETES MILLITUS.] 
Dr. H. attests the efficacy of the water of Spring No. 1 in “ a wide range of 
cases,” and more especially “in the CACHEXIA and SEQUELS incident to 
MALARIOUS FEVERS in all their grades and varieties, certain forms of ATONIC 
DYSPEPSIA, and all the AFFECTIONS PECULIAR TO WOMEN that are 
remediable at all by mineral waters,” and adds the following: “ WERE I 
CALLED UPON TO STATE FROM WHAT MINERAL WATERS I HAVE 
SEEN THE GREATEST AND MOST UNMISTAKABLE AMOUNT OF 
GOOD ACCRUE IN THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CASES IN A GENERAL 
WAY, I WOULD UNHESITATINGLY SAY THE BUFFALO SPRINGS, IN 
MECKLENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA.” 
* At the date of this communication Spring No. 2 was unknown, and the reference of Dr. H., 
was. of course, exclusively to Spring No. 1. In the diseases mentioned by him, as also iu others. 
Springs Nos. 1 and 2 have a common adaptation In affections generally of the KIDNEYS and 
BLADDER, however, No. 2 Is of greater potency and of much, more universal application ; but in 
DIABETES MILLITUS, and in other Cases, attended by EXCESSIVE URINARY DISCHARGE, 
No. 1 has proved more gt nerally and uniformly efficacious. Both waters have proved highly effi- 
cacious iu Chronic Diarrhoea. No. i, however, is regarded by the profession as much more 
especially indicated In this malady. It is often by experiment alone that it can he determined 
which of the two waters is to be preferred where they have common adaptation. 
SUPPRESSION OF URINE ATTENDING PREGNANCY. 
Dr. Preston Roan, of Winston, North Carolina. 
“ Mrs. was in the latter stages of GESTATION. There was almost total 
suppression of urine, and her condition such as strongly indicated CONVUL- 
SIONS. ■ After a failure of all other diuretics, the Buffalo Lithia Water, half gallon 
a day, produced a copious action on the kidneys, which was followed by the re- 
lief of the alarming symptoms, and I attribute the safe termination of the case 
entirely to the use of this wader. It unquestionably possesses extraordinary potency 
and value as an ALKALINE DIURETIC.” Dr. G. A Foote, of Warrenton, North Carolina ; Ex-President State Medical Society ; 
Member of the Board of State Medical Examiners, an*1, Member of the State Board 
of Health. 
ALBUMINURIA and nausea of pregnancy. 
“ I have frequently used the Buffalo Lithia Water (Spring No. 2) in the ALBU- 
MINURIA attending PREGNANCY, and I have no hesitancy in saying that I re- 
gard it as the most efficacious remedy I have ever prescribed for this malady. I 
have also prescribed it, and am now using it, in the NAUSEA OF PREGNANCY, 
with the most marked and gratifying results.” 
MALARIAL POISONING. THIS WATER AN ANTIDOTE TO THE ACIDS 
Hon. ROSCOE CONK LING, U. 8. Senator from New York. 
“Buffalo Lithia Water was first brought to my notice last year while suffering 
from severe MALARIAL DISORDER. I say “MALARIAL” because the doctors 
said so. After trying other remedies, without benefit, I found prompt relief from 
the water; and when there has been any return of my unpleasant symptoms, it has 
always relieved me. Several to whom I have recommended it make like favorable 
report of it. lam a strong believer in its power as an ANTIDOTE to the ACIDS, 
■which it neutralises. I have pleasure in saying this, and shall continue to advise 
my neighbors and acquaintances to try the water.” 
Conkling is right. This water is a powerful. ANTIDOTE to the AClDS—and from 
the acids in excess in the system originate Gout. Rheumatism. Stone, Gravel. Eczema, Dys- 
pepsias, Neuralgias, and numerous other maladies to which flesh is heir. Hence, the almost 
universal adaptation of it to Chronic Disease, it neutralizes the acids, striking at once at the 
source of these numerous maladies. Taken especially during meals, it prevents the genera- 
tion of acids durinsr the process of nutrition, and thus acts as a preventive op disease result- 
ing from them. This gives to it its great value as a TABLE WATER. 
ELIMINATION OF UREA FROM THE BLOOD. 
“I have used the Buffalo Lithia Water occasionally fora number of years. I 
keep a supply constantly on hand, as well when I am in Washington as when I am 
at home. I have derived incalculable benefit from it. Its most beneficial efficacy in 
my case is in promoting the ELIMINATION of the UREA from the BLOOD in the 
secretion of URINE—this, at least, is what I understand to be the explanation 
given by attending physicians. I have tried the waters of the celebrated Summit 
Springs of Maine, those of Tate’s Springs of Tennessee, and also the renowned 
Bethesda Springs, &c., but none have effected me so favorably as the Buffalo Lithia 
Springs, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia." 
Statement of Hon. ALEXANDER 11. STEPHENS, of Georgia. 
Rt. Rev. Alexander Gregg, D. D., LL.D, Bishop of the Diocese of Texas. 
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER 
“For many years I was a great and constant sufferer from INFLAMMATION 
of the BLADDER, which proved unamenable to treatment. The past Summer 
I spent at the Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, using exclusively the water of 
Spring No. 2. The result was soon apparent in marked relief, and has been since 
in almost entire exemption from this long-standing trouble. While at the Springs 
I witnessed evidences of the remarkable remedial power of this water in a variety 
of diseases. In affections generally of the KIDNEYS and BLADDER I regard 
it as of inestimable value.” 12 
NERVOUS EXHAUSTION RESULTING FROM OVER-MENTAL 
TAXATION. 
Rev. R. A. Goodwin, of the Diocese of Virginia, Rector of Salem Parish, Virginia. 
“For the depressed, worn down NERVOUS SYSTEM, especially when resulting 
from OVER-MENTAL LABOR or ANXIKTY, I know of no tonic so prompt and 
efficacious in its action as the Buffalo Lithia Waters. They are a gentle exhilarant of 
the brain, and act at the same time most happily as a restorative, both phisically 
and mentally. When suffering complete exhaustion of body and mind, from the 
over taxation of both in the discharge of exacting pastoral duties, and when my 
mind seemed incapable of action, I have often been restored by their use for a few 
days to healthful vigor. lam never without a supply of this water, and know of 
no substitute for it in this respect. It might be used, I think, with decided advan- 
tage by all persons subject to the wraste of nerve power incident to all mental pur- 
suits.” 
KIDNEY TROUBLES. 
Rev. Moses D. Uoge, D. D., of the Synod of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. 
“The free and continuous use of the Buffalo Lithia Water has relieved me 
entirely from some KIDNEY TROUBLES. Since I have been using it, I have 
enjoyed the best health of my life. I use no other water.” 
DYSPEPSIA WITH EXTREME NAUSEA, 
RHEUMATISM, &c. 
Rev. Abraham Jaeger, D. D., Professor in Kenyon College and in the Theological 
Seminary, Oambier, Ohio. 
“After having suffered for years the most severe attacks of heartburn and other 
symptoms of DYSPEPSIA, I became subject to a very distressing form of RHEU- 
MATISM. ALKALINES freely administered by my physicians, for the latter 
affection, resixlted in great injury to my STOMACH, so much so that in a few 
weeks it was in a highly irritable condition, rejecting everything, medicines as well as 
food and drink. Water could not be retained, in the smallest quantity, and I began to 
regard my condition as hopeless. Providence, however, had provided a remedy. 
At the suggestion of Bishop Gregg, of Texas—in this condition—I made trial of 
the Buffalo Lithia Water, (Spring No. 2) which acted like magic, promptly allaying 
the distressing Nausea, and restoring perfect digestion. In a few months I was able 
to eat with impunity articles which I had been compelled to avoid for years pre- 
vious. My RHEUMATISM was indirectly much benefited. I found the water an 
admirable TONIC and IN VIGOR ATOR. Tiie remarkable relief afforded by it in 
extreme NAUSEA in my own case, and also in the case of a student at the 
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, suffering in like manner, so strongly 
impressed me with its value in this distressing condition that I telegraphed both 
Dr. Bliss and Mrs. Garfield, urging a trial of it in the case of the President.” IRREGULAR AND DIFFICULT MENSTRUATION. 
A YOUNG WOMAN TELLS HER OWN STORY OF SUFFERING AND, 
RELIEF. 
Ellicott City, Md., June 20, 1881. 
“I am twenty years of age, and my MONTHLY SICKNESS lias always been 
irregular, coming twice, and often three times a month, but never failing to put in an 
appearance every three weeks, and during these periods my sufferings were such 
as I can scarcely describe. As the result of this state of things my general health 
was broken down. I was without appetite ;my digestion imperfect and painful; my 
nervous system shattered; my nights sleepless, and life a burden to me. I had been 
treated unsuccessfully by several eminent medical men, when a few months ago I 
consulted Dr. E J. Williams, of Baltimore, who prescribed for me the Buffalo 
Lithia Water, which has acted literally like a charm, and I am regular now for the 
first time in my life ; am in better general health than ever before. I think in a 
case like mine that this water, as a remedy, stands alone; has no rival. I will add 
that there is that too in it which interests woman’s vanity. Though used inter- 
its use for a few weeks gives clearness and softness to the skin and a healthful 
beauty to the complexion, not to be obtained from the cosmetics of the shops, and 
it may be most appropriately termed WOMAN’S ELIXIR OF HEALTH, 
BEAUTY AND HAPPINESS.” 
Very respectfully, 
STATEMENT OF DR. WILLIAMS. 
“ I prescribed the Buffalo Lithia Water in the case of Miss , above stated, 
the use of which for a few weeks restored the MONTHLY FUNCTION to a 
normal condition ” 
E. JONES WILLIAMS, M. D., 
17 Patuxent street, Baltimore, Md. 
The letter of this young lady is one of numerous similar testimonials to the re- 
markable efficacy of this water in DISTURBED CONDITIONS of the MONTHLY 
FUNCTION of WOMEN. This water is noted for its efficiency in the removal of 
PIMPLES, BLOTCHES and ERUPTIONS, and for giving dearness and softness 
to the skin and beauty to the complexion.