33533$ A Medicine Chest 
11ST ONE BOTTLE. 
Every woman of sense keeps about the house some, 
where a collection of simple remedies for the less 
serious ills and trifling injuries to wdiicli all are sub- 
ject. There is a great collection of bottles. One is 
for this, and another for that. The bottles are of all 
sizes, colors and descriptions, and in various states of 
fullness or emptiness. If the baby has the summer 
complaint, one is used. If one of the boys gets his 
ears frost-bitten, it is another. A sprain calls for a 
black bottle and an insect bite for a blue one. 
3DR. PIERCE’S 
Compound Extract of 
SMART-WEED OR WATER PEPPER 
is a medicine chest in itself. It does away with the 
old box full of dirty bottles. It has all the virtues of 
the entire collection and many that it did not possess. 
It is a family medicine chest condensed into one bot- 
tle. It costs 25 or 50 cents according to the size of the 
bottle. The old - fashioned collection of remedies 
cost a small fortune. It was like buying out a small 
drugstore. 
Dr. Pierce’s Compound Extract of Smart-Weed is 
composed of Smart-Weed, Jamaica Ginger, Anodyne 
and Healing Gums and the best French Brandy. 
TAKEN INTERNALLY IT CURES 
Diarrhea, Dysentery (Bloody Flux ), Summer Com- 
plaint, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Cholera Infantum, 
Colic, Cramps and Pain in the Stomach ; breaks up 
Colds, Febrile and Inflammatory Attacks, Rheuma- 
tism and Neuralgia, and relieves all Pains and Sup- 
pressions to which females are subject from taking 
cold at a critical period. 
APPLIED EXTERNALLY IT CURES 
Sprains and Bruises, Frost - bites, .Chilblains, Rheu- 
matic Affections, Neuralgia, Pain in the Back, Sore- 
ness and Stiffness of Joints, Stings and Bites of 
Poisonous Insects and Reptiles, Caked Breast, or 
“Ague in Breast,” and Enlarged Glands—in short, is 
an unexcelled Finiment for Man or Beast. Price, 
25 or 50 cents, by Druggists. 
World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Prop’s, 
663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. Sheridan’s Famous Trick. 
LIVED BY 
HIS WITS. 
An amusing story is told of the 
great English dramatist, Sheridan. 
“Sherry,” as he was nick-named, 
was at the famous English health resort, Bath, 
with a sadly depleted pocket-book. He was so 
poor that his 
boots were out at 
the toes, and he 
hadn’t the where- 
withal to get a 
new pair. He 
purposed to leave 
in a few days for 
London, and 
wished to arrive 
in the metropolis 
presenting a de- 
cent appearance. 
With this end 
in view, he visit- 
ed the two lead- 
ing boot-makers 
in Bath and or- 
dered from each a very fine pair of boots, each pair 
to be made from the same pattern. He instructed 
Boot-maker No. i to deliver his pair of boots at 
nine o’clock on the morning of his contemplated 
departure for London. He instructed Boot-maker 
No. 2 to deliver his pair of boots at ten o’clock on 
the same morning. 
The appointed day arrived and with it Boot- 
maker No. i with a fine pair of boots. Sherry 
tried on the boots and expressed his general ap- 
proval of them. He liked them in every respect 
except that the right boot pinched a little. He 
instructed Boot-maker No. I to take the right boot 
back to his shop, stretch it a little and return with 
it at two o’clock that afternoon. Of course, the 
boot-maker did not trouble to carry away the left 
boot, which was perfectly satisfactory. A few 
minutes later Boot-maker No. 2 put in an appear- 
ance with the other pair of boots. Sherry also ap- 
1 proved of them, but upon trying them on, discov- 
ered the left boot pinched a little. He ordered 
Boot-maker No. 2 to take the left boot back to his 
shop, stretch it a little, and return with it at two 
o’clock that afternoon. In each case Sherry 
promised payment on receipt of the other boot. 
Like Boot-maker No. i, the second boot-maker 
went away, leaving behind the satisfactory boot. 
Then Sherry cheerfully put on Boot-maker No. 
One’s left boot, and Boot-maker No. Two’s right 
boot and mounted the first coach for London. 
Now Sherry considered that a 
good joke. It wasn’t the last 
one he played. He played a 
good many of them. But a man 
cannot play tricks on the law and prosper. Sherry 
wrote some of the greatest comedies ever written, 
and was one of 
the brightest wits 
that ever lived, 
but he died a 
young man in 
poverty and dis- 
grace. He died 
a pauper. 
People of or- 
dinary common 
sense nowadays 
do not play tricks 
on the law of the 
land. They know 
that it would 
mean arrest and 
punishment. But 
thousands of people who are supposed to have 
good, sturdy common sense, try to match their 
wits against disease, and try to dodge or defeat the 
laws of health. Retribution for the law-breaker is 
sure and swift—it doesn’t make any difference 
whether he breaks the laws of the land or the laws 
of health. ' 
In the pursuit of wealth men overwork, over- 
worry and neglect their health. Then, when they 
get physically hard-up, they try to cheat nature 
out of a new lease of life. 
A man overworks. He is too ambitious. He 
A 
CONFIDENCE 
GAriE. 
2 doesn’t take sufficient time for his meals. He 
doesn’t give himself time to rest or recreate or 
sleep. He is in too big a hurry, and tries to crowd 
thirty hours’ work into every twenty-four. When 
he isn’t absolutely working, he is thinking or 
worrying about work. He never thinks or wor- 
ries about his health. He neglects that utterly. 
He finds that his appetite is not as good as it used 
to be. He realizes that he is a trifle dyspeptic and 
that his digestion is a little ‘ ‘ out of whack. ’ ’ But 
he is in such a rush that he hasn’t even time to 
properly masticate his food. When he eats a little 
of something that is hearty it seems to stick in a 
lump down in the lower part of his throat. If it’s 
something especially hearty, he can even taste it 
for two or three hours after his meals. If he in- 
dulges in something that is rather indigestible he 
is troubled with pains and cramps across the 
abdomen. 
He recognizes the fact that he suf- 
fers from constipation, but he doesn’t 
pay any particular attention to it. 
He says, “Oh, that’s nothing. I am 
of a naturally constipated habit—always have been 
more or less so.” 
The man’s liv- 
er gets sluggish. 
His complexion 
looks muddy. 
The poisons of 
constipation are 
absorbed by the 
blood and car- 
ried to all parts 
of the body. 
The food that he 
takes isn’t prop- 
erly digested and 
the blood doesn’t 
receive and dis- 
tribute the life- 
giving elements 
of the food. The process of tearing down and re- 
building, that means health, is checked and almost 
completely stopped. A man in this condition is 
like a locomotive that never goes to the repair 
TRYING 
TO TRICK 
NATURE. 
3 shop. All parts of his mechanism get rotten and 
rusty and are not replaced. There is bound to 
be a smash-up. . . , . 
The tissues of the brain are poisoned by the 
blood, and are not revivified by life-giving nutri- 
ment. The man begins to suffer from headaches. 
Then sleeplessness and nervousness. Then he 
tries to trick nature. He resorts to different dan- 
gerous drugs to temporarily allay the headaches. 
He takes other dangerous drugs to quiet the nerves. 
He resorts to opiates in order to get sleep. He be- 
gins to indulge in stimulants to brace up his ap- 
petite. In each case he gets temporary relief. He 
is trying to cheat nature and to play a confidence 
game on death. Like Sheridan, he may succeed 
for a time, and consider it a great joke, but the 
punishment is sure to come. The laws of health 
are strictly enforced. The man who breaks them 
must pay the penalty. He cannot cheat nature, 
or “confidence” disease. 
When a man is in the condition de- 
scribed, disease strikes at his weakest 
point. If he is a business or profes- 
sional man who works very hard 
with his brain, the chances are that the break- 
down wilLcome in 
the shape of nerv- 
ous exhaustion or 
Kostration. If 
: is a clerk and 
leads a sedentary 
life, or works bent 
over a desk, the 
probabilities are 
that his lungs will 
be the weak 
point, and the 
breakdown will 
come in the shape 
of consumption, 
bronchitis, asth- 
ma, nasal catarrh, 
grip or some throat trouble. If the man is an out- 
door worker, exposed to all changes of weather in 
a rigorous climate, the breakdown is likely to come 
in the form of rheumatism. If the man has been 
THE 
WEAKEST 
POINT. 
4 a drinking man, or a locomotive engineer, subject 
to the continual jar of an engine, the weak point 
is usually his kidneys or bladder, and disease will 
strike him in the form of Bright’s Disease, or some 
bladder trouble. If the man lives in a swampy 
country or a badly drained city, he will probably 
pay the penalty with a case of malaria or chills 
and fever. 
The exact form of the disease doesn’t cut any 
figure. The cause is the same in each case, and 
the cure is the same. It doesn’t do a bit of good 
to treat for the outward manifestations. The doc- 
tor who tries to treat nervous prostration, or con- 
sumption, or rheumatism, or Bright’s Disease, or 
malaria as separate, primary diseases is a nincom- 
poop. He is just as foolish as his patient. Dike 
him, he is simply juggling with the real disease— 
trying to cheat nature—to play a confidence game 
on death. The only way to cure is to properly 
There is just one speedy, certain 
cure for the cause of these troubles. 
That cure is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med- 
ical Discovery. It goes direct to the 
genesis of disease. A man’s stomach and diges- 
tive organs are 
where he lives. 
Get them right 
and the balance 
of the machine 
will jog along 
without any fric- 
tion. But let a 
man’s stomach 
get ever so little 
“ out of whack ” 
and the whole 
mechanism suf- 
fers. 
When a man 
gets sick nature 
says: “ Feed the 
brute.” But you 
can’t feed the 
brute if the brute’s feeding mechanism is in a state 
of collapse. Now, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
A 
CERTAIN 
REMEDY. 
5 Discovery acts first on that feeding mechanism. It 
braces up his stomach. It makes him hungry—• 
hungry as he used to be when he was a boy and 
stole and ate raw turnips out of a farmer’s field. 
It sets the digestive juices to flowing. It sees to 
it that the life-giving, tissue-building elements of 
the food are absorbed into the blood, and that the 
impurities and refuse of the food are rejected and 
excreted. It puts the liver to work and makes it 
earn its living. It fills the arteries with the rich, 
red, life-giving blood of health. Old, inert, half- 
dead tissues are torn down, carried away and ex- 
creted, and new, healthy, vital tissues are built up 
in their place. It doesn’t make any difference 
where the weak spot is, the “Golden Medical 
Discovery ” puts new, healthy tissues there and 
carries away the old, broken down and diseased 
ones. 
In case of Bright’s Disease 
the “Golden Medical Discov- 
ery” stops the waste of vital 
elements. In bladder troubles 
it rebuilds the tissues and carries off and eliminates 
the old diseased and inflamed tissues. Here are 
two testimonials that tell the story of what Dr. 
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery will do in cases 
of kidney and bladder troubles. 
THE 
KIDNEY 
AND BLADDER. 
“ Through your skillful treatment, I am once more a well 
man,” writes J. N. Arnold, Esq., of Gandy, Logan Co., Neb. 
“I suffered for years and could not find relief until I com- 
menced taking your ' Golden Medical Discovery.’ I suffered 
for years with constipation and torpidity of the liver, which 
resulted in irritation of the prostate aud inflammation of the 
bladder. I had only taken one bottle when I found great re- 
lief. The medicine has effected a permanent cure. It has 
been two months since I stopped taking the medicine, and 
I have no symptoms of the disease returning. You have 
been the means of saving my life.” 
“Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is the finest rem- 
edy ever compounded for bladder trouble,” writes Prof. C. 
Chreiner, of Carthage, Jasper Co., Mo. “My case was a 
desperate one. I was alarmed, and had about given up all 
6 hopes. Dr. Anderson told me mine was the worst case of 
catarrh of the bladder he ever saw. He told me there was 
only one remedy in the world that he knew of that would 
reach my case, and that was Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery. In less than one-half hour after my first dose 
I felt relief. Three bottles have cured me, sound and well. 
Now where can I find words to express my gratitude ?” 
This great medicine cures 98 per 
cent, of all cases of consumption, 
bronchitis, asthma, laryngitis, nasal 
catarrh, effects of la grippe and 
throat troubles. It cures by removing the cause. It 
is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It fills 
the blood with the life-giving nutriment of the 
food. It tears down the diseased tissues in the 
lungs, and builds up healthy, muscular air - cells. 
It facilitates expectoration and clears the lungs. 
It invigorates the breathing and fills the lungs 
with life-giving oxygen. It soothes the cough 
and allays inflammation. Thousands have testi- 
fied to their recovery under this marvelous medi- 
cine after all hope was gone. Here are just a 
few grateful testimonials, taken at random from 
among tens of thousands. 
ALL 
LUNG 
TROUBLES. 
“ I had a bad cough and got so low with it that I could not 
sit up,” writes Mrs. Mittie Gray, of New London, Union 
Co., Ark. “Our family physician told my husband that I 
had consumption. I had pains through my chest and spit 
up blood. I took your ‘ Golden Medical Discovery ’ and it 
cured me. It saved my life. I don’t think anyone would 
die of consumption if they would take Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery.” 
‘‘I had a very bad cough, also night sweats and was al- 
most in my grave with consumption,” writes Mrs. Clara 
McIntyre, Box iji, of Ashland, Middlesex Co., Mass. ‘‘A 
friend of mine who had died of consumption came to me in 
my dream and told me to take Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery', and, thank the Lord, I did so. By the time I had 
taken half of the first bottle I felt much better. I kept on 
7 till I had taken three bottles. That was all I needed. I got 
Well and strong again.” 
“ i am now enjoying magnificent health, after having suf- 
fered for years with chronic catarrh,” writes Ramon 
Sanchez, B)sq., of Penasco, Taos Co., New Mexico. ‘‘By the 
use of your • Golden Medical Discovery ’ I have now recov- 
ered my health, and am now both physically and mentally 
a sound man, attending to my business and enjoying life.” 
“I had the grip, which left me feeling miserable—no 
strength and a cough,” writes Mrs. C. Maynard, of East 
Lyme, New London Co., Conu. “As some of my family died 
of consumption, I feared that. I began taking Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. After taking the second bottle I 
felt much better, and am now well for one of my age (sixty- 
three years).” 
Because of the wide reputation 
that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery has achieved as a blood- 
maker and flesh - builder, many 
people of a corpulent habit have hesitated to take 
it. This is a mistake. While the ‘ ‘ Golden Med- 
ical Discovery ’ ’ is truly the great blood-maker and 
flesh-builder, it does not make corpulent people 
more corpulent. It builds solid, healthy, muscu- 
lar flesh tissue, but does not raise the weight above 
the normal figure. Excessive corpulence and ex- 
cessive leanness, odd as it may seem, are both dis- 
eases of the same nature. They are both caused 
by improper nutrition of the body. That is the 
exact point that the “ Golden Medical Discovery ” 
hits. It is the great cure for improper nutrition. 
It is the one medicine in all the world that is 
aimed exclusively to correct all faults of nutri- 
tion. It accomplishes its purpose, and in doing 
so is the right medicine for both wasting diseases 
and for people who suffer from excessive cor- 
pulence. 
ABOUT 
CORPULENT 
PEOPLE. 
8 In cases of brain troubles or nerv 
ous troubles, Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery acts along the 
same lines as other diseases. It 
cures by correcting faulty nutrition. That is at 
the bottom of nearly all diseases. It cures by 
making the blood rich and healthy, and by build- 
ing new and normal brain and nerve fibers. It 
tones up the whole nervous system. It gives a 
man sound, refreshing sleep and healthy nerve 
rest. Thousands liaye testified to the marvelous 
cures accomplished by it. Here are a few sample 
testimonials. 
DISEASES 
OF THE 
NERVES. 
"Ten or twelve years ago I had something like ‘falling 
sickness,’ with intense misery in my head,” writes M. V. 
Grills, Esq., Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ky. “I had a doctor 
to treat me for it, but he gave me but little relief. Then I 
went to Covington, Ky., and had all of the doctors there try 
me. I would be working hard, and the next thing I would 
know X would be lying as though I were dead. I would be 
carried iuto the shade or the house and perhaps I could go 
to work the next day or perhaps I would be in bed for weeks. 
I would have cramps in legs and arms, and my eyes would 
feel as though they came out of my head. Very often I would 
faint if I attempted to sit up for any length of time. I 
happened to get one of Dr. Pierce’s circulars. I got three 
bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, and I have 
not had an attack of the trouble since.” 
“ I desire to say that I have lately given Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery a trial,” writes MissC. M. Malette, of 
Houston, Harris Co., Texas, “and it has completely cured 
me of very serious and obstinate disorders in which the 
heart’s action was impaired, (accompained by pain for two 
weeks) not from bad digestion altogether, for my digestion 
was almost perfect. I took it for two weeks. I could not 
feel much effects at all from it at first, and never felt stimu- 
lated by it as by ordinary tonics. I only began to experience 
less discomfort from my illness, after about the fourth dose, 
and in four or five days still less, and several days after I was 
surprised to find that I was actually better. Two weeks 
having passed erery symptom had disappeared." 
(Miss) 
DISEASES 
OF THE 
BLOOD. 
Rheumatism is a disease of the 
blood. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical 
Discovery drives all acids and impu- 
rities from the blood and promptly 
9 cures not only rheumatism, but all diseases that 
are due to impure blood. 
“I had rheumatism,” writes Mrs. E- Young, of Covington, 
Linn Co., Iowa. ‘' My whole limb was swollen and very pain- 
ful. I tried all the liniments I heard of, but did not receive 
the least relief from any of them. I went to bed discour- 
aged, as I could not use my limb. I tried Dr. Pierce’s Golden 
Medical Discovery. In a few days I began to gain, and in 
six weeks I was all right, and have had better health than 
for several years before taking this medicine.” 
“ I had eczema in its worst form,” writes Austin Ramsey, 
Esq. of Saltillo, Huntingdon Co., Pa. “ I tried three doctors, 
but got no relief. I thought it would set me wild, it itched 
and burned so badly. The neighbors thought I would never 
be cured. I took your ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ and am 
now about well.” 
When a man’s liver is out of order he 
is ripe for almost any disease that hap- 
pens along. His entire constitution is 
in a state of receptivity and is ready 
for contagion of any description. The “Golden 
Medical Discovery ” is the best of all known liver 
invigorators. It will put the laziest of livers on a 
lope in no time. It makes your liver lively and 
your blood pure. It is the best of spring medicines. 
A 
LAZY 
LIVER. 
“ I had been troubled for several years with spells of liver 
complaint," writes H. N. Dransfield,Esq., Centennial, Mon- 
roe Co., IV. Va.,“ and about two years ago my health gave way. 
I tried Sarsaparilla. I was getting worse all the time. I had 
a weakness in my left side and limbs, palpitation of the heart 
at times, cramping pains in the stomach after eating; nerves 
weak, and no energy for anything. I took Dr. Pierce's Gold- 
en Medical Discovery, and began to mend from the start. X 
soon felt like a newsperson. I am now enjoying splendid 
health and have a splendid appetite, good digestion, and 
also a peaceful, quiet mind.” 
10 “ A heart overflowing with gratitude,” writes Mr. George 
W. Noble, of Whitestone, Lancaster Co., Ca., “prompts me 
to write to you and thank you for the good your mediciue has 
done me. For the last five years my health has been bad, 
and in October 1895, I was taken down. I would be up for 
two or three days tnen be in bed for the next three weeks. I 
kept getting worse all the time until in December when I 
was taken worse. I sent for a Doctor, and he said I had liver 
complaint and indigestion. He treated me for same but I 
grew worse all the time. Could not eat without great pain. 
Had a knot in my stomach as big as a man’s hat crown, and 
it was hard like bone. I could not lie on my left side at all, 
and would have night-sweats, high fevers and chills. About 
January 15th, 1896, I wrote you and by your advice began 
taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. From the 
first bottle I could see no benefit, but I started on the second 
and before I had taken half of it I could feel the effect of the 
mediciue, and you may feel assured that I felt happy. I 
continued to take the ’ Discovery ’ until I had taken five bot- 
tles, and one vial of ‘ Pellets.’ I can now say that I am well 
and able to do my farm work, and can eat anything without 
any ill effects. I think Dr. Pierce’s medicines are the best 
in the world, for torpid liver, andfvvould advise all who suffer 
with liver trouble to give them a fair trial.” 
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is not a 
“cure-all.” Getting right down to bottom facts, 
it really cures but one disease. That one disease is 
improper nutrition in all its forms. But it happens 
that this one disease manifests itself in the form of 
the various diseases that have been named. It 
cures this one disease, and cures it certainly, 
quickly and permanently. It makes a new man 
out of an invalid. It builds him up in every way, 
and builds him up in the natural way—by feeding 
him. It first feeds his blood and through his blood 
every organ in his body. It is the sick man’s food 
—the bread of life for the ailing. There is nothing 
in the world “just as good,” and the druggist who 
says so makes the statement for the sake of a little 
added profit to be made upon some inferior article 
—probably of his own concoction. 
Dr. Pierce will cheerfully answer all letters from 
sufferers free of charge, giving his best advice. He 
may be reached by addressing the Association of 
which he is president, the 
World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 
No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
11 Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute 
663 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, N, Y. 
WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Proprietors. 
Organized with a Pull Staff of Physicians and Surgeons 
FOR THE TREATMENT OF 
ALL CHRONIC DISEASES. 
We have not the space to speak, individually, of the large 
number of professional gentlemen composing the Faculty of 
this old and world-famed Institution, but will say that among 
them are those whose long connection with the Invalids’ Hotel 
and Surgical Institute has rendered them experts in their 
several specialties. 
As the fruits of our extensive practice many very valuable 
specifics have been developed and perfected for the cure of 
different chronic diseases, and a very few of these (only five 
in all) have been put up and offered to the public as proprie- 
Nftt tary mediciues; but they have not been lauded as 
lll/l “cure-alls,” or panaceas, and are only recommended 
as remedies for certain easily recognized 
t'fVlla. diseases. We do not adopt the humbug 
plan of representing that they will cure all diseases. There 
are many chronic diseases for which we do not recommend 
any of our proprietary medicines, and which, as we know 
from vast experience, can only be successfully treated ky 
medicines specially prepared and adapted to each individual 
case. 
12 Advantages of Specialties. 
By thorough organization and subdividing the practice of 
medicine and surgery in our Institutions, every invalid is 
treated by a specialist—one who devotes his undivided atten- 
tion to the particular class of diseases to which the case belongs. 
The advantage of this arrangement must be obvious. 
Not Necessary to See Patients. 
By our system of diagnosis, we can treat many chronic dis- 
eases as successfully without as with a personal consultation. 
Full particulars of our system of examining and treating 
patients at a distance are contained in The People’s Common 
Sense Medical Adviser. 
A GREAT BOOK FREE! 
When Dr. Pierce published the first edition of the above 
great work, he announced that after 680,000 copies had been 
sold at the regular price, $1.50 per copy, the profit on which 
would repay him for the great amount of labor and money 
expended in producing it, he would give away the next half 
million free. As this number of copies has already been sold, 
we are now distributing, absolutely free, 500,000 copies of this 
most complete, interesting and valuable common sense med- 
ical work ever published—the recipient only being required 
to send us twenty-one (21) one-cent stamps, to cover cost of 
mailing only, ana the book will be sent, post-paid. The Free 
Edition is precisely the same as that heretofore sold at $1.50 
except only that the books are bound in strong manilla 
paper covers instead of cloth. If French cloth, embossed 
covers are preferred, send 10 cents extra—31 cents in all—to 
cover extra cost of that binding. The Book is a veritable 
medical library, complete in one volume. Send now before 
all are given away. They are going off rapidly. 
Address: 
World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 
No. 663 Main St, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
OUR FIELD OF SUCCESS. 
Abandoning the treatment of all diseases except those in 
which we have attained the greatest success, and then still 
further narrowing and concentrating .our study and profes- 
sional efforts by again subdividing these affections, giving to 
each member of our Faculty but a single disease, or class of 
diseases to treat, we believe that we thereby attain the best 
possible results. 
So alarmingly prevalent are those 
chronic diseases peculiar to women, 
and so famous have our Institutions 
become for their cure, that we were 
long ago obliged to create a Special 
Department, now thoroughly organ- 
ized, and devoted exclusively to the treatment of these cases. 
The physicians and surgeons in this Department have made 
these delicate diseases their sole study. 
Diseases of 
Women. 
13 Many a-re brought to our Institutions from far distant Staten 
Oil beds, and they go home in a few weeks well and strong. 
Quite as marvelous are the thousands of cures annually ac- 
complished through correspondence, while the patients re- 
main at home among their friends and loved ones.- Others 
come and consult us personally, are examined, prescribed for, 
and allowed to return home to carry out the treatment. Ev- 
ery case consulting our specialists, whether by letter or in 
person, is given the most careful and considerate attention. 
Not the slightest symptom or peculiarity of constitution 
escapes our specialists’ attention and deliberate consideration. 
Every important case (and we get few which have not already 
baffled the skill of the home physicians) has the benefit of 
skilled specialists. 
BARRENNESS, or STERILITY, is generally due to causes 
which can be easily removed, yet are not generally under- 
stood by physicians, who manifest little interest and often 
treat lightly a subject fraught with so much importance to 
humanity. Our specialists have devoted to this subject care- 
ful study. By their skill, stricture of the neck of the uterus, 
and other impediments to the bearing of offspring, have 
been easily and painlessly overcome, and hundreds of homes 
thereby made happy. Further particulars in the “ People’s 
Common Sense Medical Adviser.” 
FIBROUS TUMORS of the uterus have frequently been 
cured by injection and other means, and even 
OVARIAN TUMORS have been made to yield to electrolysis, 
and other treatment, without resorting to operative surgery. 
As a last resort, however, our surgeons do not hesitate to 
operate in these cases. 
Send twenty-one cents in one-cent stamps for Dr. Pierce’s 
Common Sense Medical Adviser, containing Complete Treat- 
ise on Diseases of Women, illustrated with numerous wood- 
cuts and colored plates. 
The treatment of Diseases of 
the Air Passages and Lungs, 
such as Chronic Nasal Catarrh, 
Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Asthma, 
and Consumption, both through 
correspondence and at our Insti- 
tutions, constitutes an important 
specialty. 
MICROSCOPICAL EXAfllNATION.—If suffering from a 
lingering cough, accompanied by expectoration, send a little 
of the sputa, dried on clean white paper, for microscopical 
examination. This you can enclose in your letter, and will 
enable us to determine whether or not the substance of the 
lungs has become affected. 
For a Complete Treatise on any one of these diseases, see 
the “ Common Sense Medical Adviser,” which you can obtain 
by sending twenty-one cents in one-cent stamps. 
BRIGHT’S DISEASE, DIABETES, and 
kindred maladies, have been very largely 
treated and cures effected in thousands of 
cases which had been pronounced beyond 
hope. These diseases are readily diagnos- 
ticated, or determined, by chemical analysis 
of the urine, without a personal examination of the patient, 
Nasal, Throat 
and 
Lung Diseases. 
Kidney 
Diseases. 
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14 who can therefore, generally be successfully treated at their 
homes. The study and practice of chemical analysis and mi- 
croscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of 
cases, ‘with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our Insti- 
tutions long ago became famous, has naturally led to a very 
extensive practice in diseases of the urinary organs. Proba- 
bly no other institution in the world has been so largely 
patronized by sufferers from this class of maladies as the old 
World’s Dispensary and Invalids’ Hotel. Our specialists have 
acquired, through a vast and varied experience, great expert- 
ness in determining the exact nature of each case, and hence, 
have been successful in nicely adapting their remedies for 
the cure of each individual case. 
The treatment of diseases of the urinary organs having 
constituted a prominent branch, or speciality, of our prac- 
tice at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, and being 
in receipt of numerous inquiries for a complete work on the 
nature and curability of these maladies, we cannot do better 
than to refer all such inquirers to the “ People’s Common 
Sense Medical Adviser,” containing as it does an exhaustive 
consideration of these maladies. 
' Epileptic Convulsions, or Fits, Paraly- 
sis, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia, St. 
Vitus’s Dance, Insomnia, or inability to 
sleep and threatened insanity, Nervous 
Debility, Nervous Exhaustion, or pros- 
tration, arising from overstudy, excesses 
and other causes, and every variety of nervous affection, are 
treated by our specialists in these diseases, with a measuie 
of success heretofore unparalleled. See numerous cases re- 
ported in the “ People's Common Sense Medical Adviser.” 
- Dyspepsia, “Liver Complaint,” 
Obstinate Constipation, Chronic Diar- 
rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred af- 
fections, are among those chronic 
diseases in the successful treatment of 
' -- which our specialists have attained 
unparalleled success. Many of the diseases affecting the liver 
and other organs, contributing in their functions to the pro- 
cesses of digestion, are very obscure and are not infrequently 
mistaken by both laymen and physicians for other maladies 
and treatment employed directed to the removal of a disease 
which does not exist. Examinations of the urine have con- 
tributed important aid in ascertaining the real nature of these 
maladies in our practice—furnishing, as thev do, in this class 
of affections, unmistakable data to guide the accomplished 
practitioner aright. While we do not overlook the impor- 
ance of other aids in forming a diagnosis, or opinion, of the 
nature of diseases, affecting the digestive organs, yet we 
.ertaiuly should not know how to get along successfully, 
with these diseases, without the help of microscopical and 
Chemical examinations of the urine. 
Address all correspondence to 
World's Dispensary Medical Association, 
MAIN STREET,^ 
BUFFALO, N\ Y. 
Nervous 
Diseases. 
Diseases of 
Digestion. 
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