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THIS IS THE LARGEST INSTITUTION IN THE WORLD, DEVOTED TO THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN BODY AND THE SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF DEFORMITIES. 
CENTRAL DIVISION, 
INDIANAPOLIS, 
IND. 
PHILADELPHIA, PA., 
COB. BBOAD AND ABOH STS. 
WESTERN DIVISION. 
SAN FRANCISCO, GAL. 
SOUTHERN DIVISION. 
ATLANTA, GA. 
The National Surgical Institute. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
There are but few persons in the United 
States who have not heard more or less of the 
National Surgical Institute, and the great 
work it is accomplishing; yet for the benefit 
and information of those who have not visited 
it, we make the following brief statements. 
In the year of 1858, the work of the Na- 
tional Suisgical Institute was commenced. 
After establishing a great Institution, whether 
of learning or beneficence, that it may ac- 
complish its ends, those for whom it was in- 
tended must in some way be informed of its 
existence. In furnishing such information we 
have adopted the plan of medical colleges- 
of sending pamphlets and announcements to 
those we thought might be immediately con- 
cerned, and by notices in the newspapers for 
the general public. 
It is injustice to humanity we issue this 
'circular. Thousands of helpless cripples are 
daily going beyond the hope of relief, and 
muA be lust or incurably oeiormtu, unless 
their attention is called in some way to the 
successful means provided for them. Over 
one-half million of dollars have been ex- 
pended upon this Institute in perfecting its ap- 
pointments. From nearly every county in 
every State in the Union, and from Canada 
and Central America, the halt, the lame, the 
blind, and the diseased have come for re- 
lief. The National Surgical Institute is a 
permanent Institution with a capital of five 
hundred thousand dollars. The object and 
most sanguine expectations of its founders 
have long since been fully realized. The emi- 
nent success attained; the universal indorse- 
ment by all intelligent investigators; the thou- 
sands made happy by it; the magnanimous 
treatment of the poor; the moderate feespaid 
by the rich, and the frank and candid manner 
in which all are treated, have gained the 
universal confidence and support of the 
good people of the United States. All intel- 
ligent and unprejudiced physicians who have 
investigated it, heartily endorse and sustain 
the institution as one of the great necessities. 
Conscious that its course has been suited to 
the wants of the suffering; that the facilities 
of ordinary practitioners are inadequate; that 
a specialty should be made of this great work, 
and trusting the same Providential guidance 
in the future as in the past, our efforts shall 
be unfaltering, and our determination eager 
to extend relief. Believing that the enter- 
prise is a work of humanity, we have not 
sought renown or individual aggrandizement 
from the profession or the world. 
The inventive genius of its surgeons, utilized 
by large expenditures of time and money, has 
placed its mechanical apparatus beyond com- 
petition in this country. 
Its methods of applying remedies are dis- 
tinctively original; and its success in the 
treatment of many diseases and deformities 
heretofore considered irremediable, is no 
longer doubted, as the fact that a large majority 
of the patients of the Institute are from among 
those whom the general practitioner has 
abandoned as hopelessly incurable, addition- 
ally corroborates. " Experience is the best 
school-master," is a familiar truism. A tu- 
ition of sixteen years in the treatment of over 
forty thousand cases, should of necessity ren- 
der a practice eminently successful. 
The resources of the Institute are ample, 
and no pains or expense will be spared to 
keep it with the advance of Medical, Surgi- 
cal, and Scientific progress. In the buildings 
of each division will be found pleasant and 
comfortable accommodations for patients, at 
moderate rates. Our charges for treatment 
are low, considering the services rendered, 
and the benefits conferred. Its surgeons arro- 
gate no innate wisdom above others of the 
profession, but justly claim the merits accruing 
from vast experience and unlimited facilities. 
The Institute is conducted upon principles of 
strict morality, and all improper conduct is 
vigilantly guarded against. Thousands of 
references and certificates of cure might be 
given if space would allow. 
It is not with egotism that we recount our 
success of the past, and refer to the fact that 
out of the thousands of surgical operations, 
both of a graver and minor character, not a 
death has occurred, either from the anesthesia 
or operations. Notwithstanding all our dis- 
advantages and shortcomings, the flood tide of 
gratitude from the thousands made happy, is 
to us an impetus to future action. Our aim in 
the future, as in the past, shall ever be to lift 
up the downcast, and elevate them to useful- 
ness and happiness. 
If you are a sufferer, send for a treatise on 
your special disease; if not, please hand this 
to your afflicted neighbor. 
TO THE AFFLICTED. 
To those who are afflicted with any of the 
diseases or deformities which are treated by 
the Institute, and to. the parents or guardians 
of the suffering, we would say: 
However opposed to your own pre-con- 
ceived ideas, or to those of your medical ad- 
viser, the statements made in this circular 
may be, the fact still remains, that they are 
true, and can be verified to the entire satisfac- 
tion of any unbiased investigator. 
We court investigation, and are satisfied to 
have our claims stand or fall on their own 
merits. 
There are no secrets in our practice. M e 
only claim to have utilized, in a common 
sense way, the result of scientific research and 
long experience. 
You owe it to yourselves and to your chil- 
dren, if they are afflicted, to visit the Institute; 
and, if after personal examination of our ap - 
pliances, and hearing the testimony of our 
patients, you shall find that we have misrepre- 
sented our advantages and success, we will 
gladly refund to you the expense you may 
have incurred in coming. 
If you listen to the counsel of skeptical 
friends or jealous physicians, you may not 
come; but remember that if you allow your 
children or friends to grow up crippled or de- 
formed when the means for their relief are 
within your reach, you are guilty of culpable 
negligence, and are, in a measure, responsible 
for their pitiable condition. 
Let us urge the necessity of prompt action. 
Every day you neglect these cases you render 
their chances of relief less. 
If, after an examination of any case, the 
surgeons shall judge it incurable, they will 
frankly tell you so, as they undertake the 
treatment of no case that they are not confi- 
dent of curing or greatly benefitting. 
Remember the National Surgical Institute 
is not a Hospital in any respect. There are 
none of the objectionable features of a hos- 
pital ; patients have nice comfortable rooms, 
parlors, elevator, as fine beds as are found in 
the best hotels, in fact it is intended to be a 
comfortable home for those afflicted with this 
class of diseases and deformities; it is pro- 
vided with the finest bath-rooms in the city, 
Swedish movement cure, gynasium, etc., etc. 
There are no cases of fever, contagious or 
loathsome diseases, but all are happy and 
comfortable. Come and see. 
WHAT CLASS OF PERSONS VISIT 
THE INSTITUTE FOR RELIEF? 
This question may naturally occur to the 
minds of some who have not visited the Insti- 
tute, but a single visit to it will at once con- 
vince any one that it is not a Charity Hospital, 
and has none of the appearances of one. As it 
is a scientific Institution, with earnest, thought- 
ful, and sincere managers, its patrons are of 
that character. In fact, they are made up from 
the intelligent, thinking classes; from those 
who dare to think and act for themselves, 
having failed to obtain relief from their home 
physicians, they dare to do as they please about 
employing others; however much the opinions 
of those who have failed to give them relief 
may be obtruded upon them. They are a people 
who are willing to investigate, and are not 
bigoted or prejudiced against their own inter- 
ests, but are willing to acknowledge improve- 
ment and advancement wheresoever found, and 
take advantage of it to obtain relief. 
No intemperance, profanity, or improper con- 
duct will be permitted in the Institute. Many 
ladies and children of the very best families 
are inmates of it, and every thing is done that 
can be to render it as home-like as possible. 
THE SURGEONS OF THE NA- 
TIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE. 
It would seem but natural that before visit- 
ing the Institute you would like to have some 
idea of what kind of men you were to meet. 
Suffice it to say they do not boast of any in- 
nate merit above others of the profession, nor 
do they claim that Providence has with par- 
tiality dispensed His favors upon them. But 
with hearts full of enthusiasm in the great phil- 
anthropic work of relieving suffering humanity, 
-1 bavin™ devoted their lives +o one 'ner>?l 
business, and being supplied with every fa- 
cility that money and long experience can af- 
ford, they do think they have a right with- 
out being considered egotistical to claim more 
proficiency in their specialties than their pro- 
fessional brethren who practice all departments 
of the healing art. 
They are regular graduates of medicine and 
surgery, and most of them have practiced their 
profession from twenty to thirty years. You 
will remember that in going to a surgeon even 
of reputation, you have but his experience; 
while at this Institution you actually employ 
the talent and experience of ten times as many, 
and those who have worked .together for years 
for one common end, and therefore there can 
be no question as to the superior advantages 
afforded by the Institute to the afflicted. 
ADVERTISING 
Is a legitimate means vouchsafed to an en- 
lightened people to acquaint each other and 
the world, with their avocations and wants. 
It is admitted by all intelligent persons, as 
necessary for the advancement of knowledge, 
civilization, religion and business. 
The National Surgical Institute has no 
apology to offer for informing the world 
through this circular or otherwise, of the 
means of relief it affords to the thousands 
of sufferers who need help. 
Many Medical Societies find it to the in- 
terest of some of their members to oppose 
advertising. Is it the dear people whose in- 
terests are to be svtoserved; or are their 
rigid rules for the protection of a few doc- 
tors? For ordinary physicians to falsely 
proclaim extraordinary abilities is quackery, 
but to say that a regularly incorporated in- 
stitution like this, with ample buildings and 
all kinds of machinery, and every facility 
for curing surgical cases, conducted by regu- 
larly educated surgeons of age and experi- 
ence, should not be advertised, is simply 
ridiculous! 
CAUTION. 
Since the National Surgical Institute has 
gained such celebrity,, and so thoroughly won 
the implicit confidence of the people of the 
United States, many itinerant pretenders have 
by every conceivable means tried and are 
trying to use its reputation for their benefit. 
Some advertise Surgical Institute, Interna- 
tional Institute, Central Surgical Institute, &c., 
&c., and copy the circulars of the National 
Surgical Institute, almost exactly, and travel 
over the country claiming falsely to have such 
Institutions, and to make wonderful cures, and 
it is sad to see so ^many honest, unsuspecting 
people deceived by them. 
Almost daily we receive letters from persons 
thus deceived, who either thought they were 
patronizing the National Surgical Institute, or 
one as good; but too late have found they were 
deceived, and spent their time and money with- 
out any prospect of cure. We hope for the 
sake of the suffering that all persons will thor- 
oughly investigate before they employ such 
persons. 
HARD TIMES. 
Our correspondence would indicate that many who 
are desirous of placing themselves under treatment, 
are deterred from doing so on account of the financial 
embarrassment of the country. To obviate this diffi- 
culty, the proprietors have reduced their fees to the 
smallest amount at which the Institution can be sup- 
ported. 
Our charges for treatment have always been lower 
than other Institutions performing a like amount of 
service and conferring the same benefits. 
This we are enabled to do from the fact that we are 
treating thousands of cases, and besides results are 
brought about more rapidly by the use of our machin- 
ery and appliances, thus bringing the aggregate cost of 
treatment down to the minimum. No one can afford 
to let disease or deformity continue, even if money is 
hard to get; it is far better to come and be cured, even 
if to do so should necessitate the sacrifice of other 
comforts ; for, " Life is not to live but to be well." It 
is certainly but justice to yourself or your child to visit 
the Institute without delay, and decide for yourself as 
to its merits, and at thg.same time have your case ex- 
amined, without cost, rather than neglect the matter, 
until it is too late, and the time for cure is past. 
b. dr g is , non? natural than for patl aL to write 
asking the price of treatment. 
Were it possible to know without seeing a patient 
just what is needed in the case, the surgeons would 
gladly answer these inquiries, but since justice could 
neither be done to the Institute nor the patient with- 
out a personal examination, let it be distinctly under- 
stood that the charges will in all cases be lower than 
the same benefit can be obtained elsewhere, and al- 
ways, if possible, within the reach of the suffering. 
The Institute is designed to furnish the most thorough, 
scientific, and economical treatment extant. 
MECHANICAL TREATMENT AND 
APPLIANCES. 
A vast amount of time and money has been expend- 
ed in theories and books upon deformities, because the 
medical profession permits a copyright or patent upon 
books, that they may be sold for profit: but no patent is 
allowed upon a useful invention-hence genius unre- 
warded has sought other fields of usefulness, and the 
deformed are left to lives of sorrow. In all other 
legitimate arts or avocations, ingenuity and success 
are rewarded with more than mere fame or glory 
-hence mechanical appliances for the cure of human 
deformities have received little attention, and the 
successful treatment of these cases is of very re- 
cent practice. Our Medical Colleges teach little on 
this subject, and the knowledge of the general prac- 
titioner on the subject, is meagre indeed, for it is as 
foreign to his business as the practice of dentistry. To 
amputate a leg or an arm is a very simple thing, but to 
straighten, cure, and make useful a deformed or dis- 
eased spine or limb, requires far greater knowledge and 
experience. Every physician understands how a den- 
tist excavates the cavity and applies the filling in a de- 
cayed tooth, and how artificial sets are made, yet he 
cannot do it. If he is incompetent to do so simple a 
thing, how much more is he to take measures, order 
and adjust surgico-mechanical appliances, which are 
so much more complicated, and when so much more is 
at stake. The saddest and most fatal errors occur 
when he attempts it. Physicians once were compelled 
in cases of deformities and diseased joints-as with 
decayed teeth-to do what little they could to relieve 
suffering. 
Owing to the great amount of machinery necessary 
to manufacture apparatus economically, and the multi- 
plicity and variety of the appliances necessary to suc- 
cess, i»Aj absurd for any physician in the regular prac- 
tice-wih fils limited number of cases-to devote the 
time and means necessary to be successful. 
The absurd idea seems to prevail that braces upon 
the limbs are sufficient to cure those affections, while 
the truth is they are of little value unless the muscles 
are developed by other mechanical means. Yet in the 
treatment of deformities and diseases requiring me- 
chanical appliances, nothing is of more importance 
than to have an apparatus suited to the case and well 
adjusted. The greatest disappointments are realized 
by the suffering, when an ordinary physician attempts 
to take measurements and adjust apparatus for Spinal 
Curvature, Hip Disease, Disease of the Knee, Paral- 
ysis, Club Feet, or any other disease or deformity. 
Manufacturers of apparatus seldom know anything 
about anatomy, and hence are wholly unfit to adjust 
them. We have often seen sad cases of deformity 
made or allowed to become so, as a result of badly 
made and imperfectly fitted apparatus. The old-fash- 
ioned Spinal Brace with its crutches under the arms 
(used by many physicians for most deformities of the 
spine), is a disgrace to the profession and a curse to the 
wearer. The torturing, galling, club foot shoes (manu- 
factured by instrument makers), are uncouth abortions, 
calculated to do more harm than good. The Hip ap- 
paratus, with its excoriating plasters, improper pres- 
sure, and utter want of support, is a lamentable failure. 
Daily experience in fitting for years can alone give the 
adequate knowledge. Many changes are often required 
in properly adjusting a brace after most careful measure- 
ments, and this must be done at the factory. Then as 
you value your life and health, or that of your child, 
do not suffer any one incompetent to measure and at- 
tempt to adjust apparatus, but come at once where it 
can be properly done. 
DB. H. B. ALLEN, the Founder of the National Surgical Institute, and inventor of the hundreds of appliances used by it, is located at the 
corner of Broad and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, and will personally supervise the busings, and all will receive prompt attention. Possibly sonje jealous Persons knowing nothing of this Institute maj oppose jour conjiijg, for Ijow often 
the will produces and controls muscular con- 
tractions in a healthy muscle, but we may make 
! a few general remarks with advantage upon the 
, anatomy and necessities of a healthy muscle 
I for the purpose of making our treatment more 
readily understood. It is well known that 
muscles vary in their size, length and shape, 
yet they are made of the same material and 
for a common purpose, i. e., to move by their 
contractions the various parts of the body, 
each muscle being attached to bones or organs 
for the purpose of moving the parts to which j 
they are attached. 
A muscle is composed of minute fibrilla? or I 
little shreds lying parallel with each other. ! 
These muscular threads may be readily seen 
by boiling a piece of muscle for a long time, 
when they may be easily separated from each 
other. 
These little muscular threads like the threads 
in a skein of yarn lie parallel with each other, 
and closely together. They are invested with a 
thin membrane which prevents their aggluti- 
nating together, and facilitates their gliding 
upon each other when contracting. 
These membranous sheaths which surround 
the fibrillae or muscular threads are filled with 
water or serum, except the space actually oc- 
cupied by the tissues, in fact nearly three- 
fourths of the whole human body is composed 
of water. 
PARALYSIS. 
but in young subjects the mental functions and 
speech, if injured, usually recover. This, how- 
ever, unfortunately, is not so often true of 
adults, especially if past the meridian of life. 
Hemiplegia is generally the result of some 
lesion of the brain by the rupture of a blood 
vessel, by softening of the brain, disease or 
obstruction of the cerebral artery, by tumor, 
syphilitic germinations, or growths, by abscess, 
injuries of the skull and brain, etc., etc. 
PARAPLEGIA, 
■ well eliminated, hence the tendency to fatty 
; degeneration. 
' It not unfrequently happens, that while a 
[ paralyzed limb retains its plumpness and nor- 
mal size, yet upon close investigation it will 
be found to be mainly due to a deposition of 
fat in and between the muscular cells, thereby 
destroying the contractility of the muscle, 
and impeding locomotion. Whenever the flow 
of blood to a limb or organ is impeded from 
any cause, the blood vessels diminish in size 
; and the limb or organ inclines to atrophy for 
want of proper nutrition. 
Hence it will be seen that in as much as 
muscular action is indispensable in facilitating 
the circulation, anything interfering with it 
must necessarily bring about the several con- 
ditions already spoken of. 
These facts being true, and the above 
named conditions being present we are natu 
raly led to the following reasons why we 
cure paralysis: 
1st. We increase the size of the diminished 
blood vessels in the limb, and force an abund- | 
ance of blood through them, increasing nutri- ' 
tion. 
2d. We maintain a higher temperature in I 
the limb. 
3d. By revulsion and massage, we expel i 
the fat cells deposited within the agglutinated j 
muscles, promote molecular change, and ; 
separate the fibrillae under the influence of i 
artificial motion, galvanism, oxygen gas, regu- , 
lation of the atmospheric pressure upon the 
body, medicated vapor baths, tripsis, power- 
ful derivative treatment for the relief of lo- 
cal affections of the nervous system, suitable 
mechanical support to prevent fatigue and 
correct deformities, vigilant muscular educa- 
tion, and cultivation of the will power. 
4th. In a word we surround the patient 
with every means which science, art, and long 
experience have developed, having no hobbies, 
depending upofi no nostrum, seeking only the i 
restoration of the patient. 
REFERENCES. 
My daughter was stricken down with Paralysis cans- • 
ing not only entire helplessness, but deformity of the | 
feet, legs, arms and hands; she wrote letters with a pen- i 
cil in her teeth. For twelve years I had tried every 
means in my reach for her restoration, but with no 
benefit. In this helpless condition, unable to move a I 
limb or help herself, I took her to Dr. Allen of the I 
National Surgical Institute, under his treatment she : 
began to mend rapidly, her hands, arms, feet and legs ; 
were made strong and straight, so that she uses them 
as well as anybody, and the deformity is all removed. 
GEORGE MURRAY, Linden, Mich. . 
CASE OF PARAEYSIS. 
Surgeons in charge of the National Surgical Insti- \ 
tute, Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen :-My son, John M. 
Allen, was born with an ankle out of Joint, and with : 
one hip and leg very weak. As he grew up his leg ; 
appeared to be withered, his whole right side was weak i 
and his ankle turned over in walking, thus bending his I 
right leg towards his left and causing a crooked spine. | 
During childhood his deformity was not so conspicu- 
ous, but about the age of sixteen be began to gr ■- tall 
and weak. His lameness and paralysis increase'' every 
month. I started with him to your Institute 1 At- 
lanta, Ga., where he remained under treatment about ' 
eight months, when he returned to Key West, and I 
showed a greater improvement than I ever witnessed 
in any human being. His lameness was nearly ali gone, 
his leg was as straight as the other. Then he gained' 
in flesh, thirty-five pounds. His gain in bodily 
strength was still more wonderful; when he went to ' 
the Institute, it was a difficult matter for him to ' 
carry a bucket of water; when he returned I set him 
to filling up barrels of Rosendale cement, weighing * 
ovee 300 pounds each, in order to test him without let- 
ting him know that I had such an object in view. To i 
my surprise he handled them easier than any of my i 
seamen or laborers, and they, as well as others who 
saw him, could scarcely believe their eyes. He is i 
much stronger than either of his brothers and they have ! 
never been sick a day in their lives. Since his return ■ 
home he has continued to gain. I feel very grateful to 
the officers of the Institute. With kindest regards to 
all of the faculty, I am gratefully yours, 
WM. S. ALLEN, Assessor cf Revenue, 
County of Monroe, State of Florida 
P. O. Key West, Florida. 
I have a son, eight years old, who was paralyzed in 
infancy in his lower extremities, thus losing, all use of i 
his legs, and being rendered completely helpless. After ! 
many years endurance of this condition, I put him un- j 
der the treatment of the National Surgical Institute 
where, I am most happy to say, his legs were made to 
grow and become strong, and he is now walking every- 
where in the full enjoyment of a restoration to a life 
of usefulness to himself and his parents, and gratitude 
to his benefactor. THOMAS McHATTON, 
. Nashville' III. 
1 was stricken down with paralysis when I was fifteen 
years old-entirely helpless in my back and lower ex- 
tremities. My physicians could do me no good. The 
cords in my legs were so badly contracted that I could 
not straighten them. Under Dr. Allen's treatment 
they have been made perfectly straight, and wonderfully 
strengthened, so that I now get about very easily I am 
well pleased with their treatment. 
W. H. DEWS, Chesterfield, Ill. 
PARAEYSIS. 
Mrs. Sarah Southwick, Ithaca, Mich.; Mrs M E 1 
Caruthers, Jefferson, Ga.; E. McKitterick, Burlington ■ 
Iowa; W. D. Lawrence, West Lennox, Pa.; Geo. Mur- | 
ray. Linden, Mich.; J. Ml Gamberts, Evansville, Ind.- 
J. L. Gantz, 24 Gr'n St., Baltimore, Md.; Jesse Rogers' 
Speedwell, Tenn.; E. B. Johnson, Covington, Ky •' 
John McPherson, Belle River, Ill.; F. S. Carey In- 
dianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. Dr. O. Carey, New Orleans 
La.; R. J. McCabe, Baton Rouge, La.; Wm. H. Lews' 
Chesterfield, Ill.; Thos. A. Ray, Virden, Ill.' Thos' 
McHatton, Nashville, III.;Gen. Joshua Barnes. Wil- 
son, Wilson Co., N. C.; E. A. Shaffer, Mobile, Ala. 
Tke unprecedented success of this Institute has prompted unqualified and unprincipled men to impose upon the afflicted., by copying almost exactly our Circulars, and claiming even more merit than the 
National Surgical Institute, which is of 16 years' standing. We hope no one will be so credulous as to go to them, spend their time and money, and suffer to no purpose. 
You are more interested in the welfare of yourself or child than any^ one else can be. Consult your own convictions of duty toward yourselx or child. 
What more pitiable sight can be witnessed 
than the poor paralytic child-helpless, de- 
formed, deprived of locomotion and self-sup- 
port, of the pleasures and enjoyments of life ? 
Every impulse or desire for usefulness to him- 
self or society is an abortion; hopes blighted; 
the future but a long weary life in deformed 
humanity-to be called and known to others 
and himself, as a cripple-a maimed and use- 
less creature; and when he contrasts his la- 
mentable fate with those blessed with sound 
limbs and body, enjoying life's pleasures, 
and usefulness, the society of friends, the 
business and social circles-free to move, 
think, and act-how his very soul must re- 
coil, and how sad his heart must be, as he 
feels 'twere better had he never been born. 
And we do not wonder that the compassionate 
Saviour was moved to the rescue of the para- 
lyzed man; and though his mission was the 
salvation of souls, yet his loving kindness 
would not let him turn from so sad a spectacle 
unrelieved. 
Or paralysis of the lower half of the body, 
from disease, injury, or compression of the 
spinal cord or its membranes, or reflex irrita- 
tion. In this form of paralysis, although the 
patient may be unable to move the limb, yet 
involuntary motion, with jerking and tremb- 
ling, is quite common and even annoying, 
caused by continued congestion of the cord. 
In very old persons, complete recovery 
scarcely ever occurs, and the chances usually 
increase inversely with the age of the patient. 
With children the occurrence usually dates 
back to eruptive fevers, teething, spinal men- 
ingitis, falls, or accidents; others, to colds, 
while in very many cases no assignable cause 
is apparent. 
CURABILITY OF PARALYSIS. 
This affection has from its earliest history 
been deemed incurable. And while the pro- 
fession denounced many of the vagaries and 
follies of the fathers of medicine, they have 
clung -with a pertinacity unprecedented to 
their absurd practices in the treatment of pa- 
ralysis. The treatment adopted hundreds of 
years ago, is still in vogue, and is handed 
down through our medical colleges and books 
as a sacred relic. Hence the use of the red 
■ hot iron along the spine, the moxa, the blister, 
; lotions, liniments, strychnine and chance, are 
the agents relied upon by most physicians for 
the relief of the paralytic-all of which do but 
little except to render the sufferers more mis- 
erable. 
Now the muscles even more than many 
other tissues must have an abundant supply of 
blood, the blood is supplied through minute 
tubes or capillaries which ramify through every 
portion of their texture. 
When contracting the little muscular threads 
of which it is composed become shorter and 
thicker, and press with great force upon the 
vessels lying between them, forcing the blood 
through the vessels into the surrounding tissues, 
the valves in the blood vessels prevent regur- 
gitation or flowing back, hence its direction 
must be ever onward with each contraction. 
Muscles frequently contract with a force of 
hundreds of pounds, therefore we can readily 
see how powerfully they aid in carrying on 
the circulation, and how passive and sluggish 
it would be without their aid. 
The contracting of muscles greatly acceler- 
ates the circulation even in the muscles them- 
sel4«s^ furnishing through the blood injected 
an abundant supply of nutrition, and facilita- 
ting the removal of effete or worn out matter. 
CAUSES. 
Exhausted vitality of parents, transmit- 
ting a predisposition to the offspring, visiting 
the iniquities upon their children: the use 
of stimulants, such as tobacco, alcohol, tea 
and coffee; excessive physical or mental 
exertion and prostration; syphilis and scrofula; 
nervous irritability, etc. Acute diseases inci- 
dent to childhood, induce, or are the exciting 
causes of this trouble, such as spirihl or cere- 
bral meningitis, scarlet fever, measles, whoop- 
ing cough, worms, colds, etc. Falls, blows, 
sprains, injuries from careless nursing of in- 
fants and children, often result in paralysis, 
though months may elapse before its appear- 
ance. 
Notwithstanding there has been, in every 
case, a cause for exciting the paralysis, yet in 
the greater number of cases no cause is appa- 
rent or has been known, and doubts, anxiety, 
and suspicions, never to be settled, exist. A 
leg is paralyzed without even pain. 
Some retire at night well as usual; the 
morning finds them helpless. With some, a 
slight fever precedes the malady. It may fol- 
low teething, spasms, attacks of severe illness, 
etc. Sometimes a slight difference is noticed 
in the usefulness or control of the hand or foot. 
This difference increases from week to week, 
or month to month, until paralysis is complete. 
With adults the causes are more apparent, 
as falls, injuries, private diseases, fevers, expo- 
sure, over-woric-mental or physical, etc., etc. 
Paralytic affections maybe divided into two 
classes: 
The first division includes those in which 
both motion and sensation are affected. 
The second division includes those in which 
one or the other only is lost or diminished. 
Paralysis may be general or partial, affecting 
the whole or only a part of the system. 
When partial paralysis affects one side of the 
body only, it is called " Hemiplegia." And 
when it affects only the lower part, or legs, it 
is called " Paraplegia." When only one limb, 
hand, foot, one side of the face, etc., it is 
then called Local Paralysis. Reflex Paralysis 
is the name given when the irritation extends 
from the periphery, or the terminus of the 
nerves, to the spine and brain, producing pa- 
ralysis. 
HEMIPLEGIA. 
The many paralytic applicants for relief, 
urging with constant importunity their claims 
for help, with the paucity and limited charac- 
ter of the means recommended by medical au- 
thorities, induced a thorough investigation of 
the pathology and treatment of this affection. 
And feeling that duty and humanity demanded 
more at our hands, the study was commenced 
in earnest, experiment after experiment was 
made, apparatus invented,various plans adopted 
and discarded, theories advanced and refuted, 
hopes brightened and obliterated, years of 
anxiety and investigation were spent, but fi- 
nally when we concluded to consider the 
trouble as we found it-meet the plain indica- 
tions and do what the case seemed to dictate 
success began to crown our efforts, and 
In most cases the immediate causes which ' 
have operated to produce the paralysis have 
subsided, and we have only to deal with the 
results. 
Now if a muscle has been paralyzed, it of' 
course ceases to contract, and several very im- : 
portant changes take place as a consequence: 
First, the muscles are in a great measure | 
INDOLENT ULCERS. 
: the more closely this course was pursued, the 
greater the success attending it. Every intel- 
ligent mind at once comprehends the supe- 
riority and adaptation of our treatment, and 
that it is philosophical and reliable. Of all 
the achievements of our lives, we are the most 
happy and grateful in extending relief and 
joy to these abandoned and downcast cripples. 
In order that we may convey a better idea 
to the afflicted, we will repeat briefly, what is 
generally known; that the brain is the centre 
of the nervous system, and from it originates 
all volition. It being the centre of the nervous 
system, it is like the main or central telegraph 
office from which and to which all communi- 
I cations and dispatches are transmitted and re- 
' ceived. We will not pretend to explain how 
deprived of their due supply of blood, from 
which they derive their nutrition, and hence 
they atrophy or wither away, as a starved 
child would become emaciated and feeble. 
Secondly, the little membranes investing 
the muscles having ceased to glide over each 
other become agglutinated or stuck together. 
Thirdly, the blood vessels themselves di- 
minish in size and often some of them become 
almost impervious. 
Fourthly, the carbonaceous matters are not 
Indolent Ulcers (or fever sores as they are called,) 
are loathsome and painful affections, and while they 
are often pronounced incurable, yet proper treatment 
will almost invariably cure them in a very short time. 
No class of cases yield more readily. 
VARICOSE VEINS. 
These enlarged veins upon the legs are very trouble- 
some, and very little is ever done for them, except to 
wear bandages, elastic stockings, &c., which never 
cure. They are easily cured by our new method of 
treatment. 
This is the most common form of paralysis 
met with. It, in the majority of cases, affects 
the left side of the body. In a few cases the 
left arm and right leg may be affected, or vice 
versa. The mind, in this kind of paralysis, 
often suffers, and the speech may be impaired; 
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DISEASES OF THE SPINAL COL- 
UMN. 
■ normal condition, and in such position it is 
' capable of sustaining great weight. But in 
I caries of the spine or Pott's disease, with a 
। hump on the back, the bodies of the bones 
are decayed, or diseased more or less, as seen 
at b-c, destroying nearly all support, and al- 
lowing the body with its weight to drop for- 
ward. In a natural condition half the weight 
should rest on either side of the bones; that 
is, the front and back sides of the bones 
should bear equal amounts of the weight. 
If the weight was equally distributed upon I 
the decaying and ulcerated body of the verte- | 
brae, it would even then be ruinous; but the j 
facts are far worse, for when the body is bent | 
forward the upper part of the spine, from a to ! 
b-c, becomes a lever, with its fulcrum at c, and i 
the long end c a, and the short end c b. Now 
the weight of the body, which we will sup- 
pose is 40 lbs., if equally distributed would be 
20 lbs. at b, and 20 lbs. at c. But instead of 
that, supposing the distance from b to c to be 
one-and-a-half inehes, and from a to c twenty 
inches, then the pressure at c is not less than 
250 lbs., making all necessary allowances. 
This pressure cannot but rapidly hasten the 
destruction of bone, and often produce paraly- 
sis, from pressure on nerves, &c., &c. 
Now, the proper method is to virtually put 
on an artificial spine : that is, a perfectly fitting 
aparatus on the outside, pressing firmly against 
the lateral processes and ribs on the sides of 
the spine, securely holding the pelvis and 
shoulders back, with all necessaiy pads, and 
means for adjusting, &c. 
The old method of trying to straighten or cure 
a deformed back with an apparatus having 
crutches under the arms, is utter folly. Re- 
member that the bones connecting the arms 
with the spine, i. e. the shoulder-blade, simply 
lays between the muscles, and does not touch 
the backbone or ribs, but glides loosely over 
them. (Move your arm, and observe its free- 
dom.) Simply raising the arm by lifting under 
it does not lift the body, or correct any deform- 
ity; besides, if any considerable pressure is 
used, it presses upon the nerves and blood-ves- 
sels, interfering with their circulation, &c. 
Cuts Nos. 4, 5, and 6, represent the pro- 
! gressive stages of this disease. 
A CARD. 
San Francisco, December 4, 1873. 
My son Edward suffered most terribly for nine years 
from spinal disease (angular and lateral curvature), 
and consequent physical prostration and helplessness. 
We took him to almost every physician in our country 
in the hope of finding some relief for him. We did 
not expect a cure, as we thought him too badly de- 
formed. In all this time our efforts in his behalf were 
untiring, yet he continued to grow worse. We had 
become disheartened and discouraged, and thought it 
useless to try more. However, finally, we heard of 
the National Surgical Institute, and took him there. 
We found at the Institute many similar cases under 
treatment, all of whom were fast being cured or bene- 
fited, and we were satisfied that the surgeons were 
eminently able to make good all their professions. We 
placed our son under their treatment (this was about 
nine months ago), and the result has been most grati- 
fying and satisfactory, as our dear child has been re- 
stored to a life of usefulness and happiness to himself 
and parents, and gratitude to his benefactors. 
Mrs. P. Dockery, 234 Minna Street. 
Spinal Diseases with Abscesses. 
... I can with pleasure and gratitude inform you of 
the continued improvement of my son, which has gone 
on steadily since I began treatment at the National Sur- 
gical Institute. His sores are all healed up, and his 
back seems entirely sound. He can now walk without 
crutch or brace. I take pleasure in publishing these 
facts, and will be happy if they are the means of lead- 
ing other suffering and deformed ones to where they can 
get relief. 
JOHN S. FRANKS, Sardis, Miss. 
I was born with curvature of the spine. In my 
childhood it could hardly be noticed, but at the age of 
twelve it grew worse, and the older I became the larger 
it grew. All treatment was of no avail, until I applied 
to the National. Surgical Institute, when the disease 
was instantly checked. When I first went to the Insti- 
tute my spine was curved in the shape ot the letter S. 
I also had a wry-neck, the head bending to the left. 
All previous treatment was of no avail-made me even 
worse, if anything, and was pronounced incurable. 
I am now almost cured-my spine is nearly straight, 
my right shoulder as high as the left, and my wry-neck 
among the things that were. 
KITTIE A. SCHNACKE, Waukesha, Wis. 
Ravenna, Mich., December 13, 1875. 
National Surgical Institute:-It is with a heart 
full of gratitude that I write to tell you that my little 
boy is recovering very rapidly, to the utter astonish- 
ment of our doctors and every one else here-his cure 
is looked upon as almost miraculous. You will re- 
member he was entirely helpless from disease of the 
spine; he can now run everywhere without any help, 
and is a cheerful and happy child, for all of which I 
am surely under a thousand obligations to the National 
Surgical Institute. Gratefully yours, 
WM. PATTERSON. 
Victory, N. York, Oct. 29, 1875. 
National Surgical Institute :-I desire to ex- 
press my gratitute for the wonderful results of your 
treatment. When I came to you in July last, my con- 
dition seemed hopeless. I was compelled to support 
myself by placing my hands on my knees. My im- 
provement has been so rapid that I now feel well; can 
walk with ease without the aid of any support; am 
straight and well, thanks to the Institute. I most 
cheerfully recommend all who are afflicted with any 
spinal disease to go at once to the National Surgical 
Institute. Very truly, 
F. E. SCOTT. 
Dekalb, Mo., Jan. 14, 1876. 
Messrs. Allen & Johnson • 
I take pleasure in saying that my son, placed under 
your treatment in 1873, is well. Instead of the puny, 
weak child whose ribs rested on the hip bones, he is 
now a stout, straight, healthy lad. I feel that the 
money paid you was the best investment I ever made, 
and I can conscientiously and cheerfully recommend 
the National Surgical Institute as worthy of all confi- 
dence. Yours truly, 
HARDIN HAMLIN. 
THIS INSTITUTION IS DEVOTEE TO THE SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF ALL PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES, SUCH AS CLUB FEET, SMALL CHESTS, FEEBLE LUNGS, CROOKED LIMBS, AND DISEASED JOINTS. 
THIS INSTITUTION IS DEVOTED TO THE SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF DISEASED BONES, PARALYSIS, DEFORMED NOSES, MOUTHS AND FACES, PILES AND FISTULA, &0, 
of the body, serious diseases of the lungs, ; 
liver, heart, or other vital organs supervene, I 
and a life of deformity is the best that can be 
hoped for, unless proper mechanical and me- 
dicinal treatment are employed. 
We cannot insist too much upon immediate 
attention to such cases, or too fully deprecate i 
or denounce the indifferent manner in which 
they are too frequently treated. We even find 
physicians, in this late day of scientific re- 
search and mechanical triumph, when such 
ample means for the restoration of the de- 
formed are afforded, so ignorant or indifferent 
as to grope in darkness, and seemingly shun 
or denounce the only means of hope and re- 
lief : and while they stand as guardians of the 
sufferers' physical safety, they seem to allow 
them to struggle in the agonies of pain, tor- 
ture and deformity, with scarcely an emotion 
of pity, or an effort for relief. This is, how- 
ever, we are happy to know, the case with but 
very few of the physicians at the present day, as 
all who are honest, and care for the welfare of 
their patients will tell the truth, frankly, that 
they have not the necessary apparatus for the 
successful treatment of such cases, and hun- 
dreds of them are sending them to this Insti- i 
tution, established especially for their treatment, j 
relieving themselves of the great care and | 
anxiety, and the fruitless task of treating such 
cases without apparatus and other facilities, and 
the censure of patient and friends, on account 1 
of deformity and failure to cure. 
Great errors are committed and disappoint- I 
ments realized in the taking of measures for 1 
apparatus, and in sending to some instrument 
shop for apparatus to straighten the back. 
The measure is taken by one who does not 
devote his time to such work, and in so criti- 
cal a matter in which he is not thoroughly in- 
formed, it would be a wonder did he get it 
correct. Besides, when the apparatus arrives, | 
its application requires more than theory can j 
suggest. Actual and long-continued practice j 
is the only avenue through which, the neces- ; 
sary experience is attained, and if the first 
apparatus should seem to fit, one, two, three, 
or even four apparatus never complete the 
cure. We often apply six, eight, or more, be- 
fore the case is perfect. To attempt to do it 
with one set, or one apparatus, would be as 
preposterous as for a mechanic to follow his 
trade, and try to build a house with one tool, 
or you to try to raise a child with one garment 
or one suit of clothes. 
The Spinal Column : Fig. 2) is composed of 
twenty-four bones or vertebrae, articulating 
; with each other. These bones are convex or 
: circular in front, and flat upon their upper and 
: lower surfaces. They have projections at 
! each side and behind, called processes. Each 
also has a large opening communicating 
with its fellow above and below, making the 
! opening for the Spinal Cord. This cord is 
I connected w'ith the brain at the top. The 
I same membranes covering the brain extend 
: down and inclose the cord. The cord gives 
i off pairs of nerves between the different verte- 
1 brae, to supply the limbs, the vital organs, 
j muscles, etc. 
Now, in all Spinal Affections where there 
5 is disease of the bones and deformity is the 
i result, these bones change their shape, allow- 
ing the spine to bend gradually, or at an acute 
angle, narrowing the canal and pressing on 
the cord. (See Nos. 2 and 3.) To illustrate 
this, take a lead or rubber pipe, and bend it- 
the more it is bent the narrower the caliber, 
and if bent very short it is closed entirely. 
| In this manner, the cord becomes so compressed 
' that paralysis of the parts below often follows. 
I with emaciation, or the growth is stopped. In 
I angular curvature, or Potts' disease, as shown i 
j by Figs. 4, 5, and 6, the front or anterior ; 
i articulating edges become diseased, the bone \ 
decomposes, becomes soft, thinner, wedge- ! 
■ shaped, and allows the Spine to bend, as seen i 
in Fig. 3. 
; The symptoms of Antero-posterior Curva- 
ture of the Spine (with caries of the bones) ! 
forming a lump upon the back, are so likely 
i to be mistaken by the inexperienced for other , 
i diseases, that hundreds of poor sufferers are ' 
i allow'ed to become deformed for life before 
■ the real danger is detected, 
The following are some of the preceding j 
symptoms : The patient, while able to go ! 
i about as usual, is seized occasionally with ; 
i pain in the stomach or bowels, sometimes I 
i constant for days, or perhaps only momentari- 
ly; a hacking cough, difficulty of breathing, ; 
I pain in the legs, lassitude, sometimes loss of ' 
1 appetite and flesh; laying the hands upon tables, I 
i chairs, etc., as they are passed, and leaning ' 
i upon some support as much as possible. Some j 
■ of these symptoms occur; but soon a cau- j 
' tious gait is observed, the elbows are thrown j 
! back, «hest protruded, the body kept straight I 
■ if possible-will kneel with one knee, or 
i squat instead of stoop, to pick up any 
! thing from the floor. If the curvature is go- 
I ing to come high up, or above the shoulders, i 
j the hand is found supporting the chin or i 
i head; if lower down the hands are on the | 
j knees. ( As the case progresses, the suffering ■ 
; increases, locomotion becomes more impeded. | 
I Finally, a slight elevation is seen upon the ) 
spine. Even then many cases are heartlessly j 
I neglected, being told it is nothing-will out- ■ 
i grow it. The pains, not always being in the 1 
' back, mislead those ignorant of their true i 
1 meaning, deformity ensues,and when the health ' 
i i fails, locomotion nearly lost, and the struggle ; 
!; for life half over, danger begins to be feared, ; 
: weeks or months after the most vigorous treat- 
I ment should have been adopted. 
RHEUMATISM. 
Rheumatism being a constitutional disease 
and usually affecting'the fibrous structures 
about the joints, the investing membranes of 
muscles, nerves, etc., etc., it is not an uncom- 
mon thing for hip disease and other inflam- 
matory affections of the joints in their early 
stages to be called rheumatism. Very much 
valuable .time is thus lost in not treating 
these affections as they should be, and we 
often see pitiable deformities as the result. 
If a case of hip joint disease, where the 
bones are involved, or a case of tuberculosis, 
be treated as rheumatism in the onset, the 
proper treatment is neglected so long that 
irreparable damage is often done, as the treat- 
ment of these diseases is entirely different. 
As a rule (with occasional exceptions), one 
joint alone is not attacked with rheumatism, 
or if so, others are very soon similarly af- 
fected. We make this mention from the fact 
that mistakes are so common. That rheuma- 
tism causes inflammation around and in 
joints, also in muscles, producing loss of mo- 
tion and great deformity, is sadly true. This 
being a very prevalent disease in many por- 
tions of our country, thousands of cases are 
deformed by it for life, unless proper treat- 
ment is employed to correct the deformities, 
promote absorption, a free circulation of blood 
in the parts, break up adhesions and increase 
motion. And while the cases look most for- 
bidding in their character and especially when 
the joints have been distorted and stiffened 
for so long, yet there are very few cases, except 
those who are very aged, in which the proper 
treatment is not rewarded with the most grati- 
fying results. With medicine alone these de- 
formities from rheumatism are utterly hope- 
less. The Surgical Institute is provided with 
the most elaborate arrangements for the treat- 
ment of these cases, such as medicated hot 
air, hot vapor, electro-thermal and other baths; 
all kinds of mechanical tripsis, Swedish 
movement cure, static electricity, galvanism, 
etc., etc.; besides all kinds of mechanical appli- 
ances made to fit and correct the varied de- 
formities. With these and such little medica- 
tion as may seem necessary, we feel justified 
in encouraging the most sanguine hope in 
those who are thus afflicted. We would add 
that our experience in the treatment of this 
class of cases is that relief is certain in the 
great majority of them. 
The above cuts, with apparatus on, represent 
a few of the great variety of appliances made , 
and used by this Institute in the treatment of ■ 
spinal diseases and deformities. No two cases 
are alike, hence each case must have appa- 
ratus made and adjusted to meet its particular 
wants and peculiarities. 
SPINAL IRRITATION 
Is a functional disorder of the spinal cord. 
Many derangements of the digestive, respira- 
tory, circulatory, secretory and nutritive or- 
gans are due to spinal irritation, which, if 
continued long, may result in organic changes, 
and permanently impair their functions. 
Irritation in remote parts, such as the uterus, 
stomach, bowels, etc., is frequently productive ; 
of diseases of the brain and spinal cord I 
through sympathy. 
Any disturbance of the spinal cord, how- ' 
ever slight, is cause for anxiety, as it may lead . 
to great mischief, such as paralysis, chorea, 
insanity, epilepsy, hysteria, etc., etc. 
TESTIMONIALS. 
San Francisco, December-, 1873. 
Having a daughter afflicted with Spinal Disease and 
Paralysis, I last June visited Dr. Allen of the National 
Surgical Institute. I had tried so often, and with so 
many different physicians, at great expense and with- 
out relief, that I became entirely discouraged, believ- 
ing that she was doomed to a life of suffering and de- 
formity, but the treatment which she has been receiv- 
ing from this noble Institution for the past six months 
has resulted in a cure of the spinal deformity, and re- 
lieved her paralysis and general helplessness. After 
seeing these eminent professors, and witnessing the 
superior facilities which they have for the treatment of j 
deformities, I am convinced of their ability to treat 
more successfully all cases of human deformity, than 
is offered anywhere else in this whole country. While 
at their rooms, this week, I saw many similar and 
other deformities undergoing treatment, all of which 
were being rapidly benefited and cured. 
Thos. J. Cochran, 
Brighton, Sacramento County, Cal. 
The symptoms of Lateral Curvature (See 
Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10), in the earlier stages are 
often quite obscure. Among the first noticed 
is the loss of vitality, debility, nervousness, 
loss of appetite, flesh, and strength. One 
shoulder-blade seems a little larger and more 
prominent than the other. If a girl or young 
lady (and the majority of cases are), it will be 
noticed on fitting the clothing that one side is 
longer than the other. 
This deformity being produced by contrac- 
tion of muscles on one side and partial pa- 
ralysis on the other, with a soft condition of 
the bones, it necessarily grows worse more 
rapidly as the body becomes heavier and 
larger. Hence, a case never existed where 
nature has produced a cure, or the patient out- 
grew it. If the case is neglected, the vital 
organs suffer from compression by distortions 
I In order to show more fully the necessities 
| in the treatment of spinal diseases and curva- 
■ tures, we add the following explanation : In 
i Fig. 2 the spinal column is represented in its 
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OF THE 
National Surgical Institute. 
This is the Largest In- 
stitution in the World 
devoted to the treat- 
m e n t of Deformities 
and Surgical Diseases. 
OUB METHOD OF TREATING DEFORMITIES IS SO DIFFERENT AND SO MUCH EASIER TO THE PATIENT THAN THE ORDINARY METHOD, THAT PATIENTS OR PARENTS NEED HAVE NO FEAR OF PAIN OR DANGER. 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 
ATLANTA, GA. 
PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. 
This loathsome and distressing malady has 
ever been a curse to mankind, and thousands 
to-day suffer as keenly from its torture as did 
the Philistines of Ashdod when cursed by the 
Almighty.-See Samuel v, 6. 
In announcing our ability to properly treat 
and cure this painful disorder, it is only neces- 
sary to make a few remarks in regard to its 
origin and cause. 
The circulation of the blood requires two 
kinds of vessels. Arteries, which are dense, 
strong, elastic tubes, to carry it out from the 
heart, to all parts of the body. And veins, 
the walls of which are thin (and easily com- 
pressed), to return it to the heart. These ves- 
sels permeate every tissue in the body; and 
any pressure exerted upon them will com- 
press the veins most. Hence the blood can- 
not return through the compressed veins as 
rapidly as it is thrown out through the arteries, 
and capiliaries therefore accumulates (or is 
dammed up) in the veins at and beyond the 
place of obstruction, thereby distending them, 
and thus Piles are produced. 
The pressure or cause of distension may be 
constipation, contraction of the upper fibres of 
the sphincter muscle, stricture of the rectum, 
impediments of the portal circulation, or the 
passage of the blood through the liver, inflam- 
mation of the mucous membrane, prolapsus 
of the bowel, etc. The continuance of any 
of these causes may produce hard and, painful 
tumors. 
When the pressure is great, inflammation may 
follow, or the tumor may burst and bleed free- 
ly. These are known as bleeding piles. In 
some persons these tumors are forced out at 
each operation of the bowels : after the blood- 
vessels are once distended permanently, and 
kept so by the constant power of the heart 
driving the blood into them, and though 
the cause may be removed, the tumor remains. 
Now after a tumor is thus formed, and the 
veins which carry the blood back rendered 
permanently too small at the point of stricture, 
is it possible to apply medicine to the tumor 
that will enlarge the veins under the mucous 
membrane and two inches above in the bowel 
which it cannot touch ? Or has the medicine 
any mechanical power to counteract the force 
of the heart or gravitation ? If medicines in- 
creased the size of the constricted veins, they 
would also increase the size of the tumor; or 
if they decreased the size of the tumor, they 
would also decrease the size of the constricted 
veins; in either case failing to cure. Ano- 
dynes may give temporary relief, but it is a 
lamentable truth that medicines never cure 
piles, and thousands having been deceived by 
them have been led to believe that piles are 
incurable. Now the only rational cure is to 
prevent the blood from entering these cavities, 
and thus obliterate the tumors. The great 
success attending our treatment consists in 
permanently closing the minute arteries supply- 
ing the tumors with blood, and this is done in 
a very simple manner; relieving instead of 
producing pain, entirely free from danger, does 
not interfere with patient's daily business dur- 
ing the cure. Among the many thousands 
treated by us not a single failure has occurred. 
FISTULA. 
This disease is, if possible, more dangerous 
than piles, though after once formed, not so 
painful. It sometimes commences with in- 
tense itching about the anus, accompanied 
with a little discharge; or the first symptom 
may be an abscess, like a boil, attended with 
more or less pain, which finally breaks. The 
soreness then in a measure subsides, leaving a 
fistulous opening, with a continuous discharge 
of matter. This unnatural opening, with its 
constant drain upon the system, sooner or 
later is certain to ruin the health or develop 
consumption or other maladies, and destroy 
life. 
Fistula in ano may exist in three conditions : 
First, complete fistula-when the opening is 
continuous from the cavity of the rectum or 
bowels to the surface of the skin, so that 
liquids, gases, etc., escape. Second, internal 
incomplete fistula-when the opening extends 
from the inside of the rectum into the tissues 
surrounding it, but not through the skin. 
A few cases of this kind exist, while the suf- 
ferer is unconscious of the nature of the diffi- 
culty, supposing it to be piles or some trouble 
-they know not what. Third, External in- 
complete fistulft.-when the opening extends 
through the skin into the tissues around the 
rectum, but does not enter the bowels. 
Other complications such as pendulous tits 
or projections, from one-fourth to one and a 
half inches in length, are attendant upon fis- 
tula. Two or more openings may appear in 
the skin, all communicating with the same 
sinus, or opening into the rectum. Sometimes 
only a small opening, externally is seen, 
while a large abscess exists internally. But in 
any case or condition, the discharge is net 
only reducing the system, but it is disgusting 
and offensive. 
Our treatment of fistula is simple, free from 
danger, and never prevents the patient from 
walking about or attending to business, and in 
a few days, in ordinary cases, the cure will be 
complete. 
Having been engaged in this business for 
over sixteen years, we have treated thousands 
of cases of fistula, and the expressions of 
gratitude that flow from the hearts of those 
who have been restored to perfect health by 
our mode of treatment, affords us untold satis- 
faction, and stimulates us to further efforts for 
the relief of those afflicted with this fearful 
disease. Remember, we use neither the knife 
nor other cutting instrument, for the cure of 
either piles or fistula. 
A REMARKABLE CASE. 
To the Editor of the Saturday Herald: 
Seeing in your last issue, " A Remarkable Case " I 
could not help but give you another. I had suffered 
with what the Physicians called piles for over a year, 
and suffering all that man could suffer. Finding my- 
self failing every day, I through the advice of many 
friends became convinced that I could receive proper 
treatment at the Surgical Institute. Upon entering 
the Institute, I met the gentlemanly surgeons, who up- 
on examination of my case pronounced it Fistula in 
Ano, and one of the worst cases they had met with. 
They at once proceeded to operate, and I anticipated 
great pain and suffering, but to my surpise it was done 
with very little pain, in fact, it did not detain me from 
walking home to my room, a distance of nearly seven 
squares. A perfect cure was effected, and to day I am 
enjoying the best health I have had for five years. I 
shall say to all suffering from that disease^? at once, 
and you will find every one from the porters to the 
operators perfect gentlemen, careful and attentive. 
Success to the National Surgical Institute, say I. 
Yours, very truly. J. E. SHEPARD. 
Clerk Bee Line, Indianapolis, Ind. 
Messrs. Allen & Johnson: I would be glad to lay 
the following facts before the public, and in doing so I 
feel that I am discharging a duty that I owe you, and 
conferring a benefit to the afflicted. Some two years 
since I was attacked with Fistula in Ano, and though 
I made use of every means of relief within, my reach 
I was gradually getting worse. The disease had run 
its course only six months, when from suffering and 
constant drain upon my physical system, I was re- 
duced to a mere skeleton, and life had become a bur- | 
den which I would gladly have laid down unless I 
could secure speedy relief. I was in this deplorable 
condition on the xst of February, 1874, when I learned 
of the National Surgical Institute. As a last resort, 
though with little hope, I applied for treatment. After 
the treatment {which caused but little pain,) I began 
to mend almost at once. Two months after entering 
the Institute I was entirely cured, and I never had 
better health in my life than I have had since then. 
No one who has ever suffered as I have, will wonder 
that I should feci grateful to those who have been the 
instruments in God's hand of saving my life, or that I 
should wish to point others to the place where I found 
relief. It will give me pleasure to answer inquiries 
with reference to the Institute, either personally or 
by letter. Respectfully yours, 
JOHN STRICKLAND, 
No. 2, M. & B. R. R., Wayne Co., Ga. 
Dear Doctors: 
I have delayed writing in order to give your treat- 
ment sufficient time to prove its efficacy, and can now 
say it is most gratifying indeed. I can truthfully say 
I am entirely cured of my Piles, and the pain and 
trouble from that cause is entirely at an end. I shall 
lose no opportunity of testifying to the skill and kind- 
heartedness of the surgeons of the National Surgical 
Institute. Very gratefully, 
J. S. EDWARDS, Newark, N. J. 
Mv Dear Doctors: 
In reply to your letter of inquiry, I am happy to 
say that your treatment has entirely cured me sf Piles. 
I never had better health in my life, have gained forty 
pounds in flesh; have not lost a day from business, and 
am happy, all of which I owe to the skill and kindness 
of the surgeons of the National Surgical Institute. 
Very sincerely, 
F. G. CUQUA, Mt. Carmel, Ill. 
Doctors Allen and Johnson: 
Dear Sirs: I am most happy to say that I am now 
sound, and "-ell of my Fistula, and never enjoyed better 
health in my life. I can never get done thanking you 
for what you have done for me. I can truly say, God 
bless the National Surgical Institute. 
J. L. VANCE, Paris, Ill. 
Dear Doctor Allen: 
I hasten to express my gratitude for the wonderful 
relief you have given me, I can truthfully say I am 
cured of that distressing and annoying malady, Fistula, 
and am once again enjoying excellent health, and owe 
everything to the National Surgical Institute. 
J. B. HAMILTON, Athens, Tenn. 
Doctors Allen & Johnson: 
Dear Sirs; It is with unfeigned gratitude that I 
can inform you of my entire recovery from that pain- 
ful and loathsome disease known as Piles. I have 
not suffered one moment from them since I left your 
Institution, my general health is first rate, and I am 
comparatively happy, thanks to the surgeons of the 
Surgical Institute. Truly yottrs, 
A. W. CROWDER, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Dr. H. R. Allen: 
Dear Sir: It has pow been over one yearsince you 
treated me for that pairfful disorder, Piles, and I am 
happy to say I have had no symptoms of return, my 
health is now excellent, and I feel so grateful to you 
and so anxious that any others who may be suffering as 
I was, that I authorize the use of this letter in any 
way you may deem best. 
Truly, 
TROTH BRITTAIN, Vandalia, Ind. 
DEFORMITY OF THE NOSE. 
How many little ones suffer from this cause to 
no purpose, for even if it heals, a notch or 
deformed lip is the result. No child should 
be operated upon without proper preparation 
with apparatus, to overcome the contraction 
of the muscles of the cheek thoroughly before- 
hand, in order to prevent pain and the drawing ' 
of the edges apart after the operation. This 
precaution is everything to success, yet not 
practiced by surgeons outside of this Institute. 
WRY NECK. 
P YOU DESIEE MJHI, COMMENCE AT ONCE; DON'T DELAY UITTIL TOO LATE. DON'T PUT OFF UNTIL TO-MORROW WAT OUGHT TO BE DONE TO-DAY. 
Wry neek is usually caused by contraction 
of the mumbles of the neck. After this condi- 
tion has existed for sometime, the bones are 
changed in shape, one side becoming thinner 
and the other thicker, by the pressure with an 
unnatural position of the head. This deform- 
ity requires nicely fitting apparatus to hold the 
head in proper position long enough to lengthen 
the muscles and change the shape of the bones. 
This requires but a short time, relieving the 
deformity entirely. 
MALE DEPARTMENT. 
Whether the shape and size of the nose is of 
so much importance as imagined by the 
Greeks, or that it so clearly indicates charac- 
ter, as Napoleon declared, is of little moment 
to the surgeon; but that a deformed nose 
mars the human face more effectually than 
anything else, all admit. A face without a 
nose is horrid. A sunken, crooked, or ill- 
shaped nose is a great calamity to annoy daily 
for life unless remedied. Noses flattened 
from injury or catarrh or other diseases, even 
if the bones are destroyed, may nearly all be 
relieved or made as good as before, and with- 
out cutting the skin or leaving a scar. This 
held of surgery is almost totally ignored by 
surgeons, as they have little experience in it. 
Hundreds are cured annually at the National 
Surgical Institute by a new and most ingeni- 
ous method. References given when desired 
of cases that have been cured. 
DEFORMITIES OF THE EYES 
AND LIDS. 
While some may question the propriety of j 
an Institution like this treating such diseases, 
and some would heartlessly consign unfortu- 
nate sufferers to miserable lives of torture and 
premature death, yet we feel that life to the 
erring is as dear, and pain as severe, as to those 
whose sins have not found them out, or to those 
who suffer from unavoidable diseases. All 
reputable physicians treat such cases (even 
without proper facilities); why should not we 
when prepared? The sad lesson and their peni- 
tence, as with the prodigal son, brings many a 
wayward yet noble youth to a life of recti- 
tude; and however some of the Pharisaical 
and fastidious may think of this matter, we 
propose to imitate the good Samaritan, and 
though they have fallen in bad company, we 
will relieve them, and then say, " Go, sin no 
more." 
No greater field for piracy and quackery ever 
opened where the unprincipled mountebank 
with his obscene and disgusting literature with 
doleful tales of dementia, insanity and death, 
has done so much harm. By their horrid ad- 
monitions and vulgar books, thousands have 
imagined ruin and woe their lot, when if truth- 
fully dealt with, all would have been well. The 
object of the Institution is not only to utterly 
discard all such deceptive horrid trash, but 
offer in all instances, where possible, such ad- 
vice as will enable each to cure himself, and, 
if treatment is actually needed, to furnish the 
most scientific and radical, without ruining the 
system by so much medicine, or deluding the 
patient with useless remedies. 
FEMALE DEPARTMENT. 
The alarming number of wives, mothersand 
daughters who are daily suffering and sinking 
from diseases peculiar to their sex, demands 
our most serious consideration and sympathy ; 
and to relieve as far as within our reach this 
dreadful scourge upon American women, we 
have greatly increased our facilities at the In- 
stitute for their medical and surgical treat- 
ment. To accommodate all who may apply 
to us for treatment, large additions and varied 
and valuable improvements have been re- 
cently completed in our Female department, 
and every seemingly indelicate or objection- 
able feature that occurs ordinarily in the treat- 
ment of these cases has been removed. So 
far as possible, every thing is done by lady 
assistants, thus avoiding much of the embar- 
rassment and objections usually experienced 
in the treatment of this class of cases. The 
Institute is provided with magnificent bath 
rooms for the administration of hot air, vapor, 
medicated and electrothermal baths with trip- 
sis. A pamphlet upon this subject will be fur- 
nished free upon application to all who may 
desire full particulars and information. 
Deformities of the eyelids are often seen 
from burns, injuries, or contraction of the 
parts. These, like other deformities of the 
face, are easily relieved. 
Cross eyes is a deformity very easily reme- 
died with very little pain and no danger to the 
eye. The operation can be performed at any 
time during life, and as the operation is so 
simple and costs so little, no one can afford 
to remain deformed a single week. The ope- 
ration if properly performed, improves the 
sight instead of injuring it. 
HARE LIP. 
Hare lip is a congenital defect which greatly 
disfigures the face, and if a person is allowed 
to grow up with it, the bones of the face change 
in shape and the deformity is much harder to 
entirely remove. Every child born with such 
defects should be operated upon while very 
young and thus prevent deformity by improper 
growth of the bones. Many physicians are 
ready to undertake the operation upon such 
cases as they feel it is only necessary to " pare 
the edges and sew it up" to make a cure. 
FILES AND FISTULA CUBED WITH BUT LITTLE PAIN NO DANUBE, WITHOUT THE USE OF THE KNIFE, "DO YOUR DUTY AND FEAR NOT," IS A SAFE MOTTO FOR US AND FOR ALL. 
CLUB AND CROOKED FEET. 
ment maker, when his responsibility ceases 
and the blame or defect in the treatment is 
referred to the instrument; and upon the re- 
turn of the patient the cords are cut again and 
another fee charged, or, should no operation 
be performed, another fee is charged for ad- 
vice to go for another instrument. 
No one can be eminently successful in any 
business unless it is made a special study and 
practice, nor can he succeed unless he has the 
facilities for its prosecution. If a surgeon, he 
must have a great many cases and every fa- 
cility for manuActuring his own apparatus, 
and for changing, remodeling, etc., as may be 
required. 
Ordinary physicians, though the most hon- 
orable, worthy, scientific and successful in the 
general practice of their profession, wherein 
their minds must be occupied with the great 
problems of life and death in the treatment of 
serious fevers and other maladies, cannot be 
successful or proficient in the treatment of this 
deformity, which alone requires all the time 
and special study of the surgeon. 
Great errors are committed and disappoint- 
ments realized in the taking of measures for ap- 
paratus, and in sending to some instrument 
shop for "club feet shoes" or apparatus 
to straighten crooked feet. The measure is 
taken by one who does not devote his time to 
such work; and in so critical a matter in 
which he is not thoroughly informed, it would 
be a wonder did he get it correct. Besides, 
when the apparatus arrive, the application of 
them requires more than theory can suggest. 
Actual and long continued practice is the only 
avenue through which the necessary experi- 
ence is attained, and if the first apparatus 
should seem to fit, one, two, three, or even 
four apparatus never complete the course. 
We often apply six, eight, or more, before the 
feet are made perfect. To attempt to do it 
with one set or one apparatus would be as pre- 
posterous as for a mechanic to follow his trade 
and try to build a house with one tool, or you 
to try to bring up a child with one garment 
or one suit of clothes; 
The measure is sent to one who is not a 
surgeon, and no two cases are ever just alike 
-in some particular one will differ from the 
other. 
The instrument maker is in no way respon- 
sible for the results--his only care is to get his 
money-and when the instrument breaks or 
gets out of repair, the manufacturer is too far 
away and too ignorant of the deformity and 
the repairs necessary to give the proper atten- 
tion, and when it is returned repaired as well 
as they know how, the doctor, not being an 
expert with apparatus, does not know how to 
manage it or fit it perfectly. 
Two years ago I took my son, who was afflicted 
with Club Feet, to the National Surgical Institute, for 
treatment. We had previously had him operated upon 
twice, by a surgeon of Rockford, Ill., without benefit. 
I will never regret sending him to the Institute, as 
his feet are now straiglit, and he walks nicely. 
JAMES W. ANDERSON, 
January 31, 1873.J Andrew Jackson Co., Iowa. 
Allow me to acknowledge the success of your treat- 
ment of my Club Feet. Only four or five months have 
elapsed since I first visited the Institute. I then had 
a deformed foot, which I had long supposed incurable; 
but now, by your successful management, my foot is 
perfectly straight, and natural in appearance and feel- 
ing, and none could perceive that any deformity had 
ever existed. In concluding, I would say, in remuner- 
ation for all the good you have done me in making my 
life both happy and useful, I will do all in my power to 
alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted, and to direct 
them to you for relief. THOS. QUIRK, 
May 2, 1873. Galt, Ontario, Canada. 
My daughter "Bessie" was born 'with crooked feet, 
and I had almost given up hopes of having them made 
straight, until she was taken to the National Surgical 
: Institute, at Indianapolis, Ind. The treatment she 
received there was all I could wish for in its results, as 
her feet are now straight, and she can walk with ease. 
I cheerfully publish the above certificate to the world, 
as I have great reason to be thanftuil for the results 
attending Bessie's visit to the Institute. 
ROB. THOMPSON, Paris, Ontario. 
To The Public.-Having been afflicted from birth 
with club feet, and supposing there was no cure for 
the same, I was compelled to suffer on for twenty-seven 
years, with no hopes of ever being relieved from the 
ungainly deformity. Having heard of the wonderful 
results in afflictions like mine, produced by Dr. Allen, 
of the National Surgical Institute, I determined, but 
with little hope, to place myself under his treatment. 
The appliances used were purely mechanical, and after 
five months' treatment, five weeks of which I was con- 
fined to my bed from other disability, I am now able to 
walk on the soles of my feet with ease, and I can safely 
say that comp'ete cure has been effected in my case, 
and I cheerfully recommend those persons afflicted as 
I have been, to call and see them. 
J. C. HOLMES, " Morning Call." 
San Francisco, December 11, 1873. 
My son had Club Feet, I tried many physicians and 
foiled to get him cured until I took him to Dr. Allen of 
the National Surgical Institute, who cured him sound 
and well. He has been well for ten years and will ever 
be grateful for it. RICHARD MASON, 
Bridgport, Conn. 
I was born with Crooked Feet, and for years my 
parents spent much time and money trying to get me 
cured, and failed until I was taken to Dr. Allen, of the 
National Surgical Institute, where I was cured, and I 
most cheerfully and gratefully advise all others who are 
afflicted to go there. W. W. JONES, 
Brooklyn, -N. Y. 
CLEFT PALATE. 
these patients have learned to regard their ca- 
ses as incurable and hopeless, while doctors 
have taught them to believe that a metal or 
rubber palate is their only hope. The opera- 
tion which we employ is an invention of our 
own. It has not been suggested or used by any 
one else. We have operated by this method 
during the last ten years, on many hundreds 
of these cases, with results highly satisfactory 
and delightful to the patients. The operation 
is free from danger, is less painful, and more 
certain to restore the palate and speech than 
any heretofore performed. 
In the summer of 1871, I was operated upbn for Ueft 
palate, at the National Surgical Institute, which ope- 
ration resulted most satisfactorily, and gratifying. The 
operation resulted also in restoring my speech. 
SAMUEL ENDICOTT, Cynthiana, Ky. 
I h-d a very bad cleft palate cured by Dr. Allen, of 
the National Surgical Institute, restoring it perfectly, 
with but little pain. I can now talk, sing, and swallow 
well. DORA DAVIS, Knightstown, Ind. 
TUMORS. 
TWO-THIRDS OF THE CASES WE TREAT ARE OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN BADLY TREATED AND MADE WORSE BY DOCTORS WHO DENOUNCE ADVERTISIiNG-. 
We effect a cure in one-fourth the time 
usually occupied in the treatment of such 
cases, with the best treatment the old method 
ever did or can afford. 
We do it with one-tenth part of the/azw and 
suffering. We care not how careful the phy- 
sician may be or how well padded the appa- 
ratus, for the old principle is radically wrong, 
and is apainful failure. 
We make infinitely better feet when the 
treatment is concluded, for there is no ten- 
dency of the toes to turn in, or of the foot to 
roll over, and there is no crook or kink with 
a lump on the outside, or an unusual arch, 
which are always left with the old treatment. 
Walking facilitates the treatment instead of 
interfering with it, and the weight of the body 
is made a power to correct the shape of the 
foot. 
In many cases no surgical operation is re- 
quired; but should it be necessary, it is so 
simple as not to shed a drop of blood, nor 
cause any swelling, pain, or soreness afterward. 
BY ADVERTISING WE CONFER BLESSINGS TO THOUSANDS OF UNFORTUNATE PERSOWS WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE LEARN OF A FLACE OF RELIEF. 
By our new mode of treatment, Club, Reel, or 
Crooked Feet, can be made as perfect in ap- 
pearance and use as though no deformity had 
ever existed. This may seem mysterious or 
doubtful to those unacquainted with the new 
discoveries in surgical art. 
But we have thousands of most happy wit- 
nesses whose feet were crooked, deformed, and 
useless, who, by our mode of treatment, are 
now well, and their feet as useful as though no 
trouble had ever befallen them. 
In order to understand the treatment of 
crooked feet, take a number of square blocks 
or cubes and place them in a row touching 
each other. Suppose the row of blocks to be 
a straight foot made up of bones represented by 
the blocks, for the part of the foot which gets 
crooked is composed of cuboid or nearly square 
bones, all articulating or joining with square, 
verticle or perpendicular faces. Now take 
the blocks and place them in a curved line cor- 
responding with the curve of a crooked foot, 
and only the edges will touch, while large tri- 
angular openings will be made on the outside. 
We relieve our patients of these morbid i 
growths perfectly. Those of glandular origin ■ 
are cured, by medicines. Many that are ma- 
lignant and cancerous, even, are often cured i 
by elastic pressure, electrolysis or hypodermic j 
injection, as the case may be, while a few, by i 
long continued neglect, may require the use of i 
the knife. Never allow a growing vampire i 
of this kind, by procrastination, to destroy you. | 
Immediate attention is the only safe course to j 
pursue. No branch of our business is attend- j 
ed with more favorable results than the re- j 
moral and cure of tumors. 
Dr. Allen removed a tumor from my back, weighing > 
forty pounds. In two weeks I was well, and have been 
ever since. AMANDA DEAN. 
Noblesville, Ind. i 
Send for as many references as you desire ; 
and they will be furnished. 
j 
THE KNEE-JOINT. 
The treatment never, in any way interferes 
with health, or causes the loss of a meal or a 
night's sleep-the skin never becomes sore 
from chafing or pressure by the apparatus. 
The deformity will never return after the 
treatment is concluded. The motions of the 
joints are perfect, the gait natural, and all hob- 
bling removed. 
Every apparatus is manufactured in the In- 
stitute Machine shop under the supervision of 
the Surgeon, by whom each instrument is 
fitted and applied. 
All apparatus used are the inventions of 
Dr. Allen, and are made by no one else 
in the United States. They are light, simple 
and easy, and are the only common sense ap- 
paratus now used for straightning crooked 
feet. This you will admit as soon as you see 
them. 
We do not undertake to sell apparatus at a 
large price and to charge exorbitant fees for 
professional services, but we make a cure, re- 
lieve the deformity, and make good feet by fur- 
nishing all apparatus until the cure is effected. 
Now, it is a law with all articulating surfaces 
in joints to adapt their surfaces to each other, 
and when an opening or space between the 
ends of the bones is made permanent, the bones 
grow sufficient to fill the space and are thus 
brought to touch each other. Also, when two 
bones in a joint are kept constantly pressed 
against each other, with unnatural pressure, 
the surfaces are absorbed sufficiently to relieve 
the pressure; thus the bones of the foot be- 
come triangular or wedge-shaped by the un- 
usual and constant contraction of the muscles 
or the paralysis of the opposing muscles. Now, 
as nature thus causes the adaptation of articu- 
lating surfaces, to each other to make a de- 
formity, we take advantage of the same law 
to make the foot straight again and keep 
it so. 
Most all patients are treated at home after 
the apparatus are fitted, which will require but 
one day, usually. 
We manufacture more apparatus and 
straighten more crooked feet than any es- 
tablishment in the United States; conse- 
quently we have more experience and give 
better satisfaction. And we can straighten 
feet with less pain or cost to the patient. 
WHY THE OLD METHOD OF TRY- 
ING TO STRAIGHTEN CROOKED 
FEET HAS FAILED AND DIS- 
COURAGED BOTH PATIENTS 
AND PHYSICIANS. 
The old style of apparatus attempts too muck 
at once, and in so doing accomplishes nothing. 
They attempt to turn the toes out and to raise 
them at the same time, thus spoiling the shape 
of the bones by rounding off the angular ar- 
ticulations. 
The foot cannot be secured in the old style 
of apparatus, even to accomphlish what they 
attempt. This every physician and patient 
too fully realize in their disappointment. The 
heel slips up and the foot rolls in spite of the 
apparatus. 
Should partial success attend the treatment, 
the toes turn in badly, and at every step as the 
body moves forward so that the weight comes 
upon them, they rotate, turning in the direc- 
tion which is the easiest to them, which, of 
course, is the old position of deformity, and 
the walking reproduces the old trouble. 
The walking, instead of assisting to remove 
the deformity, helps to retainit; and all the 
weight of the body tends to spring and wear 
out the apparatus, which soon fails and has to 
be repaired or made anew. 
The apparatus are not invented or made by 
the Surgeon, but by mere mechanics, whose 
business it is not to understand anatomy, or 
the necessities for the treatment of deformi- 
ties, or to know when an apparatus should 
push, pull or support. 
When you take a case to any of our ordi- 
nary physicians, the apparatus are never fitted 
by the Doctor, but by the instrument maker, 
who continues to repair, make new ones and 
fit them as long as the patient is willing to 
pay, and the longer the better for him, as each 
visit brings its fee and ht has no responsi- 
bility in the matter. 
The surgeon performs the operation, charges 
his fee, and sends the patient to the instru- 
Like other joints, is subject to all forms of in- ! 
flammation, abscess, tuberculosis, rheumatism ! 
and injuries, and being the largest joint, when s 
affected it is subject to the most violent conse- I 
quences. 
Tuberculosis (or White Swelling) is a ter- 
rible disease, destroying the membranes and 
articulations, depositing matter in the cavity 
of the joint, and is attended with contraction 
of the limb, loss of motion, great pain, and 
sometimes death. 
Dropsical effusions frequently occur as a re- i 
suit of inflammation, whether produced by in- i 
juries, sprains, or other causes. Ligamentous • 
adhesions and stiffening result from rheuma- j 
tism. j 
At first, weakness of the limb may be the j 
only complaint; but pain, swelling, and loss ; 
of motion soon follow, with prostration of the : 
system. 
From any of the above diseases the cords j 
may become contracted, and the limb crooked j 
and deformed. There are no cases requiring i 
more vigilant and correct treatment, than dis- j 
eases of this joint, as with it great suffering 
and life-long deformity may be prevented; 
while without it great suffering and life-long 
deformity may result. The ankle, shoulder, 
elbow, and wrist, are subject to the same forms 
of disease, and are followed by like conse- 
quences. 
No disease affecting these joints can be • 
successfully treated without proper mechanical 
appliances. 
My son George had tuberculosis of the knee-joint, 
and was a great sufferer night and day. His knee was J 
for years badly swollen, very painful, and his health i 
became very feeble. By the best surgeons of our Med- I 
ical Colleges I was told the only remedy was amputa- 
tion, as there was no cure for it. But my great desire 
to save the limb and the boy's life induced me to go to 
the National Surgical Institute, where he was cured 
perfectly sound and well. He runs as well as any boy, 
and has good motion of the joint. Words fail to ex- 
press the gratitude of his parents, and the benfits to 
humanity of the National Surgical Institute. 
G. L. BEETLE, 
1202 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 
New York, Sept. 30th, 1875. ! 
My wife had severe inflammation of the Knee-joint, i 
resulting in abscess, and discharged much matter, con- I 
fining her to her bed for nearly two years. Amputation ; 
was urged by all her physicians if her strength would per- ; 
mil., I finally had her treated at the National Surgical 
Institute, and entirely cured. She now walks well, is 
free from pain, and limps but very little. 
E. S. WILLIAMS. 
We put the pressure on in the oppo- 
site direction; i. e., to straighten the foot, 
and the thick sides of the bones commence 
to press upon each other and absorb, and 
the thin edges to separate and the space to 
fill, so they are converted into cubes again. 
Now, in crooked feet, the crook is in more 
than one direction; i. e., the toes are turned 
in and the foot rolled, so that if you attempt 
to straighten it with the hand you turn the 
toes out and up. In this case, the cubes 
are separated diagonally, instead of laterally, 
and only the corners, instead of the edges, 
touch each other; and if you attempt to press 
the foot out and up at the same time with ap- 
paratus, the bones strike each other diagonally 
or upon the corners instead of the edges, which 
are absorbed and rounded off, leaving the bones 
octagonal or like marbles in appearance, and if 
the foot is thus straightened it will never re- 
main so; besides it has a loose, ill-shaped con- 
dition, relapsing as soon as set at liberty and 
the weight of the body comes on it. 
The only way to keep the angles acute and 
the articulations solid and perfect, is to first 
turn the toes out by degrees, never allowing 
them to return but ever holding the advantage 
gained, allowing the space behind to fill, and 
that in front to absorb, and the foot is turned 
out with the toes dropped or the foot in a line 
with the leg. This process is a very simple 
one with our new apparatus. Then, with a 
different apparatus, raise the front part of the 
foot, and by this method, making two distinct 
treatments, the foot is easily straightened, and 
all the articulations are angular-the foot re- 
maining just where it is placed. This process 
consists in first converting all cases of club, 
reel, or crooked feet into what is called Ta- 
lipes Equinus, then into perfect feet-always 
getting the foot squarely under the leg, then 
raising it to a right angle with the leg. 
Cleft palate is a defect which surgeons sel- 
dom attempt to correct. The operations em- 
ployed by them have so uniformly failed, and 
so often aggravated the existing trouble, that 
LIVING WITNESSES OF OUR ABILITY TO OURS THE WORST CASES OF DEFORMITY ARB TO BE FOUND ALL OVER OUR LAND, WE INVITE THE MEDICAL PROFESSION TO VISIT THE INSTITUTE AND NOTE OUR METHODS OF TREATING DEFORMITIES, PARALYSIS, ETC. ALL ARE WELCOME. 
DISEASE OF TH3 HIP JOINT. 
tb bone continues; the dislocation be- 
comes greater as the head of the bone, by 
contraction of the muscles, slides higher up 
on the pelvis. Extensive caries (death of the 
bones) takes place; the disease continues 
month after month, and year after year, some- 
times, Although the agony is to some extent 
abated, yet a cure is by no means approach- 
ing, if left to the ordinary treatment. If na- 
ture begins to make repairs, it is simply done 
by effusion of lymph and binding the diseased 
bones together, retaining the limb in the con- 
tracted and deformed condition, making the 
leg from one to six inches too short, the hip 
thrown back and the joint stiff. 
Treatment of disease of the hip, should 
commence early with a perfect appa- 
ratus, keeping the diseased bones from being 
forced together by the contraction of the large 
muscles of the hip, relieving at once all the 
pain and twitching cf the limb. If your 
child or friend is suffering severely, is very 
weak or emaciated, do not listen for a mo- 
ment to the statement that it is too bad or 
weak to treat, or to have attention. Hun- 
dreds of them are brought on pillows or 
couches to get free from suffering and pain, 
and prevent deformity. Do not wait until 
destruction has done its work, for the joint 
ligaments, bones, and all the delicate struc- 
tures are being destroyed. We say again, 
come at once to save pain and deformity. 
Sustain the vital forces and prevent decline. 
We cannot insist too much upon immediate 
attention to such cases, or too fully depre- 
cate or denounce the indifferent manner in 
which they are too frequently treated. The 
old style splint, which is often ordered is as 
old fogyish, but not as innocent as the 
wooden mold-board plow, or the sickle, for 
it really does harm, aside from the failure to 
accomplish good. ' The ( strap passing 
around the leg at the groin pulls obliquely up 
and out, in just the direction to pull the bone 
out of the socket, and it does it most effectual- 
ly, if it does anything; but it depends for ex- 
tension upon galling, irritating, slipping, ad- 
hesive plasters applied on the leg, which are 
a great nuisance to the sufferer, as the skin 
gets sore, slips off, etc., adding annoyance 
and torture. Of all the cruel fallacies, inflict- 
ing pain and deformity upon the pitiful suffer- 
ers, this is most to be dreaded. 
I Hew and Scientific Method of Developing the Lungs, 
PREVENTING CONSUMPTION, 
Curing Bronchitis and Catarrh, 
EXPANDING THE CHEST, 
AND PROLONGING LIFE. 
Nothing short of a visit and a personal 
investigation, can convey any idea of the 
means employed by the National Surgical In- 
stitute for developing the lungs, expanding 
the chest, and curing those diseases incident 
to the air passages. The wonderful im- 
provement made in the treatment of such 
cases, is indeed marvelous. Years of toil, 
and thousands of dollars have been expended 
in inventing and perfecting the machinery 
and appliances for the purposes intended. 
We point with pride to the improvements of 
the past century, many of which have done 
wonders in ameliorating the condition and 
adding to the comforts of man-yet none have 
done more for the relief of suffering human- 
ity than the improvements made in mechan- 
ical surgery. Many cases are now cured at 
this Institute which had been deemed incur- 
able by the general practitioner. 
The air cells of the lungs are dilated to their 
utmost capacity; the lungs are expanded, in- 
creasing the daily consumption of air, more 
perfectly oxydizing the blood, and eliminat- 
ing poisons; the muscles of respiration are 
stimulated; the chest expanded, preventing 
and even relieving round shoulders, produc- 
ing a plump, full chest, so much desired by 
all; passive engorgements of the capillaries 
■ of the lungs are relieved; and an active cir- 
culation of the blood promoted. Those 
molecular changes, so necessary to life and 
1 health, are hastened, digestion improved, 
healthy secretions stimulated, and morbid 
! matters eliminated. The electric fluid bath 
I is also administered (when necessary), charg- 
' ing the whole body with electricity, without 
: removing the clothes. 
Medicines in the form of impalpable pow- 
1 ders, or vaporized liquids, may be (when ne- 
! cessary) applied to the throat and nasal pas- 
j sages by the use of compressed air, without 
■ requiring any effort on the part of the patient 
j at inhalation, by which Bronchitis and Catarrh 
I are successfully treated. The fact that tens 
i of thousands die annually from diseases of 
the throat and lungs, should certainly be suffi- 
cient warning to all who have pallid cheeks, 
contracted chests, chronic coughs, hurried 
breathing, or any affection of the air passages. 
As life and health are valued, these condi- 
tions must give great concern. Nauseous do- 
ses of medicines poured into the stomach, dis- 
turbing the secretions, and impairing diges- 
tion, will more likely lower the vital forces 
. than elevate them. Expectorants, tonics, and 
i the like, will not avert the impending dan- 
! ger. Local congestions must be overcome, 
the chest must be expanded, the closed air- 
cells must be reopened, and the whole phys- 
ical system must be developed, so that all 
the functions of life may be properly main- 
tained. 
That disgusting malady, 
NASAL CATARRH, 
is a loathsome disease, affecting the mucous membrane 
of the nasal passages, frequently extending to the 
throat and lungs, developing Bronchitis and Con- 
sumption, often involving the bones of the nose and 
destroying them, producing an offensive breath, in 
many instances the sense of smell is greatly impaired 
or entirely lost. By it thousands are consigned to a 
life of wretchedness or to premature graves. The 
success attending the treatment of this disease by this 
new method is very satisfactory, indeed. 
This disease has become so fearfully prevalent dur- 
ing the last few years, and its destruction of health 
and life has been so great, that the slightest symptoms 
should elicit the most prompt and vigilant attention. 
It commences in the frontal sinus, passes to the nose 
and throat, then to the lungs. 
As all admit that Catarrh does this, how can we in 
whom the destructive fire is kindled lose a moment or 
relinquish a single exertion until the last spark of the 
disease is extinguished. Negligence is premature 
death. The old, the young, the middle aged, male 
and female, are alike subject to it. The disease is be- 
coming more prevalent. Victims here, there and 
everywhere ask, where shall I obtain relief? 
Its treatment is neither exceedingly pleasant nor pro- 
fitable to us; but the destruction of thousands seems 
imminent unless its ravages cease, and the confidence 
of being a benefactor prompts more than ordinary ef- 
forts and determination to extend relief as far as pos- 
sible. That consumption, that unconquerable foe to 
life, is often the sequel of catarrh, all too well know. 
Lingering torture, loss of friends, sad hearts, orphans, 
and desolated homes, are its conquests. And we can 
not but warn you of the sad future that awaits you, if 
you have Catarrh and neglect it. The fire once kin- 
dled, unless extinguished, continues the destruction. 
■ With our new method of using compressed air for 
introducing remedies to every portion of the mucous 
surface, we can cure many cases heretofore incurable. 
Call and examine. Send for circulars. 
DISEASED BONES. 
DEFORMITIES OF THE FACE. 
If you or any persons in your ki»«w ledge are afflicted with any Deformity, Chronic Disease, Viles, Fistula, Diseased Eye or Ear, Diseased Joints, Catarrh, or any Surgical Disease, 
send Jfame and F« D, Address, stating the trouble. 
WE HAVE NO SECRET METHODS OF TREATING DISEASES, AND ARE ALWAYS HAPPY TO EXPLAIN OUR THEORIES AND MAKE KNOWN OUR PRACTICE- 
! Thousands of children and adults annually 
fall victims to this terrible disease, and 
i from the prosecution of the old, fallacious, 
i tedious, and torturing treatment, many, after 
long endurance of a cruel regimen, succumb, 
, and in exhaustion, death relieves them of their 
i torment. Others, scarcely less fortunate, en- 
■ dure the suffering until after formation of ab- 
scesses, discharge of matter, diseased bones, 
' destruction of joints, untold suffering and 
wasting of the constitution, nature attempts 
j relief and leaves them deformed for life. Had 
; not hundreds of just such cases, on their way 
! to untimely death or permanent deformity, 
applied for relief, sympathy never would have 
j been so highly wrought,nor necessity for better 
means of relief so keenly felt. No one but 
: the pitiful sufferer can know or feel the reality 
■ of a disease of one of the largest and most 
- important joints of the body, and the disease 
of no other bones except the spine is ever 
j fraught with such pain or danger; and any 
; parent who does not, upon the very first symp- 
r toms of disease of the hip or spine, at once 
i seek relief at competent and experienced 
; hands, is either unconscious of the child's im- 
i pending doom, or lost to all parental love or 
i care; and the physician who does not, upon 
। the application of such cases, at once di- 
' rect them to a surgeon who makes and fits 
i proper apparatus for relief, doesnot do his duty 
■ to the suffering or to himself. The treatment 
; of this disease must be made a specialty, and 
peculiar and perfectly adapted apparatus, 
which can only be made by skillful workmen, 
J directed by the experienced surgeon, must be 
applied, and treatment quite different from 
; that of ordinary inflammation pursued 
The face is often mutilated or disfigured 
from injuries, scrofula, syphilis, cancers, im- 
proper use ot calomel, burns, hare-lip, crooked 
and deformed noses, deformed eyelids, dis- 
eases of the skin, etc., presenting such a terri- ' 
ble and unsightly appearance as to require j 
surgical operation and treatment. 
A deformed face is most pitiable and unfor- 
tunate, being not only loathsome to observers, 
but most humiliating to the sufferer. In the 
great majority of cases, the patient is not to 
blame for its existence as in cases of hare-lip, 
burns, salivation, injuries, etc. But let the 
cause be what it may, there is scarcely a case 
in existence of deformed eyes, nose, lips, j 
cheeks, etc., but can be either improved ; 
greatly or made entirely perfect, and among i 
the thousands of cases cured by this Institute, j 
none seem more grateful than this class. One j 
great difficulty is that too many doctors who 
are not daily doing such work, but eager to 
■operate, attempt to remedy such defects and 
make bungling bad jobs, leaving the face little 
better than before, causing suffering without 
benefit. A greater degree of skill, ingenuity, 
and experience is necessary for the successful 
treatment of these cases than for any other class 
of surgical operations; and no others yield 
more gratifying results to the patients than 
these, when they are properly executed. Many 
cases have been made worse instead of better, 
by the attempts of inexperienced surgeons to 
improve them. ' 
Bad scars from burns, cuts and injuries re- 
moved; also moles, warts, and marks on the 
face. 
For twelve years I suffered from the loss of the great- 
er part of my left cheek, caused by salivation when a 
child. I had relinquished all hopes of ever being cured 
of my deformity, but at last I was urged to apply to the 
National Surgical Institute, which I did with a most 
happy result, for, through the skillful treatment of the 
surgeons there, the deformity was removed, and that 
side of the face made to look like the other-for all of 
which I am their most grateful patient. 
AGNES BRUCE, 
South Bend, Ind. 
This Institution has now on 
! exhibition at the Centennial, 
the largest and finest collection 
of surgico-mechanical appli- 
ances for the cure of diseases 
and deformities ever exhibited, 
embracing more than five times 
as many as all the exhibits of 
the whole world combined. 
j Besides at the Institutes may 
be seen machinery for treating 
cases w hich would occupy ten 
times more space than was 
I allotted. Call and see. 
In writing to the Institute for information 
in regard to treatment, etc., make your letters 
as concise as possible, and to insure an an- 
swer, always enclose a stamp for return post- 
age; and do not forget to give your name in 
full , and your post office address in plain hand- 
writing. 
NOTICE. 
The Institute is now publishing a book con- 
taining about 300 pages and 200 wood cuts and 
colored lithographed plates, and giving a com- 
plete history of the Institute, together with its 
modes of treating the various deformities and 
surgical diseases which are placed under its 
care. This book is gotten up with much care 
and labor, and contains a great deal of infor- 
mation valuable to everybody, whether afflicted, 
or not; and it should be in the library of every 
family as a book of useful knowledge and of 
reference. Sent to any address by mail on 
receipt of the price, Fifty cents. 
Symptoms.-Some cases of disease of the 
। hip joint are easily traceable to falls, injuries, 
I etc., but the majority of cases come without 
! any assignable cause or accident. Usually the 
first symptoms are weakness of the leg, 
; lameness, and a sensation of fatigue, and pain 
in the knee, sometimes in the calf of the leg, 
j ankle, or along the side of the thigh, but in 
; most cases, for a long time, the pain is referred 
; to the knee. The limb is handled cautiously, 
i kept a little drawn up; but when straightened 
| seems a little too long. At night the child is 
j suddenly aroused and cries out with pain, and 
; sleep is disturbed by a twitching and jerking 
of the leg. During this stage of the disease, 
; the inflammation is confined to the acetabulum 
! (socket) and head of the femur (thigh bone). 
In the synovial and other membranes now be- 
I gins the fearful work of destruction. First, 
the swelling forces the bones apart, giving the 
j limb a lengthened appearance; the hip is 
flattened, and assumes the peculiar position; 
; the flesh or muscles of the leg diminish; the 
■ limb is smaller; softening of the bones, 
, destruction of the synovial membrane and 
■ ligaments rapidly follow; and while in this 
' condition the symptoms become aggravated by 
i contraction of. the powerful muscles of the 
■ hip, and the head and neck of the bone by de- 
i composition is changed in shape. The hip is 
now more or less swollen and painful, and in 
' Take warning, and as you love your child 
or your own life, do not allow improper 
treatment, or any apparatus to be applied, 
which, by straps, pads, supports, plasters, or 
any device whatever, goes around the diseased 
hip or groin in any manner; or the most foolish 
practice of applying a weight to the foot. All 
such treatment does harm; they excite con- 
traction of the muscles, and press upon the 
tissues around the joint, increasing the slough- 
ing and deformity. 
My daughter, when eleven years old, was attacked 
most violently with hip-joint disease. Her suffering 
was intense. The leg became drawn up, and was 
two inches too short. I finally placed her under the 
treatment of the National Surgical Institute, when all 
her pain and deformity was removed, the limb made 
as long as natural, with the motion of the joint retained. 
W. H. TYLER, Reeseville, Putnam Co., Ind. 
My little daughter was a great sufferer from hip dis- 
ease, with abscesses, which so reduced her that it 
seemed at times almost impossible for her to live. 1 he 
child was treated in the usual manner, but was get- 
j ting worse all the time, until I was led as a last hope 
| to take her to the National Surgical Institute. The 
treatment there soon gave relief from pain, her health 
began to improve, and her limb to strengthen, so tnai 
now she is able to walk very well. 
MRS. A. S. KIMBAL, Warren, Ohio. 
I was a sufferer for years with Hip Disease. I 
found no relief until I applied to the National Surgical 
Institute, and after receiving treatment from that body 
for a short space of time, I was restored from a com- 
parative dwarf to perfect health. To my fellow-suf- 
ferers I would say that the Institution is worthy your 
attention. To the skeptical, I would say, investigate 
the matter. To the afflicted in general I would say 
be relieved. JESSE ROGERS, Jr., Speedwell, Tenn. 
DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. 
Although the eye is universally regarded as the most 
delicate organ in the human body, yet ignorant and 
unqualified persons experiment and tamper with it. 
Many who are to-day blind, have lost their sight 
through improper treatment or neglect. Never allow 
any one to treat or operate upon an eye, unless he 
makes it a specialty, and is known to be prepared and 
competent. At the Surgical Institute ample prepara- 
tions have been made for treatment of the Eye and the 
restoration or improvement of sight. All curable 
affections of the Ear treated. 
Any of the bones of the body are liable to caries or 
necrosis from Scrofula, Injuries, Inflammation, Syphilis, 
&c., &c., and the portion diseased and dying becomes 
a foreign substance, often keeping up a discharge of 
matter, irritation, and drain upon the system, destroy- 
ing health, and making life miserable. Such cases are 
easily cured, and often in a short time. Hundreds of 
limbs are amputated on account of such condition 
which couldjust as well have been saved. Special at- 
tention for twenty years has been devoted to this class 
of cases, with the most gratifying success, and thou- 
sands of grateful hearts rejoice over sound limbs, which 
were once so painful and considea-ed hopeless. There 
is not one case in a hundred which is incurable. 
! many cases abscesses have either before or 
i during this change formed and broken, dis- 
I charging great quantity of matter. The leg is 
j contracted. The patient, from long pain and 
| suffering from the terrible disease, losing flesh 
j and strength, looks more or less pale and hag- 
i gard, loss of appetite, etc., generally occur. 
As the disease progresses, the destruction of 
after visiting the institute for examination, most cases can be treated at home, thousands are cured every year at this institute. Donyt Destroy this, but read and send to some afflicted person^ and thus be a Benefactor, by making some sufferer happy. 
^SURGEONS AND ASSISTANTS. 
H. R. Allen, M. D., Dr. L. C. McLain, 
W. P. Johnson, M.D., Dr. J. C. Alinsworth, 
Wm. L. Peck, M. D., O. J. R. Hanna, 
C. L. Wilson, M. D., K. H. Boland, 
J. M. Hinkle, M. D., F. L. Ballard, 
G. W. Handy, M. D., J. B. Leake, 
J. A. Minich, M. D., W. H. Turner, 
W. R. Miller, M. D„ S. II. Wright, 
R. S. Gage, M. D., F. S. Carey, 
W.Blackstone,M.D.,J. F. Miller, 
I. 11. Olds, M. D., J. A. Griggs, 
J. Davis, M. D., J. R. Erringer, 
Simon Stahl. 
From the Governor of Indiana. 
I take pleasure in saying that I am personally ac- 
quainted with Dr. II. R. Allen, the head of the Surgical 
Institute of this city, and that he is a worthy gentleman, 
and accomplished and eminent in his profession, and 
that the Institute under his charge merits, in an emi- 
nent degree, public c mfidence. 
THOS. A. HEN DRICKS, Indianapolis, Ind. 
From the Ex-Governor of Indiana. 
Dr. H. R. Allen, of this city, is about to visit Cali- 
fornia, and it affords me pleasure to bear testimor/to 
his superior skill as a surgeon, as well as to his high 
character. He is the founder of the Surgical Institute 
. located in this city, and the success of himself and his 
' associates in the treatment of deformities and diseases 
which come within their specialty has been wonderful 
Personally and professionally, Dr. Allen is worthy of 
the highest respect and confidence. I therefore cor- 
dially commend him to those with whom he may be as- 
sociated during his absence. 
CONRAD BAKER, Indianapolis, Ind. 
From the Governor of California. 
Dr. H. R. Allen, of the Surgical Institute at Indian- 
apolis, is accredited to me by men in whom I have entire 
confidence, as a man of extraordinary skill in the branch 
of his profession which he has for many years made a 
specialty. The testimonials of Governor Hendricks 
and Ex-Governor Baker, of Indiana, a-e worthy of the 
highest consideration, and from my personal acquaint- 
ance with the men, I am sure they would not have been 
given unless deserved. NEWTON BOOTH, 
Sacramento,Cal. 
A Card from Rev. R. D. Harper, D. D. 
From personal acquaintance with Drs. H. R. Allen 
and W. P. Johnson, during my pastorate at Indian- 
apolis, and subsequently, it affords me pleasure to ten- 
der this public testimonial to their personal worth as 
Christian gentlemen, and their professional ability as 
skilled surgeons. The Surgical Institute, over which 
they preside, is worthy the extensive patronage which 
it has received, and has proved itself a blessing to our 
suffering humanity. Yours truly, 
R. D. HARPER 
Pastor North Broad St. Presbyterian Church, Philad'a. 
From the New York Independent. 
SURGERY BY WHOLESALE. 
One of the most remarkable illustrations of 
the advancement in the art of surgery we had 
the pleasure to witness and investigate, a few 
days since, at the National Surgical Institute. 
This Institution is the most wonderful and 
the largest of the kind in America. There 
are collected there from all the States in the 
Union hundreds of deformities of every con- 
ceivable character, causing the stranger to feel 
almost that he is in a world of chance. No 
two cases look alike. There are club feet, 
club hands, web fingers, bow legs, knock 
knees, crooked backs, crooked necks, hare 
lips, cross eyes, &c., &c.; and to think that 
over four thousand of such cases annually 
visit this Institution for relief is marvelous. 
Some sixteen years ago the proprietors com- 
menced their work and their great success in 
curing these cases, making the lame to walk 
and the crooked straight. Their rapidly in- 
creasing business has from year to year de- 
manded increased facilities and accommoda- 
tions. A capital stock of five hundred thous- 
and dollars is required to conduct the business. 
Over ninety thousand dollars worth of me- 
chanical supports, machinery, bandages, and 
other surgical apparatus were used by them 
last year, all of which were manufactured in 
their large factory, and were invented by the 
proprietors. We found the surgeons not arro- 
gant or infatuated over their great success, 
but earnest men of genius, science, and busi- 
ness, laden with care, and striding to lift up 
the many thousands who seek the Institute 
as a Bethesda or Siloam. The secret of their 
almost unparalleled success seems to be that 
they rely upon no sectarian or pet remedies, 
but, instead, bring every known means of cure 
to their aid. * * ****** * 
Altogether they have treated over forty thous- 
and cases of deformity, paralysis, and other 
surgical affections, thus giving the proprietors 
the most extended experience. Their inven- 
tions are so varied as to remind one of the 
Patent-office model-rooms. They combine 
the invention of apparatus for each individual 
case, the manufacture of all kinds of surgical 
apparatus, and the treatment of patients in the 
same buildings. One case is there from New 
I York, who rejoices in a new nose, fit for the 
inspection of artists. * * * * * * 
From the Westchester Jeffersonian. 
NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE 
eastern division. 
* * * * There was a formal opening 
of this Institute to the public a short time 
since, and many of the most prominent citi- 
zens of Philadelphia were present on the occa- 
sion. 
The National Surgical Institute was oigan- 
ized nearly 20 years ago, and is said now to 
be the largest of the kind in the world, and is 
devoted entirely to the scientific treatment of 
deformities and surgical diseases. Thousands 
are annually treated and cured, whose cases 
seemed almost hopeless or beyond cure. 
There are connected with the four divisions 
twenty surgeons and assistants of the highest 
. standing in the country. It has a world-wide 
reputation, and thousands can testify to the 
relief received at the Institute. It is already 
nearly filled with patients from this section of 
the country, and many of them have already 
discarded their crutches and canes, and are 
fast, 'gaining their natural position and health. 
SPECIAL ATTENTION BAIL TO OHILDBEN WITH BABALYZEE LIMBS. 
When yon arrive, come directly to the Institute, it is always open and ready to receive you. Thieves infest the depots and may urge you into traps to get your money. Many have been robbed while listening to them. 
From the New York Graphic. 
NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE 
Never until to-day was I aware to what 
wonderful perfection the mechanical treat- 
ment of all kinds of deformities had arrived. 
| I think it has been left for the National Sur- 
j gieal Institute to demonstrate to the world 
i the utter absurdity of much of the present 
system of medicine as practised by the medi- 
cal profession, which, to its shame it must be 
said, does not countenance or tolerate the ad- 
vanced thinkers. * * "" * * * O * 
The system of cures consists of all kinds of 
baths, braces and surgical appliances to suit 
each special case, besides machinery of the 
most curious construction. 
About four hundred patients are under 
treatment in the Institute, and some six 
thousands in different parts of the United 
States. * * * * * * * * * * * 
I could fill a page of The Graphic with 
items of interest concerning this Institution, 
but forbear, at least, for the present. 
From the Hebrew Observer, San Francisco. 
NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE 
This Institution is one of the most won- 
derful in the United States, it being an un- 
dertaking requiring many years of toil and 
trouble, and the expenditure of much money. 
As a result, the Institute has treated over 
forty thousand cases of crippled and de- 
formed, and has succeeded to the largest and 
most reputable Institution of the kind in 
Am erica. 
Its surgeons are not itinerant quacks, but 
honorable gentlemen of responsibility, and of 
an Institution sustained by the best people 
and press of the land, backed by hundreds 
of thousands of dollars, and with a national 
reputation and practice. Hence none need 
fear to rely upon their promises and advice, 
and place any case in their hands which they 
are willing to undertake. They do not pre- 
tend to cure everything, and there are many 
cases which they will not receive under treat- j 
ment upon any consideration. * * * * 
From the Philadelphia Press. 
NATIONALSURGICALINSTITUTE. 
This Institution was organized in 1858, and 
is said to be the large=t of the kind in the 
world. It is devoted entirely to the scientific 
treatment of deformities and surgical diseases. 
They have treated upon an average 4,000 
cases annually, some of which seemed almost 
beyond cure. The Institution is conducted 
upon principles of strict morality, and is di- 
vided into four divisions. The Western di- 
vision is in San Francisco, California; Eastern 
division, Philadelphia; Southern division, At- 
lanta, Georgia; and Central division, Indian- 
apolis, Indiana. 
From the Philadelphia Het aid. 
SURGERY. 
Opening of a National Institution in this City. 
The National Surgical Institute, which has 
gained a world-wide reputation for its won- 
dtous cures and efficacious treatments, has 
established the Headquarters of its Eastern 
division in this city, at the North-east corner 
of Broad and Arch streets. The building has 
been remodeled and handsomely fitted up for 
the accommodation of its patients, and the 
spacious apartments are now in an admirable 
condition for the reception of the maimed and 
suffering. 
The objects of the establishment are to cure 
people afflicted with deformities, but disorders 
of the mucous air passages, such as catarrh 
and bronchitis, are also taken in hand. 
The building is equipped with various kinds 
of appliances for inducing active circulation of 
the blood, imparting a healthy tone to the defi- 
cient parts of the body, and all of them, while 
striking the observer with curiosity as objects 
of a sanitary nature, are withal obviously 
beneficent to the invalid. Indeed, everything 
in connection with the establishment, seems to 
be the quintessence of scientific appliances and 
of undoubted work. 
* * * * * The officiating surgeons 
make no secret of their method of treatment, 
and while they are anxious to give everybody 
relief who applies to them, they will never 
take patients who are beyond the power of 
medical and surgical aid. 
From the Christian Index, Atlanta, Ga. 
THE GREAT NATIONAL SURGI- 
CAL INSTITUTE. 
We have watched with care the establish- 
ing, rise and progress of this wonderful Insti- 
tution. Such institutions, when first inaugu- 
rated in our midst, often give rise to suspi- 
cion and severe criticism, therefore we had 
but little to say for or against it when it was 
first located in the city of Atlanta. It is now 
a fixed fact that great good to suffering human- 
ity has been accomplished through the instru- 
mentality of the National Surgical Institute. 
* * * * * * * * 
We have been visiting, from time to time, 
for the past two years, the attaches and pa- 
tients of this Institution, but have never be- 
fore (until a few days since) visited the estab- 
lishment for the purpose of noting critically 
every department connected avith it. 
The Home Institution is located at Indian- 
apolis, Indiana. The branches of the Insti- 
tute are at Atlanta, Georgia, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California; 
all now in a prosperous condition, diffusing 
their benefits to thousands of sufferers all over 
our common country, who bless the men and 
means by which they are restored to health 
and happiness. * * * * We know that 
some of our own friends and relatives have 
gone from the Institution entirely cured, after 
having suffered for years. 
These gentlemen do not propose to take 
acute cases, but to treat chronic diseases en- 
tirely. They will not flatter any one into the 
idea that a disease can be cured, when there ; 
is no possible chance to perfect a cure. _ ! 
Children can be more easily and success- 
fully treated than grown persons, in cases of 
club feet, and diseases of like character; 
therefore, it behooves every parent to begin in 
time with the deformed child. 
In conclusion, we would cordially recom- 
mend this most valuable Institution to the suf- 
ferers and diseased in the range of our circu- 
lation. - 
From the Dumfries Reformer. Galt, Onatrio. 
A NOBLE INSTITUTION. 
No little interest having been excited of 
late, in Galt and vicinity, concerning the 
" National Surgical Institute," we give a few 
particulars respecting that establishment. The 
" Institute" is the largest and most completely 
furnished and equipped of the kind on the 
continent of America. * * * Aided by 
the most costly and ingeniously contrived ap- 
paratus and appliances, their success has been 
wonderful, over forty thousand cases having 
been treated with the most flattering results. 
While hundreds are daily treated within the 
establishment, hundreds more are treated at 
their homes all over the United States, having : 
left the Institution in a fair way for recovery. 
Crippled and deformed men, women and chil- 
dren, paralytics and other unfortunates, have 
been restored, and are now living evidences 
of what surgical skill can accomplish, when 
assisted by the appliances which science and | 
invention have produced. As to the expense, i 
the following is the statement given to us :- ! 
" None need fear that the cost of treatment j 
will be larger than their means, for the cost is 
made to correspond with the ability to pay." 
We have derived these particulars from pa- 
tients who have attended. * * * * * 
From the Philadelphia Transcript. 
A NEW DEPARTURE IN SURGERY. 
The National Surgical Institute, incorporated in 
1858, and acknowledged to be the largest institute of its 
kind in the world, made formal opening of its spacious 
building at the corner of Broad and Arch Streets, last 
week. The surgico-mechanical appliances employed 
by the faculty of this institution are certainly rare. * * 
The building on Arch Street is in every way adapted 
to purposes of a health-giving character. * * * 
The spacious and beautifully-appointed hall in the 
second story, with the many simple yet health-giving 
apparatus, with uniquely contrived implements, de- 
signed with the view of developing the muscles, ena- 
blingfreedom of action to stiffened joints, straightening 
crooked limbs, and repairing, in short, every conceiv- 
able deformity, deserve more than passing notice. 
* * * * * * * 
The ideas embodied in the conduct of this institu- 
tion, are many of them original, and all are in keeping 
with the well-established laws of science, as applicable 
to the restoration, invigoration and healthful develop- 
ment of the mind and body of man. 
From the Philadelphia Commercial. 
PROGRESS IN SURGERY. 
The Opening of the National Surgical Institute. 
(Eastern Division.) 
Philadelphia has recently received an accession to 
its public institutions, the importance of which cannot 
be over-estimated. The National Surgical Institute, 
probably the largest Institution of its kind in the world, 
has located its eastern division at the corner of Broad 
and Arch Streets, this city. * * * * This is an 
incorporated institution of eighteen years existence, 
and is composed of four distinct divisions, with large 
buildings fully equipped and under one management. 
The institute has been peculiarly fortunate in select- 
ing its location iz this city, the surroundings of Broad 
and Arch Streets being of the most delightful charac- 
ter, as well as healthful in a high degree. * * The 
treatment hall is 100 feet long, and contains thirty dif- 
ferent machines for the treatment of paralytic cases. 
* * * To develop the muse'es, produce freedom of 
action in stiffened joints, straighten crooked limbs, 
and repairing, in short, every deformity to which hu- 
manity is subject. 
* * * All of which are run by a beautiful steam 
engine. 
Their electrical apparatus is probably the finest in 
this country, and their large steam and hot-air room is 
all that could be desired in that direction. Their bath- 
tubs are very fifie, imported from Scotland, are made 
of terra-cotta, with porcelain linings. 
All the mechanical appliances for deformities are 
manufactured by the institute. It is a matter of con- 
gratulation to our citizens that we have now a complete 
surgical institution in our midst, competent to under- 
take the cure of the most difficult cases, as in the past 
we have had no other resort than to send patients to 
Europe for treatment. 
From the completeness of their institute and the high 
character of its large corps of physicians, we have no 
doubt that they will have a large measure of success. 
We would recommend our readers-especially those 
interested-to call and inspect the National Surgical 
Institute. 
From the Indianapolis Sentinel, Oct. 7, 1870. 
When life is blighted by deformity, or made miser- 
able by disease, and when the sufferer has knowledge 
of the existence of this establishment-whether in lim- 
ited or affluent circumstances-he is deserving of the 
affliction imposed upon him if he does not take advan- 
tage of the relief which is offered, and which can be 
obtained at this noble Institution. None need fear to 
apply here for treatment, for ins benefits are made 
available to the poor as well as the rich. Its spacious 
halls and parlors are constantly thronged with invalids 
from all parts of the Union; and in nearly every city 
and hamlet all over our land are living, moving repre- 
sentations of the great success attendant upon such 
treatment as is here afforded. None are justified in 
procrastinating for want of means, a more convenient 
season, or any excuse which may offer itself, for, in 
such matters, no time or season is so good as the pre- 
sent, and with some cases a very little delay may ren- 
der the patient hopelessly incurable. No case is treated 
here that can not be benefited, and every case is dealt 
with upon the highest principles of right and justice. 
From the Indianapolis Journal, July 10, 1871. 
Dr. Allen has met with a success almost unparalleled 
in the annals of surgery, and he wisely concluded to 
make a specialty of this branch of his profession. His 
patients multiplied upon his hands so rapidly, that he 
found it absolutely necessary to establish an infirmary 
in which he could meet and treat his patients daily, 
and the purchase and fitting up of the Surgical Insti- 
tute in this city grew from this necessity. He has 
been absolutely overrun with business, and his great 
success has given his Institute a national reputation. 
Hundreds of crippled and deformed men, women and 
children, whom the verdict of ignorant physicians had 
condemned to years of hopeless suffering, have found 
speedy and permanent relief under the treatment of 
Dr. Allen. Not the least of Dr. Allen's merits is his ; 
gratuitous care of many who have been too poor to 
bear the expenses incident to their treatment. Some of 
the leading citizens of our State have formed an asso- 
ciation whose object it is to assist in this commendable 
work. 
From the Atlanta Herald. 
THE SURGICAL INSTITUTE. 
An Institution that Atlanta and the State of 
Georgia should be proud of. 
We endorse them heartily. 
The Herald feels that it has done Atlanta and the 
■ State of Georgia no more signal service, than it has 
! done by proclaiming the excellence of this Institution. 
It has brought hundreds upon hundreds of patients to 
the city, and has sent them away cured, to bless At- 
lanta as long as they live. 
The several editors of this paper frequently receive 
private letters, asking if we personally endorse this In- 
stitution, and if we know whereof we write. We an- 
swer all such inquiries, here publicly-we do, heartily, 
as journalists and as men, collectively and separately, 
endorse the Atlanta Surgical Institute as an Institution 
of thorough probity; of wealth and character; of ab- 
solute integrity and truth; and of uncqualed facilities 
for the treatment of paralytics, rheumatics, cripples, 
etc. We have been through its several departments 
numbers of times; have conversed with scores of its 
patients in all stages of treatment; have read scores of 
certificates, returned voluntarily to the Institute from 
grateful people it had cured. 
We hence do know whereof we speak, and we feel 
sure that we can carry no better Christmas present into 
any household where there is a person afflicted as is 
above mentioned, than to carry the information which 
we have given in these columns. 
The Georgia State Agricultural Society, 
Atlanta, Ga-, Dec. i, 1874. 
The following is a cipy of the report of the commit- 
tee on the display of the surgical apparatus exhibited 
by the National Surgical Institute, at the Georgia State 
Fair, held in Atlanta, Ga., October 10-24, 1874. 
M. Johnson, Secy. 
" Your committee recommend fifty dollars cash pre- 
mium and such other tokens of appreciation as the 
State Agricultural Society may see fit to make. 
" This surgical display is of great merit, and should 
receive marked attention from the public. 
" F. P. Rice, 
"J. W. Murphy, 
" H. T. McDaniel, 
Committee. ' ' 
From the Alta, San Francisco, Cal. 
Uninterrupted Surgical Success-Remarkable 
I Cures of the Deformed and Diseased.-The Na- 
1 tional Surgical Institute of this city, has been attended 
I with unparalleled success. Scores of sufferers, who long 
had supposed themselves incurable, have been restored 
to lives of usefulness and happiness; others, whose 
cases were more difficult, continue under treatment, 
and are last being benefited and cured. The patients 
all seem satisfied, contented and happy. * * * * 
The Home Institute has succeeded to a world-wide, 
honorable reputation. Almost every county in the 
United States has been represented there by the afflict- 
ed, who have returned to their homes living monu- 
ments to the reputation of the Institute, and the re- 
markable skill and ability of the Professors. A visit 
to their rooms and seeing the great good they are doing 
and prepared to do, will convince the most skeptical 
and incredulous. 
REFERENCES. 
We have more than forty thousand persons who will 
gladly testify to the benefits received by themselves or 
friends at this Institution, and we are ever willing to 
give the names of any number desired to those seeking 
relief. It is impossible to publish the thousands of 
grateful letters and voluntary certificates from those 
who have been cured, yet we refer to a few below, 
hoping, however, that you will rely upon a personal 
examination of the Institute, its wonderful appliances 
and means of cure, as the best possible way to get at 
the facts. 
J. B.Martindale, 203 Broadway, N. Y.; E. F. Holden, 
172 W. 23d street, N. Y.; Alexander Whilden, Broad 
street, Philada.; Mrs. Sarah Gregory, Hudson, N. Y.; 
Mrs. Annie F. Compston, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Robert 
Foster, New Alexander, Pa.; Miss Lizzie Ritter, Litz, 
Pn.; Aaron Baughman. Litz, Pa.; G. C. Harvey, I . ck 
Haven, Pa.; W. W. Thomason, Toledo, O.'; Walter 
Mattis, Chester, Pa.; Miss Sallie Schirtle, Pottsville, 
Pa.; W. H. Sweet, Cheshire, Mass.; John McNeish, 
Dalhousie, New Brunswick; Chas. B. Winchell, Scran- 
ton, Pa.; D. W. Garner, Huntsville, Weber Co., 
Utah; Gen. John C. I.ee. Lieutenant-Governor, Tole- 
do, O.; Dr. James Williams, Auditor of State. Colum- 
bus, O.; Hon. R. B. Davis, Cleveland, O.; Wm. H. 
West, Judge Supreme Court, Bellefontaine, O.; F. B. 
Pond, Attorney General, Columbus, O.; O. T. Ham- 
mond, President Bank, Greencastle, Ind.; Harvey 
Thomas, Newport, Ky.; Hon. H. P. A. Bromwell, 
Denver City, Colorado; H. A. Kelso, M. D., Paxton, 
III.; Richard Mason, Bridgeport, Conn.; George E. 
Mitchell, Lowell, Mass; Eli Jones, Mandana, N. Y.; 
R. S. Cole, Artesia, Miss.; Hon. N. H. Van Vorhes, 
M. C., Athens, O.; Rev. I. B. Bradrick, Columbus, 
O.; Rev. R. D. Harper, D.D., Pastor Broad Street 
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. W. A. 
Thrall, U. S."Marshal, Southern District of Ohio; Hon. 
T. E. Garvin, Evansville, Ind.; R. D. Spalding, M.D., 
Atlanta, Ga.; Major J. M. Bellups, Columbus, Miss.; 
Nicholas Martin, Lutherville, Ga.; Col. H. C. Fletcher, 
Little Rock, Ark.; H. A. Friar, St. Elmo. Ala.; John 
Niece, Hot Springs, Ark.; John G. Houston, Esq., 
Nashville, Tenn.; Gottlieb Baumgartner, Wasahachie, 
Tex.; Bryan Bateman, Byron, Ga.; John Stevens, San 
Antonio, Tex.; Isaac H. Stanley, Centre, Guilford Co. . 
N. C.; D. W. Long, Waterloo, Ala.; Jesse Rogers, 
Speedwell, Tenn.; C. C. Jones, Cadiz, Trigg Co., Ky.; 
1 B. Farmer, Farmerdale, Ky.; Miss Clara Parker, 
Marysville, Tenn.; John S. Franks, Sardis, Miss.; 
John Lazenby, Farmersburg, N. C.; T. C. Frost, San 
Antonio, Tex.; Mrs. Sue D. Morton, Marion, Ala.; 
Professor N. P. Gates, Supt. Public Instruction, Fay- 
etteville, Ark.; M. R. Hughes, Independence, Mo ; 
Mrs. A. S. Dennison, Litchfield, O.; Hon. A. Dag- 
gy, Greencastle, Ind.; Mrs. M. Caruthers, Shelby- 
ville, Ky.; Judge Henry Craven, Pendleton, Ind.; I. 
F. Burdick, Perryville, Kansas; Thos. H. Allen, Mem- 
phis, Tenn.; Mrs. M. Bowman,Georgetown, Ky.; J. K. 
Wilson, Denver, Col.; J. V. Shepard, Pueblo, Col.; B. 
B. Howard, Amboy, 111.; George G. Parker, M. D., 
Cairo, Ill.; William Say, Columbus, O.; J. A. Bullen, 
Leavenworth, Kansas; A. G. Beasley, M. D., Craw- 
fordsville, Ga.; F. J. Parker, Brownsville, Tex.; Na- 
thaniel Wright, Cincinnati, O.; E. B. Johnson, Cov- 
ington, Ky.; W. B. Cross, Sacramento, Cal.; Israel 
Metz, ■San Juan, Cal.; W. F. Ingalls, Alvarado, Cal.; 
David Osborn, Mt. Pelier, Idaho; Chas. H. Hemp- 
stead, Salt Lake City, Utah; Gen. Nathan Kimball, 
Salt Lake City, Utah; Col. Wm. Markham, Atlanta, 
Ga.; J. T. Shoemaker, Midway, S. C.; Francis Qui- 
rollo, Charleston, S. C.; Hon. Wm. D. Grace, Howard, 
Ga.; Gen l Joshua Barnes, Wilson, Wilson Co., N. C.; 
Benj. F. Neal, Greenbush, Ga.; E. R. McCall, Lown- 
desboro, Ala.; Ex-Governor Joseph G. Brown, Atlanta, 
Ga.; G. W. White, Griffin, Ga.; Col. D. N. Porter, 
Oxford, Miss.; J. G. Sims, Summerville,.Ga.; Z. De-. 
. Cair, New Iberia, La.; Mrs. E. A. Askins, Collodin, 
Monroe Co., Ga.; Capt. Ed. B. Purcell, Augusta, Ga.; 
J. F. Farmer, Senatobia, Miss.; Major Wm. G. Rut- 
lege, Blountville, Tenn ; Col. J. I. Scales, Greensboro, 
N. C.; Capt. C. A. King, Knoxville, Tenn.; G. W. 
Parish, Montgomery, Ala.; Major Wm. T. Winn, 
Marietta,Ga.; A. Merritt, Marianna, Fla.; W. A. Hack- 
ney, Augusta, Ga.; John M. Jones, Sale Creek, Tenn.; 
Wm. J. Clark, Paoha, Miami Co., Kas.; A. J. Shelon, 
Roaring Spring, Ky.; John Snyder, Bloody Run Pa.; 
Geo. Sanford, Trenton, Ark.; M. L. Lantz, Westmin- 
ster, Md.; T. S. Haley, Kansas City, Mo.; A. Hillman, 
Astoria, Oregon; GenT J. C. Smith, Galena, Ill.; John 
Bever, Pawnee City, Neb.; F. G. Cuque, Mt. Carmel, 
Ill.; John Millikin, Hamilton, O.; John Dunn, St. 
Louis, Mo.; Rev. John McEldowney, Flint, Michigan; 
Rev. J. J. Flaharty, Neponset, Ill.; A. J. Griffin, Sher- 
man, N. Y.; Rev. A. H- Zimmermann, Snydersburgh, 
Md.; Mrs. Dr. O. Carey, NewOrleans, La.; Col. H. C. 
Fletcher, Little Rock, Ark.; Miss H. E. Baker, Niles, 
; O.; Henry Newham, Manitowoc, Wis.; Judge S. U. 
. Pinney, Madison, Wis.; A. C. Lehmann, Green Bay, 
, Wis.; Samuel Carter, Attica, Ind.; J. S. Edwards, 
■ Newark, N. J.; J. L. Vance, Paris, III.; J. G. Tim- 
■ mens, Galveston, Tex.; Douglas Caldwell, Memphis, 
; Tenn.; A. P. Connelly, St. Paul, Minn. 
- GrOOJD BOOMS TOTTID BOAEOD OJLTT EE OBTAINED ITT THE ' INSTITUTE. The great principle underlying the treatment by this Institute is, physical development, and by every possible means to Msist nature, by imitating and stimulating in every conceivable method, her actions ; by kneading. Tripsis, artificial motion, relaxing and contracting muscle 
artificially, extension and fiexion, elastic pressure, expansion of the chest and lungs by atmospheric pressure, heat, and forcible dilation of the blood vessels in enteeblea and paralyzed muscles, by static and dynamic electricity, by suitable apparatus and appliances to give support and 
strength to the limbs and correct deficiencies and deformities, etc., etc. 
The above cuts convey but a limited idea of all the mechanical appliances used by the Nation il Surgical Institute in treatment of tho multiform cases which come to it for relief. Hundreds of other apparatus and appliances arc brought into requisition, innumerable kinds of 
braces, stays, etc , nremde to m^et the requirement of each individual case, besides magnificent bath rooms in which all kinds of vapor, hot air, and medicated vapor baths arc administered. No other Institution of the kind in the world manufacture and use such a variety of appli- 
ances. and those suffering from the diseases we treat, may rest assured. that if they can be relieved anywhere, they can be at tho National Surgical Institute. Come and investigate for yourselves.