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w Bookstore, fine assortment of VIM
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HUTCHINS N,h'
MEDICINES,
THE CELEBRATED
ro1den Tincture
OR BLOOD PURIFYER, z

OR BLOOD PURIFYER, &
The Great Medical Discovery Of the 1911 Century,
YN1IS INVALUABLE COMPOUND, which
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OF that class OF invalids whose cases the medi-
cal faculty have long sought to reach, but in
vain. In proof of its extraordinary curative
properties, We may be permitted to adduce the
following
Washington, d. c., Feb a, 1862
DR.. Hutchins-Dear Sir: have been request
ed to give my opinion upon the merits of your
Golden Iinctufe. have used it for indges-
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l think it good medicine for purifying the
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we'll as cure Of disease. Hoping you may be-
prospered in the sale of it, 'iT
lam, sir, your obedient servant,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Rev. I. F. Norris, late editor of the Boston
Olive Branch, wrote under date of
Boston, May Is, 1858.
DIR. Hutchins: have used your Golden
Iincture and have received more benefit from it
than any medicine have tried 4
Truly yours, Z. +. NORRIS.
Certificate from Prot. c. Newton, A. NJ MD,
President Of the Worcester Medical College:
~ Worcester, June, 1885,
Dr. Hutchins, Sir: As you wished my opn-
ion respecting your Golden Tncture, freely
give it-not that would be willing to lend my
name or in any way give countenance to any
patent or secret nostrum, but having been made
acquainted with the formula from which your,
medicine is composed, may say that consid-
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the class of diseases for which it is recommend
ed. Yours truly, CALVIN NEWTON.
The Golden Incture is put up in large pint
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Godfrey's DROPS
A C,,ro H,.o To-. ia TLcJ,.la


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Mr.. Godfrey, now deceased, was resident of
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OMEGA PILLS,

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Awful and Fatal consequences

NENsUE from treating Bowel comp this OF
H the year with Brandy, Opium Astriogents When
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TO INYALIDS


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brief examination of the Pathology Uterine Diseases
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TH0S. A ALEXANDER, secretary.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, HARTFORD County, IS.
HARTFORD, July 9th, 1856
Personally apes red before Justice OF the Peace
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