Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-17
pURDICK'S HAY AND STRAW
ID CUTTERS, for sale by
LANDON & HUNTOON.
DIR. L. DIX'S

DIR. l.. DlX'S
PRIVATE MEDICAL OFFICE,
q EEDIoorT STREET, Bosros, MASS
o ar nged that patients never hear OF Sc
each other. Recollect, the only entrance TO hlr
office is No. 81, having no connection with hi
residence, consequently no family interruption,
applying at his office.
DIR. DIX
boldly asserts, land it cannot be contradieted, ex
cept by quacks, who viii say or do anything, even
Rerjure themselves, to impose upon patients
that he
Is TIE ONLY REGULAR GRADUATE PHYSICIAN
ADVERTISING IN BOSTON.
TWENTY YEARS
engaged IN treatment Of Special Diseases, a faer
so well known to many citizens, publishers, mer
chants, hotel proprietOrs, &c, that he - navel
recommended, and pa rticularly to
STRANGERsAND TRAVELLERS.
To avoid and escape imposition of foreign ana
native quaeks. more numerous in Boston than
other large cities,
proudly refers to professors and respectable phys-
icians-many Of whom who consult him in crit
cal cases, because of his acknowledged skill and
reputation, attained through SO long experience
practice and observation.
AFFLICTED AND UNFORTUNATE,
De not robbed and add TO your sufierings in being
deceived by the lying boasts, MISREPRESENTATION
false promises snd pretensions of
FOREIGN AND NATIVE QUACKS,
who know little OF the nature and character u
Special Diseases, and less TO their cure. Some
exhibit forged diplomas Of institutions or college
which never existed in any part of the wsrld
others exhibit diplomas Of the dead, how obtained
unknown; not only assn ming and advertising
in names of those inserted in the diplomas but IL
further their imposition assume names Of other
celebrated physicians long since dead. Neither De-
deceived by
oUACK NosTRUM-MAKERs.
through false certitea'es and references, and rs
Communications of their medicines bv the deaa
VINO cannot TSls'se or contradict them; or who
besides, {" further their impositiors copy from
medical books much that IL written of the quals-
Ties and effects OF different herbs and plants and
serioe a.! the same 70 their pills, extracts sgecif
ics, &C., most Of which if not all contain mercury
because Of the ancient belief of It's seurng every
thing, but noH known TO 'slaIl more than
cured and those not killed, constitutionally IL
iured for life.
IGNORANCE OF QUACK DOCTORS AM
NOSTRUM-MAKERs
Through the ignorance of the Quank Doctor.
and gives it TO all his patients in pulls drops &C.
80 the nostrum-maker, equally ignorant, adds 70
Ills so-called extracts specific, antidete &c, both
relying upon its effects in curing few in a hund,
red, II rs trumpeted in various WAYS Throughout
the land; but, alas nothing is said of the bal
ance, some of whom die, others grow worse and
are lett 10 inger or suffer for months or years
tl renewed or cured, II possible, by competent
BUT ALL QUACKs ARE NOT IGNORANT.
Notwithstanding the foregoing facts are
known 70 some Quack doctors and nos
trum makers, yet, regardless of the life
and health of others, there are those among them
who win even periure themselves, contradicting
giving mercury to their patients, that it is con-
tanned In their nostrums 30 that the ''usual fee"
may be obtained for professedly curing, or ssthe
dollar or fraction Of it," may be obtained for
the nostrum. It is thus that many are deceived
Also. and useessly spend large amounts for expers
iments with Quaekery.
DIR. L. DIX'S
charges are very moderate Communication
sacredly confidential, and all may rely on him
with the strictest secresy and confidence, what
ever may be the disease condition or situation Of
any one, married or single.
. Medicines sentby mail or express to all parts Of
An letters requiring advice must contain one
dollar to insure an answer
Address DR.. L. Dix, No. q Endicott street,
Boston, Mass.
Boston, 1870. feb9deod&wlyT.