Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-08


Upon their specific properties rest their
merits. Their virtues are worthily extolled, |
and the tidings of their efficacy have gone |
from mouth 10 mouth, until his name is /
heard in every habitation and echoed from |
every hill, valley and plain, while his medi- |
cines are sought for and scattered over the |
whole continent. 1t is by directing intuitive |
faculties and the whole mental and physical |
energies in a certain direction, that excel |
lence is reached and proficiency worthy of
public confidence attained. In this science,
as in others, We iud the few who lead the van
Of followers make all the investigations and
discoveries for the rest. ! found DR.. Pierce
in his consultation parlors, surrounded with
patients, and amid piles of books, papers,
manuscripts and letters, a large library,
cabinet of curious looking instruments,
another OF anatomical, pathological and
other specimens, maps, pictures and diplomas,
which he has received from different colleges
and hospitals, upon the walls with assistants
passing here and there, that at once conveyed
the idea of an immense business of which he
was the central figure, and it diverging in all
directions. Although in rooms thus furnished
and decorated with surroundings Characters
tic of talent and learning, also Indicative of
life crowded with cares and duties with an
appreciation of valuable services by an atfiict-
ed public was most agreeably entertained,
both BY his conversational and business apti-
tudes and the exhibition that his establish
ment affords, which he very kindly placed at
my disposal. As further evidence OF scho-
| lastic attainments, and an indomitable zeal in
| the investigation of the nature of chronic
| diseases and their successful treatment, his
many monographs contributed to medical
journals and several late exhaustive treatise
on special chronic diseases, which were writ
ten in the intervals between business cares,
| fully attest. We see patients at his rooms,
! from all parts of the continent, afflicted with
| all kinds ofchronic diseases, who have come to
avail themselves of his superior skill, and
those associated with him, making Council
| of Doctors who have devoted lives TO this
! speciality Besides this, an endless number
| make know their malades by letter, all OF
which are very carefully considered by DR.,
| Pierce and his medical counselors, the neces-
sary prescriptions, advice or medicines being
promptly forwarded by mail or express, none
being neglected but every inquiry an
swered every want Supplied, and every at
| tention paid necessary to establish health
again. Aside from all this, there are
many from his own immediate community
| who seek his services, and, by the wonderful
cures made, attest his great skill in treating
chronic diseases. beautiful illustration OF
the instincts and finer feelings of true man
hood is here exemplided. While his specific
medicines, with knowledge Of their appl-
| t.;, brpadpast Tho
land, and placed at prices within the reach of
all a life devotee 70 the interests Of Others,
and sehooled amid suffering, cannot remain
idle to enjoy the fruits of such labor, but in
stead he still lends an car TO the appeals OF
the sick tender sympathy TO the distressed,
and cheerful heart and hand to all their ne
cessities. No poverty, however abiect, or ad.
verse circumstances however diacouraging,
need debar the afflicted from approaching
him for his services. They are cheertully
rendered alike TO all. 1t proves also that the
mere manufacture and vending of medi-
cine does not satLate the aspirations and i'm
pulses of charitable and manly heart. In
carving out this enterprise the best medical
talent is invoked. Every act comedies with
system and discipline, and the most harmo
NOUS activity prevails ia every department
Passing into the laboratory, we are most IA
yorably impressed with its extreme neatness
and order. Every mechanism necessary to
facilitate the manufacture Of his medicines is
used, and the e are arranged in perfect order
The crude roots and bark5 are ground, pull
verized and mixed by steam power, and, most
! important of all, the process oil extracting
their virtues is not by the stereotyped and i'm
perfect methods Of the past, but by an entire
w new discovery Of his own, whereby perfect
and beautiful medicines ar" produced, con
tanning all the medicinal qualities of the in
gradients composing them, and which are pal
atable and without equal. So perfect are their
compositions, the ingredients so nicely pro
portioned and adjus ed, so superior the mode
of manufacture, that they are perfectly trans
parent and not subject to change In any eli
mate or temperature. 1t Is with such means,
perfect in themselves. and their correct adap-
taton that his skill in diseases is partly atrib-
utable, and the public are not slow to under
stand and appreciate the fact, as evinced by
the enormous demand for his medicines from
all parts of the continent. We next pass into
the bottling room, where an endless quantity
Of bottles are washed and filed by machine.
ry, and with exact nicely. Then into
the labelling and wrapping room, where the
work is done by girls also folding printed
matter, trimming labels, tying packages, and
such other works as the business requires
Thence into the packing room, where the
goods are securely put up for shipment to all
parts of the land was informed that many
times, with these superior facilities for pre-
pairing medicines, the demand for DR.. sage's
Catarrh Remedy, of which DIR. Pierce is the
! sele Proprietor and manufacturer, AID also
for the Doctors Golden Medical Discovery,
has been greatly in excess Of the supply, and
that orders TO the amount Of several thou
sand dollars would remain in waiting TO be
filed. This proves ready and growing sale,
based upon the merits of the medicine The
above details have gathered from my own
careful personal observations, conversation
with patients under the Doctors treatment,
employees Of the establishment, and citizens oil
the community in which he resides.
! bid the Doctor alden, after having spent