Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-08-11
Our Reporter in Buffalo.

From the New York Evening Express.
1t has been my privilege while
soiourning in this place, and during
short respite from my labors, to
pay Il visit to the ''medicine man"
Of the "Queen City of the Lakes"
While the medical world teens with
commoners in skill and common
place remedies, the most Of which
rise into notice, live Il brief period,
become obsolete, and are lost in oh
security or pale beneath greater bril-
lance, the truly worthy, those who
by dint OF severe application and
close investigation are able to rise
above mediocrity, impart to the
world useful information, utilize the
Developments made, and place be-
fore the afflicted specific remedial
agencies for the ills suffered, are
blessings to be appreciated, objects
worthy of honor. They are the
beacon lights to guide the mariner
over the tempestuous sea of life, the
star of hope towards which the un-
fortunate turn their eyes for safety
and dcliverance. | would not cx-
aggerate the merits Of this medical
gentleman, or the agents of his
hands. From small beginning, and
of recent date, yet after long and
patient toll a ID a conviction that
the Eureka had been found, DR.. Il.
Y. Pierce, the subject of this article,
announced to the world his discover
les in medicine, and the positive
influences they manifest in disease.
Upon their specific properties rest
their merits. Their virtues are
worthily cxtollcd, and the tidings Of
their efficacy have gone from mouth
to mouth, until his name is heard
in every habitation and echoed from
every hill, valley and plain, while
his medicines are sought for and
scattered over the whole continent.
1t is by directing intuitive faculties
and the whole mental and physical
energies in certain direction, that
excellence is reached and a pro-
ticiency worthy ofpublic confidence
attained. In this science, as in 9TH
ers, we find the few who lead the
van Of followers, make all the invcs-
LEGATIONS and discoveries for the
rest. found DR.. Pierce in his con
sultation parlors, surrounded with
patients and amid piles of books,
papers, manuscripts, and letters, a
large library, a cabinet Of curious
looking instruments, another of
anatomical, pathological and other
specimens, maps, pictures and di-
plomas, which he has received from
different colleges and hospitals, up
on the walls, with assistants pass
ing here and there, that at once con
veyed the idea of an immense busi
ness of which he was the central
figure, and it diverging in all direc
tions. Although in rooms thus fur
nis!ed and decorated with surround
ings characteristic Of talent and
learning, also indicative of a life
crowded with cares and duties, with
an appreciation of valuable services
by an afflicted public, | was most
agreeably entertained, both by his
conversational and business apti-
tudcS and the exhibition that his es-
tablishment affords, which he very
kindly placed at my disp, sal. As 4
Il further evidence of scholastic at
tainmcnts, and an indomitablc zeal
in the investigation of the nature of
chronic diseases and their success
full treatment, his many monographs
contributed to medical journals, and
several late exhaustive treatiscs on
special chronic diseases, which
were written in the intervals be-
tween business cares, fully attest.
We see patients ut his rooms from
all parts Of the continent, afflicted
with all kinds of chronic disease,
who have come to avail themselves
Of his superior skill, and those asso-
ciatcd with him, making Council
Of Doctors, who have devoted lives
to this speciality. Besides this, an
endless number make known their
maladics by letter, all of which are
very carefully considered by Dir.
Pierce and his medical counsclors,
the necessary prescriptions, advice
or medicines being promptly for
warded by mail or express, none be-
ing neglected, but every inquiry an
swered, every want supplied, and
every attention 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 won
derful cures made, attest his great
skill in treating chronic diseases.
A beautiful illustration Of the IN
stincts and finer feelings Of true
manhood is here cxemplilied. While
his specific medicines, with Il
knowledge Of their application, are
being scattered broadcast over the