The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-01
Murray Hill Publi shina Company.

Speaking of thai remarkably successful
| Physician, DIR. L. b. FooTE and the MUR
RAY HILL PUBLISHING CoNPANY, 9TH
New York Independent says
Among the many successful enterprises
in our metropolis may be mentioned that o.
the MURRAY HILL PrBLIsHING COMPANY
whose office and publishing rooms are a
| 129 East 28th Street. This company wa:
organized mainly for the purpose of pub
fishing the medical and reformatory works
written by that eminently successful ply
sician, L. b. Foote, NJ. D., author Of
"Medioal Common Sense" work widely
known in this and foreign countries, il
having reached sale of 250,000 copies
This work was re vised and enlarged few
years ago, and reissued under the title ot
"Plain Home Talk and Medical Common
Sense" valuable work of over 900 pages
and 200 illustrations The work, so re-
vised and enlarged, has also sold to the ex-
tent of nearly one hundred thousand copies
and has been most favorably noticed by the
leading papers of the country
DR.. Foote possesses the happy faculty of
conveying information relating TO the
physical well-beng of people in such a
plain way that he has succeeded in inter-
esting thousands of those who have hardly
heretofore given a serious thought to such
matters. His "Plain Home Talk is filled
with int resting facts and suggestions to
the sick, which have been derived from
over twenty years of experience in the
treatment of all forms of chronic disease
His elegantly fitted Offices, at his residence,
12G Lexington Avenue are daily thronged
with patients from all parts of the country,
who bear witness to his uniformly success
ful treatment of their various ailments.
The MURRAY HILL PUBLISHING COMPANY
have also issued recently beautiful series
of books in four volumes, entitled "Science
in Story, or Sammy Tubbs, the Boy Doc.
tor" and "Sponsie the Troublesome
Monkey" The purpose of this series is to
interest the young with an amusing story,
while at the same time it teaches therein
the science of physiology, 1t is written in
the Doctors inimitably pleasing and simple
style, and certainly seems to succeed in
perfectly illustrating and simplifying the
knotty, abstruce science OF physiology,
making it interesting and instructive to the
young, and we suspect that many of the
older ones might read this interesting SER
les with profit. The older ones indeed are
reading it, and are expressing their great
satisfaction with the work. Those who
are intelligent upon nearly every other
subject are often found to be lanentably
ignorant of their own organizations.
Among such as these this popular series
cannot fail to do a world of good
We are disinclined to opit in this con.
nection brief description Of DR.. Foote'S
establishment. The laboratory in which
the medicines are prepared occup les the
upper floor, consisting of three rooms; fit
ted up with all the oonveniences md ap-
pliauees of frst.class laboratory. One of
these rooms, where considerable heat is en-
ployed, is made thoroughly fire proof by
about SIX inches of Portland Cement upon
its floor and walls. Here are many thous.
and dollars worth of various kinds of
medicinal roots and, plants, from which,
under the personal supervision OF the
Doctor, competent assistants prepare the
medicines for use. No mercular or iniuri-
Gus drugs are allowed to enter this labora-
tory and the greatest pains is taken TO ex-
clude everything excepting the purest d
best products of the botanical kingdom
The laboratory is connected with the sub
basement of the building by large hydrau-
lie elevator
The fioor below the laboratory is occu-
pied by the stenographers, or short hand
writers, who are employed in attending,
under the direct dictation of the Doctor, TO
he immense correspondence, which often
exceeds one hundred letters per day. In
no other way could one brain and one pair
of hands attend to 30 many professional
letters. The Doctor has originated AMI
perfected a series Of questions relating to
the physical conditions Of invalids. These
questions are so thorough and complete
that when they are answered by patients
at distance; the Doctor is able to make
complete diagnosis and prescribe for his
patients with about the same facility that
he could do were they present. The ques-
tions are furnished to all applicants by
mail or otherwise. By the aia OF such per-
:ected answers andingenious registers for
booking all cases, he is now successfully
treating patients in all parts ofthis country
and many in Earope, Asia and the West
lndie5. The immense sale of his works.
treating directly Of disease and how TO
avoid it, have made his name almost
household word. On the first floor are the
spacious and elegantly furnished offices,
occupying four rooms, where Doctor Foote
pers onally superintends the reception and
consultation Of his patients assisted by two
physicians. Here may be seen patients
who have travelled long distances to avail
themselves of the Doctors well known
skill and experience. The fact that no
charge is made for consultations in person
or by letter greatly increased the labor of
conducting such an establishment. But
this rule was adopted by the Doctor at the
outset Of his practice, and lie proposes to
adhere to it in spite of the extra work it
entails. Two large rooms in the basement
are occupied for smaller publications,
packing rooms, etc, while in the subbase-
ment ,ie!a carpenters shop, wherein are
manufactured the wooden boxes used i'll
sending away medicines.
1t seems almost incredible that any one
having such large professional business
to attend to can find the time to produce
the works which emanate from Dr.. Foote' s
pen. 1t 10 seldom that the Doctor absents
himself from his Office during Office hours.
A part of last summer, however, was de-
voted to the production of the new series,
during which time the details of the bust.
ness were entrusted to competent associ'
ates.
The MURRAY HILL PUBLISHING COMPANY
conducts its business on the subscri ption
plan mainly, and its agents may be found
in almost every neighbour Ood, while other
publishers in London and Berlin pursue a
similar plan in the sale of the Doctors pub
locations abroad. Negotiations are now
pedding for the publication of the new
series in London, and it will not be long
before Sammy Tubbs' will make his bow