Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-10-10
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1889.
AFAMnnS TNSTITUTION.


@Editor of Journal Thinking that
it might interest some of your readers
and make good my promise to you at the
same time. will write few lines con-
cerning the famous Worlds Dispensary
and Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-
tute. Let me at first declaim any selfish
motive. OF desire to advertise puff this
or any industry. Thousands of dollars
are expended every month to keep the
merits of this Institution before the
world and its managers ask for
NO FREE ADVERTISEMENTS.
A healthier or more convenient city for
those afflicted could not have been Sc
lected in which to place such an institu-
ton than Buffalo, n. Y. But concern
ing the city and its attractions viii
write in some future letter. The Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association oeeu-
pies two large and magnificent buildings
upon Main and Washington Streets, and
a branch Dispensary at No. New Ok
ford Street, London, England: The In
yaldids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
fronts Main Street and is attractive and
elegant both inside and outside. Al
though it is
FILLED WITH PATIENTS
from all over the country, it is as clean
and neat as any parlor and is is appro-
priately termed the InYalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute. Large and well
lighted rooms, with elegant appoint
ments make the sick feel at home rather
than in a hospital. Parlors with fine
libraries and musical instruments are
accessible to those whose are GONZALES
cent. A staff of eighteen
sKILLFUL PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
administer to the sick. A spendid med
ical library comprising all of the stand
ard works of reference, is in conven-
lent room for consultation by any of the
physicians. Any medical book of note
or value is added to this magnificent
collection of books as soon as published.
The collection of surgical instruments is
large and comprises every instrument of
real utility and value known to the pro-
fession. A system of mechanical move
ments, passive exercises, manipulations,
kneadings and rubbings, administered
by large variety of ingeniously con-
trived machinery, driven by steam is used
as aiding other medical and surgical
treatment in palsy, stiffened joints,
crooked and withered limbs and in those
chronic cases so often given up by the
common busy practitioner of medicine
as incurable. Baths of all kinds are
made use of in those cases where they
are indicated. There is nothing quack-
ish about the institution. 1t is run
FREE FROM ALL HUMBUG
Or deceit. A large and well appointed
drug room in the basement of the Hotel
contains all of the medicines and chem
icals used by physicians and is in charge
of authorized and skillful pharmacists
and apothecaries. Each case is pre-
scribed for according to the same rules
and laws which govern any intelligent
doctor when writing prescription for
his patient. There is no restriction used
with the physicians in the Institution
and they have the whole domain of
MGteriG MedicG to choose from. The
proprietary medicines are only used or
advised when in the judument of the
physician Ito whom the formulas are
known they are indicated. Many and
in fact every physician of any experience
has found some remedies or combina-
tion of drugs, to do good work iu GER
tain class of cases. Hence he writes the
same prescription over and over again
till the druggists know it by heart and
smiles when he looks at it. But it is
none the less valuable for all that and
the physician who knows its value does
not feel condemned for writing it, and
would feel hurt and stoutly defend it if
he should be criticised for its frequent
repetition. The doctor writing said pre-
scription does not pretend that it will
cure everything or that it applies to every
case. Upon this principal DR.. Pierce
has with much greater experience than
ordinary physicians) devised, compound
ed and thoroughly tested
A FEW PRESCRIPTIONS
of remedies which in certain cases are
curative and stand the test Of time. They
are not patent medicines nor are they
recommended to cure every disease that
flesh is heir to. They are favorite pre-
scriptions advised in those cases where
they are applicable. Those medical men
who cry fraud and 'quack' should re-
member that one man has as much right
to his fayorite remedies as another.
Neither is it any more disgrace for man
to advertise and
PAY FOR IT LIKE A MAN
than it is for physician to get some one
to write an item for the paper telling
about his skill in performing surgical
operation. l have seen an old physician
who was stickler as regards medical
codes and professional etiquette, stop
the editor of local paper on the street
and tell him how i'll ex-Gov. X. was and
he had just given him pill or put a
plaster on his back. The doctor knew
the newspaper would contain the news
of his being called to see the ex-Gov-
ernor in its next issue. But nevertheless
he shudders when he sees a legitimate
advertisement which has been paid for
The people of this country are familiar
with the portrait of r. V. Pierce, NJ. d.
The Doctor would be readily recognized
by any one who has seen his portrait
His head is large and well orbed, and
ability and enterprise are stamped upon
his features and movements. Starting
without fame or fortune he is to-day the
widest known medical man of the age.
The fact that he resigned his seat in Con-
gress to attend to his vast business speaks
louder than words of his interest and
devotion to his profession. Patients
from the most distant States arrive daily
for treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute. The Worlds Dis
pensary, which fronts Washington St. is
A GREAT HIVE OF INDUSTRY.
Here the proprietary medicines are put
up and the printing and binding done.
Fourteen large presses, driven by power,
with numerous folding frimminO ont