Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-23
A FAMOUS INSTITUTION.
The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Insti-
tute of BuGalo, Il. Y.
From the Boston Herald.

What can be accomplished by judiciouS
enterprise, when backed up by ability and
professional skill Is shown by the magniti-
cent buildings of the Invaiids' Hotel aud
Surgical Institute at Buffalo. This model
sauitarium furnishes one of the sights o.!
Buffalo, not alone for its architectural
beauty, but On account Of the world wide
fame of DR.. Ray V. Pierce, who establish
ed the institution many years ago, and IS
to-day its managing director and president.
beautiful iiye-story building situated on
Main Street, the principal business street
of Buffalo. the Invalds' Hotel can well be
sa d to surpass any institution of its kind
in the country.
Sixteen physicians form the medical staff
of this Institution, who devote their time
to the patients iii the building, and TO cor
respOndence by letter with patients who
consult them from all over the United
States. Each physician or surgeon is chos
Ell for his skill and proficiency i'll curing
one class of chronic disease. Thus the pa
tent has for a physician an experience q
specialist who is thoroughly familiar with
the case. A material aid to the medical
treatment are the machines for giving
mechanical movements or massage,
electrical apparatus, Turkish baths, etc,
with which the hotel is thoroughly equip
ped. Large and airy rooms, parlors, read
ing rooms, elevator, and many other con-
Feniences make this
PLEASANT REMEDIAL HOME,
and far different from the private hospit ais
rs commonly known. The Worlds Dis
oensary Medical Association, OF which Dr.
Pierce is President; Is the owner of the In
Valids Hotel, and the large laboratory,
| called the Worlds Dispensary, as well.
| Standing OH the same. lot, which runs
| through to the next street back, is the huge
! laboratory, six stories in height which
| furnishes ample room for manufacturing
| DR.. Pierce's Fayorite Prescription, DIR.
| - 4 Il l-
| Pierces Pleasant Pellets, DR.. Sage Catarrh
Remedy, DR. Pierce's Extract of Smart
Weed or Water Pepper. These are pro-
| prietary remedies which have been sold for
| over 4 quarter of century all over the
| United States, from the Atlantic.to the Pa
| cifie. Car loads of these medicines are
shipped every day from Buffalo to points
/ East West and South An idea of the ex-
| tensive business carried on by this As
ISOLATION can be gained by what is said of
| it by the poStolfice authorities at W ashlng-
! ton. ID c., who report that this one firm
| spends annually for stamps more than all
the banks and newspapers of Buffalo com
bined. or over 100000. The mail matter
| amounts to from $4,000 to 10000 pieces
daily. The first story of the Worlds Dis
| pensary building Is coupled by the ship
/ ping department.; the second floor is de
| voted to the large newspaper advertising
| department and the mailing, third floor
printing room and bindery fourth floor,
drug mills and paper warerooms; fifth
| floor, bottlinG, wrapping and packing de
partment; on the sixth floor is one of
THE BEsT-PLAENED LABORATORIES
in the country. III charge OF a thoroughly
scientific chemist. formerly of the Harvard
medical school laboratory. In fact, the
| equipment, the machinery and the system
with which the c large Institutions arr
equipped and the marvellous manner il
| which everything works along as thougl
by elockwork, would we'll repay a visit L
Buffalo.