Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-02-23

esty behind them. The thing which
is Of no value in this world has short
existence, and If the Pierce Family
Medicines were not what they are
claimed TO be they would not have a
proved record of millions of cures in
the period during which they have
been upon the market.
One Of the most interesting estab-
lishments in Buffalo is the Worlds
Dispensary, where these medicines are
manufactured. Here DR.. Pierce main
tains a great laboratory for the manu-
facture Of The remedies which bear his
name. He also has hospital adjunct.
known as the Invalids' Hotel, where
thousands Of persons have gone for
special treatment. This laboratory and
hospital are visited by many curious
persons to whom the name of Doctor
Pierce is known and who desire to see
the establishment which he has built
up because of the efficacy of his rem
edies. II is worth a visit. 1t employs
a force of about $50 persons, including
physicians, surgeons, chemists, bac-
teriologists, pharmacists and other pro-
fessional men.
To the observer, perhaps the most
interesting department of this place is
the laboratory, where the Pierce Family
Remedies are made. The difference
between the maker of a patent medi-
cine and a private practitioner is
simply that while the latter buys the
medicines which he gives his patient OF
gives him a prescription which he takes
to the druggist and which the latter
puts up in small dose, behind a par
tition, where you can not see him, the
patent medicine maker takes the in
gradients which he knows will produce
certain desired effects and puts them
together in large quantities. But the
latter does his work just as carefully
and just as scientifically as do the ply
stefan and the druggist. At least that
is the rule in DR.. Pierce's establish
ment.
The Pierce Medicines are made of
roots and herbs and banks of known
and tried properties. These are gath
cred in the woods and fields by experts
and are brought to DR.. Pierces estab-
lishment in large quantities. There are
bins and bins of these roots and herbs
and barks, ready for the use of the
chemists when needed. Let us suppose
that it is time to make up a quantity
of the "Favorite Prescriptions The
necessary ingredients are taken from
the storage bins and carried to the
mill, where they are ground. Then
they are taken to the laboratory, where
they are mixed in the proper proper
tions and put to steep in great watts
containing 800 gallons. This labor
atory is just as clearly as a woman's
kitchen. All the machinery is run by
electricity and there is entire absence
of anything to create dust and dirt
When these ingredients have been
properly combined the medicine is
rapidly bottled, the bottles corked and
sealed, then Tabled, then wrapped and
then packed for shipment to almost
every point in the world.
Another interesting department in
this establishment is that devoted to
printing the familiar little yellow COW
cred memorandum books which bear
the Pierce name. Something like IS 600
of these are printed and sent out every
day. The hospital, or Invalids' Hotel,
is patronized by hundreds of sufferers
from various ills who come there be-
cause they are assured of the most
scientific treatment. A large staff of
specialists is maintained in connection
with this hospital and for the purpose
of caring for the immense number of
inquiries which come constantly from
all directions concerning the writer's
ailments. Each letter of this sort goes
to the proper specialist and receives his
individual care from the beginning to
the end. No business such as is done at
this Buffalo establishment could have
on honorable and successful record of
nearly forty years if it were conducted
an any otheU basis. Honesty and honor
count in the patent medicine business,
as in all others.