Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-11-24
An Endless Chain
of Sickness.

There are upwards OF one million deaths
each year In the United States In g9&
OF cases the people who die are less than
sixty-tive years old. The evils that are
portion as the conditions and habits that
bring on disease become more widely
understood.
Then too a chronic disease which may
battle the skid of the general practitioner
may yet be permanently cured by the
Physician who has made one line OF dis
ease specially.
lessor in medical college presuming 20
lecture on all subjects as for the one Ply
slclan To presume to understand the nat
ure and cure OF every disease.
That Is why DR.. R.V. Pierce established
the lnvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
many years ago-with a full staff Of Ply
siclans and SurgeOns-whO though edu.
Gated to practice in all departments Of
medicine are here assigned to q special
department Only-to which each special
list deyotes his entire time, study and
attention.
The sick who have been treated at DR.
Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y,
have much to say in regard to this won
derfully equipped Sanitarium, where all
electrical apparatus, as well as electric
water baths, Turkish baths, static cleo
trio machines, high frequency current,
and other most modern and up-to-date
apparatus are used for the cure OF chronic
diseases. The treatment of chronic dis
eases that are peculiar to women have for
many years been a factor in the cures
affected at the Invalids' Hotel and Sur
gical Institute.
The physicians and surgeons employed
are among the most experienced and skill
ful in the country, men who have made
these diseases their life study, and whose
highest ambition is to excel in their
treatment
How well they have succeeded may be
judged from the fact that their practice
embraces cases from every State and Ter
ritOry of the Union as well as from foreign
lands. Many thousands are annually
treated, either through correspondence
or at DR.. Plerce's Institution. 1t is an
old adage that, Experience makes per-
feet" and the skilled specialists in this
field of practice cure thousands Of cases
which have been abandoned as incurable
by general practitioners.
One of the most wonderful electrical
appliances Is the X-ray used at the Insti-
tute which may be used both in the treat.
ment of various diseases and i'm the dag.
nosis of many obscure conditions. With
its aid the interior of the human body l.
no longer the sealed book it has been here.
tofore. Abnormal states of the bones
gaH stones, stone in the bladder or in the
kidneys, are shown plainly by what arc
known as Xray photographs Internal
tumOrs, and the enlargement of the deep
seated organs, are also discovered by this
means and in the diagnosis of tuberculosis
of the lungs this agent has proven q most
valuable aid. When applied to some OF
the less fatal chronic ailments of germ
origin it has proven very effective as a
curative agent.
Another interesting proceeding is the
violet-ray treatment produced by cOncen.
trating the violet or chemical rays from
an arc light with a specially prepared
carbon upon any portion of the body that
may be the seat OF pain. Sufferers from
neuralgia, sciatlca, rheumatism, strains.
sprains, also from those obscure exhaust
ing pains (the origin of which cannot al
times be accurately determined) frequent.
ly find immediate relief from a single
treatment and usually with a little per.
sistence in the use Of this aid, comfortable
health or perfect recovery Is obtained.
The incandeScent light bath, consisting
OF cabinet in which the patient il
bathed in the com bined rays of many
electric light globes, has produced really
wonderful results in diabetes, sciatica
rheumatism, obesity, an9mia, and some
forms of kidney and heart trouble. II
has also proven valuable in chronic brOn-
chitiS bronchial asthma and various skin
diseases. AS general hygienc measure
its efficiency can scarcely be Over-eStl'
mated. -------------------~
Hundreds are brought to this Institu-
tiOn from far distant states and they 90
home in few weeks well and strong.
Quite as marvellous are the thousands OF
n al hsaH ,,rL