The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1911-12-07
TheOpen Door
SCIENTIFIC new DISCOVERIES.

BY the electro magnetic telegraph an
operator can exactly locate fracture in
a submarine cable nearly 1000 miles long.
A few fossils sent to an expert geologist
enable him to accurately determine the
rock formation from which they are
taken. This he can describe as perfectly
as if the rocky formation was before him
on the table.
So, also, in medical science. Disease
has certain unmistaka bic signs or symp-
toms. by reason of this fact the physf-
clans and specialists connected with DR..
Pierces Inyalds' Hotel and Surgical In
stitute at Buffalo, are enabled to accu-
ratey determine the nature of many
chronic diseases without seeing and per-
sonally examining their patients. In rec
OgniZing disease without personal exam
ination of the patient, they do not claim
to possess miraculous powers. They OBJ
tain their knowledge of the patients dis
ease by practical and woll-cstahlished
principles OF modern science. Certain
diseases display certain peculiar traits.
Subjected to scientific an; lysis they fur
nsh abundant data to guide the judg-
method of treating patients at distance,
by mail, has been so successful that there
Is scarcely a city or a village in the
United States that is not represented by
one or more cases upon the records OF
practice at the InvalidS' Hotel and Sur
not be treated in this way, which require
surgical operations or careful after-treat-
ment, or electrical therapeutics, receive
the services of the most Skilful specialists
at the Institution.
DR.. r. V. Pierce long ago established
this Invalids' Hotel and Surgical 1nsti-
tute with full Staff of Physicians who
were expert in their specialties. These
physicians may be consulted, by letter,
Tree and without charge whatever, if you
wish specialists advice upon any
chronic malady. The same system Of
Hspecialites is observed as in the depart
ments of a medical college. The professor
who would assume to lecture in all depart
ments with equal ease and proficiency
would be severely ridiculed by his col
leagues, and 1t is just as abSured to sup
pose that the general practitioner can
Keep himself informed of the many new
methods of treatment that are being con.
departments of Medicine and Surgery.
People who have been patients at DR..
Pierce'S Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo. n. Y,
have much to say in regard to this wtn-
derfuily equipped Sanitarium, where all
the latest electrical apparatus, as well as
electric machines, high-frequency cur
rent, and other most modern and np-tO-
date apparatus are used for the cure of
chronic diseases. The treatment, of the
chronic diseases that are peculiar to
women have for many years been large
lids Hotel and Surgical Institute.
The volet-ray trea tment. which is
another interesting proceeding. is carried
out by concentrating the light, rich in
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 neural
nj ifto is
also from those obscure eXhauSting pains
(the origin of which cannot at times be
accurately detcrmined) frequently find
immediate relief from single treatment
and usually with little persistence in
the use of this aid, comfortable health or
Then, there is the iiirandescent light
bath, consisting of ca hipet in which the
patient is bathed in the combined rays
Of many electric lights. 1t has pro-
duced really wonderful results in diabetes,
sciatica. rheumatism, obesity, anemia,
trouble. 1t has also proven valuable in
chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma and
the various skin diseases. AS general
hygienic measure its efficiency can scarce
ly be Over-eStimat ted.
In medicine there has been rapid and :
real progress during recent years. and DR..
Pierce has kept up with the times in that
he has had the manufacture and ingredi-
ents in his Unknown remedies improved
in a modern laboratory by Skilled chem
lists the greatest care being exercised to
see that the ingredients entering into his
wel,-known medicines DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription as well as the Golden
Medical Discovery" are extracted from
the best variety of ma tive medicinal roots,
gathered with greatcare and at the proper
season of the year, so that their medici-
nal properties may be most reliable.
Great care Is exercised not to over en-
courage those who consult the specialists
may be raised.
DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser Is sent free on receipt Of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send 81
one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound.
Write the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical
Institute. DR.. r. v. Pierce. President, at
Buffalo, N. Y.