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This is primarily an **advertisement, not a cartoon**, for the Invalid's Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, New York—a facility claiming to treat chronic diseases. The "satire" lies in the page's claims: the institute asserts it can diagnose and treat patients **without seeing them in person**, comparing this ability to telegraph operators locating breaks in submarine cables or meteorologists predicting distant weather. This absurd logic—that diseases can be remotely diagnosed through scientific "phenomena"—is presented earnestly but appears ridiculous to modern readers. The advertisement promotes mail-order medical consultation and mail-order treatment books ("Common Sense Medical Adviser"), positioning distance as no obstacle to accurate diagnosis. This reflects late-19th-century medical pseudoscience and mail-order medicine culture that *Judge* likely mocked as typical health-industry hucksterism of the era. The numerous sidebars advertising treatments for specific conditions (kidney disease, nervous diseases, hernia, etc.) reinforce the sense of aggressive, opportunistic medical marketing.

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14 Widges INVALIDS? A Model Sanitarium NOT A HOSPITAL, RUT A PLEAS. AST REMEDIAL HOME, onGaxtizen wit A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYSI- CIANS AND SURGEONS, AND EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO TIE Treatment of all Chronic Diseases. In practicing our system of diagnosis it innot alwaya necemary to see patients, © can treat many Chronic Discascs Just a8 successfully without as with personal consultation, The perfect ac~ curacy with which scientists are cna bled to deduce tho most_ minute par ticulars in their several departments, Appears almost miraculous, If we view ieln tho light of tho early fica Tak forexample, tho electro-magnetic telo- graph, the greatest invention of the age, ‘In it not a marvelous degree of Accuracy which enables an operator to exactly Jocato # fracture n'a eub- marine cable nearly three thou miles long? Oue veneruble the weather" haa become #0 th ly familiar with the most wayward montsof nature that ho can accuratel reediet thelr movements. Ife can at th Washington and foretell what the + will be in Florida or New York as well as HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, 0. 663 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, N. Y. i Jey q <_< =H es if several id, for the greatest accuracy. the nature of Chronic Diseases, without secing and Pereonally, examining our "patients. ja recognizing diseases without a per- sonal examination of the patient, wo claim to possess no miraculous pow. ers, We obtain our knowledge of the patient's disease by the applica- tion, tothe practice of. medicine, of "well-established principles of modern science. And it. is to. the accuracy with which this system has endowed us that we owe our almost world-wide reputation of skillfully treating lingering or chronic affec- tions, This. sys- tem of practicc, and the ‘marvel: ous success which ‘bas. been attained through Manvetous Success. J: the fact that dis- coeee dieplay cortatin phenomena, Which, being subjected to scientific analysis, furnish abundant and. un- mistakable data, to guide the judg. ment of the skillful practitioner aright In diecovering the nature of Giscased conditions. "The most ample resources for treating lingering or Chronic Diseases, and the greatest Fkill, are thus placed within the casy reach of every invalid, however dis- tant he or abe may reside from the physicians making the treatment of fuch affections a specialty. Pull par- ticulars of our system of examining and treating paticnts ut a dstanco are contained In The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad- viser,” by R.V. Pierce, M.D. It con- tains over 1000 ‘abd ‘more than AO colored and other fMlustratic Sent, post; 1.50. ‘This work contains important information for both young and old. SMex'axp Women are many times tempted to ask thelr family physicians questions on delicate matters, but are deterred from 80 doing by thelr gente of modesty. hundred miles did not intervene between him and the places named, And fo in all departments of modern science what is required is the knowledge of certain signs, From these scientists deduce accurate Sigs OF conclusions regurdiess of ‘distance. diseases have certain, unmistakabl ouR of Dise r Passages aus Chronic Taryngitis, atta, and | both. through nee und at our instl- titutes an important Nasal, THROAT AND Lune Diseases. Bion correspond tutions, © ilish three separate books on Nasal, Throat and, Lung ‘Diseases, which ive, much valuable information, yl: (yA Treatiw on Consuinption, Laryngitis and Reonchitiss price, post-paid. ten cents,” @) A Treatise on Phthisic, giving new and successful treat I. ten cents, Gi) A Treatiso on Price, post-paid, two cents. D: t PARES oh wore jons, aro those chronic discases in the successful treatment of which our specialists havo attained great success. Many of the diseases affecting the liver and other organs contribu: ting in their functions to the process of digestion, a1 Fy obscure, and are not infrequently ‘mistaken both laymen’ and physicians for other maladies, and treatment 1s employed directed to the removal of a dis vaso which docs not exist, Our Completo Treatise on Diseases of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any ad~ dress on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps, TS DISEAS! and kindred ‘maladies, largely treated, and” cures effected fa ands of cases which had been pronounced beyond. hone, ‘These diseases are readily diagnosticated, or do termined, by chemical analysis of tho urine, without a personal examination of theres fore, generally bo successfully treated at helt homes. ‘The study and practico of chemical lysis and microscopical examination of the urine in ‘consideration of casca, with reference to correct iagnosis, in which our institution long ago becane fa- ous, bad Haturally led to @ very extensive practice in diseases of the urinary organs. Probably no other Instl- | tution in the world has been fo largely patronized by Autferers from this clasa of maladies aa the old and world: pecialists have acquired. through a vast and Varied experience, great expertness in finding out. the ezact nicely adapting theit remedies for tho cure of each indi vidual case. These delicate discascs should be care familiar with them, and who is competent to ascertain the exact condition and stage do (which can only be ascertained by a careful chemical and microscopical examination of the Urine ), tion are known todo poritive injury in others. We have | never, therefore, attempted to put up ansthing for gen- | these Giscases, although possessing very superior remedics, knowing full well froman extensive experiences that the fo the disease and its progress in each case by a chemical and microscopical examination of the urine, and then B BE been very famed Workt's Dispensury and Invalids’ Hotel. Our haturo of Gach case, and, hence, have been successful in fully treated by a specialist thoroughly of advancement which the disease hi for medicines which are curative in ono stage or condi: eral sale through druggists, recommending to cure only eafo and success(ul course is to carefully determine So, also, in me nigns oF sym} reason of this fact, we have been enubled to perfect a system of det cal science, | no one in doubt. ptoms, and. by ermining, witl ‘This work answers Just such questions so fully and plainly as to leave Send for thia book, or write and descritte your eymptoms. inclos- tng ton conta in stamps, and a complete treatise on your with our terms for treatment be fe case Will be sent you, d all particulars. FIELD OF SUCCESS. adapt our medicines to the exact stage of the disease and condition of our patient, To this wiso courso of action we at- WONDERFULY tute the marvelous success attained by our specialista i that important and Succe: extensive Department of our institt'= $8. J tions ed exclusively to tho treat ment of diseases of the kidneys and b t. Tho treatment of discascs of the urinary organs Wing constituted a Icading branch of our practice at the Tnvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, and, being in constant receipt of numerous inquirica for a completo work on tho nature and curability of theso maladies, written in a etyle to be easily understood, we have pub= Tished a lange Iilustrated Treatise on these diseases, whlch will bo sent to any address on receipt of ten cents. Hundreds of the most difficult opera- tions known to modern surgery are annually performed in the most skill ful manner, by our Surgeon-specialis! Large Stones are aafely removed from the Bladder, by crushing, washing and umping them out, thus avoiding the eat danger of cutting. Our specialist, remove cataract mthe blindness. They cn crost~ Many Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the Utei are arrested in growth and cured by electrolysis, coupled with other means of our invention, whereby the great r of cutting operations in thes {8 avoided. Especially has the succes of our improved operations for Varicocele, Mydrocele, Fistuke, Ruptured Cervix Utert, and for Ruptured Perineum, been alike gratity- Ing both to ourselves and 6 ess go have the Cervical C malo. kenerally causing periodical d also resulting in Barrenness, Jess operation, remoyes this commonest of impediments to the bearing of offspring. will be gent on receipt of ten cents fn stamps, - We have a Special Department, thor- DISEASES OF J *ircty to the treatment of Diseases of Women, . Every case. consulting OJF mest careful attention, Important cues Skilfof ull the home physicians) bas the beaett of a full Council of skilled specialists, Rt for ladics in the stamps for our large Compicte Treatise on Diseases of Women, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and col- HERNIA (Breach), or RUP- RADICAL CURE TERE, no matter of how lone OF Rupture. and perman ly cured by our specialista, we it the knife and witho pendence Hlustrated Treatise. To those acquainted with our institu. DELICATE | tics iets hanity” neccmsary to say that DISEASES, Hq "hy ths, Branch “establichment ton cated at No. 3 New Oxford Street, L don, Engtam been the result Stricture of or Sterility, of which, by a safe and pain- A Complete Treatiso on any one of the above maladics oughly organized, and devoted ‘ercli Women, | cesciaitts whctner yy Herter Se" in 5 : the ind we get not already battied th Tnvalids’ Hotel aro very private, ten ‘cents in ored plites (100 pages). standing, or of what size, is promptly upon trusses. Abundant references, Schd ten cents the invalids’ Hotel and. Surgical Insti- enjoyed the distinction of have, for many ¥ being’ the most largely Although wo have in the preced. ing paragraphs, made mention of some of the special ailments to which particular attention fs given by the specialists at the Tnvalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, yet the institution We, many years ago, established a Special Depart- and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply We 0 a We offer no apology for devoting We shall, therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat Bheaate 2 ysis, or Pals: Lo- Nervous Vic sleep, and threatened insanity, Ne abounds in skill, facilities, and ap- All letters of inquiry, or of consultation, should be ad- dressed to patronized and widcly celebrated institutions in the world for the treatment and cure of those affections ment for the treatment of these diseases, under the to us might receive all the advantages of a full Council of the most experienced specialists, 80 much attention to this neglected + class of diseasca, believing no condi- No Apovogy, f tionog,tumanity top pereten te — of the noble profession to which we consider it otherwise than most honorable to cure the is probably none other about which physicians in gen- 6 Hl Most of these cases can be treated URED AT HOME, »,Stos'cif sats Sitance use fart Convulsions, or taxia, St. ry Dance, omnia, or inability to Diseases, fis? gi trvsgtemes. many, Neve study, excesses, and otber causes, and mattis catnerveks dbmadte, any one of which wil be sultation, so that we may know which onc of our Treat- ises to send. of form of chronic ailment, whether requiring for iis cute iaedica of surgical means: 5; WORLO'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No, 663 Main St., Bt FPALO, N. ¥.