Judge, 1886-12-18 · page 14 of 16
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This is a full-page advertisement for a medical facility, not a political cartoon. The Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, New York promotes itself as a "Model Sanitarium" that treats chronic diseases. The main appeal targets distant patients by claiming physicians can accurately diagnose illnesses without in-person examination—comparing medical diagnosis to long-distance telegraph technology and weather forecasting to argue that modern science enables remote detection of disease symptoms. The ad emphasizes having eighteen physicians and surgeons, offers a free medical book ("The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser"), and invites patients to describe symptoms by mail in exchange for treatment plans. This appears to be late 19th-century mail-order medicine advertising, exploiting contemporary scientific advances to market dubious long-distance diagnostics to chronically ill Americans—a common practice of the era.
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14 Suapes INVALIDS? HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE,. A Model Sanitarium NOT A NOSPITAL, RUT A PLEAS ANT REMEDIAL HOME, onGaxizep wintt A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYS! CIANS AND SURGEONS, AND RICLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE Treatment of all Chronic Diseases. In practicing our system of diagnosis it ienot always necessiry to see patients, We can treat many Chi Just an succesfully with personal consultation. ‘The perfect ac~ furacy with which scientists aro cna- bled to deduce tho most minute par- tle ie soveral departments, if we view itin tho light forexample, thi graph, tho greatest age. Ys it not a marvelous accuracy which enables un. operator to exactly Jocato a fracture in a sub- marine cablo nearly three thousand miles long? ue venerable “clerk of the weather" has becomo eo thorough- ly familiar with the most wayward clo mentsof nature that he can accurate! predict their movements, [an Washington and foretell what tho ther will be in ite can et Cafu pea we Florida or New York as well as if several SIGNS OF | hundred miles dia not intervene between him and the places named. And #0 in all departments of modern scence what is required is tho for ‘om 0. 663 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, N. Y. the greatest accuracy, the nature of Chronic Discasca, without seeing and Personally, examining our ‘patients, in recognizing discascs without a per: sonal examination of the patient, we claim to possess no miraculous pow. ers. We obtain our, knowledge of the patient's disease by the applica. ton, to, the practice of cline, of “well-established principles of modern science. And it 8 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 tom ot praca, Manvetous | 223, f "mars: Success. ‘and the marvel: ous guccers which bas been attained through it, demonstrate the fact that dis- cneee, dieplay certatin, phenomena, which, being subjected {0 ecientitic analysis, furnish abundant and un- mistakable data, to guide the Judg- ment of the ‘skillful practitioner aright in discovering the nature of digcased conditions. ‘The most amplo resources for treating lingering or Chronic Diseases, and the greatest skill, are thus. placed within the cary reach of 1 invalid, however dis- tant be or she may reside from the physicians making the treatment of such affections a specialty. Full pai ticulars of our system of examining and treating paticnte at 9 datance are contained in “The People's Common Sense Medical Ad. viser,” by R.V. Pierce. M.D. It con: tains over 1000 pages and ‘more than ‘0 colored and other illustrations, Sent, post-paid, 1.40. This work contains important information for both young Seat let Stew eo Wi pt ‘are many times tempted to ask their family physicians questions on delicate matters, but are deterred from so doing by their sense of DISease, | ktovicaze,of certain signs. From these scientists deduce accurate conclusions regardiess of “distance. So, also, in medical science, diseases have certain unmistakable signs or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, we have been enabled to perfect a system of determining, wit! modesty. ‘This work answers Just such questions so fully and plainly as to leave no one ia doubt. Send for this bok, or write and describe, your eymptome, {nclcs- ing ten conta in stamps. and a compicte treatise on your discaze will be ecnt you, with our terms for treatment and all particulars. oun The treatment of Dis- cn of the Alr Passages and Lungs, such as Chronte Nasal Catérrh; Laryngitin, Bronchitis, Asthma, and Consumption, both’ through correspondence and at our instl- tutions, constitutes an important specialty. We publish three ‘separate books on Nasal, Throat and Lung ‘Diseases, which give much valuable information, vizi (A. Treatiso on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis: price, post-paid, ten centa." 2) A’Troatiso on Asthma, or Phthlete, giving new und successful treat- ment; price, post-paid, ten cents. @) A’ Treatiso on Chronic Nasal Catarrh;’ price, post-pald, two cents. | Diseases OF DIGESTION. J angen cut nintfed utectlons are successful treatment of which our specialists have attained great succcss. Many of tho diseases affecting the liver and other organs contribu- Ung in their functions to the process of digestion, arc very otecure, and are not tofrequently mistaken by both laymen and physicians for other maladies, and treatment is employed directed to the removal of a dis- vaso which docs not exist. Our Complete Treatise on. Diseases of the Digestive Orns will bo sent to any ad ress on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps BRIGHTS DISEASE, BETE: maladies, fy. largely. treated, ‘and effected fi th [ Nasa, Tunoar | ¢ AND Luna Diseases, Dyspepala, Liver Com- Plalngy Obstinaic Constipa tou, Chronic Diarrhe Pe Worms, and kindred affectlons, aro cures usands of cass which bad nced beyond hone. These discases are readily diagnosticated, or do- termined, by chcmical analysis of the urine, without a raonal examination of paticnts, Who can, theres erally be successfully treated at homes. ‘Tho study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of casca, with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became fa- mous, bas naturally led to a very extensive practice in diseases of the urinary ns. Probably no other inst! tution In. tho work! has been 0 largely patronized b sufferers from this class of maladies as the old and worl: famed World's Dispensary and Tnvalids’ Hotel. Our epecialists have acquired, through a vast and varied experience, great expertness in finding out the -ezact nature of éach case, and, hence, have been successful in nicely adapting their remedics for the cure of each indi- vidual case. ‘Theso delicato diseases should be care fully treated by a specialist thoroughly. familiar with them, and who is competent to ascertain the exact condition and stage of advancement which the disease has made (which can only bo ascertained by a careful chemical and microscopical examination of the urino), for medicines which are curative in one stage or condi- tion are known to do pasitice ¢rjury in others. We have never, therefore, attempted to put up anything for gen- eral sale through druggists, recommending to cure tl discascs, although possessing very superior remedies, knowing full well from an extensive experience that the only safe and successful course is to carefully determine the diseaso and its progress in each case by a chemical and microscopical examination of the urine,and then FIBULD OF BSUCOCESS. Wonnenru To this wiso courso of action we at- tions devoted exclusively to tho treat- the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, and, being lished a large Illustrated Treatise on these discases, which annually performed in the most. skill- t danger of cutting. “Our specialists, remove cataract with other means of our invention, whereby the great ing both to ourselves and our patients. Not less so bave lcs operation, removes this commonest of impediments oughly organized, and devoted ‘excl \d_ considerate attention. Important stamps for our large Complete Treatise on Diseascs of standing, or of what size, ts promptly upon trusses. Abundant references, Send ten cents tute, with the branch establishment 1o- adapt our medicines to the exact stage of the disease and condition of our patient. tribute the marvelous success attained by our specialists In that Important and Success. extensive Department of our institu- ment of diseascs of the kidneys and blad- der. The treatment of discases of the urinary organs having constituted a leading branch of our practice at in constant receipt of numerous inquirics for a complete work on the nature and curability of these maladics, written in a etylo to be casiiy understood, we have pub: will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents. Hundreds of the most difficult opera- Sonera | ose keoes tenors suneer are ful manner, by our Surgeon-specialists, PRACTICE. | Lares, Stones are safely removed from the Bladder, by ing, washing and pumping them out, thus avoiding the from the eye,thereby curing blindness, They also straight- ‘ cross-cyes and Insert artificial ones when needed. jany Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus ro arrested in growth und cured by electrolysis, coupled danger of cutting operations in theso cases 18 avolded. Especially has the success of our improved operations for Varicocele, Hydrocele, Fistule, Ruptui Cervix Uterl, and for Ruptured Herineum, been. alike gratity= been the results of numcrous operations for Stricture of the Cervical Canal, a condition in the femalo generally causing periodical pain, and also resulting in Barrenncss, or Sterility, and the cure of which, by a safe and pain- to the bearing of offspring. ‘A Complete Treatise on any one of the above maladics will be sent on receipt of ten cents in stanps., We have a Special Department, thor- DISEASES OF J sirctu to the treatment of Discascs of Women. ery case consulting our specialists, whether by letter or in person, is given the most careful cases (and we get few which have not already baffied the skill of all the home phyatcians) has the benetit of a full Council of skilled. spectalista. Rooms for. ladies in the Invalids’ Hotel are very private. Send ten cents in Women, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and col- ored plates (100 pages). HERNIA (Breach), or BUP- Raoical Cure | TURE, co matter of how long OF Rupture. and permanently cured by our oY without the knife and without dependence for Illustrated Treatise To those acquainted with our institu- DELICATE | tions, 1 ts hardy necessary to say that the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Insti- DISEASES. J Sstca a 'Nors New Satord seen Los: | don, England, have, for many ycara, enjoyed the distinction of being the most largely patronized and widely celebrated institutions in the world for tho treatment and cure of those uffections which arise from youthful indiscretions and perni- cious, solitary, practices. Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature decline of the manly powers, involuntary vital losses, impaired memory, mental anxiety, absence of will-power, mela: choly, weak back, and kindred affections, are specdil, thoroughly and permanently cured, We, many years ago, established a Special Depart ment for the treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply to us might receive all the'advantages of a full Council of the most experienced specialists. We oucr no apology for devoting WE OFFER Jro much “autention ‘te this neglected Class of diseases, belicving no cond No Apovogy, | ten,cf, humanity is too wretched to I merit the sympathy and best services of the noble profession to which we belong. Many who suffer from these terrible diseases contract them innocently. Why any medical man, in- tent on loing good and alleviating suffering, should sbun such cascs, we cannot Imagine. Why any one should consider it otherwise than most honorable to cure the worst cases of these diseases, we cannot understand; and yet of all the maladics which afflict mankind there is’ probably none other about which physicians in ged- eral practice know #0 little. We shall, therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat with our best consideration, sympathy, and skill, all ap- plicants who are suffering from any of these delicate discasce, C i Most of these cases can be treated URED AT ROME. by us wien ata distanco Just as well as if they were here in person: ‘Our Crmplete and Ilustrated Treatise (168 pages) on these subjects is sent to any address oo receipt of ten cente in stamps. Convalsions, Nervous Dance, Insomnia, or inability to Disases. sleep, and. threatened’ insanity, Net ous’ Debility, arising from over- study, excesscs, and other causes, and every variety of nervous affection. are treated by our a lists for these diseuscs with unusual succrss. See numerous cases reported in our different illustrated pamphicts on nervous diseases, any one of which will be sent for ten cents in postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied with a statement of a case for con- sultation, so that we may know which one of our Treat- ises to send. fi Although we have the baad ing paragrap! mention 0 ALL GHROWIG | some'or the epectal allmenta to which particular attention is given by the DISEASES J specialists at tho Tnvalide’ Hotel and A SpECIALTY, | bounds, in, skill. facilities, and ape PEC je | paratus for the successful treatment of every form of chronic ailment. whether requiring for its cure medical of surgical means. dressed to 7 WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No, 663 Main St, BUFFALO, N. ¥- Surgical Institute, yet the institution All letters of inquiry, or of consultation, should be ad-