Judge, 1887-04-30 · page 14 of 16
Judge — April 30, 1887 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page is **primarily advertising**, not satire. It promotes the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, New York—a mail-order medical practice claiming to diagnose and treat chronic diseases *without seeing patients in person*. The pitch exploits a pseudo-scientific analogy: just as meteorologists predict weather from distance, their physicians can diagnose illness from descriptions alone. Patients could pay for treatment, receive medical literature, and correspond by mail. By modern standards, this is clearly fraudulent medicine. However, in the late 1800s (when this likely appeared), such "distance diagnosis" was a recognized—if controversial—practice. The advertisement targets desperate chronic-disease sufferers with promises of expert treatment without travel burden. The surrounding smaller ads tout similar services: treatments for nasal diseases, digestion problems, kidney ailments—typical patent-medicine marketing of the era. Judge magazine published such ads for revenue, though the magazine itself was primarily satirical.
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14 whales INVALIDS’ A Model Sanitarium NOT A HOSPITAL, RUT A PLEAS. ANT REMEDIAL HOME, onoaxizeD wITHt A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYSI- CIANS AND SURGEONS, AND EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE Treatment of all Chronic Diseases. In practicing our avstem of diagnosis tt Ia not always necosairy to see patients, We can treat many Chronic Diseases Jurt ‘as successfully without a8 with @ personal consultation. The perfect ac= which sclentists aro ena bled to deduce the most minute par Llctlare in thre weer deyartmentay 2 iraculous, If we ¥ y'theew thousand erable “clerk of the weather” has become eo thorough: iy familar with to most wayward ele thontsof ratuire that he can accuratel predict thelr mover fe fr Washingtor Sighs OF DISEASE. J Sinchusténs reason of this fact, wo have been € miles long? ‘and r will be in Fk J 0 fn all wledge of certain af The Nasat, THRoaT AND Lune Diseases. hitis, umption, lori hundred miles did not intery (gna. egardiess of distance HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE, Oo. 663 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, N. Y. a y between him and the departments of modern science whi unmistakable From these scientists deduce accurate So, also, in medical science ine of symptoms, and by | ing ten cents in stamps. and a complcte treatise on your di wi led to perfect a system of determining, witl our terms for treatment and all particulars. Sent, post-paid, for 8 . | and old. is required is the dest s no one in doubt. Send for 1.40. This work contains in MEN AND WOMEN arc many times tempted to ask their famit estions on delicate matters, but are deterred from so doing by tl ‘This work answers Just such questions so fully and plainl: the greatest accuracy. the nature of Chronic Diseases, without scving act Permonally, examining our’ patente 1D Fecognizing discases without a per sonal examination of the juticnt we claim to possess no miraculous por, ers. We obtain our knowledge ef the patient's discase by the applic Uon, to the practice of medion of “well - established principles af modern science. “And itis to. the accuracy with which this system bes endowed us that we owe mot world-wide reputation of skillful treating Ungering or chron ons. ‘This tem of practee, and the mare: ous cone dian which, bein analysis, furnish abun = mistakable data, to guide the judg. ment of the skillful practitiones ht in discovering the nature of scased conditions. ‘The most ample resources for treating Jingerin Chronic Diseases, and th ekill, are thus placed with reach of every: invalid tant he or sbe may’ reside from the physicians. making” the treatment of such affections a specialty. Full par. ticulars of our system of examining and treating patients at dstance are contained in Fhe People's Common Sense Medical Ad. viser,” by R.V. Pierce. M.D. It con talon Gver 100 faures abd ‘more thas 30 ‘colored and. other illustrations, portant information for both young physicians sense of to leave ne, inch sent Jou, lant this book, oF write and describe your eympt case Will OUR FIEBEEBED OF SUCCESS. both Laryngiti: athe and through lence and at our insti- tutions, constitutes an important specialty We pu Lung Diseases, which give much valu Bronchitis Asthina, or Phthiste, Price, post-p Chronio Nuxil Cutarrh DISEASES OF DisesTion. specialists have att diseases affecting the liver and other o1 {Ung in, thelr functions to the process Nery obscure, and are not, in both laymen’ and physic treatment is employed vaso which docs not exist. b price, post-paid, ten cents ld, ten cents, price Prapepala, worm: vesaful treatment ‘Our Comp DH three separate books on Nasal, Throat and | information, | YA“ Treatise ‘on Consumption, Laryngitis and ) A Treatise on of. wi xiving new and successful treat- () A Treatise on post-pakd, two cents. and kindred affections, are nong those chronic diseases in the ined great success. Many of t ns contril digestion, a requently mistaken by 8 for other maladies, and directed to the removal of a dis- ete Treatise Diseases of the Digestive Oneuns will be sent to any ad- direst on receipt of ten cents in postage st BRIGHT?S BETES, been very kindrod AM ps. DISEASE, DIA yond bope. without a | rd, oF de practice of chen cul examination to @ very extensiy organs. ‘of m: famed World's Dispensury and Invalid specialists have ni experience, great hature of ¢ nicely adapting thelr re Vidual case. fully treated by a speci [Cavren. |: - to ascertain the Xpertness in fin fy made (which ean be for medicines which are tion are ko Wer, therefore, att 1 to put ups eral Nile theomh dlrugwiste, reed isa although pessesing very Knowing full well from an ext sup sive exp nly safe and successful course isto carefully dh the disease and its progress 1a each case by a ch ascertained by chemical and microscopical examination ot unitive in ane stage or. wen todo peaifire yury in others, We hav ue for 5 of the t be Is Hot Hist, thy urine correct came fa- Practice in nbably ho other inst pen largely patronized ‘by | ladies as the old and wor tel. quired, through @ vast and ing out the nee, have been successf| ilies for tho cure of cach indi- ‘Theso delicate diseases should be care joroughly ar with them, and who is competent xact condition and of advancement which the stage treatment of Dis-| cases of the Air Passages | and Langs, such as Chronic | anni Catderhy disease has | a careful the urine ) fig tocune thes | remedion Hatt the ermine mical and microscopical examination of the urine, and then | been the results of numerous operations adapt our medicines to the exact stage of the discase and condition of our patient, To this wise course of action we at. | WONDERFUL] tribute the marvelous success attained | specialista in that important and | Success. extensive Department of our institu- tions devoted exclusively t0 the treat= ment of diseasca of the kidneys and blac The treatinent of diseascs of the urinary organs iz constituted a leading branch of our practice at Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, and, being int receipt of numerous inquiries for a complete ork on the nature and curability of these maladics, Written ina efyle to be casily understood, we have pub- lished a large Hlustrated Treatise on these diseases, which be sent to any auldresa on receipt of ten cents. Hundreds of the most dificult opern- tions known to modern surgery are SURGICAL J annuatty pertormed in the most ekili- {ul manner, by our Surgeon-specialists, Large St e3 are safely removed from the Bladder, by crushing, washing and pumping them out, thus avoiding great danger of cutting. Our specialista, remove cataract mn the eye,thereby curing blindness. They also straight- en. cross-eyes and: insert_artificial ones when nocded. Many Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the Ute aro arrested in growth and cured by electrolysis, couple with other means of our invention, whereby the Ng Operations in these cases 18 avol ally has tho puccrns of our improved operatic Varicocelc, Hydrocele, Fistule, Ruptured Cervix Uterl, and for Ruptured Perineum, been alike gratify- ing both to ourselves and our patients. Stricture of the Cervical Canal, a condition in tho female generally using: Fe riodical pain, and also resulting in Barrenncss, © Sterility, and the cure of which, by a safe and pain- ‘88 operation, removes this commonest of impediments to the bearing of offspring. ‘A Complete Treatise on any one of the above maladics will be sent on receipt of ten cents fn stainps, We have a Special Department, thor aed, and devoted ercluc catinent of Disrass of y cause consulting 01° ther by fetter or in is given the’ most careful rrate attention, Important: ive not already battled the «© physicians) bas the benetit of a full pms for ladies tn the y Pp Send ten cents in ne Complete Treatise on. Diseases of trated with numerous wood-cuts and col- ored phites (100 pages). Raoveat CURE rine (Breach), or BUP. OF RUPTURE. standing, or of what size, 1s prompuy and permanently by our specialists, without the knife hand we To those acquainted with our institu. tions, it ik lunily necessary to say that the invalids” Hotel and Sungical Insti- tute, with the branch establishment Jo- cated at No. 3 New Oxford Street, Lon- England, have, for many years, the distinction of being’ the most largely Devicate Diseases. enjoyed p | memory, mental anxiet | worst cases of these | and patronized and widely celebrated institutions in. the worht for the treatment and cure of those affections ch arise from. youthful indiscretions and peraie us, solitary, practices Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature decline of the mai were, involuntary Vital losses, impaired ‘absence of will-power, mela oly, weak back, and kindred affections, are speedily, oughly and permanently cured. We, many years ago, established a Special Depart- ment’ for the treatment of these discasrs, under the management of some of the most skillful’ physiciane and surgeons on our Staff, in order that all who apply tous might receive all the advantages of a full Counc of the most experienced specialists. We OFren No Apotocy. belong. We offer no apology for devoting #0 much attention to this class of diseases, belicving n of humanity 18 too wretched to merit the sympathy’ and bert services of the noble p to which we Many who suffer from contract. them innocently. “Why any medical m tent on doing good a ‘vinting suffering, should shu such ‘cases, we cannot Imagine. Why any” one sbould consider it otherwise than most honorable to cure the discasca, we cannot understand; ‘ctof all the maladies which afflict mankind there is probably none ot eral practice know 60 little. We shall, therefore, continue, ash with our best consideration, sympath Plicants who are suffering from any of discasca, C HOME. .2tss%.9¢ URED AT HOME. wy us wi as if they were bere in person. ‘Our Cemplete and Ilustrited ‘Treatise (68 pages) on these subjects is sent to any address on receipt of tea cents in stamps. skill, all ap- these delicate ese Cases can be treated at a distance just as well Epileptic ut Tue’ Convulsio: Fits, Para lysis, or Pals! Dance, Insomnia, sleep, ahd. threatened’ insanit Neavous ty, arising from over. Diseases, study, excesses, and other ses, and every variety of nervous affection, are treated by our speclalists for these diseases with unusual success. Se numerous cascs reported in our different illustrated pamphicta 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 cise for coo sultation, so that we may know which one of 0 ines to send. Aut Curomic Although we bave in the ing paragraphs, made m: of some of the special ailments to which particular attention is given by t specialists at the Invalids’ Hotel Surgical Institute, yet the institution Diseases pow skill, facilitics, and ap A Specutty. : whether requiring for its cure inedical or surgical mean All letters of inquiry, or of consultation, should be ab Urvesed to, WORLO'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Lo, NY comicbooks.com