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MPHREYS SPECIFIC MANUAL
DR. HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS.
Directions with each Vial in Five Languages.
English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
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CURES.
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1. Fevers, Congestions, Inflammations.......25
2. Worms, Worm Fever,or Worm Disease.25
3. Colic, Crying and Wakefulness of Infants.2.
4. Diarrhea, of Children and Adults..
5. Dysentery, Gripings, Billous Colic...
6. Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Vomiting..
7. Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis....
8. Toothache, Faceache, Neuralgia.
9. Headache, Sick Headache, Vertigo.
10. Dyspepsin, Indigestion, Weak Stomach...
11. Suppressed Menses, or Scanty.....
12. Leucorrhea. or Profuse Menses.....
13. Croup, Hoarse Cough, Laryngitis...
14. Salt Rheum, Eruptions, Erysipelas..
15. Rheumatism, or Rheumatic Pains...
16. Fever and Ague, Malaria....
17. Piles, Blind or Bleeding, External, Internal.
18. Ophthalmia, Weak or Inflamed Eyes....
19. Catarrh, Influenza, Cold in Head...
20. Whooping Cough, Spasmodic Cough
21. Asthma, Oppressed, Difficult Breathing
22. Ear Discharge, Earache.....
23. Scrofula, Swellings and Ulcers..
24. General Debility, Brain Fag.....
25. Dropsy, Fluid Accumulations...
26. Sea-Sickness, Nausea, Vomiting.
27. Kidney Disease, Gravel, Calculi..
28. Nervous Debility, Vital Weakness..
29. Sore Mouth, or Canker..
30. Urinary Incontinence, Wetting Bed....25
31. Painful Menses, Pruritus....
32. Diseases of the Heart, Palpitations...1.00
33. Epilepsy, St. Vitus' Dance...
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34. Sore Throat, Quinsy and Diphtheria..... 25
35. Chronic Congestions, Headaches.
77. Grippe, Hay Fever and Summer Colds………..25
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1 small bottle of Pleasant Pellets, its the vest
pocket. Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt of
price HUMPHREYS' HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE
CO., Corner William and John Streets, New York.
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At the age of over eighty years;
with over fifty years' experience in
practice of medicine, and more than
forty in the use and perfection of
my SPECIFICS, I make this last
revision of my MANUAL. In
this I have included every known
advance in Medical and Pharma-
ceutical Science combined with the
experience gained from thousands
of patients who have used my
SPECIFICS. My hope is that this
MANUAL will extend the useful-
ness of what are now so widely
known and acknowledged to be the
most reliable Family Medicines
known to the public.
Humphreys
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1.

Yo rderick Humphreys, M.D.
HUMPHREYS'
Specific Manual
FOR THE
Administration of Medicine
AND
CURE OF DISEASE.
BY
FREDERICK HUMPHREYS, M. D.,
Late Professor of Institutes of Homeopathy,
Pathology, and Medical Practice in the Homeo-
pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia; author of "Dysentery and its
Homeopathic Treatment," "Cholera and its
Homeopathic Treatment," "Diseases of the
Sexual System," and Prover of Apis Mellifica,
Plantago Major, etc., etc., etc.
Copyrighted, 1900, by Humphreys' Hom. Med. Co.
NEW YORK:
HUMPHREYS' HOM. MEDICINE CO.
Oor. William and John Streets.
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HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS.
PARIS,
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LONDON,
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LISBON,
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5, Calle Sta. Ana, 5.
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MEXICO CITY,
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CANADA,
At all Drug Stores.
HONOLULU,
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"
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Plaza Santa Ana.
ALL THE ISLANDS OF THE WEST INDIES, CEN-
TRAL AMERICA, EVERY CITY, TOWN AND
HAMLET IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
For List of Specifics, see pages 102, 119.
For Witch Hazel Oil, see pages 127, 128.
For Marvel of Healing, see pages 125, 126.
For Veterinary Specifics, see pages 129, 188,
For Index, see page 189.
MANUAL.
INTRODUCTORY.
A
S IT IS the duty of every physician to
cure whatever of disease, relieve
whatever of suffering and prolong
whatever of life he may; so I hold it to be
my duty to place the knowledge and the
means for accomplishing these objects in the
hands of the people in the manner best cal-
culated to reach the greatest number and
accomplish the greatest good.
The first and most easily curable stage of
every disease is commonly treated by the
parent, the friend or the patient himself.
Hence, they should be informed upon the
subject and provided with such harmless,
simple and effective means as will most safe-
ly and readily attain this end. Almost every
disease may be easily cured at its commence-
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INTRODUCTORY.
ment, as the experience of thousands who
have long used HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS
abundantly proves, if they make timely use
of the appropriate SPECIFICS; while on the
other hand, thousands of serious and even
fatal cases became such by needless delay or
the resort to unsafe or injurious medicines.
If in treating ourselves, children or friends,
we must resort to crude, injurious or darger-
ous compounds or drugs, the after effects of
which produce evil, we might better desist
for fear of doing harm.
But in using
HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS no such danger ex-
ists. Each and every one is prepared under
the immediate supervision of an able and
experienced physician, and every possible
precaution is taken, not only that every
Specific shall be what it represents, but that
it is absolutely harmless. An experience of
their use in hundreds of thousands of cases,
extending over a period of more than forty
years, under almost every variety of subject
and circumstance, has proved them to be
absolutely free from evil and only productive
of good.
THE GREAT FEATURE of this system is,
that by a system of SPECIFICS prepared by a
skillful physician who has devoted his life to
the subject, the layman at once knows WHAT
TO GIVE, and HOW TO GIVE IT, and thus act
with certainty and positiveness-an import-
ant element of success.
INTRODUCTORY.
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HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS are the result of a
discovery of a particular remedy or specific
for EACH PARTICULAR DISEASE. This is ac-
complished according to a law announced
by me to the profession forty years ago,
and since elaborated and extended to the
whole series of my SPECIFICS.
Their use has extended over the entire
country, and to many foreign countries, and
families the world over use no other cura-
tive measures, but find my SPECIFICS by
far the most SIMPLE, CONVENIENT and RE-
LIABLE OF ALL DOMESTIC REMEDIES.
These SPECIFICS are so prepared as to hold
their virtues for YEARS.
HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS only cure disease.
Those using them become more firm and
vigorous, and less liable to the attacks of
disease. They cure, not because they are
strong medicines or violent poisons, but be-
cause they have a specific relation to disease,
and hence cure it.
IT IS A FACT confirmed by the most ample
experience that those who habitually resort
to HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS for aid and cure
in their illness, HAVE LESS SICKNESS, BETTER
HEALTH, BETTER GROWTH, longer and more
vigorous lives, than those treated by other
methods. The fact is explained in the cir-
cumstance that these SPECIFICS, because of
the method of their composition, have a
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deeper and wider range of action than other
medicines, and thus constantly tend to eradi-
cate constitutional weakness and disease.
The list of HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICs contains
preventives and cures for almost every form
of ACUTE ILLNESS or DISEASE which it is safe
or wise for the non-professional to treat, and
with each Specific such counsel and direc
tions, either in this Manual, or upon the
wrapper, as will lead to the safest and hap-
piest results. ACUTE DISEASES may come at
any time from exposure, and each has its
Specific, whose timely use is invaluable--not
only saving sickness, but often life itself.
The diseases of INFANCY and CHILDHOOD-
which not only annoy, but either carry off
their victims or lay the foundation of life-
long diseases-all find their prompt cure in
the list of SPECIFICS, and prove a veri-
table godsend to the family. For a
CHRONIC DISEASE OF INFIRMITY which has
been the dark spot of one's life, and for
the cure of which one has "suffered many
things of many physicians" without avail,
the persistent use of one or more SPECIFICS,
taken without pain or inconvenience, has
proved the golden key which has restored the
feeble to strength and vigor.
Those who suffer from some delicate in-
firmity or weakness known only to them-
selves, which they shrink from disclosing to
a physician, have found in the proper SPE-
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CIFIC a cure which has turned the winter of
life into May.
Families will find the use of a CASE of
HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS a source of relief
and refuge in these and many more in-
stances which could be named. They are
saved from undue haste and needless alarm;
saved from the danger of drugs and in-
jurious medicines, and from needless pro-
fessional calls and expense. The health and
vigor of the household is improved as well as
a timely saving in money and expenditure.
The value of a CASE of HUMPHREYS' SPE-
CIFICS in a family can scarcely be overesti-
mated.
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The great advantage over every other
system or medicine is briefly:-
THEY ARE SIMPLE-So that no mistake is
made in selecting or giving the remedy
THEY ARE HARMLESS-So that if taken by
mistake or accident, no injury results.
THEY ARE CONVENIENT — curing at once
numerous ills, ailments and diseases, to which
all are liable.
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THEY ARE EFFICIENT. By their timely
use five-sixths of all diseases may be arrested
without serious illness or calling a physician,
thus saving a vast amount of suffering and a
multitude of lives.
THEY ARE RELIABLE.-In the entire list
there is not one which has not the guarantee
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of the most ample experience over and over
repeated, as to its great curative value and
efficacy.
THEY ARE ECONOMICAL.—The use of a few
doses of pellets often saves a visit from the
doctor, and a long course of sickness, with
its heavy expenses.
DIET AND REGIMEN FOR THE SICK.
The diet and regimen for the sick is a
matter of importance. A disease may be
aggravated or prolonged by improper food
or habit, and some diseases at their com-
mencement may even be entirely cured by
observing a proper regimen for a few days.
Other diseases again owe their existence to
some improper habit, mode of life, or busi-
ness of the patient. A recovery is only to
be expected with a change in habits, busi-
ness or living. We cannot specify for every
case; much must be left for the good judg-
ment and discretion of the patient. Usually
with the treatment of each disease or class of
diseases the kind of diet or food proper to be
taken is given in the directions with each
Specific, and in the MANUAL and MENTOR.
In general, sick people need but little to
eat, and that of the plainest and yet most
nourishing and easily digested kind that can
be procured-not too often or too much, or
too rich food. If there is no appetite, nature
DIET AND REGIMEN FOR THE SICK.
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indicates that but little or no food should be
given; as that which is taken, unless easily
digested, will not be assimilated, and, hence,
may do more harm than good; and while
some things may be digested and prove nour-
ishing, others may act as mere irritants,
often aggravating the disease or retarding
recovery.
FOOD.-When patients are confined to their
room or bed, the following are among the
most easily digested, nourishing and whole-
some kinds of food: Indian-meal, oat-meal,
or farina gruel (which should be thoroughly
cooked), or milk-toast and boiled rice; for
drink, toast-water, rice-water and drinks
made of fruit-jellies, or any ripe or dried
fruits, and apples or other fruits baked or
stewed, except in diarrhea and dysentery.
As persons recover the diet may be more
liberal and nourishing, and yet they should
avoid the danger of relapse from over-eating.
Feeble persons need meat-soups, beef-tea, fish
and fowl variously prepared; and sometimes
wine and other stimulants, but always in
moderation, as there is more danger from
eating or drinking too much than too little.
Lemonade may be allowed in fever and
rheumatism. Coffee and green tea are ob-
jectionable; cocoa and black tea are per-
mitted. Coffee and green tea may be al-
lowed to the sick where persons have become
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DIET AND REGIMEN FOR THE SICK.
habituated to their use and suffer from their
deprivation. Those who are watching, or
performing severe or long-continued physical
or mental labor are wonderfully sustained
by an occasional cup of cocoa, tea or coffee,
and the waste of the system is thus prevented
to a great degree. Tobacco should only be
used in moderation, if at all; although its
moderate use, to persons accustomed to it,
may not be injurious to the action of medi-
cines. Yet it is evident that for these mild
Specifics to manifest their full benign effects
the system must not be saturated with nar-
cotic or medicinal influences.
EXERCISE is important to the invalid and
those of sedentary habits; yet, to be useful
it should be attended with pleasurable ex-
citement and freedom from labor or anxious
thought. In walking for exercise, it is better
to go on some errand or for some purpose
rather than for the mere walk itself. In
acute diseases exercise is rarely required until
convalescence is fairly established, and it
must then be taken in moderation.
If exer-
cise exhausts one, excites vertigo, dizziness,
or occasions pain or ready fatigue, it will
not prove beneficial. This is especially the
case with sick and feeble persons, and may
be considered a general rule,
HOW TO SELECT AND TAKE THE SPECIFICS.
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HOW TO SELECT AND TAKE THE
SPECIFICS.
In general there will be no difficulty in
deciding what particular Specific is required
for any case. Read over the account of the
disease in the MANUAL and compare the
same with the symptoms present in the per
son. Read the directions for preparing and
giving the Specific, and then follow them
strictly, USING NO OTHER MEDICINES and
MAKING NO APPLICATIONS except such as are
directed in the book or on the wrapper.
When the directions are to take the Spe.
cific dry, six pellets should be placed in the
mouth and slowly dissolved better not
chewed or swallowed whole. The vial
should not be turned against the tongue or
breathed into, or the pellets turned into a
moist or perspiring hand. If tobacco is
used, rinse the mouth before taking the pel-
lets. For children two, and infants one
pellet.
GAMES
When the Specific is to be taken in FLUID
FORM, dissolve twelve pellets in six dessert-
spoonfuls of pure water, by crushing, and
stirring the medicine until it entirely disap-
pears. (For grown persons a table-spoonful,
and for children or infants a dessert or tea-
spoonful is a proper dose.)
Two or more SPECIFICS may be given IN
ALTERNATION, that is, first one and then the
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other, at the proper interval. This may be
done when one SPECIFIC does not seem to
meet the entire case; or where a patient
appears to have the symptoms of two com-
plaints at the same time, as for instance:
Cough with Fever, or Catarrh with Dyspep-
sia, or Headache and Dyspepsia, or some
Gastric Derangement, or Dyspepsia and
some form of Kidney or Urinary Disease.
Usually it is better to give but one Specific
for the most prominent symptom or com-
plaint, in repeated doses, until that symptom
or disease is subdued. Then administer the
next most fitting Specific for the remaining
symptoms. Frequently the less prominent
complaint will disappear under the action of
the Specific given for the more important
one and thus the entire disease vanish. Or,
after having given the second Specific a new
trial, we can go back to the use of the first
one again with better results, as the condi-
tion of the system has been modified by the
action of the last medicine.
This ALTERNATION OF SPECIFICS is allow-
able. If the Specific apparently called for
does not relieve after a fair trial, then apply
the next most indicated one, or give the two
in ALTERNATION. That is, give a dose of
one Specific as directed, and after waiting
the proper interval, give a dose of the other,
and after the proper interval give the first
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one again, and so on in alternation at such
intervals as the directions require.
THE BEST TIME for taking medicine is in
the morning on rising, and half an hour
before each meal, and at night on retiring to
rest, thus making four doses per day.
The REPETITION OF DOSES depends upon
circumstances. In ACUTE DISEASES and
urgent cases the Specific acts best when dis-
solved in pure water, and a spoonful given
every fifteen minutes, half-hour, hour, two
hours, according to the urgency of the case.
The frequency of the doses may be dimin-
ished as the patient improves. In most cases
of CHRONIC DISEASE, a dose in the morning
and at night will be sufficient, or at most
four times a day; that is, before each meal
and on going to bed. It is not the quantity
or frequency of doses, but the specific action
of the remedy which cures.
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
FEVERS, in childhood, are common at from
one to ten years of age, and are often brought
on from over-fatigue, exposure to the heat
of the sun, cold drafts of air, improper food,
worms, etc. They are known by the red
face, swelling and throbbing of the veins of
the neck, hot head, quick pulse and rapid
breathing. Such fevers find their prompt
cure in the Specific No. 1, which soon
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quiets the fever, induces perspiration, and
thus cures the disease.
TREATMENT.-Dissolve twelve pellets of the
Specific No. 1 in six teaspoonfuls of water, of
which give one spoonful every hour. Then dis-
solve twelve moné pellets of the same Specific
in the same manner, and give a teaspoonful
every two hours until profuse perspiration comes
on and the disease is broken. Give freely of
water, and often sponge off the body with tepid
water.
SCARLET FEVER is usually considered a very
formidable disease, but under my Specific
treatment it has lost much of its terror. The
first symptom is, usually, vomiting, soon suc-
ceeded by violent heat, very rapid pulse,
and sore throat, which may be known by the
pain on swallowing. Soon a rash or reddish
blush spreads over the body, commencing on
the arms, neck, breast and face, until the
disease has reached its height, when later it
becomes faint-yellowish, and the outerʼor
scarf skin flakes off in patches, or in minute
bran-like scales. Such is the course of mild
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina, but it may be-
come complicated from an irregular develop-
ment, ulcerated throat, or other symptoms.
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TREATMENT.-To prevent the disease, while
Scarlet Fever is prevailing, give each child
two (adults six) pellets of the Specific No. 1
morning and night. This protects the system, or
in any event renders the course of the disease
much milder. If the disease has commenced
with vomiting, sore throat or fever, dissolve
twelve pellets of the Specific No. 1 in a tum-
bler half full of water, and of this fluid, prepared
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snew in like manner every day, give one tea-
spoonful every hour during the height of the dis-
ease, extending the intervals to two hours as the
disease abates. If the eruption remains obstin-
ate after some days, and the sore throat or can-
ker unyielding, alternate the Specific No. 14,
prepared in the same manner, with the No. 1,
one dose every two hours. This remedy is also
efficacious at the close of the disease, to relieve
the itching and assist desquamation, and thus
prevent bad after-diseases. Sponging the child
with tepid water is very grateful and useful
through the entire course of the disease.
If swelling of the glands under the ears or
about the neck occurs, give four pellets of the
Specific No. 22 each morning and night, and
the No. 1 during the day, as above.
If dropsical swelling of the limbs or body
occurs toward the close or after the disease has
subsided, give the Specific No. 25, six pel-
lets four times per day until cured. Thousands
of cases are thus safely carried through the dis-
ease every year by this treatment.
Remember that Scarlet Fever, Measles,
Varioloid, Diphtheria and Whooping Cough
are contagious, and unprotected persons
coming into their presence are liable to take
the disease. So if a child has the Scarlet
Fever or other of these diseases, keep other
children out of the sick room or house, or as
far from the room as possible. To permit
well children to inhale the breath, fondle or
play, or even be in school with them, until
entirely recovered, is most sure to communi-
cate the disease. In such cases remove the
well ones or fit up a separate room for the
sick, and excluding the others maintain a
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rigid quarantine until the entire recovery.
A child may communicate the disease to
another so long as there is any desquamation
or peeling or scurf from the skin-some-
times two or three weeks after the child is
out. Hence it is well to wash the surface
daily with good olive oil, or the Marvel
of Healing, to prevent the dissemination of
these minute branny scales by which the
disease is conveyed to others.
MEASLES prevail usually toward spring, and
is generally a mild, easily managed disease.
It commences with symptoms of a cold,
sneezing, flow of tears and slight redness of
the eyes, and soon a hoarse, loose cough,
which is characteristic of the disease. The
rash appears first on the face in minute
pimples in clusters, with a reddish blush,
deepening and increasing as it comes out,
first day upon the face and neck, next upon
the body, and third day extending to the
lower extremities, by which time it grows
fainter upon the face, and disappears in the
same manner. There is fever, loose cough,
hoarseness, etc.
TREATMENT.-Give the Specific No. 1, pre-
pared as directed for Scarlet Fever (page 16)
every two hours, and continue this treatment
through the entire course of the disease. If the
measles do not come out well, do not be alarmed
about that; keep the patient warm, give some
warm tea or nourishing soup, or hot foot-bath.
If the cough is troublesome, alternate the Spe-
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cific No. 7 with the No. 1. If very hoarse, give
a few doses of the No. 13. If the eyes are red,
inflamed, intolerant of light, the No. 18 will act
like a charm, and for any weakness of sight re-
maining, in consequence of measles, the same
Specific may be relied upon, six pellets three
times per day. Care should be taken during the
measles to prevent taking cold, as serious dis-
eases of the lungs may arise as a consequence.
You will have no difficulty in safely treating the
disease by following these directions.
CHICKEN-POX is a mild, and not dangerous
disease, usually lasting but four or five days,
though it is sometimes liable to be mistaken
for small-pox, especially during an epidemic
of the latter. It consists of the appearance
of vesicles, smooth and transparent, filled
with a watery fluid, mostly located on the
covered parts of the body, or scalp, and
which mature rapidly, frequently becoming
as large as a pea within a day's time.
These thin, watery vesicles often come out
in clusters, burst and dry up, leaving a small
puckered scab, but rarely any pit or de-
pression, as in small-pox. The attack is
generally attended with a slight fever.
It rarely requires more than a few doses
of the Specific No. 1; if new crops of
pox come out, No. 14 is the Specific.
MUMPS are known as the somewhat hard
and sensitive swelling of the gland in front
of and below the ear, on one or both sides.
It is attended with fever, and pain when
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chewing, especially any firm or hard food.
It passes off in three or four days, and is
rarely dangerous, but may sometimes fall
upon the brain, producing delirium, or if the
patient is chilled, may fall upon other parts,
producing swelling and other mischief.
TREATMENT. —Give the Specific No. 1,
twelve pellets in six spoonfuls of water, one
spoonful every two hours, and, two or three
times per day, six pellets of Specific No. 22.
Should any swelling of the glands remain, the
use of the No. 22 will remove it. Should the
disease fall upon the urinary organs, the No. 30
will soon relieve.
CONGESTION OF THE HEAD begins in children
with violent fever, red and hot face, swelling
and throbbing of the blood-vessels of the
neck, sleeplessness and delirium, or deep,
drowsy sleep, inclination to lie down, with
pain in the head, increase of the pain and
distress, and even vomiting, on being held
up, great intolerance of light and noise.
TREATMENT. These symptoms find their
remedy in the Specific No. 1, twelve pellets of
which should be dissolved in six teaspoonfuls of
water, of which give a spoonful every hour at
first, and then every two hours as the case im-
proves. Meantime, apply cloths wet in tepid
water to the head, and renew them as often as
they get hot.
Goddard
Congestions of the Head occur in children
and adults also, in a slighter or less violent
form; with a sense of fullness and heaviness
of the head and redness of face, vertigo or
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
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giddiness, especially on turning or looking
upward, throbbing headache, and sometimes
intolerance of light, drowsy and stupid feel-
ings, desire to sleep by day and sleepless at
night.
TREATMENT. — In mild cases six pellets of the
Specific No. 1, taken four times per day, will
afford relief; but if the case is more violent, dis
solve twelve pellets in half a glass of water, and
of this take a spoonful every two hours until
relieved, and then morning and night; or, if the
affection is of some standing, Specific No. 9
may be taken alternately with the No. 1.
Old Cases of Head Fullness and Vertigo of the
Head, are entirely cured by taking the No. 10
at night and No. 9 in the morning.
SORE THROAT, TONSILLITIS OR QUINSY begins
with redness, heat, swelling of the throat,
tonsils, palate and soft parts, difficult swal-
lowing, and it sometimes terminates in sup-
puration.
TREATMENT.-Dissolve twelve pellets of the
Specific No. 1 in water (half a glass) and take
a spoonful of this solution every hour. If not
soon relieved, take the Specific No. 34, pre-
pared in the same manner, alternately with the
No. 1. Apply cloths kept moist with the Mar-
vel of Healing to the throat, and keep indoors,
on low diet, until relieved.
DIPHTHERIA and ULCERATED OR MALIG-
NANT SORE THROAT. It is convenient to treat
these diseases together, as the amateur may
not be able to distinguish the one from the
other, and the treatment is the same. The
disease may be mild, but is often formidable.
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DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
Diphtheria usually commences in children
with dullness, inclination to sleep, swelling
and soreness of the throat, indicated by
difficulty in swallowing, and frequently vom-
iting. Fever, heat, and redness of the face;
increased difficulty of swallowing soon come
on, and on examination, the appearance of
patches of dirty washleather-like membrane
in the throat, or ulcerations in advanced
cases, with difficulty of breathing and pros-
tration.
TREATMENT.-To prevent the disease, give chil-
dren two pellets of Specific No. 1 each morn-
ing, and the same of No. 34 at night, and so
alternate (while the disease is prevailing) and
carefully avoid exposure to severe chills or over-
fatigue.
For an attack of diphtheria or of severe or ulcer-
ated sore throat, give alternately the Specific
No. 1 and the No. 34 in water, thus: dissolve
twelve pellets of the No. 1 in a tumbler half full
of water and the same amount of No. 34 in an-
other glass, with a like quantity of water, stirring
each well with separate spoons. Give to adults
a tablespoonful, and to children a teaspoonful of
the fluid, first of one, then of the other, at inter-
vals of half-hour at first, and later an hour. or
even, in mild cases, two hours; and this continue
until cured. The diet should be easily digested
and nourishing, toast-water, farina, or other
gruel; good sweet milk, and beef-tea, during the
disease, and apply cloths wet in the Marvel of
Healing to the throat.
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THE EARLY STAGE of every acute disease
attended with chills, or high fever, quick pulse,
heat, restless tossing, anxiety and
and pain,
will be always alleviated, and often entirely
subdued, by the use of Specific No. 1, given
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every hour.
In all cases when there is pain or
distress, and you are uncertain what remedy
to apply, or have failed to cure, resort to the
No. 1, and continue its use for some time, or
return again to some more perfectly indicated
number.
WORMS.-Worms often cause much annoy-
ance in children, and it is important to know
the symptoms by which their presence is
manifested, as well as the cure. Children
most subject to worms have light, fair skin,
soft, flabby flesh, and enlarged abdomen,
while the legs and arms are comparatively
small. Such children are subject to catarrhs,
mucus diarrheas and mucus vomiting. When
this condition exists, worms will be found in
the system, and a predisposition to produce
them. Unless this condition is corrected,
the driving off of a few, either by ordinary
cathartics or vermifuges, is of no great con-
sequence.
The more common symptoms of worms are:
frequent itching of the nose, which the child
picks with its finger; itching at the anus;
voracious or greedy appetite; desire for
dainties, and often the breath is offensive,
especially when the stomach is empty; bowels
irregular, either constipation or diarrhea, in
which are masses of glairy frog-spawn-like
mucus.
Symptoms arising from the local irritation
of worms are: Colic pains in the bowels,
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which are worse when the stomach is empty,
and often pass off after a meal, Sometimes
the local irritation affects the nervous system,
and there is dilatation of the pupil of the eyes,
distortion or rolling of the eyes, springing up,
grating of the teeth, and talking in sleep,
vertigo and sometimes spasms.
Fever is one of the most frequent results of
worms; it is usually quite violent, pulse
quick, heat great, noticeable for its unsteady
character; now more, and now less, coming
and going; and there is danger of con-
vulsions during such a fever, especially if
there should be sudden startings or twitch-
ings. If the worm predisposition is not
cured, the child may become emaciated,
weakly and fail to thrive.
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TREATMENT.-It is not difficult to get rid of a
few worms by the action of any brisk cathartic;
but this is of small consequence, for you will
leave many more behind, while the vermifuge
will weaken the digestion, and thus tend to
Induce their production anew; hence, children
who take crude medicines are subject to worms.
To eradicate Worms from the system, give the
child plain diet, meat once a day, little or no
pastry, cake, preserves or candies; but substan-
tial, nourishing food, and give it three pellets of
Specific No. 2, morning and night, or even
four times per day. The result will be that the
worms will disappear.
When worms produce violent fever, full, quick
pulse, and hot skin, etc., dissolve twelve pellets
of Specific No. 1 in a glass one-third filled with
water, and give the child a dessert-spoonful
every hour for four or six hours, and then pre
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pare the No. 2 in the same manner, in water,
and give the No. 2 alternately with the No. 1
until entirely relieved. Then give the No. 2
morning and night, or four times per day, to
effect a radical cure. No other medicines are
required in order to permanently cure this affec-
tion, as the experience of hundreds can testify;
only do not expect miracles; exercise a little
patience, for a constitutional cure requires time.
CRYING OF INFANTS.-Infants do not cry if
they are well, and properly cared for. When
a child constantly cries without apparent
cause, it affords a strong presumption that it
is not well.
Nurses, to quiet the crying of infants, give
them anodynes, cordials, or soothing syrups,
which render them costive, then a cathartic
or a dose of oil is given to physic them,
which, in turn, deranges the stomach, and in
a little time we have a permanent condition
of illness fastened upon the child, which may
continue for life. This is irrational and
wrong. The nurse should never suffer the
infant to cry or worry, always attending
to or anticipating its wants, changing and
feeding it promptly, and also avoid giving it
drugs or doses.
COLIC.-If the child has colic, which may
be known by its cries and drawing its legs
up to its abdomen, while the belly is hard
and distended:
TREATMENT.-Give two pellets of the Specifio
No. 3, and soothe it by carrying it about, or
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other means. If no better in half an hour, give
two more pellets, and so on, repeating every
half hour until relieved.
WAKEFULNESS.-If the child does not sleep
at night, after having had proper intervals
of being awake during the day, give it the
following:
TREATMENT.-Two pellets of Specific No. 3
before laying it down. This will usually be suffi-
cient; but if necessary the pellets may be re-
peated every hour. The nurse should bear in
mind that if she takes strong tea or coffee, or
spirits, or such flatulent food as pickles, cabbage,
beans, etc., she can scarcely expect her child to
sleep well, as the effect of the stimulus, or food,
may act more decidedly on the child than upon
her.
TEETHING of healthy children is often ac-
complished without seriously affecting the
system; but frequently there is diarrhea,
feverishness, and restlessness at night, and
sometimes serious congestion to the head.
The first teeth are cut at from the fourth to
the eighth month, or later, and usually with
but little trouble-first, the two lower, cut-
ting teeth; then the two upper, middle teeth
in about two or three weeks after the first;
and then two more lower, followed by two
upper incisors-one on each side. Some eight
weeks after these, there will be four first
jaw-teeth-two below and two above, and
after chese the stomach and eye-teeth are
cut; and finally, when about two and a half
years old, the back jaw-teeth-two below
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and two above-protrude, which completes
the set. Variations from this order are,
however, frequent.
When the teeth are about to protrude, the
child "drools," and puts its fingers in the
mouth, is more or less feverish, and the gum
grows broader, and swellson the top. Lancing
the gum is quite unnecessary, and if done
prematurely, only obstructs the teeth by
forming a cicatrix, which the tooth must
pierce when it comes forward again; besides,
it is not so much the piercing of the gum
which causes the inconvenience, as a feverish
condition of the system, which accompanies
any important evolution of the organism.
TREATMENT.-During the Period of Teething,
whenever there is any feverish excitement, rest-
lessness, wakefulness, or worrying, give two pel-
lets of Specific No. 3, four times per day. This
quiets the system, relieves the irritation and rest-
lessness, and any slight diarrhea. If, however,
there should be very high fever and a good deal
of heat, it is better to give two pellets of Spe-
cific No. 1 for Fever, dissolved in water, a tea-
spoonful every two hours, and the No. 3 morning
and night. If diarrhea also becomes threatening,
the movements of the bowels frequent and some-
what prostrating, give two pellets of the Specific
No. 4 every three hours until this troublë be re-
lieved. See, also, Specific No. 8.
FOR SLOW GROWTH, FEEBLENESS, DIFFICULT
LEARNING TO WALK and GENERAL DEBIL-
ITY of infants or small children, the proper-
TREATMENT.-Is Specifio No. 3, two pellets
three or four times per day, which often works
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wonders in increasing the muscular strength and
natural growth of bone.
FRETFULNESS, FEVERISHNESS AND WORRY-
ING of children three or four years old often
arises from deficient growth of bone.
TREATMENT.-Give four times per day three
pellets of the Specific No. 3. The result will
soon be shown in improved vigor, health and
happiness.
SPRUE, OR NURSING SORE MOUTH of young
infants is frequently troublesome, and some-
times dangerous.
TREATMENT.-The Specific No. 3 will usually
be found effectual. Given at times for other com-
plaints, sore mouth will rarely occur; but if it is
present, one pellet four times per day will suffice
to cure. Obstinate cases may require Specific
No. 29, four times per day.
DIARRHEA, OR LOOSE BOWELS.-In small
children this disease is often formidable, and
demands attention. In young and teething
children it frequently assumes the form of
Cholera Infantum, and is liable to be fatal.
TREATMENT.-For Diarrhea or Loose Bowels in
Young Children, give two pellets of Specific
No. 4, three, four or more times per day, accord-
ing to circumstances. Let the child have for
diet only breast milk, boiled rice, farina, or milk
porridge, avoiding all fruits, vegetables, and
especially new potatoes. Any slight derange-
ment of the stomach-pain, gripings or diarrhea
-arising from errors in diet, etc., will be prompt-
ly remedied by taking Specific No. 4, four
times per day. Diarrhea from the use of fruit,
also, will be promptly met by taking the No. 4
as above.
DISEASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN.
CHOLERA INFANTUM. Few diseases are
more destructive and fatal in children than
this. In some parts of the country, in the
larger towns and cities, numbers of children
are every summer carried off by it. Diarrhea
in young children in summer is liable to cul-
minate in a cholera infantum, and cholera
infantum has diarrhea as a symptom. It
prevails principally among children of from
six months to three years of age.
It often commences as a slight looseness of
the bowels, which goes on increasing from
day to day, until the child becomes emaci-
ated, its stomach becomes exceedingly irri-
table, so that it vomits up every kind of food
and drink, and at length it sinks into a
drowsy, stupid slumber, which, after some
days, closes the scene; or, the disease may
come on more suddenly, with very frequent,
loose, offensive stools, sudden vomiting of
everything taken into the stomach, rapid
emaciation, soon followed by coldness, col-
lapse, stupid slumber, and extreme pros-
tration.
In the first case the disease may run from
three to twelve weeks, until the child is re-
duced to a skeleton; and in the latter, the
fatal termination may occur in three to six
days.
TREATMENT.-In this disease the diet is of the
first importance, as it is almost impossible for a
child to recover unless it has a proper diet, Out
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dren who nurse do better than those who have
been weaned or brought up by hand; for though
the child may get but little from the breast, that
little is appropriate for it, and quality in this
case is of more importance than quantity.
If the stomach is very irritable, vomiting up
everything taken, food must only be given once
in two or three hours, and only two or three
spoonfuls of farina gruel, rice-water, or some
similar light or nourishing substance; or, if the
child yet nurses, the breast is still better; yet
the child must not be nursed too often, nor suf-
fered to take too much at a time. Also, every
hour, give a spoonful of a solution made by dis
solving six pellets of Specific No. 6 in six tea-
spoonfuls of water. This continue a few hours;
and then prepare six pellets of the No. 4,
in fluid, in the same manner, and give every hour
a spoonful alternately of these two medicines.
As the disease improves, the dose may be given
less frequently; but be very cautious both as to
the quantity and quality of food or drink al
lowed.
CHRONIC DIARRHEA-several stools per day
without much pain-requires three or four
doses of Specific No. 4 each day.
TREATMENT.-If accompanied with cutting or
griping pains, or blood-stained stools, forming
what is called dysenteric diarrhea, Specific No.
5, taken every two hours, will be found better
than Speciüc No. 4 for this form of disease; or
the two may be alternated two (six for adults)
pellets every hour.
INFANTILE BRONCHITIS OR CATARRH OF THE
CHEST OF INFANTS OR YOUNG CHILDREN is
attended with fever, quick pulse, rapid and
difoult breathing with rattling of mucus,
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or fine crepitation, and frequent, painful
cough.
TREATMENT.—Give the Specific No. 1, dissolv-
ed in water, every hour for twelve hours; then
the No. 7, dissolved in water, and give the two
in alternation every two hours until relieved.
WETTING THE BED in some cases arises from
the irritation of worms; in others, from an
irritable condition of the bladder itself; and
in some cases from improper habits. But it
is almost invariably the result of a morbid
condition or irritation of the bladder, or re-
laxation of its sphincter, and is quite beyond
the control of the child, and is a proper sub-
ject of medical treatment.
← TREATMENT.-Children subject to wetting the
bed should avoid taking fluids, fruits, or watery
vegetables in the late evening, or even entirely
abstain from them at such hours, and should
take three pellets of Specific No. 30 night and
morning. The Specific No. 22 may be given in
obstinate cases alternately with No. 30, giving
No. 22 each morning and No. 30 noon and
night.
CROUP.-Croup in children is usually a sud-
den and sometimes fatal disorder, and it is
important to know its symptoms, and to have
a reliable remedy at hand with which to
meet it. It often comes suddenly at night,
after the child has been exposed, or out play-
ing in a damp, rough wind during the day:
The child wakes out of a sleep with a sudden,
hoarse, barking cough, often like the barking
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of a hoarse dog, and sometimes, even at first,
some degree of oppressive or difficult breath-
ing. In some cases there are frequent re-
turns of this hoarse cough, with little or no
fever, or difficulty of breathing for some
hours, or even a day or so; and at others
there is a high fever, quick pulse and red
face from the first hour of the attack. As
the fever increases, the cough returns in
more frequent paroxysms, and the difficulty
of breathing increases; often by turns be-
comes wheezing, rattling, and in the worst
cases, as if breathing through fine brazen
pipes; and becomes, by degrees, loud, harsh,
and is heard all over the room.
If the child improves, the breathing be-
comes easier, softer, the rattling of mucus
looser: if worse, finer and tighter. Toward
the last, the head is thrown back to facilitate
respiration, the larynx rises and falls with
every breath, and the child is bathed in
sweat by the suffering and effort.
These sudden cases, however, usually soon
yield to proper remedies. But the worst
cases are those which come insidiously, the
child being scarcely ill for two or three days,
little or no cough, or a mild, muffled cough,
but very hoarse or whispering speech, or en-
tire loss of voice, the difficult breathing only
coming on gradually. Such cases are highly
dangerous.
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TREATMENT.-For an attack with hoarse, croupy
cough, either suddenly at night or at other times,
dissolve at once twelve pellets of Specific No.
13 in six dessert-spoonfuls of pure water, of
which give a spoonful every half hour at first,
and until the child improves, keeping the child
In-doors in a warm room, and protected from
draughts of air for a day or two, to prevent a
relapse.
But, if with the croupy cough there is also
high fever, hot skin, and some difficulty of
breathing, prepare the Specific No. 1 in the
same manner as the No. 13, and give a dessert-
spoonful every half-hour, alternating with the
No. 13, until the child is in a perspiration, and
the fever is relieved, then the No. 13 may be
continued alone at intervals of an hour or more,
As the child improves.
When a hoarse or a suspicious cough at night
hreatens an, attack of Croup, three pellets of
Specific No. 13, occasionally repeated, will
sually ward off the danger.
In the worst cases, with hoarse cough, difficult,
nxious, stridulous breathing, give the Specifics
No. 13 and No. 1, prepared as above, a spoonful
very half-hour alternately. Give no other medi-
aes-make no external applications, for these
fill do no good, and often impede the cure-only
hen the fever is high and difficulty of breathing
reat, bathe the child's feet and legs to the knees
a quite warm water, and even its hands, for ten or
fteen minutes at a time, then wiping them dry
nd covering them warm to perspire, For some
days after an attack, do not let the child go out,
or be exposed to a draught of cold air, and during
he attack give it no fruit.
To prevent a return of croup, and to destroy
he predisposition which some children have to
give three pellets of Specific No. 13 morning
nd night, and after any special exposure.
In lingering cases of Croup, alternate Specific
Jo. 13 with Specific No. 34 hourly,
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WHOOPING-COUGH.-Whooping-cough usu-
ally commences as a common cold, though
from the first the cough is rather more vio-
lent and spasmodic than in ordinary colds,
and not until after ten or fourteen days does
it assume the true distinctive form of whoop-
ing cough, with severe shocks of cough in
rapid succession, followed by a deep inhala-
tion or whoop. This disease, if uncured,
will continue from six to twelve, or even four-
teen weeks.
To
DIRECTIONS: TO PREVENT WHOOPING-
COUGH.-When children have been exposed,
or begin to cough, give simply three pellets
of Specific No. 20, four times per day.
You thus either prevent it entirely, or de-
stroy its force and violence.
TREATMENT.-Give three pellets of Specific
No. 20 every four hours during the day. This
is sufficient in ordinary cases, but if very severe,
administer three pellets, every two hours, dayt
and night, if awake, placing the pellets in the
child's mouth, and at longer intervals as the
child improves. Should there be fever, or
threatened inflammation of the air-passages, givet
the Specific No. 1 in alternation with the No.
20, prepared in water, twelve pellets of each in
six spoonfuls of water, separately, of which giver
a spoonful every hour, first of No. 1, next of No.
20, and so on. Give the child no meat, cake
rich or heavy food, but an abundance of mucila
ginous drinks-rice-water, barley-water, gum
water or Irish moss tea. The disease will thus be
broken up or run a short, mild and safe course
as thousands of cases treated with Specific No
20 amply testify.
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SPASMS.-Spasms or convulsions may occur
In children from some transient irritation,
such as teething, indigestible substances in
the stomach, or congestion to the head, or
from fever or extreme nervous excitement.
There is a sudden straightening of the body,
cramping of the limbs, holding the head back
or on one side, drawing in of the thumbs,
distortion of the eyes, arrest of breath and
oss of consciousness, etc., after which the
muscles become relaxed, and the patient
sinks into a sound sleep, from which he
awakes restored. But in cases of children, or
when the irritating cause has not been re-
moved, the spasm may return again, or even
several times. Some families of children are
subject to fits from slight occasion.
TREATMENT.-During the attack of convulsions
It is better to wait; but if the patient does not
Scome out readily, put the feet in warm water, and
apply cold, wet cloths or cold water to the head. If
the spasm has been induced by indigestible food,
oranges, candies or sweet-meats, especially in
children, give a large injection of warm water,
[repeated until free evacuations of the bowels
take place. Give, also, the Specific No. 33, six
pellets every hour until all excitement of the
system passes off; then six pellets morning and
enight.
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EPILEPSY OR FALLING SICKNESS.-Slight
} attacks (Petit-Mal); with fixed gaze; mo-
mentary loss of consciousness; turning of the
tace to one side; dropping things; slight
muscular twitchings; vertigo. Severe at-
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tacks (Grand-Mal); with sudden loss of
consciousness, often preceded by a strange
cry; falling; convulsel face and limbs;
grinding of teeth and biting of tongue and
foaming at the mouth; involuntary evacua-
tions; strangling breathing; purplish, flushed
face; followed by deep sleep and exhaustion
on awaking. These fits recur at intervals,
leaving the system comparatively free during
the interval.
While Epilepsy is more common in adults,
yet it is often first shown in childhood, and
hence may be treated here. Spasms, Con-
vulsions, St. Vitus' Dance and even Hysteria
all have their first manifestation in the years
of growth, and are best cured during that
period.
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TREATMENT.-For an attack of convulsions,
treat as for spasms. During the interval between
the attacks, give six pellets morning and night of
the Specifič No. 33, and avoid all exciting
causes of the attack. In old chronic cases of
Epilepsy or Fits, give six pellets of the No. 33,
each night, and the same or the No. 35 each
morning.
CHOREA OR ST. VITUS' DANCE is manifested
by uneasiness, twitching and jerking of the
limbs, grimaces, or drawing of the muscles
of the face, trembling, unsteady walk, ina-
bility to hold things, or to feed one's self, or
even to swallow food without difficulty, or
sometimes even to talk.
TREATMENT.-Give six pellets of Specific No.
33, four times per day. In severe or protracted
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cases, give six pellets of the No. 35 before
breakfast and before supper, and the same of the
No. 33 before dinner and at night.
HYSTERIA is manifested by fits of sobbing,
laughing, crying, usually beginning with a
sense of "a ball in the throat" (Globus
Hystericus), and without seeming cause,
though often in connection with some strong
mental emotion; irregular, convulsive move-
ments of limbs; partly closed eyes; loss of
self-control; irregular breathing and heart
action. But there is not loss of consciousness,
biting of the tongue or turning in of the
thumbs, and it occurs mostly in sensitive or
nervous persons.
TREATMENT.-Give Specific No. 33 every
three hours, and the storm will soon be over;
then morning and night to prevent a return.
Children who have twitching of the face or
limbs, or very restless sleep, or slight convul
sions, may take the Specific No. 35 night and
morning, with prompt relief.
FEVERS.
FEVERS begin usually with a precursory
stage, lasting some days, consisting of de-
pression, pain in the back or limbs, head-
ache, coated tongue, loss of appetite, or gen-
eral lassitude. After this there is either a
cold chill or chilliness for a day or two,
which is followed by high fever, with head-
ache, sleeplessness, sometimes delirium, full,
quick, hard pulse, quick respiration, vertigo
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FIVERS.
on rising or sitting up, sometimes vomiting,
costive bowels, etc.
This stage continues some days, depending
upon the character of the fever and treat-
ment, after which the pulse by degrees
abates, the skin gradually becomes moist,
the tongue cleans of, appetite and strength
improve, and the patient becomes conva-
lescent.
It is not always prudent for non-profess-
ional persons to assume the management of
grave cases of Fever, even with the aid of
these invaluable Specifics. The responsibility
is too great. There may be conditions and
dangers which the amateur cannot under-
stand, especially in the graver and more
persistent forms of fever. So, while it is
eminently proper and wise to know what to
give and how to treat the milder forms of
Fever and the beginnings and earlier forms
of all Fevers, yet the management of the
graver forms should be assumed only when
competent medical aid cannot be obtained.
The early treatment, as here directed, often
arrests and entirely cures the milder forms,
and always moderates the force and character
and violence of the more serious ones.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.--In the treatment
of all forms of fever, it is of importance to
keep the room well aired and lighted, scru-
pulously clean, with frequent change of
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linen and bedding, and prompt removal of
discharges, and all soiled linen; plenty of
pure cold water to drink; the body, hands
and face should be frequently sponged off
with tepid or cold water, or with vinegar and
water.
The diet during the first stage should be
simply toast, bread or crackers soaked in
weak black tea. In the second stage, rice,
milk, and arrowroot may be added to the
diet; and in the third, or stage of prostration,
ice cream, champagne, beef-tea or wine-
whey may be necessary. The patient should
remain in bed, comfortably but not oppress-
ively covered during the entire course of the
disease. After the fever is broken, gradually
return to a more substantial diet, beginning
with toast, baked apples, rice, beef-tea, fish
or similar articles.
Varietics of Fever are not always sharply
defined. But the non-professional reader
may find the following sufficient for his
action:
INFLAMMATORY FEVERS are characterized
by a strong, quick pulse, hot skin, red face,
severe headache, hurried respiration, thirst,
restless tossing and sleeplessness. The symp-
toms are worse in the evening and are better
after midnight and toward morning.
TREATMENT.—In this form of fever, only the
Specific No. 1 is required. Dissolve twelve
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pellets in a drinking-glass half full of water, and
of this give a tablespoonful to an adult, or a tea
spoonful to a child, every hour for the first day
or two, or until the force of the disease is broken,
then at longer intervals until cured. It generally
yields after a day or two.
BILIOUS OR GASTRIC FEVERS.-The precur
sory stage is marked by decided bilious de-
rangement, with bad taste, coated tongue,
headache or backache, and costive bowels.
This after a day or two is succeeded by a
strong chill, followed by sharp, pungent heat,
violent headache in the forehead, bad taste
in the mouth, heavy-coated tongue, bitter,
bilious vomiting, highly-colored, scanty
urine, constipation, sleeplessness, and gener-
ally delirium, hurried respiration, and sharp,
quick pulse, and often tenderness of the
bowels.
It may continue seven or fifteen days, and
is sometimes marked with decided remissions
of some hours, when the fever returns again
as before, or it may terminate in Fever and
Ague.
TREATMENT.--In this disease the Specifics
No. 1 and No. 10 are required. Dissolve twelve
pellets of the No. 1 in six spoonfuls of water in
one glass, stirring carefully with its separate
spoon until dissolved, and as many of No. 10 in
another, prepared in the same manner, and give
every hour a large spoonful alternately of the
two glasses, first from No. 1 and next hour from
No. 10, and so on until the disease is subdued.
After twelve or twenty-four hours, one dose
every two hours will be sufficient. Improvement
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will occur in a day, and the disease will be
carried to a favorable termination. Even should
several days of treatment be required for a per-
manent cure with the Specifics, it will still be
much better than merely tỏ suppress the chill
with Quinine or other violent medicines, only to
have the chills reappear after a few days.
In the precursory stage, six pellets of Specific
No. 10, once in two or three hours for a day or
two, will restore the system and arrest the out-
break of fever.
MALARIA.-Malaria was formerly considered
as a miasm, limited to the exhalations en-
gendered in low-lying lands-the margin of
swamps, and along the margin of rivers, or
where new land and soil have widely been
dug up, and exposure to the action of the
sun. But modern researches have shown
that while the miasm is more intense in such
localities, yet it is by no means confined to
them, and that as a fact but very few and
narrow sections of country are entirely free
from Malaria-cities, villages, towns and
country all have it in greater or slighter de-
gree. It was also formerly supposed that
the only result of Malaria was Fever and
Ague, or some of its precursors or results.
But it is now known not only to produce this
disease, but to produce a wide number of dis-
agreeable and troublesome symptoms, which
fall quite short of Fever and Ague or Malaria
Fever, and so a large number of people suf-
fer from Malaria when attributing their
trouble to something quite different.
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FEVERS.
Its most frequent mild form is known by a
slightly coated tongue, bad taste, diminished
appetite, constipated or irregular bowels,
headache or some form of neuralgia, vague
pains in the back, joints or limbs, feeling of
dullness, indifference, distaste for work or
effort, sleepiness or drowsiness by day, and
unrefreshing sleep at night, want of energy;
sometimes with pale, earthy or yellow face,
and skin, and general feeling of illness.
This first phase of Malaria, unless cured,
will develop an Intermitting Fever, or a Re-
mitting Fever, out of which will form a
Fever and Ague.
TREATMENT.-To cure Malaria and arrest its
further development, take simply, in alternation,
the Specifics No. 1 and No. 16, a dose of six
pellets every three or four hours, with light,
easily digested food, and avoid exposure to the
hot sun by day, or damp night air, or over-
fatigue. This course will in a few days rid the
system of Malaria and arrest the development of
Fever and Ague or Bilious Fever.
Thousands of families living in malarious
regions are fully protected and have an entire
immunity from Malaria in all its forms, by
simply taking Specifics No. 10 and No. 16, as
above.
AGUE CAKE (Enlarged Spleen or Liver), as
well as other effects of badly treated or neglected
Agues; or the victims of Quinine Cholagogue,
Arsenic, etc., taken for it, are cured by Specific
No. 16.
FEVER AND AGUE, INTERMITTENT FEVER.
TREATMENT. FOR CHILLS which return every
day, take, one hour before the chill is to come on,
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six pellets of Specific No. 16. Then, during thə
chill and heat, take every fifteen minutes &
spoonful of the No. 1, prepared as on page 13.
Then, after the chill and heat and sweat have
subsided, go on with the No. 16, of which take
six pellets once in four hours until the next chill
comes on, and then proceed as before.
FOR CHILLS which return every other day.-
Give, in the same manner, a dose of Specific
No. 16 before each chill; also the No. 1 during
the chill and heat and sweat, and then the No.
16 again, during the interval, a dose of six pel-
lets every four hours until the next chill, and so
on until the disease is cured.
FOR CASES OF AGUE, or of mixed, undefined,
irregular Agues, that do not yield to the Speci-
fic No. 16, give the No. 10 in alternation with
the No. 16,,a dose of six pellets every four
hours. Dumb' Ague, Chill Fever and Malarial
Fever require the same treatment, and will be
permanently cured by the above course. The
floses cbove mentioned are proper for adults.
Children only require one half, and infants one-
third as much.
Avoid coffee or rich, heavy food, or
over-fatigue while you have the disease or
during convalescence, as a hearty meal,
severe labor or over-fatigue often provokes a
relapse. The disease is frequently better the
irst chill after taking the medicine, and will
be permanently cured by perseverance in its
uso. This method is a thousand times better
than the use of Quinine, Arsenic or the or-
dinary quack medicines so often resorted to.
For the results of Fever and Ague, and the
bad effects of the Quinine, "Arsenic, Chola-
gogue and other deleterious drugs so often
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used to suppress the disease, usually mani-
fested by vertigo, ringing in the ears, deaf-
ness, enlarged spleen or ague-cake, swelling
of the limbs, general feebleness and debility,
coated tongue and liver complaint-for these
symptoms, all of which may in greater or
less degree follow the use of Old School
drugs or nostrums, the Specifics No. 16 and
No. 10, six pellets four or six times per day,
in alternation, are required. In these ba
complications the cure may require time, bu
will be perfect and permanent. Thousand
of the most obstinate cases are thus simply
and happily cured every year.
ENTERIC, TYPHOID AND TYPHUS FEVERS.-
We do not distinguish these forms of fever
as the differences to the non-professiona
mind are often not clear, and the treatmen
is the same.
These fevers are marked by great weaknes
and prostration of the system, fover usuall
not so high, but early delirium, dry or dark
coated tongue, sleeplessness, or deep, pro
found sleep, pain in the head and back. The
continue from fourteen to twenty-one day
or even longer, run a slow course, and ar
frequently of dangerous character, an
should rarely be treated without competen
medical aid.
TREATMENT.—Is often successful by giving th
Specific No. 1, dissolved in water, as directe
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for other forms of fever, alternately with the
Specific No. 14; experience having shown
that this latter Specific is very efficient, not only
for Eruptive Diseases, but for low fevers of every
grade. Give these two medicines alternately in
fluid, a dose every two hours, prepared as
directed for Bilious Fever (page 40), so long as
the disease continues.
When Typhoid or low forms of fever are pre-
vailing, the Specific No. 1, six pellets taken
morning and night, or even four times per day,
will serve to fortify the system and prevent an
attack, as experience amply demonstrates.
YELLOW FEVER.-An attack of Yellow
Fever is usually abrupt. In some cases there
may be precursors-a slight depression, loss
of appetite, languor, pain in the head and
chilly sensations for a day or two. This is
followed by a chill, or rigors, generally mod-
erate, soon followed by intense fever, rapid
pulse, high temperature, headache, backache,
pain in the limbs, and sometimes vomiting;
retention of urine and costiveness are also
present. The eyes are reddened, irritable
and watery. Mind usually clear, but some-
times delirium.
FREATMENT.-As preventive while the disease
is prevailing, take six pellets of Specific No. 1,
morning and afternoon, and six pellets of No.
10 at noon and at bedtime. This should protect
the system, or render mild any attack' which
may occur.
If the disease comes on, the patient should at
once retire to his room and dissolve twenty pel-
lets of Specific No. 1 in a glass half full of
water, of which a large spoonful should be given
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every hour. This continue without interruption,
except the patient sleeps, through the entire
first, or stage of fever.
Accessory Means.-The importance of
cleanliness is apparent. Discharges and all
soiled linen must be quickly removed, and
the air kept as fresh as possible. During the
chill give a hot foot-bath, and during the
heat frequent spongings of the entire body
and limbs with tepid vinegar and water.
The diet during the first stage should bo
simply toast bread or crackers soaked in
weak black tea. In the second stage, rico,
milk, and arrowroot may be added to the
diet; and in the third, or stage of prostration,
ice-cream, champagne, becf-tea, or wine-
whey may be necessary. The patient should
remain in bed, comfortably but not oppress-
ively covered, during the entire course of the
disease.
I do not recommend, in general, the
treatment of such formidable diseases as
Typhus, Cholera, or Yellow Fever, by un-
professional persons. But there are times
and epidemics when competent medical at-
tendance cannot be obtained, and where
these simple directions may prove of inesti-
mable value in treating and arresting disease
and saving life.
CHOLERA AND CHOLERA MORBUS.-These are
quite different diseases, yet the medicines
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which cure Cholera will very promptly also
cure Cholera Morbus. In Cholera Morbus
the discharges consist of what has been taken
as food, and is ejected again more or less
changed; while in Cholera, the discharges,
after the first two or three, consist only of a
fluid like rice water, which is, in fact, the
serum of the blood. The coldness, blueness,
cramps, etc., are also much more violent in
Cholera than in Cholera Morbus, and it is
sometimes rapidly fatal.
TREATMENT.-CHOLERA MORBUS is promptly
cured by giving the patient six pellets of Speci-
fie No. 6 every half hour at first, and later each
hour until cured.
CHOLERA. — PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.
--During the Prevalence of Cholera, care
should be taken that no decayed vegetable
or animal substances be permitted about the
house or yard. Keep the cellar dry, white-
washed and well aired; the yard and kitchen
free from slops. Use chloride of lime freely
about the privy and sink. Eat a simple but
nutritious diet; for meat, beef or mutton is
best, and use rice, farina, ripe potatoes,
crackers and stale bread. Eat no oysters,
eggs, clams, fresh fish or pork; and especially
avoid all fruit and green vegetables, par-
ticularly salads, cucumbers, melons, cabbage,
green peas, beans, rhubarb, currants, goose-
berries, etc. For drink, use pure water;
avoid everything like soda-water or root-
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beer. Excesses of every kind, mental as well
as physical, should be carefully guarded
against; make no sudden changes; the usual
habits should be maintained. Eat regular
meals and go to bed early. Avoid irregulari-
ties-night air, late suppers, late hours.
Take exercise, but avoid fatigue. Take food
before going out in the morning, and main-
tain a cheerful, even tone of mind. Let your
clothing be adapted to the temperature of the
weather, employing rather more, both at
night and by day, than usual, and it is well
to use flannel, especially about the abdomen,
with a view of guarding against sudden
changes. Do not neglect slight indisposition,
especially of the stomach and bowels, but
attend to them at once, as they are often the
precursors of the disease itself.
TREATMENT.-During the Prevalence of the
Disease, six pellets of Specific No. 6 should be
taken every night and morning by each member
of the family, as a preventive. If this is followed
up, no attack of the cholera will ensue, unless
from some grave error in diet or regimen, and
even then the attack will be much lighter and
easier controlled than usual. Persons traveling
or much exposed, should also take six pellets of
Specific No. 6 night and morning.
FOR CHOLERA-DIARRHEA - a peculiar
diarrhea, which almost invariably precedes
the cholera, consisting of frequent loose
stools, and attended with rumbling of the
abdomen, a sense of weakness or faintness in
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the stomach, and sometimes nausea or qualm-
ishness.
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TREATMENT.-At once retire to the room, keep
perfectly quiet, and take six pellets of the Speci-
fic No. 6 every hour until the diarrhea entirely
subsides. Then for some days be particularly
careful in diet, exposure and fatigue.
When Cholera comes on with sudden coldness,
prostration of strength, vertigo, giddiness,
cramps in the calves of the legs, deathly nausea,
and blueness of the surface, through with not
much vomiting or diarrhea, Tinct. of Camphor
is the remedy. Of this give three drops in a
spoonful of cold water every five minutes, until
the coldness, blueness and cramps pass off; then
it may be omitted, and six pellets of Specific
No. 6, dissolved in a tablespoonful of ice-cold, or
cold well-water, given every fifteen minutes
until relieved. When the vomiting has ceased,
the doses may be given every hour, and less fre-
quently as the patient improves.
If the attack comes on, or assumes the form of
violent vomiting and diarrhea, with frequently
returning cramps in the calves of the legs and
bowels, discharges of the usual cholera char
acter, give six pellets of Specific No. 6 in a
spoonful of cold water every ten or fifteen min-
utes until the symptoms somewhat abate, and
then at longer intervals, until the disease is con-
trolled.
Persons who have had an attack of cholera,
or even of cholera-diarrhea, should, for a
time, be particularly cautious in reference to
undue exposure, fatigue, and especially to
any transgression in diet. A slight error in
this respect may provoke a return of the dis-
ease, which often proves more hazardous
than the original attack.
During an epidemic of Cholera, send
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for a Special Cholera Case of Specifics, with
full directions-price, $2.00 and $3.00.
DIARRHEA. TREATMENT. -This condition in
adults or older children requires six pellets of
Specific No. 4, four times per day. In some
cases the alternation of the Specific No. 6 or
the No. 5 with the No. 4, is of benefit. And in
any instance where the disease does not promptly
yield to the No. 4 alone, the No. 6, if the
stools are loose, profuse or watery, or No. 5, if
there is pain or griping, should be given alter-
nately with the No. 4. As the disease improves,
the doses may be given less frequently, with
caution as to the quantity and quality of food.
M
CHRONIC DIARRHEA-Several stools per day
without much pain, gradual loss of strength-
requires three doses of Specific No. 4 per day.
If there is discharge of blood or bloody mucus,
or of pus-like matter, the Specific No. 5 should
be alternated with the No. 4, taking six pellets
every four hours during the day. The very worst
cases are thus cured.
In Traveling, the change of water, irregular
diet, malaria, or other causes, often occasion
diarrhea, liable to be followed by dysentery,
cholera morbus or other grave affection. Hence
in warm weather care should be taken to avoid
anything likely to produce this result. Avoid
fruit, pies, pastry, oysters, or eating in haste.
Eat crackers, light bread, well cooked meat and
vegetables, rice, or other plain food, taken at
regular periods-better too little and too seldom,
than too often and too much. Any derangement
will be promptly remedied by the Specific No.
4, six pellets, repeated as occasion demands.
If looseness of the bowels is accompanied with
griping or cutting pains, or blood-stained stools
forming what is called dysenteric diarrhea, the
Specific No. 5, taken every two or three hours,
will be found, usually, more efficacious than_the
No. 4 for this form of disease, or the two Spe-
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cifics, No. 4 and No. 5, may be taken in alterna-
tion, a dose, six pellets, every three hours.
In Diarrhea and Dysentery, Cholera
Morbus and Cholera, all fruits and vegetables
are pernicious, especially new potatoes, let-
tuce, beans, peas, tomatoes, turnips, radishes,
cucumbers, and even strawberries; peaches,
cherries, plums or apples can rarely be in-
dulged in without an immediate aggravation
of the disease. Attention to these few prac-
tical hints, and the use of the Specific No.
has been effectual in curing the disease,
and saving multitudes of lives.
?
DYSENTERY.-This is a disease which is fre-
quently fatal in summer and autumn. It
prevails in the fall of the year, when the
nights are cool and the days hot. The first
symptom is usually a sensation of heaviness
and weight about the auus, soon followed by
a desire for stool. Or there may be loose
stools for a day or two, when the evacuations
become more tedious, very scanty, and at-
tended with straining and a desire-to con-
tinue the effort, as if the evacuation could
ot be completed. In a little time this de-
sire becomes constant, forming what is called
tenesmus-the patient wanting to be con-
stantly on the chamber. The evacuations
consist only of mucus, mixed more or less
with blood; or, indeed, in some cases, of pure
Flood mixed with shreddy particles, which
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look like scrapings. Before and during the
evacuations there are violent, cutting, press-
ing pains in the bowels, often very severe.
In some cases the stools consist only of white,
gelatinous mucus, like the white of an egg,
and in others it is only greenish mucus,
streaked with blood. In some cases there is
violent fever; in others, little or none. There
is no natural fecal matter in the stools—and
when this appears in any quantity the dis-
ease is broken.
TREATMENT.-The patient should keep quiet,
avoid exercise or labor of any kind, He down, and
confine himself strictly, during the whole courso
of the disease, to a porridge made of milk and
flour well cooked, or to farina gruel, or rice-water
and boiled rice. No vegetables or fruit can be
allowed: nor meat, nor nicat-broths; and spirits,
or stimulants or any kind, are absolute poison.
Use no other medicine, of any kind. Opium ouly
conceals the disease, by quieting the pain and
evacuations, while the disease rages more
destructively.
When the disease comes on without any par-
ticular fever, with cutting pain in the bowels,
colic, straining, and bloody stools, at once take
Specific No. 5, six pellets every hour, permit-
ting them to dissolve in the mouth. As the dis-
ease improves, the intervals between the doses
may be lengthened. This method, strictly fol
lowed, will rarely fail to effect decided reliet in
the worst cases, in twelve or twenty-four hours;
in lighter ones, much more rapidly; and per-
manently cure in four or five days, as the experi
ence of thousands testify.
If the evacuations are very frequent--every
ten or fifteen minutes-and the teuesmus or
straining very distressing, injections of thin
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starch may be given, or the patient may have a
seat-bath of tepid water. If the disease com-
mences with high fever, twelve pellets of the
Specific No. 1 may be dissolved in six spoon-
fuls of water, of which give one spoonful every
hour, two or three doses, before commencing the
Specific No. 5. Then give the No. 5, six pel-
lets in a spoonful of water, every half-hour at
first; then every hour or two hours as the dis-
case improves.
BILIOUS COLIC, paroxysms of violent grip-
ing, cutting or rending pain in the bowels,
sometimes remitting for an instant, then re-
turning with greater intensity.
TREATMENT.-Take six pellets of Specific No.
5, dry, dissolved in the mouth, every hour until
relieved. If not relieved give Specific No. 1
alternately with No. 5. Use no other medicines.
Obstinate cases may be relieved by tepid water
injections. For the condition upon which Bilious
Colic depends, use Specific No. 10 four times
a day.
INFLAMMATIONS.
INFLAMMATIONS are much the same in what-
ever part of the system they occur. There is
usually a precursory stage, manifested by
depression and followed by a chill. When
located, the inflammation is known by the
pain, heat, redness and swelling which al-
ways attend.
CONGESTION OF THE CHEST.-This is usually
attended with a feeling of oppression, anx-
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iety, tightness and heaviness; sometimes a
short, irritating cough, with palpitation of
the heart. It is often brought on by ex-
posure or the use of stimulants, and may be
followed by bleeding from the lungs.
TREATMENT.-Twelve pellets of Specific No.
1, dissolved in half a glass of water, of which a
dessert-spoonful should be taken every one or
two hours, will soon remove the difficulty. In
mild cases, six pellets of the No. 1, taken dry,
three times per day, will suffice.
COUGHS, COLDS,
BRONCHITIS AND SORE
THROAT, in their various forms, are frequent
in this changeable climate, and often lay the
foundation of disease and early decline.
Consumption often commences with what
appears as a slight cold, to which cough,
pain, emaciation and hectic fever are added
at a later stage.
A predisposition to take cold from slight
exposure shows a weakness and irritability
of the pulmonary orgaus which should not
be neglected. Such persons should take more
than usual care to avoid exposure to severe
and sudden changes of the weather; see that
the chest is well protected in winter, cold, or
rough weather; use only water, milk, weak
tea or cocoa for drink—and men should suffer
the beard to grow under the chin and over
the throat.
TREATMENT.-Six pellets of Specific No. 7,
night and morning, will allay the irritability of
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the air passages, and fortify the system against
pulmonary disease or consumption.
A COLD comes on with sneezing, dryness
of the nose and throat, followed by cough-
at first dry, but afterward with expectora-
tion of thin, then thicker, and yellowish
sputa, as the cold breaks up. With the
cough there is pain or soreness of the breast,
and sometimes pain in the head, as if it
would fly in pieces at every cough. Some-
times a cold commences with feverish symp-
toms, quick pulse, frequent, short, irritable
cough, and more or less pain in the side or
chest. At other times, the cold locates itself
upon the throat, producing dryness, pain and
difficult swallowing.
TREATMENT.-Begin with Specific No. 7, and
repeat the dose every two hours, until the cough
becomes looser and the irritation diminishes, and
the cold is subdued.
If the cold comes on with fever or heat, hot
skin or quick pulse, commence with Specific
No. 1, taking six pellets every hour until the
fever is allayed. Then take the No. 7, six pellets
as a dose, in the same manner, or alternate the
two medicines at intervals of two hours. You
will thus arrest the disease and prevent the de-
elopment of a pneumonia or bronchitis.
In cases of colds, drink freely of cold water,
live sparingly, avoid coffee, stimulants and over-
feeding, as well as exposure.
In case of chronic cough, or cold of some stand-
ing, take the Specific No. 7 four times per day,
or alternate with the No. 1, as above mentioned.
In all cases of coughs or colds where the
Specific No. 7 fails of prompt relief, always al-
ternate with the No. 1,
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BRONCHITIS is an inflammation or irritation
of the mucous membrane lining the air pas-
sages, manifested by hoarseness, cough,
sometimes fever, irritation and soreness in
the chest. In its more advanced stages there
is hectic fever, emaciation, loss of voice, and
other symptoms of consumption.
TREATMENT.-Six pellets of Specific No. 7,
taken four times per day, will generally cure.
But should there be considerable irritation, or
the case not promptly yield, alternate the Speci-
fic No. 1 with the No. 7, a dose every three
hours. This is the proper treatment for all irrita-
tive, obstinate coughs, and will be found success-
ful.
HOARSENESS AND LOSS OF VOICE not unfre-
quently accompanies some forms of bron-
chitis, or even common colds; and sometimes
it appears in certain persons from almost
every exposure. It is always an indication
of pulmonary weakness, and should receive
attention.
TREATMENT.-Its remedy is the Specific No. 7.
Take six pellets every three hours. In obstinate
cases, the No. 13 may be taken in alternation
with the No. 7, and will be found successful.
¦
CHRONIC HOARSENESS AND LOSS OF VOICE,
especially that form occurring in clergymen,
actors and others who constantly use their
voice in public speaking-and generally
known as "Clergymen's Sore Throat"-finds
its remedy in Specific No. 34, six pellets
every three hours,
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INFLUENZA is a well-known disease often
prevalent over large sections or, as in later
years, over the entire world. These epidem-
ics vary, but in general there is a cough,
some fever, decided prostration, sore throat
and choryza or nasal discharge. It is often
obstinate and its after effects may be serious
and sometimes, fatal, from an extensive
localization of the morbid process upon the
pulmonary tissue.
TREATMENT.-Should there be discharge from
the nose and eyes, begin with No. 1, six pellets
every hour; later, alternate No. 19 with No. 1, a
dose every two hours. In o'd cases with tendency
to lung disease. No. 19 may be alternated with
No. 7. This treatment has cured thousands.
LA GRIPPE, OR GRIP (an epidemic and much
more serious form of influenza) is commonly
known by a general sense of illness, pains or
soreness over the entire system or in the
Head, Back or Limbs; Sore Throat or
Coughs,sometimes very obstinate, hoarseness,
and often pain in the breast or side, sneezing,
running from the nose, or weeping, itching,
and redness of the eyelids. In some cases
the sense of general soreness at some par-
ticular part; in others, the cough and hoarse-
ness or the sore throat, or, again, the pro-
fuse catarrh or flowing from the eyes and
nose are most prominent. The appetite is of
course impaired, the whole nervous system
involved, and much depressed and run down,
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recovery is slow, and after effects continue,
in many cases, to show themselves for a con-
siderable time after. It is, therefore, desir-
able that the disease should be promptly
taken in hand. Everything is Grippe while
Grippe prevails."
TREATMENT.-Specific No. 77 is the remedy
and cure. It meets the epidemic condition and
is the cure for all its manifestations. Taken
early it cuts it short promptly; taken during its
prevalence, prevents its invasion; taken while
suffering from it, a relief is speedily realized,
which may be continued up to entire cure. Six
pellets, repeated generally every two hours, or in
extreme cases every hour, is the rule.
6.
PNEUMONIA or INFLAMMATION OF THE
LUNGS is a disease of frequent occurrence,
and of dangerous character. It may affect
one or both sides of the chest, the double
form being the more serious. It often comes
on after a cold insidiously, with restlessness,
a chill and some fever, and sometimes is well
seated before its true character is known.
There is a deep-seated dull pain or oppress-
ion under the shoulder blades, or side, or
breast; feeling of decided illness; frequent
short cough, and expectoration of sticky, ad-
hesive matter of a green, yellow or rust
color, usually tinged or mixed with blood,
and so adhesive that the vessel may be in-
verted without detaching it. The breathing
is oppressed, short and hurried; skin hot
over the ribs and armpits; the nose is dry,
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yes tearless; thirst; speech interrupted,
Burried in bad cases. The pulse varies,
ometimes rapid and full, at others hard and
viry, or quick and weak; the urine is red,
canty, and sometimes scalding, and the
atient lies on the affected side or on the
back. There is dullness over the affected
Bart on percussion, and on applying the ear
repitation may be heard, a sound resem-
ling that produced by rubbing a lock of
air close to the ear.
TREATMENT.-At once dissolve twelve pellets of
pecific No. 1 in six large spoonfuls of water,
f which give a spoonful every hour. Give also
hot foot-bath, and apply a rubber hot-water
ag, or cloths rung out of hot water to the chest,
overed with dry flannel if the oppression is
evere. After six or twelve hours' use of Spe-
ific No.1,every hour, as above, prepare Specific
No. 7 in like manner, twelve pellets in six large
poonfuls of water, of which give, in alternation
ith the No. 1, a spoonful every hour, until the
reathing is easier, expectoration more free, and
eat less, and perspiration appears, when the in-
ervals between the doses may be increased to
wo hours. The patient must be kept in a warm,
venly-tempered room, very quiet, and have only
nucilaginous drinks and farinaceous diet. These
heans will gradually relieve the oppression, allay
he fever, induce free perspiration, and thus
reak up the disease. The patient must avoid
xposure until quite recovered.
PLEURISY, STITCHES IN THE SIDES.-There
s a form of False Pleurisy, which is an af-
ection of the muscular tissue of the chest,
nd may be known by the sharp pain and
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INFLAMMATIONS.
1
soreness along between the ribs, and from its
coming on without a chill or fever.
TREATMENT.-This is readily cured by Specifics
No. 1 and No. 15, taking six pellets every two
hours, in alternation, until relieved.
TRUE PLEURISY.-This comes on suddenly,
with a shivering chill, fever, and sharp, stab-
bing pains, called stitches in the side, gener
ally just below the nipple, and on one side.
The pains are worse by coughing, pressure,
or deep inspiration. There is also short,
frequent, dry cough, parched tongue,
flushed face, hard, quick pulse, scanty, red
urine. The patient lies on the back or af
fected side. If the lung is also involved, the
sputa will be adhesive and streaked with
blood. If not relieved, an effusion of fluid
into the pleural sac occurs, attended with
very serious consequences.
TREATMENT.-At once dissolve twelve pellets
of Specific No. 1 in six large spoonfuls of
water, of which give a spoonful every hour. Ap-
ply, also, hot wet cloths to the affected side and
give a hot foot-bath. After six hours, prepare
Specific No. 7 in the saine manner as No. 1,
and give of the two alternately, at intervals of one
hour. Later, as the patient improves, two hours
between doses, until the disease is cured. Care
must be taken to avoid exposure and not to go
out too soon.
HEMORRHAGE from the LUNGs is promptly
relieved by the Specific No. 1. If there is
only a slight spitting of stained sputa, with
some cough, six pellets taken four times per
INFLAMMATIONS.
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.
day, with quiet and freedom from effort or
excitement, are sufficient. But if the bleed-
ing is more profuse, dissolve twelve pellets in
six spoonfuls of water, of which take one
spoonful every hour, and the intervening
half hour, a half teaspoonful of the Marvel
of Healing.
VOMITING OF BLOOD.-This may be known
from bleeding from the lungs, by the blood
being usually darker, and being thrown up
in masses by vomiting and without much
cough, and requires the same treatment.
TREATMENT.-Salt water is an old remedy, and
often serves to allay the bleeding, and there is no
objection to its being used in moderate quantities
(a teaspoonful at a time), while in the meantime
the Specific No. 1 allays the internal conges-
tion, which is the more immediate cause of the
hemorrhage.
A Specific Remedy of greater value, however,
in all cases of hemorrhage or bleeding from any
part of the body, is the Marvel of Healing. Half
à teaspoonful of this may be taken every hour,
or even half hour, until relieved, and then at
longer intervals; or take the No. 1.
INFLAMMATION OF THE BOWELS.--This is al-
ways a dangerous disease, commencing with
chilliness and pain in the bowels, to which
there is added extreme tenderness of the ab-
domen to the touch, often also vomiting and
constipation. In Appendicitis, this pain is
felt, especially in the right side of abdomen,
below the navel and down near the groin, at
a point called the "Vermiform Appendix,"
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DISEASES OF THF DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
-being a minute, worm-like (and usually
closed) pouch, the size of a goose-quill, whose
functions are unknown, but supposed to be a
relic of prehistoric animal life-and which
has, of late, been a favorite field of opera-
tion for surgeons.
TREATMENT.-Give the Specific No. 1, in alter-
nation with Specific No. 5, every fifteen min-
utes six pellets in a spoonful of water, and at the
same time apply to the surface a plaster of
WITCH HAZEL OIL, over which a hot-water bag
may be placed. This treatment may relieve the
whole disease in a few hours, and the bowels will
later move of themselves as the disease abates, or
if not, they may be assisted by an injection of
warm water.
DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
NAUSEA AND VOMITING frequently occurs.
Sometimes it is the mere result of overload-
ing the stomach; at others, of irritability of
this organ, arising from some near or remote
cause. Usually, in simple cases of nausea
and vomiting, it is not best at once to inter-
fere; but when the stomach has become
emptied, or the vomiting severe or annoying.
TREATMENT.-Dissolve six pellets of Specific
No. 6 in a glass of water, of which take a large
spoonful after every turn of vomiting. It will
soon cease.
DYSPEPSIA, WEAK STOMACH, CONSTIPATION,
BILIOUS COMPLAINTS.-Thousands of persons
suffer from weak stomach, indigestion and
their kindred evils. With some, it is but a
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DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS,
63
transient indisposition, occasioned by a chill,
fatigue or some error in diet, and is mani-
fested by loss of appetite, coated tongue, bad
taste in the mouth, especially in the morn-
ing, dullness and debility. With others, it
is a more permanent affection, with con-
stant weakness of the digestion, so that even
the mildest food causes heaviness or uneasi-
ness, costiveness, and that general depression
and lowness of spirits which mark the con-
firmed dyspeptic. Sometimes even the light-
est food causes a sensation of fullness of the
stomach, feeling of weight and heaviness, as
if a stone lay in the stomach; tight clothes
are insupportable, and there is tenderness of
the part on pressure. Often there is acid
taste in the mouth, and regurgitation of
food, or of sour or bad-tasting water or gas.
Usually the bowels are costive, move tardily
and insufficiently, and piles or hemorrhoids
and flatulency are rarely absent.
This condition of things may continue for
years, embittering the life of the patient, and
leading to decline. The commonly used
remedies are worse than useless. Cathartics
are injurious; for, although they move the
bowels for a time, their action weakens the
digestion, and thus increases the difficulty,
frequently giving rise to Catarrh of the
Stomach, acute or chronic.
TREATMENT.-Such persons should be careful of
their diet; eat only such articles of food as agree
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DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANE.
:
with them best; eat moderately; masticate the
food well; take plenty of time for meals, and take
but very little fluid while eating; and half an
hour before each meal and on retiring at night
take six pellets of Specific No. 10, and there
will soon be an amendment. Perseverance in
this simple course always affords relief and rarely
fails to cure the most inveterate cases, as thou-
sands, from experience, can testify.
CONSTIPATION OR COSTIVE BOWELS is a
result of indigestion or torpid action of the
liver or the lower bowel, and is always in-
creased and confirmed by the use of ca-
thartic pills or aperients. It will be cured
in a natural and permanent manner by the
following
TREATMENT.-Take, half an hour before each
meal, and at night before going to rest, six pel-
lets of Specific No. 10, the last dose in half a
glass of water. If the bowels fail to move after a
reasonable time, take a large injection of tepid
water, which repeat if needful. A simple enema
of tepid water may always be resorted to
with benefit. This treatment, in connection with
the use of the Specific No. 10, so soon as the
system is fully brought under its influence, will
not fail to permanently relieve the most obsti-
nate case of constipation.
INDIGESTION OR BILIOUS CONDITION arises
in consequence of too heavy a meal, or from
fat, rich, indigestible food; or food taken at
an unsuitable time, or when the system is de-
pressed with grief or care. The tongue is
coated, bad taste in the mouth, head dull,
heavy or aches, and bowels confined.
DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS,
EATMENT.-Take six pellets of Specific No.
four times per day, before meals, and the
ition will soon be relieved,
R FLATULENCE OR WIND IN THE STOMACH OR
ELS, use the Specific No. 10, as above.
ARTBURN, & mere symptom of dyspepsia, re-
es the same Specific, in like doses.
LES OR HEMORRHOIDS.This disease, so
mon and so well known, usually depends
congestion of the abdominal venous
ulation. This congestion eventually re-
in the formation of tumors, and fre-
nt hemorrhage or discharge of blood, or,
ome cases, a discharge of mucus, or vio-
itching. A rational treatment will seek
relieve this congested condition, upon
ch the tumors depend.
EATMENT.—For an attack of Piles, with some
r, heat of the parts, inflammation of the
ors, which become red, hard, painful or
ding, with pain extending often to the back
ead-keep quiet, mostly lying down or but
on the feet, and take at first every hour, six
ets of Specific No. 1, dissolved in water.
ra day, alternate Specific No. 17 with the
1 at longer intervals, keeping the parts
ointed with the Witch Hazel Oil. This treat-
t with care in diet and keeping quiet never
to cure.
ronic Piles, which are often attended with
ve bowels, require Specific No. 17, morn-
and afternoon, and "No. 10 at noon and
t. They are infallible..
ASTRALGIA, or CRAMP OF THE STOMACH, is
ked, extremely violent pain at the pit of
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DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
the stomach, often attended with nausea
vomiting. The pain comes on in paroxy
increasing and remitting, lasting
hours, and the region of the stomach is
bloated and tender to the touch. The
oxysms often return at periods of a
weeks, with a free interval between.
TREATMENT.-For an
an acute attack, dis
twelve pellets of the No. 10 in a glass one
full of water, of which take a large spo
every fifteen minutes. Should the No. 10
relieve, prepare the No. 1 in the same ma
and take alternately with the No. 10. Wa
hot cloths laid over the stomach are often s
ing; sometimes a hot foot-bath to relax th
tem. To cure the condition upon which
pends, take, night and morning, six pellets
Specific No. 10, as a preventive.
1
BILIOUS COLIC consists of paroxysm
most violent griping, cutting or rending
in the bowels, often with severe suffe
sometimes remitting for an instant, and
returning with greater intensity. The
oxysms are occasioned by exposure, pas
of gallstones, and other causes, and s
times return at intervals of four, si
twelve weeks.
TREATMENT.—For an attack take six pelle
Specific No. 5 dry, dissolved in the mouth.
may entirely relieve. If not, dissolve t
pellets in six spoonfuls of water, of which g
spoonful every ten or fifteen niinutes, unt
lieved. If heat, fever or great restlessness c
on, or the bowels become painful on pres
threatening inflammation, dissolve the Spe
No. 1 in water, as above, and give altern
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
67
with the No. 5, a dose every half hour. Use no
other medicines, internally or otherwise-only, if
the case is obstinate, inject tepid water in large
quantities. This not only relieves, but also fa
cilitates a cure.
JAUNDICE, arising from derangement of the
liver, with yellow hue of skin and eyes, itch-
ing of skin, frequently occurring in the new-
born. Give Specific No. 10 four times a
day.
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
HEADACHE is less frequently a disease itself
than a symptom of some more general
affection. Sometimes it is comparatively
trivial, at other times of great importance,
often interrupting the business of the patient,
causing great suffering, and prostrating the
system so frequently as to undermine the
health.
TREATMENT.—For an attack take six pellets of
Specific No. 9 every hour until the suffering
abates. If the attack commences with blindness,
followed by extreme nausea and vomiting, twelve
pellets of Specific No. 9 may be dissolved in a
glass one-third full of water, and a dessert-spoon-
ful of the fluid may be taken every half hour,
until the more violent symptoms abate. Heat
and throbbing in the head is cured by Specific
No. 1, which may be prepared in water, or be
given dry every hour.
Persons subject to headaches should abandon
the use of coffee, and also of strong tea, as the
use of these beverages often contributes to keep
up the disease, and in some cases alone causes it
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
They should live regularly and temperately, and
take every night six pellets of Specific No. 10
on retiring, and six of the No. 9 in the morning
on rising. Thousands have thus been perma-
nently cured.
HEADACHES FROM CONSTIPATION or derangement
of the stomach are cured by the Specific No.
10, taking six pellets every hour during an at-
tack, and then night and morning.
The cure of old, long-standing headaches re-
quires time and perseverance, but can invariably
Le accomplished by taking the Specific No. 9
each morning and No. 10 at night.
SLEEPLESSNESS, NERVOUSNESS AND REST-
LESSNESS of adults finds a charming remedy in
the Specific No. 3. Six pellets taken on going
to rest, or if wakeful during the night, act like
a charm. Sleeplessness with fullness or beating
in the head, or red face, such as people of full
habit are subject to, is cured by Specific No. 1,
six pellets at bed-time, and that from indigestion,
by the Specific No. 10, six pellets at night.
TOOTHACHE is an affection too well known
to require description. The pain is usually
found in connection with decayed teeth, but
sometimes also in sound ones. When badly
decayed teeth begin to ache, it may be best
to have them extracted. Yet even here, the
Specific No. 8 will often allay the pain, and
the teeth may do good service for years.
But when pain affects sound teeth, we should
rarely have them taken out until we have
exhausted every means to relieve without
this alternative. It is a most insane practico
when we have a toothache, which may be
occasioned from a cold or other transient
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS,
69
:
cause, to rush to the dentist and lose a tooth.
It is better to exercise a little patience and
judgment, quiet the system, and allay the
exciting cause, and save the tooth.
TREATMENT.—Take six pellets of Specific No.
8, repeating every hour. If not relieved, dis-
solve twelve pellets in a glass half full of water.
Also prepare the Specific No. 1 in the same
manner, and take of the two alternately every
hour a dose until relieved. Sometimes the No.
15 is very efficient, and in other cases the No.
10. Toothache with swelling of the face re-
quires the No. 1 and No. 8 in alternation.
It is a bad practice in toothache to hold
spirits, camphor, or other heating stimulants
in the mouth, or to apply creosote, laudanum,
oil of cloves, etc. These more frequently ir-
ritate than relieve. Marvel of Healing
may be applied on cotton to the face over
the tooth, with advantage. Let the diet be
light if the stomach is deranged; if there is
a cold, cure that and you will soon find relief
and save your teeth.
NEURALGIA. The pain is usually limited, or
extends along the course of a branch of
nerves, and is very acute, cutting or piercing.
in its character. Tho pain has also its pe-
riods of increase or diminution, often worse
in the evening and at night, and better in the
morning. There is usually no tenderness on
pressure, în distinction from pain of an in-
flammatory character,
TREATMENT.--Six pellets of Specific No. 8,
taken every one or two hours, will, in most in-
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
stances, afford prompt relief. In case the No. 8
does not relieve, alternate it with the No. 1, as
in other cases. Sometimes the No. 8 and No. 15
are alternated with great advantage.
INFLAMED AND SORE EYES AND EYELIDS.-
TREATMENT.-For an acute attack of Ophthalmia
or Inflamed Eyes, with pain, dread of light, flow
of tears and inflamed appearance of the eye-ball,
dissolve twelve pellets of Specific No. 18 in a
glass half full of pure water, of which take a
spoonful every three hours. Also dissolve twelve
pellets of the same Specific in a tea-cup of pure,
soft water, and with this bathe the affected eye
from time to time. A yet better lotion for sore
or weak eyes is made by adding a large spoonful
of the Marvel of Healing to a tea-cup half full of
pure, soft water, and with this bathe the eyes
every three hours. Continue this from day to
day until cured. The eyes should be shaded from
strong light, and not taxed by reading or sewing.
In cases of chronic inflammation of the eyes or
eyelids, bathe the eyes as above directed three
or four times per day, and take six pellets of
Specific No. 18 dry, on the tongue, at night,
and the same of No. 35 each morning.
Persons suffering from weak, inflamed or
sore eyes should live on plain, light food, but
little meat or spiced food, and no coffee or
stimulants. Plenty of exercise in the open
air, but nothing to overheat or fatigue the
system or eyes.
STYE on the eyelids is usually promptly
cured by taking six pellets of Specific No.
18, four times per day.
WEAK AND DEFICIENT SIGHT.-For the cure
of weak eyes, failing, deficient, blurred or
weak sight, simply take six pellets of Spe-
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS,
71
No. 18 night and morning. Also fre-
ly bathe the eyes and around the eyes
old water, or diluted Marvel of Heal-
void straining or fatiguing the eyes by
ork, reading fine print, or any long-
ued effort of the eyes, and also the use
sses which fatigue or weary the eyes.
specially avoid taxing the eyes when
dy is weak or feeble. This treatment
frequently improves the sight, pre-
Its premature failure and the early re-
glasses.
CHE, DISCHARGE FROM THE EAR.-As
ult of Scarlet Fever, Measles, or from
rial Poisoning or Scrofula, discharges
ace from the ear, either of pus or puri-
ucus. Often during this morbid con-
of the ear, a slight cold induces an in-
atory action and pain, resulting, after
>
in a fresh discharge from the ear.
frequently recurring discharges gener-
minate in noises in the head, partial
ss, or even entire loss of hearing.
MENT. FOR EARACHE, take six pellets
our of Specific No. 22, until relieved.
te with the No. 1 if there is heat or fever,
the No. 3 for infants.
ISCHARGE FROM THE EAR, either in adults
ren, simply give six pellets of Specific
morning on arising, and at night on re-
Time must be allowed, in connection
medicine, to perfect the cure.
ARDNESS OF HEARING, NOISES OR RING-
HE EARS, give six pellets of Specific No.
;
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
22 morning and night. The most grati
effects in relieving the noise and improving
hearing result.
Injections of water and castile soap for
ears are generally injurious, and should on
resorted to for purposes of cleanliness, if &
CHRONIC CATARRH, OR COLD IN THE HE
Catarrh is, in most instances, a chroni
flammation and thickening of the muco
pituitary membrane lining the nasal cav
and sometimes involving also the air
sages.
Its principal symptom is a discharg
various character, color, and consist
sometimes thick and offensive, at others
and acrid; there is often pain and hea
across the forehead and upper part o
nose, sneezing and raising of the mucus
the throat, and a sense of something
ping in the throat. It is usually wo
cold and changeable weather, and
when dry and warm.
TREATMENT.-If a Catarrh or Influenza o
in the Head has come on from taking col
ting the head or other exposure, with sne
obstruction or discharges from the hea
pellets of Specific No. 1 every two hour
promptly relieve. If not fully cured, alt
the No. 7 with the No. 19, if there is cou
irritation of the lungs.
For old or chronic cases, when the syn
are only moderate, six pellets of Specific)
taken four times per day, will be sufficien
more violent, with
discharge, pain in the head, dullness, or
symptoms of acute catarrh or influenza, t
if the symptoms, end
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
78
!
pellets every two hours. Patience and persever
ànce in the use of the Specific will cure most
cases of chronic or obstinate catarrh.
AUTUMN CATARRH, HAY ASTHMA, AND ROSE
CATARRH are the various names by which a
peculiar yearly recurring catarrhal affection
is known. In some cases it comes on in
June, with the advent of roses; in others
with the first mowing of hay; but in the
vast majority, on or about the 20th of
August. The access is sudden, often atiended
with violent sneezing, repeated again and
again, tearfulness, running from the eyes
and nose of thin, irritating water; itching
of the forehead, nose, eyes and ears; general
irritability and lassitude; redness and swell-
ing of the eyelids and nose, and as the disease
affects the chest or bronchial tubes, of severe
dyspnæa or asthma, sometimes preventing
lying down, and for days and weeks keeping
the patient in the greatest distress and peril.
The disease usually continues until frosty
weather; is better in high mountainous re-
gions, at sea, or in pure air; and is aggra
vated by dust, riding in cars, the pollen of
hay or flowers, and in low, miasmatic regions.
Sea-bathing is often beneficial, and a sea
voyage affords entire relief.
the
TREATMENT.-Though difficult of cure.
Specific No. 19 and No. 77 may be used. sis
pellets in alternation, a dose every two hours, for
the sneezing catarrh and running from the eyes
The Speciflc No. 21 will be effectual for the
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
sthmatic attack, given by dissolving twelve pel-
ets in half a glass of water, of which a spoonful
nay be taken every half hour or hour, according
o circumstances.
ASTHMA is known by occasional paroxysms
f difficult breathing, lasting from a few
hours to several days, coming on at intervals,
o be followed by remissions, during which
he patient breathes with comparative ease.
The attack returns again, either at regular
ntervals, or is provoked by exposure to
cold, damp air, severe effort, or even mental
motions. During the attack, the respiration
s labored, wheezing, sighing, loud, accom-
panied with anxiety and frequent cough.
Sometimes the lips and face become bluish,
nd toward its close, or even during its
entire continuance, free expectoration of
nucus.
ŷ
The disease depends upon a variety of mor-
bid conditions, usually chronic thickening,
with extreme irritability of the mucous mem-
brane of the air passages; but it may also
arise from disease of the heart or large ves-
sels, or other similar organic changes.
TREATMENT.-During the paroxysm first take
ix pellets of Specific No. 21 dry, and then dis-
solve twelve pellets in a glass half full of water,
ind of the solution take a dessert-spoonful every
hour. If there is heat and feverish excitement,
prepare Specific No. 1 in the same manner and
take alternately with the No. 21. No. 6 often
promptly helps. During the intervals, and to pre-
vent a return of the paroxysm, take six vellets
of Specific No. 21 morning and night. a
DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
75
e permanent cure will depend upon the cura-
y of the original morbid condition, but in
ases benefit may be obtained by the use of
cific No. 21, and many, even old obstinate
sare permanently cured by it.
extreme cases of Asthma with heart palpita-
Specific No. 6 is often effective.
SEASE OF THE HEART is generally mani-
ed by palpitation, spells of violent beat-
or other irregular action of the heart;
culty of going up-stairs, or ascending a
suffocative turns; inability to sleep
the head low, and similar symptoms of
eded circulation. Some cases of organic
ase of the heart are incurable; but all
be benefited, and cases of functional
ases of this organ are controlled by the
ifics here named and proper habits.
EATMENT-Avoid excitement, severe effort,
ing, mounting stairs, or whatever may occa-
violent or irregular action of the heart, and
six pellets of Specific No. 32 night and
hing, or even four times per day. Even
e and long-standing cases are cured. For
le palpitation of the heart, six pellets will
lly suffice; if not soon relieved, alternate
Specific No. 6 every hour apart, until the
k passes off; then go on with the Specifio
32.
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palpitations and heart disturbances which
mpany the Change of Life" in women
lso relieved by No. 32.
NERAL DEBILITY, OR PHYSICAL WEAK-
BRAIN-FAG, is usually the result of
ess, over-strain of the mental powers,
racted anxiety and care, etc., or of some
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
drain upon the system beyond its power o
recuperation. The symptoms are varied-
weakness, easy fatigue, weak or lame back
sweat on going to sleep, vertigo, singing
the ears, starting on going to sleep, a
among the more frequent manifestation
The first element of a cure is to arrest t
drain, and restore the wasted substance
means of proper nourishing diet and reg
men, such as nutritious, easily assimilat
food, appropriate in quality and quantit
good wine, or even malt beer or whiskey,
small quantities, for old or very feel
patients; and good air and reasonable ex
cise. With this also take of Specific N
24 six pellets four times per day, permitti
them to dissolve in the mouth.
Should there also be weak, feeble or i
perfect digestion, as is often the case,
Specific No. 10 may be taken alternate
with the No. 24, two doses of each per da
with splendid results.
Compare carefully, so as not to confou It
General Debility with Nervous Debili
For, while the two conditions may ha
similar results, the treatment is quite
ferent.
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NERVOUS DEBILITY frequently results fra
losses which take place at night, and ever si
other times, resulting in weakness, nervore
pess, and sometimes in loss of strength
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
www
health. Not unfrequently premature decline
and extreme nervous prostration is the re-
sult. Nervous irritability, weakness and
emaciation are very common effects, while a
loss of mental power, tone and vigor, is an
inevitable consequence.
These disorders, as well as the original cause
of them, can be cured by proper habits and
the use of the Specific No. 23.
TO CURE, remove, as far as possible, all ex-
citing causes, avoid unchaste thoughts,
fancies or excitement, and at night sleep on
a mattress or a hard bed, with but slight
covering-not too warm-and always lie and
sleep upon the side, and never upon the
back.
Be temperate in diet-meat only once per
day, and never late at night; no spirits, hot
spiced drinks or exciting food, and be spar-
ing of coffee, and take six pellets of Specific
No. 28 morning and night.
In serious or long-standing cases it is better
to procure Special Prescription No. 28,
a $5.00 package for Nervous Debility, con-
taining two flasks of powder and three of
pellets, of which the powder is to be taken in
the morning, and six of the pellets at noon
and at night. This course may be con-
sidered infallible with proper habits and
regimen. The prostration, nervousness and
debility are promptly relieved, the mental
dullness and gloom dispelled, and a cure
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,
follows gradually and permanently. For
more than forty years it has given com
plete satisfaction to thousands. The package
is sent by mail on receipt of the price.
RHEUMATISM appears mostly in two forms
-the acute or inflammatory and the chronic.
ACUTE RHEUMATISM usually comes on after
exposure to rough, damp, cold weather, and
often from labor or exertion during expos
ure. There is fever, painful tenderness,
soreness, lameness, and swelling of the af
fected part, and the disease is liable to shift
from one part to another. It is mostly con
fined to the joints and extremities, but some-
times falls upon the chest or heart, especially
if blisters or powerful applications are made
to the affected part.
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TREATMENT.—For Acute Rheumatism, with
soreness, lameness and pain in the part, take six
pellets of Specific No. 15 every hour, and the
patient should remain in-doors, and keep quiet
until relieved. If fever, heat and swelling of the
part are present, or a chill succeeded by heat,
prepare Specific No. 1 by dissolving twelve
pellets in half a glass of water, of which give a
large spoonful every hour for a day, and then
prepare the No. 15 in the same manner, and
take of the two alternately at intervals of two
hours. These medicines should be continued
from day to day, until the disease is broken up,
preparing the two Specifics fresh every morning.
Applications of cloths wrung out of tepid water,
and laid on the part, are very soothing. Cold
water, however, applied to the part is very liable
to cause its falling upon the heart, and thus often
ending with serious results. The Marvei of Heal
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ing is a most valuable application for the in-
flamed and swelled parts, and may be applied
according to directions on each bottle. Also the
Witch Hazel Oil (see pages 127 and 128).
FOR CHRONIC RHEUMATIC PAINS in the shoul-
ders, arms, hands, knees or feet, take six pellets
of Specific No. 15 four times per day, until re-
lieved. If there is stiffness, lameness, or con-
traction of the tendons. rubbing the part night
and morning with the Witch Hazel Oil is inval-
uable. The covering of the affected part with
raw cotton, over which a piece of oiled silk is
snugly sewed, is a very excellent thing.
FOR LUMBAGO or painful rheumatic stiffness
across the loins and back, take Specific No. 15,
as above, four times per day.
Pains, stinging, stitches or soreness about the
chest or elsewhere, soon yield to the Specific
No. 15, taken as above.
FOR SCIATICA, or pain extending along the
course of the sciatic nerve, from the hip along
down to the leg and foot, take the Specific No.
15, six pellets four times per day. The most
obstinate cases have been cured by this Specific.
In all cases of Rheumatism. Rheumatic Pain,
or Sciatica, when the Specific No. 15 fails to
afford the desired relief, it should be alternated
with the No. 1, three hours apart in acute cases;
in chronic ones, four times per day.
The consequence of a fall, shock, contusion,
or of a wrench, overstraining or excessive
labor or exertion, soon yield to the same
treatment.
Rheumatic patients should use largely, in
their diet, of fruit-oranges, apples, grapes,
pears, berries, either eaten alone or with
milk, and vegetables, and little or no meat.
The acid of fruit is a valuable curative for
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DISEASES OF VARIOUS ORGANS.
all forms of this disease, and should be par
taken of freely.
SEA SICKNESS.-The peculiar sickness and
utter wretchedness and prostration exper-
ienced by persons on first going to sea (and
even in a measure by some persons from rid-
ing in a car, stage or wagon), is so well known
as not to require description.
TREATMENT.—It can, however, in most cases be
cured by the Specific No. 26, taken as follows.
Previous to sailing, as a preventive, take
Specific No. 26, six pellets every four hours,
permitting them to dissolve on the tongue, be
ginning several hours before sailing. Hundreds
have thus been saved from sea-sickness.
After sailing, for the first two or three days,
take six pellets every three hours; and should
there, notwithstanding, be sickness, vertigo,
nausea or vomiting, dissolve twelve pellets in half
a glass of water, and take a dessert-spoonful
every hour, until the sickness abates.
FOR SICKNESS, NAUSEA OR VOMITING, from riding
in a carriage or cars, or similar motion, six pellets
of Specific No. 26 every hour soon relieve.
ITCHING AT THE ANUS often arises from the
presence of Ascarides or Pin Worms.
TREATMENT Give the Specific No. 2, four pel-
lets morning and night. If you desire immedi
ate relief, give an injection of an ounce of sweet
oil. Anoint the anus also with Witch Hazel Oil
at night.
SCROFULA is usually considered as a con-
stitutional vice of the system, manifesting
itself in enlargement and induration of the
glands, which may subsequently soften and
ulcerate; enlargement, curvature or soften-
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ing of the bones. The swelling of the glands
is most frequently manifested about the
neck, beneath the ears or jaws, in the form
of firm, hard, painless lumps. Scrofula not
unfrequently complicates other forms of dis-
ease, and renders them obstinate
TREATMENT—Its eradication from the system
requires time and perseverance, but may be ac
complished by the use of the Specific No. 23. A
life-long constitutional taint requires time as
well as proper medicine for its cure; and if erad-
icated in one or two years, the patient has rea-
son for congratulation. Old School medicine
aud Quackery absolutely fail to cure it.
FOR DEFICIENT GROWTH, feebleness, weakness,
ear discharge, enlarged or suppurating glands,
give Specific No. 22, three times per day.
FOR ENLARGED GLANDS about the neck, or in
the arm-pits, groins, or other parts of the sys-
tem, take six pellets of Specific No. 23, morn-
ing and night; and if the swellings are painful or
discharge, take the medicine four times per day.
FOR OLD TUMORS, wherever situated, take Spe-
cific No. 23, six pellets morning and night.
FOR ENLARGED TONSILS, take six pellets of
Specific No. 23, morning and night; and if the
tonsils or throat are sore and inflamed, take the
Specific No. 1, six pellets every two hours, un-
til the soreness is subdued; then return to the
use of the No. 23, or use the two alternately
every four hours.
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
It has been common to treat eruptions by
means of applications directly to the surface,
which is the particular seat of the disease.
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DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
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But no eruption forms upon the surface
without the co-existence of a morbid condi
tion of the system. Hence the propriety of
treating all such eruptions with internal rem-
edies. It is not difficult to repel an eruption
from the surface by active medicinal appli
cations; but the disease is rarely thus cured,
but is merely repelled, to fall upon some
other organ or surface, and is generally
more dangerous and difficult of cure. Hence
we prescribe for the surface involved only
proper care and cleanliness, and the internal
use of the Specific for the cure of the disease.
The cure is then natural, permanent and
without injury.
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The Speciac No. 14 is wonderfully effec-
tive for the following forms of disease:
ERYSIPELAS, (acute or chronic). The acute
form often appears on the face, commenc-
ing on one check or ear, and passes over the
face or scalp like a fire, with redness, swell-
ing, itching, heat and burning, and is fol
lowed by desquamation or scaling off of the
surface. Often blisters or vesicles arise, fill
with serum, and burst, covering the surface
with thickish crusts.
TREATMENT.-In such acute cases, dissolve
twelve pellets of Specific No. 14 in six dessert
spoonfuls of water, of which give one spoonful
every two hours, until the disease is cured. Make
no application to the surface; live on vegetable
soups, toast-water, but no meat or meat-broths.
DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
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quietly and
The disease will usually pass off
safely.
In the chronic form, where simple red patches
appear from time to time,either on the legs, facc,
or other parts of the system, with itching and
burning, six pellets of Specific No. 14, four
times per day, will be sufficient.
SHINGLES, a form of vesicular Erysipelas,
which comes out in blisters on the breast or
sides, extending partly around the body like
a belt.
TREATMENT.-Eix pellets of Specific No. 14,
four times per day-soon cured.
FOR NETTLE RASH OR HIVES, with reddish
spots, which resemble mosquito stings, at-
tended with burning and itching.
TREATMENT.-Six pellets of Specific No. 14,
every four hours. If very itching and trouble-
some, alternate the No. 1 with the No. 14, at
intervals of two hours.
PRICKLY HEAT, not dangerous, but often-
times excessively annoying, consists of min-
ute vesicles, filled with a watery fluid, and
producing a continuous redness or inflamma-
tory blush of the skin. These vesicles break,
form minute thin scales, and if scratched,
sometimes ulcerate. They are attended with
itching, burning, and often with fever. It
is the result of excessive heat, excess of
clothing, confined or unwholesome air, and
improper food.
TREATMENT.-Take No. 14 every two hours-
and bathe the parts with Marvel of Healing.
Sometimes No. 1 may be advantageously alter-
nated with the No. 14.
ECZEMA, TETTERS, SCABBY, CRUSTY ERUP-
TIONS on the face, around the mouth, on the
ears, cheeks or forehead, with rough, scaly,
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DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
chapped skin, attended with itching and
burning; the crusts fall off, leaving an angry,
sore surface, upon which the crusts form
anew-for all such eruptions, whether called
Eczema, Herpes, Tetters, Milk Crusts, Salt
Rheum, or Barber's Itch.
TREATMENT is Specific No. 14, adults six
pellets, or children three pellets, night and
morning, or even four times per day. This treat-
ment, persevered in, will in time radically cure
the disease.
SCALD HEAD.-The eruption is either dry,
scurfy, cutting off the hair; or moist with
eruption of pustules on a red base, and dis-
charge of thick, yellowish matter, forming
thick crusts and extending in patches over
the head.
TREATMENT.-Give six pellets of Specific No
14 three times per day. Shingle off the hair if it
is difficult to keep clean, and if sore or excoriat-
ed, be cautious about the application of soap or
water, and moisten with the Witch Hazel Oil
every other day.
FOR SALT RHEUM on the hands, feet, legs, arms,
or elsewhere, if chronic or of long standing, take
six pellets of Specific No. 14, night and morn-
ing.
FOR ACNE OR PIMPLES on the face and fore-
head of young people, which often appear in
the form of small red pimples, sometimes
slightly inflained and frequently with a black
point or head, and often lasting for years.
TREATMENT. —Tale six pellets of Specific No.
14, nightand morning; or, if the face or pimples
are red, take the No. 35 each morning, and the
No. 14 at night. The eruption can be entirely
ured and the complexion wonderfully cleared
by the No. 14 and No. 35, if perseveringly
used, as the experience of hundreds testifles.
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SUPPURATING AND IRRITATING ULCERS on the
body and limbs are perfectly cured by taking
Specific No. 14, six pellets three times per day
and applying the Witch Hazel Oil.
OLD ULCERS on the legs, or other parts of the
system, are cured in the same manner. Take the
Specific No. 14 three times per day, and apply
HUMPHREYS' Witch Hazel Oil on a clean rag over
the ulcer, and bind over it a proper bandage
rolling it from the toes upward over the entire
sore, or yet better, apply an elastic stocking
The dressing should be changed daily. In som
obstinate forms of ulcers the alternate use o
Specifics No. 23 and No. 14, morning and night
is better, six pellets at a dose. Almost every foru
of ulcer is thus cured.
CHAPPED HANDS, OR LIPS require the No. 14
six pellets night and morning, and apply Witc
Hazel Oil.
BOILS are small, well-known tumors, some
what conical in shape, at first hard and ir
flamed, and which gradually suppurate an
discharge, at first blood (or matter mixe
with blood) and afterwards pus and a core
Sometimes successive crops of boils appea
for months, or even years.
TREATMENT.-Specific No. 14 four times p
day.
CARBUNCLES are malignant boils, with i
flammation of the surrounding tissue, fro
an inch to six inches in diameter, hard, livi
with great pain, itching and burning, n
suppurating like a boil, but discharging
thin, acrid fluid from several opening
having a whitish mass within, which, bei
discharged, leaves a deep, ugly cavity-ve
painful and dangerous if large, or situat
on the head or neck.
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URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES.
TREATMENT.-Give six pellets of Specific No.
14 in alternation with No. 1, a dose every two
or three hours if awake or in pain, either dry or
in water. To prevent the reappearance of boils
or carbuncles, take six pellets of the No. 14
three times a day for some weeks.
SMALL-POX may be managed by keeping
the patient quite cool, especially when the
pox is coming out; cold room, no fire, and
giving Specifics No. 1 and No. 14 dissolved
in water, one dose every two or three hours,
prepared as directed on page 13. The same
treatment for modified Small-Pox or Vario-
loid.
URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES.
The kidneys which form the urine, and the
channels which discharge it, are each parts
of the same system; whatever disease affects
the one involves the other. Hence the Spe-
cific which cures the diseases in one also re-
stores the other. Hence also while we often ·
cure perfectly with the one Specific No.
27 or No. 30, we more frequently use the
wo in alternation-first No. 30 and then
No. 27, and so on at proper intervals. The
wo Specifics No. 27 and No. 30 act
kindly and helpfully, and doubtless so pro-
luce the most prompt and favorable results.
Chronic disease of the Kidneys is usually
Lanifested by pain and weakness in the
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mall of the back, and frequent discharges
scanty, muddy, thick urine, variously
blored-sometimes depositing a pus-like or
rickdust sediment.
TREATMENT.-This condition finds a prompt
elief, and by persevering treatment an ultimate
re, by the use of Specifics No. 27 and No. 30,
king six pellets three or more times per day.
CATARRH OF THE BLADDER.-Old chronic
ritation and frequent inflammations of the
ladder are apt to result in a chronic irrita-
on and thickening of the mucous membrane
the bladder, urethra and prostate gland.
here is frequent desire to urinate; the
aid is forcibly or spasmodically ejected in
mall quantities, and the passage is attended
ith aching, burning or spasmodic pain
trangury). The pain may be confined to
e bladder or extend to the end of the penis,
round the pelvis or down the thighs. The
ine may or may not be unnatural; but
hen the disease has become chroric, mucus
pus is passed with it, thus constituting
hat is called Catarrh of the Bladder.
ealthy persons urinate on an average five
six times in the twenty-four hours, but
hen there is inflammation or irritation, a
ght distention is painful and the calls are
equent.
TREATMENT.-Specifics No. 27 and No. 30 are
e remedies. Take the No. 30 each morning
d afternoon, and the No. 27 at noon and at
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URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES.
bed-time, six pellets at a time. If urgent, th
medicines may be taken one dose every thre
hours. This treatment has relieved thousands o
the most inveterate cases.
CHRONIC DISEASE, OR DEGENERATION O
THE KIDNEYS may vary in form, and i
manifestation, and sometimes with symp
toms so obscure as to escape attention, unt
incurable disorganization occurs. But mo
commonly there is pain in the back or loin
too frequent, thick, muddy or clear froth
urine, general weakness, drowsiness and d
bility, or continual headache, vertigo ar
rheumatic pains in the back, loins or limb
all pointing to defective action of the ki
neys, and most apt to occur in middle or la
life.
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BRIGHT'S DISEASE of the Kidneys is know
by pain, weakness and weariness of the loin
but the urine is generally pale, water-lik
foamy, either abundant or scanty, album
nous, and, in the advanced stage, full
minute shreds or casts from the diseased ki
neys. It is later attended with some gra
of dropsy; sometimes only very slight, as
the head, face or feet, but toward the l la
very great and inveterate.
TREATMENT.-This is a very serious disease a
often fatal; yet scores of advanced cases h
been cured by taking Specifics No. 27 and N
30, six pellets at a dose, and four times per di
in alternation, and hundreds of lives have be
saved by their timely use.
URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES.
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GRAVEL OR RENAL CALCULI is manifeste
mostly by frequent, scanty and painful di:
charge of variously-colored urine, and fro
time to time, as the calculi pass from th
kidneys to the bladder, by violent colic pai
from the region of the kidney, inside th
ilium or nip-bone, and down in front, alor
the course of the ureter. The pain is usual
very severe, coming on in paroxysins, and r
turning from time to time until the calcu
are discharged.
TREATMENT.-For the radical cure of this d
ease, take of Specific No. 27, six pellets befo
each meal, and at night.
For an attack of Renal Calculi-violent pe
from the passage of the calculi-take of t
Specific No. 30, six pellets dissolved in wate
every half hour, until relieved. Hot foot a
seat baths often afford relief.
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INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS may
known by pain in one or both sides abo
the hip, and toward the spine, in the regi
of the kidney, and thence usually extendi
forward and downward, with frequent
sire to urinate, and scanty, hot dischar
and numbness along the inner side of i
thigh on the affected side. There is fe
and sometimes vomiting.
TREATMENT.-The Specifio No. 30, six pel
every hour in water, will afford prompt relief,
INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER (Cystit
-The pain is low down in front, with sev
burning and irritation, difficulty or inabi
URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES.
f passing water, and almost constant desire
b do so.
TREATMENT.-Specific No. 30 promptly af-
ords relief, and may be relied upon for a per-
anent cure. Give medicine, six pellets dis-
pived every hour, in fluid.
INFLAMMATION OF THE URETHRA is attended
ith irritation and constant desire for urina-
on, and inability to retain it, and subse-
uently a discharge of thick white or yellow
ucus from the part.
TREATMENT.-The Specific No. 30 will cure
mple cases; but those arising from infection
ill require some time and patience. Give six
ellets every one or two hours.
If the disease does not yield to Specific No,
then send for the Anchor Specific for serious
ses. Price, with directions, $2.00.
DIABETES.-This disease is known as a con-
itutional cachexy, manifested by an exces-
ve discharge of pale, heavy and sugary
ine, the sugar being formed in the system
om the starch or saccharine matter in the
d. There is a sense of sickness, debility
d progressive emaciation; red, fissured
ngue, and enlarged papilla; intense thirst
d frequent urination; voracious appetite
d sinking of the stomach; bowels usually
stive, and stools hard and dry; harsh and
y skin; the breath has a peculiar violet or
loroform-like smell; boils or carbuncles or
ellings of the legs are frequent attendants;
istant thirst is one of the most character-
ic symptoms. The quantity of urine is
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usually greatly in excess, amounting to from
eight to twenty or more pints in the twenty-
four hours. It is usually of a pale straw
color, has a faint smell of apple, hay or milk,
and is specifically heavy, according to the
amount of sugar it contains. Diabetic urine
may be tested in various ways-will ferment
with the addition of yeast, or leave a residu
um like molasses on evaporation.
There is another form of Diabetes, char-
acterized by an excessive discharge of clear,
colorless urine, but which is devoid of sugar.
There is thirst, a harsh, dry skin, and mental
and physical weakness present; though this
form is not so fatal as the former one.
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TREATMENT.-In Diabetes the patient must
avoid all forms of starch or sugar, and the food
containing them; but should live on other abun-
dant nutritious food. Fat meat, fish, oysters,
eggs, milk and soups thickened with finely pow-
dered bran, but no bread, potatoes, grapes, pears,
berries, melons, or other sweet, rich fruits. As a
substitute for bread, bran ground fine and mixed
with eggs, and a little butter, and hard baked,
may be used. The thirst may be gratified with
water, which rather benefits than otherwise. The
patient should also take Humphreys' Special
Homeopathic Specific for Diabetes. Price, $2.00
per bottle; to be had on application. This treat-
nent has been successful in many, even old
inveterate cases, and has proved a God-send to
hundreds. Full directions with the Special Spe-
cific. The patient should drink freely of skim
milk.
FOR SCANTY, DISCOLORED OR PAINFUL URINA-
TION, six pellets of Specific No. 30, three times
per day, is effectual
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URINARY AND KIDNEY DISEASES,
URINARY INCONTINENCE is quite common in
persons of advanced age, and in childhood.
It consists of frequent desire to pass water,
and often an inability to retain it beyond a
short period. It may arise from Catarrh of
the Bladder, irritability of the organs,
calculi, or an acrid secretion.
TREATMENT.-Specific No. 30, six pellets four
times per day; or, in some cases, the No. 27. We
have known the medicine to cure obstinate cases
of months' an even years' standing.
DROPSY.-It should be remembered that
Dropsy-an accumulation of fluid within
some cavity or portion of the system-is
itself less a disease than the result of some
morbid process or disease which has preceded
it. Hence the cure of the dropsy must de-
pend upon the curability of the original
morbid process from which the fluid results.
In many instances, however, the increased
action of the skin and kidneys, continued
for some days, results in carrying off the
fluid, thus relieving the system of a burden,
and better enabling us to apply medicines to
the cure of the original difficulty.
TREATMENT.-In cases of dropsy, whether of
the chest, heart, abdomen or extremities, tako
six pellets of Specific No. 25, four or even six
times per day, according to the urgency of the
case. The pellets act best dissolved in water.
Eat fresh, relaxing food, and live in a mild, dry
atmosphere, using no other medicine,
FEMALE DISORDERS,
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FEMALE DISORDERS.
The comfort and happiness of women de-
pends upon the healthy performance of the
functions incident to her peculiar system.
No considerable derangement in these func-
tions can exist for a time without drawing
the entire life into sympathetic suffering.
While these derangements are so important,
and exercise so grave an influence over the
health and happiness of the sex, yet their
nature is such as to exclude them, to a great
extent, from observation, and often the suf-
ferer groans on for years, the victim of pain
and weakness known only to herself.
By the use of HUMPHRETS' SPECIFICS the
diseases connected with the female system
may all be promptly averted or controlled.
Thousands of mothers and families have used
them for over forty years, and have always
found in them comfort and relief.
MENSTRUATION.-The first menses usually
appear at about the fifteenth year-in warm
climates earlier, and in colder, later. It is
also subject to variation, depending upon the
general health, vigor and development of the
person. For a year or two it may be scanty,
and not unfrequently subject to some irregu-
larities, which, however, need not excite ap-
prehension. In healthy women it should ap-
pear every twenty-eight days, and flow four
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FEMALE DISORDERS.
or five days, varying again according to the
constitution of the person. About the forty-
fifth year of life, it generally ceases, accom-
panied often with various disturbances of
the system. This cessation or period is termed
the "change of life."
TARDY
MENSES.-When menstruation in
young girls does not come on at the usual
time, it is not wise to hasten to administer
medicine to produce it. So long as the gen-
eral health remains good, do Lothing to pro-
mote this secretion, beyond attention to
proper clothing, exercise and diet. The cloth-
ing should be warm, and changed to suit the
temperature and season, and a wholesome,
generous diet should be adopted, avoiding
spices, coffee and high seasoned food. This
will generally be sufficient.
TREATMENT.-Should, however, there be symp
toms of its approach, such as flushes of heat, fre-
quent giddiness of the head, heaviness in the
abdomen and about the loins, six pellets of
Specific No. 11, night and morning, will usual
ly, in due time, produce the result.
SCANTY MENSES.-If the menses become
scanty, pale or unusual in color, or habitu-
ally, or even occasionally delay their appear-
ance beyond their proper time, forming what
is properly termed scanty or delayed menses.
TREATMENT.-Six pellets of Specific No. 11,
taken night and morning, will soon induce the
desired result.
SUPPRESSED MENSES.-Sometimes in reg
ularly menstruating females the discharge
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becomes suppressed from exposure to cold,
especially to damp cold, during the flow, or
just as it is about to commence. The flow
may either cease suddenly, or it may not
come on at all at the next period, or it may
come on attended with scanty, irregular dis-
charge, or with severe pain and distress.
TREATMENT.-In case of suppression, after it
has commenced, dissolve twelve pellets of Speci-
fic No. 11 in six spoonfuls of water, of which
take one spoonful every two hours, and bathe the
feet in warm water. If not effective, prepare
and take another portion, or even several, in
like manner.
When the menses do not appear at the proper
time, take six pellets of Specific No. 11, night
and morning, and bathe the feet in warm water
fifteen or twenty minutes, for two or three nights
in succession. A few doses will usually be found
successful.
PAINFUL MENSTRUATION.—Many females
suffer an untold amount of pain at every re-
turn of the menstrual period; not only bear-
ing down, but cuttings, gripings, colic,
cramps, and in some cases even convulsions,
attend every access of the period, and cause
her to dread every menstruation. Often the
sufferings of one period are hardly over be
fore another comes on.
Such cases are often found in connection
with scanty, retarded or irregular periods;
and again, with regular or too abundant dis-
charge, the pain being excessively violent,
with pressure, bearing
bearing down, and even
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cramps and convulsions, which attend every
return of the monthly period.
TREATMENT.-During the interval between the
periods, take, every night, six pellets of Specific
No. 11. If pain comes on, take six pellets of
Specific No. 31, every hour, and continue their
use until relieved. A few doses generally answer
perfectly. Perseverance in this course, using the
No. 11 between the periods, and the No. 31 at
the time, for some months, will not fail to cure.
For attack of Cramps, Spasms or Hysteria,
take six pellets of Specific No. 31, every hour
until relieved, and then one dose each night to
prevent a return.
For Itching and Irritation (pruritus), take six
pellets of Specific No. 31, morning and night.
There are instances in which this complaint is
constitutional, and may demand the use of
Specific No. 14.
HEADACHE IN FEMALES, occurring just be-
fore or during the monthly period, will be
promptly relieved by the Specific No. 11,
taking six pellets every hour.
TOO PROFUSE MENSES.-In women subject
to "the whites," and dependent also upon a
similar relaxed condition of the system, the
menses may be too profuse, returning again
after a cessation of only ten, fourteen or six-
teen days, and flowing from five to ten days.
Sometimes the secretion is scanty for some
days, and then comes on very profuse, caus-
ing great prostration, faintness and debility,
from which the patient has scarcely time to
recover before a new attack,
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Women subject to this difficulty should
abstain from coffee, wine or other stimu-
lants.
TREATMENT.-During the interval between the
periods, take six pellets of Specific No. 12,
every night on retiring, and the same of the No.
10, each morning.
After the menstrual discharge has continued
a day or two, commence by taking six pellets of
Specific No. 12, morning and night, and Speci-
fic No. 10, noon and afternoon, until the flow
ceases. If the discharge is very profuse from
the first, the medicine may be commenced the
first day, and the Specific No. 12 may be alter-
nated with the No. 10, six pellets every three
hours. When the discharge lingers for several
days, six pellets of the No. 10 at night generally
cuts it short.
In case there should be at any time an exces-
sive flow amounting to hemorrhage from what-
ever cause, twelve pellets of Specific No. 12
should be dissolved in six spoonfuls of water,
and one spoonful should be taken every hour,
until the urgent symptoms are warded off, when
the medicine may be administered at longer in-
tervals. Of course the patient must remain quiet
and abstain from hot drinks, stimulants or any
excitement at such times.
LEUCORRHEA, OR WHITES.-Few affections
of females are more common than this. It
consists of a discharge of mucus from the
genital organs of the female, variously color-
ed, and of different degrees of consistency.
It is most commonly yellowish or white,
sometimes reddish, mostly mud, yet some-
times acrid and excoriating. It is usually
most profuse immediately before and after
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FEMALE DISORDENÉ,
the menstrual period, and may continue dur-
ing the entire menstruating life of the fe-
male, and is sometimes known even in young
girls. Sometimes the discharge is slight and
only trifling, while at others it is copious,
exhausting the system and bringing in its
train other evils even more harassing than
itself.
TREATMENT.-Those subject to this disease
should carefully guard their feet and abdomen
from sudden changes or extreme cold, take mod-
erate exercise in the open air, avoid coffee and
exciting drinks or spices, or highly-seasoned food,
and take six pellets of Specific No. 12, night
and morning, and the same of No. 10 before
dinner and before supper. The continued use of
these Specifics, with attention to the above simple
directions, will always afford relief and an ulti-
mate cure.
If Leucorrhea exists with too scanty menses, or if
leucorrhea instead of the monthly menses occurs,
Specific No. 11 should be used instead of the
No. 12, six pellets four times per day. Use also
The Golden Douche as a`vaginal injection.
PROLAPSUS UTERI-BEARING DOWN.-This is
also a very common complaint anong
women, affecting, in some degree, a consider-
able proportion of the sex. Sometimes it is
only a trivial annoyance, coming on from
severe fatigue or over-exertion, and soon
passing off from rest and lying down. At
others, it is a constant and chronic affection,
forbidding any considerable effort, and
sometimes confining the subject for weeks or
FEMALE DISORDERL
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months to her room or couch.
lapsus may exist in various degrees; some-
times only a slight displacement from the
natural position of the womb, and at others
It may descend low down.
It is usually attended with a feeling of
weight and heaviness in the lower abdomen,
lameness in the back or across the loins, and.
a sensation as if everything would fall okt.
when standing. There is often a sensation
of emptiness or faintness at the pit of the••
stomach, and sometimes difficulty in passing
the water or stool.
TREATMENT.-When the prolapsus exists to a
serious extent, or can be readily reached, the
patient should recline with the hips elevated, and
the womb should be replaced by gentle pressure.
Dissolve also twelve pellets of Specific Ño.12 in
six spoonfuls of water, of which take one spoon-
ful every two hours. If the displacement is less
considerable, nothing need be done further thau
to rest and take six pellets of Specific No. 13,
morning and afternoon, and of No. 10 at noon
and at night. This course, persevered in for a
few weeks, avoiding fatigue and overwork on the
feet, will often relieve even obstinate cases.
There may be cases of prolapsus which, from neg-
lect, etc., require the use of supporters or me-
chanical appliances, but these should only be
called in as a last resort. Use, also, the GOLDEN
DOUCHE, as in Leucorrhea.
VOMITING AND MORNING SICKNESS in preg
nant females is often relieved by taking six pel-
lets of Specific No. 10, morning and night. But
the better remedy for vomiting, morning sick-
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ness, heartburn, and similar sickness in pregnant
females, is Specific No. 29. Six pellets, morn-
ing, noon and night, rarely fails to afford relief.
P
CHANGE OF LIFE.-The cessation of the
menses, which usually occurs at from forty
to forty-five years of age, is frequently at-
tended with disturbances of the system, such
flushes of heat, nervousness, paleness and
debility, irregularities in the monthly flow,
either too little, too profuse or colorless dis-
charge. Palpitations and throbbings of the
heart are very common, and, in many cases,
disease of the heart, degeneration of some
part, or other serious disorder, dates from
this period. Few pass this crisis exempt
from those or similar affections, while to
many they are not only very trying, but
even alarming.
"
TREATMENT.-For the sufferings incident to
this period, the Specific No. 32 is a cure. It
should be taken, six pellets night and morning,
and it may be continued as occasion requires,
nntil this entire period is safely passed.
THE GOLDEN DOUCHE “G. D." cures LEU-
CORRHEA ; BEARING-DOWN, or PROLAPSUS ;
PRURITUS, Irritation; Incipient Degenera-
tion of Tissue, or Cancerous Ulceration.
While the SPECIFICS Nos. 11, 12, 31, are
the effective cure, Golden Douche, a Medi-
cated Fluid, applied directly to the parts,
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affords prompt relief; allay's irritation;
cures Leucorrhea; and checks ulcerations,
incipient degeneration of tissue and morbid
growths; and imparts tone and healthy vigor
to the entire system.
The Golden Douche (G. D.) may be had of
dealers, or will be sent free on receipt.of..
$1.00; Syringe, 25 cents.
MEDICINES BY MAIL OR EXPRESS..
First apply at your drug store.
Dr. Humphreys' Family Specifics, Veteri-
nary Specifics and Witch Hazel Oil, from a
single vial to a full case or box, sent prepaid
to any address on receipt of price.
Send post office money order, express
money order or register the letter for safety.
Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co.,
cor. William & John Sts., New York.
1
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PRACTICAL HINTS.
SPECIFICS are In three sizes-25 Cts.,
50 Cts. and $1.00-except Nos. 28, 32 and
33, In $1.00 size only.
PRACTICAL HINTS IN USING
Humphreys' Specifics.
EMILD POWER SUSUUES
Specific No. 1 Cures
Fevers, Congestions and
Inflammations; Heat, Pain,
Restlessness; Inflamma-
tion and Congestion of the
Head or Brain; Inflam-
mation of the Eyes; In-
TRADE MARK
flammation of the Throat,
or Quinsy, alone, or in alternation with No:
34; Pneumonia, or inflammation of the Chest
or Lungs; Inflammation of the Pleura (Pleur-
isy); Inflammation of the Liver and of the
Bowels; Fevers of Children; Scarlet Fever, Scar-
latina; Measles; Yellow Fever; Inflammatory
Rheumatism; Inflammatory, Bilious, or Gastric
Fever; Sun-Stroke; Effects of being Overheated;
Violent, Throbbing Headaches; Sleeplessness
from Fever or Fullness of Blood.
Specific No. 1 is the true Medical Treasure.
Indispensable in every family, often needed and
always promptly curative.
If chilled or cold,
sore, tired or lame, taxe No. 1.
The first stage
of any inflammatory disease or Fever, Measles,
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. Mo. and £1.00
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Scarlet Fever, Croup, Mumps, Cough or Cold, or
Sore Throat, calls for No. 1.
It Dissipates Congestion, Breaks the Chill,
Reduces Fever and so cures disease. It cannot be
TOO HIGHLY PRAISED OR TOO URGENTLY RECOM-
MENDED. IT PAYS ITS COST A THOUSANDFOLD.
Specific No. 2-Cures Worm Diseases, Worki,'".
Fevers, Worm Collc; Itching of the Anus, or
Wetting the Bed from Worms; Irregular or Ge
pricious Appetite, or Emaciation from Worms;
Long Round Worms; Pin Worms. Every mor
bid condition resulting from worms is radically
cured by this Specific,
Specific No. 3-Cures Steeplessness, Colic and
Crying of Infants or Young Children, such as
Colic, Crying and Restlessness; Irritation and
Congestion from Teething; Slow Growth and
Feebleness of Infants; Irregular Teething; Di-
arrhea of Infants; Retarded or Slow Learning to
Walk; Enlargement of the Joints and Bending of
the Long Bones; Sleeplessness of Adults from
Nervousness. No. 3 takes the place of all COR-
DIALS, DROPS, Anodynes and Syrups, curing not
only the Wakefulness, Colic and Crying, but by
aiding the digestion, giving Strength and Vigor,
and so making children healthy, instead of in-
juring them with opiates or drugs.
A small vial of pleasant pellets-its your vest
pocket, 85c, and $1.00
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Specific No. 4—Cures Diarrhea or Loose Bow-
els, in Children or Adults; Summer Complaint or
Cholera Infantum; Thin, Loose, Yellowish, Green-
ish or Watery Stools, Diarrhea from Indigestible
Food; Diarrhea from the use of Fruit; Diarrhea
from Traveling or Change of Water; Painful
Diarrhea, Chronic Diarrhea or Loose Bowels;
Diarrhea of Consumptives. Always Reliable for
Diarrhea or Loose Bowels; with No. 5 it cures
*tire worst cases of Chronic Diarrhea.
Specific No. 5-Cures Dysentery, Colic, Pain-
"ful or Bloody Diarrhea; Fall Dysentery or Bloody
Flux; Slimy, Scanty Mucus; Greenish and
Bloody Stools, attended with violent Colic or
Straining and Tenesmus; Painful Diarrhea; Colic;
Bilious Colic; Hemorrhoidal Colic. For the
cure of Colic, Painful Diarrhea and Dysentery it
has no equal, curing mildly, promptly, safely..
Specific No. 6-Cures Cholera Morbus; Nausea
and Vomiting; Asiatic Cholera; Sickness at the
Stomach; Vomiting with Diarrhea; Thin, Loose,
Urgent or Rice-water Stools, with Vomiting,
Coldness, Paleness, Blue Lips and Cramps; Morn-
ing Sickness. The promptness with which No. 6
cures Cholera Morbus is something wonderful.
Specific No. 7-Cures Coughs, Colds, Brom
chitis, Hoarseness, Sore Throat and Influenza;
Cough, with Pain and Stitches in the Side or
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 250. and $1.00,
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Breast; Cough, with Weakness or Emaciation, as
from Incipient Consumption; Coughs, with Morn
ing Chill and Evening Fever; Cough, with Pain
or Soreness in the Throat and Bronchia; Hoarse-
ness, or Loss of Voice in Clergymen; Sore Throat;
Old Chronic or Consumptive Coughs; Inflamma-
tion of the Lungs or Pleura, given after or in al-
ternation with No. 1. Chronic Bronchitis or
Laryngitis, with Cough, Hoarseness, Loss
Voice, or Weak Voice, Scanty Expectoration and……….
Emaciation. Almost every form of pulmonary.
disease is reached by it. Thousands are yearly...
saved by its use. Always reliable, always effect
ive. Often used in alternation with No. 1, es‹••
pecially if there is heat or fever.
Specific No. 8-Cures Neuralgia, Toothache,
Faceache, Nervous Pains, Toothache in Sound
Teeth, or in Old Decayed Teeth; Toothache in
Children; Faceache; Tic Douloureux; Swelled
Face; Darting, Sharp or Stinging Pains; Neural-
gic Pains; Old Neuralgias.
Specific No. 9-Cures Headaches, Vertigo, Sick
Headaches, Congestion to the Head; Bilious
Headaches; Nervous Headaches and Sick Head-
aches, with Nausea and Vomiting; Congestive
Headaches, also No. 1; Vertigo or Dizziness;
Swimming of the Head; Heat, Heaviness or Full-
ness of the Head, also No. 1. Often used in
alternation with No. 1, for Congestive Head-
aches; or with No. 10 for Bilious Headaches.
A small vial of pleasant pollets-its your vest
pocket, 85c. and $100,
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PRACTICAL HINTS.
Specific No. 10-Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Constipation, Bilious Complaints, Malaria; Weak
Stomach, Rising of Food; Water Brash, Coated
Tongue, Loss of Appetite, Loathing of Food;
Constipation, or Costive Bowels; Scanty, Knotty,
Small, Hard, Dry or Insufficient Stools; Bilious-
ness; Yellow or Earthy Complexion; Bad Taste
in the Mouth; No Appetite; Drowsiness, and
Costive Bowels; Acid Stomach. Everything eaten
...Becomes Sour; Old Chronic Dyspepsia, when
everything disagrees; Headache from Indiges-
tion; Old Chronic Liver Complaint, with indiges-
tion; Enlargement of the Liver; Chronic Con-
stipation and Piles; Flatulence and Bloating of
the Abdomen after eating; Offensive Breath.
..No. 10 is a balm for old men or women, invigor-
ating the feeble Kidneys and sluggish Liver;
improving Strength, Manhood and Energy; a
perfect Anti-Bilious and Anti-Malarial Protective
and Cure. As a remedy for poor appetite, indi-
gestion, weak stomach and constipation, it is
without an equal.
Specific No. 11-Cures Female irregularities ;
Delaying, Scanty or Painful Menses; Delaying or
too Tardy or Late-appearing Menses; Suppressed
or Obstructed Menses, from cold, fright, weak-
ness or morbid cause; too Scanty, too Pale, or
Colorless Menses; Green Sickness or Chlorosis;
Headache or Colic Pains during the Menses;
Intermitting or Irregular Menses; Leucorrhea,
with Scanty or Delayed Menses. For the above
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 250. and $1.00,
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conditions, Specifio No. 11 is unquestionably
the safest and most effective remedy known. Is
very much better, safer and more efficient than
all teas, doses, pills or forcing medicines so ofter
resorted to.
Specific No. 12-Cures Whites, or Leucorrhea;
Too Profuse Menses, and Prolapsus Uterl; yel
lowish, thick, offensive or corrosive discharge;
Menses too soon and too long continued; too pro
fuse and debilitating Menses; Constant Bearing
Down; Old Debilitating Leucorrhea. Untold
numbers are made happy from the relief af
forded by Specifics No. 11 and No. 12.
Specific No. 13-Cures Croup; Hoarse Cough,
Oppressed Breathing; Hoarse, Croupy Cough;
Inflammatory Croup; Spasmodic, and even Mem-
braneous Croup; Croup with Quick Pulse, Hot
Skin, Difficult, Labored Breathing and Hoarse
Cough; Laryngitis, with Hoarseness, Pain in the
Throat, Painful Cough and Scanty Expectora-
tion; Chronic Hoarseness, or Loss of Voice. As a
cure and preventive of (roup, this Specific has no
equal-prompt, mild, safe and effective. A thou-
sand times better, more safe and effective than
hive syrup, cough mixture or hot teas, so often
resorted to.
Specific No. 14-Cures Eruptions, Eczema,
Salt Rheum, Acne, Ulcers; Erysipelas, with Hot,
A small vial of pleasant pellets-its your vest
mooket. 258. and $1.00.
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PRACTICAL HINTS.
Smooth, Swelled Skin or Blisters; Salt Rheum,
or Rough, Scaly, Chapped Eruption on the Hands
or other parts; Pimples or Blotches on the Face;
Prickly Heat; Nettle Rash, like Stings of Insects;
Scald Head; Barber's Itch; Old Ulcers. For
clearing the complexion of Elotches and Pimples,
and giving a clear, healthy bloom, No. 14 and
No. 35 are invaluable. Almost every form of
eruptive disease is cured by Specific No. 14.
Specific No. 16-Cures Rheumatism; Lamə-
ness, Stiffness and Soreness; Acute Rheuma-
tism, with Painful, Hot Swelling of the part;
Chronic Rheumatism, with Lameness, Stiffness
and Soreness of the part; Sciatic Rheumatism,
with pain in the Hip, Knee or Leg of the affected
side; Lurabago, or pain across the Loins or
Back; Old Rheumatic Pains or Lameness. In
alternation with No. 1, for the acute form, and
in alternation with No. 10, for Chronic Rheuma-
tism, Specific No. 15 has no equal-always re-
liable, almost infallible.
Specific No. 16-Cures Fever and Ague, Dumb
Ague, Malaria, Intermitting Fever, Malarial Fevers;
Effects of Malaria; Old Suppressed Agues; Ague
Cake; Enlarged Liver or Spleen, or other effects
of badly treated Agues, and of the Quinine,
Cholagogue, Arsenic or other drugs taken to
cure it. Specific No. 16 is the best remedy and
cure for these old drugged and mismanaged
*A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 85c, and $1.00,
PRACTICAL HINTS.
109,
cases. The best protective and cure for Malaria,
in whatever form, alone or in alternation with
No. 10. Hundreds of families living in Mala-
rious regions say they are exempt from Malaria.
and Ague if they habitually use Specific No.
16.
Specific No. 17-Cures Plies or Hemorrhoids,
Blind or Bleeding, Internal or External, with
Fulness, Itching and Burning; Inflamed, Hot
Burning, Sore Tumors around the Rectum; Fall-
ing of the Rectum; Itching of the Anus. The
cure of Inveterate Chronic Piles is always effected
by the use of Specifies No. 17 and No. 10 in
alternation. Apply Humphreys' Witch Hazel
Oil externally.
Specific No. 18-Cures Ophthalmia or Sore Eyes;
Weak Sight; Old Chronic, Sore, Inflamed or Weak
Eyes, with Heat, Redness, Scalding Tears, and
Dread of Light; Painful, Red, Inflamed Eyelids,
with constant Secretion of Mucus; Weak, Dim,
Failing or Blurred Sight; Acute Inflamed Eyes
or Eyelids. Invaluable for Premature Weakness
or Falling of Sight, from over-taxing the eyes.
Also for Easy Fatigue of the eyes, from reading
or effort; Intolerance of Light.
Specific No. 19-Cures Catarrh, Dry or Flowing,
Recent or Chronic; Influenza; Mucus Discharges
from the Nose; Acute Catarrh, with flow of
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. £5c. and $1.00.
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Scalding Mucus, Tears and Sneezing; Old Chronic
Catarrhs, with profuse discharge of Thick, some-
times Offensive Mucus, Obstructed Nose, and
often Loss of Taste or Smell; Chronic Cold in
the Head; Catarrh of Children; Offensive Breath
with Catarrh; Cough, with Profuse Discharge
from the Nose, and Copious Expectoration ;
Loose Catarrhal Cough in Children; Soreness, or
Dry Crusts forming in the Nose, with Dry or
Moist Catarrh. The habitual use of Specific
No. 19 has cured thousands of Catarrhs.
Specific No. 20-Cures Whooping-Cough; Irri-
tating, Spasmodic and Convulsive Coughs.
Given early this Specific arrests the development
of the Cough; and given at any stage, allays the
irritation, moderates the Cough and winds up
the disease. Specific No. 20 may be regarded
as absolutely infallible for Whooping Cough.
Patients never tire of telling of its magical effect
in soothing, relieving and curing this often most
troublesome disease. Hundreds of physicians
constantly use it in their practice.
Specific No. 21-Cures Asthma, Difficult Breath-
Ing, Cough and Expectoration; Old Chronic
Asthma, with attacks of Oppressed, Labored,
Difficult Breathing, Cough and Expectoration;
Dry Asthma; Humid Asthma; Stridulous or
Sighing Respiration. This Specific has proved a
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 25c. and $1.00.
PRACTICAL HINTS.
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comfort and relief to hundreds of asthmatics,
continually improving their condition, and often
making an entire cure. Every form of Asthma
is controlled by it.
Specific No. 22-Cures Ear Discharges; Ear-
ache; Diseases of the Ear and Hearing; Noise in
the Head, Deafness; Discharges from the Ear, in
consequence of Measles, Scarlatina or other dis-
eases, Inflammation of the Internal Ear; Old
Offensive Discharges from the Ear, with Hard-
ness of Hearing; Noises, Buzzing, Ringing or
Piping in the Ears; Whitlow or Panaris, or Run-
Rounds on the finger; White Swelling of the Knee
or Hip. Specific No. 22 is invaluable for En-
larged Glands in the Neck of Children; Scrofu-
lous Ulcers in the Neck; Old Intractable Ulcers
or Sores; and for Wetting the Bed, in Weakly,
Feeble or Scrofulous children, in connection with
No. 30; Slow Growth, in consequence of De-
ficient Bony Deposit, and consequent Weakness
of children.
Specific No. 23-Cures Scrofula; Enlarged
Glands or Tonsils; Old Ulcers; Diseases of Scrof-
ulous origin; Enlarged or Inflamed Glands under
the Jaw, around the Neck or under the Arm-pits;
Itching and Burning of the Legs; Old Inveterate
Ulcers and Eruptions; Cold Swellings. It is also
effective for Habitual Offensive Breath, and
Offensive Perspiration of the Feet; Carbuncles
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 25c. and $1.00.
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or Boils; Inflammation at the root of the nail,
and Whitlow or Felon; Old Scaly Eruption on
the Legs.
Specific No. 24-Cures General Debility;
Physical and Nervous Weakness; Want of
Strength, Lassitude, Tired, Weary Feeling, even
on Waking; Easy Fatigue; Sweat on going to
Sleep; Debility, the result of severe illness cr
drain upon the system; Want of Tone or Iron in
the Blood. An invaluable remedy for persons
under severe mental or physical strain, or over-
work, or the debility resulting from it-keeping
them up and preventing a general break-down.
Hundreds have used it with complete success.
Specific No. 26-Cures Dropsy, Fluid Accumu-
lations with Scanty Secretions; Anasarca or
General Dropsy; Dropsy of the Abdomen; Dropsy
of the Chest, Heart or Head; Dropsy with Tumid,
Doughy Swellings and Scanty Secretions; Drop-
sical Swelling of the Feet or Legs. A most in-
valuable Specific for all these conditions. Quite
sure to increase the flow of urine, and so relieve
dropsical accumulations.
Specific No. 26-Cures Sea-Sickness; and
Sickness from Riding in Carriage oron Railroads;
Headache from Carriage or Car Riding; Nausea
and Vomiting; Prevention of Sea Sickness. Has
in thousands of cases rendered a Sea-Voyage
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket, 25c. and $1.00.
PRACTICAL HINTS.
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Free from Sea-Sickness, even with very sensitive
subjects. Often cures Lumbago or pains in the
loins and back, and also the weak oaralytic feel-
ing in the loins and back and even paralysis of
the lower extremities, in patients able only with
difficulty to drag one leg after the other.
Specific No. 27-Cures Kidney Diseases;
Bright's Kidney; Gravel; Painful, Retarded, Scanty
Urination; Gravel and Renal Calculi; Catarrh of
the Bladder, in alternation with No. 30; Sand
and Unhealthy Deposits in the Urine; Thick,
Turbid, Frothy Urine, filled with mucus and
brick-dust deposits; Too Frequent Discharge of
Urine; Nightly Enuresis ; Pain in the region of
the Kidneys and Bladder; Enlarged Prostate ;
Difficult, Slow, Interrupted and Insufficient Dis-
charge in old people; Bloody Urine or mixed
with blood. Specific No. 27 has perfect control
over the kidney secretions, and either alone, or
in some cases with No. 30, has relieved and re-
stored thousands. Hundreds of old people have
been saved from years of suffering and been
made happy by it. It cannot be too highly
praised or safely trusted. Compare also No. 30.
For DIABETES, a Special Prescription,
in fluid, with directions. This disease is known by
excessive discharge of pale, heavy and sugary
urine; debility; progressive emaciation; red,
fissured tongue and enlarged papilla; intense
thirst and frequent urination; voracious appetite
and sinking of the stomach; bowels usually cos-
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 25c, and $1.00.
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PRACTICAL HINTS.
tive, and stools hard and dry; harsh and dry
skin. This Specific has been particularly suc-
cessful, and has restored to health and comfort
many old, obstinate cases. Price, $2.00. Sent
Free on receipt of price.
Specific No. 28-Cures Nervous Debility; Sem-
Inal Weakness; Deficient Energy; Loss of Ner-
vous Power and General Tone of the System; Ir-
resolution and Mental Gloom, or Despondency;
Weakness from Loss of Vital Fluids; Frequent
Involuntary Nocturnal Emissions, often with
lascivious dreams; Seminal Losses at Stool, or
during Urination; Depression, Prostration, Mental
Weakness or other effects of Early Evil Habits,
Overwork or Mental Strain; Threatened Im-
potence; Enfeebled Powers; Pollutions from re-
laxed organs; Debility, resulting from excesses.
It is Specific for all conditions from exhausted
vital powers; Loss of vital fluids, excessive drain
and mental overwork. No popular remedy, or
other treatment, has been so efficient, so safe or
so economical as Specific No. 28. It has cured
thousands, restoring mere nervous and physical
wrecks to renewed energy, vigor and activity,
and never fails to render good service.
Special Prescription Package for Nervous
Debility, Seminal Weakness, Want of Energy or
Vital Force. Indispensable for old or inveterate
cases, $5.00.
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Specific No. 29-Cures Sore Mouth or Canker;
Ulcerated Lips; Sore Mouth or Canker in adults,
children or infants; Nursing Sore Mouth; Morn-
ing Sickness of Expectant Women; Indigestion;
Ulceration or Canker of the Mouth; Old Syphilitic
Sore Mouth; Obstinate Intermitting Fevers.
Always satisfactory.
Specific No. 30-Cures Diseases of the Urinary
Organs; Urinary Incontinence; Frequent, Painful
or Scalding Urination; Inability to Retain the
Urine; Catarrh of the Bladder, in alternation with
No. 27; Frequent Scalding Urination, with Mu-
cus Discharge; Urine loaded with Mucus; Nightly
Wetting-the-Bed in children; Nocturnal Urinary
Incontinence. Speciúc No. 30 is to the bladder
and passages what No. 27 is to the kidneys-
hence so often used in connection. It has ren-
dered hundreds of households happy by curing
Nocturnal Enuresis or Nightly Wetting-the-Bed.
There is scarcely a form of Urinary or Kidney
Disease which is not controlled by Nos. 27 and
30.
Specific No. 31-Cures Painful Menstruation;
Hysteria, Spasms; Pruritus; Menstruation, with
Painful Bearing Down; Menses, with Painful,
Pressive, Cutting, Griping, and even Spasms;
Too Profuse Menses, with Pain and Distress;
Itching and Burning irritation of the Organs;
Laughing, Crying, Hysterical Movements, or
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 25c. and $1.00.
!
116
PRACTICAL HINTS.
Cramps at the monthly period; Too Early and
Too Long-continued Menses; Leucorrhea, like
white of eggs. Nos. 31 and 11 cure the worst
cases of Painful Menses.
Specific No. 32-Cures Heart Disease, Palpl-
tations, Flushes; irregularities and Morbid Con-
ditions, occurring at the Critical Age of Women,
or Change of Life; Flushes of Heat; Irregular
Menses, Wanting or Too Soon, Too Copious and
Too Long, with great prostration, nervous and
wakeful at the turn of life; Palpitation of the
Heart; Irregular or Tumultuous Beating of the
Heart; Violent Throbbing or Irregular Beating of
the Heart; Painful Spasm through the Chest and
Heart; Chronic Disease of the Heart; Rheuma-
tism of the Heart; Old Chronic Palpitations of
the Heart. Reliable and Invaluable.
Specific No. 33 Cures Epilepsy, Cramps,
Spasms, Convulsions; Convulsions of children or
adults, with Loss of Consciousness; Spasms or
convulsions of children from the slightest cause;
Convulsions of children, from Teething, Fright or
Mental Excitement; Cramps or Spasms of single
limbs; St. Vitus' Dance, with Twitching, Jerking
or Strange Motions of single features, muscles or
parts; Hysterical Spasms or Hysteria; Easy
Numbness of single parts. The early use of
Specific No. 33 has averted the development of
A flask of pleasant pellets-fits your pocket. $1.00.
M
PRACTICAL HINTS.
117
Epilepsy in children, and has also cured many
cases of Epilepsy when it appeared confirmed.
For Chorea or St. Vitus' Dance, it is infallible.
Specific No. 34-Cures Diphtheria; Quinsy and
Ulcerated Sore Throat; Diphtheritic Sore Throat;
Malignant Sore Throat; Tonsilitis; Ulcerated or
Enlarged Tonsils; Painful, Difficult, Impeded De-
glutition; Chronic Enlargement and Induration
of the Tonsils; Old Sores, and Ulcerated Throats
of Syphilitic origin. As a preventive and cure
for Diphtheria and Quinsy and Ulcerated Sore
Throat, it is entirely reliable.
Specific No. 36-Cures Chronic Congestions;
Headaches and Eruptions; Habitual Headaches;
Heat and Fullness of the Head; Headaches of
children; Slow Growth and Tardy Learning to
Walk of children; Difficult Teething of children;
Scurf and Eruption on the Head of young chil-
dren; Sleeplessness, Retarded Sleep and Rest-
lessness; Liability to Take Cold from Slight Ex-
posure; Bearing Down, or Prolapsus Uteri.
Specific No. 77-Cures La Grippe, Influenza,
Hay Fever; Flowing Eyes and Nose, Coryza ;
Sneezing, Cough; Feverishness, Restlessness, Ir-
ritability; Heat or Dryness of Throat, Thirst;
Pain and Soreness in Head, Back and Lungs;
General Prostration and Despondency. For La
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 85c. and $1.00,
118
PRACTICAL HINTS,
Grippe, or Epidemic Influenza, Specific No. 77
is the most wonderful remedy yet devised-" par
excellence" the remedy for the Grip, promptly
curing all its manifestations. Taken early, it cuts
it short; taken during the prevalence of the
epidemic, it pre-occupies the system and repels
the invasion; taken while suffering, quick relief
is given, culminating in an entire cure. The long
continued weakness and despondency caused by
the Grip, finds no better remedy than No. 77.
Colds which are obstinate, that "hang on" and
do not yield to treatment, find relief from No.
77. For extreme fever, alternate with Speciflc
No. 1; for Violent Cough or Chest Pains, alter-
nate with Specific No. 7. But, in general,
Specific No. 77 is sufficient.
FIRST SYMPTOMS.-Coryza, or nasal irritation or
discharge, cough, sore throat; headache; back-
ache; and general depression.
MORE SERIOUS SYMPTOMS.—Pain in head, back,
chest or limbs, sometimes of sudden and prostra-
ting neuralgic character; sometimes cerebral
excitement, even delirium; extremo prostration,
languor or debility; depression of mind, even
after the first violence of the attack has passed
away; bronchitis, or broncho-pneumonia may
become serious complications. See page 56.
*C
"ROSE,"
" "HAY," "AUTUMN," OR PEACH
CATARRH.-For this, to which some persons are
remarkably susceptible (coming on annually,
generally between 20th of August and 1st of
October), Specifio No. 77 is an invaluable
remedy. Taken early, days before the attack.
""
PRACTICAL HINTS.
119
continued persistently four times a day, it re-
lieves the sneezing, lacrymation and asthma;
and by its continued use, from season to season,
eliminates the germs of the disease from the sys-
tem.
Moderation in the use of coffee and tobacco;
avoidance of exposure; keeping warm and using
only light and easily digestible food, will greatly
aid the beneficent action of Specific No. 77.
A small vial of pleasant pellets-fits your vest
pocket. 25c. and $1.00.
MEDICINES BY MAIL OR EXPRESS.
First apply at your drug store.
Dr. Humphreys' Family Specifics, Veteri-
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single vial to a full case or box, sent prepaid
to any address on receipt of price.
Send post office money order, express
money order or register the letter for safety.
Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co.,
cor. William & John Sts., New York.
APPROVAL OF FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.
Approval of Dr. Humphreys' Freparations has
been bestowed by the Medical Authorities of
different American Republics. Their introduc-
tion into France has been allowed by the French
Government. They have been analyzed and ap-
proved by the National Board of Health of the
Argentine Republic and by the National Board
of Health of the United States of Brazil
This cut represents a Dollar Flask of
Humphreys' Specifics, Contains 120 doses
of six pellets each.
Mo.
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NERVOUS DEBILITY
Is known by a weak, nervous, exhausted feeling;
a lack of animation or energy, often with con-
fused head, depressed mind, weak memory, or
with debilitating, involuntary discharges-the
consequence of excesses, indiscretion or mental
overwork. This condition finds a sovereign
cure in
Humphreys' Specific No.Twenty-Eight.
It tones up the system, dispels the mental
gloom and despondency, restores vitality, arrests
the drain and rejuvenates the entire system.
Perfectly harmless; been in use twenty years;
has restored thousands, and is the always efl-
cient and safe remedy. Its highest praise is
that it is extensively imitated. It is especially
efficient for the Young and INDISCREET, and the
OVERWORKED, OVERTAXED OR CAREWORN in active
or advanced life.
PRICE $1.00 per single Flask; or $5.00 for a
Special Package which is important in old or
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FOR
Seventy-seven" is Dr. Humph-
reys' Famous Specific for La
Grippe, and the Prevention
of Pneumonia.
66 99 meets the exigency of epidemic
Grippe, with all its symptoms of Influenza,
Catarrh, Pains and Soreness in the Head
and Chest, Cough, Sore Throat, General
Prostration and Fever. Taken early it cuts
it short promptly. Taken during its preval-
ence, it prooccupies the system and prevents
its invasion; taken while suffering from it,
a relief is speedily realized, which may be
continued up to an entire cure.
For sale by all druggists, or sent on receipt of
price, 25c. and $1.00. Humphreys' Homeopathic
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グ
​HUMPHREYS'
Trade Mark,
Marvel of Healing.
WITCH HAZEL.
THIS PURE DISTILLATION OF
THE WELL-KNOWN SHRUB, HAMA-
MELIS, or WITCH HAZEL, is pre-
pared with great care from
receipts used by Dr. Humphreys
for more than FORTY YEARS,
and warranted superior to any
Witch Hazel preparation sold.
See that our trade-mark is
None other genuine.
on each bottle.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is the ready cure
for all Injuriçs, Bruises, Contusions, Strains,
Cuts or Lacerations. It soothes the pain,
staunches the bleeding, arrests inflammation,
reduces the swelling, removes discoloration
and heals the wound like magic.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is a prompt relief
and rapid cure for Burns, Scalds and Sun-
burns-superior to every other remedy.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is priceless for
all Bleedings or Hemorrhages, Nose Bleed,
Bleeding Gums, Spitting of Blood, Bleeding
Lungs or Stomach, or Bleeding Piles.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is the sure and
unfailing cure for Piles or Hemorrhoids-
always curing, never failing.
125
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is a prompt rellei
for Toothache, Earache, Faceache, Swelled
Face and Neuralgia.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is the ready and
valuable resource for Rheumatic Pain, Lame-
ness, Soreness or Stiffness of Joints or Limbs.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is a grand remedy
for Quinsy, Sore Throat, Inflamed or En-
larged Tonsils-always reliable, always effi-
cient.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable for
the cure of Gravel, Renal Calculi, Kidney
Complaints, Strangury, or other similar dis-
orders.
•
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is a prompt cure
for Simple Diarrhea, and has cured the most
obstinate cases of Chronic Diarrhea.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable as
an injection for Catarrhs, Leucorrheas and
other debilitating mucus discharges.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable as a
cure for Ulcers, Old Sorcs, Boils, Felons
Corns or Bunions, and Tumors.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING is invaluable for
Stable Use, for Sprains, Soreness, Ereast or
Harness Galls, Contusion, Laceration or
other injury.
THE MARVEL OF HEALING relieves like magic
Chilblains, Frosted Parts, Mosquito Bites
and Stings of Insects. Nothing like it.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS.
PRICE-6 oz., 25c.: Pints, 50c.; Quarts, $1.00.
126
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HUMPHREYS'
Witch Hazel Oil
FOR PILES,
ONE APPLICATION (SENT
FREE) GIVES RELIEF.
This Ointment is the triumph of Scientific
Medicine. Nothing has ever been produced to
at all equal or compare with it as a curative and
healing application. The virtues of the Witch
Hazel have long been known and celebrated as
a healer and pain curer. But when combined
and applied in the form of an oil, ITS CURATIVE
EFFECTS ARE MARVELOus. It has been used OVER
FORTY YEARS, and is the prescription of one of
the most renowned physicians of his day. It
ALWAYS AFFORDS RELIEF and ALWAYS GIVES
SATISFACTION. For:
Piles, Fissures, Blind or Bleeding, External or
Internal, and Itching or Bleeding of the Rectum.
For these, or any of them, this Oil is infallible.
The relief is immediate. It has been used in
thousands of cases with absolute success. No
one who has ever tried it will do without it.
Ulcerations, Eruptions, Cracks or Fissures
of the anus or rectum are cured at once and like
magic from a few simple applications of this Oil
Even old Fistulas in Ano have been cured by it.
1
127
Chafings, Dryness, irritations, itching Excoria-
tion of the Skin of Children, Women, or others,
are wonderfully relieved and cured by a few ap-
plications.
Burns, Scalds and Ulceration and Contraction
from burns. The relief is instant and the healing
of the ulceration and softening of the contraction
is wonderful. It has in repeated instances cured
cases of contraction from burns pronounced in-
curable by the faculty.
Old Sores, Indolent Ulcers and Fistulas are
promptly healed up and cured. This Oil is the
mildest and best possible dressing for them.
~
Cancers, Malignant, Painful or Corroding UI-
cers, Carbuncles and Boils are at once relieved of
the darting, eating or corroding pains.
Salt Rheum, Tetters, Scurfy Eruptions, Chapped
Hands, Fever Blisters, Sore Lips, Corns, Bunions,
are promptly relieved and often cured like magic,
For Corns and Bunions or Sore and Lame Feet
this remedy affords instant relief, curing and ren
dering serviceable fect whose use under any other
treatment was a painful burden and torment.
An Emollient or application for Swelled Face,
Sore Throat, Quinsy, Swelled Ankle, Knee, Foot
or Joints, from Rheumatism. Always curative.
For further information, see Witch Hazel Oil
Book.
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OR SENT, PREPAID, ON RECEIPT OF PRICE.
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HUMPHREYS’
...
TRADE MARK
Veterinary Specifics,
FOR THE CURE OF
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Dogs, Hogs and Poultry.
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS' worth of DOMESTIC ANI
MALS and POULTRY are every year lost or sacri-
ficed, because owners are not acquainted with
their diseases, and do not know how to treat
them. Yet sick animals under DR. HUMPHREYS'
SPECIFIC SYSTEM are more readily treated and
cured than people. The greatest blessing of
modern times for Domestic Animals is their
treatment, when sick, by this system. That they
are daily so cured in thousands of instances is
as true as that the people ride on railroads, sew
with sewing machines, or send messages by
telegraph.
129
[IMPHREYS VETERINARY SPECIFICAS,
me
1.-Humphreys' Veterinary Specifics are not
an experiment. They have been in use
among FARMERS, BREEDERS, LIVERY
STABLE and TURFMEN, HORSE RAILROAD,
EXPRESS, MINING and MANUFACTURING
COMPANIES, MENAGERIES and HIPPODROMES,
and others handling large numbers of
horses and other stock, with complete
success for forty years.
II.-You have a Specific Remedy for any parti-
cular Disease or Complaint. For Colic,
Cough, Founder, Heaves, Pneumonia, Indi-
gestion, Disease of the Kidneys or Urinary
Passages, Strains or Lameness, you have,
in compact, portable form, the Specific
to cure it. You know just what to do,
and how to do it.
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III.-Their use is free from danger to the Animal.
In the usual treatment, the medicines are
cither rank poisons or the most violent al-
teratives. It is a common experience, that
if the horse finally lives through the treat-
ment, he is worthless from the effects of
the medicines. Thousands of good horses
are every year killed by drugs. In Rum-
PAREYS' SPECIFIC System you are abso-
lutely free from all such danger.
IV. They are simple. Being Specifics for par-
ticular diseases, you know at once what to
give. You can scarcely make a mistake.
Even if you do, you have only lost your
time, and have not killed the horse. When
using the common veterinary drugs, a mis-
take is often fatal. With simple (not
Specifics) Homeopathic Medicines you are
never sure of giving the right medicine.
M
V. They are readily and easily given. You used
not lose a moment. The SPECIFIC is ready
just as you want it. The Medicator takes
the dose from the bottle and places it upon
the tongue of the horse or cow, without
loss of time or danger. No bottling, ball-
ing, choking or strangling-irritating the
animal and endangering the owner or his
help.
131
Medicine. HUMPHREYS' SPECIFICS act
VI. They cure more quickly than any other
through the medium of the nerves and the
blood, rather than through the digestive
organs. They begin to act before other
medicines even reach the stomach. You
cure diseases with HUMPHREYS' VETER-
INARY SPECIFICS which you cannot cure
by any other treatment,
VII.-Every Ten Dollars invested In Humphreys'
Veterinary Specifics will save you $100, and
every HUNDRED will save A THOUSAND IN
PROPERTY, besides an equal amount in
time, trouble and care.
VIII. The saving in loss of stock is from one-half
to three-fourths. This is the testimony of
hundreds of horsemen.
IX.-The Treatment is humane, and if we may
be humane as well as skillful, surely we
should prefer it.
X.-Diagnosing the disease and giving of med-
icine is such as any sensible, faithful man-
of ordinary intelligence can master without
difficulty,
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LIST OF
HUMPHREYS'
Veterinary Specifics,
Prominent Conditions which Each Cures.
A.A.
CURES
AND
PAMPHLETS SENT FREE ON APPLICATION.
FEVER, CONGESTIONS,
INFLAMMATIONS, Etc.
Curative for all Congestions, Inflamma-
tions, Fevers and febrile conditions; and
hence for all conditions attended with QUICK, FULL
AND STRONG PULSE, HEAT OR EXCITEMENT Cf the
system; and for the coldness, shaking or pant-
ing which precede inflammation. Cures Inflam-
mations, as of the Lungs or Pleura (Plcuro Pneu-
monia); Inflammation of the Head or Brain,
Eyes, or of the Liver or Belly; Sore Throat or
Quinsy; Blind or Belly Staggers, or Convulsions;
Hot Skin; Quick Pulse; Chill or Fanting; Milk
Fever in Cows; Spinal Meningitis in IIorses.
B.B. STRAINS, LAMENESS, RHEU-
MATISM, INJURIES.
CURES
Especially curative for all diseases or affections
of the Muscles, Sinews, Tendons and Joints.
Cures Founder, Curb, Spavin, Strains, Stiffness,
Lameness, Rheumatism, Splint, Stifle.
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C.C.
Distemper, Gleet or Strangles,
CURES
Especially curative for all diseases of the
Mucous Membrane and Glands. Cures Epi-
zootic; Distemper in Horses or Sheep; Nasal
Gleet; Farcy and Glanders; Discharges from the
Nose; Farcy Buds; Swelled Glands; Scab in
Sheep; Distemper in Dogs.
D.D.
CURES
Influenza or Epizootic.
WORMS, BOTS OR GRUBS.
Cures all diseases arising from Bots, Grubs
or Worms in animals, and the morbil cause
which produces them. Cures Diseases from
Long, Round, Pin or Tape Worms; Colic or Ema-
ciation from Worms,
E. E.
}
CURES
Coughs, Heaves, Iufluenza,
Broken Wind, Whistles.
Cures diseases of the AirPassages and Lungs,
especially after the more acute symptoms have
been removed by the Specific A. A. Cures Thick
Wind, Inflamed Lungs or Fleura (Pleuro-Pneu-
monia).
F. F. Colic, Belly-Ache, Wind-Blown,
Diarrhea, Dysentery.
CURES
Especially cures the various forms of Colic or
Enteralgia, and derangements arising from
IMPROPER FOOD, DERANGED DIGESTION OR OVER-
FEEDING. Cures Colic, Spasmodic Wind or In-
flammatory Colic; Belly-Acbe, Gripes, Hoven or
Wind-Blown; Diarrhea or Dysentery.
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G.G.
Miscarriage, Abortion, Hemor-
CURES
Cures diseases of the reproductive system.
Especially useful as a PREVENTION of Miscar-
riage or Abortion. Prevents Casting of Foal
în Mares, Cows or Sheep; arrests Hemorrhages
or Flooding; throws off the After-birth, if re-
tained.
rhage, Retained After-Birth.
H.H. KIDNEY AND URINARY DIS-
EASES, DROPSY, ETC.
CURES
Cures diseases of the urinary apparatus, Kid-
neys, Bladder and Appendages; Inflammation
of the Kidneys, Bladder or Urinary Passages;
scanty, difficult, painful, suppressed or bloody
urination: Kidney Colic.
I.I.
Eruptions, Mange, Farcy, Grease,
Thrush, Abscess, Ulcers.
CURES
Cures diseases of the Skin and Underlying
Tissues; Abscesses and Ulcerations; Cutane-
ous Diseases or Eruptions, Mange, Farcy, Grease,
Thrush, Erysipelas, Swellings, Abscesses, Fis
tulas, Ulcers, Unhealthy Skin, Rough Coat.
Formerly J. J.
J. K. Indigestion, Jaundice or Yellow
Water, Constipation.
CURES
Cures Morbid Conditions or Derangements
of the Digestive System; Loss of Appetite,
and "Off his Feed"; Results of Over-Feed, Jaun-
dice or Yellows; Ill Condition, Staring Coat; also
Paralysis, Stomach Staggers, Brittle Hoofs.
For prices see page 186.
135
HUMPHREYS"
VETERINARY, SPECIFICS
Kapelus
Prices of Cases and Single Bottles.
Single Bottles, containing 50 doses - $
Single Bottles, Medium Size, containing
Four times as much as small bottles -
Single Bottles, Large Size, containing Eight
times as much as small bottles.
W
.60
2.00
3.00
Small Stable Case, Black Walnut, Handle,
Lock and Key, containing Manual (450
pages), Ten bottles Specifics, Jar Vet-
erinary Cure Oil, and Medicator -
Medium Stable Case, Black Walnut, Handle,
Lock and Key, containing Manual (450
pages), Ten medium size bottles Spe-
cifics, Jar Veterinary Cure Oil, and
Medicator -
Large Stable Case, Black Walnut, Handle,
Lock and Key, containing Manual (450
pages), Ten large size bottles Specifics,
Jar Veterinary Care Oil,and Medicator, 30.00
Humphreys' Veterinary Manual (450 pages,
with Chart)
7.00
20.00
.50
Medicator (for administering Specifics)
Jar Veterinary Cure Oil -
.25
1.00
Sent prepaid (any quantity) to any address on receipt
of price.
Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co., cor.
Williani & John Sts., New York.
136
Humphreys' Veterinary Cure Oil
Has now become the STANDARD REMEDY among
the thousands of stable and stockmen acquainted
with its use. Nothing has ever been produced so
simple in application, so promptly and widely
and wonderfully curative in its action, as Hum-
PHREYS' VETERINARY CURE OIL. It has more
than justified the highest expectation of its spon-
sors, and justly stands at the head of ALL CURA-
TIVE APPLICATIONS.
It is the Best Possible Application and Cure for:
Burns or Scalds ; Sores or Indolent Ulcers ; Sore,
Scabby, Harness, Collar or Saddle Galls or
Chafings; Sore Teats; Fistulas or Deep-seated
Ulcers; Broken Knees or Open Joints; Old
Sores; Horny Places or Warts; Hot Swellings ;
Boils or Tumors; Scratches, Greased or Cracked
Heels; Broken Hoof; Sand or Quarter-Crack;
Corns; Tender or Bruised Soles; Dry, Shaly
or III-Growing Hoofs, Castration, Docking, De-
horning, etc.
AS A HOOF OIL IT IS UNEQUALED.
Apply the "Cure Oil” with the end of the
finger along the upper edge of the hoof after
cleaning at night.
Large Jar, price....
.$1.00
For sale by all druggists, or sent on receipt of
price. Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Co.,
cor. William & John Sts., New York.
137
"APPROVAL."
The Board of Cavalry Equipment of the
United States Army, comprising experienced
and able officers, applied to the
HUMPHREYS' MEDICINE CO.
for information in regard to their Veterinary
Specifics- the relative Loss of Stock, Cost
of Treatment, etc."
After a thorough investigation, and in-
quiries made at the large Stables, Horse Rail-
Roads, and others using the medicines,
"The Board have Recommended their
Use in the Service."
This recommendation was Approved by the
Quarter-Master General and General Sherman,
and the Specifics are now being distributed
to the different CAVALRY REGIMENTS, ARMY
POSTS, ETC.
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INDE
Acid Stomach....
Acne Pimples)...
Ague, Fever and.
Anasarca (General Dropsy).
Anus, Itching at..
Appendicitis..
Appetite, Capricious, Want of..
Asthma.
Asiatic Cholera.
Autumn Catarrh.
4.
··
Bad Taste
Barber's Itch..
Bearing Down Pains.
Bed-Wetting.
Bilious Colic...
Bilious Fever, Biliousness
Bladder, Diseases of.
..
Bloating..
Bloody Flux.
Boils...
Bowels, Diseases of……
•
Brain-Fag.....
Breath, Offensive.
Bright's Kidney Disease.
Bronchitis
Calculi, Renal….
Canker Sore Mouth.
Carbuncles..
Catarrhs..
Change of Life…..
Chapped Hands, or Lips.
Chest, Congestion of.
Chicken Pox……
Children's Diseases.
Chills.....
Chlorosis
•
•
• ·
•
Cholera Infantum..
Cholera Morbus.
Chorea (St. Vitus' Dance)
• 4
··
•
• • •
...
· • •
•
106
84, 107
42, 108-109
17, 92, 112
.80, 103, 109
61
•
789
…………
106
109
98, 107, 115, 117
..31, 103, 111, 115
53, 60
.40, 64, 102, 106
.86, 89, 115
106
104
• •
109, 100
73-75, 110
47, 101
78, 118
85
.28, 61, 61, 104, 106
75
111
88,118
.80, 51, 56, 104-105
S9, 113
115
85, 111
.72-78, 109, 118
.75, 100, 116
85
53
19
.15-S7, 103, 111
103
106
29, 104
46, 104
80, 117
140
INDEX.
Clergyman's Sore Throat.
Coated Tongue..
Colds..
Cold Swellings.
Colic...
4.
Constipation of Bowels
Consumption...
Contagious Diseases.
Convulsions
Cough.
Complexion, Bad………
Congestion, to Head, Chest and Brain,
••••
Whooping.
Coryza..
Cramps..
Croup..
Crying of Infants.
Cystitis.
..
.. •
•• •
•
• ·
...
...
...
•
•
•
•
Diet and Regimen for the Sick..
Digestive Organs, Diseases of.
Diphtheria
Dizziness
Dropsy.
Drowsiness.
Dumb Ague..
Dysentery
Dyspepsia.
Enteric Fever.
Epilepsy
Eruptions....
Erysipelas..
Eyes, Diseases of..
• *
•
Deafness
71, 111
Debility, General and Nervous..75-76, 112, 114, 123
Deficient Growth...
81
Diabetes.
Diarrhea.
·
Ear, Diseases of..
Eczema.
Enlarged Glands and Joints
•
•
•
56, 105
106
.54-55, 72, 104, 110
111
•
••
25, 53, 66, 103-104
106, 108
.20, 53, 102-103, 117
62, 106
54, 105
17
35, 116
54, 101-105, 107, 110
31, 110
117
.65, 101, 107, 116
31, 107
25
89
•
888888
• 4
90, 118
.28, 30, 48, 104
10, 38
62
21-22, 117
105
.17, 92, 112
106
108
51, 104
•
.62, 106, 115
71, 111
83, 107
ǝ
.17, 42, 81, 103, 111, 118, 117
44
35, 116
83, 107
82, 107
70, 109
INDEX.
141
Face, Blotches on, and Swelled.
Faceache...
Failing Sight..
Falling of Rectum.
Falling of Womb..
Feebleness of Children and Infants..
• ·
Feet, Sweating of.
Felon, of Finger, (Whitlow)..
Female Disorders..
••
Flatulence.
Flux, bloody..
Food for the Sick...
Fretfulness, in Children.
Gastralgia...
Gastric Fever
General Debility
Glands, Enlarged.
Gravel (Renal Calculi
Green Sickness, (Chlorosis).
Grip or Grippe, The....
► •
•
Heart Diseases.
Heat and Fullness of Head.
• • •
Fever and Ague..
• •
Fevers, Various forms of.
.15-16-17, 37-53, 102-103, 108, 115
Fingers, "Run-around" of.
Whitlow
111
•
· •
• •
• []
•
•
· • •
• ·
Hip-Joint Disease..
Hives.
Hoarse Cough..
Hoarseness..
Hysteria....
Incontinence, Urinary (Enuresi)
Indigestion...
•
•
Hay Fever or Catarrh, Asthma.
Headache....
.73, 117-118
20, 67-68, 96, 102, 105-106, 117
Head, Cold in the; Noises in the.
Heart-Burn...
72, 111
65, 106
75, 116
105, 108
105
109
·
109
98
102, 117
Hemorrhage, Lungs, Nose, Stomach....60, 61, 125
Hemorrhoids (Piles),
.65, 104, 109, 127
111
..83
•
27, 111
111
111
.93, 101, 106
42, 108
111
65, 106
104
11, 39
28
65
40, 102
75, 112
17, 18, 111
89, 113
106
..57, 117, 124
92, 115
.62, 64, 106, 115
Infantile Bronchitis.
80
Infants and Children, Diseases of……..15-87, 103, 111
Inflammations-Different Organs,53-62, 67-81-86-92
107
56, 104, 105
...37, 115, 116
142
INDKA
Influenza..
Insomnia
Intermitting Fever.
Itching at Anus.
Jaundice
Joints, Enlarged..
Kidneys, Diseases of..
Knee, White Swelling of..
·
...
••
•
[
•
Lameness and Stiffness.
Laryngitis..
Lassitude....
Leucorrhea ("The Whites").
Liver Complaints..
Loss of Appetite, Taste and Voice.
Lumbago," Crick-in-Back"
Lungs, Hemorrhage of...
• ..
Malaria, Malarial Fevers.
Marvel of Healing, The...
Measles..
Menses, (See Menstruation).
Menstruation, Disorders of..93-101,
Morning Sickness in Pregnancy
Mouth, Nursing Sore.
Mumps...
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nerve Paing…….
Nervous Debility.
Nervousness..
Nettle Kash.
Neuralgia.
Noises in the Ears.
Numbness of Limbs.
Nursing Sore Mouth.
Offensive Breath…..
Old Tumors and Ulcers.
Ophthalmia..
Overheating, Effects of.
• • • •
+
Inflammation of (Pneumonia)….
•
Palpitation of Heart.
Paralysis.
Physical Weakness
-
•
·
...
57, 104, 117, 118
26, 68, 103
•
..42, 108, 115
.80, 103, 109, 127
··
• •
• · •
•
··
·
•
·
97, 106, 118
61, 106
56, 106, 110
79, 118
60, 125
58
.41, 106, 108
125-126
18
67
103
86-92, 113
111
106-107, 115–116
90, 115
},
28, 115
19, 103
108
105, 107
112
··
104
105
.76, 114, 128
68
83, 108
69, 105
71, 111
•
111
.81, 111, 128
70-71, 109
103
110
28, 115
75, 116
118
112
INDEX.
143
→ • • •
Piles (Hemorrhoids)..
Pimples (Acne)
Pin Worms.
Pleurisy
Pneumonia.
Prickly Heat.
Prolapsus, Rectum (Falling (f).
Prostate Gland, Enlarged..
Pruritus...
··
•
• • •
• • •
•
••
Sore Mouth.
Sore Throat...
Quinsy (Tonsillitis)
Rectum, Falling of.
Renal Calculi (Gravel).
Restlessness, of Children and Adults...
Rheumatism
Rose-Catarrh.
"Run-around ",
·
St. Vitus' Dance (Chorea).
Salt Rheum.
Scald-Head………
·
•
Scanty Urination.....
Scarlet Fever, and Scarlatina..
Sciatica and Sciatic Rheumatism.
Scrofula in Children.
Scrofulous Ulcers in Neck.
Sleeplessness (Insomnia)
Small pox.
Sneezing and Coughing.
Sore Eyes..
Soreness.
·
• •
•
Sea Sickness.
Shingles..
N
Sickness, Sea, Carriage or Railway.
Sick Headache.
Sight, Failing, Weak..
Skin Diseases...
•
•
•
65, 104, 109, 127
81, 107
103
.59, 60, 102
58
83, 108
109, 127
113
96, 115
21, 117
Spasms, Heart, Hysterical..
Spleen, Enlarged (Ague Cake).
Sprue, in Children..
Stomach, Diseases of.
Stye, of Eyelids (Hordeolus)..
36, 117
81, 107
81, 108
91, 113
.16, 17, 102-103
79, 108
80, 111
• ·
4
109, 127
$9
68
78, 108
73, 118
111
•
111
80, 113
83
112
.67. 96, 105-106
70, 109
81, 86
20, 68, 102-103
86
117
70, 109
108
115
.21-22, 54, 104-105
35, 116
42, 108
28
62, 106
70
144
INDEX.
Sweating in Sleep.
看着
​of Feet.
Tetters.
Throat Diseases.
Tic-Douloureux….
Tongue, Coated.
Tonsillitis (Quinsy
Tonsils.....
··
Toothache..
Tumors, Old…….
Typhoid Fever.
Typhus Fever.
Swelled Face..
Swollen Glands…..
Summer Complaint of Infants..
Sun Stroke……….
•
Syphilitic Sore Mouth.........
•••
Taste in Mouth, Bad.
Teething, and Diseases of Teeth.
Tenesmus.
•
4
...
• •
• •
•
• • •
•
• D
• ·
Wakefulness..
Want of Appetite.
Water Brash.
• •
...
Ulcerated Sore Throat.
Ulcers, Old..
Urinary Diseases
Urination, Scanty
Urethra, Inflammation of..
Vertigo....
Voice, Loss of.
•
Vomiting of various kinds.
• C
..
.
•
•
A
Weak Sight and Voice.
Wetting the Bed…..
Whitlow, of Finger..
"White," The (Leucorrhea)
Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
Wind on Stomach.
Witch Hazel Oil..
Womb, Falling of the.
Worms
Yellow Fever.
• •
·
•
•
•
·
•
·
112
111
105
..17, 81, 111
104
102
115
•
106
.26, 103, 105
51, 104
83
• •
21-22, 54 56, 104, 117
105
•
106
21, 117
.81, 111, 117
68, 105
81, 126
44
44
21-22
.85, 108, 111, 128
.86-92, 113, 115
91
90
105
56, 107
.61, 99, 104
26
106
106
.70, 105, 107
81
•
111
97, 107
34, 110
65, 106
79, 109, 127-128
··
98, 107
23, 108
45, 102
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