was down with
pneumonia. Had it not been for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery I
would not be a well man to-day. One bottle stopped the cough and night
sweats.

My wife was troubled with leucorrhea so bad that we did not know what to
do until Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription was brought into the house
and gave her rest.

Yours truly,
H.M. DETELS,
Traver, Tulare Co., Cal.

PULMONARY DISEASE. A WONDERFUL CURE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

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_Gentlemen_--I am 29 years old. During the winter of '84 I contracted a
severe cold, which settled on my lungs. Each succeeding winter my cough
grew worse, and in the winter of '85 I had chicken-pox, and taking cold,
drove them in causing me a severe spell of sickness. The following
summer I had congestion of the lungs and hemorrhage and a severe spell
of fever. My physician advised me to go West in search of health. My
friends thought I had consumption of the lungs, I coughed so much. In
September, 1889, I left Carthage, Mo. (where I then lived), for Phoenix,
Ariz. After I had been there about four months I had a severe attack of
"_La Grippe_" and with this I coughed myself almost (I thought), to
death; and to add to my distress I had an almost intolerable attack of
pleurisy. A doctor was summoned and after an examination said I had
Empyemia, and said he could do me but very little good until he removed
the pus. He and his partner came and by the use of an aspirator drew off
nine pints of pus; after about a week he drew off two pints. After a few
days I told my doctor I could hear the pus gurgle as I had before he
drew it off. Strange to say, but nevertheless true, my heart was crowded
over on the opposite side for three months. I knew it was there for I
could feel the pulsations there, and I was so short of breath for a long
time I could not stoop down to tie my shoes.

The doctor told me it would be useless again to use the aspirator, but
that he would be obliged to make an incision in my side and treat it
till I got well. On the 28th day of March. 1890, my doctor and his
partner and three other doctors undertook the operation, and, after
removing about two inches of one of my ribs, withdrew 16 pints of pus.
This came near being too much for me though I slowly recovered and in
three months the doctors thought I was able to come home. I arrived home
in June and was very poorly all summer, a