ich, consequently, will be found exceedingly efficacious in
the treatment of this disease. This remedy, therefore, in removing the
disease upon which the piles depend, as a congested or torpid liver,
constipation, etc., and in exciting a direct curative control over the
piles themselves, exerts a double influence. It may be aided, when the
bowels are badly constipated, by the use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets, taken in the morning, to secure a regular and easy evacuation
of the bowels each day. All stimulating food and alcoholic drinks should
be abstained from. The cold bath is beneficial in these cases, provided
there is not great debility. The affected parts should be bathed
frequently with cold water, and, if prolapsus exists, it is well to
inject a little cool water into the rectum, and allow it to remain a few
minutes. As a soothing, astringing and healing application to the
affected parts we prepare an Ointment that has acquired great fame for
the prompt relief which it affords in all ordinary cases. This we do not
sell through druggists but can send by mail, on receipt of price, $1.00
per large box, postage prepaid. The persistent use of this Ointment, at
the same time keeping the bowels regular by the use of "Golden Medical
Discovery," with an occasional laxative dose of "Pellets," will
generally cure all ordinary cases of piles.

THE RADICAL CURE OF LARGE PILE TUMORS. In cases in which the tumors have
become indurated and very large it is impossible to effect cures by the
foregoing or any other medical treatment. Various methods have been in
use by the profession for the relief of the most severe cases. The most
common is excision with the knife or scissors. Reference to the large
vessels, shown in Fig. 3, which are affected in this disease, will at
once show the sufferer the dangers of this method. The sudden removal of
a tumor, which is connected with one or more of the large hemorrhoidal
veins, is sure to be followed by severe hemorrhage, and many times
painful ulceration, and a fatal result. To avoid this it has been the
practice of many physicians to apply caustics or to burn off the base of
the tumors with a red-hot iron. A more barbarous and painful method
could not be devised. When it is considered that in many cases, this
severe and painful treatment is followed by ulceration, and occasionally
by the developement of cancer, the matter should be carefully weighed
before any such dangerous procedure is