of bread--I would have
such weak spells I could not stand on my feet.

I had tried five doctors, they had done me no good; I had given
up--never to take anything more, only to lull the pain. I had given up
to die when I received a pamphlet and some papers from you. I decided to
try once more and I have been improving ever since I commenced your
treatment; my health is better than it has been for fifteen years; I
weighed one hundred pounds when I began taking your medicines; now I
weigh one hundred and thirty, as much as I ever weighed. I have taken
ten bottles of "Favorite Prescription" and still more of "Golden Medical
Discovery," and several vials of the "Pellets."

Your sincere friend, MRS. M.H. O'BANNON,
Lameta, Leake Co., Miss.

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[Illustration: Fig. 1.
Nervous System.]

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THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.

The nerves of the human body are not unlike the vast telegraph system of
this continent.

The millions of nerve filaments are similar to the network of wires that
keep all the cities in close sympathy and communion. The nerves have to
deal with organs instead of villages, and with cells in place of
individuals.

Commerce is regulated and train loads of food supplies dispatched here
and there by telegraph, while in the body the nerves send their
analogue, increased blood and nourishment, where it is required.

[Illustration:
View on roof of Western Union Telegraph Company's Central Station,
Buffalo,
N.Y., showing net-work of wires leading to all parts of the country.]

The various organs of sense receive manifold impressions of conditions
to be met, food required and dangers to be avoided and the nerves
transmit these impressions telegraphically to the brain.

The structure of the brain, spinal cord and sympathetic nerves, is not
unlike a gigantic and complicated galvanic battery. The number of cells
in the brain and spine are more numerous, by many millions, than those
supplying any telegraph system.

As the blood supplies each cell with its necessary nourishment and
removes its used up or waste materials, so does the workman give each
cell of his battery fresh chemicals from time to time, and removes the
used up waste.

The wires that lead from this battery to every part of the country are
like the nerve filaments that go to each part of the human body and make
them all--no matter how minute--perform th