the pain
was experienced. For convenience, the neuralgia has been named with
reference to the nerve most seriously attacked; lumbago to the spasms of
pain affecting the small of the back; tic-douloureux is a term applied
to neuralgia of the fifth nerve, that supplying the side of the face,
with branches to the eyes, jaw, and teeth. Neuralgia of the testicles,
ovaries, stomach, heart, are frequently met with. That affecting the
large nerve supplying the thigh and leg is termed sciatica. These nerve
affections often prove a most grave disorder, rendering the life of the
sufferer a burden.

TREATMENT. Contrary to opinions frequently expressed by members of the
medical profession, we find that most cases present some removable, or
remediable, cause for attacks of headache and neuralgia. The temporary
relief that is obtained by the use of "headache powders," various
bromide combinations, caffeine and other anodyne and narcotic medicines,
is sometimes necessary in order that the excruciating sufferings may be
borne for the time, but as a rule such remedies only react unfavorably
by interfering still further with the natural restoration of the
affected organs, or protract the removal of the cause of the disease.
Hence, the next attack is usually earlier in its appearance and more
severe and lasting when such agents are employed.

The great majority of headaches and neuralgias are due to the presence
of poisons in the blood. This may be due to affections of the
blood-making, or blood-purifying organs.

For the correction of inactive blood-making glands, or a lack of
purification of the blood, due to such cause, the use of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is particularly beneficial. It has no equal in
its direct effect upon the liver, the great purifying organ of the body.
Through this natural gateway, it removes from the system poisonous
materials which are the waste from the nerve cells. The accumulation of
these waste materials irritates the cells and causes them to cry out
with pain. The blood, being properly purified by the use of "Golden
Medical Discovery" supplies to the nerves, and to the nerve cells, what
they crave--a healthy and rich blood that furnishes proper nourishment.
Hence the headache disappears, and the neuralgic pains are overcome.

When the liver is engorged and torpid, the intestines become overloaded
with fecal matters that putrefy and give rise to gases and consequent
distention. Deleterious poi