ey, we started for
the Institute.

On arriving at the Invalids' Hotel, I was too sick and fatigued to treat
with civility the sweet-faced, lady-like housekeeper who received me, or
the gentle nurses who tried so patiently and kindly to minister to my
wants.

I had read a good deal about the Invalids' Hotel, and expected to see
wonderful things; but like Sheba's Queen, I could truthfully say, 'the
half had never been told.' The many ways, means, and appliances, for the
relief of poor sufferers surpassed a thousand fold anything I had ever
imagined could come within the scope of human skill. The skilled
physicians were not only able and attentive, but on meeting one, if it
were every day, they always had a ready smile, a warm hand clasp, and an
encouraging word, which alone, would make one feel better and at home.
The trained nurses were attentive and kind.

Every department was cleanliness itself, and kept at such an even
temperature, even to the halls, that during my four months' stay, I
never had the slightest cold. Not only the comforts of life, but every
luxury that the most exacting could demand, were fully supplied. I saw
many poor sufferers, from various diseases, made well and happy, and I
too, with the other happy ones, found relief, and that without the use
of the knife or an anaesthetic of any kind. I would urge all poor chronic
sufferers, it matters not what the trouble may be, to go to Dr. Pierce's
Institute and be cured. If any one similarly afflicted cares to know
more of my case, I will gladly answer any questions, if she will only
write me, and enclose addressed and stamped envelope in which to reply.
During my stay at the Invalids' Hotel I never lacked for anything that
willing hands and warm hearts could supply, and I came away feeling that
I was leaving a sweet, luxurious home and many warm friends, but with a
new lease of life and perfect confidence in the ability of the
physicians, for I know I could not possibly have lived two months
longer, had I not found relief. To-day I am well, rosy and happy, with a
heart full of lasting gratitude for the kind treatment and cure which I
received at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.

Yours truly.
Miss DELAINE DUKE,
Clanton, Chilton Co., Ala.

POLYPOID TUMOR OF UTERUS WEIGHING OVER FIVE POUNDS.

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

[Illustration: Miss Bolin.]

_Gentlemen_--After many trials my doctors here h