four, and was given up to die by one of the
best doctors of Russellville. He said I could not live longer than fall.
He treated me for Sugar Diabetes, while the rest said I had inflammation
of the bladder. After giving up all hopes of being cured at home, a
friend got me to write to Dr. Pierce's Institution and after
corresponding: awhile I decided to go and be treated. I was there one
month and I never was cared for or treated more kindly by any one. No
parents could have been better to their sick children. I cannot speak
too highly of the Institution, and I believe I would have been in my
grave to-day if I had not gone and been treated.

I feel great pleasure in expressing to you my sincere thanks for the
cure that has been effected in my case, by your very skillful treatment,
whereby I am now entirely and I trust permanently cured from a dangerous
disease, which had defied the utmost skill of all former medical
attendants for the past five years, and from which I had despaired of
being: relieved. I am happy to state that my health is so good since
taking the month's course of treatment at your Institute, and, the home
treatment since my return, that I am now able to carry on the work of my
farm.

I would cheerfully recommend all persons requiring medical or surgical
aid to consult you at the earliest possible opportunity, as I know by
personal experience that the facilities cannot be surpassed for
treatment of all classes of chronic diseases.

Most gratefully yours,
J.D. PARKS,
Homer, Logan Co., Ky.

P.S.--I have always recommended my neighbors to your Institution and was
the cause of F.M. Brasher taking treatment, who was cured after two
doctors gave him up. J.D.P.

CASE 820,426. COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. A GRATEFUL PATIENT'S WORDS OF
PRAISE.

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

[Illustration: William Henkel, Esq.]

Gentlemen--Having been in your Institution as a sufferer from two
distinct chronic diseases of years' standing, and having been placed
under the charge of your specialists, I was speedily relieved of my
afflictions. The Invalids' Hotel is a place as much like home as it is
possible for such an institution to be. The physicians and surgeons are
all expert specialists and thoroughly efficient; the nurses are very
competent, attentive and kind; and, in fact, the whole _personnel_ of
the Invalids' Hotel endeavor to do their best to make the patients feel
like bei