vate consultation-rooms, some fifteen in all; also a
well furnished reading-room and circulating library, for the use of the
inmates of the Institution. On all sides are beautifully frescoed walls
adorned with numerous choice engravings and other pictures. All the
rooms throughout the house are furnished in the best of style, and in a
manner to afford the utmost comfort and cheerfulness of surroundings for
the sick and afflicted who seek this remedial resort. The Turkish and
other baths are elegantly fitted up on the first floor, opposite the
reading-room.

THE UPPER FLOORS.

Above the first, or main floor, the building is divided into separate
rooms and suites of rooms for the accommodation of patients. All are
well lighted, have high ceilings, and are cheerful and well ventilated
apartments. On the second floor is the large medical library and medical
council-room, for the exclusive use of the Faculty, also the
museum-room, which contains a large and valuable collection of
anatomical and morbid specimens, many of them being obtained from cases
treated in this Institution. On this floor are also suites of rooms,
occupied by the Bureau of Medical Correspondence, wherein from ten to
twelve physicians, each supplied with the improved graphophone, are
constantly employed in attending to the vast correspondence received
from invalids residing in all parts of the United States and Canada.
Every important case receives the careful consideration of a council
composed of from three to five of these expert specialists, before being
finally passed upon and prescribed for.

[Illustration: Library and Reading-room--Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute.]

ON THE THIRD FLOOR

are the large treatment-rooms, supplied with all the apparatus and
appliances for the successful management of every chronic malady
incident to humanity. Electrical apparatus of the latest and most
approved kinds, some of it driven and operated by steam-power, dry
cupping and equalizing-treatment apparatus, "vitalization" apparatus,
numerous and most ingenious rubbing and manipulating apparatus and
machinery, driven by steam-power, are among the almost innumerable
curative agencies that are here brought into use as aids in the cure of
human ailments. Our

ELECTRICAL OUTFIT

[Illustration: President Pierce's Business Office--Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute.]

is the finest to be found in any sanitarium in the United States and, we
bel