most approved
apparatus, are employed with advantage in many obstinate lung,
bronchial, and throat affections. We have no hobby or one-idea system of
treatment, no good remedial means being overlooked or neglected.

[Illustration: A glimpse of some
of the rooms for the
application of Electricity,
Mechanical
Massage, "Vitalization"
treatment, and
other agencies prescribed by our Staff;
furnishing a perfect system of physical
and remedial training, carefully adapted
to the wants of the most delicate and feeble,
as well as to the more robust.]

A FAIR AND BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER TO THE AFFLICTED.

Reader, are you accustomed to think and act for yourself? Do you consult
your own reason and best interests? If so, then do not heed the counsel
of skeptical and prejudiced friends, or jealous physicians, but listen
to what we have to say.

You perhaps know nothing of us, or our systems of treatment, or of the
business methods we employ. You may _imagine_, but you _know nothing_,
perhaps, of our facilities and advantages for performing cures in cases
beyond the reach or aid of the general practitioner. Knowing nothing,
then, of all these advantages, you still know as much as the would-be
friend or physician who never loses an opportunity to traduce and
misrepresent us, and prejudice the afflicted against us.

Now to the point--are you listening? Then permit us to state that we
have the largest, the best, and the finest buildings of any like
Association, company, or firm in this country. We employ _more_ and
_better_ Medical and Surgical Specialists in our Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute than any similar Association, company, or individual,
and actually have more capital invested. We have a thoroughly qualified
and eminent Specialist for every disease that we treat. We treat more
cases, _and absolutely cure more patients_ than any similar institution
in America. In addition to those we treat medically, we perform all the
most difficult surgical operations known to the most eminent Surgeons,
and so frequently do many of these operations occur with us that some of
our Specialists have become the most expert and skillful Surgeons on
this continent.

We wish to add further that we are responsible to _you_ for what we
represent; we therefore ask you to come and visit our institutions; and,
if you find on investigation that we have misstated or misrepresented
_in any particular_ our institutions, our advantages, or ou