nufactured from the freshest and purest ingredients. Our Faculty
probably employ a greater number and variety of native roots, barks, and
herbs, in their practice then are used in any other invalids' resort in
the land. Using vast quantities of these indigenous medicines, we can
afford and do not neglect to have them gathered with great care, at the
proper seasons of the year, so that their medicinal properties may be
most reliable. Too little attention is generally paid to this matter,
and many failures result from the prescribing of worthless medicines by
physicians who have to depend for their supplies upon manufacturers who
are careless or indifferent in obtaining the crude plants and roots from
which to manufacture their medicines for the market. While depending
largely upon solid and fluid extracts of native plants, roots, barks,
and herbs, in prescribing for disease, yet we do not use them to the
exclusion of other valuable curative drugs and chemicals. We aim to be
unprejudiced and independent in our selection of remedies, adopting at
all times a rational system of therapeutics. This liberal course of
action has, in a vast experience, proved most successful.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
663 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, N.Y.

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PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S

ENDORSEMENT OF THE

INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE

_AND ITS FOUNDER._

The following letter from an eminent lawyer of Tennessee, is noteworthy,
inasmuch as it shows the estimation in which Dr. Pierce and the
institutions which he has founded were held by the lamented Garfield,
who was one of the Doctor's intimate friends and colleagues while he was
serving as a member of Congress:

OFFICE OF H.F. COLEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SNEEDVILLE, TENN., Aug. 11, 1884

_World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y._

GENTLEMEN:--Your letter of the 31st ult. just received and contents
noted. I am perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and ask pardon for
the sharp letter written you some days since. The mails are very
irregular, as you know, and we are too apt to be impatient and attribute
our mishaps to the wrong cause. Your honesty, integrity and ability are
not doubted in the least by me.

I have, perhaps, a higher endorsement of you than any other patient
under your care, and for your gratification I will give it to you.

Some time since I was in conversati