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1885. "A REMARKABLE BOOKf of Edinburgh, Scot- land : a graduate of three universities, and retired after 50 years’ practice, he writes: “The work in priceless in value, and calculated to re- I tenerate aoclety. It la new, startling, and very Instructive.” It is the most popular and comprehensive book treating of MEDICAL, SOCIAL, AND SEXUAL SCIENCE, P roven by the sale of Hair a million to be the most popula R ! R eaaable because written in language plain, chasti, and forcibl E I instructive, practicalpresentation of “MidiciU Commc .'Sense” medi A V aiuable to invalids, showing new means by which they may be cure D A pproved by editors, physicians, clergymen, critics, and literat I T horough treatment of subjects especially important to young me N E veryone who “wants to know, you know,” will find it interestin C I 4 Parts. 35 Chapters, 936 Pages, 200 Illustrations, and AT T7 \\T 17'T7 * rpT T L) t? just introduced, consists of a series A It Ci VV ETjAI C U D, of beautiful colored anatom- ical charts, in fivecolors, guaranteed superior to any before offered in a pop ular physiological book, and rendering it again the most attractive and quick- selling A Arr who have already found a gold mine in it. Mr. 17 PCl “ work for it v JIj/1” I O Koehler writes: I sold the first six hooks in two hours.” Many agents take 50 or 100at once, at special rates. Send for terms. E 1 1) FT1 a 16-page Contents Tableof Plain Homo Talk, red. white and L I V I jJj blue circulars, and a sample of Dr. Foote's Health. Monthly. Standard Edition, $3.25 ) Same print and illustrations, the Popular Edition, 1.50 i difference is in paper and binding. MURRAY HILL PUB. CO., 129 East 2Sth St., New Yoik. CONTENTS OP .THIS EPITOME OF MEDICAL SOCIAL AND SEXUAL SCIENCE: PART I. PART III. DISEASE—ITS CAUSES, PREVENTION AND CURE. PLAIN TALK ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORGANS: THE NATURAL RELATION OF THE CIVILIZATION, SOCIETY PAGR PAGE SEXE-5: Disease and its Causes 25 Wealth 204 AND MARRIAGE, Ignorance 40 Excessive Study and Labor... 211 , PAGR PAGH Causes of Nervous und Blood Melancholy 213 The Cause of their Disgrace.. 603 How made the Instruments in Derangements 40 How to HaveHealthy Babies.. 220 Influence on Physical Devel- Perpetuating the Race 630 Violating the Moral Nature.. 46 To Preservo Health of Chil- opment 612 Tho Influence on the Social The Food we Eat 54 dren 226 Their Influence on Health... . 616 Position of Women 635 The Liquids we Drink 75 Dietetics for Old and Young.. 234 How' made the Instruments of Influence on Civilization .... 640 The Atmosphere we Live In.. 95 Physiological Instruction of Pleasurable Emotions 622 The Clothes we Wear 112 Children 239 HISTORY MARRIAGE.] Bad Habits of Children 130 Mental and Physical Recrea- OF Bad Habits of Manhood 141 tion 241 History of Polygamy 647 History of Monogamy 659 Sexual Starvation 164 Sleep Cleanliness 252 Why Adam had One Wife 647 Marriage in Ancient Rome... 660 Prostitution 174 Pure Air and Sunshine 257 Egyptian Marriages <148 Ancient German Marriages.. 665 Unhappy Marriage 187 A Good Temper 262 Chinese Marriage 649 Under the Christian Emperors 666 Impure Vaccination 189 Keep the Feet Warm 264 Ancient Hebrew Marriages.. 653 From the 6th to the 15th Cen- Adulterated Medicines 193 Spring Renovation 268 Grecian Marriage 653 turies C69 Brutality and Inhumanity.... ISO Polygamy in Ancient Persia.. 656 Marriages in Ancient Scandi- Mahommed's Polygamy 657 navia 671 COMMON SENSE REMEDIES. Early American Polygamy.... 659 Historical Chips 673 Vegetable Medicine 273 Water 309 Therapeutic Electricity 285 Medicated Inhalation 313 MARRIAGE AS IT IS IN BARBARISM AND CIVILIZATION. Animal Magnetism 3C2 Marriage in the Old World ... 684 Marriage in the New World.. 711 DOCTORS. Doctors, “ Jacks at all Female Doctors 321 DEFECTS IN MARRIAGE SYSTEMS. Trades” 319 Rapacious Doctors 326 Why Marriage is Unimproved 740 Demerits of Polygamy 753 Is it a Divine of Monogamy 764 PART II. Institution 750 Demerits CHRONIC DISEASES, THEIR CAUSES AND TREATMENT- THE REMEDY. CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE BREATHING ORGANS. New Order of Things Neces- Rome had a Censor 772 Chronic Catarrh 339 Bronchitis, Asthma 345 sary. 765 We Want a Secretary of Mar- Affections of the Throat 343 Consumption 351 A Clergyman on Institutions. 767 riage 772 CHRONIC DISEASES OF LIVER, STOMACH AND BOWELS. SEXUAL IMMORALITY. Affections of the Liver 370 Falling of the Rectum 401 The Causes 777 The Cure 780 Dyspepsia, Constipation 380 Ulceration of the Bowels 401 CONCLUSION OF PART III. Chronic Diarrhoea 892 Intestinal Worms 402 Piles, Fistula, Stricture £94 Roman Austerity and Puri- We must Avoid a Reaction.... 785 tanism Compared 785 Agitation on the Question.... 787 ACHES AND PAINS. (Part III takes a view of marriage and the sexual relations from a JBillious Headache 404 Neuralgia., 409 physiological standpoint. It is searching, interesting, original and Nervous Headache 407 Rheumatism 411 startling.) Congestive Headache 408 PART IV. AFFECTIONS OF THE EYES AND EARS. THE IMPROVEMENT OF POPULAR MARRIAGES, ETC. OldEyesNear Sight 415 Cross Eyes, Amaurosis 423 Chronic Store Eyes 423 Defective Hearing 428 Marriage must be Improved.. 793 What its upholders should do. 794 DISEASES OF THE HEART. ADAPTATION IN MARRIAGE. Adaptation ?. Rules as to Marriage... 813 How People arc Mistaken .... 435 Advice to Invalids 436 What is Mental 802 riain What is Physical Adaptation ? 805 Difference between Vitality CHRONIC AFFECTIONS OF THE URINARY ORGANS. Magnetic Adaptation 806 and Vital Tenacity 824 Diseases of the ICidneys 430 Affections of tho Ureters 443 Temperamental Adaptation .. 896 Bladder 443 Gonorrhoea and Stricture 446 Affections of the LAW SHOULD ENFORCE ADAPTATION IN MONOGAMIC PRIVATE WORDS FOR WOMEN. MARRIAGE. Falling the 474 Derangementsof Monthlies.. 453 of Womb Marriage like a rat-trap 830 Sciencebrought to bear 831 What Menstruation is for .... 456 Vaginal Affections 476 Leucorrhcea 460 Amorous Dreams 419 THREE PHASES OF MONOGAMIC MARRIAGE DAGUER- What the Hymen is for 467 Sexual Apathy 481 REOTYrED. Chronic Affections of the Sexual Dyspepsia 481 Mental Marriages 842 Lucifer Matches 856 Womb 474 Ovarian Diseases 483 Physical Marriages 846 HINTS TO THE CHILDLESS. PHYLOSOPHY OF ELOPEMENTS. 507 Causes of Barrenness 489 Excessive Amativeness to Depravity 852 The True Philosophy 852 Temperamental Inadaptation. Ascribed Local Inadaptation 490 509 RELATIVES. Diseased Condition of Wife... 493 To Promote Childbearing .... 611 INTERMARRIAGE OF Do. do. of Husband.. 604 Effects of such Marriages 857 As well Marry half-sisters as (This chapter is invaluable to the childless, In many instances ten full Cousins 858 and more years of fruitless marriage have been remedied by pursuing given.) ESSAYS FOR MARRIED PEOPLE. the hints herein 873, PRIVATE WORDS FOR MEN. Necessity for Confidence 861 Jealousy The Wife the Equal 863 An Infallible Remedy 873 Weakness, Partner.. The Penis and its Diseases... 521 Seminal 532 Sleeping Apart 867 Sexual Indifference 880 The Scrotum and its Diseases 526 Satyriasis 541 Sexual Moderation 869 Food for Pregnant Women... 884 IMtOTENCY. PHILOSOPHY OF CHILD-MARKING. may be Impotent.. .. 544 Causes and Treatment 546 Females 8S7 Why Resemble Neighbors ... 893 ESSAYS ON DISEASES. Rules and Facts CONCLUDING Key to the Mystery 887 Why Children by 2d husbands the 1st 894 Paralysis . .„ 551 Scrofula 500 Why Resemble Both Parents. 890 resemble Canoer 554 Syphilis 664 Why Resemble One Parent... 892 How Frights Mark a Child.... 895 B.ilt Rheum 657 A Variety of Chronic Dis- OLD, BEARING ON HArPINESS Spinal 658 eases 672 ESSAYS FOR YOUNG AND Curvature IN MARRIAGE. TREATMENT OP DISEASE. should be allowed to People to 574 Evidences of the Curability Early Marriage 896 Ladies Dosed Death Pop the Question 996 Everybody his own Dortor... 675 of Chronic Diseases 589 Avocations for Females 993 complete Contents Table This book sent by mail, prepaid, for $1.50. A Beautiful Standard Edition on heavier paper, $3.25. A more •eat free if desired. Liberal terms to active agentB. Address, MURRAY HILL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 129 East 2Sth Street, New \oum Citx. Entered according toAct of Congress, in the year 1877, by The Murray HillPub. Co., in the Office of theLibrarian of Congress,Washington, D.C.

DR. FOOTE’S AFFIDAVIT BY DR. FCOTE. Standing Pledges to his Patients and Correspondents, State of New York. I County of New Youk. ( »Ali Professional Communications ami Consultationswu. ne treated ’— FOOTE, of the New with the strictestconfidence. - See page 148 Medico* Common Sense, gcr ! EDWARD B. City of being duly says, that the ex- by Dr. Foote, published in 1853. York, in the County aforesaid, sworn, ‘•A,l may sarely confide in the amuor in describing fully and frankly tracts of letters regarding the success of hismedicalpractice contained in receipt of let- letters from his patients or a case, or giving the result of treatment. I am daily in this pamphlet are genuine quotations of the that all extracts letters from ters from narienta srivine the most gratifying accounts of effects from those attending upon them, and of exiierieneed in pursuing my advice, and which, if published, would those endorsing his publications are also genuinequotationstaken from greatly redound r .o my credit, but I never publish any letter or parts of unsolicited testimonial communications received from time to lime by samples of such as are letters with the name of the author,” etc.—“ See page 240 of Revised him; and, further, that all these letters are but 1862, page from all the States and Edition of Medical Common Sense, published in and 588 constantly reaching him by due course of mail of Plain Home- Talk, embracing Medical Common Sense, published Territories and from foreign lands. in 1870. Sworn before me this EDWARD B. FOOTE, made by during a period In view of the foregoing pledges the Doctor 19th day of June, 1877, 120 Lexington Ave., N. Y. of nearly twenty years, the extracts of letters given in these pages will BERNARD, Notary Public, not contain the names of the writers, but their genuineness is vouched ABRAM N. Y. County. forin the following

Evidences of Dr. E. B. FOOTE'S success as a Practitioner of Medicine and as a Writer of Poplar Medical Literature.

sess peculiar interest and value as showing the READER: NATURAL FITNESS of Dr. Foote for the pro- fession he has so long and so successfully pursued. Dr. Foote is daily visited and written to by two twenty years ago, when the Doctor had classes of people, one composed of those who per- Nearly been in practice only a few years, and was sonally know of his success, and have seen persons engaged unknown to fame as well as to the Fowlers, with who have been cured of difficult chronic diseases whom latter he had never enjoyed a personal through the instrumentality of his system of medi- acquaintance, he entered the phrenological examin- cation, or electrical application ; the other of those “ ing rooms of these celebrated phrenologists when who only know him by hearsay,” or who have Prof. Nelson Sizer, also at that time a stranger become partially acquainted with him by the perusal to Dr. Foote, gave the following of his publications, or of his contributions to the WRITTEN CHART: press. Those belonging to the class first mentioned, “Your temperament is fine and rather wiry. You have a will not be particularly interested in the following very active and excitable constitution, still you h*ave the have heard sufficient testimonials, as they already elements of toughness and smartness. If you were to de- verbal testimony to convince them of the rationality vote yourself to physical labors and undertakings, such as of his system of practice. It will be understood, the soldier or navigator, or the tourist and explorer put then, that this pamphlet is intended for the last forth, you would become very enduring ; you have that named class. element in your constitution. If you were to settle your- self down in a city, and devote yourself to a profession or We shall submit a variety of evidence, direct and to business, you would be liable to become too nervous, indirect, proving that Dr. Foote is fitted both by and to live too much on your brain and nervous system, nature and acquirement to treat the sick and to and too little through the vital and muscular development. produce such essays, books, etc., as are calculated Your brain is very active and your mind very sharp, as if Your to improve humanity. The evidence will be of your life had been one of mental activity. brain is for the and size of your body, and when your three kinds: Phrenological, Biographical, Testi- large weight mind is wrought up to its highest notch, it exhausts vital.ty monial and Editorial. faster than you can manufacture it, and you are conse- quently liable to break down from dyspepsia or something Character as Revealed by Phrenology. akin to it. You should sleep eight or nine hours in the Dr. Foote’s twenty-four, and should refrain from the use of whatever is of value to those who do This of course no is irritating to the nervous system, in the way of diet, not believe in Phrenology. We shall not stop habits of all kinds, such as smoking, using condiments or here to convince the skeptic, but offer this testimo- associating in business with nervous, fretful men whose so- nial for what it may be worth to the thousands who ciety and manners chafe, and annoy, and exasperate you. do believe that the true character of a man is re- “You could be a good lawyer, and would MAKE A first vealed by the conformation of his brain and the RATE SCHOLASTIC PHYSIOLOGIST, PATHOLOGIST AND CHEM- indications of his temperament. For the disciples IST, AND DO WELL AS A LECTURER ON THESE SUBJECTS.— of Gall and Spurzheim the following chart will pos- YOU WOULD SUCCEED WELL AS A PRACTICING 2 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

PHYSICIAN, AND AS SUCH WOULD EXCEL IN hardly prudent enough ; you trust more to your practical READING DISEASE AND UNDERSTANDING A talents and energy for success than you do to luck or to Providence. CASE IN POINT. “ Your Hope is hardly large enough ; you promise but “You remember every thing that you learn, especially if little that you cannot through; you are generally safe it comes to you from practical experiment. If a lawyer, force in your calculations, and not misled by ardent anticipation ; you would retain all the cases that had ever passed in re- you may sometimes be rash, but not extra buoyant in refer- view, either by reading or practice, and whenever you ence to the future; you have a high respect for things wanted to recall one, a similar case would evoke it, so that sacred, spiritual, venerable and ancient ; you may not show you could turn to book and page. Your mind is remark- positive devotedness, because you find it a little difficult to ably sharp in its individuality. You perceive the point , not believe in things spiritual, or to comprehend their presence ; only the salient, but the 7nore obtuse and nice distinctions.— still you have profound reverence for the great Creator and You remember forms, configuration, magnitude, distance* things venerable. excellent perpendicular, angles, relative position; have “ Your'benevolence is quite well-marked, and leads you geographical and topographical memory. You would ex- to philanthropy and desire to do good. in a or a cel as a traveler, either navigating ship as surveyor “ You are not what would be called a mellow, pliable, in running lines. You would do well as a civil engineer. yielding, quiet man ; you cannot be moulded and directed. You never get lost ; you have in mind the distance, di- It is more natural for you to be positive—to live out your rection and bearing of a place. You remember historical character upon the world in making impressions rather events with great distinctness, and are apt to be rather pro- than receiving impressions. Wherever you move you lix in your description of a subject. You introduce too MAKE YOUR MARK, BECAUSE YOUR TALENTS ARE AVAIL- many facts. Few men possess the power of making a ABLE. subject so clear. You analyze very sharply, and in de- “You are prompt in action, forcible and earnest, inde- bate you fortify your position by citing similar cases, and pendent, persevering, and always direct; you select the by facts. You would make a good editor, not of a scien- ■boint to be discussed and the object to be accomplished, and tific magazine merely, but of a daily journal, which often drive right at them until your efforts succeed requires that a man write a column of compact historical matter after the world is asleep, to appear the next morning. COMMENTS : In such a case you could draw upon your former know- The foregoing chart, given in 1857, coupled with ledge, and would rarely be found at fault; at least the the career of the man, furnishes at least one won- memory of other men would rarely enable them to criticise example of the science of you. As a lawyer, teacher, merchant, politician, your derful of the accuracy statements would be accepted as true, as most people have phrenology. At the time it was written Dr. Foote less memory than you, and would therefore regard your was not thirty years of age, and yet time has statements as the end of the law in the case. You are proved it to be almost a prophecy of the future well up in statistics, and every generally posted in thing career of a physician who has astonished thousands that relates to your experience, or to the sphere within of people with his ability to tell them all their symp- which )*>ur life and labor lie. “Your language is rather large, and if you had devoted toms and ailments when they have presented their yourself to the study of languages, you would have excelled. cases for his personal examination, and thousands “You have the Burritt form of head rather than the Ba- of others with his immediate comprehension of conic, and your mind is well calculated to take into account their cases when they have presented their symp- the various subjects and living facts of life, and to appro- toms by letters of consultation from a distance.— priate them and use them on the instant. Yours is not the This comes from “ the not only meditative as much as it is the knowing and practical kind. gift perceiving point, the more obtuse andnice distinctions You can make a good speech extemporaneously. You like the salient, but “ time for preparation, but ought to speak from skeleton The Phrenologist said : You promise but little that notes only, unless the subject be one that requires statisti- you cannot force through." The correctness of and cal research, and hard, dry logic. If you were a judge, this statement is illustrated daily in Dr. Foote’s could have a month to prepare an opinion, it would do for office. He seldom if ever misleads a patient by write but in ordinary cases you can do best to you to it, is distin- trust to your inspiration, and to your readiness of talent. promises he cannot fulfill. The Doctor “You are not wanting in mechanical ingenuity. In the guished for his candor in his intercourse with his desire for property you have a sense of value, and would patients, and they can rely upon his prognosis as financier with considerable success. You would make an well as diagnosis. In 1873 Prof. J. R. Buchanan, in bank excellent cashier or teller a ; you would make a the distinguished cerebral physiologist, in making good critic of bank-notes, and would rarely be deceived. a casual examination of Foote’s phrenological “You are a man of spirit, energy and executive thorough- Dr. as :— ness ; yofi are high in your temper, and strong in your will. developments remarked in language follows You have sharp courage, and, when exasperated, you stand “There is a singular contour here in this head that right up to your position bravely; you have physical as we do not often see. Benevolence and sympathy as ; proud-spirited, ambitious well moral courage you are and love of truth are very strong points along excel, and ; are warm in your to more proud than vain you withkeen observation.” Here then is seen the physi- social attachments —rather a strong party man ; you love Dr. Foote’s candor. Prof. Sizer said : your friends and work for them ; you love life for its own cal basis of “ sake; you are not extra-cautious, nor very sly; you are jFew me?i possess the power ofmaking a subject so B. BIOGRAPHY OF E. FOOTE, M.D. 3

clear!' How strikingly have Dr. Foote’s works, young typo transplanted from the soil of his native state to ali issued since the foregoing chart was given, a manufacturing town in old Connecticut, not far from his ancestral home, where he was occupied with the editorial proved the truthfulness of the above quoted pas- management cf a promising weekly paper. In this he con- Their popularity in part sage. has been great due tinued for two years, during which time the hebdomadal to this very quality. The unbeliever in phrenology became the largest and handsomest weekly published in must have his prejudices a little shaken if he will that state at that period. At the age of about twenty-two but compare the chart of the man with his remark- young Foote removed to New York where he became one able accomplishments in medicine and in the field of the editors of a weekly newspaper. Here in a short time he formed the acquaintance of a botanical physician of letters. His “ Medical Common Sense” reached in special practice who was waging a most bitter warfare a circulation his “ Plain of 250,000 copies; Home against the popular schools of medicine. Books were being Talk, embracing Medical Common Sense,” has written, a newspaper was to be published advocating the sold to the extent of 100,000 copies in this country reform practice, and the doctor saw in the young journalist during the first years of its publication, while the an acquaintance with physiology and hygiene and a flip- the to good account German translation has found not less than 10,000 pancy with pen which could be turned in his medical office. Overtures were made and accepted charmed readers in Germany. His Science in which soon placed young Foote in a position at once suited at Story, which this writing has justbeen issued, has to his tastes and aspirations. He became not only the been received with the most flattering reviews from “ literary striker” but a valuable medical associate of the the whole press, religious and secular, samples of specialist in the management of an extensive practice.— which will be given in these pages. Then of his Hardly a year had passed in this new labor however before monographs upon various subjects appertaining to he was tempted by his love of newspaper life and the pros- pects of greater material prosperity to become one of the health, millions of copies have been sold and as editors and proprietors of the first morning paper published largely perused in all parts of the civilized world. on Long Island. The old residents of Brooklyn will doubt- o—o less remember a spirited paper printed many years ago [From American Biography, containing Sketches called the Morning Journal. During the second and indeed it of Prominent Americans, 1871.] third years of this paper’s existence, when ex- hibited the most vivacity and prosperity, Dr. Fuote was Biography of E. B. Foote, M. D, one of its two principal editors. Twenty-four months of editorial midnight labor told heavily upon the doctor’s Among the comparatively few real noteworthy medical never and he was to resume his specialists who have made themselves conspicuous through firm health, compelled former position in the office of the botanical specialist, who genius, perseverance and hard work on this continent, the cordially welcomed him back, first as an assistant and finally subject of this sketch stands deservedly prominent. He as a co-partner. This change in occupation Dr. Foote de- was born in Ohio in 1829, and during his minority was so termined should be the last one, and he at once gave him- much of an invalid as to be unable to attend school with self up to medical study and practice. In the latter voca- any regularity. At the age of sixteen, however, he broke tion he soon excelled so much in diagnostic skill that many away from the too tender watchfulness of over-anxious “ of the new spiritualistic philosophers during the eventful parents and accepted the laborious position of printer’s ” mania declared that “he was a medium and would devil in the printing office of a daily newspaper, where rapping not own it.” As there were no botanical schools at that building office fires, sweeping floors, sticking type by day time,—not even an eclectic medical university nearer than and carrying a route of papers by night constituted the Cincinnati—Dr. Foote with his strong prejudices against monotonous routine of the apprentice’s duties during fifteen the prevailing schools of medicine, determined to limit or sixteen hours of every twenty-four. Knowing ones at himself to the prefix of Dr. and not seek the title of M. D. home predicted his return to the family domicile in about A circumstance, however, transpired to change this reso- two weeks, but the true metal of the young man here began of of Penn Medical University lution. One the professors > to show itself for the first time, and the entire apprentice- of Philadelphia, laboring under a pulmonary disease which ship of two years was served with a faithfulness and alacrity had been pronounced incurable by the faculty was restored which drew forth the praises of a grave employer who sel- to health under Dr. Foole’s treatment. The professor, dom indulged in compliments to any one. Surrounded with the success of the doctor in his imme- with incentives to mental culture such as a receptive miisd greatly pleased diate case and in the cases of many others whose treatment encounters in the atmosphere of a printing office, our young came under his observation, prevailed upon Dr. Foote to typo not only became an expert in setting up type but choose Penn Medical University for his alma mater. This proved quite clever in writing articles for the press. The institution although allopathic was liberal and little less study of medicine and physiology also early commanded than eclectic. Being already an expert in medicine Dr. his attention, for he had in his own case an ever present Foote had little else to do than to comply with the neces- subject for experiment in testing the value of new discove- forms, which he did, and in due course of ries in hygiene and medicine. It was an early aspiration sary rules and graduated in the class of i860. in the young man expressed in mere boyhood to become a events physician, but without health on his own part or abundant To go back a little,—the doctor dissolved his connection in and in he means on that of his parents this idea was partially aban- with his medical partner 1857, 1858 wrote and doned until subsequent circumstances opened the coveted published “ Medical Common Sense,” a work which at way. once became very popular, reaching a circulation in ten and At about the age of nineteen we find our indomitable years of about two hundred fifty thousand copies.— 4 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

As in the dark ages it was thought improper that any body successes his practice has become almost world-wide, for he should be allowed to read the Bible excepting the clergy, has patients on both continents and also the islands of the is of so at the period this book was written the generally pre- sea. A very large share of this practice course car- vailing sentiment was that only medical men should be ried on by correspondence, to facilitate which he employs made acquainted with the organs and functions of the hu- phonographers who take down in short-hand notes and then in letters ema- man body. It was one of the prominent objects of this transcribe long-hand the numerous which his addition these work to overcome that false sentiment, and although it pre- nate from office daily. In to phonogra- vails quite extensively to-day, it has not so strong a hold phers the doctor employs usually two or three associate i who have their distinctive upon the public mind as it had ten years ago. physicians charge of instruments and facilities an incredible During the year 1869 Dr. Foote prepared for publi- With all these “ labor in a quiet cation his new work, Plain Home Talk,” comprising amount of professional is dispatched such way that those who call for consultations hardly observe the over 900 pages upon the causes and prevention of disease ; and about and above upon the nature and curability of chronic diseases—his mental muscular machinery moving with the regularity and precision of the belts and speciality ; the origin of civilization and marriage and the them is contented physiological consideration of the marriage institution gen- wheels in an extensive factory. As the doctor has it is erally. only while he is doing and not with what he done, life in Having touched but briefly upon the past life of one who reasonable to predict that, with his long lease of accomplish much in by dint of his own exertions has succeeded in making his prospect, he will yet more the field of exclusively de- mark upon the nineteenth century, it will perhaps not be labor to which he has for over fifteen years amiss to go a little farther and give a description of him voted his time and abilities. as he is to-day. Though the doctor in his younger days o—o had an infirm constitution to contend with, yet now as he [From a Sketch Published in “AMERICA’S AD- is approaching the prime of life no trace of former ill- VANCEMENT,” by C. Edwards Lester, 1876.] health is discernable even by the most critical observer.— Those who knew him in boyhood and youth are not a little EDWARD BLISS FOOTE, M. D. surprised to see in the full grown man every indication of This eminent physician and medical writer is descended a robust, healthy constitution. His present physical ap- from a family which has furnished a great number of dis- pearance as compared with what it was fifteen or twenty tinguished men in the various departments of American years ago is very flattering evidence of his capacity as a life ; those referred to herein being descendants of Na- physician, for he certainly has succeeded most admirably in thaniel Foote who took the freeman’s oath in the Colony healing himself. He has a large and active brain, the most of Massachusetts Bay in 1633. Shortly afterwards he distinguished feature of which is a fullness in the region of penetrated the wilderness to the bank of the Connecticut the perceptives. This development renders it an easy task River, settling at a spot now known as Wethersfield, where for him to read disease, for those obscure and subtle symp- the family were, through two or three generations, subjected toms which escape the notice of physicians not thus fa- to the hardships incident to pioneer life, with frequent mur- vorably gifted are immediately recognized and entered into derous Indian forays. But with courage, vigilance and the data from which his diagnosis of a case is deduced.— wonderful power of endurance the family increased in num- That he is a man who possesses a reliable judgmentis most bers, many of them serving as commissioned officers in clearly evinced in his writings which have been so exten- colonial defence, or as surgeons, physicians and preachers sively circulated throughout the country. A perusal of the of the Gospel—the proclivities which seem to have distin- works which have emanated from his pen can not fail to guished them at all periods. George Foote was by the impress one with the idea that the doctor would have suc- side of Ethan Allen when he demanded the surrender of ceeded well as a clergyman. In the works referred to he Ticonderoga; a larger number of the Footes being in has not been contented to give superficial disquisitions upon active service during the French and Indian war and the the diseases of the body, but has gone still further and has Revolution than, perhaps, of any other family. In the depicted in a forcible and lucid style many of the evils that tenth Congress Joseph Foote represented a district of exist in society, the tendency of which is to generate and Massachusetts. In 1824 Charles Augustus Foote became foster disease. He would not have made one of those au- a member from the State of New York. We find the name tomatical preachers whose chief function is to click and adorning the bench, the bar, the pulpit and the medical gesture for fear of disturbing the quiet indifference of his profession, not only in New England but through the mid- hearers, but would have been potent, l®gical and progiess- dle and western states. Very many members of this ive. No human barrier could have successfully baffled or family have also become eminent in the cause of education. thwarted him in his ardent desire for the elevation and Lucinda Foote, of Middletown, Connecticut, was so in- aggrandizement ofhis fellow men. There are very few more spired by the literary atmosphere around her that in 1783, charitable men than Dr. Foote. Not even a poor dog in her thirteenth year, she presented herself for admission would be turned from his door hungry. He is not only to Yale College, and President Styles felt compelled to give liberal in giving but is liberal and charitable towards those her a certificate of the fullest qualifications for admission who may differ from him in opinion. It is this kindly feel- —the only obstacle being her sex, which excluded her.— ing with which he is imbued that has enabled him to win Roxanna Foote married Dr. Lyman Beecher in 1799, from over a large circle of friends from the rich down to the poor whom sprang a large family of authors—five of her sons boot-black and beggar woman that one meets on the street. becoming noted clergymen and her two daughters distin- His early conflict with the “ slings and arrows of outrageous guished in education and authorship. In the American ” fortune has not only taught him self-reliance but it makes Navy Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull Foote left a brilliant him ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in adversity. reputation and afforded a theme for one of the most in- Through his writings and quite likely also his medical teresting of the biographies of our times. In civil affairs FURTHER BIOGRAPHY OF DR. FOOTE. 5

>sition •ountry of both sexes had never been properly instructed Admiral Forte’s father had occupied a prominent p in relation to the functions and mechanism of the human being twice Speaker of the House of Representative. United States form divine, Dr. Foote conceived the idea of writing a Governor of Connecticut, and one of the in series of volumes which should comprise treatises of physi- Senators. It was his Resolution on the public lands in tire drapery of fiction. Thus debate between Webster ological research clothed 1830 which occasioned the great ar- the instead of •fifering dry didactic dissertations on bones, and Ilayne. Senator Solomon Foote, of Vermont, won teries, muscles, etc.—so repulsive generally to the youthful of Congress by his ability and sterling integrity, esteem would the form of a story convey in a chaste, pro tern. of the Senate during three mind—he in especially as President boys and be find William Henry amusing and instructive style what girls might years. In the field of letters we this al- enticed to read ; and so successful has he been in D. D., of Colchester, as a distinguished clergyman Foote, “ liance of science and story” that never in the future will and historian : he settled in Virginia. they be divorced. sketch, and whose portrait is given, The subject of this Of this character are the five volumes he has published a settlei of the the of Ilerschel pioneer “ was son I'oote, entitled Science in Story ; or, Sammy Tubbs, the Boy Reserve in Ohio. At that early day Connecticut Western Doctor, and Sponsie, the Troublesome Monkey.” He has —previous to —there were but limited opportunities 1830 met with unprecedented success in these charming yet an youth to obtain an in that new country for ambitious breathe the heartfelt utterances of a home learned works, which at the of sixteen Edward left to education, and age philanthropist seeking to benefit his kind, while presenting and with fortune. His health had always strike out grapple for serious consideration subjects too long neglected or too delicate to face the world s hardships, been considered too technically treated ; and he has his reward in a wide fame but was indomitable. He entered a news- his resolution and in the gratitude of hundreds of thousands. working fifteen hours a paper office as a printer's devil, Physicians seem to be more fortunate in having their the But with eyes and ears opened to day at drudgery. names perpetuated by their descendants than almost any every of learning that fell his way, in a short time scrap in other class. Dr. E. B. Foote, Jr., the eldest of thiee his marked ability as a writer and adviser became known, brothers, is already associated with his father in the active invited to become the editor of the best weekly and he was practice of medicine. After a thorough academic course Connecticut. At he removed to journal in twenty-two he entered the scientific department of Columbia College, New York where he became associate editor of a prominent where for three years he pursued those studies which wcie which the sphere of his studies journal greatly enlarged best calculated to lay the foundation of a thorough medical and observations. Physiological studies always had a education. Then after one years study at the New \ork ; out what he was charm for him and as soon as he found Eclectic Medical College he entered the College of Phy- born for he determined to enter the medical profession in sicians and Surgeons which constitutes the medical depart- so of his had won eminence. Relying which many family ment of Columbia College. After four years of close at- hard work in journalism for a sub- upon connection with tendance upon the medical lectures he was enabled to he found to a student and assistant sistence time become in graduate from the latter institution in the class of 1876 of a specialist, where he ulti- the office noted botanical with a valuable prize for the best report of Dr. E. Seguin s mately became so well fitted for a thorough course of study medical lectures upon the diseases of the nervous system. that he entered Penn Medical University, with graduating With special genius for these studies and pursuits, and with in i860. honor a still fairer opportunity through his associations with his He now devoted himself with and enthusiasm father in medical practice, he ought to be satisfied with his to the arduous work of a practicing physician. About that chances for the future. He is also co-editor with his period the supremacy of the old School of Medicine was father of Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly, an ably con- being shaken by assaults from all quarters. Utterly re- ducted periodical. gardless of assumptions and assertions however honored o—o or imposing, his native independence and clear-headed judgment enabled him to mark out a career for himself Further Biography. which he has followed with steadiness and success. By Other Biographical Sketches of Dr. Foote have appealing to the average intelligence of the masses of appeared in various publications, but inasmuch as he more education in readers has probably done for their they repeat in the peculiar phraseology of each the laws of physiology and hygiene than any other man of we will only make to American medical and writer much the same material his time. His contributions appeared scientific literature if collected would comprise a series of room for an extract or two from one which volumes as great as those of the Sweedish Seer. His recently in D. At. Bennett's Sages and Thinkers, a printed works in bound volumes and pamphlets have been “ work containing over two hundred sketches of circulated throughout the civilized world. They have leading philosophers, teachers, reformers, founders specially commended themselves to popular readers for of new schools of thought, eminent scientists, etc.” their common sense presentation of a subject concerning of Foote therein given we which the bulk of mankind have so long been ignorant.— From the sketch Dr. PIis writings in English—or admirable translations—on quote the following passages : medical or scientific subjects have had a wider circulation “ Of the living, active workers and thinkers of the day than those of any other writer on these themes. His first the author of Medical Common Sense and other advanced * * * * * work, “ Medical Common Sense,” reached in a few years works stands deservedly prominent. the enormous sale of 250,000 copies, while his more recent “Before his twenty-fifth year Foote became the trusted and more elaborate work, “Plain Home Talk,”—a volume medical assistant and private secretary of a noted botanical however labors and of nearly 1000 pages fully illustrated—in a very short time specialist, alternating between medical reached a sale of 100,000. Believing that the youth of our editorial work on a Brooklyn Daily paper with which he 6 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

was at that time connected. Deciding finally to adopt the have emanated from Dr. Foote we are pleased to enroll him practice of medicine he entered assiduously upon a course among * The World’s Sages and Thinkers.’ ” of medical study and was graduated by Penn Medical Uni- o—o versity. In 1857-8 he issued his famous “Medical Com- mon Sense,” which touched the popular heart. His friends Dr. Foote's Plagiarists. said that it was ten years ahead of the age and urgently ad- During Dr. Foote’s career as a writer he has been vised him not to publish it; but with pluck, backed up by strong conscientious convictions, their counsels were disre- greatly annoyed by copyists who have used his garded and the work appeared,reaching in the course of a original pages in lectures and publications without few years a circulation exceeding two hundred and fifty a line of credit. He often remarks that truth thousand copies. Its characteristic features were—an utter should be widely disseminated—the more widely disregard of the teachings of existing medical schools and the better—and that he has no objection to having text books, reducing to three principal sources the primary pro- origin of disease, and the fearless presentation of facts and his works copied or otherwise used by others, theories upon those tabooed subjects which relate to the vided the copyists will not place him in the embar- sexual relations. In this last named field, which had be- rassing position of being suspected of stealing from come overgrown with ascetic and ecclesiastical weeds, he them ! If before reading some new idea in his applied a keen edged sickle well whetted with the philoso- works it be met with in some other work or popular pher’s stone. The N. P. Willis in a letter to the au- poet to reader or ‘ lecture what is there prevent the hearer thor told him that his Medical Common Sense’ was ‘ wis- dom cut and dried.’ from suspecting that Dr. Foote’s books are made up ? “ ‘ of stolenfrom here and there Hence the In 1866 the stereotype plates of Common Sense” hav- passages of ing become S3 worn as to produce an imperfectly printed justice of the Doctor’s complaint. On the first book the Doctor commenced a revision which, in conse- January of 1876 an article appeared in the columns quence of various interruptions, was not completed until of the Liberal Christian (now The Etiquirer) hit- the winter of 1869-70. One of the interruptions was at- ting off in good plain Saxon the plagiarists who are tended with an incident which is worthy of mention here. always seeking to profit from Dr. Foote’s genius Foote was made the president of the oil company in which : he was pecuniarily interested and visited West Virginia to and industry. We reproduce it entire look after the interests of the company. The country was POSITIVE PROOF OF A GOOD THING. new, roads impassable for wheeled vehicles and the doctor When an ingenius man invents some article or thing was day after day in his saddle. This life seemed to agree which seems to meet a universal want he is immediately with him and he very nearly decided to remain and attend surrounded with a host of imitators, who manage to get personally to the development of the company’s property. up something which may share the popularity of the But the very night after this decision was partially reached original. So too when a popular author who has made him- he had a peculiar mental monition of an indescribable self famous in science and literature makes a successful hit character which decided him to return to his book. in writing a popular book, and bestowing upon it an at- “ When the the friends of work w$s ready the author tractive and original title, a swarm of plagiarists spring up again shook conservative and it their heads pronounced in every direction. The more hungry and greedy ones ‘ years ahead of age.’ fifty the But it came forth with the copy from its pages whole chapters Without giving credit, title of ‘Plain Home Talk, embracing Medical Common while those less pressed by necessity and less supported Sense,’ and has rapidly reached in this country a circula- with shameless courage, steal its name and contents in a tion of one hundred thousand copies, and in Germany disguised form which evades the copyright law if it fail to where it was translated into the German a language further conceal its true character. We are led to these reflections ten copies. sale of about thousand This for a work of nearly by observing how many have sought to profit by the inge- thousand a pages at the cost of three dollars and twenty- nuity and literary ability of our talented and industrious five cents is noteworthy. The new book per copy contained citizen, Dr. Foote, of 120 Lexington avenue. When, some all the features of its with still more principal predecessor eighteen years ago, his immensely popular work, Medical the outspoken sentiments on sexual question. With the Common Sense, appeared, like so many horse-flies after a skill of a surgeon and the keen blade of the scalpel it dis- thin-skinned but high-blooded roadster, pamphlets and sects bone nearly and lays to the all our social usages open small-bound publications imitating its style, name and mat- the places rotten to the inspection of our candid moralists. ter, and often stealing page after page of its Pre-natal influences considered and ordinal are the fact pressed thought and philosophy, followed in its wake. One of them upon the reader if perfect attention of the that we would in Nassau street had its plates seized for violation of copy- humanity we must depend upongeneration rather than what right. Another in central New York was pursued by vio- is called ‘ regeneration.’ lated copyright law and compelled to pay damages and “ In 1875 Dr. Foote completed a serial of five volumes give due credit in its subsequent issues. One smart fellow, entitled ‘ Science in Story.’ This work blends the princi- hearing that the Doctor was about to have it translated into pal facts of anatomy, physiology and hygiene with the most the Spanish tougue for the Cubans anticipated him and sup- ludicrous and stirring incidents of a comic story, and in the plied the market in advance of the real author. On the last volume on ‘ Elimination and Reproduction,’ the doctor appearance of Plain Home Talk embracing Medical again brings to the front his favorite topic relating to the Common Sense, a book of nearly a thousand pages, by the improving of humanity through scientific methods. Several same successful writer—all sorts of imitators again sprang tracts have also appeared from the same vigorous pen upon up in every part of the United States. Some used its this important subject, and with all the fresh ideas which matter verbatim et literatim without naming the source from DR. FOOTE'S MOTIVES AND METHODS. 7

which it came; others were content to take some of its lowship with any one who chooses a specialty, and makes new and ingenious thoughts home and disguise them in known to the suffering world through the inviting medium different clothes preparatory to introducing them to the of the press a knowledge of this simple fact. Dr. Foote reading public. Many would say, * That sounds like Foote;’ has, therefore, encountered much unjust criticism from the the more knowing ones would exclaim, ‘ It is Foote !’ But self-styled “ regulars,” while he has enjoyed the applause lo ! the title page contained a name quite new to fame.— of the new-school doctors, and the continually growing con- This work has indeed furnished the material for hundreds fidence of the public at large. His first important work, of peripatetic lecturers on physiology, many of whom never Medical Common Sense, captivated over two hundred and seem to imagine that they were underany obligation, moral fifty thousand readers; his Plain Home Talk has found or legal, to name the work which had furnished many of its way into nearly or quite one hundred thousand families the best passages and most original ideas contained in their in this country and Europe, and his remarkably ingenious well-received addresses. Two essays of sterling thought series entitled Science in Story, has started out with the and value, recently appeared in the Medical Transactions promise of meeting with no less success. It has been re- of one of the state societies from the pen of Dr. Foote.— ceived with uniform approval by the press, both religious Immediately a pamphlet from an aspiring limb of the heal- and secular. ing art appeared in a neighboring city, made up in large Happening in the neighborhood of Madison Square one part of these very essays. Page after page was appropriated bright morning lately the writer encountered the doctor in without a quotation or the faintest allusion to the true au- one of his morning strolls for recreation ; and, by the cordial thor or to the book from which it was so shamelessly stolen. invitation of the latter, accompanied him to his elegant offi- Nothing which emanates from Dr. Foote’s popular medical ces at 120 Lexington avenue. Looking about us, wc were establishment seems to escape imitation, from the complete impressed with the busy atmosphere of the place, and the to the incomplete editions of his works. This kind of imi- many indications of material success. It was 9 o’clock, and tation indeed is carried so far that his publisher’s advertise- as we sat chatting, one by one of the doctor’s associate phy- ments are substantially copied, and the same claims which sicians and stenographers came in, till a large desk in the re- are put forth for Dr. Foote’s works are made to apparently ception room was surrounded by these intelligent and active fit the imitations. It is well for original authors that such men ; another desk in the back room occupied by another, literary piracy is sooner or later found out, and that the while an overflow of professional help passed hurriedly to reading public smell plagiarists afar off and come to regard apartments up and down stairs.

disfavor. The library of “ their stolen goods with the cultured I have none other than professional help,” remarked of a city junk By the “ has none of the characteristics shop. the doctor, unless I except my door-boy; all are either thing the copyists of Foote do way there is one which Dr. graduates of medical colleges, or trained phonographers, or not imitate — i. e., his free medical consultations. The pharmaceutists.”

“ for the mighty “ every — former go dollar” time. They do “To what,” we asked, do you ascribe your success ? work, nor do service not like hard they do any for nothing. The city is full of starving doctors, some of whom seem at author of the first Herein, like the bell-wether, the work, least to deserve support.” Medical is entitled Common Sense, always ahead, though “ “ Well,” replied the doctor, those who deserve support closely followed by the hungry fold. and do not get it are generally kept under by the ethics of o—o the self-styled regular school. Some well-trained minds, Dr. Foote’s Motives and Methods. however, are lamentably deficient in business ability. Then there are those who have quite mistaken their calling ; well A very good idea of Dr. Foote’s motives and educated, doubtless, but not possessed of the gift which methods may be gained by reading the following renders their professional labors successful, medically or interview with the doctor, copied from the Baptist materially. Every intelligent person recognizes the fact Union. We have not the date, but it appeared in that there are those who are peculiarly adapted by nature the columns of that paper sometime during the to become good mechanics; others qualified by nature to succeed well as and still others who naturally take winter of 74-75. It was headed : artists, to music, vocal or instrumental, etc. It is equally true that INTERVIEW WITH A NOTED SPECIALIST our best medical practitioners are those who were born We have in almost every community all sorts of phy- with the requisite qualifications to succeed well in medi- sicians, good, bad and abominable ; those who are skilled cine after spending a reasonable season in the study of in curing ; those who are successful only in killing ; and anatomy, physiology, materia medica, and correlated those who not only kill, but do it intentionally. The latter sciences.” class comprise the criminal horde which every now and “ Then you attribute your success to your natural as well then gets picked up for malpractice. as your acquired qualifications, do you, doctor?” Among the first-named group Dr. E. B. Foote, author “ I will leave that for others to determine,” replied Dr. of several popular publications on medical reform, etc., Foote, modestly ; “but if I possess such qualifications I do has won an enviable position. Not one, perhaps, free from not attribute my success wholly to them. I have chosen a uncomplimentary imputations, for all medical specialists speciality. I devote my time and attention to that. Chronic are viewed with a critical eye by that branch of the pro- diseases have been my study for twenty years and over.— fession which glories in the assumed, though by no means My practice has been exclusively devoted to the cure of legal, distinction of “regular.” All are regulars who have them. Life is too short for a man to achieve signal success diploma or license, and none other are at present allowed in all branches of the profession. All who are prominent to practice in our state ; at least none other have a legal in the medical profession are indeed specialists, whether or and regular status. But those of the old school, who have not they admit it or even know it. Every one who has a peculiarly stringent code of ethics, are unwilling to fel- achieved a reputation has done so through great success in 8 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

some single of medicine or Those fession department surgery. with an eye single to business. Manufacturers and by who find themselves so fitted nature and inclination merchants may choose their avocations with regard only should be shrewd and honest enough to avow themselves as to the net profit they may realize, but the parson and the specialists, and devote themselves wholly to the relief of physician should, to be useful, be governed by altogether that class of human suffering which they find themselves different motives.” best qualified to those difficulties which master, leaving The doctor then called our attention to his immense let- , they cannot conquer to those who have acquired the skill ter-rack, reaching nearly from floor to ceiling, the pigeon- to with ! cope them. By doing this, every practitioner pos- holes of which were labeled with the names of the states natural as as be and sessing well acquired qualifications would territories, and crammed full of letters. The pigeon- a successful and the specialist, community would be im- holes for foreign letters were stuffed with letters from Great benefited mensely thereby.” Britain, Germany, Asia, and the great islands of the sea.— “ Then you ascribe your success to the experience One you reason, doubtless, for this inundation of letters from have acquired in your particular speciality, do you?” we almost of every point the globe is due to.the fact that the ventured again to ask.” doctor makes no charges for consultation. People write “ No, sir,” once more rejoined the doctor, “not wholly fiom to him all parts of the country without inclosing re- to that ffiv.t. There are several reasons succeed why I in mittances. It seems that the doctor started out in this invalids which have been in many instances curing given way some twenty years ago and, notwithstanding the im- by their family physicians. up Doubtless the fact that I mense labor entailed, he proposes to continue this practice. only take oases of a chronic character, and devote “ It is my en- not easy to see how you can successfully attend tire — attention to this class of sufferers, is one of them. to cases at such great distance,” we remarked. But I employ a class of medicines which physicians who “ it Well, is sometimes surprising to myself,” said the do not fees can afford to use. with “ get pretty large hardly When- doctor a triumphant expressioa But the proof of ever I accept a case, whether I gain or lose by it a the pudding is the he in pe- eating,” added as he took from the cuniary way, I call to my aid the most approved medicinal case and, without allowing us to see names or dates, read without regard to their cost. You know am agents, I prac- grateful extracts from letters. Several of such thankful tically a botanical practitioner. I give no deleterious ; drugs testimonials were read and, without doubt, correctly quoted administer nothing to depress the vital forces we of the sys- for were aware of the strict rule of the doctor in regard best botanical tem. Our remedies, relieved of all their to the sacred privacy of all professional correspondence. useless qualities, are exceedingly expensive; far more so This is as it should be. It is the medical charlatan than public In who the at all suspect. their crude state, with supports his claims with either manufactured testimonials all their woody fibre, they are worth but a the perhaps few shill- or private letters written in confidence by his unsus- ings while in their extracted form per pound, they are worth pecting patients. The more people find out that sickness many dollars ounce. these per Now, powdered extracts, is due to physiological ignorance and violation of nature’s and and pure juices of the herbs roots of foreign and indi- laws, the more will invalids feel sensitive about having just what I chiefly genous plants, are employ, and they are their names paraded in advertisements as having been put through expensive processes peculiar to my own labora- cured of ills bearing the most respectable names. tory, in adapting them to individual cases. Every case On further examination of Dr. Foote’s methods we were must be measured by its symptoms, and fitted with the impressed with the perfect system he has established in medical treatment just as the form must be measured an and conducting immense practice, fully one-half of which is fitted by the tailor if would you have well-made clothing.” carried on by mail and express. He has a printed list ” of “ Ah ! we believe interrupted, “you in adapting reme- questions which are as searching as Everts’ or Fullerton’s dies to temperaments. Your book, ‘ Plain the Home Talk,’ at Beecher trial. When these are answered he goes very cleverly tells us that.” through the letter with pencil in hand and marks all im- “Certainly I do,” responded o”r common-sense doctor, portant symptoms and traces their relation to each other. “ and the real reason why we cannot have panaceas, a or spe- After careful analysis of all the points presented he dic- for the cifics, human maladies is because people differ as tates to one of his stenographers a reply to the correspond- much in temperament as they do in size and feature.” ent other ; in words, diagnoses the case. If the invalid, on “ Well,” we said “ rising from our chair, we see how it is receiving the clearly presented diagnosis, orders treatment, now—the secret of building up a large establishment like the case is carefully and minutely entered, with all its at- this.” tendant symptoms, in a book about as large as a first-class “ Guess not altogether,” replied the doctor with a genial hotel register. Every point is scrupulously entered. Then You would an laugh. have to serve apprenticeship in our the remedies which are prescribed—two or three days being to find out all the of place secrets our success. We use consumed in preparing them—are minutely entered on the of printer’s ” plenty ink ! Then resuming a serious tone, blank page opposite, and the number of this case is sent “ he added, I’ll tell you one of the greatest secrets of my to the patient in a handsomely lithographed certificate. success, as I verily believe. I love my profession. Unless Whenever a note of consultation is received with the num- greatly overworked, my professional business is my play. ber of the case given, the case is found without delay and the Moreover, money which comes in for professional ser- further advice is sent and minuted. The doctor assured vices is incidental rather than objective. My first motive us that he could distinguish no difference in his success in in taking a case is to cure my patient. But, in accepting his treatment of his home and distant patients, and the the I case, must look out that I am assured my just com- quotations of letters he read to us would, we should sup- pensation, because my remedies are expensive. Otherwise pose, fully justify this statement. I would not give much heed, I fear, to what I call the sec- Dr. Foote has in his consultation office the finest private ondary consideration. Ministers and doctors alike have no collection of stuffed birds we have ever seen—one case business to be no money worms ; right to enter their pro- giving some of the rarest specimens of the feathered tribe TESTIMONY OF DR. FOOTE'S PATIENTS. 9

to look over. Every conceiva- America, and the other containing an endless doctor has no time in North in his correspond- variety of birds of gay plumage from South America. To ble chronic disease is represented he has not beguile the waiting patients in his reception-room ence and practice. If testimonials are found with beauti- imported from Venice a large Megalethoscope of the cure of -some chronic .ills which may afflict well stereoscopic views. Sur- ful illuminated as as plain the reader it is not because such testimonials have rounded as he is with all that is tasteful and beautiful and not received, but rather because they have by corps of able assistants, some of whom have been aided a of profes- been associated with him for half a score of years, we can been overlooked through the pressure for doc- ■well see how the doctor, with his natural aptitude his sional work which is ever infringing upon the V/e profession, finds his labors only a pleasant pastime. tor’s limited leisure. All that follow have been gentle- left pleasantly impressed with the ability, skill and snatched from current correspondence or from files himself more widely manly bearing of one who has made when F. has not been en- this in the brief intervals Dr. known as a specialist than any other physician in or gaged with his patients. any other country. is requested to note one o—o The reader especially fact, viz: nearly all these testimonials are from Now for the Testimony of Dr. Foote's Patients. those who have been or are being treated entirely The Evidences of Dr. Foote’s Success thus by mailand express. Those who have the oppor- far presented are more indirect than direct. In tunity of consulting the doctor in person make his phrenological chart, considering the doctor’s their reports in person—seldom by mail. Most of age when it was given, we have, -so to speak, a the patients whose letters are herein quoted have prophecy based upon the formation and develop- never seen the doctor. Here is the evidence that than his mail and ex- ment of his brain ; his possibilities rather cases may be successfully treated' by achievements. The two interesting biographi- press by one who has established an ingenious sys- cal sketches, as subsequently given, are more di- tem for diagnosing and prescribing for invalids too rect testimony because they speak of what Dr. far away for personal consultation. Typhoid fever Foote has actually accomplished in the fields of or any other acute malady could not be so managed, literature and medicine. That which follows bi- but chronic diseases can be by one who gives his ography has its value. But when we come to the undivided attention to them; and Dr. Foote often grateful utterances of his patients we have some- remarks that he can see little or no difference in thing worth more than everything else to those his success in the treatment of invalids at a dis- looking for a physician to help them out of the tance and those who are under his personal eye.— quagmires of chronic physical distress. Although A list of searching questions are sent on appli- the names of these patients will be omitted, in com- tion, and hence physicians have sometimes paid Dr. pliance with a sacred promise of confidence which Foote the remarkable compliment that he under- the doctor has extended to those looking to him stood some case in point which they had personally for relief for the past twenty years, an affidavit will examined better than they themselves did. Fur- be found on first page of cover affirming under the thermore Dr. F. has cured hundreds of cases by solemnity of an oath the genuineness of the ex- letter and express after they had been given up as tracts from patient’s letters. The doctor’s simple hopeless by resident physicians. And this fact is statement would suffice to most minds, but he pre- no discredit to the latter for the reason that Dr. F. fers to give it legal force which would be audacious gives his whole attention to chronic diseases while and hazardous if not true in view of the fact that the physician in family practice has his attention .he is surrounded with medical associates and assis- divided between a great variety of acute maladies tants who, having opportunity to observe the truth- with which he must be so familiar as to give relief fulness or untruthfulness of such a statement, would in one day or an hour and sometimes a minute or not be slow to mercilessly criticise a step which lose his patient. Hence he gets into the habit of would be criminal as well as immoral. looking for immediate results and uses remedies These letters it will be observed are from pa- quite too active for cases which must be patiently tients in all stages of treatment at the time we put and ingeniously dealt with. He is the man for an this publication to press. This fact will add to emergency rather than the one to conduct a chronic their interest. They are unsolicited, spontaneous sufferer step by step out of ailments which have expressions of those who have been or are being been for months and perhaps years afflicting him. benefited by the doctor’s treatment. They are It requires a peculiar combination of natural gifts,

convincing ; they are overwhelming ! They would rare acquirements, and great experience in this be still more so if the doctor had the time to se- particular speciality to do this. That Dr. Foote lect and classify as he would like to do. There possesses all these the evidences we shall proceed are cords of letters—actually cords—which the to introduce will abundantly show. We will call for 10 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

our first witness a physician. After his testimony is “ Through your very kind and generous solicitude I was given we will classify so far as possible the extracts prevailed upon to place myself under your medical charge. of letters which follow. When I came to you I was so much emaciated in flesh that hundred o—o I scarcely weighed a pounds 1 I believed that I was rapidly wasting away from pulmonary disorder—stated A REMARKABLE CASE OF to you distinctly that my lungs were hepatized, and that PHYSICAL AND NERVOUS PROSTRATION there were some organic difficulties of AND ULCERATION OF THE LIVER. the heart. You ridiculed both suppositions and said that I labored under From a Physician in Philadelphia County, Penn. Hepatitis—that the ulcerations of the liver had already “ My Dear Doctor : —Having returned to Philadelphia eaten through the diaphragm and were devouring the bron- —after an absence of four months, to avail myself of your chial tubes, or at least discharging their tuberculous or peculiar and remarkable skill as an electrical therapeutist cancerous matter through those apertures and throat. I in all forms of chronic diseases—I cannotrefrain from ma- accepted your diagnosis as a very correct and rational one, king a voluntary offering of my gratitude to you for your and commenced a course of your electrical medicines, inclu- scientific instrumentality in restoring me to excellent health ding the applications from the beautiful and safe electrical and spirits after many months of nervous and physical pros- apparatus, as invented by yourself. In three weeks I began tration before placing under your medical charge. myself to gain strength and flesh, the first “ and before course of two You are aware of my own peculiar eccentricities, habits, months was exhausted found myself weighing 11S pounds, idiosyncrasies, etc., as a result of inherent proclivities and a gain of full twenty pounds in the period of eight weeks. a life of twenty-five years given to literary, scientific and Not only did I gain in muscular structure but the nervous medical pursuits. You know how I have toiled in the edi- tissues were most signally improved and exalted, thus con- torial tread-mill, and have appreciated in some degree the firming the doctrine of the ablest magnopathest that elec- arduous and responsible labors I was in duty led to per- tricity is 4 LIFE and that electricity, whether known as form while occupying a very important Professor’s Chair magnetism, galvanism, or what not, is really identical with among the faculty of a leading and prosperous Medical the nervous influence of the animal economy. At any rate, University in the city of Philadelphia. Thus, sadly broken thanks to the recuperative efficacy of your very pleasant down in physical and mental powers, I was finally com- electrical medicines—your soothing electrical applications pelled, in duty to myself and little family, to seek the to my physical frame—(a mere skeleton at best, like to an means of vital recuperation of my general organism.— effigy of bones strung on wires, as found in the museums ‘ Physician heal thyself,’ is an old saying ; but how few and anatomical theatres of the medical schools)—and your even among the most learned and experienced of practi- dietetic and rules, I was out of the ‘ hygienic finally brought tioners ever know themselves ’ sufficiently well to employ of most a 4 depth helpless affliction to degree of comfort and the medicaments which will insure a sound mind in a health almost equal to the palmiest I ever enjoyed in a life sound body.’ Hence I was constrained to resign my post of half a century of years. Indeed I now feel that I am as chief editor of a leading journal in Philadelphia, and also ’ a mere boy again —full of gayety, animation and strength, chair in the Medical Institution, with a view to do 4 my calculated to serve me for at least a score of years longer, something, if possible, for the restoration of my greatly or until I shall reach the biblical age of three score and ten. health. dilapidated My first impulse was to try the water “ And, dear doctor, in very many interviews with you, treatment; and, accordingly, I went to the city of New you were kind enough to initiate me into some of the se- York and sought admittance as a patient into a Hydro- crets of your wonderful success in the curative treatment of establishment of much renown, not only in that me- pathic every form of chronic disease. You have kindly shown me tropolis but throughout the land. Preserving my incognito, lettersfrompatients in every State in the Union, abounding or rather, giving the principal physician no intimation that in the heartiest expressions of gratitude to you your in- was a medical man myself, I asked advice and treatment. for I strumentality in achieving their salvation from death and I was frankly informed that my life was hardly worth saving the grave—many cases, indeed, of cure, seeming fairlyallied the vater treatment might do me some but that —that 7 good, to the miraculous. I should not expect to live three weeks from that period.— “ I have seen also your office with patients—not I thanked the doctor for his rather discouraging remarks, thronged from the and but from the most wealthy, but instantly concluded that if I were so soon to make my lowly ignorant, influential and respectable classes, all of whom you exit from terrestrial scenes I would take my chances in a received, with innate dignity and courtesy, and their dis- natural way, and not hurry myself off by any frigid, ice or diagnosed orders without asking them the slightest question, with such cold-water treatment, or any parboiling manipulations of accuracy that many of your patients were con- said Hydropathic Institution. What had I now to do but wonderful strained to exclaim that you had read their characters and lay down and die ? I scarcely felt, however, that my time most thoroughly and satisfactorily, not only to was so soon to come ; and therefore looked about for some complaints themselves but accompanying friends. other chance to secure a further tenure on existence. “ “ Through a friend I accidentally heard of yourself, my Some few, albeit, would occasionally dissent from your dear doctor. I knew you while yet quite a youth, and views of electrical medication, and doubt the possibility of having appreciated your native ability and sterling intel- imparting electricity or electrical influences to any medical lectual qualities, I was rejoiced to find that you had turned compounds /.but you had the power to convince them of the and and yourself to medical pursuits, and had graduated with the fact, and to prove that all medicines, even foods highest honors in one of the first medical schools of America. drinks acted electrically upon the animal economy, either de- I at once instinctively sought your medical parlors in New to exalt the nervous, or electrical, or vital action, when York and was greeted by you in the most cordial and affec- pressed, or to depress it when t6o highly exalted or stimula- tionate manner—almost as a son should greet a venerated ted, as in cases of high fever, inflammation, etc. 4 and long-absent father. “ In short, your masterly book of Medical Common SCROFULOUS CASES. 11

Sense ’ explains this phenomena of nature in a very lucid it has been for twenty years. Should I however need and satislactory manner. further treatment will write you, but do not expect to. I “ Doubtless the day is at hand when the whole ‘science considered my case a tough one, and have no reason to think of medicine will be written on a single page’—when man- that any one except yourself could have cured me, as I have kind will understand that the grand secret of life consists tried so many during the last six years and all failed.— in maintaining the equilibrium of the nervous or electrical Please receive my everlasting thanks.” forces of the organism, whether of the animal, vegetable, or any other kingdom of material substances.” A lady living in Litchfield County, Conn., in consulting o—o Dr. Foote regarding her own case speaks of the effects of treatment in a case of scrofula and milk leg. She says : Scrofulous Cases. “ I have seen the effects of your treatment in one of your patients living opposite me, and I have faith to think One of the most common predisposing causes you will help me.” of Chronic Diseases is a Scrofulous impurity in the blood, sometimes inherited and sometimes con- A gentleman living in Tolland County, Conn., having “ tracted through some unfortunate circumstance.— a son with scrofula, writes: My son appears to be very Impure vaccination is often found to have innocu. much improved, he seems so full of life and animation.— He rests well nights and is far less irritable than formerly. lated some healthy person with scrofula ; living in There is the A little marshy and other unhealthful locations has in time very little of bloating of the stomach. of the costive habit continues but is generally owing, I find, scrofulous taint a ; Byrd produced a in family Dr. to his food. His skin is smooth and he has grown much Powell claimed that some phases of temperamental straighter than he was.” inadaptation in marriage resulted in scrofulous off- spring ; Dr. Andrew Combe held that intimate as- A lady having scrofula complicated with serious nervous sociation with a scrofulous person would affect the derangements, living in St. Francis Co., Ark., speaking of another patient writes: one ; the marriage of a scrofulous person healthy “ She expresses herself to a friend of mine as being to one who is free from the impurity is almost sure greatly encouraged at my rapid improvement under your five to ten to affect the healthy companion in from treatment. It is a subject of comment and wonder with years; an improperly treated syphilitic disorder is those who knew the condition I was in six months ago.” almost sure to leave the patient with a blood im- purity which in many cases has more of the char- A lady living in Madison County, Ala., having a scrofu- acteristics of scrofula than of constitutional syphilis; lous impurity producing a great variety of difficulties, such insufficient food and bad ventilationhave doubtless as salt-rheum, violent headache, cramps and spasms in the uteri, menstruation, etc., writes ; habitual use of womb, prolapsus painful caused scrofulous conditions; the “ I am certainly greatly improved. After my health was introduced scrofula pork has in many instances in so much improved and I felt so much better I did leave off families where it was previously unknown. What- the medicines. My general health is excellent. I weigh ever the origin, scrofula is a great scourge to the more than I ever did. Indeed, Doctor, to see me no one human family and causes all sorts of ills. It may would ever think there was any derangements in any part be safely said that in all families where consump- of my system.” tion is and common, meipbers hav- hereditary many A gentleman in T uscarawas Co., Ohio, had a scrofulous cause. ing died with it, scrofula is the predisposing impurity together with a cutaneous affection which seemed When Dr. Foote commenced practice nearly a like an incurable itch. All remedies which he had used quarter of a century ago, scrofula was considered previous to adopting Dr. Foote’s treatment threw him into a he to violent headaches to- an incurable disease by the “faculty.” But the fever. Moreover was subject gether with other troublesome symptoms. At the end of Doctor did not believe it, and he and many more six months’ treatment he writes :

demonstrated its cura- “ new school physicians have My general health has improved very much indeed and bility. Below will be found extracts of letters from the eruption on my hands and body did not disturb me but some of the thousands of cases which Dr. I oote once after I began the treatment. * * * * This I has cured. Many cases of cures appearing under must add, that what I ascribe to yourmedicines under Pro- giving other heads were of those affected to some extent vidence has thus far been more benefit to my mind, clearness buoyancy thought and feeling, than you can with scrofulous taint. Dr. Foote claims that the and of imagine or I state.” blood is susceptible of entire change from a bad to a a good condition as well as from a good to bad A young lady in Jo Daviess County, 111., inheriting a state. Read and be convinced : scrofulous impurity from her mother and a rheumatic pre- from her father, and having all kinds of com- A gentleman in Norfolk County, Mass., of a scrofulous disposition including constipation, piles, diathesis and affected with spermatorrhoea and gonorrhoeal plications catarrh, dyspepsia, and wrote at the end prostatitis, difficulties which of course were much aggrava- urinary troubles painful menstruation, of four months’ treatment: ted by the scrofula, writes : “ “ I am I am very glad to inform you that I am getting along I am now getting along nicely ; do not know why than with my medicine and am feeling quite well at not a* good as new, while my general health is better splendidly 12 EV1DENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS. present. I very seldom get those melancholy feelings over A lady inPlymouth County, Mass., who was painfully af- me. Catarrh, numbness in my right arm and leg and rheu- flicted with abscesses about the head and neck, after taking left me matism, I do believe they have altogether.” some remedies prescribed for them forabout a month writes : It should be added that this case is at the present writing “ I think an apology is due for not writing on receipt of still under treatment, the prognosis having originally been those bullets which you sent me. Credit is also due given as ten months. Two later letters give encouraging for the benefit received from them. Think they did good accounts of her progress. execution. Must have hit every time, as I have not had any abscesses, except those which were forming, since I taking * * * * A lady living in Fairfield County, Conn., who was affected commenced them. I have not given with a scrofulous difficulty predisposing her to rheumatism, up the idea of seeing you personally if I find that I need neuralgia, dyspepsia, irritated eye-lids, restlessness, etc., further treatment. Accept thanks for th# bullets.” The “ bullets referred to were medicines after taking four months’ treatment I find myself prepared in Dr. Foote’s wrote: in the form of Benefited in every respect; all my difficulties are relieved. laboratory French dragees. The liquid you sent me has helped'my back very much. I have used it nearly up. I feel so much better that I think A lady living in Kennebec County, Me., after taking I shall need but this one course more.” At the end of the treatment for some ten months wrote : “ My hands have course last referred to, making in all six months, a relative been entirely free from salt-rheum for nearly five months, writes for her as follows: “ She wishes me to write you for and when I tell you that for more than twelve years my her and say that she is getting along splendidly; has not hands have not been free from eruptions you must think felt as well for years as she does this Summer. Has an ex- that I cannot feel otherwise than satisfied with what your cellent appetite, rests well nights, and calls herself cured, medicines have done for me. But this is not all. I am {of course using some caution) and is able to do a good better in almost every way.” (Beside the salt-rheum there day’s work, and gives you the credit under a kind Provi- were various complications arising from a scrofulous dia- dence of the improved state of her health.” thesis.) “I have never” (concludes the letter) “regretted that I had confided in you to trust my case in your hands, A young lady living in Creene County, N. Y., suffering and confidently recommend your medicines to those af- •with a scrofulous impurity which produced salt-rheum, flicted as I have been, and shall ever feel deeply grateful catarrh, painful menstruation and a tendency to pulmonary for the benefit derived from so effective a medicine.” disease, at the end of one month’s treatment writes : “ I feel much better every way. I will not mention each dif- A lady living in Kings County. N. Y., suffering with a for they are all decidedly better, far beyond my ex- ficulty great variety of chronic ills proceeding from scrofulous pectations when I commenced your treatment.” This case blood and affected with painful tumors which threatened was advised to pursue treatment for one year if necessary. cancerous development, wrote after taking the medicines only a few months as follows: “The two months in the County, A lady living in Suffolk N. Y., having a scrofu- country with the use of your medicines have so far restored with a whole train of local lous diathesis together disor- my health that I think I will not require any more medi- ders including womb difficulties, tenderness of the spine, occasion cine.” Having to write again some three year* cough, after indigestion, catarrh, sleeplessness, etc., etc., after she says: “I am well—thanks. I do my wotk remedies only two months, writes: “ I am using the nearly throughout, which is the first time for a number of years, weeks on my second course and am three feeling very well, I will give myself the pleasure of calling on you the first better when commenced so much than I was I your reme- opportunityI have. Yours withgrateful remembrance,” etc. dies that I feel almost well.”

During our late civil war a soldier in one of the Vermont in Lewis N. A gentleman County, Y., having a scrofu- hospitals was obliged to have a limb amputated, and after which produced catarrh, pimples lous impurity on legs and the amputation very obstinate suppuration supervened, re- on and other salt-rheum arms, some difficulties, at the end sulting from constitutional scrofula. It was necessary for -of only two months “I am along so writes: getting well him to obtain permission of the physician in charge to re- that I do not think I will need another course.” It is ceive remedies prepared by one outside of the institution. hardly necessary to add that this case ought to have had Receiving such consent he placed himself under Dr. Foote’s another course as it was considered at “ the outset necessary care. Subsequently he wrote : My people and I think that he should have treatment for one year. This little that to your medicines I owe my life. I failed rapidly after note however indicates the wayin which the medicines took I wrote you, and before the medicines arrived. My abscess hold his of case. discharged corrupt pus, and my friends predicted a speedy dissolution. I have gained so fast in health, flesh and A lady living in Luzerne County, Penn., after pursuing strength, that all concede an ultimate recovery. My nerv- treatment some four or six months for a scrofulous impurity ous system is in a better condition. My appetite cannot complicated with painful menstruation, prolapsus uteri, be beat. I am more than satisfied with the benefit of thi3 ovarian irritation, dyspepsia, constipation, much headache, course.” Some years after this event Dr. Foote had the and other complications too numerous to mention, writes : pleasure of meeting this patient of former years and he was “ I thought I would send for another course of treatment. very profuse in his expressions of gratitude. I ana getting along exceedingly well. I hope this course health. will complete my I have had nothing do me so A gentleman living in Green County, Mo., briefly writes i much good since I have been doctoring as this treatment. “ The medicine you sent my wife last Summer cured her.” I can recommend you very highly so far.” This was a scrofulous case. SCR OFCL O US CASES. 13

A patient in Warren County, Penn., who had been sub- A young lady living i:i Knox County, Maine, who had ject to scrofulous eruptions and humors after a few months’ very scrofulous blood and almost every complication that “ be sore sore treatment writes : My health is better this Summer than could imagined, including fingers, catarrh, it has been at any time during the past six years. The throat, pains and soreness in the chest, dyspepsia, consti- humor on my neck has not troubled me for nearly a year, pation, lameness in the back, pains in all parts of the body (was i. e. there has been no running humors.” and serious uterine affections, recommended to have treatment for eight or ten months,) wrote at the end of six

* A lady living in Warren County, Ohio, affected with months as follows : .

“ scrofula, enfeebled nervous system, dyspepsia, uterine dif- I now take my pen in hand to let you know how I am* ficulties and a great variety of other minor symptoms writes I am better than I have been for four years, and I don’t after using the remedies only one month: think I need any more medicine, for I have been well for “ I feel glad that I heard of you, for I had despaired of four months. I have seen hardly a sick day. I have taken ever getting better. The doctors here said they could not all of the medicine.” doctor for one disease without going against another ; but A lady living in Franklin County, Vt., suffering from your medicine seemed to harmonize through the whole sys- scrofula and a variety of complications writes : “ In regard tem and produce general improvement.” to the effect of your medicines I can only say that I gradu- ally improved under their use till I a wonder myself A gentleman in Albany County, N. Y., who had suffered was to and friends There was none of them however that felt for years with scrofulous sore throat, after having a few I immediate till after months’ treatment of Dr. Foote, wrote as follows: “I am any effects from, and it was not taking them days that myself improving.— glad to state to you that the sore mouth and throat that has some I could perceive I remember troubled me for the past six years has given way under your that a few days after using them large quanti- water passed me for several days I began to medical treatment. The $— paid you I look upon as a ties of till good investment. My personal experience satisfies me that feel quite troubled about it, and was about writing to you when the began diminish. It seemed however your mode of treatment in chronic diseases is superior to difficulty to drain that I for I was relieved of a full bloated any other of which I have any knowledge.” a needed, feeling which I had suffered from for months.” A lady in Fairfield County, Conn., having a scrofulous affection which developed itself in uterine derangements, In a remarkable case of scrofulous impurity affecting etc., after several months’ treatment wrote: “I will add nearly every organ and part of the body from the head to ‘hat, in view of the change in my health the past year, my the feet, and producing great suffering and prostration, a* husband unites with me in expressions of gratitude to you patient in Suffolk County, N. Y., writes :

“ *or what you have done for me, in not only the benefit I I am so much better than a year ago ! Oh, I don’t have received but for the candor, patience and unaffected think there is hardly another person in the United States courtesy with which you have conducted the treatment of can better appreciate the ability to walk than can I. None my case. I can speak of you only in the highest terms of but those who are taught by experience can realize what it respect.” is to be so helpless day after day, week after week and year after year ! /KNOW ! Five years I thus lay when so A patient in Windsor County, Vt., with a scrofulous im- young, and might have been helped before if I had only purity affecting the head, throat, lungs, heart, stomach, been treated right, as I was at last by you ! Two years kidneys and nervous system and producing a tumor on the and more this second time of my probation, though not so thigh, attended with pains in knees, ankle and foot, after a utterly helpless and feeble as before, I never feel like say- few mouths’ treatment wrote: “ I cannot express my grati- ing, ‘ From sudden death, good Lord, deliver us !’ but tude to you for the benefit you have done me as an instru- ‘ From long suffering and helplessness, good Lord, I beseech ment in the hands of God. * * I have been for a good thee to deliver all, especially mothers.’ It is a little more many years so I could not stoop. If I had work low down than a year since I just began to go about my room a very I had to get on my knees. I have got so now I can stoop little with crutches. Now I wish you could see how lively I “ pretty well.” In a later letter this patient says : I have can trot especially in the morning.” not felt so well for thirty years.” A lady living in Luzerne County, Penn., of a scrofulous uterine A young lady living in Livingston County, N. Y., having diathesis, resulting from which she had troublesome a scrofulous diathesis and a variety of difficulties proceeding derangements, painful menstruation, constipation, predis- two three times a therefrom, such as severe headaches for a full week at a position to cough, severe headaches or time, catarrh, dyspepsia with troublesome constipation, week, etc., and who did not pursue the treatment for the “ I will have to that painful and profuse menstruation, rheumatic pains in vari- time recommended, writes: say my has been better I took treatment with ous parts of the body, and a peculiar pain about an inch to health much since the left of the navel from which she had been for a long you. I will always think you were the means of promoting a sorry that I did time suffering, writes near the end of four months’ treat- my health to great extent, and I am very I for what have ment as follows: not keep on ; but am very thankful you “ I am feeling better every month, and the pain in my done for me, and I shall always recommend you before any bowels has not troubled me much this last month com- other physician that I know of.” An invalid whom this that the pared with the one before. I am more thankful than I can patient subsequently sent to Dr. Foote remarked express to the Providence that directed me to go to you for husband of the patient stated to him that Dr. Foote’s reme- treatment, and I never shall forget your kindness to your dies were the only ones which had ever been of any benefit grateful patient.” to his wife although he had tried many. 14 EVIDENCES OE DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS .

A lady in Cook County, 111., who had been greatly af- have more life and energy I believe than I have ever had fected with scrofulous eruptions, catarrh, weak eyes and since I was a child. I do not always feel so tired. I used irritated eye-lids, dartingpains about the ears, gums tender to be always tired. I never felt rested. I was tired at and swollen, cough and tenderness, pains and weakness night and just as tired in the morning. For several winters about the chest, constipation, weakness and pain across the I have been obliged to keep my bed most of the time.— lower part of the back, disagreeable sensations in the re- This time, last year, I was nearly frantic with my head. 1 gion of the bladder, prolapsus of the womb, leucorrhoea and suffered so terribly that no one but the physician and nurse painful menstruation, a complicated case, writes : “I have was allowed in the room for eight or nine weeks. My been ten months under your care and feel that constitu- nerves were so sensitive that I could feel the slightest foot- tionally I have been greatly built up and there is nothing step in almost any part of the house, and the opening and more for you to do ; if I take care of myself I need not shutting of a door, no matter how softly done. I could suffer. I am quite free from aches and pains. You feel a noise I could not hear very distinctly.” will always be embalmed in my memory as the one who of the Lungs, took me by the hand and drew me out of the depths of Affection etc. A physical misery into which I was fast sinking. But oh, gentleman in Union County, Ky., who had been an in- valid for how reluctantly I let go my hold ! God bless you, while I fifteen years resulting from weakness of the lungs* thank Him that I ever heard of Dr. Foote. Thanking you raising of blood and supposed ossification of the heart, “ for the kind and gentlemanly manner in which you have wrote after a two months’ treatment as follows: My health has always treated me, I am always and ever your warm friend.” greatly improved since last Summer and Winter. I am more fleshy than I ever was in my life, and my general A lady living in Middlesex County, Mass., who had health seems to be good. No cough —no spitting of treatment for a scrofulous impurity which predis- “ in 1873 blood.” In another letter he says still later : My health posed her to eruptions of the skin, glandular tumors in the has been pretty good this Spring. I am now more fleshy neck and groins, bad catarrh, defective hearing, noises and than I ever was in my life. ■ * • I have not had any darting pains in the ears, tendency to both throat and lung cough now for three months—not the slightest—neither difficulties, palpitation of the heart, dyspepsia, constipation, have I spit any blood. * • * My appetite has been good who only piles, painful menstruation and leucorrhoea, had all the Spring. My bowels also have been very regular.” six months’ treatment, though advised at the outset to have

“ ten months’, in writing Dr. Foote in 1875 said : My Tuberculosis of the Lungs. health is quite good at present; have very much improved A lady living in Cook County, HI., having a son labor- since I began your treatment; think it saved my life at ing under tuberculosis of the lungs, ophthalmia, etc., after that time.” the young man had taken two months’ treatment wrote “George thinks himself quite restored to health. He says he does not need any more medicine. * * * A severe Diseases of the Breathing Organs. cold, which made me really sick, prevented the completion During Dr. Foote’s pupilage with a noted spe- of this letter. In the mean time George has been weighed cialist, and in the beginning of his practice, cover- again, and has gained four pounds more, and he begins to look like himself.” At the commencement of the treat- ing altogether a term of about five years, he gave ment of this case the doctor pronounced it a difficult one his almost exclusive attention to the treatment of and recommended six or eight months’ treatment. The of his diseases of the throat and lungs. Many case fully recovered within two months. greatest medical triumphs were in the practice of this speciality. But when, in 1857-8, he issued Chronic Sore Throat, etc. A gentleman living in Pope County, 111., seriously af- his “ Medical Common Sense,” he extended his fected with chronic ulcerated, sore throat, chronic catarrh include all diseases of a chronic char- specialty to of the head and of the rec fum,and seminal weakness, at his acter, since which time he has devoted labors the end of between four and six months’ treatment writes: untiringly to the management of chronic ills in all “ In answer to your inquiries after my health will say, my their various phases. Nevertheless his practice in head appears to be well, have had no ear-ache this winter, * * the treatment of diseases of the respiratory organs no catarrh, no sore throat and no seminal losses. I am well pleased with theresult of your treatment. In fact has steadily increased, and he welcomes the con- am confident I would have died without it or something of consumptives, believing that his sys- sultations of the same nature. With gratitude for your help in my case tem of medicine is peculiarly adapted to the re- I am,” &c. moval of the as well as immediate predisposing Pulmonary Consumption. of their diseases. Of his success in this causes years ago Dr. Foote was consulted by a gentleman following testimonials Some class of human ailments the in Poweshiek County, Iowa, in a case of clearly marked will speak : pulmonary affection. After pursuing treatment for some

“ Consumption, etc. months he wrote : My case, so far, is considered almost a A lady in Mason County, Ky., who was afflicted with miracle by those who knew my condition. I feel I owe my weak lungs, soreness in the bronchial tubes, cough, pains present state of existence to you, and I feel it my duty to in the head, constipation, etc., at the conclusion of a six recommend you to others.” This gentleman is believed to months’ course writes : “ I have been able to go about the be still living in the enjoyment of good health and Dr. Foote is time to time members of his house and occasionally on the street and can bear more ex- still having from ercise and fatigue than I could for several years back. I family under treatment. DISEASES OF THE BREATHING ORGANS. 15

Chronic Catarrh, Laryngitis and Predisposition to Hay Fever, etc. Pulmonary Disease. A gentleman in the District of Columbia who was sub- A gentleman in Baltimore County, Md., writes: “ I am ject to hay fever and a variety of complications, including thankful to say I am getting along splendidly and hope to bilious affections and spermatic weakness, was advised to continue so.” pursue treatment for one year. He writes : “ I am now in Catarrh, etc. my fifth months’ treatment and can say I am a different A gentleman in Fairfield County, Conn., under a six person, as far as my physical condition is concerned, than * “ I * * I months’ treatment writes at the end of two months : I when commenced taking your medicines. have now very little cough, have a fair appetite and feel am very thankful that I can report progress.” stronger. Do not feel much catarrhal sensation. No dis- Raising Blood, etc. charge from the nose.” A gentleman in the District of Columbia who had been Catarrh, etc. affected with raising blood and much physical prostration a writes : A gentleman in Marshall County, 111., who had treatment after taking Dr. Foote’s treatment for few months “ “ to York about the first or mid- for catarrh, torpid liver, constipation, etc., writes : I am I rather expect go to New quite well at present, and have been all Summer. Your dle of next month, when, of course, I shall call upon you, medicines done me a power of good. I cannot find words that you may behold another living witness to your skill—- of praise for them sufficient for the good I have received.” another spared monument of mercy—another fellow human being, in whose heart gratitude to you and heaven sits en- Haemoptysis or Coughing Blood from the Lungs. throned and who wishes to express it verbally.” A patient in County, Mass., writing of his Hampshire Incipient Consumption. progress says: “ I am still improving slowly but surely.— A lady in Whiteside County, 111., having an incipient af- Have got so that I can do a fair day’s work. My lungs fection of the lungs together with pericarditis, gastric irri- as did. I do not have feel as strong now ever they any “ tation, etc., after taking a course of remedies wrote : In cough, or raise any.” regard to my health, I eat heartily, sleep soundly, work, Chronic Bronchial Catarrh. read, laugh, talk and enjoy life generally. Finally, I never of his A gentleman in Linn County, Kansas, writes hav- enjoyed better health in my life ; consequently I do not ing received his box of medicines and having used them know as I need any more medicine. But as I am in the “ according to the directions and concludes by saying : My habit of doing whatever I undertake thoroughly I thought health is apparently good, and it (the medicine) has made I would take one more course of medicine.” a a new man of me. My neighbors all think you are good Pulmonary Consumption. and I feel for the benefit have received doctor, grateful I A gentleman in Franklin County, Vt., writes in respect

treatment.” “ from your to his own and his neighbor’s case as follows : In my own Bronchitis, etc. case and that of Mr. your prescriptions are working A gentleman in Belmont County, Ohio, who Avas affected wonders. His recovery is little short of miraculous, and with dry cough, predisposition to take cold easily, compli- still there are croakers who say they expect to see him die cated with seminal weakness, after taking treatment for some very suddenly, by and bye, killed by stopping taking medi-

“ six or eight months writes : I embrace the present oppor- cines full of electricity, and all that. Others here, especially tunity to write you a few lines to let y du know that I think Mr. , are being benefitted by your mode of treat- that I am entirely well. At least I feel so and I have had ment, which is fast finding favor with invalids.” It was no difficulties for a long time. Accept my sincere thanks the neighbor who had the pulmonary difficulty. honorable dealing with me.” for your Incipient Consumption, etc. Lung Affection, etc. A young man in Erie County, Penn., had some four A gentleman living in Green County, Mo., having a lung months’ treatment for a chronic hacking cough, expectora- trouble arising from a scrofulous diathesis and sedentary tion indicating lung difficulty, catarrh, dyspepsia, urinary confinement, after using two month’s treatment writes:— difficulties, seminal weakness and impotency together with “ My health is better than it has been in two or three other complications too numerous to mention. He com- years. Whether it has been time for your remedies to pro- mences a letter written several months after the conclusion “ duce so much change on me I cannot say. I am now ten of the treatment by saying : Doubtless you thought I pounds heavier than I have been at any time in the last had taken my departure from the land of the living.” Then eight years.” proceeds to explain the reason of his silence ; after which Bleeding Lungs, etc. he goes on to say: “As it is Thanksgiving Day I am not r hearts to-day. Truly A gentleman living in Seneca County, N. Y., troubled at work, and how many are thankful with bleeding lungs, spinal irritation, etc., and who, in his I know of one who has great cause to be thankful for the first letter, stated that he had not been able to sit up all health that he now enjoys. In three weeks after taking “ I medicines had seven of flesh and felt day for some time wrote : My health is improving since your I gained pounds has got your medicines. I can run 25 rods, Avhich has not been like a new man, although my work been such that I I done by me before in three years. I walk two or three could not follow directions as well as could wish. The “ a wondrous change. the miles almost every day.” Again he says : I take my pen medicine has worked From dark, for the pleasure it affords me to acknowledge the fact that sallow look of my countenance it has changed to a more

— and and you have preserved my life, which I truly believe,” &c. healthful hue my cheeks look more rosy ruddy than “ for and flesh is hard Still again: I can assure you it will give me great pleas- they have been many months, my more in ure to state to the public your unbaflled skill in my case as and sinewy. No more roaring my ears and buzzing sen- my head. that is done with. My eyes are well as others of my acquaintance whom I have every reason sation in All to believe you have been the instrument in saving. stronger and better. No more nightly emissions. In fact 16 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

I am changed altogether and feel like a new man. Had Consumption, etc. any one told me that I could stand the work that I am A lady in Dakota County, Minn., with an affection of the now doing, two months ago, or before taking the medicine, lungs complicated with uterine derangements, falling of I should have laughed at them. But now I flatter myself the rectum and nymphomania, while going through with a that I can do as much work as any of them. Although course of Dr. Foote’s remedies wrote : “ I have the medi- my words have not been very eloquent in praise, yet I do cines, which are just the thing for me. I cannot particu- feel grateful to you as a benefactor of mankind, and I hope larize. Suffice it to say that I feel lighter and better every- you may live long and reap a rich reward.” way and am gaining flesh ; weigh five pounds more than I ever did before. you don’t know how much better Catarrh, etc. Doctor, I feel. I tell everybody I see where to go to get cured. — A lady living in Cook County, 111., was under Dr. Foote’s I lend my book to every one who will read it. I must treatment for catarrh, soreness, constrictions and weakness close my lengthy epistle by wishing you and yours a long about the chest, palpitation and pains about the heart, dys- life to do good* in.” In a letter subsequently written she uterine derangements, etc., a great variety of com- pepsia, “ says : I have not forgotten that I owe you one dollar, and plications indeed, prominent among which were the catarrh will send it. I owe you more than I could ever pay for.—* and predisposition to pulmonary affection. At the end of I feel as though your medicines have saved my life.” a six months’ treatment her husband writes: “She most cordially thanks you for the prompt manner in which you, Consumption. through your remedies, have brought her from ill-health to A gentleman in Truro, Nova Scotia, recommended a young health ; and should she at any time hereafter feel the ne- lady living in Sidney, Cape Breton, who had incipient con- cessity of your or any medical assistance she will immedi- sumption to place her case under Dr. Foote’s care. She ately address you.” had at the outset a troublesome cough, severe pains in the excessive etc. Two Bleeding Bronchitis. chest and shoulders, expectoration, months’ treatment sufficed to effect a cure, and, some two A in Worcester County, Mass., who had a gentleman “ months the gentleman writes as follows: On my obstinate and continued attack of bleeding bronchitis after, very I treatment, and he way home, 250 miles from here, called to see your patient, ■was cured of the same under Dr. Foote’s and really you have wrought a miracle. She was just finish- states the main facts concerning the effects of the remedies I was she “ ing her two months medicines when there, and in the following extract: Before taking your medicines looked almost the picture of health. She gained in the blood freely from the now I do not. I suf- I spit throat; forty pounds in — two months the incredible number of flesh, fered with cold hands and feet; now I do not but little. and her flesh looked good.” (Her weight at the begin- skin was dry not now I perspire freely.— My and did act; “ direct- ning of the treatment was ninety pounds.) They all, I have tried, sir, to take the medicine according to father, mother and Miss , wished me to say, love to Dr. ions given, and, beside the money paid you, I feel very Foote.” thankful to you, and feel that I have received more than an Consumption, etc. equivalent therefor.” A lady living in Ontario, Canada, who had tuberculosi' Incipient Consumption, etc. of the left lung, very bad catarrh, dyspepsia and attacks living in Knox County, Me., having cough, A young man of unconsciousness resulting from defective circulation, of voice in the chest, hoarseness and weakness “ soreness writes : It is with great pleasure I have to announce to consumption together and other symptoms of incipient to health. The last course of medicine and sleep, you my recovery with catarrh, dyspepsia, seminal weakness poor for I very much stouter “ as I think entirely cured me, am for only two months wrote I am after taking treatment : I ever was. I have not had any cold I and stronger than better health than I have been for two years. have the in settle on my lungs since I have been taking last medi- gained in flesh so that I weigh about 144 pounds now.”— for ; in I always sorry when it is gone it does time I cine fact am weight I35-) "I am in h°P es that by the from (Previous me so much good. That lady who wrote you Chat- the next lot of medicine I shall have gained have taken up ham is dead. I told her at the time she wrote that if she usual weight.” After this patient had taken two up to my would take a course of treatment from you and follow your treatment he is checked off on the case- months further sure could cure her, for I did not think that he is as directions I felt you book as cured, and he is quoted as saying I am she was any worse than I was when I saw you, and well as ever in his life.” I not sure if it had not been for your treatment should Consumption. have been living now.” The case alluded to by this pa- Alady living in Duval County, Fla., whose father had been tient did not come under treatment, nor did Dr. Foote in raised from a bed ofpulmonary disease to which he had been answer to the letter of consultation give any encourage- been indica- confined for many months after he had given up by ment in this case for the reason that the symptoms medi- trouble. several physicians, through the efficacy of Dr. Foote’s ted the approach of a severe acute attack of lung became interested in the case of a lady so cines, and who Consumption. writes: “ I tell her I believe if any one can help affected, in Worcester Co, Mass., writesrespect- can. At the same A gentleman living her can ; still am not sure any one course of you ing his wife at the conclusion of a three months’ can think back and remember how much more feeble time follows: “After the lapse of two months I and he was with treatment as my dear father was and you raised him up have written before but know have good news to write. Should us many years after we thought he must die. You not necessary seemed tobe doing so well I thought it is in skill and I do hope that you can she my faith strong your * * * There has been no ap- to trouble you sooner. poor, sick lady who seems to be almost alone in cure this of or looseness but as near right as now her health has pearance indigestion the world, no one to depend upon, and doctor, she feels exceedingly can be, and I assure you, been taken away. I have told her of your conscientious- she hen she com- after suffering for years as has. W ness.” grateful STOMACH BOWELS. 17 DISEASES OF THE LIVER, AND

using good brandy and tonics as the menced treatment she could not stand alone or turn treatment. I 7vas your doors but * * * doctors it, but was unable to go out of ; herself in bed. She goes to bed about seven term after medicines I set them all aside and have o’clock and gets up about six in the morning ; rests well ; getting your and been gaining e\er appetite since the weather has become cooler is better, taken none but yours since, have thirty rods the first week I used your takes milk freely witli her meals ; her food sets well. We since. I walked * * The think you have almost have followed your prescription as closely as possible—has medicines. neighbors * * The no one I could get well. I r.m had no trouble in taking any of your treatment. raised the dead, as thought well —have gained in some thirty case is attracting some attention and surprise among our teeling pretty weight using Our acquaintances. No one thought it possible for her to be pounds since I commenced your medicines. truly I was before using your medicines, any better, and think her present improvement won- doctors say getting well my neighbors.” This proved derful as indeed it is.” but I know better, and so do to be a radical cure, and Di. Foote has received manycon- Spasmodic Asthma, Predisposition to Cough, sultations from those who have been recommended to him and Worms. Throat Affection by this gentleman. A mother living in Henrico County, Va., writes concern- Incipient Consumption, etc. ing her child at the end of a six months’ course of treat- A lady in Fayette County, Iowa, who w-as affected with a ment : “ All this time my little girl has been getting along cough, heavy pains in the lungs, sore and dry finely. I do not think she could look any more healthy constant throat, catarrh, pains in and palpitation of the heart) pain than she does; just as fat and rosy as she could be, and her between shoulders and in sides, leucorrhcea and bearing under God I thank you for it all. Every one that sees down feeling in the region of the womb, &c., writes at the cannot help speaking of her improvement, and she gains : “I I do conclusion of four months’ treatment as follows can j ust as fast as she can. I do not regret but rejoice report favorably. It seems almost incredible to think how that your book was put into my hands when it was.” I have gained within the last two months. I have gained Laryngismus Stridulus, etc. in flesh and strength and feel so well I am good for a three I have ©r A gentleman living in New Haven County, Conn., was or four miles walk about any day. not coughed afflicted with what he called-cramps in his throat at times raised anything for sometime. I have been gaining ever this and too.” so that he could not speak. In addition to difficulty since I took the last medicine since it was gone neuralgia in the teeth and face, he was subject to headache, ' weak eyes, dyspepsia, piles, painful micturation and semi- was a Bowels, nal emissions, both nocturnal and diurnal. This Diseases of the Liver, Stomach and complicated case and six months treatment was lecom- The causes of these derangements have been so taking a month’s treatment mended. Some months after portrayed in the pages of Plain Home “ faithfully : I thought to call upon you at no distant day he writes as to draw , embracing Medical Common Sense, and satisfy you personally that I am as well and hearty as Talk medi- of appreciation from invalids I ever was in my life, and feel no further need of the forth many letters Foote cine you prescribed for me and which played so important suffering with them. They have .given Dr. 1 hanking a part in my complete restoration to health. credit for a clear comprehension of the character in I am,” &c. you for your kind interest me, of such ills, and the testimonials herein given will Pulmonary Consumption. show what success the Doctor has met with in treatment of One of Dr. Foote’s earliest triumphs in the treating them. Besides looking over what follow's in Worces- lung diseases occurred nearly twenty years ago the reader is referred to the testimony of a physi- Mass. The wife and mother had been prostra- ter County, cian which is introduced at the beginning of the ted for many months with what the local physicians regarded All that quotations from patient’s letters : as an incurable case of pulmonary consumption. suffering was being done was to give sedatives to relieve , Dyspepsia. as utterly nothing to restore. The case was regarded A gentleman in Oswego County, N. Y., writes: “\our the treatment of hopeless. When Dr. Foote commenced letter of yesterday is received, and in reply I am pleased names for this since t ’lis case he was called many hard giving to inform you that I have enjoj'ed perfect health evei is told in a lettei invalid any encouragement, but the result I was under your treatment.” “ subsequently written byher husband, as folloVs : I would what Hemorrhoids, etc. just say that we feel greatly indebted to you for )ou living in York County, N. Y., in the course done for us in raising my wife, as it would seem, A lady New have “ when about a letter to Dr. Foote remarks : Nine years ago I almost from the grave. She is able to do her work of recovery you cured me, for which I was any help.” Some months after this when was considered past house wifhout speak this lady, who had grateful. To this day my friends and relatives Dr. Foote was on a visit to Worcester very * him a warm wonderful cure.” been so near death, was one of the first to give of the welcome in person at the hotel. Many years have passed Intestinal Catarrh, etc. but this lady is still supposed to be living. A gentleman in San Joaquin County, Cal., affected with duiation Lung. intestinal catarrh and dyspepsia of seveial yeais Tuberculosis and Abscess in Left : “ commenced taking your medicines as soon as a case of this kind in writes I Many years ago Dr. Foote treated improi result of according to directions, and began to c Isle County, Vt„ by letter and express, the Grand from the start. At the end of one month I v,-as feeling so in a letter written by the patient which treatment is given I there was no “ better taking it, thought treatment : I thought perhaps much I stopped at the conclusion of the necessary.” under jour use in taking medicine unless you might want to know how I am improving 18 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

Itching Piles. risk him in your hands than in those of all the doctors in diagnosed this as one A patient in Hanover County, Va., writes: “I am en- Houston County.” Dr. Foote case neuralgia boy was placed under tirely free from the itching which I described to you. of of the stomach. The treatment and in a letter subsequently written the mother Indigestion. said : “ Our son has not had any more of those bad attacks after some six months A gentleman in Vigo County, Ind., of neuralgia. He is not as healthy as formerly, but I be- “ My organs are doing very treatment writes : digestive lieve your medicines, with the blessing of God, saved his for kindness to me.” well and I am very much obliged your life.” Since the conclusion of the treatment we have Pharyngitis, Dyspepsia and Seminal Weakness. learned that the boy was entirely cured of his difficulties.

“ A gentleman in Providence County, R. I., writes: My Piles and Constipation. I am eight pounds heavier general health is quite good. A lady writing from Chittenden County, Vermont, says :

with This patient subse- “ than when I commenced you.” Now about myself. The piles still continue to improve, his for quemtly called in person to express gratitude In fact I almost forget I had them. No bleeding, no pain, his cure. —isn’t it wonderful? The No. 2 pills act like a charm Dyspepsia. and moved the bowels once a day with the exception of Doctor Rockland County, N. A former patient of the in three or four days when they moved twice ; but I take of long standing, Y., who had been treated for dyspepsia them regular. Oh dear, I do feel so thankful for that also.” writes among other things : “ In regard to my health—I have been well, i. e., have not suffered from dyspepsia for Dyspepsia, etc. the last eight months.” A gentleman living in Kent County, Canada West, after treatment for dyspepsia, spermatorrhoea, impo- Piles. having had other complications which greatly pros- A in Franklin County, Vt., in speaking of tency and several person living “ trated both his mental and physical energies, wrote : My a friend under Dr. Foote’s treatment says: “From the case has been attended to with the greatest care, and the piles she is nearly or quite recovered. For this much we remedies have always been received in good time and order. are doubly grateful she was such a sufferer therefrom. I I too that I found them wonderfully adapted to think in that complaint your medicines do wonders.” may say my case and well qualified to perform all that is said of Case of Ulceration and Hemorrhage of the Bowels. them.” in County, Wis., — A gentleman living Jefferson writes: An Old and obstinate case of Dyspepsia. “My neighbor’s son whom you sent medicine to lately is A lady living in Washington County, N. Y., who had In recent letter he — improving rapidly.” a more says : been for many years troubled with obstinate dyspepsia for son name like “Since you are helping Mr. J.’s your goes which she had been treated at the hands of many man could not live. wildfire. Physicians all said this young different physicians, after going through with a course have raised the dead.” “ But, doctor, they think you almost under Dr. Foote wrote : Relative to my health, I would Dyspepsia. gratefully acknowledge that it is better than for years pre- I A lady in Fulton County, Ga., having dyspepsia of long vious to placing myself under your treatment. have no standing together with many complications writes : “ I now recurrence of the distressing dyspeptic symptoms I formerly health is far take this time to write you these few lines to inform you experienced, and my general so restored that cheering expectations of that after so long a time trying to get well, that I can say, I feel hopeful of realizing your thanks be to the good Lord and you, that I feel to be a well my becoming a fleshy old lady.” woman once more. It has been fifteen years since I could Dyspepsia. say this.” A gentleman living in Fairfield County, Conn., presented Constipation, Dyspepsia, etc. about as serious a case of dyspepsia as usually comes to At the end of only two months’ treatment a young man the attention of a physician. He was terribly affected in Hampden County, Mass., writes: “I have a passage with sourness, together with pain and belching of wind. — once a day. I sleep better nights. After beginning to Sweets made him very dull and heavy, caused the skin to take the remedies I had nocturnal emissions two or three break out and itch, the teeth to look black and the breath times a week, but towards the end they gradually ceased.— to be offensive, the gums to bleed and the hair to fall out, The pains which I complained of having in my chest are while acids caused his mind to become confused and the gone.” skin to break out with rash in less than twenty-four hours. Dyspepsia. Ice-cream would make him look black in the face and A gentleman living in Dutchess County, N. Y., writes : greatly aggravate the stomach troubles. He had tried “ I am happy to say that your medicines have entirely cured everything and he believed his case was hopeless. Said he he in my son, and that to-day is as healthy as he ever was had always been so. Was advised to have treatment for successful his life. I am duly grateful to you for your six or eight months and if it should prove necessary for a treatment of my son, for I really believe that youp medi- year’s time. After using three months’ treatment so cines saved him from an early grave. Hoping that success larly that it lasted a period of over a year he writes : “ I may ever reward you I remain.” am able toi report a decided improvement in my stomach, Severe Crampings in the Stomach nearly Causing digestion, etc. Also in my mind, with an ability to study Convulsions. and work mentally as well as a more happy frame of mind. A lady living in Houston County, Minn., who consulted During this time I have had much anxiety and mental work Dr. Foote respecting her son, wrote in return : “ I showed that I have stood remarkably well.” This patient is a stir- the letter that you wrote to the doctor that attended our ring business man who is traveling about quite extensively son through those spells, and told him I had sent for the and this fact will account for his irregularity in using his medicines. After reading the letter he said he would rather remedies. DISEASES OF THE LIVER, STOMACH AAD BOWELS. 19

Severe Cramps in tile Stomach. scribed by you T have nearly recovered and am not troubled A lady living in Greene County, Mo., prominently con- at all as I might say. I think yqur book alone is sufficient nected, wrote at the end of two months’ treatment :— to cure a person of most any disease if taken in a common “ Feeling confident that you have cured me I have great sense way.” confidence that you can help my daughter. I will now Chronic Diarrhcea. ” give you a description of her symptoms A gentleman living in Cass Co., Neb., who had been The above case was a peculiar one. The husband of the greatly troubled with chronic diarrhcea together with piles, lady came in person to see Dr. F. about her difficulties, which etc., after pursuing the treatment for some six months were pronounced to be cancer of the stomach. Everything wrote as follows: “ That your medicines undoubtedly result which had been tried had utterly failed. The of helped me and kept me alive last spring I verily believe.” Dr. Foote’s treatment was of course highly gratifying. This patient subsequently called, reported himself in good condition and placed his wife under treatment for nervous Dyspepsia, etc. difficulties. A gentleman living in San Francisco, Cal.,’who had Bilious Troubles. been badly affected with dyspepsia accompanied with pal- in Philadelphia County, af- pitation of the heart, rush of blood to the head and great A young man living Penn., coldness of the extremities, writes: “Yours of January fected with a torpid liver, constipation, frightful and disa- sleep, 30th received, and in reply would say, with many thanks to greeable dreams, troubled drowsiness most all the yellow, you for your interest and skill, you can mark my case time, and a tongue always coated writes after taking “ cured, as I am feeling better now than I have for years be- treatment only two months: I have enough of your mcdi. longer and that time I will fore. Wishing you much success in the future, and if you cine to last me two weeks by I am grateful you for your very come to Frisco that I may have the pleasure of seeing you, be perfectly well. very to me whole I I remain, yours, etc.” kind attention to through the time was under your charge and shall remember you as my greatest friend.” Falling of the Rectum, etc. Dyspepsia, A lady living in Bennington County, Vt., suffering from etc. A Lancaster falling of the rectum, troublesome constipation, indigestion gentleman living in County, Penn., greatly fre- and uterine affections, at the end of two months’ treat- troubled with dyspepsia, constipation, headache and a “ involuntary emissions, together with syphilitic im- ment wrote : I am greatly encouraged. Your remedies quent after getting through ten months’ treat- all seem to agree with me, and the local applications have purity in the blood, ment : “I reasonably well, thank Providence, been the greatest relief I ever experienced from any treat- writes am and the future looks bright. This much I can say.—I have ment. * * * * In fact, doctor, I never before enjoyed faith and all that have chronic taking medicine.” After pursuing treatment for some two in your treatment, persons “ diseases I would advise to consult you.” months longer the patient wrote : I have had no return of the of two months ago. No. symptoms I complained 7 Piles, etc. vaginal relieved and seems to have entirely cured the A case under treatment for piles and some other diffi- * * * trouble I was then suffering with. I have had culties writes from Rock Island County, 111., after using feel more com- “ no ulceration for the last two months and remedies for only one month : I applied the ointment than I ever expected to.— fortable in the uterine region No. 7 to the parts affected with the itching piles and * * * written you About a month ago I should have washed with the tar soap and do not feel them any more. things the tumors that No. 6 was doing great for me ; that I applied the ointment No. 7 to my back and it feels bet- less hard at the terminus of the rectum were and less sen- ter than it has before for three years.” This case makes a be much falling of sitive and that there did not seem to so mistake in ascribing all the benefits to the ointment here less.” At a still the rectum, and the contraction was much referred to. Internal as well as local treatment was fur- “ Have later date the same patient writes : been stronger nished him, resulting as he has written. and more comfortable than for twenty years.” Complicated Case. Constipation. A gentleman living in Elk County, Penn., under four in Morton Dak., who had A gentleman living County, months’ course of treatment, and who at this writing is constipation, in consequence “ been seriously afflicted with half through, informs the doctor as follows : I know I would sometimes go a week without a move- of which he have been benefited a great deal already. I feel much bet- both diurnal and noc- ment of the bowels, together with ter in every respect. My genital organs are possessed of feelings in the head, turnal emissions, dull, oppressed much more vigor and strength. L feel more buoyant and in the of roaring in the ears, weakness and pains region cheerful. My complexion is changing from a sallow hue at the end of three the kidneys and bladder, etc., wrote to a clear white and red, and I do not have any more melan- : “ I is improving fast ; at any months think my health choly or blue fits. The catarrhal affection or dropping in very much for your rate I feel much better. I thank you the mouth has also nearly ceased. Doctor, I cannot but feel that owe you a debt that I can- kindness to me and I say I thank God I fell into your hands, and under Him I not life.” At the end of six months treat- repay in my am now and ever will be deeply indebted to you, for I feel ment the writes that he is entirely well. patient that by your skillful treatment I will be raised from (at Dyspepsia. least) a very disagreeable condition.” What this patient indicates of complications. He was a A gentleman living in Hampden County, Mass., having writes some his the liver, dyspepsia, sick headaches, soreness, gnawing, burning, pain, empty feeling, sourness, victim to torpidity of sleep, ringing or roaring in the ears, sour- wind, trembling and sickness in the stomach, together with catarrh, variable wind in the stomach, weakness in the greatly impoverished blood, after having treatment five ness, and nausea and emissions. months writes: ‘ Since commencing your course as pre- back involuntary 20 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

Pharyngitis. • months more. My stomach does not trouble me any and I A gentleman living in •Philadelphia County, Penn., who think my eyes are some better this week. My appetite is was greatly affected with inflammation of the pharynx, after, good and I think I have gained in flesh but have not been having several months’ treatment writes : “ I never eat a weighed. If I can gain as much the next two months I meal but what I think how much I am indebted to you for shall certainly think I am to be cured after all of these the enjoyment of the same.” (This comes more appropri- years of suffering; but for this much I feel very thankful ately under the head of Diseases of the Liver, Stomach both to you and to Him who orders all things for our good.” and Bowels than any other heading, as it appertains to a The prognosis in this case was six or eight and possibly portion of the canal leading to the stomach.) twelve months. Besides the difficulties named there are several other very troublesome complications. Constipation of a Nursing Baby. In a case of a little child under one year of age in West- Constipation, etc. chester County, N. Y., affected with constipation, Dr. Foote A getleman living in Providence County, R. I., affected decided to relieve the little sufferer by medicating the with consrtipation, sour stomach and indigestion, writes : —

“ mother. She writes : “ I began taking the pills —the white I am feeling better every day. I don’t have much pain ones—yesterday, and rejoice to say they have been so far in my stomach. My bowels are regular every day and not beneficial. The little one had a thorough movement of constipated at all.” the bowels this morning without the least pain. She has Chronic Diarrhcea, etc. been as as she can be all With thanks for good day. many A patient in Jefferson County, Wis., greatly prostrated the kind and to lor for prompt attention my appeal help my with diarrhceal difficulties, bloody discharges, &c., writes : “ I very etc. , # baby remain sincerely,” I have no particular news to write you only I will say I think I am improving in health and strength. I can walk Indigestion, etc. all day now and not feel half as tired as used to A lady living in Hampden County, Mass., greatly troubled I in an hour or two.” with pains in the stomach, irregular bowels, bloating of Constipation. the bowels, dull, heavy headache, together with uterine de- A patient living in Clinton County, with rangements, after using remedies for five months writes:— Mo., troubled constipation and concomitant the end of a “ My stomach and bowels feel as good as new. But little symptoms, at two months’ course writes : “ My bowels are and soreness about the uterus, and I found so much relief in regular the evacuations have the same appearance as if I those troubles I feel like shouting, I am almost well. I was in perfect health every way.” am more than thankful to you for all I now enjoy. I often wish I could see you and tell you all about it.” In another

“ letter this patient says : I feel hungry all the time ; every- Diseases of Men. thing tastes splendid; sleep well. I know it is tlje result In a pamphlet of this character which is liable of using your remedies I now enjoy, better health than I have for eight years.” to be handed out indiscriminately to those who may want it, only a glimpse of what Dr.. Foote is ef- Dyspepsia, etc. fecting in cases properly coming under this head A gentleman in Clinton County, Penn., greatly troubled be All sorts of with wind, gnawing, burning, emptiness and goneness in can given. peculiar cases have the stomach, unpleasant taste in the mouth, excessive been placed under his care. Then in making the drowsiness during the day, together with an affection of quotations from letters much, for conventional pro- the kidneys and bladder, at the end of three months writes: priety, must be omitted which would be the very “ I am happy to state I am on the mend. My health is best evidence of success. The non-professional far better this Fall than it has been for two years. I do mind is not familiar with the technical terms which not want you to understand me that I am entirely well in the region of the kidneys, but much better than when I may be employed in describing symptoms, explain- consulted you. I have improved in weight at least fifteen ing the effects of remedies and reporting results.— pounds. I have a supply of medicines.” Hence the majority of Dr. Foote’s patients in this speciality write off-hand letters without any special Chronic Diarrhcea and Intestinal Catarrh. A lady about thirty years of age, living in Essex County, selection of terms, the main object of the writer Mass., who had been greatly affected with intestinal catarrh simply being to make himself understood. For and chronic diarrhoea, the stools having been as frequent this reason .in looking over testimonials to come as twenty times in twenty-four hours, being very painful under this head some of the very strongest are and debilitating, and whose local physicians upon examina- thrown aside as unsuited for publication. Espe- tion found strictures in the rectum, and who in addition cially is this true in cases of want of development had extremely painful menstruation, at the end of six months’ treatment writes : “ It is now time for us to send and in those of impotency. for another two months’ supply of medicines, and we feel When Dr. Foote issued his MedicalCommon Sense greatly encouraged from this last treatment for I have been in the Spring of 1858 he gave to the public the re- much better in almost every respect, the number of dis- sults of some very thorough investigations into the changed charges having greatly ; but as yet the nature of mysteries of sexual physiology. His philosophical them is the same. I have had spell by but one sick having disquisitions sexual subjects in this work elicited those bloody discharges this last ihonth and hope it will be on the last. Last month I pain with my menses. I aA extensive correspondence from those who had did not take No. 6, so I have enough of that to last two injured themselves through ignorance and from DISEASES OF MEN. 21

those who had inherited malformations or other pe- finally, it is easy to see how he might be misled in culiarities. In revising Medical Common Sense in making tip an opinion from such facts as may come 1862, profiting by wider experience in the treatment to his notice. It is natural for one having sperma- of abnormal sexual organs, still further space was torrhoea to go first to his own physician, the one given to the consideration of them. In 1870when he generally applies to when sick ; if this physician Plain Home Talk embracing MedicalCommon Sense fails the patient applies to some specialist. If he was given to the public Dr. F"oote gave his readers i falls into the hands of the right one he finds a way the results of a still more extended experience in j out of his troubles and Mr. F. never hears of him. this department of physiology, pathology and medi- i But if he falls into the hands of one, two or three cine. In a report given to one of the medical so- who for some reason do not succeed, if Mr. Fowler cieties of New York in the Fall of 1876 Dr. Foote is within consulting distance more than likely Mr. entered even yet more largely into explanations of F. will be interviewed. As this gentleman does the remote as well as the immediate causes, patho- not see the ones who have been cured by the doc- logical conditions a.id proper treatment of that tors and meets only those who have failed to get form of sexual disease commonly known as sperma- relief he quite naturally jumps to the conclusion no contro- torrhoea or seminal weakness. that cure is possible by medicine. To vert this supposition, entertained rather by theo- There is perhaps no disease of the genital organs rists than by practical men, that spermatorrhoea more prevalent than spermatorrhoea. Those suffer- cannot be cured by medical treatment, we shall ing with it often travel through the most discouraging devote more space to the quotations of letters of paths and by-ways without finding a reliable guide- those who are or have been under treatment than board to direct them to a place of cure. Unfortu' we otherwise would do. Dr. Foote thinks he can nately there are many unreliable guide-boards.— safely say he is successful in ninety-five per cent, Some ofthese are set up by unprincipled men who of all such cases. What better can be done by any would take advantage of the sufferings of a fellow- physician in the treatment of any other class of being simplyfor obtaining undeserved fees; but there complaints ? It will be found by reading all the are unprincipled men in all professions and avoca- testimonials that patients who have been treated tions. There are those who set up sign-boards for other diseases incidentally speak of their re- pointing to marriage as a cure for spermatorrhoea. covery from involuntary emissions. Most of the Such false guides are usually honest but they do not cases from which the following extracts are quoted know that conditions exist in such cases which are are from those who have other complications in ad- hidden rather than relieved by marriage. They do dition to spermatorrhoea. It is quite natural that not know that in a majority of such cases there is there should be other complications if the case has a morbid activity of the organs in consequence of been of long standing, for the disease so impairs which too much of the vital fluids are being secre- the general health that other organs become in- ted and that this excessive secretion goes on volved unless the victim to the disease possesses a in marriage or out of and that sooner whether it, constitution of wonderful recuperative capacity.— or later the sexual organs break down, if indeed We will however bring our introductoryremarks to the whole does not, by this morbid activity. system an end and invite the reader’s attention to the fol- sufferer perhaps is almost engulfed Then when the lowing quotations from letters. The genuineness in the marshes and his pathway is more than ever of the extracts it will be remembered is sworn to obscured he is dismayed by being assured by some- by Dr. Foote on the first page of the cover. body that no physician can pilot him out of the slough of despond into which he has fallen. As Cures of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness. entertaining a writer as Mr. O. S. Fowler has been A yoirng man living in Alleghany County, Penn., who some of Foote’s correspondents as by Dr. “ quoted had been afflicted with seminal weakness writes : I am cure saying that medicines never spermatorrhoea. happy to tell you that I am entirely cured. I did not take If Mr. F. will read the appended testimonials he all of the fifth months’ medicine. I found I had no need will find that he is mistaken. It is easy for Mr. F. for it. Hoping you will go on and prosper in your good to be honestly mistaken in a matter of this kind.— work, I remain ever yours.” In the first place he is and always has been a man of very strong water cure proclivities and greatly A young man in Lewis County, Montana, under treatment opposed to medicine. Secondly he has never been for spermatorrhoea, after completing a six months’ course of remedies writes ; “ I have now finished the entirecourse a practicing physician and consequently has no j of medicine which you furnished me, and I can say that I done practical knowledge of what can be in the ! am certainly very much better. In fact I have little doubt treatment of spermatorrhoea with medicines. And, j but that I am entirely cured.” 22 EVIDENCES OE DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

gentleman in A living Grafton County, N. Ii., at the end A young man living in Dubuque County, Iowa, who had of a four months’ course of treatment “ re- writes: Yours been under treatment for spermatorrhoea, at the end of four • • • ceived. I think I have rid of the emissions. “ got months’ treatment writes : I am now all right and don't Hope you will feel warranted in recommending no further think I will need another course.’' medical treatment as I can ill-afford the expense.” A young man living in Piscataquis County, Me., at the Warren County, “ A gentleman living in Penn., who was end of four months writes : My nightly emissions have subject to involuntary emissions once a week and to the entirely ceased, and I do not anticipate any further trouble, loss of virile after three months’ treatment power, taking from them. In fact I feel about well.” This patient had writes : “I think I can say that your treatment has been emissions once or twice a week. effectual, and don’t see as I need any more medicine." A young man in Centre County, Penn., who had been A youth of seventeen in Philadelphia County, Penn., who troubled with spermatorrhoea or seminal weakness, at the had had seminal weakness with constipation, sleeplessness, l( end of four months wrote that he had improved beyond etc., wrote at the end of one month that the “ color was his fondest expectations,” and at the end of six months coming into the cheek,” and that he had “been to the “ says ; I suppose you would like to know how I am “ get- water-closet regularly,” while he was sleeping a great deal ting along. I feel quite restored to health so that I do not better.” He ordered a second month’s supply and writes : think it necessary to renew the treatment.” “ I wish you could see me now and then see me when I first took your medicine, I should say I was perfectly cured.” A young man in Hartford County, Conn., who had been subject once a week to involuntary emisions wrote at the A young man living in Erie County, Penn., who was end of four months’ treatment : “I have enjoyed good badly afflicted with seminal weakness, having both noctur- health and think the medicine has done me much good.— nal and diurnal losses and a variety of troubles with the I have not been troubled with bad dreams since I took your eyes, breathing passages, the stomach, the urinary organs medicine.” We have since heard that this gentleman has and indeed nearly every part of the system, after a four married and is raising a healthy family. months’ treatment, communicates the particulars in regard to his progress and concludes by saying : ‘‘I will close with A young man in Luzerne County, Penn., who pursued and I best wishes for your future welfare, trusting that may treatment some six or seven months for the cure of sperma- some day see the man who has wrought such changes in my torrhoea wrote: “ I will state that your remedies gave entire life.” satisfaction, as I think I have received lasting benefit from their use. I heartily thank you for the aid received from A young man in Chatham County, Ga., wrote after taking you in regaining my health.” A letter received from this the medicines for one month: “I assure you it is with patient some months later said that he was married and pleasure I write these few lines in acknowledgement of your happy. efficient professional services rendered me. It is a month since I began to take the wonderful medicines you sent me A gentleman in Baltimore County, Md., under treatment

I “ and find myself materially benefited by them. During for spermatorrhoea writes : I have taken all the medicine this short period I have had but four emissions, whereas according to your directions and believe myself cured, at would oc- before, duidng the same period, at least fifteen least I have no more of those disagreeable symptoms of * * cur. My powers have somewhat returned. • On which I spoke, but on the contrary my health, strength, I improved in in the whole have greatly appearance, and spirits and appetite are good ; the dark rings under the eyes At the oi flesh have gained about six pounds.” conclusion have also entirely disappeared. For which accept my two months’ treatment his case was reported as cured. — heartfelt gratitude.” Six or eight months’ treatment was originally recommended. A patient in Alleghany County, Penn., who had been A gentleman living in Northampton County, Tenn., having involuntary nocturnal emissions once a week for after taking only a month’s treatment writes as follows : — thirteen years, together with the usual concomitants of such “ I write to you with much pleasure. I cannot find words a difficulty, at the end of three months’ treatment wrote to express my gratitude for finding one who did me so much “ I feel that it is not only a duty but an extreme pleasure good as you have. I commenced taking your medicine as to inform you of my general improvement. I have gained soon as I got it, and after the first teaspoonful was taken I sixteen pounds, and this compared with my increased knew not what a nocturnal emission was. I need no more strength is a mere nothing. The nervousness which preyed of your medicine. I am perfectly well and hearty.” This so heavily upon me, mentally and physically, has been en- patient had involuntary emissions once a week and when tirely outrooted. My mind is becoming strong and govern- he speaks of not knowing what it was to have one after a'ble ; were I not disinclined to waste your time I should taking the first teaspoonful of medicine it should not be write you at length in regard to my almost incredible implied that he stopped there. What he meant was that change of the whole man. I have medicine to last for after commencing the remedies he had no more emissions. about one month, and if at the expiration of that time I should not feel a decisive sense of having been entirely A patient in Hampden County, Mass., who had treatment cured I shall remit to you an order as before. Hoping for spermatorrhoea writes: “ Dr. I have been at sea for six that you may enjoy that happiness of which you are so months and have not had a chance to write to you and richly worthy, I remain,” etc. On reference to the case- thank you for what your skill did for me. I itsed two book we find under a later date the case marked as cured. courses of medicine for seminal weakness and it cured me There is doubtless a letter on file somewhere irom which like magic.” this information was derived. CURES OF SPERMATORRHCEA OR SEMINAL WEAKNESS. 23

for him his A young man living in Midland County, Michigan, who you treatment, which has helped ; improvement a visible in his and is satis- was troubled with involuntary nocturnal emissions twice is outer appearance, he very well week, after taking the medicine only two months wrote : fied. Your care bestowed upon me produced the health of

“ it. allow I am gaining finely. I have had an emission only once a new man now thanking you for In conclusion I since I commenced treatment.” The last heard from this myself to ask for your picture, in order to be able at least . man who has health.” case he thought he was getting well although he was to look upon the restored my unable from pecuniary embarrassment to continue the A living in Piscataquis County, Me., who had treatment. gentleman been subject to involuntary emissions once or twice a week writes : “I have had no loss of semen at night for over Kings County, N. \., who had A young man living in three months.” b«en troubled with involuntary losses once in ten days and various difficulties resulting therefrom, one year after hav- A gentleman in Grafton County, N. H., affected with

“ : The of ing taken two months’ treatment wrote reports seminal weakness, weakness of the lower part of the back, your success and practice are received and read with great watery eyes, twitching of the eyes, predisposition to pleasure because I have had a little experience and can “blues,” etc., after having treatment for some four months testify to your ability which cannot be surpassed. The writes: “ I think I am all right and thoroughly restored.— medicines which you gave me last strengthened and invigo- Please destroy my letters if you please and oblige, yours I rated me and I recovered almost entirely long before was truly,” &c. married, and I have reason to long remember Dr. Foote, as it was through your instrumentality that I ever recovered. A lad living m New York County, N. Y., who had in- Out of sympathy for others thus afflicted I trust they will jured himself by bad habits and who was suffering from speedily try your harmless yet desirable medicine. Hoping involuntary emissions, palpitation of the heart, dizzy sen- that your important practice will continue to be a success sations, weakness of body, poor appetite, &c., after taking

“ and that it will reach the eyes of many sufferers, I remain treatment for only two months writes : I am getting along yours,” etc. splendidly. I never enjoyed such health before as I do now.” living in St. Lawrence County A professional gentleman t 4 N. Y., who had been having emissions every third or fourth A gentleman in Hartford County, Conn., after taking night and sometimes diurnal losses, writes at the end of treatment for one month writes: “ Inclosed please find only two months’ treatment: “I would cheerfully state check for which please send me medicine for the next that my condition is all that could be expected, and I may month. I find I gain strength every day. Have not had almost say desired. The emissions arc now very infrequent, any emissions. Not troubled with pains in any part of and that sense of lassitude, indisposition to do anything the body.” and general shiftlessness, (to draw it mildly) that had set- tled upon me like an incubus, has ‘ silently stolen away. A young man living in Plymouth County, Mass., who bad Soundness of body, clearness of intellect and a spirit of been affected with nocturnal seminal emissions once a week * good will toward men ’ have supplanted the former wretch- or oftener, and having symptoms threatening impotency,

“ edness. Perhaps I am enthusiastic, but I have a good right after taking only two months’ treatment writes : I am to be. Because why ? Iam cured, and, to all suffering as very much better than when I began to take the medicine, I suffered, I can fully and earnestly recommend your in- indeed so much better that I do not think I shall want an- valuable medicine. Believe me to be your life-long debtor.” other course when this is gone, of which there is half of This, bear in mind, comes at the end of only two months each bottle left now. I thank you most sincerely for the recommended, when a six months’ treatment was originally kind interest you have taken in my behalf.”

who had A gentleman living in Tooele County, Utah, after having A ytmng German living in Bremen, Germany, eight months’ treatment for involuntary seminal'emissions, been to nocturnal, involuntary emissions every subject “ complicated with pharyngitis and dyspepsia, writes : After second or third night complicated with neuralgic pains I commenced this course there was very soon a marked and dizziness in the head, pains and twitchings in the eyes change for the better ; it seemed to help me, greatly and ringing in the ears, writes a very grateful letter which, strengthen and invigorate the organs, and in fact my whole translated into the English, reads as follows : Dr. Foote ! system. For the past two weeks the improvement has been Gladly I take up the pen to comply with the duty which I rapid. There is no loss of semen that I can discover. I owe to you as a patient. Thanks to your wise advice and think I am getting along as well as could be expected-” right treatment. I direct as a Man this lettei to you to bear wit- thank you for what you have done for me, and to vain. A young man in Luzerne Canton, Switzerland, Europe, ness that your care and work have not been in You who had involuntary emissions once or twice a week, after have with the help of God saved me from certain destruction. taking treatment for only one month writes: “Yours of I now feel the strength to bear the pleasures and troubles, August 2d at hand, and perceive to my surprise that, as it the cares and molestations oflife with a joyful and courage- seems, you did not receive my answer to your favor of July ous spirit. Since last Spring I have been married. A and last year. I therefore reply again to your inquiry as to my fortnight ago to-day my wife presented me a strong health, viz.: I am pretty well; emissions at night have healthy boy, a living proof of a certain cure of my sick- Maj ceased entirely, and my complexion is healthier and fresher* ness by your wise advice and unfailing medicine. Tendering warmest thanks for your radical cure, I for it is a staff to humanity you my God save your life long y'ears from long I am very respectfully,” &c. (Foregoing translated the „ and a word to its welfare. Dear Doctor : Not ago to Swiss language.) met my frend Mr. , who, after my advice, applied . 24 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

living in Hartford County, A lad in Westchester County, N. Y., affected with semi- A very grateful patient Conn., “ The has nal weakness, after taking treatment for some two months under treatment for spermatorrhoea writes : time come for me to of the effect of your writes: •“ I have had no nocturnals since the first night I j speak medicines.—> They May passed took your medicine.” were received 24th. One week had not ere I felt the change. Now, even after years of suffering A gentleman in Luzerne County, Penn., under treatment and bitterness of soul, in two months I begin to feel as the for spermatorrhoea writes : “ I am doing finely and am very wear)' traveler does when he nears the end of his journey in grateful for your treatment ; feel better than I ever did —new hope, new energy —thank God—and more manhood. my life." I could mention specific improvements but will reserve these for a future communication. I will mention that first A gentleman living in Aspinwall, U. S. C., who had been I noticed that all your medicines are nourishing in the *

greatly troubled with spermatorrhoea complicated with con- highest degree, They give strength and life, and even after “ of stipation, etc., writes : I have just finished your course a two months’ course they make a man feel like a new medicine, and must say that I have not felt so well for five creature. I used to be conscious of a feeling of weakness years back —in fact I am a new man.” in what I suppose to be the seminal vesicles, something in- side, back of and slightly beneath the penis, but that seems A gentleman living in Hampden County, Mass., who to be all gone, at least felt very seldom. Now as to seminal had been troubled with spermatorrhoea writes : “ I should emissions these come very seldom, then only after great have written to you before had I concluded to take another mental exertion or nervousness caused by excessive fatigue. course of your treatment. I feel exceedingly benefited if I watch everything that I think may produce them and not entirely cured already.” avoid that thing whatever it may be. When I retire atnight now I can do so without dreadful anticipations and awake I that A young man living in Sheboygan County, Wis., at the without bitter realizations. notice my skin has a end of three months’ treatment writes : “ I am getting along clearer, healthier aspect. I am improving in every way. — And I my sake and the sake of thousands of pretty well. Have no more discharges at night that I pray God for live years years This may seem know of, and only once in a while that I have a lascivious others you may upon yet. but man a dream, which I used to have every night.” selfishness on my part, when a has found Pre- server of this frail human life who would part from his bene- factor? Now my benefactor and friend know that you living in Isle County, \ t., — A gentleman Grand writes: have my gratitude and not confidence merely, not trust “ My countenance is The medicine has done me good. only, but dependence upon you.” better. Nocturnal emission is suspended or stopped—my I eyes do not seem so sunken as before, &c. I must Bay I A young man living in Baltimore County, Md., who had am thankful for this medicine ; it has helped me so far and 1 once a week or oftener mav help me much more. I am thankful for the benefit ; been subject to involuntary emissions wrote when near the received and admire the care and regard for patients.” together with constipation, piles, etc., j close of six months’ medication : “ I have been under your long enough to find out that your medicines do A gentleman residing in Columbia County, N. Y., who treatment which they to do. Absolute cure, with had treatment in 1S74 for seminal weakness, palpitation of everything profess certainty. It a I — is now is only question of time. the heart, etc., wrote while under treatment as follows : me, a and “ day friends have remarked Your remedies have had the desired effect. There are am improved every my my change in Lascivious dreams are few and far no involuntary emissions now. Premature discharges have appearance. between. The falling rectum seldom falls at also ceased.” At the close of the year 1874, having occa- very stool, all the of disease are gradully sion to write the Doctor about a little matterhe stated that and in short symptoms my their leave. I am thankful that I fell into his genital organs were stronger than they had been in taking really hands before to any one else. am known thirty years. your going I among my friends and relatives here as a Foote-ite because A young man living in Hartford County, Conn., who had I have told them if I was seriously ill I would apply to Dr. been afflicted with seminal weakness and lameness in the E. B. Foote, of New York city, and not to any of the old “ back, writes some three years after having taken a six fogy practitioners here.” He subsequently writes : Con- months’ course of remedies as follows : “ I can say with a tinued taking the medicines until they were all gone, and thankful heart that I am very much better ; in fact I can then, as so many of the symptoms of my complaint had call myself sound as need be. And I think it was your disappeared did not think it necessary to take another treatment that helped me. I have been married for two course, although perhaps I should have done so to entirely years and have one of the finest boys that I know of. Pie eradicate disease from my system. I feel better generally is fat and healthy,” in body and mind than before. My bowels are generally in better condition.” A gentleman living in Logan County, 111., placed him- self under Dr. Foote’s care in 1869. He had involuntary A young man living in Clear Creek County, Colorado, emissions once a week and oftener, sometimes five in three who called at Dr. Foote’s office and ordered treatment in nights, besides which he had complications involving the person for the cure of a bad case of spermatorrhoea—the lungs, kidneys, bladder, the vision, &c. Having occasion emissions occurring sometimes two nights in succession, to write the Doctor in 1877 in regard to a very different writes from Colorado: “ I am the California sick man you “ last Summer matter he opened his letter by saying : A few years since cured of a horrible disease a year ago.— I was an invalid and you cured me, for which I have ever You will recollect me by the gold specimens I gave you.’ been grateful.” j He then goes on to say he is going to send more, etc. CURES OF SPERMATORRHOEA OR SEMINAL WEAKNESS. 2 5

A young man living in Arapohoe County, Colorado, after to the foregoing Dr. Foote received a letter from him in having some six or eight months’ treatment for involuntary which he said he considered himself cured. It is very un- emissions writes : “ All tangible evidences of emissions usual for a case of this kind to be restored by treatment for have ceased for some time back. Feel well, eat well, sleep only thirty days. well. Thanks to your skill and Providence.” He then A in Hampden County, Mass., affected goes on to say that the organs appear m'/e firm and solid. young man living with seminal weakness, both nocturnal and diurnal, and A gentleman in Eaton County, Mi affected with with some urinary derangements together with catarrh and seminal weakness, chronic catarrh and constipation, after headache, at the conclusion of only two months’ treatment

“ taking treatment foronly two months writes : I am pleased writes : “ Since taking your remedies I find a marked im- to state that I have been greatly benefited thereby. My provement both mentally and physically. Am less liable rest is now unbroken by lascivious dreams and, in fact, to fatigue and feel as though I had more life and vigor than nearly all the ugly symptoms have vanished. I have gained formerly. My mental faculties seem to have received a in flesh, at which my friends are agreeably surprised.” corresponding benefit. I can study with a greater satisfac- tion and retain better what I do study. The effect of the

* A young man living in Cortland County, N. Y., who was medicine has been as you expected, gradual but sure. ' affected with involuntary losses once or twice a week and I cannot well express my thanks to you or gratitude to the with pain in the lower part of the back, etc., after taking Great Giver of blessings for what has been wrought in me

“ treatment for only one mopth writes : The seminal emis- physically through your instrumentality.” sions have ceased. Let me say that your medicines are of the first class. I never saw any p epared more nicely.” A gentleman living in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, who had been afflicted with nocturnal involuntary emis- A young man living in Hampden County, Mass., who sions two or three times a week, lameness across the lower had been having involuntary losses once a week was cured part of the back, darting pains in the heart, constipation by the use of only two months’ treatment during the Spring [ and a troublesome itching of the skin, presents in a letter of 1874. In the Fall of 1875 having occasion to write he j to Dr. Foote another case for his consideration, and speaks

“ said: I am enjoying first rate health ; but I keep about of his own cure as follows : “It appears my constitution so thin all the time. That isn’t a bad sign if you feel well, i has become of iron and stone—strong, healthy and as is it? And I feel splendid this Summer. You have my tenacious as a young hickory tree. Hardly ever do I retire consent to use my name if it will be of any use to you in before twelve, awake most always at four or a little after ; your Evidences.” The name was used in the Evidences for never feel tired, always full of power—my appetite is as six or eight weeks, but his father objecting the name was healthy, fresh, vigorous and sound as we would judge the removed. soundness of a bright silver dollar by its ringing. My lungs feel as if growing in volume, my chest as if growing A young man in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1874, outward, and my shoulders are, I think, growing in height, placed himself under treatment for seminal weakness, want extent and breadth. No more emissions, no more eruptions.” of power of concentration of mind and uneasy sensation This was a very patient, persevering and thorough patient about the kidneys, etc., all proceeding from spermatorrhoea, who pursued the treatment for one year, and all this faith had treatment for about eight months. The following quo- and all this thoroughness without having once seen the face tation from a letter will give the result: “I have long in- of his physician. tended to tell you how fully I realize the benefit of the remedies in my own case.. It has been nearly two years A gentleman in Cherokee County, Iowa, who had been since I discontinued treatment and my health has been all having nocturnal emissions twice a week, impaired virile I could desire ever since. My mind is clearer ; I have been : power, and a variety of complications growing out of nerv- able to study without difficulty or discouragement, and have ous derangements, at the end of nine months’ treatment been able to take an active part in the Presidential canvass writes : " I feel as though I am about as good as cured, and in our State. All of which is flattering when I consider words cannot express my gratitude to you. I would not be that three years ago I had given up all hope. But for you back where I was one year ago with the faint hope I then to-day I would be in my grave.” had of ever being any better for $ 1000. I had about made up my mind to terminate an existence so utterly repulsive I Seminal Weakness and other Complaints. to me, when thought as a last resort, and after being de- A young man living in St. Lawrence County, N. Y, who ceived by a quack in Philadelphia, I would try you. You had involuntary emissions every third or fourth night, also are at liberty to use this correspondence as an advertising at stool, together with varicocele, weakness and lameness | medium, but for mercy’s sake suppress my name and resi- in the lower part of the back, constipation, ringing in the dence.” ears, confusion of mind, loss of memory, sleeplessness, etc , wrote, after taking the treatment for only one month, as A gentleman living in Alleghany County, Md., who had

“ follows respecting the medicines : I find they do all you been affected with spermatorrhoea, varicocele and premature claim for them. The emissions have almost entirelyceased, discharges, in the course of a letter to Dr. Foote says:— occurring very rarely, not oftener than once in two or three “ You have been giving me your aid and skill as a physi- weeks, and in consequence my general state of health is cian and have done wonders for me. Since I have been much improved ; is, indeed, as good as ever, and unless I under your treatment I feel that I am a new man again.—. have a relapse think that I shall get along without further May the Good Master bless you and crown you with II is trouble. If at any time the emissiens shall recur I shall loving kindness, and if we never meet on earth I trust we know to whom to go.” Nearly or quite a year subsequent | shall meet in Heaven.” 26 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

A gentleman living in Ellsworth County, Kansas, when A young man living in Franklin County, Vt., who was near the close of a six months’ course of treatment wrote : very badly affected with both nocturnal and diurnal emis- “ I am greatly improved, my general health being better sions and, to some extent, with impotency, finds himself at than evei oefore in my life. The emissions I believe are the end of two months’ treatment unable for pecuniary wholly stopped and my erectile power greatly strengthened. reasons to continue, but writes as follows: “ I thank you The piles trouble me no more and the varicocele only for the attention you have paid in my case. I never re- slightly. • • ’ I wish I could see you and tell you how ceived so much attention from others treating my case, nor very grateful I am to you. * ’ ’ With sentiments of as much real benefit as from you ; and I hope before long gratitude I am very sincerely your debtor and friend."— to be able to renew the treatment and follow it up until Subsequent to the treatment in sending a subscription to perfectly cured.” the Health Monthly this patient writes of his entire resto- ration, and speaks of having married and become the happy iMroTENCY, ETC. —A gentleman in Davidson County, Tenn., writes : “ Your treatment acted like magic on me ; father of a bouncing baby. though, I am sorry to confess, I did not follow your pre- A gentleman in Morton County, Dakota, suffering from scriptions very strictly, forgetting, in the stress of business, spermatorrhoea, impotency, torpidity of the liver, dull head- the medicines.” aches and a predisposition to pulmonary disease, some Imtotency and Spermatorrhoea.—A gentle- months after having finished taking a six months’ course of Partial “

“ man in writes : treatment writes: In regard to my health I would say Tooele County, Utah, It is now nearly two months since I ceased medicines and am still that I feel like a new man. I do not know how I will ever taking your well. Think I shall not require any more remedies, but if repay you for your kindness to me. I am sure if it had I should will write to you for them.” not been for you I should now have been beneath the ground.” The patient here goes on to give the very satis- Partial Impotency.—A factory evidences of his recovery from his spermatorrhoea genleman living in Dutchess County, N. Y., who had been troubled with loss of power and impotency which will hardly bear quotation in the lan- “ and want of control, after taking treatment six months of the writer, and then proceeds : I am more than guage “ writes-. My erectile power is all right, my appetite is satisfied with my health, and, as I said before, I can never good and I feci very good in general." repay you.”

A gentleman living in Henderson County, Ky., who had Impotency, etc. —A gentleman in De Kalb County, Mo., several months’ treatment for involuntary nocturnal emis- who was affected with partial impotency, seminal weakness sions once a week, loss of virile power, smarting in passing and general debility, before the dose of two months’ treat- water, jerking of the limbs when going to sleep, etc., ment writes: “ I have not been taking your medicines but writes: “ My health has been better than ever before, for six weeks and I can see they have helped me, and am feel- which I feel under many obligations to you. I married ing a great deal better than when I commenced taking shortly after our correspondence ceased and have a pair of them ; have gained some ten pounds in flesh.” twins as the result, —both healthy, well-formed children. — Hoping that you may be as successful with all your pa- Partial Impotency.—A gentleman in Kane County, tients as you have been with me, I remain very respect- 111., while pursuing a four months’ treatment wrote:— fully,” &c. ‘‘Please accept my most heartfelt gratitude for the kind at- tention you have given my case. I will always Iaud«your under treat- A gentleman living in Norfolk County, Mass, praise. That you may live long and be happy is the most “It is ment for spermatorrhoea and impotency, writes: sincere wish of yours truly.” Subsequently he writes: “1 that take up my with a willing hand and happyheart I pen cannot help to express my thanks to you once more for the to write you a few lines to let you know how I am getting kind attention you have paid my case and the success it has along. Dr. I am prospering greatly under this last course attended.” of treatment which I commenced to use a few weeks since. etc.— A in I can say that I am much better if not entirely cured of Varicocele, gentleman living Ellsworth County, Kansas, after taking six months’ treatment for vari- that terrible malady with which I was afflicted. And to say cocele, spermatorrhoea and general weakness the I am thankful will not express my feelings, neither can I of sexual writes : “My general health is good and have find one word that will. Perhaps only those who have been organs no of genital weakness. afflicted with this disease or those who know the nature and symptoms The varicocele is one of the things of the with me. effects can realize the great change which comes over one past With a sentiment of grati- tude to which words cannot express, am sin- who has" been snatched from its terrible clutches. I thank you I very cerely God that I through his mercy and your skill have been re- yours.” stored to health and happiness. Dr. I will not intrude Weakness of the Organs.— A upon your time by writing a long letter, (which I would Sexual professional gentleman living in Hartford County, Conn., a like to do) but will let what I have said suffice. May you married man who not only had occasional emissions but long live to deal out medical mercy to those who have erred involuntary an aching of the organs and a want of perfect control from the path of Nature.” together with a variety of nervous, bilious and other difficulties pro- A young man living in Litchfield County, Conn., who ceeding from the sexual weakness, wrote after taking treat- was a victim to seminal weakness and impotency, at the ment for only two months as follows : “Your letter reached

“ end of six months’ treatment writes : I think I am nearly me duly and awakened a thrill of gratitude in my heart. — cured by your treatment. If ever troubled with it again Just a day or two previous to its reception I had said : “I shall consult you. I feel like a new man entirely.” must surely write Dr. Foote and give an account of myself. SEMINAL WEAKNESS AND OTHER COMPLAINTS. 27

I have gained since August 14th as much as ten or twelve SpermATORRHCEA.—A gentleman living m the District pounds and feel better than I have fornine years. This is of Columbia who had been troubled with frequent involun- a stern fact. I can work harder, walk faster, endure more, tary emissions, hollowness about the eyes, susceptibility to eat more, digest better, sleep better and think better. In mental excitement and confusion of the mind, at the end respect to seminal emissions I rarely have such now—only of five months’ treatment writes : “ I think all the disor- perhaps when I may have become very much exhausted.— ders existing in my case have been removed.” I think I can say not more than four or five times since I discontinued the two months’ course. That curious feeling Genital Weakness, etc. of weakness I had so long somewhere—I suppose in the A gentleman living in Winnebago County, 111., while seminal vesicles—has all passed away. In sensation I have under treatment writes : “The organs are growing larger hardly any more memory of the greatest error and injury and stronger than before.” of my life. I have improved every way. God be thanked. I am moving to the front and feel it is due toyour skill and interest, for when I came to see you I was well nigh dis- Genital Weakness, etc. couraged. May God bless you. I am gratefully yours.”— A young man living in La Salle County, 111., while pur-

“ Subsequently this patient says : “ On the whole I feel far suing a four months’ treatment writes: The dark circles better than I have for five or six years. I am strong, do seem to be disappearing from my eyes. The scrotum re- not tire so quickly, have a better appetite, am more cheer- tains its position much better than for years ; my appetite ful,—in a word, pushing to the front. A conscious feeling is good.” of weakness in the seminal vessels has never returned.— Whatever may be the future, true it is I have been benefit- Chronic Inflammation of Spermatic Cord, etc. ed by your medicines. Very grateful to you for the rest A gentleman living in Madison County, Ala., placed of life, I am,” etc. himself under Dr. Foote’s treatment for the cure of a diffi- culty affecting the left spermatic cord, which produced Spermatorrhcea and Wasting of the Sexual Or- great suffering by contraction and inflammation whenever gans.—A professional gentleman living in Peoria County, jl cold was taken. In addition to this acidity “ difficulty was 111., after taking treatment for eight months I writes: of the stomach, constipation, predisposition to rheumatism, have been steadily gaining during the last eight months.— etc. Ilis wife writing some months after the treatment, The has in size and a more healthful penis gained appear- “ speaking of the cure, says: We do not attribute Mr. ’s ance and feeling—particularly the left testicle which was uninterrupted health to his Northern tour, but solely to somewhat shrunken, is as large and firm as the right. The the virtues of your medicines.” thighs have increased in weight, and have gained eight pounds in flesh.” The same writer in speaking of Science in Story says: “ So entertaining and valuable a work ought Nocturnal and Diurnal Emissions. to be in every home in the land. I wish you a satisfying A gentleman living in Baltimore County, Md., writes :

“ reward for your labor in an immense sale of the work.”— I have taken the present opportunity to address you again A later letter minuted on the case-book says he is well and in better spirits and health than ever before. I have finished thinks he will never need any more medicine. the last course of yourmost valuable medicine, and I think I can say with perfect confidence that I feel cured of the Diurnal Emissions.—A gentleman in Baltimore Co., disease for which you treated me, and to God and you I owe “ : I losing Md., writes I have not noticed that was any my sincere thanks. Everything that you told me was, and the before semen during day as I very often did taking your came true to the letter. If you could only get hold of the medicines.” many wrecks among young men who are going to ruin,— no manhood.no energy orambition, everything that should Diurnal Emissions. —A gentleman in Wayne County, go to make them what our Creator intended should Ind., troubled with diurnal losses and want of control, they be, dwarfed and undermined if “ ; they all could only hear writes : I am through with my medicines and am certainly youi voice and take warning how much greater and better very much improved. Do not lose semen at sto*l and expel would our and the generations to come be. Oh ! if you prematurely,” etc. could only have spoken to me eight years ago it would have been Prostatorrhcea.—A gentleman in Essex County, Mass., worth a fortune to me. No power or wealth would have who had been cured of the above difficulty under Dr. Foote's induced me to sin against my God and my body if I had then I treatment subsequently wrote of some stomach derange- known what know now. But I should be very thankful that I am still alive considering I ments and received advice. In his next letter he wrote :— what have passed

“ through. Your treatment of my other complaint did me so much Sometimes when I think back it makes me shud- der with disgust and good that I shall always feel obliged to you. Thanking fear, shame. It will be something that I from you for your kindness and trouble, I am,” &c. can never erase my conscience, it is a stain and a scar that will be upon me until I moulder to dust. The Impotency, etc.—A gentleman in Hamilton County, sores upon my face which troubled me somuch have almost Ohio, affected with impotency which had proved complete entirely gone,but have left some red marks which I believe during his first seven months of married life, together with will also disappear after a while. The bleeding piles have urinary difficulties, etc., while taking a six months’ course also ceased. I have not had an emission since I began the “ of treatment writes: Dear Doctor —I am fully confirmed kst two months’ treatment,after passing semen both during in mind that I am getting to be thoroughly cured, and the day when at stool and at night for about eight years : words are insufficient to define the debt of gratitude I feel to think that they have utterly ceased is certainly wonderful for the almost miraculous good you have already done and I hope and trust that I will continue to keep in the for me.” condition you have brought me to.” 28 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

A gentleman living in Luzerne County, Penn., afflicted A middle-aged gentleman living in Henrico County, Van with partial impotency, pulmonary, liver and urinary de- affected with impotency, weakness of the sexual organs and writes “ health is “ rangements : My general very good,— varicocele, after taking five months’ treatment writes : I your treatment has made a new man of me.” have no discharges from the penis at this time at all that I can discover unless when after getting very much excited—- A gentleman in Marshall County, 111., affected with both feel like another man in those parts, as I have control of nocturnal and diurnal emissions, varicocele, weakness across them now, and at one time did not have any control at all the lower part of the back, neuralgic headaches, hoarse- of them. I remain gratefully,” etc. ness and weakness of the voice, etc., writes : “Your medi- and cine has done me a power of good, I feel better than I A gentleman in Jamaica, West Indies, affected with im- ever did before in my life.” potency, pain in the prostate gland, stricture of the ure- thra, continuous headache, etc., was advised to have treat- affected with A gentleman in Dubuque County, Iowa, ment for six months. At the end of two months’ treat- involuntary partial impotency and “ emissions, varicocele, ment he writes: I am pleased to say your treatment has treatment for four months writes : “ Since after taking I been successful and I believe if persevered in would be to take the medicine I have felt well all the have began beneficial, but cannot make it convenient to send for an- do to-day feel as strong as I have for two or three time and other supply of medicines just yet and hope I shall not years, although I have not been in a situation to develop require it.” my muscles.” A gentleman living in Baltimore County, Md., who had This patient had other complications besides spermator- been troubled with partial impotency, a feeling of great rhoea and partial impotency, all of which were gradually weakness in the sexual organs, complicated with varicocele, end removed together with the main difficulties, and at the after pursuing treatment for some seven months writes :— of several months’ treatment he writes us from his home in “ My last course of medicine is about taken up and I am Henderson County, Ky., as follows : “ I feel better and am so much improved that I think I shall not require another fleshier than I ever was in my life.” course. The main difficulties in my case are removed and my general health is better than it ever has been. • • • A gentleman living in Windham County, Conn., who had Your medicines have done me a world of good, and I am been a victim to seminal weakness and partial impotency glad to acknowledge it with many thanks.” together with various other complications arising from blood impurities and nervous derangements, some three years A young man living in Douglas County, Kansas, affected after finishing treatment, in a letter referring to other mat- with partial impotency, spermatorrhoea, catarrh, predispo- “ ters said: I have been all right since under your treat- sition to severe headaches, etc., near the close of a six ment.” months’ treatment writes : “ I have followed your directions closely and consequently am doing exceedingly well. Am A young man residing in Cass County, Texas, who was quite sure that by the time I am through with the medicine suffering from involuntary losses and impotency, after fol- I had I will be well. Am very thankful that God has re- “ lowing up treatment some eight or ten months wrote : I membered such terrible sinners as I have been in placing am now married and have a nice baby boy. I am much such men as you with us to help us out of the degradation good improved in health and thank you very much for your into which we have willingly thrown ourselves, that we may advice. Hoping that all your patients may be benefited try and help our countrymen do what is just and true. I and that you may find your reward, I am,” &c. thank you for your attention to me and shall always remem- 1 ber you as my friend and benefactor. I will leave you now Seminal Weakness and Impotency. and you will hear of me no more unless I need your as sistance on some future day, and if so will A gentleman in Orange County, N. Y., who was cured of certainly write you.” seminal weakness and partial impotency under Dr. Foote’s to treatment in wrote in the Spring of regarding a 1874 1876 In 1S70 a gentleman in Cumberland County, Penn., new difficulty which manifested itself, in language as fol- placed himself under Dr. Foote’s treatment for what was lows : “ My friends suggest a cheaper physician. In mer- considered a very obstinate case of impotency, as would chandise I always find the best to be the cheapest, and if readily be seen if all the circumstances of the case could the rule holds good here it certainly applies with greater be related in this place. He furthermore had a syphilitic force to doctors. I have faith, the utmost, in your skill and impurity with a predisposition to troubles with the lungs your knowledge of human nature generally, and would and pain and smarting in passing water. Having occasion trust life in hands than would with my your sooner I any “ to write the Doctor in 1876 he says : I am enjoying the physician I know.” Among our files we have another tes- very best of health and enjoying the married state very timonial from this party to the effect that his neuralgia, the well. And of you I shall ever have a very grateful remem- new difficulty, was pretty much gone. brance for what you have done for me and, what is more, the benefit I hope to have from becoming acquainted with Impotency.—This was the case of a middle-aged man your different publications and coming in possession of the living in New York County, N. Y., who had in addition to good advice they give, for I think every person should have impotency derangements of the liver with obstinate con- all your books in their hands. I don’t expect to ever need stipation. At the end of treatment for several months he the services of a physician but will ever hold you up fore- dropped a note to Dr. F. to say : “ I am enjoying as good most in the profession and stand ready and willing to re- health as I have in twenty years, if not better.” commend anything that may come from your office.’' DISEASES OF WOMEN. 29

Seminal Weakness, etc. I more of such cases than Dr. Foote. During all A young man living in Bedford County, Penn., at the this time he has disapproved of the appli- treatment “ conclusion ofonly one months’ writes: Inclosed cation of caustics to the womb or its surrounding find money order for which please send me some more of His method of treatment has been to give your medicine. It proves to be all right—works like a organs. charm.” constitutional remedies calculated to give tone to the uterine organs, while such remedies have been Diurnal Losses, etc. given for local application as enabled the patient A young man living in Berkshire County, Mass., who herself to attend to them. Applications had been troubled with diurnal seminal losses, after taking easily in- “ troduced for overcoming irritations, lour months’ treatment writes : I never can detect the inflammations, loss of semen when I urinate, which I could before inva- ulcerations and congestions; applications for riably.” strefigthening the muscles and membranes; appli- cations for overcoming ab?iormal secretions. But Losses with the Urine. A young man living in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, all these local applications which the patient is able who was losing the seminal secretions with the urine and to make withcomparatively little trouble to herself, who was affected with dull pains in the testes and a gen- are simply auxiliary to something more thorough eral weakness of the sexual organs, at the end of six which is administered by the mouth and stomach months’ treatment writes : “ I don’t know whether I am tp improve the condition of the blood and the cured sufficient or not. At any rate my health has im- nervous proved wonderfully. I can say this much, that your medi- and muscular systems. Perhaps Dr. Foote cine in my opinion has done me more good than any other might have been following in the same old ruts of I have taken. I will let you know how my health is in five the profession in the treatment of this class of dis- or six months.” orders had not his very large letter and express to means to Spermatorrhoea and Impotency. practice required him devise manage A gentleman living in Hancock County, Ind., after tak- such cases without the personal services of a phy-

“ ing treatment for three months writes : I feel very sician ; that is, without applications made locally grateful to you for the benefit your medicine has rendered by the attending physician. It is a trite saying me. I was made to think there was no cure, but I know that “ Necessity is the mother of invention.” This Dr. B. Foote can assist nature in healing the most ma- E. necessity was pressed home to Dr. F. almost a lignant forms of spermatorrhoea.” The patient then goes quarter of a century ago and by he on to state just wherein he has been benefited in a way year year which cannot very well be put in print, after which he con- gathered experience in managing this class of diffi- cludes by saying: “ You have my sincere regards, and I culties without the personal presence of the patient, cannot command language to thank you.” until he reached a stage of success which led him to adopt precisely the same means in the treatment Hydrocele. of those who came to his office. If there is any- A gentleman living in Queen’s County, L. I., of a scrofu- body who has better success in lous diathesis and locally affected with hydrocele, had a six these cases than he months’ treatment for improving the system preparatory to has he would be pleased to compare results with an operation, and then had the water drawn off on a per- any one who may make that claim. The best evi- sonal visit to Dr. Foote’s office. Six months after this dence, however, can be elicited from those who treatment, both medical and surgical, the patient writes :— have been his patients. The following are only “ am to inform you that I to'be all right. I pleased appear samples of quotations from testimonial letters which Should have called the last time I was in the city but hadn’t be the time.” might given more extendedly if space could be spared. Nearly all kinds of difficulties affecting Other Diseases these organs are represented. If any are omitted That might this head be found properly come under will perhaps they will be found under head of under the caption of Chronic Venereal Diseases. the Chronic Diseases of a General Character given in the closing portion of the testimonial department Diseases of Women. of this pamphlet. Nothing has done more perhaps to extend Dr. Foote’s practice in the treatment of the diseases of Womb Troubles, etc. women treats than the fact that he successfully these A gentleman living in Suffolk County, N. Y., whose wife troubles with scarcely ever making a local exami- had been for a long time afflicted with a great variety of nation or indeed any local applications himself.— diseases including enlarged and congested uterus, tumors This method is far more agreeable to the patient if of left ovary, etc;, wrote in regard to her case after she had finished some six months’ as “ She it can be equally successful. The results Dr. treatment, follows: of thinks your medicine has done her great good. I think practice show that it can be. For nearly Foote's ! myself your medicine was the means of restoring her to no one who lias not made an exclu- twenty years j health. I very much doubt whether she would ever have sive specialty cf women’s diseases can have treated ! been as well if it had not been for you.” Dr. Foote 30 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS. never saw this patient in person, but physicians who had When I was first sick I used to read Dr. Warren’s Family made examinations womb was stated at the outset that the Physician (a large book with little in it), and when I be- three times its natural size, that the tumors of the left came tired I would close the book and ponder over what I ovary had made that three times its natural size. Since had read and would always get just here,—I didn’t believe the treatment we understand that she finishing has given it; then I began your book and became interested, and birth to a promising little girl. when I found you studied to remove causes I thought that the most sensible thing I had ever heard from any physi- Sexual Apathy. cian, and the more I read and thought the more anxious I A married lady in Sacramento County, Cal., at the end was to consult you. I had the idea that I was in some way “ of two months’ treatment writes: I find myselfimproving, incurable, still I felt that you could do all for me that could but still I am not as I should be. I feel an excitement and be done, that is the way I have felt all along, and if I am and that I pleasure so new strange hardly know myself and not cured when through with your treatment I shall not try wonder if it is really I.” any one else.” In her next letter the patient says ; “ I feel that you have been the means of saving my life and I am Sexual Apathy. —A lady living in Kings County, N. very grateful. I only regret that I could not have known “ Y., I think of the first of “ writes: year my married life of you long ago.” Again: Last week was told that I was only as a troubled dream changed now to one of gladness looking quite well. I give Dr. Foote all the credit, and my and joy. My health seems perfect but should I ever now, aunt, who is visiting us, says you deserve a great deal of it. need help you would be the first one I should call upon.”— If your remedies are only as effective with me as they were The Doctor remembers this as a in “ case which the difficulty with Mrs. ,” etc. Later: One day last week I wajked so affected the mind of the patient questioned that she about a third of a mile, that being by far the greatest dis- whether she should remain in matrimony. tance I have walked at any one time in more than sixteen months. \ esterday I walked about the same distance.— Sexual Apathy. Oh how glad I am that your name ever came to mv notice.” A lady in Putnam County, Ohio, affected with sexual The last heard from this case there was one little lingering sick and apathy, headaches, dyspepsia a variety of compli- trouble not “ mentioned in the introduction and omitted pur- cations, writes : In obedience with your request I write posely as we don t know that it has been entirely cured. at the expiration of two months. Am doing well. Have been sailing along so nicely that I had no occasion to write sooner. Do not have any more sick headaches. I enjoy Ulceration of the Womb, etc. A married life better now than in all the past nine years.— lady in McDonough County, 111., presented her case Am not quite so much like a wooden woman. You have by letter to Dr. Foote for treatment. She had ulceration my thanks for what you have done for me.” of the womb, irregular menstruation, fainting and prostra- tion with each menstrual period, throbbing and beating Falling of the Womb, etc. of the uterus, painful sensation in the right breast, predis- A lady living in Jackson County, Iowa, who had six position to hemorrhages from the lungs, sleeplessness and months’ treatment for falling of the womb, painful men- neuralgia, to say nothing of some minor symptoms. The struation, affections of the bladder and kidneys, constipa- husband wrote at the conclusion of one month’s treatment tion, sour stomach and general debility, writes some months as follows : "I am happy to say my wife is doing well “ under after concluding her treatment as follows : The fact is your treatment. She has been up town twice since my health is so much improved since I last wrote you that using your medicines and it is the first time she has been I thought it unnecessary to occupy so much of yourvaluable out of the house for eight months before your treatment. time in unnecessary consultations.” • 1 • Her monthlies were a good deal better the last time.” At the end of the second month he wrote: “I am Uterine happy to say my wife is improving all the time . Troubles, etc. under your A lady living in Kendall County, Illinois, affected with treatment. In about the middle of the third month he “ wrote : I tell prolapsus of the womb, soreness in uterus, vagina and ova- you if you had seen my wife when you com- menced your ries, painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, predisposition to treatment with her and see her now you would not think colics, cholera morbus and diarrhoea, etc., after taking a her to be the same woman, she is improv-

“ ing so fast now in two months’ course of treatment writes : Think I am spite all her friends can say or do about treatment. greatly benefited in many respects and would like to have your They all would like to have had the doctor who been able to continue my treatment longer ; but it is of no attended her for over one year to have won the fame, but I use for the present. Perhaps shall conclude to do so after thank God I came across your good book, for I am certain I would the month of August ; expect to travel the greater part of have been without a wife at this time I had not next month, and if we come East shall call on you and if employed you.” In ordering another supply of remedies at consult you in persoh. I seem to have more strength and the end of three months the husband says : “Before I my Summer attacks are less severe the present season than your treatment had paid out ten times the amount of your for many Summers before, which credit is due to your treatment for nothing in return. I tell you she remedies.” if uses your treatment for three months more her own folks will not know her. She has gained in flesh from ioo Prolapsus Uteri. pounds to 140 pounds since your treatment.” During the A lady living in Suffolk County, afflicted fall- last of N. Y., with course treatment her husband wrote of the continued ing of the womb, painful menstruation and a “ great variety improvement of his wife’s case and says: Two of the in- of other complications, some months after commencing valids I spoke to you about are dead and wife “ my would treatment I am gaining and wrote: strength slowly am have been before them only for you.” In the course of a nearly or quite over one difficulty, viz., prolapsus. • • • letter written a yaar after, the husband states that his wife’s CURES OF VARIOUS SEXUAL DISEASES OF WOMEN. 31

dinner, rest and a nap (and medi- health are due to the treatment and Ax miles, took a long my life and present good and in and came back home feeling so nice happy.— fortunate circumstance that placed Dr. Foote’s book her cine) I rubbed an extra half hour, perhaps, last night lest possession. Think I might be lame this morning, but feel no bad effects at all, little tired which to-day’s rest is making more than Uterine hemorrhages. —a with good again. Excuse all this, my heart is so full I could A lady residing in Norfolk County, Mass., affected this. Cannot half tell what your hemorrhages from the uterus after taking treat- not resist telling you excessive I “ have pleasure to remedies have done for me, how thankful feel that God ment for only two months writes: I the has given you the power to heal even me.’ inform you that I have used .your remedies with decided in his goodness : improving beyond every hope and expecta- benefit. My illness this month lasted only three and a Later "lam Not as formerly tion. So renovated I am perfectly well. half days, was not severe at all, no coagulum completely being a pain nor ache. Dr. I can never bless you enough for what and was able to be around the house. After obliged have been permitted by our Heavenly Father to do for to lie in bed from eight to twelve days every illness for you is telling—it is wonderful.” fourteen months and taking medicine all the time, imagine me,—it past my feelings. Why, Doctor, there are not half words enough in the vocabulary of language to express my joy. Thanks Leucorrhcea, Dyspepsia, etc.

* for all you have done for me. ' ’ Sometime will you A lady living in Shelby County, Tenn., writes: “Dr please give me what you think to be a correct diagnosis of Foote, with all my complications of disease and troubles Drs. and of Bos- and look and feel my disease so that if I ever meet , I consider my improvement wonderful, ton again I can tell them their mistake. Strange, it seems better than I have for years past. My digestion is very to me, that of the many M. D.s whom I have consulted no good indeed with only an occasional return of dyspeptic two agree in my case, making me all the more anxious to symptoms.” know the true cause.” This patient was informed by Dr. Foote that the cause was inflammation and congestion Sexual Apathy, Antiversion, etc. after of the womb, induced by a diseased state of tlm blood. A lady living in Ingham County, Mich., pursuing “ treatment some six months remarks : I think your course of treatment has been more beneficial than any other I Retroflexion and Ulceration of the Uterus, etc. have taken.” She then goes on to speak of some facts in A lady living in Suffolk County, Mass., suffering from se- place' her improvement which can hardly be quoted in this rious uterine diseases, with painful menstruation and with “ and writes : I have worn no sup- constipation dyspepsia, Painful Menstruation, etc. of any kind for nearly a month, and when I wrote you port A lady living in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, greatly first letter I should have hardly dared to walk across my troubled with painful and irregular menstruation, dizziness the floor without my supporter. I am seldom obliged to before the menses, burning pain in the stomach, severe use now, bowels being quite regular without it ; No. 4 my headaches, sleeplessness and a great variety of other symp- and I consider this almost as great an achievement as the while a six months’ course, writes : “lam “ toms, pursuing first.” I haven’t written you for some time and Later: better in every respect. I feel so much better that I think for the reason that I have been getting along so finely very I am recovering. I sleep splendid.’ I thought I would not trouble you until I was sure of con- tinued improvement. Now I am not saying too much to say is better Painful Menstruation, etc. I am better than ever before. My general health living in Polk County, Iowa, who suffered than before I had any womb trouble whatever. I will not A patient much from painful menstruation, neuralgia and nervous take too much of your time in telling you what I can up “ writes : My general health never improved do now that would have seemed preposterous to attempt prostration, so before. I have not had a single attack of neu- only two months ago. Suffice it to say the family are all rapidly ralgia. My life-long periodical suffering seems to have astonished as well as myself with my increasing good health come to an end. I forgot to tell you that I seldom remem- and power of enduring fatigue. If you have a more grate- be because she has ber now the fact that I have nerves.” ful patient than I am to-day it must suffered more than I have and consequently appreciates and hope I shall Displacement of the Womb, etc. your help more. I am feeling nicely County, \ t., suffering much always be able to send you such a good report.” A patient living in Orleans from displacement of the womb, torpidity of the livei and rheumatism, writes : “lam so much better than I was when Womb and Ovarian Diseases, etc. I taking your medicines that I feel like a new living Chittenden County, Vt., who was af- commenced A lady in time while taking uterus, being ; and I have worked all the them, flicted with hyperplasia and prolapsus of the ova- “ I Have not lost a day.” ritis, proctitis and cystitis, writes: Am so happy to say hour. Never was so great a change am improving every Bad Practices. time the looks and general appear- wrought in so short a in who had humble servant. A young woman in Monroe County, N. Y., got ance way as in this person of your every into habits which she could not control and who was being stand,—it is marvelous. The second I can walk, ride, sit or being exceedingly nervous and more than the first. The greatly injured thereby, course has accomplished even with my last troubled with numbness in her arms and legs, and difficulty with my bowels is all gone. Through leucorrhcea and painful menstruation, after pursuing treat- so comfortable I could hardly I was very “ monthly period months, I have medicine suffered and so ment for some three writes : believe myself. When I think how I have to last this week. I feel so much better that I want •unnecessarily for the last thirty months I am disgusted enough father s, to go right on.” with the profession. Yesterday we drove out tomy EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS. 32

sincere for your and con. Retroversion cf the Womb, etc. you have our regards happiness success in the field of usefulness you so heartily The husband of a patient living in INviggs County, Ga., tinued great have chosen.” after his Avife had used a tAvo months course of treatment, writes: “ My wife is in fine health, Aveighing 13S pounds.” Irregular and Painful Menstruation, etc. suffering Sexual Apathy. A lady living in Jasper County, Iowa, very much with her menstrual periods and also with bearing A gentleman in McDonough County, 111., Avhose Avife down in the region of the womb, leucorrhcea, lame- was under treatment for uterine troubles, after she had feeling — ness across the lower of the constipation, sensi- been using the remedies for some three months part back, wrote: have treatment for eight or “ has tive lungs, was advised to She is getting to be quite amorous, something she not etc., At the of four months’ treatment she been for five years.” ten months. end wrote: “ I feel a decided improvement in every respect Ulceration of the Womb, etc. since taking your medicines, and do not wish to omit one A lady living in Miami County, Indiana, who had been dose or application while using the same.” It was incon- suffering with ulceration of the Avomb, painful men- venient for her to proceed further with the treatment, but “ I have that she struation and nervous afflictions, Avrites : good about a year after she wrote considered herself has well, given a baby. neAvs for you ; the last vestige of ulceration disappeared about so well that she had birth to nice together Avith every complication.” Congestion of the Womb, etc. Prolapsus of the Womb, etc. A lady living in New York County, N. Y., who had suf- A lady living in McHenry County, Illinois, suffering fered from congestion of the Avomb attended with a bearing Avith womb difficulties, leucorrhcea, slight menstruation, down or dragging feeling, with leucorrhcea, pain in the bronchial also Avith poor digestion, confused feeling in the head, poor hips, together Avith a constant predisposition to sleep, etc., Aveighing at the outset only 85 pounds, after troubles, after pursuing treatment for only three months, “ taking treatment only four months, Avrites: “ I feel very Avrites : I neglected ansAvering your note hoping that I grateful for the good you have done me through your medi- should be able to call upon and thank you personally for medicine, but cine. I have increased in Aveight nineteen pounds since benefit received from my last course of have last Spring. My friends are complimenting me on my im- been always prevented by the continual illness of my child. proved appearance, and my husband is quite profuse in My own health is much improved, so much so that I think his praise of you.” myself Avell enough to do without medicine for the present. My cough has entirely disappeared and I feel generally Stricture of the Neck of the Womb, etc. much better.” A lady living in Fairfield County, Conn., suffering with stricture in the neck of the Avomb attended Avith painful Painful Menstruation, etc. menstruation, etc., AA'rites : ‘‘I think you ought to be en- A lady living in Alleghany County, Penn., placed her couraged in your effective efforts to relieve those Avho are case in Dr. Foote’s hands for the treatment of painful and suffering from disease. I hardly dare express all that I do profuse menstruation, and her order for treatment was ac- feel lest it should appear too much like enthusiasm. Hope companied Avith another order for a case of a young lady I shall not overlook the goodness of him Avho first directed in the same place affected' Avith irregular and suppressed me to you and enabled me to persevere at a time AA'hen I menstruation, leucorrhcea, fainting spells, constipation, pal- 1 Avas nearly discouraged. My husband more than any one pitation of the heart, general debility, etc. he husband “ ” else knoAvs how sensibly I have suffered and can appreciate of the former at the end of three*months Avrites : She

“ next to myself the relief obtained.” . (his Avife) has regular menses now. She has no pain at these times. Your medicines relieved the pain. In regard Miss has recovered I think.” , entirely Tainfui. Menstruation, etc. to she The wife of a physician living in DelaAvare County, N. Y., while on a visit to the city placed herself in Dr. Foote’s WE WILL NOT TAKE ROOM care for the cure of uterine derangements attended Avith In this place for further testimonials under this head, so painful menstruation, extreme nervousness, neuralgic pains much space having been occupied Avith testimonials to shosv and severe headache, roaring and ringing in the ears, pre- that certain diseases of men Avhich have been pronounced disposition to diarrhoeal troubles, etc. But the main incurable by medicine, can be so treated successfully.— troubles Avere uterine. After she had been under treatment Under various other heads in this pamphlet will be found for one month her husband Avrites ’respecting her as fol- cures of Avomen’s diseases, Avherein the more prominent lows : “ She tells me I will be surprised at the improve- complications have caused the testimonial to obtain a dif- ment it has been so great. Hoping soon to meet with ferent classification. one she esteems so much as a professional and medical benefactor as yourself, I am your obedient,” &c. This patient returned to her home after some thirty days personal Barrenness.. attention taking Avith her ’’treatment to be continued after Under this head Ave will present a few sample her return. The last heard from this patient is from the testimonials. We presume more of them might be husband as follows : “ I never saw her more amiable, more found by search, but it is nevertheless true tjiat more with village home than noAv. even and contented her married people meeting with any such trouble as Her appetite is good, sleep sAveet and child-like. In fact this as little about it after it has been her health seems more perfect than for years. With much usually say Ih* gratitude for the kind part you have taken in her welfare overcome as possible. In many cases which REMARKABLE CURES OF BARRENNESS. 33

Foote has cured he has heard by indirect sources Barrenness from Local Inadaptation. A residing in London, England, writes “ It of the success of his treatment. Friends of such gentleman : in recollection that I wrote you some months applied for relief from bar- may be your persons have frequently ago for the diagnosis as to physical adaptation referred to renness citing the cases of these parties as en- in your Plain Home Talk. And I have to thank you most couragement for them to attempt to overcome their sincerely for them as, following the instructions you give, unfruitfulness. In the subjoined paragraph mention a previously almost unhoped event is on the way.” Dr. Foote remark that many similar cases have been is made of one office case wherein the difficulty would here directly indirectly reported to him, and that what led arose from local inadaptation. This is an interest- or him first to give serious attention to the possibility of of its kind. One or two in- ing sample of several physical inadaptation was a call many years ago from diseases teresting cases resulting from of the repro- a Brooklyn lady who was feeling very unhappy be- with- ductive organs not mentioned elsewhere might be cause she had been a wife for some nine or ten years spoken of here for the encouragement oftfypse who out becoming a mother. Finding that she was in perfect further are seeking relief from similar difficulties. Some health and also that her husband was, investigation was continued when facts were evolved which led Dr. years ago a Massachusetts lady who was someforty- of Foote to the conclusion that here was a marked case Foote’s eight years of age placed herself under Dr. physical inadaptation. Advice was thereupon given which treatment for a great variety ofdifficulties including led to almost immediate satisfactory results, and the long- affections of the ovaries and womb. She married deferred hope of the ladywas realized. at an early age and had never had children. After pursuing treatment for some months greatly to the Barrenness from various Complications. County, affected with surprise of herselfand friends she became pregnant. A lady living in Washington R. I., a great variety of complications causing enlargement of the She had no hopes of this when she placed herself ovaries, barrenness during ten years of married life, neu- simply had in view the restora- under treatment but ralgia, dropsical tendency, very painful and irregular men- tion of her health. Notwithstanding her age she struation, swelling of the feet and ankles and sometimes passed safely through the stages of gestation and the hands, bloating and cramping in the abdomen, pains in parturition and was presented with a promising right shoulder, back of neck, burning, dragging feeling, and of stomach, pains about the heart, babe. There is living not far from New York a great pain in pit neuralgic pains in the head and left ear, and many other who had been married twice, losing her first lady minor symptoms, and who had been advised t@ continue after two husband after five years and remarrying treatment for one year, wrote soon after commencing treat- years, and who had altogether lived in matrimony ment : “ I am very thankful for what you have done for for some twelve or fourteen yaars without the least me already, am so much better than I ever expected to be. jn the sign of offspring. She placed herself under Dr. Dr, Foote, if there is one good doctor world and one that can cure chronic diseases I Idiink you are the one* Foote’s care with reference to this very difficulty. May God bless you for what you have done for me, and may In the course of a few months’ pregnancy ensued you live long that you may still keep doing is the sincere and a fine viable child was the result. The wife of wish of yours sincerely.” Want of means was quite a a professional gentleman living in the suburbs of drawback on the part of this patient, and in a year from only New York had been seven years married and during the date of her commencemeiTt of treatment she had of the pecu- these many years from exceeding fondness for had some six months’ medication. Speaking niary difficulties she proceeds to say in a letter in the begin- children she had longed for offspring. Some months ning of 1876: “ Therefore it makes money very scarce with herself under Foote’s charge I since she placed Dr. us. But for all that I am never for a moment sorry that and at this writing is several months advanced in sent to you, even if it took the last thing that we had, for pregnancy. But we will proceed to give a few I think I should have been dead by this time if I had not, like sample quotations from letters. Office cases might while now am nearly well. Suppose you would to made their appearance yet or not. be presented in almost any number. know if the menses have They have not—nevertheless I can hardly think I am preg- I married nearly ten years. Barrenness from Ovarian Disease. nant. Why, Doctor, have been me a surprise than mine did you. A lady living in Amador County, California, who had an Your letter gave bigger baby, for it is entirely through ovarian affection, causing barrenness, was advised to take I will write when I see a has made such a thing possible, and I tell treatment for six or eight months. Before she had quite your skill that who sick that know where they can go and concluded three months she became pregnant, too soon every one is I write more for my husband is probably to admit of the viability of the offspring. She get cured. I cannot any letter it to the post-office.” The writes : “I have been a mother. I gave birth to a fine waiting for the to cany but — in this case is presented in a letter in the Spring of son weighing twelve pounds ; very large ; it died. sequel “ Doctor (I don’t say it boastfully at al It looked like a child three months old. I am as badly off 1877 as follows : 1 a good advertisement for you ever. I want advice. Do you suppose I -will ever I think my baby is pretty as your of it is twelfth day among my acquaintances. When you think of the atate have another ? Am doing very' well: the like two and then look in and see me now and am around a little. Would like some medicine my health years ago with a great healthy baby sitting in the other if you think I will need it to cause me to have attending to my work be, say so too. T another.” her cradle, as good as she can you will FOOTE'S SUCCESS. 34 EVIDENCES OF DR.

I am went with my husband to a village six or eight miles from the unspeakable good he has done me. convinced here and all those that knew me came in to see the baby ; that had I been fortunate enough to hear from you and in fact they stopped me on the way to see it, and as one place myself under your treatment ten years ago or at the lady said (she is a millionaire), she would have to stop work time when first I noticed the derangements of my water- be to go and see ’s baby. Not that she is the best baby works in 1861 I would at the present time blessed with and in the world, although she is real good ; but because I have health strength. You, Dr. Foote, have done your part been so long without any and been sick so long that they so that I can look into the future without being tortured would naturally ask how I came to get well and have such and harassed with the thought to become a burden to my- into a great, healthy baby ; and I as naturally answer that it is self and others. I am tranquil now ; look the future all through you, and I say now and shall say forever, may with a bright spirit-, go to and from my various occupations God bless Dr. Foote. Why, Doctor, I should think you now with an energy and pleasure which reminds me much would feel rich if all your patients feel the healthful grati- of the time when I knew no sickness, see company and tude that I feel towards you.” converse freely. Ever remembering you with gratitude, I

—« ■ am,” etc.

Diseases of the Urinary Organs. Nocturnal Enuresis. Under this head Dr. Foote submits the follow- A gentleman living in Marshall County, 111., writes con- ing quotations of letters, simply remarking that cerning his daughter who was greatly afflicted with incon- “ have some very interesting office cases which have been tinence of the urine, as follows : I been going to the successfully treated might be presented and de- write you for some time to thank and inform you of cure of my daughter of her urinary weakness. The last scribed at length if time and space would permit. course of remedies she only took about half up, and since been mainly snatched What are herein given have that time, some six months, she has not been troubled with out of testimonial letters : the weakness at all, so now we think her cure permanent, although at times during her treatment we became discour- etc. Gravel, aged, now we are thankful that we continued.” A gentleman living in Suffolk County, Mass., who was suffering greatly from gravel and pain in the groins extend- Hyperemia of the Kidneys, etc. ing along the inguinal canal, together with great weakness, A lady living in Albany County, Wyoming, was afflicted in the regions of the kidneys, pain and soreness and lameness the catarrh of the “ with a vascular enlargement of kidneys, after taking treatment only about a month or two, writes: I bladder, inflammation, congestion and tumorous enlarge- have the pleasure of informing you that after following ment of the left ovary. Six or eight months’ and possibly strictly your directions I am, it seems to me, quite fully re- a year’s treatment was recommended. Various letters stored to my usual health, or fast becoming so.” giving the progress of the case were received from time to time, and at the end of eight months she writes: “ Truly, Diabetes, etc .Doctor, I owe you thanks such as I never can express. If A gentleman living in Hamilton County, 111., writes re. ever you have received a benefit of like value from a fellow- specting his wife as follows : Extract No. “I received I: being, you may know how deep and sincere they are from and having given it to her—his your course of medicine, self-knowledge.” wife—near two months, it is helping her. She improves in looks and strength. The night sweats are not so bad, and Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys. she has less fever,” etc. Extract No. 2 : “ My wife is bet- A lady in Essex County, Mass., having Bright’s disease ter. She is clearer of the fevers, and also of the diabetes of the kidneys and who had been treated by several phy- and night sweats,’’etc. Extract No. 3 : “The night sweats sicians, after being given up by the resident doctors, placed and diabetes have stopped,” etc. her case in the hands of Dr. Foote by letter. The first letter from her sister after the treatment was commenced Diabetes. reports as follows : “It gives me much pleasure to be able A living in Houghton County, Mich., who gentleman in re- “ to tell you that my sister is decidedly better every had been suffering very much from diabetes, writes : Since spect. She is gaining strength rapidly, and a little in flesh. I wrote you last there has been a marked improvement in She usually takes her meals with the family, and sits up my case and am now feeling more like myself and am able about four hours a day. Twice she has been out of doors to attend to my regular business without much inconven- for a few moments. Her cough is entirely gone. It was ience. I void urine oftener than I ought to, but usually very hard at times while it lasted, yet she gained strength without any smarting or pain ; think there is no albumen in spite of it. The first course of medicines is nearly gone, in the urine.” and it is desirable to have the next as soon as you can con- veniently send it. I have no words to tell you how thank- Chronic Irritation of the Kidneys. I am blessing, you have done for A gentleman in Adams County, Illinois, after using treat- ful for what, with God’s sister.” Second letter “You have probably judged ment for several months for chronic inflammation in the my : that health was still improving kidneys accompanied with pain across the lower part of the from my silence my sister’s by of medicine. It is so.— back, smarting in passing water, gritty deposits in the the use of the second course * She is better in ; sits up more than half the urine indicating a tendency to gravel, a constricted feeling every respect “ time walks in the air a few steps every day, in the urethra and general debility, writes : First please by day, open out once. Herhead and eyes are much better, accept my heartfelt thanks for the great benefit I have re- and has rode gaining flesh constantly. Appetite and digestion ceived through your treatment. I am anxious to see into and she is learned from the sister, who recently that man’s eyes, press his hands and thank him verbally for are excellent.” I CURES OF DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 35

called upon me, that this patient, who was so low that no ful every clay. I have another friend in town who I think one entertained any hope of her recovery, was entirely will be persuaded after trying the old treatment a little cured by the use of my remedies. At the outset I was in- longer. Miss is doing splendidly.” This allusion is clined myself to believe the case incurable, and gave very to another lady under Dr. Foote’s treatment. little encouragement. This case was treated several years ago, bu*t the patient is still living in good health, but she Urethral Irritation. says it always seems to her as if there were some healed A gentleman in New York County, N. Y., after having cavities in her kidneys which had been left by the terrible only one month’s treatment for irritation in the urethra at- disease which prostrated her. tended with smarting near the orifices, writes : “ The ef- fect of the treatment is good ; system renovated and im- generally. I will need to pursue treat- Paralysis of the Bladder, etc. proved Don’t think A professional gentleman in St. Joseph County, Mich., ment further at present.” who had had abscess in the bladder followed by paralysis of the same, at the end of three months’ treatment wrote: Urethritis, etc. with “ Haven County, Conn., affected I am happy to say that I am gaining now quite rapidly. A gentleman in New urine, writes “The last My general health and strength is remarkably good. Pain painful micturition, bloody etc., : me used as directed and I could and lameness in the small of the back and region of the prescriptions you gave I only that all medicine could operate as quickly and kidneys all gone long ago. All pains or soreness in ure- wish the as that did. It proved just the thii^g.” thra also long passed. Ability to retain the urine slowly go to spot returning, but I think safely and surely.” The same pa- —1 tient, after pursuing the treatment a little longer, writes: Aches and Faina. “ I am well am astonished at my con- feeling very and truly These of course are common to almost all kinds dition as compared with one year ago when I was just as of disease. Under all the other different headings near the grave as one could be and yet have strength suffi- be here but cient to step over.” will be found cases which might placed for the fact that the diseases and their complications Serious Bladder Derangements, etc. are such as to give them more appropriately some In the Spring of 1875 a case of great suffering was pre- other classification. Here we will give quotations to Foote’s attention in a letter from Chittenden ! sented Dr. from letters from those who have been especial suf- County, symptoms Continuous acute pain | Vt. The were: I well-defined belonging and soreness in the lower extremity of the bowels over the ferers from some symptoms region of the bladder, a disposition to pass water every five to this division. minutes, suffering at stool as if all would pass away, great pain and smarting in passing water together with a drag- Sick Headache. ging feeling in the region of the womb. Besides these symp- A patient in Fillmore County, Minn., writes: “I "have toms were headaches during menses, predisposition to lung not had a headache since commencing your treatment.” trouble, palpitation of the heart, tumors on left shoulder and even other complications too numerous to mention.— Neuralgia. The first report was : “ I have now taken your medicines A patient in Knox County, Me., writes: “I have not for a month, lacking a few days, with great success.” In the had the neuralgic pains once for three months and no ap- beginning of the year 1876 the patient reported as follows : pearance of them. My appetite is good and I sleep well ” I am still improving ; should say cured but for this sore- and work hard every day. I have followed your directions

• ness. • • Can now ride over the roughest road with in every respect and have unbounded confidence in you as the greatest ease and any distance. * ' ‘ My friends a man and physician.” think it next to a miracle to see me about so comfortable. Every time I ride out feel the better for it. * * ■ ‘ Think Neuralgia, etc. the last months’ remedies have worked wonders. • * • A gentleman in Kendall County, 111., having neuralgia, Can sew and ride and enjoy life as it comes along, thanks constant vertigo, pain in the right side and what he de- to you. How many poor, despairing hearts breathe a scribes as "a kind of fluttering in the veins,” writes at the

“ prayer for your success and welfare.” The next report end of four months’ treatment : My medicine has been from this patient a month later reads as follows : “ Satur- done some weeks and I feel quite well. Do not think that day I rode twelve miles over the roughest sleighing. Came I will need any more.” home and found my girl gone—did my house-work (in- cluding sweeping, making beds and all pertaining to house- Sick Headache. had wife duties) up to this, Monday morning, and now, this A lady living in Putnam County, Ohio, who "been minute, feel almost as if I had never been sick. Is it not long subject to hard spells of sick-headache once a month wonderful! Dr. says, humbug or no, I am improving | and frequent slight attacks together with dizzy sensations “ beyond everything. That Dr. Foote has done more for me and oppressed feelings in the head, writes : Your reme- Have had but than any other M. D. he will admit. He has often said : dies have cured me of the sick-headache. 1 and ‘ No power on earth could reach my case !’ I am overjoyed one hard spell of it since commencing your medicine, I appreciate, at my condition.” In the Spring of 1877 the same lady that was the first of March. This relief for

* writes : “ My heart is so full of gratitude to you and my ! which you have my heartfelt thanks. ' 1 Have faith- Heavenly Father for permitting it to be. Why, Doctor, I j fully taken all the medicine you have sent me and never haven’t a pain nor ache. It is noiy one year since I have missed one dose in the last five months. Never considered taken the remedies. I am growing stronger and more thank- ] it any trouble or any inconvenience.” ' 36 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

Rheumatism, etc. sentences. It should also be stated that while the nervous, A young man in Allamakee County, Iowa, who was af- headaches were the most prominent troubles he had other fected with rheumatic pains in all parts of the body, and complications, such, for instance, as spermatorrhoea,partial together with these troublesome pains had ulcerated throat, impotency and very great nervousness. lameness in the lower part of the back, seminal weakness and impotency, was recommended to pursue treatment for Neuralgia. six eight For or months. the want of means he was obliged A gentleman in Seneca County, N. Y., in the course of a to in discontinue at the end of three months, but stating letter speaking about his own satisfactory progress, says :— the fact : “ he says My general health is much better than “I saw one of your patients from Dundee, now a resident it for has been years.” of Kansas. She says you cured her of neuralgia some years ago in New York.” Neuralgia, etc. A gentleman living in Litchfield County, Conn., whose i Sciatica, etc. wife had been under treatment for neuralgia which affected A gentleman in Bermuda affected with sciatica, catarrh the chest, back, hip and abdomen, and was furthermore af- of the bladder, weak and sore eyes, sleeplessness, etc. fected with dyspepsia, numbness in half of left hand and writes after pursuing the treatment for only one month : “ I in the left foot together with a variety of other symptoms, am pleased to say that I am better in every respect and may after the patient had only taken one month’s treatment i say I feel quite well. Thanking you for your attention and

“ wrote : My wife does not have the neuralgia now. She wishing you every success in your business, I am,” etc.— “ is in fact better every way. I will wait a while and if she After sixmonths’ treatment, he writes: Your last supply of medicine I-am should need I shall order another course. If you were to has proved, happy to say, quite a success in see her you would be surprised to see how much better she every respect. Hope I will not have occasion to give you another is.” A month later the same gentleman writes for some of call.” the Doctor’s lists of questions, etc., and remarks that his wife remains quite well. Headache, etc. A young gentleman residing in Jo Daviess County, 111., whose sister had been greatly afflicted with severe head- Headaches and other Pains. aches, pains in the eye balls, soreness in the chest, soreness A County, Y., had four lady living in Onondaga N. across the lower part of the back, pain in the region of the months’ treatment for headache, dull pain in the stomach | bladder, a bearing down pain in thighs, nervousness and after pain and lameness across the lower of the eating, part ! 1 sleeplessness, writes after his sister has concluded a two back, pain and scalding in passing urine, drawing pains “ months’ course of treatment as follows : Sister is improv- right side above the hip, and other in symptoms arising ; ing rapidly : she can sleep better,has a better appetite, and from an impure state of the blood. Her husband writes at I ! on the whole feels better all over. Will have her continue the conclusion of treatment “ the : My wife, am happy to | in the First Department if possible. As to myself I feel say, is feeling pretty well, thanks to your remedies; and very good—am enjoying better health than ever before.”— we entertain with exercise strong hopes that the of due His own case was a complicated one for which he had treat- care she will fully and regain her former strength good ment for some six or eight months. health. I am fully persuaded another two months’ treat- ment by you would benefit her, but the fact that she is con- Neuralgia. stantly gaining, together with the times and other circum- “ A lady in Franklin County, Vt., writes : I do not have stances admonish me to forego the pleasure that we wish we neuralgia at all unless I get unusually fatigued. For some- could afford. Thanking you sincerely,” etc. time previous to the commencement of your remedies it was impossible to lie down and rest. I was obliged to lie Nervous Headache. down because I could not sit up. But then there was such A gentleman living in New York County, N. Y., who an intolerable restlessness about it that I could lie but a was greatly troubled with attacks of nervous headache ac- little while and then I would rise almost distracted unless companied with dizzy sensations, about a year after con- I was burdened with clothing and a hot brick at my feet.

“ cluding five months’ treatment writes as follows : I If I should run right down and die, I should not regret take a pleasure to state that I am enjoying now the best having employed you, for I have taken my pay as 1 went health and feel like a changed man. My weight increased along. Were it possible to describe upon paper what your from 116 (when going under your treatment) to 145 pounds, medicines have done for me, and the emotions of gratitude and I gladly confess the belief that the present state of my and respect which the same has inspired, you would receive health is the result of your successful treatment. I took a splendid testimonial.” occasion already last year to write and assure you of my most grateful feelings towards you, but I did not mail that Pains in the Heart, etc. letter as I preferred to make my personal appearance, which A gentleman living in Baltimore County, Md., who had postponed has been so far, not finding chance to call on pains in his heart and some other disagreeable symptoms, office proper “ your during business hours. Hease accept writes : The ointment acted like magic. Believe that I once more the assurance of my thanks for all your courte- have not had more than one or two recurrences of the sies and all you have done for me, and kindly excuse, out shooting pains in my breast and about the region of the of above reason, that not sooner than to-day you did hear heart since I have applied it, and they have only been slight from me. This gentleman being a foreigner and not alto- ones. Before I came under your treatment I was subject gether familiar with the language will account for some to those pains almost continuously; in fact I could not peculiarities that may be observed in the construction of his drink a glass of cold water or exert myself to any extent to CURES OF ACHES AND PAINS. 37

thankful that Providence led me to you and that I still had cause shortness of breath without rendering myself liable left again.” Before concluding the treatment to an attack, causing me to imagine that I had the heait- courage totry consequence of pecuniary em- disease and being fearful of being carried off at any mo- originally recommended, in “ barrassment, he writes : Your medicines have done me ment ; but now I can drink with impunity and no such re- in fact the only good that I have ever received sults follow. The night emissions I believe have also great good, from and taking leave of you I thank you sin- ceased—at least I do not recollect of having any since any one, in cerely.” using your medicines.”

Tains in the Chest. Heart Troubles. A gentleman living in Tettis County, Mo., suffering from are Very numerous for we all talk a great derangements of the breathing organs causing pain therein, These “ “ and head and the heart.” There are writes: Have no pain in my breast, head muchbetter, deal about the which find I can talk with more ease ; feel better every way. any number of what we call heart-troubles can be removed by some other means than medi- Lumbago. cine. The physician often meets with cases which County, suffering A gentleman living in Orange N. Y., his attention when really “ are supposed to require much from his back, writes : The pain in the lower part little else to do than examine the patient of my back, which at times would cause me great distress, he has has vanished, and I trust I am free from the affliction that and assure him or her that there is nothing the mat- bound me.” This after two months’ treatment. ter. Imaginative people are very apt to think they have some disease of the heart. In actual af- A Variety of Pains. fections of this organ the physician has to exercise A gentleman in Mariposa County, Cal., fell down a shaft much ingenuity and skill to overcome the disease. receiving injuries which in consequence of a very impure cases is state of his blood he was slow in recovering from. At the What success Dr. Foote has had in these end of five months his wife writes respecting his health as in a measure indicated by some of the subjoined follows : “ He wishes me to say that his medicines will last testimonials, and if the reader should look through about three weeks yet. His general health is good, better the testimonials under other headings he will find fact it has ever been for a length of time. He has in than many other cases in which at least functional de- no pains of any sort.” rangement of the heart was among the complica- Headache, Dizzy Sensations, etc, tions which affected the patient before going under County, N. had been A lady living in Middlesex J., who treatment : suffering from severe headaches, dizziness, nervous debility and irritation of the coating of the spinal cord, after pur- Inflammation of the Pericardium of “ Chronic for three months, writes I may suing the treatment about : the Heart. that I feeling a great deal better. I have no more “ reply am A gentleman in Jefferson County, Wis., Doctor, sharp pains in my head. I feel that I have improved more writes: 'I feel about well since using your medicine.” under your treatment than that of any other physician.’ Chronic Inflammation of the Pericardium of Sciatica and Mercurial Rheumatism. the Heart, etc. A gentleman living in Kendall County, 111., writing about A lady in Macon County, Mo., affected as above with a patient of Dr. Foote’s affected with the above named dif- more or less trouble of the liver, kidneys and stomach, ficulty, reports: “I am requested to say for Mr. C wrote : “ The medicine I have been taking is now used up, (one of your last Summer patients at ), that he has and I am so .nearly recovered that I do not think I will four great pleasure in saying that he is now as well as ever he send for any more medicine.” In this case months’ was in his life, and that it is owing to your treatment that treatment was advised at the outset, but the above report he is enabled to say so. Mr. C. is very enthusiastic in his was made out at the end of two months. praise of Dr. Foote, and feels quite satisfied that he is as a brand plucked from the fire by your skillful treatment. A gentleman living in Brant County, Canada West, who He did not finish the medicine he brought with him. He had palpitation of the heart for three years arising, as was is already stout and active as I ever saw him.” thought, from valvular obstructions, after having treatment for a few months, writes : “ The distressing pains I have heart—the flutterings, the All sorts of Aches. felt for several years about my thumpings palpitations, have entirely A gentleman living in Suffolk County, Mass., who had stoppages, the or been affected with dull, distressed feeling in the head on ceased.” rising, pain, uneasy feeling in the region of the bladder, a N. Y., long af- feeling as if something was pressing on his chest, soreness A gentleman living in Orange County., in heart with in the stomach so he was obliged to wear his clothing loose, flicted with rheumatic pains the together pal- writes “ must return together with great physical prostration generally, in order- pitation, sense of stoppage, etc., : I Church Union containing an in- ing his second supply of remedies after having taken two thanks for a copy of the from terview with yourself,” was the same as that which months’ treatment, wrote : “I am greatly improved (This in Baptist Union. See “Dr. what I was two months ago ; am relieved of my aches and originally appeared the Motives,” page 7), “ and heartily en- pains and feel as though there was use in living. Hope I Foote’s Methods and truth it having been under your cart snail improve as rapidly in the next two months. Am very dorse the contains, 38 EVIDENCES OF DR FOOTE'S SUCCESS. and receiving lasting benefit; for though I never was nor were ranked as incurable. A very prominent morn- ever will be strong, yet your remedies completely restored ing paper published in New York remarked in an health.” This patient then goes on to say what endu- my editorial article upon the some ten or rance he has had since his treatment in attending very subject fif- “ teen closely to business which, he says : I certainly would not years ago that the disease ought to be incurable, have dreamt of doing two years ago, and to the great sur- the writer evidently not considering the fact that prise of my friends, and for all this accept my lasting grati- very many innocent people become infected with tude, and if I fail again I shall not hesitate to rely on you this terrible malady in various ways, such as : The again.” infidelity of a matrimonial companion; impure tow- A patient living in Oxford County, Me., suffering from vaccination; sleeping in infected beds; using enlargement of the heart, writes : “ I know your medicine els and napkins which have been carelessly thrown has done me good. I dare not be without it. I believe down by diseased persons; all these, to say nothing that the Spirit of all good pointed you out to me for my re- of well-known instances in which inaocent babes lief. Take good care of yourself, that you may be the have been poisoned at the breasts of infected nurses. means of doing much good and relieve the suffering.” Dr. : It is therefore the duty of the physician to earnestly Foote would add in this connection that in his office prac- j remedies for difficulties of this char- tice he has had many cases which would seem at least to be seek prompt which cases of enlargement of the heart which he has cured ; cases acter. Dr. Foote has had many office cases indeed which had been pronounced by other physicians to he has successfully treated and the subjoined quo- be enlargement of the heart. tations of letters are from those who have had treat- ment by letter and express. A gentleman in Worcester County, Mass., who was af- fected with what was considered by the physicians ossifica- Syphilis. tion of the heart, together with many very troublesome A young man living in Morris County, N. J., having complications, writes : “ I trust your usual success attends chancre and bubo, in other words, both primary and con- treat- you and must still believe it does wait upon your skill. It , stitutional syphilis, writes at the end ©f four months’ “ be is to you I owe the health I have enjoyed the past year, for ment : Dear Doctor, believing myself to right again I you saved my life one year ago front fell disease and my return thanks for your kind treatment.” heart from utter discouragement, when all looked dark and Syphilis, etc. the future gave no promise of hope. I shall never forget A gentleman residing in Shawnee County, Kansas, hav- your kindness to me, sir, cheering me on with friendly affection with bubo in right words while administering your potent remedies which have ing a syphilitic accompanied sore throat, etc., “ Your favor of the 9th so aided me that, though still not healthy, I have lost no groin, writes: instant is received. It gave me a thrill of pleasure to know time the past winter, but filled the pulpit every Sunday and j remembered me. am aye, better toiled incessantly in literary pursuits. I shall follow you j that you so kindly I well, ever since can remember. My daughter is also well, with kind wishes and prayers, and shall recommend you to than I and hardy as can be.” Each of these the afflicted.” indeed is robust cases had a two months’ course of treatment. The diffi- culty in the daughter’s case was general debility accompa- Chronic Venereal Diseases. nied with bilious and dyspeptic affections with their cus- Below are submitted a few quotations from pa- tomary symptoms. affections. tients who have been treated for venereal Syphilis, etc. in office to treat Dr. Foote often has occasion his A young man living in New Haven County, Conn., some acute forms of these difficulties. But it is to whose system had been poisoned by syphilis and who was the chronic and more difficult forms that he has suffering from various complications including a diseased given special attention. He wishes in this con- stomach and spermatorrhoea, at the end of a six months' “ treatment writes : lam happy to inform you that I con- nection to say to those living at a great distance sider myself about well. The pains in the chest are all that in the primary stages of these from his office gone, have a good appetite, it seems a pleasure now to sit diseases those who become affected with them down to dinner. Emissions are stopped and my urine is should not lose time by corresponding with any clear and only justperceptibly acid, and in fact feel like a physician. They should present themselves new man. Weigh 130.” in person. By immediate attention to promptly Syphilis, Syphilitic Ulcers, Sore Throat and be the primary affection the chronic stages may Loss of Hair. avoided. Gonorrhoea which has maintained its A gentleman living in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, characteristic symptoms for more than twenty days in consulting Dr. Foote regarding a friend writes : “ If it may be pretty safely considered to have reached would act as your medicine acted in Mrs. ’s case you of dollars from here before six the chronic stage; chancres which have persisted would have thousands moved away from here some two hun- antidotes beyond the third day months. She has and resisted local dred miles, but I had a letter from her a few days ago have pretty usually affected the system constitu- stating that she was, as far as she could tell, entirely well, is called that tionally ; this is especially true in what and wished me to return her thanks to you, stating Huntarian chancre. Syphilitic diseases, years ago, she would never forget the blessings you conferred on her." CURES OF CHRONIC VENEREAL DISEASES. 39

Syphilis. and stiffness in the neck had all gone, The bubo also down suddenly and is about and A gentleman writes from Milwaukee County, Wis., as went now at a dead level

“ have none that follows : I thought I would write you and let you know can hardly be felt. I of the rheumatic pain ; but shoulder bones that I am getting along first rate. I am doing splendidly, I had before still I rub my throat and ointment and keep on with the piles have gone, the discharge is stopped, the blotches every night with the as directed I in have disappeared and I feel better generally than I have the regular course. The lumps that wrote you about have down also.” before in two years.” my throat gone

Chronic Gleet, etc. Syphilis. A patient living in Orleans County, La., affected with A gentleman living in Milwaukee County, Wis., affected chronic gleet, pain and smarting in passing water, involun- with constitutional syphilis which he had had for three tary emissions, at the end of four or five months treatment years with rheumatic pains in various parts, together with writes : “ I began your treatment under disadvantages, was some local symptoms, wrote at the end of six months’ very irregular in taking the medicines and disregarded your treatment: “ I am fully satisfied that I am not entirely rid instructions regarding drinking and smoking ; yet you have of the trouble thoughI am progressing finely and feel bet- cured me of gleet and spermatorrhoea.” ter than I have in two years or more.” This patient, after “ ten months’ treatment, wrote : Had I better keep on Chronic Gonorrhcea. with the medicines as long as they last ? At present I am

; been so well in two years. My A young man in Van Wirt County, Ohio, under treat- feeling first rate haven’t skin is a year later he writes:— ment for chronic gonorrhoea, accompanied with other af- clear and nice.” Nearly “ “ am Have been fections of the sexual organs, writes : Your medicines I very well and have been all Summer. in our four- are working nicely. I have no more pains in my legs and rowing steadily this season—pulled bow-oar and find in as good condition to about my bladder.” He then goes on to speak of other oared paper-shell, myself improvements in the sexual organs of a peculiar character work as any of the boys.” which we cannot very well put in print here. Among other things there was want of development which was over- Constitutional Syphilis. come. A young man in Singapore, India, affected with secondary syphilis, gleet of fourteen months’ standing, dull pain in Syphilis. the bladder, pains in the lower part of the back and should- A gentleman living in Brant County, Upper Canada, ers, stinging pains in the roots of the hair, white scales who had suffered much from secondary syphilis,writes :— upon the scalp and in the nostrils and poor sleep, all of “ I am entirely recovered from my terrible disease. The which symptoms arose from the infectious disease men- blotches and sores have entirely disappeared from every tioned, after taking some five months’ treatment, orders part of my body, and I feel as well as I ever was in my four more, and says : “ The only things I feel worth men- life—thanks to your rare skill and the wondrous efficacy of tioning are the bile and the weakness in my back ; not your remedies.” anything to what they were formerly. I am in every way better and stronger. There used to be a weakness in my a Chronic Syphilitic Gonorrhcea. feet which I rubbed with the ointment ; they feel good A gentleman living in New York County, N. Y., having deal better. Now, Doctor, I will finish, and I hope your an affection of this kind and it having been also commu- medicine will cure my back and the bile as theyare the only nicated to his wife, both placed themselves under treat- troubles I have now.” ment. At the end of one month he wrote, stating among other things: “Would say that both myself and wife are Secondary Syphilis. entirely well.” In such cases the treatment of the blood A gentleman living in Fort Stockton, Texas, who had disease ought to be continued, but all symptoms of the been suffering since the Spring of 1874 with secondary having ceased this case has not resumed. syphilis attended from time to time with breakings out quite like the primary attack and also with copper-colored Syphilis and Chronic Gonorrhcea. blotches on various parts of the body, and ulcers on tongue, A gentleman living in Soqth Barbara County, Cal., who roof of the mouth and lips, together with a variety of com- had been for many years afflicted with constitutional syphi- plications arising from the impurity, such as irritated eye- lis and chronic gonorrhoea after taking four months’ treat- lids, etc., wrote in 1877 at the conclusion of a four months’ “ ment, wrote : “I think I am cured. For the first time course of treatment, as follows: I had written twice since twenty years I can look at my groins with full con- before the receipt of yours of Dec. 6, since I had heard fidence that they are just as clean and healthyas anybody’s.” from you, giving a statement of the progress of my health, Later he writes : “ The top of my head is clean now. I which I am happy to say, thanks to you, has, as far as I can have no more sore throat, no more ulcers ; my groins are observe, obtained its old vigor. After finishing the regu- as well as can be. I have a good appetite. In short I am lar course of medicine you will recollect I had a smaller sound and healthy. Yours with gratitude.” quantity of one or two things left which you advised me to continue.taking. I did so, and before finishing them all disease that was some time Constitutional Syphilis. signs of the had disappeared ; “ in October last, since then have had no symptoms or A patient in Baltimore County, Md., The I writes: have of the disease so I have not sent for any medicines came to hand all right sometime ago and I signs upon me, more medicine. there should at any time anything occur h>een using them ever since. The sore throat, &c., acted If the not very strange. About the time that I commenced dn these to make me think thing is permanently and thor- medicines, or a day or so after, the soreness in the throat oughly eradicated from my system you may be sure you 40 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS. will receive an order for another course of medicine.— ! Ofium Habit. With great respect I am, Doctor, yours truly,” etc. A clergyman in Madison County, N. J., in the course of a letter to Dr. Foote, says: “ I shall add that you enabled Chronic Gonorrhcea. me to get rid of the use—the daily use—of foul laudanum A young man living in New York County, N. Y„, after and for this I shall ever be grateful.” having two months’ treatment for gonorrhoea which had proved very obstinate, writes : “ So far as I can see I am Amaurosis, Hernia, etc. all right and have been for a month or more.” A patient in Rush County, Ind., thus affected, writes :— “ My blind eye appears to be nearly recovered. The dotty Gleet, etc. appearance has nearly disappeared from before my other eye. A gentleman living in Suffolk County, Mass., suffering They have (the dotty cluster), changed to a light orange from chronic gleet together with weak kidneys, etc., writes : color. The lump at the back part of my knee has de- “ I have no more discharges than formerly, and, if any thing, creased about one half, or perhaps a little more. My I should say it was a shade thinner and a little lighter in hernia has improved a great deal.” color.” Still later: “ Perhaps you would be pleased to learn that I am vety zuell." Paralysis and Amaurosis. A in ’ gentleman living " "■ i Warren County, N. Y., who had been affected by a kind of general paralysis and amaurosis < Chronic Diseases of a General Character. had several months’ treatment with the following results : Here, so to speak, we bunch together a variety i “ Father is improving, and thinks your medicines have had of quotations from the letters of patients who have the desired effect.” Another extract from another letter : “ Father and is reported the results of treatment in cases of dis- is improving thinks he almost well.” Yet another extract from a third letter: “Father’s health is eases which do not to classifications already belong very good.” made. There may however be a few carelessly placed here in making up the pages which might Dropsy. have been put in a more appropriate group. It A lady in Herkimer County, N. Y., who had been for many years suffering with dropsy, writes : “ The second would perhaps be almost a hopeless task for Dr. course of your medicines has given us as much encourage- Foote to go through his entire letter files and find ment as the first. I think my health is gradually improv- something which would represent every form of ing. The dropsical effusion moves slowly, though I am chronic disease. The work would be quite too sure it goes away. I can wear a longer waist; the kidneys vast; too laborious. Dr. Foote has, for instance, act more than they did. I think my whole system acts than it treated successfully a great many cases of cancer. more naturally has in a great while.” In most of these cases the patient has chosen to Sleeplessness, etc present his or her case in person; hence he has A former patient living in Fairfield County, Conn., received but few letters from patients affected with greatly troubled with sleepl#ssness, neuralgic headaches, this formidable disease. There is hope in most weak eyes, dizziness, palpitation, and a variety of nervous “ cases of this kind before the stage of suppuration, and biliary derangements, writes: It is to you I owe my life and health. I can never forget what you have done and there are physicians who believe that the dis- for me when all others have failed in their treatment.” ease is curable after suppuration has begun. But Dr. Foote wishes to say here that he never takes A clergyman in Perry County, Mo., consulted Dr. Foote cases of cancer after the tumor has begun to dis- and the reply having been of a character showing a greater charge. The Doctor has sometimesbeen visited by interest in the invalid than in anyprospective fees, the min- return “ I for the those who believed that nothing could be done ex- ister wrote in as follows : thank you honesty of your letter. It gives me a better hold in advo- cepting with the surgeon’s knife. In some of these cating your cause. When I can say I believe you to be cases he has had the satisfaction of removing the honest and competent I say much. That is what I can tumor by constitutional treatment under the pre- now say.” tense of putting their systems into a condition which would admit of the success of surgery.— Nervous Depression, etc. A Mecklenburg had With this explanatory note we will proceed to give lady living in County, N. C., who been suffering greatly from loss of nervous vitality, not covering a variety quotations of letters great of sleeping well and being greatly predisposed to depression chronic ills : of spirits, weeping, headache, etc., at the end of two months’

“ treatment, writes : I have been improving ever since I Spinal Affection, etc. have taken your medicine, and think there is no other A lady in Franklin County, Vt., suffering from spinal af- equal to it. The effects are different and so much better fections and various other complications, writes : “ I com- than any other I think it is really wonderful how it seems menced using the medicines according to directions, May to build up and to supply deficiencies of nature. 7th. Now I am able to sit up all day long (if I do not ex- I regret so much that I did not know you when a child, for ercise too much), and ride a dozen miles. My spine and I am sure I could have studied so much better at schoel general health is very much better.” and would have escaped many moments of depression.” CURES OF CHRONIC DISEASES OF A GENERAL CHARACTER. 41

Morphine Habit. Constipation, etc. A former patient in Suffolk County, N. Y.,writes : “ I was A patient in Adams County, Iowa, having a bad pulmo- a slave once to morphine and you helped me to break the nary difficulty, together with a variety of other prostrating chains for which I can never sufficiently express my grati- complications, wrote to a friend, from which letter Dr. tude, and I do not wish to be governed by such a tyrant Foote has been permitted to copy the following: “Dr. again.” Foote’s remedies have helped me as none other have.”

Cutaneous Affections, etc. A clergyman in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., about to : My skin “ A gentleman in Alleghany County, Md., writes place a relative under treatment, says : I wrote thus be- is free from blotches—I look well and thank God and you, cause I have a brother who is also a clergyman, who was Doctor, I feel well. I thank God that you have been the treated by you some years ago, and to the praise of God and means of restoring my health and strength to me.” your skill, I record a wonderful cure was effected.” Not having time to refer to case-book cannot say precisely what General Debility, etc. the disease was for which the clergyman was treated. A gentleman in Worcester County, Mass., affected with general debility, dyspepsia, cutaneous eruptions, etc., at the

“ Nervous Prostration, etc. end of two months’ treatment, writes : I am stronger and A young man living in Albany County, N. Y., who had feel brighter, having gained five pounds. The blotches and been greatly afflicted with weak nerves, great timidity, spots on my legs have all disappeared. I do not feel as dizzy sensations, weak eyes, and with a constant desire to I did and walk four nervous as can miles without tiring “ sleep, writes : My course of treatment has expired, nine much.” months in all, and now I wish to express my most sincere your treatment and for the General Debility, etc. thanks for careful great good

' * A young woman of Union County, N. J., affected with you have done me. • I will take pleasure in recom- mending very great weakness and with painful menstruation, writes you to those of my friends who are in need of

“ treatment.” after taking treatment for only two months : My health, skillful thanks to your treatment, is very good. In fact I never Chiles and Fever, etc. knew what it was to have good treatment until I went A gentleman in Middlesex County, N. J., who ha'd had to you.” chills and fever for one year, chronic diarrhoea, great weak- and pain in the lower of and general Nervous Debility, etc. ness part the back, A gentleman living in Marshall County, 111., laboring debility, had treatment of Dr. Foote one month. Between : “ I under nervous debility, despondency, poor sleep, and af- two and three months after his wife wrote write in an- concerning fected with drowsiness, ringing and roaring in the ears, un- swer to yours my husband’s health, who, through pleasant tastes in the mouth, and weakness of the urinary Divine Providence, has greatly improved since undergoing and and reproductive organs, at the end of four months’ treat- jmur treatment, has not had a chill since, feels at present *■ first rate, and would doctor with you a month longer his ment writes : I am getting along very well. I have not if circumstances would but felt so well in four years.” permit; though his spirit is willing yet his pocket is weak.” Chronic Catarrh. A in Clinton had gentleman living County, Iowa, who Nervous Debility, etc. greatly affected with chronic which injured been catarrh, A gentleman living in New Haven County, Conn., who voice, and his hearing bronchial tubes, much to was affected with a taint of syphilis which affected the ance as his profession required him to speak in public, after nervous system and various local parts, such as the bladder, treatment for only three writes : “ I should taking months, the stomach, the ears, the head, etc., causing annoying be glad to feel at liberty to send for your medicines when- symptoms, after taking treatment for only three months’ ever I think I need them. The result of taking your reme- “ wrote : Your medicines seemed to touch every spot for is I cheerfully recommend them dies so satisfactory that to which they were intended.” He subsequently sent for and friends acquaintances.” remedies to last sixty days longer, at the end of which he Nervous Irritability. reports that his health is better than for several years, but A lady living in Suffolk County, N. Y., who had suffered that he is not pecuniarily able to continue. greatly with nervous irritability, poor sleep, neuralgic head- aches, etc., resulting from a scrofulous diathesis, writes :— Chronic Catarrh, etc. “ Our little girl sits in her high chair beside me at the table A lady in Cook County, 111., placed herself under treat- looking at the pictures in * Papa’s big book ’ (Webster’s ment by letter for chronic catarrh of a very troublesome Quarto) aud as I look upon her bright, pleasant face I can- character with predisposition to cough, tenderness, pain not help wondering how it can be possible for one to have and weakness about the chest, tender and swollen gums, so good natured and healthy a child, and feel that it must weak eyes and irritated eye-lids, and for urinary and uter- be owing to your knowledge of disease and skillful com- ine derangements, all arising from a scrofulous diathesis.— bination of remedies. She is now twenty-six months old An intimate friend of the patient who had taken much in- and has never evinced the slightest symptom of scrofula or terest in her case, writes Dr. Foote respecting it as follows : anything «f the kind. Your remarks concerning the diet “ I have been blessed with perfectly uninterrupted health. and habits of children are not and will not be unheeded ; I have neverhad occasion to put myself in communication and I often think that obeying them as I have has made my with you professionally. I have nevertheless been from the task so much the lighter than that of many mothers of first cognizant of the very able and eminently successful peevish, irritable children.” manner in which you have treated Miss , whose cas&- 42 EVIDENCES OE DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

you seemed to intuitively comprehend, and to at once set Spinal Curvature, etc. about laying the foundation of that structure of perfect A patient living in Lancaster County, Penn., before health which she now enjoys. If, my dear Doctor, you beginning treatment was unable to walk without support- could see the radical change which has taken place in her ing himself by placing his hands on his hips, after taking

“ since the commencement of your treatment and now, you six months’ treatment wrote : I cannot at the present time would have still more confidence in the soundness of the give you any account of the symptoms for there are none. philosophy of your practice ; and believing that our mu- Your medicines have done just exactly what you said yoa tual happiness is and will be greatly enhanced by your suc- could do. They have relieved me of every particle of pain cessful treatment, I beg to tender you my most cordial and and given my back strength so that I can again walk erect hearty thanks.” and not bow over with the hands braced in the pockets of the breeches as I had to walk before I commenced taking Nervous Prostration, etc. your remedies. When I last wrote to you in November I A lady living in St. Francis County, Ark., who de- had still pains in the upper parts of my thighs, but before scribed her nervous as completely shattered, and was system the remedies were exhausted the pain was entirely gone, and a subject to spasmodic attacks, to sleeplessness, to smoth- the mucous discharges from the nose and throat have also ering feelings and to soreness and tenderness of the womb, stopped. I am better now than I was for four years. The “ writes : My health is very much improved ; no new medicines ran out the latter part of November, but none of all old ones are much a symptoms; milder, and, in word, the pains and weakness have yet returned.” The foregoing my health has amazingly. * * * My womb improved letter was written about six months after the treatment was has diminished size and is much softer. Accept my in concluded. The Doctor has had many interesting cases of for the change in my feelings, and ever regard me gratitude spinal curvature under treatment at his office. A little as true friend.” your narrative of one will suffice. A young lady came to him braced up with iron crutches which had their support in Affection of Throat and Lung. the pockets of a band firmly buckled around the waist.— A lady living in Knox County, Me., who had been af- She was suffering much from pain in the back, and the har- fected with enlargement of the tonsils, hoarseness, predis- nes was now failing to give relief. It was moreover in- position to cough, together with painful menstruation and ducing great mischief by pressing all the organs of the some uterine difficulties, after taking treatment for some their Re- “ lower part of the body out of proper position. four months, writes : I am still improving in health; sulting from the uncomfortable harness were prolapsus of think I have received as much benefit from the last course the womb, chronic irritation in the bladder and a great deal as I did from the first. My lungs are getting very strong; of pain all through the lower portion of the body. In a have not had any pain or felt any of that weakness for six little while after following up Dr. Foote’s treatment she was weeks. My stomach is better, does not bloat so badly, and enabled to throw off her harness and by persevering in the the bad taste in my mouth is better. I am so much better remedies for some eight or ten months she considered her- l feel like a new person. I am very thankful forwhat you self restored to a condition of health. She looked have d»ne for me.” perfect like an entirely different person. Nervous and Blood Derangements. A young man living in Wyandot County, Ohio, after Opacity of the Cornea, etc. taking a four months’ course of treatment for debility, fre- A gentleman in Allen County, Ohio, having a little child with of quent headaches, constipation, weak digestion, urinary de- three years of age affected very badly an opacity the rangements, restlessness, etc., writes: “ I have done well cornea and several other difficulties growing out of a scrofu- and am grateful to you for the kind counsel you have ren- lous diathesis, at the end of a two months’ treatment, “ dered me in getting there. Feel quite strong in body, writes: I wish you to send three months’ treatment this well enough so that I am running a farm lone-handed. I think time, for I think my boy’s eyes are doing pretty con- myself better off in all respects than in former days, which sidering that he has had the measles and whooping cough for me to say is saying considerable. Thanking you once since you commenced treating him. His eyes are getting more for the general good done me, I remain.” quite strong, so that hardly any person would notice any- thing wrong from his appearance, though that cloud still

; but had different ones to look at his eyes and Epileptic Fits, etc. shows I have they all think the cloud is getting thinner and smaller. I A gentleman in Buchanan County, Iowa, over fifty years think the same. Those scrofulous sores on the boy’s head of age, who had been afflicted with epileptic fits, and had are allwell now. His head is all clean and nice.” about eight attacks in a year, together with some other complications, writes after having taken only two months’ “ Head treatment as follows : Your medicines I think cured the Troubles, etc. convulsions, for I have not had one since I commenced A gentleman living in Mariposa County, Cal., greatly at.'i rush taking your medicines. I found that I improved even fected with dizzy sensations, of blood to the head, after quitting your medicines, and thought by a careful watch heavy, oppressed feeling in the head, catarrh, etc., at the “

— : feel of myself I might continue to do so, and I find I have. end of six months’ treatment, writes I so greatly really will be necessary for The piles and other difficulties I have aie nothing in com- improved that I do not think it but in case I find I am parison to the horrible fits I had previous to your treat- me to go on with another course , course. I am ment, and I do firmly believe your medicines have cured not I will immediately send for another truly you have me of them. I feel very grateful to you." In this case thankful to you for the great improvement made I am located, eight or ten months’ treatment was recommended, but the in my health, and as soon as permanently patient seemed to get so much better that he stopped at which will be soon, I will be a regular subscriber to your the end of the two months. Health Monthly and to your other publications.” CURES OF CHRONIC DISEASES OF A GENERAL CHARACTER. 43

Weak Eyes, etc. Physical and Nervous Prostration. A young man living in Randolph County, 111., who had A young man in Sioux County, Wis., who was troubled by bad habits induced weak eyes, constipation and emis- with debilitating pains and lameness in the lower part of “ sions to some extent, writes : I am all right again. * the back, indigestion, seminal weakness, etc., after taking

I am thankful for me “ very to you curing so far.” some four months’ treatment, writes : I would say that my health is much improved since commencing the use of the General Debility and Nervous Exhaustion. medicines, Sept. 1st. I have gained twelve pounds in A lady living in Suffolk County, Mass., suffering from weight and a first rate appetite.” general physical depression and a great variety of compli- cations, involving the kidneys, alimentary canal, bladder, Nervous Exhaustion. etc., after taking six months’ treatment, writes : “ I am en- A lady living in Dakota County, Minn., who at the out- good much better than I ever joying health, anticipated set said that she did not believe in much medicine, took before your treatment. Think I am improving all the time. treatment for six months, and at the end of that time wrote : Seem to have outlived all attacks of nervous exhaustion.” “Your letter found me in excellent health and spirits.—

" • • My weight is 172 ; at the time I commenced taking Buzzing in the Ears, etc. your medicine it was 112.” This patient was subject to A young man in Scott County, Iowa, affected with gen- neuralgia, palpitation of the heart, dyspepsia, chilly feel- eral physical debility, weakness of the spine together with ings, prolapsus uteri and painful menstruation. a troublesome buzzing in the ears, after having treatment for about a year, writes : “ That your medicines have done Irritations in the Coatings of the Spinal Cord. me a great deal of good there is not a particle of doubt.— A lady ofa scrofulous diathesis living inFairfield The buzzing noise has left me. My beard and hair grow a County, Conn., for a long time peculiarly affected in both head and great deal faster. ■ Pains and aches have left and ’before spine, writes at the end of a six months’ course of treat- harvest was fat, so much so that remarks were made quite “ ment as follows : I am very much have not felt so about it.” better, well in two years as I do now. I sleep much better nights ; think it was through your treatment that I was helped.— Mental and Physical Prostration. Have had but two poor spells since I took your medicines. A young man in Duval County, Fla., under treatment The last one was about the time my husband called on you ; for mental faculties, loss of memory, weakness of impaired but have been so much better since thought I would not body, to disease, of predisposition pulmonary palpitation have another course of your medicine.” This case had the heart, spermatorrhoea, etc., after pursuing treatment very many peculiar nervous complications, and was sup- writes “ I am improving all four months, : gradually most posed at the outset to be entirely incurable. the time. I think you can cure me, and will order again as soon as I am able to do so. I very seldom have the night emissions,” (these did occur twice a week), “ and General Debility. feel a marked improvement bodily and mentallv.” A young man in Fairfield County, Conn., affected with great weakness of body, melancholy, loss of memory, poor of Hemorrhages from the Lungs, etc. sleep, palpitation the heart, weakness of the bladder and A lady in McDonough County, 111., was subject to hem- seminal weakness, etc., writes at the end of six months’ orrhages from the lungs, neuralgia, sleeplessness, ulcera- treatment: “I write asking how much longer it will be tion of the womb, etc. She had treatment for five months. necessary for me to take medicine. I can continue to take The result is given in the following letter from her hus- it two or three months longer if necessary. I now weigh “ band : “In regard to my wife’s health I must say she owes 120 pounds.” (Previous weight no). I have a good ap- better I her life as well as her present good health to you. Thanks petite and feel in general than have for many years. be to the Fate that put your good book in my way, or I cer- My blood circulates better and I sleep better nights. I feel tainly should not have my wife now.” more like working now. I still dream some during the night, but seldom have any emissions.” (He did hav,t them once a week before treatment.) Scrofulous Sore Eyes, etc. A sea captain living in Suffolk County, Mass., who had been greatly afflicted with irritations of the eyes and eye- General Debility. lids, resulting from a scrofulous diathesis, and who had suf- In a case of general debility resulting from great pre. fered from other difficulties resulting from the same cause, disposition tolooseness of the bowels, weakness of the blad,

“ after having treatment for six months, wrote : The reme- der, pains in the region of the heart, and impurities of ths dies you furnished me with have had the effect to rid me of blood, a lady in Suffolk County, Mass., near the close of a the trouble with my eyes, and my general health is g«od, six months’ treatment, writes : “ I have about finished the thanks to your treatment.” treatment which I began with you Feb. 27 for a course oi six months. You sent me an ample supply of medicines time. Your has been Evidence of Diagnostic Skill. for the treatment decidedly benefi- all left me find A lady, the wife of a gentleman in one of the Depart- cial, my troubles having gradually until I in health, a which I have ments in Washington, having a great variety of physical myself excellent blessing not en- ills, presented her case by letter, and in reply to Dr. Foote’s joyedfor nine years. My thanks to you I cannot express letter writes: “As you have given me information concern- in words. Plain PIome Talk I am decidedly pleased with. ing myself which no other physician has ever done, please Hoping to recommend you to my friends in need of medi- allow me to express my heartfelt thanks.” cal treatment, I remain.” etc. 44 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

Bronchial Affection with Complications. Variable Appetite, etc. A gentleman living in Winona County, Minn., writes; A lady living in Essex County, Mass., who was affected '* I have finished taking the medicine some time ago. I with a variable appetite, sourness and wind in the stomach, feel first rate. I never felt so well in my life.” palpitation of the heart, prolapsus uteri and a great variety “ of other difficulties, writes : I am stronger and better every than when I commenced treatment. ‘ Impure Blood. way your My appe- tite is more regular ; I can usually tell now when I have A gentleman living in Bermuda, had from birth a scrofu- eaten enough.” lous impurity. During his youth syphilitic infection was added. A great variety of complications grew out of these inherited and acquired impurities. At the end of a four Sleeplessness, etc. months’ course of treatment, he writes: “ I have improved A lady living in La Fayette County, Mo., troubled with so much of late that my friends tell me I look as well as sleeplessness, indigestion and leucorrhcea, writes : “ I feel ever I did.” like a new person entirely. I have been doubly paid for the money I have expended for your medicine. I suffered General Debility, etc, greatly in the last year with my stomach and bowels, par- A lady living in Summit County, Ohio, suffering from a ticularly in the summer months ; became so nervous at the variety of complications which produced great prostration, time, and suffered so for sleep, I felt that I would go crazy; eat after following up treatment for some six months, writes : could nothing except corn-starch boiled in milk. Now “ My health is still improving slowly. I am able to do I can eat everything and feel comfortable, I have eaten this summer more work than I ever expected to ; yet cannot do much more vegetables than for years. Doctor, I feel heavy work. Shall always be grateful for your skill in my very grateful to you ; may your days be prolonged on earth, case. Yours with much respect.” and may God bless you in jour noble calling.”

A Complicated Case. Predisposition to Take Cold. A gentleman living in Franklin County, Vt., who had A lady living in Knox County, Me., who had been suffer- treatment for a great variety of difficulties, some years ago ing from a peculiar predisposition to catch cold, which cold in the course of a letter to Dr. Foote, writes : “ I have not would occasion a great variety of pains and other trouble- forgotten the doctor who saved me to so many years of use- some symptoms, after taking treatment for some six months,

” by timely and skillful treatment “ that “ fulness, his of my disease. writes : I think only for (the medicine) I should Perhaps you have forgotten the poor, sick painter of Auld have been in my grave now, for when I sent to you, for Lang Syne.” three years I bad not done anything hardly, and if I only looked out of doors I would catch cold ; and now I do my Eyes and Bowels. work alone, and have for more than a year, and can go out A gentleman living in Doniphan County, Kans., who had in a rain storm and the cold, and I don’t catch cold, and if sore eyes, dulness of vision, almost blindness of the left eye I do I don’t have the inflammation as I used to. Some- and chronic looseness of the bowels, after pursuing treat- times if I get a very bad cold, I have a little touch of it. ment for only one month concludes that he is well and says : I am very grateful to you for your attention.” “ I have used up all the medicine, and I feel well. My bowels are all right. I wish that I had got that medicine A Complicated Case. have been about five years sooner ; I would better off than A lady living in Oneida Connty, N. Y., affected with I am.” sleeplessness, erysipelatous eruptions, great weakness of body, cold hands and feet, neuralgia in the head, catarrh, Salt Rheum, etc. defective vision, ringing and roaring in the ears, canker in A gentleman living in Bristol County, Mass., of a scrof- the mouth, bronchial and throat affections, tenderness, sore- ulous diathesis, and suffering from salt rheum, pain and ness and pain in the chest, palpitation of the heart, obsti- smarting in passing water, lameness across the lower part nate dyspepsia, constipated bowels and tenderness in the of the back, and seminal weakness, after pursuing treatment abdomen, lameness across the lower part of the back, piles,

“ a few months writes : I have already received more ben- pain in the region of the bladder, leucorrhcea, bearing efit from your medicine than from all that I have taken down and dragging feeling in the region of the womb, before. I can see a gradual improvement. It is just as painful menstruation, and a variety of minor ills too nu- you told me, and I feel that I can look forward to the time merous to mention, after pursuing treatment for five or six be “ when I shall perfectly well.” months, writes : All my friends are surprised and delight- ed to see me look sowell and on my feet again. Less than Blood Impurity and Nervous Prostration. a year ago, it was thought by many that I could never get A gentleman living in Alleghany County, Md., suffering well. I can say it is by your good, mild and strengthening from both blood and nervous disturbance, resulting in a medicines, and good care at home that I am so well.” It predisposition to blisters on the nose, sore eyes at night, may be well enough to remark that this patient said at the sneezing and expectoration, seminal losses and varicocele, outset she could not take strong medicines. writes : “ There is balm in Gilead and a physician there, and I thank God that He has placed abalm and a physician Poor Blood, etc. in New York City in the person of Dr. Foote. The passing A gentleman in Alameda County, Cal., suffering from off of semen is greatly stopped. I do not raise so much much debility and a variety of uncomfortable symptoms, mucous from the lungs. I feel better in every respect. resulting from a low state of the blood, after pursuing Your treatment is treatment, and no humbug about it.” treatment for four months, concludes a letter by saying:— CURES OF CHRONIC DISEASES OF A GENERAL CHARACTER. 45

“ Thanking you for the good you have done me and with Epilepsy. man Clara County, Cal., under treat- the assurance that I am well satisfied so far with the results A young in Santa the end of one month, writes of my investment, I am very truly yours,” etc. ment for epileptic fits, at : “ I think I am improving. Have not had a fit since Octo- de- A lady in Summit county, Ohio, affected by general ber 5th. I had several that week, but they were very light.” bility, sleeplessness, catarrh, gnawing, burning pain, sore- ness and wind in the stomach, constipation, leucorrhcea, Anaemia, etc. etc., after taking the remedies for a couple of months, wrote: A lady living in Lyne County, Kansas, after taking treat- “ I have gained rapidly in strength the past month—also in ment some six months for an impoverished state of the flesh, my present weight being 105, a gain of twenty pounds blood accompanied with a variety of prostrating symptoms, in six weeks. I am so thankful that I am getting so much writes : “ My stomach has not been sore since I wrote you. she writes ‘‘lam better.” At the end of the fifth month : I have done more and harder work in my garden during weak- still gaining in strength ; yet have some pains and the past month than during the same length of time before nesses, but when I think what I was one year ago I can for six years.” but wonder at the improvement. I have passed seventy three worms since my last report, but none in the last Fainting Fits, etc. weeks.” Some three years after finishing the treatment A gentleman living in Bergen County, N. J., having a “ who predisposed to fainting she writes ; I am grateful to you for the good you have tendency to epilepsy and was treat- done me. I have no doubt I should have been under the spells, want of control of his limbs, etc., after having “ I close with- sod long ago but for your treatment.” ment for about four months, writes : cannot out assuring you that I have every confidence in the effi- the Bed-Ridden. ciency of your medicines, and i attribute to them solely N. \., in a of A young lady in Rockland County, letter fact that I am at present feeling better and stronger than treatment, consultation alludes to a bed-ridden case under at any other period during the past few years. the patient having a great variety of serious complications, among which were uterine, urinary, dyspeptic and bron- Paralysis and Wasting of the Leg. head- chial affections, together with continuous neuralgic A lad living in Norfolk County, Mass., affected with “ aches, etc. In this letter the writer says : I have been paralysis of the left leg and much wasting of the limb, acquainted with your work for years through one of your after pursuing treatment for only three months, wrote, or ” patients, a relative and a very dear friend of mine, whose rather one of his parents wrote for him ; \\ e still think cure alone was certainly enough to render you famous. that the boy’s leg is growing, gaining flesh, for when we • • ‘ With the exception of her mother, sisters and phy- commenced with your medicine it was but the skeleton of the first he sician, no one saw as much of her as I did during a leg.” The last heard of this patient was that had got three was year that she was bed-ridden. For months I so much better and his leg so much longer and stronger her constant companion by day and sat up half of every that he had left home to learn a trade. realize alternate night, fanningher unceasingly, and I can for her. Her recovery seems a fully what you have done Poisons, etc. again Malarial indeed ; after a second tedious illness she is \ who miracle A young man living in New York County, N. thanks to Only to-day I received a letter gaining, you. had been for twelve years subject to chills and fever to- her telling me she was busy and thankful for the from gether with a great variety of troublesome symptoms grow- ability to be so busy.” ing out of malarial poison, writes at the end of two months’ 1 “ Your treatment has so farresulted in so much Eyes. treatment: Weak and Inflamed I good for me that I should always reproach myself should living in Bennington County, Vt., who had A gentleman it now.” of the eyes discontinue been afflicted for ten years with an affection with a which came after an attack of diphtheria, together Nervous and Physical Prostration. variety of other complications, such as catarrh, toipid liver writing from W indharn County, ad- was advised to pursue treatment for A clergyman and seminal weakness, “ as : dear friend : I hasten months he wrote : dressed Dr. Foote follows My six or eight months. At the end of two months to assure of my safe arrival to my home and friends “ say that the two you It gives me great pleasure to Mountains. very satisfactory in- here among the quiet and cool of the Green course which I have taken has been weeks’ tour has tested my strength to the utmost, eyes and catarrh are concerned. In fact, My three deed as far as my kept constantly at work. I wouldn’t take as I wasted no minutes idly, but as I remarked to a friend the other day, as I my at your office has, in its results, had a grand already received ; that is But visit $500 for the benefit I have and mind and I am wouldn’t take five times moral effect upon my nervous system ; feel now, and if it is permanent I Under which happy to have seen you and feel much encouraged. that amount. My head is as clear as a bell, gives I much, as being the instrument of great good comfort than I can describe. I haven’t had a cold God owe you me more restoring the condition of health I enjoy, the changes we have had in the to me in me to this winter, and don’t feel to be improved under for which, though not perfect, I still look are improving all the time, and the least. My eyes treatment and the exercise of your rare skill. a after this treat- your excellent most part I call them well.” About year knowledge of I intuitive and acquired dis- on Dr. Foote. Nearly all of his consider your ment the patient called as bordering on the miracu- was to con- ease and its relation to cure difficulties were gone. Advice, however, given relieving lous. May you continue your career of success in treatment until every remaining symptom should tinue the humanity, is my humble prayer. I shall procure however, has remained so com- afflicted be removed. The patient, My emotions burst con- writing he has not you as many patients as possible. paratively well that up to the present with and the trol and choked my utterance at parting you, resumed. 46 EVIDENCES OF DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS.

and left in any di- tears of pure gratitude at the quick recollection of what the muscles relaxed his head to move you had done for me, would unbidden flow. May kind rection.” “ but Heaven bless you, dear sir, and should we meet no more Several eminent physicians were consulted, they all be by the here, give me to grasp your hand in the soon-coming im- thought that if he ever recovered it would not nature mortal life. I am with much respect and esteem,” etc. use of medicine, but must overcome it. About two years since my wife, myself and boy visited you and put him under after which Paralysis, Rheumatism, etc. your treatment, he commenced gain- ing, and he is and is attending school and A gentleman living in Jefferson County, N. Y., writes : now quite strong aged “ I have taken my medicines, and the result is I am now in doing well.” The case alluded to was a little boy, feet, normal health. Your remedies were mild, and did the five years, who lost the use of hands, arms, limbs and work complete. I recommended two more patients to you, in consequence of a stone hitting him in the spine, aided by little and presume you can help them.” constitutional scrofulous impurities. The fellow looked like a shapeless mass when presented to Dr. Foote Predisposition to Colds, etc. for examination, being entirely unable to stand alone or A gentleman living in Providence County, R. I., who sustain his body in an upright position. was greatly predisposed to take cold and to have enlarge- ment of the tonsils and to dyspeptic troubles and catarrh, A Case of Irritation and Ulceration of the writes: “Your medicine, which I received last July, has Mucous Membranes throughout the Entire Sys- done me a great deal of good. My stomach is much bet- tem ARISING FROM a SCROFULOUS DIATHESIS. ter. I have some wind gathering in it, but that extreme In this case the child had been given up by both Allo- soreness has left me ; and you will soon have another pa- pathic and Homoeopathic physicians, who had been attend- tient, a friend of mine from this place. I shall do all I can ing it, and was considered entirely hopeless. Not being to advise those who are afflicted to try your medicine. My in the habit of visiting patients at their houses, I proposed bowels are in a much better condition.’' to the mother, who was living in N. Y. city, that if she would send me, hourly, bulletins regarding the state of the Nervous Prostration, etc. child, 1 would do the best I could for it. The treatment A lady living in Franklin County, Vt., after pursuing resulted in the cure of child, and the following was received “You treatment for several months, wrote ; can not imag- nearly a year subsequently : “It is some time since I met walk a few rods ine how strange it seems to me to out and you ; but do not believe for one moment that I have ever return without being prostrated with fatigue. Oh, it is such forgotten your kindness to me and unselfish attention to my a luxury. The money we sent you is the best investment dear baby. To you, through Providence, I owe her life ; we ever made. It seems perfectly wonderful that man’s in- and I have sometimes feared that you would deem me un- genuity could invent remedies that could so harmonize with grateful for your interest in her behalf at that time. But nature. We sometimes wonder if you are a man of prayer, you know not my earnest feelings if you think I can ever and we sometimes pray that your life may long be spared forget you and your generous, thoughtful care at a time to complete the great work you have commenced.” Still when I was overwhelmed with sorrow and borne down with later. “You may think me very ungrateful and entirely grief and anxiety. I am more than repaid in the health forgetful of past favors, but I assure you it is not so. I am and strength which my dear little Blanche is now blessed forcibly reminded each day of your skill in treating chronic with. But in the fullness of my joy, I can look back to the diseases by the comfortable health I enjoy and the amount time when she was but sfcarcely breathing her little life of I am enabled to perform.” ; and a to me, not to mine labor away you, stranger though > saved her to bless my future life.”

A Case of Scrofulous Paralysis and Physical Deformity. A Bed-Ridden Paralytic. A patient in Madison County, N. Y., wrote . “You will A lady quite advanced in age living in Fulton County, recollect a paralytic child you saw, nearly a yearsince, from 111., unable to sit up from partial paralysis, general debility Peterboro. The son of Col. has entirely recovered and a variety of complications, was only promised benefit, from the paralysis and is and has been about the streets not a cure. After the old lady had been pursuing the treat- with other children during the Spring and Summer. Ilis ment for a few months her daughter wrote : “ We must say general health seems now quite perfect.” Subsequently we are glad we heard of you, for you have done more for Dr. Foote received a letter from the father of the child as her than any one. At the time you began to treat her I “ follows: My son, now between seven and eight years of had to lift her like a baby ; but thank God through His age, was injured three years ago this month by receiving a blessing and your treatment she is able to get out of bed blow upon the spine, near the small of his back. A few and sit up while it is made, and has done so for a long days after he took cold and it settled there; the muscles time. She had the Summer disease for eleven years, but by leading to his neck contracted and drew his head over side- taking your medicines she did not have it last Summer: ways toward his shoulder, and there it remained for some that was a great thing. She could not see to read and did months, during which time he had intense spasmodic pain not know who people were, and she had to have her room at intervals of a few hours each, causing the sweat to start dark ; she could not bear light. But after using your medi- out in large drops over him. He lost the strength and use cine and the Eye-Sharpener she can read and have her of the upper part of his body first, and then the lower ex- room light. Oh, what a great blessing ! She often says ; tremities. One arm and the opposite leg began to decay or < I never thought I would be able to read again. God bless grow smaller, and he became entirely helpless—so much so Dr. Foote. If it had not been for him 1 should not have that he could not move a limb or open or shut his hands.— been as I am now.’ Doctor, we are very much obliged to After this, pain seemed to leave him ; he could not sit up ; you for your kindness and hope the Lord will reward you. CURES OF CHRONIC DISEASES OF A GENERAL CHARACTER. 47

the other ? Have or disagreeable dreams i Sleeplessness, Loss of Memory, General Debility, on you frightful lascivious Are Roaring Amorous or dreams? you drowsy during Rush of Blood to the Head, Ringing and the day ? Are you superstitious, or have you much regard Sexual “ “ in the Ears, Dyspepsia, Constipation, for what are called signs,’' omens,” the predictions of "Weakness, etc. fortune-tellers, astrologers, &c. ? Are you made to laugh easily? 5th. Have you any bodily de- A young man living, in Eaton county, Mich., who had or cry formity ; if so, were you bom with it, or did it happen by in for the difficulties, and some treatment 1873 foregoing disease accident? Did you ever meet with any acci- “Your or other symptoms, writes in the spring of 1878: dent which caused sickness or lameness, or severe pain at Health Monthly for April I read with much interest, the time; if so, what? Have you pimples, salt-rheum, are in warm and inclose amount to renew my subscription. I wish to erysipelas, ulcers, abscesses, or cancer, or you weather subject to what are called pimples or rash ? Have be recorded in your memory as one of your old patients been vaccinated ; and if so, did the vaccination pro- ability, and hav- you who, knowing from actual experience your duce any unusual inflammation or soreness? Were you ing confidence in your wisdom and integrity, is always ever poisoned by anything which you have eaten, or by a character? ready to uphold and applaud you in any honorable en- coming in contact with anything of poisonous the Have you taken much mercury? Have you any tumors deavor to promote the moral and physioal elevation of ) if sd, where, and how have you had them the swellings, long human race, and thereby prevent in a measure suffering Have you rupture or hernia, or any bunches or protuberan- so, which we bring upon ourselves and posterity by an igno- ces in the belly, groin, thigh, or elsewhere ; and if do rant violation of the laws of nature. I wish you many they disappear when you lie down, or protrude worsewhen you sneeze, cough or strain ? Do you feel strong or weak years of health and strength to continue your glorious in body ? How far can you walk ? flow far can you run the work for cause of humanity.” without getting out of breath ? Is your flesh hard, or soft and flabby ? Do you like exercise, or do you try to avoid it? Are your hands and feet cold or warm? Are they To Those at a Distance who wish to Consult moist, dry, or hot? 6th. What are your habits —are you regular to bed? Do you use stimulants ; and if Dr. Foote. so what ? Do you use tea or coffee ? Do you chew, smoke, No argument is necessary in this place to con- snuff, or dip tobacco ? Do you use opium ? Do you use vince the invalid reader that his or her disease animal food? Do you eat rich pastries, pickles, or condi- ments, excessively ? Do you eat pork ? Do you eat at may be successfully treated, if it indeed be a cura- bed-time? Are you conscious of having injured yourself the and of a per- by any bad habit? 7th. Any trouble in the ble case, without expense fatigue the head ; headache, any pains, neuralgic or otherwise, in sonal visit to the Doctor’s office. Nearly all of the front, back, or sides of the head, or in the face or neck, testimonials given in this pamphlet are from those dizzy sensations,rush of blood to the head, heavy oppressed feelings ? Do you have excessive mucous discharges from who have never seen Dr. Foote in person. When, the nose or throat, attended with heaviness or pain over however, it is entirely convenient it is perhaps the eyes ? 8th. Are you troubled with weak or inflamed eyes, or irritated eye-lids—have you dullness more satisfactory to both patient and physician of vision—stars—specks or streaks of rays floating before to have a personal interview. In all instances the sight—sparks of fire before the sight—halos or circles of wishing to around a gas, lamp, or candle light—appearance clouds wherein a visit is not practicable those or mists before the sight—the sight of eye enlarged—do consult the Doctor should take the following ques- you squint—are the eyes watery; and if so do the tears trickle down the cheeks—is there twitching of the eyes or a their cases letter. tions as guide in presenting by eye-lids—pains or throbbing in eye-ball or about the eyes Answer only those questions which apply to the —any inability to keep the eyes open —do the eyes become gummed or glued during sleep—have they been injured by case. particular attention to those symptoms Call anything gettinginto them—have they been operated upon ? which have been found to be the most painful, or 9th. Any trouble about the ears—defective in the ears—are they too sen- most The following are the ©r ringing the troublesome. sitive to sound—earache —discharges—excess of wax—dry- QUESTIONS TO INVALIDS. ness ? 10th. Is the tongue coated; if so, all or in patches—white or yellow ; are of hair and eyes, and what over or on the back, First. What the color your there deep furrows or wrinkles, or small red points or pim- complexion ? Age ? Are you tall, average height, or the ples on the tongue? nth. Any trouble in the ? Are you fleshy, plump or lean ? Is your neck long, short or gums—scurvy in the gums ; have length, What is your present weight? mouth—diseased teeth average or short? you teeth filled with several different kinds of metal—- in health ? 2d. Is your What your weight when —dryness—excessive moisture —any un- soft rough and dry? Is it sallow canker in mouth skin and moist, or is it taste in mouth—bad breath? 12th. red on it anywhere ? pleasant or yellow, or are there brown or spots of the throat—raise from throat—tickling in if so, at what Any affection 3d. Are your parents living; the throat—predisposition to soreness—choking sensations dead, of what did they die ? Any age? If either, or both —hoarseness or weakness of voice—enlargement of the family ? Do know if your hereditary disease in the you Do take cold easily; and of were out of health at the time tonsils? 13th. you parents, or either them, if so, does it affect you—does it produce coughing conception, or infancy ; and if so, what was where of your birth —dry or loose cough—affect you most nights or mornings? disease ? Have you lost brothers ®r sisters ; if so, of the 14th. If you suspect affection of the lungs, they ? Have you lost children if so, of what did die ; what is the measure round the chest when take a full what Are you affected you did they die? 4th. breath, and what is the measure when you exhaust the melancholy or despondency ? Any trouble of mind ; with breath? If you know how, count the pulsations of the what causes it? Have you ever had fits or spas- if so, wrist, and state how many in one minute, in different pos- of any kind? Have you ever been se- modic difficulties tures—lying down, sitting, and standing. Have you ten- suddenly or kept a long time under verely and frightened, derness, pain, soreness, constrictions, or weakness, about influence of great anxiety or fear? Have you ever the the chest ? Do raise ; and if so, does the expectora- mind with study or mental labor? Are you over-taxed your tion sink water—is it streaked with blood—do you raise with loss of memory? Have you met with in you affected blood—are ankles swelled —do have night-sweats disappointments, which, for the time-being, your you any painful —flushed face in the afternoon—chills—do you stoop in nearly or prostrated you? Do you sleep well; and quite sitting or walking ? Did you ever have intermittent, re- if it make any difference as to the position you not, does mittent, typhoid, orbilious fever 15 th. Have occupy in sleeping ? Can you rest better on one side than. 48 EVIDENCES OE DR. FOOTE'S SUCCESS. you palpitation of the heart —pain or soreness about the plan in consulting Dr. F., and, although it is by no means heart —any unusual feeling there—a sense of stoppage, or important, something may occasionally be gained by the pa- other disagreeable symptoms ? 16th. Anything tient so doing. All may safely confide in the Doctor in de- the matter with the stomach—dyspepsia, soreness, gnaw- scribing fully and frankly a case, or giving the result of ing, burning, or pain in the stomach—any feeling of empti- treatment. He is daily in receipt of letters from patients ness or goneness, sourness, wind, trembling, nausea or giving the most gratifying accounts of the effects experi- sickness in that region? Is the appetite good, poor, varia- enced in pursuing his advice, and which, if published,with ble, voracious ? Are you, or have you been, careless about full name and address, would greatly redound to his credit, what and when you eat ? 17th. Anything the but he never publishes any letter or parts of letters, with matter with the bowels —are they loose, costive, bloated, the name of the author, unless his or her consent has been 3ore or tender on pressure ? Have you taken much expressly given, and even then, but seldom, as the good re- physic? Have you piles; if so, blind, bleeding, itching, sults of his practice are too well known to need any evi- internal or external ? Have you fistula ? 18th. dence of this kind. Do you have weakness, pain, soreness, or lameness, across the lower part of the back? Do you have any pain or un- easy feeling in the lower extremity of the bowels, over the No Charge for Consultation. Do often region of the bladder ? you have to pass water ; It has always been the Doctor’s practice to make no if so, how often—and does much or little pass at each and charge for consultation. have — who never time? Do you have pain or smarting in passing water? Those, however, “ Is there sediment; and if so, is it red, white, brown, yel- read his Plain Home Talk, embracing Medical Common low, or grit ty ? lias the urine a milky appearance ? Does Sense,” would find it to their advantage toaccompany their matter, or you blood, giavel pass with the urine? Have letter descriptive of their cases with a postal money-order had any venereal disease ; if so, what, and when, and how or a check to the amount of the price of the book, and re- long were you affected ? 19th. 1>® you have of pain in any part of the body ; if so, where ? Do you feel ceive therefor a copy this publication, postage prepaid, weakness, soreness, numbness, or other disagreeable sensa- by mail. If any one so consulting should for any reason Are subject to tion in any part of your system? you fail to become a patient, the book will give invaluable ad- cramps? 20th. Are you married or single ; if vice on a variety of bearing im- married have you children ; and if so, are they heabhy?— great topics upon the most If no children, do you desire them ? Is the fault supposed portant habits of life. If the correspondent becomes a to be wholly on the part of the husband or the wife, or patient the perusal of the book will better enable him or the both? If children desired, describe color of yourpart her to follow Dr. Foote’s advice and treatment intelligently. ner’s complexion, height, weight, age —howmany eyes, hair, The prices of the various styles of this publication years married, (and give all information you may think of are importance in enabling a physician to ascertain the cause of given where the work is advertised on another page. your unfruitfulness.). .. ..' 21st. If a male, do you have involuntary seminal emissions ; and if so, how often -—at night, or during the d,ay, or both—how often at night Terms of Treatment. —how often, and when, during the day ? Do these emis- The terms for treatment will always be given in the let- result from excessive sions from solitary indulgence or ter received by the invalid in answer to the one descriptive sexual intercourse, or both ? Is your erectile power par- of the case. Terms vary of course according tially or wholly gone? If married, is the discharge of se- to the simple men premature in sexual intercourse ? If married, did you or complicated symptoms presented. But they are always have involuntary emissions before marriage ? Are the tes- remarkably reasonable when considered in connection with ? Are swoolen, ticles diminishing in size they enlarged, the fact that the Doctor supplies ready for use the remedies aching, tender to the touch ? In taking hold of the painful, to be employed. Pursuing, as he does, testicles, is there any feeling like a bunch of earth-worms a Botanical sys- with methods in the scrotum or pouch ? Have you excessive or morbid tem, peculiar to his own formulas and the fa- amative passion? 22d. If a female, are you cilities of his own laboratory, he could not give written troubled leucorrhcea, or whites? Have you bear- with any prescriptions which any druggist could fill. Then, too, ing down, or dragging feeling in the region of the womb ? by preparing the remedies himself or by Is sexual intercourse painful ? Are you affected with sexual competent phar- apathy, or any want of amative excitability during sexual maceutists under his personal supervision, he knows just connection ? Are you troubled with excessive amative de- what his remedies are and can better tell just what they sires ? Are your courses regular—painful before, after, or will accomplish. Remedies are never prepared for less during the flow—slight in quantity, or profuse, or about than one month’s use, while those who need treatment fight ? How many days do they continue ? Do you have for soreness, irritation, smarting, or itching in the vagina ?— several months in many instances order at one time a sup- had how many, and at for Have you ever miscarriage ; if so, ply sufficient to last two, four, or six months. This is of at each and were the causes what period pregnancy time, especially the case among those who have had personal ob- accidental, medical, or surgical? 23d. Is the servation of the Doctor’s methods and wonderful success. place of your residence considered healthful ? Answers to the above questions will enable Dr. Foote to judge nearly, if not quite, as correctly of the nature and ex- Those having Chronic Diseases tent of a disease as a personal examination. In answer- Are requested to answer the questions and see ing, Correspondents need not say they are not then for how TROUBLED WITH THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER DIFFICULTY, themselves clearly and satisfactorily Dr. Foote can have look but mention only the symptoms they , as they over explain to them the remote and immediate causes of their by Correspondents are also re- the questions one one. ailments. This in itself will pay one for the trouble of quested NOT TO SIMPLY SAY YES OR No, AFTER PUTTING writing to Dr. Foote. Such letters should DOWN THE FIGURES BEFORE EACH SET OF QUESTIONS, but always con- state the symptoms fully. Many of the questions pertain- tain a letter stamp to prepay reply. ing to complexion, height, weight, measure, &c„ may ap- Letters may be addressed to pear, at first sight, trifling, but they are of first importance, because on answers to these the Doctor must depend m DR. E. B. FOOTE, forming his opinion of the temperament of one whom he is BOX NEW YORK CITY, not permitted to see , therefore no one should pass over 788 N. Y. them in describing his or her case. When perfectly con- Those wishing to call on the Doctor will find his venient to do so, in addition to answers to the questions, office at a daguerreotype, ambrotype, or photograph might be sent with the letter- Many invalids at a distance pursue this No. 120 LEXINGTON AYE. COR, E. 28th ST.. N. V The Magnetic Ointment. Magnetic Anti-Bilious Fills. It is a positive cure for all sprains, bruises, bums, flesh wounds, These pills are an entirely-vegetable substitute for mercury, and sore throat, stiff-neck, backache, broken breast, sore nipples, colio their action upon the liver is far superior to that of any drug. They pains, cramps, earache, pains in all parts of thesystem: and greatly are each electrically negative, and when taken into the stomach assuages thepains of hard and soft corns, boils, felons, carbuncles, they stimulate the positive forces of the gastric juice to healthy rheumatism, neuralgia, etc. action and attract the same forces of eliminationto act upon the It is a reliable medicine for children, who should not be dosed functions of the liver, causing a free dischargeof bile into the in- with drugs. This external medicine will answer in nearly every testinal canal, where its dissolving and lubricatingproperties soften emergency in removing the ills common to infants. Applied to the the excrementitious matters and give them an easy and natural stomach it relieves wind-colic, loss of appetite, sour stomach, etc. passage through the small intestines and lower bowel, while the Applied tothe bowels it softensexcrementitious matter, relieving properties of the medicine continue to act as a tonic upon all these constipation. It also cures diarrhoea, by relieving the intestinal enfeebled or inactive organs and canals. They infallibly cure bil- irritation which causes it, ifapplied to thebowels. It is a valuable ious headache, ordinary or chronic constipation, want of tone of remedy for thenursery. Every young mother should have it. the stomach or bowels, promote digestion, cause healthy assimila- It greatlypromotes easy labourand should be conviently at hand. tion of nutriment, and, in fact, are the best familypill in use. Sample pot, containing 2-oz., 50 cents. Large size, $1.00, Sample box (40 pills) 20 cents; sixboxes for $1.00. WHAT PEOPLE SAY OF THESE PILLS WHAT ITS FRIENDS SAY OF IT. WHO HAVE TESTED THEM AND “FOUND THEM GOOD.’* FROM THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT AND ORDER MORE. The following are quotations from bona-fide letters on file in For Everything.—“ Wo cannot get along without your magnetic Dr. Foote’s office, but the names are omitted as they are extracts ointment, for it is the best medicine for everything that we ever fromconfidential letters: used. One of our neighbors had sore breasts and my wife sent her “Your anti-bilious pills are the best I have ever taken, and I some of it, whichcured her in two days.” would not be without them for ten times what they cost. ifact, I For Ilheumatisin.—The Rev. Wm. Scott Downey, of New-York think they have done more for methan any other medicines.’’ City, says: “I write from my sick chamber to say your magnetic “ Please forward another dozenboxes of your pills. Theyare the ointment is one of thebestremedies for therheumatism, cuts, piles, best I have ever used, and I have tried several kinds.’’ carbuncles and corns that can bo used. The more I use the oint- “ A lady friend was stopping with me last summer and was sub- ment the more Iam astonished at its efficacy. For the good of our jectto bilious attacks. I urged her to take some of my pills, but neighbors I advise you to set its value before thepublic. WereI she said: ‘ No ; I havenot taken a pill for tenyears; ten yearsago young and in health I am quite certain I could make a living from I declared I would never takeanother pill.’ But at last I prevailed being your agent, selling that ointment particularly.” upon her to try these and she was sodelighted with their effect that For Piles.—A lady patient writes : “ I gave some of your mag- she wished me to send and get hera box and gave me no rest ui>' il netic ointment to a lady who was suffering with piles and it helped I didso. She says she will never takeany other kind, as these .re her so much that she desired mo to sell her a bottle of mine, which so different and so much better in their action than any she ,ver I did. She said she wanted more.” A physician also writes: “ I took before. My uncle’s family always used castor oil whei any- have found it to effect speedy relief in piles.” thing was wrong with one of thefamily. I teasedthem into trying For Confinement.—A lady writes: “I was confined July 2 and pills, and the result is they now take them forevery ailment, from had a very quick and easy time. I think your ointment the best chills and fever down to—I had almost said, in-growing toe-nails.” thing ever tried in confinement.” Magnetic Catarrh Ealm. Magic Eye Lotion. A Healing and Cleansing Application for This lotion is made from one of Dr. Foote’s old standard and CATARRH of the NOSE, EYES or EARS and SORE LIPS. most-successful formulas. 11 is the best known remedy for chronic Relieves the soreness and congestion attending Colds in the nore eyes, granular lids, and for specific inflammations or influenza. Head, Hay Fever, etc. Disinfects the discharges and softens the The main are sent by mail in an envelopepackage, Eye-lids, ingredients Bcabs in chronic Catarrh. A specific for Inflamed simple directionsfor making a water.solution ready Chapped lips, Itching Piles, Fissure of the anus, and all with full and irritable, itching, and discharging mucous membranes. Price, 50 for use. Price, 50 cents. cents per box; by mail, 60 cents, in postage stamps.

Rupture—Inguinal Hernia. Old Ey es Made New! - MEN AND WOMEN RISK THEIR LIVES By neglecting to do anything for BY A SAFE AND SURE METHOD OF CURING ruptures, and deaths from stran- PRESBYOPIA, or gulated hernia are, consequently, FAR-SIGHT. common. Therefore, wear a truss, A mechanical but thoroughly however uncomfortable, and grin physiological and rational method and bear it, if you cannot do better. which has proved successful in There are but two ways to cure thousands of cases —the inventor hernia—either by surgical opera- being among the first to b6 bene- tion, which is sometimes a failure, fited, and the present proprietor, or by wearing a suitable truss and a Cl’RATIVE PAD. Some Dr. FOOTE, Sr., is one of the large advertise to cure it without trusses, but they put on a kind of a number who have used it to ad- or salves for truss and callit an “appliance.” Some have lotions vantage of late. A thorough statement of the causes of Far-sight, is a outward application; but they will not do, for what neededis the reason why elderly persons have been compelled to resort to deep, that cause enough inflammatory irritating pressure will spectacles, and a clear explanation of how they may be relieved abdominal bring new tissue to the weakened action in the walls to from this necessity and the many petty annoyances of it, is pub- spot and repair the breach; and the best pad yet introduced for the lished in a pamphlet- entitled “Old Eyes Made New,” which will purpose isDr. Hick’s Patent “ PERHANENT-CURE” PAD, be sent to any address for 10 cents. It contains which has a “thumb” of raw rubber in thecenter. not only an interesting and instructive essay on This constantly nudges the deep tissues, bringing failing sight numerous convincing about a cure by mechanical irritation, safely and but also testi- monials without suffering, for when one feels too much which prove that soreness from this pressure he can substitute for HR. FOOTE’S EYE - SHARPENER a few days the RELIEF PAD, which has a PERMANENT CURE is one PAD . the safe, ready and reliable instrument for smooth and “air-inflated,” making face is it the the restoration of good vision. It is sent by mail, support most comfortable and reliable ever in- prepaid, to any address for only $2, with full direc- vented. These pads, with metal parts —which tions for use. It has cured far-sightin men over eighty years of age make possible to them to almost any it attach CROSS CUT OR RELIEF —in one case where spectacles had been use for thirty years, but by for $5, or one alone for $3 PAD in truss—are sent mail itis not persons who are near-sighted. ” useful to young A “patent lever single truss, with both pads, for $15. or a double truss, with ball-and-socket joints, for $25. These prices are not A FEW SAMPLE TESTIMONIALS. ordinary pads only sus “ high, but fair and square, for trusses and I am delighted with the eye-sharpener; have not used glasses Most tain, do not cure, and are less comfortable. of the specialists for two months, though I have had to use them for twenty-eight $100 for “curative ap- in treatment of rupture charge over their years. E. S. MILLER, Albany, N. Y.” here “ pliances,” which are in no respect better than those described. I have used your eye-sharpener and found it will do all you The expensive only does Dr. Hick’s pad, by appliances can cure as claim for it. Dr. J. G. BUCHANAN.” deep pressure, they are less easilyborne and cost mechanical but A superannuated Minister of the M. E. Church says : “I used “ Rup- too much. A pamphlet entitled Comfort and Cure for the your eye-sharpener sixteen years ago successfully. Sold about subject tured,” price 10 cents, gives a full treatise on the and one hundred altogether. I am sixty-six years old and writing pads from Prof. convincing testimonials to the value of these without glassesby lamp-light. Several friends want me to supply Silliman and Dr. Valentine Mott. A physician in Dowagiac, them. Inclosed find order for three.” “ sending me a “ Mich., writes: Perhaps "you will remember truss I bought your eye-sharpener several years ago, used it and set to fit. some time ago for an old gentleman who was very difficult aside my glasses. So has my wife. have passed my eighty-eighth entirely I Well, he came to see me the other day and reports himself birthday and my wife has passed her eightieth. I can now see never ex- well. Ho was seventy-three years old that day and said lie better without glasses than I could fifteen years ago when I used delighted pected it to healup so on an old man. He is very much them. LOUIS BANCROFT, Springfield, O.” and says it was the only one he found in the thirty comfortable Liberal Terms to Agents. Address years he had been obliged to wear one.” Address Dr. E. B. FOOTF (Order department,) AYE., T ORK- Dr. E. B. FOOTE, 120 LEXINGTON AVE,, NEW-YORK. 120 LEXINGTON NEW Murray Hill Publishing Co., 129 East Twenty-eighth St., ITew-Yorb, Issue the followingValuable Books on Medical, Social and Sexual Subjects : Plain Home Talk and Medical Common Sense. By Dr. E. B. Foote. In one handsome 12mo volume of nearly 1000 pages, fully illustrated. Cloth, $3.25—in English or German. 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