gag i /I|a|| IkiaiJLijgßm fikjll JIHM Pi lIS ( : >LZ«rvr pPM v k x ' ,Of:w BEWARE OF DANGEROUS he above pict- urc represents the Union De- -ffl- pot on the ' right and on the left a part of One of the three buildings of the Surgical Institute, which is only half a sauare north of denot. as will be < iiaii tb uuuu ui ucpui, as win uo Been. The main entrance of the depot fronts north, the narrow entrance fronts west. In passing out of the main entrance of the depot you turn diagonally to the left to Illinois street, where you will see the tunnel on your left, which goes un- der the railroad tracks. But keep straightforward north on Illinois street to the Surgical Institueon Georgia street. By following the crowd from the depot to the first cross street, you will find the Institute. By telegraphing when you will arrive, the porters will meet you at the depot end look after your baggage. The Nation al Surgical Institute, Indianapolis, Ind., U. S. A., took the The above picture represents a show-case used by the Surgical Institute i which to exhibit their orthopedic and surgical appliances at the Centennial 1876. This case was thirty-six feet long, twelve feet wide and ten feet nign. cost over &1,200, and in it were exhibited one sample of each of the various Kin of appliances invented by Dr. Allen and used by the Surgical Institute. These samples alone cost §lO,OOO, and their number was five times as large a those exhibited by all the world besides. This will convey a little n magnitude of the work of the Surgical Institute and the necessities of mechanical surgery. highest premium at the Centennial, in Philadelphia, in 1876. WERNER PTG' a UTHO. CO., AKRON- NATIONAL SBRQIGALINSTITDTE This Institution was Established for the Cure of the Lame and Deformed, -AND OF Chronic Diseases Requiring its Superior Treatment. The Paralyzed Have Been Made to Walk, and Those Who Suffered Have Been Relieved by It. It is the Oldest and Largest Institution of the Kind in America. With the same right and justice which p-ompts any man to call the attention of his fellows to those who suffer, this Institution claims a few moments of your time. The Proprietors feel assured that your desire and duty will prompt you to aid in the relief of those who suffer. , The good Samaritan TOOK the time to help a suffering man. If your family needs no assistance, others do. To know where to direct them for relief is a duty and a great blessing to them. A few moments’ time and thought in reading this circular EN- TIRELY THROUGH will enable you to decide and perhaps save many lives from wretchedness. Full explanations of diseases and their treatment can not be given in this brief work, and some of the diseases treated are not even mentioned for the same reason. The object of this circular is to refer to a few facts in the Insti- tute’s history, its great work and the results accomplished, as well as the necessity for such an institution, and the total inability of physi- cians in general practice to accomplish the work it is doing. The Institute is a great aid to the family physician. It fur- nishes ample means of cure for many cases which his line of work neither demands nor justifies. Cures actually made are the foundation of its claims and perpe- tuity. It solicits only cases which must fail to obtain relief at home. All unbiased persons, including doctors, agree that if one doctor has not the facilities to give relief, others who have should be sought without hesitation. It matters not from whom or where the sufferer obtains relief so he receives it. Restraint in business by boycotting is bad enough, but war against specialties, when health and life are involved, should never be tolerated. This is an age of specialties in all industrial and professional vocations of life. The determination from the beginning of the Institute has been to make cures with the least possible pain. To make cures in the shortest possible time, Thousands of physicians have sent and are sending their patients to the Institute for treatment. Honest physicians recognize this Institution as a great boon to those who suffer. For more than thirty years its business has been constantly increasing, and many thousands of helpless cripples have been restored. It has more original inventions in the way of machinery, appliances and facilities than any institution of the kind in the world. The Institute has no hobbies and no cure-alls, but every success' ful means of cure are provided. The determination and practice has always been to cure cases in the quickest and most painless manner possible. Nearly every sufferer is relieved of pain by its treatment almost immediately when treatment begins, If the reader, relative or friends are suffering, we urge you to READ THIS CIRCULAR CAREFULLY THROUGH, FROM BEGINNING TO END, that you may get a better idea of the work and its aims than by simply looking at the statements of one particu- lar disease, which must necessarily be brief in a circular of this size. Then we hope you will write at once to the Institute for any information desired, and will correspond with parties who have actually been cured here, a few of whose names will be found in this pamphlet. What you thus obtain you know will be unbiased information from them. TUB Great Progress of Suigeru jLVD THE STOW ADTAN CEMENT IN THE PRACTICE OF MEDIC INE. THE aim of the medical "profession has ever been the good of men and the alle- viation of suffering. tSTTT the progress of medical science has groped in com- parative ignorance, and has been tardy and vacillating. Foa five thousand five hundred years * (beginning with the Mosaic record), even the anatomy of man and the circulation of the blood and respiration were not understood. And not long since, when Harvey dis- ■* covered that the heart and not the moon controlled the circulation of the blood, and afterwards, when Jenner discovered that vaccination would prevent small-pox, nearly all of the doc- tors denounced them as humbugs and quacks, as they are apt to do with all other great innovations in their profession. A S arelic of bar- barism, gradu- ates of medicine, even in theU. S., have been com- pelled to swear by_ the heathen god Apollo, to keep inviolate the se- crets of medicine, and to adhere to the dogmas of the pro- fession. \jjTHEN their leaders said bleed, the crimson tide was seen from shore to shore. When they said salivate, millions of mouths were tortured with pain, cheeks were sloughed and teeth were loosened with calomel. DOCTORS broiled the skin of thousands of patients with the red hot iron and the moxa, like a horrid inquisition. Patients with typhoid fever were bled and reduced with power- ful medicines and improper treatment. As the people became more enlightened, they refused to be salivated, bled, burned with red hot irons and moxas, and to be tortured with setons, blisters and salivation. piNALLY this great wrong was discontinued. he doctors changed their practice, gave less powerful medicines, and stimulated, fed and sustained their patients, and millions have escaped with their lives. pEW physicians were willing to admit their errors in practice, and claimed that disease, and not they, had changed. •pHE doctors denied cold water in burning fevers, a bath to the parched skin, and fresh air in the sick room. spHE ignorant, in time of sickness, are slaves too often to the power- less hands of physicians. 1 THE constant dying »f his patients Is evidence of a most skillful doctor’s inability to cure diseases with medicine. Implicit confidence in the powers of the physician often causes violation of nature’s laws, in the belief that the physician can repair the damage done; but the result is too often irreparable. all physicians follow in the ruts of their predecessors— never expecting by their own efforts to excel their preceptors. No honest and intelligent physician pretends to cure typhoid fever, measles, scarlatina, small-pox, apoplexy, softening of the brain, Bright’s disease, cancer, consumption, and many other diseases from which nearly one half of all the people of the world die. every doctor is to blame for the and the little belated light and want of knowledge improvements in JlJany imagine medicine lias kept world’s progress, as the micro- tias been partially explored, emies to human life have been found. his profession. pace with the scopic world and new en- Pharmacy and chemistry have made the “lion and the lamb to lie down to gether11 .in the preparation of the most power- ful, dangerous and unpalatable drugs, making them more palatable and more controllable.! pHysiokouv and pathology are shedding a brighter light and kindling hope and faith in the future’s reward BUT man is the most intricate of God’s creations, “fearfully and wonderfully made,” and the hardest of all things to under- stand. gOIENOE has never told us why or how our bodies, which are • three-fourths water, retain life and form, or why they die. cience has not told us what most of the germs of disease are, how they begin their work, or why they act as they do. kind Providence may some Jay see proper, through science, tu unfold the now unfathomable mysteries; SHOULD man ever fathom life and its relation to matter in man, then will the cloud be lifted and the knowledge of them widened, by a conception of their relations. gCIENCE may, without going further, teach us what some of the germs of disease are and how they may be destroyed. Un- til then medicine will likely grope in darkness as it has in the past. *J*he conclusions of thousands of the ablest physicians are well ex- pressed by the few following selections : DR. RUSH, one of America’s greatest physicians, said; “Our want of success is owing to our ignorance of disease and our ignorance of a suitable remedy.” DR ABERCROMBIE, member of the Royal Society and physi- cian to the King, said: “The only resource of medicine is conjec- turing.” PR. D'ALEMBERT, the great physician and philosopher of France, said of medical science: “ Nature is fighting dis- ease, and a doctor is like a blind man armed with a club coming to settle the quarrel. If he hits the disease, a cure is effected. If he hits nature, death is the result.” DE: MAGENDIE, a famous physiologist, said to his class; “ Med- icine does very little when it does not do harm.” J)R. CHAPMAN, of the University of Pennsylvania, said: “To harmonize the contrarieties of medical doctrines is a task as im- practicable as to arrange the fleeting vapors around us.” THE New York Enquirer said: “Year after year produces new theories of disease and its treatment, each condemning its predecessor and alike to be condemned by its successor.” THE allopath denounces the home- opath as a quack, and asserts that his patients die for want of med- icine. homeopath claims thou- sands have died by powerful allopathic doses. One, or both, must be wrong, since patients live and die in the practice of either in about the same ratio. Both may be wrong. They are in direct contradiction of each other. How different the progress of BUFf 9Tf- THE progress of surgery has been steady and great (because it deals with facts), while the practice of medicine has been whimsically gyrating because it is based upon theories. QRTHOPEDIO surgery, until the great advance made by the National Surgical Institute, had lingered far behind and made but little progress. family physician, has heretofore controlled such cases, and being as totally unprepared for such work as he is to explore or work in the field of astronomy or microscopy without expe- rience or proper instruments, the results have been failures. Jt is impossible for any man to pass through any medical college now in existence and acquire sufficient knowledge of‘orthopedic surgery to do such patients justice. postsceipt or addendum called the chair of orthopedic surgery in a few of our colleges, teaches scattered, vague and dangerous ideas of the treatment of this class of cases. HE result of this is that there are millions of deformed and crippled people left to lament this misfortune. jypCHANICAL Surgery is a science with many complications, and to be successful, requires, greater preparation than lias ever been provided by medical colleges or any institution, except the National Surgical Institute. ORTHOPEDIC Surgery (the cure of deformities) and orthopraxy (the proper use of mechanical appliances) have never else- where been given the attention they deserved. IT is a special science, as dentistry is, and should be so recog- nized. For ages> doctors pulled teeth; and in a most cruel manner, often. Dentistry has taken that work entirely out of the doctor’s hands, and soon orthopraxy will do the same. QRTHOPRAXY and orthopedic surgery are far more distinct by their very nature, from the general practice than dentistry, and should long since have been taught and practiced as an inde- pendent and special science; with colleges to teach it and insti- tutions to treat such cases. PHYSICIANS generally, are as totally unprepared to treat de- formities, spinal diseases, diseased joints, paralysis, etc., as they are to fill decayed teeth and make artificial ones. family physician has neither the time, money, experience or fa- cilities, to be successful in such cases, and should never under- take them. 3 'WF nother reason Avhy your doctor should not undertake them is, that the practice of medicine is guess work, and he never knows whether, his medicine cures or not, and he does not J Jkk. seem to comprehend the exactitude and multitude of ap- •s? pliances, details and changes required to .cure orthopedic cases. Hence his failure when he attempts it. REALIZING these constant failures of physicians and that these failures arise from want of proper education in this special- ty, want of experience and want of proper appliances, it was determined to establish, on the broadest plan possible, a private institution for the proper care of these cases. was opposed by innumerable difficulties, and required an entire overthrow of nearly all of the old methods and appliances which had caused so much deformity and suffering. MEW. and proper methods, mechanical ap- pliances and much machinery and many in- ventions never before used must be employed Large buildings were required for the accom- modation and treatment of patients. shops and steam engines for the manufacture of appliances, and treatment rooms with a large amount of machinery run by steam (for the cure of such cases) were required. National Surgical Institute, at Indianapolis (the largest of the kind in the world), was established by Dr. Allen in iB5B. *Phi; bungling appliances and torturing meth ods of treating and deformed people, as described in books, were rejected, and a new system of treatment was adopted. Machinery and appliances were required and supplied by thou- sands of inventions never before used. I'HE result has been a wonderful advancement in the cure of such cases. than half a million dollars have been expended in perfecting the appointments of this institution. M' man ICS had to be trained expressly, as the ordinary instrument maKer,.with his old training, was worthless, and a hindrance to the work. All of the apparatuses used by the Institute have been invented, and many patented, by Dr. Allen. They have been copied and used in every civilized nation. AT the Centennial, in Philadelphia, the Institute exhibited five times as many different apparatuses and appliances for the treat- ment of diseases and deformities of the body and limbs as all the world combined, and received the highest premium. ' Jts original and scientific appliances and methods of treatment ac- complish incomparably greater results, with less pain, than any other methods. IT is a permanent institution, growing out of the demands of the suffering and deformed, and its success has caused its liberal patronage of more than forty thousand cases, with constantly increasing numbers. Jhe buildings have been crowded for more than a quarter of a century, owing to its success in curing cases pronounced incura- ble by other physicians. These patients have come from every State in the Union, England, Germany and other foreign countries. JT is universally endorsed by all intelligent investigators. The moderate fees paid by the rich, the small ones paid by the poor, and the candid manner in which all are treated, have gained universal confidence. 4 mORE than ten thousand surgical operations have been performed in the Institute without a single death from an operation, anesthesia, from blood poisoning or from erysipelas. All applicants, upon examination, will receive an honest statement as to what can be done. Jr a cure can not be effected, they will be so informed or dismissed without charge jor examination. jy[OST applicants have been deceived by false promises else- where. This will not be repeated at the Institute. Jf the Institute could do no more than the general practitioner for such cases, its business would have closed at once, instead of T increasing for a quarter of a century. he National Surgical Institute lias the best facilities, surgeons of the longest experience, has cured more patients, is older and larger than any in- stitution of its kind in the United States. It deals hon- estly with its patients, charges the lowest fees, induces no one to remain who can not be ben- efited, has no experiments to make; its treatment is the mild- _ est and freest from pain, and its cures are made quickly, and at the least possible expense to the patient. early all its cures are made upon patients who have failed else where. Scarcely two cases are alike, and new inventions are re- quired for almost every case. These special adaptations are not made elsewhere. JT contains machinery to make muscles grow larger and stronger, and to feed impoverished and paralyzed muscles, giving them power again to contract. Jt contains machinery and many other remedies to reduce'inflamma- tion and congestion. JTS medicated, steam, electrical, vapor, hot air and other haths, and all facilities for purifying the blood and invigo- rating the system are full and complete. fact, all things that are useful, old or new, in this special work, known to the medical profession, are combined in the Institute. you have spent much time and money without benefit is no reason why you can not be cured at the Institute. £Jtjch patients are never too weak to stand a journey or the treat- ment. Hundreds have come on beds and pillows and found relief. You could only have expected a failure at home, as your physic- ians have not the facilities to cure you. Gome may gay the Institute is too far away, that it is too hot, too cold, too late, too early, or that they are too busy, or have not the money on hand. FURTHER delay increases the danger and expense. Neglect is cruel and unjustifiable. The present is always the best time to obtain relief. Doctors may have pronounced you incurable. all cases cured at the Surgical Institute had previously been pronounced incurable by their physicians. JJecaxxse your family physician has failed to cure you or advises you not to seek relief, you should not be deterred one moment from coming. JJe did the best he could, but had not the proper facilities, nor has he ever seen them elsewhere. He may speak honestly, but does not know the great relief such patients can obtain at the Institute, where every possible preparation has been made. *Jhe surgeons of the Institute can not treat the ordinary diseases of the country as well as your physician. 5 Chey are not prepared to, but can treat the classes of cases they have made preparations for, far better than the general practitioner. All men should be specialists. No doctor can treat all diseases successfully. is too short to afford him sufficient experience and facilities to cure orthopedic cases and do a general practice. J'HE carpenter, blacksmith and machinist are all mechanics, but no one of them can do the other’s work successfully. The surgeons of the Institute only claim success in their own calling. Js this they claim greater experience and facilities than the ordinary practitioner, because they have spent a quarter of a century anc half a million of dollars to prepare for it. JJONEST and unprejudiced physicians at once admit they are unprepared and have not the facilities to cure this class of cases. i have nothing BtTT praise fob. intelli- gent AND HONEST PHYSICIANS IN THEIR GREAT WORK. Remarks which we make against physicians apply to those only who attempt to cure such cases, and leave them maimed or de- formed for life. J* he avaricious or bigoted physician will tell you that Ire can treat such cases as well as the Institute, and thus try to prevent your obtaining relief and enabling him to keep his hand in your pocket. he has failed, he may direct you to some favored physician who will divide fees with him and help him to hide his faults in producing the deformity of his patient. Physicians in the general practice, having never been instructed in this special branch, are no better qualified to practice it than they are to practice dentistry, to make watches, etc. J%ey are giving quinine, morphine, calomel and other drugs, yet they can not manufacture even these simple medicines, and they admit they are not prepared to do so. The chemist and phar- macist make a specialty of such work. here are dental colleges which teach the treatment of the teeth, but there are no orthopedic colleges to teach the proper treat- ment of this great class of patients. Physicians have never seen or used the thousand different appli- ances and machines necessary and used at the Surgical Insti- tute for such cases. machinery used daily in the treatment room alone, costs thou- sands of dollars. slavish bondage to the old code of medical ethics deters some physicians from sending their patients to the Institute, where they can get relief and where they would send them if they dared. *p HE code of ethics is like a rope around the neck of doctors, which competitors may pull, and it makes them slaves. Jr makes them cowardly often in the face of duty, and they dare not act as their judgment and conscience dictate. pT forbids advertising a good institution, except through medical journals. J t forbids physicians to consult with others of different schools, though a life may be saved by it. Jt forbids the exposure of mistakes discovered in consultation, though the mistake may kill a patient. Jt forbids the physician to follow bis own convictions of duty, and to send sucti cases to the Surgical Institute, where they can be cured. 6 ®HK great Dr. Bima, President of the American Medical Association, urged the abolition of this unjust code of ethics. He said it might have done for the dark ages, but not for intelligent people, who should be guided by a sense of honor alone. Physicians will uphold medical colleges, although they advertise constantly. Physi- cians will uphold medical journals which receive hun- dreds of thousands of dollars for advertising, yet they will de- nounce the Surgical Institute for advertising. BUSINESS men can only laugh at such foolishness and littleness. Jt does not injure a good medical college nor the Surgical Institute to advertise it. ]y[ANY honest physicians work reluctantly in these fetters. Many, however, who are in position and power, like the landlords of Ireland, persist in these legal restraints and evictions. This is human. Their interests are served by its restrictions. that the National Surgical Insti- tute requires to avoid any criticism from the most stickling members of the profession is to refrain from sending _ this circular to their patients. JF we were to deprive the sufferer of a right to exercise his own judgment by not notifying him of tire Institute, and instead were to advertise it thoroughly to his phy- sician, it would be all right with the doctors, because they could withhold the information, and continue to control their patient, his purse and influence. ||ee Medical and Surgical Reporter, of Philadelphia, Sept. 3, 1881, the best medical journal in America: “ The Surgical Institute.—The establishment at the corner of Broad and Arch streets, in this city, known as the National Surgical Institute, has heretofore been un- der such management that the regular profession could not give it their patronage and approbation. This, we are glad to say, is now changed. It has been taken charge of by a Avell-known phy- sician of this city, who will hereafter conduct it in a manner that will be strictly in conformity with professional propriety. The institution has exceptionally good facilities for the successful management of many surgical diseases, and will be found to otter resources not easily obtainable elsewhere for the treatment of many cases. An advertisement of its present management will be found in our issue of to-day, and we recommend it to those physicians who are on the lookout for a proper place to send patients needing these special therapeutic maueuveres.” 'JbE facts are that the Philadelphia Branch of this Institute, now closed, which was much smaller, and had not the great facilities of the home Institute at Indianapolis, was sold to a doctor in Phila- delphia who had no experience in such work, and Dr. McLane, a student of the Indianapolis Institute (whore all this machinery and appliances were invented and patented) ordered and applied all apparatus as well as the treatment. Now, the day before the sale, the Institute was denounced, and the day after, praised, without any change except that it had gone into inex- perienced hands. When in the hands of regular graduates of thirty years of experience, and doctors who had invented every facility which the Journal praised, it was condemned and de- nounced. “ O consistency, thou art a jewel.” Other medical jour- nals indorsed the Institute and advertised it, and one of the journalists took his son there for a cure. *J|he most prominent physicians sent their patients there for treat- ment; some operated upon them in the Institute, and many other acts of recognition and affiliation were performed. 7 physicians are > not slaves to these selfish dogmas, lIS but honestly admit they can not cure such cases- and I j recommend them to the Surgical Institute. I Others hold patients, if not as slaves, as property, in ™ their grasp, to obtain their money. goME will tell you it is only your money the Institute wants. This is untrue. Jt expects a fair compensation, and no more, but it does expect to give far greater return for what it receives than patients have obtained at home. f|'HE pride of the Institute for more than a quarter of a century has been its success in curing eases which have utterly failed elsewhere. JJine-tenths of its patients were uneured or made worse by treat- ment at home, or elsewhere, before they came to the Institute. goME may tell you that the' treatment is harsh and severe. This is not true. The truth is, the doctor who tells you these things knows nothing of it. JJe has never seen or investigated the Institute, or he could not tell you this. THE pride of the Institute is its success in curing cases with- out pain or severe surgical operations. goME may tell vou the Institute charges exorbitant prices. Tut this is untrue, for the fees are always smaller, in proportion to the benefit, than are charged anywhere else. Your physician may tell you he will take a measure and send for appliances. THIS is % ruinous experiment. He might as well tell you he can take the measure of your mouth for a set of artificial teeth, or measure your face and describe it and send for a potrait without your seeing the artist. Qures are never made in this manner, and thousands have been maimed for life in the effort, Jf your physician is successful in his general practice, he has no time for experiments,, or to obtain facilities for the treatment of diseased joints, paralysis, etc., and if lie is honest he will tell you so. YOU can not afford to trifle away life, Uinl? Pr happiness upon such experiments, either with yournome physician or some special friend of his to whom he may direct you. goME physicians, forgetting their own failures and the frequent deaths among their patients, try to wrong both the patient and the Institute by asserting that it does not cure its patients. 'J'his is untrue, if directions have been followed by the patient, as the Institute receives no patients who can not be benefited. INCURABLE cases are sent home immediately. The Insti- tute has existed twenty-seven years upon the reputation from cures it has made. IT COUld have existed no other way. No humbug or question- able institution has ever lived and been crowded with patients for twenty-seven years. MERIT alone must sustain it. There are but very few people who can imagine their own doctor to be jealous, selfish or unrea- sonable. ]yjosr people consult their physicians on every question of health. This is right, provided the physician has made a life-long spe- cialty of the disease about which inquiry is made. Jf your physician has no institution and no machine shops for the manufacture of appliances, and has not had a life-long ex- perience, it is wrong for him to attempt the treatment of such cases and wrong for you to permit it. . 8 ' VE invite all to come at once, and every possible means will I I I be afforded for investigation. Every word in this circular IJI in regard to the Surgical Institute is true, and while you may have been deceived by those who oppose it and who have no facilities, you can obtain permanent relief if treated at the Surgical Institute. Jf you can not come immediately, send for a catalogue containing a history of the Institute, the work it has accomplished, its designs, and the statements of hundreds who have been cured. To these persons you should write at once for information. JTO investment pays as well as money expended for restoration to health. sacrifice you may be obliged to make, in order that yourself or loved ones may be cured, is not too great. is no place in the world where greater effort is made to cure without pain. Jt is the constant aim of the surgeons to avoid painful surgical operations, if a cure is possible without. JJAppier hearts or more cheerful faces can not be found anywhere than at the Institute. is it that all seem SO happy?” is the universal remark of visitors. Because they have no pain and are getting well, is the answer. Many delay coming until they see’how some one eise succeeds. browning man might as well refuse help until he sees some one else saved- kbnb your measure for braces results in cruelty, torture and loss of money to the patient. As well measure your mouth and send for a set of artificial teeth. apparatus must be perfectly fitted to the patient at the Institute under the direction of experienced surgeons. JJpon examination, a candid and truthful statement is made to patients as to their real condition and prospects. Jf their cases are incurable they are at once notified of the fact and discharged without cost. THE Institute will undertake no case that can not he bene- fited- The Institute can not afford to deceive those who place confidence in it. cost of treatment can not be determined until a personal exam- ination is made. IfHE charges are always reasonable, and no exorbitant prices are ever demanded. Pees charged at the Institute for successful treatment are usually less than have been charged by those who have failed upon the same case. Jn cases where apparatus and treatment can be successfully used at home, the patient may there carry out the treatment. ]\Juch depends upon the conscientious and intelligent cooperation of the patient. Happily there are many who can be relied upon for such cooperation, and can be treated at home. Qf what value is a few dollars and a little time in comparison with health and perfection of bodily form. XHE many thousands who have been cured will gladly tell you of their success at the Surgical Institute after failures elsewhere. The Institute courts the closest criticism and examination. As stated before, it has ever stood upon its own merits, and ex- pects nothing else in the future to sustain it. YOT may not get reliable information by consulting your physician. If he has never been at the Institute to investigate it, and is honest, he will tell you so. 0F course, if he is not honest, he will try to persuade you not to come, and tell you many discouraging things, all of which are untrue. (Please read this pamphlet through.) SPIRAL DISEASE. Spinal disease, called Pott’s disease, is a disease or death of some of the twenty-four bones of the spinal column. Parts of the front portions of one or more of these bones are at first inflamed, which continues until a portion or all of the bones affected die. Jt continues until a small lump upon the back appears, which in- creases until the back is crooked. Not all cases have abscesses ; many of them do, which may discharge upon the back or in the groin. An opening in each bone allows the spinal cord to pass through them. This cord is injured during spinal disease. JjAtbb, the spine is bent, the rord be- comes seriously compressed, whioh increases pain and suffering. DANGER of paralysis always' ex- ists in cases of spinal disease. In this form of spinal disease the most terrible afflictions and paralysis often follow. Some may die, and all are left deformed by the ordi- nary treatment of physicians. JJvebv case begins with a more or less cautious gait or walk, and diffi- culty in walking fast. A difficulty in stooping afterwards occurs. To reach to the floor, the knees and hips are bent and the arms are kept at the side. £|ome patients show constitutional symptoms, being weak, and suffering pain in the chest and bowels. Every mo- tion of the body, in fact, as well as walking, is made cautiously and carefully. J F the disease is high in the back, a hacking cough and pain in the chest may occur. Should it be lower down, the pain may be felt in the stomach or bowels. A great depression and loss of strength and flesh occur in some cases. There are constitutions of great vitality; in these the symptoms are less manifest at first. Us yen in the early part of the disease the bones often become wedge-shaped by decomposition, the spine is bent backwards and the hands are placed upon the knees in walking. Restlessness, short breath and sharp pains soon come. Relief, temporarily, may be obtained by lying down j sudden motion causes pain. Jk most cases the symptoms are deceptive to the ordinary physician, and somewhat like those of other diseases. JJad cases, even, from their symptoms, are often'treated for worms, colds, disease of the lungs, etc., by the general practitioner, the result of inexperience. Xj onq continued suffering causes emaciation and de- bility, and many continue to decline until death relieves them. EVEN in this age of the world, a great majority are ignorantly left to suffer and become de- formed for life. Many more are deformed for life by improper treatment by those who have no facilities. physicians who are honest and frank should tell such per- sons they are not prepared to treat them. No blame would then rest upon the physician. (Please read this pamphlet through.) Want of experience and worthless ap- pliances have wrought ruin on manythonsandsof cases. Among the most cruel tortures to which such patients have .submit- ted is the plaster jacket. JJeform ity and death are hast cried by the compression of the lungs, the heart, the stomach, the liver, the spleen, the intestines and the kidneys, produced by this terrible instrument of torture. It impedes their proper action, causing debility and increasing deformity. 3fEARS of useless violence to hygienic teachings have been done by this monstrous cruelty of the plaster jacket. JT is a direct violation of nature’s laws, and an injury to the patient’s welfare and all the organs involved. IJht? plaster jacket lias never straightened and cured a genuine case of Pott’s disease or lateral curvature of the spine. Such > eases always grow worse while such in- quisitions are used. THE doctor who claims to be its author (hut ■ who is not), urges its use, but can never atone for the damage it has done. English and. other foreign physicians denounce it bitterly. Medicines never cure this class of spinal disease. The treatment at the Surgical Institute is scientific, humane, rational, and most successful. of the vital organs are left perfectly free to act, and there is no pressure on them. All deformity is pre- vented if the treatment is commenced in time. The patient recovers with the least trace left from the dis- ease. Ji’ proper treatment commences, even after deformity begins, it will straighten the back, relieve all sutler- ing, and make a sound spine. paralysis has resulted, the treatment at the Institute is peculiarly adapted to its cure, and ninety-nine out of one hun- dred cases are restored. TH® improvement in the treatment of such cases seems more miraculous than a telephone or a telegraph ever did. There never need be a case of deformity from this disease of the spine, if. properly treated in time. jy[ANY cases considered ’hopeless, have been re- stored at the Surgical Institute, THE charges are moderate, and the treat- ment successful, and there should be no delay in bringing the patient for treatment. •pHEnE has never been an unsatisfactory result at the Institute, where directions have been followed. The treatment at the Institute gives immediate relief from any pain, and all weight is taken off of the decayed and dy- ing bones. The deformity begins at once to straighten, the health and strength improve. The life which is jeopardized by this terrible disease is safe again. Thebe Is no neglect more .cruel or fatal to life and happiness than the delay in obtaining proper treatment in such cases. Never trifle away time in experimenting witli medicines, plaster jackets, inexperienced doctors, or by uselessly sending for braces. Lateral Curvature of ttie Spine. res deformity is more frequently seen in girls than boys. It may occur at any age, but usually occurs between seven and sixteen. At first one shoulder is more prominent than the other. Soon the spine begins to look crooked, and one hip is more prominent than the other. U*he hips and shoulders become more and more distorted. is usually no pain with this affection. When the bal- ance is once lost and the spine is crooked, it nevor re- covers without suitable and persistent treatment. jQoctoes may tell you th at patients will outgrow it. This never occurred. In most cases the dis- ease progresses rapidly, the bones change in shape, the equilibrium and contraction of the muscles is lost, and as a stone in rolling down hill increases in speed, so the body becomes more and more rapidly deformed. The family physician’s resources are totally inadequate in cases of this kind, as in hip and spinal disease. He should never be employed in such cases. Medicines are worthless. With proper treatment at the Surgical Institute, thousands of these cases have been entirely restored. Such cases should never be neglected if a cure is desired. (Please read this pamphlet through.) A CURE can never be effected by braces and appliances alone. These may be used to retain the spine in position after the straightening has been done by other means. Medicines are useless. Q.reater improvements have been made in the treatment of such cases in the last ten yeans at the Surgical Institute than in all the world’s history preceding that time. Jt is useless to enlarge upon the necessity for immediate atten- tion, upon the worthlessness of ordinary treatment, or upon the wonderful results to be achieved by the treatment at the Surgical Institute. QF all things which are damaging and dangerous, avoid the plaster jacket as you would the worst enemy to health, life and happiness. Ruin is the only result of their use. They cramp the hones, chest and lungs, and always make the deformity worse. A deformity of this kind is not only unsightly, marring all beauty and personal appearance and prospects, but the lungs are com- pressed, the health and life of the sufferer are sacrificed. No for- tune, education or circumstances, can ever atone for the loss of human form. The mind and nervous system are always dis- turbed by the thought and effects of such a calamity. Never rest a moment until the work of cure is begun. 12 HIP DISEASE. ITS SYMPTOMS AMI COURSE, WITH THE USUAL TREATMENT, OR NO TREATMENT AT ALL MEP disease is an inflammation of the joint and surrounding tissues. Its first symptoms are a sense of weakness, often slight pain, jerking pains from muscular contractions, and inability to lie on the affected hip. Pain in the knee is one of the most prominent early symptoms. Inexperienced physicians treat such cases for rheumatism. *pHEleg first becomes apparently too long, and must be moved carefully. Jars, sudden mo- tion or blows often cause pain. Some of these symp- toms may continue for months with little progress, g WELLING, increased pain and soreness will sure- ly follow. form and discharge matter for a long time. Bones die and pieces slough off. These bones sometimes dis- charge with the matter, and sometimes remain as foreign bodies for years, keeping up the discharge of matter. pHE large bone, or femur, slips out of the socket. The leg is shortened and the hip deformed and useless. Great agony, loss of health, and often death, follows. Jn a few cases, abscesses do not break, but in nearly all cases the leg is drawn up and the joint ruined. pHE above are the results of bad treatment or neglect. With proper treatment, in time, all these troubles will be avoided or cease at once. Not a single hip ever need be left deformed; proper treatment will cure it. JJot one hip need be stiff when healed if proper appliances and treatment are employed. Not one leg need be shortened if properly treated. ALL the pain, jerking, emaciation and abscesses can be prevented. The Institute has cured thousands of cases. The treatment at the Surgical Insti- tute is rational, painless and successful. fJ*nK hip joint, if crooked, can always Vie straightened by proper treatment. If a leg is too short, it is lengthened. ]y[OTION is always preserved, and the bone can not slip out of the socket. If abscesses have formed, they are healed permanently. No barbarous and painful operations are performed, as is done by other doctors. The appetite and general health is improved and flesh increased. pain is at once relieved permanently, by proper treatment, without medicines, and all deformity is cured. Qures are performed in a very short time, considering the disease Expenses are always less than elsewhere, considering the benefits. Satisfaction will always be given, if directions are followed. YOUR family physician is not prepared to treat hip disease, lie has not had sufficient experience. He can not Cure it. Re l'as bo machine shops to manufacture the many appliances required. He will make a cripple at last of every case he tries to cure. He has no institution where he can care for such cases. N® family physician should for a moment be allowed to apply surgical instruments for such cases, much less should a brace maker, the patient or his parentsfPlease read this pamphlet through.) can not honestly order proper braces for such I. I cases. It takes at least a week’s trial at the factory to properly fit braces. Many changes must be I A. made, and many braces thrown away. It re- quires many braces to aid in the cure of one case. Braces never cure hip disease; they are only tools to work with. HRACES need daily care and changes to do any good. The use of braces is a small part of the treatme of hip disease. Hips are often ruined for life with im- proper braces. Often such cases are treated for rheu- matism by mistake of physicians. fHE only braces ever made which will help to cure hip disease, and leave no deformity and perfect use of the joint, were invented and patented by this Institute, and can not be obtained elsewhere. Jp you would save death of bones, suffering and deformity, why not come immediately ? (Please read this pamphlet through.) Paralysis and its Resulting Deformities, (Vy* here is no class of cases treated by the Institute which has re- | I ceived so much attention, investigation and preparation for its cure, as paralysis and its resulting deformities. It is im- practicable in this brief circular to enter into details as to the causes of paralysis, its progress, or its symptoms and results. Jt may be briefly stated, however, as a rule, that if paralysis has been caused by an effusion of serum after inflammation, or a clot of blood from ruptured vessels, or other disease or injury, and that after the absorption of the serum or blood, or the rep- aration after disease or injury, the paralysis should con- tinue, the case has been improperly treated. engine may stop for want of steam when a pipe or valve is closed or burst; but when repairs have been made, the engine will not start without help from the engineer, go with paralysis. Much is needed to establish motion after repairs have been made. The disease may be removed, but yolition_cou- tinues suspended. hen an engine has stopped with the crank on a dead point, the steam, without aid, will never start it. 80, if the fibriila of a muscle have been aglutinated by the serous fluids in them during their inaction, artificial means are re- quired to allow them to glide upon each other again, as they must in the contraction of a muscle. •pHE muscles must be made to grow, and all their little fibrilla must be fed with a fresh supply of blood. MUSCLE can not contract until it has been fed, and it can not be fed until after it has contracted, unless the methods adopted by the Sur- gical Institute have been em- ployed. jparalyzed muscle must be fed and made to contract by artificial means before any cure can be made, unless nature has done the work. hen paralyzed limbs are left to nature,, or the ordinary treat- ment (which is not so good), some of the flexor muscles only become permanently contracted, and the joints become crooked. This contraction does not secure the jise of the limb, but causes it * to be deformed. (Please read this pamphlet through.) HEN this continues long, it makes successful treat- ment more difficult and tedious, requiring much ** Hj H labor and expense. The longer they remain con- H H tracted, the greater will be the danger of changes I Jr in the articulating surfaces of the bones. Besides, the longer muscles remain paralyzed, the greater is the danger of fatty degeneration or destruction of contractile tissues in them. The deformities and complications after paralysis are often as hard to relieve as the original trouble. 4 s stated, nature does cure a very few cases of paralysis, and if so, it will be done very soon after it has occurred. Jf it, fails to Ho this, the Bjjflerrr re- mains a cripple for life, unless the means adopted by the Sur- gical Institute are employed. Jn children, it is of the utmost im- portance, if the limbs are flexed, that proper treatment be at once secured, to prevent the ends of growing bones becoming misshaped and so deformed that the joints can never be made perfect again. JjEsroES, the weight of the body steadily increases, while the strength in the legs to carry it does not increase, making the trouble con- stantly worse. In adults, there is not the same certainty, at best, of re-establishing the former power to the muscles, if delay is permitted. ELECTRICITY was once thought a potent remedy. but, as a rule, it is worse than useless. It kills time, the very essence in such cases, and de- ceives the patient at last. jyjtrsciiEß should never he made to contract by electricity unless they are properly fed by artificial means. The anatomy of the muscles is such that rubbing never increases their size or circulation. "Phe skin may look red when rubbed or kneaded, but the blood is simply pressed out of the muscle and not into it. V OLATILE liniments carry away the heat from the limb, by evaporation, as ammonia does in the ice machines, and makes the muscles colder instead of warmer, A thermometer applied before and after will instantly confirm this. CjTRYCHNINE never cured a case of paralysis. It is impos- sible for it to do so. internally or exter- nally. are not only useless but injurious. THE usual treatment adopted by many physicians is the use of a little battery, strychnine, liniments, powerful drugs and rubbing, and when this fails, he will tell you the patient wilt outgrow it or that noth- ing can be done. It is abso- lutely impossible for an ordi- nary physician to properly treat paralysis or its resulting de- formities. H E has not the means or experience, he is perfectly helpless in this affliction, and it is very strange that he should ever he so presumptuous or reckless of the patient’s welfare apd money as to attempt it. JJONEST and intelligent physicians never do m when they know of the Surgical Institute. (Please read this pataphlet through.) 15 There is scarcely any case of paralysis cf the legs or arms which does not require suitable, and often very complicated, mechanical appliances to correct or prevent deformities, and also to aid the muscles in their proper functions. These can not be supplied by the brace makers of cities, because they do not understand the anatomy and necessities; and even proper appliances require constant changes to meet the ever-changing condition in paralyzed limbs, while under treatment, to pro- mote their growth and strength. apparatus and machinery required to restore life and use to paralyzed mus- „ cles, are very expensive .and numerous. Jr Rom three to nve Honrs faith ml treatment for paralysis is required, daily, with the use of ten to twenty different ma- chines, driven by steam. •[["HE machinery used at the Institute forces an abundant supply of blood into the muscles, and makes them grow ___ larger and stronger. W hen paralyzed muscles are properly fed with blood, they regain the power of contraction, provided suitable apparatuses for arti- T ficial motion to aid them are used upon the limbs. In many cases a lifeless lirnh seems to regain first a little spark of life, which gradually grows, by proper remedies, into a strong _ and vigorous contraction. , jHR treatment used for paralysis at the Institute, while it has restored thousands of limbs to use- fulness, requires the most constant vigilance on the part of the surgeon, and constantly taxes his ingenuity to invent appliances to meet the changing necessities of each individual case. goME suppose that an apparatus or a battery or some medicine which they can carry with them will, by some miracle, bring back usefulness to paralyzed muscles. This they never do. JNJothing nut scientific treatment and proper appliances will ever accomplish a cure. J) elays are often fatal in such cases, and the patient should come to the Institute at once, and not wait for nature and to try the worthless treatment to be obtained is free from pain, an(j tjie 1 most certain in results of any in the 1 world for paralysis. The expenses are low. gLNn ui ca a oguc 0| 200 pages, giving references of cures and meth- ods of treatment. Also, write immediately and .give a full description of the present condition. 1 f:' 889££dpWet tKrousth ) CHEBB deformities produce the most awkward and disagreeable movements in walking, aside from the great inconvenience, fa- tigue and mortification from the unsightly condition. Either of these deformities detracts from all pleasures and comfort in walk- ing and the use of the legs. Both are easily cured without any sur- gical operation or confinement to the room. * here can be no pos- sible excuse for allowing a single case to grow up deformed from this cause. rphe treatment is gen- tle, and quickly performed if done in time. BOW-LEGB AND KNOCK-KNEES. 16 CLUB FEET. (1 R<;OK,1:” feet dePend uPon two Editions : one is amalforma. tion of the bones and the other is undue contraction of one set " of muscles and partial paralysis of the other. The ordinary treatment by physicians or surgeons aims at the correction of both these defects, and accomplishes it in neither. ’J'he ordinary treatment applied by surgeons never makes perfect The ordinary treatment of physicians and surgeons usually Jn mPliBhe(L 1 ° 1 ' " at the Surgical.lnstitute ; often in half that time. crooked feet are treated at the Insti- tute, the work is so complete that they never _ need and further attention. xeet treated by ordinary surgeons and physicians require attention for years, and cost a great deal more money than at the Surgical Institute. The treatment of crooked feet at the Institute is so gentle and free from pain that the patient never will lose a single meal, or lose ji night’s sleep. , appliances used at the Institute are so different that ordinary physicians and surgeons would not know their use if they were to see them. Qases can be seen in all stages of treatment at the Institute from the beginning to a cure. is no question as to a cure being produced at the Surgical Institute, an(j -n ijjg g^op^ggt time, and with the least cost, of any institution in the world. The Institute will pay all trav- ling expenses, board fees and everything, if it is not done when direc- tions are followed. lead thi* pamphlet through^ 17 The apparatus used for club feet are all patented, and can not be obtained elsewhere. Remember, you will never pay another dollar for treatment elsewhere if the case is treated here. The earlier such cases are treated, the better; yet cases thirty-five years of age have been cured at the Surgical Institute. if yon bare crooked feet, crooked logs or deformities of any kind, the place to have them cured is the Surgical Institute, but delay no time in coming. The fees are low, the treatment easy, and a cure is speedily accom- plished. (Send three stamps for book of 200 pages.) SADLY NEGLECTED CASES. HERE axe many children who axe unable to walk from want g I of coordination of the locomotor muscles. The legs be- ll | come rigid when the child is standing. Walking, if done, is a jerking, tottering, hitching gait. The knees knock together, and the heels never touch the floor. cases are supposed to be “nervous,” and often demented, while the truth is, their minds are often bright and devel- op rapidly, as the muscles are controlled by the will after proper treatment. hodsaxds of Kurb cases have been wrong- fully or ignorantly consigned to wretched lives by the advice of physicians to do nothing, or by saying they will outgrow this affliction, which they never do. cases yield with wonderful results to proper treatment. The Institute has made this class of cases a special study, and the t rea tment is now so successful that none need hesitate to undertake it, t , (Flease read this pamphlet through.) DISEASES OF BONES. THIS is another class of cases which requires the services of the Surgical Institute. - It is a great misfortune that such cases can not come at once and be relieved of pain and the terrible consequence of the death of bones. JJinety-nine out of one hundred cases of diseased bones can be cured with proper and early treatment. No abscesses and long suffering need result, p ones, like the soft tissues, often become inflamed through injury, bad or poisoned blood, etc. X he inflammation often continues until a portion or the whole of the bone may die. The pain is usually much worse at night. After long suffering an abscess forms, an offensive discharge follows and never ceases until the dead portion is removed. I n a few instances a portion of the bones pass out with the matter. The pain is of an aching character, sometimes sharp and lancin- ating. THK grateful letters received from patients cured are most con vincing and encouraging. DISEASED JOINTS. is SIDE from diseases of the hip joint, there occurs a most painful -4 and distressing inflammation of the knee, ankle, shoulder, 'y elbow, wrist, etc. Some of these affections are exceedingly painful, and all of them tend directly and rapidly to the de- struction of the joint and its usefulness. RHEUMATISM seems the great scape-goat with ordinary physicians, and they at first attribute nearly every pain in the joints to it. This often prevents timely and proper treatment. Three are many rheumatic affections in joints,hut when the pain and suffering is confined to one joint, it may be generally decided that rheumatism has nothing to do with it. Rheumatism is a disease of the whole system, an(j we might, as a rule, expect to have typhoid fever in one leg as to have rheuma- tism confined to one joint. inflammation of the joint is usually confined to what is called the serous or lining membrane. IfHIS inflammation causes pain, of greater or less severity, the joint swells, and if the inflammation is violent, abscesses form and break, or are lanced by the physician, and the knee joint usually becomes stiff and useless for life. Bad treatment destroys motion, good treatment restores it. termination may be dropsical effusion in the joint, Then, however, the pain and suffering continues for months and years. and proper treatment, with suitable appliances and apparatus, will prevent such results in most of cases. joints all require the most effective and painless treatment in the beginning, with proper support and extension of the joint, preventing the bones from pressing upon each other, with proper treatment the motion of the joint can be easily main- tained without pain or suffering. Hot applications and want of proper appliances have caused the destruction of thousands of joints. Thousands upon thousands are stiff and use less to-day from these causes. TH? common treatment of joints, when inflamed from injury or otherwise, is to ap- ply liniments, poultices and hot applica- tions, all of which are absolutely worthless. Qreater Improvement has been made by tbe Surgical Institute in controlling acute in- flammations of the joints than can be found anywhere else. XHl' gieat difliculty however, that patients will remain at home, hoping to recover, until the joint is ruined, or nearly so. Theh they apply for relief, making it much harder to cure such * cases, and in some instances impossible. Delays in diseases of the joints are most disastrous. |pHE general practitioner has not the facilities and can not produce the results that can be secured at the Surgical Institute. YuHEftcUJt.osis, or w}iat was formerly called white swelling of the joints, is a most serious disease of a joint, and nothing but early and proper treatment will save it from entire destruction of mo- tion and usefulness. 2^any limbs have been amputated by physicians who have not the facilities or experience to cure such cases. (Send for catalogue of 200 pages.) 19 WRY NECK. Wry Neck is usually caused by contraction of the muscles of the neck. After this condition has existed for some time, the bones are changed in shape, one side becoming thinner and the other thicker, by pressure caused from an unnatural position of the head. rJlHJs deformity demands nicely lit ting apparatus to hold the head in proper position long enough to lengthen the muscles and change the shape of the bones. This requires but a short time, relieving the deformity altogether. BHEUIMTISE HHEUMATIBM is one of the most common affections and leaves very many deformities from unsuccessful treatment. We do not believe there ever need be one case of deformity from rheumatism, if proper means could have been employed. Y°UR physician has not these means for use at hand. As soon as any deformity has resulted, immediate treatment to relieve it should be applied. •J1 nous AN OS of cases with the hands, elbows and shoulders stiff, or with the hips, knees and ankles immovable, have been made as limber as ever, at the Surgical Institute. The medicated hot air, vapor, electro-thermal and other baths, and all kinds of mechanical move- ments, Swedish movement cure, artificial movements, etc., are provided for the cure of rheumatism and the deformities it has produced. is no necessity for remaining de- formed and having a joint stiffened from rheumatic trouble. tPfease read this pamphlet through.) Your physicians will treat the inflamma- . tory stage as well as could be done anywhere. But when it becomes chronic or the joints diseased, there is no place in the United States better than the National Surgical Institute. ■Jhe remaining pain is removed, as well as the stiffness of the joint, and motion is restored. have many cases constantly at the Institute whose joints had become useless from rheumatism, but who are made to walk again. Hot Springs, Ark., is visited by thousands of people who are crippled or deformed, or who have rheumatism, who should never go there. They find their mistake when it is too late. ■Jhere is but one kind of rheumatism, and that from poisoned blood, which is benefited at Hot Springs, and this can be cured much better by systematic and proper treatment with the use of all the various baths and other treatment at the Surgical Institute. gpECiAL provisions have been made, not only for simple rheuma- tism, but for rheumatism produced by poisoned blood and disease. JJot Springs never cure hip disease, paralysis and many other dis- eases for which people visit them. JJeeore spending money so unprofitably, it would be better to write to the National Surgical Institute for a catalogue and information 20 DEFORMITIES OF THE NOSE, TIPS, EARS, EYES, CHEEKS. -f DEFORMITY of .the, face mars, tbe happiness and life °* lts fyt possessor. A deformed lip, a Reformed nose or face destroys the beauty and disfigures a person more than /]% any other deformity. Intelligence, loveliness and con- geniality seem defaced, or lost, by the marring of its index, v A hare lip, large and homely lips, deformed lips from jL, accident, birth or medicine, destroys the beauty and symme- try of the face. guCH cases are often hideous to stran- gers, saddening to the hearts of friends and destructive to the happiness of those who are deformed. Friends may sympathize and try to ignore the terrible deformity, but in vain. Quch defects can be en- tirely removed by the new and only rational method of operating at the Surgical Institute. jyjANY surgeons seem to think that to cut and sew up the face re- moves the defect, but in nine cases out of ten they leave the face deformed for life, and sometimes worse than before they began. THE preparation of the face, and the control of its muscles pre- vious to operating, is of far more’importance than the operation itself. JJveey muscle involved should be as nearly paralyzed temporarily as possible before any cutting is done. This prevents the suppu- ration of the wounds, the cutting of stitches into the flesh and the failure to unite in a proper manner, and had Scars as a result,* should the parts heal at all. method adopted at the Surgical Institute is entirely new to surgery, and is not found in any works on that subject. F you have a large mouth, thick and unsightly lips, a broad, large, or ill-shaped nose, or if the nose or lips are partly destroyed, write to the Surgical Institute for special instructions and infor- mation on the subject. F you have deformed ears or eyelids, write at once and describe your case, and an opinion will be given you as to what can be done. But what is much bet- ter, of course, is to come at once and have an ex- amination made. •pHEREare no surgical operations performedwhich give more real satisfaction than the operations per- formed at the Surgical Institute for removing de- formities of and beautifying the features of the face. Moles, superfluous hair, blotches and other defects removed. people seem quite prone to deformities of the nose. . Whether the shape and appearance of the nose indicates char- acter, as was believed by the Greeks and later by Napoleon, is a matter of little importance compared with a nose deformed from disease or accident. A SUNKEN, crooked or deformed nosedestroys not only the symme- try and beauty of the face, but the happiness of the sufferer. THOUSANDS cf lives are marred by defective noses, nearly all of which can be cured and the possessors at once relieved of their great affliction, and that, too, without cutting the skin or leaving a scar. (Please read this pamphlet through.) 21 HE methods employed by the Tn- M I stitute are entirely new to sur- ■ |'% gery, and are distinctly original with it. Disfigured faces from scars caused by burns, wounds or disease can nearly always be en- tirely removed. Also moles, marks, red blotches, superfluous hair, and other blemishes which mar the face. The methods used are always of the mildest and most efficient character. Q ross-eyes ran be perfectv straightened in a minute, without paiu or the use of chloroform or ether. Jt is useless for a person to spend a life- time disfigured with cross-eyes, while the cost of straightening them is so very small. |Jhe eyelids are often disfigured and drawn out of shape from burns or accident, as well as the nose and lips. gcAKS from burns, salivation or disease, closure of the tear ducts, moles, marks, superfluous hair, brown splotches, etc., removed. Cleft Palate is a defect which surgeons seldom attempt to correct. The operations employed by them have so uniformly failed, and so often aggravated the existing trouble, that these patients have learned to regard their cases as incurable and hopeless, while doctors have taught them to believe that a metal or rubber plate is their only hope. The operation employed is an invention of : (Please read this pamphlet through.) Jt has not been suggested or used Ly_ anyone else. We have operated by this method during the last ten years, on many hundreds of these cases, with results highly satisfactory to the patients. THE operation is free from danger, and is less painful, and more certain to restore the palate and speech than any here- tofore performed. TUMORS. Various enlargements and unnatural growths are found in the human body, which have received the name of tumors. may be malignant or non-ma- lignant, hard, soft, fleshy, fatty, fibrous, brain-like, watery, cheesy, etc., etc. Those of glandular origin are cured by medicines.(Please read this pamphlet through.) 22 mANY that are malignant and cancerous even, are often cured by elastic pressure, electrolysis or hypodermic injection, etc., as the case may require, while a few, by long continued neglect, may re- quire the use of the knife. Never allow a grow ing vampire of this kind, by procrastina- tion, to destroy you. Jmmediate attention is the only safe course to pursue. No branch of our business is at- tended with more favorable results than the removal and cure of tumors. SPECIAL building is provided for the cure of ovarian tumors and uterine surgery. PILES OR HEMORRHOIDS Js A loathsome and distressing malady, and thousands daily suffer needlessly from it. We are told in I Samuel, i, 6, that the Philistines of Ashdod were severely cursed with this torture. But it did not cease with the Philistines. Piles destroy the health, strength and constitution. Piles aid in developing consumption and other fatal diseases. kinds of nervous derangements, aches, pains, etc., are caused by piles. The bleeding and suffering produces weakness and gen- eral derangement of the system. goME are known as bleeding piles, internal piles, external piles, ulcerating piles, etc. MEDICINB will permanently cure piles. Medicines may give a little temporary relief, but the piles are left to torture as before. Jnjecting piles with medicine is a dangerous proceeding, and many have been killed by it. Cutting piles off with a knife, or scis- sors, is a cruel, barbarous and dangerous treatment. The old method of ligating piles with a thread is painful, and should not be tolerated. The treatment should never produce an abrasion of the mucous membrane. The proper treatment is mild, gentle and positive, free from danger and always successful. has never been a failure to cure piles at the Institute if direc- tions are followed. Every case will be cured without medicine, without cutting, without injecting, and all cases will be guaran- teed to remain well ever afterwards. JJ'kvek neglect piles ; they destroy health,, constitution, and shorten life. The treatment never interferes with the patient going about daily. (Send stamp for special circular.) FISTULA. IF possible, this is a more dangerous and troublesome disease than piles. After a wasting and loathsome discharge of matter has begun, the pain is not so great but the loss of strength increases. It reduces vitality and ruins the constitution. Fistula may he complete, internal nr external. Wither will finally ruin the health. Consumption very often fol- lows neglected fistula. Jhe cure of fistula, like piles, is always certain at the Surgical Institute. Ifo getting with the knife, scissors or other instrument is permitted for one moment. Jifo MEDICINES will cure fistula. The treatment, like piles, never interferes with the patient going about daily. Twenty-five years of experience with the new system of treat- ment enables us to say positively that every case will be cured if directions are followed. (Please read this pamphlet through.) 23 4* c gS T is quite gratifying to know that in Quain’s Hospital, in /■ H London, the treatment employed by the Institute twenty years ag° is now employed there, and extolled as a new and im- kJP V proved method of curing fistula and piles. Even now, how- ever, they only understand a part of the Institute’s method. Functional Derangement of the Spinal Cord. There is, perhaps, no suffering more severe, less frequently cured, or less understood by the general practioner than those produced by this derangement of the spinal cord and nervous system. spinal cord is subject to numberless derangements and reflex impressions, and in return almost every conceivable ache and pain, paralysis, nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, despondency, hysteria, hypochondria, affection of the heart and lungs, uterine troubles, affections of the bladder, St. Vitus’ dance, spasms, loss of memory, loss of health, etc., etc., are produced. THOUSANDS of people suffer from this affection, and have swallowed a vast amount of medicine in the vain hope of relief. Jx many cases even the skin is excessively tender over the spinal processes. In some cases the pressure develops but little tender- ness or pain. Usually, however, the pain in the back and sensi- tiveness to pressure are extreme. are no cases which yield more gratifying results than these with proper treatment. Jt is impossible in this brief circular to enter into details in regard to its causes, all of the ailments it produces or its cure. Jt has, however, been made a special study, and the means provided at the Surgical Institute for its treatment are ample and com- plete. Very many cases of this character have been cured here. Persons suffering from any of the above symptoms w]lo have not found relief from the ordinary treatment will do well to write to the Surgical Institute for information. (Flense read this ° pamphlet through.) THIS disease has become so common that any description |n this circular of. its symptoms .seems to be unnecessary, We would earnestly admonish all who have symptoms of catarrh at once to secure proper means of relief. CATARRH. ordinary remedies and the methods of their application have more to do with the lingering, nncured and distressing cases of catarrh, some of which have resulted in consumption and death, than in. almost any other class, of diseases treated. Jf a House is on fire, it. is not sufficient simply to throw water into the halls and principal entrances, but it must be extinguished in every room before safety is insured. *J*he nasal passages are easily reached by the ordinary syringe or douche, but all of the chambers or recesses behind the convo- lutions of mucous membrane the ordinary treatment never touches at all. Jn these cavities ulcers and disease, as in hot beds, arc fostered and developed, and though the patient may be better after the cleans- ing of the direct passages of the nose with water and medicines, yet it is only a question of a few days or weeks when the sur- face will all be contaminated again from the foul excretions from the parts which are not reached by the. treatment. develops disease and degeneration of all the tissues it touches. It is impossible in this brief circular, as stated, to explain the methods of treatment, remedies used, time and expense required for a cure. 'fHE most effective and successful treatment is constantly curing this disease at the Institute. 24 MANY highly eulogistic Commendations from surgeons of emi- nent ability and reputation in foreign countries have been voluntarily given, some of which are given below. T A Professor of Surgery in Chief to the Surgical " Clinique of the Imperial University of Finland, said: “Having personally visited and inspected the great National Surgical Institute at Philadelphia, the highest praise possible is the recommendation which its many invaluable machines and appliances made apparent to all.” The delegation from the French Government 1° the Cen- tennialsaid: “We are not only highly pleased, but must acknowledge that the methods and machinery employed at the Institute surpass anything in use in France or any other country.” The Belgian delegate, E>r. Debaisieux, said: “The surgical mechanical appliances made and used by the Institute are peerless in their variety and beauty of construction and in their prac- tical interests.” T)k. Soma Fqntes. Surgeon General of the Brazilian " army, said; “ ,It is ‘ the most complete Institute of the kind in this or any other country. I can cheer- fully recommend it to the afflicted.” Augustus Morris, Executive Commissioner of the New South Wales Commission, said: “So rational is their whole system that there is no intelligent per- son but must accept it, if only he will listen to its explanation.” T)r. Eabnst Fleischer, Commissioner from the Court w 0f Austria said of our appliances: “ They are superior in’their originality of invention, beauty of workmanship, and adaptability for all pur- poses designed.” J*aeon Van Taupt. Pause, of the Court of Prussia, said, upon his visit to the Institute: “It far ex- ceeds anything of the kind in any country.” WL. HnujT* of Wellington, New Zealand, said: “I take pleas- ,T ure in giving my unqualified testimony to the inventive genius of Dr. Allen, the inventor of the appliances used in the National Surgical Institute.” TF. Cook, LL. D., LaGrange, Mo., says: “ The Institute is reliable. “ The faculty is composed of gentlemen of ability and integrity.” Very Rev. Aug. BesBONIES, Vicar General, Pastor of St. John’s ’ Cathedral, Indianapolis, Ind., says: “From long observation, I can recommend the National Surgical Institute of this city as a proper place for the treatment of deformities.” TUT Messing, Rabbi of the Indianapolis, Indiana, Hebrew congre- gation, says: “ I recommend the National Surgical Institute as one of the principal institutions of the country. Its cures are almost miraculous.” Won. Joseph E; McDonald, ex-Senator U. S., says: “The A National Surgical Institute of this city (Indianapolis, Ind.), has established a reputation of the highest order.” ifROM the Indianapolis Sentinel: “ Every case is dealt with upon the highest principles of right and justice.” I®E New York Independent says: “ The secret of the unparalleled success of the Institute seems to be that they rely upon no pet remedies, but bring every known means of cure to their aid.” Philadelphia Press says: “ This Institution is said to be the largest of the kind in the world. It is conducted upon princi- ples of strict morality.” 25 CHE New York Graphic says ; “We could fill a page of the Graphic with items of interest concerning the Institute, but forbear, at least for the present.” The Hebrew Observer, San Francisco, says: “ None need fear to rely upon their promises and advice; the surgeons are gentlemen of responsibility.” The Atlanta, Ga., Constlhiton says: “The National Surgical Insti- tute is the largest and most prosperous institution of the kind in the world. It has no quack methods; employs no secret nostrums, and makes no empiric claims.” TESTIJIIONIfILS. yf •he following are brief extracts taken from a few of the Ml many testimonials found in the 200 page illustrated cata- I |\ logue of the Institute, which will be sent free to any address upon the receipt of six cents, in stamps, for postage. In most of these cases the patients had wasted valuable time, and squandered large sums of money, in vain efforts to find relief: SPINAL DISEASE. The Institute saved my life. I was afflicted with spinal disease and paralysis. I am now a stout man. W. O. Kohee, Cromwell, Ind. When I went to the Institute I was nearly helpless. I had not walked for five years. I was fully restored. F. E. Scott, Victory, N. Y. My daughter could not walk without keeping one hand upon her knee. She is now well and straight as any one. Dugan Jones, Newton, Kan. My daughter’s spine was so badly curved that it totally paralyzed her lower extremities. The Institute cured her, and she now walks and runs every- where. Mrs. W. H. Erwin, Jerseyville, Ills. I had paid out a good deal to different doctors, but my daughter received no benefit. The Institute helped her quicker than they told me they would. Mrs. Ruby Mills, Douglass Centre, Wis. I tried the Institute in 1870, against the advice of physicians and friends. The surgeons did more for me than they promised. H. Bradford, Marion, Ind. My daughter was cured of spinal disease at the National Surgical Institute. Isaac M. Mason, Four Courts, St. Louis, Mo. Before I went to the Institute I had to brace myself up with my hands all the time. I now get about as well as ever. B. F. Neal, Arcadia, La. We took our daughter to the Institute with a spinal curvature. She walked with her hands upon her knees. She is now all right. E. H. Keys,Mingo, la. HEP DIMEASE. My right hip was flexed and stiff, with several abscesses discharging from it. My left knee was also flexed and stiff. I was permanently cured at the Insti- tute. Mrs. Mary Kroegee, Sheboygan Falls, Wis. Mine was a very had case, with several running sores from the knee to the hip. lam now in good health and can ride forty miles on horseback. Judge Jesse L. Rogers, Dandridge, Tenn. In went to the Institute in 1874. I had given up hope, having been unsuc- cessfully treated elsewhere for two years. lam now well and able to pro- vide for my family. Eeenezer Williams, Oshkosh, Wis. Our son, E. F. Stowitz, who was dying with hip disease, could get no relief of other doctors, but the Institute cured him sound and well. Henry B. Stowitz, Midland City, Mich. I took my boy to the Institute, and though one leg was shorter and smaller than the other, they cured him. Chester Adams, Garrettsville, 0. They cured my son and also the daughter of Rev. Mr. Dickerson, of this city, both of hip disease. W. M. Applebach, Lafayette, Ind. My daughter was confined to her bed four years. She was cured at the Insti- tute, though other doctors had failed. Mrs. P. E. Mullennax, Omaha, Mo. My son was treated by several doctors, to no benefit. The Institute succeeded where others had failed. John Birtwistle, Cresco, la. In 1876, home physicians said my daughter would be a cripple for life. I had spent hundreds of dollars, to no avail. At the Institute she was perfectly and permanently cured. G. H. Beck, Esq., Newton Falls, O. My parents had tried everything the doctors could suggest. At last they took mo to the Institute, where I was cured. Geo. W. Hadley, Mumford, N. Y, FABALYSLS. It is the best place in the United States for the lame. My daughter was treated successfully at the Institute. A. J. De Lashmutt, Frederick, Md. I was greatly improved by their treatment. I would advise any one with pal" alysis to go there, without spending money elsewhere. Caeeie V. Hall, Geneseo, Ills. 1 was grateful for their timely aid. If their is help for paralysis anywhere, it can be found at the Institute. James Bellows, Media, Kan. They helped me; their charges are moderate. lam a great deal better than before their treatment. Flora Soule, Davison Station, Mich. When I first went there I had never stepped on one of my feet. They helped me greatly. Minnie Pistole, Newport, Ark. I shall never cease to feel grateful for the benefit I received from their treat- ment. Miss Lillie H. Murray, Ithaca, N. Y. My condition was greatly improved, to my joy and the credit of the Institute. Miss Carrie Mitchell, Marysville, O. My son’s leg was badly drawn up by paralysis. After treatment at the Insti- tute he could follow the plow all day. J. M. Eddy, Maple Grove, Minn. Dear Doctor—l was completely paralyzed in both legs for nine years. I was completely cured at the Institute, and am perfectly well to-day. Mrs, Hannah Overman, 115 N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind. LAH£ AMi Liu. Our daughter was afflicted eighteen months, confined to the bed most of the time, and was thought to be incurable by our best doctors. The Institute made a great cure in six months. John McComb, Fort Scott, Kan. We took our little girl to the Institute to be treated for weak ankle, caused by paralysis. In walking her ankle touched the ground. She is all right now. Mrs. Wm. Willits, Cardington, O. Our daughter (Lena Spoor) could not use her ankles, they were so weak. She was cured at the Institute. Mes. R. H. Spooe, New Briton, Ind. They helped my boy at once, and 1 am pleased with their methods. / F. B. Mills, Lincoln, Ills. I could not walk without crutches, and they cured me. lam fifty years old and a farmer. A. G. Jones, Grandview, Tex. I am satisfied with their treatment in my daughter’s case. Mks. Josiaii Hunt, Hannibal, Mo. CLUBBED FEET. My youngest child was born with her right foot deformed. She was perfectly and permanently cured. D. Cavitt, Galveston, Tex. I am satisfied my boy would have been a cripple for life had I not taken him to the Institute. W. Doughty, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. My boy had two clubbed feet, and walked on his ankles. The Institute en- abled him to walk properly. Haevey Thomas, Newport, Ky. I took my hoy to Dr, Allen’s Institute with a reel foot, and they cured him. I think it is the best Institute in the country. C. C. Logsdon, Esq., Independence, Kan. I found the doctors at the Institute to be gentlemen. They treated my case (clubbed foot) with success. Fannie Laeimoee, Union Station, O. My daughter was fifteen years old when I took her to the Institute. Hers was a bad case, and I would not take a thousand dollars for the benefit she re- ceived. J. H. Hewitt, New Hampton, la. My boy was treated in Chicago for seven years, and I expended over a thou- sand dollars to no purpose. The Institute cured him in six months, i Mrs. A. S. Iliff, Winona, Ills. My son was under treatment at the Institute and left there with his feet straight and natural. Thomas E. Gaevin, Evansville, Ind. My daughter walked with crutches ten years. The Institute cured her, and she walks all right without any support. C. P. Buck, Wattsburg, Penn. You can not do better than to take your case to the Institute. They did as they promised for my boy. Mrs. Maey Woodfill, Pine Bend, Minn. 8011-LLCg. I had my daughter at the Institute for treatment. She was bow-legged from childhood. lam satisfied with the result. Frederick Wolpert, East Saginaw, Mich. The treatment they gave my boy for bow-legs was satisfactory, and accom- plished what the institute said it would. Mrs. Bela W. Jenks, Sand Beach, Mich. My boy was soon cured at the Institute. His mother was with him during his treatment, and was pleased with the wonderful things she saw while there. • F. B. Mills, Lincoln, Ills. Our youngest son was treated at the Institute for bow-legs. He was entirely cured. A. J. Wiant, Mount Gilead, 0, 27 We had almost given onr daughter up as a cripple for life. She would cer- tainly have been, had we not taken her to the Institute. No one else could help her. S. H. Mitchell, Longton, Kan. After trying all the physicians within my reach to no account, I took my daughter to the Institute. The cure they performed on my daughter’s dis- eased crooked knee was worth the State of Missouri to me. Jas. H. Milstead, Polo, Caldwell Co., Mo. I was greatly benefited by their treatment, and can recommend the Institute. Miss A. B. Moses, Johnstown, Pa. I had trouble in my knee joint, for which I found no relief until I went to the Institute. T. B. Keating, Copake Iron Works, N. Y. I had disease of the knee joint and walked with crutches when I went to the Institute. Now Ido not even use a cane. - Thos. Stoey, Georgetown, Ky. My daughter was treated by them for diseased knee joint with good results. S. D. Otis, Sherwood, N. Y. CROOKED KNEE. HAKE LIP AND CLEFT PALATE. I had a double harelip, upon which the Institute performed an excellent piece of work, for which I am grateful. S. Wynant, Pendleton, Ind. W. B. Royster, of Memphis (278 Main street), Tenn., had a child successfully cured. I consider the Institute a success in the treatment of harelip and other do" formities. D. Montgomery', Strawberry, Mo. In cases of harelip and other deformities great cures are being performed the Institute. Orville Olcott, 274 Washington Boule\’ard, Chicago, Ills. lam perfectly satisfied Yvith their operation on me for cleft palate. lam all right now. Heney Habpham, Lincoln, Neb. THE EYE. I have all confidence in the Institute. They do all they profess. They straightened cross-eye. Miss Mattie Buce, Tallyrand, la. 1 was left entirely blind after one year’s treatment at Cincinnati. I was per- fectly restored at the Institute. Miss Aggie Milliken, Hamilton, 0. I Yvas afflicted with cross-eye, and was successfully operated upon at the Insti- tute. Eva Underhill, Terre Haute, Ind. They operated on my eye for pterygium, and gave me good satisfaction. K. N. Allen, Chanute, Kan. I would advise any one afflicted with any disease of the eye to go to the Insti- tute. “ Miss Emma Kelly, Greenup, Ills. FISTULA. I was successfully treated by the Institute, and would not take ten thousand dollars for the benefit received. Me. H. Burger, St. Charles, la. They cured me eleven years ago, without pain, and I feel each year to thank them more and more. N. H. Sweet, Esq., Webster, Mass. My father suffered intensely and was incapacitated for labor one-half his time before going. Since his cure at the Institute he has not lost an hour’s sleep or a day’s work. Emma V. Shoetess, Joplin, Mo. I took treatment at the Institute for fistula and was cured. I have not been troubled since. S. W. Jones, Shelbyville, Ind. I can recommend the Institute in their treatment of fistula. Milan Bently, 4036 Vanilla street, Philadelphia, Penn. PILES. I was afflicted thirty-seven years, was treated at Chicago, New York and else- where with great suffering, and at an expense of more than a thousand dol- lars. The Institute cured me, to the astonishment of my friends. James Smith, Greenville, Tenn. I suffered for years with piles and became almost unfit for business. The In- stitute cured me permanently. Thos. H. Breeding, Hill’s Station, O. I was treated for piles by the Institute several years ago. I was entirely re- lieved in a short time. Wm. Stitt, Berlin, Ills. I ivas treated successfully at the Institute for piles. I can recommend their treatment. L. M. Robinson, Dunkirk, Ind. They cured me of a very bad case of piles, from which I had suffered for ten years. LeEoy Smith, Hermitage, N. Y. Mine was a bad case. I had paid hundreds of dollars to other doctors, but found no cure until I came to the Institute in 1872. Jas, Goshoen, Sangatuck, Mich. MISCELLANEOUS. I advise all to go. If there is any cure it is there. I had white swelling, and I am glad I went. Miss Kate Mospeus, Newport, Ky. I was afflicted twelve years with white swelling, walked with crutches, and found no relief. The Institute cured me, and I can do as much farm work as any man. • Nelson E. Waters, Plainfield, Mich. I was perfectly satisfied with their treatment and the result in my case. (De- formed nose.) A. L. Peas, Kirkwood, Ilia. I had an indolent ulcer on my leg. I cannot express my gratitude for what the Institute did for me. Mas. Harriet Jones, Dundee, Mich. I had indolent ulcers, or fever sores, for years. I could get no relief until the Institute cured me. John Roberts, Clark’s Mills, N. Y, I sent my daughter to the Institute against the advice of physicians here. She was cured of catarrh. A. R. McCoy, Van Wert, O. I suffered dreadfully from polypus in the nose, and was entirely cured at the Institute. Miss Aggie Milliken, Hamilton, O. We tried many doctors, and they did my boy no good. His leg was drawn up and he had to use crutches. They made his leg straight. John H. McElhaney, Tiffin, O. We were treated with every kindness and had good results at the Institute. Mrs. Rosa Benedict, 336 Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. I was cured at the Institute of piles and fistula. They are doing great work. Mary J. Mathews, Cassopolis, Mo. Doctor Allen removed a tumor from my back, weighing forty pounds. In two weeks I was well, and have been ever since. Mart Dean, Westfield, Ind. (Send for as many references as you desire and they will be furnished.) Mistakes of Patients—-Instructions. (Please read this pamphlet through.) Che practice of obtaining braces through physicians from instru- ment makers is most reprehensible. The brace maker may claim long experience, but his experience is simply that of the mechanic or blacksmith. JJe knows nothing of the anatomy, nothing of the diseases or defects of the body, knows nothing of surgery, but simply makes instru- ments to sell, which do more harm than good. JJecause he can make a saw or knife with which to amputate a leg does not argue that the patients can take them home and use them, or that the instrument-maker can successfully perform the amputation. Jt would he far easier to teach a patient or his friends how to ampu- tate a leg than to teach them to use the surgical appliances for diseased joints and deformities. The amputation is simple, but the proper use of braces is intricate and tedious. This error of sending for braces or buying them of instrument makers, is a wrong to those who suffer, and should have been denounced long ago by physicians. The doctor should have told such cases that he was unprepared to cure them. He should have notified them that the instrument maker was incompetent. He should have advised them never to buy braces. He should have advised them to seek those who have long made a specialty of this work alone. races are mere tools to work with, hut require long experience to use them successfully. . You might as well buy brushes and paints and attempt to paint your own portrait, as to buy braces to treat deformities or dis- eased joints or hacks. You may see a lady playing upon the piano, yet without a musical education you would make poor music upon that instrument. J?or humanity’s sake, and for the relief of millions who suffer, this reckless and thoughtless practice of buying braces and wearing them should be abandoned. There are very few cripples in the world who have not worn braces, and their deformity or life-long suffering is the result of wear- ing braces improperly and without other necessary treatment. repeat again, never buy braces of any one, but place your case under the treatment of those who are prepared to make a cure. Jt is universally admitted that the apparatuses and appliances in- vented and used at the Surgical Institute are superior to all others, yet it requires the long experience of the inventors to properly use them. gOME people unaccustomed to traveling arrive at India- napolis, and instead of coming directly to the Institute are per- suaded into some bad hotel, are besieged by men to go to some doctor in the city, and are frightened by false tales of harsh 3 treatment and high prices at the Institute. fag A HIS is simply a scheme to rob the stranger by ' » ' inducing him to buy braces of some instrument maker or doctor with whom he is in collusion and with whom he JP*' can divide the money he obtains. You* doctors at homo arc just ns well prepared to treat jour case as.pillaging doctors and brave markers jn'lndityianplis. THERE at© no other Surgical Institutes in Indianapolis. The Institute never solicits patients who desire other physicians. THE best plan is always to go directly to the Institute, with which is connected one of the largest and cheapest hotels in the city, and thus avoid mistakes and being swindled. This advice is intended only for those unaccustomed to traveling, who are honest and expect others to be so, and are easily misled by these deceivers. no attention to the urgent adviee of grangers, and thus avoid being swindled ; they always hare a’motive. REMEMBER the good hotels are north or the railroad tracks. Do not cross the railroad tracks or go through the tunnel for a hotel. The best hotels in the city are the Bates House, New Denison, Grand Hotel, Spencer House, and the Occidental. The Grand charges $3, the Spencer $2 and the Institute Hotel $1 to $1.50 per day, providing all the comforts and conveniences for their patients. OCCASIONALLY designing persons on the trains, or hack- men, may earnestly urge you not to go to the Institute, hoping to share your money with some of their friendly doctors, if they can discourage you and deceive you about the Institute. JJAD men are always found where they can find victims. Out of the great number visiting the Institute a few are weak minded enough to drop into their traps, losing their money and encouraging these swindlers to continue their efforts on others. The -Surgical Institute contains rooms to accommodate about 250 people. It is open day and night for the reception of patients and is kept solely for the comfort and benefit of patients and their friends who desire to stay with them. THE price of board is $1 to $1.50 per day, and from $5 to $9 per week, owing to rooms and demands of boarders. JJVERY effort is made for the comfort of the patient. A Nursery Department for the care of children whose parents or friends find it more convenient or economical to leave their children under the care of competent nurses than to remain with them. Monk improve more rapidly or are happier than children in the nursery. Their cheerfulness is the universal remark of every- one, and their almost universal health and improvement is phe- nomenal. KINDERGARTEN (school) is sustained for the entertainment and instruction of the children with music, stories, games, etc. CLASSES in literature and other studies are formed for the in- struction and entertainment of patients and their friends. RELIGIOUS services are held in the Institute every Sabbath, conducted by the ablest ministers of the city from all of the churches. Entertainments of various kinds, including concerts, recitations, plays, etc., are given for the entertainment and amusement of the patients. {•EES for treatment.—Man y persons from necessity, and others for the purpose of economy, desire to know the price of treat- ment- before they come, but if they will take a second thought it will he apparent to them that it is impossible to make any defi- nite statement of cost until the case is examined and it is known - what will be required. The fees arc always within the reach of all. QUR services are free to the deserving poor, and at moderate charges to those able to pay. There is a free dispensary con- nected with the Institute for the treatment of the poor. 30 WARNING- COUNTERFEIT INSTITUTIONS AND TRAVEL- ING DECEPTIONS. yr. regret the necessity which compels this warning against unreliable imitators of the National Surgical Institute, ft is sad that those who suffer should be deceived by men of no experience and no facilities, and men who are prompted by poverty and avarice to impose upon the credulity of those who are afflicted. people have heard of the National Surgical Institute and its great work, and realize the necessity for such an institution, but some have never visited it, consequently they are not able to understand the falsity of spurious ones. JJunDHEDS have lost money, time and opportunity to lie cured, and suffered much by employing them. THE highest claims they make are false ones: that they have been connected with the Surgical Institute, can do as well, or are endorsed by it, or use the same appliances. Qne so-called Institution offered Dr. Allen forty thousand dollars for the use of his name alone to, secure business. Many of these unprincipled imitators have copied the pictures of its patients and Its printed matter, and infringed upon its patents for braces and appliances (which they du not know how to use), to deceive an unsuspecting public. THE Institute would be proud of and co-laborers in this great work if they possessed the facilities, experience and genius to do their patients justice; but to prowl like vagrants or swindlers over the country, with no facilities, or to remain in an office and advertise it as a Surgical Institute, and deceive their patients, is a great damage to the cause of the National Surgical Institute and to those wh® are deceived. Jjo kot patronize these unreliable doctors, although it in ay seem to save the expense of going to the Institute. Never drink from a foul or poisonous pool when a pure spring is a little further off The great work and wonderful cures wrought by the Surgical Insti- tute is known to millions of people, and the mere name Surgical Institute inspires faith. THIS Institution has no branches or interests in any other , Institution or doctors* east..west, north or south., JJ.EMEMHER, the branch ot this Institute was closed, and all the val - uable machinery and the surgeons formerly in 'charge of the Philadelphia and Atlanta branches are at the home Institute, at Indianapolis, Ind. JJefoee spending money elsewhere, write to the National Surgical Institute for information, thereby avoiding disappointment. The name Surgical Institute was never used before its adoption by this Institution. But, like “ wolves who wear sheep’s cloth- ing,” imitators steal this name and appropriate it for their mercenary purposes. If they were honorable men, who wished to stand upon their own merits, there are plenty of other names ... , they could adopt. .B.ut deception is their aim. gOMlf patent medicine concerns advertise Surgical lustl tntes to obtain money. They claim to employ a host of doctors who cure everything. Patent medicine and scientific surgery never go together well. None but the thoughtless ur ignorant will be decoyed by such monstrosities. THROUGH ignorance or malice some designing persons have tried to persuade others not to come, telling them the Institute is only a money-making concern. This may seem too silly to require notice, but some may listen to the falsehood and allow their children to remain deformed. All men work for money; all business, except charity, is done for money. A fair com- pensation only is demanded of any one. 31 Orttiopeillc Surgery a Separate ort (Please read this pamphlet through.) JN the effort to elevate orthopedic surgery (the cure of deformites, paralysis, etc.) and to make it a separate branch of the healing art, opposition must be expected. All good things have been opposed. Even churches, public schools, temperance, etc., have been traduced and derided by some people. JJveey advance and improvement for the good of the public, unset- — ties or .mars the-interests temsorarlly q! some ane.and he objects. which would please a suffering cripple might not suit some unemployed physician. (Jhe treatment of this class of cases should and will become a separate art. people are not yet quite educated up to that point, hut long suffering and the millions of deformities will compel the change, - as ihey compelled it in the practice of, medicine. , , - doctors must yield to public demands, as they did when saliva- tion, bleeding, and other tortures were denounced by the people. (JJheee are a few selfish physicians yet who object to the Institute. But they are fast changing their minds on the subject, and it seems strange that any doctor in general practice should object to the Institute, and it seems strange that any doctor in general practice should object to patients being treated at an institution which treats more patients of the kind in a single day than he does in a life-time. Jhe practice of medicine should be as broad as the cause of human- ity, and it should not be subverted to mere mercenary and selfish ends; and in proportion to the palpable ignorance and failures of the science of medicine, should be the physician’s generosity and humility. Jf the treatment were a mere theory, like that of medicine, easily taught; or if any two cases were exactly alike, and set rules could be followed to success, as has been thought by some to be practicable, the work could be easily accomplished, but the unending changes, conditions and necessities are most perplexing, and place the work far beyond a mere copyist. WE do not think it egotism, after such a long experience, to make the assertions we make, though many of them may seem short and abrupt, with unsatisfactory explanations in regard to the work, cures and methods of business of the Institute. But the brevity of this circular compels it. By some its claims may seem too great or unreasonable. If so, it is from want of infor- mation on the part of the reader as to the great work it is doing and its facilities. *J*HE fact, liowever, that cures have been constantly made for a quar- ter of a century need not be qualified, and too timidly uttered, for fear some one.may doubt. Jt has required incessant labor for twenty-eight years, and an ex- penditure of over five hundred thousand dollars, to complete the facilities of the National Surgical Institute. a child is born with crooked feet or other deformity, or stricken with paralysis, or afflicted with disease of some of the joints or spine, it is not to be wondered at that the parents in their anxiety are bewildered, and do not know what to do, and are apt to embrace the first opportunity, whether right or wrong, in the hope of a cure. gUT {t is far better to do nothing than to do wrong, and that you may decide intelligently write for all information you A dSiJk‘IW» pages,'giving the history, objects and work of the Institute will be furnished to all applicants who will send six cents to pay the postage. gEND for special circular on any disease or deformity you or your friends may have. CONSUMPTION. Full Chest.and Ample Lungs. Deformed Spines, Chests and Lungs. More than one hundred and fifty thousand people die annu ally In the United States from lung- disease. Too often the shoulders are rounded—cramping the lungs by forcing the ribs upon them, flattening the chest, making it hollow or pointed in the center, and in this condition many thousands of young people begin life. A very uneven race it proves. Their vitalities are sapped for want of lung capacity and an ample supply of pure blood. The mind is also dwarfed for want of physical energy, and the child’s life, of course, is blighted. Dwarfed and imperfect lungs can not oxidize the blood suf- ficiently to make it pure enough to maintain health and life. That Consumption, or at least the liability to Consumption, is inherited, there can be no question, and there is no question but that many cases of Consumption can be prevented by proper development and care of the lungs. But the common, reckless, pell-mell American life seems to ignore our physical condition, and thousands of children are al- lowed to grow with deformed chests, which could just as well have been plump and perfect, and all disease of the lungs pre- vented. Gymnastic exercises, shoulder braces and voluntary at- tempts to remedy this condition are usually failures. The bones in the spinal column become wedge-shaped—nar- rower in front than they should be—and round shoulders and flat chests can never be relieved without first changing the shape of these bones. The parent who neglects a club foot or a paralyzed leg sim- ply leaves his child’s limb deformed or paralyzed and useless for life, but the parent who neglects the proper developement of his child’s chest, consigns him to the dangers of Consumption and premature death. The millions of minute air cells connected with the little bronchial tubes in the lungs are lined with a delicate mucous membrane, which is constantly secreting mucous. __ This mucous must be discharged. If not it decomposes like any other dead animal matter, and is poisonous in the system. If the bronchial tubes are closed by pressure the mucous can not escape. Gases are formed, distending the cells which press upon other tubes, and many are destroyed by the foul con- tents ; an abcess, and the work of destruction begins. Had the lungs been free and unimpeded by round shoulders and narrow chests, this would not have occurred, and death would not have come. It was a little lamp which burned Chicago. It is the minutest germ, which even a microscope has not detected, which causes small pox, cholera, yellow fever, etc. The work of the National Surgical Institute was inaugu- rated in 1857, and was incorporated afterwards with a capital stock of $500,000. Its object and work has been to perfect the human body as far as possible, and it has the best facilities in the United States for accomplishing this work. By its treatment the chest is enlarged, the lungs expanded —the capacity often being nearly doubled—thus enabling the patient to inhale twice as much air as before treatment, making full, plump and round chests instead of hollow, dilapidated chests, with cramped lungs. It has not only cured deformities of the legs and diseases of the joints, but the various deformities and improper conditions of the chest have received its special care, and thousands of children and young people who would have been in their graves from consumption, have been saved this calamity by proper de- velopment of their lungs, enabling them to ward off the heredi- tary taints of consumption and other diseases, as well as to correct acquired diseases. Believing that no work is of more importance while the terrible death rate from consumption continues, the most ample and adequate methods have been employed for the purpose, and the Institute feels justifiable in warning parents to see to it that their children’s lungs are ample and unobstructed from any cause. This page suggests the importance of making Orthopcd Surgery and Orthopraxy a special branch of the healing art. the teeth seen upon one side and the eye upon the other are small compared with our whole physical system, yet colleges have been established for teach- ing the treatment of the teeth, and dentistry has become an independent science. Hospitals have been founded for the treat- ment of the eye alone, and oculists make it a special branch of busi- ness. A superficial view of a very little of the complex mechanism of the body is here represented, but sufficient to indicate that if the eyes and teeth demand spe- cialists for their treatment, certainly the mechanical treatment of the whole mechanism for voluntary motion deserves it far more. How limited the anatomical parts and the diseases of the eye and ear com- pared with those of the balance ox the system, which comes under the domain of Orthopedic Surgery! More than five hundred muscles, two hundred bones and myriads of nerves, vessels, etc., are involved in diseased joints, deformity, paralysis, etc. / Dentistry is certainly an indispensible art, and independent of the practice of medicine. No one thinks of consulting the physician about the treatment of the teeth. Why should they about mechanical and Orthopedic Surgery, which are so foreign to their business? ni r a rr comotoesuptthis H PA \r SEND THIS TO SOMfcOtft I LLn JL who is afflicted