DR. BANNING’S 
PATENT MCI, OR BODY BRACE, 
FOR THE RELIEF OR CURE OP 
9 
BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS, 
AND ALL WEAKNESSES OF THE BODY 
BBQQWm 
GENERAL OFFICE, 
S3To 's£2*o. 
W. w; PH Oil, Agent. 
Also to.be Lad of DR. BANIN TNG- himself, during 
his limited stay in this eity. Consultation as 
to its use, gi'atuitous. 
A Lady in attendance upon Ladies. 
IVSW J£&SJBL*s^lB4B. “TRUTH IS MIGHTY.” 
This pamphlet contains a large amount of highly credit- 
able and strongly approbatory evidence of the value and im- 
portance of the 
PATENT MCE, OR BOB! BRACE, 
to which the attention of the public is respectfully invited. 
The work claims not, however, for the Brace, 
MIRACULOUS POWERS! 
SUCH AS THE “PREVENTION OF OLD AGE!” 
NOR THE 
CURING OF CONFIRMED CONSUMPTION!! 
HUMBUG!!! 
OR ANY OTHER 
But does profess and establish, beyond successful contradic- 
tion, the important fact, 
THAT NATURE ONLY REQUIRES HELP! 
And that IJELP is. her.e afforded!!! 
Causes of the debility of Ladies, so common at the present day. 
1. A neglect to support weak children. 2. Neglecting to sup- 
port fast growing and lax fibered girls, at the change from girl- 
hood to womanhood. 3. The present length of whalebone dress 
waists, and the enormous number and weight of skirts commonly 
worn, and pressing downward. 
13 B races on hand for very small children. Braces sent to 
order, as per measurement—Cash .accompanying the 
order. Circulars informatory, furnished grat.s. DR. BANNING’S 
(SBiLBl&lE&fiSiD 
PATENT LACE, OR BODY BRACE. 
The proprietor of this Instrument wishes to return his thanks 
to the public, and to the Medical profession, for the very liberal 
and unexpected patronage which his Lace has, and does still 
continue to receive from every State in the Union. He also 
wishes to inform them, that he has lately made an 
IMPROVEMENT IN THE INSTRUMENT, 
which, for ease and support to the body, very far surpasses any 
supporter or brace now in use, (although since his article was 
introduced and patented, many other varieties have appeared,) 
and he would take this mode of respectfully requesting the pub- 
lic to guard against purchasing for his brace, any but those bear- 
ing the stamp of the proprietor, thus: 
“DR. BANNING’S PATENT LACE, 
Pa. April 6th, 1843.” 
And which may be had at the principal Office No. 369, Broad- 
way, New York—and of the different agents throughout the 
Union. The object of this Instrument is to relieve or cure the fol- 
m lowing Diseases, viz: 
Weakness of the Breast; Bronchitis; Shortness of Breath; 
Pain in the Chest; Weakness and Bleeding at the Lungs; 
Palpitation of the Heart; Dyspepsia; Costiveness and Piles; 
Pains in the Back; Spinal Curvature and Enlargement of one 
Hip and Shoulder; Falling of the Bowels; Prolapsus Uteri; 
Irregular, Painful or Profuse Menstruation; a Tendency to 
Abortion, and Painful Pregnancy, and the bad shape incident 
to childbearing; a disposition to drooping, lounging and wea- 
riness; Hysteria, melancholy, causeless crying, and thoughts 
of suicide; habitual Bilious Colic; Sea Sickness and Chronic 
Diarrhoea; Milk-leg, with old Ulcers; Varicose Veins; Pains, 
coldness, numbness, and swelling of the extremities; Weak- 
nesses peculiar to males and females, as such, whether from 
solitary abuse, or the debility common at puberty. The de- 
formities of weak and rickety children, are greatly under its 
control. 
g These, and analogous maladies, which, when grouped together, 
seem to have no identity of nature or cause, may be often ac- 
counted for, and relieved, on the following rational and “com- 
mon sense” principle, to which the critical attention of the popu- 
lar and scientific reader is invited, viz:—That man, animally 
considered, is a machine, and that when his mechanical perfec- 
tion is in any degree lost, there must follow a corresponding de- 
preciation of its functions, as a natural result. With reference 
to the internal organs of the trunk, we remark, that they are all 
connected together, from the top to the base of the truncal cavity, 
and are under the influence of their own weight—that they, in 
health, all support each other, from below upward, and do not 
drag each other downward. This compact state and upward ac- 
tion is chiefly effected by the surrounding abdominal muscles, 
when in an active, healthy state. Therefore, when these are re- 
laxed, the whole pile of organs will fall, producing a general dis- 
placement of them, necessarily inducing a host of functional de- 
rangements. These derangements will be mechanical, and of 3 
course only curable by restoring the parts to their proper place. 
The following expresses some of the natural effects of muscular 
and ligamentous relaxation upon the body, which cannot be cured 
exclusively by medicine, viz:—The whole mass of organs falling, 
rest too heavily upon the arteries, veins, nerves and lymphatic 
vessels of the lower extremities, obstructing the commerce be- 
tween them and the body, diminishing the arterial force, the 
return of the venous blood, the ascent of the lymphatic fluids 
and free nervous intercourse between the body and limbs, in- 
ducing coldness, numbness, swelling and loss of motion in them, 
with varicose veins. They will also press upon the urinary or- 
gan, and produce either a too frequent evacuation of urine, or 
else, turning it back or forward, so as to cramp its stem, will 
produce retention of that fluid, giving to too many, a false rea- 
son to suppose the kidneys to be affected. They also press on the 
lower bowel, and thereby mechanically produce costiveness, or 
torpor of the bowels. There will also be exerted a pressure on 
the Uteras, (or womb,) crowding it downward, and out of place, 
putting its supporting chords upon the stretch, producing a sense 
of pain, lameness of the back, and drawing sensation in the 
groins, where these ligaments are attached, and a great sense of 
weight or pressing at the lower belly. 
By the pressure upon the lower bowel, and consequently up- 
on the hemori’hoidal veins, producing costiveness and obstruct- 
ing the free return of blood from the bowel, piles are produced. 
We also see, the stomach, liver and sp'leen will now be left un- 
supported, causing also a sense of hanging, dragging pain, com- 
pelling the patient to lean over and press that region with the 
hand. The region of the stomach will be tender, and the pa- 
tient will speak of ugoneness,” sinking, and other like sensa- 
tions. 
Also, the spleen will be dragged downwards; pulling on its 
upper ligaments, producing a dead, heavy, constant pain in the 
side, imitating inflammation of that organ, which cannot be reach- 
ed by internal medicine. By this means, also, the diaphragm 
becomes displaced, and ceases to support the heart and lungs. 
The former will be now suspended, causing a fluttering or pal- 
pitation; the lungs being left unsupported, produces a disposi- 
tion to lean forward in sitting or standing. When there exists 
this descent of the organs in public speakers, the voice is 
weak and throat sore, in connection with all the other symp- 
toms just referred to. This falling also brings the body for- 
ward in front of the small of the back, or the body’s axis, in- 
ducing an unusual leverage on that part, followed by a straining 4 
weakness and curvature of the spine, with great pain and sore- 
ness; for the true philosophy of an erect and square form is, to 
have the hips, and particularly the small or hollow of the back, 
pushed under, so that the head and shoulders will be balanced 
upon the former, causing the crown of the head, the lower joints 
of the neck, the hollow of the back, the hips, knee and ancle 
joints, to be all in perfect line when erect; showing that droop- 
ing shoulders are the result of a falling of the internal organs, 
and. more particularly of a weakness of the lower back, and a 
retreating of it and the hips from under the body, so that the 
case is a humped, hack, and not drooping shoulders. And also, 
that spinal curvature is caused by standing and sitting upon one 
hip, causing the weight to break across the spine, between the 
shoulders, and also the small of the back; and that both of which 
must be relieved by supporting forward, and to the centre of 
the hase of the sinking pile, and not by putting hack and out 
of place, the head and shoulders, as is necessarily done by 
shoulder braces and spinal supports. 
PROOF. 
If you are drooped, and are pressed forward firmly by the 
finger’s end upon the kidneys, your shoulders come back, and 
you are erect. (See figure 6.) When erect, if supported thus 
firmly, you cannot bow or droop until the back has permission to 
retreat. 
If you are curved to one side, pi’ess the convex part of the 
spine, at the small of the back, forward and toward the centre, 
and the high shoulder will sink—the low and opposite one be 
elevated, and the body be comparatively square; then with an- 
other hand lift the abdomen, and you will feel strong and firm, 
and the chest commence to expand, and the breathing be imme- 
diately improved. All this the Brace accomplishes. (See Fig- 
ures 5 and 6, on next page.) 5 
FIGURE V. 
Fig. V represents an internal view of 
Fig. 111. ' 
A. Perpendicular line touching the 
breast, but not the abdomen, which 
is drawn back by the erect posture, 
and the active state of the abdomi- 
nal muscles. 
B. B. Form of the Spine of an erect 
person, and a plumb line dropping 
from the crown through the union of 
the back and neck, and through the 
hollow of the back and the hip and 
knee joints, and falling a little near- 
er the ball than the heel of the 
foot. 
C. Elevated Diaphragm, supporting 
the lungs and heart. 
.D. Hollow back of the erect and well- 
formed man. 
G. Urinary bladder at liberty, and un- 
compressed by the abdominal organs. 
H. Uterus or womb uncompressed. 
I. Rectum or lower bowel uncompress- 
ed by the superior organs. 
FIGURE VI. 
Figure VI is tire reverse of Figure V. 
B. Sunken stomach. 
E. Straight back—the base or axis 
having retreated, leaving the plumb 
line to drop much in front of it, and 
not through it, as in Figure V, causing 
the body’s weight to produce a strain 
upon the back. 
C. Pendant belly, with the plumb line 
touching it, and not the breast, as in 
Fig. V. The “common sense” infe- 
rence is, that no support should be 
applied higher than the small of the 
back, for drooping or curvature; and 
that all corsets, shoulder braces and 
supports, passing up the spine, act by 
restoring the part that is not so much 
at fault, and was intended to he mova- 
ble;, and leave the part at fault and 
that was intended to be most fixed, un- 
supported and astray. 
F. Depressed urinary bladder, from the falling of the abdomi- 
nal organs. 
J. Uterus depressed from the same cause. 
I. Compressed rectum, or lower bowel. 6 
DR. BANNING’S 
PATENT LACE, OR BODY BRACE. 
Figures 11 and 12 represent Figure 6 raised to the erect posture 
and due proportion, by the Brace. 
A. A. Springs passing above the hips. 
B. Pad, lifting and supporting the bowels, thereby taking 
weight off from the organs below—supporting the stomach, 
heart and lungs, and thereby expanding the chest. 7 
Particular Advantages of the Lace over other Supporters. 
Ist. It is cool. 2d. It is light. 3d. Its pads can all be shifted 
up or down, right or left, as often as the spleen or necessity of 
the case may require. 4th. Its great and universal flexibility. 
sth. It lifts more than any other. 6th. Its back pads are four, 
and press on the weak hips, particularly on the weak back, 
balancing and not restraining the body. 
Rules of Measurement. 
Those who cannot apply to the agent in person, may send the 
following measurement. Draw a tape snugly around the hips 
over the body linen, one and a half inches below the top of the 
hip bones, also close above the hips, and send the number of 
inches, with a description of form, &c. 
Rules of selection from Measurement. 
Patients measuring 40 or 39 inches generally use No. 1; for 
38 inches, No. 2; for 3S inches, No. 3; for 34 inches, No. 4; fir 
33 and 32 inches, No. 5; for 31 inches, No. 6; for 30 and 29 
inches, No. 7; for 27 inches, No. 8; for 25 inches No. 9; for 22 
and 20 inches, No. 10. 
Bring the bow above the right hip, resting in the soft part 
between the haunch bone and the ribs; then fasten it by the 
elastic strap that passes around the left hip (not above it) and 
hooks on to a stud on the end of the main spring. The large 
pad should be nearly or quite to the front bone at the lower abdo- 
men, and in the centre of it; the upper back pads behind the kid- 
neys, each side of the spine, supporting the weak back and bracing 
the body. If necessary, change the position of the parts by 
means of the screws. If a double bowed Lace, act as above, 
only lock it at the joint at front. In a word—exercise your 
“Common Sense.” It is always best to be fitted by an expe- 
rienced agent. Remove at night. Is worn over the linen. 
How to apply the Lace or Brace. (Single Row.) 
How to manage the Brace. 
Let it ever be borne in mind, that such is the construction and 
principles of the Brace, and so varied the forms and sizes of it, 
that it never need to hurt, when skilfully selected and fitted. If 
it hurt, something is wrong. If the patient becomes restive in it, 
it should not be worn so steadily at first. If it hurt, examine the 
causes rationally, and so remedy it. Little inconveniences soon 8 
vanish, when they originate with the susceptibilities of the wear- 
ers. 
Dr. B. begs that any inconvenience may be at once made 
known to the Agent. If its application occasions some nausea 
for a day or two, it is a token for good. 
WHO SHOULD WEAR THE LACE? 
/ 1. All, whether children or adults, who have any enlarge- 
ment of one hip or shoulder—or curvature—weakness or pain 
in the spine, or between the shoulders—or who are disposed 
to droop or lounge, and are easily fatigued—such as merchants, 
clerks, artizans, seamstresses, &c. 
2. All who are weak from long confinement, who live seden- 
tarily; all, of lax fibre; all ladies who are easily fatigued on 
walking, riding, or other exercise; and particularly all who have 
any variety of female debility, as “bearing down”—whites— 
painful, profuse, or irregular menstruation—young people, par- 
ticularly weak girls, at the change to womanhood—and young 
men, with seminal weakness and debility of the loins. 
3. All public speakers, and singers, and those who have a 
depressed, weak condition of chest, with spitting of blood and 
shortness of breath, short cough and oppressive pains. 
4. Those who have any degree of dyspepsia, with costive- 
ness or piles—with sense of sinking or “goneness” at the sto- 
mach and sides; nervous, gloomy looks, and melancholics; feeble 
travelers, who are liable to sea sickness. In a word, it is good to 
own, as we own an umbrella, or any contingent article, to use 
when we are most exposed to violence or effort, thus preventing 
the necessity for its permanent use. When used early, it may 
be soon laid aside. 
LETTERS. 
Letters from several of the most Eminent Physicians in this and 
other Cities respecting the Brace. Savannah, June 11, 1847. 
Dr. Banning—Dear Sir;—We, residents of the city of Sa- 
vannah, have had frequent opportunity of witnessing the effects 
of your “Patent Body Braces-,” and are convinced that they excel 9 
every mechanical instrument which has ever been invented to 
relieve the pelvis from the unusual pi-essure of the contents of 
the abdomen, consequent upon spinal and other organic affec- 
tions, which so often baffle the skill of the most able physician. 
We believe the principle to be a correct one, and if judiciously 
applied, will do much good. Therefore, we congratulate the 
public on the success of your labors wherever you have had an 
opportunity of imparting instruction. We sincerely wish you 
success in your endeavors to do good, and tender our best wishes 
for your prosperity, hoping you may enjoy a long life of useful- 
ness. Your friends, 
H. K. Burroughs, M. D. (Mayor of the City.) 
C. P. Richardson, M. D. 
J. C. Habersham, M. D. 
J. S. Monel, M. D. 
A. Cunningham, M. D. 
From Professor Goddard, Philadelphia. 
I have examined Dr. Banning’s instrument for relief of weak- 
ness requiring support, and have made practical experiment of 
the same, and am astonished at the results. 
PAUL P. GODDARD, M. D. 
Philadelphia Feb. 28, 1846. 
From, Professor Dickinson, Charleston, S. C. 
The principle which Dr, Banning has so ingeniously carried 
out, seems to me widely applicable to a large class of cases of 
suffering and debility in both sexes. 
SAM’L. HENRY DICKINSON, M. D. 
Feb. 5, 1847. 
From Professor Mott of New York, and others. 
The undersigned have examined Dr. Banning’s novel views 
on the mechanical pathology of many affections of the viscera, 
and believe them to be highly interesting and worthy the serious 
attention of the medical profession. 
Valentine Mott, 
Alex. B. Whiting, 
Stephen Brown, 
J. Kearney Rodgers, 
Stephen R. Kirby, 
H. McLean. 10 
Pittsburgh, May 28, 1846. 
We, the undersigned, having used incur practice, “Banning’s 
Patent Lace,” for the relief of cases of simple Prolapsus Uteri, 
cheerfully testify to its being the best instrument we have met 
with to fulfil all the indications required in the case, which can 
be required from an external support. 
A. N. McDowell, M. D. 
T. F. Dale, M. D. 
Jos. P. Gazzam, M. D, 
Extract of a Letter from Dr. H. H. Sexton, Galesburg, Illinois, 
June, 28th, 1848. 
Dr. Banning—Dear Sir:—l wish you to forward me another 
supply of braces; I have but four remaining of the fifty I pux*- 
chased of you. *****! have used your brace most 
successfully in cases of from two to seven years standing, and 
knowing, as I well do, the great benefit derived from the use of 
the lace, I presented it to the Medical Convention which met at 
this place to choose delegates to the National Medical Conven- 
tion, to be held in Boston next spring. I have engaged to sup- 
ply several physicians with your lace; also, several of my own 
patients are now waiting for them. * * * I could mention 
several cases of recent date, but will defer doing so, unless you 
wish me to—presuming you have enough testimony already— 
for people here that have worn them could not be persuaded to 
give them up; one lady assured me she would not part with 
her’s for a dollar a day. 1 recommend them in all cases of 
Prolapsus Uteri, Dyspepsia, Bleeding of the Lungs, and all ner- 
vous affections. Yours, 
H. H. SEXTON, M. D. 
Extract from a Letter of a Lady, to her Brother, a Physician. 
Dear Brother;— * * * * After trying various other- 
supporters to no avail, I was induced by a friend to try one “Dr. 
Banning’s Patent Body Braces;” I have wrorn it some time, and 
can testify that language is inadequate to express the relief I have 
received from it. That constant dull pain in the right side is 
wholly removed by the use of the Brace; likewise the pi’essing 
bearing down of the abdomen; the Piles and Constipation of 
the Bowels are all relieved. You well know how difficult it has 
been for me, for years, to walk any distance, but since I have 11 
worn the Brace I have walked miles daily with slight inconve- 
nience. I could not believe anything could have been devised 
that would so perfectly support the body. And now, my dear 
brother, I want you to recommend this most useful instrument to 
all your patients afflicted as I have been. * * * 
M. K. EVERET, New York. 
Extract of a Letter from the Rev. David Caldwell, Rector of 
St. Paul’s Church, Norfolk, Va. 
* * I am truly rejoiced to hear you are coming 
South. I hope you will find the trip one of profit to yourself, for 
lam sure it will be one of benevolence to others. If you wish, 
I would write you out an accurate description of how great ser- 
vice your brace has been to me, especially as a stay and support 
in speaking. If I could not procure another, I would not part 
with it for ten times its weight in gold. I hope you will by all 
means visit Norfolk. I know many who need your brace, and if 
they only knew its excellence, would furnish themselves with it. 
I am determined to keep a second brace always on hand, pro- 
vided against any accident to the first. I have been repeatedly 
urged to write to you for several of your braces—and though 
wholly averse to engaging in secular matters, yet I regard your 
“Patent Body Brace,” such a blessing to invalids, that if you 
will send me one dozen by Mr. Lamb, or by the weekly packets 
between this port and New York, I will be responsible for 
them. 
LETTER FROM COMMODORE JONES. 
Near Prospect Hill, Va. Dec. 8, 1846. 
Dr. E. P. Banning, &c. &c. 
Dear Sir—Ever since the year 1814, 
when I received a severe gun shot wound by a musket ball, 
which still remains in the body, I have suffered much from what 
is commonly termed a v?eak back, and pain in the back, etc. 
etc. so much so, as at times to destroy all comfort, unless sup- 
ported by an arm chair or the like—consequently, riding on 
horseback, or remaining long on the feet, was productive of 
much pain. I had tried various Belts, Russian and others—all 
of which I found to be worse than the disease. Finally I de- 
termined to make one more effort in search of relief, and, as 
you recollect, called at your office, Broadway, N. York, in the 
early days of October of the present year, and had one of your 12 
Braces adjusted to my body, on trial, for a few days. Suffice 
it to say, that at the end of three days I called and paid for 
the Brace, which I have worn ever since, except an interval of 
two days, after my return home, when I laid it aside with a 
view to ascertain how far the relief I experienced was real or 
imaginary. 
Since I have been wearing your Brace, I have been exposed 
to some severe and long exposure, without rest. On one occa- 
sion I left my breakfast table at half-past 8 o’clock, rode 7 or 
8 miles—alighted and remained on my feet, walking but little 
until dark—rode back to Washington just in time to meet an 
evening’s engagement, where ! remained till 11 o’clock, without 
sitting down at all, except when riding, from half-past 8, A. M. 
till half-past 11, P. M. and this without the slightest inconve- 
nience at the time or subsequently. Without the Body Brace 
I could not have endured half the fatigue without great incon- 
venience and pain at the time, and feeling the effects for seve- 
ral days afterwards. 
Previously to wearing the Body Brace, I was in the habitual 
use of the Friction Brush, which I thought of great service to 
me, and for some years supposed I could not live without it. 
Now I laid it aside, having had no recurrence of the symp- 
toms which induced its use, since I wore the Brace; and I feel 
warranted in saying that not only has my ability to’ endure fa- 
tigue been greatly renovated by Dr. Banning’s Brace, but that 
my general health has also improved under its use. 
Wishing you a successful tour in your pilgrimage for the re- 
lief of suffering humanity, I am yours gratefully, &c. 
THOMAS AP. C. JONES, 
U. S. Navy. 
Copy of a Letter from Rev. Dr. Strong. 
Dear Sir:—ln reply to your inquiry respecting the effect of 
Dr. Banning’s Body Brace on my daughter, I can speak with 
confidence that it has been great and good. The brace has been 
emphatically a brace, not merely in giving tone to the part prin- 
cipally affected, but in giving strength to the whole spine, and 
to the muscles attached. I am prepared to recommend the 
brace to all persons afflicted with spinal affections, believing that 
if they are not in every instance entirely cured, their suffering 
will be greatly diminished. lam disposed here to add, that in 
Colchester, March 4, 1847. 13 
my opinion, persons of either sex enduring much bodily infirmity, 
will in most cases be greatly benefitted by wearing Banning’s 
Lace or Body Brace, Yours respectfully, 
LYMAN STRONG. 
Letter from CTias. F. Pope, Esq. 
Dear Sir:—With great pleasure I bear testimony to the effi- 
cacy of your invaluable Lace. I commenced using one in June 
last, at which time I was in very feeble health, in consequence 
of a severe hemorrhage of the lungs, with severe hemorrhoids 
from the slightest irregularity of the bowels, oftentimes continuing 
for a week, and leaving me very feeble. Weakness in the back 
and a most unpleasant sensation in the stomach, shortness of 
breath, and difficulty of retaining my food after eating. I was 
obliged to be very cautious and not expose myself to the weather 
when it was the least unpleasant—the slightest change affecting 
me very seriously. The very day I first put it on, I was greatly 
relieved from the sinking unpleasant sensation in the stomach; 
I could walk or sit without experiencing the slightest pain in the 
back, and my chest felt as if it was relieved from a heavy weight. 
I could breathe freely with perfect ease, in a short time my food 
ceased to oppress me, the hemorrhoids were relieved, and that 
which had caused me the greatest solicitude, viz: bleeding at the 
lungs, entirely ceased. I have not lost one drop of blood from 
the lungs since I commenced wearing the Lace. I was also 
afflicted with a severe cough; so greatly have I improved that 
my friends who have been absent from the city during the past 
summer hardly recognized me on their return. I have gained 
in flesh, have a good appetite, and am able to eat food of any 
description that a well and hearty man can digest. Indeed, I 
feel almost like one risen from the dead. It was believed by all 
that my lungs were diseased, and that I must die of consumption; 
such was the belief of one of my physicians, if not of others; 
and I most firmly believe that many who die of pulmonary affec- 
tion, might be restored to comparative health by the use of your 
Lace. I now attend regularly to my business, not losing a day, 
no matter how inclement the weather may be, I owe you a 
debt of gratitude that I feel will never be in my power to repay. 
That you may long live to enjoy the blessing of this life, will 
be the constant prayer of your friend. CHAS. F. POPE. 
Doct. Banning, of New York City. 
Washington, Dec, 11, 1846. 14 
Letter from Gapt. Thomas T. T. Tahh. 
Gentlemen:—lt affords me much pleasure to say to you, that 
the brace you kindly sent me on trial some two months since, 
has been of incalculable benefit to Mrs. Tabb, having done for 
her more than the best medical aid could effect in the three pre- 
vious years. For nearly four years Mrs. Tabb has suffered with 
Prolapsus, and has been compelled to keep her bed for months 
at a time, and was unable to walk or ride. Since the use of the 
brace, Dr. Banning’s, she has almost recovered, and exercises 
freely, walking faster than many in perfect health, and occasion- 
ally rides in a buggy twenty miles without the slightest inconve- 
nience. It would be a difficult matter to induce her to part with 
it, believing as she does, that it is a wonderful invention, and 
most invaluable. Several persons who have observed this case, 
have been induced to try the brace themselves, and they likewise 
are doing well, and greatly pleased with it. I have an aversion 
to appearing in public prints, but believing, as I do, that the 
brace properly applied will benefit all suffering, as in the case 
referred to, and being myself truly grateful for the benefits my 
wife has received, I do not feel at liberty to say you must not 
publish, if in your judgment you ought. (Signed.) 
Dover Mills, Va., April 16, 1847. 
THOS. T. T. TABB. 
A Remarkable Case of Hemorrhage from the Lungs, entirely 
Cured by the use of the Brace alone. 
Miss Sarah A. Perris, pupil of the N. Y. Institute for the 
Blind, for several months declined in health, and for two months 
bled almost continually from the lungs; had a cough and pain in 
her left side and breast; her strength and appetite failed; and 
was pronounced by the eminent of the profession in York, 
to beji hopeless case of consumption. Indeed, I was informed 
on my introduction to her, (as she lay bleeding on a handkerchief 
in a steamboat) that it was not expected that she would reach 
home alive. Urged by the most humane motives, I introduced 
the philosophy of the Body Brace, and next day it was applied, 
and strange as it may appear, she never bled one drop from that 
hour to the present time. Her general health immediately im- 
proved, and in a few days took stage passage to Western New 
York, and in six weeks returned again to the Institution to the 
utter astonishment of all, especially her medical attendants. 15 
The effects of this case was confounding and electric. The physi- 
cians had said of her case “it was hopeless,” and “rest” was all 
that could be prescribed, farther than had been already—and yet, 
in a moment, she was better, permanently so, and in so strange a 
manner, and by so strange means too, that they oft repeated the 
question “What did he do1?” and the matter was turned every 
way, to ascribe the relief to former treatment, but without suc- 
cess; and I am sorry to say that other emotions than those of joy 
and gratitude filled the bosoms of some who had previously 
attended her. 
E. P. BANNING, 
Inventor op “Patent Body Brace.” 
Case of Extensive Lung Affection. 
Springfield, Yt,, Nov. 1844. 
This may certify, that for one year I gradually declined, labor- 
ing under weakness, pain and soreness of my breast, with cough, 
shortness of breath, and spitting of blood. I felt sensibly that I 
was dropping into the grave, when it pleased God to send Dr. 
Banning to our village, and immediately on wearing his Lace, 
and attending to some minor matters, a progressive improvement 
commenced, and continues, and I am now comparatively well. 
I also am acquainted with similar other cases with similar results. 
I pray that thousands may try it; it will be a great comfort 
should it not effectually cure. 
GRATIA BURKE. 
Commissioner of Patents at Washington, D. C. 
Sister to Hon. Edmund Burke, 
Case of Costiveness, Piles and Siclc-headache. 
For twenty-five years I was sorely afflicted with obstinate cos- 
tiveness, piles, terrible sick-headache, and melancholy, to such an 
extent, that about one-third of my time I was unfit for corporeal 
or mental labor, and that I was soon perfectly relieved of them 
all, by the use of Dr. XjaQg. Two years have now 
elapsed, and no return of my former' timbtthwi. I have also seen 
hundreds of similar cases equally relieved bytne same means. I 
believe it will be invaluable at least to all who are similarly 
afflicted. 
Warren, Pa. ARCHIBALD TANNER. 16 
TO PARENTS. 
Mr. Editor.—lt is well known that childhood is the period 
when the foundation is laid for feebleness and distortion in 
youth—also, that a successful antidote or remedy has not be- 
come generally known. My daughter, now twelve years of age, 
has ever been feeble, intellectually inclined, and both unable 
and indisposed to recreation or labor—was easily prostrated on 
the slightest exercise—her body leaned or drooped on sitting 
or standing. At length, a progressive deformity of a shoulder 
and hip insidiously commenced, which has mocked the best ap- 
pliances, from the most eminent counsel. Having heard much 
of Dr. Banning in such cases—also of his Brace—l applied to 
him, and by the aid of his easy and gentle Body Brace or Lace, 
the most happy results have ensued. My child is now improved 
in form and attitude; her strength and powers of endurance have 
very much increased, so that she plays freely, and can walk 
like other children. The change is evident, and I give expres- 
sion to my heartfelt gratitude to Providence for this act of phi- 
lanthropy. I believe that thousands of distorted and enfeebled 
beings might be remedied and relieved by a timely resort to 
Dr. Banning and his directions. The great advantage of his ap- 
pliance over others, is, that it acts by lifting and supporting, 
and not by compressing the body—by not compressing any mus- 
cle, or impeding any motion. It is applied at the base, and not 
the top, of the pile. 
A MOTHER—4OS Hudson Street, 
New York, May Ist, 1845, 
Note.—The Plates or Figures marked 5 & 6, showing the 
internal organs in both a healthy and fallen state, were originally 
drawn, and the Copyright Secured by Dr. Banning. But with- 
out his knowledge or consent, were stolen [as well as an infringe- 
ment made on his patent,] and used. BRACES MAY BE HAD 
AT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICE, 369 BROADWAY, 
NEW-YOBK. 
3The virtuous poor, who bring a certificate from a clergy- 
man or magistrate, that they cannot pay for a Brace, 
can have one for half-price. 
Persons desirous of taking Agencies, or of purchasing the 
Patent Right, may apply to Dr. Banning, while in 
this city—afterward, to General office in N. Y. 
WILLIAM W. PECK, General Agent. 
Dr. Banning respectfully notifies the public that any 
abdominal or spinal supporters using a whole or a half eliptic 
spring, or that have three or four dorsal pads of any arrangement, 
or any part of it composed of horn, is an infringement of his 
parent “Body Brace;” and that Manufacturers, Druggists and 
individuals are cautioned against making, vending or using such 
infringements, as he holds them liable to him for the full price of 
his brace, on each instrument made, sold or used. BANNING’S 
i-taiistii sssii 
ON 
CHRONIC DISEASES. 
A RATIONAL TREATISE 
CONDENSED FROM HIS COURSE OF POPULAR 
LECTURES 
QfiT 
THE USE Sf DISEASES OF THE LUNGS Sf HEART\ 
CURVED, WEAK, AND DISEASED SPINE; 
msbasibs mail ami muMmxi 
DYSPEPSIA, FEMALE DEBILITY, 
AND OTHER DISEASES OF THE ABDOMINAL AND PELVIC 
ORGANS GENERALLY, WITH THEIR SYMPATHETIC 
INFLUENCES: 
DR. E. P. BANNING, 
360 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK. 
Published by CADY & BURG-ESS, 60 John Street. 
TENTH EDITION. 
FOR SALE BY DR. BANNING. AND AT THE BOOKSTORES, 
AND HIS AGENTS IN THIS CITY.