The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English / or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred / and Fifty Thousand

by Ray Vaughn Pierce

PARALYSIS, NERVOUS PROSTRATION, ETC.

From the records of the WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

This gentlemen had a severe attack of grip in January, 1890. His health gradually declined until June, at which time he was taken very much worse. Had nervous shocks three or four times a day. Slight paralysis of lower limbs. Respiration and pulse slow and irregular. Bowels constipated and tongue coated. Indigestion. Ringing in the ears. Legs wasting. Dimness of vision. Lost flesh rapidly and reduced to "skin I and bones." Chills and sweats; dizzy. Had great distress in bowels. Pain about the heart. Had been confined to his bed 46 days, at the time the case was submitted to us. We sent only one month's course of special medicines. He writes us afterwards:

"I am at regular farm work, after my doctor here having told me that I must die and that Dr. Pierce was a gigantic humbug."

Yours truly,
F.M. BRASHER,
Homer, Logan Co., Ky.