are medicines; and its administration introduces into the body nothing which the system does not welcome as a friend, accept with avidity, appropriate as entirely homogeneous to itself, and claim as its own birthright.
(6 C., 478.) "Mechanicsburg, Ohio, October 26, 1886.
"Your Home Treatment of Compound Oxygen was received September 10, and I have used it faithfully ever since, according to directions, and I am glad to say that I have derived great benefit from it. I was poorly, indeed, at the time of receiving the Compound Oxygen. I had coughed almost incessantly day and night since January, and been taking medicine every hour or so all the time, but nothing seemed to help me in the least. My cough was accompanied by a bad diarrhœa for about three months, which terminated in hemorrhage of the bowels a few days before receiving the Compound Oxygen. My lungs were so sore I could scarcely breathe, and I had such a fearful pain in my right lung all the time: could not lie down at all.
"After eight inhalations of Compound Oxygen my cough was some better, and at sixteen it was very much better, and I expectorated a thick yellow matter, and a great discharge of it. I have continued to expectorate this way until the past ten days, since which time it is a thick white phlegm with lumps of yellow matter. My left lung continues to pain me a great deal yet. I think I took a little cold last week. After three weeks' treatment my diarrhœa was checked, and has not bothered me since. I cough not half so much now as before using the Compound Oxygen. I have become very much reduced in flesh during the past few months, but in the past week or so I feel that I am gaining strength all the time. My appetite is a little better too. My friends all think there is a great improvement in me, but I am far from feeling well, and cough considerably yet. I will write you again in a few weeks, by which time I hope to be much more improved than now."
Any one desiring to know more of this remarkable remedy can send to Drs. Starkey and Palen, 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for their new Brochure, called "Compound Oxygen, Its Mode of Action and Results," which will be sent free by return mail.
Horsford's Acid Phosphate.—Beware of imitations. Imitations and counterfeits have again appeared. Be sure that the word "Horsford's" is on the wrapper. None are genuine without it.
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Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a Tonic.—Dr. John Gerdine, Athens, Georgia, says, "In dyspepsia accompanied with prostration from mental over-work, I think it is a fine tonic."
