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_Dear Sirs_--When first taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription I was nervous and would have sour stomach and distress after eating, and when I would rise after stooping over everything would turn dark before me and I would feel dizzy. I suffered a great deal of pain at each monthly period. I took one bottle and a half of the "Favorite Prescription," one teaspoonful three times a day, and the "Pellets" as directions called for. I gained in health and strength so rapidly that I have been able to work very hard the past summer, and my back never troubles me; and when I have my monthly periods I never feel the least bit of pain. In fact I consider myself in excellent health.

Very truly yours,
MRS. INEZ V. CARR RANSOM,
Panama, Chaut. Co., N.Y.

INFLAMMATION OF LIVER.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I was taken sick with inflammation of the liver and could get no relief from the doctors of this place--Randolph, N.Y. I was induced to use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and "Pleasant Pellets," and after using five bottles of the medicine, I regained my health, and now I am a well man. I weighed 185 pounds before taken sick, and I was reduced to 135 pounds in sixty days' time. I suffered greatly from headache, pain in my right shoulder, poor appetite, constipation and a sleepy feeling all the time. My health is now very good, and I weigh 170 pounds, and I am able to do a good day's work without any trouble at all. Thanks to these valuable medicines.

Yours truly,
THOMAS J. BENTLEY,
Randolph, Catt. Co., N.Y.

LIVER DISEASE AND DYSPEPSIA.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sirs_--I am enjoying excellent health. After taking a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and several bottles of "Pellets," I am a different person. Only weighed 119 pounds when I began taking your medicine, now weigh 160. My symptoms were pain under the left shoulder, distress after eating, headache, dizziness, constipation, and, in fact, my system was "out of sorts generally." I tell every one your medicine has done more for me than any other.

I remain, yours truly,
MRS. CHARLES H. HART,
San Ardo, Monterey Co.,
California.

LIVER COMPLAINT AND CATARRH.

_Dear Sirs_--After suffering for several years with nasal catarrh and liver complaint, and having become greatly reduced in health, as a last resort I placed myself in your hands for treatment. My improvement began almost immediately after entering your institution. I was enabled to leave at the end of one month, having experienced great benefit. The treatment was continued at home for a few months, after which my cure was complete. At the present time, I am able for office work, and feel that I am completely cured of the catarrh and have but little if any trouble with my liver. I shall lose no opportunity to recommend your institution or your medicines to the afflicted. I do most unhesitatingly recommend chronic sufferers to visit your institution or take your remedies at home.

Sincerely yours,
WILLIAM KING,
Rose Bud,
Pope Co., Ills.

A COMPLICATED CASE OF STOMACH, LUNG, AND UTERINE DISEASE.

_Dear Sirs_--Some six years ago I was taken sick with chills; I would have a very bad chill and then I would begin to sweat and vomit; I had no appetite; I had the catarrh very bad; I had inward troubles of different kinds; my back ached all the time; I had sores gather and break inside; I had a lung trouble; I was very bad off; I could sit up only long enough to have my bed made; my husband sent for our family doctor; he came three times a week for three months; I was not so well at the end of three months as when he first came, but kept growing worse; he gave me up to die, and said I had consumption. I had heard of Dr. Pierce's medicines doing a good deal of good, so I made up my mind to try them. I sent and got one bottle of "Favorite Prescription" and one bottle of "Golden Medical Discovery"; also one bottle of "Pellets," and commenced taking them. In a few days I commenced to gain, and In two weeks' time I could sit up most all day, and in five weeks' time I could do my work with the help of two small girls. After taking four bottles of "Favorite Prescription," six bottles of "Discovery," and three of "Pellets," I was well enough to get along without any medicine. I can do a good day's work, and I owe my life to Dr. Pierce. With God's will and the use of Dr. Pierce's medicine I am still alive and well.

Yours respectfully,
Mrs. CLARA A. RADEMAKER,
Addison Point, Washington Co., Me.

LIVER COMPLAINT AND DROPSY.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--About two years ago I was confined to my bed for several weeks with liver complaint. I became dropsical, my limbs swelled to twice their usual size and I could scarcely move them. I commenced using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery; one bottle helped me so I could sit up; two bottles gave me strength enough to be able to do part of my household work; six bottles cured me, and to-day I am enjoying good health. The "Medical Discovery" should be in every household, and in gratitude for what it has done for me I have recommended it to many friends. For nine years I have suffered from deafness, and while taking the "Discovery" my hearing became much improved.

Very truly yours,
MRS. I.C. DENNIS,
Burson. Calaveras Co., Cal.

INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION, VARICOCELE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sirs_--In regard to my condition of health, will say, although I am not entirely well, yet I have received much and lasting good from your treatment. My digestion was improved greatly, so that little trouble is experienced after eating; my liver seems to act reasonable well, and my bowels are much better. My varicocele I consider entirely cured, as I have not used the bandage for one half day for more than six months, and do not experience any inconvenience from that source.

Yours truly,
HARLAN HODGES,
Keota, Keokuk Co., Is.

CASE OF CHRONIC DIARRHEA CURED BY HOME TREATMENT.

At the time the case was first submitted to us the bowels were moving six or eight times a day. In addition to the diarrhea, the patient had suffered from indigestion and womb trouble for eight years. There was almost continual pain from the top of the head to the hips and through the shoulders. There was weakness, soreness and numbness in the arms, hands, back and hips; the bladder was irritable, urine being passed frequently, or occasionally scanty, dark, thick, with a brick-dust deposit. There was a dragging sensation in the region of the womb. Menstruation was irregular, and she had frequent trembling spells lasting for hours. There was difficulty in fixing the attention, even for a sufficient length of time to write a brief letter. In fact, she was so weak and nervous she could scarcely write at all. Sleeplessness was a prominent feature of the case. The principal diet consisted of light bread and hot milk; could not use Graham bread. A course of special treatment was supplied to her about the first of January, 1890, but soon after commencing the treatment she had an attack of pneumonia. In due time the treatment was resumed, and then followed an attack of the epidemic influenza, or grip, so that, although the treatment was carried on at intervals during a year, there were but few occasions when our specialist had what he considered full control of the case. A year after the case was discharged the following communication was received:

February 15, 1893.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I should have written sooner, but I waited to see if there would be any return of my old disease. After suffering over eight years with severe chronic diarrhea, you have cured me; I have had no return of it for over a year. It is with gratitude I write to you to tell you the great good you have done me, for I am sure I would have been in my grave before this had it not been for your treatment; My stomach troubles me very little any more. Occasionally I use a bottle of "Golden Medical Discovery" and a bottle of "Pellets." Hoping that the kind Father may spare your lives for many years to do good to suffering humanity,

I am, Very gratefully yours,
MRS. R.S. GWIN,
Peck's Run, Upshur Co., W. Va.

LIVER COMPLAINT, DYSPEPSIA, AND CONSTIPATION.

CURED BY HOME TREATMENT.

Received his first disability in the war; complains of getting very weak; bowels move only in three or tour days; stomach so painful that nothing passes through it digested; back so weak cannot sit up; had the first attack of dyspepsia fifteen years ago, and has spent hundreds of dollars trying to get well; kidneys badly affected, urine highly colored, and burns in passing; has pains around the heart and fluttering sensations at times, says: "I am not able to travel; all the doctors have given me up as beyond medical aid.

Reports after two months' treatment: "I am happy to say that I am almost well; suffer with no pain in my stomach after eating; my appetite is good; my bowels move once a day and very often twice a day, and the urine is natural; do not have that dizziness in the head any more: rest well at night and feel rested in the morning Have gained flesh all the time; weigh 178 pounds, and work every day on the farm. Have taken no medicine from any other physician, and give you and your medicine all the credit for the health I now enjoy. My wife has taken your "Golden Medical Discovery" for goitre (thick neck). She has taken it for about six weeks and she is getting better."

JOHN FLEENER, Brooklyn, Indiana.

DYSPEPSIA.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Your letter was received, and I am glad to say that I am perfectly well, and have been since I took your last medicine. I think I am better than I ever was, if such a thing could be. I am twenty pounds heavier than I ever was before, weighing 155 pounds. I have not had a pain or an ache since, for which fact I am thankful to you for looking after my case as promptly as you did, as, in looking over your catalogue of diseases, I thought that I had every thing ailing me that was in the book. I have told dozens if they were sick to call on you. With my best wishes, and hoping that all of your patients will receive as much benefit as I did, I remain,

Very truly yours,
GEORGE R. KENYON
Batavia, Ill.

DYSPEPSIA.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--"A few of my symptoms were: Heartburn and fullness after eating, sometimes pain in my bowels, headache, poor appetite and bad taste in my mouth. At night I was feverish, with hot flushes over skin. After taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery I was relieved of all these symptoms, and I feel perfectly well to-day."

Very truly yours,
J.P. MCADAMS,
Elon College,
North Carolina.

OBSTINATE AND COMPLICATED DISEASE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Yours of July 12th to hand. I am only too glad to comply with your request. Having suffered for many years with a complication of diseases and feeling conscious that they were rapidly making serious inroads upon my constitution, and that I was speedily becoming unable and incapacitated to attend to my ordinary business. I resolved, after reading a number of testimonials from your patients, to place myself under your treatment at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute. With heart-felt gratitude I can truthfully say I am relieved of my trouble. I most cheerfully and earnestly recommend this Institution to all who are afflicted with chronic and painful diseases, no matter of what nature. During my stay there I saw some wonderful cures and surgical operations.

Yours truly,
JOHN H. SMITH,
Deckertown, Sussex Co., N.J.

COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.

Without solicitude or hope of pecuniary reward, with heart-felt gratitude and a desire to aid my fellow-man to health and happiness, allow me to state, that as an inmate for more than a month of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute at No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y., I feel warranted in its highest recommendation. While there I saw and talked with a great number of people who came there as a last resort, to be cured of almost every chronic disease to which flesh is heir, and they were unanimous in their praise of the Institution and the skilled specialists who constitute its professional staff.

ANDREW HOLES,
Moorhead, Minn.

NERVOUS DEBILITY, DYSPEPSIA, KIDNEY AND LIVER DISEASE--CURED.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

Gentlemen--I take pleasure in informing you that the treatment you gave me for the relief of an affection of the spine and nervous system, disease of the digestive organs, kidneys and liver, has been entirely successful. I had feared that my health was gradually being undermined, prior to entering your institution, and I can testify to the perfect appointment that you have, the excellent apparatus for the administration of electrical and other massage treatment and baths. My relief was most satisfactory, and the cure has remained permanent.

I take pleasure in recommending your institution to the afflicted, believing that you have the very best treatment for chronic diseases known, and I have had an opportunity to satisfy myself, from conversation with other invalids in your Institution, of the care and skillful treatment that you administer, and its excellent effects. I believe that it is fully abreast of the times, and equal to any institution in the world. With many good wishes and thanks for my cure, I remain,

Yours truly,
B.V. WRIGHT,
Graniteville, Middlesex Co., Mass.

PROLAPSING PILES (HEMORRHOIDS), ASTHMA, TORPID LIVER AND CONSTIPATION.

CURED AT THE AGE OF 62--NOW 73 YEARS OF AGE--AND CONTINUES IN GOOD HEALTH.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Doctors_--It is with the greatest pleasure that I add my own experience to that of the many that you have cured. I am now seventy-three years of age, and enjoy very good health for my years, and as you can see by the photograph I send you, time has dealt very considerately with me so far as my activity and enjoyment of life are concerned. To this I feel that in large measure my thanks are due to you, for eleven years ago when I was sixty-two years of age you treated the pile tumors so successfully. They had been the source of greatest discomfort. I think that they were caused first by chronic diarrhea, which had troubled me many years prior to their appearance. I was also afflicted with asthma, torpid liver and constipation. These conditions produced in time some pile tumors that were the source of much suffering, and seemed to continually annoy me. As is usual with such difficulties, I believe, I would be free from discomfort for a time, and then the piles would get sensitive and irritable, come down at stool, and gave rise to severe pain that seemed to affect my general health. The nervous symptoms that resulted from their presence were such as to lead me to fear that I would break down in health unless they were relieved. From information obtained from others who had been relieved at your hands, I applied to your institution, and can thankfully assert that the tumors were permanently cured, as it has been eleven years since your specialist treated me, and I have had no trouble of the kind, and for an old lady I am pretty well. I had such good treatment and nice care at your institution that I cannot express in my testimony the thanks that I owe you. Wishing you every success in the treatment of others, and that you may be able to relieve the sufferings of many hundreds as you have mine,

I remain. Very respectfully and thankfully yours,
MRS. MOSES PLUMMER, Groton, Caledonia Co., Vt.

BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, BAD COUGH.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL, ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Some twenty-five years since I was feeling very miserable all summer; I was very bilious; sometimes my bowels would not move once in sixty to seventy hours, and then almost impossible. I would take some bitters, which would help to move the matter, but as soon as the bitters were gone, I had to buy more or I would be as bad as before, and sometimes worse; but none of them appeared to do me any good except to move the bowels, until thirty years since a druggist called my attention to your "Golden Medical Discovery," and before I had taken half a bottle of the "Golden Medical Discovery," I felt much better, and by the time I had taken all, I could eat three hearty meals per day and had not felt so well for a long time. Soon after I was called to do a job some miles from home, and one night the old lady there was speaking about her daughter (Mrs. Brooks) who had been under the doctor's care for about five months and did not get any better, and I learned by asking a few questions that she had no appetite and no ambition to do anything. Then I told her what the "Golden Medical Discovery" had done for me. The next day the old lady drove down to her daughter's and got Mr. Brooks to send to Rutland, ten miles away, for two bottles of the "Golden Medical Discovery," and the next day when the doctor came and was about to take his leave, Mr. Brooks told the doctor he did not want him any more at present, and would send for him, if necessary. I saw the old lady about ten days later and her daughter was improving, and Mr. Brooks had great faith in the "Golden Medical Discovery," and had not sent for the doctor, but had gone to Rutland for more of the "Golden Medical Discovery." When I commenced taking the "Golden Medical Discovery" I thought I was going into consumption, as I had a cough for three years or more and my weight decreasing. My weight before taking the "Golden Medical Discovery" was 133 pounds; last March it was 147 pounds, and I give the credit to the "Discovery,"

GEORGE I. WILDER,
East Wallingford, Rutland Co., Vt.

LIVER DISEASE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I suffered greatly for thirteen years. Not one moment during that time had I rest from pain or weakness. I consulted six of our best physicians, taking medicines from each for a good long time. I became completely discouraged, as I had been many times before. A letter from the World's Dispensary Medical Association with questions to be answered, fell into my hands; these I carefully answered. As soon as a letter could go and come I received another saying I had the Liver Disease. I could hardly believe it, for it had never entered my mind that that was my trouble. I read the pamphlet sent me in the next mail, describing my feelings much better than I could myself. I accepted their advice, strictly followed it. I found complete relief in taking the "Golden Medical Discovery." For years I could not ride a mile nor walk to my nearest neighbor's without feeling worse for it, and most of the time could not go at all. The day this picture was taken I rode eighteen miles, walking up and down two long hills. To the afflicted and discouraged I would say consult the World's Dispensary Medical Association; accept their advice, strictly follow it, and if there be help for you I believe you will find it in so doing.

Respectfully yours,
MRS. HELEN C. BOSWORTH,
Money Creek,
Houston Co., Minn.

DYSPEPSIA,

AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--In reply to yours of the 7th instant, I would say that I can cheerfully recommend your medicines, as I have tried them and found them just as represented. I am enjoying splendid health at the present time.

Yours truly,
STEPHEN OGDEN,
Twin Mound,
Douglas Co.,
Kansas.

DYSPEPSIA AND CONSTIPATION.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I have been troubled with dyspepsia and constipation for the last six years, and have tried all medicines that I could think of; and I got so low in health that I thought I would once more try the "Golden Medical Discovery" and Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. After taking it for three months I began to feel better, especially the gas and sour rising off my stomach at night. Formerly it was a terrible distressed feeling, could not rest nor sleep. I am very thankful to the World's Dispensary Medical Association, and thankful to God who put the great _power_ in your medicine that cured me. I will say a good word for your medicines to all friends I meet. With many thanks, I remain,

Respectfully.
Miss M.A. ELIZABETH HELFER,
Moreton Farm, Monroe Co., N.Y.

COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.

A GRATEFUL PATIENT'S WORDS OF PRAISE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Having been in your Institution as a sufferer from two distinct chronic diseases of years' standing, and having been placed under the charge of your specialists, I was speedily relieved of my afflictions. The Invalids' Hotel is a place as much like home as it is possible for such an institution to be. The physicians and surgeons are all expert specialists and thoroughly efficient; the nurses are very competent, attentive and kind; and, in fact, the whole _personnel_ of the Invalids' Hotel endeavor to do their best to make the patients feel like being at home. I always felt while there as if I was one of the family. I gladly recommend your Institution to all persons who are afflicted with any kind of chronic disease, for from my own experience I _know_ the professional staff will do all which they promise to do. Please accept my thanks for the speedy benefits and perfect cure of my diseases, and I think your Institution is worthy of the highest endorsement.

Yours truly,
WILLIAM HENKEL,
No. 1917 Congress Street,
St. Louis, Mo.

DYSPEPSIA AND GENERAL DEBILITY.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Having suffered for a number of years with dyspepsia, torpid liver and general debility, and having tried several physicians with little or no benefit, I resolved, as a last resort, to consult your specialists at the World's Dispensary. Being advised by them to use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, I did so, and after using several bottles, I feel entirely restored to health. Now, I take great pleasure in recommending your medicines to suffering humanity everywhere.

Yours very gratefully,
REV. A.H. MEVS,
Friar's Point,
Coahoma Co.,
Mississippi.

"LIVER COMPLAINT."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--When I commenced taking "Golden Medical Discovery," I was suffering badly from "Liver Complaint." I had been out of health for three years. I suffered terribly from "heart-burn," had bad coat on tongue, and was often troubled with diarrhea. Three bottles of the "Discovery" cured me. Had I not commenced taking it when I did, I should have been dead long ago. You have my heartfelt gratitude for my cure.

Yours truly, JAMES GAUGHAN,
Braidwood, Will Co., Ill.

P.S.--There are lots of people here whom I have recommended to use your Golden Medical Discovery," and each and every one says it is a good medicine. One woman in particular, told me she was getting better every day by the use of your medicines.

J.G.

NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I had a dead aching in my head and down the back of my neck and in my left ear, and my tongue was so stiff at night and dry, and I had no taste, or appetite to eat anything. I also had such a dead aching in the small of my back; it just felt as if I would break, and such aching between my hips. I had been having the "change of life," and if I worked hard I got a pain between my shoulders and a kind of aching in the abdomen. I doctored a good deal and never got any relief. I was very nervous. I took two bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and two of his "Favorite Prescription," and I am perfectly cured.

MRS. ELLEN TAYLOR,
Clarion, Clarion Co.,
Pennsylvania.

DYSPEPSIA.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sirs_--I was a great sufferer from dyspepsia, and I had suffered so long that I was a wreck; life was rendered undesirable and it seemed death was near! but I came in contact with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and "Pellets." I took twelve bottles of the "Discovery," and several bottles of the "Pellets," and followed the hygienic advice of Dr. Pierce, and I am happy to say it was indeed a cure, for life is worth living now. A thousand thanks for your treatment. I enclose my photo.

Yours respectfully,
REV. CHAS. PROSSER,
Mount Carmel,
Northumberland Co. Pa.

LIVER DISEASE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sirs_--It is with pleasure that I tell you what your "Discovery" has done for my mother. She was in poor health for a long time, coughing and weak, and thought she had consumption; she had such palpitation of the heart and could not rest at night because of the palpitation sometimes, and then the right arm pained her so at times that she hardly knew what to do; If we would put on hot applications, it would drive it to the heart, and the doctor did her no good; so finally, as a last resort, we happened to get hold of some of Dr. Pierce's pamphlets and were constrained to write to him and send a small bottle of urine for examination. He immediately wrote back, saying it was liver trouble, and to take the "Golden Medical Discovery" according to directions. She took it for two months, when the pain in her arm gradually left her and she could comb her own hair, and began to be more cheerful, for she was melancholy before. The palpitation grew less and less, and she rested at night, and is now doing her own work for a family of five, and is sixty-one years old.

I have taken delight in recommending to others this wonderful medicine for heart and liver trouble; she took a dozen bottles to effect the desired end.

Respectfully yours,
Miss LU WINTER,
Dakota, Winona Co., Minn.

TORPID LIVER, SUPPRESSED MENSTRUATION.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I had suffered so much for years from "Liver Complaint" that I did not care whether I got well or not, but my husband urged me to take your "Golden Medical Discovery." I had not had my courses for six months; after I had taken your medicine about two months, I was well.

When one of my daughters with a baby two weeks old was in so much pain that she could not rest day or night, I went to her as quickly as I could, and commenced giving her your "Favorite Prescription." The next morning the pains were all gone. She said, "oh, mother, I would have died if you had not come. I do feel so good." Your medicine makes people feel like they wanted to live. There is a woman at Verdi who had several children who died with consumption of the bowels and _chronic diarrhea_. She had another one who was going the same way. The doctor said it was bound to die. I went there and gave it five drops of Dr. Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed, and increased the dose every time its bowels moved, until I got to a half teaspoonful. The next morning the child was almost well. That woman says I saved her baby's life.

I could write a week and not tell half the good your medicines have done through my hands. Two weeks ago, a young man at my house was taken with _cholera morbus_. He thought he was surely going to die, but as quickly as I could get some hot water, I put hot applications on his stomach and bowels, and gave him a few doses of your Extract of Smart-Weed. He got well immediately. MRS. MARY ISABELL FITZGERALD. Reno, Washoe Co., Nev.

LIVER DISEASE AND NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I was weak, nervous, dizzy, with a fainting sensation when walking; could not walk any distance, always feeling hungry but always felt bad; after eating felt as though my victuals were sticking in my throat; could not rest well at night; I was not well all winter. In 1891 took sick and quit work; in March doctored with three different doctors with very little benefit for a good deal over a year, then began taking your "Golden Medical Discovery." Took ten bottles of that, and one bottle of your "Pleasant Pellets," and steadily improved all the time I was taking your medicine and have worked all this summer; did not work for two years.

My case was liver disease and nervous dyspepsia of which your medicine has cured me, for which receive my sincere thanks.

Respectfully yours,
ISRAEL RHUE,
Morrisdale Mines, Clearfleld Co., Pa.

TORPID LIVER.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--From early childhood I have suffered from a sluggish liver with all the disorders accompanying such a condition. Doctors' prescriptions and patent medicines I have used in abundance; they only afforded temporary relief. I was recommended to try Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. I did so, taking three at night and two after dinner every day for two weeks. I then reduced the dose to one 'Pellet' every day and continued this practice for two months. I have in six months increased in solid flesh, twenty-six pounds. I am in better health than I have been since childhood. Drowsiness and unpleasant feelings after meals have completely disappeared.

Respectfully yours,
U.S. Inspector of Immigration, Buffalo, N.Y.
John H.M. Berry

LIVER DISEASE, CONSTIPATION.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sir_--I enclose you my photograph as you requested; also, state that I have taken your "Pellets" and "Golden Medical Discovery" for chronic "liver complaint" attended with constipation of the bowels, and after using six bottles of "Discovery" and same of "Pellets," I am greatly benefited. You can use my name in advertising your medicines and I can warrant them to do all you claim for them.

Respectfully yours,
Mrs. M.F. McDANIEL,
Bee Branch,
Van Buren Co., Ark.

TORPID LIVER, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS AND GENERAL DEBILITY.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sirs_--Having suffered severely, for a long time, from a torpid liver, indigestion, constipation, nervousness and general debility, and finding no relief in my efforts to regain my health, I was induced to try your "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Pleasant Pellets."

Under this treatment I improved very much, and in a few months was able to attend to my professional duties.

I now feel very grateful for the benefits I have received from the use of your valuable medicines, and recommended them to many of my friends and neighbors.

Respectfully yours,
J.F. HUDSON,
Witcherville, Sebastian Co., Ark.

"TROUBLESOME COMPLAINTS."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, NO. 683 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--After using five bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and about half-a-dozen packages of his "Pellets," I am convinced that I am thoroughly cured of that dread disease, known as dyspepsia, and other troublesome complaints.

Very sincerely yours,
MISS HATTIE L. CHENEY,
Sac City,
Sac County, Iowa.

LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Your kindness to me I can never forget, I cannot express half my feelings of gratefulness to you. I had despaired of ever getting well.

I had been in bad health twenty years--liver and kidneys, all out of order and aches all through me; numb hands and cold feet. Everything I ate distressed me, bowels constipated, was very nervous, depressed and despondent; in fact I can't express half my bad feelings to you. When I first wrote to you, I thought I would not live to get an answer from you.

I have taken twenty bottles of "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Pellets." My health is now very good. You have my honest recommendations to all sufferers.

Thankfully yours,
MRS. REBECCA RAY,
DeAnn, Hempstead Co., Ark.

LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I was for years hardly able to go about. I suffered from liver and kidney trouble, six different Doctors treated me during that time but could do me no good. I give your "Medical Discovery" the praise for my cure.

Then, too, my wife had a bad case of Asthma which was cured by the use of that wonderful blood-purifier.

Yours truly,
GEO. W. SWEENEY,
Haydentown, Pa.

TORPID LIVER.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I can truthfully say that I believe your "Golden Medical Discovery" saved my life. When I began your treatment two years ago, I had been given up by the Doctor, and my friends had lost all hope of my recovery. I had suffered for years with torpid liver; I had chronic pleurisy and catarrh in a very bad form, attended with hemorrhages--was confined to my bed two months. In a few days after beginning your medicine I could perceive a slight change for the better; in three months I felt almost like a new person.

Yours very gratefully,
MRS. MAGGIE E. BRANSFORD,
Williamsburg, W. Va.

DYSPEPSIA, UTERINE DISEASE.

MRS. J.A. MARTIN, of _Cleburne, Texas_, had not had good health since the birth of her child, eight years before; had a headache with burning and throbbing sensations; and a hurting in her stomach; there was a dead aching and gnawing or drawing of the stomach as she described it; sharp pain in the stomach extending to her right breast and shoulder. Weighed in health 125 pounds, but was reduced to 95 pounds; was weak; could scarcely walk at all, was sick at stomach a great deal; when her monthly sickness came on had much pain and the sickness of the stomach remained until menstruation stopped. She writes:

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--"I have taken about six bottles of your 'Golden Medical Discovery' and 'Favorite Prescription,' and am glad to say that I feel better and stouter than I have felt in a long time. I can work all day now and not be tired at night. My head don't trouble me now. When I commenced the use of the medicine I weighed 89 pounds, and to-day I weigh 98 pounds. I feel better than I have for months."

DYSPEPSIA AND CONSUMPTION.

DR. R.V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Dear Sir_--I was not able to do my work for nearly two years, and I tried four different doctors and grew worse all the time. Then I began on your medicine and took twelve bottles of "Golden Medical Discovery" and one of "Favorite Prescription," and am able to do my work and feel as well as I have felt in years. Physicians called my disease Dyspepsia and Consumption.

Respectfully yours,
MRS. R. FERGUSON,
Ink. Shannon Co., Mo.

DYSPEPSIA, COSTIVENESS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I suffered a great deal with headache and dizziness in my head and costiveness. My food would sour on my stomach and I would spit it up. I also suffered with my back a great deal; in fact, I was entirely broken down. Had different doctors but none seemed to do me any good and I began to take your medicine--the "Golden Medical Discovery."

I have been enjoying better health since I have taken your medicine than I had for years before. I have recommended it to my friends; I believe it to be the best medicine in the world. My sister has taken more of your medicine than I have; her husband has also taken it; she thinks there is no medicine in the world so good as Dr. Pierce's.

Yours truly,
MRS. MAGGIE WICKLINE,
Box 95, Pulaski City, Pulaski Co., Va.

DYSPEPSIA OF FIFTEEN YEARS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and "Favorite Prescription" cured me of dyspepsia after fifteen years' suffering. I doctored a great deal without receiving any benefit. About four years ago my attention was called to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which was highly recommended for dyspepsia and I used three bottles of "Prescription" and eight bottles of "Golden Medical Discovery," and they have done me more good than all other medicines I ever used.

Yours truly,
MRS. ANGELINE STRAWDERMAN,
Philippi, Barbour Co., W. Va.

DYSPEPSIA, SHORTNESS OF BREATH.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I was in bad health when I commenced your treatment; I was troubled with my stomach, and with shortness of breath. Everything I ate distressed me. I lost flesh and strength and became very nervous and despondent. I took eight bottles of "Golden Medical Discovery," and six bottles of "Pellets," and they cured me.

I would advise all suffering people to go under your treatment.

Respectfully yours,
WRIGHT GOODWIN,
Gaylord, Beaufort Co., N.C.

DYSPEPSIA IN ITS WORST FORM.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Only those who have had dyspepsia in its worst forms know what it really can be. What such a case needs I have found in your kindly encouragement, and your "Golden Medical Discovery."

Although I can now claim, if any one can, that I have a cast iron stomach, I always keep your "Golden Medical Discovery" and the "Pellets" on hand when settling down from an active summer's vacation, to quiet student life.

I heartily recommend these medicines to every one whose suffering is of the nature that mine was.

Yours truly,
ERVIN DIETERLY,
Gettysburgh, Pa.

DYSPEPSIA AND "FEMALE WEAKNESS."

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Words fail to describe my sufferings before I took your "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription." I could not walk across the room without great suffering, but now I am able to do my own work, thanks to your wonderful medicines, I am a well woman. I suffered all the time with a weight in the bottom of my stomach, and the most severe bearing-down pains, low down, across me, with every step I attempted to take. I also suffered intense pain in my back and right hip. At times I could not turn myself in bed. My complexion was yellow, my eyes blood-shot, and my whole system was a complete wreck. I suffered greatly from headaches, and the thought of food would sicken me. Now I can eat anything, and at anytime. My friends are all surprised at the great change in me. Every one thought I would not live through the month of August. Two of my neighbors are using your medicines, and say they feel like new beings.

Truly yours,
MRS. ANNIE HUTCHINSON,
Cambridge, Dorchester Co, Md.

INDIGESTION AND NERVOUSNESS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I am a woman of fifty-six years of age. Had been troubled with Indigestion for three years, which, I think, resulted from "change of life" and overwork. An eminent physician informed me I had no organic disease. But I had distress after eating and was troubled with gas in parts affected, an unpleasant taste in my mouth in the morning. I was weak and nervous and had to live on a very light diet. After taking your "Golden Medical Discovery" I was relieved of these symptoms. I believe the results warrant me in recommending it to others.

Yours respectfully,
MRS. CHARLES LIVINGSTON,
Livingston,
Grant Co., Wis.

INDIGESTION AND TORPID LIVER.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I can heartily recommend your "Golden Medical Discovery" to any one who is troubled with indigestion and torpid liver; I was that bad it was about chronic with me. All the other medicines could give me no relief; but at last, what came to my relief was that wonderful medicine, the "Golden Medical Discovery." I could scarcely eat anything--it would put me in terrible distress in my stomach; I had a dull aching and grinding pain in my stomach with pain in my right side and back, and headache, bad taste in my mouth; at night I was feverish and the soles of my feet burned.

I took four bottles of the "Discovery" and two vials of the "Pellets." I am well and hearty and can eat as well as any body can,--thanks to your "Discovery."

Yours truly,
E.M. SEAVOLT,
No. 427 Sandusky St.,
Mount Vernon, Knox Co., Ohio.

DISEASE OF STOMACH.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Yours of the 4th instant was duly received. I take great pleasure in recommending to the public your system of home-treatment for chronic diseases. I am thankful to say I am in perfect health and have worked every day since I last wrote to you and have not taken a particle of medicine of any kind and am weighing about one hundred and eighty pounds. I have taken your "Golden Medical Discovery" with very satisfactory results, and "Pleasant Pellets" also.

Yours respectfully,
ARTHUR LEWIS,
Schoharie, Schoharie Co., N.Y.

RHEUMATISM.

WHAT A MINISTER SAYS. CURED FOR $4.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--In the fall of last year I suffered from rheumatism in my left shoulder and elbow. I tried a great many remedies, recommended to me by friends, but they all failed to afford relief. From that time I began Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, until I felt that I was cured, was a period covering four or five months. While the attack lasted, I suffered a great deal, and could not dress or undress myself. Although I am 73 years old, I now regard my health as splendid. I had spent a great deal of money previously, in various kinds of medicine, but the "Discovery," from the day I commenced until I was well, cost only FOUR DOLLARS.

Accept my gratitude, and I beg to subscribe myself,

Sincerely yours,
Rev. WILSON WILLIAMS,
Trinity Station, Morgan Co., Ala.

HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I suffered from loss of appetite, constipation, neuralgia, and great weakness, and had terrible attacks of sick headache very frequently; also nose bleed. My health was so poor that I was not able to go to school for two years. I took Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and "Golden Medical Discovery," and in a short time I was strong and well. Many friends are taking your medicines seeing what they have done for me.

Respectfully yours,
Miss BERTHA WOLFE,
Markham, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y.

AS LIVER PILLS,

NOTHING CAN COMPARE WITH DR. PIERCE'S PLEASANT PELLETS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

There is nothing that can compare with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, as Liver Pills, They have done me more good than any other medicine I have ever taken.

Respectfully yours,
SAMUEL BAKER,
No. 161 Summit Ave.,
Phillipsburg. N.J.

ULCERATION OF BOWELS.

SEVERE BLEEDING.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--My friends said I would never be any better, for I had ulceration of the bowels. By the time I had taken a bottle and a half of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, the bleeding had almost stopped. My appetite was good, nothing seemed to hurt me that I ate. My improvement was wonderful. Several years have passed and my cure is permanent.

Yours respectfully,
Mrs. AURELIA VANZILE,
Hamilton, Ind.

BILIOUS ATTACKS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Nine years ago I was taken with severe pains in my stomach and bowels which the usual home remedies failed to relieve; after several days it passed off, leaving me very sore and weak but in the course of a few weeks it came on again. I called in a doctor--he treated me for biliousness; I occasionally went several months without any attack and then it would come more severe than ever; I could scarcely bear the weight of my clothes on my stomach and bowels. I grew thin, weak and despondent,--could do no work without bringing on terrible pain. Doctors treated me for catarrh of the head and stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, but all was of no avail; the suffering gradually increased in severity and I despaired of any relief.

In 1892 I had a spell that was so severe I cramped from feet to neck. The Doctor said I must die--he couldn't do any thing for me. After about five weeks in bed I could again sit up, but the pain had settled in my right groin and limb. Relatives persuaded me to try "Golden Medical Discovery." Two thirds of the bottle was gone when I felt a change for the better; I had one very light attack after the first bottle; that has been seventeen months ago and I have had no more trouble. I have taken ten bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and I am now well and able to support my family.

To any one with stomach and bowel trouble I will recommend Dr. Pierce's Medicine. I am never without it in the house.

I remain, yours,
I.C. SEELY, Lindsborg,
McPherson Co., Kans.

DYSPEPSIA--CONSTIPATION.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 653 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Three years ago I was suffering from constipation, distress in the stomach, bowels, feet and ankles bloated, kidney and heart trouble, loss of appetite, bad taste in the mouth, sour risings in the stomach, and indigestion. I was under the treatment of three physicians seven months. One gave me up to die. This was my condition when I was prevailed upon to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and "Pleasant Pellets." I am well, your medicines have cured me permanently. Had I the power and language to herald to the whole world the good qualities of your medicines, I would most gladly do so, as they have saved my life and brought health and happiness to me.

Yours most sincerely,
MRS. A.L. PIERCE,
Stillwater, Penobscot Co., Me.

SORES IN MOUTH DUE TO INDIGESTION.

CHAS. KELLOGG TURNEY, ESQ., a prominent contractor and builder, also well known as one of the accomplished singers at the Chautauqua Assembly, and who does business at _Room 6, Bernard Block, Collinwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio_, writes:

"I was troubled with little watery blisters which would form on the under side of my tongue, and which proved very sore and troublesome. Becoming alarmed at the frequency of their appearance, and having much faith in Dr. Pierce and his associates, I wrote to them for advice. They recommended me to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which I did, and after using two bottles my trouble entirely disappeared."

GAINED THIRTEEN POUNDS; CATARRH OF STOMACH.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Two years ago I was pale and emaciated, food fermented in my stomach. A physician pronounced my case "Catarrh of the Stomach," but he could not help me. I lived a month without solid food and when I tried to eat I would vomit. At this time I began taking Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, and in two weeks I was decidedly better. I am now in good health, and never felt better in my life. I have a better color, eat more, and have no distress after eating--having gained thirteen pounds since I began taking them.

Yours respectfully,
MRS. MARY POWELL,
Glen Eaton, Marshall Co., W. Va.

CHRONIC DIARRHEA--DYSPEPSIA.

THOMAS L. HALL, of _Creek, Westmoreland County, Pa.,_ had chronic diarrhea, which his physician called dysentery. He had been troubled more or less for five years; had very severe attack fifteen months before writing us; had not been able to work steadily for twelve months. Food sometimes passed undigested; some days had three to six passages; had watery and sour risings from the stomach; backache; was drowsy upon rising in the morning; pain about the heart; itching all over body and limbs. He had three months' treatment at home--the special medicines being sent him by express. He writes that he "was greatly benefited by first week's treatment," but continued and "in three months was entirely well."

DYSPEPSIA--LOSS OF FLESH.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, NO. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--Three years ago I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery; I weighed 140 pounds, and now I weigh 175 pounds, so you see how I have gained in health and weight. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are the best pills I ever took for the liver. All my friends say they do them the most good.

Respectfully yours, ROBERT MANSON,
West Rye, Rockingham Co., N.H.

TERRIBLE DYSPEPSIA CURED.

Mrs. LUKE COOK, of _Grove, Newaygo Co., Michigan_, writes:

"I had been ill for five years. My symptoms were pain in the stomach and bowels; could eat nothing but stale bread and tea or coffee. Meat and vegetables passed through the bowels undigested in about two hours, causing great pain. I was all "run-down." Tongue looked like a piece of raw meat. One doctor pronounced my case cancer of the stomach. I took treatment from five different physicians with but very little benefit--only temporary relief. I got so weak I could scarcely walk around, and suffered terrible agony. After taking fifteen bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, I am well and able to do my own work, and frequently walk two miles and back the same day. I am now sixty-eight years old."

INDIGESTION, CATARRH, AND NERVOUSNESS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, NO. 663 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--For a long time I was suffering from indigestion, catarrh and nervousness. I was so run down that I could not go to school, and, as the various remedies I tried did me no good, I applied to you, and was advised to try a course of special treatment. After taking only two months' medicines from your noble institution, I feel perfectly restored to health. I have, moreover, recovered my lost flesh, and I am pleased to say need no further medicines.

Yours truly,
E.A. BALDWIN,
Proctorsville, Windsor Co., Vermont.

GENERAL DEBILITY, MALARIA, SICK HEADACHE.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I am happy to say that your valuable medicine has been a great benefit to me. I was suffering from general debility, malaria and nervous sick headaches, and after my third child was born (a beautiful baby boy of ten pounds) I only recovered after a long illness; I barely gained strength enough in two years' time so that I was able to crawl about to accomplish the little housework that I had, by lying down to read many times each day; had sick headaches very often; and many pains and aches, all the time complaining of getting no better. I finally asked my husband to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, which he promptly did. After I had taken one bottle I could see a great change in my strength, and fewer sick headaches.

I continued taking the medicine until I had taken eight bottles--seven of the "Favorite Prescription" and one of the "Golden Medical Discovery." For some time past I have not used it, but I am now able to do the housework for myself, husband and two children (aged nine and five years). I also take in dressmaking, and enjoy walking a mile at a time, and I think it is all due to the medicine, for I know I was only failing fast before I commenced to take it. I take great pleasure in recommending the "Favorite Prescription" to all women who suffer from debility and sick headache.

Respectfully yours, MRS. J.H. LANSING,
Fort Edward, Washington Co., N.Y.

MALARIAL FEVER.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--My little girl, eleven years old, took malarial fever and lay 22 days in fever. Our family doctor was tending her twice a day; she got no better; I sent unbeknown to the doctor and got one bottle of Dr. Pierce's Pellets, and one bottle of his "Golden Medical Discovery," and commenced to give them to her as directed; after taking the medicine three days, the fever began to go down, and the doctor came in and said: "what's the matter?" "Ida, you have no fever this morning," and laughed. Then I told him I had been giving Dr. Pierce's medicines. He didn't say a word--he was beaten. My oldest daughter is improving by taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.

Yours respectfully,
MRS. ELIZABETH McCONELL,
Payne, Paulding Co., O.

GENERAL DROPSY.

TAPPING AND MEDICATION CONQUERS THE DISEASE AFTER IT HAD RUN 22 YEARS.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

_Gentlemen_--I wish to acknowledge that you have cured me of the worst dropsy that ever came within my knowledge, it having afflicted me twenty-two years. After I had suffered much from other surgeons without any cure being effected, and with only relief for a short time, you performed a not only painless but very scientific operation, and with medicine completed the cure. It is now five years since you treated me and no symptoms of the disease have shown themselves. I will also add that while with you at the Invalids' Hotel I received the best of care and attention from the well trained nurses in your employ, for all of which I feel grateful.

With respect and best wishes,
EDWIN L. WATERS, ATHOL CENTRE, MASS.

REDUCED TO A SKELETON.

CHRONIC DIARRHEA--DYSPEPSIA CURED BY TWO MONTHS' SPECIAL HOME-TREATMENT.

WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y.:

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