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RECREATION. 



ust To Prove 



I ask no deposit — no promise. There is nothing to 

 pay, either now or later. The dollar bottle is free. 



I want no reference — no security. The 

 poor have the same opportunity as the rich. 

 The very sick, the slightly ill, invalids of years, 

 and men and women whose only trouble is 

 an occasional "dull day"— to one and all I 

 say "Merely write and ask." I will send 

 you an order on your druggist. He will 

 give you, free, the full dollar package. 



My offer is as broad as humanity itself. 

 For sickness knows no distinction in its 

 ravages. And the restless patient on a 

 downy couch is no more welcome than the 

 wasting sufferer who frets through the lag- 

 ging hours in a dismal hovel. 



I want EVERYone, EVERY where to test 

 my remedy. 



There is no mystery — no miracle. I can 

 explain my treatment to you as easily as I 

 can tell you why cold freezes water and 

 why heat melts ice. Nor do I claim a dis- 

 covery. For every detail of my treatment 

 is based on truths so fundamental that none 

 can deny them. And every ingredient of 

 my medicine is as old as the hills it grows 

 on. I simply applied the truths and com- 

 bined the ingredients into a remedy that is 

 practically certain. The paragraphs below 

 will show you the reason why. 



In eighty thousand communities — in more 



than a million homes — Dr. Shoop's Restor- 

 ative is known. There are those all around 

 you — your friends and neighbors, perhaps — 

 whose suffering it has relieved. There is not 

 a physician anywhere who dares tell you I 

 am wrong in the new medical principles 

 which I apply. And for six solid years my 

 remedy has stood the severest test a medi- 

 cine was ever put to— I have said "If it fails 

 it is free" — and it has never failed where 

 there was a possible chance for it to succeed. 



But this mountain of evidence is of no avail 

 to those who shut iheir eyes and doze away 

 in doubt. For doubt is harder to overcome 

 than disease. I cannot cure those who lack 

 the faith to try. 



So now I have made this offer. I disre- 

 gard the evidence. I lay aside the fact that 

 mine is the largest medical practice in the 

 world, and come to you as a stranger. I 

 ask you to believe not one word that I say 

 till you have proven it for yourself. I offer 

 to give you outright a full dollar's worth of 

 Dr. Shoop's Restorative. No one else has 

 ever tried so hard to remove every possible 

 excuse for doubt. It is the utmost my un- 

 bounded confidence can suggest. It is open 

 and frank and fair. It is the supreme test 

 of my limitless belief. 



Inside Nerves ! 



one out of every 98 has perfect 

 health. Of the 97 sick ones, some are 

 bed-ridden, some are half sick, and some 

 are only dull and listless. But most of 

 the sickness comes from a common 

 cause. The nerves are weak. Not the 

 nerves you ordinarily think about — not the 

 nerves that govern your movements and 

 your thoughts. 



But the nerves that, unguided and un- 

 known, night and day, keep your heart 

 in motion — control your digestive appar- 

 atus — regulate your liver — operate your 

 kidneys. 



These are the nerves that wear out and 

 break down. 



It does no good to treat the ailing or- 

 gan — the irregular heart — the disordered 

 liver — the rebellious stomach — the de- 

 ranged kidneys. They are not to blame. 

 But go back to the nerves that control 

 them. There you will find the seat of the 

 trouble. 



There is'nothing new about this— noth- 

 ing any physician would dispute. But 

 it remained for DV Snoop to apply this 

 knowledge — to put it to practical use. 

 Dr. Shoop's Restorative is the result of 

 a quarter century of endeavor along this 

 very line. It does not dose the organ or 

 deaden the pain — but it does go at once to 

 the nerve — the inside nerve — the power 

 nerve — and builds it up and strengthens 

 it and makes it well. 



Many Ailments, One Cause 



I have called these the inside nerves for 

 simplicity's sake. Theirusual name is the 

 "Sympathetic" nerves. Physicians call 

 them by this name because each is in close 

 sympathy with the others. The result is 

 that when one branch is allowed to become 

 impaired, the others weaken. That is why 

 one kind of sickness leads to another. 

 That is why cases become "complicated." 

 For this delicate nerve is the most sensitive 

 part of the human system. 



Does this not explain to you some of the 

 uncertainties of medicine — is it not a good 

 reason to your mind why other kinds of 

 treatment may have failed ? 



Don't you see that THIS is NEW in 

 medicine? That this is NOT the mere 

 patchwork of a stimulant — the mere sooth- 

 ing of a narcotic? Don't you see that it 

 goes right to the root of the trouble and 

 eradicates the cause? 



But I do not ask you to take a single 

 statement of mine — I do not ask you to be- 

 lieve a word I say until you have tried my 

 medicine in your own home at my expense 

 absolutely. Could I offer you a full dollar's 

 worth free if there were any misrepresenta- 

 tion? Could I let you go to your druggist 

 — whom you know — and pick out any bottle 

 he has on his shelves of my medicine were 

 it not UNIFORMLY helpful? Could I 

 AFFORD to do this if I were not reason- 

 ably SURE that my medicine will help you? 



Simply Write Me 



The first free bottle may be enough t o 

 effect a cure — but I do not promise that. 

 Nor do I fear a loss of possible profit if 

 it does. For such a test will surely con- 

 vince the cured one beyond doubt, or dis- 

 belief, that every word I say is true. 



This offer is open to everyone, every 

 where. But you must write ME for the 

 free dollar bottle order. All druggist 

 do not grant the test. I will then direc 

 you to one that does. He will pass i 

 down to you from his stock as freely as 

 though your dollar lay before him. Write 

 for the order to-day. The offer may n ot 

 remain open. I will send you the book 

 you ask for beside. It is free. It will 

 help you to understand your case. What 

 more can I do to convince you of my in- 

 terest — of my sincerity? 



For a free or- 

 der lor a full 

 dollar bottle 

 address Dr. 

 Shoop, Box 

 ^214, Racine, 

 Wis. State 



which book you 

 want. 



Mild cases are often cured with one or 

 two bottles. For sale at forty thousand 

 drug stores. 



Book 1 



on 



Dyspepsia. 



Book 2 



on 



the Heart. 



Book 3 



on 



the Kidneys. 



Book 4 



for 



Women. 



Book 5 



for 



.Men. 



Book 6 



on 



Rheumatism. 



Dr. Shoop's Restorative 



