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Let the reader remember that the medicines which I have 
recommended in the preceding pages are not represented as 
remedies for every form of disease. A panacea, or cure-all , 
is one of the myths of the age of superstition, when scientists 
vainly sought for .the wonderful philosopher’s stone, that 
should transform all the baser metals into gold, make human 
life a perpetual dream of happiness,—in brief, bring.good out 
of all evil. Pseudo-physicians claim that they have not only 
sought, but found, the magical substance that will bring good 
out of evil—health out of all disease. To sensible minds, toe 
discovery of a philosopher’s stone is as probableas the dis¬ 
covery of a panacea,—the existence of neither is possible. 
My proprietary medicines were developed as specifics for 
those chronic diseases I have indicated, and 1 have tested 
their efficacy in the treatment of many thousands of cases 
with the most gratifying success; but 
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that they will cure all diseases, I am aware that mmany com¬ 
plicated cases they will be inefficient. # These cases demand 
special treatment by a competent physician or surgeon. But 
in ordinary cases of chronic diseases, the use of these medi¬ 
cines has been attended by uniform success. An extensive 
and almost world-wide practice was the sequence of my suc¬ 
cess, and to-day these medicines are used throughout North 
and South America, the Indies, Europe, and some portions 
of Asia; and the fact that the sales are annually increasing, 
proves conclusively that tl ^y are efficient remedies for the 
diseases for which they are /ecommended. 
ADVANTAGES OF SPECIALTIES.- My practice 
increased so rapidly and to such an extent that it was impos¬ 
sible for me to attend to all my patients personally,nor would 
such an attempt have been beneficial to their interests. I 
therefore induced several eminent physicians and surgeons 
to associate themselves with me, and adopted the admirable 
system of division of Ictbov , which is the key to the unprece¬ 
dented advancement of modern science. In natural science, 
one investigator no longer seeks to grasp and comprehend all 
the various departments, and even in each department there 
is a subdivision of labor; thus in geology, the paleontologist 
investigates one field, the mineralogist another, and the 
lithologist one different from either. So in medical science, 
the highest success can only be attained when physicians de¬ 
mote their time and attention to special departments. The 
science will then stand forth in its true dignity, and rid itself 
of that humiliating empiricism which has ever impeded its 
progress. The manifold advantages accruing from the adop¬ 
tion of the system of specialties at the World’s Dispensary, 
have far exceeded my most sanguine expectations. I have 
spared neither pains nor expense to associate with me only 
those phvsicians and surgeons who are thoroughly educated 
practitioners, and by devoting their entire attention to the 
special class of diseases which their^ tastes indicated, they 
have become so thoroughly familiar with all the minuticB of 
the symptoms and treatment of those affections, that canes 
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