not necessary to see 
v 
which they would have before pronounced 
now treat confidently and successfully. A P - denar t- 
of- thp World’s Dispensary is divided into seven ciepari 
S “Ic^eswed'over ly a comp 
anrerpon nnd are as follows: (1) Diseases of the ner\ous s\s 
texxr (2) ’Pulmonary affections and diseases of the heart, Wood, 
liver and digestive organs; (3) Diseases of the eye and eai, 
m D^eases peculiar to women; (5) Diseases of the uro-geni- 
li ?rSS- (f) SurgLv; (7) Orthopedic surgery, or the cor¬ 
rection of ’deformities. Doubtful or extremely complicated 
cases are submitted to the medical and surgical council, over 
which I preside. 
Not Necessary to see Patients. 
Bv our original system of diagnosis, we can treat most 
chronic diseases as successfully without as with a personal 
consultation. We have never seen one person m five hun¬ 
ted whom we have cured. The perfect accuracy with which 
scientists are enabled to deduce tlie most minute particulars 
in their several departments, appears almost miraculous, if 
we view tt in the light of the tally ages. Take, for example. 
the electro-magnetic telegraph—the |T®j5 e ^ tcvwlrich 
the a°-e. Is it not a marvelous degree of acciiracy whicn 
enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in a subma¬ 
rine cable nearly three thousand miles long? Our venerable 
“ clerk of tlie weather ” lias become so thoroughly familiar 
with those most wayward elements of nature that he can ac¬ 
curately predict tlieir mov r ements. He can sit m Washington 
and foretell wliat the weather will be in Fiorida or New 
York, as well as if several hundred miles did not mteivene 
between him and the places named. And so in an depai t- 
ments of modern science, what is required is the knowledge 
of certain signs. From these, scientists deduce wscurate con¬ 
clusions regardless of distance. A few fossils sent to the 
expert geologist enable him to accurately determine the rook- 
formation from which they were taken. He can describe it 
to you as perfectly as if a cleft of it were lying on Ins table. 
So also the chemist can determine the constitution of the s n 
as accurately as if that luminary were not ninety-fiv e million 
miles from his laboratory. The sun sends certain signs over 
the “ infinitude of space,” and the chemist classifies them by 
passing them through the spectroscope. Only the presence 
of certain substances could produce these solar signs. So 
also in medical science, diseases have certain unmistakable 
sign's! 01 symptoms, and by reason of this fact, we have been 
enabled to* originate and perfect a system ^rmining 
with the greatest accuracy, the nature of chrome diseases 
without seeing and personally examining our patients. In 
recognizing diseases without a personal examination of the 
patient, we claim to possess no miraculous powers. We obtain 
our know ledge of the patient’s disease by the practical appli¬ 
cation of w r el? established principles of modern science to the 
practice of medicine. And it is to the accuracy with which 
this -system has endowed iis that we ow r e our almost world¬ 
wide reputation for the skillful treatment of all hngeimg or 
hbronic affections. This system of practice, and the niarvel- 
ous success which has been attained through it, demonstrate 
the fact that diseases display certain phenomena, which 
being subjected to scientific analysis or synthesis, furnish 
