item: #1 of 7 id: 13397 author: Shaw, Robert B. title: History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills date: None words: 22296 flesch: 57 summary: Dr. Comstock having missed a large number of letters, on inquiry at the Post Office it was suspected that they had been taken to No. 9 John Street. By an arrangement with the Postmaster and his assistants, several letters were then put in the Post Office, containing orders addressed to Dr. Comstock, at 57 John Street, for goods to be sent to various places in the city to be forwarded to the country. keywords: a.j; advertising; brockville; brothers; business; carlton; city; co.; company; comstock; drug; factory; figure; firm; illustration; indian; judson; lucius; medicine; moore; morristown; morse; new; new york; patent; pills; remedies; root pills; street; time; white; william; years; york cache: 13397.txt plain text: 13397.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 16977 author: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company title: Food and Health date: None words: 9515 flesch: 82 summary: Many women have avoided this experience by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in time, thereby relieving the present distress and preventing the development of conditions that might require an operation. I heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and tried it with Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash for the white flow, and was doing fine. keywords: cup; e. pinkham; illustration; ingredients; lydia e.; medicine; milk; mrs; salt; sugar; vegetable compound; water; women; work cache: 16977.txt plain text: 16977.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 18370 author: Civiale Remedial Agency title: Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. date: None words: 29812 flesch: 63 summary: +Emissions+ (day or night), +Oozing of a glairy fluid+ under excitement and imaginings, presence of the opposite sex, etc., +Partial+ and +Imperfect Erections, Desire to Masturbate+, Formation of +Evil Pictures in the Mind+, +Flushing and Chilliness+, +Stupidity and Tendency to Doze or Sleep+, +Mental Hebetude+, +Failing Memory+, +Lack of Power of Application, Energy or Concentration+, +Restlessness+, +Pain and Smarting+ in passing urine, +Wetting the Bed+, +Pain in the Kidneys+, +Headache+, +Pimples+ on the face or body, +Itching or peculiar sensations+ about the scrotum (bag), thighs, legs, anus, etc., +Wasting+ of the +Organs+, +Stringiness and Softening+ of the +Testicles+, +Dyspepsia+, +Sluggish Bowels+, +Torpid Liver+, +Failing Sight+, +Pains in the Head+ (front, top and back), Chest, Limbs, etc., Sensation of the +Bowels Falling Out+, +Dizziness+ on stooping over or kneeling, +Specks+ before the +Eyes+, +Erotic Dreams+, +Melancholy+ (developing sometimes into +Insanity+), +Numbness+ of arms, hands, feet or legs (precursors of +Paralysis+), +Twitchings+ of the muscles of the eyelids and elsewhere (sometimes ending in +Epileptic Fits+ or +St. Vitus' Dance+), +Timidity+, +Diabetes+ and +Deposits+ in the +Urine+, +Troubled Breathing+, +Indecision+, +Loss of Will Power+, +Bashfulness+, +Burning+ of the face, +Coldness+ and +Clamminess+ of the feet and hands, also of the +Scrotum+ (or bag), +Palpitation+ of the heart, +Early Loss of fluid during connection+, +Feelings of Gloom, Despondency, Hopelessness+ of a cure, or fear of impending danger or +misfortune+, +Tenderness of the Scalp+ and +Spine+, +Dryness+ and +Itching of the skin+, +Sudden Sweating+, +Sudden Nervous Trembling+, +Noises+ and +Reports+ in the ears and brain, +Weight+ on the brain, +Weak+ and +Flabby Muscles+, easily tired after slight exertion, +Desire to Sleep late+ in the mornings and +failure to be rested+ by sleep, +Weakness+ and +Torpor+ the day after a nightly emission has occurred, the +Oozing of thick white fluid+ from the urethra when +constipated+ or +straining at stool+, +Varicocele+, etc., etc. WEAKNESS AND WASTING OF THE ORGANS. keywords: abuse; cases; cause; civiale; course; crayons; cure; day; disease; fluid; life; man; means; medical; men; new; organs; patient; physicians; power; remedies; seminal; spermatorrhoea; strength; stricture; symptoms; time; treatment; urine; varicocele; veins; weakness; years cache: 18370.txt plain text: 18370.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 27164 author: Eastman, Edwin title: Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography date: None words: 74720 flesch: 67 summary: At such times the taunts and exultation of the victors would sometimes give rise to a quarrel; knives would be drawn and brandished, and a bloody fight seem imminent, but the Yau-pa-sai-na, or Indian policemen, would usually succeed in quelling the disturbance before much harm could be done. Being unskilled in the use of a hoe, I bruised myself severely, for, instead of breaking the soil, I came down with full force on my own limbs and feet; at such times a groan of agony would escape me, which, instead of eliciting sympathy, would only excite laughter. keywords: bear; body; buffalo; buffaloes; camanches; chapter; chief; course; dance; day; days; death; direction; feet; fire; food; ground; hand; head; horses; indian; left; life; lodge; man; medicine; men; moment; morning; mountain; new; night; number; page; party; place; plain; position; prairie; return; savage; saw; scene; temple; thought; time; tribe; valley; village; wakometkla; war; warriors; water; way; wife; women cache: 27164.txt plain text: 27164.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 29612 author: Pinkham, Lydia Estes title: Treatise on the Diseases of Women date: None words: 40782 flesch: 70 summary: If you are ill get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once--then write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. =A Vegetable Compound.=--I hardly think it necessary to mention in detail the separate ingredients of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. keywords: = lydia; advice; blood; body; bowels; case; change; child; condition; cure; day; de la; den; der; des; die; diet; disease; e. pinkham; egg; female; good; health; help; hot; inflammation; kind; las; les; letters; life; liver; los; lydia e.; lydia pinkham; man; mass; medicine; menstruation; milk; months; mother; mrs; och; pain; parts; person; pinkham medicine; place; que; sanative; stomach; suffering; system; taking; thousands; time; treatment; trouble; use; uterus; vegetable compound; von; wash; water; way; womb; women; work; years cache: 29612.txt plain text: 29612.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 30162 author: Griffenhagen, George B. title: Old English Patent Medicines in America date: None words: 17319 flesch: 61 summary: Fur traders were still using old English patent medicines at mid-century. It is not known how extensively, during the struggle for independence, this custom was adopted for English patent medicines other than Daffy's and Stoughton's. keywords: american; anderson; balsam; bateman; bottles; british; century; college; cordial; daffy; drops; early; elixir; english; english patent; formula; godfrey; london; medical; medicines; new; oil; original; patent; patent medicines; pharmacy; philadelphia; pills; remedies; stoughton; turlington; vol; york cache: 30162.txt plain text: 30162.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 44325 author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins title: The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil date: None words: 39997 flesch: 64 summary: We have their own word for it: We wish to state at the start that we are not patent medicine men, and their methods will not be employed by us.... Yet they are just as genuine as the bulk of patent medicine letters and written in as good faith. keywords: = =; advertisement; advertising; alcohol; association; bottle; business; case; catarrh; company; consumption; contract; cure; day; disease; drug; good; health; image; letters; liquozone; man; matter; medical; medicine; men; newspapers; nostrum; patent; patent medicine; people; peruna; powders; press; proprietary; public; state; testimonials; time; united; use; years; york cache: 44325.txt plain text: 44325.txt