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NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON.

Nervousness.

A disease which, plainly defined, is simply a lack of nerve power or force ; but this nerve sensitiveness results in spinal congestion, inflammation of the spine, certain forms of kidney diseases, dyspepsia, hysteria, catarrh, hay fever, headache, neuralgia, noises in the ears, mental irritability, insomnia, pain in the back and heaviness of the loins, shooting pains, palpitation of the heart, cramps, a feeling of profound depression and exhaustion, general and local chills, and flashes of heat, certain functional diseases of women, vertigo, or dizziness, trembling of the muscles in different parts of the body, and a host of other diseases which the very highest medical authority in this country and in Europe declare are directly traceable to nervous bankruptcy.

In no country in the world is there such an amazing increase of nervousness, and the diseases incidental to it, as in America.

In no country in the world do the women occupy the dominant position in the social circle and wield the overwhelming influence which they do in America.

In no other country are the daughters (the future mothers of the nation) so rapidly educated, stimulated to abnormal mental exertion, and brought out into society so early in life, to take a leading position and assume responsibilities for which they have not the necessary reserve force, as they are in this land of freedom and free education ; consequently in no other country is there such a rapid increase in the number of nervous women and of the maladies known as "women's diseases," which are incidental to the lack of, or deficiency in, nerve vitality.

The reader may not have the patience to investigate with us the causes of this state of things ; but with the peculiar characteristic of the American, will tacitly admit the fact, and at once inquire "What is the remedy?"

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BETHESDA.

In the year 1856, Dr. J. R. Nichols, a practical chemist and physician, of Boston, prepared a remedy to which he gave the name of "Bark and Iron." This remedy was offered to physicians to be tested, and at once achieved a reputation which it has never lost to the present day. The mission which its efficacy has more than fulfilled has earned for it the familiar titles "The Old Reliable" and "The Old Friend."

What is the Secret?

Simply this : that NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON is a combination of Iron with Peruvian Bark and Aromatics in a form that is permanent, palatable, and unfailing in its action and influence upon disease. It is not a cure-all, in any sense of the word ; there are no doubt many infirmities which it will not even benefit. But whenever it is rightfully called into use, in all instances to which it is, by the nature of its ingredients, adapted, it proves to be a never-failing remedy.

NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON is composed, first, of the active ingredients of Calisaya (Peruvian) Bark. It is a well-known fact that, as a stomach-tonic, to increase the flow of the gastric juice, to strengthen the digestive power, and to promote the appetite, Peruvian Bark is without an equal.

NICHOLS' BARK AND IRON is composed, secondly, of a form of iron which is in a state of perfect solution without the aid or employment of acids, and which cannot therefore do the slightest injury to the teeth. This is a fact which deserves to be widely known. Iron exists in the blood of every healthy person. Without its presence, the red globules of the blood perish, and as a result of this, the individual becomes debilitated.

Like Peruvian Bark, iron, that is the proper form of iron, promotes appetite and digestion.

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