THE Buffalo S PRINGS > MECKLENBURG CO.. VA. ANALYSIS, LETTERS OF EMINENT MEN, wiTn CASES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE WATERS IN THE VARIOUS FORMS OF DISEASE, 1874 . RESIDENT PHYSICIAN: dr. im:, im:. Of 'Boydton, yirginia , RALTIMOTi Ej KITST (3- BROTHERS, PRINTERS. 1874. (J^ddtfSJvVW. £UV p s: _ Analysis of the waters of three of the Buffalo Springs, in Meck¬ lenburg County, Virginia, made by Professor Wm. P. Tonry, of the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, March 17th, 1874. (Results ex¬ pressed in grains per imperial gallon.) SPRING' No. 1. Grains. Sulphate of Magnesia.1.530 Alumina. 8.180 Potash. 0.463 Lime..19.251 Carbonate of Potash.. Bicarbonate of Lime. 39.277 Lithia. 1.484 Baryta. . Iron.0.500 Chloride of Sodium.1.256 Silica . 1.752 Phosphoric Acid.traces. Iodine. traces. Organic Matter.small amount. T^otal number of grains per gallon.73.693 Sulphuretted hydrogen.5.9 cubic inches. Carbonic acid gas. .*...69,1 “ 4 SPRING No. 2. Grains. Sulphate of Magnesia. 0.885 Alumina. 9.067 Potash.. . Lime. 38.067 Carbonate of Potash.29.300 Bicarbonate of Lime.14.963 Lithia. 2.250 Baryta.1.750 Iron. 0.300 Chloride of Sodium. 4.921 Silica. 1 873 Phosphoric Acid. & .traces. Iodine.traces. Organic Matter.small amount. Total number of grains per gallon.98.376 Sulphuretted hydrogen.8.3 cubic inches. Carbonic acid gas.59.2 “ “ SPRING No. 3. Grains. Sulphate of Magnesia..0.150 Alumina. 3.035 Potash.. . Lime. 2.353 Carbonate of Potash. 1.852 Bicarbonate of Lime. 2 524 Lithia.traces of Lithia. Baryta. . Iron. 3 774 Chloride of Sodium. 0.217 Silica. 0.570 Phosphoric Acid.traces. Iodine.. Organic Matter.small amount. Total number of grains per gallon.14.475 Sulphuretted hydrogen.3.4 cubic inches. Carbonic acid gas.11.6 “ Introductory Remarks by the Proprietor. BUFFALO SPRINGS. .these.^nngs are situated in MecIdenFm™ , ^Virginia, ,one hundred and twentv u g unt 7> ^(Jnmond, and ten miles from the i ^ S ° Uth ° f . 1. At, and BichlTd & 1°° * % “V’ E W }°"?Y ot “ *• ^ountai’na they'a e- ? , ®*«on of country, which for m a brok, Vfcta**, may safe] cta]| / n ’ general healw • region of the globe parison with any . * eas0I1 q( lg Up to the close ox ^^7 ^ 0 7 . imexal waters of this place con ' c e s P lm & an d to that spring all of the a les «“ionials refer, with but two exception % f er ^ le c ^ ose of the season referred to, the pix^ ox purchased a tract of land immediately adjoining old Buffalo Spring tract, upon which were disco\ ^^od two bold mineral springs; and another spring, hi therto over¬ looked, attracted attention, upon the original or old Buffalo tract, some four hundred yards distant from the original spring, making the springs now four in number, known as Nos. one, two, three and four. Of the character, effects and medicinal value of the orig¬ inal spring, or No. 1, the testimonials referred to give abundant information. This spring, together with springs numbers two and three, have recently been analyzed by Professor Wm. P. Tonry, of the Maryland Institute, Baltimore. 6 His analysis, heretofore given, will indicate to the physician and other scientific persons, the character and value of these waters, and the diseases in which they are indicated. For the benefit of the general reader, not accus¬ tomed to judge of the value of mineral waters by chemical analysis, I wiil state the effects produced by the use of the waters from these new^prings. Spring No. 2, or what is sometimes called the Sul¬ phur Spring, is one of the most decidedly purgative waters of Virginia, and, without question, is among the most powerful of diuretics, and would seem to be indicated in all derangements of the billiary organs, in affections of the kidneys and bladder, and in drop¬ sical effusions. This spring contains a larger percen¬ tage of the Bicarbonate of Liihia than any yet discov¬ ered in the United States. The famous Gettysburg Spring, in Pennsylvania, which, of late years, has at¬ tracted so much attention, owes its wide-spread celebrity to the presence of this valuable salt, which Professor Geo. B. Wood, of the University of Penn¬ sylvania, says is “so rare in nature,” and yet it holds in solution a much smaller proportion of it than this spring. And it is this ingredient which has given such world-wide celebrity to the Aix la Chapelle and Vichy waters of the continent of Europe. It has an extraordinary power as a solvent of the Uric acid, and has been recommended by Dr. Garrod of London as an internal remedy in Gout, not only on account of its anti-acid powers, but of its influence T in preventing the formation and deposition of the in¬ soluble urates. Professor Wood also says, “there is perhaps no other remedy from which equal efficacy may be ex¬ pected in the removal of the deposits of the Urate of Soda, in the joints and ligamentous tissues in gouty patients, and in preventing the deposits in the kid¬ neys, bladder and urinary passages.” And another distinguished medical writer says, “it is highly anti¬ acid and diuretic, and is peculiarly adapted to the case of persons threatened with, or suffering from, gravel, stone or gout—there is, perhaps, no other known remedy that premises greater relief in such cases.” Spring No. 3, or the Iron Spring, is a more deci¬ ded tonic, stimulant and aperient than No. 1, and less diuretic. It is both in its aperient and diuretic pro¬ perties decidedly less active than either No. 2 or No. 4. Spring No. 4, of which no analysis is made, resem¬ bles very much the old Buffalo Spring. It is, how¬ ever, in its effect, much more tonic, more aperient, and more diuretic than either No. 1 or No. 3, but much less so than No 2. The combination of waters offered here is adapted to a wider range of disease than can be found any where in this country. And, since the published analy¬ ses were made, two or three other springs, strongly impregnated with minerals, have been discovered, in¬ dicating, unmistakably, that the whole valley in which these springs are situated is a mineral bed. 8 I purchased the Buffalo Spring property a few months ago. I found it without any reliable analysis of the water, and without any record whatsoever of the remarkable cures which it has performed; and, so far as I have been able to learn, no former propri¬ etor of the property ever expended the amount of fifty dollars in an effort to make the.virtues of the water known to the public. Under these circumstances I need not say that my own efforts to place &em fairly before the public have been made under difficulties and embarrassments. The testimonials put forth by the mineral springs generally, as to the medicinal value of their respec¬ tive waters, have been carefully preserved through series of years by proprietors and resident physicians. Those now presented in behalf of the Buffalo Springs are such as I have been able to collect in the few months of my ownership of the property. It is claimed that these evidences establish, beyond any question, the fact that the Buffalo water, in the Diseases of Women, in Dyspepsia in its various forms, in Chronic Intermittent and Remittent Fevers, and in short, in all that large .class of disease resulting from malarial influences, is possessed of a more general adap¬ tation, and of greater curative powers than any of the mineral ivaters of the Country, North or South. This, I am aware, is a very strong claim for these waters. An intelligent public will judge if it be sus¬ tained by the evidences to which they are referred. In the diseases consequent upon the teething of \ 9 children, the action of this water is that of a charm . An astonishing cure of a case coming under this heal is reported in the letter of Col. E. K. Harris. It is worthy of especial mention, that no inconsid¬ erable proportion of the cures reported in this pam¬ phlet, as made by the Buffalo water, are cases in which the most noted mineral waters of Virginia, and in some instances, the still more noted waters of New York*and Pennsylvania were first tried without berfit. The old buildings at this place are now undergoing repairs, and new ones are being erected. By the 1st day of June, 1874, on which day it will be open for the reception of visitors, it will afford comfortable accommodation for three hundred and fifty persons. THOMAS F. GOODE. Boydton, Va., April 10th, 1874. % / Letters of Medical Men. LETTER OF Dr. WM. T. HOWARD, (of Baltimore,) Professor of Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Maryland. Baltimore, August 1st, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode, De ir Sir : —In accordance with your request, I take pleasure in stating my opinion of the medicinal virtues of the Buffalo Springs. During my long residence in Warrenton, North Caro¬ lina, I sent many patients to Buffalo, and had ample opportunities of observing the effects of the water. Experience has long ago strongly impressed me with the conviction that it deserves to rank among the most celebrated mineral waters of Virginia. Nothing but the want of mountain air, its comparatively isolated position,* the paucity of the accommodations hitherto, and the small pains taken heretofore to bring the Springs properly before the public, could possibly have prevented its taking position with the far- famed White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier county, in the wide range of cases in which they are both indicated. Indeed, in a cer¬ tain class of cases, it is much superior to the latter. I allude to the abiding debility attendant upon the tardy convalescence from grave acute diseases ; and more especially to the cachexia and sequels incident to malarious fevers in all their grades and varieties, to certain forms of atonic dyspepsia, and all the affections peculiar to women that are remediable at all by mineral, waters. In short, were I called upon to state from what mineral waters I have seen the greatest and most unmistakable amount of good accrue in the largest number of cases in a general way, I would unhesi¬ tatingly say, the Buffalo Springs , in Mecklenburg county , Va. Very respectfully yours, WM. T. HOWARD, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. THOMAS P. ATKINSON, (Late of Danville, Ya.) Col. Thomas F. Goode, Boydton, Ya., Dear Sir : —I have been greatly gratified to learn that you have become the proprietor of the Buffalo Mineral Springs, and ♦This property is now within ten miles of railroad communication, with comfortable accommodations for three hundred and fifty persons. u that you are taking steps to inform the public in regard to the great value of its waters as a most powerful remedial agent , the more so, because I am satisfied that when its curative properties shall become generally known and properly appreciated, it will be regarded as one of the richest gifts of Providence to suffering humanity. For more than fifty years I have been a great sufferer from that Protean disease, dyspepsia, to find relief frem which I have made many visits to nearly all of the mineral springs in Virginia, in¬ cluding the Alleghany, the Montgomery White, Coyners, the Yel¬ low Sulphur, the Greenbrier White Sulphur, the Old and the Red Sweet Springs, the Salt Sulphur, the Hot and Warm Springs. I have also tested the virtues of the Ballston, the Saratoga and the Lebanon Springs in the State of New York, and I can say with confidence, that I derived more benefit from the waters of the Buffalo Springs, in the county of Mecklenburg, Virginia, thnn from any and all of the others. I have visited this last-named watering place frequently during the last half century, and have carefully observed its effects on others, as well as experienced its benefits on my own person, and I regard it as invaluable in all the diseases to which it is peculiarly adapted—such as those trouble¬ some and distressing affections to which females are specially subject, and particularly such (in either sex) as originate under malarial in - ffuences. So marked are their effects in such cases, that its former proprietor, the lamented David Shelton, Esq., was in the habit of offering accommodations free of all charge to any and all persons who should fail to be relieved of chills and fevers on using the waters for a period of fifteen or twenty days. I have no confidence in any so-called panaceas, nor do I think that any remedy is alike efficacious in the same disease affecting different persons, nor indeed when used by the same individuals under different conditions of their systems. I would not, therefore, recommend this or any other remedial agent as promising a cure in all cases, but I have great confidence that when judiciously used “the Buffalo Water” will often effect the most gratifying and not unfrequently the most astonishing results. The most valuable properties of this water are those of an alter¬ ative and a tonic character; it is powerfully diaphoretic and diuretic ; indeed, it affects all of the secretions, but its crowning glory is that it is the best tonic in all the land. To a person debilitated by the long and imprudent use of medicine (and there are many such), or by disease or overwork (and in this category, too, there are many sufferers), it has no equal in all the range of medicines of which I have any knowledge. As a prophet is without honor in his own country, so do we undervalue the blessings which are at our very doors, and seek at great cost and labor to obtain those of less worth at a distance from us. Our people prefer to purchase “the Shoddy Cloth ” of the New England manufacturers, to the far better material which is 13 made in Fredericksburg and Charlottesville, in our own State. So } it is with the sufferers from chills and fevers and the malarial diseases who reside in the lower portions of North Carolina and Virginia. They prefer to make fatiguing and expensive trips to the trans-mountain watering places, rather than to avail themselves of a superior remedial agent , (superior because better adapted to the diseases of their section of country,) simply because the former are farther from home . If this voluntary statement, which is freely given without solic¬ itation on your part, and with a sincere desire to benefit the public, shall be of service to them or to yourself, I shall be much gratified. Let me say to those who know nothing of me, that I have no interest direct or otherwise in the “Buffalo Springs,” and that this communication is made “without fee or hope of reward.” It may, therefore, be received as disinterested testimony in favor of a health¬ giving fountain, which, to be appreciated, needs but to be known. I am, yours respectfully, January 5th, 1874. THOS. P. ATKINSON, M. D. LETTER OF Drs. WM. H. JONES AND M. M. JORDAN, (of Boydton, Va.)—Eighteen miles distant from the Buffalo Springs. Boydton, Va., Dec. 10th, 1873. Col. Thos F. Goode : Dear Sir, —In compliance with your request, we give you our opinion of the Buffalo water as a “ Medicinal Agent.” This water combines most happily alterative and tonic properties, and is a remedy of great value in all diseases requiring at the same time al¬ terative and tonic treatment. As a general tonic and invigorator of the enfeebled human system, we know of nothing equal to it in medicine or mineral waters. It is rarely, if ever, that an invalid under its influence, is debili¬ tated even temporarily; on the contrary, while all of the great or¬ gans of secretion, the bowels, kidneys and skin, are rapidly elimin¬ ating disease from the system, he will find himself daily increasing in strength. It has a decidedly exhilarating effect upon the nerv¬ ous system, and is highly beneficial in all cases attended by mental depression. This water has been used with marked success in most of the various forms of chronic disease, which are regarded as remediable by mineral waters. The concurring testimony of medical men, and indeed of unprofessional persons, who have been accustomed to ob¬ serve its effects, ascribe to it pre-emirumt powers in the disease#pecu¬ liar to women; in derangements of the digestive organs, and in all that large class of disease attributed to malarial influences. We feel war- 14 ranted in expressing the opinion, that within this range of disease, it is possessed of a more general adaptation, and greater curative powers than any of the mineral waters known to us. It is a powerful and prompt corrective of acidity, creates gener¬ ally a voracious appetite, and at the same time so invigorates the digestive organs, as to enable even the feeble stomach to dispose, without discomfort, of almost any amount of food taken into it. It is not unfrequently the case, that persons go to these Springs who are confined at home to the simplest articles of diet, paying a heavy penaltv for the slightest transgression of the strictest regimen, and in a few weeks, or perhaps a few days, eat with impunity anything ordinarily found upon the table, including gross meats and rich desserts. And it is but rovrely that, the dyspeptic, using this water, fails to find decided and permanent relief. We witnessed the most decided and beneficial result from the use of this water in a very distressing case of nervous dyspepsia, at¬ tended by great prostration, bodily and mental, where all of the most noted of the mineral springs of Virginia were first tried for several consecutive summers, and the Saratoga Springs of N.York, and the Bedford and Gettysburg Springs of Pennsylvania also faithfully tested, without any one of them giving to the patient even temporary relief. The above refers especially to what was known until very re¬ cently as Buffalo Spring. Since the purchase by you, Nos. 2 and 3 have been discovered, and the analysis of them made by Professor Tonry of Baltimore. We class all the springs as saline chalybeates, possessing aperient, diuretic, tonic and alterative properties so combined as to be appli¬ cable to a large number of diseases. In No. 2 is found a large per centage of a most valuable remedial agent, “ Salt of Lithium,” con¬ tained in but two other springs in America, and in far less quanti¬ ty than in the Buffalo Springs. This has given such great celebrity to the Carlsbad Spring in Germany. Lithia is especially adapted to the treatment of that most painful and intractable disease the “ Gout,” as also its frequent associate Rheumatism, in degeneration of the kidneys and diseases of the bladder dependent on uric acid. By its use, uric acid, the element of gouty diathese, is eliminated from the system, and its deposition in the bladder, kidneys and joints prevented. It is a remedy of great value in all diseases dependent on the excess of any acid in any of the secretions, or in the blood. The union of the various ingredients renders the use of the wa¬ ters of these Springs, judiciously administered, of inestimable value, and, as we think, applicable to a larger number of diseases than any other one spring in the United States. Very respectfully, WM. H. JONES, M. D. M. M. JORDAN, M. D. 15 DYSPEPSIA. CASE OF Dr. P. A. FLOURNOY, (Charlotte Co. Va.) HIS OPINION OF THE BUFFALO WATER. Charlotte C. H., Va., Dec. 17th, 1873. Col. Goode: Dear Sir , —In the summer of 1864, I visited the Buffalo Springs, as I supposed, a confirmed dyspeptic; I was weak, emaciated and despondent , and in fact my constitution was shattered by my dis¬ ease. I used the water for a short time—I do not now recollect with precision how long: in a few days after I commenced the use of it, I began to improve, and continued to do so, until I was re¬ stored to perfect health. The cure was complete. From my own experience with the water, and what I witness¬ ed of its effects upon others, I regard it as equal, if not superior, to any of the mineral waters of Virginia, in all diseases of the digestive organs ; I also regard it as of great value in female diseases , general debility, &c. Yours, truly, P. A. FLOURNOY, M. D. , LETTER OF Dr. G. A. WILSON, (Granville Co. N. C.) Col. Thos. F. Goode: My Dear Sir, —For more than thirty-five years I have been an observer of the effects of the waters of the Buffalo Springs upon the functions of the human body, both in health and disease. These effects are so marked and well defined, that I think that I can ren¬ der them intelligible to the commonest capacity, and in a narrow compass. When a healthy person is brought under the influence of these waters, he will be conscious of exhilaration of spirits and exaltation of all his sensibilities; in fact, he will feel that he is under the influence of a decided stimulus; and in some persons these effects produce decided discomfort. But this stimulant action is promptly followed by a marked increase in the functional exercises of all the excretory organs of the body, most conspicuously in the kidneys and skin. Under this continued action, the appetite becomes voracious, and all the great functions of nutrition are wonderfully invigorated and renovated. By virtue of the increased and hastened excretion, all matters rendered effete by having subserved the purposes of life, are prompt¬ ly eliminated from the circulating fluids, and the veins filled with health-giving blood. The above I think is a faithful statement of the effects of the Buffalo water, as I have observed it for a series of years, in my own person and that of others. The practical physician will at once see the wide range of diseases to which it is applicable. I enumerate a few; and this embraces the whole family of what medical men 16 recognize as resulting from malarial poison, always so prevalent throughout our whole Southern borders: dyspepsia, jaundice, hepatic, sexual and anemic dropsies—that large class of female dis¬ orders, resulting from a failure in the monthly functions, and nerv¬ ous disorders dependent upon anemic states of the system. I have now, sir, given a mere outline of the effects of these min¬ eral waters, and I should do the subject gross injustice if I failed to allude to another feature of their value. If they were possessed of no positively curative powers, I regard their prophylactic virtues of inestimable value. In our busy age, there are multitudes of per¬ sons. professional, commercial, and in all the ranks and avocations of life, heads of families and nursing mothers, whose powers have long been overtaxed, and are ready to succumb to the wear and tear of life’s duties. If, sir, you could impart the virtues of these waters to this class alone, you would deserve the benedictions of your race. I remain, sir, Very truly, yours, GOODRIDGE A. WILSON, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. SAMUEL G. HARRISS. Boydton, Va., April 10th, 1874. Col. Thos. F. Goode : 1Dear Sir ,—I have learned with pleasure, that you have re¬ cently purchased the Buffalo Springs property. I deem it a matter of congratulation to the invalid public, that an effort will now be made to give to this water the rank among the mineral waters of the country, which it should long ago have occupied ; and that it will be improved in a manner proportional to its value. I have been for a long time fully persuaded that the remedial powers of these waters had only to be made known to secure for them a popularity second to no other mineral water in the coun¬ try. In diseases of the stomach, bowels, liver and urinary organs, and in general debility consequent upon long, acute attacks of dis¬ ease, especially malarial fevers in all their forms, I regard it as equal to any known mineral water. In diseases arising from a loss of tone and strength on the part of the reproductive organs in women, I have witnessed the most beneficial and astonishing re¬ sults from the use of the Buffalo water, and in the whole of this large class of disease, I regard it as a specific. I find, on examination of the analysis of this water, as made by Professor Tonry, an eminent chemist of Baltimore, a fact which must strike all medical men with particular interest. I refer to the unusually large amount of Lithia contained in the waters of the new Spring No. 2, or Sulphur Spring. This analysis shows a H quantity of Lithia, greater by far than is contained in any other water in this country, of which I have any knowledge. Since 1843, the attention of the profession has been called t© the great solvent power of Lithia and its salts over uric acid and its salts, in the treatment of all that class of disease in which the elim¬ ination of uric acid in all its forms is needed; and if we are to judge of the power of the different mineral waters of this country by the quantity of Lithia contained in them, we are fully warrant¬ ed in the expectation of great benefit accruing to those afflicted with gout, rheumatism, gravel and other diseases, dependent upon the presence of the insoluble urates, by the use of the waters of the Buffalo Springs. It should be a matter of congratulation to the public, that you have been able to bring to the notice of the afflicted of this class, a water containing so potent an agent, the existence of which was entirely unknown till within the last few months. As now presented by the recent analysis, I regard the combina¬ tion of waters at Buffalo, as adapted to a wider range of disease than any other of which I have any knowledge. Very respectfully, SAM’L G. IIARRISS, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. O. F. MANSON, Professor of General Pathology and Physiology in the Medical College, Richmond, Ya. Richmond, Ya., July 5th, 1873. Col. Trios. F. Goode : Dear Sir ,—In reply to your favor of the 3d inst., I would say that the Buffalo Springs, in the county of Mecklenburg, Ya., have long enjoyed a deservedly high reputation with physicians and the public for possessing valuable medicinal properties. During a residence of twenty-one years in the State of North Carolina, which was yet in the vicinity of Buffalo, I had numerous opportunities of witnessing the beneficial influence of its waters. I do not remember their exact chemical analysis, but I know that they are strongly chalybeate, and I have observed sanative effects in diseases attended with, or succeeded by, general debility; such as atonic dyspepsia, malarial cachexia, chlorosis, anemia, hypochon¬ driasis, hysteria, cardiac palpitations, &c. These waters have been found especially curative in case? of chronic intermittent fever, many intractable cases having been thereby restored to perfect health in a brief space of time. Yery respectfully yours, O. F. MANSON, M. D. 18 LETTER OF Dr. JAMES SHELTON, For a number of years Resident Physician at the Buffalo Springs. Buffalo Springs, November 12th, 1873. Col. Goode: DmrSir ,—I give you very cheerfully my opinion of the Buffalo water as a “medicinal agent.” I have been for a number of years resident physician at these springs, and have had an opportunity of observing the effects of the water upon a large number of invalids, and in almost every form of chronic disease. I have witnessed the most gratifying results from the use of it in the diseases of females in their multitudinous forms: in affections of the liver, spleen, bowels, kidneys and bladder; in dropsical effusions, dyspepsia, cutaneous eruptions, in chronic intermittent and remittent fevers, and in the general debility following malarial diseases. In the diseases of females, and in certain forms of dyspepsia, the great restorative power of this water is most unmistakable. I have never seen a case of disease coming under either of these heads that was not benelitted by the water, where a fair trial was given to it. I saw here some years ago, a gentleman from the State of Mis¬ sissippi, suffering from dyspepsia in a form of as much aggrava¬ tion as I ever witnessed it. He arrived here in a very emaciated, nervous condition, and troubled with a distressing cough. He informed me that he had been pronounced by two medical men of eminence to be in a consumption, and so fully was he satisfied of the correctness of that opinion, that, though remaining at the spring on account of the health of bis wife, it required great per¬ suasion to get him to touch the water. He finally, however, determined to make the experiment. Decided improvement was soon perceptible in his condition, and during a stay of some weeks at the springs, his cough entirely disappeared, and he was restored to comfortable health, and left the springs entirely satisfied that he had no affection of the lungs. Of one of the new springs I desire to make special mention : I refer to the spring known as No. 2, or the Sulphur spring. This spring has been tested by a number of persons, and proves to have a decided action upon the liver, and is a most powerful diuretic. I must think that it adds greatly to the attractions of the place in the way of mineral water, and that it is destined to accomplish great good in the treatment of the hepatic derange¬ ments, so common in the South. Very respectfully, JAMES SHELTON, M. D. 19 LETTER OF Dr. P. W. YOUNG, (of Oxford, N. C.) Oxford, N. C., September 16th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode: Dear Sir, —I take great pleasure in testifying to the remedial virtues of the water of the Buffalo Springs, having personally experienced their beneficial effects. I consider it a very fine chalybeate tonic, having a peculiarly exhilarating effect on the nervous system. 1 I confidently recommend its use to those of my patients suffer¬ ing from dyspepsia, especially when accompanied by depression of spirits ; to cases of debility and anemia, especially when caused by malarial disease; to cases of functional disease of the kidneys, and in diseases peculiar to females. Respectfully, P. W. YOUNG, M. D. A COMPLICATION OF DISEASE. LETTER OF Dr. E. F. P. POOL, (of Nashville, Tenn.) Nashville, Tenn., February 28th, 1874. Col. T. F. Goode: Dear Sir ,—Yours of the 24th ult., requesting a statement of my personal experience with the waters of the Buffalo Springs, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and also my opinion of it as a general remedial agent, has been received. As to my own experience with the water, I would state that for seven years I was a very great sufferer from dyspepsia, attended with chronic diarrhoea. In the summer of the year 1842,1 spent the entire season at the Buffalo Springs, both drinking and using the water as a bath. The result was a complete restoration of my health , and I have to the present time had no return of my disease. As a remedial agent, I regard it as valuable in all affections of the stomach, bowels, liver, skin and kidneys— especially so in derangements of the uterus , no matter by what cause produced, unless accompanied by an affection of the lungs. Should I ever be a sufferer from any of the diseases which I have enumerated, and am able to get there, you may look out for me at the Buffalo Springs. I am gratified to know that these springs are now in the hands of one who will make a proper effort to make their virtues known to the public. Very truly yours, E. F. P. POOL, M. D. 350 S. Cherry Street , Nashville , Tenn. 20 * &.C.} LETTER OF Dr. ALFRED PLUMMER, (of Manson, Among other virtues the Buffalo Water a powerful Anodyne. Manson, N. C., March 16th, 1874. Col. Goode: Bear Sir ,—You ask my opinion of the sanative virtues of the Buffalo water. I have known the Buffalo Springs profession¬ ally for twenty-five years, and during that period have Sent a large number of patients to them. In affections of the stomach, bowels, liver and urinary organs, upon systems prostrated by repeated attacks of chills and fevers, and in diseases peculiar to women, these waters produce the hap¬ piest and most decided results. It is, however, in the diseases of women , especially when attended by nervous prostration , that the great remedial powers of these waters are most conspicuous. They are conceded to be highly tonic, and the following case would seem to indicate that they have great powers as an Anodyne: A lady under my care suffered for several months from puerperal melancholy, almost amounting to mania. Such was the condition of her nervous system that she could not sleep without the use of opium to a frightful extent. In this condition she visited the Buffalo Springs. The effect of the water upon her was prompt and astonishing; the nervous excitement w'as allayed to such an extent that she slept there as soundly and sweetly as an infant, without the aid of opium or any narcotic whatsoever. I have sent young ladies to these Springs so enfeebled- by malarial influences as to be scarcely able to walk about the house, who, after a few days sojourn there, would be so invigorated and strengthened as to be able to dance the greater portion of every night. Very respectfully, ALFRED PLUMMER, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. B. S. WATKINS, A practising Physician within three miles of the Buffalo Springs. Near Buffalo Springs, Va., Sept. 23d, 1873. Col. Tfios. F. Goode : Bear Sir ,—I reside in the immediate neighborhood of the Buffalo Springs, and have observed the effects of the water upon many sick persons. I give you in a very brief and general way my opinion of it as a remedial agent. In the diseases of women it exerts a most beneficent , and not unfrequently the most astonishing power , and if possessed of no other virtue, this alone would entitle it to rank with the most celebrated mineral waters of the country. Not second to this is the power which it evinces in feeble and impaired digestion. So kind and efficient is its action in cases of 21 this character, that it may appropriately be termed “a stomach water .” In protracted remittent and intermittent fevers, and the various diseases accompanying, or resulting from them, these waters act most happily and decidedly, materially lessening, if not entirely destroying the strong tendency to relapse to which most persons who have chills and fevers are subject. Very respectfully, B. S. WATKINS, M. D. OPINION OF Dr. SILAS H. HARRIS, Now deceased—formerly a distinguished physician, who prac¬ ticed in the immediate vicinity of, and often at, the springs— of the medicinal virtues of the Buffalo -water. Dr. Harris was so strongly impressed with the value of these waters as a remedial agent in disease, and so sensible of the want of all proper effort to make them known to the public, that in the year 1850 he published and circulated, gratuitously, a treatise entitled “The Buffalo Springs,” from which the following extracts are made. “A practice of more than twenty years in the immediate neigh¬ borhood of this spring, has afforded the writer many opportuni¬ ties of testing the efficacy of the water in a great variety of dis¬ ease.” “The principal morbid states to which it seems to be well adapted are, dropsical affections, visceyal obstructions, protracted, intermittent and remittent fevers, chronic diseases of the skin, dyspepsia, convalescence from fever of every grade and type, fe¬ male complaints, and almost every disease of the pelvic organs of both sexes.” FEMALE DISEASES. Under this head Dr. Harris says, “repeated trials of the Buffalo water in such cases, fully establishes its claims to public confi¬ dence. Abundant evidence on this point could be adduced were it deemed necessary or proper. While I do not claim for it a perfect adaptation to every case of the kind under consideration, 1 feel warranted, from long experience and observation in its use, in recommending it in all cases of disturbed menstrual func¬ tion, unconnected with advanced tubercular disease of the lungs. “Where a mere predisposition only to the latter disease is supposed to exist, the use of the water is not only admissible, but imperiously called for.” Again, upon the same subject, he says: “In all the diseases before enumerated under this head, connected with deranged menstruation, either as cause or effect, the water acts generally with the happiest results.” 22 DEOPSY. Dr. H. says: “The sufferer from dropsy, either general or local, will find in the Buffalo water a safe and powerful remedy. Medical skill has not yet succeeded in compounding any mixture which blends so harmoniously a tonic and diuretic of such potency as those contained in this water, and which so completely retains and exerts at the same time their specific influence on the human system.” VISCERAL OBSTRUCTIONS. “It is in those hepatic diseases which occur in warm and miasmatic regions, (says Dr. H.) that the water displays its greatest powers.” DYSPEPSIA. In this disease Dr. H. says: “The happiest results may be anticipated. One proof of the bland and healthy quality of the bile secreted under the use of this water, is the voracity of the appetite and the astonishing vigor imparted to the digestive organs.” PROTRACTED INTERMITTENT AND REMITTENT FEVERS. “In the chronic forms of these troublesome endemics, the water acts most happily, and, if persevered in, often effects a permanent cure. Those enlargements of the liver and spleen, concomitants of these affections, are simultaneously relieved with the chills and fever.” CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE SKIN. There is scarcely one among this extensive class of diseases, from the simple ringworm to the rarest and worst of all, sore legs, elephantiasis, that is not materially benefitted or radically cured by the application of the mud, with the internal use of the water.” CONVALESCENCE FROM FEVER. “When the system has been worn down and debilitated by a protracted fever, there is no tonic more grateful or salutary than this water, nor any which so speedily and certainly imparts to ail the crippled functions of the body a healthful impulse.” AFFECTIONS OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER. “Viewed with reference to the peculiar action of the water on the kidneys, it may be regarded as a powerful remedy in all the chronic diseases of those organs, as likewise those of the bladder and its appendages,” 23 GONNORRHEA. “The powers of this water are conspicuously displayed in removing those diseases of the male sex, acquired by licentious¬ ness and debauchery. Penetrating as it does every organ and every tissue of the human body, through the medium of the cir¬ culation, chronic disease of the kind referred to, and the scattered debris of old complaints, are hunted up and rooted out. The canker worm of constitutional disease, which has been so ldng gnawing into his very vitals, impairing his manly energies, is made to loosen its poisonous fangs, and allow nature unobstructed to perform her work of reparation.” “I have thus briefly noticed the principal diseases in which the Buffalo water has been found useful. There are, doubtless, many others of a kindred character to those already pointed out, in which it would display its wonted powers. But enough has been said, it is hoped, to direct public attention to its claims as a remedial agent, and confer upon it its proper rank among the many valuable mineral waters of the Old Dominion.” SUGGESTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE WATER. “ I am satisfied that an error is often committed in drinking too much of the water. Three or four glasses before breakfast, and the same number before dinner, with an occasional glass in the evening, are entirely sufficient. A larger quantity than this pro¬ duces distension of the stomach, and sometimes an almost inces¬ sant micturition. Ladies predisposed to menorrhagia or periodi¬ cal hemorrhage, and particularly while laboring under these complaints, should be extremely cautious at first in the use of it. The same remark will apply to those persons of either sex, labor¬ ing under chronic diarrhoea. Three glasses a day, and sometimes a less quantity, will aggravate the symptoms of these diseases. Very minute potions, often repeated, is all that is required in such cases to insure its tonic effect, and thereby restore the natural erasis of the blood, previously impaired by exhausting discharges. The vital fluid being thus enriched, new tone is imparted to the solids, and that relaxed condition of the body, on which the continuance of these diseases so frequently depends, is entirely removed.” LETTER OF ROBT. C. NELSON, M. D. Christiansville, Va., Sept. 5th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Bewr • Sir ,—Your letter of the 29th ult., asking my opinion of the waters of the Buffalo Springs, as a remedial agent in dis¬ eases, is at hand. In reply I have to say, that in a long catalogue 24 of diseases peculiar to females, in most cases of Dyspepsia, and as a tonic or invigorator of the system daring convalescence from ma¬ larial fevers, I regard these waters as superior to any within my knowledge. I remain, sir, • Yours, very trulv, ROBT. C. NELSON, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. PAUL C. YENABLE, (of Mecklenburg, Ya.) Mecklenburg Co. Ya., - 1873. Col. Goode : Dear Sir, —My attention has been professionally attracted to this spring for many years, and I have closely observed its effects upon the diseased human system I regard it as having a peculiar adaptation to affections of the stomach and liver, and to all cases of exhaustion from miasmatic disease, and to the multitudinous forms of impaired health consequent upon the latter, and also to affec¬ tions of the kidneys and bladder. In the diseases of females it is greatly to be relied on. It is prejudicial in all pulmonary diseases, whether in the active or chronic form. Yery respectfully, P. C. YENABLE, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. JOHN R. LEIGH, (of Clarksville.) Clarksville, Ya., July 3d, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir, —In reply to your favor asking my opinion as to the medicinal value of the Buffalo Springs water, I have to say that I consider it highly beneficial in a large class of diseases. Not from a careful analysis, but from the effect I have seen upon persons visiting the springs, I would recommend it in cases of Dyspepsia , general debility and female diseases . Yery truly, JOHN R. LEIGH, M. D. LETTER OF Dr. W. R. WILSON, (of Townesville, N. C.) His opinion of the water of the Buffalo Springs. Townesville, Granville Co. N. C. March 20th, 1S74. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir, —In my experience, the use of the water of the Buffalo Springs has been productive of great and permanent good in the following classes of disease: First. In all diseases of malarious origin, and in their trouble¬ some and vexatious concomitants. 25 Second. In Dyspepsia—especially in that form of enfeebled and difficult digestion, which is so apt to follow the intense and ab¬ sorbing attention which professional and business men give their pursuits in our day. Third. In some cases of uterine disease, more especially when there seems to be a lack of tone and vigor in the reproductive functions. Fourth. In the convalescent stage after an attack of almost any violent and acute disease—that stage of general debility in which most of the organs perform their functions feebly, and in which restorative treatment is so eminently indicated, I know of no more valuable auxilliary to the physician in his treatment of such cases, than the judicious use of the Buffalo water. Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t, W. R. WILSON, M. D. Reported Cases of Cures performed by the Buffalo Water, together with the opinions of unprofes¬ sional persons of its value as a medicinal agent. DYSPEPSIA. Case of W. S. Mason , (of Brunswick Co. Va.) Neab Summit, N. C., Dec. lOtli, 1873. Col. Tiios. F. Goode : Bear Sir, —In compliance with your request, I make you the following statement of my case. In the summer of 1872, I visited the Buffalo Springs, suffering from dyspepsia and nervous exhaustion. I had been reduced to a state of extreme debility, so much so, that it was with difficulty that I walked at all; I was gloomy and despondent, and my mental sufferings seemed at times equal to the physical. Upon my arrival at the springs, I was confined strictly to a diet of cold bread and water, for each meal; there was nothing else in the way of food or beverage, that I dared to touch . I drank the water for six weeks, and before the expiration of that time I was enabled to eat, with impunity, almost anything that I found upon the table. I left there greatly im¬ proved in flesh, strength and spirits, and in a comfortable state of health, which I still enjoy. I would recommend all dyspeptics to give Buffalo a trial. Very respectfully, W. S. MASON. Note. —It is proper to add, that before going to Buffalo, I had been treated by the first medical men in the country. W. S. M. DYSPEPSIA. Case of John W. Mackasey , a well known Druggist of Boydton, Va. Ills opinion of the Buffalo Water. Boydton, Va., Nov. 17th, 1873. Col. Thos. F Goode : Bear Sir, —You request me to give you a statement show¬ ing the beneficial results of the Buffalo water in my own case, and my opinion of its virtues from what I have seen of its effects upon 2T others. In the year 1849,1 became a great sufferer from dyspep¬ sia, being subject after every meal to more or less nausea, fre¬ quently throwing up every thing taken into the stomach, leaving, it seemed,barely enough to sustain life. Under the best medical treatment, I grew gradually worse until the summer of 1852,when I found myself reduced from an average weight of one hundred and fifty to ninety pounds. I was regarded by my friends, and certainly regarded myself, as upon the very verge of the grave. In this situation, by the advice of my physicians, I went to the Buffalo Springs and remained there one month. The water acted happily and promptly upon me ; my distressing symptoms rapid¬ ly disappeared, and the improvement in my condition, commenced while at the springs, continued until my health was perfectly re¬ stored. I have but rarely had any return of my disease, and never to any serious extent, and I now weigh one hundred and sixty- five pounds. I believe, and have no hesitation in expressing the opinion, that the Buffalo water is one of the great stomach waters of the world. Since 1852 I have been a frequent visitor at the Buffalo Springs, and have seen much of the effects of the water upon other per¬ sons. No observing man, I think, could remain at the Springs two weeks, during the Spring season, without being forcibly struck with the marked and happy influence which it exerts over the fe¬ male invalids who resort to it. In protracted chills and fevers, I have known this water to give the most decided relief in obstinate cases which had resisted all the usual remedies. Very respectfully, yours, JOHN W. MA0KASEY. DYSPEPSIA, COMPLICATED WITH PROTRACTED CHILLS AND FEVER. Case of John 8. B. Bur well. Near Chase City, Va., Oct. 10th, 1873. Col. Goode: Bea/r Sir, —Several years since I became a sufferer from feeble and disturbed digestion, attended by great acidity of the stomach, which was soon followed by a high state of nervous ex¬ citement. I became gloomy and melancholy, and lost all interest in the affairs of life, and unfitted for any of its duties. While in this condition I was attacked with chills and fever, which contin¬ ued for some twelve months. The combination of disease, reduc¬ ing me to so wretched a condition, that I often felt that I would prefer death to life. During the summer of the present year, I went to the Buffalo Springs, where I drank the water for two weeks, and found myself relieved both of my dyspepsia and chills, 28 and restored to my usual cheerfulness of mind. My wife,who had been a great sufferer from chills and fever, accompanied me to the springs, with the same happy result. Very respectfully, JOHN S. R. BURWELL. DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS EXCITEMENT, Etc. Case of the Rev. Herbert T. Bacon , a Minister of the Methodist Epis¬ copal Church , South, at Clarksville , Va. Clarksville, Va., March 30th, 1874. Col. Thos. F. Goode: Dearc Sir ,—It is with much pleasure I avail myself of the opportunity to attest the virtues of the waters of the Buffalo Springs, and with the hope that others who have been sufferers like myself, may enjoy its benefits. In the summer of 1870,1 paid my first visit to the springs, a broken-down invalid, to whom life was truly a burden, and who had been kept alive for the eight months previous by cod-liver oil and stimulants. So feeble were my digestive powers that my stomach refused almost every kind of nourishment. I had become very nervous and wakeful, and my spirits were continu¬ ally and exceedingly depressed. After the first night of my stay, before going to breakfast, I drank half a dozen glasses of the water, and to my surprise, it gave me that to which I had been a stranger for months past—a sharp, keen appetite—and what was still more desirable, it raised my spirits, and I found myself laughing and talking with those who sat near me, with an enjoyment for a long time unknown. From this time my recovery was rapid. I used the water regularly for many months, (profiting by it after the weather had become quite cold,) and attribute the improvement, which resulted in my entire restoration, under the blessing of Provi¬ dence, to the effects of the water of the Buffalo Springs. As a tonic and an exhilarant, I do not think they can be sur¬ passed; and to one who is a sufferer from excessive nervousness, from wakefulness at night, from depression of spirits combined with dyspepsia, I am sure I can recommend confidently a trial of the water of the Buffalo Springs. Yours very respectfully, HERBERT T. BACON. 29 DYSPEPSIA. Relief given by the Buffalo Water , after failifre of all the most noted waters of the Mountains of Virginia—Case of the Hon. William Townes , of Occoneechee, Va.—His Opinion of the Buffalo Water. Occoneechee, Va., July 8tli, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir, —In compliance with your request, I cheerfully give you my own experience with the Buffalo Water, and the result of my observation as to the diseases in which it seems to he indicated. After having been a sufferer from dyspepsia, in a severe form, for fifteen years, I was entirely relieved by the use of th >se waters, having first tried , without benefit, the most noted springs of the mountains of Virginia ; among them the justly celebrated Alle¬ ghany Springs, in Montgomery county. In affections of this character, I regard it as approaching very nearly to a specific. Such is the power of this water in the long catalogue of diseases peculiar to the other sex, that for delicate females it may appropriately be termed a u Pool of Bethesda .” I have seen the most remarkable cures made by these waters in cases of dropsical effusion and cutaneous affections. Very respectfully, WILLIAM TOWNES. DYSPEPSIA, CHRONIC INTERMITTENT FEVER, &c. Case of the Hon. Henry Wood, of the Mecklenburg bar—His opinion of the Buffalo Water. Clarksville, Va., January 30,1874. Col. Thos F. Goode : Dear Sir, —Prompted by a desire to serve my fellow-men, and to promote your interest as far as may be consistent with that object, I make to you this communication. On two occa¬ sions in my life, I have been reduced by disease to a state of great debility and suffering. About the year 1840, I became a sufferer from dyspepsia of a very painful character, which in the year 1842, reduced me to a very unfortunate condition. In the summer of that year, by medical advice, I visited the mineral springs of the mountains of Virginia, principally the Greenbrier White Sulphur, where I spent two months. While there I felt that I was decidedly benefitted; on my return home, however, I very soon relapsed into the condition in which I was before my visit to the springs. The next summer, that of 1843,1 visited the Buffalo Springs, spending most of the summer there, where my health was fully 80 restored, and t remained in robust health for twenty-five years after - ivards, having no use for physician or physic. In 1869, I was Attacked with chills and fevers, which con¬ tinued until I was brought to a very low and distressing state of health. In this condition, in the summer of 1871,1 went to the Buffalo Springs and spent the summer there, and a second time became indebted to the Buffalo Water for a complete restoration of my health. Nothing, I take it, could be mare thoroughly established by human testimony, than that these waters are possessed of the most remarkable remedial powers in the diseases of females. Since my first acquaintance with them, I have entertained the opinion that to place them in the front rank of American water¬ ing places, it was only necessary to inform the public of the many wonderful cures w hich they have performed, and these cures not rinfrequently in cases ichere the most noted mineral springs of the country had first been tried without benefit. Very truly yours, HENRY WOOD. A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES. Uterine * Difficulty accompanied by Indigestion , Torpid Liver, &c .— Case of Mrs. W. B. Pierce , of Prince George County , Va. Buffalo Springs, September 3d, 1873. Col. Goode : Dear Sir, —My wife having derived the most signal benefit from the waters at this place, I deem it but an act of justice to afflicted humanity, to place in your possession, for such use as you may think proper to make of it, a statement of her situation upon her arrival, and of the relief which she has experienced since being here. An acute attack, early in summer, left her with a very torpid liver, dyspepsia in an aggravated form, and a most distressing uterine affection, the combination of disease reducing her to a state of most alarming prostration. The best medical aid failed to afford any relief, and by the advice of a distinguished physician, I brought her to this place. She arrived here on the 12tli day of August, in a state of utter prostration, having to be put at once to bed. Her stomach was in a highly irritable and painful condition, being unable to retain anything in the way of food upon it. In this condition she commenced the use of the water in very small quantities. It gave the most prompt and decided relief, restoring the secretions of the liver, and in a few days her stomach was in a healthy condition, enabling her to eat with impunity almost any article of food. She lias rapidly regained her strength, and her uterine difficulties have been removed—in fact, I may almost say that she is in her usual ^Hemorrhage. health. We leave here to-morrow, on our return home, fully assured of her early and complete restoration. Her recovery is regarded, both by her and myself, and by all familiar with har condition before and at the time of her coming here, as little short of miraculous. Yours truly, W. B. PIERCE, City Point, Prince George County, Vet. NEURALGIA OF THE UTERUS. Case of Mrs. Thomas F. Pettits , of Mecklenburg County, Va. Boydton, October 13th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Bear Sir ,—I cfieerfully give you the following statement, showing the benefit derived by. my wife, from the waters of the Buffalo Springs. For five years she was a great sufferer from a neuralgic affection of the uterus. In the spring of 1871, her suffering became intense; the attacks then occurring every few days, became so violent, that in each one of them it seemed impossible that she could survive it. All that the best medical skill could do for her afforded no relief. In the summer follow¬ ing, I carried her to the Buffalo Springs, where, by the use of the water, she was entirely restored to health, and has had, to the present time, no return of the disease. Having made this state¬ ment of facts, I need not say to you that language could hardly exaggerate the estimate which my wife and myself place upon the waters of these springs. Respectfully, THOMAS F. PETTUS. NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM UTERINE DIFFICULTY. Case of Mrs. S B. Baskervill—Indigestion Resulting from Rtmit- tent Fever. Case of Col. Win. Baskervill, of the Mecklenburg Bar. Boydton, Va., February 6th, 1874. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Bear Sir, —Commencing the winter of 1840, and continuing through the spring and a portion of the summer of that year, my wife became a great sufferer from nervous .prostration, resulting from uterine debility. The remedies prescribed by my family physician failed to afford relief, and he advised that she be taken 32 g to the Buffalo Springs, and from thence to the springs of the mountains of Virginia. She accordingly visited the Buffalo Springs, where, in the course of a few weeks, she received entire and permanent relief\ rendering a trip to the mountains unnecessary. In this connection, I would add that it would he difficult to over estimate the virtue and power of this water in the diseases to which females awe specially subject. For five consecutive summers, I was the victim of severe attacks of remittent fever, which left me in a deplorable condi¬ tion, suffering from indigestion, loss of appetite, and painful depression of the whole system. So soon as I was able to travel, after each one of these attacks, I visited the Buffalo Springs, and, with the same happy result in every instance—a complete restora¬ tion to health in a few weeks. It is well known throughout all this region, that in the malarious diseases of the low country and the nervous prostration result¬ ing from them, these waters are almost a specific . Yours very truly, WM. BASKERVILL, Jr. NERVOUS PROSTRATION, MENTAL DEPRESSION, Ac. Case of Miss Hayes , of Mecklenburg County , Va. Boydton, Va., November 22d, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode, Dear Sir ,—My daughter, for more than a year, suffered from extreme nervous prostration, and great mental depression. Medicine gave her no relief, and by the advice of her physician, I sent her, in August last, to the Buffalo Springs. After spending two weeks there, she returned home in good health. I would confidently recommend this water to all delicate females . Very truly yours, THOMAS W. HAYES. GENERAL DEBILITY. Case of Mrs. Madison , of Petersburg , Va.. Petersburg, Va., September G, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode, Dear Sir ,—In reply to your favor of the 2nd ulto., I take pleasure in furnishing you with the following statement. My wife visited Buffalo Springs, in July last, in a state of great debility, with total loss of appetite, and suffering greatly from despondency. She has now returned, completely restored in health and strength. Very truly yours, R. R. MADISON. 33 GENERAL DROPSY. Case of James T. Pace , Esq., of New Orleans , La.—His opinion of the Buffalo Water as a remedial agent. Little Rock, Ark., November 18, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode, Dear Sir ,—In the year 1862,1 had a violent attack of gene¬ ral dropsy. I was, at different times, treated by some five or six of the most eminent medical men to be found in the Southern States, but without any mitigation of my disease. Having despaired of relief from medicine, I went in the summer of that year, in very feeble and rapidly declining health, to the Buffalo Springs. The water acted upon me like magic, restoring me, in some five or six weeks, to health and strength. I have, on seve¬ ral other occasions, visited these springs, much prostrated from the effects of a malarious climate, and have always found the waters to have the happiest effect in building up and restoring me to strength. I have seen the effects produced by these waters upon a large number of invalids and in many forms of disease, and have been a frequent visitor at the most noted watering places, both North and South, and I entertain confidently the opinion that the Buffalo Water , as a general remedial agent in disease , is without an equal among the mineral wa'ers of America , and I believe that the day is not far distant when such will be the public judgment. Very truly yours, JAMES T. PACE, New Orleans , La. LETTER OF THE HON. JOS. B. BATCHELOR, Of Raleigh , at one time Attorney General of the State of North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C., December 4th, 1873. Col. Tiios. F. Goode, Dear Sir ,—I cheerfully comply with your request, to give a statement of my experience and observation of the effects of the water of Buffalo Springs. In 1865, being in very feeble health, I went to Buffalo, by the advice of Dr. W. T. Howard, and remained three weeks. The bene¬ ficial effects of the water were so great as to give surprise to myself and my friends. Since then I have visited the Springs every summer, and the result has been a continued and marked improvement in my health. During this time, I have urged several friends to visit the Spring, not one of whom has failed to 34 derive material benefit from it, and this benefit is not merely tem¬ porary, but permanent. From my own experience, and from much observation , lam satis¬ fied that it is one of the most valuable mineral springs in Virginia , and would probably be beneficial to a greater number of persons , and in a larger range of cases , than any other spring in the State. Very respectfully yours, JOS. B. BATCHELOR. DYSPEPSIA, TORPID LIVER, PROTRACTED CASE OF CHILLS AND FEVER. Statement of Col. E. K. Harris , of Virginia. Buffalo Springs, Va., August 29th, 1873 Col. Thomas F. Goode, Dear Sir ,—I take pleasure in furnishing you my testimony, in regard to the virtue of the waters of the “Buffalo Springs.” For years I have been a sufferer from indigestion, and especially from a torpid condition of the liver, and have unvariably experienced very decided benefit from a stay of a few weeks at this place. Some years ago my system was completely worn down, and prostrated by a protracted case of chills and fever. After using all the remedies indicated in such cases in vain, I visited the most noted watering places of the mountains of Virginia, without deri¬ ving any benefit; almost in despair of obtaining relief from any source, I left the mountains and came to these springs , where , in a few weeks , I was entirely restored to health. Three summers ago I brought my little boy, then a teething infant, here, whom we were endeavoring to raise upon the bottle. He was so emaciated that he had of necessity to be moved about on a pillow. Physicians had pronounced his case hopeless. I kept him here about three weeks, and carried him home well, and have never doubted but that the water saved his* life. I might, were it proper, refer to cases which have come under my observation, showing the remark¬ able power of these waters in the diseases of women. Their repu¬ tation however, in all such diseases, is so thoroughly established that there is certainly no occasion for my doing so. Very respectfully, E. K. HARRIS, LIVER DISEASE. Case of Wm. A. Homes , of Boydton , Virginia. Boydton, Mecklenburg Co., Va., [ December 1st, 1874. J CoL. Thomas F. Goode : Bern Sir —Early in the summer of 1862 I was taken with an enlargement of the liver, from which I suffered greatly, and which finally reduced me to such a low condition that some of the best physicians in the county despaired of my case, and told me they thought that there was scarcely a hope of any recovery, but one of them advised me, as a last resort, to try the Buffalo Springs’ water. I was carried to Buffalo on a bed, remained six weeks, at the expiration of which time I was entirely relieved, and have never suffered from my liver since. I took no medicine while there, and attribute my recovery en¬ tirely to the use of the water. Very respectfully, WM. A. HOMES. EXPERIENCE OF Capt. E. A. WILLIAMS, (of Clarksville,Va.) With the waters of the Buffalo Springs, 'and his opinion of their medi¬ cal virtues. Capt. Williams is well known as the Cashier of the old Exchange Bank of Virginia, at Clarksville. Clarksville,* Va., October 1st, 1873. Col. Thomas F. Goode: Dear Sir ,—I give you, most cheerfully, a statement of my experience with the Buffalo waters, and my opinion (for what it may be worth,) of their virtues. I have been for forty years a great sufferer from a functional derangement of the liver, having been subject to occasional aggravated acute attacks, reducing me at times to a very distressing condition. When suffering from these attacks it has been my habit for a number of years to resort to these waters, which have never failed to restore me, in a short space of time, to health and vigor. Some years ago, during the prevalence of cholera in our cities, I had a very severe attack, closely resembling that disease. I at once went to the Buffalo Springs, and after using the water, not more than five or six days, found myself wholly relieved of the dis¬ ease. The waters of these springs have, and in my estimation very deservedly, a high reputation in all affections of the stomach, bowels and kidneys, in protracted intermittent and remittent fevers, and in diseases of women. It is, however, in the diseases of women, that it exerts its most unmistakable and powerful influence. Very truly, yours, E. A. WILLIAMS. 36 DROPSY. Case of Peter Jones . Mecklenburg Co., Ya, Sept. 19,1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir, —In the year 1862, while a soldier in the Confed¬ erate service, I had an attack of measles, followed by pneumonia; the wearing off of these diseases left me with a serious dropsical affection. I was sent home on sick list, and put myself under treatment of two intelligent physicians, Drs. Shelton and Scott, who expressed the opinion, that medicine could not give me relief, and advised me to try the water of the Buffalo Springs. I did so, and by their use was restored to perfect health in a short time, and in a few months returned to the army. Yours, respectfully, PETER JONES. DYSPEPSIA. Case of It. II. Baptist, of Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23d, 1873. Col. Goode: Dear Sir, —At your request, I furnish you, with pleasure, with the following statement, showing the relief which I derived many years ago from the water of the Buffalo Springs. In my early boyhood, (I could not, I think, have been over 14 years of age,) I became a sufferer from dyspepsia, of a most painful character; oftener than otherwise my food, for the most part, after each meal was gradually thrown off. While I was in this situation, I was attacked with a cough of so much severity, that it was supposed by my family and friends, that I had consumption. After suffering greatly for several years, I was advised by my physician to abandon medicine, and to try the Buffalo water. I went there emaciated, nervous and exhausted; I spent a portion of the summer at the springs, I do not now re¬ collect how long, but long enough to be relieved of every symp¬ tom of my disease, dyspepsia, cough and all, and I have never had the slightest return of any of my painful symptoms. Very truly, yours, R. H. BAPTIST. 3? OPINION OP GEO. I. DABBS, A well known Druggist of Clarksville, Va., of the Buffalo Water. His experience with it in Dyspepsia, and in Chronic Intermittent Fever . Clarksville, Va., Oct. 10th, 1873. Col. Goode : Dear Sir ,—I have been an annual visitor to the Buffalo Springs for many years, and I give you with pleasure my opinion of its remedial virtues, formed from what I have seen of its effects upon others, and the benefit derived from its use by myself and other members of my family. I have long been satisfied that, in most chronic forms of disease, the Buffalo water is superior to any mineral water in Virginia. I know that this is saying a great deal, but it is an opinion which I have long entertained, and which I have no hesitation in expressing. If any record had been kept of the remarkable cures that have been made by this water in dyspepsia, in the diseases of females, and in the various forms of malarial disease, I am confident that it would show that it has accomplished beneficial results far exceeding those accomplished in the same time by any other spring in the country. My first wife, who was a great sufferer from dyspepsia, had her life prolonged, I am satisfied, for years by the use of this water. I went to these springs on one occasion myself, utterly prostrated by protracted chills and fever, after trying in vain all the usual re¬ medies, and was restored to perfect health in a few weeks time. Very truly, yours, GEO. I. DABBS. STATEMENT OF Mrs. MAEIA HABRISS. Extract from a Letter of Mrs. Maria Harries, a lady of intelligence, residing in the immediate neighborhood of Buffalo Springs, dated September 25th, 1873. | “ I have myself, when in feeble health, experienced the happiest effects from the use of the Buffalo water. If it was beneficial in no other disease, the beneficent and potent influence which it exerts in the cases of feeble and. nervous women, would constitute it a boon to the human familyA To Col. Tiiomas F. Goode. 38 Extract from a Letter of Joseph Blanks, an old citizen living in the immediate neighborhood of the Buffalo Springs, dated October 1873. “ These springs have always been a place of great resort for delicate women, and it is generally regarded in this locality as a pana¬ cea for all their ailments .” DYSPEPSIA. Case of B. A. Hamilton, of Granville County, JV. C., at one time a merchant of Petersburg, Va.—His opinion of the Buffalo Water. Edge wood, Granville Co., N. C.,) February 13th, 1874. ) Col. Thos. F. Goode: Dear Sir ,—In compliance with your request, I cheerfully give you a statement, showing the beneficial effects of the Buffalo water in my own case, and also my opinion of it as a general remedial agent, based upon my observation of its effects upon other persons. I have been a great sufferer from that Protean malady, dyspepsia, from my earliest recollection, on account of which I have visited, at different times, nearly all of the springs of the mountains of Virginia, those of my own State, North Carolina, and the Saratoga Springs of New York, from none of which have I received so great and decided benefit as that experienced from the use of the waters of the Buffalo Springs, in Mecklenburg county, Va. The relief which I have on several occasions, when in a feebl e* distressed condition, received from the Buffalo water, has been so prompt as to be a matter of astonishment to me. I have witnessed the most extraordinary results to other persons- from the use of this water, snatching , as it were, some of them from the very threshold of the grave. In dyspepsia, and in general prostration of the system, induced by either mental or physical causes, it acts oftentimes literally as if by magic. I have received too much benefit from the Buffalo waters not to have a lively sense of their value, and take much pleasure in thus expressing to you my sentiments in regard to them. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. A. HAMILTON. 39 SEVERE CHRONIC DIARRHOEA. Case of Mrs. C. N. Mason , of Mecklenburg County , Va. Near Boydton, Va., February 9th, 1874. Col. Thos. F. Goode: Dewr Sir, —For three years previous to the summer of 1873, I suffered with chronic diarrhoea of a most painful character. During this period I was treated by an eminent physician without relief, except that experienced when actually under the influence of remedies, my painful symptoms returning whenever the reme¬ dies were suspended. This state of things continued until the summer of 1873, when my disease assumed a very malignant and alarming form, and seemed to be beyond the reach of medicine. My stomach became ulcerated, and my tongue, which was as red as scarlet, was also covered over with the most painful ulcers. My physician advised me to visit the Buffalo Springs in this county, which I did, arriving there in a state of great debility, reduced from an average weight of one hundred and thirty-five to one hundred pounds. The effect of the water, which I used for some weeks, was indeed wonderful. The ulceration disappeared, my tongue assumed its natural color, and the condition of my bowels greatly improved. I have gained twenty pounds in flesh, and am quite hopeful of a complete restoration to health. Very respestfully yours, C. N. MASON. CASE OF HENRY BRYAN, A 'prominent planter of Granville County, N. C., formerly of Edgecombe County, of that State. Oxford, N. C., November 17th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode: Dear Sir, —During the whole of last fall and winter, I was confined to my bed by severe illness, as to the cause of which my physicians differed. The long continued attack left me in a con¬ dition so diseased and enfeebled that none of my friends thought that I could recover, and I had myself well nigh despaired of any restoration to health. In this condition, I went, in July last, to the Buffalo Springs, where, after using the water a few weeks, I began to experience the most decided benefit. I am now in my usual health, lor which I feel entirely indebted to the Buffalo water. Very truly yours, HENRY BRYAN. 40 COMPLICATION OF LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE. Case of Mrs. Louisa Matthews , of Townesville , Granville County, North Carolina. Townesyille, N. C., Oct. 15,1873. Col. T. F. Goode : Dear Sir ,—For several years I suffered greatly from an affection of .the liver and kidneys. In the summer of 1866, I went to the Buffalo Springs, with my liver much enlarged, and suffering severe pain in the region of the kidneys. After using the water five weeks I found myself entirely relieved. Very respectfully, LOUISA MATTHEWS. LETTER OF C. B. WATKINS, (of Virginia.) Riverside, Va., October 5th, 1873. Col..Thos. F. Goode; Dear Sir ,—I give you with pleasure my experience and observation as regards the effects of the Buffalo water. In the summer of 1861,1 was taken with a very severe and protracted spell of remittent fever, which entirely prostrated me. As soon as I could leave my room, I went to the Buffalo Springs, and staid about ten days; the water acted upon my liver, kidneys and bowels, most happily, and so strengthened my whole system, that I was at the end of that time entirely restored to health. About the middle of August last I had a severe attack of bilious fever, and as soon as convalescent, I tried the water again, with the same happy result. I have known of and seen a great many remarkable cures from the use of the water. My attention has been particularly called to the marked and happy effects of this water upon invalid females. To that class of invalids it is most appropriately characterized by Mr. Wm. Townes, Sr., in a letter on the subject of the springs, u as a Pool of Bethesda .” Very tru'y, your friend, C. B. WATKINS. 41 UTERINE DIFFICULTY. Case of Mrs. T. W. J. Baptist, of Virginia. CHRONIC INTERMITTENT FEYER. Case of Mr. T. W. J. Baptist, of Mecklenburg, Va. Buffalo Springs, Va., Sept. 23d, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir ,—You ask me for a statement of the benefit derived, both by my wife and myself, from the use of the Buffalo water. With regard to my wife’s case, I will state that she has been a great sufferer from uterine difficulty, and that this water has had a very happy effect upon her. My own case was one of “chronic chills and fever,” which reduced me to a very low and miserable state of health; my liver was very torpid and my com¬ plexion sallow, indicating jaundice. I visited the Buffalo Springs, drank the water one month, and returned home perfectly well. Very respectfully, THOMAS W. J. BAPTIST. LETTER OF THE Hon. A. W. VENABLE, Formerly a distinguished member of Congress from the State of North Carolina . Oxford, N. C., January 5th, 1874. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir, —Permit me to express my gratification that you have become the proprietor of the Buffalo Springs. My knowledge of yourself assures me that nothing will be left undone to develop the virtues of the waters. I regard these Springs as a peculiar blessing to Eastern Virginia and North Carolina, affording a remedy remarkably successful in repairing the injuries done to the constitution by malarial dis¬ eases : such as remittent and intermittent fevers, with their accom¬ panying diseases, neuralgia, dyspepsia, &c. &c. For more than forty years I have occasionally used them— never without profit —and more than once after the mineral loaters of the mountains of Virginia had failed to effect a cure. Indeed, I consider them the best alterative waters within my knowledge. Wishing you great success in your enterprise, by which you will become a public benefactor, I am yours, most sincerely, A. W. VENABLE. 42 A COMPLICATION OF DISEASE—TORPID LIVER, NERVOUS EXCITEMENT, &c. Case of William Gold, Esq. Near Buffalo Springs, Sept. 1st, 1873. Col. Goode: Deevr Sir, —After six or eight months of previous ill health, I found myself in the summer of 1870 reduced by a complication of disease to a condition so low, as to cause me to feel serious ap¬ prehension for my life. My prominent symptoms were torpidity of the liver, soreness about the sides and chest, with considerable cough, and a high degree of nervous excitement. In this condL tion I went to the Buffalo Springs, where I remained most of the season ; I left entirely restored to health, and am now as well as I ever was in my life, for which I cheerfuffy acknowledge my in¬ debtedness to the waters of the Buffalo Springs. Respectfully, WILLIAM GOLD. CASE OF Mrs. R. H. BUGG. Clarksville, Va., Sept. 15th, 1873. Col. Tpios. F. Goode : . Deair Sir, —Mrs. Bugg visited Buffalo Springs about the 1st of August, in very feeble health ; she remained until the 1st instant; and I take great pleasure in stating that her health is very much improved. Very respectfully, RO. H. BUGG. OPINION OF J. G. POWELL, (of Nottoway Co. Va.) On the Buffalo Springs Water. Forkland, Nottoway Co., Va., Sept. 4th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dear Sir, —I have been for some years an invalid, suffering among other difficulties, with torpidity of the liver, and have, on account of my health, visited many of the Virginia springs, and I have no hesitation in saying that I have derived more benefit from the use of the waters of the Buffalo Springs , in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, than from any of the mountain, springs. I am fully satis¬ fied that they possess great remedial powers. Very respectfully, J. G. POWELL. 43 STATEMENT OF W. W. THOMAS, (of Nottoway Co. Ya.) Case of Chronic Chills and Fever , with Torpidity of the Liver. Nottoway Co. Ya., Sept. 4th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Dea^Sir, —In July last I visited the Buffalo Springs, in a very feeble condition, resulting from chronic chills and fever, ac¬ companied by a very torpid condition of the liver, and fiom the use of the waters for some nine days, I received the most decided benefit. The water acted like a charm upon me. Yours, respectfully, W. W. THOMAS. LETTER OF WM. T. PLUMMER, Esq, (of Petersburg, Ya,) On the value of the, waters of the Buffalo Springs. Petersburg, Ya, September 17th, 1873. Col. Tiros. F. Goode : Dear Sir —It gives me great pleasure to testify to the value of the Buffalo water. I regard it as possessed of almost miraculous powers. I believe that the health of one of my children was permanently restored by the use of this water; and I have seen another of my family, to whom we bade adieu with the feeling that lie would never return alive, come back, after a month’s sojourn at Buffalo, looking fat and healthy. I, myself, have derived great benefit from the use of the water. The close confinement of my business tells heavily on me during the hot summer months, but I always find that from two to four weeks use of Buffalo water strengthens and refreshes me for renewed labor, more than any other recreation of tonic that I can take. # You are at liberty to make any use of this communication that you may think proper. Very truly, yours, &c, W. T. PLUMMER. LETTER OF GEORGE TARRY, Jr, (of Mecklenburg, Ya.) Mecklenburg Co, Ya, Sept. 19th, 1873. Col. T. F. Goode : Dear Sir —My father, Edward Tarry, was afflicted with erysipelas. By the use of the Buffalo Springs’ water for two weeks he was entirely relieved from it. Yours respectfully, GEORGE TARRY, Jr. 44 THE NEW SPRING No. 2 — A DECIDEDLY PURGATIVE WATER. Statement of A. S. Boyd, Esq., a merchant of Boydton, Va. Boydton, Va., February 12th, 1873. Col. Thos. F. Goode : Bear Sir —I have used the water from the new spring at Buffalo, known as number 2, and found it a most decided purga¬ tive, so much so, that in the absence of any analysis of the spring, I should think it must contain epsom salts. Very truly, &c., A. S. BOYD. LETTER OF Capt. S. P. THROWER, (a member of the Mecklenburg, Va., bar.) Boydton, Va., March 31st, 1874. Col. Thomas F. Goode : Bear Sir —I have been very much interested in your enter¬ prise to improve the Buffalo Springs’ property, in this county, and in your efforts to make it what it long ago would have been, a first class health resort, but for the fact that its merits as a mineral water had never been properly brought to the notice of the public. I have been a constant visitor to these springs since 1852, ex¬ cepting two seasons during the late war, suffering from indiges¬ tion and its long train of attendant evils the entire time, within the last few years, and I can safely say, that the use of the water proved at all times more beneficial than any other remedial agent that was ever prescribed for me. I have several times visited the mineral springs of the moun¬ tains of Virginia, in search of relief from dyspepsia, but my pre¬ ference for this water, and my belief in its superior and peculiar curative and restorative virtues, have suffered no abatement by com¬ parison. With assurance of my very high regard, I am, Very respectfully, yours, STERLING P. THROWER. Route and Mode of Conveyance to the Springs. All persons traveling «either from the North or South by public conveyance, to reach these Springs, must of necessity pass over a portion of the Rich¬ mond and Danville railroad. Passengers for the Springs leave the cars of this road at the Scottsburg depot, in the county of Halifax, ten miles distant from the Springs, from which point coaches run twice daily to the Springs. Passengers leaving Baltimore, Washington or Nor¬ folk, by the early morning trains, reach the Springs about 8 o’clock the same evening. TES OIF BOARD. Board per Day,.$ 3 00 Board per Week,.20.00 Board per Month, of 28 days, - - 65.00 Children, under ten years of age, and colored servants, half price. White servants charged in pro¬ portion to accommodations furnished. F. (3!QQ)BE>