Allen R. Hood to Cary T. Grayson

Dr Grayson.

I trust you will Pardon me for this intrusion Upon your time and attention. But my interest in the condition of our Dealy beloved President will Not permit me to forego this Oportunity to give you my experience In the treatment of the enlargement and inflammation of the Prostate Gland & bladder about four years ago I had reached a condition that my watter had to be drawn. and for Two years thereafter I managed by the use of the above named remedy. I kept free from another atack but by getting careless of my diet had another atack that the watter had to be drawn, suffering horibly, which put me to thinking seriously. I commence a treatment of my own on every desire to urinate I was sure the bladder was entirely in the Night time it was always worse, passing in driblits. I would get up and sit on the Toilet and would the washbord on the boards and over the bladder untill pressing on the bladder as hard as I could there was tenderness or as pain, so as for the past year I have had only from once to three times during the night with a free and painless flow of the watter and by the use of Pioneer Health herbs as a liver and kidney regulator I am free from any of the suffering and pain night and day. The thing that can be done with the potion with this trouble is to kept, has been my experience. the more activity and rest to one doing the best. plenty of physical exercise in the open air and sunsine baths. I was a physical reck when I came out of two years and three months of the Civil war and have suffered fearlesly from every thing that made life miserable night and day until using the herbs and physicle culture, I have enjoyed a good degree health. and now Mr Grayson don't for one minute think that I am sending this letter to you to interfear with your professional but that this treatment may bee of great blessing to anyone who will make use of it. I been a hard working man all my life when I have able to be on my feet. I make long days getting out the pioneer Health Herbs literature, which has prevented the Flow. I have many hundreds of fials since the disease has been doing its fearful work. I am giving my experience to any and all who will accept it, without money and without price. I met the President at Getysburg Burg at the reunion of the blue and gray and at the nationa encampment at Washington I wish I might once more shake his hand and congratulate him in the great work that he has attempted to do for the betterment and happiness of the whole world. “His reward is sure. His enemies will record this also, the mills of the Gods grind slow but sure. My first vote was cast for President was cast for Senator in 1864 and my last was cast for Woodrow Wilson and I am not promised to cast another for a president I shall be glad that I the privileg of voting for these two men. If it is permisable I will be highly pleased if Comrad Wilson whom I consider to be as much a patriot & hero as any man that ever wore the uniform and served in the trenches, could read this letter if he can read such poor writing. If I live untill the 8th of April I shall 78 years of age But the years have built their Furrows on every Comrads brow and age makes one weary limbs and the frosts are falling thick and we are on the double quick to the camp that is over the river. But we are going soon to meet them in that bivwack of the Soul as the shaddows around us give warning and I want ? see my Comrads when the angels call the roll all ready for inspection in the morning. I have written this in a hurry but and you will find mistakes but you may get the meaning I wish to give I am very respectfully yours,

Allen R. Hood.