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Z. WATERS, M. D., Bloomington. The longest established and representative eclectic physician of Bloomington is Dr. Z. Waters, a native of Watertown, Jefferson Co., N. Y.; he was born May 16, 1836, and, with his parents, removed to De Witt Co., Ill., in 1844; early in life, he decided upon the profession of medicine, and read the allopathic system, and, in 1859, commenced practice in Van Buren, Crawford Co., Ark., where he continued for three years; in July, 1861, he returned to Bloomington, and, in October of the same year, entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, of Cincinnati, where he graduated in the spring of 1862. He then enlisted in the army as a private soldier, and was soon promoted to the position of Assistant Surgeon of the 68th I. V. I.; with his regiment, he joined the army of the Potomac, where he was placed in charge of what was known as the Octagon Hospital, two miles west of Alexandria. Va. At the expiration of the term of enlistment, he returned with his regiment to Springfield, where they were discharged in September, 1862; in October, 1862, he commenced the practice of medicine in Bloomington, Ill., where he has continued to the present time. Dr. Waters is the author of the well-known “Waters’ Family Medicines;” also the inventor of the “Waters’ Abdominal and Uterine Supporter.” He is a member of the Illinois State Eclectic Medical Society, and of the United States Eclectic Medical Society; as a physician and as a man of honor, he stands high in the estimation of the people of Bloomington.