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"Medicine Not a Science," but "an Ineffect
ual Speculation." These and Other Unspar
ing Criticisms of Their Own Profession Are
Made by Eminent Physicians. Seattle Doc
tor Tells Why Drug's Don't Cure. Electricity
the Remedy of Today.
SHALI, WE THROW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS?
Has medical science made no progress, and are all
drugs poisonous?
"The science of medicine is founded upon con
jecture and improved by murder. declares one of
the greatest physicians In the world. Sir Astley
Cooper. M. P.. physician to the Queen of England.
"Drug medicines do but cure one disease by pro
ducing another, asserts rr. Martin Payne, profes
sor In the New Tork University Medical College.
"A mild mercurial course and mildly cutting a
man's throat are synonymous terms," says Profes
sor Gilman. of the New York College of Physicians
and Surgeons.
More and. more eminent physicians are declaring
each year that medical science has made little prog
ress since the beginning of man.
Dr. M. O. Terry, formerly surgeon general of
New York, announced recently that in his opinion
very few of the cases diagnosed as appendicitis
were that disease at all, and says that in many
cases where operations were performed for appen
dicitis a short vacation or a series of morning
walks would have prevented the serious turn taken
by the disease.
Dr. Osier, of "chloroform-age" fame, says: "Pain
In the stomach nowadays Is always appendicitis,
and Is recognised by the physician's wife over the
telt phone."
Dr. M. J. Rodermund, of Milwaukee, goes further
than either of these. He declares: "It is an abso
lute Impossibility for the appendix in a man to
become obstructed. I have witnessed and assisted
in thirty-four operations of so-called appendicitis,
but never have I seen a diseased appendix. Yet I
have seen a number of healthy, blooming young
men and women sent to the angels Just because the
surgeons wanted the fee of three to five hundred
dollars. I mean just what I say; that it was abso
lutely for the fee only, and the surgeons made no
bones about saying so before the operation was
performed.
MKTY PER t'K.T HOT APPENDICITIS
Dr. A. B. Stockman quotes the statement of a
physician at a meeting of physicians in Hostnn.
Th i doctor has performed more operations for ap
pendicitis than any other American doctor. He de
clared at the Boston meeting of doctors that 10 per
THE CONVICTION OF
EXPERIENCE
I declare, a a my eoaarlcHtloua couvictlon,
foo ailed m long exv-erleuc-e and rflectloa, that
If there nerc aot a slntrle physician, inrgeoa,
uildwtfr. rkewM, apothecary, drn-Kirlat, nor
drtia; the face of the earth there would be
!eM aiekneaa and Irs mortality taaa low pre-nll.--
James Johaavn, M. !., F. K. S.
ent of the cases in which he operated for appen
dicitis proved not to be that disease at all.
"We always tell the patient and his friends that
the operation was successful," he said.
A great French doctor said: "Nature is fighting
with a disease: a blind man armed with a club
that is the physician comes, lifts his club and
strikes at random. If he hits the disease he kills
It; if he si its the patient he kilts him."
Iunioultn. another famous French doctor, said
as he was tiylnur: "I leave behind me two famous
physicians rejeimen and river water."
A physician writing recently In one of the maga
zines, said that the practice of medicine was not a
science at all. and that no one could say that any
cure had been made by medicine, because nature
worked its own cure. There was ft r eat power In
the human body to throw off disease, and in the
majority of cases where t he patient recovered it
wan not because of the medicine given, but in spite
of tr.
"The career of medicine down the channel of the
ars has been vexed by a constant ebb and flow of
contrary opinions," asserted this physician. "His
tory shows how many infallible remedies for dis
ease have' been vaunted and forgotten."
There was a time, hot Ion a; bk. either, when
bleedtna; was the sovereign cure for ail diseases.
3n those days the physician bled the patient, no
matter what the ailment. How many thousands
were killed by the doctors In those days we can
not even conjecture, any more than we can guess
how manv are beinp killed now by wrona and mis
taken treatment. The medical fraternity has had
many fads and fashions. At different times in the
past preat faith has been put in witchcraft, charms,
amulets, astroloxy, necromancy, alchemy, magic,
mesmerism, hydropathy and other fads. There was
a time when it was thought by doctors that all
ailments of the brain were caused by vapors col
lected within the skull and pressing upon the
brain. The cure was to lay open the scalp and
drill a hole thromrh the skull to let the vapors out.
Where Is the physician who would do that now?
Yet our own fad of opening a person's bowels and
cutting off the appendix may be just as foolish.
"There was a time, only a few hundred years
Kfo," continues this writer. "when fever was
treated with music: when human bones were
cround up and drunk for the cure of ulcers; when
human blood was prescribed for epilepsy. Aqua.
IMvina. a remedv advertised as having great virtue
was made by cutting In pieces the body of a
MEDICINES ARE POISONOUS
la their seal to do good, physlrtaaa have
done much harmi they have harried the
Brave ma a 7 iikt would have reeevered If left
ta mature. All ear earatlve atr.li are polaoa
oua, aad as a eoaaeqarare every doae dlmia
Ishea the patleat'a vitality. Dr. Aloaaa Clark,
Frofraaor la the rw Varh. College of Phyal
riaaa aad farseoaa. .
healthy man who had died a violent death and
distilling It with ground human bones. It was
given as a draft."
This writer urges the medical fraternity to drop
the nonsensical mvstery with which It seeks to
urround Itself. Khubarn will do as much good
when ordered In English as In dog; Latin, he says,
senna will not be a bit more agreeable as "Kol.
Sfn.," nor cre.tm of tartar as Bli.ir. pot." A mix
ture to be taken at bedtime might Just as well be
written that way as ".Mlxt. h. s. Sumda." And pure
water would be equaiiy as efficacious If written
thai way as when written "Aqua Pura."
SCORES THEHCRIPTIO XOSEN!E.
This nonsense about the writing of prescrip
tions is on a line with all the other fraud of the
medical prof esston. says this writer. "It is a
i.u ines of pretensions, misrepresentations and
f rs mis.'
Even such a 1:1th authority as the London Lancet
S0IMS
"In medicine and surgery, as In all arts and
sciences, methods become general, they lapse Into
disuse, to be revived possibly at a later period and
then to achieve a popularity which attaches to a
supposed new thing."
Some of the most eminent physicians were asked
recently to give the'.r opinions of medicine and
medical doctors. A few of the replies are here
given:
Dr. C. K. Page, Boston, Mass.:
"From the time in which the Father of His Coun
try, affected by a simple and readily curable mal
ady, pharyngitis, was killed by bleeding, up to the
most recent catastrophy (February 3, 1907). Of a
needless operation for appendicitis which killed
a distinguished New Tork statesman, such opera
tions have killed no end of good men and women."
Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was for many
years one of the medical faculty of Harvard Medi
cal School, said before his class:
"The disgrace of medicine is that collossal sys
tem of self-deception in obedience to which mines
have been emptied of their cankering minerals,
the vegetable kingdom robbed of all Its growth,
the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities,
the poison bags of reptiles drained of their venom,
and all the conceivable abominations thus obtained
thrust down the throats of individuals suffering
from some - fault of organization, nourishment or
vital stimulation."
Prof. Valentine Mott, the great surgeon, says:
"Of all sciences, medicine is the most uncertain."
Dr. Abercrombie. Fellow of the Royal College of
Pnysiclans of Edinburgh, says: "Medicine has been
called by philosophers the art of conjecturing; the
science of guessing."
Dr. Jacob Bigelow, formerly president of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, says: "The prema
ture death of medical men brings with it the hu
muliatlng conclusion that medicine is still an in
effectual speculation."
Prof. Gregory, of the Edinburgh Medical College,
said to his meaical class: "Gentlemen, 99 out of
every 100 medical-facts are medical lies, and medi
cal doctrines are, for the most part, stark, staring
nonsense."
Dr. Albert Leffingwell. of the. American Humane
Association, says: "I do not believe that the aver
age length of human life would be diminished by
an hour If all the drugs of Christendom were
dumped into the sea barring, perhaps, half a
dozen."
SAYS DRUGS MIST GO.
Br Samuel Hall, of Seattle, the man who proved
that he was five years ahead of Prof. Loeb In dis
covering that "electricity is life," says that the
present system of drugging must be abolished.
Dr. Hall is the Inventor of the most successful
device for electrifying the human body. His ex
perience has been broad, covering a period of 22
years.
Dr. Hall Is recognized as one of-the leading
authorities on electrical treatment and thousands
of cured patients attest the success of his remedy.
Talking to a reporter yesterday, Dr. Hall said:
"The old school doctor has had his day. His
methods belong to the mystery and superstition of
the dark ages.
"The prvslclans of today are doing Just what
the doctors of a thousand years ago did dosing
sick and suffering humanity with poisons.
"Any man who thinks for himself knows that
poisons can not build up health. They will give
temporary relief by stupefying the nerves, but
thev don't remove the cause of disease. As long .
as the cause remains no cure can be effected.
"If you had a real fine watch and some part of
Its mechanism broke, would you try to mend it In
filling it with oil? No. you would take it to the
best watchmaker you knew and have him find the
cause of the trouble and repair it.
"Your body is a far more delicate mechanism
than any watch. It Is the most complicated ma
chine on earth, yet when some ltal part breaks .
down or falls to work properly, you try to make
It go by doping yourself with poisonous drugs.
"All of vour vital organs. Including the heart,
stomach, liver and kidneys, are run by a power
called nerve force. Any doctor will admit that-
THE BEST DOCTOR
o doctor caa cure all diseases. That's all
"moomhlie." They are "pretender."
If you eaat cure a roau, tell him so.
Ph-jralcflaus use too many drugs.
I believe that the best -doctor la the one who
knows the worthletsness of medicines. Ir. Wm.
Oslrr, In aa address to physicians.
Nerve force Is just another name for electricity.
When any of these organs break down or become
Inactive, sickness or disease results. Now. you
can't cure the trouble until you remove the cause
repair the part that is broken down. The only way
to do this is to give nature the power to do it.
All you need is motive power electricity. You
can't (ret that from drugs. Mv method Is to-restore
this electricity wherever lacking, and pain and dis
ease will disappear. That is the natural way of
curl n ir. -
"Suppose you have stomach trouble; food doesn't
digest; Rases arise when the food ferments, causing
severe pains. You go to a doctor who gives you a
drug to stop the pain, but does not remove the
cause. Kvery time you eat the pain returns and
you have'to take the drug again.
Now.'-vujahafs the reason the stomach won't digest
the food? Simply because it hasn't the strength.
It needs energy, nerve power, vitality not drugs
which stimulate for a day and weaken the nerves.
"The world's greatest scientists have proven
that the force which runs the human machine, the
f.ower that builds vitality and strength is electrlc
ty. Then, the onlv way to restore a weak organ
to a health v condition is to restore electricity
where it Is needed. I do this with Electro-Vigor.
"Electro-Vigor is a generator of a powerful but
soothing current of electricity, worn about your
bodv while asleep. It sends a steady, unbroken
stream of electric life coursing through your
nerves and vitals for hours at a time.
"Its touch is gentle, without sting or burn.
There Is no shock, all you feel is a glowing warmth.
THE PRODl'CT OP KXPERIEXC'E
1 have devoted twenty years to the perfection
of my appliance. I have removed defects as fast
as they appeared in actual use, and have supplied
new features from time to time, so that Electro-
Vigor is in a class by itself.
"Electro-Vigor makes Its own power, therefore
It requires no charging. It Is equipped with spe
cial drv cells which are longer-lived, smaller and
more powerful than any other dry battery.
Terrible Indictment of Medicines
The effects of our medicines on the human system are in the highest degree uncertain except, in
deed, that they have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence and famine combined. John Mason
Goode, M. D.. T. E. S.
"The current can be regulated . to Any desired
strength by the pressure of a finger upon the
rheostat.
"Compared with Electro-Vigor all other electric
body appliances are inventions of the blacksmith's
ha-Itns" not upon that point, however, that my
success has been founded. My Immense business is
due to my knowledge of the effect of electricity
upon the ailments treated and the best way to ob
tain that effect. I treat every case that comes to
me as an individual, and direct the application of
mv appliance to suit the de
mands 01 each particular case.
Wiien vou consider that elec-
tricity "which I supply Is life
to the organs into which I
send it, you can see how I
get mv results. My success is
the result of my cures. If
I did not cure, my business
would have worn out. long
ago.
"When I say that my
remedv cures. I don't ask you
tn hel'leve me until I prove
it I have one or more cured
patients in nearly every town
on the map. I'll send you the
names of those near you. and
you can ask them about my
treatment.
Mr. Harry Bates, 754 First
street. Portland, Or., says:
"Your treat mpnt has cured
me of rheumatism and I am
feelinijJike a new man. I cer
tainly consider Electro-Vigor
a good investment, and thank
you for your interest In my
casf."
Mr. H. F. Brunk. $75 Sandy
Pt.. Portland. Or., says:
"My health has improved
very much under the use of
Klectro-Vigor. The backache
and diarrhoea are cured and
I a;n feeling better generally
than I have for yars past.
'I am an old resident of
Portland, having lived here
about 20 years, and will be
glad to vouch for your treat
ment at any time."
Mr. C. A. Miller, Beulah, Or.,
writes:
"I am glad to tell you that
your treatment is excellent. It
has cured my back and kidney
trouble after drugs and other
remedies failed."
Mr. K. Landwehr, Milwau
Or., says;
"I am feeling fine, growing stronger every day
and am no longer troubled with back ache. A.1I
this is due to the work of Electro-Vigor.
Mr. Edw. Brown, Waplnitla, Or., writes:
"When I commenced the use of .Electro vigor a
short time ago. I suffered from rheumatism In my
knees and shoulders that made lifo a burden to me.
There is not a sign of the trouble now. and rest
assured that I shall be glad to recommend your
treatment."
Mr. B. Prescott. Durkee. Baker Co.. Oregon, says
"I have used Electro-Vigor about 40 days ana
am well pleased with Its work. I haye ceased
taking medicine entirely, have gained in welgnt.
and feel like a new man."
Mr. A. F. Boyne, Meacham. Or., writes:
"I feel 100 per cent better since using Electro
Vigor. I hive no more rheumatism, no headache
or stomach trouble. I cannot give your treatment
too much praise for having saved me from a gen
eral coll3pse "
Mr. Wm. Harvey, 718 N. 6Sth St., Seattle, Wash.,
B""My wife used vour Electro-Vigor with very little
faith In the beginning, but Is very much pleased
with results so far. Tne rheumatism is gone ana
the, stomach trouble and constipation Is better. We
consider your appliance a wonderful remedy lor
such complaints."
Mr. Wm. Moohn. General Delivery, Seattle, Wash.,
writes: , ,
"Your Electro-Vigor has done wonders for-me.
I was overweight, with muscles soft and flabby,
but I notice that I have lost a great deal of this
superfluous flesh and my body Is better propor
tioned than formerly. I also had a prostatic trouble
but am recovering from that annoying condition.
It is a pleasure to realize these results after having
tried so many other treatments in vain."
Mrs Charlotte Stokes. Colby, Wash., writes:
"I am a different woman to what I was a few
months ago. suffering from serious organic and
nerve trouble, and especially from the effects of a
weak and sluggish circulation. Electro-Vigor has
cured me and I am anxious to bring knowledge
of Its value to others."
"I know that many people are skeptical about
testimonials, and they have a reason to be. .Quacks'
and patent medicine makers have fooled the public
so often by printing hpgus letters that it is hard
to believe any. Every testimonial I publish is
genuine, and I have a. standing reward of $1000
for proof that any of them were bought.
DO.VT TR V TO FOOL NATIRE
"Few people realize the danger In drugs until
their health is gone or their nerves and vitals
wrecked by poisonous mixtures. ,
"Then you can understand how useless it is to
try to fool nature with stimulants, narcotics and
poisons.
"The ostrich hides Its head and thinks it Is out
of reach of the hunter's rifle. Some people do
things Just as absurd.
"You cover up the symptoms of a disease and
imagine you are cured. Just as soon as you stop
using the drug the trouble returns worse than ever.
"You have got to remove the cause before you
can cure any ailment.
"It you have a splinter in your finger the only
way to get rid of the pain and inflammation Is to
get the splinter out. Of course, you could take
morphine or cocaine and relieve the pain for a
while, but that wouldn't remove the splinter which
causes it.
"The reason for nearly every chronic ailment or
disease Is a want of vitality and energy by some
part of your body machinery.
"A man came to me for treatment a few weeks
ago who had taken five bottles of poisonous drugs.
He got the stuff from a doctor for the cure of
chronic kidney trouble and rheumatism.
"Of course the patient did not know the nature
of the medicine he had been using until I analyzed
the contents of one of the bottles. The mixture
contained morphine, potash and alcohol in large
quantities. He then realized why he had become
nervous, debilitated and weak. Why his stomach
went back on him and his food wouldn't digest. He
realized also that if he had continued the use of
these poisons much longer he would have become
a drug slave. Just as thousands of others have, who
went to doctors for relief.
"That's the way all drugs work. They will stop
a pain by putting a brake on your heart action, but
the pain comes back in a few hours and you have
to repeat the dose. The trouble Is there andwlll
remain there until the cause is removed.
"Now this man took up my treatment and began
applying Electro-Vigor every night .In,threS
weeks everv pain and ache had left his body, and
in another "three weeks he reported himself cured
of the kidney trouble which had bothered him for
years.
,
.
"How did Electro-Vigor do this? Simply by re
moving the cause and giving nature the power to
cure. The rheumatism was caused by the kidney
trouble, and the' reason for the kidney trouble was
lack of strength and vitality in those organs.
"Electricity, which Is vitality, was all that was
needed. With that force restored,- the life and
activity of the kidneys was renewed, enabling them
to cleanse the blood of the poisonous uric acid and
other impurities. "
"So many people, upon finding themselves ailing
in any way, make a hurried trip to the doctor to,
get a prescription. Those people Imagine that
health Is sold by the bottle, and all that is neces
sary is to take some kind of medicine.
"When you pay a doctor for a drug prescription
you pay for a lot of nonsense. That prescription
may be an order for ten cent's worth of dope,, yet
you are none the wiser and the druggist effarges
a dollar for it Just because the order is written in
secret symbols. The reason for all this prescrip
tion nonsense is clear. You don't know what you
are getting and the druggist can charge as much
as he likes. He then divides the profit with the
doctor.
"When I take your case my aim is to cure. You
pay one price for my treatment and that is all you
pay. If I know that I can't cure you I'll tell you
so In the beginning. I don't want money that I
don't earn.
"Doctors the world over are using electricity
more and more in the treatment of chronic ail
ments. They are fast learning what I have claimed
for years that the only way to cure disease is
to help nature cure it. Drug3 never did and never
will do that, and I defy any man on earth to prove
that they do.
"Poor digestion. Inactive liver, constipation,
sluggish heart, slow thinking, dormant energy and
laziness are all due to lack of electricity. Under
stand that electricity is the motive power of the ,
human machine, the power that keeps the organs'
active, and- you will see what I mean. In such"
cases you will see how Electro-Vigor will pump,
action into the body. It renews the electric life
and transforms the sluggard Into abundle of vig
orous energy.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS.
"The reason so many men fail at everything
they attempt is because they are 'quitters.' They
have not the courage and ability to tackle and
overcome the obstacles they encounter.
"Give me a man who is kept down by loss of
energy, backwardness, despondency, lost vitality or
DRUGS CANNOT CURE
Of air the errors of our blundering world,
the moat far reaching haa been the blind faith
in the earatlve power of drug. Drugs do not
care, can not cure. They can at best merely re
lieve and that usually at great cost and Injury
to the body. W. R. C. Latson, M. D.
weakness of anv kind, and I will make a new man
out of him by filling his nerves with the fire of life
electricity.
"It is the man with 'backbone' that gets the
good Job. It is the aggressive hustler that gets the
promotion when there is any promotion. A man
without energy has no inclination to hustle. Don t
go around dragging one foot after the other. Get
some life in you. Build up your courage and vim
with Electro-Vigor.
"Pick out the men who have used Mectro- igor
and you wil see men of force, men of power and
confidence, men who respect themselves and are re
sjjected nd admired by their fellowmen.
WOMEV SAVED FROM BUTCHER
"Thousands of women submit to dangerous oper
ations which could easily be avoided by the use of
Electro-Vigor. But the average woman Imagines
that the only thing to do after drugs fall is to
resort to the surgeon's knife.
"Most female complaints are the result of low
vitality or weak, Impoverished nerves. Where
there Is a deficiency of vital nerve force there is
bound to be sluggish action of the organs affected,
and then disease.
"My Electro-Vigor saturates the nerves with a
gentle stream of electric life, enabling them to keep
up a vigorous and regular action of all the organs
of the body. Electro-Vigor builds up vitality and
strength in every weakened part, thereby removing
the cause of disease.
"A great number of people suffer from pains and
aches called rheumatism, or lumbago, or neuralgia,
caused by impoverished nerves crying for aid. The
life of these nerves Is electricity and nothing else
wil cure them. I can send a gentle current from
Electro-Vigor so that it will convey the life direct
to the ailing part and relief is often felt In an hour.
I frequently cure such cases in ten days.
"A patient asked me the other day why it is that
Faradic batteries and static machines do not give
such results as Electro-Vigor.
"That's because you can't stand the treatment
for more than half an hour at a time. A nervous
person can't endure it that long on account of the
shock. When a man tries that method and finds
that It does not help him he naturally concludes
that electricity is no good.
"Now my system is different. I infuse the cur
rent into the body for six or eight hours every day
'or night, usually while the patient sleeps.
"The delicate nerves are not Jarred or shocked
by this current, as it govs in them just like a driz
zling rain saturates a newly plowed field. They
absorb it, drink it in, and as it Is their life, they
grow strong with it.
ABOUT DOCTORS WHO ADVWITISK
"There is a whole lot of prejudice against doc
tors who advertise, due no doubt to the large num
ber of quacks and schemers that have foisted
worthless treatments on the public during the past
few years.
"If It were not for this prejudice I would not be
'able to handle all the business that would come to
me. The many fake electric belts and batteries ad'
vertised by charlatans have made every one skep
tical, but I know that I have a (rood thing and I'll
hammer away until everybody knows it.
"Any organ of the body any part that lacks the
necessary vitality to perform its natural functions,
can be restored by my method.
"It gives strength; it makes the blood rich and
warm; it vitalizes the nerves and puts vim Into the
brain and muscles: It just makes a good man out
of a bad one In every way.
"With Electro-Vigor I cure rheumatism In Its
worst forms. I cure pains and aches, weak nerves,
general debility and any other trouble which can
be cured by restoring strength.
"No matter where you live, I can treat you as
successfully as if you were here in my office."
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