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ri mm "Medicine Not a Science," but "an Ineffectual Speculation." These and Other Unsparing Crit icisms of Their Own Profession Are Made by Eminent Physicians Seattle Doctor Tells Why Drugs Don't Cure. Electricity the Remedy of Today. - "Compared . with Electro-Vigor, . all other electric body appliance are Invention . of , th blacksmith' hammer. , - , ; , "It la not upon that point however, that my auc teit hu beta founded.' Mr Immense bulns 1 due to my knowledge of the effect of electricity upon the ailment treated, and the beat way to ob tain that effect. I' treat every esse that come to me as an Individual, and direct the -application of my appliance to ault the demanda of , each particu lar case. When you consider that electricity which I supply 1 Jlfe to the organs into which I send it, ?ou can see how I ret my results. - My. success 1 he result of tny cures. ' -If . , - - , , . I did not cure, my business . . ; . : 1 . . v ' , . would have .worn , out Ions' 5 ago j "When ... t say , that my ; remedy cures, l don't ask you to believe me until I .prove it I have one or more cured patient In nearly -every town on the map. I'll send you the ' name of those near you, and f. ?ou can ask them about my reatment" .' . '. t Mr." Harry Bates, 754 ' First -v Street. Portland, Or- aays: "Tour treatment ha, cured' me of rheumatism and I am -feeling like a new man. Iv certainly consider Electro-Vlg- ' or a good Investment, and thank you for your-interest in my case. True poieonsi . . founaed upon eon- "The Science of medicine declares one of and Surgeon. nhvlclan' are deelar- tcS SSrSr " utt1' SSff rA$&?S8&X tturn-taken venTWmbf men and women sent "jKJ j$ five hundred surgeons wanted the fee of nrt u abBO dollars. I "2'u" .d the surgeons mad no lonir abUylno Von WM . performed." '.".... . , . - .,-.' jrnrxTT s cist ho amstoxcxtxs. elared at . the ' Bt0" WV" he operated for appen S'JL'ed'nlt to be lhat dlseSSe at alL THE CONVICTION OF EXPERIENCE aa ' m conscientious conviction, rtokSta'ata &iortaUty th ow preU James fttawst Jt p-t vi'-" ' . ' ..it - 'anA Tils friend that -we-always Kv 7 7i .M T -the operation was successful." ! ' , ..., A reat French doctor aald: "N"' ,H'S--with a disease: a blind man armed with a club that la the phyilclan comes, lift hi club and itrike. at random; If he hits -the dtaease "t; If he hit the patient he kills lm. ,s ., ... Dumoulin. another famou French 5; '! as he wa dylngr: "I leave behind m two famoua physician s regimen and river water.., ; A. physician writing recently in one pf the mag ulnei. sld that the practice of medicine wa not a science at all. and that no one could say that sny cure had been mad by medicine, because nature worked Its own cure. There,, we grea t power. In the human body to throw off disease, and In the .rVJorlty of cases where the patient recovered it wa not because of the medicine klven, but in aplte v of it ' , t. ' . "The career of medicine down the channel of tne see baa been vexed by a consUnt ebb and flow ot contrary oplnlona," asserted this physician. Hj tory how how many infallible remedie for ai i ease have been vaunted and forgotten." . i . There 'was a time, not long ago, either, when bleeding was the sovereign cur for all diseases. In those day the physician bled the patient, no mat ter what the ailment. How many thousand were ; killed by- the doctors in those day we can not even conjecture, any more than we can guess how many are being killed now by wrong and mistaken treat ment The medical fraternity has had many Tad and fashions. At different times In the past great ; faith has been put In witchcraft, charms, amulets, astrology, necromancy, alchemy, magic, mesmerism, hydropathy and other fads. There was a time when . It was thought by doctors that all aliments of the brain were caused by vapors collected within the skull and pressing upon the brain. The cure was to lay open the scalp and drill a hole through the skull to let the-vapors out. Where Is the physician . who would do that -now? . Tet our own fad of opening a person'a bowels, and cutting of f the p. pendlx may ba Just as foolish. ' Thre wa a time, only a few hundred yeara ago," continues thl writer, "when fever was treated with music; when human- bones were ground up and drunk for the cure of ulcers; when human blood was prescribed for epilepsy. Aqua Dlvlna, a remedy advertised as having great virtue, wa made by cutting In piece the body of a healthy MEDICINES ARE POISONOUS - Zn their seal to do good, physicians have don much harm! they have harried to the grave many who would have recovered If left to a store. AU our curative agent are poisonous, an " as a oon seqnenoe every dose diminishes the patient's vi tality. Xr. Alonso Clark, professor la the Xtw Tork College ot Physician and Surgeon. man who ha" died a violent death and distilling It with ground human bones. Jt was given as a draft."..-1- . I ------- ;-. This writer urge the- tf edlcal fraternity to drop the nonsensical mystery with which It seeks to surround Itself. Rhubarb will do as much good ' when ordered Jn English as in dog- Latin, he says. , Fenna will not be a bit more agreeable, as "Fol, Pen. " nor erpam of tartar as "Bitar, Pot"; A mix--lure to be taken at bedtime might Just as well ba written that way as "Mlxt h. a. Sumda,". And pure tvater would be equally as efficacious If written that way as when written. "Aqua Pura." .. t , ioob3 wrscwirttoar voxtavtmst ' This nonsense. about 'the writing of prescrip-' tlons is on a' line with all the other frauds of the r.ellcal profession," aaya thl writer; "It i business j. of protcnslons, misrepresentation an4 -frauds, . - ,' . -: K-en such a hlsrh authority as the London Lancet Said in a recent issue:! ' In medicine ni surgery, as In all arts and rlcnce, methods become general, they laps Into disuse, to be revived possibly at a later period and then to achieve a popularity which attache to a urposed new thing' eiome or tne most eminent pnysician were mabu recently to give their opinions of medicine and medical doctor. A-few of the-replies are here . - given: , .-. tr. C. J3. Page, Boston, Mass. : . - "From the time In which the Father of His Coun try, affected by a simple and readily curable mal ' ady. pharyngitis, waa killed by bleeding, up to the most recent catastrophe (February 8, 1907) of a , needless operation for appendicitis, which ; killed a ; distinguished New Tork statesman, such operation . have killed no end of good men end women."- Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was . for many years one of the medical faculty of Harvard Medi cal School, said befote his class: v.,.-"The disgrace of medicine Is that colossal sy- tern of self-deception In obedience to which mine have been emptied - ef their cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all Its .growth, the entrails of animals taxed for their Impuritle, the poison bags of ..reptiles drained of their venom, and all the conceivable abominations thua obtained' thrust down the throat of individuals suffering "'om " some fault of organisation, nourishment or vital stimulation." ' ' ,FTf- Valentine Mott. the great surgeon, say; Of .all science, medicine I the most uncertain." Dr. Abercromble, Fellow, of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, says: "Medicine has been called by philosophers the art of conjecturing: the science of guessing." " ' ,,Dr. Jacob Blgelow formerly president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, say: "The prema turo death of medical men bring with it the hu miliating conclusion that medicine is still an in effectual speculation," Prof. Gregory of the Edinburgh Medical College said to hla medical class: "Gentlemen, 99 out of every 100 medical facts are medical lies, and medi cal doctrines are. tor 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 drug of Christendom were . dumpea Into the ea barring, perhaps, half a dozen." . SATS &ST7Q8 MTJ8T GO - Dr. Samuel Hall of Seattle, the man who proved -. that he waa five years ahead of Prof. Loeb In dis covering that "electricity 1 life," say that the . present system of drugging must bo abolished. Dr. Hall is the inventor of the most successful device for electrifying the human body. His 1 ex . perlence has been broad, covering a period of 22 : - years.' ; - -,. Dr. Hall is Recognized a one .of the leading authorities on electrical treatment and thousand of cured patients attest the success of his remedy. Talking to a reporter yesterday. Dr. Hall aald: V -"The old school doctor has had his day. His methods belong to the mystery and superstition of the dark ages. . . - The -physicians of today are, doing Just what the doctors of a thousand "year ago d!d--do8ing Sick snd 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 .they don't remove the cause of disease. As long a the cause remains no cure can be effected. " "If you had a real fine watch and some part of ;lts mechanism broke would you try to mend It by filling it with oil. No. you would take It to the ' beet watch makeryou knew and have him And the .. came of tho trouble and repair it. . "Tour Aody Is a far more delicate mechanism than any watch. It Is the most complicated ma chine on earth, yet when some vital part breaks . - down or falls to work properly, you try to make It go by doping yourself with poisonous drugs. . "AH of your vita! organs, Including the heart, stomach, liver and kidneys, are run by a power . called nerve force. Any doctor will admit that. , THE BEST DOCTOR Ho doctor can sure an diseases. That's all "moonshine." They are "pretenders." .. If you oaat cur a man, tell him -so. Physloiaas use too many drugs. - X believe that the best doctor 1 th one who knows the worthlessuess of mediolnes. Sr. Wn. Osier, In an address to physicians. Nerve force Is Just another name for electricity, 'When any of these organs break, down or become Inactive, sickness or disease result. Now, you can't cur the trouble until you remove the cause repair the part that is broken down; -5 The only way to do this Is to give nature the power to do It All you need - Is motive power, electricity. Tou can't get that from drugs. My method Is to restore this electricity wherever lacking, and pain and disease will disappear. That's the natural way of curing.. -"Suppose, you have stomach trouble; food doesYi't digest; gases arise when the food, ferments, causing severe pains. You go to a doctor who gives you a drug to stop the pain, but does jiot remove the cause.. Every time you' eat the -pain returns and you have to take th drug again, . . "New, what's the reason the stomach won't digest the food? Simply because it hasn't the strength. It needs energy, nerve power, vitalitynot drug which stimulate for a day and "Weaken the nerves. "The world's greatest scientists have proven that ' the force which run the human machine, tlto power that builds vitality and strength Is electric ity. Then, the only way to restore a weak organ to a healthy condition is to ' restore electricity where it Is needed. I do this with Electro Vigor. "Electro-Vigor U a generator of a powerful but " soothing current ' of electricity, rworn about your body M-hlle you sleep. It sends a steady, unbroken .atreanvof 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 ia a glowing warmth. THE PBODTJCT op sxpxBzzarcrs 1 "t 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 Klectro Vlgor is In a class by Itself. , V-Klpctro-Vigor makes its own power, therefore It require no charging. -It Is equipped with special" dry colls which are longer lived, smaller and more powerful than any other dry battery. - "The current can be regulated to any desired strength by .the pressure of a finger upon th rheoatat, , -:. v--- l l 5 J Mr. H. F. Brunk, 75 Sandy Pt, Portland, Or., says: "My health ha improved very much under the use of Electro-Vigor. , The backache and diarrhoea are cured and X am feeling better generally, than I have for years past. 'T am an old resident of Portland, having lived- here about 20 years, and . will ba glad to vouch for your treat ment at any time." v Mr. C. A. Miller, Beulah. Or., writes: "I am glad to tell you that your treatment is excellent It has cured my back and kid ney trouble after drug and other remedies failed." Mr. F. Landwehr, Milwaukle, Or., says: 'I am feeling fine, growing tronger every day and am no longer troubled with back ache. All this is due to th work of Electro-Vigor." Or" wrntZ: Br0wA 1 ""tienced th use 1 """"red from rheuma tism in my knees and should ers that made life a burden to me. There is not sign of the trouble now, and rest assured that I shall be glad to recommend your treatment" Mr. B. Prescott. Durkee, Baker County.. Or ay: "I have used Electro-Vigor about 40 days and am well pleased with Its work. I have eeased taking medicine entirely, hav gained In weight and feel like a new man. vr a. m. Bovne, Meaoham, Or- write :, . "I feel 100 per cent better sinca ulng Electro Vigor. I have no more rheumatlem, .no headache -or stomach trouble. I cannot give your treatment too much praise for having saved, m from a. gen- ., eral collapse." . . -.v i r-Mr. Wm. Harvey, 71 N. 8th t.'SeatOe, . Wash, says: ' :j ....'..v "My wife usedyour Electro-Vigor with very little faith In the beginning, but Is : very : much pleased" with results so far. The rheumatism Is gone and -the stomach trouble and constipation Is better. , W" consider your appliance a wonderful remedy for . suck oomplatnts.', i - a - : - .. ' Mr. Wm. Moohn, General Delivery, Seattle, "Wash., writes: . . -: "Tour Electro-Vigor ha dons ' wonders for me.' I waa overweight witn muscles soft and flabby, hut I notice that I have lost a great deal of -this W- perilous flesh and my body is . better proportioned than formerly. I also had a prostatic trouble- but am. recovering from that annoying condition. ;It ls : a pleasure to realise these results after having tried so many other treatments In vain." Mrs. Charlotte Stokes, Colby, Waali., writesr.f . "I am a different i woman ' to what I was A -few months ago, suffering from eerlou organic and 1 nerve trouble, and especially - from the effects of. a . weak and sluggish circulation. Electro-Vigor - has cured me and Tarn anxious to bring knowledge, of Its value to others." y :,'.:;-, 7 .'-.;;''' . ; . - "I know that many people- are skeptical about" testimonials, and they have a reason to ba Quacks and patent medicine makers have fooled the public ?. so often by printing bogus letters that It 1 hard to believe any. Every testimonial I publish ' I, genuine, and I have a standing reward of f 1,000 for proof that any of them were bought ,j DOST TBT. TO TOOli VATTJBB . "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 1 to try to fool nature with stimulant, narcotics and -..poisons. :.:.;'- :' - " "The ostrich hides Its head and thinks h 1 out of reach of the hunter's rifle. Some people , do things Just as absurd. . '.y';i V ' " . - "Tou cover up the symptom of a disease 1 and 'imagine you are ured. Just as soon ; as tou stopr using the drug the trouble returns worse than ersr. "Tou have -got to remove the' cause . before you -can cure any ailment .',.:: -.-l:1 : '"If 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 ' i while, but that wouldn't remove the splinter which -' cause it v -' "-f-i . ' f ; -X "The reason for nearly every chronlo ailment or"" disease is a want of vitality and energy by some part of your body machinery, i - . f , . "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 analysed the contents of one of the bottles. The mixture,' contained morphine, potash and alcohol In 1 large t"' quantitiesv He then, realized why he had becomo ' nervous, debilitated - and weak, why his stomach went back on him and his food wouldn't digest.1 He ' realized also- that if he had continued the use of J these poisons much longer he would have become " a drug slave. Just a thousands of others have who went, to doctor tor relief. -, , . r .; . ,. t '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 and. will -remain there until the cause Is removed, i - ' ' - Terrible Indictment of Medicin!Mi' 'The effects "prour medicines on the human system are in ! the highest degree iin-; certain except, indeed, that they have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence and famine combined. John Mason Goode, M.D., S. v : ' v 1 . , "Now this man took up my treatment and began applying ' Electro-Vigor -every night In three weeks every paln-and ache -had left his body, and in another three ; weeks he reported himself cure4 . of the-kidney trouble, which had bothered him fof -...years... ,..':v f .' ' , "How " did Electro-Vlltorsfio this? Blmply by re moving the cause and giving, nature the power to cure. .The Theumatism was caused by the kidney ; trouble, and the reason for the kidney trouble was -' lack of strength end Vitality in those organa. . ..' "Electricity, which is .vitality, was all that wa ' 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. , . ' ... - , v ... : . " "So many people, upon finding themselves ailing ' in any way,, make a hurried trip to the doctor to -. F".. PrescrlpUon. Those people Imagine that ; . health is sold by. the bottle, and all that is neces sary I to take some kind of medicine. - , ,,"Vhen you pay a doctor for a drug prescription you pay for a lot of nonsense. That-prescription may be-an order for ten cents' worth of dope, yet , you are none the wiser, and the druggist charges' . a dollar for it Just because the order is written In r secret symbols. The reason for all this prescrlp , tlon -nonsense I clear. Tou -don't know what you are getting and the-drugglst can charge as much r. as he likes. He, then divides the profit with the - doctor. . , t --. - - 4 v. i ..;-:!, "When! take your case my aim is to cure. ' Tou pay one price for my treatment and that is all you pay. a 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. v ;- -.. -,-,v . .- ... ; --; s. : "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 - J!,1P i,tur euw.it' Drugs never did and neve-,; "will do that and I defy any man on earth to prove . that they do. . r - - v .; ,- ' "Poor digestion, Inactive liver, constipation, alug-,. , glsh heart, slow thinking, dormant energy and lasi- ' - ness are all due to lack of electricity. Understand - that electricity Is the motive power of the human machine, the power that keeps the organs active, end you will see what I mean. Jn such esses you wall see how Electro-Vigor will pump action into inn uuuj. renews tne eiectric Hire and trans forms hs ;- sluggard Into ' a , bundle of- vigorous - ' '." iTim wecket' OT STJOCrSS&X;'.,: "The reason o nany men fall at everything they attempt Is because they are 'quitters.': They have j. not the courage and ability to tackle and overcome , .the obstacles they , encounter. ; - , ' "Give me a " man Who is kent An-mn - h inmm ,'r: energy, backwardness, despondency, lost vitality or , DRUGS CANNOT CURE Of all th errors of our blundering world, th most far. Teaching has beea the blind faith la th curative power of drugs. Drugs do not cure, an not our. They eaa at host merely relieve sad that usually t great cost aad Injury to the body. w. a. a-XAtsOB, K. 3. ; weakness of ; any kind, and twill make a new man ut of him by filling his nerves with th fire of life -electricity. , . , . - ."It ia the man with . "backbone' that gets th good Job. It I the aggressive hustler that gets the promotion when there is any promotion. A man without energy has , no inclination to .hustle. Don t ". go arouhd dragging' one foot after the other. Get some life In you. -Build up your (Courage and vim with Flectro-Vlgor. - 1 . : "Pick out the men who have ised Electro-Vigor ' and you will see men of -force, men of power and , confidence, men who respect themselves and are re - (peeled, and. admired by their fellowmen WOMZV SATKD rSOK BUTOHZBT ; "Thousands of women .submit to dangerous ppet-J aiions wnicn couia oe easily avoiaea oy tne use or Electro-Vigor. ' But the average woman imagines that the only thing to do, after drugs fail, is to ' resort to the surgeon's knife.-', , "Most female complaints are the result of low , vitality or weak, impoverished nerves. Where there ' Is u deficiency of vital nerve force there Is bound to be sluggish action of the organs affected, and "'""then disease. - - , - ; -: . , 1 : "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 ot the body. Electro-Vigor builds up vitality and strength in every weakened part thereby removing , the -cause of dlaeaa. v. "A great number of people suffer from pains and aches called rheumatism, or lunfbago, or neuralgia, Vv caused by Impoverished nerves crying for aid. The t these nerves 1 electricity, and nothing else , i -will cure them. - I can aend a gentle current from Electro-Vigor so that It will convey the life direct to the ailing part and relief I often felt in an hour. , I frequently cure such cases In ten day. - f '"A patient asked me the other day why It is that . Faradlc batteries snd static machines do not givs uch reeults, as Electro-Vigor. J. . ,C "Thafs because you can't stead th treatment ' ;. tor more than half an hour at a time, A nervous - person can't-endure it that long on account of the tynock . When a man tries that method and finds s a.es. not help him he naturally concludes . that electricity is no good., , , ; - t ; : "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, ' .,.' f "The delicate ' nerves are not Jarred or shocked by this current as it goes In them Just like a drlz- ' 'ln. ral,ftrates a newly plowed field. They absorb it. drink It in. and as It Is their life, they -.grown strong with it.,, ' . f! -- ABOUT BOOTOBS WHO ADVXBTXSB ' X ; . "There' is a wholo lot of prejudice against doe o tors who advertise, due no doubt to the Targe num- -ber of quacks and schemers that hav foisted worth" ;r less treatments on the public during the past few ""If It were not for this prejudice I would not be 5 able to handle all the business that would come to me.. The many fake electric belta and batteries ad , yertlsed by charlatans have made every one skep f tlcal, but I know that t have a good thing and 111 hammer away until everybody knows it , lJ "Any organ of the body, any part that lacks the necessary vitality to perform its natural functions. .- can be restored by my, method. i.."11 ?.ve", "rngrtt: Hmakes the blood rich snd warm; It vlUllres the nerves and puts vlmnto the - b;,a ffd '-muscles; it Just makes a good man out of a bad one, In every way. v ? -3,ti,HectTro"VlBor cure rheumatism In it " . worst forms r. I cure pains and aches, weak nerves , general debility and any other trouble which can . be cured by restoring, strength. ' n ....rT.n'I you live, T can ireat you, as' ( successfully a if you were her In my office " :J.'':X'': : book wobtb $i rmsa . :' To any man or woman who win mall me this , -Illustrated book regarding the rause and cure of ' w-sa 115 winicii. m . plain lanffuaea , and explain many eereta you thoufd know. . 1 4- i?!1 IW?I another cent on doctors and their ElftCtrft-VisTrtf umi n .. tr.. 1 ' know about it " " fcU"T ,uu "noulI -. Don't wait another minute. . Cut out this -coupon right now and mall it. rta , send the book Without delay, absolutely free. "Dr. A. S. HaB, 13 U Second Ave Seattle Wash. . . " ' w ' . . V- ,--'., . - trrA uS- S,ALL M-P- -Second Avenue. Seattle. . Washi Please send me your book, closely sealed. Name-. ....,,. ....'::. r.i,... ' ' ' . 1 1-7-8 Address , ..... - w r. 'T:
