“Then hereafter I shall have little faith in the religion or honesty of the newspaper that publishes such swindling advertisements.”
“Admitting that they know the dishonesty of the thing,—and how can any man endowed with common sense but see that there is swindle on the face of it?—the publisher of that advertisement is a particeps criminis in the transaction.”
“Why don’t some of the thousand victims who have been swindled into buying this worthless stuff expose him?”
“In exposing the reverend wolf, don’t you see they would expose their own weakness? This is the reason of the fellow’s selecting the peculiar class of diseases as curable by his great discovery. The poor sufferer does not wish the community to know that he is afflicted by such a disease.”
“It is truly a great dodge; and no doubt the knave has found fools enough to make him ‘independent.’”
Rules. 1. Take no patent or advertised medicines at all. They are of no earthly use! You never require them, as they are not conducive to your health, happiness, or longevity.
There are physicians who can cure every disease that flesh is heir to—excepting one.
2. Apply in your need only to a respectable physician.
3. Give your preference to such as administer the smallest quantities of medicine—and are successful in their practice.