Union Stock Yards
Chicago, Sept. 9, 1910.
Dear Doctor Wilkinson: I am sure you will be glad to know that the improvement in my case continues and grows, if anything, more noticeable daily. Considering the physical wreck I was three months ago, the change is little short of miraculous. This is not only my opinion, but that of my friends as well.
It is particularly gratifying to have those who called me a fool when they heard I was going to Chicago to be treated for locomotor ataxia now acknowledge that they were mistaken, and congratulate me on my action.
If I can serve you in any way don’t hesitate to call upon me. It is my duty to let fellow-beings similarly afflicted know what you have done for me.
Gratefully yours,
James H. Brown.
In the same manner the doctor secures similar letters from other patients. These are reproduced by the zinc-etching process, business headings and all, and when properly printed few people can tell them from the originals. When copies are sent out to prospective patients accompanied by the right kind of a letter of explanation the persons receiving them believe, as a rule, that the doctor has forwarded for their inspection the correspondence of Mr. Brown, or some other patient, and this impression induces many people to return them so the doctor will not lose such valuable communications.
The author, who has long experience in this line, has had many such letters sent back with notes of thanks for the privilege of reading them. One of these notes, which he still retains, reads as follows:
Oshkosh, Wis., April 15, 1910.