Your own doctor will bear out what I say. Most of these American Impostors come to England after the U.S.A. Post Office Authorities have refused to convey their letters.
I do not say in my advertisements “Consumption can be cured,” “Consumption is curable,” or any such evasive remarks, but I say “I will guarantee to cure you if you are consumptive, or return your money in full,” and that my terms are “No Cure, No Pay.”
The African herbs which my Cure is prepared from have never been used by any white Doctor or Chemist before I introduced same to civilization a few years ago. These herbs are original and have defied our cleverest Analysts to discover the active principals they contain....
I only returned to England a few weeks ago to prove my Cure to the satisfaction of the British Government, having been absent for many years....
It does not matter whether a Doctor is attending patients or not whilst they are under my treatment, although I always prefer a Doctor to be in attendance to see the cure being effected because I particularly wish to convince the Medical fraternity of the genuineness of my cure.
From the first letter:
Usually two or three weeks’ treatment is quite sufficient to make a substantial improvement, and a three months’ course, in most cases, is sufficient to effect a cure.
From the second letter:
Let me send you a two weeks’ treatment, which is more than sufficient to completely stop the progress of the disease.
From a later letter: