Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-27
THE GETTYSBURG KATALYsINE
WATER.
Is it n CathOlicOn or Universal
Remedy ?-Ths Duty Of Physicians
"A Curative Miracle.

Remedy ?-Ths Duty of Physicians
"A Curative Miracle.
The time has at length arrived when
the medical profession must either prac
tically recognize the discovery of some
thing like catholicon or universal rem
edy, in the Gettysburg Katalysine Water,
or they must expose the misrerresenta-
tions which are made concerning it.
They can take no middle course and
preserve their prestige as learned ex-
pounders of medical truth. II it is in
deed true that new medicinal fluid
has been found in this water which,
if properly employed, has power over all
diseases, should not the fact be recog-
nized by physicians in their prescrip-
tions? Aye is it not their sacred duty,
from the performance of which they
cannot morally or legally escape, to at
least prescribe this water for all maladies
which it has been known to cure after the
failure of drug remedies2 Learned, like
political orders, cannot survive their use
fulness or their betrayal of the public in
terest, and the public health is the pub
lie interest. 1t will not do for American
physicians to ignore the Gettysburg Wa
ter Cures, for they have been too repeat
edly described by leading members of
the medical faculty According to the
highest medical testimony, water which
cannot be distinguished, by the senses,
from New York Croton has mastered all
those diseases which are pronounced in
durable by the profession, such as the
worst types of dyspepgia, rheumatism,
gout, neuralgia, stone or calculus in its
various forms, consumption, Brights
disease, etc., ETC., etc. But now comes
to us the strangest story which was ever
related by an escaped Sufferer from that
disease which may we'll be called living
death, namely, paralysis. 1t is told by
the subject OF this curative miracle, who
is himself physician and the son of
physician, and whose case had been
abandoned as hopeless by thirty of his
professional brethren. The doctor thus
writes to the Gettysburg Spring Com
pany:
when my friend, Mr.. Mofet, first
saw me in September last | was as help
less as it was possible for a living man
to be. Ny respirations were short and
quick; | was unable to distinguish per-
sons or things; my eyes were vacant and
staring; my left arm lay motionless on
the bed; my right hand | could scarcely
get to my face; my legs could not movei
and was without sensation in body and
limbs. When sitting | had to be con-
fined to my straps to retain an upright
position, being as liable to- fall laterally
as forward / had no control over or
knowledge of the demands of nature,
micturition and defecation being per-
formed unconsciously.
IL had just passed through q pro-
tracted and varied treatment without
effect, and hope was gone. When Mr..
Moffet visited me and recommended the
Gettysburg Katalysine water, | thought
it absurd; but he sent it to me, and with
out the faintest hope of being benefited
/ drank it. In two or three weeks |
gained wonderfully in muscular power.
| continued its use until / had consumed
about eleven gallons, and then discon-
tinued it for a month or more, when |
resumed, and have continued to drink it
to the present time. And now, instead
of the helpless, sightless, and almost
speechless thing | was, | have full use of
my hands and arms, and they are as
strong as ever; can sit, stand and ride,
and have walked several times across
my room; my sight is restored; my res
pirations are normal; my voice is strong;
i can talk all day and shout as loud as
any one, and have healthy control over
those organs that before acted involun-
tarily.
Esteemed sirs, this is a very faint
description Of my case. hope soon to
see you in person, when | shall be happy
to give you any information connected
with it you may deem interesting. / am
still using the Katalysine Water; it is
my only medicine.
Very respectfully yours,
&C. NJ. GILL, MD"
Nav "a the Doctor writes: My i'm
provement continues. Please forward
another demijohn of the water"
On reading this and other accounts OF
the wonderful cures wrought by this
simple and innocuous fluid, We are
tempted to apostrophize our boasted