The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-17
ATTORNEYS.
q. B. HOLLISTER,
ATToKNEY-AT-LAW. 81
No. ESQ wa1nnt Street,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
BhEcTRIc REMEDY.
That Wicked Theft.

Vsl
just as we go to press we receive copy Of
the CINCINNATI DAILY STAR, containing an adj
yertisement which covers precisely naR d page
tof that paper, and which efhanates from the
'.voita Bolt Company" Of Cihcinnati. II ap-
pears that the ''volta Belt Company" is troll
bled because in our issue for January. 1876, VIC
characterized their shameless distortion of an
editorial which We wrote in our number for
April, 1875, as "a Wicked Theft,p and that
they now seek to escape the penalty
always attaching to unfair conduct, by de-
crying Outstanding and influence Of the JoUK-
NAE OF HBALTH. We do not care 70 ailude to
stated in substance that we'werc compelled to
look with suspicion upon q concern which
could SO far subvert our meaning by the omis-
sion of important words when claiming to
quote our language, as TO make us appear to
be bearing testimony to the value of the appli-
anees which they manufacture. Ii matters
very little w1atopiaion these bele persons'may
hold Of the JouENAL; II is Of great Importance
TO all right minded neiI tflas our utteranees
should not be wrested from their plain intent,
and made to seemingly foster and stistam that
to us utterly unknown quantity, the Volta Belt
Company of Cincinnati.
The trouble appears TO be that when we
discussed the subject OF electrical action and
It's application to diseased conditions, in our
April, $50, issues we spoke some conmenda-
tory words OF the appliances maue by Mr.. u. j..
sefjert, Of this city These bef6s, and bands,
and shoe -soies'we had used IN several cases,
and from ther use excellent results had fol-
lowed. We belieye'we were doing our readers
real service in explaining the uses and ad-
vantages of these simple and inexpensive in
struments, at time when, as never before,
the minds of the medical profession are active
ly engaged in discussing tire value Of the vari-
ous methous OF induoiag the electrical phe-
nomena, and employing the power Of this
subtle and mysterious agent In the heaafRg
| processes. We have examined scores OF
| electrical disks and cpains and belts from
Pulvermacher's down, and we are bound to de-
clare that the same principle is involved 10 all
OF them. To citim That the cham OF Pulver.
nfacher enlbodies any principle or exhibits any
power which SieDerfs goods do not, Is the
| sneerest folly. In this view we are -abundantly
sustaiGed By many meficai writer's. Ihat able
medical puA1tfcation, the New York Physician
| and Pharmacists" In it's issue OF November
| last, speaks as follows: snhe Palvermachef
chain, which has received the distinguished
appreciation Of Sir, Charles Locock and other
| European scientists, il largely used in En-
gland, and, as the Arihadillo per orms the
i same functions and presents the same prinei-
| pies, only iiI more convenient form. the Q il
no reason why II should not attain the same
So lar as Ne have examined and tested the
electric Appliances Of nfihy makers, we DIS
cover no difference in power or In results
| Seiberts goods have some advantages; they
are of very conYenient shape, are easily ap-
/ pli iad mn
reasonable in prise. We have seen d g0ed
many sufferers from painful neuralgia aiiec-
tions and distressing nervous disorders, who
assert that these articles of seibefts-to which
he has given the general name OF "Voltait
A Armadilio' rendered signal and lasting
service. Physicians ihnumerable have en-.
lployed them and testify to their efficacy: They
can can pd pe, and win do si tiiat 6usht 20 be- tx *
lpected of such appliances. s.ft5
4 These Cincinnati belt people take grea
pains, and occupy much space 10 show tia
when HALL's JOURNAL says good woi d fo
Seibert's goods, it does it in spite Of, the adj
4 verse 6pinions of writer's IN the POPdLAi
SpIENtE MONTHLY, and the PHILADELPHIA
A MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REPORTER. 1hi
might all be true, anu yet we should not con
persons who have not IL may be, given th'
lsebject as careful investigation as Il has re
ssysd C. ssSsds sas nsnds MosE W. fad IA msth tn
i61a, page $50, an EDITORIAL AL
hIission that the aliusions to The Afmadillo I,
4 b previous issue were made without any direc
i knowledge Of the appliance. This is. Of course
acomRlete retraction OF any previous criticism
upon tno Instruments. The article ia Oh,
PAILADELPHIA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL RE
PORTER was published IN the absence OF tn,
4 editor, WHO had Never even seen the Ai.hia
diiod It was prepared by party In the in.
/ terest OF q rival house. This was the statement
Of the editor OF the BEPORTER to another e,ijto,
IN New YORK. VI conl Sc, loose statements thui