The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-05-23
From the youngstown vindicator.
A DIAGNOSIS.
The Deceitful PraC Sices Of q SPir.
itual Fraud shown UP.

| The Oecoitful PraC liceS OF q Spfr
itual Fraud shown UP.
When will mankind cease to loye Il
be humbugged? In the town of Ra
VIENNA, Portage county, Ohio, lives
moves and has his being, certain, sc
called DR. 1. E. Mahsn, who holds him
self out to the world as spirit inedi-
um and clsirvoyart pretending to
"treat all OLD chronic diseases" His
modes oprirandi has been to request
his patients to send hlm lock of their
hair, and give their names and ages,
in case they could not visit him. Sew.
eral persons from Milton township
have been foolish enough to patron
ize this fraud, and haye been victim.
lied in the amount of several dollars
each, of course without receiving any
benefit whatever.
A short time ago, Mr.. Addison Nc
KeDzie, farmer of Milton township
addressed a letter to Mahan, repre-
senting himself and enclosing a lock
of hair cut from the under side of a
colts name. In due time he received
an answer from the Doctor, enclosing
medicine, diagnosis, and charges to
the amount of $425, which were
promptly paid.
For the benefit of your many read.
ers, give an exact copy of the dag
nOsis, as follows:
Ella Cline, aged "a years.
EXAMINATION.
Well, 1 find fine organization but
diseased. She has first a diseased liv-
er, and she will have the following
symptoms, not all at one time; but Al
times her bowels are Irregular, too
constipated think IL find her appetite
is changeable and the nervous system
is weak. The female system irregular,
and the womb is too low and has ul-
GERS at the neck Oft her kidneys are
weak and she will pass at times hot,
high colored urine of a strong odor
her liver being bad, influences the
plura or membrane that surrounds the
lungs, causing flying pains in different
parts of the ay stem. She is subject to
inflamatory diseases; she will get out
of breath easy on exercise. She can
be easily cured. She has taken too
strong medicine and injured the
stomach by it. j. %. +.
The above is his diagnosis without
any change. The initials signed at the
close are supposed to be those of the
spirit who speaks to the world through
the Doctor as medium. The inhab-
itants of the shadowy land must eth
er yet remain ignorant as when they
left us, or must be guilty Of the per-
petration of frauds upon those who
yet occupy this mundane sphere, or
DR.. Mahan is fraud, cheat, ignoram.
us, liar and swindler. Now which of
these conclusions shall the people
adopt? For my part. I take the lat
ter. If the fellow possesses any
scientific knowledge whatever. he
would be able 10 distinguish horse
from human hair, He is what the
above diagnOsls demonstrated him to
be, illiterate and unlearned in the
learning of the noble pro ofession to
wnlcn ne asplres TO belong, and by his
pretences and lying frauds
proves himself a weak but knavish
mountebank, ready to prey upon the
ills and fears of the weak and credu-
ious. Such scamps deserve to be
prosecuted as common swindlers.-I
Their victims scarcely deserve pity in
this age of light and knowledge, when
all should know that none can prac-
tice medicine successfully without be.
ing deeply learned in all the sciences
that pertain to it.
A. +. MOORE.
Milton, o., May 5, 1878.
DIR. Mahan pronounces the above a |
tissue of falsehoods, and asks room in
our columns for reply which will be
most cheerfully granted him.