The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
REVIEW OF A GREAT AND BENEFIcIENT
WORK.

REVIEW OF GREAT AND 1ENEf4C1EN1
WORK.
| Two recognized epochs of human life
have been completed since we began this
| work. 1t is meet that we make halt,
| long enough at least to take note OF the
region over which we have journeyed,
and to examine the horizon which opens
/ up to US.
/ Twice seven years ago one of us started
single handed to inaugurate and develop
| a new use; at once scientiful and practical,
professional and commercial, business-like
and beneflcient. They only who have
| tried it know the difficulties to be encoun-
tered in creating an entirely new business
and securing its recognized entrance into
| the rank and file Of business. That we
have done this gives us the right TO speak.
! For eight years this single handed work
was prosecuted. The operator had a con-
viction that in the Compound Oxygen he
| found the mode of redeeming his fellow
men from the sufferings of disease, more
| potent and benign than the world had ever
seen. This inspired him with the courage
to abandon lucrative practice which he
had been twelve years in building, and to
overcome all obstacles in the way of realiz
ing his dream-of proving to the world
| that his conviction was securely founded.
That this has been fully accomplished,
/
richer in greatly improved health stand
ready to testify.
| Sixteen years ago the senior partner had
| his attention called to few persons who
were taking the Compound Oxygen. They
declared that they were improving with
satisfaction. He felt sure they were being
stimulated; and that, consequently, they
would soon show the effect of all stimula-
ton, and retrogade below the point of
health at which they began the treatment.
| BY carefully watching the cases for sew
eral months, his prediction failed of veri-
fication in single case. He then induced
several of his own patients eases which
any physician would have considered very
doubtful under any system of medication
to try the effect of the Compound Oxy
gen. With surprise he watched them
| making commendable speed healthward.
He put members of his own family under
treatment, and with like good results.
| All this provoked conflict in his mind.
He had proof that in the Compound Oxy-
gen there was an agent that would cure
many sick ones whose condition would
battle the medical skill of any physicians
whom he knew. And many others whom
he might cure in six or twelve months
would get well in as many weeks under
the action of that agent.
| Now the question forced itself upon his
mind and peremptorily demanded an an
swer: What are you going to do with
| this latter class of patients, who confide to
| your care the restoration of their health?
As faithful physician is it not your duty
| to take the surest and shortest way to Sc
cure to them that for which they are pay
| ing your Well, what is the propositionl
Evidently, send such patients where you
know they can be better served than they
can be under your care and ministratlon."
| But that would be suicidal. s'No, the pro.
| portion of such patients would be small" !"
True, but the public will not discriminate.
They will see only that the doctor sends
his patients elsewhere to be cured, and
therefore, he lacks confidence in his medi
cal skill. "Well, there is one way out of
| the dilemma; get possession of the super
| ior curative agent and thus make peace
with your professional conscience and
prove yourself a friend of suffering
humanity" What, and be, jeered by
ones friends, and tabooed by ones
to be about the price. But what is
| the alternativea' Result: He gives up
his hard-earned practice, secures at great
price the knowledge of and the right to
administer the Compound Oxygen in this
city.
in Philadelphia. Soon he was exercised
by the fact that the operasion of an Office
business was very limited. Something
must be done to dispense the blessing far
and wide. Accordingly, at no little ex-
pense, he fastened to make known to his
professional brethren the virtues of Com
pound Oxygen and to furnish them with
to have known would be the case, his eff.
forts excited ridicule and reproaches.
/ Nothing daunted, he entered upon long
series of experiments, which resulted in
the conviction that there was much bet
ter method of accomplishing the end in
IL - ~ l. c.:1 III
Hence the widely known Home Treat
ment.
In this untried field he klabored for a
year, meeting many failures in his expert
ments, working hard at details, and Great
ing literature which the work absolutely
required. On the last of June, ten years
ago, the probability of the enterprise was
demonstrated. But he had exhausted his
resources, broken his health, and almost
sacrificed his life. The ship was built and
launched, but three years struggle proved
to him that he could not freight and man
it. Six and half years ago he found a
man who could appreciate the value of the
work in hand. Our united forces have
fulfilled the brightest hopes of the pioneer.
i Anew departure was the order of the day.
| The first and essential thing to be done
was to! let those who needed our curative
agent know that we were in possession of
it. Knowing that many fortunes have been
sunk in advertising, we decided to put that
part of the business into the hands of one
whose skill and experience had been
proven. 1t is enough to say that the
methods which he adopted have revolu-
tionized important branches of advertis-
| ing.
From the outset we have dealt truthfully
with the suffering sick, realizing that they
at least had right to demand such deal
| ing. We knew that we had a curative
| agent superior to any other in the world,
and, therefore, the simple truth about it
would be the best credentials it could have;
hence we were not tempted to invent tes-
timonials, nor to steal genuine ones nor
to romance on any.
The growth of the business has been
phenomenal. During the first year the
business doubled each month. During
the last four years we have recorded in
our books, statements of diseases, reports
of progress, repeated advice and prescrip-
tions, of over twenty thousand persons.
Much more could be said in proof of the
success of our work as O commercial en-
terprise; but let this suffice. 1t is of much
greater Importance to prove that our pro-
| fessional success has exceeded the other
What have we to show in this direc-
tiona During those fourteen years we
have treated thirty thousand patients.
Among these large proportion had been
sick for years. They had exhausted the
skillof the best physicians of all schools, diff
ferent sanitariums, various natural health
ersorts, shops of nostrum mongers and
months of hygienic travelling. In many
| of these cases it has cost more to remove
the baleful effects of the treatment prac-
ticed on them, than those of the original
disease. How many of them have been
desperate cases may be inferred from the
fact that we have filled scores of orders
sent unconditionally-in which the patient