Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-03-21
REVIEW OF A GREAT AND BENEFICIENT
WORK

WIS dt tiie tlilit, Dy disaster.
REVIEW OF A GREAT AND BENEFICIENT
WORK
Two recognized epochs of human life
have been completed since we began this
work. Ii is meet that we make n 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-lik
and bencicient. They only who haze
tried it know the difficulties to he 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 Il con-
viction that in the Compound Oxygen he
found the mode of redceming his fellow
men from the suilerings 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 wears 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.
thousands of peOple-eitherc cured or made
richer i'll 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-
tication in single case. He then induced
several of his own patients-ea 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 a 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
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would get well in rs many weeks under
the action of that agent.
Now the question forced itself upon his
mind and pcremptorly demanded an an
swor: what are you going to do with
this latter class of patients, Who cOniide to
your care the restoration of their health /.
As IA faithful physician is il not your duty
10 take the sureSt and shortest way to Sc
cure to them that for which they are pay
ing your Well. what is the proposition
"Evidentlv, send such patients where you
know they can he better served than they
can be under your care and ministratIOn.
But that would be suicidal. mo, 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 friend Of suffering
humanity" What, and be jeered by
ones friends, and tabooed 10y ones
professional brethren! THAT appears
to be about the price. But what is
the altcrnativeg 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.
This included only the office treatment
in Philadelphia. Soon he was exercised
by the fact that the operasiOn of an office
business was very limited. Something
must he done To dispense the blessing far
and wide. Accordingly. at no little eX-
pense, he FASTENED to make known Ia his
professional brethren the virtues of Com
pound Oxygen and to furnish them with
outfits for administering il. As he ought
to have known would be the case, his eff
forts excited ridicule and reproaches.
Nothing daunted. he entered upon a long
series of experiments, which resulted in
the conviction that there was much bet
ter method of accomplishing the end in
view than the one which had failed.
Hence the widely known Home Treat
ment.
In this untricd field he .aborcd for a
year, meeting many failures in his expert
ments. working hard at details, and Great
ing literal urc 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
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 a half years ago he found a
man who could appreciate the value of the
work in hand. Our united ferces have
fulfilled the brightest hopes of the pioneer
Anew departure was the Orderof the day.
The first and essential thing to he done
was to. let those who needed our curative
agent know that we were in possession of
il. Knowing that many fortunes have been
sunk in advertising, we decided to pu. that
part of the business into the hands of one
whose skill and experience had been
proven. Ii is enough to say that the
methods which he adopted have revolu-
tionizcd important branches of advertis-
ing
From the outset we have dealt truthfully
with the suffering sick, realizing that they
at least had a right to demand such deal
ing. We knew that We had curative
agent superior to any other in the world
and, therefore, the simple truth about it
would be the best credentials il 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 prcscrip-
tionS, of over twenty thousand persons.
Much more could he said in proof of the
success of our work as commercial en-
terprse: 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
ton. During those fourteen years we
have treated thirty thousand patients.
Among these a 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 il has cost more To remove
the balcful effects of the treatment prac-
tced 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 filed scores of orders
sent Internationally in which the patient
had passed beyond the reach of any REM
edy on its arrival. And out of this I'M
promising multitude, ninety per cent have
been either cured or greatly benefited.
We have proved that number of dis
eases which by common consent have been
assigned to the category of ''ir,curabies,"
no longer belong there. We have cured n
number of cases of Bright's disease. Two
of these cases were brothers, whose father,
one brother and one sister had died of the
same disease, We have treated four cases
of Taro. ulofn, alta rim or 1ll.o0l.pceiJe mn,