The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-24
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lie visits a Physicians Office and
Makes a Discovery.
Appliances With Queer Names---A
Liquid That Does Cure Rheuma-
tism---How People Once Sick
Thank Doctors Who Cure Them
A Surprising Business.
Seattle Telegraph. May %.

Seattle Telegraph. May o.
The industries of Seattle are numbered
by the hundred. We have our mills and
our factories. our great grain elevators,
immense wharves and warehouses whole
sale establishments and kindred institu-
lions which are well known TO the public,
put there is another industry a reporter
visited yesterday which, though its prod
uct Is rapidly gaining a national celebrity,
IS Of greater proportions than is generally
understood. This institution is the lab
oratory in which is manufactured DIR. J.
y. Ploufs famous and justly celebrated
rheumatism cure
| The laboratory is located on the topmost
moor Of the Olympic block. and is tilted UP
with appliances necessary for the manu-
facture of the preparation, and if there is
anything in names that would actually
strange healthy person, here is where it
can be found.
The always genial and accommodating
doctor piloted the reporter through the
establishment, naming this aud that piece
OF the apparatus used until it seemed as if
there could be nothing left in the medical,
scientific or mechanical vocabulary.
And does it require all this parapher-
MALTA to compound one of those bottles of
medicine" the reporter inquired.
Yes. SIR" the doctor replied. This is
costly apparatus. too, and you may de-
pend upon it none OF it was purchased for
ornamentation."
"And you personally supervise the
preparation OF the contents of these thou
sands of bottles | see in the packing
room2 ''
Il do. Not an ounce of the cure is COM
pounded by other hands. OF course, do
not bottle the liquid. paste the labels or
do the packing. but | compound every
drop of the cure myself might, of
| course, place the formula in other hands
| and it might be all right, but do not care
| to do so. By attending to its preparation
myself am then positively certain that
| one bottle is as good as another, that the
medicine does not vary and that have
| rheumatism cure that will do its work"
Then you are convinced that you re-
ally have discovered cure for rheuma-
| tism?"
| II know it; and let me tell you that this
| Is the only preparation on earth that does
cure that painful a:lment. There is no
mistaking it, sir. There is not a case of
rheumatism in the world, do not care of
what character or how long standing, that
will not yield to the effects of this dIscov-
cry. have standing offer OF $500 for
case cannot cure, and 1 wish some one
| would bring me the worst case of rheuma-
tism known to this age and wager me
| $1,000 could not cure it. l would soon
be $1,000 richer than am now. can as
sure you of that, sir.
"Yes. sir, have rheumatism cure that
| cures rheumatism, and that is all it does or
| will cure. Most patent medicines manu-
featured OF late years are advertised to
cure about all the ills which flesh is heir
| to. / do not claim this for the rheuma-
tism cure. 1t Is prepared to cure rheuma-
tism and rheumatism only, and it never
| has and never will deceive a sufferer.
Step down to my Office and let me show
| you something"
The elevator soon landed the scribe and
the doctor on the noor below. The doc
tors Office rooms are among the hand
| soonest physicians apartments in the
state. The reception room contains fine
/ upright piano, and the door IS literally
carpeted with expensive furs. Handsome
| pictures adorn the walls, and there is an
| air of luxury and comfort about the place
which betokens that thrift and refinement
which have characterized the doctors ex-
tended career in the Queen City of the
! Sound, the home of his adoption. Open
| ing his safe, the gentleman brought forth
bundles of papers enough to ill a busnel
| Here" he said, lis pretty convincing
| evidence of the worth of my medicine"
and he spread before the reporter affida-
| Wits enough to I'LL every column of this
| paper for week or more. The affidavits
were written and signed by, persons whom
the rheumatism cure had cured OF that
dreadful disease, and the reporter could
but conclude that the evidence was con-
! vincipg and that DR.. Plouf had really dis
| covered panacea for the very worst of
| human ills. He also displayed at least a
thousand letters from patients his medi-
cine had cured. Some of these epistles
were truly pathetic. The Deity was often
| implored to shower blessings upon the
| discoverer of the greatest of modern RENE
| dies. MAY God bless and protect you,
| and may your life be prolonged that you
may do for others what you have done for
me, were the sentiments of lady who
claimed to have been bedridden for nearly
| hve years, but was cured by 26 bottles OF
| the doctors medicine Similar language
was found in more than half OF this great
| mass of correspondence.
And where do all these letters come
| from? From everywhere. There is not
state nor territory unrepresented, nor is
| there a province in the Dominion of Can
| ada lett out. Several of the letters were
| from Mexico. and France and Germany
were also there. One letter from London,
| England, stated that the writer had tried
every known remedy, had visited numer-
Gus springs and had expended thousands
! of dollars in changing climates. seeking
relief. Almost in despair, he was induced
| by friend in Seattle to give DIR. PloufS
medicine trial. He sent for 20 bottles,
| but before he had finished the 18th bottle
! he was entirely cured. Experience OF this
| character ran all through the entire list.
| Not a murmur was found in any OF the
| letters. 1t was the same story told over
and over-a cure in every case.
| The extent of the doctors business is
| simply amazing. The packer OF the liquid
| is one of the busiest men in Seattle. "You
! can Judge from my toll. he said, 1.-THE
/ number of aches there are in the world.
| shiver as | think of it. firmly believe
/ there are rheumatics enough In this coun-
! try to populate a state as large as lndi-
ana"
81 shall go to San Francisco in about
| week" the doctor said. Before the close
| of another month / shall have in that city
the largest laboratory west OF New ! orK.
! ] also intend to open branches IN the
| Eastern cities, and here is letter which L
received yesterday from gentleman In
| London who wants me TO cross the ocean
| and establish branch in England.
| Personally. DR.. Plouf is one OF the most
! affaDle gentlemen to he found anywhere.
/ He is a bright, wide-aw axe, thorough-going
| American citizen. From his Lrst intro
| duction to the people of Seattle he enjoyed
| a splendid practice. That practice; how,
! ever. has been entirely abandoned. and
now visits only such patients as wih not
take no for an answer. His rheumatism
| cure occupies all his time. In this, IKE a
! great newspaper, the world Is his held ana
| his clientage comes from every quarter OF
| the globe.