Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-03
ON YOUR honor.
This Is the Condition Upon Which Lady

Correspondent Asks a Direct Question.
ais catarrh curable? Answer on your
honor as gentlemen"
Now, this direct and very emphatic ques-
tion was the introduction OF a letter which
Dr. CoDeland and his associates received the
other day from lady in Sharon, Pa: "IS
catarrh durable? Answer on your honor as
gentlemen"
While the question implies considerable
doubt as to the durability of catarrb, or per-
haps an impression that the disease is not
curable, it also implies complimentary re-
lance on the truthfulness of the people to
whom it was addressed, and, for that reason,
deserves fair and square answer, and such
an answer it shall receive.
Yes; catarrh is a curable disease. Wei have
been demonstrating that fact for years. We
are demonstrating it every week in the pub
lshed statements of well-known men and
women in the community. who have been
entirely cured, and who state to the public
over their own signatures. and in interviews
accompanied by their portraits, that they
have been cured.
We have been demonstrating it again and
again by referring continually to state
I ments published in our advertisements
years ago, and reaffirmed By the persons
speaking to-day, who point to their state
ments of years ago. and state that not the
slightest sign or symptom of their trouble
has appeared since their original statements
were made.
Catarrh is curabIe. To the reading, think
ing, intelligent public we have left no room
for doubt of the truth of the statement. We
answer this question "on our honor as gem
tlemen" and as conscientious physicians
every day in our consultation room. We
deal honestly with our patients and keep
faith with the public
InteIIipent Deople know this. Even those
who are not specially interested in our work
know that it would not be profitable for US
to do anything else. Located as we are,
and uniform fee of s. co a month for medi-
cine and treatment, it would be the height
of folly to impose upon the public, even II
we desired to do so. Advertisers VINO I'M
pose on the people expect to see their pa
tients but very few times and charge exor-
bitant fees. The specialist who charges low
tees and sees his patients regularly two or
three times q week or hears from them reg
uarly is not going to make statements that
he cannot fulfill. This stands to reason.
When we say catarrh is durable, we mean
exactly what we saw and when we place q
patient under treatment in the office for
catarrh, expect to cure him. The ma
jority of the cases tliat we treat are cured;
some are not. There are cases where the
progress of catarrh has extended to the
lungs. the heart, or some vital organ, ana q
cure is impossible. Where the disease has
been so long neglected, no medical skill will
bring about n cure In such cases we are
fortunate if can benefit the patient and
in these instances we never promise to
effect cure.
Catarrh, when it has developed into Con-
sumption and reached an advanced stage,
can rarely, if ever, be entirely cured. There
are other and more frequent cases IN which
a failure to obtain cure Is noted.
In these cases it is not the seriousness OF
the disease that prevents cure: 1T is the
carelessness, neglect and thoughtlessness OF
the patient. For instance, as soon as he be-
gins to improve he becomes neSlectful IN
taking his medicine or in getting his treat
ment; SAYS it is too much trouble, and III q
short time comes to a stand-still as far as
improyement is concerned, and aftera while
blaneS his doctor for not curing MN. rms
is fair example OF a great many cases. The
impression that catarrh Is lncufaole IS IN
creased by such cases as this and Is fostered
by physicians who do not treat catarrh and
know nothing about it.
Catarrh is curable disease. In cases
where the pa tient follows our directions
faithfully, regularly, and for the prescribed
length of time, a complete and permanent
cure is morally certain. We are ready to
maintain this proposition by an abundance
of evidence and to the question with which
this article began we answer in all sincerity
and on our "honor as gentlemen that
catarrh is curable when the patient follows
regularly and faithfully the doctors lnstruc-
tions. when the contraction OF no other dis
ease inter!eres with the progress OF the
treatment, and when the catarrhal condltlon
itself has not been neglected so long as TO
extend into Consumption or some otner
fatal disease.
Dr<. Copeland, Hall and Byers treat suc-
cessfullv all durable cases at &c sixth avenue,
Pittsburo Pa. Office hours, 9 to IL A. NJ, = TO D
p NJ and to9P NJ. Sundays lOA. NJ to 4 P. NJ.
Specialties-Catarrh and all diseases OF th5
eve ear throat and lungs: dyspepsia cured;
nervous diseases cured: SKIN diseases Gurfa; G
mail Send 2-cent stamp for question plank.
Address all mail to
DRS. COPELAND, HALL BYERs,
G6 Sixth avenue, Pittsburg, Pa