The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-29
Dr.. Copeland Announces a
Rate of $500 a Month
for All Diseases, and
Gives His Reasons
for Doing So.

In announcing a uniform rate OF $500 O
month to all patients and for all diseases. Drs.
COPELAND and Gardner desire that two things
be made very clear:
Tirst-1hat the object Of the IS rate is not to
dprOy patients to their Offices and on one preiert
or another ertrdct more money from, them.
Second-7hat the cause Of the s. rate does not
lie in the necessity Of supporting a desperate
cause or building up a d,rindlin0 business. but
hat il is made for the simple purpose of demon-
sraino at once TO all cho are Interested the supe-
rior skill Of the Copeland Physicians
The So rate Is not made for Catarrh alone.
with the hope OF decoying patients to the office
and then. on tho pretext that they have other
diseases or complications OF diseases. extort-
ing more money from them. This scheme and
others OF q similar character have been prac-
tised In this city by men whose methods DR..
Copeland and his associates have been obliged
to expose.
The s., rate is to all patients and for all dis
eases. 1t includes medicines. consultation.
examination. and treatment and under no
circumstances will larger fee be charged
Regarding the second point: DR.. Copeland
and his associates recognize the right OF those
interested in determining tho value OF their
claims to have an opportunity at small ex-
pense OF seeing for themselves the difference
between the real and the pretended the
genuine and the fake.
The So rate has been by no means neces-
sary as IN incentive to business. nor will 1t be
elusively extended from month to month.
with an occasional positively tho last m onth"
thrown In. in the vain hope OF catching few
raltry dollars or propping up deservedly
decrepit practice. They have not. in placing
the rate Mt So. diluted their drugs or supplied
their laboratories with cheap materials in
rj.,r to nt,t ban papt i'm ,,o;,
one for themselves and useless one for the
public. Every patient who is placed under
treatment Mt the rate OF 81 receives the best
and IN ost careful treatment that can be given
and III edicines compounded by reg stored and
trained pharmacists and from drugs OF the
| best quality brought from sources of unuues-
| tionnble character.
| There is Just one thing more that need DO
| said to prevent any confusion in tho public
mind. After February Of 1890. when he went
West. Dr. Copennl's name was used in certain
medical advertisements in New York. He
| served a written protest against this use Of his
name. but it was several months before 1t
| could lie stopped.
Those who during this period supposed that
| they were receiving the Copeland treatment
were deceived. but it was not DR.. Corclands
| fault. The reasons for making the above
| statement are obvious: and II may rs well be
understood now MS AT any other time that any
| attem pt to imposc on the public by tho use OF
| tho name or reputation of Dr. Copeland and
| his associates will be met with the same direct
| and STRAIGHTFORWARD methods with which the
| newspaper readers have been made familiar
| during tho past four weeks Dr. Cope
land has no desire to prosecute n fallen
| enemy. He il. however. under certain OBJ
| legations to the public. which has given him
| SO literally Of it's support and confidence. 1t
| is duty that lie owes to the public to EXPOSE
sham and deception. II the truthfulnesS OF
| those exposures is in tho least questioned. 1t
| is duty that he owes himself and his associ-
ates to make his statements SO clear and their
| truthfulnesS SO apparent that there can be no
| question. This done. and tho mouth OF his
| enemy closed. except when his trembling lips
| falter their pitifu. pleas to tho newspapers to
! stop publishing the facts. and abovo all not to
publish his name. DR.. Copeland feels that his
| duty is discharged. 1t Is not matter Of per-
secution. 1t Is vindcating the right.