Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-22
HELEN ASHLAND KEAN.

Not a CIaIrvoyant of the Modern School,
But Because She Was Born That Way
A Traduced, Whitfield and Generally I'LL
Treated Woman.
To the Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
Dear Sir-Becauss have been SO often
misunderstood, so often traduced, ridi-
culed, villifed, sneered at and generally ill
treated by those who condemn without
hearing seeing or reason, desire to say
few words to your readers, not in self de-
tense, but in defense of my position and
OF the principle for which I stand. for
which fight and for which I am perse-
cuted, even to the extent of having been
twice judged, twice condemned, twice
fined and once imprisoned. It is not
pleasant position to occupy, that of an
outlaw, a transgressor against laws, an
insurrectionist, an agitator; to be called a
crank, a lunatic and a poisoner. No, not
at all, when one has only the interest of
his or her fellow beings at heart; when one
desires to help and heal and not expert
ment upon, and vivisect and kill; when
one has not transgressed laws, nor set
rightful authority at defiance, but has in
Cured enmity from certain doctors, be-
cause certain doctors have lost their
patients, which means loss of income.
am called clairvoyant and SO 1 call
IL,
of the term, or rather. in the popular one,
which associates with clairvoyancy, table
tipping and uncanny rappings, and
dreams, and cards, and jugglery, etc. etc.
ad infinitum, ad nauseam, ad libitum to the
end of the Chapter sort of modern
Salem witchcraft. Now, have not to do
with these phenomena at all. L do not tell
fortunes, nor use love philters, nor
poisons, nor tip tables, nor invoke de-
parted spirits from hades or from Mount
Olympus to rap like Poe's Raven" on my
chamber door or window.
Clairvoyant clear seeing I was born
that way" lead almost dual life, for
the inner man or woman physically as we'll
as spiritually is laid open 10 me at times.
Not. thank God, however, on dissecting
table, for never used knife In my life
| to butcher man, woman or child and
have saved many from being cut open to
serve the purpose of science or to coach
some young f1edgeling of a medical auto
| crat. l diagnosticate case because l see
what part of the viscera or body is
affected. I see the cause and doctor it.
| do not doctor the effect and have it (the
effect remove the cause. Cutting off the
| branches of tree does not cut down the
tree, but lay the axe to the root and
presto it is done. I have cured hundreds
in this town and suburbs, and oaths can
testify to the fact-without poisons, with
out bleeding, without the knife. I use
herbs and their active principles some
times. My "Sagamore 1doo," which the
regular physician sneers at and condemns,
is purely and surely and emphatically a
blood purifier, an eradicator of disease.
It has restored sight, hearing, smell, taste
and touch. 1t has made new muscle,
brain and nerve. Why should it not when
| it eradicates the cause of disease?
I resisted the law, if law it is which
takes from an American citizen his or her
constitutional right to use what remedies,
| Gf they are not harmfuD and what physi-
clan (if capable) he or she desires. What
right has the state of Connecticut insti-
gated by handful of doctors, to say to a
man, YOU shall do this, or shall not do
that? Is not mans home his fortress and
castle? Must a mans child perish because
the regular physician fails and the irregu-
lar one could do but will not be allowed
the right, because he or she is not regis
tered, or does not belong to the regular
order? Must one kill? Must one shed
blood to get into that mystic brotherhood
like the priests of the old barbaric re-
liglons?
The evidence under which 1 was con-
victed can be and will be impeached. And
reasoning people will see that law so I'M
Just is made null and void. The state
medical board. modern council of
three" or of ten like that OF Venice have
held an autocratic power. But public
sentiment is not all in their favor. Men
have individual rights that sumptuary laws
attack and this, that no man can be healed
except by a regular or a registered physl-
clan is an invasion, an infringement that
the ballot box will indirectly settle. This
age is too advanced. We are not in medi-
;eval times, although we may be Ito allow
pun in medico evil times. 1 write this
letter to assail no one, but to illustrate and
explain my position as a peaceful, law
abiding citizen; humanitarian, not an
agitator nor an outlaw. There is nothing
in my position, my practice, or my belief.
to which any Catholic or Protestant could
not conform as well as myself. My con-
science does not sit upon me in condem-
nation. 1 am trying like the samaritan of
old to heal and help. In the name of God
why am I restricted? Simply because I
have taken away the vultures' prey.
Respectfully,
HELEN ASHLAND KEAN,
Clairvoyant and magnetic healer and
therapeutist eclectic.
Waterbury, Conn, June %, 1894.
1877 Bank street,