Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-09
WATERBURY, Mar 9.
Hon John One

WATERBURY,, Mar 9.
Hon John ONeill:
Dear Sir-Mrs ----- brought me your
message. You say as a clairvoyant | have a
perfect right to practice. Do not clairvoy-
ants use remedies and prescriptions? If
it must come to trial let it come. am
not built of the stuff of which towards are
made. If l stay practicing a clairvoyant
l shall virtually acknowledge that l have
been during the last five months commit
ting a trespass. l acted upon your advice
and your Interpretation of the law as you
read it to me. Were you wrong? If you
were right then I am right now. Why did l
pay SO for the privilege of selling my
medicines if the board of health
has the power at its own option of annul-
ling the license? The whole trouble rests
on the indisputable fact that am curing
and not killing. 1 demand that you as
sist me. If 1 am a criminal 1 deserve
punishment. If am right, then uphold
me I shall advertise as a medical clairvoy-
ant. l shall sell medicines for which 1
hold a license to sell. Have not the
doctors any nobler game, than a
lone woman? Is it because l rob
them of patients? I do not So
icit them. They come to me feeling
wretchedly. restore them and the hands
Il.
Am I a public nuisance when l restore the
hearing, the voice the crippled, the dy-
ing? If | go to prison, what then? My
patients will still love me, still seek me,
still procure my remedies. | can serve
God in a cell as well as in parlor and the
doctors will simply advertise my success.
Some prosecutions are beneficial. l shall
not run from danger. 1t is not my make
up. [ find facing my foes more to
my taste and to my credit. l thank you
for your warming, but my duty lies where
[ am. l cannot turn my back upon those
who look to me for help. Setting aside
the idea of patent medicine, l have the
right that hundreds enjoy of curing with
massage clairvoyant remedies and faith.
The result justified me in firm adherence.
Respectfully,
HELEN H. KEAN.
Here is a pretty kettle of fish. Mrs
Helen Ashland Kean, poet musician, ply
stefan, using the massage treatment
clairvoyant and proprietor and manufact-
urer of the death on cholera" and Saga
more Idoo" remedies; and who also
practices the faith cure when required, de-
ties the prosecuting attorney. A little
time ago it seems this woman began prac-
ticing medicine though whether it was
contrary to law may be doubtful.
Some of the local physicians brought the
matter to the attention of the prosecuting
attorney and he wrote the lady to come in
and see him, which she did and was ad-
vised that she had the right to practice the
faith cure. the massage treatment or
Swedish movement cure, as a clairvoyant,
and that she could use proprietary RENE
dies and she claimed that Sycamore Idoo
was a proprietary remedy and the matter
was dismissed. A little later the county
health officer began an investigation and
learned, as he believed, that Mrs Kean's
practice was not confined within the
bounds above stated and the
matter was again brought to the
attention of the prosecuting attorney.
The attorney wrote to the lady, when she
brought him in some sheets of music, her
own compositions, which the attorney has
been practicing ever since. Anyone may
hear him any morning in the corridors of
the City hall and many wonder where those
sweet melodious strains were procured.
The lady did not see the attorney when
she called with this music and few
days later local physician called the at
torneys attention to the fact that he
thought that she was practicing contrary to
law. Her methods were discussed and
whether there was sufficient evidence to
convict her was also discussed and the
matter was left for another day.
The attorney again sent her warning that
she must confine her practice strictly with
in the lines indicated or that she would be
prosecuted. and now the lady sends the
attorney this reply, and it can be seen from
her letter that she does not intend to be
frightened.