The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-07
PATENT MEDICINE EVIL
Free Treatment BY DIS. Copeland and Bra
naman ard Its Protection to the People
From The Deadly Danger OF Rank
and Poisonous Patept Ou-e-slIs

If you give a child Rough on Rats
and the child dies. you VIII be sent 20
Jail and probably. hanged. II you give
il patent medicine and it dies the law
doesn't even inquire into the cause OF
ceath, and you are IAN innocent person
DR.. Copeland admits that many patent
! cure-alls contain useful ingredients. They
| contain useful poisons. such arsenic.
/ opium. choral. anti-pyrene. etc. With
out the poison, the patent wouldn't be n
medicine, just as pine stick without
Saltpeter and potash wouldn't be a sky
| rocket. and just as a shotgun without
powder wouldn't be a weapon Dr.
! Copeland simply holds that IL should be
| made felony to prescribe them ignor-
| antly, Notwithstanding the usefulness of
/ the poisons they contain, just as it is
felony 10 handle sunpowder recklessly,
Notwithstanding it's usefulness in war and
I trade, and just as il is felony. 10 FIRE
| useful rife into group of children
! or throw lump OF useful dynamite into
a crowded church.
If it is unlawful for those not physi-
clans 10 prescribe arsenic, opium. choral.
! anti-pyrene. etc-under their right names
then by what sort OF fiip-jiggery does
| II become lawful TO administer those
{ Identical poisons under fictitious names
and under patent cover. like bomb IN
Z sack of sugar or deathdrops in cara
| mels?
| As a protection against this practice
of deceiving the sick, Drs. Copeland *
| Branaman offer to treat all patients free
! All treatment free- Every visit free
| All advice free. All care and attention
free. The only charge is for medicines.
| to any patient or for any disease. All
medicines are compounded of the purest
! drugs, under the personal care of the
physicians themselves.
\ MINISTRIES WORDS.
The Rev. John Crimson, pastor OF the III.
| +. church OF Atkinson, Henry county, H.,
writes.
| Regarding the Copeland system of
, mail treatment, L would say that took
| a brief course for catarrh. attended with
/ nervous debility and troublesome
I chronic cough. The results were most
gratifying. My disorders had been great
/ ~ aggravated by oVerwork, and by three
successive attacks of the grip L had
good medical attention. but the Copeland
! treatment proved the only means of
/ completely mastering the entire trou-
/ Die
AN ENGINEERS STORY.
Mr.. W. Hackett, a well-known engineer
OF Lansing, Kan, writes under date OF
March %:
II received your letter asking about
your trea tment as applied to my case:
viii say | believe that | am cured. but
L VIII need to wait a little while before 1
can say whether my cure Is permanent.
| Your treatment did me lots of good.
| have a little tickling in my nose, and
sneeze occasionally. but that is all. l
can certainly recommend your treat
/ ment"
CASHIERS LETTER.
Mr.. c.. Maggie. asst cashier of the Doug
lass bank, of Douglass, Kan. writes:
L our letter or recent uate received. In
reply Will say ] have completed my third
months treatment and feel better than
/ have for years. There is not single
symptom of -catarrh left. | now sleep
sound and am refreshed in the morning.
L am entirely cured. Your course of
treatment is the thing, and If anyone will
take il and viii follow YOUR advice and
directions he may be cured.
LOCAL TESTIMONY.
Mrs. Mary Larkin, No. 2507 East 18th
street. this city, says: II lost flesh until
i had dwindled almost TO a skeleton. L
had doctored with good physicians who
told me that / was in the last stages of
consumption and could do nothing for me,
but advised that l should try the Cope
land Lung treatment. Since under that
treatment all the agonizing pain has left
me. / am getting strong and my health
is increasing rapidly. | have gained
seventeen pounds in weight and am an
entirely different person.
YOU MAY BE CURED AT HOME.
BY the Copeland perfected system of
mail treatment you may be cured at home.
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