Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-26
MUNYON'S
 CHALLENGE. He Makes a Bold Proposition and Newspapers Will
 Investigate.
5000 VIAlS MUNYON'S RHEU-
 MATlC CURE
Will Be Distributed Free From the Birmingham State Herald Office, Beginning Thursday Morning at g O'Clock and Closing at 5P. M.-The Following Letter
 Explains Itself.

To the Editors of the Birmingham News
 papers:
 Having discovered a positive and speedy cure for rheumatism, I address you in the hope that you will give pub licity to my claim. I am well aware that in making the bold assertion that l have discovered a positive cure for rheuma- tism, there will arise a strong doubt in the minds of the public as to the truth of this statement and that large ma jority of the people will class this new discovery win the Koch lymph failure and the Brown-Sequard elixir-of-life de- lusions.
 It is to overcome this prejudice that l invoke the aid of the press. I court the fullest Investigation under your direct and personal supervision. I would sug- gest that the fairest and surest way to test the efficacy of this remedy would be for me to send 5000 trial bottles to the State Herald office, there to be given out Absolutely freeh to all persons afflicted with rheumatism; that the name and ad- dress of each person who accepted the remedy be entered in a book, and at the end of one week a reporter to be detailed to interview the parties who have taken the medicine, and that the results of each case be published (with special permis- sion) in the Birmingham newspapers. By this means there can be no deception or fraud and the value of this remedy will stand or fall upon the testimony of those who have tried it.
 Improba ble as this statement may seem 10 you. or to those who have doctored for years with the most skiliful physicians without benefit, yet affirm and am pr.s pared to prove by over 100000 people whom we have cured that this remedy will cure acute or muscular rheumatism tn from. one to five days. It never fails to cure sharp, shooting pains in the arms, legs sides, back or breast. or soreness in any part of the body. It is guaranteed to promptly cure lameness, sciatica, lumba- go, stiff and swollen joints, stiff back and all pains in the hip and Joins. It seldom fails to give relief after one or two doses, and moSt-inYariably cures before one bottle has been used.
 We do not claim this remedy will cure rheumatism where the limbs are twisted out of shape or where the disease is com plicated by a scrofulous diathesis, but by a careful record we find that this remedy fails to cure Tn only about 1 per cent of the cases in which it has been tried.
 One of the strongest recommendations for this remedy is that it is absolutely harmless and that a person can take the whole contents of a bottle without the slightest i'll effects. Unlike the medicines used in ordinary practice for the cure or rheumatism, such as iodide of potash and salicylic acid, which irritates the stomach and kidneys without effecting cure this remedy acts as strong tonic and is in- valuable in building up weak and debii1- tated people.
 Believing that there is no cause so holy and inspiring, no vocation so lofty and ennobling, nothing so sure of mans grati- tude and Gods blessing as an honest ef- fort to relieve suffering humanity, l beg t. remain, yours truly,
 JAMES M. MUNYON.