The herald., 1896-02-23
GRATEFUL MOTHER
Writes the Press About Her
Daughter
And Wishes to Go On Record as
One of the Persons Not
Ashamed to Give Credit
Where Credit is Due


The following letter, which explains
itself, was written without my knowl-
edge to the editor of a Los Angeles pc
per, who has kindly turned it over to
me to make of it whatever use see
proper. Later shall publish in this
paper more detailed account Of this
remarkable cure. B. G. PLATT,
Manager Flowery Kingdom Herb Rem
edy Company.
Los ANGELES, GAL, Feb. IA, 1896
| DEAR SIR:-I have noticed gree
| deal of discussion of late in the new
papers about the merits of the Chinese
herbal treatment, as shown in the re-
cults performed by the Flowery King
dom Herb Remedy Company, a men,
Der of which has recently been before
the public. both in the courts and in
the newspapers. It seems to me that a
matter of this kind should be discussed
from all sides, and have besn pleased
to note that many of the people who
| have used the herbs furnished by this
company have been bold enough and
fair-minded enough to give their expe-
riences to the public. desire, with
your permission, to state the plain
facts OF case which consider more
remarkable than any SO far reported. l
believe that any one who reads these
facts and investigates them, as all may
have an opportunity to do, must be-
come convinced that there are very ex-
traordinary merits in this method of
treating disease.
1 have a little girl, CLARA, now about
| IL years of age. About the 1st of
March, 1898, while playing, she fell and
bruised the large bone of the right leg
between the knee and the ankle. The
injury did not amount to much at first,
and for long tune we thought moth
! ing of it. But after some weeks it be-
gan to trouble her. 1 consulted our
family physician, DR.. Goodheart, who
has since removed from this city. He
said that the injury would 60 away of
itself, and amounted to nothing. He
advised us to rub little liniment or
arnica upon the bruise, which. he said,
would be all that was necessary.
! Some months later, as the bruise, or
wound, still continued to trouble my
little daughter, we consulted DIR. Orme
about it. As soon as he saw it he de-
| clared that the injury was very seri
Gus, asked why we had let it 60 so long
without medical advice, and declared
that Clara would be crippled for life,
as the limb would have to be amputa-
ted. He wanted to perform an opera
tion at once, but we we're so much
alarmed and frightened that we would
| not consent to this.
| We next consulted DR.. Beckett, who
stated that the injury was more serious
than we had at first supposed, but that
it could be easily cured in a short
time. He treated it at first with lini-
ments and lotions, but these remedies
failed to produce the desired effect,
and Or. Beckett decided that it would
be necessary to open the wound and
scrape the bone. An operation of this
kind WAS performed and gave tempo
rary relief which lasted about three
months.
At the end of this time the wound
again became painful, with swelling
and other indications of serious diff
Guilty. Dr. Beckett now decided that
the wound went deeper than he had at
first supposed, and that portion of
the bone must be removed. So more
radical operation was performed. This
operation was performed at DR.. Beck
ett's sanitarium, on Sixth street. As
remember, there we're present eight of
the best surgeons of this city. These
all agreed in their opinion of the case.
They said that there was a cancer of
the bone, which could not be healed.
The Y recommended immediate amputa-
ticn OF the leg as the only means of
saving my daughters life. They
thought that it would be dangerous to
| lot NJ
dered by other physicians at different
times. DR.. Beckett, however, was un-
willing to consent to amputRtioD, as he
still had hopes OF saving the leg, So a
section of bone about two inches in
length was cut away, nearly to the
marrow and removed. l am informed
that this piece of bony tissue was sent
east to noted specialist, whose name
l do not know, and that ne confirmed
the diagnosis as case of cancer.
After this operation my daughter
was confined to her room for some
months, and was not permitted to use
her leg at all. But there was no per-
manent Improvement, and DIR. Beckett
decided that it would be necessary to
scrape the bone third time. This
was now about the 1st of August last,
nearly two years and half after the
fret apparently trifling injury had
been received.
CLARA grew worse very rapidly after
this third operation, and DR.. Beckett
now declared that as the wound had
not healed, it never would heal; that
there were symptoms of blood poison
ing, and thatein his opinion, the limb
must now be cut off or my, y,daughter
would die. He said that she could not
live forty eight hours unless this was
done. About ten or eleven days after
the third operation he came to our
house with carriage, prepared to take
Clara to his sanitarium for the pur-
pose of performing the amputation.
We objected, but be stated that,in such
cases, it was the duty Of physicians to
overrule the wishes of parents, who
were incapable, as he believed, of form
ing an unbiased judgment under such
circumstances. DIR. Beckett had been
| very kind to US, and had done every
thing in his power for our daughter.
| II was hard, under the circumstances,
to 20 contrary to his judgment But /
was still unwilling that the leg should
be cut off, and l 80 Informed DR.
Beckett.
just about this time we began to
hear of the The Flowery Kingdom Herb
Remedy company, through some. arti
cles published in the Times. Acting
on the advice of friends, 1 took Clara