Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-25
NOTE THEIR STATE OF HEALTH.
THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS THE
RIGHT JUDGES AS TO wHErH.
Err THEY ARE DANGER
oUsLY SICK on NOT.
WHAT THE PHYSICIAN SAYS,
Free Treatment for Yourself, Your Re-
lations and Friends Offered to You
Without Conditions by the Foremost

Full OF startling significance is the
sinister fact that, out of one hundred
consumptives, hardly one knows or will
acknowledge that he Is victim Of this
dreadful disease.
They all tell the same tale.
Iris only a slight cough"
Wren the warm weather comes. I
shall he better"
.Ali that troubles me is my stomach"
And 50 they seek to gloss over, even
to themselves. the fact that under al!
ordinary circumstances their doom Is
sealed.
This very insidiousness is just what
makes consumption so much to be
dreaded.
1t does its direful work in the dark
There is but little pain.
Only hacking cough, sometimes
taken for stomach cough.
a hectic fever, which many think is
a result of taking cold.
Headache and sleeplessness, often
laid to nervous trouble.
Loss of appetite, taken for a result Of
Indigestion. G
But all the time the victim is sooth-
ing himself with these gentle decisions
the interchangeable germ is working
away under safe cover, sowing the
seeds of death and destruction.
AS well stand in fancied security on
the ramparts of mighty fort. with the
pick and shovel Of the besiegers work.
ing beneath your very feet!
AS welkresf in fancied security over
the undef8round mine with the train
laid andkhe fuse burning!
We cH1hot think Of anything more
inscrutabie in the ways of divine
provideAce than this very delusion. So
widespieRd amongst the victims Of the
world sJeatest scourge, that they are.
not da Esgnusly sick.
YOU 1ttelf, at this very moment
may Id &41Herer.
How. Tyou tell if there are germs
at work your lungs or not?
But M may make reasonably sure
against attack by building up and
keeping strong body.s
BY not allowing cough to stick.
By strengthening weak lungs.
BY putting on flesh If you begin to
lose weight
By hardening yourself against the
effects of cold and cold weather.
BY killing the germ if it exists. and
rendering yourself immune to 1t if it
is not already there.
How can all this be done. you ask.
Very simply now. since the discovery
recently made by the well-known Dr..
Slocum.
His new system of treatment. which.
nd nj pn I'm
the scientific world. created such
furore amongst medical men few
years ago. has since proved SO success
full in actual practice that it has as
founded and COMPOUNDED the doubters
Every first-class druggist dispenses
the Slocum System of Treatment in
original sixteen and eight ounce pack
ages. with full directions for use.
DR.. Slocum's broad and liberal offer
to send complete course of treatment
and advice free to any sufferer from
weak lungs, has put him in the front
rank of those who are working for the
greater good of humanity.
The offer is open to everybody with
out distinction of sex or condition. and
we should be glad to see it accepted oy
every one of our readers who is in need
of treatment or advice.
All that is necessary is to send your
name and full address to DR.. T. A. Slo-
cum. Slocum Laboratories. SO Pine
street New York. when three large free
bottles of the treatment will be sent
you at once.
We earnestly advise every one OF our
readers who suffers from weak lungs.
loss of flesh and appetite. coughs, ca-
tarrh. and other similar chronic cold
weather Affections to write at once tor
free course of this treatment, which
has never vet failed to effect a cure.