The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24

Rochester, N. Y, July 23.-The al
most miraculous cures of hopeless in
valids made by Prof Thomas F.
Adkin, of this city, have been of such
d startling character that they have
aroused widespread wonder, admiral
ton and curiosity Time and again
he has taken cases pronounced hope
lessly incurable by the medical pro-
tession and restored the patients to
life and health in a most phenomenal
manner.
There is considerable mystery at
tached TO his method of accomplish
ing these marvelS, as it is known that
he does not use the drastic drugs and
medicines that doctors depend upon.
He claims to have discovered that
certain law of nature has peculiar
properties heretofore unsupported, and
that by the application of this law
there is no disease he may not cure.
And it is matter of proof that with
the mysterious power this discovery
gives him he has made the blind see
and the lame walk. He has revived
the pickering spark of life in bodies
on the very verge of the grave. and
restored to health men and women
given up to die by doctors and spe-
cialists. He seems to have absolute
control over human life and the dis
eases that attack it. Notwithstanding
what might be considered most fa-
vorable opportunity, he does not ex-
treats. saying:
Carnegie chooses to give libraries:
1 prefer to give life and health. 1 am
not a millionaire. but I am we'll able
to afford to give my services free to the
sick and afflicted. My discovery is my
own. to do with as / please. and /
could charge every patient a thousand
dollars if I wanted to. But | don't
And" know of no law to compel me
to take money for restoring man to
health. / do not care what the dis
ease is. l am just as ready to cure
consumption, cancer, paralysis,
Bright's disease or any one OF the
so-called incurable disease as / am
to cure rheumatism. stomach trouble,
catarrh. blood disorders or any other
i'll that flesh is heir to. | am just as
ready and willing to give nay services
free to a poor man as l am to a rich
man. When it comes to a question of
life or death. sickness or health, the
amount of money man has makes
no difference to me.
ga prince or pauper, / treat them
gust the same. To me. as to the law,
all persons are equal. L see anu du-
nit of no difference between patients
as far as / am concerned. If / choose
| to help all who are i'll without pay
there is nothing to prevent my doing
SO. And / may as we'll tell you right
| here that / mean to keep on curing
any one who asks me of any disease
! they may have just as long as l am
willing and able. What other men
do. what they fail to do or what they
charge makes no difference to me. /
| feel that it is my duty to carry out my
| own plans in my own way, however
much it costs me. / cannot bear to
| think of men and women and little
| children continuing to suffer and die
| when / have the power to save them
and restore them to life and health
SO easily and quickly. And there is
| no disease | may not cure.
| "You think that a broad statement?
Well, maybe it is: but no broader
| than the truth. / know the wonder
| fu1 power / have because | have test
| ed it in thousands of cases You
| know CONSUMPTION is supposed to be
incurable. Well, not long ago | had
a young lady as a patient, Miss I'll. L..
| Kelly, of Seal Cove, Maine. The doc
| tors told her that she had ,consump-
| ton and could not live: that her case
was incurable. And to them it was.
The poor girl was in despair, think
| ing her days were numbered. But