The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-23

Rochester, n. Y, July 2O.-(Specia
Correspondence.)- 1.-The almost miracu
lous cures of hopeless invalids made By
Prof. Thomas f. Adkin of this city
have been of such a startling character
that they have aroused widespread
wonder, admiration and curiosity. Time
nounced hopelessly incurable by the
medical profession and restored the pa
tient to life and health in a most phe-
nomenal manner
There is considerable mystery at
tached to his method of accomplishing
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 a
certain law of nature has peculiar pro-
perties, heretofore unsupported, and
that by the application of this law there
is no disease he may not cure And it
is a matter of proof that with the mys-
terious 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
health men and women given up to die
by doctors and specialists. He seems
to have absolute control over human
life and the diseases that attack it.
Notwithstanding what might be consid-
cred most favorable opportunity, he
does not extort money from those
whom he treats. saying:
Carnegie chooses to give libraries. I
not a millionaire, but 1 am well able
to afford to give my services free to the
sick and afflicted. My discovery is my
own, to do with as please, and I could
charge every patient a thousand dol
lars il I wanted to. But I don't; and
/ know OF no law to compel me to take
money for restoring a man to health.
! do not care what the disease is; / am
just as ready to cure consumption,
cancer, paralysis. Bright's disease, or
any one OF the so-called incurable dis
eases as I am to cure rheumatism,
stomach trouble, catarrh, blood diSor-
ders, or any other ill that flesh is heir
to. am just as ready and willing to
give my services free to a poor man as
1 am to a rich man. When it comes to
asQuestfOn of life or death, sickness CT
has makes no difference to me-
"A prince or a pauper, l treat
them just the same To me, as to the
law. all persons are equal. I see and
admit of no dierence between patients
as far as am concerned. If choose
to help all who are ill without pay
there is nothing to prevent my doing
So And 1 may as well tell you right
anyone 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. 1
feel that il 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 L have the power to save them,
and restore them to life and health
so easily and quickly. And there is no
disease 1 may not cure.
You think that a broad statement?
Well. maybe 1t is; but no broader than
the truth. I know the wonderful pow
er I have because I have tested it in
thousands of cases. You know con-
sumption is supposed to be incurable.
Well, not long ago I had a young lady
as a patient. Miss H. L. Kelly of Seal
Cove, Maine. The doctors told her
that she had consumption and could
not live, that her case was incurable.
And to them it was. The poor girl was
in despair, thinking her days were
numbered. But 1 cured her in spite
of all the doctors said. Made her