The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10

Rochester, N. Y.-(Special Cores
pondence.)-A remarkable case that
| threatens to upset the theory and prac-
tice of medicine is reported from Will
m1ngton, o. The human heart has been
| made to beat again in the body of a
women given up to death by doctors.
The credit for this startling restora-
ton is due to that distinguished savant
of this city, Thomas F. Adkin, Profess
sor of Vitaopathy, and president of the
Institute of Physicians and Surgeons.
| Previous experiments on animals, like
! those made by Loeb, of Chicago, and
| Weaver, of Philadelphia, succeeded in
| making the heart beat for only a short
time after death, and even this partial
success probably was due merely to re-
fiex muscular action induced by saline
injections.
But in this case Professor Adkin ac-
complished far more wonderful result
By an entirely different method and in
an entirely different way, he not only
made the heart beat again, but made
| it keep on beating, and today the wo-
man, a Mrs. M. E. Brackney, is alive
and well, instead of being in her grave.
The history of medicine from the time
| of Galen to the present day, fails to
give an explanation of this Phenomenal
| restoration that seems to rival the mir
| acleS of ancient writ
The facts in the case are so unusual
and revolutionary that an interview was
sought with Professor Adkin, to learn,
| if possible, the details of this wonder
| full case. At first he seemed reluctant
| to talk for publication, but finally was
! induced to tell of what is undoubtedly
one of the most marvellous discoveries
in the annals of science, a discovery
| that gives this man a strange and far
reaching control over human life, over
disease and death
yes l restored Mrs. Brackney to life
and health, made her heart beat again"
! to think that this is the first or only
case of the kind where I have been
equally successful when drugs and doc
| tors have failed. I have cured hundreds
of men and women in the same way, of
diseases pronounced fncurable, rescued
them when they were on the edge OF
the grave, and restored them to health
and strength without useless drugs or
the surgeons knife
Would you mind giving the names
of some of these people?"
mot at all. There is nothing want
concealed kept secret. I court the
| widest publicity. 1 want the whole
world to know what I am doing, 50
that others may be saved from an early
death or lifelong misery. You are more
than welcome to investigate any or all
of the cures I have made of hopeless
invalidS given up to die by doctors. You
can read letters from my former pa
TENTS interview or write to the men
and women themselves, or you can GO
over my records and files and see for
yourself that I succeed where physi-
clans and medicines have failed. One
case that I remember particularly is
that of Mrs. L. A. Philips, of Trawicl1,
Texas. She had been bedridden for five
years, in twelve different hospitals, and
under the treat ment of various doctors
besides All failed to cure her of the
complication of diseases from which she
was suffering, and told her they could
do no more, that her case was hopeless
when 1 took her case it seemed as
if she was beyond the aid Of any hui
man power But, by using the know
ledge given me by my discovery, cured
her when she was so near death that
in a letter she wrote me she says I
raised her from the dead.
"That is not literally true, of course.
have no supernatural power, what
ever some people may say or believe.
However near to deaths door she may
have been, she had not crossed the