Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-10

Rochester,, N. Y, Sept. ESPECIAL
orrespondence.)-A remarkable case
that threatens to upset the theory and
practice of medicine is reported from
Wilmington, Ohio. The human heart
has been made to beat again in the
body of a woman 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 reflex muscular action in
duced by saline injections.
| But in this case Professor Adkin ac-
complished a far more wonderful re-
suit. 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 to-
day the woman Mrs. M. E. Brackney
1 Is alive and we'll, instead of being in
her grave.
The history of medicine, from the
time of Calen to the present day, fails
|
nomenal restoration that seems to
rival the miracles 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
wonderful 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. I restored Mrs Brackney tc
4 life and health, made her heart beat
again" said the professor. But it is
a mistake to think this is the first OF
only case of the kind where I have
and doctors have failed. I have cured
hundreds Of men and women in the
same way, of diseases pronounced in.
durable, rescued them when they were
on the edge of the grave and restored
them to health and strength withou
! 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 or kept secret l cour
: the widest publicity. l want the Who'll
world to know what l am doing s.
:, that others may be saved from al
early death or lifelong misery. 70
= are more than welcome to investigat
!. any or all of the cures l have made O
= hopeless invalids given up to die b
doctors You can read letters fror
my former patients, interview or writ
!, to the men and women themselves O
9 You can go over my records and file
: and see for yourself that I succee
9 where physicians and medicines hav
. failed. One case that ! remember par
II ticnlarly is that of Mrs. L. A. Phillip
- of Trawick, Texas. She had been bed
:, ridden for five years, in twelve dit
:. ferent hospitals. and under the treat
. ment of various doctors besides. A
f, failed to cure her OF the complicatio
@ of diseases from which she was sui
q fering, and told her they could do r
= more. that her case was hopeless.
when l took the case it seemed 6
i, if she was beyond the aid of any hi
- man power But, by using the know
: ledge given me by my discovery,
: cured her when she was so near deaf
a that in letter she wrote to me 81
= SAYS | raised her from the dead.
n This is not literally true, of cours
- have no supernatural power, wha
N ever some people may say or believ
However near deaths door she ma
have been, she had not crossed Il
threshold. And, no matter what Il