Arizona republican., 1904-02-10
WILCOX-hELnER CURE
Good Progress Being Made Under New
 Treatment for Consumption.

The enthusiasm that is following eX- perimentation with the Wilcox -Helmer consumption cure. at No. North See ond avenue. is becoming a matter of general interest. Not that anybody outside of their immediate friends is particularly interested in the business success of the gentlemen who are eX- plotting the remedy, but because Of the universal hope that attends the testing of each new discovery or theory of cure. There is money in it for those who can achieve the hitherto Unattain- able, and there is no one whose finan- cial reward would be more freely pro- vided by suffering millions.
 Just what the success of the Wilcox Helmer treatment will be cannot vet be safely measured. from the stand uoint of the outsider. but it is certain that the remedy is being given the most careful investiRa ton. and by a class of patients sufficiently numerous to afford some indications of it's real merit when enough time has elapsed. The remedy was being administered to probably a dozen patients and had been for about two weeks. when an article concerning it was publisher in these columns about week ago. It was then mentioned that every patient was improving. and his condition was apparently much better than when he began. some of them. too, being men who had given up all hope of cure and all hope of any extended lease of lie.
 1t can now be truthfully announced that those patients have continued to improve during the past week. some Of them but slightly and others il T lacst marked degree. In addition the list of patients has been doubled. 3ud each newcomer seems just as enthusiastic after a treatment or two as are these who were among the first to receive it. There are probably twenty-five pa tients now under treatment. and new ones are coming every day. Of one thing there can be no doubt. and that is that if there is no real merit in the remedy the fact will be ascertained by the invalid colony here in a very short time. for the patients are sufficiently numerous to make the results a mat ter of public information Further. there are few of the patients who are approaching the stage Of treatment when cure may be announced if such SAisAAA bt W cli ciillGu ny tilt I1GtS-
 Indeed. a reporter for The Republi- can heard one lady say yesterday that she was certain a cure had been eff fected in her case. though she has not yet ceased to take occasional treat monts. She came here from Iowa. and her husband. having heard of the rem edy. had sent her some of it to try before Messrs. Wilcox and Helmer a hara On hcv -t,. I ct once as q patient. and has been treated regularly since then. The re- porter heard the conversation between her and others in the room, himself not being party to the dialogue. One gentleman inquired how she was pro- gressing, and she said. Nicely. 9 Asked if she did not think she would be cured at an early date, she replied "I am cured now" but she still takes the treatments occasionally for the sake of thoroughness. The testimony of a dozen or more was listened to by the reporter. though no others were quite so decided. None. however. have had the advantage of so thorough a course Of treatment thus far. Everyone, how ever announced a generally improved condition of health, and most of them gain in weight. One man said he had gained in strength, but had lost one pound in weight. Another has gained four pounds and another six bounds. One man who is here from the east says he thinks he will be ready to return home again in two weeks more. though no doubt he will hardly brave northern climate till later in the season. All. however. unite in saying that the treatment Ioosens their cough and enables them to expel the poisonous mucous. which after all. IS the sole claim of the discoverer. The healing is the process Of nature after the poison has been removed.
 None of these testimonies were given by interested parties other than the nd'ients themselves. and by them an nounced only to each ether in the re-
 ceDtion room. where they naturally compare notes while waiting for their turn in the administration room. In fairness it should be said that the ad-