The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-24

Discarded Dy This Man Who Heals Hopeless InVadS of
Diseases Supposed to be Incurable.
The Blind Made to See and the Lame to Wall
Worker Charge
Stand yeed-Beieves S Duty and Man to Help
the Sick Ahicted-HTo Nay

ROCHESTER, y. Y. July 29-CSpecial
CoTTGspOndence.) "A remarkable case that
threatens to upset the theory and practice
of medicine is reported from Wilmington,
Ohio The human heart has ben made
TO beat again in the body Of woman
given up to death by doctors.
The credit for this startling IcstoTa-
ton is due to that distinguished savant
of this city. Thomas z. Adkin. Professor
Of Vitaopathy, and president or the
Institute OF Physicians and Surgeons.
Previous experiments on animals,
like those made. By Loeb Of Chicago,
ceeded in making the heart beat for
only a short time after death, and even
this partial success probably was due
merely to reflex muscular ac-icn in
duced by saiine injections.
But in this case Professor Adkin &C
complishcd a far more wonderful Te-
suit BY an entirely different method
and IN an entirely different way, ne
not only made the heart beas again,
but made it keep on beating, ard today
the woman, a Mrs. NJ L. Bracken, is
alive and well, instead OF being in her
grave.
time Of Calen to the present day fails
to give an explanation of this phenom-
email restoration that seems TO IIval the
miracles of ancient writ
The facts in the case are so unusual
and revolutionary that an interview
was sought with Professor Adkin. 10
learn. if possible. the Cetails Of this
wonderful case. At first he seemed re-
luctaBt to talk for publication, 0ut finally
was Induced to tell or what IS u1douDt-
cdly one of the most marvellous discoveries
in the annals of science, a discovery that
gives this man q strange and Tar Teach-
ing control over human life, over disease
and death.
yes. restored Mrs Brackney to life
and health made her heart beat again.
said the professor. But It IS 2 mistake
to think this is the first or only case OF
the kind where I have been equally
Successful when drugs and doctors
have failed. I have cured hundl eds ot
men and women in the same way, OF
diseases pronounced incuraDie' rescued
them when they were on the edge OF
the grave and restored them to health
and strength without useless IL ugs or
the surgeons knife
Would you mind giving the names
Of some Of these peopie2'
Not 1T all. There is nothing want
concealed or kept secret. court the
widest publicity. I want the Wnoie
world 20 know what I am doing so that
others may be saved from ar early
than welcome to investigate any or AL
OF the cures I have mace of hopeless
fnvalids 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 LOT
yourself that I succeed where physi-
clans and medicines have tailed one
case that I remember partlcularty Is
that of Mrs L, a. Phillips. OF IFaWick
Texas. She had been bedridGen Tor i've
Years. in twelve different hospitals and
under the treatment OF various doc
TORS basldes All failed to cure her Of
fbe compfica ton of diseases from
which she was suffering, and told her
they could do no more, that her case
was hopeless.
When I took the case 1t seemed as II
she was beyond the AID o. any human
oovver But BY using the knowledge
given me BY my discovery. I cured her
when she was SO near death that in a
letter she wrote to me she says
raised her from the dead.