The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-21

Rochester N. Y, Aug. 1S.-The al
most miraculous cures of hopeless in
valids made by Prof. Thomas f. Adkin
of this city. have been of such a start
ling character that they have aroused
widespread wonder, admiration and
curiosity. Time and again he has
taken cases pronounced hopelessly in
durable by the medical profession and
restored the patients to life and
health in a most phenomenal man.
ner
There is considerable mystery at
tached to his method of accomplish
ing 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
properties 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 mysterious 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 verge of the grave, and
restored to health men and women
given up to die by doctors and spe-
cialiStS. He seems to have absolute
control over human life and the dis
eases that attack it. Notwithstanding
what might be considered a most IA
vorable opportunity, he does not ex-
tort money from those whom he
treats, saying:
Carnegie chooses to give libraries:
/ prefer to give life and health. / am
not a millionaire, but 1 am we'll able
to afford to give my services free to
the sick and afflicted. My discovery
is my own, to do with as | please, and
could charge every patient thou
sand dollars if l wanted to. But |
don't. And / know of no law to COM
pei me to take money for restoring a
man to health. | do not care what
the disease is. / am just as ready to
cure what the disease is. l am just as
ready to cure consumption, cancer,
paralysis, Bright's disease or any one
of the so-called incurable diseases as
/ am to cure rheumatism. stomach
trouble, catarrh, blood disorders or
any other i'll that flesh is heir to.
am just as ready and willing to give
my services free to a poor man as
am to a rich man. When it comes to
question of life or death, sickness
or health, the amount of money q
man has makes no difference to me.
"a prince or a pauper, 1 treat them
just the same. To me, as to the law,
all persons are equal / see and ad-
NIT of no difference 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 | may as well tell you right
here that | mean to keep on curing
any one who asks me of any disease
they may have just as long as | am
willing and able. What other men
do, what they fail to do or what they
charge makes no difference to lOe.
feel that it is my duty to carey out
my own plans in my own way, how
ever much it costs me. | cannot bear
to think of men and women and little
children continuing to suffer and die
when i have the power to save them
and restore them to life and, health SO
easily and quickly. And there is no
disease l may not cure.
you think that a broad statement d?
Well, maybe it is; but no broader. than
the truth. | know the wonderful pow
er / have because / have tested it in
thousands of cases. You know con-
sumption is supposed to be incurable.
Well, not long ago / had a young
lady as a patient. Miss Fl. l.. Kelly,
of Seal Cove, Maine. The doctors told
her that she had consumption and
could not live, that her case was in
durable. And to them it was. The
poor girl was in despair, thinking her