The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-07
DO THE AGONIES OF
DISEASE MAKE SUI.
eide RIGHT?
Eminent Scientist Discusses Question
of Vital Interest and Importance
10 All Who Suffer Tortures
of the Flesh.
Death Not the Only Door
of Escape.
For Those Pronounced IncurabIe BY
PhysicianS-HOw to be Cured.
Especial Correspondence.

(Specldl correspondence
New York, May 6-"Are those who
suffer the terrible agonles OF disease
justified IN committing suicide?"
This was the question put to that
eminent scientist and pathologiSt of
this city. Prof. Wallace Hadley. He
replied:
My long experience has taught me
TO nave the utmost sympathy for those
who, driven by the fortunes of terrible
bodily afniction look upon self-destruc-
ton as the only door of escape But at
the same time / do not believe in
suicide. 1t is not the only door of es-
cape Leaving aside the question of
right or wrong, the question of its be-
ing a crime against the laws of God
and of the State and thinking only of
the poor suffering mortal, | say that
there is another and a better way TO
secure the long sought relief from the
insanity Of pain
"And what way?"
Get Well Stop the pain. Drive out
the disease"
isn't that easier said than done?"
mot necessarily, if the right method
is followed"
But there are certain diseases pro-
nounced incurable by the medical pro-
fession, diseases that defy all drugs
and medicines
II know that is the opinion held by
physicians as well as the general pub
lie, but / do not agree l firmly believe
that there is no disease that truly can
be called incurable. | am willing to go
still further. | make the statement
that there is no disease that ], myself,
NAV not cure / am just as ready TO
cure cancer, consumption, paralysis,
BrightS disease, organic weakness, 10
comotor-ataXia, and other diseases
4. fR,fa t1aslh 20 &C
to cure rheumatism. stomach trouble
kidney disease, catarrh and the more
common ailments. In this connection
/ especially remember the case OF
man i'm Traverse City, Mich, MT
Harry Williams, who was one OF my
patients. He had a terrible disease
that threatened to rot his bones, MADE
his hair and teeth fall out, destroy
sight taste smell and hearing ana
cover his body with ulcerous sores, a
disease that makes a man q living
corpse. like leprosy. He failed to get
help from his home doctors and was
i'm such misery of body and mind that
he looked upon suicide as his only
chance of escaping more tnghlIul
death, and actually was thinking OF
killing himself when, luckily for him.
his case was brought to my attention
| saved his life: | cured him. My
treatment drove the poison out of his
body. cleansed his blood of the loath-
some disease germs, reached TO the
very root of the disease and restored
the man to perfect health. Another
patient of mine, Mr.. Joseph *. Stew
art. of Camden, n. j., had been told
by various physicians that he had
cancer of the stomach, complicated
with kidney disease and bowel trouble
that his case was incurable and that
he must make the best of what little
life was left to him before death
claimed him. He suffered most ter
rible agonies, and was on the verge
of the grave when he applied to me
as a last resort. Notwithstanding
what the doctors had said, l accepted
the case put him under my treatment.
and cured him. Today he is worth
good many dead men, and in a recent
letter to me speaks of his cure as a
miracle" Then there was the case
of Mrs NJ Worthington, of Centre
Square, Pa. For twenty-five years she
had been a hopeless invalid from
complicated female troubles, many
long months bed-ridden in hospitals,
and pronounced hopelessly incurabie
and given up to die by all her physi-
Clans But she put her faith in me.
threw away her old medicines, and to-
day is the picture and reality OF
health. Surely these cases are enough
to convince you that / am right in
saying that no disease should be called
incurable, that no one, however i'll
they may be, should despair, and think
that death is the only way to end their
sufferings. | maintain that there is
no disease and no case that may not
be cured if my method of treatment
is followed"
But how about those who are nos
able to come to New York to have
you treat them ?"
1T does not make the slightest
difference. l cure them in their
homes just as easily and just as surely
as if 1 went to them or they came
to me. Distance cannot weaken the
health power | have In order to
prove the truth of my statements l
will make this offer, which you are
authorized to publish. All that any
one who is i'll in any way from any
cause has to do is to write me let
ter. addressing Wallace Hadley, MD.
office 96S f, No. 1855 Broadway, New
York. telling me the disease they
suffer from most or their principal
symptoms age and sex, and l Will
give them a course of home treatment
absolutely free of charge"
Surely you do not mean that you
give services and treatment free to
any one merely for the asking ?"
Eyes, | mean just that 1 am happy
to give freely of my services wherever
they are needed. And / am especially
anxious to cure any poor mortal who
has been told that his or her case is
incurable, that there is hope left on
earth Or any one who has grown
weary of spending money on drugs
and doctors in a vain search for
health. If they write to me and accept
my offer there is not only hope but
an almost absolute certainty that they
need be sick no longer. And it is a
blessing that my power makes letter
to me do just as much good as per-
sonal visit