The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21


was dressed very plainly, but still was
different from the residents Of that neigh
| borhood.
4 told her had como to have my fortune
told, at which she closed her eyes for . few
minutes - II In meditation, then jumped
up, pushed up my syelids, gazsd into my
| eyes and then remarked:
| ~ know why you have come hero. You
are not we'll; you need medicine
! Why how clever OF you to discover
that said. 7 did como Just for that pur-
pose,'
I can give y on tho medicine you need.
but u win COST you S2s.' said tho woman.
OH ] aever could pay so.xnuch - that.
Ny husband would not give u TO mo-
exclaimed. 7 have only u with me to-day
andI would IKE some medicine right away.
1 All right, I will mako you pill, but you
must taxa II here. Twas ssrested ouae and
fined lot Of money because . vouna n
showed some medicine I gave her.
with that the suppos cd fortune teller
took q piece Of butter paper. dumped .
powder into ", rolled 1t into wad and then
handed It to me.
Swallow IT, she commanded.
90 large as that, I answered. 'Cant you
put the medicine into q oapsuler
AT that she took q capsule from drawer,
dumped out it's contents, filled 1t with some:
thing else and then standing over me said
Swallow this or viii kill you
For an instant my heart almost stood
still and I was scared stin. Then deter.
mined to brave 1t out. Sailing a glass OF
water in one hand and the capsule in the
my mouth tpp and swallowed ID WITH Seeming
difficulty, without, however, letting 60 OF
the capsule, which afterward managed to
slide into my glove. Before going I paid
down the - and promised to come again
-When came with q detective the next
day to arrest her. she laughed triumphanty,
You have no medicine to show. How
are s Xou td goGs ito to p Pr ~, anythns"
Perhaps the most remarkable illustra-
ton Of the credulity Of women in any and
every form OF treatment which may be
suggested BY entire strangers OF whom they
know nothing was that Of a paralytio who
by a woman. This woman was disciple
Of a certain doctor who some months be-
fore arrived from Chicago, opened an
office in Carnegie Hall and gave out that
he was so years old although he looked to
be about IS, and that his youthful appear.
ance was due to the knowledge he possessed
Of certain sort OF treatment, the secret
OF which he was willing to impart for
consideration.
From him the woman learned the poul,,
lce treatment which it was asserted would
cure every Ill flesh is heir to- twas not un-
til gangrene set In that the poor sufferer
began to doubt and that her case reached
the ears Of the County Medical Society.
Mrs, Cook went to see the sick woman
and with her consent passed herssf of as
cousin when next the doctor came to change
the poultices, which was done every day
at 80 much cash down q visit. In that
way she got the necessary evidence.
electrical treatment is one o, tho most popu
lar for the reason that he Ia up to date and
there is no known disease that he will not
undertake to cure. Needless to say, II a
patient has no disease the doctor will In
bent.
when I visited one Of these specialists
In East Twenty-eighth street, told him
was troubled at times with rash on my
ut doesn't happen to be there to-day
| will appear again Tomorrow
After examining my skin and asking
several questions, he concluded that my
blood was in very impoverished condition,
his treatment. l must come three times
a week, he informed me, for five weeks,
pay 50 50 for the 6rst treatment and 81 each
for the fourteen
I'm the case Of nervous woman with
perhaps only case Of incipient disease.
the diagnosis OF most Of the quacks I en-
countered Is enough to make her seriously
~, think. For example one quack told
Mrs. Cook solemnly that she was in the first
stages OF consumption. and l think that.
previously by as many fake doctors that
she was afflicted with this, that and the other
almost incurable ailment, the effect would
have been most harmful.
Although fake doctors are thick ,e
perhaps in the poorer, more crowded dis
tr1cts OF the East and the West Side OF
town, they are plentiful enough in the
neighborhood Of Fifth. avenue, and when
it comes to being fooled the Four Hun
s are Just as easily caught as the poor
the Fifth avenue quacks are the more
dangerous, because they are by far the
more attractive and plausible. -.
II remember handsome woman OF
seuse, and who occupied suite Of rooms
in hotel near Madison square. Had she
been simply what she professed to be, OF
course, the society would not have got
after her; but the trouble was she diagnosed
cases after the manner OF professional
doctor.
when went to her took along woman
who suggests the nervous temperament
more than do, and Is far lees robust in
appearance, and who complained to the
masseuse of pains in the lack OF her neck
and headache. OF course the specialist
went to work at once examining. She made
the patient take down her hair and take
| of her waist. Then she went over head
and neck and body with her fingers, winding
up her examination with the remark:
.Your nerves are terribly hungry. They
are fairly crying out to he fed and they must
be built up find too that clot Of blood
has formed at the back Of your head which
explains why you have 80 much pain
can tell by washing my hands what lot
OF inflammat ion there is in your scalp. You
must have at least fifteen treatments either
here or at your home. / would prefer to
give them to you at your house because It
Is better for you to remain quiet after TAX
ing one than to 60 out directly afterward.
A visit to the house is q, and IL you come
here it is 81 for each treatment.
THAT woman Of course like most OF the
so-called healers, had studied neither anat-
omy nor medicine and was no more fitted
to diagnose symptoms than q piece Of furni-
| ture.
zone Of the most elegant Of the women
ouaclxs I have come In contact with has,
or did have, luxurious quarters in side
street near tho Waldorf. She professed to
be a skin specialist. Her terms were IS
an hour or $3.50 q half hour, and her method