Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-01-27

Austin, Tex, where l had been sent
for my health, | was sitting in front
of the DriScoll hotel when from a
carriage hastily driven from the depot,
two gentlemen emerged. One was an
elderly. we'll dressed gentleman of
about so; his face was swollen almost
twice It's natural size, his eyes and
mouth almost closed. The other
gentleman, who was his attendant,
stopped to ask me if | could refer
him to frst-class physician. l
recommended him to the one who was
then attending me, and at the same
time asked him about the disease of
his friend. In reply he stated. that
about three weeks before he had been
bitten by some kind of a spider, and
while they had tried the skill Of the
best and most noted physicians in
their section of the country, none had
been of any advantage to him. About
two months ago growth had appeared
in the glands in the side of the neck.
This was removed by an operation but
soon reappeared. A late conference
of the home doctors have reported
that he could not live and we are now
enroute to Louisville, KY, to consult
the specialist, DR.. Rea, of that city.
Our train being delayed few hours.
we are now compelled to remain in
Austin until evening.
You will not see DR.. Rea in Louis
vile. l replied, as | remember seeing
10 the Houston Post where DR.. Rea
will visit Houston, Tex, in few days.
therefore you had better stop there
and save yourself the journey. What"
muttered the sufferer between
his half-closed teeth, "Dr. Rea of
Louisville in Texas; how fortunate. F"
They left Austin that night and
upon arriving at Houston the next
morning found that DR.. Rea was due
in Houston one day later.
DR.. Rea arriving in due time was
informed Of the suffering and i'm
pOrtance of the patient waiting and
he haStened to make an early examina-
tiOn of his case.
Without asking him d question, DR..
Rea said to him: My dear sir, it is
my opinion that you have been bitten
by some poisonous insect; it is also my
opinion that one Of your parents OF
very near relatives has died of cancer
and that your system, being especially
liable to develop cancer, has only been
aggra waited by this bite, which has
produced cancerous growth. With
| the proper treatment your case can be
cured. Do you want me to doctor
you?"
YES" said the gentleman.
No sooner had his permission been
granted than DR.. Rea injected some
thing into the growth, gave something
to his room to lie down. Being
| IN no hn
day, he started to his home, stopping
| saw him again at the hotel.
| He assured me that he was feeling
much Better and that the Doctor had
| ing cure in from three to five months.
Being interested in his case [ gave
him my address. Six months after
wards / received a letter from him
saying that DR.. Rea had cured him
| and that he was in better health than
he had been for years. | need not
say that | changed doctors and in a
short time DR.. Rea had cured me
permanently. | met number Of pa
| tientS while in Texas, as | have in all
sections of the country l have been
| in, they all tell me of the miraculous
features in DR.. Rea'S practice, his
unerring ability to tell patient his
disease without asking question and
the speed and ease with which the cures
the most malignant disease. [ know
what say when [ say that DR.. Rea
can take any sick person and in a few
minutes tell every phase of their
disease better than they can tell him.
| have recently returned from a trip
through the West, stopping in South
Dakota. Have learned that DR.. Rea
has oyer seventeen hundred patients
in that state. His books show in
connection with the investigation of
the facts that in cancer, consumption
tumor, paralysis, fatty degeneration
Of the heart, kidney and nervous
diseases, that he does not lose one
case in ninety, that his patients are
those having the worst cases of
chronic diseases and have been given
up oy other physicians as incurable.
and yet these incurable, malignant
diseases seem to be handled by him
with the utmost ease and uniform
success. The names of some of the
patients whom he has cured have
come to my notice.
Mrs. w. A. Cochran, Woonsocket,
| S. D., cured of a terrible case of piles,
which she had for years
Hans Swenson, Pratoaia, S. D.,
cured of bladder and kidney trouble
Of long standing.
George MaXOn, Lodi, S. D., cured of
kidney disease in three months after
the doctors had said it was diabetis
and fbaf M ono coula cJlra hip