Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-12
How Sufferers
 Are Swindled

Jersey City. New Jersey, was this direction
 Will you please give this letter to the man who called ous trains in Jersey City two years ago last fetraary 9th in ghe afternoong"
 Ghe letter was from a woman at Deer Park. Maryland, and contained this request
 T want 10 find the man who cured himself or consumption byl using oil of .ar. Do you remember of q very sick man, his wife. two chiG dren and mother Nho missed con neetions and had to wait all after noon for a train? You told my son and myself of your cure. I remember part of the directions. which was: Iake one drop the first day. two drops the second day. and so on tiii it wen, up Co thirty drops Now want 10 know what to do when the thirty drops have been. reached. My son lived only six weeks after we got home. He did not try the tar; felt he was too near gone. New have a daughter who is iu need of help and l want to try it.
 fioBe you will get this letter. But if you should not, and it fails ip she hands of any one who knows oi the treatment will he please ans wer thisg
 in no sense is the pathetic ere dulity of the Maryland woman ex- eeVtional Easy prey for quacks wlih sure cures and nome treat meRtss are the hundreds of thou sands of consumptives throughout the country. The disease that affiets them is, at it's worst, creeping enenyv-the average case extends .over tao or three years. And hope dies slowly. There is no dulling Of the senses, 10 clouding of the mind-the quack appeals to one who wants ardently to live, aRd swho will, iE desperation, snatch at any skilfully advertised nosuum or al- paratus.
 The Newspaper and ousek Alliance. From exploiting cures to found Ing sanitsria and turning to their profit the widespread campaign un- dertaken by the National association for the study and prevention of tu bercHl0sis and many local organiza- tions are the latest steps that the l quacks have taken. Institutes are
 in fashion Sufferers are supposed to come to these places for treat ment, but for those who can't mail order prescriptions are sold.
 For instance, the Fournier Rene dies company of Denver, besides it's office treatment, advertises that it i is also "a home treatment in every sense cf the term, and where eli l mate alone Is relied upon 10 cure ! tuberculosis the patient must keen
 out Of doors as much as possible. i With the Fourner treatment. climate
 Is not matter for serious eonsid-
 eration-"
 This Fournie~ company is 8 type
 Of the new. plausible Institution fakes. It was incorporated by Lu cien Foursier (who is not a doctor T. E. Williams. vice-president and
 treasurer of a cracker company oi ] Denver and Ralph Daniels, an inl
 IaandfactuTer of Denver. T. M. Pat
 terson, former United States sen
 ator and owner of the Rocky Mount
 ain Newa and Denver Times was
 named as a stockholder. Much 0
 E'ournier's advertising, which al
 pears without marks to indicate thai
 it is advertising, is printed in tn
 News and Times The Coloradt
 State Board of Medical Examiner
 has tried to put the Fournier com pany out of business, but since tn
 Bensonizer Sanitariuf ecompany's
 branch in Denver was broken up bl | securing the revocation of the Ii sense of the firms junior membe
 for guaranteeing 70 cure an incur
 able condition, the Fournier and otn CT similar companies have had thei
 literature tadvertising and cores
 pondence censored legally. An Professor Fournier" takes care L ] deport a licensed physician in charg,
 of his office. But the physician not featured" in the advertising
 "InhsIers" and French Laborator Fournier claims 70 cure consumI |, ton in the first and second stages : and give relief in third stage Sa , line and digestive tablets are su. 3 posed to do the work |The salin : tablets. says the Fournier advel 3 tisements. build up the system an sne digestive tablets tone the ston acA and give the patient a health q appetite so that nourishing food ca g be eaten, thereby supplying the sys ' tenn with material with which natur n can work to repair the damage don 5 by she destructive tubercle bacilli Anything more ingenious than thi would be hard to imagine. Es j. nourishing food, avoid taking col ,. and sleep in properly ventilate . quarters are minor instructions 8 Fournser's advertising. Follow thes .e ' z