New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-19
Salt and Water, Mostly
Latter, Sold to Credulous
at So a Bottle.
ONE INGREDIENT
is SECRET OF AGE
Known Only to Almighty
Is Vendors Blasphemous
Assertion TO Reporter.

Permit us, ladies and gentlemen, to
introduce to you this morning Ferdi-
nand Muckley, A. ~ V. Muckley' VINO
halls from Easton, Penn, where ne was
fined $3.50 and costs last April by Judge
Stewart for practising medicine with
out a license, has now a New YORK
address at 115 East Doth ST.
Muckley can be found there almost
daily exploiting his Aqua Nova Vita
at IS a bottle-it can be manufactured
for a little more than eight cents a
GALLON. or less than two cents a bottle
for the "cure" Of cancer, tubercu-
losis and almost every other Internal
and external disease known 10 medical
science.
It was at the request Of J. Barker
Carter, one of Muckley's friends, that
The Tribune began an investigation OF
this liquid, which is little more than
foul smelling water and common table
salt. Barker and Muckley told the
representatives of The Tribune that 1t
would not be wise to put off publica-
ton of the story of Aqua Nova Vita
for a year-as was suRge-ted-because
some other paper might get the scoop
(Muckley's own little phrase. Muck
ley said this Thursday. So he can
now see that his fear of another paper
getting the SCOOP was unfounded.
1t was at the office Of DR.. w. Schoon-
over, also the office OF Aqua Nova Vita,
that Muckley announced he had a
water specially blessed by the Al
mighty.
an Aqua Nova Vita" said Muckley,
ais something greater than radium."
"what is it, so we can tell the chem
list who will make the analysisT The
Tribune representative asked Muckley.
Puts Blame on Providence.
"Ah," exclaimed Muckley. assuming
the pose of Shavian superman. sit is
something the Great Chemist Himself
put in there. II is something that no
chemist can find. There are things
in Nature that battle the greatest chem
lists. The Almighty put something into
that water which will remain hidden
forever from chemists on this earth"
at is something psychic?" asked the
reporter.
"Yes," said Muckley.
GLOW would you describe it?'
There is no word"
"Then what phrase"
"There is no phrase"
And thon Muckley INDUCED in more
talk about Providence. and DR.. Schoon-
over pulled out bottle OF Aqua Nova
Vita and gave an ounce Of it 70 the
writer and his companion.
1t smelled like sewage and tasted
worse. And then, to top it off, Muck
ley told a story that was in keeping
with the Aqua Nova Vita. Muckley
laughed at the story.
A little while before this interview
Muckley. DIR. Schoonover and The Trib-
une representatives spent fifteen min
utes at the bedside of a poor woman
in tenement house, whose left breast
had been eaten away by cancer and
whose skin on her upper left side
showed the burns Of electric treatment
she had received at hospitals through
out the city. The Aqua Nova Vita had
reduced her blood pressure, and con-
sequently the swelling Of her left arm.
That Aqua Nova Vita in some cases will
do, and so will any other water as
highly charged with common table salt
as Aqua Nova Vita is, IL taken long
enough.
Muckley has read up a bit--just
little bit-on psychology. His actions
at the bedside Of the sick woman
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