Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-16
MAIL ORDER DOCTORS"
FALL INTO POST OFFICE
TRAP THROUGH CLAIMS
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phide According to the evidence"
says the fraud order, 'it has no more
therapeutic action than so much sand.
It is wholly inactive"
The manufacturer admitted that he
didn't know any reason why the in
strument should do what he claimed
for it, but said he thought 1t would
assist nature to force the human body
to absorb oxygen with amazing rapidity,
thus preventing the development of
diseases" The price was $35 TO patients
and $40 to dealers.
Fraudulent Claims.
The advertiser said, says the fraud
order, that because of the excess of
oxygen in the body all germs, regard
less of the nature Of the disease, will
be quickly destroyed" 1t does not re-
suit, the order continues, "in oxygen
being taken into the body with amaz-
ing rapidity or any other way. If it
did it would destroy some germs and
make others grow" The manufactures
and inventor was not physician. He
sent out 63-page booklet full OF testi-
monials Investigation showed that
these were the same testimonials which
had been used for similar device
which had been forced of the market.
DR.. x, who designated himself
medicine to "cure any disease with
which the patient was not born"
stop, look and listen," said his ad-
vertisement which attracted the at
tention of the Post Office Department.
IT give you luck. I tell lucky days.
am the man you should see or write
for anything, regardless Of what 1t Is.
Are you in trouble or distress or SUI
fering from any kind of disease? 1
move all hindering causes. I bring
peace out of confusion. / make hap
piness and peace in your home. I re-
store lost friends. locate lost and hid
den treasures. use no medicines or
knives. I move all miseries or pains
from the body. 1 conquer all cases
by mail or face to face. Don't say you
are sick and can't get well. What is
the use of you worrying about sickness
when 1 am here to worry for you. am
80 years old and have great experience,
for was born with this gift"
Inspector Wrote Him.
A post office inspector wrote the
brother of the seven sisters as follows:
Dear sir: see your add and send
you 50. Now Use sick of cancer OF the
liver with which disease I was not
horned with. I was born october ~,
1875. So send me cure quick"
To which the greater healer replied:
"Your letter was received q few days
ago and 1 am sending to you your
medision, as soon as I could, hopping
you will get alright soon. General
direction: Take a tablespoonful three
5nTr ~ n000fC
meats, but fowles of the air chickens,
soups, vertibles, before meals"
There also was a testimonial from
lady who began treatment a few days
ago absolutely blind, could not see at
all. But she Is quoted: Il received
your treatment and have used 1t as you
told me and to your request 1 am
writing to let you know how am
getting along. L am compelled to say
I think my eyes are some better.
can see a distance of 80 yards. I have
got SO can see car on the road, the
distance of 80 yards, something have
not seen before since my eyesight has
failed"
The treatment consisted of six
ounce bottle of dark gray water liquid
which upon analysis proved to be Ii
per cent alcohol, IS per cent water, and
per cent common salt, iron sulphate,
plant extractives and alkaloid sub,
stances. The fraud order put an end
to this thriving business.
A Height Incrcaser.
One Of the latest fraud orders is
against the inventor" of scientific
height increaser''-a man of markedly
short build who has been so busy taking
orders that he has not had time, he
told the inspectors. to make use of his
own device.
found a way to add inches hes. to TO-, your ,,s
to the big fellow. No need to have the
disadvantage of the little man. This
course makes it possible for you to be
on the level with your fellowman.
Course Is easy, inexpensive, and results
sure. Don't let people tell you height
Is entirely matter of heredity. If you
go back, say 20 generations, you would
find you had as many tall ancestors as
something concerning the individual, or
maybe your parents. has kept you from
growing. The mere fact that height
can be increased Is proof that the in
dividual will respond to this treatment.
The old theory that you stop growing
when 10 has been blasted. Science has
found a way to add inches and pounds
to every man. My methods are sure,
scientific and correct. They have
worked on hundreds and hundreds of
men and women. They are perfectly
natural and based on the laws Of
nature"
The apparatus consists of q small
rope with rings and handgrips, which
can be suspended so that the feet of
the patient barely touch the floor. It
was accompanied by a series of lessons.
The manufacturing cost was about IS
cents. It sold for $8.75. The investi-
cation showed that the inventor" had
taken In at least $4,000 since the Fail
of 1925. A count showed that he re-
ceived 1,340 letters In q single day.
Another Cure.
Then there was the so-called strup-
ture cure" whose proprietor advertised
how ST cured myself of rupture after
suffering Is years Of double rupture,
one very serious, and enduring the tor
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