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tHE iMlXi 
 OF THE 
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 OF THE 
 
 EXANTHKMATIC METHOD OE CORE 
 
 ALSO KNOWN AS BAUNSCHEIDTISM. 
 
 WITH AN APPENDIX ON 
 
 ‘‘THE EYE’’ AND “THE EAR,” 
 
 THEIR DISEASES AND TREATMENT BY MEANS OF THE EXANTHEMATIC METHOD OF CURE. 
 
 FOR THE PRACTICAL USE OF EVERY ONE. 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN LINDEN, 
 
 special Practitioner of the Exanthematic Method of Cure^ 
 CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
 
 Prepared, -with special reference to our clinnatic relations, and 
 tile diseases peculiar to America. Thoroughly 
 revised and enlarged. 
 
 TRANSLATED IN THE GERMAN AND SPANISH LANGUAGES. 
 
 SEVENTH ISSUE OF THE FIFTEENTH EDITION, 
 
 1891 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by 
 JOHN LINDEN, 
 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress. Washington 
 
 Electrotyped and printed at the 
 
 PUBLISHING HOUSE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION, 
 214 —220 Woodland Avenue, 
 CusvELAifD, Ohio. 
 
to I 5, 8 
 
 f iiat is tlie Eiaitlieiiiatic MeU of Core, aid lioi does It i or^ ? 
 
 Are oft repeated questions, and in answer to them the follow- 
 ing brief elucidation may be of service : 
 
 It is an acknowledged fact that most diseases are caused by 
 impure fluids which are constantly absorbed by the system, 
 or in other words, the blood becomes corrupt through these 
 impure fluids. Now if a large quantity of those impure fluids 
 /\ has accumulated in the body, they affect tliat organ of the 
 
 system the most which is the weakest or the most suscepti- 
 ^ ble. The skin contracts, the pores close, and this results in 
 
 ry an arrest of the transpiratory excretion of the exhausted 
 
 j- substances of the body, which, haying become useless, are 
 
 now deleterious. If these deleterious substances are retained 
 ^ in the organism, fevers will arise ; and as the vital forces at- 
 
 ^ tempt to remove them from the blood, they will be de- 
 
 posited in various parts of the body, which results in fermen- 
 3 tation or fever and consequent pain, and diseases in hundreds 
 
 J of forms make their appearance. If the vital forces succeed, 
 
 by means of .the accelerative circulation of the blood excited 
 by the fever, to restore the activity of the skin, and to open 
 its pores once more, then profuse perspiration will follow, 
 with a plentiful excretion of a tough, clammy substance, and 
 thus, in diseases of a milder type, nature will itself effect a 
 cure. In very many cases of serious diseases we observe, fur- 
 ther, that, as soon as an eruption (Exanthema) takes place 
 in consequence of the restored activity of the skin, violent 
 pains and symptoms of disease on the nobler internal organs 
 will diminish, and with careful treatment the healing pro- 
 cess thus introduced may be conducted to a successful issue. 
 
 Such cures, wrought by nature, we meet with at times in 
 some cases of disease, but as we cannot know whether nature 
 will be able, unassisted, to effect a cure or not, it is dangerous 
 to depend upon the restorative powers of nature, as this may 
 allow the most favorable moment for a rational treatment to 
 pass by. Hence it is better, at once, by resorting to this new 
 ! method of cure, to come to the assistance of Nature, and thus 
 compel it to bring forth the salutary exanthema. For this 
 purpose the Resuscitator is called into service, used together 
 
 III 
 
 702203 
 
— IV — 
 
 with the irritative oil,*) which always goes with it. The Re- 
 suscitator is a small instrument skillfully constructed, pro- 
 vided with a metallic head, in which are fastened 30 galvan- 
 ized gilt and very finely pointed needles, so arranged, that as 
 soon as the operator liberates or lets go the spiral spring, 
 which he has drawn out from the lower end of the ebony case 
 (in which the instrument is inclosed), having first set the 
 head upon the part of the body to be operated upon, the nee- 
 dles spring forward and slightly puncture the skin. The 
 instrument is furthermore adopted for slight or deeper punc- 
 tures, at the option of the operator, who simply draws out 
 the spiral spring more or less as the case may require, and 
 yet there will never be, any danger of the needles penetrat- 
 ing too deeply. The punctures of the needles produce artifi- 
 cial pores, which will assist the blood, the Circulation of. 
 which has been accelerated by means of the nervous irrita- 
 tion produced by the operation in the excretion of the de- 
 tained morbid and pathogynetic matter. This will come to 
 the surface in the form of an eruption, and thus relieve the 
 organism of the cause of disease. But, as Nature would very 
 promptly heal these small wounds, which are entirely pain- 
 less, and almost invisible, therefore the operated parts are 
 anointed with an irritative oil, called Oleum Baunscheidtii, 
 which has the eftect of maintaining for several days the irri- 
 tation produced by the needle punctures, and thus time is 
 given for an artificial eruption (exanthemi) to develop itself. 
 For this reason, then, that the primary object of this method 
 is to produce an artificial eruption (exanthema) in order thus 
 to introduce the healing process, therefore this method has 
 been called the “Exanthematic method of cure.” 
 
 I deem it my duty to caution the public, specially to beware of 
 tlu* use of Oleum containing poisonous substances, which is often ad- 
 vertised ill a very bombastic manner. 
 
 The use of the so-called “imported Oleum” should also be avoided, 
 for (even if it should not contain poisonous substances) it has not been 
 prejiared with special regard to our climate, nor to such diseases most 
 predominant in America, and which are almost entirely unknown in 
 Oermany. — Hence this so-ca led imported Oleum cannot have the 
 same liealing efiect as the Oleum prepared by me. 
 
V — 
 
 By this method of cure the impure fluids, which are present 
 in the body, are drawn off, and thus the first cause of the 
 disease is removed. It is a physiological fact that the vital 
 powers cannot be in a high state of activity in different 
 organs, at the same time. When an organ is attacked by 
 disease, the nervous activity will concentrate itself upon that, 
 and then create an unusal accumulation of blood. Now, if 
 vigorous punctures are made upon the surface of the body 
 with the needles, then we divert the nervous activity from 
 the affected organ to the surface, as well as the abnormal accu- 
 mulation of blood, which at once relieves the affected organ, 
 and is restored to its normal activity. 
 
 Tlie general effect of the application of the Resuscitator is 
 to divert the nervous activity from the inner organs to the 
 ^surface of the body, and as the blood or sanguinous flow always 
 keeps pace with the nervous activity, therefore the blood is 
 also carried more toward the surface. This creates external 
 warmth of the body, while the nobler parts of the body are 
 relie ved of congestions and consequent inflammations. This 
 is followed by abundant transpiration and excretions, and 
 thus the restorative process is initiated, and that too, without 
 introducing into the organism poisonous and nauseating so- 
 called medicines, which,, in most cases, will only poison the 
 body. 
 
 From the foregoing any one can readily perceive that the 
 exanthematic method of cure is one altogether rational, and 
 based upon the laws of physiology, and as the application of 
 the Resuscitator is almost absolutely painless, and can never 
 injure any one, therefore we may with perfect confidence call 
 upon all sufferers and say: “ Try it, and you will be aston- 
 ished at the efficacy of this wonderful method of cure.’’ 
 
 Special Practitioner of the Exanthematic Method of Cure. 
 
 Office and Residence : 
 
 Letter Drawer W 
 
 yis PROSPECT STREET, 
 
 CLEVELAIND, OHIO. 
 
PEEFACE TO THE nFTEENTH EDITION. 
 
 It gives us pleasure to present to the public, herewith, a 
 new, improved, and enlarged edition of the Book of Instruc- 
 tion. What we have said, in the prefaces to earlier editions, 
 respecting the excellency of the Exanthematic Method of 
 Cure, and the friendliness which we feel toward our patrons, 
 we can only repeat here in stronger terms than ever. The 
 number of friends that are rallying around the banner of this 
 Method of Cure is increasing daily, and is now numbering its 
 millions. A better testimony than this could not well be 
 desired. 
 
 The greatest merit of the Resuscitator is in this fact, that 
 it is a family friend, on which we can depend at all times. 
 It has banished, and forever, the frightful image of bleeding 
 and cupping. Of leeches, cataplasms, and fomentations, and 
 of the frequently poisonous internal purgatives, which serve 
 simply to scatter the morbid matter, but do not expel it from 
 the body, and frequently become in their turn the funda- 
 mental cause of new forms of disease — of all these the public 
 is ready to hear less with every day. The simple and natural 
 Treatment of this Method, which excretes the morbid matter 
 from the body in a mechanical manner, excludes all these, as 
 this Method becomes more and better known. 
 
 When, over thirty- six 3^ears ago, I first appealed to the 
 American public as pioneer of this Method of Cure, the 
 question was hoAv to overcome the man^" obstacles and 
 prejudices, and pave the way for this Treatment. The all- 
 outweighing advantages had to be shown, and the arguments 
 
 VII 
 
— VIII — 
 
 and objections of its opponents met. Happily, this is hardly 
 any longer necessary. The extraordinary services which this 
 Method has rendered have spread and established its fame 
 forever. Its brilliant results have been its best defense. 
 Masses of evidences have accumulated to prove that in all 
 manner of acute, as well as chronic diseases, it has celebrated 
 the greatest triumphs. Honest and thoroughly educated men 
 are ready to acknowledge this, although many of them are 
 still striving to weaken the logic of facts. The cause of this 
 is apparent. This Method of Cure makes every man his own 
 doctor, and, hence, some of these doctors become not only jeal- 
 ous, but, in case they are not qualified surgeons, they also be- 
 come, to a great extent, superfluous. The discovery and intro- 
 duction of this Exanthematic Method of Cure has, in conse- 
 quence of the Good-Samaritan services it has rendered in so 
 many families, evoked the gratitude of so many to the discov- 
 erer, that it is not very surprising that a man like Carl Baun- 
 scheidt has alloived hiniself as long as possible io be taken as such. 
 He, however, is only entitled to the credit of having introduced 
 and made known this Method in larger circles than it had been 
 known before; but that he is not the discoverer., for which lie 
 allowed himself to be held, admits of doubt no longer. He has 
 called the Treatment after his own name, Baunscheidtism,’^ 
 and by this name it is still extensively known ; but let no 
 one take umbrage at this name. It is certainly an unhappy 
 choice, and has greatly hindered the introduction and recog- 
 nition of a Method of Cure which it claims to represent; for 
 when we have nothing on which to build except experiences 
 and observations made often and long ago, then personal vani- 
 ties should certainly retire modestly into the background. 
 And such is the case in this instance. In China and Japan 
 it has been the practice for centuries, in attacks of colic, pains 
 in limbs, spasms, &c., that physicians would prick their 
 
— IX — 
 
 patients with needles to effect a cure. A similar fact is men- 
 tioned by the geographer, A. M. Malliet, in his work pub- 
 lished in France, 1694, respecting the priests of Siam, who, 
 in curing bodily diseases, make such a skillful application 
 of needles, that, after having punctured the patients very fre- 
 quently with the needles, they will be rid of their pains.” 
 
 Among the American Indians it is also known that the 
 custom prevails, when one is attacked with rheumatism, to 
 expose themselves to the bite of a large forest ant, which has 
 the effect at once to bring relief and banish pain. From 
 them, undoubtedly, did Dr. Perkins, an American, take the 
 hint, in his treatment which he practiced about sevi nty years 
 ago, in which, in cases of inflammation, or nervous diseases, 
 and, more particularly, in rheumatic pains, he made use of 
 the needles. 
 
 A German physician, Dr. Ferdinand Schrattenholz, of 
 Bilinghoven, also made use of such a treatment about the 
 beginning of the third decade of the present century. He 
 treated a number of patients suffering from gout with the 
 most astonishing results by means of making punctures with 
 needles. In speaking of one of these happy cures, the doctor 
 remarks in his daybook: This is a beautiful cure, and has 
 induced me to cure many patients by puncturing and prick- 
 ing them.” 
 
 Among others, he treated his wife in a similar manner, 
 and with immediate success, by striking her back several 
 times with a weaver’s carding-teasel ; and this led him to 
 experiment with the needles (the Siamese method) on men 
 and animals. In cases, also, of chronic nervous affections, he 
 was then most wonderful!}- successful by rubbing into the 
 minute needle-wounds an extract which he had been using 
 in nervous affections. 
 
/ 
 
 ~ X — 
 
 Baunscheidt, being a good mechanic, made an improve- 
 ment in the instrument, and to this credit he is entitled. 
 That he gave this Treatment his own name, speaks far better 
 of his vanity than his candor. 
 
 Carl Baunscheidt, dead now for some time, was quite an 
 ordinary man, and could lay but very little claim to culture. 
 He is deserving of the credit, simply, that he labored success- 
 fully to make this Treatment known in wider circles; and 
 then had the good sense to have a competent man, Dr. Shau- 
 enburg, to write a good Book of Instruction for him. Any 
 further claims made in his behalf are simply braggadocio. 
 
 Others, however, made improvements as well, and, taking 
 the instrument where he left it, have perfected it. Thus, I 
 have myself lately made a substantial improvement by hav- 
 ing needles gold-plated, by means of electro-galvanism, which 
 offers this great double advantage, that it protects the needles 
 permanently against rust, and rendering the already but very 
 slightly painful operation still less painful, so that even the 
 most sensitive person, even the tenderest infant, need not 
 shrink from an operation. 
 
 The almost painlessness of application, the simplicity of 
 the Treatment, from which no evil consequences need to be 
 feared, the relief it gives us from the fear evoked by the mys- 
 terious shrugging of the shoulders of pedantic disciples of 
 Ausculapius — all these have a tendency, of course, to open a 
 still larger field of usefulness to the Resuscitator. Humanity 
 will, undoubtedljT', for its own good, gradually emancipate 
 itself from the bondage of professional prejudice; and the 
 individual will soon refuse recklessly to trust his health in 
 the keeping of a treatment of which he can know absolutely 
 nothing. And to this end this Treatment will contribute 
 largely. The Resuscitator is in itself the representative of an 
 entire apothecary, for it warms, vivifies, is an anti-spastic, 
 
— XI — 
 
 and regulates the circulation of the blood. And, as already 
 remarked, the ease and simplicity with which it can be used 
 make it possible for every one to practice it in his own family 
 with success, and thus save himself much anxiety and many a 
 costly doctor’s bill ; for the charges which physicians usually 
 make for several consultations are so large that poorer people 
 often find it absolutely impossible to meet them, and they 
 would be enough to cover the cost of this Method for years, 
 especially after possession of the Book and Instrument is once 
 secured. Aside of all this, it is most comforting, that this 
 philanthropist and friend of the poor, — this obliging family 
 physician, — is ever at hand, by night and by day, in sun- 
 shine and in storm, and always ready to execute his benefi- 
 cent office. 
 
 Whoever has once made an experiment with the Resusci- 
 tator and oil, either upon himself or family, will at once rec- 
 ognize its grateful efficacy and value, and will henceforth 
 become its voluntary champion in the circle Avithin which he 
 moves, and will refuse to be imposed upon by the supposed 
 erudition and scientific pretensions of doctors of the old school,, 
 who are only too often, alas, hiding a very deficient knowledge 
 behind Latin phrases and a learned demeanor. The sensible 
 man demands to know, these days, of Avhat nature all these 
 mixtures are which the gentlemanly doctor prescribes, and 
 Avhat their effect will be, and if, as is generally the case, he 
 receives only evasive replies, he will beg to be excused from 
 swallowing this almost uniformly evil-productive and evil- 
 srnelling stuff, and Avill rather trust Nature to help him, or 
 will resort to some simple domestic remedy, among which the 
 Exanthematic Treatment stands at the head as the first and 
 best, and which should be in every family. And he will do 
 well ; for of these doctors of the old school it is still true to-day 
 what the great poet makes Faust say in his painful confes- 
 
XII 
 
 sion, as he was so reverently greeted b)’' the simple peasantry 
 whom he had assisted as a friend during a season of distress: 
 And this was medical art. The patients died ; 
 
 And none presumed to ask, But wlio got well? 
 
 For with electuaries of liell, 
 
 O’er these hills, and o'er the valleys, 
 
 We raged more fatal than the pest ! 
 
 To thousands J administered the fatal doses ; 
 
 They wilted straight. Their reverence now discloses 
 That reckless homicides are blest. 
 
 And thousands of the doctors of the old school would still 
 have to use similar language, if truth only would constrain 
 them. But they take care of this, and continue their doctor- 
 ing now as formerly, for this is most convenient, and to them 
 the most profitable. But truly it is time that the science 
 which has to do with the life and body of man should no 
 longer cover itself up with the mysteries of Delphic expres- 
 sions, but, like other sciences of the day, demonstrate her 
 accuracy by popularizing herself, and making it generally 
 intelligible. She must come more in harmony with Nature, 
 and much evil will be averted. Thousands would not have 
 sunk into an untimely grave, but, by using this simple Method, 
 been cured, and be still rejoicing in health and laboring 
 for the benefit of mankind ; for all diseases, tliat have not so 
 far progressed as totally to vitiate and deteriorate the fluids, 
 and in Avhich none of the noble and vital organs are wholly 
 involved, are curable. But, to this end, it is indispensably 
 necessary that the morbid matter should be excreted from the 
 body in a natural, and, therefore, harmless manner; nnd this, 
 precisely, is what the Exanthematic Method of Cure pcuTorrns 
 This Method has as yet killed no patient, but, on the con- 
 trary, has cured cases without number, which the old scliool 
 would most certainly have safeh" landed in the cemetery. 
 
 The Book of Instruction on the Exanthematic* Method of 
 Cure, that i;^ given to the public in this edition, is not only 
 thoroughly revised, but is, on account of the important addi- 
 tions that have been made, more desirable than any of its 
 predecessors. The Book has been entirely worked over, and 
 has been prepared with special reference to the climate, and 
 the diseases prevalent in America. 
 
XIII — 
 
 I take occasion, also, to invite attention to the articles on 
 Accouchement, on page 61, and on the “Diseases of Chil- 
 dren,” which may be found by referring to the Index, as also 
 to the articles on Diet, Air, Exercise, and Sh»ep, on page 117. 
 The Treatise on “The Eye and the Ear,” in the Af)pendix. i 
 would also especially recommend to the attent i(ui of the reader* 
 All these are matters concerning which heads of families are 
 often called uj)on to make anxious inquiries. These matters 
 are treated in this book in a simple and intelligible manner, 
 accompanied with well-tried directions and advice, so that it 
 may not only be a reliable guide to cai’cful parents who are to 
 watch over the health of their children, but may be regarded, 
 for this very reason, as one of the most desirable volumes in 
 the family library. The diseases df children, that make their 
 appearance every year in this country, are a real terror to 
 mothers; and whoever can do something to either cure or pre- 
 vent them is neglecting an important duty if he does not do 
 it. In this work I have endeavored to do my part by giving 
 such directions as I know to be good, having myself tried 
 them, or gathered them through the most careful observation. 
 
 Gratefully remembering the ftivor which an indulgent 
 public has manifested toward me for years past, I cannot rest 
 satisfied to give simply a verbal expression to my gratitude; 
 but I have made arrangements to furnish, besides the im- 
 proved Instrumerit and the enlarged and im]n’oved Book of 
 instruction, the Oleum which I send ah)ng, in larger bottles, 
 containing at least fifty per cent, more Oleum than those for- 
 merly. sent, ivithout avy ivrrease in the price. 1 have also, for the 
 sake of protecting the publi(i against fraud, introduced a Trade 
 Mark of my own, which will accompany only the Oleum made by 
 m.yi<elf in iU full purity and efficacy/ The counterfeiting, from 
 which certain unprincipled persons do not shrink, are, it is 
 true, really a recommendation for the genuine article, but are, 
 nevertheless, very unpleasant to the proprietor, and may be 
 harmful for the public. Let caution be exercised, therefore, 
 and take notice of the “ Trade Mark,” that assurance may be 
 felt r(?specting the genuineness of the Oleum. 
 
 It is a sad fact that here and there spurious articles are 
 allowed to sail forth into the world, under the flag of the 
 
— XIV — 
 
 Exanthematic Method of Cure, and hence there are some suf- 
 ferers who are deterred from using these remedies, for which, 
 under the circumstances,they cannot be blamed. In view of 
 these facts, it gives me pleasure to state that I am so happy 
 as not only to count among my patrons some of the very fore- 
 most of physicians, whose culture and scientific attainments 
 all must concede; and who would not, for any consideration, 
 jeopardize their good name by using worthless articles ; but 
 that I am also possessed of a great number of the most credi- 
 ble testimonials, attesting that my remedies are really that 
 which they claim to be. It is true, indeed, that a great mass 
 of testimonials can readily be fabricated; and, without giving 
 names of witnesses, make them attest all sorts of wonderful or 
 ridiculous cures. This is really the case now^ in a number of 
 so-called Baunscheidtist works. So, for instance, in a work 
 published in Switzerland by a so-called ^‘Old Baunscheidtist’^ 
 (probably old enough to have come dowm to us from the daik 
 ages), in which we read literally as follows : Pieces of bone 
 in the arm — the arm was to be amputated. Application of 
 the Resuscitator and oil restored him.’’ In another case it is 
 represented that an aberration of the skull bone, that had 
 been displaced by an inch, had been put into its proper place 
 again. This on page 106 of that book. Whether or not this 
 'was the skull bone of the author, the book does not state ! 
 
 In a bungling mess published in New York, anonymo'is, 
 of course, the following absurdity is found : Young pigs it 
 will help at once if they are given from three to five drops of 
 the oil in an egg, and pure water after it. Otherwise you will 
 prick away at them, according to the disease, just like in 
 human beings, on the bach, stomachy breast, and abdomen,. -In 
 case of lock-jaw, behind and below the ears, on the jaws, and 
 tlie ear joints. In case of clotted or swollen udders, about 
 twenty times on and around the trouble. In colic, on back 
 and abdomen. In case of constipation, give seven to ten drops 
 of the oil in an egg, with water. In case of prolapsus of the 
 womb, on back and near the genitals. Often oxen are to be 
 butchered which are found to be incapable of urinating. Let 
 passages be made along the region of the kidneys, and along 
 the urethra, and all will be well. So in all cases.” Are there 
 
— XV 
 
 not enough of vagaries here, coming in one paragraph or sen- 
 tence, from small pigs to the stalled oxen ? Is it a wonder, 
 then, that sensible people will shrug their shoulders and turn 
 in disgust from such absurd nonsense? And when, in 
 another book, we read directions how to make a canary bird 
 lay eggs, by applying a few drops of the Oleum Baunscheidtii 
 under the tail, we are at a loss to know at which to be most 
 surprised, whether at the ignorance which makes it possible 
 for any one to utter such nonsense, or at the impudence which 
 attempts to impose such nonsense upon people of sound mind, 
 with the expectation of having them believe it. 
 
 But, as a consequence of such miserable bungling, noth- 
 ing suffers so much as the real Exanthematic Method of 
 Cure,” which, when properly applied, is, after all, so wonder- 
 fully adapted to relieve suffering humanity. Let such non- 
 sense, therefore, deter no one from using these remedies. 
 Truth must trium])h at last, and whatever has true merit 
 need not shrink from the closest scrutiny by the public. 
 Mdiile I feel perfect confidence in the remedies that I pre})are, 
 and can conscientiously recommend them, yet I prefer to print 
 the many and thoroughly authenticated testimonials which 
 are herewith given to the public. Similar ones are reaching 
 me almost daily. Tliese are not only all original, and over 
 responsible names of the most credible persons, but I beg of 
 the reader to address the persons himself, by letter, if the least 
 doubt of their genuineness should arise in his mind, and thus 
 convince himself of their entire truthfulness. 
 
 Upon such personal verifications and open manner of 
 dealing I attach a great deal of importance. I am an enemy 
 of the practice of fishing in turbid waters. I have, therefore, 
 been compelled, while endeavoring to furnish my customers 
 with the genuine Exanthematic remedies, to defend myself 
 vigorously against the attacks of such darkness-lovers; and 
 some have not desisted from their malicious attacks upon 
 myself and my business until I had remanded them to their 
 legitimate boundaries by the forcible arguments of the law. 
 And what was the cause of all this outcry and these base slan- 
 ders? Simply this, that I endeavored to break down an odi- 
 ous monopoly, in favor of my own patrons, and was, conse- 
 
XVI — 
 
 quently, an obstruction to these tricksters, in their efforts to 
 plunder the purses of the American public, as they desired. 
 My success was my greatest offense. By a thorough and busi- 
 ness-like course, and unremitting energy, I have succeeded in 
 breaking their monopoly in America ; and as this followed 
 upon the interdiction to their business in Germany, where 
 their trade has been arrested by judicial interference, their 
 wrath against me, of course, knows no bounds, for they are ever 
 ready to ‘‘reap where they have not sown.’^ They have 
 wasted a perfect deluge of warnings against me, after I 
 devoted the best years of my manhood, for more than two 
 decades, to the work of securing recognition in widest circles, 
 here in America, to the Exanthematic Method. And this 
 only proves how my candid efforts, and the success beyond 
 my most sanguine expectations, have become a thorn in their 
 eyes. After Justice stepped into the arena for my protection, 
 these Baunscheidt heroes have been constrained by fear to 
 eliminate their libelous articles from their publications, thus 
 impressing upon it all the seal of their cowardice. 
 
 Far be it from me to allow passion or despicable jealousy 
 to impel me to make these observations; but I am aiming 
 simply to give to the imj)artial reader a statement of the facts 
 as they exist; and having thus unrolled them, deem it my 
 right and duty to caution the public, as a business man ; for I 
 look upon this matter only from a business stand-point. 
 
 In conclusion, I would yet desire to tender my sincere 
 thanks to my honored patrons for their confidence, and would 
 solicit their friendly consideration in the future, with the 
 assurance that, while I am sending my remedies to all parts of 
 the world, I shall serve them all faithfully and conscientiously. 
 
 So, then, may this Book go forth into the wide world to be 
 a counsellor to the father of the family, a helper to the sufierer 
 in distress, and a herald and representative of the shortest, 
 safest, and cheapest Method of Cure, which, though discovered 
 long ago, has but recently been developed to its present state 
 of perfection. 
 
 JOHN LINDEN. 
 
 Clevej.ani), O., January, LSSS. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In the glowing sunlight we read, 
 
 It is whispered the forest through, 
 And blooms on the flowery mead, 
 Nature, thou only art true. 
 
 In the entire remodelling of the Book of Instruction for 
 the Exanthematic Method of Cure, it is proper to submit to 
 the reader an intelligible account of the processes that take 
 place in the human organism in the course of contracting dis- 
 ease ; as also of the course pursued by Nature itself in healing 
 it. We shall thus be able to make it clear to the understand- 
 ing how, by this new method of cure, diseases are overcome in 
 accordance with the laws of Nature. 
 
 It is not, indeed, the object of this treatise to make an 
 adept in the art of healing of each reader, but it is the pur- 
 pose only to furnish a guide for those who, dissatisfied with 
 the old school of medical learning, have lost confidence in its 
 antiquated method of treatment, and are now inclined to give 
 this new and rational method a trial ; this is designed to ena- 
 ble them to treat with safety the more ordinary, and, in cer- 
 tain conditions, even the most difficult forms of disease. 
 
 Here, in America, where we are subjected to so many 
 changes that generate disease, from which the pioneer is most 
 apt to suffer, being many miles away, perhaps, from a physi- 
 cian, and where, as in the rural districts, it is almost entirely 
 impossible to secure the services of a thoroughly educated and 
 experienced doctor, it is of the highest importance for every 
 father of a family to know what to do in sudden attacks of 
 sickness. In such cases of distress the wrong remedies are 
 often seized upon ; domestic, or else patent medicines are 
 given, the effects of which are not known, and which very 
 often render the patient worse than before, and make all 
 treatment hopeless. But if a regular physician has been 
 called in, the patient is, in most instances, no better off; for 
 he will, as a general thing, prescribe only the most pungent 
 poisons and nauseating drugs from the apothecary, which add 
 to the natural ailment only a medicinal disease ; and if the 
 
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 patient endures and triumphs over both these diseases, he is 
 indebted for it to his vigorous constitution, which has enabled 
 him to convalesce in spite of the absurd treatment to which 
 he had been subjected. Nevertheless, he is obliged frequently 
 to suffer for years from consequences of the drugs in question ; 
 often, indeed, he never regains his former vigor and strength, 
 because, in place of the short disease that afflicted him, he is 
 now suffering from a medicinal disease, which will embitter 
 for him every joy of life. But if a patient should consult sev^ 
 eral physicians, he will not better his case, for he will find an 
 utter want of agreement between them, — each one rejecting 
 the treatment of every other one, without, however, averting 
 the sad, inevitable result. 
 
 Need we be surprised, therefore, if the public in general 
 should lose all confidence in the doctors and medical art, and 
 should come to the conclusion that the whole of medical sci- 
 ence is of no use to them ? 
 
 It is humiliating to acknowledge that public opinion is, 
 to a certain extent, justified; for, while the really scientific 
 part of medicine, — that is, the knowledge concerning the 
 human organism and its functions, — has made very consider- 
 able progress; while, by means of chemistry and the^ micro- 
 scope, the ingredients of the body have been discovered in 
 their minutest detail, and the activity of the different organs 
 which are essential to the preservation of life have been well 
 explained, yet the practical part of medical science, i. the 
 art of curing diseases and the knowledge of the curative agents, 
 these are just as imperfect to-day as they were fifty or one 
 hundred years ago, and verify the declaration of Dr. Hirtan- 
 ner, that “Into the gloom of Egyptian darkness, in which 
 the doctors are stumbling, not a single ray of light pene- 
 trates,’’ and Dr. Notte’s declaration of fifty or one hundred 
 years ago, that seven-tenths of the people perish not of their 
 diseases, but fall victims to the want of skill in the physi- 
 cians. 
 
 Every one who has had the opportunity to observe a 
 variety of diseases, and their treatment by the doctors of the 
 old school, will know by experience that the old method of 
 cure is governed by no settled laws, but will have found out 
 
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 to the contrary that every doctor proceeds according to his 
 own notion, and often rejects the .mode of treatment which he 
 at first pursues as inadequate and unsatisfactory, and adopts a 
 new. But this uncertainty is found not only in individual 
 cases, but it applies to the whole school of physicians, as may 
 be readily seen if we observe the course of some prominent 
 diseases. The manner in which cholera, for instance, was at 
 first treated, toward the end of the second and the beginning 
 of the third decade, was, on the testimony of physicians 
 themselves, totally wrong and misdirected; and hence it was 
 entirely abandoned, and a new mode adopted, which, however, 
 as signally failed to bring about the desired results. Thus 
 the method was again rejected as false, and a new one 
 attempted, and yet the results were no better during the last 
 cholera epidemic, thirty years ago, in the South, notwith- 
 standing the milder form in which the disease appeared, so 
 that many patients recovered without any medical aid, yet 
 nearly one-half of the cases proved fatal, and in some cities 
 along the Mississippi as many as 60 per cent, of those that 
 were attacked by the disease died. The same is true of other 
 diseases, such as croup, diphtheria, yellow fever, nervous fever, 
 small pox, scarlatina, &c. 
 
 The great mistake that physicians make is this, that 
 they seem to have entirely forgotten the old proverb — medi- 
 cus curat^ natura saviat^’’^ i. e.^ “the physician treats, but Nature 
 heals.’^ They seem to consider themselves, not the servants 
 of the recuperative powers of nature, but its masters. They 
 treat the body as though it was a chemical retort, instead of a 
 living and independent organism, and attempt to gain their 
 object in it by administering dangerous and often poisonous 
 medicaments, in order to secure certain desired chemical 
 results. They depend too much upon their medicines, and 
 too little upon Nature and its healing powers; and yet all of 
 them know very well that about three-fourths of their patients 
 regain their health by the recuperative powers of Nature, 
 without medical aid, if only the proper laws of diet and 
 health are applied. 
 
 The celebrated Br. Hoofland says : “ There is no disease, 
 from the most violent nervous fever to the most revolting 
 pestilence, from obstructed evacuations to discharges of all 
 
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 kinds, nervous diseases or vitiation of fluids, which might 
 not be cured by Nature alone. Without the cooperation of 
 Nature, there is no remedy that is capable of healing disease. 
 Art can only assist Nature, free it from its obstructions, and 
 thus enable it to make its curative forces effective.’’ Further 
 says this great physician : I have long since arrived at the 
 conclusion that, of all patients that are cured, by far the 
 greater portion are cured — under treatment of physicians, 
 indeed, but the very smallest proportion — by wteans of such 
 assistance.” 
 
 It need not surprise us, therefore, that the greater portion 
 of mankind has lost all confidence in the doctors and their 
 art, and has tired of swallowing their expensive, generally 
 dangerous, and loathsome mixtures. 
 
 But there are also a great many people who go from the 
 one extreme of doctoring too much, into the opposite one of 
 doctoring too little, do nothing at all, and thus, as the saying 
 is, pour out together the bath and the child. They claim that 
 the doctors can do nothing any way except only* to aggravate 
 the disease by their medicines; and if Nature can not restore 
 the patient, they are opposed to giving him additional and 
 useless pain. But these people overlook the fact that the 
 forces of Nature are ever actively, and sometimes blindly, at 
 work ; and, as soon as obstructions present themselves, it may 
 as soon destroy as cure, unless they are removed. But these 
 obstructions, according to the great Doctor Hoofland, must be 
 removed, in order to enable Nature to perform its work of 
 liealing ; and this can be done only by a rational mode of 
 treatment, Avhich will assist, Nature in its processes of healing, 
 instead of counteracting it, or even bring worse obstructions 
 for it to cope with, by sickening other organs of the body, 
 which is the result of the strong medicines of the old practi- 
 tioners. 
 
 That the Exanthematic Method of Cure is the only one 
 sufficiently rational to be founded upon the processes of 
 Nature, for the removal of these obstructions and the support 
 of the healing powers of Nature, the reader will be able clearly 
 to see, if he reads with care the following explanation of the 
 .‘^ul)je(‘t : 
 
When all the organs of the human organism are Avorking 
 together in harmony, the individual will enjoy good health, 
 and wdll feel strong and vigorous in both body and mind ; but 
 when this harmonious action is disturbed, though but in a 
 single organ, then wdll arise discomfort, indisposition, sick- 
 ness. 
 
 Plealth, or the harmonious activity of all the organs, can 
 only exist when the material changes in the body proceed 
 regularly and without obstruction. 
 
 By material changes w^e mean excretion of all substances 
 and particles which have ceased to be useful in supporting 
 the body, having become exhausted; and the constant substi- 
 tution, by absorption, of nutritious substances. Upon these 
 material changes life itself is dependent. When these cease, 
 death supervenes, and the matters constituting the organism 
 resolve themselves into their original elements, decompo- 
 sition follows. 
 
 The adduction of nutritious matter takes place chiefly 
 through the stomach, in wdiich the food is digested and pre- 
 pared, upon leaving it, by chemical processes to be changed 
 into useful or useless substances. The useful parts constitute 
 a thin, milky substance, called chyle, taken up by absorbents 
 and transferred to the blood. 
 
 These substances, however, would not of themselves be 
 able to sustain the body, being without the necessary Avarmth. 
 Being now mixed with the blood, they are conveyed to the 
 lungs, and here come in contact Avith the oxygen of the air by 
 means of breathing, Avhen, as it Avere, a sIoav combustion takes 
 place ; and thus the blood, having been fitted for the nourish- 
 ment of the body, is constantly receiving the necessary 
 warmth for the body, by Avhich means only man is enabled to 
 resist the deleterious influences of the changes of tempera- 
 ture. The blood is the real nourishment of the body, as it 
 circulates throughout its minutest ramification, and every- 
 where supplies those substances needed to replace the 
 exhausted particles, taking up, how^’ever, at the same time, a 
 great portion of the latter, conveying them to the excretory 
 organs for expulsion from the body. The excretion of the 
 exhausted matter takes place through the bowels, the kidneys, 
 
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 the skin, and lungs, through the last of which the carbonic 
 acid and water, that were generated by the slow combustion 
 referred to above, are exhaled in the process of breathing, in 
 order by inhaling to receive a fresh supply of oxygen. From 
 this, then, it will clearly appear that pure air is just as essen- 
 tial to the support of the body as good food. 
 
 One of the most important excretory organs, and one with 
 which this new method of cure is particularly concerned, is 
 the skin, which, through its millions of little openings, called 
 pores, expels an incredible amount of gas, water, and phlegm, 
 and is therefore of incalculable importance to the material 
 changes in the body, and hence, to the preservation of 
 health. 
 
 The proper care of the skin, therefore, by washing, bath- 
 ing, and brushing it, should be the concern of every one ; for 
 it is a matter of fact that the greater portion of sicknesses is 
 caused by irregularities in the functions of the skin and the 
 digestive organs. 
 
 We have seen that, as long as assimilation and excre- 
 tion, — these material changes,” as we have termed the proc- 
 ess, — go on with regularity in the organs of the body, comfort 
 and good health prevail. But, on the contrary, discomfort 
 and indisposition as soon as this harmonious process is dis- 
 turbed, and then the question arises. What are we to do to 
 restore this harmony ? To answer this question, let us ascer- 
 tain what Nature herself does in such cases, and thus we will 
 let her be our teacher. If improper substances are brought for 
 the nourishment of the body, either by an excess or ill-adapted 
 articles of food, or by the breathing of impure air, or, in case 
 of contracted colds, the pores of the skin are closed and the 
 perspiration is arrested, and thus ill-adapted material is 
 retained in the body, then, of course, the normal process of 
 assimilating the nutritious fluids in the blood is disturbed, 
 and this makes an unusual effort of the organs necessary, in 
 order to assimilate the useful and excrete the wasted substan- 
 ces. This unusual effort on the part of these organs will call 
 forth a feeling of distress, which will be aggravated to positive 
 illness as soon as the activity arising from the nervous centers 
 of the organism is exercised for the purpose of expelling these 
 
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 ill-adapted, exhausted and injurious substances. Exactly the 
 same course ma}^ be observed in case of contagious diseases. 
 First the feeling of discomfort, then the reaction brought on 
 by the vital forces of the organism exerted against the morbid 
 matter, and the attempt to expel them, which results in indis- 
 position and sickness, which, if it does not terminate fatally 
 or prompt recovery, will be followed by a slow and weari- 
 some consumption. In cases of slight disturbances, Nature is 
 very often successful in overcoming it and restoring the nor- 
 mal proportions for the assimilation and excretion of the 
 body-supporting material, Avhich is essential to the regular 
 course of matter exchange, and then we say that Nature has 
 helped itself, or Nature has cured. 
 
 The means that Nature adopts for the purpose of expel- 
 ling this morbid matter are inflammations, fevers, and erup- 
 tions ; and, probably, everybody has made the observation 
 that, as soon as these phenomena make their appearance, the 
 feeling of distress disappears, and convalescence ensues. Fre- 
 quently, however, the obstructions are of too serious a nature 
 for the capricious workings of Nature’s forces to overcome, and 
 then it is necessary, with proper remedies, to come to its 
 assistance. 
 
 In all these efforts of Nature to expel the morbid elements 
 we observe that it always attempts to remove them from the 
 inner, vital organs, and throw them toward the surface and 
 upon organs less vital, there to allow their gradual removal in 
 the form of eruptions, ulcers, &c. 
 
 Here we must observe that the human body is enveloped 
 in a skin of a double nature ; first the outer skin which covers 
 the entire external body from the crown of the head to the 
 soles of the feet ; and, secondly, the inner skin, which, uniting 
 with the outer skin at the lips and nostrils, covers the entire 
 inner body, penetrates every cavity, and, ending at the rec- 
 tum, there again unites with the external skin. In the effort 
 that Nature makes for the expulsion of injurious substances, 
 in which the kidneys and bowels have an important part to 
 perform, an eruption takes place not only upon the outer 
 skin, but also upon the surface of the inner skin, which then 
 makes its appearance as nasal catarrh, spongy excrescences at 
 
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 the mouth, or as boils, as exj)ectorations from the lungs, or, in 
 the rectum, in the form of diarrhoea or dysentery. 
 
 Now, as we have seen that Nature, in the great majority 
 of cases, requires an eruption (exanthem) in its efforts at heal- 
 ing, for the purpose of expelling the morbid matter, we come 
 to the assistance of Nature in her effort in this, that, by artifi- 
 cial means, we produce an eruption (exanthem) for the expul- 
 sion of injurious or morbid matter ; and for this reason we 
 give this new method of healing the name of The Exanthe- 
 matic Method of Cure,’’ or the Methodic Exanthema. 
 
 For this purpose we use a small instrument, called the 
 Resuscitator (Lebenswecker)^ in which there are a number of 
 very fine needles attached to a head, which is fastened upon a 
 spiral spring. By drawing out the spiral spring and letting 
 go of it suddenly, we puncture the skin, thus opening in an 
 artificial manner the pores of the skin which disease had 
 closed, and, in order to prevent the nervous irritation, Avhich 
 has been called forth by this means, from subsiding too rap- 
 idly, and the pores from closing too quickly, we apply to the 
 places thus punctured an oil that is specially prepared for 
 this purpose, which results in an eruption upon the skin, by 
 means of which the morbid matter is thrown upon the surface 
 and thus expelled. 
 
 By this simple procedure the most violent diseases are 
 cured easiljq safely, and without pain ; because, by acting 
 upon the cutaneous nerves, and, by the reflex influence of 
 these accelerating the nervous activity of the whole body, we 
 create a renewed activity in the process of waste and repair, 
 which had become sluggish by disease ; which soon manifests 
 itself by an increase of heat, accelerated circulation of the 
 blood, and an increased transpiration from the skin. The 
 punctures produced by the needles upon the skin elevate 
 themselves into small millet-seed-like blisters of larger or 
 smaller size, which fill up with a yellowish fluid, and on the 
 third day begin to dry off. By this process the morbid matter 
 is thrown upon the skin, the inner organs freed therefrom, 
 and enables their normal activity to restore the harmony of 
 all their different functions, which we have already desig- 
 nated as ^he indispensable condition of good liealth. 
 
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 According to the foregoing exposition, it must appear 
 •clearly to every one that the Exanthematic Method of Cure 
 must be the only rational one, because it is based upon the 
 processes of Nature herself. As it is perfectly harmless and 
 accessible to all, it is deserving of being recommended to the 
 public everywhere. 
 
 In conclusion we may remark, that, in curing the diseases 
 mentioned in this book, everything depends upon regulating 
 the disturbed process of waste and repair, by producing the 
 exanthema, and this is done only by following faithfully the 
 directions given in this book for applying the Resuscitator 
 and Oleum, without a very deep or thorough knowledge of the 
 inner processes of the organism being required. Every father, 
 every mother, therefore, every sister and brother, can confi- 
 dently resort to the Resuscitator and Oleum, in cases of disease, 
 without the necessity of tormenting the patient in any way, 
 and increasing their suffering by administering strong and 
 often very dangerous drugs. In cases of sudden attacks of 
 disease, we should not wait, therefore, until the malady has 
 gained the upper hand, or has been rendered incurable by 
 the use of baneful medicaments ; but, at once, upon the first 
 appearance of trouble, resort to this natural and reliable rem- 
 edy, because it can never do harm, but will almost invariably 
 cure. 
 

 
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 THE LOYE OF LIFE. 
 
 If Life is so sorrowful a state of existence ^ and affected hy so 
 many calamities^ why does man still cling to it with such a tenacious 
 love ? 
 
 The mystery that enshrouds our future beyond the tomb, 
 in the absence, even, of the thousands of religious systems 
 and creeds held by men, is yet so awe-inspiring and appalling 
 at the same time, that even the blindest superstition is inca- 
 pable unconditionally and freely to renounce a present tan- 
 gible state of existence for an elysium, an actual revelation of 
 which has as yet inspired no mortal man, and a title to which 
 we cannot obtain on well-attested parchment. Next in order, 
 the innate egotism of man, or, to use gentler terms, the natu- 
 ral desire of man for a continued happy state of existence 
 beyond the confines of this earth-life, may be considered as an 
 answer to the question — How is it possible, how can I con- 
 ceive that I, a man, a rational-physical being, shall cease to 
 exist? But this affirmative question, as the axiom of all 
 metaphysical systems, must submit to a severe rebuff in this 
 other, but negative question — How is it possible, how con- 
 ceivable, that there was a time when I, a man with an intel- 
 ligent spirit, had no existence at all ? 
 
 As a result of such and similar cogitations, however 
 absurd and conflicting they may be, and howeve" strenuously 
 he may oppose it, or stoutly assert the contrary, stubborn 
 doubt takes root in the soul of man, and thus becomes the 
 first link in the chain that fetters him to life. But side by 
 side with doubt goes hope, which leads even the criminal on 
 the guillotine to expect the saving words of pardon, and binds 
 him to life amid even the chilling shadows of death. 
 
 And thus doubt and hope together conduct man through 
 the labyrinth of Life, and, if forsaken by his fellow men, he 
 looks for indemnity to maternal nature, and rejoices in the 
 
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 sparkling starlight, breathes innocently and freely the pure, 
 invigorating air of heaven, is revived by the life-giving sun- 
 light, drinks in the balmy breeze that sweeps over the bloom- 
 ing mead, cools his parched lips at the bubbling fountain that 
 gurgles up from the heart of the rock, and engages the clam- 
 orous activities of his stomach with simple esculent roots. At 
 his feet the murmuring brook sings, and beneath the leafy 
 shelter of the mighty forest the feathered songsters repeat it, 
 what in refreshing slumbers himself dreams— i/o'w; beautiful is 
 Life I 
 
 Thus closely linked are hope and doubt to the laughing, 
 flattering side of life, while the Love of Life permeates his 
 -entire being. The Love of Life impels him to the investiga- 
 tion and discerning of the hidden forces of nature, the Love of 
 Life gave birth to the first medical man, and it was the Love of 
 Life that discovered The Resuscitator.’’ 
 
 ORGANISM. 
 
 The development and preservation of animal organisms, 
 or bodies, are dependent upon the absorption of natural sub- 
 stances, which we call aliment. The digestive system con- 
 verts these nutritious substances into the various fluids that 
 are necessary to sustain the various structures of the body, 
 and which the body receives partly as compact and partly as 
 fluid masses. Those substances which become the solid parts 
 of the body are, like those that constitute those of a less com- 
 pact character, previously all in a fluid, or dissolved state, 
 and are subsequently compacted by being attracted by the 
 respective organs, and incorporated with them, by a process 
 which medical men term assimilation. But while the various 
 parts and organs of the body are thus nourished and cared for 
 by assimilating new substances, by a segregating and excre- 
 tory process, those substances which have transmitted their 
 life-giving properties, being of no further use, are now sepa- 
 rated, to bo carried off as excrements, in a like fluid or semi- 
 fluid condition. If they are detained in the body, however, 
 in consequence of any disturbing impressions made upon it, 
 
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 they will at once act, as disease-creating potencies, destruct* 
 ively upon the organism; frequently resulting in liver com- 
 plaints, stone in the gall-ducts, bladder, etc. 
 
 The arteries, which in still smaller ramifications lose 
 themselves among the different organs, conduct the sub- 
 stances adapted for assimilation to the corresponding tissues, 
 or empty them into other organs, where they are preserved 
 for the gradual use of the body, as we find it in the mammary 
 glands, the testicles, etc. In like manner do the arteries also 
 conduct the segregated substances, which they have received, 
 by means of the venous and lymphatic duct system, into 
 those organs that will expel them from the body, such as the 
 kidneys and the bladder. 
 
 Now, if any of these organs have become inactive, and 
 consequently incapable of performing their proper functions, 
 then the substances which the}' produce and generate will 
 necessarily become abnormal in quality as well as quantity. 
 The same is true also in reference to the tender interarticular 
 or intermuscular teguments, or when the bones or the synovia 
 are in any way injured or deteriorated. 
 
 But not only the urinary and pulmonary apparatus, but 
 also the cutaneous perspirations contribute largely to the 
 expulsion from the body of those substances which are or 
 have become superfluous to its economy.* 
 
 The cutaneous perspiration, however, is most profuse in 
 those parts of the body where the largest number of arterial 
 branches approach the skin; as, for instance, at the joints, 
 hands, and feet. But the skin expels not only clear water, 
 but also other subtile substances, especially saline matter. 
 These saline substances, which are forced through the skin in 
 a dissolved state, form themselves generally into scale-like 
 leaflets, or, if in a morbid condition, into a calcareous scab, on 
 the surface of the skin. The latter is most frequently the 
 case in individuals that have so little synovia to lubricate 
 the joints, that, by each motion of the limb, a distinct, grating 
 noise may be heard. But as much as the health'of the body is 
 
 We may safely accept it as a fact, that the skin, as well as the lungs, 
 is an organ of respiration. 
 
14 — 
 
 dependent, next to a sensible mode of living, to a regular, and 
 uninterrupted perspiration, just so much is it dependent, too, 
 upon those forces of a living organism which react upon dele- 
 terious external influences, to render them harmless. No 
 sooner is an injurious influence exerted upon the body, than 
 these forces will attempt to repel or overcome them ; but fre- 
 quently the enfeebled body is incapable, with all its compli- 
 cated systems, to eflect this ; and only the stronger and 
 healthier portions of the body are able to repel these influ- 
 ences, while the feebler must yield and become diseased. 
 
 The reactive power of the body, and of the epidermis 
 especially, is roused into the greatest activity, however, when 
 assailed by cold. Cold spreads universal torpidity, has a con- 
 tracting and paralyzing influence, by which it checks not 
 only the growth of vegetables, but also the thrift of the ani- 
 mal world. In short, it completely reverses the vital activi- 
 ties of the organism. But the more concentrated the cold 
 becomes, as, for instance, the rush of air in a draught,* the 
 more injurious is its eflect upon the organism, especially if 
 the body is in high temperature at the time. 
 
 After having thus, in the preceding pages, given our own 
 as well as the lucid conceptions of Dr. G. S. H. Pfeifer, we 
 venture to make the following bold assertion, in opposition to 
 the whole mass of glaring hypothesis that we have cited, 
 respecting the causes of the gout, and the entire sphere of 
 fluxive-rheumatic diseases. 
 
 The influence of cold upon the system — the inception of colds — 
 is the grand fundamental cause of all fluxive or febrile-rheumatic dis- 
 eases^ and these^ in turn^ become the foundation for most other disor- 
 ders. 
 
 The cause of gout, rheumatism, or whatever other 
 name we may apply to this class of distempers, we must not 
 expect to find in the presence of some morbid matter in the 
 body, producing inflammations, destruction of members, etc. ; 
 
 Hence we find that hot and cold air may come rushing through the 
 same orifice. If, while opening the mouth wide, we breathe upon the inner 
 surface of the hand, the sensation will be warm ; but if we point the lips, as 
 in whistling, and repeat the operation, the sensation wdll be cold. 
 
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 but we should rather look for it in the interruption of the 
 twofold acti vity of the skin, in the disturbance of the processes 
 of assimilation and reproduction, in an abnormal state of the 
 neurotic life, and in the organic activities generally. The 
 subsequent segregated substances that are either excreted, by 
 way of the joints, or else settle about them in cases of gout, 
 must not be regarded as pathogenetic matter ; but simply as 
 the pathologic products of the deranged and interrupted 
 activities of the organism. A diseased organ can, of course, 
 furnish only abnormal products, and these will in turn create 
 those peculiar, ambulant, morbid secretions, which, in conse- 
 quence of the inactivity or impotence of the epidermis, is for- 
 cibly retained beneath its surface, and settles down now here 
 and now there ; but everywhere, wherever it remains fixed, it 
 will not only force the small, tender nerves, and adjacent 
 muscles, into a very irregular and highly oppressive tension, 
 but will at last even paralyze the one and permanently 
 destroy the others.* The variety of symptoms under which 
 the gout appears does not change this rule touching its char- 
 acter and origin, which may be invariably traced back to the 
 incipient colds. 
 
 And now, let us inquire what has the professional gentry 
 accomplished by their mode of treating the more or less pain- 
 ful diseases that originate in the forcible detention of those 
 subtile fluid secretions which are generally known as rheum- 
 atism, rheumatic fever, and the like ? Answer : Their method 
 for curing the diseases of this, as of most other classes of dis- 
 ease, was no curing method at all. 
 
 The fact that they generally administered internal reme- 
 dies for a disease that is external, having its seat almost 
 immediately beneath the epidermis, sufficiently proves their 
 mode of treatment an erroneous and superficial one ; but aside 
 from this, the notorious fact that most of the patients, after 
 taking the medicines prescribed by the old-school treatment, 
 now become thoroughly prostrated by disease, should be con- 
 
 As certainly as “a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump,” so cer- 
 tainly and easily will the slightest attack of rheumatism create disturbance 
 (fermentation) in the whole body. 
 
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 elusive evidence that their treatment is a wrong one, from 
 which no favorable results can be expected. And if now and 
 then a physician succeeds in curing one of these self-provoked 
 diseases, we may safely assume that the strong, vigorous con- 
 stitution has contributed more to his recovery than any med- 
 ical assistance. They have no clearly-conceived system, no 
 reliable basis or law of cure. For the same disease, one pre- 
 scribes one thing ; another, an entirely different remedy ; both 
 trusting to good fortune for success ; and it is an undeniable 
 fact that, if we isolatedly consult a dozen different physicians 
 for the same disease, we are sure to receive a dozen different 
 prescriptions! No wonder that, under the miserable treat- 
 ment of the old medical school, many are doctored to death, 
 because the lives an(J bodies are experimented upon by physi- 
 cians who grope in ignorance and make random prescriptions. 
 One patient, perhaps, improves, in case the physician, while 
 feeling his way in the dark, is lucky enough to seize the best 
 adapted of his seven remedies ; another one, however, becomes 
 neither better nor worse, in case the so-called remedy is of a 
 neutral character, i, c., neither injurious nor beneficial ; but 
 most patients, under such treatment, soon begin to wish for a 
 return of their first ailments, which they realize were less 
 serious than those they now endure; and if nature is no 
 longer capable of helping herself, and of restoring the patient 
 to health, his case, in general, becomes a hopeless one. If, for 
 instance, some one is afflicted with a simple rheumatic pain 
 in the back, cupping is resorted to immediately, or else those 
 disgusting reptiles, known as leeches, are applied ; and these 
 are to remove the evil. But really they do nothing but 
 extract from the obedient patient’s body the very best of what 
 yet remained in it — the life-essence — in tapping his blood 
 and generally so reducing him by repeated operations as to 
 make him completely bed-fast, where he soon falls a helpless 
 victim to consumption. More unreasonable still is the prac- 
 tice, heretofore so prevalent, of hleeding patients. But this 
 practice has now become so nearly obsolete that no one advi- 
 ses it any more, except in cases of the greatest danger, or by 
 the itinerating privileged blood-tapsters. But as certainly as 
 we have nearly cut loose from this absurdity, and shall, in a 
 
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 few years, undoubtedly, be entirely free from it, so certainly 
 shall we free ourselves of every other absurdity in the medical 
 practice ; and the world shall learn to see that no apothe- 
 Gary’s pot, and no box of medicine, contains a specific remedy 
 for the cure of any disease.” It is, therefore, a most cheering,, 
 as also a well-known fact, which this new and true method of 
 cure, that has worked its way to public favor and recognition,, 
 by means of the most eminent success in curing disease, has? 
 established : that it rises above all the apothecary’s mixtures, 
 not only in the lighter forms of disease, but also that, in many 
 cases so severe that medical art has hitherto regarded them as 
 incurable, it has produced the most astonishing results in 
 their* cure. This is the Exanthematic Method of Cure, 
 founded upon the principles already explained, typified by a 
 common, every-day occurrence ; in other words, it is the sci- 
 ence of properly understanding, properly manipulating, and 
 correctly estimating the medicinal curative capacities of an 
 Instrument which has been given to the world under the 
 characteristic name of 
 
 RESUSCITATOR (Lebensweckek), 
 
 Which proclaims war openly and earnestly, if not upon all, 
 yet upon most of the highly-esteemed apothecary’s boxes! 
 But what is it that justifies this heroic challenge of the 
 “ Resuscitator ? ” and what is this singular instrument? We 
 answer : 
 
 This instrument is nothing more than a grouping together of 
 finely-pointed galvanized and gold-covered needles, which are 
 designed, by their puncturing the skin (an almost painless operation), 
 to create artificial pores, through which all the morbid matter, that 
 has been accumulated in the suffering portions of the body, conse- 
 quent upon the disturbed activities of the skin, are to be excreted in a 
 natural way, and gradually evaporated in the process of transpiration. 
 
 3 
 
18 — 
 
 THE DISCOVERY OF THE RESUSCITATOR. 
 
 In very ancient times, even, instruments were used for 
 the purpose of creating artificial pores in the human skin. 
 
 These old instruments were indeed very imperfect, but 
 they were improved from time to time. The first impulse to 
 the production of the Resuscitator, in its present form, was 
 undoubtedly given, as already shown in the eleventh edition 
 of this book, by Doctor Ferdinand Schrattenholz. At a later 
 period it was improved by the mechanician Baunscheidt. It 
 is untrue, however, that Baunscheidt is the inventor of the 
 Resuscitator. 
 
 Within the last few years, having my attention directed 
 to the imperfections of BaunscheidFs instrument by many 
 years’ experience, I have succeeded in very materially improv- 
 ing it, so that I may now confidently claim that I manufac- 
 ture the most perfect Resuscitator that is at present known. 
 
 By the punctures produced by the needles in the epider- 
 mis, small openings are made which are adapted to give vent 
 to the fine, volatile, but pathogenetic substances that have 
 accumulated under the skin. These openings are small 
 enough not to produce any alteration in the circulation of the 
 blood, but allow it to course along in its natural channels 
 undisturbed. But these openings are large enough to pene- 
 trate the exceedingly fine walls of the capillaries, thus ena- 
 bling the diseased organism to rally sufficient strength to 
 expel the morbid deposits. Very soon after the punctures 
 have been made by the needles, there will appear upon the 
 surface of the skin very small pimples which greatly resemble 
 the so-called goose-skin. After these disappear, the operated 
 parts will appear as bright, red spots. 
 
 For the purpose, then, of producing these artificial pores, 
 it was necessary to make an instrument in which a large 
 number of finely-pointed needles should be grouped together, 
 
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 and so arranged that by means of a special mechanical con- 
 trivance they might be made to penetrate the skin, and thus 
 open artificial avenues or outlets * This gave rise to the 
 instrument so essential to this new method of cure, and, as 
 improved by myself at various times with galvanized gilt 
 needles, is acknowledged to be a most perfect and efficient 
 instrument, and its application, withal, quite painless. But, 
 notwithstanding the thousands of cases in which the Resusci- 
 tator has proven itself a life-preserver, after patients were 
 abandoned by their physicians, there are still very many 
 medical men who are loth to do justice to the Exanthematic 
 Method of Cure. 
 
 The Resuscitator is doing its work in all of America, yea, 
 in every part of the world, and is recognized as the safest and 
 most practical of all curing methods. 
 
 The difference between the cures brought about by the 
 Exanthematic Method of Cure and those effected by the old 
 methods, is simply this : the former thoroughly expels the 
 morbid matter from the body, in consequence of which noth- 
 ing but health can remain, while the old system simply scat- 
 ters it in the body, and not unfrequently forces it into the 
 system. 
 
 By the application of the Resnscitator^ nature is simply roused 
 into activity^ after which it may safely he left to help itself. 
 
 In further explanation of our subject we remark : the skin 
 is undoubtedly one of the most important of the organs of the 
 body, and its functions remarkable. In insects the soft parts 
 of the whole organism are held together by the strong integu- 
 ment, and encased as in an armor. And if we look into the 
 vegetable kingdom, we shall find that the hark of the tree is its 
 most important part, as regards its healthful life. As long as the 
 
 Scientifically, this may be thus explained: If a portion of skin is 
 examined under the microscope, we find no perforations in it; and yet, 
 through the vesicular and glandular systems there is a continual distillation 
 of fluids going on, which are excreted, in sometimes visible form, such as 
 drops of sweat ; at other times in invisible exhalations. By means of the 
 alimentary fluids, the spaces intervening the alimentary structural parts are 
 kept continually filled, and this is the first condition of the uninterrupted 
 
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 bark of the oak is uninjured it uiill sprout forth into buds and leaves ^ 
 even though the heart he rotten. But if the bark of the tree is seriously 
 injured^ the tree visibly dies. And just the same is true with regard 
 to the human skin, which is to the body what the bark is to the tree.^ 
 
 transform atory process of tlie substances of the body, which is essential to 
 life. Hence the blood is continually generating new structural fluids, after 
 its own peculiar manner, and communicates them, in course of its circula- 
 tion, and in conformity to the exosmosis and endosmosis continually going 
 on in the body, to all the parenchyma, from which the previously exhausted 
 fluids have been removed, by means of lymphatic vessels and veins. Thus 
 the body is undergoing constant changes. 
 
 I would here call to mind the well-known saying: “ He sticks in a bad 
 skin.” Everybody knows the depth of meaning embraced in this adage. 
 
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 PRIMARY CLAIMS OF THE EXANTHE- 
 MATIC METHOD OF CURE. 
 
 1. That good health must be as easily restored as lost, if 
 the enervation of old age does not interfere ; and, 
 
 2. That any system of therapeutics that is unable to cure 
 a person under fifty years of age, or any one still enjoying full 
 vital powers, is not a true method, and is worthless. 
 
 3. That the Resuscitator contains within itself more cura- 
 tive efficacy than all remedies put together. It represents in 
 itself a complete apothecary ; for it warms, vivifies, nourishes, 
 is an aperient, stimulates, regulates the circulation of the 
 blood, and its effects are sudden, almost instantaneous, even 
 in cases where medical science has hitherto confessedly been 
 at its wit’s end. 
 
 4. That in critical cases, such as paralysis, inflammation 
 of the brain or of the chest, miserere, nervous fever, cholera, 
 yellow fever, asphyxia, etc., where there is no time for long 
 consultation, but help must be had at once, the Resuscitator 
 has often proved itself a life-preserver.* 
 
 5. That, while medical science may still be disputing and 
 arguing concerning the center whence the individual animal 
 life-forces issue, this method of cure has long ago reached a 
 definite conclusion on this point. The needles of the Resus- 
 citator lead us irresistibl}" to the column of the spinal mar- 
 row, as the retainer of life, as well as of the diseases that 
 threaten its destruction. 
 
 The ease and simplicity with which these remedies can 
 be applied make it j)ossible for any one to use them success- 
 fully in his own family. 
 
EXPLANATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ILLVSIWIOIIS. 
 
 Let it be dis- 
 tinctly under- 
 stood that we 
 need not be too 
 fearful concern- 
 ing the proper 
 parts of the body 
 to be operated 
 upon, nor too 
 sparing in the 
 number of pas- 
 sages to be made 
 in an operation. 
 The annexed il- 
 lustrations are 
 designed only to 
 designate those 
 parts of the body 
 which are indi- 
 cated in the 
 Special Direc- 
 tions.’’ In the 
 case of a strong 
 person, we 
 might, for in- 
 stance, make the 
 application to 
 all the indicated 
 parts at onccj 
 without injury. 
 It is best, how- 
 ever, if only 
 those parts of 
 the body are op- 
 erated which are 
 designated in 
 the General Di- 
 rections ; in al- 
 most all cases 
 of sickness we 
 may, liowever, 
 apply tlie in- 
 strument and oil 
 upon the back, 
 along the spinal 
 column, and as 
 far up as the cer- 
 22 
 
vical point, and upon 
 
 the shoulders, with 
 
 advantage. 
 
 A On the back, along 
 the spinal col- 
 umn, as far up as 
 the nape of the 
 neck ; also the 
 shoulder blades. 
 
 B On the hip joints. 
 
 C On the abdomen 
 and umbilical re- 
 gion. 
 
 D On the region of 
 the stomach. 
 
 E On the region of 
 the heart. 
 
 F On and about the 
 small of the back. 
 
 G On the region of 
 the liver. 
 
 H On the region of 
 the spleen. 
 
 I Behind the ear. 
 
 K On the throat, the 
 larynx, and the 
 upper part of the 
 chest. 
 
 L On the breast. 
 
 M On the shoulders. 
 
 N On the inner side 
 of the lower arm. 
 
 O On the inner side 
 of the upper arm. 
 
 P On the calves of 
 the legs. 
 
 Q On the rim of the 
 soles of the feet, 
 and on the soles 
 themselves. 
 
 R On the foot. 
 
 S On the outer surface 
 of the upper arm. 
 
 T On the inner sur- 
 face of the thighs. 
 
 U On the outer sur- 
 face of the thighs. 
 
DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 rtesnscitator, 
 
 AND HOW TO 
 
 MANIPULATE IT. 
 
 The figures hereto attached 
 
 represent the Resuscitator in a 
 F diminutive form. Fig, A repre- 
 sents the complete instrument, 
 consisting of a case of ebony 
 wood, out of which, from be- 
 tween the unscrewable covers, 
 A and E, and the motion cham- 
 ber, the needles protrude. At 
 G the small handle is shown 
 which is pulled out, when oper- 
 ating, from one to one and one- 
 half inches, by means of which 
 the needles are drawn back into 
 the motion chamber, and by 
 suddenly releasing the hold up- 
 on the handle, the needles will 
 jump forward more or less.vigor- 
 ously, as the handle has been 
 drawn out a greater or less dis- 
 tance. 
 
 B and F indicate the position 
 of the prepared gold-covered 
 needles, which are cast into a 
 truncated, galvanized, anti-cor- 
 rosive cone of metallic alloy ; C 
 and D the position of the brass 
 spiral spring, which is brought 
 to its tension by drawing out 
 the handle G.* 
 
 The instrument may be unscrewed 
 and taken entirely apart, which was de- 
 
 ‘24 
 
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 The manipulation of the instrument is very simple 
 indeed, and how deep the punctures are to be made is entirely 
 in the hands of the operator. After the cover is unscrewed, 
 the handle is so far drawn out that the needles do not touch 
 the sensitive skin of the patient while the instrument is 
 placed in position. After this, the handle, which is still ke})t 
 between the thumb and fingers of the operator, is pulled out 
 about one inch when operating on bon}^ portions, and one and 
 one-half inches when operating on softer portions of tlie body, 
 and then suddenly liberated. The needles have now pei- 
 formed their work, and the operator proceeds in the same 
 manner on other parts. 
 
 The needles’ punctures will of course be deeper as the 
 handle is drawn out farther; but it should never be drawn 
 out more than two inches, or the strain will weaken the spiral 
 spring, which should be avoided. Otherwise the operator can 
 feel in liis hand how hard the passages should be. During 
 the operation the instrument should be pressed against the 
 skin, and then the needles jerked in, and the operation is felt 
 far less than if the instrument is only slightly placed on the 
 skin. 
 
 I feel constrained to give the following general hints. If 
 any one uses the same instrument upon difierent persons, the 
 needles should be thoroughly cleansed after each opei’ation; 
 the needles should be brushed with the down of a feather 
 dipped in the oil, and then wiped with a clean one, or jerked 
 through a piece of cloth. This is easily done, and will ward 
 oflP all danger of transferring contagious or morbid matter 
 from one patient to another. 
 
 signedly so arranged for the purpose of enabling any one to see how very 
 simple is its construction. But in screwing it together, care must be taken 
 to allow the truncated needle-head to fall back, or else the needles are easily 
 broken. Hence this caution. 
 
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 MY TRADE - mark;' 
 
 Secured by Law, July 3, 1877. 
 
 Fig. 1. 
 
 Figure 1 shows the exact size of one of my Bottles, used 
 since July 4, 1877, for holding that very choicest quality of 
 CURATIVE OLEUM, of which I have the exclusive manu- 
 facture. A glance reveals the fact 
 that these bottles hold considera- 
 bly moreOleuin than those that had 
 been used by me for the last 25 
 years, and about one-half more 
 than those used by others, who 
 palm off upon the public professed- 
 ly genuine, but really worthless, 
 Oleum Baunscheidtii. 
 
 Fig. 2. 
 
 As this efficacious Oleum has been counterfeited by unprin- 
 cipled parties, and sold as being of my manufacture, I was 
 necessitated, in order to secure the public against imposition, 
 and myself against wrong, to claim protection against such 
 imitations by patent of my Trade-mark/’ which was granted 
 me by act of United States Patent Bureau of July 3, 1877. 
 
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 The accompanying illustration is a true copy of my trade 
 marks. A label containing this will be pasted upon every 
 bottle sold by me ; and it cannot be used by any one else, 
 under heavy penalties. Whoever, therefore, desires to be 
 quite sure of obtaining a bottle of oleum of absolute purity 
 and assured efficacy, should by no means buy one that is not 
 provided with the accompanying trade mark. Only by this 
 means can those who seek relief by this treatment apply it 
 Avith perfect confidence. 
 
 To retain the efficacy of the oleum for years, it should be 
 kept in a dark, cool place. 
 
 With this oleum all the parts operated upon by the Resuscitator 
 should be lubricated with the downy part of a feather^ or with the 
 small pencil that accompanies each instrument. After the lapse of 
 from four to six minutes, there will appear at all the oiled 
 needle punctures a millet-seed-like eruption, which is more or 
 less important, in proportion to the quantity of morbid accu- 
 mulations in the body. The skin reddens, becomes warm, 
 expands, and the patient realizes a certain itching sensation, 
 which is followed by more or less activity throughout the 
 body, which seems to transport the patient into a ivarmer cli- 
 mate^ as it were. In persons of perfect health the effect of an 
 operation is nothing at all, and no eruption whatever makes 
 its appearance. The same is true also in cases where the 
 morbid matter, in consequence of the feeble excretions from 
 the skin, has been throAvn upon the inner and more vital 
 organs; and, in consequence of the tenacity of this accumula- 
 tion, an eruption does not generally appear until after the 
 third operation. Hence this method becomes the touchstone 
 of true health, and the Resuscitator may be regarded as an 
 infallible health-meter. 
 
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 GENERAL DIRECTIONS. 
 
 Let the folloiving directions for use he read with great care and 
 attention. 
 
 The Resuscitator and the oleum can be used in all cases 
 without the least danger; nevertheless it is desirable, espe- 
 cially in cases of children, that the oleum should be kept out 
 of the eyes, mouth, nose, and genitals. Should it happen that 
 the genitals become inflamed, bathe them with a weak solu- 
 tion of alum in water, dry wdth a soft cloth, and apply a little 
 fat to the parts; this will remove all pain. These phenomena 
 do also at times appear when the Resuscitator and Oleum 
 are applied in the bend of the knees, on the inner part of the 
 thigh, on the lowx^r abdomen, or upon the larynx. 
 
 These phenomena, though often painful, are entirely 
 harmless, and, if treated as indicated, are readily removed. 
 In some cases, especially in severe diseases, such effects are 
 beneficial, and promote a cure, because the morbid matter 
 will there be most readily excreted. 
 
 Both before and after each operation, the needles should 
 be jerked through a soft, clean cloth, to avoid the conveyance 
 of disease; so also the Oleum that is used for the cure of 
 cutaneous diseases must be kept separate for the same 
 reason. 
 
 The oleum ought to be plentifully applied on and between 
 the operated parts with a fine brush, and then rubbed in with 
 the finger. The parts thus operated upon ought to be covered 
 with a thick layer of wadding, the soft side toward the skin, 
 and thus kept for three or four days. Every one applying 
 this method ought always to have a supply of wadding kept 
 lying with the Resuscitator, as it often happens that it cannot 
 be had just when needed. 
 
 Should a continued course of treatment be needed, then, 
 generally, the operations must be repeated every tenth or 
 
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 twelfth day, or at longer or shorter intervals, depending upon 
 the rapidity with which the effects of former operations dis- 
 appear. To avoid unnecessar}^ repetitions, I would direct the 
 reader’s attention to the alphabetical list of diseases. 
 
 It must be taken into consideration, however, that dis- 
 eases which are hereditary, chronic and deeply rooted, exten- 
 sively treated with many and perhaps injurious medicaments, 
 are much more difficult to cure than those of a recent origin. 
 
 As the chief seat of every dangerous disease is in the spi- 
 nal column, it follows naturally that we there operate first, in 
 order to relieve the body from morbid pressure ; upon the ver- 
 tebral column itself, as well as on each side of it ; also on and 
 between the shoulders. (See illustration.) 
 
 Here, where the morbid matter of the system is so readily 
 excreted, there should be from forty to sixty passages made 
 with the instrument, according to the stubbornness of the dis- 
 ease or the capabilities of the body. 
 
 After the entire operated surface is now thoroughly 
 anointed. Oleum rubbed in and covered with wadding, as 
 directed, the patient can dress again, and has simply to await 
 the result. 
 
 The healing process may be beneficiall}^ promoted by rub- 
 bing upon, either with a brush or otherwise, the pustules that 
 appear on the second or third day, or in any way relieve the 
 itching sensation. Not absolutely necessary, however. 
 
 If, after the lapse of a few days after the operation, all 
 pain should not have disappeared, or if it has concentrated 
 upon one spot, then we are to await the entire healing off of 
 the former exanthema, which requires ten days generally, 
 and, after a repetition of the operation, which might now be 
 made a little severer, the entire difficulty — especially in the 
 lighter forms of disease — is generally removed. 
 
 In critical cases, such as paralysis, quinsy, abdominal 
 inflammation, asphyxia, cramps, pneumonia, cholera, &c., and 
 in all cases where prompt help is needed, the operation with 
 the Resuscitator and Oleum should be repeated after the 
 lapse of two, three, or four hours, in case the first application 
 has not secured the desired result. 
 
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 During the first three days after the application, the 
 patient should be carefully protected against all air-currents 
 and wet, which would be very injurious to the body no^v 
 brought to a higher temperature, and might entirely prevent 
 a cure. The washing in the morning should at such times be 
 deferred for an hour after rising, and all work in which the 
 hands are wetted, such as the cleansing of vegetables, and 
 staying in damp places, as in cellars, should be avoided. 
 Aside from these precautions, the patient’s customary man- 
 ner of living need not be changed in the least; nevertheless, 
 very rich food, and intoxicating drinks, as also all sour arti- 
 cles (especially fruit acids) should not be indulged in. 
 
 To give assurance to all timid minds, we may remark 
 that the Resuscitator can never do harm, and can be a]:)plied, 
 without the least danger, even upon the most tender infant. 
 
 The necessity of repeating the operation after the expira- 
 tion of ten days need surprise no one, for the efficacy of the 
 Oleum in keeping open the needle w^ounds continues, accord- 
 ing to all observation, but ten days. In case the pustules 
 become painful on the third or fourth day, which, however, 
 only occurs when the patient takes cold, a little sw^eet oil may 
 be applied, and all pain will at once vanish. 
 
 SPECIAL DIRECTIONS. 
 
 Reference should be made, in reading these directions, to the illustrations on pages 22 &23. 
 
 1. Most all diseases of a mild character have their origin 
 in a cold^ contracted especially in damp and cold as well as 
 changeable weather, and generally being called Rheumatism* In 
 such colds, as a rule, we feel pain in the chest, shoulders, back, 
 throat, arms and legs, and sometimes throughout the entire 
 system, which, if not speedily removed, often result in severe 
 sickness. Therefore, if attacked by a cold, it is advisable 
 immediately to apply the Resuscitator and Oleum, according 
 to General Directions on page 28, on all parts of the body wdiere 
 the pain seems to be, excepting i n the knee joint, as the latter 
 is a particularly tender spot, to which nature itself is continu- 
 ally laboring to carry the morbid matter by means of its fric- 
 tion, and thus excrete it. In all cases, no matter where the 
 rheumatic pain may appear, it is advisable to make the applir 
 cation upon the back, on and between the shoulder blades, as 
 
 I 
 
— 31 — 
 
 also upon the affected parts themselves. In case of pain in 
 the knee-joint, the Resuscitator ought te be applied above the 
 knee, and upon the calves ; the shin bone is never operated 
 upon. The knee, as also the operated parts, must then be 
 wrapped warmly with wadding. In such cases of rheuma- 
 tism, unaffected by fever, the patient will soon find relief from 
 all pain, and thus become instantly convinced of the wonder- 
 ful and yet very natural efficacy of the Resuscitator. A sub- 
 ject of rheumatism or gout should by no means use morphine. 
 If he has already been using this drug, then the cure will 
 require more time. 
 
 2. Toothache. In this case the instrument should be 
 applied several times upon the cervical point, and down 
 between the shoulders, and also close behind the ear, and 
 upon that side of the head where the pain is located. The 
 operation behind the ear may consist of one or two applica- 
 tions between the extreme points of the ear, and then annoint 
 all the operated parts with the Oleum. The pain will invari- 
 ably diminish from hour to hour, and very rarely returns about 
 midnight once more with considerable vigor, but not for long ; 
 in a few moments the conflict turns i n favor of the patient, and 
 the trouble is mostly over. If the pain is in both jaws, then 
 the instrument is applied behind both ears, as also upon the 
 spine, and the small wounds are then liberally anointed with 
 the Oleum. But the patient must not be alarmed if, on the 
 second day, usually, after the operation, his ears become swol- 
 len, stiff, and very red. The pain is unimportant, consists 
 more in an energetic itching, and on the third day it stops. 
 The skin will scale off, however, after the pussy exudations 
 have disappeared, and not the slightest traces will remain of 
 the slight wounds. But if the teeth are hollow or diseased, 
 then the trouble cannot be permanently cured. In such cases 
 the diseased teeth must be filled or extracted. Diseased teeth 
 that cannot or dare not be extracted, a tooth liniment, con- 
 sisting of two parts of alcohol and one part of oil of juniper, 
 applied to the aching tooth, will afford instant relief. 
 
 The operation may be made even upon the cheeks, with- 
 out the least danger of having any mark or scar, as is the case 
 with a plaster made of Spanish flies, tartar emetic, salve, mus- 
 
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 tard poultice, scarifications, feutonelles and setons, and which 
 fail, after all, to eradicate the evil. The former, by concen- 
 trating the mass of fluids too violently at some abnormal part 
 of the body, injure the urinal secretory organs; while the lat- 
 ter, partly on account of the forcible cutting of the tender 
 capillaries, which are so indispensable to the economy of the 
 blood, and partly on account of the galloping decomposing 
 process into which they plunge the body before death, are still 
 more detrimental to the entire organism. After very full 
 observations, we may venture to make the assertion that, 
 when the toothache continues more than eight days, the 
 rheumatic evil has either changed into a nervous one, or else 
 that the entire body is permeated with rheumatism. In 
 either case a longer curative process is required. Persons 
 afflicted much with the toothache should put a wad of cotton 
 into the ear in cold or stormy weather, in order to avert the 
 damp, cold air. At the beginning of an attack of the tooth- 
 ache the cotton shouJd be saturated with several drops of 
 spirits. 
 
 3. Headache. (Neuralgia of the Head, or Migrane.) Again 
 behind the ears, and freely in the nape of the neck and spinal 
 column, and the Oleum liberally applied to the puncture 
 wounds. Several applications generally suffice to remove the 
 trouble entirely. In Nervous or so called Sick- Head ache, tem- 
 porary relief may be obtained by rubbing the region of the 
 temples with laudanum (say three times within as many 
 hours), however not more than a teaspoonful should be used at 
 each application. 
 
 4. Diseases of the Ear. Earache, otalgia, singing in the 
 ears, and inflammations of the outer or inner ear, and occa- 
 sional hardness of hearing, are usually cured very speedily by 
 applications behind and in front of the ear, in the nape of the 
 neck, and between the shoulders. The ears should be washed 
 or syringed several times a day with lukewarm milk, and sev- 
 eral drops of warm milk might be dropped into them. It is 
 also advisable, in case of earache, to allow several drops of 
 sweet oil to fall upon a wad of cotton, and put it into the ear, 
 or put a piece of fresh fat pork into the ear, to avert the cold 
 air. All lighter forms of ear disease will soon yield to such 
 
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 treatment. For more serious cases we refer to the Appendix 
 of this book, viz: “The Ear, its Diseases,” &c. (Page 174.) 
 
 5. Stiffness of the Joints. (Contraction of the Sinews.) 
 The Instrument should be pretty vigorously applied to the- 
 flexible sinews, and apply the Oleum to them, upon which the- 
 contracted sinews will relax unobservedly, and become plia- 
 ble again. This evil, so frequently occurring in the aged^ 
 will certainly yield, finally, to this treatment. 
 
 6. Snral Cramps. (Cramp in the Calves of the Legs.) 
 This is cured« in ten minutes, the instrument to be applied 
 directly to the suffering part, and the Oleum applied to the 
 operated part. 
 
 7. Whites. This often dangerous trouble, to which mar- 
 ried as well as single women are subject, has its origin from 
 various causes, which to enumerate and investigate here 
 would be too tedious. 
 
 An ample puncturing with the Resuscitator, and appli- 
 cation of Oleum upon the small of the back and abdomen, 
 is the surest remedy for this disease, which nearly in all cases 
 baffles every other method of cure. After the use of the 
 Resuscitator, the patient should, before retiring, drink a cup 
 of cold cinnamon tea, which is to be made by steeping the 
 condiment whole. The genital organs should be thoroughly 
 cleansed every night and morning with tepid water. The 
 abdomen should be kept warm by means of a soft woolen 
 bandage ; physical and mental exertions should also be 
 avoided, and a light, nourishing diet be observed. 
 
 8. Cramp of the Fingers. (Writer’s Cramp.) If the com- 
 plaint be a chronic one, it will be necessary, besides operating 
 in the spinal region, to operate also on the upper part of the 
 arm, down to the elbow, and saturate well with the Oleum, 
 after which the cramp generally disappears in about two 
 months. In acute cases of these cramps, a single application 
 on the upper arm is generally sufficient to remove the trouble 
 forthwith. 
 
 9. Sleeplessness. I have rarely failed to cure this trouble, 
 and generally in ten days, even in cases where patients had 
 
84 — 
 
 t^uffered for ten years from this complaint. Application along 
 the spmal column, between and upon the shoulders. 
 
 10. Worms. The instrument is to be applied, at short 
 intervals, and right vigorously, upon the surface around the 
 umbilicus, and the parts are to be well saturated with the 
 Oleum. In twenty-four hours the worms will be carried off. The 
 same course is to be pursued in cases where it is simpl}^ sup- 
 posed that the patient is suffering from worms. A weak solu- 
 tion of tea made of the anthelmintic herb, and a cup taken of 
 it, in the evening before going to bed, will also facilitate the 
 cure. In most cases, however, this is not necessary. Chil- 
 dren who are subject to suffering from worms would also do 
 well to eat frequently of raw yellow carrots. 
 
 11. Milk-Scab. (Achor.) A slight application on and 
 between the shoulders, in the nape, behind the ear, and, if 
 the glands of the throat are swollen, then directly upon these. 
 In the morning and evening, a tea made of hearts-ease or 
 pansy will forward the cure. A salve, consisting of three 
 parts of unsalted lard and one part of pine-tar, with which 
 the scab is rubbed every evening, the latter sometimes spread- 
 ing over the whole body, will be found an excellent remedy, 
 and quite harmless. Medicaments or salves, which simply 
 scatter the scab, should never be used, as the impure fluids 
 are then apt to precipitate themselves upon vital and inter- 
 nal organs, which may result in worse evils, if not in death. 
 
 12. Summer Complaint. (Cholera Infantum.) The appli- 
 cation should be made gently over the entire back, and over 
 the surface of the abdomen. Let the children enjoy the fresh 
 ^air, but avoid air-draughts and the sunshine. Let a piece 
 of flannel or wadding be tied over the child’s stomach, and 
 offer the child, from time to time, fresh water; better still, rice 
 water that is not too cold, to quench the great thirst. As 
 nourishment, fresh milk may be given, and the gravy of mut- 
 ton boiled with rice, and, in general, only glutinous articles of 
 diet. The usual custom of feeding the child only with crack- 
 ers, pap, &c., will soon become repugnant to the child, and 
 will then surely aggravate the evil. 
 
 13. Fevers of Children, caused either by teething or by 
 colds, are usually cured very quickly by an application, how- 
 
ever light, between the shoulders and upon the calves. If 
 the cliest should also be suffering, and the child be subject to 
 a rattling noise in the throat, then an application upon the 
 ■chest would also be very serviceable. (See Appendix, page 881.) 
 
 14. Hypochondria. (Hysterics of Women.) Operate with 
 the instrument and Oleum, as usual, every ten days, altern- 
 ately, along the whole spinal region, and then over a large 
 part of the surface of the abdominal region, and the epigas- 
 trium. The cure will be surprisingly quick, especially witli 
 those who have never taken much medicine. 
 
 15. Burn-Scars. It is notorious that hitherto their removal 
 has been held utterly impossible. But the Resuscitator can 
 do it. It is applied, either once or more, according to the size 
 and extent of the burn-scars, to the disfigured parts, and 
 anointed with Oleum. This operation is repeated every ten 
 days, until not a trace of it is left behind. Slight cases are 
 generally corrected in from one to three applications. 
 
 16. Baldness. This, too, disappears, and the decaying hair 
 receives new vigor as soon as the Resuscitator and Oleum are 
 applied, at the intervals of ten days, along the spinal column, 
 and behind the ears. A process is thus begun by which the 
 morbid matter is displaced by vitalizing substances : for expe- 
 rience teaches that, to restore the hair, all depends upon a 
 vigorous and healthy circulation of the blood. To secure this 
 is our first business, and when this is accomplished, and an 
 abundant supply of rich blood is furnished to all parts of the 
 body, so that it is not all needed for the simple nourishing of 
 its essential organs, it is then devoted to the formation also of 
 the horny substances, including the hair. This is done by 
 the application of the Resuscitator, but, evidently, to effect a 
 cure, a greater or less amount of perseverance is required, in 
 proportion as the life-forces are abundant or otherwise. 
 
 17. Tetter. Tetter, whether dry or moist, is productive of 
 the most dangerous diseases. Such an eruption is a signal of 
 distress indicating the large amount of morbid matter in the 
 system. If it has been driven back into the body even, it 
 may be rapidly and totally eradicated by the help of the 
 Resuscitator. Application is to be made on both sides of the 
 spinal column, from the nape of the neck to the ^mall of the 
 
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 back, on the shoulder blades, over the abdomen, and on the 
 calves of the legs; also around all the affected parts’, wherever 
 tetter shows itself, with the exception of the joints. The 
 treatment must be continued for some time. Persons who are 
 suffering from periodical attacks of tetter will do best to begin 
 the treatment a few days after the full of the moon. Account 
 must be taken, however, of all the facts, such as the length of 
 time the evil has continued, what has been done for it, and 
 the age of the patient. If the disease is hereditary, or of 
 many years’ standing, or if the patient has passed his fiftieth 
 year, a cure is rarely possible. Liberal washing with tepid 
 water and my Glycerine Milk of Sulphur Soap is very desirable, 
 and the utmost cleanliness in general is indispensable. The 
 clothes worn by such persons, the water or the towels they have 
 used, should be used by no one else before they have been thor- 
 oughly washed and purified, otherwise the disease might be 
 transmitted. Although a strict diet is not absolutely necessary, 
 yet it is desirable to avoid all fatty articles, such as pork, and 
 also all intoxicating drinks. To allay the violent itching and 
 biting occasioned by tetter, the affected parts may be dressed 
 twice a day with pine tree salve, as recommended in No. 11 for 
 Milk-Scab. This will also promote a cure. (See Appendix, p. 316.) 
 
 18. Swelling of the Glands. (Scrofula.) This disease 
 requires a continuous treatmdnt. For this purpose apply the 
 Resuscitator, at intervals of ten or fifteen days, between the 
 shoulders, on the shoulder blades, on the back, over the region 
 of the kidneys, vigorously all over the abdomen, anointing 
 the places well with the oleum. After about six applications 
 have been made, the treatment may be suspended for four 
 weeks and then resumed as described above. Once in four 
 weeks an application may be made right on the swollen 
 glands, and the part covered for three days with cotton wad- 
 ding. The diet must be a light one, consisting only of easily 
 digestible food. Pork, lard, as well as everything prepared 
 with lard, coffee, spices, warm bread or cakes, and strong 
 drinks, are strictly prohibited. The general directions given 
 in the foregoing case of tetter should be carefully observed. 
 
 19. Itch and Relapsed Itch. The instrument is regularly 
 ap|>lied over the entire posterior and abdominal surfaces of 
 
the body, at intervals of ten days, until a perfect cure is 
 effected. Itch cured by the Resuscitator leaves no serious 
 after effects, so often following the use of mercurial salves, or 
 other poisonous drugs, driving this malignant cutaneous dis- 
 ease back into the body. Such treatment frequently endan- 
 gers life itself, and the disease frequently reappears in an 
 aggravated or entirely different form, sometimes after the 
 lapse of ten or twenty years. Again we refer to what has 
 been directed under the head of tetter. 
 
 20. Measles, Nettie Rash, Miliary Fever, and similar cutane- 
 ous diseases, are in like manner drawn to the surface of the 
 body, both rapidly and with perfect safety, by means of the 
 Resuscitator, and thus cured. The application is to be made 
 on the back, on and between the shoulder blades, on the 
 breast and over the abdomen, and thus the application will 
 prevent the relapse of the eruption, which is well known to 
 be the most dangerous feature in all cutaneous diseases. As 
 mostly children are attacked by such diseases, it is self-evident 
 that the application must be lightly made. [See General 
 Directions.] Such patients must be kept very warm, the 
 light in the sick-room must not be glaring, and the patient 
 must be content to remain for ten days, if not in bed, yet cer- 
 tainly in a warm room. It will be found advantageous to 
 drink, daily, a cup of warm, boiled milk. 
 
 21. Soreness. This occurs most frequently in children, and 
 is usually caused by a want of cleanliness, or a pungency of 
 the sweat or urine. If the evil is spread over a considerable 
 surface, then we may look for its cause in some inner derange- 
 ment, such as indigestion, acidity of the stomach, &c. xldults 
 also, mostly corpulent persons of a full habit, are apt to suffer 
 from this, especially in warm weather, and in case of frictions 
 movements. In such it also occurs in case of violent purging, 
 such as diarrh(Ba, the whites, &c. Those that have used much 
 mercury suffer frequently from a very distressing soreness of 
 the upper thigh and the scrotum. 
 
 To cure soreness, it is only necessary to avoid, as much as 
 possible, friction of the parts ; keep sedulously clean, and wash 
 frequently with tepid water, milk, or water mixed with bran. 
 In case of children, the well-known sprinkling powder of 
 
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 gtarch-meal is used, together with a careful washing of the 
 parts with cold water. Especiall}^ necessary is it that chil- 
 dren should be kept clean between the thighs, so as to avoid 
 soreness resulting from a sharp urine. Should the difficulty 
 increase very much, then, in the case of children, as well as in 
 adults, and especially in case of women. Bathing in a solu' 
 tion of lime and milk is useful, also frequent washings witli 
 my Glycerine Milk of Sulphur Soap prove very beneficial. 
 In children of redundant fluids, with torpid stools, and the 
 inflamed parts of a deep red, widely spread and tenacious, a 
 teaspoonful of rhubarb and manna-juice, or of Hoofland’s 
 powders for children, to be had in the drug stores, will p)rove 
 beneficial; of the latter what will lie upon the point of a 
 knife, two or three times a day. The nourishment given to 
 children, should be mild and glutinous substances, such as 
 salep, sago, arrow-root, and the like. 
 
 Not unfrequently, especially during the period of denti- 
 tion, children become sore behind the ears, from which a pun- 
 gent fluid is exuded. Care must be had that this eruption is 
 not entirely suppressed, for very serious consequences might 
 ensue. Nothing more should be done than that cleanliness 
 be observed, the parts frequently washed, and dried with a 
 fine, soft cloth, without rubbing them. If the exudations 
 should become very profuse, then a piece of lint, dipped in 
 lime water and linseed oil, may be laid upon it, and a mild 
 aperient administered. (See appendix p. 316.) 
 
 22. The Influenza makes its appearance usually when a 
 sudden change of temperature from heat to cold takes place, 
 the more so when this does not result from rainy or wet 
 weather. A single application on the back and between the 
 shoulders, and keeping warm for several days, generally 
 removes trouble. 
 
 23. Affections of the Uvala. Hoarseness, and rheumatic 
 pains in the throat, if the seat of the disease is not in the 
 abdomen, are cured by an application of the Resuscitator and 
 the oleum along the spinal column, as well as several passa- 
 ges of the instrument to the right and h'ft of the pharynx. 
 
 24. Rheumatic Cough. The application of the Rosus(‘itator 
 on th(‘ back, on and Ix'twcMm tin' slioulders, as also jdentiful 
 
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 passages of the instrument over the epigastric and abdominal 
 recipes have been written for cough remedies, and this count- 
 less number of remedies proves that not one of them is satis- 
 factory. Among the best of this long catalogue of cough rem- 
 edies, we may class the brown-sugar cough candies, and hence 
 it is that its extensive consumption, especially during Fall 
 and Winter, has given so many a shopkeeper an opportunity 
 to turn an honest penny.’’ But they must not blame us if 
 the Resuscitator should perceptibly diminish the sale of the 
 brown-sugar cough candies, the caromels, as well as other 
 drugged confectioneries, for its use will put a stop, once for all, 
 to the licking of these dainties. During the treatment boiled 
 milk taken hot should be freely used, as in 20. 
 
 25. Whooping Cough of Children. This torturing affliction 
 is also rapidly overpowered by the use of the Resuscitator, if it 
 is applied freely upon the back and the abdomen. Should a 
 single application not prove suffleient, the operation should 
 be repeated in ten days, when applications should be freely 
 made over the region of the stomach, and also from five 
 to eight passages should be made upon the surface of the 
 thorax ; after which, this distressing suftering, which has so 
 frequently caused ruptures, and sometimes even death, will be 
 safely and radically cured. It is well known that it has been 
 the stereotyped and generally-received opinion that this cough 
 must have nineteen weeks to exhaust itself, before the skill of 
 the physician and apothecary could cure it — ample time, in 
 all conscience, to cure itself, without any medication what- 
 ever! The use of scalded milk, taken hot, is quite essential 
 to this cure, as recommended in 20. 
 
 26. Catarrh in the Head. Several passages of the Resusci- 
 tator in the nape of the neck, and one behind each ear, will 
 restore the olfactory organs to their normal condition, in case 
 all of the mucous membrane is not already involved; in 
 which case a repetition is needed. 
 
 27. Rheumatic Inflammation of the Eyes. A single applica- 
 tion behind the ears will at once remove the inflammation. 
 Care must be taken, however, to discriminate whether the 
 affection is of a rheumatic or glandular character. In the lat- 
 
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 ter case the directions given in the appendix to this work 
 should be read and observed. 
 
 28. Disorders of the Stomach, such as difficult digestion, 
 flatulency, gripings, etc., caused by rheuipatism, are removed 
 at once if the instrument is applied along the spinal column 
 and back, and also upon the abdominal and epigastric regions, 
 and, as in all cases, the parts well anointed with Oleum. The 
 use of boiled milk is also recommended as indispensable, the 
 same as in 20. 
 
 29. Diarrhoea is cured by a single but liberal application 
 of the instrument and Oleum over the stomach and abdomen, if 
 the evil has not become chronic or aggravated by the swallow- 
 ing of injurious medicaments. Medicines that will arrest the 
 flux at once should be used upon no conditions, as they almost 
 always cause internal inflammations that often terminate 
 fatally. A free use of hot boiled milk is the best medicine 
 that can be taken for this affliction. A special care should be 
 taken with the diet of persons suffering from this trouble, and 
 only glutinous substances should be used, such as oatmeal and 
 mutton soup with rice. Sour articles, fruit, young beer, etc., 
 must be carefully avoided. Now and then a little of red 
 grape wine is to be recommended. During the cure, as well 
 as for some time thereafter, the abdomen should be kept con- 
 stantly warm with a soft woolen bandage. In cold, damp 
 weather, everybody should wear such a bandage, but espe- 
 cially persons predisposed to diarrhoea should wear one both 
 Summer and Winter. 
 
 30. Catarrh in the Bladder. Application on the back, the 
 loins, and abdomen. In the same manner that the nose is 
 sometimes affected with rheum, the bladder suffers from 
 catarrh. 
 
 31. Colic. This, under certain conditions, is a very dan- 
 gerous sickness, and one in which help is needed at once. A 
 liberal application of the Resuscitator and Oleum on the ab- 
 domen and epigastric region generally secures relief at once. 
 Along with this, the patient should drink freely of hot boiled 
 milk. If the evil should not yield at once, then, in a few hours, 
 the operated parts should be again anointed with the Oleum. 
 To prevent a return of the evil, it is advisable after the expira- 
 
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 tion of ten days, to apply the instrument and Oleum over the 
 entire back, and on the spinal column. The body should be 
 kept very warm. 
 
 32. Inflammation of the Bowels, a very dangerous disease, 
 which demands immediate attention. At the appearance of 
 the slightest symptoms the treatment in SI. should be 
 promptly applied. 
 
 33. Incubus. (Nightmare.) Persons predisposed to this 
 trouble should eat nothing in the evening that is difficult of 
 digestion, and never go to bed with a heavily-loaded stomach. 
 They should avoid lying on the back, or with their arms 
 under their head, while asleep. As this affection has its ori- 
 gin mostly in a morbid stagnation of the blood, the applica- 
 tion of theResuscitator andOleumistobemadeon thebackand 
 between the shoulders, as this will serve to regulate a circula- 
 tion of the blood. 
 
 34. Vomiting. Liberal applications over the stomach and 
 abdominal surface, as also on the calves of the legs, overpower 
 the trouble, in most cases, immediately. 
 
 35. Pimples on the Face, also called parasites, are generally 
 removed by an application on the back and abdomen. As 
 the presence of these pimples producing parasites is a sure 
 evidence of a general vitiation of the fluids, the use of the 
 Resuscitator, which is known to remove all impure fluids, is 
 the only sure remedy for the cure of this evil. But, along 
 with this, it is to be recommended that the affected parts 
 should be slightly rubbed daily for from ten to fifteen minutes 
 with warm water and soap, for which a small brush or a soft 
 cloth are best, and the black spots should be expressed. 
 
 36. Gastric Fever, and gastric difficulties, require liberal 
 passages of the Resuscitator over the back and abdomen, as 
 also six or eight passages on each calf of the leg, and the dis- 
 ease is soon cured. The digestive functions, in such cases, 
 have been disturbed. These operations restore the equilib- 
 rium of activity over the whole body, and thus enable the 
 digestive functions to regulate themselves. 
 
 37. Jaundice. As this disorder arises from an arrest of the 
 bilious secretions in the liver, induced, generally, by colds or 
 torpidity of the liver, in consequence of gastric- impurities, 
 
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 etc., therefore the application must be made all over the back, 
 and over the region of the liver and abdomen, and, as a rule, 
 the evil yields to two applications. Jaundice arises frequently 
 in persons suffering from inflammations of the throat, and 
 who, for the cure of it, have submitted to the use of lunar cau- 
 stic. In such cases, or where the evil has become chronic and 
 deeply rooted, the cure of it will require more time. The 
 patient should, after the first application, stir a raw egg into 
 half a glass of water, and drink it every morning for the space 
 of two weeks. If the patient is otherwise of a vigorous consti- 
 tution, he may stir two raw eggs into water and drink it sev- 
 eral times a day, as this promotes the cure. This simple 
 domestic remedy every one suffering from jaundice should not 
 fail to use. 
 
 38. Yellow Fever. This disease, to some extent resembling 
 the foregoing, occurs frequently in warm, low, marshy coun- 
 tries, bordering on the sea. It is readily and thoroughly cured 
 by the use of the Resuscitator. It is applied, in cases of this 
 malignant fever, over the back, the gastric, and abdominal 
 surface, and especially in the region of the liver, on the right 
 side, as the disease is generally produced by an excessive 
 secretion of bile in the blood, caused by the inordinate heat of 
 the sun. 
 
 39. Stys. (Small Pustules on the Edge of the Eyelid.) 
 One passage of the instrument behind the ear of the suffering 
 side will at once reduce the swelling and inflammation. 
 
 40* Lock-Jaw. This dangerous affliction, terminating usu- 
 ally in death, is generally brought about by bodily injuries, 
 and the patient must have help at once. The Resuscitator is 
 immediately applied on both sides about the maxillary region, 
 from the ear downward, from four to six times, and also a few 
 severe passages between the shoulders, and the parts well 
 anointed with Oleum; after which the patient will soon find 
 relief. If necessary, the operation can be repeated in a day or 
 two. 
 
 41. Intermittent Fever. (Fever and Ague.) This disease 
 occurs frequently in low lands, and especially in places where 
 there is much stagnant water, sucli as ponds, ditches, etc. It 
 has its focal seat in the spine and abdomen. Hitherto the 
 
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 attempts of physicians of the old style to cure this malady by 
 difficult and often very expensive remedies, among which 
 China played a principal role, often laid the foundation for 
 dropsy, consumption, and other dangerous diseases. 
 
 Special Application. — Intermittent, or fever and ague, be it 
 ever so chronic and stubborn a case, will be driven totally out 
 of the system by the Resuscitator, if it is applied along the 
 vertebral column, especially between and upon the shoulder 
 blades, and down to the small of the back. According to the 
 strength of the patient, from forty to sixty passages are made 
 here with the instrument ; and then, over the gastric and 
 abdominal region, from twenty-five to forty, all with consider- 
 able vigor. The operated parts are then well saturated with 
 Oleum. Children are of course operated upon much more 
 lightly. Old and very chronic cases require more continued 
 treatment. The application should never be made immedi- 
 ately before or after an attack of the fever, but always after 
 the attack is over. Only easily-digested food is advisable, but 
 food made of milk and eggs must be entirely avoided during 
 the treatment. In the West, where the fever and ague mostly 
 makes its appearance, caused by the malaria arising from the 
 decomposing vegetable matter in the earth, now for the first 
 time brought under the plow, it is very advisable to surround 
 the dwelling of the new settler with sun-flowers. These are a 
 prevention of the disease ; and as this simple remedy costs so 
 little, and serves to beautify the home, it ought certainly to 
 be tried in those parts where the fever is in the habit of mak- 
 ing its appearance. From the seed of the sunflower a very 
 costly salad oil can be made, and serves also as excellent 
 chicken food. 
 
 42 Pectoral Spasms. As the principal virtue of the 
 Resuscitator is that it is sovereign of all spasms,’’ it is not 
 necessary to mention all the different kinds in detail. Hence 
 we pass them by. What is necessary to say is this : that in 
 pectoral spasms, and all others involving internal organs, the 
 operation must be made vigorously and liberally, not only 
 along the vertebral column, but also on the spot that is 
 affected. On the other hand, when sudden spasms attack any 
 
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 external organ or limb, it is only necessary to operate upon 
 the affected parts. 
 
 43. Flatulency. This affliction, which is almost invaria- 
 bly caused by habitual constipation, is also safel}^ and radic- 
 ally cured, when the inducing cause is removed, according to 
 direction in 28 and repeated several times at intervals of ten 
 days. 
 
 44. Congestion of the Blood to the Head and Breast. This 
 disorder, which is usually accompanied b}^ coldness of the feet, 
 is soon cured if the Resuscitator is applied with the Oleum, 
 on the back* on the abdominal region, and on the calves, at 
 intervals of ten days. Also a slight application on the soles 
 of the feet, especially on the outer rim of them, but without 
 using the Oleum. 
 
 45. Relaxation of the Bowels. (Atony.) Liberal applica- 
 tion of the instrument over the back and abdomen removes 
 this disorder ; but in such cases, especially if the disease has 
 become chronic, great perseverance is sometimes necessary in 
 operating every ten days. 
 
 46. Atony of the Liver. The application of the instru- 
 ment should be along the spinal column, and over the region 
 of the liver, on the right side. The evil will usually disap- 
 pear forthwith, unless it has become a chronic malady, in 
 which case the directions given under 45 would come in force. 
 
 47. Atony of the Kidneys. Again the operation must be 
 made along the spinal column, over the back, and especially 
 across the loins, on each side of the vertebra. The application 
 must be liberal, and with considerable vigor, and the apathy 
 of the kidneys will soon subside. But if the affliction is an 
 old one, we must point to the foregoing paragraph, and, rela- 
 tively, also, to the paragraph under Hemorrhoids.” 
 
 48. Atony of the Spleen. In case of a torpid or relaxed 
 spleen, the operation must be made along the spine, and also 
 over the suffering part, on the left side, and the trouble will 
 be mastered in a short time ; unless, indeed, it has become the 
 inducing cause of Hypocondriasisj or melanchol}", in which 
 case the directions given under 14 are to be applied. The 
 medical profession has hitherto been obliged to let these per- 
 sons die almost invariably. 
 
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 49. Sea-Sickness. This sickness, caused by the rocking 
 and shaking of a ship, and to which passengers are unused, 
 attacks most all that go to sea for the first time. It does not 
 often result in death. A number of reliable reports have 
 reached me, testifying to the merits of the Resuscitator, not 
 only in curing this sickness, which begins with vertigo and 
 and faintness, and continues with violent vomiting, lasting 
 sometimes for weeks — but also as a preventive against this 
 torturing affliction. Liberal passages of this healing instru- 
 ment on the abdomen and over the back will hea|^ sea-sickness 
 forthwith. Very rarely does it become necessary to apply the 
 instrument also upon the calves of the legs, yet the cure is 
 the surer if an application is made there also. 
 
 He who, upon entering a ship for a voyage, or upon the 
 first symptoms of dizziness, has his calves immediately oper- 
 ated upon, will be spared sea-sickness. No one should go to 
 sea, therefore, without having the Resuscitator and a bottle of 
 Oleum in his pocket. 
 
 50. Heartburn — Acidity. For this troublesome affliction a 
 numbering of sweetening powders and other trifles have been 
 prescribed without any success. Six to eight passages of the 
 Resuscitator over the stomach will relieve the difficulty. If 
 acidity has resulted from the eating of too rich a food, then 
 the immediate eating of a soda cracker, or a piece of chalk, 
 will soon cure the evil. Water must not be drank upon it 
 immediately. 
 
 51. Faceache. Besides operating upon the back, in the 
 nape of the neck, and behind the ears, the instrument should 
 also be applied on the afflicted side of the face, wherever it is 
 possible to effect a near approach to the trigemini nerves^ as it is 
 on account of a morbid condition of these nerves that Foth- 
 ergillish Faceache” arises. The injecting of the needles 
 should therefore be made somewhere below, or by the side of 
 the ear-lapel ; in the temple region, aside of the nose, but not 
 upon it, as a permanent redness might be the result, while 
 upon the parts named no trace will be left to show where the 
 operation has been performed. 
 
 52. Bee-Stings (probably, too, all other poisonous stings). 
 
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 Apply the instrument directly upon the part stung, and 
 anoint with Oleum. 
 
 53. Dizziness, and Fainting Spells. The application is upon 
 and between the shoulder blades, and upon the calves; if 
 accompanied with nausea or gastric difficulties, then also over 
 the entire abdominal region. 
 
 54. Nose-Bleeding will be cured at once by an application 
 behind the ears, in the nape of the neck, between the shoul- 
 ders, and upon the calves. It is also an advantage to place, 
 in such cases, a piece of printing paper under the tongue. 
 
 55. Congestion of the Lnngs, and the Heart. The appliccv 
 tion is made upon the back, shoulder blades, and calves. 
 Patients should abstain from the use of coffee, tea, spirituous 
 liquors, and tobacco, but should drink freely of water, milk, or 
 whey. 
 
 56. Blood-Spitting, {Haemoptysis) or bursting of blood ves- 
 sels. (Haemorrhagia.) This disease, unless it appears toward 
 the end of a case of consumption, arises, usually, from a neg- 
 lect of the foregoing one, and can generally be prevented by 
 curing the congestions. The application is to be made on the 
 back, on and about the shoulder blades, the breast, the abdo- 
 men, and the calves. In cases of sudden ruptures, excitement 
 must be avoided, and we must not attempt too much, as we 
 might thus make the matter worse. The patient should be 
 brought at once, but as quietly as possible, into a half recum- 
 bent position, and thus leave him without moving or speak- 
 ing to him, and give him a teaspoonful of salt dissolved in 
 water, to drink. After the hemorrhage has thus been mostly 
 arrested, the Resuscitator is applied as above directed. 
 
 57. Loss of Appetite, Gastric Difficulties, Dyspepsia, caused 
 by colds, rheumatism, or ill-adapted food, are cured at once by 
 applying the instrument on both sides of the spinal column, 
 and over the entire surface of the abdomen and stomach, and 
 the part well anointed with Oleum. If the trouble is of long 
 standing, the operation should be repeated every ten days. 
 
 Remarks . — Patients that are suffering from the foregoing 
 difficulties should eat but very little at a time, and only of 
 easily-digested food, such as toast, milk, meat broth, light 
 soups of rice, sago, grits, oatmeal gruel, or barley boiled into 
 
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 it, beefsteak, or lightly fried beef or mutton. It is a bad habit 
 to drink cold water whi'e eating, but instead of this it is 
 highly commendable to drink a glass of water about half an 
 hour before each meal, which has a tendency to increase the 
 digestive powers of the stomach. 
 
 58. Dyspepsia. (Weakness of the Stomach and the Diges- 
 tion.) These difficulties, which are so prevalent in this coun- 
 try, sometimes cause, at other times effect gastric impurities. 
 They are recognized by the irregularities of the appetite. At 
 times it is lost entirely, at other times very weak, at others 
 inordinate and voracious, followed by distress in the stomach 
 after eating. A feeling of oppression, tension or a bloating 
 sensation, eructations, peevishness of temper, and sleepiness ; 
 and these are readily followed by indigestion, acidity, and 
 conglutinations. 
 
 This condition arises from a real weakness of the stomach, 
 or else the weakness is only apparent. 
 
 Real, genuine weakness of the stomach arises from poorly- 
 prepared or a bad diet, gluttony, inordinate use of warm 
 drinks, especially of tea, want of exercise, inordinate mental 
 efforts, melancholy, sorrow, or seminal dissipation. 
 
 To cure this difficulty, the aggravating causes above men- 
 tioned must be removed or avoided. 
 
 The food of the patient must be light, and easily digesti- 
 ble. Finely-chopped beef that is free from all fat, seasoned to 
 the taste of the patient with salt and pepper, eaten once a 
 day, is an excellent article of diet. Daily, one or two wine- 
 glassesful of good, pure lager beer, is also to be recommended 
 as a stimulant to promote digestion. This can be bought in 
 bottles in almost all large towns and cities, and it keeps good 
 for a long time if stored away in the cellar. Spirituous 
 liquors, such as whiskey and even wine, must be entirely 
 avoided. 
 
 If the Resuscitator and Oleum are regularly used at in- 
 tervals of from ten to fourteen days, according as the effects 
 of previous operations disappear rapidly or otherwise, ap- 
 plied as recommended in the preceding paragraph on gastric 
 weakness, and the general hygienic directions are carefully 
 observed, then the troubles will disappear very soon, provided 
 
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 the malady is not of too long a standing ; and further, pro- 
 vided the patient has not swallowed too much of sharp medi- 
 cines. In such cases the treatment requires more time. 
 
 59. Gastric Cramps. Application on both sides of the 
 spinal column, on the stomach and abdomen, and upon the 
 calves of the legs. At times it brings instantaneous relief to 
 drink a glass of very hot water. 
 
 60. Costiveness, or Constipation. This difficulty is to be 
 treated in the same way as that recommended for Atony, or 
 Relaxation of the Bowels, in 45, but in this case the trouble 
 has been generally caused by irregularities in the daily hab- 
 its, and disregard of the requirements of the body. Hence it 
 is a primary necessity that persons suffering from this trouble 
 cultivate a habit of regularity in attending to the daily evac- 
 uations. This can be readily brought about by going daily 
 and attempting to produce an evacuation about twenty or 
 thirty minutes after breakfast, and in a short time nature 
 will thereby be compelled to bring about a regular evacuation 
 of the rectum at the appointed time. Persons inclined to 
 become constipated should eat sparingly of meat, or food con- 
 taining large quantities of starch. Instead of this, they 
 should eat freely of vegetables, fruit, corn-bread, &c. ; and it is 
 also advantageous for such to drink a glass of fresh water in 
 the evening before retiring to, and in the morning after rising 
 from, sleep. 
 
 61. Erysipelas. Cause. Severe cold. Application on the 
 back between the shoulders, on the nape of the neck, be- 
 hind the ears, and on tlie calves of the legs. The patient must 
 keep his bed in a warm room for several days, and occasional- 
 ly partake of hot milk and teas that cause perspiration. The 
 least cold may prove fatal. 
 
 62. Overheating, Sunstroke. The application is between 
 the shoulders, the region of the heart, on the calves, and the 
 soles of the feet. To cool off the body by the application of 
 cold-water cataplasms is also essential. 
 
 63. Snakebite. If the wound is on the arm or leg, a hand- 
 kerchief should be firmly tied, as quickly as possible, above the 
 wound, and the instrument should be applied all around the 
 
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 wound, and severely. If possible, blood ought to be extracted 
 from the wound by means either of a cupping-glass or an ordi- 
 nary gutta-percha suction syringe, pressing the suction entf 
 close upon the wound, and then relax the pressure upon the- 
 rubber ball that has been held in the hand, and thus blood 
 will be found to be extracted. If, in spite of this, the pain, as- 
 well as the purple-red discoloration, keeps ascending on the^ 
 limb, then let another application be made higher up on thcf 
 limb, and completely around it, and then give the patient, 
 every five or ten minutes, a spoonful of whiskey or brandy, 
 especially if fainting spells and vomiting should set in. After 
 this let an application be made between the shoulders, the 
 region of the heart, and over the stomach, and in most cases 
 the patient will be quite restored by the next day, as numer- 
 ous testimonials will prove. 
 
 64. Relaxation of the Muscles. (Tabidity.) In children of 
 a scrofulous predisposition we frequently find a hand, arm, or 
 leg, wasting away, and losing all strength, without any pos- 
 itive cause being discernible. If a hand or an arm is thus 
 diseased, the application is made upon the shoulders and 
 between them, and also on the upper arm. If it is the leg 
 that is affected, then the application is to be made on the 
 lower portion of the spinal column, over the small of the back, 
 on the thighs, and on the calves. If the nutritive processes 
 of the body should prove defective, an application should also 
 be made upon the stomach and abdomen. 
 
 65. Sleeplessness, Screaming, Colic, Fits, and Cramps, in chil- 
 dren, are removed by gentle applications over the back, the 
 abdomen, and the calves of the legs. Continued crying is alsa 
 very often produced by severe thirst. (See appendix p. 381.) 
 
 66. Trush, or Putrid Mouth. (Aphtae.) The application 
 is to be made between the shoulders, in the nape of the neck, 
 and on the abdominal surface. The mouth ought to be fre- 
 quently washed with a weak solution of white sugar or borax. 
 
 67. Felon on the Finger. The application must be made 
 on the lower arm, and on the affected finger. Cataplasms of 
 warm tomatoes, fresh or preserved, are highly recommended 
 as a pain-assuaging remedy. 
 
 68. Ringworm, A slight application upon the affected 
 part will dissipate the tetter. As this is a scrofulous affec- 
 
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 tion, however, in order to prevent a return of the trouble, the 
 same course must be observed as that recommended in case of 
 ^scrofula. 
 
 69. Nervous Fever. The Resuscitator is to be applied from 
 the nape of the neck downward, and close together, on both 
 sides of the spinal column, and the entire line is to be well 
 anointed with Oleum. It is also to be applied to the calves 
 and upon the soles of the feet. Improvement will take place 
 at once, and proceed from hour to hour. Although cataplasms 
 of cold water, such as a cloth dipped into fresh well-water and 
 laid on the patient’s head, are advisable under the circum- 
 stances, yet we cannot too energetically protest against the 
 barbarous practice of putting ice poultices upon the heads of 
 patients mostly unconscious, or upon an}^ other portions of 
 the body. These ice poultices produce the intensest pain, 
 and usually contribute to a fatal termination. 
 
 70. Inflammation of the Brain. (Encephalitis.) The appli- 
 -cation is the same as in cases of nervous fever. The objective 
 point is to stimulate warmth in the feet, w^hich are usually 
 cold. To make them warm, and to keep them so, will speedily 
 result in diverting the congestion to the brain, and these 
 symptoms will soon disappear. The effect of the Resuscitator 
 is really invaluable in such cases. In reference to cold-water 
 cataplasms, we refer to the foregoing paragraph 69. 
 
 71. Bilious Fever. The application is to be made on the 
 back, the abdomen, and especially on the region of the liver. 
 
 72. Insanity. (Mania.) Provided that this is not caused 
 by malformations of the cranium, or the destruction or injury 
 of organic functions, it will be found that the Exanthematic 
 Method of Cure will render better service than all the appara- 
 tuses of all the insane asylums put together. The application 
 is made regularly, at intervals of ten days, on both sides of 
 and along the spinal column, and more lightly upon the spine 
 itself, from the nape of the neck downward to the small of the 
 back, on the shoulder blades, behind the ears, and on the 
 calves of the legs. If the patient is suffering from coldness of 
 the feet, it will be found beneficial to make an application to 
 the soles of the feet. 
 
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 73. Asthma. If it is caused by thoracic cramp, or other 
 rheumatic affections, a liberal application of the Resuscitator 
 upon the back, and upon the thorax, will usually remove the 
 difficulty. If the evil is a chronic one, however, a more con- 
 tinuous treatment will be required. Persons that are subject 
 to sudden and violent attacks should carry with them, con- 
 stantly, some pieces of paper saturated with a strong solution 
 of saltpetre, and then dried. When such attacks come, then 
 let the patient burn a piece of this paper and inhale the 
 vapor through nose and mouth. This will give instantaneous 
 relief, without, however, curing the difficulty. 
 
 74. Falling Sickness. (EpUepsie.) The cure of this terrible 
 affiiction, which may have its seat in the blood, the nerves, or 
 in the osseous system, is speedily and easily brought about, if 
 it has not as yet become chronic. If the disease is of long 
 standing, the cure will, of course, take longer time. Many 
 patients, that were given up as incurable by their physicians, 
 have already been cured by the Exanthematic Method of 
 Cure. The application is to be made, in all such cases, at 
 intervals of from ten to fourteen days, according as the effects 
 of the preceding operation disappears, upon the neck, on and 
 between the shoulders, on the back, the stomach, and the 
 calves. Treatment ought to be begun two or three days after 
 a full moon. Just before an attack, premonitory symptoms of 
 which the patient usually feels approaching in his entire 
 body, and during an attack, the application must not be 
 made. Violent mental exertions, or excitement, must be 
 carefully avoided. If the disease has been of so long a stand- 
 ing that the mind of the patient has already suffered from it, 
 a cure is then impossible. Such patients should never allow 
 themselves to become very hungry, and always carry a piece 
 of bread with them. 
 
 75. English Sickness of Children, or Rickets. Gentle passa- 
 ges of the Resuscitator along both sides of the spinal column, 
 as also upon the abdomen, will do more good to such frail 
 subjects than all the stuff from the apothecaries, cordials, or 
 liver oil. Read what is said in 18, under Glandular Swellings. 
 
 76. Adiposity, Obesity. The continuous use of the Resus- 
 citator, on the back and abdomen, removes this trouble when 
 a proper manner of life and' dietetics are observed. 
 
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 77. Putrid Fever. This terrible disease, which arises from 
 a general vitiation of the fluids, especially of the blood, is 
 curable with the Resuscitator. Follow directions given under 
 18, on Glandular Swellings. 
 
 78. Paleness and Bad Appearance, Limpness, Lassitude, and a 
 Puifed-up Condition of the Flesh. {Cachexie,') Treatment the 
 same as in Rickets, or English Disease. 
 
 79. Paralytic Lameness. Let the Resuscitator be applied 
 wherever lameness is apparent, or rather where the seat of 
 the disease is, usually in the spine, down to the chine or small 
 of the back, and apply the Oloiiiu freely, as always, and repeat 
 this operation every ten days, until a cure is effected. The 
 vitality of the sound portions of the body will gradually com- 
 municate itself to the aflected parts, and thus call forth an 
 equalized and uniform vital activity throughout the whole 
 organism. This cure, it is true, requires frequently as much 
 as four months, and sometimes even longer, yet a daily 
 improvement will be apparent. Exercise in the open air is 
 highly commendable, nevertheless physical exertions, agita- 
 tion of mind, or excitement, must be carefully avoided. The 
 patient should cling tenaciously to the joyous expectation of a 
 perfect cure, and in general maintain a free and happy state 
 of mind. Although this is very essential to the cure of any 
 disease, yet it is specially necessary in the case under consid- 
 eration. 
 
 Remark . — Lameness and paralysis are often supposed, by 
 many, to be identical. But paralysis is a general prostration 
 of the nervous activity. The nervous life is no longer able to 
 reach the paralyzed parts to stimulate them into activity; 
 whereas simple lameness is defective locomotion, caused by 
 pains of various kinds, dislocations, ruptures, inflammations, 
 rheumatic aflections of the muscles, tendons, ligaments, &c. 
 
 80. Old Indurations, even deep-seated ones. Let the instru- 
 ment and Oleum be applied several times all around the indu- 
 rated part. If the indurated part is not painful to the touch, 
 the instrument and Oleum may be applied, also, directly upon 
 it. Otherwise the operation must be continued so long around 
 and about it until it ceases to be painful to the touch, and 
 then operate directly upon it. Repetition must be made at 
 
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 intervals of from ten to fourteen days, until all indurations 
 have disappeared. 
 
 81. Swellings, especially small blood boils. The same 
 treatment as that in the preceding paragraph. 
 
 82. Green Sickness. (Chlorosis.) To cure this disease the 
 applications are made on the back, chine, abdomen, and calves. 
 Ladies suffering from this trouble are usually very sensitive 
 and nervous. It is self-evident, therefore, that the applica- 
 tion of the instrument can only be a light one. The causes 
 of this disease are so various, and, at times, of so delicate a 
 nature, that we do not wish to speak of them here more 
 minutely. It may appear strange to some that the Resusci- 
 tator should achieve curative results in these cases also. But 
 the process is both natural and simple, for in this case that, 
 among the many qualities of the Resuscitator, which gains 
 dominance, is the power it has to pacify and lower the highly- 
 excited or normally sensitive organs instantaneously. The 
 medical man of the old school looks for the cause of the dis- 
 ease, and thinks he finds it in a deficiency of iron in the 
 blood, and endeavors to supply it by administering the most 
 unnatural preparations of iron (the oxide of iron) for a cure. 
 
 83. Cholera. In this terrible epidemic disease it is phe- 
 nomenal that the skin loses all tension, sinks into the deepest 
 lethargy, and the entire body assumes a doughy consistency, 
 accompanied by painful cramps in all parts, beginning with 
 vomiting and diarrhoea ; hence the early use of the Resusci- 
 tator and Oleum is one of the best and most reliable remedies for 
 the cholera. The application is to be made upon back, shoul- 
 ders, region of the heart, abdomen, and calves. If necessarv, 
 the operation maj^ be repeated the second or third day. 
 Immediately after the operation the patient should be 
 brought into a warm bed, and drink freely of hot water or 
 milk. If both remedies indicated are used in time, the 
 patient will soon get into a profuse perspiration, the effect of 
 which will be most beneficial. The cramps will cease, and 
 the patient will soon be entirely restored. As soon as the 
 acute attack of cholera is disposed of, the patient will need 
 nourishment, in order to assist in the reconstruction of the 
 enfeebled body. But during the prevalence of the disease no 
 
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 nourishment is needed; and it would be decidedly better if 
 the patient would not drink anything, or at least but very 
 little. It is better to take small pieces of ice into the mouth, 
 or a cloth dipped in water, in order to assuage the tormenting 
 thirst. After the disease has spent its force, and has left the 
 patient in a very feeble condition, the greatest caution must 
 be exercised with regard to diet. A very trivial mistake may 
 bring about a fatal relapse. At first, while the stomach is 
 still very weak, a light soup of arrow-root, salep, groats, rice 
 flour, or corn starch, and when the stomach can once endure 
 these, then a little toast bread and milk, then bread and but- 
 ter, then a weak mutton soup with groats, sago, or rice. And 
 thus cautiously and carefully we proceed as the patient 
 improves and can endure and desires more nutritious food, 
 until he can venture to return once more to his ordinary 
 course of living. 
 
 84- Gout (Arthritis), whether chronic or acute, simple or 
 complicated, or, as the learned classify it according to the 
 order of its development, Podagra^ Chiragra,, and many other 
 Latinisms terminating in a, muvst make an unconditional sur- 
 render to the Resuscitator. The application is to be made 
 along both sides of the spinal column, and the shoulder 
 blades, and at the parts where most of the pain seems located, 
 except at the knee joints. Very often, and especially in cases 
 of a chronic character, the digestion is disturbed, and vomit- 
 ing, even, is at times produced, to meet which, applications 
 on the stomach and abdomen should be made. The diet 
 should be light, and all spirituous drinks must be avoided. 
 In cases of old or chronic gout, or rheumatism, where gouty 
 knots have already been formed, or where the joints have 
 become distorted, as is often the case in old people, it is far 
 more difficult to heal the disease than in acute cases or more 
 youthful sufferers. Such a treatment, to be successful, requires 
 much time and patience on the part of the patient. What is 
 especially to be observed, as being of the greatest importance, 
 is, that the operated parts, also the parts most painful, should 
 be well covered with wadding, as local warmth contributes 
 much to the cure. 
 
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 85. Inflammation of the Pleura. {Pleurisy.) This disease 
 will usually make its appearance very suddenly, beginning 
 with a severe chill and fever, with a short, painful cough, and 
 sharp pains in one or both sides, when breathing. The appli- 
 cation is made on the back, on and between the shoulder 
 blades, and on the chest wherever pain makes its appearance. 
 The patient may drink some flaxseed tea, and also fresh water 
 in small (quantities. 
 
 86. Inflammation of the Chest, — Pneumonia, or simply lung 
 fever, as it is called in some places, — which consists of noth- 
 ing, simply, but a concentration of rheumatism in the chest. 
 This, with many other diseases that fall within the natural 
 domain of rheumatism, would hardly occur any more, were 
 the Exanthematic Method of Cure freely, generally, and sea- 
 sonably invoked. The same treatment as that given in the 
 preceding paragraph is applicable here, and will effect a rad- 
 ical cure without resorting to the pernicious habit of bleeding 
 the patient. 
 
 87. Tapeworm. A liberal and energetic application on the 
 abdomen, and all around the umbilicus. If the application is 
 renewed every ten days, the unwelcome guest will soon become 
 disgusted with his quarters, and be compelled to vacate. 
 Cocoa-nut, eaten freely for several days in succession, has 
 proved itself a good cooperating remedy in expelling the tape- 
 worm. The treatment, however, should always be under- 
 taken in the decrease of the moon. The patient must observe 
 a careful diet during this time, and, as far as possible, go 
 hungry. 
 
 88. Apparent Death. (Asphyxia.) Here, especially, does 
 the Resuscitator justify its beautiful name. But the cases, 
 belonging to this classification, in which the Resuscitator 
 may be applied with almost miraculous power, are too varied to 
 discuss them all in detail here. We remark in a general way, 
 therefore, that in cases of fainting, suffocation, and drowning, 
 the applications must be made over the region of the heart, 
 along the spine, and on the calves of the legs. As soon as it 
 commences to operate, the patient is saved, and although but 
 a single spark of vitality remains in the body, the Resusci- 
 tator is sure to fan it into a flame once more. Even in the 
 
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 dying man, the Resuscitator is able to preserve the flickering 
 flame to the very utmost ; and in cases where the old practice, 
 with their China Moschus, and strychnine, were obliged to let 
 their patient die, the Resuscitator keeps him alive long 
 enough at least to enable him to make his last will, which, in 
 many cases, is certainly of the highest importance. 
 
 And here a remark is in place, which, I trust, will be gem 
 erall}^ heeded. It relates to the burial of those apparently 
 dead, while in accordance with the laws of nature it has 
 been proved to be more than probable that a tetanic spasm 
 in the circulatory or respiratory system may suspend life 
 without destroying it for eight days, or even so many weeks, 
 then let us imagine the unspeakable horror, the indescriba- 
 Ijle torture and agony of one prematurely buried, and waking 
 to life and consciousness in his firmly-secured coffin, when 
 the first thought of returning consciousness assures him that 
 all efforts to break through his horrid prison are utterly in vain! 
 Although the air contained in the coffin may be sufficient to 
 support life only for two hours, yet the agonies of the poor 
 victim, for whom perhaps dear ones are weeping, but who is 
 kept firmly in his tight coflin and beneath the pressure of more 
 than a thousand pounds of earth, are enough, even during 
 this short time, to outweigh the concentrated sorrows of a life- 
 time. The invaluable and unsurpassed remedy for preventing, 
 for once and always, the occurrence of this terrible accident, 
 the Resuscitator now holds forth to mankind. If the deceased 
 has been operated upon the first, second, and third day, over 
 the region of the heart — ten to fifteen passages will answer, 
 the parts being each time well anointed with Oleum— and no 
 redness of the operated parts appears, then with the utmost 
 assurance we may know that the person is really dead. But 
 if the feeblest spark of life is still lingering, it will be waked 
 up by the operations, and fanned to a bright flame, though 
 grasped in the greedy claws of a thousand-armed spasm. The 
 unreliableness of all the experiments tried hitherto to ascer- 
 tain the real condition of the deceased, such as the burning of 
 sealing-wax, etc., has been so amply demonstrated that it 
 ought to induce the father of every family to secure a Resusci- 
 tator, if for no other purpose than to secure absolute certainty 
 
respecting the death of those among his loved ones that 
 appear to die, and thus guard against all possible danger of 
 burying any of them alive. 
 
 89. Piles. {Hemorrhoid^.') Its primary cause, as a general 
 thing, is colds, especially effects wrought by concentrated cold 
 upon the delicate organs. V ery frequently they are produced by 
 drafts or currents of air in different watering closets. If hitherto 
 this affliction has been ascribed to a disordered state of the 
 stomach or intestines, especially in persons of sedentary hab- 
 its, the fact was evidently overlooked that just these organs 
 had previously been affected by colds, weakening their activ- 
 ity and predisposing to torpidity and stagnation. More fre- 
 quently, however, is this trouble caused by a too liberal use of 
 exciting spices and condiments, or by the effects of powerful 
 medicaments, which are sometimes prescribed by physicians 
 to cure trivial complaints. Generally the patient is then 
 comforted with the well-tried saying, that, Of two evils one 
 must choose the least.’’ 
 
 The instrument should be applied between the shoulders, 
 downward, along each side of the spinal column, then pretty 
 liberally along the lumbar region, over the entire abdominal 
 surface, and the parts well anointed with Oleum. Repeat the 
 operation at intervals of ten days. Even after the first appli- 
 cation the local twitching, stinging sensation disappears, and 
 subsequently a radical cure is the certain result. The 
 attempts hitherto made to cure this disorder by applications 
 of cold water are not expected to cure, but only to arrest the 
 evil, — that is, if the fluids of the body had not already become 
 stagnant. Besides, this process is almost sure to inoculate 
 the whole system with rheumatism. The idea of some that 
 this disorder is the result of dissipation may indeed be errone- 
 ous, yet it certainly aggravates the disease and renders its 
 cure more difficult. 
 
 The patient should take exercise, as far as possible, in the 
 open air, should avoid the drinking of beer or intoxicating 
 drinks, also all highly-seasoned, peppered, or very sour food. 
 He should, every evening before retiring, and in the morning 
 on rising, wash the rectum with cold (notice-cold) water and cas- 
 tile soap, dry it well, and then rub in well with sweet-oil, or bet- 
 
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 ter yet, with unsalted goose-fat. Drinking, both morning and 
 evening, a cup of hot scalded milk will promote a cure. Care 
 should be taken, also, by the patient, that his stool passages 
 are observed with the greatest regularity ; but no drastic med- 
 icines should be used to produce this result. A glass of whey, 
 drank every day, will be promotive of this. 
 
 90- Scarlet Fever. {Scarlatina,) This dangerous disease 
 consists in a scarlet-colored eruption, without any perceptible 
 elevation above, but spread over the entire surface of the skin. 
 The virus of scarlatina* is exceedingl}^ volatile, is contagious, 
 especially with children, and frequently fatal in a very short 
 time. Thus far, many patients that were subjected to a viru- 
 lent attack of it had to die ; and those that did not die out- 
 right generally fell victims to its almost unfailing successor, 
 the dropsy. The cure of this terrible disease is readily 
 effected by the Resuscitator, for in this disease the great point 
 to be gained is, to stimulate the activity of the skin, to 
 increase the perspiration, or, in other words, to accelerate the 
 excretion of the morbid matter from the body. It should be 
 remarked here, that the slightest current of air upon the 
 patient may have fatal effects in this disease, and therefore it 
 is necessary to exercise the greatest care and caution on this 
 point. The same application as is prescribed for measles, 
 paragraph 20. 
 
 91. Inflammation of the Larynx. Under certain conditions 
 this evil may become very dangerous. Any one suffering 
 from it must avoid much speaking, expose himself nowhere 
 to the cold air, and must indulge himself in rest, of both 
 mind and body, as much as possible. The application of the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum is mnde upon the back, on and between 
 tlie shoulders, directly upon the larynx, on the upper portion 
 of the chest, and upon the abdomen. The operated parts 
 must be kept warm by a covering of wadding. The applica- 
 tion must be repeated every ten or fourteen days. During the 
 day, especially in the morning and evening, the drinking of a 
 cup of hot scalded milk wdll contribute much to a cure. Twice 
 a day the throat should be gargled with strong salt water. If 
 the patient has for a long time suffered from this affection^ 
 and has used pungent medicaments, such as lunar caustic, for 
 
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 the purpose of cauterization, a perfect cure may not always bo 
 expected, nevertheless the patient will be sure to find relief 
 by pursuing this course. 
 
 92- Bronchitis. As this disease is but a development of 
 the foregoing one, it will never occur if care is taken that the 
 first is cured. But when the disease is already developed, the 
 Resuscitator will prove most efficient in curing. Apply the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum as above directed. 
 
 93. Quinsy. (Angina.) Quinsy, Croup, or by whatever 
 other name the various throat diseases -may be called, are 
 curable in the simplest manner by liberal pa.ssages on and 
 alongside the larynx and chest. While medical science has 
 been obliged to resign most of its cases, especially those of 
 children, as a prey to death, by its customary bleeding, and 
 that most stupid practice of some practitioners of touching 
 the affected parts with a solution of lunar caustic, by which, 
 at most, but a temporary effect was produced, the seasonable 
 application of the Resuscitator makes the accumulation of 
 fibrous substances in the larynx a flat impossibility. The 
 operated parts, and especially the entire throat and chest, 
 must by all means be kept covered with batting. The 
 patient must remain in a warm room, and guard against 
 drafts of cold air, as by this means he might invite a fatal ter- 
 mination. He should remain in bed as far as possible, and 
 endeavor to keep up an active perspiration. The application 
 must be made at once, at the very first appearance of the 
 symptoms of the dksease, as delay may prove dangerous in the 
 highest degree. If the operation does not produce the desired 
 result, it may be repeated in the course of two, three, or four 
 hours, frequently it will suffice to simply rub in the Oleum 
 once more, without the use of the instrument. The frequent 
 drinking of a cup of hot scalded milk, during the day, is in 
 this case also very advantageous. 
 
 As a supplement to the treatment of diphtheria, I must 
 add the following. Besides the treatment already prescribed, 
 as in case of quinsy, as soon as the least inflammation in the 
 throat is perceptible, the patient should gargle his throat 
 with a solution made of a teaspoonful of flower of sulphur dis- 
 solved in wine, (in case wine is not at hand, any other 
 iquid will do,) and repeat it three times a day, nor will it 
 
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 hurt anything if he should swallow a little of it. If the 
 patient is too feeble, or not able to gargle his throat, as in 
 erases of children, then the flower of sulphur should be blown 
 into the throat through a quill, during which time the child 
 must hold its breath, so that every inflamed or sore portion is 
 touched by the sulphur. The sulphur has the tendermy to 
 neutralize the soreness or inflammation at once in the throat, 
 and arrest its spread, which, as a rule, is very rapid, and in 
 no case can the patient derive any injury therefrom. 
 
 94. Scurvy. (Scorbutus.) This, like all the other annoy- 
 ing disorders of the mouth, gums, and palate, as well as 
 cachectic diseases, are readily and radically cured by the 
 Resuscitator, because the predisposing causes, in the great 
 majority of cases, is to be traced to a general deterioration of 
 the fluids of the body, caused by rheumatism. Liberal passa- 
 ges on the back, in the nape of the neck, and over the entire 
 abdominal and gastric region, at intervals of ten days, must 
 be applied until complete restoration follows. 
 
 95. Seminal Flux, Pollution, etc. (Spermatorrhea.) In 
 case this terrible disease arises from the destructive, soul-and- 
 body-debilitating vice of masturbation, or intentional excite- 
 ment of sensual desires, as a self-evident necessity this predis- 
 posing and exciting cause must be arrested or removed before 
 a cure can be thought of. But if the disease arises from 
 organic defects or excitement, and when the above-mentioned 
 disgusting, and, to all sensible men, most repulsive vice is 
 renounced, then the Resuscitator will also in such cases prove 
 its wonderful curative power. By liberal passages over the 
 back, especially about the lumbar region and the loins, the 
 high’state of excitement of the genital organs will be reduced 
 by producing a sense of weariness in the body, and thus the 
 patient is cured in the simplest and speediest manner. Expe- 
 rience has taught that individuals having a great deal of lei- 
 sure or an occupation requiring but little bodily exertion, are 
 much more exposed to the ravages of this disorder than those 
 who daily perform hard manual labor ; for the latter, in conse- 
 quence of the tax upon their physical powers, have neither 
 time nor inclination for dissipation. This disease arises fre- 
 quently, also, in consequence of the collection of maggot 
 
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 worms, oscfiriJcs, in the rectum, wliich produce ('xcitement in 
 the genital organs, and these must therefore be removed, as 
 indicated, in the rubric of ‘‘worms,” before a cure can be 
 effected. Thus much in explanation. 
 
 A Specific Herb Tonic (Salutifero), which has proved itself an 
 infallible cure of physico-nervous prostration or impotence of 
 the male or female generative functions, the usual and natural 
 consequences of this terrible evil, can be obtained from me. 
 Sufferers will please give their age, sex, and manner of life. 
 
 96. Cancer. The profession looks upon cancer as a spongy 
 or parasitic excrescence, or swelling, the true character of 
 which they have not as 3^et succeeded to fathom. They have 
 an infinite number of remedies, especially poisons, to pre- 
 scribe for it, such as arsenic, prussic acid, belladonna, hen- 
 bane and hemlock leaves, opium, chloride of lime, china, prep- 
 arations of iron, etc., etc. ; but the\^ frankly confess that these 
 are not expected to cure the disease, but simply to alleviate 
 the sufferings, while the disease itself they pronounce incu- 
 rable. We pronounce cancer simply the result of an entire 
 derangement of the glandular fluids, and, governed by this 
 view, proceed to cure it. In this disease, considered incurable 
 by the profession, and always a very distressing affliction, 
 three phases are to be observed. In the first stage, when the 
 patient discovers, accidently, in any part of the body, a hard 
 swelling that has arisen painlessly, is movable, but rough, 
 beneath the sound skin, called scirrhus by the learned, the 
 radical cure by the Resuscitator is amply guaranteed. 
 
 In the second stage, when the swelling has become immo- 
 vable, known as cancer occiiltus^ is very rough, softer in some 
 places, and penetrated at times by sharp, burning, or stinging 
 pains, the epidermis assumes a tension, with a bluish, or 
 bluish-red color, interwoven with blue veins, and a general 
 pale or pallid complexion of the skin, plainly indicates a dis- 
 turbed condition of the nutrition of the body ; a number of 
 cures by the Resuscitator can be pointed out. 
 
 In the third stage, finally when the erupted swelling has 
 become an ulcer (cancer apertm)^ is callous as stone at the base, 
 discolored and bloody, the edge of it hard and inverted, and is 
 absorbing a corrosive, ichorous fluid, when cauliflower-like, 
 spongy excrescences, that bleed very readily, grow out, are 
 removed by gangrene, and are followed by new ones; even in 
 this last stage, in which hitherto the patient had to die a 
 miserable, agonizing death, I believe to be justified in promis- 
 ing a cure in many cases. 
 
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 The application is always to be made on the back, 
 between the shoulders, as also directly around the affected 
 parts. If the evil has reached the third stage, the wound, 
 must be washed from three to four times a day with a strong 
 decoction of red-clover seed. In this dangerous and very tedi- 
 ous disease, the patient must not expect a very rapid cure. 
 He must continue the applications for some time, at intervals 
 of ten days. 
 
 97. Runiiing Sores, or open wounds, however old they may 
 be, are cured without danger by operating directly around the 
 affected part at intervals of ten, twelve, or fourteen days, 
 according to circumstances. The wound itself must be washed 
 twice every day with a solution of ordinary culinary salt, 
 applied with a soft linen rag (no sponge). A rag thus satu- 
 rated with salt water should be constantly kept on the 
 wound. If the wound is of a malignant or gangrenous char- 
 acter, then the salt ought to be dissolved in whisky, instead 
 of water, which is applied then as above indicated. After 
 tliis treatment has been pursued for about six days, a lotion 
 of steeped sage should be used. The edges of the wound 
 should have fine white sugar or burnt and pulverized alum 
 applied to it twice every day. 
 
 98. Goitre, or Bronchocele. The same treatment as in 
 Old Indurations. 
 
 99. Dysentery, whether the red, watery, or any other kind 
 of diarrhoea, is radically cured by means of the Resuscitator, 
 and the application is to be made over the entire back, on the 
 abdomen, and over the gastric region. This frequently malig- 
 nant and generally life-endangering epidemic disease consists 
 in catarrhal inflammation of the intestines, and hence its 
 cure, by means of the Resuscitator, must become a very clear 
 case to any one conversant with its power, as master of all 
 rheumatic and spasmodic conditions. The fever accompany- 
 ing this disorder is rendered harmless by a single application, 
 in consequence of which the disease itself loses its dangerous 
 (character. The operated parts of the body must be covered 
 with batting, and the abdomen, in particular, must be kept 
 very warm. The patient should keep his bed for some time, 
 drink freely of hot scalded milk, and endeavor to keep up the 
 perspiration. Water should not be used as a drink, but rice- 
 water, not too cold, may be substituted to quench the accom- 
 
panying thirst. Cold water is very injurious. After the 
 attack has subsided, the patient may partake of the broth of 
 mutton boiled with rice, and now and then a glass of good red 
 grape wine, but not port wine. Fresh bread, fruit, beer, and 
 spirituous liquors, must be entirely avoided. Even after con- 
 valescence the patient must be very cautious in his diet, as a 
 relapse is nearly always followed by the direst of conse- 
 quences. 
 
 100. Palsy. (Apoplexie.) Hitherto it has been the custom 
 to designate such individuals as have short, thick necks, large 
 heads, broad shoulders, and a short, fat, compact body, as par- 
 ticularly predisposed to apoplexy. But the use of the Resus- 
 citator will certainly dispel whatever predisposition for it 
 may exist, because, while its development of heat regulates 
 the circulation of the blood in the body, so the artificial aper- 
 tures, made by the instrument, serve as canals, through which 
 the large accumulations of rheumatic substances are drawn 
 oflF, and their concentration upon any of the internal vital 
 organs rendered impossible. 
 
 When the premonitory symptoms appear, which fre- 
 quently harbinger an attack of this dangerous disease, such 
 as excessive dizziness, jingling and buzzing in the ears, trem- 
 bling of the whole body, heaviness of the tongue, weakness of 
 memory, deafness, numbness of the limbs, excessive sleepi- 
 ness, with greatly disturbed sleep, nausea, etc., then the 
 instrument is to be applied without delay over the entire 
 back, as well as liberally over the region of the heart, and on 
 the calves, which will at once ward oflf the attacks, or at least 
 render them harmless. The treatment to be observed in an 
 actual attack of apoplexy is as follows. Numerous and ener- 
 getic passages of the instrument over the entire back, on and 
 between the shoulders, over the region of the heart, and 
 directly upon the part affected by the attack. The applica- 
 tion of the Resuscitator may, if necessary, be repeated in two, 
 three, or four hours, or on the following day, if the first appli- 
 cation has not been followed by the desired results. As a 
 matter of course, the patient must be careful in his diet, and 
 avoid beer, wine, spirituous drinks, and even coffee. If the 
 condition of the patient permits, he ought to take much exer- 
 
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 cise in the open air. A change of climate, for a time, is also 
 advisable. 
 
 Concerning the lameness arising from apoplexy, read par- 
 agraph 79. 
 
 101. Somnambulism, or walking in one's sleep. The same 
 treatment as in Nightmare, or Incubus. See paragraph 33. 
 
 102. Dropsy, whatever its cause, is curable'by an applica- 
 tion of the instrument over the entire back, as far down as 
 the lumbar region, and, in particular, liberal application over 
 the kidneys, abdomen, and calves. 
 
 If the needles are injected mostly for the purpose of liber- 
 ating the watery accumulations under the skin, — in which 
 the instrument renders most efficient service, — then no 
 Oleum should be applied. I may here remark, that the needle 
 wounds of the Resuscitator never become gangrenous. It is 
 also very desirable for the patient to drink, tAvice every third 
 day, a teacupful of weak parsley-root tea. This will promote 
 the absorption of the water very much. The patient should 
 drink but little water, and avoid all manner of thirst-exciting 
 food. 
 
 103. Consumption. {Pulmonary Tuberculosis,) Any disease 
 that daily diminishes the weight of the body, by reducing its 
 fleshy masses, may properly be called a consumption. But 
 frequently these symptoms alone were hitherto regarded as 
 sure evidences of pulmonary consumption, or of a tuberculous 
 affection of the lungs, and as, in consequence of so defective a 
 diagnosis, the treatment aimed at nothing more than simply 
 to alleviate the sufferings of a victim to a disease considered 
 incurable, therefore the real, but undiscovered disease, was 
 allowed to develop with rapid strides, until it had really gone 
 beyond the reach of any remedy. The Exanthematic Method, 
 on the contrary, takes hold of consumption as a glandular 
 rheumatic affection, and conducts the cure accordingly. It is 
 doubtless a matter of supreme indifference to the patient to 
 know of Avhat kind of consumption he is suffering. He 
 knows that there is an abnormal condition of things existing 
 in his body, — that there is something in it that does not 
 belong there. Now, whether his affection is an internal 
 inflammation that must be removed, or is an accumulation of 
 
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 morbid secretions that must be thrown off, is all the same to 
 him. What he wants is, to he cured ; and this, in most instan- 
 ces, can be accomplished by the use of the Resuscitator. In 
 cases, even, of incurable consumption, when the prevailing' 
 medical treatment had to leave the patient to die without- 
 comfort or remedy, the Resuscitator is frequently able to pro- 
 long life for years. Such patients will do well, therefore,, 
 instead of vitiating the fluids still more by partaking of 
 unnatural medicaments, to submit themselves in good time to 
 this treatment, which is as follows. Apply the Resuscitator 
 and Oleum on the back, between and below the shoulders, and 
 directly upon the chest. The applications must be continued 
 for some time, and repeated when the efiect of a previous one 
 has healed off. If the disease should be inherent in the fam- 
 ily, or, if it has already passed into the third stage, the 
 patient must not always expect a radical cure, although, by 
 the use of this method, his sufferings will be alleviated, and 
 his life prolonged. Sleeping with such a patient in the same 
 bed, as also the wearing of his apparel or his linen, should be 
 avoided by others, because a perfectly healthy person may in 
 this manner contract the disease. The patient should eat the 
 yolk of an egg, mixed with sugar, every morning, on an 
 empty stomach, and, in the evening, before retiring, should 
 drink a cup of hot scalded milk, and otherwise should par- 
 take of a nutritious but easily-digestible diet. If possible, let 
 the patient repair to a mild, uniform climate. 
 
 104. St. Vitus Dance. {Chorea!) This disorder is one of 
 those that develop gradually, and is of an epileptic character. 
 Hence the treatment must be the same as that given for epi- 
 lepsy in 74. 
 
 105. Urinary Incontinence. Inability to retain the urine 
 may arise from a general relaxation of the bladder, as from 
 that of its neck, or other organs of the locality. Liberal appli- 
 cations of the Resuscitator on the back, the lumbar region, 
 and especially over the low.r parts of the abdomen and blad- 
 der, will remove this annoying disorder, which so frequently 
 defies all other medical treatment. 
 
 106. Prolapsus of the Womb. If this trouble has been pro- 
 duced by difficult births in younger years, jumping a gutter, 
 
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 or the like, as is generally the case, then there are numberless 
 experiences to prove that the relaxed uterine ligaments may 
 gradually regain their normal tension by means of my healing 
 method, and thus the disorder may be entirely removed. 
 Application to be made on the small of the back, and the 
 lower part of the abdomen. The abdomen must be supported 
 by a firm but comfortable bandage. Bodily exertion, espe- 
 cially of lifting or carrying, excitement and great mental 
 efforts of any kind, must be strictly avoided. Local treat- 
 ment, such as injections, must not be used, as in this man- 
 ner the evil is not only aggravated, but generally rendered 
 incurable. 
 
 107. Diabetes. Also this hitherto generally fatal affliction, 
 which arises from an abnormal absorption of the dermatic 
 vessels, is now capable of being radically and safely cured by 
 means of the Resuscitator. The treatment is the same as in 
 105, given for Urinary Incontinence. The patient should 
 avoid such food as potatoes, fruit, vegetables, milk, coffee, or 
 tea, and all articles that work directly upon the kidneys, and 
 confine himself almost entirely to a meat diet. Beef, mutton, 
 poultry, or game, roasted or stewed, is best. Application, at 
 intervals of ten days, over the entire back, along both sides of 
 the spinal column, over the kidneys, and over the entire 
 abdominal and gastric region. 
 
 108. Stone in the Bladder. The formation of stone in either 
 the bladder, kidneys, or gall-ducts, arises from the inability of 
 the respective organs to perform their normal excretory func- 
 tions on the fluids submitted to them. The injurious habit of 
 retaining these fluids beyond the proper time within the 
 respective organs, gives rise to secretions, precipitations of 
 mucous, gravel, and stones, which, however, when the Resus- 
 citator is used, will gradually be excreted as soon as the weak- 
 ened organs are roused to a higher tone of vital activity. But 
 what no medicine is capable of doing in this field, that the 
 Resuscitator has proved itself capable of effecting. Applica- 
 tion on the small of the back, the bladder, and on the calves. 
 
 Those that use the instrument at times, while still in a 
 state of health, and thus maintain the organs in statu quOy 
 need never fear of ever being afflicted with gravel. The 
 patient must avoid indigestible and highl 3 ^-seasoned food, and 
 
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 more in particular salt pork, as well as all spirituous liquors, 
 but drink freely of fresh water every day. 
 
 109. Crampveilis (Varix), of which women, especially 
 during pregnancy, as also men, are frequently suffering, can 
 ^e removed by applications of the Resuscitator and Oleum, but 
 the cure will require some time, especially in persons of more 
 advanced years. The application is to be made upon the 
 calves, and along side of the cramp veins, but the latter must 
 not be touched by the Resuscitator. By a simultaneous appli- 
 cation on the back the circulation will be considerably accel- 
 erated. Great care must be taken not to rupture these cramp- 
 veins by concussions, scratching, etc. After each application, 
 the limb should be wrapped pretty firmly with a bandage, 
 from the ankle upwards; the use of india-rubber stockings, 
 however, is much preferable to the bandage, and they can be 
 had in almost any apothecary, as this does not hinder the cir- 
 culation of the blood. 
 
 110. Chilblains. {Perinones.) Chilblains may be regarded 
 as the most aggravated form of the destructive results of con- 
 centrated colds, much like the concentrated rays of the sun 
 in the burning-glass find their culminating efiect in the igni- 
 tion of the combustible, and the dissolution of incombustible 
 bodies. Their nature, therefore, would justify us in calling 
 chilblains a gout en galloppe. The instrument must be applied 
 directly on the affected parts, and the punctures well anointed 
 with Oleum. Profuse application, also, on the back. 
 
 111. Small-Pox and Varioloid are also capable of being cured 
 by this method, if the Resuscitator is at once used on the 
 appearance of the first symptoms, such as fever, headache, 
 pain in the limbs, nausea, etc., on the pit of the heart, on and 
 between the shoulders, in the nape of the neck, behind the 
 ears, over the abdominal region, and on the calves. If this 
 disease makes its appearance as an epidemic, there is no 
 better preventive than the application of the Resuscitator 
 and Oleum on the parts already mentioned. It is advisable, on 
 the appearance of the first symptoms of this disease, or even 
 when the attack is already made, to take, about four times a 
 day, as much variola, which can be had in any good apothe- 
 cary, as will lie on the point of a knife, after dissolving it in 
 
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 water. The patient must keep strictly in his bed, and take 
 the utmost care not to catch cold. The temperature of the 
 sick chamber must be kept moderately warm and uniform^ 
 and about half dark. It must be daily ventilated, but, in 
 doing so, exercise great caution not to expose the patient to 
 catching cold. The room should be sprinkled several times 
 with vinegar. Cooling drinks of a mucilaginous nature, and 
 lemonades, if not too cold, are good for the patient. As this 
 disease is very contagious, we should use every means of 
 guarding against it. The chewing of juniper berries while 
 in attendance on such a sick one is a very good preventive, as 
 experience has proved. The beds and bed-clothes used by 
 such patients must never be used again until they are 
 cleansed and renovated in the most thorough manner. 
 
 112. Chicken Pox is very easily distinguished from the gen- 
 uine and dangerous small-pox, and are brought forth by quite 
 a different contagious matter from that which produces the 
 genuine pox, and against it neither the cow-pox nor the gen- 
 uine is a protection. At times these pox are only small, at 
 others they are as large as a pea cut in two, and then they 
 resemble the true pox exactly. The fever precedes these but 
 a single day before the pox make their appearance, in another 
 day the pox will matterate, and by the third or fourth day the 
 pox will dry off and the attack pass off, while the genuine 
 ones will pass off in fourteen days. However severe the erup- 
 tive fever may become, it is never life-endangering, and 
 nature always effects a cure herself. The treatment of this 
 disease is the same as in the foregoing paragraph 111. 
 
 113. Syphilis. In this disease, so dangerous and utterly 
 destructive to the human organism, the Resuscitator may also 
 be used with success. The application is made upon the 
 back, between the shoulders, on the abdomen, and on the 
 inner portion of the thighs. But under no circumstances 
 should application to an experienced and skillful physician 
 bo neglected, as only by a local inspection can it be determ- 
 ined how far and how strongly the patient is attacked. But 
 let the patient avoid, by all means, all the highly-recom- 
 mended patent medicines or secret remedies, and especially 
 all (jiiacks. See Experiences and Observations.” 
 
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 114. Suppressed Menstruation. The abnormal suppression 
 of the menses, which is a disease having its usual origin, like 
 chlorosis, in an imperfect preparation of the blood, can be cer- 
 tainly and radically cured by means of the Resuscitator. The 
 treatment is the same as in Chlorosis, which see. 
 
 115. Milk Leg. This often very painful swelling of the 
 leg, appears in its acute form mostly within twelve days after 
 confinement. The symptoms are: fever, pain in the groin. 
 The hip and extending down to the sole of the foot ; at first 
 there is hardly any swelling to be observed, but a distressing 
 sensation of tightness; in further development swelling will 
 be noticed in the groin from the hip to the genitals, 
 and gradually extend over the whole leg. The application 
 of the Resuscitator and Oleum has to be made across the 
 small of the back, and vigorously over the hip, thigh and 
 calf; if necessary repeat the application on the third or fifth 
 day. Patient must keep herself warm, or better stay a few 
 days in bed. 
 
 116. Remarks Concerning the Accouchement of Women, etc. 
 
 The period of pregnancy may justly be regarded as the most 
 interesting as well as the most responsible period in the life 
 of a woman, for its influence upon the physical and mental 
 development of the child is of superlative importance. There 
 arises so intimate a union between mother and child, so close 
 and so inseparable, that henceforth her health, her life, and 
 her happiness, are identical with those of the child. Yea, the 
 very disposition, temperament, mental constitution of the 
 child, its habits, its likes and dislikes, are determined by the 
 condition of the mother, so that it is justly said that “the 
 mother creates the body and soul of the future man an exact 
 image of herself.” It is therefore the duty of the mother, 
 during this period, to pay the greatest attention to her phys- 
 ical and mental condition, the more so as she is not alone con- 
 cerned, but her husband, her child, and her fellow men as 
 well, who all have the right to ask this of her. These duties 
 are, of course, of a twofold natui’e, i. e., physical and mental. 
 The very first duty is to observe a sensible diet, and this 
 should be lijocht, simple, and nutritious. The first require- 
 ment to a good diet is moderate daily exercise in the open air, 
 when the weather permits; and here let it be observed that a 
 slow walk is much better than a ride. A woman should also, 
 during the period of pregnane}^, continue to discharge her reg- 
 ular family duties, provided that these be not too heavy and 
 exhaustive, but guard against heavy lifting or reaching over- 
 head. Her garments should be free and comfortable, so that 
 
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 no part of them are oppressive or too light for the body. 
 Bands or laces drawn too tightly around the body may produce 
 clump feet or other distortions on the child, or prolapsus of 
 the womb, or various other ailments in the mother. The 
 clothing must, of course, be always selected with a reference 
 to the season of the year, as great care is necessary to avoid 
 the contraction of colds. It has already been observed that 
 the mental activity, the desires, and the excitements of the 
 mother, during this period, will exert a great influence upon 
 the child, and will develop and reappear in the same, and this 
 is really true in the highest degree. These will influence not 
 only the mind, but also the body of the child very seriously. 
 It is, therefore, a sacred duty of the mother to allow only such 
 emotions of the mind to agitate her which have an elevating 
 tendency both morally and intellectually, and although all 
 severe mental efforts should be avoided, yet it is desirable to 
 employ the mind with something that is cheering and useful. 
 A condition of lassitude and negligence must by no means be 
 tolerated. Horrid-looking and disagreeable objects should be 
 kept out of sight of the woman, and the pondering over unpleas- 
 ant impressions should be prevented by attention to inter- 
 esting lectures or pleasant amusements, as otherwise these 
 will result in making undesirable impressions upon the phys- 
 ical or mental development of the child. During this period 
 a woman should aim to curb her passions, and not allow her- 
 self to become excited or angry. The noble and the beautiful 
 should engage her attention, and only that which is pure and 
 elevating should occupy her mind, for she is now about to 
 form the character of a being, for good or ill, for virtue or for 
 vice ; for on the mother, mostly, does the physical and mental 
 development of the child depend. 
 
 If a woman will thus pay the proper regard to her phys- 
 ical and mental condition, she need have no fears as to the 
 final result. She will have little, if anything, to suffer, and, 
 for the trifling ailments that occur now and then, she can use 
 the Resuscitator with the greatest confidence, which, here 
 also, can never do harm, but will do good in all cases. Over 
 the small of the back and lumber region the instrument 
 should be sparingly used, and only when absolutely neces- 
 
 In case of vomiting, or ‘‘morning sickness,” the instru- 
 ment is to be applied upon the stomach, the abdomen, and 
 calves of the legs; for fainting spells, between the shoulders; 
 for cramps in the limbs, on the abdomen, the hips, and directly 
 on the affected parts. For despomlt'un/ and depression of mind^ 
 which will not yield to cheerful company and healthy exer- 
 
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 cise, let operations be made between the shoulders and on the 
 calves. 
 
 Many women suffer greatly from distendon of the veins on 
 the lower limbs, and in such cases they should, during the 
 day-time, be carefully wrapped with a bandage, beginning at 
 the toes and ascending to the knees. In the evening, before 
 retiring, the bandage is to be removed, and the limb washed 
 with tepid water and well rubbed. Tincture of arnica mixed 
 with this wash will be found advantageous, or else witch-hazel 
 tincture (tincture Hamamelis), in the proportion of ten drops 
 to one tablespoonful of water. If, on the first appearance of 
 symptoms of this venous distension, the Resuscitator is at 
 once brought into use, and applied between the shoulders, and 
 on the back, then, in most cases, the distension of the blood- 
 vessels can be arrested, as the stagnation of the blood is thus 
 avoided, and its regular circulation promoted. 
 
 As the time of parturition approaches, cramp-like pains 
 may frequently occur in the lower abdomen and in the pelvis, 
 the so-called “ false pains ; to remove which, light passages 
 on both sides of the spinal column, over the small of the back, 
 and over the abdominal surface, will prove beneficial. 
 
 An application made in this manner, and at such a time, 
 will regulate and promote the physiological activity of the 
 organs, which will facilitate the process of parturition, and 
 spare the woman much unnecessary pain. No fears need be 
 entertained that either the mother or child could suffer any 
 injury from this; on the contrary, it will strengthen the 
 nerves and heighten their activity, and the act of parturition 
 will pass off easier, and with more dispatch. As a' matter of 
 course, in every such case, a good physician or a tried mid- 
 wife ought to be called in, for only in this wise can a woman 
 be sure of not being made to suffer from any evil conse- 
 quences. 
 
 In case of Milk Fever, the application is made between 
 the shoulders and on the calves ; and in case of Lacteal Reces- 
 sion, or striking back of the milk, all around the mammaries ; 
 and for soreness of the nipples, which arises from acridity of the 
 blood, the application is made all around the breasts and 
 between the shoulders, and rub upon the nipples, each time 
 
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 after the child has nursed, unsalted butter. Great care mu^-t 
 be had that the child does not come in contact with the Oleum 
 on the operated parts, for the first few days after the application. 
 If hard lumps begin to form in the breasts, then the best rem- 
 edy is to keep the breasts well drained, either by allowing the 
 child to nurse freely, or by a suction pump, which can be had 
 cheaply, now, in almost any apothecary, and anoint the 
 breasts three times a day with warm sweet oil, and then cover 
 them up with batting. 
 
 Flooding (Menorrhagia) arises frequently from this, that 
 the womb does not properly and promptly contract, and is 
 then accompanied by cramp-like pains resembling those of 
 labor. An application should at once be made over the entire 
 abdomen, with especial liberality about the umbilical region, 
 and wrap a strong bandage firmly around the upper arms and 
 upper thighs. The woman must avoid every unnecessary exer- 
 tion, and rest with perfect quietness in her bed. But as this 
 is a condition of things that may easily become perilous, a 
 good physician should be sent for at once. 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 The diseases already mentioned are not by any means the 
 only ones that come within reach of the Resuscitator ; it is 
 particularly effectual in all such cases where artificial irrita- 
 tion is called into service ; where, for instance, the Moxa was 
 to be burned off, or the hot iron has been brought into requi- 
 sition at the hip-joint, perhaps, to heal Coxarthrocace^ or at the 
 upper arm, Omarthrocace^ and in all internal inflammations, 
 or receded cutaneous eruptions, the Resuscitator will succeed 
 to bring them out to the surface again and make them harm- 
 less. 
 
 APPLICATION IN SERIOUS DISEASES. 
 
 In cases of sudden attacks of dangerous diseases, such as 
 throat inflammations, quinsy, diphtheria, apoplexy, cholera 
 morbus, cerebral or thoracic inflammations, miserere, nervous 
 fever, yellow fever, peritonitis, asphyxia, etc., Avhere there is 
 no time left for long consultations, but help is needed at once, 
 the Resuscitator proves itself a life-preserver. In all such 
 cases the operations should be renew^ed, with instrument and 
 
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 Oleum, after the lapse of three or four hours, in case the fore- 
 going operations have not yet produced the desired effect. 
 
 Also in the veterinary, for which purpose instruments of 
 a larger class are constructed, this method of cure renders 
 unsurpassable services. The foundering of horses produces, 
 like rheumatism in man, the gout, which is to be healed in 
 the same manner with the Resuscitator. The base of opera- 
 tions in the horse is the shoulder muscle, as also along the 
 spine, and upon it, back as far as the cross; the Oleum must be 
 rubbed in with the fingers, lest it remain lodged uselessly in 
 the hair. In case of staggers, or affections of the eyes, appli- 
 cations are also to be made behind the ears. The hair will 
 soon reappear. Otherwise the treatment of animals, being 
 flesh and blood like ourselves, is to be very much the same as 
 that observed in human beings. 
 
 CLOSING REMARKS . — Various considerations have made 
 it necessary to mention the foregoing diseases, but in doing 
 this we felt the less need of making a sharper classification, 
 because the Exanthematic Method of Cure does not care for the name 
 of any disease ; but it presupposes that something has been 
 developed in the body which does not belong to the organism, 
 and must therefore be expelled. For the Resuscitator, there- 
 fore, there is, properly speaking, but one disease ; an idea 
 which, it is true, may appear incomprehensible to some of the 
 learned; and for their satisfaction, among other things, I have 
 designated the foregoing diseases by name. But this fact 
 ought to have much weight in deciding the claims of the 
 Resuscitator upon being a universal remedy, and also whether 
 the very persistent efforts of its oppdnents, in ranking it with 
 the cupping lances and other anti-spastics hitherto used, for 
 the purpose of paralysing its influence with the public, should 
 be deemed commendable or ignoble. And here it may be 
 proper to remark that, in case of any local inflammation, the 
 application should not be made directly upon the affected 
 parts, but onl}" with a view of producing anti-spactic effect. 
 
 The unprejudiced consideration of what has been said 
 will force the conviction upon every impartial mind, that the 
 general use of the Resuscitator will result in banishing the 
 
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 use of many dangerous and useless remedies. We may accept 
 it as a fundamental fact, that all morbid matter enters the 
 organism by slow and successive stages, and that much less 
 time is required to expel them, and thus effect a cure by this 
 method, than was required in the accumulation of them, 
 which produced the disease ; and this principle has been veri- 
 fied by abundant experiences. 
 
 A PRECISE DESCRIPTION OF THE EFFECTS 
 OF THE RESUSCITATOR. 
 
 After the instrument has been applied, it will be discov- 
 ered that in a short time the punctures in the skin will red- 
 den to the size of a lentil. The time intervening this opera- 
 tion and the appearance of this redness varies in different 
 individuals. In such as have morbid secretions accumulating 
 in their bodies, the redness will appear in a few moments ; 
 and in entirely healthy persons they appear promptly and act- 
 ively also, but soon again fade away without leaving a trace. 
 In feeble persons, whose bodies have insufficient vigor to pro- 
 duce a prompt reaction, the effect will become apparent at a 
 later moment. These spots will have a striking resemblance 
 to gnat bites, and are of an erythematic character. They 
 arise in consequence of an augmented flow of blood to the 
 operated parts, induced by the irritation of the needle. The 
 irritation, however, which must be regarded as the primum 
 rmvenSj arises from the mechanical rupture of the nerves by 
 the needle. But not only in the epidermis,* but also in the 
 
 ^ Histology teaches us that the external skin consists of two sheets of 
 cellular tissues: the first the ‘epidermis, the other the corium. The epider- 
 mis, or external tissue, is of a horny character, and is that part of the skin 
 
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 subcutaneous cellular tissue, and in the substance of the 
 underlying organs, does this irritation spread to the depth 
 that the needles penetrate, and consists likewise in the ner- 
 vous excitement and the augmented flow of blood. 
 
 As a further effect of the operation, the skin becomes ele- 
 vated in small pustules, from the size of a pin’s head to that 
 of a lentil. The time required for this, as also the size of the 
 pustule, like that of the first reddening of the skin, depends 
 upon the amount of morbid accumulations secreted in the 
 body, and upon the vigor of the individual organisms. Those 
 cases where much morbid matter is at hand develop it rap- 
 idly, and to a large size. In healthy organisms they also 
 develop very rapidly, but never attain any considerable size, 
 and soon disappear entirely. In feeble organisms they make 
 their appearance slowly, and never attain to any importance. 
 
 ^ In these pustules an inflammatory process is produced, which 
 results in the excretion or perspiration of a thick, whitish- 
 yellow matter, making its appearance generally about the sec- 
 ond or third day. 
 
 In some instances minute blisters will appear at the 
 point of the pustules that are filled with the aforesaid fluid. 
 It is not always essential, however, that this pusy or lym- 
 phatic matter becomes visible, but it often dries up into a sort 
 of dry crust or small scabs, which are rubbed off by the hands, 
 or, peradventure, by the clothes, to be followed by new forma- 
 tion. 
 
 These scales will separate themselves from the epidermis 
 about the fifth, sixth, or seventh day, when the epidermis fon- 
 tanels are glutinated, by means of the exuded matter, into a 
 sort of bark or rind. This bark now gradually diminishes, 
 until the tenth day is reached, when, as a general thing, it 
 disappears, and nothing except a lively but fresh and beauti- 
 ful redness, but no pathological change, is perceptible. 
 
 Remark . — In this respect, also, has the Resuscitator an 
 
 which, on the inner surface of the hand may be underpinned and peeled off; 
 underneath it lies the corium or leather-skin, which is of a fibrous structure, 
 and contains the blood-vessels and nerves of the skin. These tissues — the 
 skin — are united to the organs, principally muscles, which they cover, by 
 means of the subcutania. 
 
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 immense advantage over the customary plastering, scarificat- 
 ing, etc,, by means of which many a beautiful face has been 
 scarred, and many a fair arm defaced with ugly blotches. 
 
 The application of the instrument must not, however, be 
 always a direct one to the parts affected, as the suflFering 
 ojgan, in consequence of its stimulation, etc., is not always 
 adapted to it. But we shall never fail to see an effect upon 
 the diseased organ. A striking proof of this we have in cases 
 of congestion of the head, which soon recedes when the Resus- 
 citator is applied to the soles of the feet and calves of the legs. 
 There must, necessarily, therefore, be conductors from the 
 parts operated upon, and the suffering organs ; and these are 
 undoubtedly the vesicular and nervous systems. This con- 
 nection of the organs we call continuity. The action conse- 
 quent upon this continuity is called symptomatic action. Direct 
 action, on the contrary, is produced by direct applications. 
 
 In order the more readily to trace the influence of the 
 Resuscitator upon the process of disease, and inquire into the 
 condition of the disorder and the organism, we shall take up 
 the further examination of treatment and cure, in a regular 
 order. 
 
 I. THE EXCRETION OF MORBID MATTER. 
 
 A. PATHOLOGICAL PRELIMINARY REMARKS, 
 
 The blood conveys to every part of the organism nutri- 
 tious and structural substances, which are handed over to the 
 organs, are appropriated by the same, and in this manner 
 serve to their reproduction. But at the same time that new 
 substances are thus transmitted to the organs, the old — and 
 through the various activities of the organism — exhausted 
 and effete substances must be expelled from the body, which 
 is effected by several processes. Physiology teaches that the 
 most important of these excretory organs are the skin, the 
 
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 kidneys, and the liver. By means of the skin, the effete sub- 
 stances of the muscular system, in particular, are expelled;* 
 the kidneys carry off those of the nervous system;! and the 
 liver, those of the blood.J If the functions of the excretory 
 channels are weakened, then the effete substances cannot be 
 effectually and thoroughly removed from the body, and a 
 foundation is laid to a host of diseases. (Materia peccans.) 
 
 (a) Disturbed Transpiration. 
 
 The disease that appears most frequently in consequence 
 of this disturbance is rheumatism in its various forms. This 
 arises from the partial suppression of the cutaneous exhala- 
 tions ; in consequence of which the excrementary substances 
 of the muscular system are retained in the body, and lodged 
 upon the fibrous and serous membranes. To these belong, 
 more particularly, the myolema, which separate the muscular 
 and sinewy fibers, the facias of the brain and spinal marrow; 
 also the pleura and the peritoneum (a serous membrane which 
 lines the abdominal cavity). As far as these membranous tis- 
 sues extend, so varied in form and location may be the rheu- 
 matic disorders likewise. 
 
 Remark. — According to Lavoisier and Seguin, the quan- 
 tity of matter evaporating through the skin of an adult per- 
 son, in twenty-four hours, averages about nine hundred 
 grains, in which are contained nine grains of extractable sub- 
 stance. Such a quantity, we may well suppose, is amply 
 sufficient, when lodged upon such delicate membranes, to pro- 
 duce most violent pain, 
 
 (b) Disturbed Urinary Excretions. 
 
 A second class of diseases arising from a detention of 
 excrementitious substances, as C. H. Schultz-Schultzenstein 
 calls them, are nervous disorders. But these are produced, of 
 course, by the excrementary substances of the nervous system, 
 which are either imperfectly or not all expelled from the body. 
 
 The form of nervous diseases varies with the circum- 
 
 C. H. Schultz. “ Ueber die Verjuengung des menschlichen Lebens” 
 etc. (On the rejuvenation of human life/’ etc.) Berlin, 1842. A later edi- 
 tion has also been published, Sec. 64. 
 t Schultz, loco citato, Sec. 48. 
 
 t Schultz, loco citato, Sec. 42. 
 
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 stances under which these substances are retained, and with 
 the varying character of these substances themselves. A 
 retention of the depuratory substances in the nervous struc- 
 ture creates a morbid irritation of this system, and both forms 
 of spasms, that is, spasmus tonos and clonos (tetanic spasms, cat- 
 alepsy, twitching, trembling, and St. Vitus^ Dance), make 
 their appearance. Under different circumstances, when these 
 excrementitious substances pass over into the circulatory sys- 
 tem, the hsematosis, and, in general, the entire sanguinalous 
 life, is seriously disturbed, and thus give rise to typhus and 
 typhoid fevers. 
 
 Both these last-named diseases we generally find accom- 
 panied by a diminution of urinary secretions. During the 
 first stages of spasms, C. H. Schultz* found the urine to be 
 watery, and the urinary substance diminished. In one case 
 he found, in urine discharged during a convulsive attack, 
 only 1.200, and, in another case, 5.400 ureum nitricum, while, 
 on the contrary, the normal condition of the urine contains 
 3.500 of the ureum.\ Rysten found, in spasmodic patients, 
 .100 of ureum. All of this proves that the foregoing are no 
 hypotheses, as many pathologists might be disposed to 
 believe. 
 
 Gout, also, it appears, arises from a disturbance of the 
 excrementitious processes. The excrements of the bones are 
 apparently carried off through the kidneys, for we find calca- 
 reous sediments in urine, especially the calcaria phosphorica^ 
 the chief constituent element of the bones. Now if these sub- 
 stances are retained in the body, they will find a lodgment in 
 the joints — organs that are kept in a continual state of 
 greater or less excitement, caused by the friction of constant 
 motion ; and as these osseous excretions find here a cartilage- 
 nous | surface ready to receive them, and in nature adapted to 
 
 Schultz, loco citato, Sec. 52. 
 
 t Severe mental efforts or hard study increases the urinary secretions ; 
 also, the sight or hearing of running fluids. 
 
 t Cartilage and bone have precisely the same constituent elements, with 
 this difference only, that in bone the calcareous substance, and in cartilage 
 the colla and choridrin, predominate. 
 
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 receive them, we find here an intimate relation at once estab- 
 lished. But the consequence is, that the patient will soon 
 suffer from acute rheumatic irritation (arthritis rheumatica), 
 which will predispose these joints still more to serve as recep- 
 tacles of these injurious accumulations. Schultz claims to 
 have found, in an aggravated case of gout, an increase of uric 
 acid, and would therefore class this disease with nervous dis- 
 orders.* 
 
 This profound investigator holds the same to be true con- 
 cerning the cause of intermittent fever.f 
 
 And here I would take occasion to direct attention to the 
 words of another, the competent pathologist, Funke. He 
 says : The aversion that is felt by all higher organisms against 
 their own excrements finds a parallel in the respective organs 
 toward their particular excrements. And these excrementi- 
 tious substances are always most detrimental to those particu- 
 lar organs that originate them. The higher and nobler the 
 organ is, that is thus injured, the more striking will be the 
 phenomenon of the disease. 
 
 (c) Disturbed Bilious Secretions. 
 
 The partially-dissolved blood- vesicles are conveyed to the 
 liver, and here fully dissolved, and changed into bile. But if 
 the functions of the liver are weakened, the blood cannot be 
 relieved of its effete substances, and these are retained by it to 
 a greater or less extent. But this diminution of bilious secre- 
 tions sows the seeds of disease not only in the blood, but the 
 digestion will also suffer very seriously in consequence, 
 because in the process of digestion the bile performs a most 
 important part. Hence jaundice (icterus)^ plethora abdominalis, 
 hemorrhoids, melancholy, h3'^pochondria, and erysipelas (rose), 
 with many others, internal as well as exanthematic diseases, 
 are now met with as diseases of the blood. 
 
 Besides these, there are many other diseases that arise 
 from an arrest of the process of depuration, and the presence 
 of morbid secretions in the body, such as scrophulosis ; and 
 many other exanthematic disorders may arise from the same 
 cause. 
 
 ^ Schultz, loco citato, Sec. 52. 
 
 t Schultz, loco citato, Sec. 52. 
 
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 B. ITS THERAPEUTICS. 
 
 In treating these diseases, as a first and radical indica- 
 tion, is presented before us the necessity of removing these morbid 
 .secretions from the body. In many diseases the profession has 
 attempted this, too, as in rheumatism, for instance; but in 
 others, on the contrary, the treatment has been almost exclu- 
 sively a symptomatic one, as in cases of spasms. We see, fre- 
 quently, that, in cases of disease, these detrimental substances 
 draw together to a certain point, form an ulcer, and thus 
 attempt to escape from the body, or, exanthematically through 
 the skin. In this manner does the vis medicatrix naturae 
 endeavor to conquer the disease, and this must be the right 
 one for being the natural one. Let the physician pursue the 
 same course, and thus second the efforts of nature, remember- 
 ing, medicus curat natura sanat. From this we learn, likewise, 
 that, by means of irritation or excitement, morbid matter 
 may be drawn to almost any part of the body to be expelled 
 from it. Such an irritation we derive as an effect of the 
 Resuscitator, which thus introduces the phlogistic process. 
 True, therapeutics present us with similar effects in the epis- 
 pasties^ sinapisms^ cauteria actualia et potentialia, etc., etc., but its 
 effects are far feebler, and their applications far more painful, 
 and not unfrequently followed by evil consequences. We 
 need but remember that all those remedies do not reach far- 
 ther than the external tissue, or, at farthest, to the corium of 
 the skin — while the Resuscitator penetrates the very sub- 
 stance of the organ, especially the muscles — to convince us of 
 the superiority of the latter over all others. And it is hardly 
 necessary to remind the reader of the numberless futile 
 attempts of the profession, in curing rheumatism, nervous 
 diseases, etc., nearly all of which yield so readily to Baun- 
 scheidtism,’^ as to be classed among diseases of the milder 
 form. 
 
 In rheumatism the facilitating of the secretory process is 
 not the only effect of the Resuscitator, but mechanical advan- 
 tages are also secured that lend a helping hand. The excre- 
 tions of the perspirable matter, that has been arrested by sud- 
 
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 den inception of colds, is hereby promoted, because the Resus- 
 citator opens artificial pores through which its expulsion 
 from the body is facilitated. 
 
 In spasms the anti-spastic effect seems to become activo^ 
 also, and appears to be that which renders momentary relief.. 
 (See below.) 
 
 In curing diseases of the liver, the irritating effect per- 
 forms an important part, as the application of the Resusci- 
 tator in the region of the liver materially increases the activ- 
 ity of that important organ, caused by the nervous excite- 
 ment and the increased flow of blood to the liver. And as 
 soon as the bilious secretion is resumed with regularity, the 
 exciting cause of this digestive disorder and blood disease are 
 removed. 
 
 II. ITS ANTI-SPASTIC ACTION. 
 
 By ‘‘anti-spastic action” we understand that result of the 
 local irritation caused by an application of the Resuscitator, 
 by which the process of disease is diverted from the affected 
 organ, and conducted to that part where the application has 
 been made. But this new reverse process appears in a much 
 milder form. As a rule, it may be looked for through the con- 
 tinuity established between the organs by means of the vas- 
 cular and nervous system. The diseases coming under this 
 head for consideration are congestion^ inflammation^ and nevr 
 ralgia. 
 
 Congestion is an increased flow of blood to any particular 
 part, such as to the brain, for instance (to demonstrate the 
 effects of it ad oculm), when we apply the instrument to the legs. 
 By means of this new irritation, the morbid pressure of the 
 blood on the brain is reversed, and directed to the parts oper- 
 ated ; and as the circulation of the blood is aiming at an equi- 
 librium of circulation, it must necessarily be withdrawn from 
 
82 — 
 
 other parts, consequently also from the brain, and thus con- 
 gestion is relieved. But as the primary irritation of the dis- 
 eased organ has not ceased at once, the congestion would be 
 sure to return were it not for the inflammatory process that 
 takes place at the operated parts. 
 
 (Congestion of the brain, — apoplexia cerebri, vertigo, — 
 pulmoneum, to the lungs, — apoplexia sang, asthma plethori- 
 cum, to the rectum, causing hemorrhoids, etc.) 
 
 Neuralgia. This is a morbid excitement of any particular 
 portion of the nervous system. The essential symptoms of 
 neuralgia are the peculiar pain, and their changed (generally 
 accelerated) activity, strictures, and spasmodic conditions. 
 
 To explain the real nature of neuralgia, we must resort to 
 a hypothesis, viz. : that neuralgia consists in an accumulation 
 of the nervous principle in the tubular primitive nerve-fibers 
 of the affected parts. This, it is true, is only a hypothesis, 
 which, however, is greatly strengthened when we consider 
 the general analogy existing between the blood-vesicular and 
 nervous systems. Both have their ramifications throughout 
 the whole body, and both are tubular in form ; and are we not 
 justified in assuming that an analogy exists also in their law 
 of activity? to wit: that as in the blood-vessels, so in the 
 tubulous nervous fibers, an abnormal excitability may result 
 in an accumulation of morbid matter ? (That some sort of 
 matter must exist in the primitive nervous fibres is not easily 
 disputed, or else the long-received axiom, that nature has 
 made no provisions without a purpose, must be fallacious.) 
 
 With this explanation of the phenomenon of neuralgia, 
 we shall be content to abide, and shall consider it a congestion 
 of the nervous principle^ analagous to that of congestion of the 
 blood, and upon the application of the Resuscitator it will be 
 found that the excitement it produces will produce similar 
 effects, as in cases of congestion of the blood, by bringing 
 about a redistribution of the nervous matter. This will cause 
 the neuralgia to disappear. This explanation of the process 
 of cure is the most natural, and will at once range itself 
 among the proofs for establishing the above hypothesis. 
 
 Frequently neuralgic symptoms appear in the simplest 
 form of neuralgic pain ; but generally it is the companion of 
 
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 other diseases. In the latter case, anti-spastic neuralgic 
 action will unite itself with other activities. As the most 
 common form of pure neuralgia, we may instance the pain 
 caused by the contact of the air with the exposed nerve of a 
 hollow tooth. But how remarkable will the effect of the 
 Resuscitator be found in all these sufferings! 
 
 Remark . — The chapter on neuralgia should, for causes 
 easily explained, precede the discussion of all others; yet, in 
 the arrangement already observed in this work, it occupies 
 the most suitable place. 
 
 Inflammation. Inflammation consists substantially in a 
 stagnation of the corpuscles of the blood in the capillaries ; * 
 and Brucke explains inflammation to arise from a contraction 
 of the arteries ; or that the exciting cause of inflammation 
 acts upon the contractile fibres of the arteries, exciting them 
 to a spasmodic contraction. That through this a local accu- 
 mulation, and presently a local stagnation is produced, caused 
 by a diminution of the diameter of the vessel, in consequence 
 of which a free circulation of the blood-corpuscles is no longer 
 possible. But, whatever the irritation, a reaction can be pro- < 
 
 duced only by means of the nerves. So in this case. The 
 irritation produces a neuralgic congestion, by means of which • 
 the contractile fibres of the arteries are excited to a spasmodic 
 contraction. 
 
 The curative process must therefore first effect an equal 
 distribution of the nervous activity, a cure of neuralgia, after 
 which the vessel will resume its normal condition. Hence 
 we apply anti-spastic irritants, too, in order to scatter inflam- 
 mation. Of special importance is this anti-spastic or counter- 
 irritant action, in cases of inflammation of the more vital 
 organs, such as the lungs, the brain, the eye, the intestines, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 The capillaries are the smallest of the blood-vessels known to anatomy, 
 and are those intervening the arteries and veins, between which they form 
 the connecting link. 
 
III. ITS IRRITATIVE ACTION. 
 
 If the vital activities are weakened in any portion or sys~ 
 tern of the organism, the cause is to be first sought for in the 
 nervous system. But the course that the nervous system 
 observes in such cases is not positively nor accurately ascer- 
 tained. It is possible, indeed, that the nerve matter recedes 
 from the diseased organs, and without producing any accumu- 
 lation in another, distributes itself equally in the system; 
 possibly, too, yea, very probably, a greater consumption of the 
 nervous force is in progress, or, rather, has preceded the 
 disease. 
 
 The family group of symptoms, indicating this diminu- 
 tion of the vital forces, is .that affecting the secretions and 
 locomotion. The first we have already touched upon. The 
 weakening of the locomotive power makes its appearance 
 through the entire muscular system, and produces here the 
 most varied and most dangerous forms of disease. They are 
 the well-known paralytic conditions, such as the perfect parly- 
 sis, the imperfect paralysis (paroesis), fainting fits {syncope)^ 
 apparent death (asphyxia)^ P^^lsy, etc., etc., or the paralyzation 
 of ony particular nerve, such as the optic nerve, for instance, 
 known as the black cataract, or amaurosis. 
 
 In such conditions it is the duty of therapeutics to resus- 
 citate the life of the diseased organ ; and, by exciting it, lure 
 the vital (nervous) forces once more into that direction. The 
 medical schools, however, have thus far been without an 
 efficient agent to accomplish this. But, just as the derivative 
 action of the Resuscitator tends to abduct the nervous matter 
 from the diseased organ, so does the irritative action conduct 
 the vital forces toward it. It is, indeed, the self-same process. 
 
IV. ITS DISSOLVING AND RESORBENT 
 
 ACTION. 
 
 When the inflammations arise in any part of the body 
 not directly exposed to the air, they do not often terminate in 
 suppuration, but effect their excretions, if not abducted and 
 scattered, in exudations of plastic lymph, or in the serum of 
 the tissues. The morbid conditions that most commonly orig- 
 inate in this way are the acute oedema, which consists in a 
 swelling produced by the accumulation of a serous fluid in 
 the interstices of the cellular texture. Also the inflammatory 
 induration (induratio exsudativa), when the fibrin (plastic 
 lymph) coagulates and gradually becomes firm and hard in 
 the cellular tissues, or the parenchyma. That part in which 
 such an induration exists generally enlarges in extent ; often, 
 however, especially if the free access of the blood to the 
 affected parts is prevented in consequence of the intergrowth 
 or compression of the vessels ; in which case they are apt to 
 shrink, producing contractions (shortenings) of the muscles, 
 sinews, etc. 
 
 When we attempt to remove induration, with its conse- 
 quences, the first task that presents itself is to dissolve once 
 more the indurated flbrin, and thus render it resorbable to the 
 lymphatic vessels. This indication is fully answered by a 
 direct application of the Resuscitator, for the phlogistic 
 process will at once produce an exudation of new lymph, 
 which will dissolve that which has become indurated. But 
 not only do the lymphatic vessels, which are now stimulated 
 to a higher degree of activity by the irritation of the Resusci- 
 tator, resorb the dissolved matter, but, through the needle 
 punctures, also, much of it is directly excreted; and in this 
 wise, to wit : through the increased activity of the lymphatic 
 vessels, and these artificial pores, the serum is resorbed and 
 excreted in cases of oedema. 
 
86 — 
 
 In this connection I cannot forbear directing attention to 
 another species of chronic inflammation. It is the encystic 
 tumors, such as the lipoma, steatoma, and sarcoma. These, 
 too, must yield to the Resuscitator, by virtue of the above- 
 described process. In a very similar manner, also, the Ulan- 
 gectasia and angectasia. 
 
 ELUCIDATION. 
 
 Patients afflicted with gout or rheumatism have an 
 exceedingly sensitive skin, which is readily affected by every 
 change of temperature. This is a hereditary abnormity, 
 which was so readily taken for the hereditary gout in former 
 years. Such individuals must not, of course, expect a new 
 skin from the Resuscitator, but should have it constantly at 
 hand, in order to be ever ready to take advantage of its power 
 as a tried Restorer. 
 
 Sudden changes of temperature from warm to cold ren- 
 der the skin torpid and effeminate, while, at the same time, 
 the contractions of the skin by the cold render it impervious 
 ^o water. The old teamster on the highway will find his 
 hands to chap,’’ as a result of the cold, but he rarely suffers 
 from either gout or rheumatism, because he has become used 
 to it, prepared to accommodate himself to all the different 
 changes. With the seaman we find the same to hold true. 
 
 Just as wind and weather exert an influence upon the 
 morbid matter in the body, so does this method of cure exert 
 an influence upon the body, by putting the morbid matter in 
 motion and forcing its excretion. 
 
 What is the greatest charlatanry? What the greatest of 
 humbugs? It is this, when, at this late day, any one 
 attempts to cure disease by nuains of electro-magnetic power, 
 or gives aid and countenance to such stupid pixx^eedings, for 
 
— 87 — 
 
 electricity is a destructive, not a creative power. Indeed, 
 there are physicians who call in the aid of electricity against 
 constipation. Grand idea! Simply allow a thunderbolt to 
 pass through the body, and certainly there would be the devil 
 to pay if it did not cleanse and wipe out everything 1 
 
 But especially have the metallic medical preparations, 
 latterly introduced into the practice by physicians, almost 
 imperceptibly crippled and sickened men for the balance of 
 their lives. This foolish practice has probably taken one of 
 its arguments for justification from the fact that physiological 
 chemistry has discovered minerals in the blood of man, as 
 well as in the substances of the plants. But our physicians 
 did not consider that these plants must necessarily contain 
 metallic particles, if for no other reason than this, that they 
 do not always grow in the proper place designed for them by 
 nature, or that the blood, in consequence of the infiuence of 
 the atmosphere, or medicaments of former times, may have 
 become metalline. The continuous artificial oxydation of the 
 blood, and other fluids, through successive years, in conse- 
 quence of the metallic properties contained in the earthy sub- 
 stances of nutrition, no doubt contribute largely to bring us 
 to a premature and intimate acquaintance with mother earth. 
 But the already-mentioned medicaments are usually much 
 more difficult to expel from the body than the original dis- 
 ease. Yea, we may say, that in consequence of the liberal 
 administration of these deleterious drugs, shoals and quick- 
 sands are rapidly multiplying in the stream of life, which 
 must thus at last become totally unnavigable ! 
 
 Age chills, — youth is warm! There sickness, here full 
 health and power. Let any physician but understand the 
 secret of prolonging, to its utmost possible extent, the warmth 
 of youth, then he has attained the zenith of his skill, and 
 become a substantial blessing to mankind. Our mode of cure 
 promotes, as no other can, absorption^ transformation, and excre- 
 tion, and responds, therefore, to the above requisitions most 
 perfectly. 
 
 It is not unfrequently the case that rheumatic and gouty 
 affections — which will ever draw from the spine toward the 
 stomach — produce impotence. This, however, can be radic- 
 
— 88 
 
 ally cured only when the gastric and intestinal activity is 
 restored by a thorough restoration of the functions of the 
 spine ; a desideratum that was unattainable by formerly-used 
 remedies, while the Resuscitator has shown how it may be 
 done in the simplest manner. It must be remarked, however, 
 in this connection, that the use of all spirituous drinks is alto- 
 gether interdicted when a cure is desired. 
 
 Heat, it is known, expands the air, thins it, and makes it 
 more elastic. Spirituous drinks will soften, render flabby and 
 inconsistent all parts of the organism ; and hence this abuse 
 is often followed by paralysis, lameness, podagra, etc. 
 
 It is lamentably true that skillful physicians believe, to 
 this day, that gout is generated by a poor stomach. But a 
 thousandfold experience has taught clearly, at last, that it is 
 the stomach that is affected and injured by the gout ; and this 
 is the reason why a stomach diseased in this wise could never 
 be restored, as hitherto all remedies against gout have proved 
 futile. 
 
 It is the blood that constructs the finest of nervous as 
 well as muscular fibres, membranes, etc. ; yea, it is the nour- 
 isher of the nerves themselves ; and as the nerves contain the 
 life-fluid, the blood must be the most precious of all vital fluids. 
 O humanity ! do not, therefore, corrupt or waste thy blood. 
 
 Medical men, who are authority in medical science, 
 express themselves as follows, on the purpose and generation 
 of the blood : 
 
 ‘‘ All parts of the human body are formed out of the blood, 
 and must be continuously nourished with fresh, bright-red 
 blood. In other words, in all the tissues a constant change of 
 the elementary substances is in progress ; exhausted atomU 
 and molecules are excreted from the body, and new ones are 
 immediately furnished. Articles of nutrition are constantly 
 conducting new substances to them, and these are continually 
 renovating the mass of the blood. If now an incongruity 
 should arise in the organism, during the process of absorp- 
 tion, transformation, and excretion, a disturbance of the func- 
 tions is the consequence, subsequently disease, and then new 
 pathological structures follow.’’ 
 
— 89 — 
 
 My experience also convinces me that gouty and rheu- 
 matic patients have alwa3"s too little blood; and whenever 
 the sufferer permits a part of the little that is left him to be 
 extracted by bleeding or scarifying, he is condemned to be a 
 life-long cripple and invalid, aside of the fact that he has for- 
 feited a considerable portion of his earthly existence. But in 
 cases of contusion, and the like ruptures, no one will deny 
 that the cupping-head may be applied with some good effect, 
 as in such cases only the cause of the disorder can be regarded 
 as the calamity. When the tender capillaries of the skin are 
 once cut by the lance of the scarificator, then we may confi- 
 dently take for granted that even the completest healing will 
 never be able to restore a perfect circulation of the blood in 
 those parts, so essential to the proper performance of the 
 important functions of the skin, and for which purpose the 
 Creator has placed these capillaries in it. Hence it is, too, 
 that it is so difficult to call forth an excitement of the skin, 
 which is true of those who have their bodies stuck full of 
 unnatural medicaments. Their skin seems to be like dead, 
 which can have its cause only in this, that the drugs have 
 produced a reversion of the morbid matter from the skin, and 
 concentrated it upon some internal organ. 
 
 Tapping of the Blood in Pneumonia. When a cask is full 
 to bursting, and a quart of the fluid is extracted, then, it is 
 true, the cask will not burst ; but who does not know that, 
 unless the cask is filled again, the balance of the fluid will 
 become slack, or become putrid ? 
 
 Blood once extracted can never be replaced. Its vital 
 corpuscles the infant even brings along into the world. True, 
 quantitatively, it will be replaced ; but qualitatively never. 
 Its form will be resumed, but its vital force never. 
 
 It is, therefore, an incontestible fact, that he who is bled 
 for pneumonia must die of consumption, — the weaker sub- 
 jects at an earlier, and the stronger ones at a later day ; and 
 yet- there are still persons, even educated ones, who seem to 
 believe that in inflammation of the lungs we must resort to 
 blood-letting. 
 
 Dissipations are drafts on longer or shorter time ; but 
 they are always paid! 
 
— uo — 
 
 Tills method of cure has demonstrated that the region of the 
 spinal column, on and between the shoulders, is undoubtedly 
 the main seat of every disease. I found that in a perfectly 
 healthy body the effect of my instrument amounted to noth* 
 ing at all, and hence I concluded that those portions of a dis- 
 eased body where the artificial pustules came to the strongest 
 development indicated the nearest approach to the real seat 
 of the disease, and this observation has been verified in thou* 
 sands of cases. The greatest effect of my treatment appears 
 every time between the hours of two and four o’clock, — a cir* 
 cumstance which is undoubtedly attributable to the rising 
 and ebbing of the atmospheric currents. The evidence for 
 this can be found in the “Cosmos” of Alexander von Hum* 
 boldt, page 336, as also in Littrow’s Physical Astronomy, vol. 
 3, page 163. From the “Cosmos” we quote verbatim: 
 
 “ The hourly fluctuations of the barometer in the tropical 
 regions,* by which it rises twice to the highest, and twice 
 falls to the lowest point — (reaching its highest point at 9 or 
 o’clock A. M., and lOJ to lOf o’clock P. M., and the lowest 
 at 4 or o’clock P. M., and 4 o’clock A. M. ; hence about the 
 hottest and coolest portions of the day) — have long been the 
 object of my most careful diurnal as well as nocturnal obser- 
 vations. Their regularity is so great that, especially during 
 the hours of day, the time of day may be judged by the height 
 of the quicksilver, without, on an average, going further 
 astray than fifteen to seventeen minutes. 
 
 “ In the hot zones of the American continent, along the 
 shores as well as at elevations of twelve thousand feet above 
 the level of the sea, where the mild temperature sinks down 
 to seven degrees, I have never seen the regular ebb and flow 
 of this atmospheric ocean disturbed, either by tempests, 
 thunder, rain, or earthquake. The extent of these oscilla- 
 tions f of the barometer reach from the seventieth degree of 
 north latitude, on which point we are possessed of the very 
 
 Tropical rciiions are those parts of the earth that extend to twenty- 
 three and a half degrees on either side of the equator. 
 
 t These oscillations are the fluctuations of the barometer. 
 
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 careful observations of Bravais, and vary from one thirty-two 
 one-hundredths to eighteen one-hundred-and-tenths lines/^ 
 
 And in the quoted passage from Littrow we read: 
 
 ‘‘According to these observations, the highest point the 
 barometer reaches is between nine and ten o’clock in the 
 morning ; after this it declines till four o’clock in the even- 
 ing, when it has reached its lowest point. From this time it 
 rises again, until about eleven o’clock it has again reached its 
 highest point, when it again sinks, till four o’clock in the 
 morning, when it touches for the second time its greatest 
 depth. But from these regular epochs we may already see 
 that these vacillations do not depend upon the course of the 
 moon, but rather upon that of the sun. This change seems to 
 be caused by the temperature generated by the sun in the 
 atmosphere.” 
 
 A sleeping apartment, lying tow^ard the northwest, gener- 
 ally creates, if occupied for some length of time, a disorder in 
 the eyes, which has some resemblance with the so-called 
 Egyptian eye-sickness. 
 
 The seat of primary motion, in the human mechanism, is 
 also undoubtedly between the shoulders. This we can plainly 
 see in the infant of four or five months old, especially when it 
 wishes to express any desire or joy, before it has learnt the 
 real use of its hands; it will almost invariably make its first 
 motion between the shoulders, in a manner similar to that of 
 adults when annoyed b}^ vermin. Every one knows that even 
 the smallest bird has all its power of motion concentrated 
 between its little wings — a spot that maybe considered iden- 
 tical with the shoulders of man. Hence the old proverb seems 
 to obtain new import : “ Keep open your rear.” 
 
 If, in connection with my treatment, other medicines are 
 given (especially allopathic), the cure, though not entirelj^ 
 prevented, will be greatly retarded; because the drugs remain- 
 ing in the body must first be excreted, before a radical cure 
 can be thought of. A large portion of the homeopathic reme- 
 dies have, however, a less injurious effect. They attempt 
 only, as it were, to inspire nature, and fan the flickering 
 spark of life into a flame, while allopathic medicines, in their 
 mass, overwhelm or even extinguish it. But if, as may be 
 
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 the case, the vital force is not sufficiently strong to enter 
 upon the conflict called forth by even these homeopathic 
 remedies, then, of course, both the unnatural substances — the 
 morbid matter and the medicine, both being poisons — will 
 have to remain in the body. 
 
 In cases of so-called running or flying gout, the Resusci- 
 tator is not to be applied to the affected parts at once ; but in 
 every case first on the back, between and upon the shoulders, 
 as the morbid matter excretes here so readily. And not till 
 after the third or fourth applications on the back, and the 
 suffering extremities have failed perceptibly to improve, may 
 the affected parts be slightly operated upon. 
 
 Supported by a very extensive experience, I would advise 
 all that are affected by gout and rheumatism to make an 
 operation between the shoulders in Spring and Fall, though 
 enjoying comparative health at the time ; for the frequent 
 changes of the weather at this time render this advisable as a 
 preventive. During the first three days the patient would do 
 well to keep his room, avoid every draft of air, as also all 
 work in which the hands are wetted, — such as the cleansing 
 of vegetables, peeling of potatoes, etc. Nor should the patient, 
 during the first three days after the application, wash himself 
 immediately after rising in the morning, but wait about an 
 hour; and be very careful not to allow any part of the body to 
 become wet, or be exposed to a draft of air, which will arrest 
 the artificial perspiration, and counteract its designs. So, 
 also, should sleeping near a wall be avoided by all who are 
 affected by rheumatism ; for this alone is often the cause of 
 the disease, especially if practiced during the earlier years, 
 and is certain always to aggravate it. 
 
 If a rheumatic affection should suddenly throw itself, in 
 an unexpected manner, upon one of the vital organs, then the 
 disease needs the promptest remedy, if a complete cure is 
 expected. This is the case especially when the eyes, ears, or 
 lungs, are suffering. 
 
 N. B. — The immediate baptism of new-born babes, in 
 Winter, fre(j[uently results in total blindness. 
 
 Morbid secretions in the organism always seek egress 
 from those parts of the body that possess the least power of 
 
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 resistance. Hence it is that the eyes are so often turned into 
 natural fontanels in diseased bodies. 
 
 While man lived in his original state, having become 
 neither effeminate, poisoned by drugs, nor afflicted by rheu- 
 matism, the bath refreshed him. But now, when we have 
 almost as many diseases as medicines, the external applica- 
 tion of water has almost become a poison, especially to cases 
 of gout, rheumatism, gastric colic, spinal affections, etc. Cold 
 feet, which produce congestions of the brain, must not be rem- 
 edied by foot-baths. My treatment in such cases is to rub the 
 feet with a brush, etc., or perhaps wear wooden shoes, as the 
 case may be. All the highly-eulogized bathing institutions 
 prove themselves utterly unsuccessful in effecting total and 
 radical cures, and are to be approved of only in cases where 
 the patient, after having been perfectly restored, desires to 
 harden himself somewhat by bathing, or else desires to 
 indulge in luxurious living. 
 
 True, many who are contented with a temporary relief, 
 realize a momentary good effect from the salt-baths, as the 
 skin is stimulated by the salt water to greater activity and 
 perspiration. But, alas! we have the consequences of this 
 salt-bathing daily before our eyes, in cases where rheumatic 
 patients have long and persistently, but in vain, sought 
 health by means of them, and are now coming back with 
 swollen hands and feet, and, in the greatest pain, seek else- 
 where the health they have failed to find. Some time ago it 
 was thought, indeed, that a remedy for rheumatism had been 
 discovered in muriatic acid diluted with water ; but the good 
 that was effected by the stimulating salt was all neutralized 
 by the water, as it was reabsorbed by the skin. On the other 
 hand, however, an aversion to water as a drink (which nature 
 has certainly designed for all living creatures) indicates a dis- 
 eased condition. 
 
 As a further elucidation of the bath, the following may 
 serve. Let us suppose a new, freely, and delicately-punctured 
 water-conduit, through which apparently the cleanest and 
 purest water is flowing. If e ven the conduit is constructed of 
 metal that does not rust, yet we should soon discover that the 
 minute pores in it would, in the space of twenty-four hours, 
 
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 be entirely clogged by the foreign substances held by the 
 water, being excreted from it and subsequently lodged in 
 these orifices. How much more must a similar state of things 
 become apparent in the tender pores of the human skin, in 
 consequence of an undue use of the bath, when it is an 
 undoubted fact that even the action of the apparently subtile 
 air frequently clogs these pores, and can eventually close 
 them up entirely ? The Resuscitator, on the other hand, out- 
 weighs all the medical advantages of the bath. How injuri- 
 ous any occupation is that necessitates frequent contact with 
 the water is shown by the general asthmatic condition of old 
 fishermen. But why is bathing done only in Summer? Sim- 
 ply because the all-vivifying Sun is the healing agent, and 
 not the bath ! Equally as useless as the bath are the so-called 
 whey-cures, which, although they are simply the abortive 
 results of medical superstition, are still receiving, in many 
 places, much favor and recognition. And what is whey? 
 Nothing more than water mixed with a little sugar-of-milk, 
 which all chemists will concede. (Compare this with the tes- 
 timony of that great milk analyzer. Prof. Dr. Schubler, and 
 others.) But, it is objected, how is it, then, that so many 
 that have been sick, and, with sunken cheeks, sought relief 
 in the whey-cure, have returned to us fresh and in redolent 
 health? True, such is the case at times, but it is not the 
 effect of the whey, for that contains hardly as much nutrition 
 as a glass of sugar-water ; but it is the effect of the change of 
 air rendered necessary in making use of the whey-cure. It 
 is the result of a prescribed and regular course of physical 
 exercise, change of diet, etc. But all this can, I think, be as 
 well attended to 'at home, with the additional advantage of 
 avoiding the generally important item of expense. 
 
 When the body has been in the water for any considera- 
 ble length of time, we can observe every time the so-called 
 goose-skin appear upon it, which makes its appearance, also, 
 when the skin comes in contact with the moist, cool air of 
 Spring and Fall; but never in Summer-time, or when the 
 air is dry. Such a symptom indicates nothing else but that 
 the skin has been subjected to some unnatural treatment. 
 Should such a goose-skin befall the mucous membrane of the 
 
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 stomach or intestines, snuffles or other catarrhal evils will 
 follow. 
 
 Whenever the instrument with Oleum is applied to the 
 posterior-interior portion of the knee-joint, a perceptible 
 swelling of the scrotum takes place in men, which is accom- 
 panied with transpiration and scaling off of the skin. In 
 women a similar though somewhat modified swelling of the 
 genitals will be the result. This phenomenon also makes its 
 appearance, sometimes, when the instrument and Oleum are 
 applied to the Adam’s core. This harmless and transient 
 appearance, — which, however, always accelerates a cure, — is 
 more violent and distinct in proportion to the amount of 
 unnatural and poisonous substances that ha ve been absorbed 
 by the body. Read what has been said under General Direc- 
 tions, page 24. 
 
 Where all efforts to produce sweating by means of hydrot- 
 ics, taken internally, have proved unsuccessful, the Resusci- 
 tator will produce it within two hours. Such being the case, 
 any physician might at once perceive that this mode of treat- 
 ment must be the treatment for the cure of cholera. 
 
 The cure of liver and spleen diseases has greatly aston- 
 ished our physicians, and yet the process is a very natural 
 one when we consider that the effect of the Resuscitator is to 
 warm^ purify, excite, promote the circulation of the blood, act 
 as an anti-spastic, etc., always without danger, and therefore 
 uniformly restores these torpid organs, in a perfectly safe and 
 speedy manner, to their normal activity. Abundant experi- 
 ences have taught this Treatment of the diseased body, — 
 which, while gifted with a good degree of vitality, always 
 refuses to be sick, — will restore it in much shorter time than 
 it required to become thoroughly sick. 
 
 Asthmatic difficulties originate in spasmodic stagnations 
 in the ramifications of the lungs, clogged with mucous, which, 
 in a normal condition of the body, is regularly excreted. 
 Consequently, these stopped-up branches of the lungs, which 
 become contracted if the evil continues long, are unable any 
 longer to inhale the necessary volume of air. Our Treatment 
 calls forth a fresh activity in the entire organism, and com- 
 pels the particular organs to an activity that results in the 
 
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 necessary excretions, whether it be through the lungs or skin, 
 and the consequence is, the disorder must give way to this 
 general activity. 
 
 If the transpiration of the body has been arrested, then 
 it is evident that an accelerated excretion must go forward 
 internally, if life and health are to be in any degree pre- 
 served. 
 
 Syphilis. I will here submit it to the candid considera- 
 tion of all, whether the various syphilitic disorders of our cli- 
 mate are not really made more malignantly syphilitic, under 
 the treatment of our physicians, and especially by the appli- 
 cation of mercury and iodine, which affect not only the mus- 
 cular part, but evidently the bones also, and silvers them. 
 One thing is certain, that, while syphilis in Malta, Corfu, and 
 Gibraltar, is among the diseases of daily occurrence, it is left 
 to the warm climate and the ordinary course of nature to be 
 cured ; while, in the more northern and moister countries, all 
 attempts at cure have proved unsuccessful, and the patient 
 must generally die under the hands of even the most skillful 
 physicians. Brightest instances of success have convinced 
 me that it is entirely within the power of the Resuscitator, 
 which promotes warmth and transpiration, to effect the rad- 
 ical cure which in the warmer zones is produced by the cli- 
 mate ; for my method of treatment transplants the patient, as 
 it were, into a warmer zone. 
 
 Hypochondria. A bladder, taken fresh out of the butcher’s 
 hands, has its normal size ; but if it comes into contact with 
 the cold air, even for a few minutes, it will shrink to a dimin- 
 ished size, and the walls of it thicken. This is the condition 
 of the stomach and intestines of a hypochondriac. These will 
 shrink together, and their internal space is lost, as soon as the 
 body becomes cold, a sensation which always issues from the 
 spine. The Recuscitator, as a curative agent, restores equal- 
 ity of warmth as well as a general equilibrium to the body. 
 
 Tubercles. The customary symptoms, by the section : a 
 vesicle filled with yellowish, salty water. (Undoubtedly this 
 watery substance is excreted over the whole body, in conse- 
 quence of the agitated rotation of the whole mass of fluids.) 
 External indications : these are similar to those of the gland- 
 
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 ular socks. They are generally bordered by harder incmsta- 
 tions, which, dissolving, will spread and involve the sur- 
 rounding parts. 
 
 These indurated borders appear to me like the sand- 
 banks on the sea-shore, that fall in to make more room for the 
 play of the ocean waves. But before these bank-like eleva- 
 tions and callous edges could be generated in this, hitherta 
 considered, incurable disease, a marked elementary change 
 must have taken place, which will first of all present itself as 
 a subject for investigation. This much is clear, that, these 
 bank-like scrofulous tumors, swelling up and breaking down, 
 as well as pulmonary tubercles, indicate that, in the depth of 
 the sea of animal life, a mighty convulsion is in progress, 
 which is seeking vent with relentless power. This instru- 
 mental treatment opens up a natural avenue. 
 
 Science distinguishes them thus : miliary tubercles and 
 tuberculous infiltrations, — which are to be considered as 
 inflammatory exudations, — yellow tubercles, etc., the sub- 
 stance of Avhich is generally subject to a rapid decomposition, 
 and frequently involves the bronchial tubes in scrofulous 
 children. And here I must remark that years frequently 
 transpire before the pathological contents of lymphatic- 
 scrofulous infiltrated glands are ejected, either by ulceration 
 or the application of all the complicated decoctions known. 
 
 The ocean does not rise above its banks, for its revolu- 
 tions are perfectly in harmony with the revolutions of the 
 earth. But if the earth should be arrested, for only a few sec- 
 onds, in its course, possibly the ocean would deluge the whole 
 earth. Thus, if the blood is disturbed in its circulation, 
 which often follows upon an improper course of life, or results 
 from the taking of medicaments, or from certain other condi- 
 tions of life, then it may overwhelm itself, and frequently 
 sudden death follows the rupture of a blood-vessel. In 
 strong vital currents such disturbance can result only in 
 rupture of blood-vessels, in weaker ones it results only in 
 apoplexy. 
 
 Enlargement of the Heart. Natural philosophy has un- 
 doubtedly learnt the latest lessons concerning the construc- 
 tion of pressure or suction pumps from the arrangements of 
 8 
 
— 98 — 
 
 the heart ; for the heart is certainly both a suction and press- 
 ure pump. The vital force with which the organism is 
 endowed having set it in motion, the heart sucks in the blood 
 through the veins, and then presses or propels it again 
 through the arteries. A good pump will keep the longer in 
 good repair if the fluids that it pumps are absolutely pure. 
 In this case the blood is the substance with which the heart- 
 pump comes in contact. If it is thickened, conglutinated, 
 vitiated, acidified, or fermenting, then it is not possible for it 
 to course through the veins and arteries as freely and regu- 
 larly as it does in its natural condition, when maintained by 
 a proper degree of warmth. 
 
 When, in a mechanical pump, which is moved by the 
 hand of the operator, the valves are stopped up or become 
 adhesive, and the pump ceases to throw water, then the oper 
 ator will stop his work, feeling the increased labor in his arm, 
 and sets himself to work cleansing his machine, and, if need 
 be, to renovate it. Thus with the heart, onl}^ that the reno- 
 vating process is not so readily accomplished. When, for 
 instance, the valves of the heart have become conglutinated, 
 the vital force at the back of it will continue persistently to 
 press forward, especially in those of youthful years, when the 
 vital forces are the strongest, and the heart must either 
 become enlarged, producing palpitation of the heart, or 
 enlargement of it, or else a rupture of the heart. Hence it is 
 that these difficulties occur so frequently during the years of 
 greatest vigor. In overcoming the enlargement of the heart, 
 the physician should by all means bear in mind that the 
 vitiated blood must be restored once more to its natural fluid- 
 ity, instead of doing, — as is customary in the usual mode of 
 medical treatment, — what will corrupt and pollute it still 
 more, or dry it up by means of spirituous liquors (for a 
 whisky drunkard has never too large, but rather too small a 
 heart), or even weaken the vital force by means of blood- 
 letting. If the blood has been restored to its proper fluidity, 
 for which purpose our Treatment offers the only and the 
 model remedy, then nature will restore and regulate what is 
 defective in regular and successive order, and cure of its own 
 accord, as facts Avill abundantly prove, to the conviction of all. 
 
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 A S' soon as gout and rheumatism appear in the very 
 finger-tips it proves that the whole bod}^ is full of it. The 
 same is true when palpitation of the heart, or glimmering 
 before the eyes, sets in. The latter symptoms appear usually 
 as the result of mal-medication. 
 
 In many instances, rheumatism, especially if it strikes 
 the brain, becomes the cause of insanity. Suppressed cutane- 
 ous eruptions, or tetter, etc., also cold shower-baths, or bare 
 skulls, are often followed by the same consequences. And 
 how can such insanity be successfully treated in lunatic asy- 
 lums in which, generally, all means for the cure of rheuma- 
 tism are wanting ! * 
 
 In former years it was a tenacious custom among physi- 
 cians to prescribe ominous doses of cod-liver oil for glandular 
 and kindred disorders. But whatever of good the cod-liver oil 
 may have effected in the glands, it more than counterbal- 
 anced in the injury it inflicted on the stomach and intestines, 
 as it is an admitted fact that all greasy substances are injuri- 
 uos to a weak or disordered stomach. 
 
 The most suitable time for the treatment of chronic eye 
 diseases are those weeks intervening the month of March to 
 the middle of May; and again through the months of Septem- 
 ber and October; for a pure, clear atmosphere, is always much 
 better adapted to operations than moist, muggy, or stormy 
 weather. 
 
 The actual formation of the cataract in the eye is a tell- 
 ing proof of the complete prostration of a body inclinea to 
 spasms, and hence, in such patients, operations should be 
 avoided during the month of February, as being a month not 
 favorable, as a general thing, to a cure ; probably, because the 
 approaching equinoctial change will of itself produce a sort of 
 conflict in the fluids of every healthy organism, which calls 
 
 The newspapers have brought us the following touching a case in 
 point. The physician of a lunatic asylum received a patient who had 
 become insane solely from the use of certain kinds of hair-dyes. On investi- 
 gation, it was found that this hair-dye was composed of a solution of lead, a 
 mercurial salt, and lunar caustic. Probably the skin of the skull bone had 
 been touched by it, and the evil set in with a violent headache, which con- 
 tinued until the mind became clouded, and complete insanity supervened. 
 
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 into play all powers of the organs, and hence ev^ry disturb- 
 ance of the system would be unfavorable toward a renovation 
 of the fluid masses. (The obstinate ulcers which frequently 
 occur during this month are easily explained upon this 
 hypothesis.) 
 
 Hoarseness and afflictions of the larynx arise, as a rule, 
 from the abdomen. Read what is said on Bronchitis, para- 
 graph 92. 
 
 Obstructions in the secretory canals usually give rise to 
 spasms. 
 
 While disease still prevails in the body the patient will 
 naturally seek for the relief which the Resuscitator can afford, 
 and, the nearer the body approaches to health, the more 
 prickly and sensitive will the needle punctures become. 
 
 Tartar-emetic, or the so-called pock-salve, will destroy, 
 entirely, not only the epidermis, but will cauterize also the 
 subcutaneous tissues in such a manner that the rubbing-in of 
 this poison often produces local pains as much as thirty years 
 afterward, and all the combined skill of the medical w^orld is 
 unable to restore a skin thus cauterized to its normal condi- 
 tion. 
 
 The poorer class of people generally recover sooner from 
 their diseases than the rich. Although the former must be 
 satisfied with far poorer fare and nursing, and are, in conse- 
 quence of the inhuman hardships they at times undergo, 
 much more exposed to bodily suffering and disease than the 
 latter ; yet, on the other hand, they are happily without the 
 means to purchase, at a heavy cost, a far more serious artifi- 
 cial and medicinal disease, in addition to the natural one, as 
 their rich neighbors are almost sure to do. 
 
 I have heard it asserted by physicians that Virchow, for 
 whose very judicious views I entertain a high regard, had 
 built a barrier for himself, which, in later times, he could not 
 overstep ; but I am of the opinion that most of our physicians 
 have, for a long time, been standing at their self-barred gates, 
 etc. 
 
 As soon as anything, or any people, become unnatural, it 
 will go under; nature ever remains the same. 
 
 While one physician prescribes purgatives, another, for 
 
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 the same thing, gives an emetic. We do not design raising 
 objections to this; but shall simply explain the effect of pur- 
 gatives to the people. 
 
 Purgatives are generally divided into three classes. 
 
 (1) Salts, or dissolving . — While these certainly effect the 
 desired object of dissolving the victuals, there is this evil in 
 their use, that they are apt to dissolve the mucous membranes 
 of the stomach and intestines as well. 
 
 (2) Oily . — While these have, of course, the effect of render- 
 ing all the contents of the stomach and intestines slippery, 
 they will at the same time so besmear the stomach and intes- 
 tines that both must become torpid. 
 
 (3) Spicy . — By these, it is true, warmth and activity are 
 developed; but as laxatives and purgatives are generally 
 given only to such patients as are troubled with a species of 
 continual spasmodic conditions, hence the internal warmth, 
 with the warmth already existing, cannot possibly result in 
 the advantage that the physician, after mature deliberation, 
 has hoped to see. Hence, look at the absurdity of a physician 
 or apothecary prescribing the ordinary blood-purifying reme- 
 dies. 
 
 Our treatment, on the contrary, accelerates the evacua- 
 tions in quite a different manner. The lethargic digestive 
 organs are aroused from outside, and thus stirred up to 
 renewed activity. This begins forthwith, and the constipa- 
 tion of the excrements ceases. This is genuine blood-purifica- 
 tion. Homeopathy conceives of the matter in the same man- 
 ner, only are its remedies of a different character. 
 
 In the ideas of nausea, fear, anxiety, anger, joy, etc., we 
 certainly meet once more with important conditions of life, or, 
 at least, so close an intimacy with them, that, in the attempt 
 to solve this life problem, many a one’s hairs have turned 
 gi*ay. 
 
 The elementary changes of the nutritious substances seem 
 to be congenial to the body; but it is certainly not worth 
 while to speak of prolonging life, as some have latterly com- 
 menced to do, as long as we have failed to learn what really is 
 the elementary life principle. Too large an absorption of oil 
 will drown the flame of even the brightest lamp; and the 
 
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 effects of oxygen, rushing in a current, will extinguish even 
 the torch. 
 
 Mineral waters contain mineral, and hence they evi- 
 dently derive their name. By virtue of their weight, cold- 
 ness, etc., they may at first stupefy some disorders ; but cure 
 they can only in case it is within the reach of possibilities, 
 that, by some sort of dredging machine, the mineralized and 
 calcarized blood-vessels could, in later years, be cleansed again, 
 or that the arteries might be brushed out by some sort of 
 utensil like that used for cleansing pipes. But as this is 
 impossible, the public will sooner or later learn to see that 
 the expected or boasted benefit to be derived from drinking 
 mineral water is all imaginary. Far better would he deserve 
 of humanity who should succeed to discover and furnish us a 
 specifically-pure and clear water, pure of all deleterious and 
 foreign substances. He, indeed, would give us sweet bread, 
 for once, instead of the medical leaven that has been conjured 
 up to torment mankind. 
 
 An organ cannot remain in good health if the nutritious 
 life substances are prevented from freely reaching it, or the 
 effete excretions of the blood are interrupted. Very many dis- 
 eases arise from this cause, and no other. 
 
 As soon as the general introduction of my discovery shall 
 have banished all rheumatic evils from the world, the host of 
 epidemic diseases will be reduced to its minimum ; for a body 
 perfectly free of rheumatic disorders is not at all susceptible 
 of contagious diseases. 
 
 In concluding this chapter, we would yet remark that, in 
 the observations made referring particularly on the effects of 
 the Resuscitator, it may here appear to some as if one or the 
 other effect was prominent above all others, which, however, 
 is not and cannot be the case. The various actions or effects 
 arc always produced by an operation, though it may be neces- 
 sary to produce but one particular one to effect the cure, 
 while for the others there are no unhealthy conditions to 
 meet. Generally, however, all the various effects combine fca 
 the conquest of the arch-fiend of mankind. 
 
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 VITAL FORCE. 
 
 The necesdty of estimating it correctly^ husbanding it carefully^ and 
 adapting all Treatment accordingly. 
 
 No sooner is the body in a diseased condition than foreign 
 substances may be found in it, called morbid matter. These 
 do not belong to its normal condition, and must be removed, 
 if health is to be restored. If more morbid matter than 
 healthful life should prove to be in the body, a favorable 
 result in attempting to subtract the morbid matter is very 
 doubtful. Up to the time of the introduction of this Healing 
 Method, medical science was frequently unable to separate 
 this morbid matter from the body,without subjecting the lat- 
 ter to the loss of some of the most valuable vital fluids; 
 because, in every operation with scarificators, etc., the body 
 generally lost more healthful than morbid vitality. Even 
 vescicators operate mostly at the expense of the body, for 
 their substances consist mostly of poisons, which have too 
 frequently, as is proved by the various facts in evidence, 
 exerted a fatal influence upon life. Now, as the effects of this 
 curative treatment is null and void in a perfectly sound body, 
 therefore we maintain, with the utmost confidence, that the 
 skill of the physician must be exercised, principally, in 
 taking the correct estimate of the life of his patients into 
 account, if he would really prove a benefit to his fellow men, 
 in their various ailments. 
 
 In the same manner as the assessor must determine the 
 value of land, by taking into consideration its good and bad 
 ingredients, the climatic relations, etc., the experienced physi- 
 cian must be able to estimate vitality. This, it is true, is a 
 gift which very many physicians do not possess, for it can 
 never be acquired by a study of all the theories in the world. 
 
 Between one life and another there exists, — in this mani- 
 fested, but hitherto mysterious, and, perhaps, never fully com- 
 
104 — 
 
 prehensible prime-force, — a marked difference in tenacity, 
 which is certainly determined from the first moments of its 
 existence. Nature everywhere asserts its rights and powers. 
 A famous French physician, named Le Roy, speaks as follows 
 on this point : The child receives from the originators of his 
 being the principle of his life, as well as its end, and trans- 
 mits both, when he comes to years of maturity, to his pos- 
 terity.’’ 
 
 Now, as we know to a certainty that the nervous system 
 is the main center of vitality, it must be the chief care of the 
 physician not to transform diseases into nervous afflictions; 
 for these would accelerate the termination of a life, which, by 
 nature, is so loth to part from the body. He will certainly, 
 though unintentionally, fail in his design, if he disregards the 
 indications of nature ; unless, indeed, he be so familiar with 
 the beautiful and divine mechanism — man — in all its varied 
 combinations and functions, as not to need any hints from 
 nature. 
 
 This ability, however, is not easily acquired by the study 
 of anatomy and the art of estimating life, and especially the 
 healthful life in a sick body, has hitherto been a most difficult 
 one, and in the highest degree uncertain. If hitherto it was 
 the eye of the patient that furnished the practiced eye of the 
 physician its surest criterion, it is now the Resuscitator that 
 overcomes all such difficulties in the most simple manner. 
 
 The quicker the skin of the operated parts turn red, and 
 the quicker the natural physical warmth of the body is 
 restored, the greater is the amount of sound vitality still 
 remaining in the body. In perfectly sound bodies the oper- 
 ated parts turn red forthwith, which redness very soon disap- 
 pears, and the natural color returns. When a more diseased 
 condition prevails, the phenomenon does not appear before 
 the lapse of five to ten minutes or more. But if, after five 
 applications, at intervals of ten days, no effect whatever is 
 apparent on the diseased body, so that neither twitches nor 
 eruptions are perceptible, then the internal corruption and 
 attractive force of the disease is very great and too strong to 
 be reversed and turned toward the skin ; and then we may 
 conclude that the disease is very difficult to cure, and that 
 
— 105 
 
 very much of perseverance is necessary in order to effect a 
 reversion of the tendencies of the disease from the internal 
 organs to the surface, or peripheral system. 
 
 By the interval that transpires between the flash of the 
 lightning and the sound of the thunder, we find the distance 
 of the discharge ; so, in like manner, does this process furnish 
 the only reliable and valuable means by which to determine 
 the state of health in any case. Health ! this noblest and best 
 of all temporal blessings, how recklessly, alas! it is often sys- 
 tematically ruined by low, sordid motives. 
 
 THE RESUSCITATOR A LIFE-PROLONGER. 
 
 The many and varied successes attesting the efiicacy of 
 the Resuscitator will certainly justify its claim to being one of 
 the first and most efficient means for the prolongation of life. 
 The nervous irritation brought about by the puncture of the 
 needles, followed by a revival of the entire organism, by which 
 it is stimulated to renewed and stronger efforts to ferret out 
 and remove the causes of disease, or keep them at bay, is a 
 feature that deserves special attention among the many vir- 
 tues of the Resuscitator. But he who attempts to explain the 
 causes of it all will find that he has entered upon the domain 
 of the mysterious. Nervous physiology has unquestionably 
 made great progress of late, but he who will pursue it only to 
 a considerable extent will soon discover how far we still are 
 from even a comparatively satisfactory solution of the mosr 
 important and interesting questions connected therewith. 
 This is sufficiently manifested by the numberless hypotheses 
 that have been advanced by sagacious members of the pro- 
 fession, shaped according to the latest developments of this 
 science. In a new^ Exposition of Sensualism,” by Dr. H. 
 
— 106 — 
 
 Czolbe (Leipzig, 1855), an attempt is made to prove that the 
 physical energies are propagated mechanically in the nerves 
 of sensation, by virtue of an innate specific elasticity ; that 
 the active force upon which sensation and motion depend is 
 something else besides electricity, which should be considered 
 only as an accompanying activity^ but not as the complete ner- 
 vous force ; for, says he, it is highly probable that the electric 
 currents known to exist in the nerves might arise from the 
 same process which, as may be assumed, is constantly engaged 
 in generating restitution for the nerves. In perfect accord 
 with which was the opinion of many physiologists, that, on 
 the one hand the ganglionic cells or capillaries were the appa- 
 ratus of nervous nutrition, as the nerves, being minute tuber- 
 culous fibres, were very slowly attracting, perhaps endosmot- 
 ically, the contents of the ganglionic cells, — and that, on the 
 other hand, the electric lobes of the torpedo are simple aggre- 
 gations of a great multiplicity of ganglionic corpuscles, which 
 are interwoven in the wide meshes of rich cellular tissue. 
 We frequently observe that a given space ts, at the same time, 
 filled with light, sound, electricity, vapor, and other physical 
 agencies. Besides these, there may, at the same time and 
 place, be introduced an infinite number of undulating sys- 
 tems, kept in motion, crossing and recrossing each other, 
 without disturbing each other in the least. Let one reflect, 
 for a moment, upon the great number of undulating sounds 
 that are simultaneously set in motion by an orchestra, or upon 
 the thousands of rays of light that cross each other in a well- 
 lighted hall, none of which fail to reach their proper destina- 
 tion. In telegraphy it has recently been established, beyond 
 a doubt, that messages can be dispatched in opposite direc- 
 tions over the same wire, and at the same moment, as the 
 electric currents do not come in conflict, but go forward, each 
 reaching its proper destination. The facts have established 
 that numberless physical agencies can be set in motion in a 
 given locality without mutually disturbing or molesting each 
 other, and this is sufficient to make human reason reel when 
 it endeavors to grasp the stupendous thought. 
 
 The nervous system being the organ of the mind — yea, 
 according to materialistic views, originates it, even — we are 
 
— 107 — 
 
 compelled to consider, while assigning the position of highest 
 importance to the spiritual designs of existence (being anth 
 materialistic, therefore), all other organs of the body only as 
 parts of the nourishing apparatus of the nervous system. 
 The views of Lotze, as expressed in his medical psychology or 
 physiology of the soul (Leipsig, 1852), may probably be cor- 
 rect, likewise, to wit : that even the hemispheres of the cere- 
 brum are chiefly organs of nutrition, while the other parts of 
 tlie brain are the apparatus of physical activity ; and as these 
 hemispheres consist mostly of ganglia, this view of Lotze 
 seems to agree with that which esteems the ganglionic cells- 
 as organs of nutrition to the nervous tubes. These hypotheses 
 only prove how complicated and intricate the processes of ner- 
 vous activity are, and is sufficient to show how far we still 
 are, notwithstanding the progress recently made in nervous 
 physiology, from elucidating, to any considerable extent, this 
 dark domain. Helmhotz says, in his work on the mutations 
 of natural forces (Koenigsburg, 1854) : “ Heat, electricity, mag- 
 netism, and light, as chemical relations, are intimately con- 
 nected with mechanical forces. By each of the various forms 
 in which natural forces appear every other may be set^ in 
 motion, and generally, too, in a variety of ways.’’ 
 
 From all that has been briefly discussed, we may easily 
 infer how exceedingly difficult it is, even in our present some- 
 what advanced state of knowledge of the nervous activity, to 
 form a correct opinion concerning the remote causes of any 
 therapeutically-tested, beneflcial influence that may have 
 been exerted upon them. Undoubtedly, however, we must 
 ascribe to the nervous irritation produced by the Resuscitator, 
 imparting an impetus to the entire organism that enables it 
 to remove causes of disease, and act even as a preventive of it, 
 a large portion and — in cases of excessive sensibility — the 
 largest portions of the happy results, which, after being so 
 variously attested through this work, are no longer subject to 
 doubt. This, therefore, may well be received as a better- 
 established hypothesis than any of those hitherto advanced, 
 amid the difficulties of our imperfect knowledge of the myste- 
 ries of the nervous life — mysteries, moreover, which, as they 
 hold in their sacred enclosure the secret of earthly existence,, 
 
108 — 
 
 will probably forever remain unsolved. Many physicians 
 have already introduced the Resuscitator into their practice, 
 and fully acknowledge its merits. But its application must 
 become universal, because its healing efficacy has been 
 attested by experience, for more than one hundred thousand 
 patients have already been treated by this method, and nine- 
 tenths successfully ; and nervous physiologists will finally be 
 compelled to bring this efficacy of the Resuscitator within the 
 province of their investigations, and at least venture upon an 
 attempt at explaining it. That such explanations would 
 have nothing better than some more hypotheses to support ' 
 them is altogether likely, to judge the future by the past ; yet 
 we know that, however difficult it may be to approach the 
 Truth in some departments of science, and know, too, how 
 steep and tedious is the path that we must climb in ascend- 
 ing to its Temple, which will often, after all our labors, barely 
 admit us into its outer courts, and seldom if ever into its sanc- 
 tuary. Nevertheless, we must concede that hypotheses (if 
 only they originate from a sound brain) can be of great value 
 to the advancement of science and human knowledge. Our 
 demands upon a sound brain should not exceed what the 
 defective state of the positive human knowledge of the time- 
 being makes attainable; and hence the best that we can expect 
 from it are more or less probable hypotheses, even from the 
 very ideal of a sound human mind. But, as regards empiric- 
 ism and experience in the healing art, we all know how prev- 
 alent they still are, and must for a long time remain our only 
 satisfactory guide in most cases. But in order to institute 
 experiments and judge of their value correctly, it also requires 
 a mentally sound brain of the higher order, and professional 
 men possessed of such would certainly do well, and make 
 mankind indebted to them, if they were to admit the Resusci- 
 tator into the province of their observations ; for it can already 
 boast of successes which it is fruitless any longer to gainsay. 
 Then, too, it might become possible to furnish more or less 
 plausible physiological explanations for these facts of their 
 experience, and retain the latter (as far at least as this is still 
 possible) under their scientific and professional control, or 
 present them in a more general point of view. True, in order 
 
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 to do this, it would probably be necessary, as most of the 
 profession now themselves admit, that systematic pathology 
 should submit to a material readjustment. Any one that has 
 convinced himself of the importance of a discovery such as 
 the Resuscitator, will feel it his duty to make a thorough 
 examination of its merits ; and where there are so many well- 
 attested instances of success to be cited, the conceit that 
 refuses to be instructed by them is just as censurable as more 
 sordidly selish motives would be. 
 
 These discussions relate to the question of prolonging lifOy 
 from which we proceeded, as far at least as the Resuscitator, 
 by preventing and curing disease, promises, with ever-increas- 
 ing certainty, to become one of the first and most decided 
 means for its prolongation, and consequently recommends 
 itself to general use. The Makrobiotik of Hufeland produced, 
 in its time, very happy and unusual results, and is even now 
 a very lively sage among books; and yet Dr. E. von Russdorf 
 speaks of it in the above-cited work of his as follows : The 
 first part discusses physiology, the science of life, according to 
 the notion of Hufeland; but we must forbear saying a single 
 word with regard to his theoretical observations, for not a par- 
 agraph of it is correct ; the whole of it is, for the present time, 
 unpalatable and useless.’’ Though we have no desire to speak 
 disparagingly of the excellent Hufeland, who was certainly 
 possessed, both as physician and man, of a sound brain and 
 heart, and was, like all others, simply the child of his own 
 time (and, as regards even the soundest possible human brain, 
 nltra posse nemo obligatur)^ yet the foregoing will suffice to show 
 us again what an amount of modest but serious doubt the 
 authoritative writers of the time-being must be prepared to 
 encounter from^ all directions and parties of their cotempora- 
 ries, whose privilege it has not become to stand forth apodic- 
 tically. As regards the practical portion of it, particular cen- 
 sure is passed upon the fact that too little attention is paid to 
 the ventilation of houses — an abuse which attracted the atten- 
 tion of thoughtful men even then, but should now receive 
 the greater attention. Physiology, the very flower of med- 
 ical science, is still a youthful tutor, and, but a few years ago, 
 she could furnish us with but a very superficial and partial 
 
— no — 
 
 insight into the nature of the respiratory process, so that we 
 were unable to appreciate its full importance. And the very 
 latest of physiological text-books, compiled by the most 
 renowned authors, and those from which our young students 
 derive their knowledge, are still insufficient in this most 
 important point. It was supposed that the oxygen of the air 
 had the same effect in the lungs as upon a fire in a stove, as it 
 there came in contact with the blood, out of the carbon of 
 which it evolved the carbonic acid gas, which we exhaled; 
 and this process, it was imagined, imparted warmth to the 
 organism and prepared the caloric ; and further, that the oxy- 
 gen imparted to the blood an unknown efficiency to vivify the 
 bod3^ The suppositions are quite erroneous, and no longer 
 reconcilable with the results of advanced scientific investiga- 
 tions. Just like the vibrations of the air produce the sensa- 
 tion of sound upon the auditory nerve, and the vibrations of 
 the ether produce the sensation of light upon the optic nerve, 
 so the molecular vibrations produce, during the transforma- 
 tory processes of the atomatic substances in nutrition, general 
 sensation, as well as the feeling of warmth in the sensitive 
 nerves. Physiological chemistry has clearly established that 
 it is essentially the oxygen of the air, which, by its chemical 
 union with the dissolved nutritive substances in the blood, 
 forms out of these the structural substances needed for the 
 sustenance of the various tissues. And in a similar manner 
 does the inhaled oxygen generate, out of the albumen of the 
 blood, the fibrous or muscle-structural substance ; so also the 
 caseine, the supporter of the fluid textures and blood-vessels ; 
 and so the calx, for the support of the bones. In short, with- 
 out the chemical action of the oxygen upon the substances of 
 the blood, the production of the structural elements, required 
 for the support of the organic textures of the body, is impos- 
 sible, and hence the ox}"gen of the air is unquestionably the 
 most important condition in the process of normal nutrition. 
 
 The scrofulous impurity of the blood in children consists 
 in this, that a raw albumen, that is unconvertible, through 
 the respiratory process, into healthy structural elements, cir- 
 culates in the blood, producing irritations that frequently 
 result in inflammations. That scrofulous impurity of the 
 
— Ill — 
 
 blood is ascribable to impure air, is, beyond doubt in many 
 cases, true. Yet there are many other causes producing the 
 same effect, such as the drinking of impure water, etc. 
 
 “ The great perniciousness of the air in our rooms, extend- 
 ing through an entire winter, consists in its being constantly 
 overburdened with eorbonic-acid gas, and also its great pau- 
 city of oxygen, because our architects have to this day entirely 
 neglected and overlooked the most important point in habita- 
 tions designed for men, viz., ventilating arrangements for 
 the continual and constant renovation of the air we are to 
 breathe. Our children grow up in nurseries, the breeding 
 temperature of which renders the already foul air still more 
 pernicious. At a later period they are made to spend eight 
 long hours in school-rooms, which are regular distilleries of 
 carbonic-acid gas and vitiated air. 
 
 “ If the object is slowly to undermine the health of our 
 children, then no surer course can be adopted than this man- 
 ner of furnishing them the nourishing air. Hitherto the 
 desired stress has not been laid, by medical science, upon ven- 
 tilation ; pure air has, indeed, always been recommended, but 
 it was not insisted upon that ventilation was just as indis- 
 pensable to a dwelling-room as light. And in this categorical 
 form will our system of dietetics have to take up this subject 
 of ventilation, as one of the laws of health. Our architecture 
 must be condemned ; yea, it must be made a criminal offence, 
 if they fail to take into account this primary condition of a 
 healthful dwelling. Not only isolated voices must be lifted 
 up among physicians in favor of this reform, but the united 
 voice of medical science must be raised to press this subject of 
 ventilation home, as the highest condition of health, — yea, 
 preach it as the first law in the code of our health-morals. In 
 our own country, America, most gratifying advances have 
 been made in solving the problem of ventilation. In many 
 countries, however, entire indifference seems to prevail 
 respecting this matter. It was the gradual introduction of 
 hot-water conducting pipes, used for manufacturing purposes, 
 as also to heat enclosed apartments, that led the Marquis de 
 Gabannes to develop a complete system of hydraulic heating ; 
 and this was subsequently so skillfully improved by Mr. Leon 
 
— 112 — 
 
 Devoir, that it was made not only to warm apartments, but 
 also to ventilate entire houses with perfect ease. An Ameri- 
 can, Mr. Perkins, has further improved it in this, that he has 
 omitted the water reservoir out of the entire system of his 
 pipes, and, for heating purposes, has adopted a pipe of but 
 one inch in diameter. These ventilatory arrangements, how- 
 ever, are rather complicated and expensive, and hardly 
 attainable for those not in affluent circumstances. A cylin- 
 drical opening in the ceiling of a room, divided into two parts 
 by a partitioning valve, answers a very goo4 purpose as a 
 ventilator, as through the one-half of the cylinder the foul air 
 finds egress, while through the other the pure rushes into the 
 apartment. 
 
 Ventilation was formerly more generally neglected even 
 than now, and yet we must admit that the number of diseases 
 has really increased, but in reality only, perhaps in the med- 
 ical books (and also a number of medicinal diseases, brought 
 on by the many unnatural remedies that have been adminis- 
 tered), where, for the purpose of distinguishing them more 
 accurately, they have been called by new names.’’ 
 
 The author proceeds to subject the second practical part 
 of Hufeland’s Makrohiotih to a sharp criticism, according to the 
 present aspect and exy^erience of medical science ; but as we 
 have directed the attention of the reader to this small but 
 richly-freighted book, it cannot be improper to give some 
 extracts from it, showing the transcendent importance of ven- 
 tilation, hoping that this important subject may in future 
 receive more general attention. He thinks that, while the 
 Makrohiotih devotes too little attention to many important fea- 
 tures of the subject, it goes into extremes respecting some oth- 
 ers : “ We hear of many cases of suicide which the threatening 
 manner of the author is said to have caused;” and further: 
 
 It is singular, indeed, that we hear physicians talk so much 
 of gluttonous eaters, and yet so rarely get sight of one of these 
 curiosities. People of a good, healthy appetite, whom, how- 
 ever, I shall by no means call gluttons, are, as a rule, healthy, 
 and hence they generally also digest their meals well ; and 
 others, of weak digestive powers, who like fasting no better, 
 
— 113 — 
 
 endanger their comfort only in this, that they take too little 
 active exercise to support nature in its work of digestion.” 
 
 Spirituous drinks Hufeland rejects entirely, being of the 
 opinion that they tend to rapid consumption,-^ to real com- 
 bustion of the physical organism. This is a scientific absurd- 
 ity, and the very opposite is much nearer the truth. Accord- 
 ing to the careful investigations made by Diichek, the effect 
 of alcohol upon the system is to retard the transformatioix 
 of the substances. True, drunkards rarely attain to an ad- 
 vanced age ; but, to such, dietetics occupy the same relation as 
 morals and philosophy do to the fool. In dietetics, too, every- 
 thing must be taken cum grano salis and nimis multum, and 
 individualized. In reference to the latter, an excellent but 
 newer work. Die narhotische Genussmittel und der Mensch, by Dr. 
 Ernst, Fr. v. Bibra (Nurnberg, 1855), contains some excellent 
 communications. But to treat this subject in an exhaustive 
 manner, according to the incentives which more recent works 
 offer for further thought and investigation, would require 
 more than a volume by itself. We will only yet direct atten- 
 tion to the fact that Dr. von Russdorf, in the above-cited 
 work, pronounces against the idea of considering any disease 
 incurable, and also against remedies used as preventives; and 
 the inventing of the Resuscitator gives rise to the hope that, 
 the better this system of treatment is known and recognized, 
 the more certainly will it prove itself a life-prolonger ; ” for, 
 having for years recommended the same system of dietetics 
 and hygiene, which are recognized still more and more as the 
 only correct one ; and that, too, in the light of the latest devel- 
 opments of scientific attainment. 
 
 9 
 
114 — 
 
 NOTEWORTHY OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 1. As soon as the morbid secretions, in a given body, have 
 accumulated to such an extent as to gnaw at those life- 
 strings, — the nerves, — then, generally, such an alteration 
 takes place in the body that the patient is thrown into the 
 greatest excitement by every unpleasant circumstance with 
 which he comes in contact. One inference that we draw from 
 this is, that the patient, if he hopes for a rapid cure after the 
 operation, must keep himself as quiet as possible while under 
 treatment. 
 
 2. In all inflammatory skin diseases and fevers, such as 
 measles, scarlet, nervous, and putrid fevers, as also in cases 
 of croup, etc., let the new method of treatment be at once 
 applied, without any extravagant feelings of tenderness, 
 though it were done nowhere but on the back, in the same 
 manner as prescribed for intermittent fevers; for in these dis- 
 eases the fluids of the body seem to degenerate, with gallop- 
 ing rapidity, every successive hour, — becoming mucous and 
 slimy. This would rapidly crowd and circumscribe the vital 
 functions more and more, with every moment, until, in this 
 desperate struggle, they would have to succumb, — to be fol- 
 lowed by a rapid extinction of the last sparks of vitality in 
 the spinal marrow. 
 
 3. Such as have been siiperflcially cured of intermittent 
 fever by means of China, usually fall victims to dropsy, — the 
 weaker constitutions sooner, the stronger ones later. 
 
 4. It is really a wonder that there are still so many people 
 in tolerable health. While one seems bent upon destroying 
 the citadel of his health by storm, another allows himself to 
 become effeminate ; and when we bear in mind the great vari- 
 ety of vicious medications and dietetics that are in vogue, 
 then nothing would be more natural than that one organism 
 should become susceptible for one, and the next for another 
 
— 115 — 
 
 form of disease. The causes, therefore, that produce nervous 
 fever in one, will manifest themselves as putrid fevers, etc., in 
 others. 
 
 The very limited control we have over the venders of 
 spirituous drinks, which makes it possible for them to sell 
 adulterated and otherwise inferior and deleterious beverages, 
 is undoubtedly one of the causes why, in our day, so much 
 insanity and delirium prevails. 
 
 5. We are indissolubly connected with the atmosphere, 
 and the vitalizing sunlight. No one has a more lively sensa- 
 tion of this than he who has even the smallest degree of mor- 
 bid matter in his body. There are days when the air becomes 
 so dense and heavy that it presses the cold sweat from those 
 even who are in apparent good health. The equinoctial sea- 
 son is just the time during which every living creature real- 
 izes this. It is the time, too, from which most cases of disease 
 and death are dated. The natural influence is such that 
 every one should use his best endeavors to protect himself, in 
 a proper manner, against all atmospheric changes. 
 
 6. Those liable to rheumatism should, if possible, during 
 the prevalence of north or northeast winds, keep indoors. 
 
 7. If we compare the human body to a steam engine, the 
 stomach will correspond to the boiler, from which every part 
 of the machine receives nourishment, and the regular activity 
 of the whole is maintained. The nervous center, however, 
 the brain and spinal marrow, constitute the fire below the 
 boiler; the governing, regulating, and impulse-imparting 
 principle — in short — Life. If the fire loses in vigor, then 
 the machine works lethargically, slower, and stagnatingly ; if 
 it becomes too feeble, it will stand still. The same is true 
 with regard to the human mechanism, if anything disturbs 
 and interrupts the nervous centers, in their functions. 
 
 8. The prime of life is over with the fiftieth year — in 
 southern climates, much earlier. The object must then be to 
 maintain and cultivate what we then have, and for this pur- 
 pose the Resuscitator will answer an excellent purpose. 
 
 9. Each age has its special so-called genius of disease ; 
 ours is the nervous. Almost all diseases, of our day, ulti- 
 mately assume a nervous form. And this is not hard to 
 
— 116 
 
 understand. Rheumatism is changed into nervous disorder; 
 and as physicians do not know how to cure the former, we 
 naturally meet with the latter everywhere. Gradually the 
 human race becomes more and more disposed toward it, and 
 eventually every disease takes a nervous turn. In former 
 times, while men lived more in accordance with nature, and 
 took very little or no medicine, it was better. After the gen- 
 eral use of this Method of Cure — the efficient, only one for 
 rheumatic-nervous disorders — we are fully persuaded that, in 
 some years hence, these disorders will be as rare as formerly; 
 and that a much milder ruler will sway his scepter over the 
 dominion of disease. 
 
 10. As we have a remedy to offer against rheumatism and 
 gout, while the medical profession is notoriously without one, 
 therefore it is evidently the interest of every one to see to it 
 that he is not led by the nose by the teachings of the materia 
 medica of the day, but rather at once resort to this remedy. 
 The unnatural medicaments that are so freely taken will 
 frequently generate medicinal diseases; but even where this 
 is not the case, these medicaments are nearly always removed 
 from the body with much greater difficulty than the original 
 diseases themselves. This is a point of the highest import- 
 ance, and, therefore, I cannot too frequently reiterate it. 
 
 11. Many physicians take much pride in the fact of using 
 the microscope in making their diagnoses. But, however 
 great the power of this instrument may be to entertain us in 
 examining the more subtile works of the Lord, just so much is 
 it calculated to confuse us if we attempt to make use of it in 
 judging of disease. Into the interior mysteries of nature no 
 created eye will be able to penetrate, after all. This should 
 be borne in mind, and the learned nonsense of the day will 
 be less liable to mislead us. 
 
 12. Physicians that are opposed to this Method of Cure, 
 without taking the trouble to examine its claims, may be 
 regarded as misanthropists. The public will treat them with 
 simple justice, by letting them severely alone, and allow them 
 to try their medical skill in healing themselves. \ 
 
 13. Tlie head of a common house-fly, rolled into a little pill 
 of bread and takcm in the morning before breakfast, will pro- 
 
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 duce purging in those not too much accustomed to taking 
 medicines. 
 
 14. How long did it take the world to discover that hem- 
 lock, belladonna, etc., are poisons? At once did our learned 
 quacks make so-called remedies of them ! ! ! Mankind, 
 reflect ! ! ! 
 
 15. Poisons will serve very well to make the healthy sick, 
 but not the sick healthy. Poisons will remain poisons, and 
 will never do any good but to destroy vermin ! 
 
 16. During the period immediately following recovery 
 from disease special care should be taken to avoid all that is 
 injurious, for a relapse is at such times much easier than that 
 a well person should become suddenly ill. 
 
 17. The smallest piece of black bread is very often of more 
 value than the most expensive remedy found in the apothe- 
 cary. 
 
 18. Nature is the index to all that is really valuable. 
 
 HINTS ON HYGIENE 
 
 CONCERNING ARTICLES OF DIET, AIR, EXERCISE, 
 AND SLEEP. 
 
 Articles of Diet as Disease-producing Agencies. The character 
 of man’s food has very much to do in determining the condi- 
 tion of his body. They will serve either to maintain his 
 fluids in a smooth, easy-flowing condition, or will thicken 
 them and burden it Avith all manner of acridities. A radical 
 change in diet is capable of bringing about an entire readjust- 
 ment of the constitution of man, and an unhealthy diet, and 
 mistakes in it, are among the most prolific causes of a great 
 variety of diseases. It is, therefore, of great importance for 
 those in good health to pay attention to the business of nutri- 
 
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 tion, and for the sick it is of transcendent importance. Not 
 only can a false diet produce or aggravate disease, but, on the 
 other hand, a healthy and well-regulated diet is often suflS- 
 cient to restore health perfectl5^ Such a treatment for the 
 cure of diseases has this immense advantage, that, even if it 
 does not proceed very rapidly, it will be more permanent than 
 when its accomplishment is sought by the use of drug reme- 
 dies ; and even in the latter case the most careful diet cannot 
 be dispensed with. 
 
 It is of course impossible to describe the character of each 
 article of diet, or the circumstances under which it might be 
 useful or injurious. Our purpose will be entirely served if we 
 can but point out the mistakes that are made in eating and 
 drinking, and learn of their injurious effects. 
 
 To eat either too much or too little is both wrong. Let 
 all follow the voice of nature, for she will faithfully inform all 
 living beings when they have enough, and will also indicate, 
 by means of awakening hunger or thirst, when more is needed. 
 Among all rules to be observed concerning the quantity of 
 nourishment to be taken, temperance stands at the very head. 
 
 All stale or spoiled articles of food are injurious, and 
 intentional adulteration of them is the most despicable crime. 
 
 It is not desirable to keep articles of food too long on 
 hand; for all of them, whether of vegetable or animal deri- 
 vation, are subject to rapid decomposition and injurious 
 changes. 
 
 Better eat no meat at all than to eat such as comes of dis- 
 eased or fallen cattle. Fatted cattle from the stalls will never 
 furnish healthy nutrition, and must therefore be declared as 
 unwholesome. The inflation of meat, in order to give it a 
 better appearance, is, to say the least, always a most disgust- 
 ing practice, and should not be tolerated. 
 
 Strongly salted or pickled articles of diet, used freely for a 
 long time in succession, will injure the appetite, weaken the 
 digestion, and produce scurvy and hypochondria. To eat a 
 great variety of meats at one time is not good ; to eat but one 
 kind of meat in twenty-four hours will produce the best 
 results. If our diet were composed mostly of milk or vegeta- 
 ble productions, we should hear far less of scourging, nervous 
 
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 or putrid fevers. Raw plants, fruits, &c., are desirable for 
 adults, not for infants. 
 
 Too watery and thin a diet is not good ; it debilitates the 
 body. 
 
 Tea, taken too hot, or too freely, will produce nervous 
 weakness; and, taken in the morning, will weaken the stom- 
 ach and rob us of appetite. 
 
 Drinking too little will have a tendency to thicken the 
 fluids, make them acrid, and generate fevers and scurvy. 
 
 The superfine art of cooking, which, by its mixing up of 
 all sorts of otherwise wholesome food, prepares an insidious 
 poison, is a great superfluity in this world. A healthy person 
 needs things simply boiled or roasted, and the invalid does 
 not need a cook at all. Such condiments as pickled peppers, 
 cucumbers, &c., irritate the stomach into eating more than 
 needed, and are alwaj^s dispensable. 
 
 Water is the best drink. If it is to be used in cooking as 
 well as to drink, it must not be murky, must form a foam if 
 used with soap, must not leave washed clothes }^ellow, and 
 must be perfectly inodorous and tasteless. Warm water pro- 
 duces a pressure and heaviness in the stomach, and weakens 
 it. Tepid water, if not used to it, will produce nausea and 
 vomiting. Cold water, but by no means ice water, is the 
 most serviceable drink in days of sickness or health, except 
 in cases of throat troubles, and not in too great a quantity; 
 for if more of it is drank than is fitted to the digestive powers 
 of the stomach at the time, then, instead of being benefitted, 
 the greatest injury will result. 
 
 To be forever inveighing against the use of all spirituous 
 drinks is ridiculous, for no one cares for it ; nor does it injure 
 any one in good health ; only its abuse by taking immoderate 
 quantities has evil results. If such drinks are pure and unadul- 
 terated, if they have thoroughly been fermented and ripened 
 by age, and if they are not otherwise spoiled, then, against 
 their moderate use no objection can be made. Wines that are 
 too young will spoil the stomach, create headaches, and will 
 soon intoxicate. Adulterated wines will produce gout, dropsy 
 of the chest, and palsy. Beer, taken immoderately, produces 
 palsy or gout much sooner than wine, and beer-drinking will 
 
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 disturb digestion much more than wine-drinking. Alcohol, 
 in whatever it may be contained, will always produce the 
 effect of a narcotic poison when taken immoderately, and may 
 then produce death suddenly by apoplexy. Drunkenness pro- 
 duced by whisky, if not so violent as to produce death at once, 
 will produce vomiting, stupefying sleep, followed by violent 
 headache. The number of diseases and afflictions are not a 
 few to which habitual drunkards at best fall victims. At first 
 the stomach suffers. They lose all appetite, and also the 
 power of digestion. Every morning they have a feeling of 
 nausea and vomiting, and a burning sensation in the stomach. 
 Later, the entire nervous system becomes shattered, followed 
 by delirium tremens, epilepsy, stupidity, and nervous paraly- 
 sis. Pneumonia is not uncommon in drunkards, from which 
 pulmonary consumption often follows. Those, especially, who 
 become addicted to whisky-drinking in youth, are apt to fall 
 victims to this disease, but older ones often fare no better. If 
 whisky-drinkers are attacked by any fever, they are hard to 
 save. The fearful tortures of dropsy of the chest usually make 
 an end of the wretched and despised life of the drunkard. 
 
 As bread is one of the principal articles of our food, we 
 cannot devote too much attention to securing it good and 
 wholesome. Good bread must be neither too coarse and black, 
 nor too fine. Bread that has been fermenting too long becomes 
 sour, and produces diarrhoea ; formented too little, or not at all, 
 it is also to be rejected, for, in such cases, streaks of raw dough 
 will still be found in it ; but, fresh, or still warm, bread, in par- 
 ticular, which is the favorite of so many, is to be avoided as 
 highly injurious and indigestible. Bread prepared simply 
 with water is the best. Set in milk, it is apt to produce flatu- 
 lency. 
 
 Art has discovered a way for preparing various bake- 
 meats with spices and various other ingredients, which are 
 designed more to tickle the palate than to conduce to health. 
 The more of fat, or almonds, and the like, are contained in 
 such pastries, the more injurious to the stomach. 
 
 To mention, here, the peculiarities of all the different 
 kinds of food, is superfluous. Experience will best teach any 
 one, and better than all descriptions, what is adapted to his 
 
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 nature, or otherwise. Yet I do not wish to say with this that 
 everyone should eat and drink just what he likes; on the 
 contrary, I would advise the careful observance of the follow- 
 ing dietetic directions, for the sensible enjoyment of the good 
 gifts of nature must be freed, on the one hand, from too great 
 an anxiety, as well as too frivolous confidence on the other. 
 
 Man is designed to subsist on a mixed diet, taken from 
 both the animal and vegetable world. To confine his diet to 
 either the one or the other will prove detrimental. The suck- 
 ing infant needs, indeed, at first, a purely animal milk diet, 
 and the attempts to feed him upon vegetable productions 
 have invariably proved very injurious. In a few months, 
 however, the infant will endure a vegetable, along with a milk 
 diet, remarkably well. During the first years of his life, up to 
 the years of a young man or woman, a vegetable diet should 
 predominate over the meat diet ; in adults, however, this rule 
 should be reversed. 
 
 Those of a feeble or spongy disposition of body should 
 shun all insipid or indigestible food. Such should be favored 
 with a highly-nutritious diet, and take much exercise in the 
 open air. 
 
 Those of a plethoric habit should avoid all that is too 
 rich, nutritious, or intoxicating, such as wine, beer, &c. 
 
 Corpulent persons must not eat much of farinaceous or 
 mucilaginous articles, but radishes, garlick, spices, and all 
 such things as will promote transpiration or urinal secretions, 
 will be of service to them. Lean persons must pursue an 
 opposite course. 
 
 Those that suffer from acidity of the stomach must eat 
 sparingly of vegetable, but more freely of animal diet. Those, 
 however, who are suffering from acrid or rancid eructations, 
 must confine themselves to an acidulous vegetable diet. 
 
 Patients who are suffering from weakness of the stomach, 
 and all feeble persons, and especially those that are conva- 
 lescing from an attack of sickness, should eat once a day of 
 very finely-chopped raw beef, which is free of all fat and sin- 
 ews, and that is seasoned simply with salt and pepper, or with 
 onions, to the taste of the patient. 
 
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 This is an article of diet which even those who can keep 
 nothing else upon their stomachs may eat with confidence* 
 For this purpose, let the most tender beef be taken, carefully 
 separate all fat and all tendons, and then cut or hack it as 
 fine as possible, and season it as above mentioned, but with 
 onions only if the patient likes them. It may be salted pretty 
 freely, for the salt and pepper are all that will make it pala- 
 table. It will soon be found how the patient likes it best. 
 Meat thus prepared may be kept, even in Summer, for at least 
 two days, in a cool cellar, quite fresh. To mix a little water 
 with it will make the meat easier to cut. 
 
 Those subjected to attacks of the gout, or weakness of the 
 nerves, hysterics, or hypochondria, must avoid everything 
 that produces flatulency, all that is insipid, hard to digest, 
 highly seasoned, smoked, or productive of acid. Their food 
 must be meager, light, not of a heating (incalescent) nor consti- 
 pating nature. 
 
 The food of man must be adapted not only to his age and 
 constitution, but also to his occupation. Persons of a seden- 
 tary life, especially if combined with mental exertions, the 
 diet must be more sparing and easier of digestion than with 
 the farmer. What will do the former good, and give him 
 strength and vigor, will be starvation to the latter. 
 
 Too uniform a diet is not good. To partake of only one 
 thing, over and over, is detrimental. Nature itself teaches us 
 this by the great and manifold variety she offers us as food, 
 and by the great difference of tastes and desires which have 
 been implanted within us. 
 
 Also the predispositions to disease, whether it has been 
 brought about by our manner of life, or is hereditary, must be 
 regarded in the selection of our food with the greatest care. 
 Only in this manner can the consumptive, the scrofulously 
 inclined, gouty patient, or those predisposed to stone in the 
 bladder, escape all these diseases. He must follow the indica- 
 tions that nature gives respecting his diet. If he fails to do 
 this, he will not escape his sad fate by any other means. But 
 those, also, who are suffering from any kind of periodical dis- 
 ease, such as gout, hemorrhoids, epilepsy, &c., can never be 
 too careful, during the intervals of comparative health, in 
 
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 watching their diet, and make a proper selection of what they 
 should eat or drink, if they would not shorten the healthy 
 intervals, and make the recurring attack more stormy and 
 dangerous. 
 
 Overloading of the stomach, or long fasts, especially when 
 the latter is resorted to for the purpose of avoiding the bad 
 consequences of a debauch, will always injure the digestive 
 powers. But it is alike injurious not to have one^s meals reg- 
 ularly at a given time. To do long without food is injurious 
 for young people, but in those of advanced age it may really 
 become dangerous to life. It greatly increases the difficulties 
 of flatulency, from which many suffer already ; and it is often 
 observable that people are afflicted with vertigo, or even faint- 
 ing spells, which are attributable only to an empty stomach,, 
 for a glass wine, or piece of bread, or any other substantial 
 food, is sure to prevent such an attack. 
 
 To get along with a few cups of coffee or tea and a piece 
 of wheat .bread, until dinner, is also injurious to many. It 
 weakens the appetite, vitiates the fluids, and fills the stomach 
 and intestines with gas. In advanced age this may often be 
 the cause of sudden death. Therefore, especially should those 
 who eat late dinners be sure to eat hearty breakfasts. 
 
 Usually a light breakfast and a heavy supper is taken. 
 The contrary would be more conducive to health. If little is 
 eaten in the evening, and persons retire early and rise in good 
 time in the morning, a good, hearty breakfast will be both 
 acceptable and useful. 
 
 Every sudden change of any importance, in diet, is dan- 
 gerous. What the stomach has always been accustomed to 
 digest, though less wholesome, perhaps, will after all do him 
 more good than a strange and unusual, though generally 
 more wholesome, diet. If the force of external circumstances 
 makes such a change necessary, then it should be made as 
 gradual as possible. The rapid transition from a simple, mea- 
 ger diet, to a sumptuous table, is just as dangerous as if the 
 contrary were the case. The entire internal arrangement of 
 our body is thus brought into disorder, which may easily be 
 followed b}" the direst consequences. 
 
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 Although order and regularity are to be most urgently 
 recommended in our diet, yet a slight excess in this may be 
 committed with impunity, if not repeated too often. No one 
 can always avoid it, and those who cling with the greatest 
 anxiety and concern to their regularly-prescribed manner of 
 life will then be most injuriously affected if, for an}^ cause, 
 they must vary from it. Constantly keeping in view a proper 
 regard for moderation, it is advisable, therefore, not always to 
 adhere too tenaciously to any regular course, but indulge, from 
 time to time, in a slight deviation from a too monotonous 
 manner of life. 
 
 Concerning Air. A very frequent cause of disease, and one 
 that is still regarded too little, is impure air. We do not 
 speak here of such air as will produce strangulation by its 
 impurity, resulting in sudden death. But we are about to 
 speak of those impurities in this fountain of life, which, 
 though in a slower and perhaps hardly perceptible manner, 
 yet no less certainly undermine health. 
 
 First of all we say that, whatever produces too great a 
 change in the general character of our common air, will prove 
 detrimental to us. To this class belongs too great a heat, cold or 
 moisture. Too warm a temperature wnll increase, and at the 
 same time vitiate the secretions of bile, and gives to the blood 
 a dissolved consistency, and from this arise liver and bilious 
 diseases of all kinds, and a variety of fevers. The dysentery, 
 cholera morbus (not the Asiatic), &c. Cold air is productive 
 of rheumatic and catarrhal diseases, and, if very severe, then 
 follow throat and pulmonary inflammations. Too great a 
 degree of moisture in the air will rob the body of its tenacity, 
 is especially injurious to the feeble, flabby constitutions, and 
 produces a general conglutination of the fluids, bringing in its 
 train pituitous and intermittent fevers, and predisposes to 
 dropsy. The air on mountains is purer than the air in the 
 valleys, or lowlands ; but feeble persons, that are predisposed 
 to inflammation of the lungs, hence, in tuberculosis and pre- 
 disposed persons to pulmonary consumption, must not venture 
 upon it. For such it is much too exciting and irritative. 
 
 The congregating of many persons in one room, where 
 fresh air has not ready access, soon vitiates the air very much, 
 
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 and then affects injuriously, especially persons of weak nerves, 
 or excitable persons, who, for this reason, often feel very badly 
 in overcrowded churches, school houses, or sociables, even to 
 fainting at times. The air is the more thoroughly vitiated in 
 such places, if, in addition, many lights are burning, — aiding 
 to consume the vitalizing oxygen. 
 
 Any residence, to which the air has not free access, is 
 unhealthy, and should never be chosen. As the poor of the 
 large cities are generally forced to resort to such holes and cor- 
 ners, the result is that such places are usually also, the hot- 
 beds of all contagious diseases. The lower-air strata of cities, 
 in particular, are those ever pregnant with all manner of 
 filthy exhalations and vapors, and only the upper sheets of air 
 are purer and fit to breathe. For this reason all dwellings, 
 and especially all dormitories on the level ground, are not as 
 healthy as those over the first story. In very populous cities, 
 or in places in close proximity to water, the third story must 
 bo selected to secure the advantages of pure air to breathe in 
 sleeping. The more airy a house is, the healthier it is as a 
 residence. If it is perpetuall}^ locked and carefully closed up, 
 which is apt to be the case in Winter, the air cannot be reno- 
 vated, as it should, and hence it is not conducive to good 
 health. The rooms should all be aired, and the chambers, 
 especially, should be left with the windows open during the 
 day. There are many that have splendid homes, but seem to 
 think, from the selection they make, that the smallest and 
 most confined apartments are good enough to sleep in. But 
 they make a great mistake in this, for bed-rooms should never 
 be deprived of air and sunlight, and should always be high, 
 airy, and large enough. The frequent airing of the bed- 
 clothes is no less essential to the preservation of good health. 
 But, w^hile a healthy house should be airy and dry, yet it 
 should never be liable to air-drafts. Damp walls in a room, 
 stone floors, and badly-closing doors and windows, are always 
 detrimental. If leathern boots and shoes, in a bed-room, 
 become covered with green mold, after standing a short time, 
 it proves that there is too much dampness there, and, there- 
 fore unfit to sleep in. For the denizens of the city, it is a 
 great advantage to have Summer residences, for nothing can 
 
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 be of more advantage to their health than to spend the night, 
 at least, where they can enjoy the pure, unadulterated air. It 
 most surely protects them against very many evils. 
 
 Those of weak nerves, consumptives, asthmatics, etc., and 
 especially all hypochondriacs, should avoid, as much as possi- 
 ble, a residence in large cities. Indeed, it has often been 
 observed that such unfortunates, whose sufferings it seemed 
 nothing could relieve, were restored to joyous health of body 
 and mind simply by moving to the country and enjoying its 
 invigorating atmosphere. The same may be said for all ner- 
 vous, hysterical, or spasmodically-inclined ladies. Persons, 
 however, whose circumstances will not permit them to enjoy a 
 prolonged stay in the country, and thus enjoy the country air, 
 should aim at least to take as much exercise in the open air 
 as possible, and try to have their homes as airy, and the air as 
 free of all impurities, as possible. 
 
 To surround country houses with a dense planting of 
 shade trees is not advisable, for it precludes the free access of 
 air, and makes them damp, or wet and cold, and, therefore, 
 unhealthy. Doubly injurious are such forest when they sur- 
 round dwellings on low-level ground. Narrow valleys are 
 also unhealthy as places of residence, especially if they run 
 from north to south ; for in such proximity there is an almost 
 constant draft of air impregnated with poisonous vapors, and 
 these, at times, are locked up, as it were, in such defiles. The 
 proximity of ponds of stagnant water and swamp must be 
 avoided if possible, for from them are developed miasmatic 
 vapors that poison the atmosphere, and generate all sorts of 
 dangerous and contagious diseases. Those, however, who are 
 compelled by circumstances to live in such places, must strive 
 at least to have their homes as dry as possible, must live on a 
 good, substantial diet, and in all respects observe the greatest 
 cleanliness. 
 
 Everything odorous vitiates the air, perfumes not ex- 
 cepted; but many inodorous things are nevertheless injurious 
 to the life and health of mankind. Everything of obnoxious 
 odors should, therefore, be removed from the rooms we occupy, 
 and, especially from our sleeping apartments, should all odor- 
 ous flowers or plants be removed. Particularly injurious are 
 
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 the yellow and white flowering bulbous plants, but the odor of 
 pinks, violets, or bean blossoms, when inhaled during sleep in 
 close chambers, may give rise to fits of dizziness, stupor, and 
 even death itself. A particularly injurious eflect from these 
 odors is realized, it is true, only by weak-nerved girls and 
 ladies, or by hypochondriasts. 
 
 To the inodorous but still very injurious gases that vitiate 
 the air of our rooms belong coal gases emanating from hard, but 
 especially from oak wood, from the latter of which, experience 
 has proved, most of the cases of suffocation arise. To avoid all 
 such calamitous accidents, great care should be taken that, 
 when such fuel is used, the stoves and chimneys have a good 
 draft, and' that, as long as there are still burning, live coals, 
 the drafts are not shut off Stone-coal vapors, which are odor- 
 ous, however, and are, therefore, readily perceptible, are still 
 more pernicious, and require still greater care. It is a bad 
 practice, when wood is used, to lay it on or behind the stove 
 to dry ; the gas that is emitted from the wood, as it becomes 
 heated, is also pernicious. The use of coal-pans, of which 
 some women are so fond, will make them pale, produces mucil- 
 aginous flow, and, in closed-up chambers, may result in death 
 by suffocation. 
 
 Fermenting bread-dough, as well as sour-crout, pickled 
 cucumbers, or beer barrels, are all injurious to keep in a 
 dwelling-room.. It is equally detrimental to occupy rooms 
 which have just been painted with turpentine, or other oil- 
 prepared colors or finish. 
 
 If it is so essential for the health}^ person to enjoy the 
 fresh, pure air, how much more is the poor invalid in need of 
 it, and yet how rarely is this blessing vouchsafed to them. 
 The prejudice is entirely too common that the sick one must 
 be kept as warm as possible, and all access of fresh air to the 
 chamber must be excluded ; and hence it is that persons com- 
 ing from the outside into a sick chamber are about ready to 
 faint on breathing the poor, vitiated air of the sick-room. 
 That such air will not contribute to the restoration of the 
 invalid is easily understood. More strengthening and exhila- 
 rating than all medicine is the pure, fresh air, to the poor suf- 
 ferer. Temperature adopted for a sick chamber is 17° R. or 
 
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 70 ® Pah. It is true, indeed, that the daily ventilations and 
 airings of the sick-room must be done with great caution, lest 
 a draft of air should strike the sufferer. But, besides, what- 
 ever could vitiate, or render impure, the air of the sick-room, 
 must be removed at once. 
 
 Persons of weak lungs, even consumptives, will realize 
 relief, if not strength, from the odor of fresh-plowed fields, or 
 the ammonial air of cow-stables. 
 
 Concerning Exercise. That it is appointed unto man that 
 he should eat his bread by the sweat of his brow is surely no 
 curse, for, as a compensation, he realizes good health and a 
 joyous vitality. It was not without purpose that kind nature 
 endowed us with an impulse for exercise or activity. It is 
 just as necessary to our preservation as food. Want of activity 
 will result in general torpor of the body, and will open the 
 doors to an invading army of diseases. The digestion will 
 become weak, the preparation of the blood defective, the secre- 
 tions lethargic and imperfect, and liver, kidney, and other 
 pelvic diseases, are the resulting consequence. It is only by 
 exercising our bodily functions that we are protected from 
 these; and this, too, is the only way to avert the sad conse- 
 quences of an indolent habit. Habitual sitting in rooms will 
 result in weak, sensitive nerves ; while those who take abun- 
 dant exercise in the open air hardly know what nervous 
 weakness means, and escape all the tortures of hysteria and 
 hypochondria nearly always. • 
 
 Without a free cutaneous transpiration, no man can enjoy 
 good health ; but where bodily activity is wanting, this tran- 
 spiration will very soon be disturbed, from which gout, rheu- 
 matism, and other abnormal conditions will invariably arise. 
 
 Indolence and inactivity may very easily become a habit, 
 and the least of exercise will then be undertaken only with 
 the greatest aversion, will prove very burdensome, and possi- 
 bly only after the greatest of efibrts are made, as is so fre- 
 quently the case with those affected by hypochondria, whose 
 suffering is often incurable from this simple cause alone. 
 Hence we should make it our inviolable law to neglect exer- 
 cise just as little as we would neglect food or drink, and such 
 exercise should always be taken, if possible, in the open air. 
 
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 But no time of day is better adapted to this than the early 
 morning, by which means, too, the effeminating practice of 
 lying too long in the warm bed, in the morning, is best coun- 
 teracted. Such early exercise will cheer the spirit, wake up* 
 the appetite, and invigorate the entire body. 
 
 The indolent man will constantly complain of uneasiness’ 
 in the stomach, of flatulency, of indigestion, &c. These ail- 
 ments are only paving the way for much more serious afflic- 
 tions. To cure these, plenty of vigorous exercise is absolutely 
 essential, but the indolence of the sick man will usually make 
 it impossible to cure him by this means. 
 
 The best kind of exercise is a brisk walk in the open air. 
 Riding is usually unsatisfactory, which those should espe- 
 cially heed who seem to think it unsuitable for rich people to 
 go afoot. If the room cannot be left, then refuge must be 
 taken to all sorts of bodily exercises, and the playing at bill- 
 iards, ball, ten-pins, must then be the substitute for walks in 
 the open air. Digging, sawing of wood, planing, etc., are also 
 to be recommended as exercise, but care must be taken that 
 the exertion and resultant weariness do not become too 
 great — a fact to be observed, however, in all kinds of exercise. 
 Under a proper supervision and guidance, the Turner or 
 swimming exercises are the best adapted for adults, youths, or 
 children, to preserve health, develop and harden the body, 
 cure disease in some cases, and avert a predisposition for it. 
 In cases of children, in which a tendency appears to become 
 distorted, which is nearly always caused by some local weak- 
 ness of the parts, nothing better can be done, either to cure or 
 prevent it, than the Turner exercises and swimming; and it 
 is by the creditable example which some of. the higher classes 
 of ladies are giving us, that the prejudices against these exer- 
 cises for ladies are gradually disappearing. Nothing, there- 
 fore, is more reprovable than the advice of those who would 
 insist upon confining children or young persons, in which a 
 distorting tendency manifests itself, to a bed for weeks or 
 months, for this can only serve to weaken the body still more, 
 and thus aggravate the evil and its cause, instead of curing it. 
 
 In conclusion of this subject, let the following sentiment 
 be taken to heart. Indolence and immorality always go hand 
 
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 in hand ; and idleness leads the imagination into dangerous 
 by-paths. 
 
 Concerning Sleep. The subject of sleep, also, is deserving 
 of our attention. Too little sleep will weaken and exhaust 
 the nervous force ; too much sleep produces stupidity, makes 
 the head flabby, and predisposes to apoplexy and paralysis. 
 Therefore, in this respect, also, we must be careful not to 
 depart from the golden mean, the only difficulty being to hit 
 upon the proper measure, in sleep, which could be laid down 
 as a rule. The child needs more sleep than the adult, the 
 laborer more than the idler, and the dissipating more than 
 the temperate man. But how much time is needed for each 
 of these is very hard to say. Some feel refreshed and strong 
 enough after a sleep of flve to six hours, while another needs 
 not less than eight to ten hours. 
 
 Children should be allowed to sleep as long as they please, 
 and, for adults, six to seven hours, and never more than eight 
 hours will be required. Those that sleep longer do not really 
 sleep at last. They are lying in a half-sleeping, half-wakeful 
 state, throw themselves about in their beds, slumber lightly 
 only toward morning, and then dream or doze away their 
 precious time to nine o’clock in the morning. Whoever 
 wishes to sleep well must leave his bed early in the morning. 
 Nature has designed night for sleep; to change night into day, 
 and day into night, as is the custom by a large portion of the 
 higher classes, is contrary to her immutable laws, and the 
 penalty does not fail to come in time ; and hence it is that 
 many a young life has fallen a victim to this unnatural 
 custom. 
 
 In order to sleep well, and be strengthened by it, proper 
 exercise must be taken in the open air ; strong coffee or tea 
 must be avoided, a light supper must be taken, and, above all, 
 a calm, easy mind, must be possessed. These are the best of 
 all opiates. 
 
 In reference to the rule requiring a light supper to secure 
 sound sleep, a am aware that different opinions prevail, but 
 exceptions to this rule cannot be relied on to prove the desira- 
 bility of a hearty supper to secure sound sleep. The excep- 
 tions are usually such only as have become habituated to this 
 
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 mode of life, and it has, therefore, become a necessity to them. 
 As a rule, however, a heavy supper will always create an 
 uneasy, restless, and unrefreshing sleep, accompanied with 
 pressure in the stomach, fearful dreams, nightmare, etc. 
 
 Sleep obtained before the hours of midnight is usually 
 regarded as the most strengthening. Whether this is really 
 so, or whether it is simply a matter of habit, cannot be stated 
 wdth positiveness; it appears, however, that there must be 
 truth in it, for, just as the first hours of the morning are evi- 
 dently best adapted for activity, so, in like manner, may we 
 reason that the first hours of sleep, after the fatigue of the 
 day, are most conducive to the recuperation of strength. 
 
 Be sure to sleep soundly! This is the golden rule of 
 health and longevity, for what the body is taxed with, of 
 vital force, through the day, the sleep of night will again 
 kindly restore. 
 
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 HOW THE EYE MAY BE PRESERVED IN 
 HEALTH, AND ITS DISEASES AVOIDED. 
 
 It is easier to prevent disease than to cure it. This gen- 
 erally-received truism is particularly applicable to diseases of 
 the Eye. Hundreds of disorders of the Eye arise from a want 
 of knowledge respecting the nurture and treatment of the 
 Eye. Numberless unfortunate ones, who have been partially 
 or entirely deprived of the sense of vision, are themselves to 
 blame. Instruction, therefore, in this direction, seems to be a 
 special necessity. It should be given to the children at 
 school, by the preacher to his congregation, but especially by 
 the physician, as far as his influence extends, and much mis- 
 ery and unhappiness would be prevented. But in a work 
 like this, treating of the Eye and its diseases, such instruc- 
 tions can be least of all dispensed with, and I will endeavor, 
 therefore, in this important chapter, and in a manner as intel- 
 ligible as possible, to give directions how to preserve, in its 
 full vigor and health, this noblest of all organs of sensation. 
 But, not to discourage any one, I will not prescribe too many 
 minute rules. Would to God that the following most import- 
 ant, if no more, were everywhere conscientiously observed! 
 
 First, we come to speak of what is, alas ! in our day, the 
 most general affection of the Eye, namely, near-sightedness. 
 I think it would hardly be too much to say, that, after deduct- 
 ing tlie formers as a class, almost one-half of the men in civ- 
 ilized countries are suffering from this affliction. We need 
 only take a position on any of the thoroughfares of our cities, 
 
133 — 
 
 and we shall soon perceive the sad fact that a very large pro- 
 portion of the young people that pass by us have their noses 
 bestridden with spectacles, or else have a lorgnette dangling 
 from their button-holes. And oh ! the height of folly ! many 
 of them imagine that it adds to their appearance, — that they 
 look the nobler ’’ for it. But, in the Eyes of a sensible man, 
 such an eye-crutch has no beauty. 
 
 Let no one suppose that my zeal is here enkindled against 
 an unmerited evil, or against a pure misfortune. I roundly 
 assert that near-sightedness is, in most cases, either know- 
 ingly or ignorantly, self -induced / While the very toys we 
 give to our children are held right before the Eyes of the 
 infant, — the children at school have their heads quite close to 
 their books while reading or writing, — and while young peo- 
 ple generally bring the Eyes too close to the paper when read- 
 ing or writing, — and folly induces person to wear spectacles 
 or an eye-glass, — need we wonder that near-sightedness is the 
 common result? If we accustom ourselves to examine every- 
 thing in closest proximity to the Eyes, then the result will 
 naturally be that the refractory bodies of the Eye assume a 
 position that enables the Eye to see the objects at this dimin- 
 ished distance. This position, however, on account of this 
 same pernicious custom, soon becomes a permanent one, and 
 far-sighted vision, i. e., normal vision, soon becomes impos- 
 sible. 
 
 From this we deduce the following rules : 
 
 Let every one guard, sedulously, against each and all of 
 the causes that have been named as productive of near- 
 sightedness. 
 
 If near-sightedness has already appeared, then, while 
 young, much may be done to modify it, or remove it alto- 
 gether. To this end, the spectacles should be as sparingly 
 used as possible. The person should often and steadily look 
 at distant objects. In working, always select the greatest 
 possible visual distance, and endeavor to extend it more and 
 more. 
 
 In practicing these rules, much may be accomplished in 
 cases even where short-sightedness is hereditary. But, above 
 all, let no one select too keen an eye-glass for his use, unless 
 
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 all hope is to be relinquished that in later years, by the flat* 
 tening of the cornea, nature itself will correct the evil. 
 
 In many persons suffering from weak or otherwise injured 
 Eyes, the evil has been evoked during the earliest periods of 
 life. K too glaring a light, too sudden a change of tempera- 
 ture, a draft air, dust, smoke, and the like, are injurious to the 
 Eyes even of adult persons, how much more will this be the 
 case with the very tender organs of vision in the new-born 
 infant or nursling. We should endeavor, by all means, to 
 prevent the sun- or candle-light from falling directly into the 
 Eyes of these tender beings. Paralysis of the optic nerve 
 (amaurosis) would very frequently be the sad result. For this 
 reason alone the darkening of the room of a woman during 
 her confinement is desirable ; but not less so, in order to pre- 
 vent the access of smoke, dust, impure drafts of air, and for 
 the preservation of a moderate temperature. Furthermore, 
 care should be taken that nurses and midwives do not carry a 
 nursling child about in the open air, with its face turned 
 upward. Often are we obliged to see, to our great sorrow, how 
 nurslings have been made to look at a burning candle, per- 
 haps in playfulness, or perhaps, also, for the purpose of pacify- 
 ing a little squaller, bringing it nearer to, or further from, its 
 Eyes ; or, perhaps, even made it dance before the child’s Eyes. 
 If, with such treatment, the Eyes of the children remain 
 healthy, it is surely not by the merit of the parents, or those 
 having the care of them. 
 
 Adults, too, should avoid, as much as possible, any sudden 
 transition from bright light to darkness, and from darkness to 
 bright light. But it should be especially remembered, that 
 the light which falls into the Eye from below, or laterally, 
 affects the Eye much more than that coming from above. 
 Very injurious it is, too, to labor by a too dim or too brilliant a 
 light. From these postulates we infer the following, giving 
 them as rules : 
 
 One should endeavor to prevent the full day- or sun-light 
 from falling immediately into the Eye, upon first waking up 
 in the morning. 
 
 No one should look into the sun, nor gaze steadily into 
 the fire, upon the moon, upon a highly-illuminated wall, etc 
 
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 Let the Eyes be protected, — especially those of chil- 
 dren, — by the wearing of a cap or hat provided with a rim of 
 considerable width. 
 
 Endeavor to avoid, as much as possible, the influence of 
 reflecting rays, while walking over the snow-covered ground 
 or highway, on which the sun is shining brilliantly. 
 
 Reading, writing, etc., in the twilight, should be entirely 
 avoided, also in the light of a flickering candle. He that is 
 obliged to work after daylight should make use erf* a lamp, 
 with a shade, and then avoid using those parts where the 
 light is reflected the strongest beneath the shade. 
 
 No one should ever read while in bed. The light is 
 almost always too glaring, or falls obliquely upon the book. 
 Besides this, it is hardly possible to secure an easy position 
 for the Eyes; they must be turned too much either to one side 
 or the other. This puts too hard a strain upon the optic mus- 
 cles, which are worried, and a weakening of them is the conse- 
 quence. 
 
 School-rooms and work-shops should be neither too feebly 
 nor yet too glaringly illuminated. Light should come from 
 the left side only, and more from above than otherwise. 
 
 I could give a number of additional rules touching this 
 point, but the judicious reader will, by observing the forego- 
 ing carefully, undoubtedly discover them himself. But, if 
 only those already given were observed, we might well con- 
 gratulate ourself upon our success, and be satisfied. 
 
 A further source of many of the affections of the Eye is 
 our tarrying in places where smoke, dust, or other irritating 
 fumes are borne upon the atmosphere. Many workmen, espe- 
 cially operatives in factories, cannot avoid this inconvenience ; 
 and, therefore, they cannot expect entirely to escape the inju- 
 rious results caused by such an atmosphere. But they may 
 do much to avert or modify it by frequently allowing their 
 Eyes a short respite, and by bathing and cleansing them 
 freely (though not when heated) in cold but filtered rain- 
 water. In doing this, let a soft linen cloth be used, but it 
 should not be brushed over or rubbed into the eyes; they 
 should simply be bathed wdth it. 
 
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 For the purpose of cooling or cleansing the afflicted Eye, 
 no other fluid should ever be used but water freed from all 
 salts, earthy matter, or other mixtures ; hence, filtered rain- 
 water, or, better yet, distilled water. If it is too cold, a few 
 drops of warm milk may be mixed with it, until it has 
 attained the proper moderate temperature. It should never 
 be applied with a sponge, but always with simply a soft linen 
 rag, and cleanse the Eyes thus by bathing, but not rubbing 
 them, in order to avoid all irritation. 
 
 For weak Eyes, it is better to use a little spirits than 
 milk ; so, also, a little fennel-water is a very gratifying lotion 
 with which to wash out weak Eyes several times a day. 
 
 The more of secretory -substance is secreted, the more 
 importance should be attached to precautionary measures. 
 The secretions once removed must not be allowed again to 
 come in contact with the Eye, and, hence, the rag used should 
 be very frequently exchanged for a clean one. It should also 
 be remembered that this secreted matter is in a high degree 
 contagious, and great care should therefore be taken that 
 nothing of this matter is brought into a sound Eye, either of 
 one’s self or others. 
 
 The diseased Eye should never be bandaged. The press- 
 ure caused by this is extremely injurious, and, in most cases, 
 aggravates the evil very considerably. It should rather be 
 sheltered by a large screen of green, gray, or blue paper, or a 
 loosely-hanging linen cloth ; and, in inflammatory cases, let 
 the patient tarry, if possible, in a darkened room. 
 
 As the organ of vision is so closely and intimately con- 
 nected with the brain, the consequence is that everything, 
 that either directly or indirectly exerts an influence upon 
 the latter, must affect the former also. A mediate effect is 
 produced by any affection of the nervous system. That all 
 joyous impressions must produce an enlivening effect upon 
 the Eyes is recognized in the proverb, “ His Eyes sparkle for 
 joy;” or, “Happiness is beaming from his Eyes,” &c. And 
 every one can discover this fact in his own experience, when 
 he will realize that his glances into the outer world will be 
 far brighter and keener when he is filled with joyous sensa- 
 tions, such as hope and courage, than otherwise. The con- 
 
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 trary effect, however, will be produced by all that depresses, 
 greatly excites, or weakens the nervous system, such as anger, 
 chagrin, sorrow, and anxiety ; and to this class belong, also, 
 all those nerve-exciting, or stupefying medicaments, which 
 consist almost wholly of terrible poisons. And how terrible is 
 the effect of dissipation of every kind, especially of sexual 
 excesses, upon the visual power, is a generally-known fact. 
 And what must we infer? Rules, which we need not here 
 enumerate, for they are taught by teachers and moralists, by 
 the pulpit and the press, by heaven and earth, and yet not 
 sufficiently heeded. An immediately injurious effect is pro- 
 duced upon the brain, and, therefore, upon the Eyes, by what- 
 ever might produce a violent concussion, such as blows or con- 
 tusions on the head, boxing of the ears,’’ etc. ; also the douche^ 
 a favorite remedy, to which, alas! many, and more particularly, 
 hydropath ists, are apt to resort, is to be classed with these. 
 
 Like all other organs, so also must the Eye be recuper- 
 ated by rest after being severely taxed. If it has been act- 
 ively employed through the day, then it must not also be 
 taxed through a large part of the night, the more so as other 
 disadvantages, as mentioned above, are superadded. Let 
 every one, therefore, be sure to take his proper rest at night, 
 if possible ; and, with invigorated vision, as also of the whole 
 organism, more can certainly be accomplished than can be 
 done during the hours needed for sleep. Meanwhile, those 
 who are compelled to use their Eyes very much, as in writing, 
 reading, sewing, knitting, etc., should indulge their Eyes, if 
 but for a few minutes, in rest, during the day. Persons com- 
 pelled to make a living by these methods should give the 
 closer heed to this, as from the continuance of their power of 
 vision their very existence depends. 
 
 In addition to all the causes productive of Eye diseases, 
 we must yet add the principal one, which is the taking of coldsy 
 either local or general colds. Nearly all diseases to which the 
 body is subject are apt to involve the Eyes in sympathy, but 
 none so readily and quickly as colds. A train of Eye diseases 
 follow in their train, and he may regard himself as fortunate, 
 indeed, who escapes with an inflammation. In the preceding 
 part of this book, therefore the most earnest warnings are 
 
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 given respecting the care that should be taken against taking 
 colds, because they are the fruitful source of so many, yea^ 
 of most diseases ; and here the warning is as earnestly 
 repeated. Let all things like air-drafts be avoided; for, if the 
 current rushes directly upon the Eye, an inflammation is 
 almost sure to follow. The same danger exists if the Eyes are 
 washed immediately upon rising in the morning with cold 
 water. It should be deferred for at least half an hour. How 
 injurious it is to keep on wet clothes, and especially to 
 have wet feet, everybody knows. Upon the Eyes this would 
 generally exert a very bad influence, even if other diseases 
 are not incurred. But if such or similar exposures could 
 not be avoided, then let an application of the Resuscitator 
 be at once made over the entire back, and that, too, 
 before any evil effects are felt, and, in most cases, the reac- 
 tion thus produced will eliminate the evil effects produced 
 upon the body, and the anticipated evil effects, be averted. 
 Furthermore, we give expression to our deepest conviction 
 when we say that, like many other, so also those predisposed 
 to affections of the Eye would escape them entirely if every 
 one of them, though they may feel perfectly well at the time, 
 would submit to a course of Treatment with the Resuscitator 
 in Spring and Fall. It would consist but in this, that a lib- 
 eral application be made over the entire back, and, if needed, 
 be repeated, once or twice, at intervals of ten days. Much of 
 injurious matter that has accumulated in the body, much of 
 latent rheumatism, or gouty deposits, etc., would thus be 
 excreted, the nerves be roused to a higher tone, the activity 
 of the skin increased, and the circulation of the blood ener- 
 gized and accelerated, and, just in proportion as the entire 
 organism would be thus cleansed and strengthened, would it 
 be protected against all the evil influences against which 
 none of us are able to protect ourselves entirely. Indirectly, 
 this would also be of great benefit to the organ of vision, 
 because the health of it depends mostly upon the general 
 health of the entire body. Let this suffice. We have done 
 our duty. Now let every reader do his own duty toward him- 
 self, and it will redound to his own good. 
 
SPECIFIC DIRECTIONS. 
 
 We now proceed to the examination of the particular dis- 
 eases of the Eye, and the application of the Resuscitator in 
 special cases. It is in the very nature of things that I cannot 
 be expected to follow the order observed by other writers on 
 optical diseases. These are generally based upon the topo- 
 graphical anatomy of the Eye, but I must select quite a dif- 
 ferent course. In our therapeutic Treatment, it is, in many 
 cases, of no consequence whatever in what portion of the 
 organ the trouble is located, or how it appears to the eye of 
 the observer. Indeed, there are diseases of the Eye, which, 
 according to the popular medical view, are vastly different, 
 but are here treated in the same manner. The most that we 
 shall have to do, in this respect, is to ascertain the greater or 
 less tenacity of the disease, owing to its particular location. 
 We begin, therefore, with the most common disease of the 
 Eye. 
 
 1. INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 OPHTHALMIA. 
 
 An inflammation in general consists in this: that the 
 walls of the capillaries, or smallest blood-vessels, which, nor- 
 mally, exude the necessary structural fluids in a proper quali- 
 tative and (quantitative proportion for the nourishment of the 
 tissues, now expand and become gorged with blood. While 
 such a condition exists, it is perfectly natural that a some- 
 what differently-compounded fluid penetrates in larger quan- 
 tities. This we call perspired exudation. The exudation insin- 
 uates itself between the minutest portions of the tissues, and 
 fills the cavities also, where these exist. Here it forms itself, 
 if the process is prolonged, into abnormal tissues, fibres, cells, 
 or into pus, which latter may finally turn into an ichorous 
 humor. And thus it is tha.t the swellings, false growths, and 
 suppurations, take their rise. 
 
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 The symptoms of inflammation are redness, swelling, 
 local heat, tension, pain. To cure an inflammation, the 
 fluidity of the blood must be restored in the inflamed parts, 
 and the exudations must become resorbable. In what man- 
 ner the Resuscitator accomplishes this, we have alreadj’^ 
 shown. 
 
 The physicians of the present day have an inflammation 
 for every structure of the Eye, viz. : the conjunctiva, the cor- 
 nea, the iris, etc., giving character to each, although they 
 acknowledge that such inflammations rarely confine them- 
 selves to the designated organ. We shall, however, be satis- 
 fied with considering ophthalmia as a general inflammation, 
 and bring it simply under the following heads, which is based 
 in its etiology ; and make such divisions only because on 
 them depends the difference of the treatment. 
 
 (a) CATARRHAL INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Catarrhalis. 
 
 Symptoms. — Twitching, burning pain; a feeling as if sand 
 were in the Eye. The conjunctiva is reddened, frequently 
 with a yellowish line, the blood-vessels in it very distinctly 
 so. The ciliary margins and canthus of the Eye are often of a 
 pale-red color, and somewhat swollen. In the morning, upon 
 waking, the eyelids cohere; and the aversion to light is 
 strongest in the evening. In the beginning, the Eye is dry; 
 but if the disorder abates, then the separation of mucus com- 
 mences. 
 
 Causes. — Colds. It appears in company with catarrh. 
 
 Course. — It may last fourteen days. If neglected, it is 
 very apt to become chronic, and to change into a mucous flux. 
 An early application of the Resuscitator will effectually pre- 
 vent this, and a cure follows generally in from two to four 
 days. 
 
 Therapeutic Treatment. — The Resuscitator is applied in 
 the nape of the neck, and behind the ears, and, in very obsti- 
 nate cases, also on the back. Obviously there is here, as in 
 all subsequent cases, the greatest amount of rest and forbear- 
 ance necessary for the Eye. Let the Eyes be sheltered by a 
 
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 shade worn upon the forehead, and the patient should remain 
 in a warm room. 
 
 (6) RHEUMATIC INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Rheumatica. 
 
 Symptoms. — These are much more violent than in the 
 preceding species. The pain is tearing and stinging, not 
 only in the Eye, but also in the vicinity, — in the head, ears, 
 teeth, etc. The redness is very distinct and strong; fre- 
 quently the cornea becomes turbid, and the pupil is con- 
 tracted by exudated products. On the conjunctiva a peculiar 
 wreath of small veins is perceptible. Every now and then 
 hot tears will overflow the Eye. Aversion to the light is very 
 marked, but also strongest in the evening. 
 
 Causes. — Rheumatism and its causes. 
 
 Course. — Its course is much slower than in the preceding 
 case ; but, with the Resuscitator, it is also curable with per- 
 fect safety, and in a comparatively very short time. 
 
 Therapeutic Treatment. — Application of the Resuscitator 
 over the entire back, on the abdomen, and behind the ears. 
 If, in two or three days, no improvement is perceptible, then 
 one or two slight passages should be made on the temples, 
 
 (c) GOUTY INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Arthretica, 
 
 Symptoms. — A boring and tearing pain, especially in the 
 bones of the orbita. The conjunctiva is dark red, on which 
 veinlets may be traced, running in a serpentine course. 
 About the margin of the cornea a bluish ring may be seen. 
 A white, foamy mucus is segregated, which does not harden, 
 as mucus generally does. Intense antipathy to the light, 
 especially of flames. The powder of vision disturbed. The 
 pupil may be contracted or expanded, or even distorted, to 
 assume an oval shape. 
 
 Causes. — Gout and its causes. A cold is often the immedi- 
 ate inducing cause to the development of this disease; gener- 
 ally in persons of advanced years. 
 
 Course. — Long and often-repeated attacks of the gout, 
 podagra, or chiragra, generally precede it. Then follow pains 
 
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 in the bones of the orbit, and a prickling sensation in the 
 Eye, which are followed by the above-described symptoms in 
 rotation. To neglect or maltreat such a case is to run immi- 
 nent risk of amaurosis or cataract. He, however, who applies 
 this method to any existing gout, need have little fear of an 
 attack of this evil. Even after the appearance of the desig- 
 nated premonitory symptoms, a prompt application will, in 
 the great majoritj^ of cases, avert the evil, or its course will be 
 reduced to a very mild and innoxious one. 
 
 Therapeutic Treatment. — The Resuscitator is to be liberally 
 applied over the entire back, over the gastric region, the nape 
 of the neck, and behind the ears; and this application is to be 
 repeated as soon as the pustules are healed off. With this a 
 very moderate diet. Even after the sickness has disappeared, 
 the operations on the back and gastric region must be contin- 
 ued for some time. 
 
 (d) HEMORRHOIDAL INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Hemorrhoidalis, 
 
 Symptoms. — Similar to those of the preceding case, only 
 milder. The pains are throbbing instead of boring. Fre- 
 quently discharges of blood in the Eye ; and attacks only one 
 Eye at a time. 
 
 Causes. — Suppression of the hemorrhoidal flux, and tor- 
 pidity of the liver, together with severe strain upon the Eyes. 
 
 Course. — It is generally chronic, with periodical par- 
 oxysms. To cure the stagnation of the blood is to cure the 
 disorder ; but if we would prevent its return, then the hemor- 
 rhoids must be cured radically, which can be done with the 
 Resuscitator only in case it is applied with some considerable 
 degree of perseverance. 
 
 Therapeutic Treatment. — Application to be made over the 
 back, especially in the region of the small of the back, on the 
 abdomen, and the calves of the legs, as also two or three pas- 
 sages on the soft parts intervening between the rectum and 
 genital organs. To cleanse and cool the Eye, nothing is to be 
 used but tepid and pure water. 
 
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 (e) MENSTRUAL INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Menstrualis. 
 
 Symptoms. — Very similar to those preceding; yet we 
 notice that small swellings arise at the margin of the cornea. 
 Furthermore, the cornea seems to be predisposed to swelling, 
 and dropsy of the Eye. 
 
 Causes. — The evil makes its appearance in consequence of 
 the suppression of menstruation. 
 
 Course. — The same as in the foregoing. 
 
 Therapeutic Treatment. — The same as in the preceding; 
 only it is here suggested that, in obstinate cases, applications 
 be also made upon the interior surface of the upper thigh. 
 Upon the Eye a cataplasm of cold water should be made. 
 The menses will thus be restored. Such women, however, as 
 have already attained to the climacteric age, will be relieved 
 of all congestion of the blood to the head, and thus be cured 
 from the evil at all events. 
 
 (/) PUERPERAL INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Puerperalis. 
 
 Symptoms. — Excessive redness of the conjunctiva, and fre- 
 quent filling of the Eye-chamber with a whitish fluid; gener- 
 ally only in one Eye. Occurs most frequently with women 
 during confinement. 
 
 Causes. — Suppressed secretion of the milk, and arrested 
 discharge of the lochia. 
 
 Therapeutic Treatment. — Application of the Resuscitator 
 in the small of the back, on the abdomen, and the inner sur- 
 face of the upper thigh. This restores the arrested secretions, 
 and cures the disorder. A stubborn persistency of the turbid 
 fluid in the Eye is removed by one or two passages behind 
 the ear of the aflFected side. 
 
 ig) INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES IN INFANTS. 
 
 Ophthalmia Neonatora, 
 
 Symptoms. — The conjunctiva becomes red, the upper eye- 
 lid swells slightl}’'; small crusts along the eyelashes, and in 
 the morning a lucid mucus is found in the Eye. Together 
 
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 with this, there will be aversion to light, and an increase of 
 the lachrymal secretions. At a later period, the upper eyelid 
 sw^ells still more, and becomes red, with frequently a bluish 
 tinge, with much irritating mucus, which hardens and glues 
 the eyelids together. Eventually this mucus becomes pusy, 
 of a yellowish or greenish cast ; the eyelid attains a high ten- 
 sion ; the cornea becomes turbid, and is covered with small 
 ulcers. Frequently, at this stage, a blood-and-water-like 
 liquid flows from the Eye ; and when the disease has already 
 attained this stage, the Eye must generally perish. 
 
 Causes. — It affects mostly such new-born children as are 
 neglected, or else are made to breathe impure air. Too strong 
 a light, or a sudden change of temperature, is often the excit- 
 ing cause of it likewise. Very frequently, too, it is an epi- 
 demic. 
 
 Course. — The several stages may continue for a longer or 
 shorter period; sometimes only a few days, frequently for 
 weeks. The more rapid the progress, the greater the danger. 
 If the disorder has already attained its climax, then the cure 
 is exceedingly difficult ; and scars, turbidity, and weakness, 
 frequently remain, — which will give way to the application 
 of the Resuscitator only after a very persevering treatment. 
 
 Treatment. — Great cleanliness, an equal temperature, and 
 a darkened room, are the first essential conditions to a happy 
 cure. While observing these, there is at first nothing more 
 needed than that a little of the oil should be brushed behind 
 each ear, in order to abduct the inflammation. The Eye is 
 cleansed by washing it with tepid water. If the second stage 
 has already appeared, then several delicate passages should 
 also be made with the instrument in the nape of the neck. 
 The Eye must be very frequently cleansed, for the mucus 
 must not be allowed to gather in large quantities. In the 
 third stage — which makes its appearance but very rarely, 
 if the above-described treatment is administered in time — 
 application, of from ten to twelve passages, must be made on 
 the back. The soreness behind the ear, in consequence of the 
 anointing with the oil, must be maintained ; and, therefore, 
 the oil must bo laid on anew from time to time. The greatest 
 
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 care must also be exercised in keeping the Eye and all other 
 parts clean. 
 
 (h) ROSE-LIKE INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Erysipelatosa, 
 
 Symptoms. — A yellowish redness of the eyelids, with mod- 
 erate swelling. The pain and aversion to the light is not 
 serious, but there is more tension and pressure. Lachrymal 
 secretions very profuse. A feeling of great prostration, and 
 often fever accompanying it. It affects, generally, but one 
 Eye. All these symptoms, however, may become more vio- 
 lent, and then the disease assumes a malignant form. 
 
 Causes.— The disorder is an inflammation, and when 
 appearing at the Eye, as at any other part of the body, is 
 produced by an abnormal irritation of the skin. 
 
 Course. — The disease may disappear of its own accord, if 
 proper care is taken ; but ulcerating sores may also be found, 
 and even gangrene may take place. 
 
 Treatment. — Operation on the back, and behind the ears, 
 and the subsequent perspiration well maintained, w’ill pre- 
 vent every evil result. The cleansing of the Eye must be 
 done with warm water. 
 
 (i) TETTER-LIKE INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Herpetica. 
 
 Symptoms. — Upon the conjunctiva will be found yellowish 
 or brownish spots of a tetter-like character, with here and 
 there enlarged blood-vessels. Light is not agreeable to the 
 Eye. 
 
 Causes. — It is almost invariabl}^ produced by the scatter- 
 ing of a tetter by improper or injurious medicines, throwing 
 the disease upon the Eye. 
 
 Course. — More or less slow, according to the age of the 
 patient. 
 
 Treatment. — Application of the Resuscitator upon the 
 back, behind the ears, and upon the abdomen, as well as upon 
 the spot where formerly the tetter had made its appearance. 
 
 ^ The acridity of the blood is removed by this^ means, or else 
 
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 the tetter is thrown back upon the old spot, where a perse- 
 vering treatment will then cure it, — in either case, relieving 
 the Eye. 
 
 [k) ITCHY INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Psorica. 
 
 Symptoms. — This is an itch-like eruption upon the eye- 
 lids, which will gradually spread further. An itching pain 
 accompanies it, as in itch proper. 
 
 Causes. — Either incepted by coming in contact with the 
 itch virus, or else an improper treatment of the itch, by 
 means of which it was thrown upon the Eye. 
 
 Course. — -The same as the preceding one. 
 
 Treatment. — Profuse application of the Resuscitator upon 
 the back, the abdomen, and behind the ears, together with 
 the utmost cleanliness of the Eyes, as well as of the entire 
 body. 
 
 (1) SCORBUTIC INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Scorbutica. 
 
 Symptoms. — Swollen reddish eyelids. The Eye of a dark- 
 ish red, with serpentine veinlets visible ; turbidity of the cor- 
 nea ; greasy secretions of mucus, and the tears often resem- 
 bling blood. 
 
 Causes. — Scorbutic degeneracy of the fluids. 
 
 Course. — Same as preceding one. 
 
 Treatment. — Liberal and repeated applications of the 
 Resuscitator on the back, nape of the neck, over the stomach 
 and abdomen, and behind the ears. The Eye to be cleansed 
 with cold w^ater. 
 
 (m) SCROFULOUS INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Scrophulosa. 
 
 Symptoms. — Dark-red appearance and enlarged blood- 
 vessels over the entire eyeball; stinging pain, acrid, thin 
 mucus; great aversion for the light — the strongest in the 
 morning. Large veins upon the eyelids; the lid-margins are 
 inflamed, often hard and uneven; cornea reddish and turbid. 
 
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 The victims of this generally bear the evidences of general 
 scrofulousness on all their body. 
 
 Causes. — Scrofulous degeneracy of the fluids. 
 
 Course. — As in the foregoing, only that, if it should con- 
 tinue very long, ulcers may arise upon the cornea. 
 
 Treatment. — As this must be directed against general 
 scrofulousness, it is necessary to remark here that a perfect 
 cure cannot in all cases be expected; it will, at all events, 
 require more time, especially if the evil has become more or 
 less chronic, or is hereditary. Liberal applications should be 
 made on back, abdomen, and behind the ears, and a further 
 progress is thus surely averted. 
 
 (n) VENEREAL INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Gonnorrhoeica. 
 
 Symptoms. — Great redness, and dread of the light ; pain in 
 the region of the eyebrows ; a tough, greenish flow of mucus, 
 and profuse lachrymal effusions; the conjunctiva surrounding 
 the cornea has, generally, a bloated or puffed appearance. 
 The mucus soon becomes thicker and yellowish, and the 
 upper eyelid swells and becomes dark red, and, at last, ulcers 
 upon the cornea make their appearance. 
 
 Causes. — Either the introduction, by some means, of the 
 clap virus into the Eye, or the sudden arrest or stagnation of 
 the gonnorrhea. 
 
 Course. — It is more or less rapid, according to circumstan- 
 ces. The more rapid its course, the greater the danger. It 
 may, indeed, if prompt assistance is not rendered, go on to 
 the destruction of the Eye. 
 
 Treatment. — What is of most importance is, to secure the 
 return of the gonnorrhea to the genital organs. This is 
 always secured by applying the Resuscitator over the entire 
 back, the abdomen, and the inner surface of the upper thigh. 
 Besides this, one or two passages behind the ears may be 
 made. With regard to diet and other prudential measures, 
 the same rules must be carefully observed which are given 
 under the heading of Syphilis.’’ The genitals must be kept 
 very warm. The Eyes are to be kept clean with water that 
 
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 is not very cold. With this, quietness and confinement to a 
 darkened room are essential. 
 
 (o) SYPHILITIC INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Syphilitica. 
 
 Symptoms. — General, but yet no excessive redness of the 
 eyeball, with avascular fringe around the cornea; pains in 
 the evening, in the morning generally none; the cornea 
 becomes turbid, and, at a later period, ulcerations appear 
 upon it, and these may appear, too, at the free edge of the iris. 
 The pupil is wrenched, and the power of vision disturbed. 
 
 Causes. — General and all-pervading venerealism of the 
 body. Hence it differs materially from the foregoing, and is 
 easily identified. 
 
 Course. — Resembling the foregoing, but slower. 
 
 Treatment. — Applications the same as in the foregoing; 
 but also in the nape of the neck, and, in stubborn cases, also 
 in the region of the temples. A low diet should accompany 
 the treatment; and, in order to expel the syphilitic virus 
 from the body, great care should be taken to keep the perspi- 
 ration active. Here, again, we would draw attention to the 
 directions given under the heading of Syphilis.’’ 
 
 (p) EGYPTIAN INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. 
 
 Ophthalmia Egyptiaca, s. Bellica. 
 
 Symptoms. — They agree almost perfectly, at least at first,, 
 with inflammation of the Eyes in new-born infants. On the 
 interior surface of the lower eyelid will be found prominent 
 pupiliary bodies. The pains soon increase to an extraordi- 
 nary degree, and the power of vision has vanished almost 
 entirely. If the proper relief is not promptly supplied, all 
 the conditions will soon attain the highest stage. The upper 
 eyelid swells inordinately, and the lower one becomes inverted 
 like a scroll, and finally the Eye perishes. Generally, both 
 Eyes are attacked. 
 
 Causes. — Its original home is Egypt; thence it was 
 brought to Europe by the army of Napoleon, in 1798. It is 
 most apt to attack an army, to which impure air, want of 
 
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 cleanliness, etc., in consequence of lodging together in bar- 
 racks, hardships, etc., give rise. As the disease is very conta- 
 gious, it may also spread very rapidly as an epidemic. 
 
 Course. — Sometimes very rapid, sometimes much slower. 
 When it is of long standing, it is very difficult to effect a rad- 
 ical cure. 
 
 Treatment. — Let the inciting causes be avoided b}^ all 
 means. The Resuscitator should be applied over the entire 
 back, in the nape of the neck, over the abdomen, on the calves 
 of the legs, and behind the ears. If in twenty-four hours no 
 improvement is perceptible, let u few passages be added in 
 the region of the temples. The Eye should be carefully and 
 frequently cleansed with tepid water. Upon the eyelids cata- 
 plasms of cold water should be made, to which may be added 
 a small quantity of eau de cologne^ or cologne water. 
 
 Remark. — There are, to be sure, a few more kinds of 
 inflammation of the Eye; but we may safely confine ourselves 
 to these, as those not described either agree in their general 
 symptoms with these already delineated (and must, therefore, 
 be similarly treated), or else they accompany some other dis- 
 ease, such as measles and small-pox ; the removal of which 
 diseases will also effect a cure of them. For such cases, there- 
 fore, I must refer the reader to the General Directions given 
 elsewhere in this book. 
 
 2. MUCOUS FLOW OF THE EYES. 
 
 Blennorrhea Oculi. 
 
 This disorder bears the closest resemblance to inflamma- 
 tion of the Eyes. It differs from it, how'ever, in this : that in 
 these cases papillae arise upon the conjunctiva, which cause 
 the redness of the Eye ; while in inflammations the redness 
 arises from the vessels. Furthermore, in this case the mucus 
 is secreted from the conjunctiva ; while in inflammations this 
 is done by the glands of the eyelids. 
 
 Symptoms. — Conjunctiva very red, thickened and sprinkled 
 with little pimples or warts. Violent pain; dread of light, 
 and vision frequently entirely arrested. Continual secretions 
 of mucus, which is at first thin and white, grows tougher, and 
 
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 at last becomes pusy. It is so acrid that it may generate 
 malignant ulcers. The character of the mucus determines 
 the greater or less violence of the disorder. The more watery 
 it is, the milder will be the other symptoms, and the milder 
 the entire disease ; but the tougher, and pusier the mucus^ 
 \ the more violent and dangerous the evil. 
 
 Causes. — The disease comes rarely of its own accord ; gen- 
 erally it is the result of maltreated or neglected inflamma- 
 tions, especially if of a rheumatic, gouty, or scrofulous nature. 
 
 Course. — If the proper remedy is promptly applied, the 
 disease will be found to yield readily and freely; but the 
 higher the stage to which the disease has already attained, 
 the greater care and energy are required to prevent perma- 
 nent injuries from remaining. Improper treatment or neg- 
 lect may result in ulcerations, false growths, scars, opaqueness, 
 etc., and even in the total destruction of the Eye. 
 
 Treatment. — Applications of the Kesuscitator over the 
 entire back, in the nape of the ne^k, over the abdominal 
 region, and behind the ears, together with cataplasms of cold 
 water, will suffice as long as the consistency of the mucus is a 
 thin fluid. But if the mucus has already attained a tough 
 consistency, then these applications must be very liberal, and 
 also two or three passages in the region of the temples, as 
 also below the Eye (yet without touching the eyelid), and 
 repeated puncturings with the instrument, without rubbing 
 in the oil; which latter must be daily repeated. In this 
 stage, too, the cataplasms must not be cold, but lukewarm. 
 At all events, the mucus should be removed from the Eye, by 
 means of tepid water, about every fifteen minutes. 
 
 3. EFFUSION OF BLOOD IN THE EYE. 
 
 Hemorrhagia, 
 
 Effusions of blood may take place (a) beneath the con- 
 junctiva; (h) in the chamber of the Eye; (c) between the 
 choroid and the hard, winking membrane; but very rarely 
 between the choroid and the retina. 
 
 Symptoms. — (a) The blood is located between the winking 
 membrane and the conjunctiva, has bloated the latter, and 
 
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 glimmers through, (b) The blood is seen when we look into 
 the interior of the Eye; bowing the head will produce a 
 change in its situation ; if it mixes with the aqueous humor, a 
 yellowish fluid becomes apparent, (c) Is hard to distinguish ; 
 generally, however, the causes are of such a nature that they 
 will soon suggest the probability of menorrhoeal effusion ; par- 
 tial or complete interruption of vision ; the espying of black, 
 red, or brown images in the field of vision. 
 
 Causes. — Mechanical blows, contusions, etc. Also, the 
 interruption of the hemorrhoidal or menstrual flow, violent 
 congestion of the blood to the head ; and predisposition to 
 hemorrhages, such as are produced by an arthritic or scorbu- 
 tical degeneracy of the fluids, and the like. 
 
 Course. — Rapid or slow, in proportion to its violence ; but, 
 with proper care, generally favorable. The effused blood is 
 absorbed, and the disease is cured. To guard against relapses, 
 however, which generally increase in violence and danger, we 
 must bend our operations toward a removal of the radical 
 difficulty. 
 
 Treatment. — Must be governed entirel}^ by the producing 
 cause. Only in such cases as are brought about by mechan- 
 ical causes can we operate behind the ears and in the nape of 
 the neck. If caused by congestion of the blood to the head, 
 the application is made over the entire back, and on the 
 calves of the legs, in order to produce an abducent effect. If 
 gout, scorbutic, hemorrhoidal or menstrual disturbance be the 
 cause, then follow the directions given for inflammations of 
 the eye, brought on by the causes. At the beginning of the 
 disorder, cold cataplasms are applied ; and all the while the 
 Eye, as well as the entire body, must be kept perfectly at rest. 
 
 4. WATERY AFFLUXION IN THE EYE. 
 
 Hydrophthalmia, 
 
 This is classified into four kinds, (a) Serus effusions 
 into and beneath the conjunctiva (chemosis). (h) Dropsy of 
 the anterior eye-chamber (hydrophthalmus anticus). (c) Dropsy 
 of the vitreous humor (hydrops corporis vitrey'), (d) Dropsy of 
 the entire eyeball (bupthalmm'). 
 
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 Symptoms. — (a) Upon the eyeball a ring-shaped swelling 
 may be discerned surrounding the cornea; this is not painful, 
 is elastic, yellowish, and more or less transparent ; the eyelids, 
 too, are generally more or less swollen. 
 
 (b) The quantity of water in the anterior eye-chamber 
 pushes out the cornea, and represses the iris ; both, therefore, 
 appear unusually far apart ; along with this, the cornea is of a 
 glittering brightness, is attenuated, more convex, and, hence, 
 productive of short-sightedness; in case the fluid becomes tur- 
 bid, the power of vision is proportionately diminished. 
 
 (c) The cornea has a normal appearance, but the iris is 
 forced out of shape ; the posterior portion of the eyeball has 
 become enlarged, hardened, and the gaze is a stare ; vision is 
 disturbed, or perhaps entirely destroyed. 
 
 (d) In this the symptoms of b and c are combined. 
 
 Causes. — These evils rarely (a never) come alone. They 
 
 are either accompaniments (especially a), or consequences of 
 neglected or badly-treated inflammations, or else they may 
 have their foundation in general debility and disease. Dete- 
 rioration of the fluids, liver disease, arrested discharge of hem- 
 orrhoids or menses, a repercussion of eruptions on the skin or 
 head, etc., may give rise to them. 
 
 Course. — It will be readily understood, that, as the dis- 
 ease proceeds from the stages a to 6, it increases in importance 
 and seriousness. Although a is an unimportant disorder, yet 
 the following three threaten the most serious consequences, 
 unless relief is promptly furnished. The mere mechanical 
 pressure of the accumulated water may destroy the delicate 
 internal structures of the eye. This, as also the not improba- 
 ble bursting of the eyeball, would forever destroy the vision of 
 the patient, even though it should give no occasion (as might 
 also be the case) to other degeneracies that would involve 
 the surrounding parts, and threaten other and more serious 
 dangers. 
 
 Treatment. — This must be governed entirely by the 
 respective causes. If an inflammation be the cause, then it 
 should be treated as above directed, for such, always energet- 
 ically. In hemorrhoidal or menstrual disturbances, itch, etc., 
 the treatment will also be the same as that given for the 
 
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 inflammations caused by them. But besides these, operations 
 must, in every one of these cases, be made behind the ears, 
 and in the region of the temples, and dry (oilless) punctures, 
 except in a, above and below the Eye. And be it remem- 
 bered, too, that in such cases wet cataplasms are never admis- 
 sible, but that the Eye must be kept covered with dry, warm 
 cloths. If a constipation is prevailing, and does not yield 
 directly after the application of the instrument, then a light 
 aperient should be taken. But if the disorder has so far 
 advanced that the bursting of the eyeball might momentarily 
 take place (which need never be apprehended by a proper 
 observance of this treatment), then there is no remedy left 
 but that the cornea be punctured, and the water be allowed to 
 escape. After this, a real cure is, of course, almost impossible. 
 To avoid relapses, it is especially important, in these disor- 
 ders, to continue the general treatment for yet a time after 
 the recovery. 
 
 5. AFFLUXION OF PUS IN THE EYE. 
 
 Hypopyon. 
 
 Symptoms. — The pus, formed by the exuded product 
 of inflammations, is lodged within the chambers. It may be 
 observed, when but little is at hand, as a yellow streak at the 
 base of the chamber. The more there is collected, the larger 
 does this streak become; and not unfrequently does the entire 
 Eye chamber become filled with it, when vision, of course, 
 ceases. If the pus be moderately thin and fluid, it will follow 
 the motions of the head, in case it does not fill the entire 
 chamber. The existence of pus does not necessarily produce 
 pain. 
 
 Causes. — Pus in the Eye arises onW from violent inflam- 
 mations, which have laid hold also upon the internal struc- 
 tures of the Eye. 
 
 Course. — Generally favorable. The removal of the pro- 
 ducing cause is generally followed by a pretty rapid resorp- 
 tion also of the pus. 
 
 Treatment. — The treatment of the inflammation in ques- 
 tion will answer the purpose. Several passages in the region 
 of the temples will accelerate the resorption. 
 
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 6. ULCERATIONS AND SWELLINGS OP THE EYES. 
 
 We shall here pass by those which are developed in com- 
 pany with, or in consequence of, one of the above-described 
 inflammations ; as in all such cases the treatment precribed 
 for the inflammation will suffice. 
 
 (a) THE EEGILOPS, OR STY. 
 
 Hordeolum. 
 
 An inflammatory swelling at the margin of the upper 
 eyelid, which takes its name from its peculiar form. Fre- 
 quently it causes not a little pain, a very free discharge of 
 mucus, and a swelling of the entire eyelid. 
 
 Causes. — Irritation of the eyelids, colds, disturbance in 
 the digestion, or menstruation. 
 
 Course. — The sty generally disappears after the resolution 
 of the suppuration. 
 
 Treatment. — A passage of the instrument behind the ear 
 is generally sufficient, together wdth abundant cleansing of it 
 with tepid water. In cases of menstrual or gastric difficul- 
 ties, the treatment must be directed against these evils, or 
 else the hordeobim will frequently return. 
 
 (b) FESTERING BLISTERS OF THE EYELIDS. 
 
 Eczema (s. Crusta Lactea Palpebrarum'). 
 
 Small yellowish blisters, which generally extend also 
 over a large portion of the face, burst, form crusts, run into 
 each other, and, if neglected, may be followed by a serious 
 inflammation of the eye. 
 
 Treatment. — Application of the Resuscitator on the back 
 and behind the ear. Keep the eye very clean, washing it 
 with tepid water, 
 
 (c) BLOOD ULCERS. 
 
 Famnculus el Carbunculus. 
 
 These are distinguished only by their degrees of violence. 
 A hard, circumscribed swelling under the skin. Violent 
 pain, fever, chills, feebleness, and fainting spells. 
 
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 Causes. — Degeneracy of the fluids, generally brought about 
 by dissipation. The contagion is the most dangerous if 
 brought on by the sting of an insect, after it has just been 
 sucking the poison from the putrid carcass of a dead animal. 
 If this evil has been produced by the bite or sting of an 
 insect, or by a wound from a poisonous object, a ruSty nail, 
 etc., the spot should at once be bathed or washed with ammo- 
 nia, which, during hot weather, should be carried in the 
 pocket. 
 
 Course. — If the proper remedies are not promptly and 
 energetically applied, the disorder may become very danger- 
 ous, causing great destruction, mortification, etc. 
 
 Treatment. — Energetic application of the Resuscitator over 
 the entire back, over the abdominal surface, in the nape of 
 the neck, and behind the ears. If the ulcer is just being 
 formed, then let continual applications of cold-water bandages 
 or cataplasms be made. But if it, notwithstanding, continues 
 to develop itself, then warm water or pap poultices must take 
 the place of the cold, in order to bring the ulceration, now no 
 longer preventable, as rapidly as possible to a development 
 toward the surface. The ulcer should, as soon as prudent, 
 like all larger ulcers, be opened by making an incision. The 
 pus, etc., is to be washed off with tepid water, and the warm 
 cataplasms must be continued. It is best that they consist of 
 warm water, one-half of which should be vegetable vinegar. 
 The patient should live on a generous and nutritious diet, 
 and drink some good wine. With the disinfections influence 
 of the Resuscitator operation, an evil result occurs very 
 rarely, if these rules are observed. 
 
 (d) ULCERATIONS OF THE CORNEA. 
 
 IJlcera Cornece. 
 
 These are sometimes on the surface, and sometimes pene- 
 trate deeper; sometimes with, and again without, suppura- 
 tion. In proportion to the violence of the disorder, the con- 
 junctiva is inflamed, and the eyelids red, swollen, or crampy, 
 etc. 
 
 Causes. — Ruptures, catarrh, or a mucous flow of the Eye. 
 They may follow in consequence of inflammations, may 
 
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 accompany small-pox, measles, and a variety of similar dis- 
 eases, or may result from an adulteration of the fluids, espe- 
 cially those of a scrofulous nature. 
 
 Course.— This depends upon the violence of the disorder, 
 or in fundamental inciting disease. If they penetrate very 
 deeply, are suppurative, and are carelessly or badly treated, 
 then scars, turbidity, and destruction of the cornea, may fol- 
 low, by which means the power of vision will suffer more or 
 less. 
 
 Treatment. — Must be entirely governed by the inciting 
 causes. Refer to the various kinds of inflammation on this 
 head. Operations behind the ears, and in the region of the 
 temples, are always useful in such cases. Cleansing of the 
 Eye by means of lukewarm water, rest, an equal temperature, 
 pure air, and shelter from the light, are always indispensable 
 requisites. 
 
 (e) MILDER SWELLINGS OF THE EYE. 
 
 To this class belong encysted tumors, adipose, fibrous, and 
 vascular swellings. They may appear at the eyelids, the con- 
 junctiva, the cornea, and, though more rarely, at the lachry- 
 mal organ. They may be distinguished from malignant 
 swellings or cancers, partly by their color, form, size, mobilitj’, 
 etc., and partly, too, by the fact that in cancerous swellings 
 there generally prevails a great degeneracy of the fluids in 
 the body. These distinctions are, it is true, too subtile to fur- 
 nish a correct guide for the layman in every case. Even the 
 expert practitioner must be very careful to give due consider- 
 ation to all the circumstances and relations affecting the case, 
 in order to give a reliable opinion. These swellings may 
 arise in a great variety of ways, for a great number of different 
 general disorders, as well as local diseases, may be the inciting 
 cause. I am confident, however, that a majority of cases orig- 
 inated from the introduction of the knife, corrodents, instilla- 
 tions (belladonna, etc.), into the Eye; and that if every one of 
 these disorders were treated according to my method in sea- 
 son, such abnormal formations would be great rarities. It is 
 true, they may be brought about also by mechanical or chem- 
 ical ruptures, and in some rare instances the trouble is hered- 
 itary; but the cases thus brought about are a great minority. 
 
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 From what has been said it will be clear that a correct 
 treatment is not so readily prescribed, when the remote cause, 
 as well as all existing circumstances, must be taken into 
 account. Let those who are afflicted call upon an efficient 
 physician who is familiar with this treatment. 
 
 (/) MALIGNANT SWELLINGS OF THE EYES. 
 
 Cancer, 
 
 Symptoms. — Cancer of the Eye may be developed upon 
 any of its external parts, i. e.^ either upon the lids, the con- 
 junctiva, the lachrymal sack, or even upon the retina. Most 
 generally, when it makes its appearance on these parts, it is 
 in the form of soft cancer, or medullary sarcoma. If it is located 
 upon the external parts, it is easily identified. From other 
 swellings it differs in these points : 
 
 (а) By a deeper penetration into the tissues, in conse- 
 (] uence of which it is not readily movable with the skin. 
 
 (б) By its form, as it presents a rough, mulberry-like sur- 
 face of its accretions. 
 
 (c) By its dark-red, or even blue-black color. When 
 located upon the retina, it is much more difficult to discern, 
 at least in the beginning. There is a continual decrease of 
 the power of vision. By looking through the pupil, we dis- 
 cover a bright yellowish gleam. At a later period, this lens 
 is pressed forward, and the pupil is wrenched out of shape. 
 The entire interior of the eyeball at last succumbs to the 
 destruction. * 
 
 The pains are of a stinging sensation. At first, quite tri- 
 fling. As cancer is everywhere the fruit of an adulteration of 
 the fluids very similar to the scrofulous, therefore we have in 
 this fact a very reliable fulcrum on which to base our opinion. 
 
 Causes. — The general cause is always, as has been stated, 
 a degeneracy of the fluids. Its inciting causes are generally 
 mechanical or chemical injuries, whether these be accidental 
 or the consequence of optical maltreatment. Very rarely does 
 it develop itself spontaneously. 
 
 Course. — Hitherto, this disease has invariably terminated 
 with the loss, not only of the Eye, but also of life. The fre- 
 quent attempts to cut them away, and the extinction of the 
 
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 entire eyeball, all did no good; for soon the cancer would 
 return at the same or some other place of the body, and would 
 then luxuriate the more rapidly. In treating it with the 
 Resuscitator, there is yet a prospect of a cure. 
 
 Treatment. — If the disorder has already advanced to a 
 higher stage, then we, too, must give up the case as hopeless 
 of cure ; and all that these remedies can do will be to lengthen 
 out the Ifie of the patient to its utmost extent. It is different, 
 however, if the disease has but commenced. As an improve- 
 ment of the fluids removes the cause of the disease, therefore 
 the latter must yield; and as this treatment is well known to 
 have a remarkable influence upon the fluids of the body, it is 
 evident that the cure of this hitherto-declared incurable dis- 
 ease falls within the range of possibilities. 
 
 The application of the Resuscitator is therefore to be 
 made chiefly on the back and in the nape of the neck; over 
 the entire stomach and abdomen, on the upper part of the 
 thigh, and behind the ears. But here, too, there are so many 
 modifications needed, according to the circumstances of the 
 case, that every such case should be treated by some compe- 
 tent physician. In all cases, however, a good, nutritious diet, 
 the greatest possible cleanliness of the entire body, and stay- 
 ing in a healthy atmosphere, are necessary conditions to a 
 successful cure. 
 
 7. TURBIDITY AND OBFUSCATIONS OF THE RE> 
 FRACTORY MEDIUMS. 
 
 We have already spoken of the turbidity of the aqueous 
 humor, caused by the infusion into it of foreign substances. 
 We shall, in this place, therefore, take into consideration the 
 obfuscation of the cornea, the lens, and the vitreous humor. 
 
 (a) OBSCURATIONS OF THE CORNEA. 
 
 The obscurations of the cornea may be of a manifold 
 nature. The first in order is the albugo^ or the covering of the 
 cornea with a film (pannm), being a dark-red, partial or com- 
 plete turbidity, penetrated by veinlets, and is to be traced to 
 the lodgment of the products of excretion. As causes, may be 
 given : foreign irritants, badly-treated inflammations, scrofula, 
 hemorrhoidal and menstrual disturbances. 
 
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 The other turbidities of the Eye are also, some complete, 
 some incomplete, and some in spots. To the former belongs 
 the pale nebulo^iSj but not entirely opaque obscuratia nubosa ; 
 and also the white but opaque abscura opaca. The spots may 
 be of larger or smaller size. With old people, there often 
 appears, at the lower margin of the cornea, a narrow, crescent- 
 shaped obscuration, called the arcus senilis. Like the complete 
 turbidities, so also may the spots be rough-like, nebulous, and 
 to a degree transparent (enubecula)^ or be quite white, and per- 
 fectly opaque (nephelium), or be white, opaque, and elevated 
 (perla). Further, they are either superficial, or penetrate 
 deeply into the tissues of the cornea. Finally, we must count 
 the scars left by ulcerations or other injuries, as belonging to 
 this class. It is self-evident that the consequence of these tur- 
 bidities is a greater or less diminution of the power of vision, 
 often to its entire extinction. 
 
 The Causes are of great variety. Infiammations, mechan- 
 ical and chemical injuries (operators’ infractions), instilla- 
 tions, especially of metallic fluids; furthermore, syphilis, 
 scrofula, rheumatism, arthritis, suppressed cutaneous erup- 
 tions, disturbed secretions, and the like. 
 
 Only a very few of these disorders were considered cura- 
 ble, or were ever cured by the old treatment. When we 
 examine into their causes, and are acquainted with the effects 
 of the Resuscitator, it will soon become apparent that here, 
 too, it is the best and alm-ost invariably successful remedy. 
 Meanwhile it should be borne in mind that no small degree 
 of perseverance is necessary ; but only in those cases where 
 much other medicine has been used is there little room left 
 for hope. 
 
 Treatment. — This must naturally be entirely governed by 
 the respective causes ; and cannot possibly, therefore, be given 
 for all cases ; and even were we to do so, the layman w^ould 
 nevertheless often go astray. A fulcrum for preliminary 
 treatment may be found in the preceding chapters; but it is 
 desirable that a competent physician, familiar with our treat- 
 ment, should be consulted without delay ; for the younger the 
 evil is, the more promptly can it be made to yield. 
 
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 (6) CRYSTALUNE LENS. 
 
 The obscurations of the crystalline lens are generally 
 known by the name of 
 
 TJie Gray Cataract 
 
 According to the seat of the opacity, which gives rise to 
 the disease, the gray cataract is divided into three kinds : 
 
 (a) Lenticular (in which the lens itself is involved, but 
 the capsula is healthy), subdivided into central, circumferen- 
 tial, and central-circuinferential, the difference of which can 
 be inferred from their names. 
 
 (h) The capsular^ in which the lens itself is sound, but its 
 vestment or capsul has become opaque. 
 
 (c) The capsulo-lenticular, in which both the capsul and 
 the lens have shared the opacity. 
 
 Further, there is a soft and hard cataract. The first is 
 either the cheesy cataract, being of a gelatinous consistency, or 
 the fluid, milky cataract, in which case the lens appears to be 
 dissolved, and increases in size. In the hard or stony cataract, 
 the lens has become horny, yea, may attain a horny or stony 
 hardness; in which case, it wdll continue to diminish in size. 
 
 The cataract may again be either par^^a^ or complete; may 
 have but just begun or be fully developed; may be congenital 
 or acquired, simple or complicated with disorders. All these cir- 
 cumstances have been used as bases for classification, w^hich 
 classification we may properly pass by here. Generally it 
 affects both Eyes, in rapid succession. 
 
 Symptoms. — The opacity arises, in the great majority of 
 cases, gradually. The patient begins to see every object as 
 through a thin veil. This veil continues to grow in thick- 
 ness. A mist appears before his eyes, which is simply gray, 
 or, it may be, is variously colored. Sometimes the patient 
 sees sparks, flashes, and the like. The opacity now contin- 
 ues to increase, until perfect blindness ensues; in which state, 
 however, as a general thing, light and darkness may still be 
 distinguished. As the lens is thickest in the middle, there- 
 fore the opacity is here the greatest, while the edges are more 
 transparent. Through these the greatest number of rays still 
 penetrates the Eye ; and hence the patient sees objects best in 
 
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 an oblique direction. For the same reason does the patient 
 see best with a feeble light, or when the eye is shaded, because- 
 darkness produces dilation of the pupil, and hence a greater 
 number of rays can penetrate through the still transparent 
 edges of the lens. Cataract-blinded subjects, therefore, are 
 always in quest of shade, and wear broad-brimmed hats, lower 
 their heads, and go with eyelids half closed, etc. They have' 
 no pain. That these main manifestations may change vari 
 ously, according to the nature of the cataract, is self-under- 
 stood, and it will be easy enough to determine these modifica- 
 tions according to the circumstances. 
 
 By looking into the Eye, we shall discover the opacity 
 right behind the pupil. At first this is but very insignifi- 
 cant, but increases in proportion to the decrease of visual 
 power. The color of the opacity is white, gray, or yellowish, 
 and very rarely reddish or brown. Its form and extent differ 
 according to the above-described varieties. At the iris and 
 pupil, no abnormity is perceptible. 
 
 Causes. — Very rarely does the gray cataract arise from 
 ^ixternal injuries and contusions, but some other disorder of 
 the Eye, or its wrong treatment, may readily become the pre- 
 disposing cause. But most frequently does this disorder, too, 
 arise from a degeneracy of the fluids, which enables the mor- 
 bid matter to lodge upon the unresisting lens. Thus may 
 rheumatism, arthritis, scrofula, syphilis, and the repercussion 
 of cutaneous eruptions, be the inciting cause of this kind of 
 cataract. Otherwise it attacks aged persons more frequently 
 than the young, and males more frequently than females. If 
 it is congenital, then the cause of it, in my opinion, is to be 
 sought in the degenerate condition of the fluids of the mother. 
 
 Course and Treatment. — The gray cataract is always to be 
 regarded as one of the most malignant diseases of the Eye. 
 Physicians say that nature never cures it, and therefore they 
 operate the Eye by making an incision to extract or depress 
 the crystalline lens. Meanw^hile they confess that there are 
 many circumstances w’^here this very violent assault upon so 
 tender an organ should not be undertaken, and that in hun- 
 dreds of cases it is useless. And even if a cataract patient 
 had his sight restored to him through an operation, he will 
 
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 find it, after all, to be but a very unsatisfactory substitute for 
 the healthy light; of the Eye, for the equilibrium of the organ 
 of vision is now disturbed, one of the refractory mediums is 
 wanting, and the strong convex spectacles are an insignifi- 
 cant compensation for the loss. True, the physicians were 
 perfectly in the right up to the time of the discovery of the 
 Resuscitator, for a faint hope is preferable to none at all ; and 
 the materia medica possesses no remedy which is able to so 
 strengthen the nutrition, so promote the reabsorption, and so 
 to carry off the morbid matter, that, in consequence of it, even 
 the crystalline lens is invigorated with new life, and lucidifies 
 itself once more. But our remedy can do this — is able to 
 influence the crystalline lens in the same manner that it 
 influences any other external or internal structure of the 
 body ; aind if the disorder has not become too old, the patient 
 is not too old, and injurious medicaments have not too greatly 
 injured him, then we are justified in promising him once 
 more the full restoration of his eyesight. But as regards the 
 treatment, we are constrained to refer the reader to what has 
 been said under a, which applies here. 
 
 (c) THE VITREOUS HUMOR. 
 
 The opacity of this occurs rather frequently. Its extent 
 varies. It appears in points, spots, or strings. In proportion 
 to its size and form is the disturbance of the visual power. It 
 is easily distinguished from the gray cataract, as the opacity 
 right behind the pupil is not at hand; but it is difficult to 
 distinguish from the black cataract. Yet there are here some 
 reliable points of difference. (See Amaurosis.) 
 
 Generally it is traceable to infusions of blood, and the 
 Therapeutic treatment, therefore, must make it its object to 
 divert the rush of blood from the head, and, in particular, 
 from the Eye. Therefore applications of the Resuscitator 
 must be made on the back, in the nape of the neck, on the 
 .abdomen, and on the calves of the legs. With this, rest to the 
 Eye and the entire body, together with a light, yet nutritious 
 diet. The Eye must be kept shaded, but must neither be 
 bound up nor washed with cold water. 
 
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 8. NERVOUS DISORDERS OF THE EYE, 
 
 All portions of the Eye, to which nervous fibres extend, 
 are liable to such disorders. As the retina consists solely of 
 nervous elements, therefore the diseases of it all belong to this 
 class. There are a great many nervous difficulties of the Eye, 
 which sometimes affect only one, and sometimes a number of 
 parts simultaneously, and are caused either by weakness of 
 the nerves, or under excitement of the same. 
 
 (а) Paralysis of the nerves of motion^ which supply the pro- 
 tective and auxiliary apparatus of the Eye (see Anatomy), 
 may be followed by — (1) inability to move the upper or lower 
 eyelid; (2) inability to move the eyeball upward or down- 
 ward, or to the right or left, laterally. The consequence is, 
 squinting. 
 
 These difficulties may of course be combined, or compli- 
 cated, depending upon the kind and number of fibres that are 
 involved in the paralysis. Pain does not necessarily accom- 
 pany it, though it may be felt in such a disturbance of the 
 optic nerves, as well as when the dental nerves are disturbed, 
 or when those of the ear, the head, or face, are affected. 
 
 (б) Undue excitement of the nerves, designated under a, will 
 make its appearance in spasmodic conditions. The cramp 
 may be a permanent one, ^. ^., may produce a continuous con- 
 traction of one or several muscles, viz. : (a) the ciliary muscle, 
 by which the Eye is more or less completely closed ; (6) the 
 muscle of the upper eyelid, by which the closing of the Eye is 
 rendered impossible ; or (c) the motary muscles of the Eye, in 
 consequence of which the eyeball is fixed in one position. 
 (This is convulsive strabismus, or squinting.) 
 
 The cramp may be a rythmatic one, however, i, e,, the 
 contraction and paralysis of the muscles occur alternately. If 
 (a) the ciliary muscle is attacked by it, then a twitching of 
 the eyelids will take place, which may be aggravated to invol- 
 untary winking, and in which other facial muscles often par- 
 ticipate. If the disorder attacks (6) the orbital motary mus- 
 cles, then the eyeballs become restless, rolling hither and 
 thither, and distinct vision is thereby disturbed. 
 
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 (c) General weakness of the sensational lid and inotary 
 muscle nerves is popularly termed weak eyes. Vision is quite 
 normal, but the Eye wearies very readily. Most persons have 
 experienced a transitory sensation of this. After considerable 
 exertion of the Eyes, especially by night, a sense of fatigue is 
 at first realized in them ; and, by continued use, heaviness and 
 pain are added, tears break forth, double vision, confusion, 
 opacity, etc., follow. A healthy Eye will soon recover from 
 this condition, and may then endure fresh exertion. The dis- 
 eased Eye, however, soon falls into this condition, and recov- 
 ers but slowly. This weakness may exist without any pain 
 in the eyelid or the conjunctiva; in other cases, it is accom- 
 panied with pain in both. 
 
 (d) Excessive excitement of the sensational nerves, alluded to 
 under c, appears in the form of a sudden pain in the Ej^e, 
 which continues for a longer or shorter time, and then disap- 
 pears, in order to resume its attack upon the Eye, at a later 
 period, in a similar manner. Or it is manifested in a high 
 degree of aversion to the light, as the rays falling into the 
 Eye are immediately productive of violent and convulsive 
 pain. 
 
 {e) Excessive excitement or paralysis of the nerves supplying 
 the iris may become apparent in three different wa 5 "s : 
 
 1. In the morbid dilation of the pupil (hydriasis). The 
 pupil is very large, often only a small seam of the iris remains 
 visible. The shading of the Eye, which, in a healthy condi- 
 tion, has the tendency to expand the pupil, has now little or 
 no effect. The base of the Eye, because illuminated more 
 strongly than is normally required, appears- pale. The 
 patient is blinded by a brilliant light; and only in a half- 
 dark condition does he see tolerably well. 
 
 2. In the contraction of the pupil (myosis) it constitutes 
 the exact opposite of the preceding. The penetration of brill- 
 iant light is followed b}^ but a very insignificant contraction 
 of the Eye. 
 
 3. In the rythmatic convulsions of the iris (hippus). The 
 pupil contracts and dilates in rapid alternations. Small 
 degrees of this produce very little inconvenience; but if the 
 
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 cramps increase, then disturbance of vision, as also other dis- 
 orders of the Eye, especially nervous, may be caused by it. 
 
 All these nervous complaints may arise from an infinite 
 variety of different causes, so that it is impossible to mention 
 them all here. At the head of these those diseases of the body 
 must be placed which allow of only an abnormal nourishment 
 of the nerves in general. I will only mention rheumatism, 
 gout, syphilis, chill fever, hemorrhoidal difficulties, green sickness, dis- 
 turbed Trwnstrual floio, suppressed cutaneous eruptions, and perspira- 
 tion of the feet, hypochondria and hysteria. Further, everything 
 that exerts an abnormal influence, either directly or indi- 
 rectly, upon the nerves of the Eye, such as pressure^ upon the 
 point where they arise, or along their course, by imperf orations, 
 swellings, etc., fright, long-continued mentcd disorder, inflamma- 
 tions, tooth diseases, irritation from ivoruis, corrodents, and poisons 
 (belladonna), etc. Finally, all persevering and important 
 strain put upon the Eyes, such as reading, or laboring at very 
 fine work, with either too glaring or too feeble a light. Too 
 long-continued observations through the microscope, telescope, 
 etc. 
 
 It will be readily understood that the treatment must 
 aim at the removal of the fundamental evil, and that more 
 depends upon this than upon the name of the disease. 
 
 It will be fully as clear, too, that it would be impossible 
 to discuss every case here in detail. But it will always be 
 necessary to determine whether a rush of blood to the head, or 
 a want of it there, belongs to the predisposing causes, in order 
 to ascertain whether the applications, besides being made 
 upon the back (as the first-supposed case would require), 
 should also be made upon the calves of the legs, or behind the 
 ears, as the last-supposed case would demand. In this way 
 the patient may initiate the treatment, until, if he cannot 
 learn the proper course from the general principles here laid 
 down, he can consult a good physician who is familiar with 
 this Method of Cure. 
 
 (/) The black cataract {Amaurosis) — partial or entire loss 
 of sight, in consequence of an affection of the retina or optic 
 nerve. Partial blindness {amblyopia) is generally only the 
 transitfon state to total blindness. The designation of “ black 
 
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 cataract ’’ is a generic or class name for what in reality is a 
 very different disorder of the visual nerves, and agrees only in 
 this particular with other diseases of the cataract family, that 
 it entirely destroys the vision of the patient. The disorder is 
 as prevalent as its causes are various; and as it is just here 
 that this course of treatment has achieved its most glorious 
 triumphs, as compared to the achievements of medical sci- 
 ence, therefore I shall attempt to enter upon this subject a 
 little more in detail. 
 
 It is not very easy to identify the disease, for its seat is in 
 the nerves, and deep in the interior of the Eye, which may 
 otherwise be in a normal condition. Distortion, immobility 
 or unnatural expansion of the pupil, which, as some claim, 
 are symptoms, may not accompany it at all, or may be caused 
 by vsomething quite different. The pupil, however, frequently 
 appears rather cloudy or turbid, than in a state of health ; and 
 sometimes a grayish background may be discerned posteriorly 
 to it, but lies so far back that an experienced observer may 
 easily mistake it for the gray cataract. But, generally, the 
 presence of the disorder may be taken for granted if the 
 patient, on examining any object, squints. The more expert 
 observer, however, does not need to rely on such always unsafe 
 criteria. If he looks into the diseased Eye and observes that 
 the real life^ the soul and spirit life, has departed from it, and 
 it appears to him almost as if he were looking into a dead 
 camera obscura, and when he takes the general condition of the 
 patient into account, he will soon be ready to say — Here the 
 intercourse between the soul and the outer world has ceased ; 
 its mediatory organs, the nerves, have died; that is the 
 Black Cataract ’’ — Amatcrosis. 
 
 The black cataract may make its appearance in a great 
 variety of ways. Frequently, long months and years tran- 
 spire from the beginning of the disorder to the completion of 
 the blindness ; often, too, the latter comes suddenly. The fol- 
 lowing are a number of the principal forms of this sad dis- 
 ease; and here it should be observed that these differences 
 appear only during its development ; for, in the final result 
 (total blindness), in whicli nearly all of them terminate, there 
 are no longt-r any more perceptible differences : 
 
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 1. The patient’s power of vision continues decreasing, so 
 that in day-time he sees less and less ; but, after the setting of 
 the sun, he sees again. He is now^ a victim of nyctalopia^ or 
 day blindness, and even in the dark he cannot see anything 
 in the day-time. Along with this, the Eye is exceedingly 
 sensitive. Rays of light will irritate it to tears, produce 
 spasms and paroxysms of pain. Acrid and unhealthy fluids 
 may be regarded as most commonly the cause of it. 
 
 2. The patient begins to see objects indistinctly, as 
 through a mist. Even the strongest daylight does not satisfy 
 him ; and from the evening to the morning he can distingish 
 nothing at all. This condition is called night-blindness 
 (hemeralopia)^ and is caused by weakness. 
 
 3. The patient complains of excessive and violent head- 
 ache in the region of the eyebrows, and the power of vision is 
 in an inverse proportion to the violence of his pain. Along 
 with this, general languor, drowsiness, paralysis of individual 
 muscles, and vertigo. It is now that the so-called seeing of 
 flies ” (monches volants) begins, when it appears to the patient 
 as if flies, black spots, and figures, were floating before his 
 Eyes, and disappear as soon as the patient could fix his gaze 
 upon them. These figures begin to unite, change their form; 
 he sees lines, caterpillars, snakes, more complicated drawings, 
 which gradually change into a black net or crape, and make 
 the outer world appear as if wrapped in a misty veil. The 
 mist, however, grows still more dense, and at last turns into 
 the blackness of night. At times, too, these figures are seen 
 in different colors, or in a brilliant, fiery hue. This affliction 
 may arise from a great variety of causes. 
 
 4. The disorder involves only half of the Eye or the 
 retina. Hence the patient sees all objects only by halves 
 with the disordered Eye. He is called “ half-sighted ” (hernia- 
 pio). Excitability is the cause of it. 
 
 5. The disease appears periodically, sometimes at regular 
 intervals, sometimes not. After the lapse of days, weeks, and 
 months, during which the patient seee very well, he becomes 
 suddenly blind, perhaps at the very hour indicated. But, 
 after the lapse of some time, his blindness disappears again, 
 only to return when its periodical appearance may be 
 
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 expected. Gastric and intestinal disorders, cold fever, disor- 
 derly menstruation, etc., are generally the primary causes. 
 
 6. Some ladies become quite blind ever}^ time they become 
 pregnant. This condition may continue for a longer or shorter 
 
 ^ season, and frequently up to the very time of delivery. An 
 idiocrasy is the only cause we can assign for it ; yet if the 
 blindness make its appearance only during the latter stages of 
 pregnancy, a congestion to the head is undoubtedly the cause. 
 
 7. The black cataract may be congenital. In such cases, 
 it is always owing to such malformations that no cure can be 
 thought of. Sometimes it is hereditary, begins at a certain 
 age ; and then, too, a recovery from it is rarely accomplished. 
 
 While we now take a glance at the most common of the 
 various causes, I remark that most of the cases are curable by 
 means of the Resuscitator ; nevertheless, in these cases, more 
 than in others, very much will depend upon the age of the 
 patient, the duration of the disease, and the treatment that 
 has already taken place. The particulars of the tretament, as 
 will readily appear, should be submitted to a professional 
 man ; and I can here simply give a few hints in regard to the 
 preparatory treatment, which is the more important, however, 
 as so much depends upon it that no time be lost. 
 
 As causes of the first class described, mechanical injuries 
 of the optic nerve or retina, and an interruption of the trans- 
 mitting power may be given. KnotSy swellingSy and secretions in 
 these parts, may be included here; in which cases, a cure is 
 only possible if, as is most frequently the case, they arise from 
 an adulteration of the fluids — scrofulous, arthritic, or syphil- 
 itic — and have not yet injured the nerve materially. Fur- 
 ther, the rupture of the nerve through violent concussionsj 
 woundsy etc., where every effort to cure must prove futile ; as 
 also sudden, violent, and continuous dazzling of the Eyes. 
 Apply the Resuscitator, as the preliminary treatment, over 
 the whole back and behind the ears. 
 
 The second class oi predisposing causes is brought about by 
 watery, bloody, or pus-like effusions. These are almost always 
 called out by disturbances in the secretions of the perspira- 
 tion, the milk, or the menstrual fluid, etc. If no essential 
 organic injuries have as yet been produced by these, then, 
 
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 upon the removal of the cause, resorption will ensue, followed 
 by a cure. Surfaces for operation are the back and the abdo- 
 men. 
 
 Congestion to the head is so frequently the occasion for 
 the disease that we cite it as a third class. This is brought on 
 by a variety of disturbances in the circulation. Arrest of the 
 ciistomary hemorrhages^ suppression of the lochia^ great and con- 
 tinuous mental agitation^ free indulgence in ardent and stimulat- 
 ing articles of die% much medicine, especially poisonous, such as 
 belladonna, the thorn-apple, opium, ergot, etc. The applica- 
 tion of leeches^ scarifications ^ and blistering plasters^ at the head, 
 especially in persons already predisposed to congestions to the 
 head, etc. 
 
 An energetic abduction, by means of powerful applica- 
 tions of the Resuscitator on the back, and especially on the 
 lower half of it, as also upon the calves of the legs, is the first 
 step in the course of a proper treatment. 
 
 The fourth class of causes is formed by the adulteration of 
 the blood, as will be the case in diseases of the kidneys and 
 liver, or carelessly healed-over old ulcers of the feet, improper 
 treatment and repercussion of cutaneous diseases, such as 
 scald-head, itch, tetter, miliary, measles, small-pox, etc. ; or 
 the polonica or elf-lock, scrofula, syphilis, long-continued use of 
 poisonous remedies, such as lead, china, digitalis, etc., etc. 
 
 Here the great purpose must be to excrete the morbid 
 matter through the skin, and, by stimulating the digestive 
 organs to a higher activity, at the same time supply healthy 
 blood to the system. Therefore, the first application of the 
 Resuscitator must be made with cnergj" over the entire back, 
 and over the region of the stomach and abdomen. 
 
 The fifth class of causes is created by the defective nutri- 
 tion of the nerves, in consequence of a deficiency of healthy 
 blood. The latter is brought about by blood-letting, bursting of 
 blood-vessels, blood-vomiting, long-continued dysentery, defective 
 nutriment, dissipation, etc., etc. 
 
 The causes must naturally be removed with all possible 
 speed, and in such cases the flow of the blood to the head is to 
 be promoted. The preliminary operations, sustained by a 
 
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 nutritious diet, must take place over the entire back, espe- 
 cially in the upper part of it, in the nape of the neck, and 
 behind the ears. 
 
 Finally, we shall add a sixth class, which involves a vari- 
 ety of nervous irritations, and, in its progress, the optic nerve 
 also. Here we shall enumerate, affections of the spinal marroWy 
 epilepsy, spasms, violent and continuous pain in various parts of 
 the body, with difficulties brought on by worms, gravel, etc. 
 
 Not all, indeed, but many of the causes may be removed. 
 Applications to be made in the back, close to the cervical 
 point and upon it ; and, in case of worms, upon the abdomen, 
 around the umbilicus especially. 
 
 9. DISEASES OF THE EYE THAT ARE EITHER INCU- 
 RABLE, OR REQUIRE SURGICAL TREATMENT. 
 
 In this chapter I shall mention the principal diseases of 
 the Eye against which the Resuscitator is of no avail. Many 
 may perhaps think that I might have- passed these by 
 entirely. But this would be improper. Our effort is contin- 
 ually directed toward tracing more and more definitely the 
 domain of this mode of treatment, and thus indicate to those 
 who are engaged with it, where and when they may expect 
 success, and where not. It has never entered our mind to dis- 
 parage, even in the least degree, the just merits of surgery, or 
 to maintain that its operations should never be undertaken on 
 the E^^e. Only as against the premature and superfluous 
 operations do we wish to enter our emphatic protest, and of 
 this the profession is in most cases still guilty. The inva- 
 sions of the knife, caustic, etc., we always consider as exceed- 
 ing raw, dangerous, and of doubtful benefit, and can tolerate 
 it as a dernier resort only when the eyesight is irrevocably 
 lost without them. These are conditions, however, which are 
 generally only the consequences of neglect or maltreatment of 
 the diseases that have been described in the preceding chap- 
 ters, and if our directions were always followed in time, then, 
 verily, the ultimate resort which surgery offers would very 
 rarel}^ be needed. 
 
 But in such operations the Resuscitator will be found an 
 invaluable auxiliiiry, as the very best antiphlogistic, render- 
 
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 ing unnecessary all withdrawal of blood from the system- 
 Indeed, there is rarely a case where, in healing a wound, an 
 antiphlogistic ought not to be applied ; and the Messrs. Sur~ 
 geons may be perfectly assured that my remedy will effect 
 more, in this respect, too, than the best that has hitherto been 
 known. 
 
 I shall now proceed to mention the several diseases that 
 belong to this class : 
 
 1. Absence of the Eyelid^ of one or both (ablepharon) . — Either 
 congenital or acquired, as through injuries received from 
 devouring ulcers. 
 
 2. Absence of the Eyelashes and Eyebrows (madarosis). — A con- 
 dition generally resulting from syphilitic and other ulcers, 
 inflammations, small-pox, etc. 
 
 3. Absence of the Iris (irideremi). — This is congenital, or else* 
 brought about by injuries, ruptures, etc. 
 
 4. Absence of the Pupil (atresia pupilloe). — Also congenital, or 
 is acquired, generally brought on by neglected inflammations 
 of great violence. 
 
 5. A Split Eyelid (coloboma palpehroei). — Also congenital, or 
 brought on by mechanical injuries. 
 
 6. Perforation of the Cornea (perforatio corneoe). - Generally 
 brought about by a destructive ulcer. 
 
 7. A Split of the Iris (coloboma iridis). — Is (congenital. 
 
 8. Union of the free edges of the Eyelids (ankyloblepharon ). — 
 Congenital or acquired by ulcerations, wounds, cauterization,, 
 and operations. 
 
 9. Adhesion of the Eye to the Eyelids (symblepharoni) . — The 
 same as above (8). 
 
 10. Imperforations of the Iris., either anteriorly or posteriorly’ 
 {synechia?). — Consequent upon inflammations or ulcerations. 
 
 11. The Hare's Eye (logopMhalmia). — Shortened eyelids, 
 generally caused by ulcerations, caries, and gangrene. 
 
 12. Inversion of the Eyelids (entropium). — Is congenital, or 
 
 brought on by inflammations, injuries, cauterizations, craihps,. 
 etc. ^ 
 
 13. Eversion of the Eyelids (extropium). — Witches Eye,, 
 caused by inflammations or scrofula. 
 
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 14. Hernia of the Cornea (ceratocele), — The cornea is attenu^ 
 ated, and made to protrude, by the internal pressure of the 
 aqueous humor, in the form of a blister. Follows ulcers. 
 
 15. Prolapsus or Displacement of the Crystalline Lens (exoph- 
 thalmia), — In consequence of which the lens frequently enters 
 entirely into the anterior chamber of the Eye. It is caused, 
 generally, by violent concussions or blows of the head or over 
 the Eye. 
 
 16. Prolapsus of the Iris {phtosis iridis). — The iris penetrates 
 through an orifice in the cornea, which may have been 
 brought about by mechanical injuries, operations for the cata- 
 ract, or ulcerations. 
 
 17. Prolapsus of the Eyeball (ophthalmoptosis). — In which, in 
 consequence of powerful concussions, or violent injuries of 
 the eyeball, it is either partially or entirely forced from the 
 sockets, 
 
 18. Softening of the Cornea (molacia cornece). — This is a con- 
 sequence of inflammations, injuries of the nerves, etc. As in 
 such cases the nourishment of the parts has generally been 
 arrested, a cure is hardly possible. 
 
 19. Softening of the hard Tunic (slerectasia). — See 18. 
 
 20. Softening of the Vitreous HuDwr (synchisis corporis vitrei . — 
 This is always a consequence of other diseases, which disturb 
 the nutrition of this body. Energetic measures against the 
 fundamental evil may, at the beginning of the disorder, effect 
 a cure. 
 
 21. Injuries (Icesions) ivhether mechanical or chemical. — Cut, 
 stab, or thrust wounds, the entrance of foreign bodies, living 
 creatures, caustics, burns, etc., which may involve either the 
 lids, the conjunctiva, the sclerotica, cornea, iris, choroid, lens, 
 or the entire eyeball. 
 
 22. Squinting (strabismus). — Owing to a congenital or 
 acquired inefficiency of the optic muscles or their nerves, or 
 to habit, and spasmodic conditions, which latter curable case 
 has alread}’^ been discussed in the preceding chapter. 
 
 ’ 23. Short-Sightedness (myopia). — Of which we spoke in the 
 
 fourth chapter of this treatise. 
 
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 24. Far-Sightedness (^presbyopia). — Based in a too feeble 
 refractory power, or power of accommodation, of the respective 
 mediums of the Eye. 
 
 25. Fistula of the Tear-Sack (jistuloe sacci lachrymalis). — This 
 consists in an unnatural opening of the lachrymal sack, open- 
 ing into one of the visual cavities, or tow^ard the cheek. If 
 the disorder is in consequence of some general disease, such as 
 syphilis, scrofula, etc., then the overcoming of these will also 
 eiiect a cure of the fistulas. Generally, however, this affliction, 
 too, is the result of maltreated inflammation, of caries, etc., or 
 else is traceable to the existence of swellings in the proper 
 lachrymal canal. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that there are still a great number of 
 Eye diseases prevailing — and I pass by a number of those 
 that occur most rarely — the cure of which we do not under- 
 take with this mode of treatment. It will also be seen, how'- 
 ever, that most of these disorders are consequences of other 
 morbid processes, or, rather, the results of unnatural and mal- 
 treatment of diseases which might have been so easily and 
 perfectly cured by this Treatment. But the number of these 
 medicinal diseases will undoubtedly be reduced to its mini- 
 mum when both professional and la 5 ^men will honor the 
 truth, and concede to this curative Treatment, in diseases of 
 the Eye, as in most others, that prominence which it deserves. 
 True, this is already done by numberless persons in all parts 
 of our globe; but may it soon be everywhere allow^ed ta 
 become a blessing to suffering mankind. 
 
 SPECIAL REMARKS. 
 
 Must yet particularly remark and advise, that in all diseases 
 of the eye cold water should never be used for washing. In all 
 inflammations of the eye, a soft linen cloth laid on it frequently 
 during the day, with as hot water as the patient can bear (for 
 several minutes), is a valuable remedy. 
 
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 ^]e 
 
 THE DISEASES OF THE EAR AND 
 THEIR CURE. 
 
 1. HOW DISEASES OF THE EAR MAY POSSIBLY BE 
 PREVENTED. 
 
 Although Tuost of the organs of hearing, and certainly 
 the most important of them, are deeply, we may say, rock- 
 imbedded in the skull bone, and are, therefore, apparently, 
 pretty well protected against all external assaults, or other 
 disease-producing influences, yet these are, nevertheless, 
 partly directly, partly indirectly, closely related to the 
 external world, as may be readily learned by a study of the 
 anatomy of the Ear. In this connection, I need only remind 
 the intelligent reader of the anatomical relation of the exter- 
 nal Ear passages to the Ear trumpet. By these portals, the 
 various diseases of the Ear have free access to this delicate 
 organ, and for this reason it should be deemed both pertinent 
 and in place that some hints should be submitted, by the 
 observance of which many dangerous and painful diseases of 
 the Ear may be with certainty avoided. But, aside of this, it 
 must be readily perceptible that the Ear, in consequence of 
 its situation, must become very readily involved in morbid 
 sympathy with diseased neighboring organs. While colds 
 are generally the most prominent, as well as the most com- 
 mon causes of disease, so, also, is the Ear the vQry organ of all 
 others which is the most sensitive in responding to, and suf- 
 
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 fering from, atmospheric changes of temperature. Medical 
 gentlemen, it is true, are not ready to admit this fully, 
 because, according to the teachings of the current school of 
 medicine, a disease that has been produced by some general 
 cause must be treated, also, on general principles. And as 
 they have long since discovered the fact that they can effect 
 absolutely nothing in treating the diseases of the Ear on their 
 so-called “ general principles,” they have naturally and logic- 
 ally come to the conclusion that general influences can but 
 rarely, if ever, affect the auricular organs. 
 
 Vastly different is the case in the treatment with the 
 Resuscitator. By means of it, we are enabled, in the speediest 
 and safest manner possible, to eliminate the effects of a cold ; 
 for we at once restore the normal activity of the skin, and can 
 thus, by removing the cause of the disease, as readily remove, 
 or even prevent the effect. Hence it is that we can point, 
 with so much of joyful assurance, to the great and gratifying 
 results of the Exanthematic Method of Cure. But we would 
 here earnestly enjoin the following rules of hygienic conduct, 
 and beg that they be observed. 
 
 I. Avoid sitting or standing in a draft, especially during 
 the months of Autumn, Winter, or Spring. If necessity com- 
 pels one to be exposed to it, then be sure to stop up the Ears 
 with a wad of cotton. If, notwithstanding this precaution, 
 colds have been contracted, then let a liberal application 
 of the Resuscitator be mane along the spinal column and 
 between the shoulders, and take measures for free and copious 
 perspiration through at least one night. 
 
 Sitting by a broken window pane, or an imperfectly- 
 fastened shutter, ought also to be avoided with special care, as 
 by this means the cold-air drafts will not only directly reach 
 the external auricle, but also, through the fallopian tubes of 
 the auricle, reach the inner Ear. 
 
 Furthermore, when the weather is windy, in the evening, 
 politeness should not be overdone by gallanting visitors to the 
 very front door of their homes, for right here cold-air drafts 
 are usually the most pungent. And here we would earnestly 
 warn against the very prevalent, but very foolish habit of 
 opening both doors and windows at the same time, when the 
 
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 weather is very warm, in order to get the momentary benefit 
 of refreshing air-drafts. Some can do this with impunity, but 
 many suffer in consequence fora life-time; for it is hardly 
 necessary to state that, by this foolish course, not only Ear 
 diseases are contracted, but the sickening of many of the 
 noblest inner organs is thereby most effectively promoted. 
 
 II. Many persons are accustomed to the bad habit of wash- 
 ing face, neck, and Ears, with cold water, just as soon as they 
 have left their warm beds in the morning. This, it is true, 
 may be quite an agreeable process, especially in case the 
 brain is still haunted with caterwaulings of the night’s 
 debauch ; but this short and temporary refreshment must 
 sometimes be dearly paid for. The change of temperature is 
 too sudden and harsh, and the circulation of the blood is 
 thereby seriously altered, and inflammations, especially of the 
 external acoustic ducts, with its possibly deeper lying conse- 
 quences, frequently result therefrom. Therefore, it is a good 
 rule to wait about half an hour, after leaving bed, before 
 ■washing; for then, the temperature of the body being suffi- 
 ciently reduced, the ablutions can be undertaken without 
 danger. 
 
 III. Care should be taken, as far as possible, not to become 
 drenched by rain or any other cause. In case, however, of 
 being wetted through, a change of garments should be under- 
 taken as soon as possible ; but before the change is made it is 
 a good practice to rub the skin thoroughly with a soft flannel 
 until it becomes slightly reddened by the friction. It is also 
 very advisable, in this case, to apply the Resuscitator along 
 the entire spinal column, as a precaution. 
 
 IV. During the cold season of the year, a soft flannel shirt 
 should be worn next to the skin. 
 
 V. A frequent cause of sudden attacks upon the acoustic 
 ducts, or external ear passages, is the thoughtless cropping off 
 of the hair during damp or stormy weather. After the hair 
 has been cut, persons ought not to leave the room for at least 
 one day, if the weather is stormy. 
 
 It is a lamentable habit of many (and of this class the 
 fair sex furnishes a large contingent) to bore into the Ear 
 with all sorts of instruments, such as hair pins, pens, etc., in 
 
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 order to remove, if possible, the faintest traces of all ear-wax. 
 We will say nothing here of the possibility of more serious 
 ruptures produced in this way, especially of the tympan, but 
 will only, in few words, point out the effect of this upon the 
 external acoustic duct itself. The acoustic duct is lined with 
 a membrane of extreme delicacy, and any mechanical irrita- 
 tion of even moderate severity will make this bleed. This^ 
 blood will coagulate, and wnll become to the internal acoustic* 
 ducts a foreign body, the irritation of which will necessarily 
 produce inflammation, unless already superinduced by the 
 mechanical assault. To this uncivil habit, frequently, it is to 
 be ascribed that many are troubled for years with a stubborn 
 matterated ear-flux, productive of hardness of hearing, or even 
 deafness. This is not the manner, therefore, in which the Ear 
 is to be cleansed of dust and ear-wax, but it may be practic- 
 ally and safely done in the following manner. Let the patient 
 lie down with one side of his head resting on a pillow ; let a 
 second person drop in a few drops of lukewarm olive oil, milk, 
 or chamomile tea. The fluid should be allowed to remain 
 about fifteen minutes in the acoustic ducts, thus dissolving 
 the thickened and hardened ear-wax, which may be subse- 
 quently most readily removed by rinsing the Ear freely with 
 lukewarm milk or chamomile tea. 
 
 The occasional cleansing of the Ear ducts is certainly 
 beneficial, for, if the ear-wax is allowed to accumulate too 
 largely, it will inevitably result in hardness of hearing; for 
 the sound waves are unable to penetrate the thick layers of 
 ear-wax. The sounds will be drowned like the sound of steps 
 on a carpet. But this cleansing should not, as a rule, be 
 undertaken more than once a month, at most; nevertheless, a 
 positive rule cannot be laid down for this, for the cases are 
 various. Some persons secrete a much larger quantity of ear- 
 wax than others, and some occupations and circumstances 
 produce more dust than others, making it more necessary; as, 
 for instance, that of a grist-miller, a manufacturer, etc. 
 
 Nearly related with the above-mentioned bad habit is 
 another to which children are especially addicted, and prac- 
 tice wantonly. I allude to their practice of sticking small 
 objects, such as peas, corn, &c., into the external Ear passages. 
 13 
 
178 — 
 
 They readily slip through the Ear passages, will usually swell 
 <?onsiderably by remaining for some time, and then their 
 removal becomes difficult, making it sometimes necessary to 
 resort to the knife for that purpose; and then, almost invaria- 
 bly, a high and violent inflammation of the acoustic ducts 
 results, which rarely subsides without ulceration. If, in addi- 
 tion to these violent assaults upon a tender organ, the child is 
 treated to an application of caustic, or to solutions of other 
 poisononous salts, we need not wonder if irreparable mischief 
 is done. Children should be most emphatically warned 
 against such mischievous playing, and sharply looked after. 
 Prevention in such cases is very easy, the treatment very 
 difficult, and the sad result often incurable deafness. In view 
 of the same danger, children should be forbidden to lie down 
 in the grass, or upon the bare earth, because this makes it 
 possible for insects to crowd into the Ear passages, which are 
 as difficult to extract as it is easy for them to induce inflam- 
 mation and ulceration. 
 
 A catarrh of the throat should never be neglected, but, on 
 the contrary, be promptly and efficiently treated. When this 
 is removed, there is, of course, no danger of the Ears becoming 
 involved, as there otherwise would be. It is best to keep 
 warm, to keep the throat well wrapped up, to avoid exciting, 
 i. ^., all spirituous beverages, and gargle the throat freely with 
 lukewarm milk ; and to such treatment the difficulty gener- 
 ally yields very rapidly. But let it not be regarded as of no 
 importance, or treated as of little consequence. Children, 
 especially, are apt to suffer during their first years from throat 
 catarrh, and right here a careful treatment of it is most 
 imperative, if mischievous results are to be avoided. 
 
 Finally, a few words maybe in place, here, in reprobation 
 of a vicious custom that is of world-wide prevalence. I allude 
 to the habit of boxing the children’s Ears. So delicate a 
 structure as the acoustic organs are in themselves are liable 
 to injury from every blow or violent assault, during the tender 
 years of childhood. Who can estimate the power of a blow 
 upon the Ear, inflicted in a passion? Formerly it was the 
 general custom to ‘‘box the Ears” of school children, but an 
 improvement has taken place in this respect, and a corre- 
 
— 179 — 
 
 spending decrease of deafness in children is also observable. 
 Yet they still occur. There are so many ways in which nec- 
 essary punishment can be inflicted on children, that, in view" 
 of the delicacy of the organ, the “ boxing of their Ears ’’ 
 should be entirely and forever abandoned. 
 
 Another vicious habit, though not usually follow^ed by 
 evil consequences, is the pulling of their Ears. This, too, 
 should cease, as injury may result from it. 
 
 The foregoing rules are few, to be sure, and yet the con- 
 viction is alive within me that their observance will be fol- 
 lowed by many and great blessings. May every one, there- 
 fore, for his own good and benefit, observe them ! 
 
 2. DISEASES OF THE EAR. 
 
 <1) THE HUMID SCALE, OR KING’S TETTER OF THE EAR- 
 SHELL. {Eczema.) 
 
 This eczema^ or tetter of the ear-shell, is generally only a 
 part of an eczema of the hairy scalp skin, and arises always 
 from a degenerated state of the fluids. It consists of numer- 
 ous vesicles that arise from a highly-reddened skin, produce 
 violent itching, and the contents of which soon dry up into 
 scales of various thicknesses. This form of eruption is most 
 apt to attack the outer or convex part of the ear-shell, occurs 
 very frequently in children, and is less frequent in adults. 
 
 Treatment. — When this trouble is treated with any coro- 
 dents or caustics, it becomes very tedious, painful, and dis- 
 gusting. The large loss of fluids may also lead to disease of 
 some of the noblest internal organs, and bequeaths to the vic- 
 tim a life-dower of unsightly scars. 
 
 A rational treatment will confine itself to insisting on 
 great cleanliness, (frequent ablutions w"ith tepid chamomile' 
 tea, or clean water, w"ith a linen cloth or very fine bathing 
 sponge), and an energetie application of the Resuscitator on 
 the nape of the neck, and more than half w"ay down the 
 spinal column. At the same time, highly-salted meats must 
 be avoided, and the bowels kept free by means of mild aperi- 
 ents. This treatment will have to continue from three to six 
 wrecks to efiect a cure. 
 
— 180 
 
 (2) SIMPLP] TETTER ON THE EAR-SHELL. {Herpes.) 
 
 By this is understood a form of non-contagious eruption, 
 consisting of small, round vesicles on an inflamed skin, hav- 
 ing between them patches of healthy skin. These vesicles 
 dry uj) in from eight to fourteen da3^s, and change into flat 
 scales. When this form of eruption occurs on the ear-shell, 
 then similar eruptions will usually appear on other parts of 
 the head, perhaps on the forehead, the cheeks, or on the neck. 
 As this form of disease is connected with fever, loss of appe- 
 tite, weakness, headache, and chills, it furnishes proof to me 
 that it is no local difficulty, but that nature is, by this means, 
 endeavoring to expel from the body whatever of morbid mat- 
 ter it contains. 
 
 Treatment. — This should only be such as to assist nature. 
 Therefore, a liberal application of the Resuscitator along the 
 spinal column, and on the lower abdomen, should be made. 
 Usually, with careful diet and great cleanliness, a single 
 application is sufficient. 
 
 (3) THE CANKEROUS OR CREEPING TETTER OF THE EAR- 
 SHELL. {Lupus.)^ 
 
 This form arises from an excrescence of microscopic cells, 
 (Epethelial cells), which appear when inflammatory condi- 
 tions exist, and generally emanate from the hair follicles and 
 sebaceous glands of the epidermis. The has this pecu- 
 
 liarity, that, in some places, it effects an absolute shrinking 
 or consumption of the normal tissues, while in others new 
 
 A variety of the lupus, thus far considered incurable hy the profes- 
 sion, and which, it is claimed, is alwaj^s depending on s^^philitic diatheses, 
 and which seems to have a preference for attacking the ear-shell, occurs 
 with remarkable frequency in the countries of the northern coasts of Europe, 
 where it is transmitted hereditarily. In Scotland this disease is called the 
 “Sibbens”; in Sweden and Norway, “Radesyge”; in Holstein, the “Marsh 
 Sickness”; and in Courland, by the Letonian farmers, it is called the 
 “French Disease.” In thousands of families this terrible disease is at 
 home, and, although it has hitherto been regarded as incurable by the phy- 
 sicians, I have, nevertheless, thousands of grateful acknowledgments for 
 comparatively rapid, and always permanent cures, from those who, having 
 been liberated from this abominable affliction, by means of the Resuscitator, 
 have been once juore restored to human society. 
 
— 1.81 
 
 tissues are produced. In its further development it will 
 spare no tissue of any kind, but remorselessly destroys, slowly 
 but surely, skin, bone, and cartilage. Its preference is for 
 some part of the face, especially the nose and ear-shell, and it 
 originates always from a deterioration of the fluids, very often 
 of a syphilitic nature. Its progress is very slow, and it may 
 continue for years. 
 
 Treatment. — Treating this affection, as the physicians do, 
 with the strongest and most destructive corrodents, such as 
 mineral acids and caustic potash (lunar caustic), may indeed 
 accelerate the formation of scars, but will also make the scars 
 very hideous-looking, and is by no means void of danger to 
 the entire organism, especially in cases that have been devel- 
 oped from a constitutional, perhaps syphilitic, predisposition. 
 If the healing is forced too rapidly, the affection is often only 
 transferred to internal vital organs, from which nothing but a 
 long, lingering disease, or a sudden death, can result. There- 
 fore, let the pitiable patients, who suffer from this distressing 
 affection, guard against all too rapid or violent cures. 
 
 The fundamental instruction for the treatment of this 
 malady is, improve the fluids of the body. The cause being 
 once removed, the effect may then also be easily set aside. 
 The diet should consist of easily-digestible yet hlghly- 
 nutritious food. Fresh vegetables, white meats, soft-boiled 
 eggs, etc. Avoid everything stimulating, all strongly-salted 
 food, all powerful spices, and take care that, during the 
 Spring months of March and April, especially, the bowel 
 evacuations be free and liberal. Along with this, let liberal 
 applications of the Resuscitator be made. The first applica- 
 tion should be made over the entire back ; the second, on the 
 rear portion of the thigh and calf of the leg; the third, over 
 the chest and upper arms; the last over the abdomen. After 
 four applications, the malady is generally radically cured. 
 Locally, let great cleanliness be observed, and cover the ulcer- 
 ated portions with soft linen. 
 
 Beside the just-described forms of eruption, there are, as 
 already mentioned, a few instances in which other forms 
 appear, but all of them will readily yield to the treatment 
 already given. 
 
— 182 — 
 
 But before we pass on to discuss the diseases of the carti- 
 iage of the Ear, we desire to draw attention to a very frequent 
 difficulty, affecting the flimsy tissue between the skin and 
 cartilage of the Ear, viz. : 
 
 (4) BLOODY EXUDATIONS BETWEEN THE SKIN AND EAR- 
 CARTILAGE. (Thrombus Auricularis.) 
 
 This disease occurs most frequently in cases of insane 
 persons who are constantly pulling or otherwise irritating the 
 ear-flap ; it may appear, also, however, in persons of sound 
 mind, as a result of a severe blow upon the Ear. In conse- 
 quence of these slight but constant, or else single but severe 
 assaults, the delicate walls of the blood-vessels or capillaries 
 are ruptured, and blood will ooze forth in various quantities, 
 from between the skin and cartilage. The coagulated blood 
 acts as a foreign body, irritates and produces inflammation of 
 the skin, the connecting tissues, and the cartilage. This 
 often produces considerable swelling and thickening of the 
 ear-flap, and always great sensitiveness of it. The exudation 
 consequent upon the inflammation is generally transformed 
 into a permanent cohesive tissue, which is constantly inclined 
 to shorten by shrinking. By this means a considerable thick- 
 ening or transformation of the ear-shell is brought about. 
 
 Treatment. — In the beginning of the trouble, cataplasms 
 of cold water should be used, and applications of the Resusci- 
 tator behind and below the outer Ear. If the trouble has 
 been of longer duration, then warm-water cataplasms and 
 applications of the Resuscitator behind and below the ear- 
 shell, and over the entire nape of the neck, should be made. 
 
 Closely related to this affection is that known as 
 
 (b) THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE BLOOD-VESSELS OF THE 
 EAR-SHELL. ( Teleangiectasice.) 
 
 This trouble is generally hereditary, or else contracted in 
 the earliest period of life, and occurs very rarely in adults. 
 In the latter case, it is usually the result of hemorrhoids, 
 wounds, or contusions. The trouble is an anatomical one, 
 and consists in an enlargement of the terminal branches of 
 the arteries, veins, and lymphatic glands. 
 
— 183 — 
 
 The appearance of the affected parts is generally a bluish 
 or pale red, because the extended veins lie nearer the surface 
 than the arteries. It is productive of more or less swelling, 
 which is soft and elastic to the touch. If we bring any press- 
 ure to bear upon the swelling, it will recede somewhat, but 
 return as soon as the pressure is withdrawn. Because sudden 
 ruptures of blood-vessels may occur in this state, followed by 
 exhaustive hemorrhage, and the more so as this occurs during 
 the tenderest years of childhood, these swellings are rendered 
 somewhat dangerous. 
 
 Treatment. — Pressure of the ear-shell against the skull, by 
 means of a linen or flannel bandage, will accelerate the heal- 
 ing. To regulate the circulation of blood around the ear-shell, 
 the Resuscitator is applied all round the Ear. Generally one 
 or two applications will suffice for a perfect cure. 
 
 (6) INFLAMMATION OF THE CARTILAGE OF THE EAR-SHELL. 
 
 (Perichondritis and Chondritis.) 
 
 The tissue of the Ear cartilage has but very few blood- 
 vessels which issue from the skin that envelops the Ear carti- 
 lage, and penetrate the cartilage, in the form of exceedingly 
 small arteries, for its nourishment. An inflammation, there- 
 fore, of the Ear cartilage can only exist as a secondary effect 
 of the inflammation of the skin enveloping the cartilage. 
 To accept of the theory of a primary inflammation of the car- 
 tilage is contrary to all anatomical principles. But it is a 
 most reasonable conclusion to suppose that, when the carti- 
 lage skin is inflamed, the cartilage will be necessarily brought 
 to sympathize with it. 
 
 With an inflammation of this kind there is connected 
 both swelling and a puffed-up sponginess of the cartilaginous 
 tissue, which may lead to ulceration, or to the formation of 
 new cartilage, connecting tissue or bone. This affliction usu- 
 ally runs its course very slowly, and is often accompanied 
 with very little pain. The consequences of it are the destruc- 
 tion of the cartilage, or a change of its form. The swelling, 
 and the strictly localized but insignificant pains, make it 
 impossible to mistake this trouble for any other. The causes 
 
184 — 
 
 are usually of a scrofulous nature, and rhacMtis, i. e., a general 
 softening of the bones. (Rickets.) 
 
 It occurs but very rarely, confining itself to the ear-shell, 
 and then only as a result of mechanical injuries inflicted upon 
 it; but, generally, it comes accompanied with cartilaginous 
 afflictions in other parts of the body. 
 
 Treatment. — This must take cognizance of the funda- 
 mental evil, chiefly, and make its best efforts to improve the 
 tone of the constitution. And as scrofula and rhachitis are at 
 the bottom of the difficulty, therefore I would direct the reader 
 to the treatment of those diseases on pages 36 and 51. If me- 
 chanical injuries have caused the evil, then a single applica- 
 tion of the Resuscitator, with rest, will usually suffice to effect 
 a complete restoration. 
 
 New formations, both good and bad, occur on the cartilage 
 of the ear-shell, yet so very rarely that I can pass them by in 
 silence, the more so as they are not likely to be cured by self- 
 treatment. 
 
 3. DISEASES OP THE EXTERNAL EAR PASSAGES 
 AND OF THE EAR TRUMPET. 
 
 Inflammations, resulting from the greatest variety of 
 causes, cooperate to produce sickness of the external Ear pas- 
 sages, in most cases. In consequence of the closeness of its 
 position to the external Ear passages, the Ear trumpet must 
 necessarily participate with every inflammation affecting the 
 same. Taking, therefore, a purely practical view of the case, 
 it will certainly appear best to classify the various inflamma- 
 tions only according to their causes, as these only can furnish 
 us with reliable directions as to treatment. 
 
 We have already endeavored to point out and impress the 
 fact that diseases of the Ear are not to be regarded, generally, 
 as a local ailment, but must be traced to general causes aris- 
 ing from an impaired constitution. This is true, more partic- 
 ularly, in regard to the inflammatory aftections of the exter- 
 nal Ear passages, and of the Ear trumpet. Not only scrofula, 
 rhachitis, rheum, gout, and arrested hemorrhoids, are causes 
 of this phenomenon ; but it appears also as secondary eflects 
 of such acute diseases as typhus, measles, scarlatina, small- 
 
— 185 — 
 
 pox, or in connection with syphilitic affections of the bones. 
 But simple colds play an important part in these cases, and it 
 occurs only too often that a satisfactory cause cannot be traced 
 at all. In the latter case, the treatment must of course be 
 conducted simply in accordance with symptoms that can be 
 seen. 
 
 The symptoms of all these ailments are so characteristic, 
 that, generally, they admit of but one explanation, and can 
 not be mistaken, for the hearthstone of the sickness comes 
 into view. 
 
 A real catarrh of the external Ear passages cannot exist, 
 because, as we have already seen, it is not covered with a real 
 mucous membrane, but only by some intermediate tissue that 
 partakes equally of the nature of the outer cuticle and the 
 mucous membrane. The treatment varies only in reference 
 to the place of applying it; the remedy is in all instances the 
 same. 
 
 We shall now, after having grouped the causes, inquire 
 more closely into the sickening of the outer Ear passages and 
 the Ear trumpet. 
 
 (1) INFLAMMATION OF THE EXTERNAL EAR PASSAGES IN 
 CONSEQUENCE OF MECHANICAL IRRITATION. 
 
 Causes. — Most frequently this is produced by dried and 
 indurated ear-wax, either in consequence of negligence in 
 cleaning them, or in consequence of the stagnations and indu- 
 ration of the glands designed for the secretion of the ear-wax. 
 Aside of this, may be mentioned the introduction of foreign 
 bodies into the Ear, especially insects, or leguminous fruits or 
 berries, and then followed by immoderate and too vehement a 
 syringing or overdoing the cleansing of the Ear, especially 
 with sharp instruments, making immediate ruptures possible. 
 
 Symptoms. — The patient feels a persistent, violent, burn- 
 ing or stinging pain in one or both Ears. The external Ear 
 passage seems highly excited, is swollen, glistens, and, at a 
 later period, will secrete a thin ffuid. In neglected cases, 
 ulcerations and suppuration may follow. It is more rarely 
 accompanied by fever, headache, sleeplessness, and great rest- 
 lessness. The hearing faculty is affected or changed only in 
 
186 — 
 
 rare cases, as, for instance, when the Ear trumpet is also 
 affected, or in case of a too profuse collection of the ear-wax. 
 Properly and promptly treated, this trouble is not serious, is 
 soon cured, and is followed by no bad consequences. 
 
 Treatment. — Indurated ear-wax should be, first of all, soft- 
 ened by means of lukewarm chamomile tea, milk, or some 
 mild oil, and then followed with careful syringing of the Ear 
 for its removal. Other foreign bodies must be removed with 
 the greatest delicacy and care by means of a small pincer, 
 after which the Ear should also be carefully cleansed. The 
 inflamed appearance vanishes very rapidly after a single 
 application of the Resuscitator behind the Ear and in the 
 nape of the neck. It is advisable, during the sickness, to* 
 wear a bandage of a soft cloth, or wadding, around the Ears, 
 in order to avoid all colds. 
 
 The usual duration of the trouble, thus treated, is only a 
 few days. 
 
 (2) INFLAMMATIONS CONSEQUENT ON SIMPLE COLDS. 
 
 Causes. — Sudden changes of temperature. In this con- 
 nection, it is especially necessary to mention drafts of cold 
 air, sitting by a broken window pane, washing the head with 
 cold water immediately after being overheated, penetration of 
 cold fluids into the external Ear passages, or suj^pressed per- 
 spiration of the feet. 
 
 Symptoms. — A sudden reddening and swelling of the 
 external Ear passages, a muffled and slightly painful sensa- 
 tion in the Ear. Sometimes the patient imagines he hears a 
 sudden knell in the Ear. The membrane of the tympanum 
 has changed its natural color, and has become red. Usually 
 there is toothache connected with this affliction, and other 
 disturbances, such as catarrh, coughing, &c., which usually 
 result from colds. At a later period, during the progress of 
 this evil, it may come to ulceration and secretion, and the 
 membrane of the tympanum may become permanently thick- 
 ened. With proper treatment, this evil is very readily 
 removed. 
 
 Treatment. — Remain in a moderately warm room. Let 
 a free perspiration b(‘ promoted. Apply the Resuscitator 
 
— 187 — 
 
 behind the Ear six or eight passages. In this way the evil 
 will be remedied in a few days. 
 
 (3) RHEUMATIC INFLAMMATIONS. 
 
 Symptoms. — This, and the inflammation just described^ 
 are often interchanged by mistaking the one for the other, 
 and it is sometimes complicated therewith. But to distin- 
 guish the one from the other, it may be noticed that in rheu- 
 matic inflammations the external Ear passages are almost of 
 a carmine red, and that caused by colds is more of a violet 
 red. At the same time there is very severe pain prevailing, 
 especially in the morning and evening. Very frequently, 
 also, the patient suffers rheumatic pain in the head, tooth- 
 ache, and pain in the limbs, and almost constantly the exter- 
 nal Ear passages, and the membrane of the tympanum, are 
 not only affected, but the middle and inner Ear are sympa- 
 thizing with it more or less. Therefore, there is also, as a 
 general thing, more or less hardness of hearing, singing and 
 rushing sounds in the Ear, connected with this affection. As 
 in rheumatic diseases, so in this, the secretions are very spar- 
 ingly made, and very rarely does it go so far as to produce 
 ulceration. 
 
 The course of the disease is rarely acute. Usually it 
 drags along slowly. It is one of the most common of all affec- 
 tions of the Ear, and although those of advanced age are most 
 likely to be afflicted thereby, yet no age is exempt therefrom: 
 
 Cause. — Rheumatism. 
 
 Treatment. — Keep everything that is wet or cold away 
 from the Ear. Especially avoid washing the Ear with cold 
 water. Favor the perspiration as much as possible, and, 
 during the entire course of the disease, keep in a warm room. 
 Rheumatic affections are verj^ apt to settle upon the nerves, 
 and for this reason great care should be taken that subse- 
 quent hardness of hearing, or even deafness, may be avoided ; 
 and also to prevent the exceedingly painful alterations of the 
 facial nerves, which are so apt to follow upon this affection. 
 
 The application of the Resuscitator must follow immedi- 
 ately, as soon as the evil appears, and that, too, over the entire 
 back, over the abdomen, and behind the ears, most freely. If 
 
— 188 — 
 
 a single application does not serve to remove the difficulty, 
 (which is genei;ally the case,) then, after a lapse of ten days, 
 let a second or third application follow. With the Resusci- 
 tator it is possible to cut off the affection, but in all cases res- 
 toration is brought about much more readily than by any 
 other treatment. 
 
 (4) GOUTY INFLAMMATION. {Injiammatio Arthritica.) 
 
 Gouty inflammations of the Ears are never confined to 
 the external Ear passages, or the tympanum, but are spread 
 over the entire structure belonging to the organ of hearing. 
 It is, thank God, a disease that rarely occurs. Attacks per- 
 sons only of advanced years, especially women during the cli- 
 mactic years, when menstruation gradually disappears. Tho 
 evil appears in either a very acute or chronic form. In both 
 cases the pain is excessive, and shoots into the temples and 
 the internal bony structures, so that patients describe the 
 pain as being deep-seated in the brain. The external Ear 
 passages are highly reddened, hot, and quite dry. The mem- 
 brane of the tympanum glistens, and, in acute cases, is red; in 
 in chronic cases, a gray slate color. The hearing is, in conse- 
 quence of the organs of the inner Ear chamber or labyrinth 
 being complicated with it, greatly affected ; and generally the 
 condition of the patient, suffering from severe pains and the 
 loss of sleep, is bad. In cases where the evil has been of long 
 standing, it is usually followed by sad and incurable results, 
 and certain it is that the hardness of hearing so frequently 
 afflicting the aged, is solely attributable to this affection, 
 badly or carelessly treated. 
 
 The Causes are gout, more especially podagra and chira- 
 gra, i, e.j gout of the hands and feet, as well as the particular- 
 causes anterior to the spasmodic attacks of gout, especially 
 colds. 
 
 The Treatment must be directed to the eradication of the 
 fundamental evil, i. 6., gout. Together with a very moderate 
 diet, occasional foot-baths in warm water mixed with mustard 
 meal, the Resuscitator must be applied freely over the entire 
 back, the abdomen, the nape of the neck, and behind the 
 Ears. As soon as the pustules have disappeared by healing, 
 
189 — 
 
 the application must be renewed. I cannot too strongly 
 urge the importance of using my Method of Cure at times 
 as a preventive, as it will certainly debar this terrible 
 affliction. 
 
 (5) SCROFULOUS INFLAMMATION. (Injl. Scropholosa.) 
 
 Symptoms. — This, one of the most common ailments of 
 childhood, arises invariably from a scrofulous deterioration of 
 the fluids. Evidences of general scrofulousness are ever at 
 hand: a prevailing disposition to disease of the lymphatic 
 glands ; a bloated, pufted-up physical development, with 
 mental dullness, and pale skin ; or else a slim body, with an 
 almost transparently white skin, red cheeks, and feeble mus- 
 cular power, together with great excitability and mental 
 capacity. The inflammation of the Ear has this peculiarity, 
 in this case, that its prevailing tendency is to ulceration, that 
 it continues for years, and then results in genuine boils in 
 the external Ear passages. A great deal of pus is usually 
 secreted, of a pungent, bad odor. The diagnosis is very easy 
 when general habits are taken into account. 
 
 Treatment. — It is best at once to apply for help to a man 
 having experienc in the Exanthematic Method of Cure, as 
 the treatment will necessarily be tedious and difficult, and 
 will require much patience. The restoration of the deterio- 
 rated fluids is the principal object. Nutritious food, espe- 
 cially meat, eggs, milk, and fresh vegetables, general bathing, 
 keeping in a dry, healthy atmosphere, are indispensable con- 
 ditions of a cure. Let the most absolute cleanliness be 
 observed everywhere, and in all things. The application of 
 the Resuscitator to remove the local suffering is to be done 
 behind the Ears and in the nape of the neck. How to treat 
 common scrofula, I refer the reader to my larger work. I 
 would yet remark that hardly any disease is so misunderstood, 
 or so badly treated, as this. If my method and treatment 
 were generally observed and applied, I feel confident that the 
 number of those whose deafness is a secondary result of this 
 evil would be exceptionally small. The Ears should be laved 
 three times a day with a weak lye by means of a small glass 
 or gutta-percha syringe. 
 
— 190 — 
 
 (6) SCORBUTIC INFLAMMATION. {Scurvy.) 
 
 Symptoms.-- This disease depends far less upon inflamma- 
 tory action, especially in the beginning, than upon the gen- 
 eral tendency to bleeding caused by an exceedingly watery 
 condition of the blood, by which means, indirectly, inflamma- 
 tory action is made to appear. As an affection of the Ear, 
 pure and simple, this disease never appears, but there are 
 invariably scorbutic processes apparent in other parts of the 
 body — in the gums, mouth, nostrils, the lungs, the stomach, 
 and especially on the skin. The delicate vessels of the exter- 
 nal Ear passages, and of the tympanum, are easily ruptured 
 by the scorbutic dizscrasia, and pave the way for very profuse 
 bleeding. The coagulated blood will then produce inflamma- 
 tion. Scurvy is very easily recognized by the livid color of 
 the face, the puffed-up, red condition of the gums, and the 
 frequent bleeding from the tissues of the skin. Only in case 
 that bleeding should occur in the inner Ear, followed by 
 inflammation, is the hearing endangered, or seriously sus- 
 pended. If this is not the case, and if it is possible to restore 
 the blood to its normal condition, then, in most cases, the 
 hearing will not be seriously disturbed, and the entire diffi- 
 culty in the Ear will soon be remedied. Whether it be in 
 consequence, solely, of defective nutrition for the oral nerve, 
 or owing to general nervous debility, the result is invariably 
 this, that, whenever hemorrhage takes place from the Ear, 
 in cases of scurvy, the hearing functions will be seriously 
 impaired, or even very abnormal oral sensations will make 
 their appearance. 
 
 Causes. — These are spoiled food, especially such as is 
 already in process of decomposition ; putrid water, bad air, 
 and damp dwellings. These are, as a rule, the primary 
 causes. Hence this disease has always been, and still is, very 
 apt to have its home on ships. 
 
 Treatment. — This must naturally be directed against the 
 causi morbi (the inducing cause), and its essential point is the 
 dietetics, to which the patient ought to be subjected, but 
 which he usually finds it very difficult to observe. I refer, 
 therefore, for further directions, to page 60. No. 94— Srurvy, 
 tion. 
 
191 — 
 
 (7) SYPHILITIC INFLAMMATION. 
 
 Symptoms.— Syphilitic inflammation of thQ external Ear 
 passages, and of the tympanum, and the more serious sicken- 
 ing of the central and inner Ear, is a very common affection. 
 Should an inflammatory ulceration of the Ear occur in case of 
 an individual who is in the bloom of his years, whether it 
 make its appearance suddenly or very gradually^ then it is our 
 duty at once to think of the possibility of syphilis lying at its 
 bottom. The same is true of children, for it is this very 
 hereditary syphilis that is apt to concentrate itself upon the 
 Ear. There is this peculiarity about syphilitic inflammation, 
 th-at the inflamed surface has a coppery-red appearance. 
 Besides, there are other unmistakable signs and symptoms of 
 latent syphilis apparent. In adults will be found indurated, 
 wreath-like swellings of the glands of the neck, the throat, 
 the shoulders, and the groin; chronic catarrh of the throat 
 (the significance of which, in diseases of the middle Ear, we 
 shall learn to understand better in the sequel), stubborn erup- 
 tions of the skin, osseous distensions of the sternum, the shin- 
 bone, or the skull-bone, with deep-seated affections of the eyes. 
 
 The pus secreted from the Ear is of a thin-fluid and 
 greasy nature, yellow, and frequently of a fetid smell. Very 
 often the tympanum is broken, and the suppuration is sus- 
 tained by the bony walls of the inner Ear. The general con- 
 dition of the patient, owing, in the first place, to the funda- 
 mental disease, as also to the large loss of fluids, is a very bad 
 one, and the state of mind sad and melancholy. 
 
 The evil is always of long duration, and continues until 
 the general or fundamental malady is destroyed, and is very 
 continuously sustained by poisonous medicaments, if not 
 aggravated. 
 
 The treatment must not be simply local, although local 
 cleanliness is of the utmost importance to effect a cure, but 
 must be directed upon the fundamental evil. The treatment 
 consists, besides a careful dietetic treatment, in the general 
 application of the Resuscitator ; and lam able to give the 
 many sufferers the joyful assurance that a cure is thus made 
 possible for them in a manner that leaves no bad effects, and 
 more quickly than by any other method. 
 
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 (8) INFLAMMATIONS CONSEQUENT UPON OTHER CONSTI- 
 TUTIONAL ANOMALIES, SUCH AS HEMORRHOIDS, MEN- 
 STRUAL DISTURBANCES, GREEN SICKNESS, OR THE 
 IMMODERATE USE OF VARIOUS MEDICINES. 
 
 Diseases of this nature, it is true, rarely cause disturb- 
 ances of the outer Ear, but more frequently they are product- 
 ive of nervous Ear affections. But if they produce inflamma- 
 tion and suppurative ulcerations of the outer Ear, then they 
 can be permanently cure^I only when treated in reference to 
 the fundamental evil. And simplj^ because the medical fra- 
 ternity of the day denies that these evils could influence the 
 Ear, are the results of their treatment so temporary; or, in 
 consequence of a pure local treatment, with the favored reme- 
 dies, the trouble is often aggravated. Certain it is that I 
 know of many cases of hemorrhoidal, chlorotic, or mercurial 
 inflammations of the Ear, and treated, in vain, for years, b}^ 
 different physicians, which have readily jdelded, in a few 
 weeks, to my treatment, having strict regard to these primary 
 causes. 
 
 Hemorrhoidal inflammation will make its first appear- 
 ance, in the case of pronounced hemorrhoids, only in case the 
 periodical hemorrhages from the veins of the rectum are sud- 
 denly arrested, and thence the Ear sickens vicariously, in a 
 metathetic manner. The inflammation has in itself no char- 
 acteristic peculiarity, and only the contemporaneous exist- 
 ence of hemorrhoids justifies the inference that it is hemor- 
 rhoidal inflammation. The hemorrhoids, characterized by 
 knotty lumps at the anus of the rectum, occasioning dis- 
 charges, from time to time, of blood and mucus, I do not by 
 an}^ means consider an affliction resulting from mechanical 
 stagnation of the blood, but rather a dyscracie caused by the 
 existence of a specific morbid matter (dyscracie hasmor) in 
 the system. The evil is most inclined to attack persons of 
 advanced or middle age, and of full habit, in the higher walks 
 of life. 
 
 The treatment consists in the application of the Resusci- 
 tator behind the Ear, over the small of the back, on the abdo- 
 men, the perinseum, and the calves of the legs. The applica- 
 tion of the Resuscitator must be persistently continued, until 
 
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 the evil has entirely disappeared. At the same time, vigor- 
 ous exercise in the open air, an easily digested diet, and the 
 avoidance of all exciting food or drink, is most earnestly rec- 
 ommended. 
 
 Less frequently still than arrested hemorrhoids do men- 
 strual anomalies, during their first appearance, the arrest of 
 the menses, and chlorotic causes, create inflammation of the- 
 Ears. Here, also, the treatment must be directed to the eradi- 
 cation of the fundamental trouble, in which manner the local 
 difficulty will be readily and permanently cured. 
 
 Among the medicines, it is especially the quicksilver, 
 which, if long used, will most assuredly produce an intense 
 catarrh of the mouth and throat, which transmits itself 
 through the Eustachian tubes of the Ear trumpet to the drum 
 cavity of the Ear, and may thus indirectly create an inflam- 
 mation of the tympanum, or of the external Ear passages. 
 Aside of this, the results of the large use of quicksilver as a 
 medicine are a great variety of nervous affections, and the oral 
 nerves are hardly ever allowed entirely to escape. The treat- 
 ment must be directed to the elimination of the poison from 
 the body, as well as its general recuperation, and both are 
 best accomplished by the persistent use of the Resuscitator. 
 
 4. FEBRILE EAR DISEASES. 
 
 (1) INFLAMMATION RESULTING FROM ACUTE FEBRILE DIS- 
 EASES, SUCH AS TYPHUS FEVER, MEASLES, SCARLATINA, 
 SMALL-POX, &c. 
 
 In the course of the diseases just named, very frequently, 
 and especially in case of colds being caught, metathetic or 
 vicarious inflammations will occur of a very malignant, and, 
 at first, very violent character. The most dangerous in this 
 respect is the typhus and measles. The sickness has simply 
 this peculiarity, that, in consequence of the general debility, 
 it manifests very little disposition to yield to treatment, and 
 is very apt to produce deeper and more permanent disturb- 
 ances. Just when, in the state of convalescence, the evil 
 complications are most to be feared, and most liable to occur. 
 Let the treatment be at once most energetic. Let the Resus- 
 citator be vigorously applied behind the Ear, in the nape of 
 
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 the neck, and along the entire spinal column, and that repeat- 
 edly. Along with this, let the patient be guarded with the 
 greatest care against all that might be injurious, especially 
 against colds and an unwholesome or heavy diet, and let the 
 Ears be kept bandaged. 
 
 (2) INFLAMMATION IN INFANTS. 
 
 Especially feeble (scrofulous) children are frequently 
 attacked by a fetid effusion from the Ears. It consists of a 
 thin pus, in a state of decomposition, and usually causes a 
 considerable degree of hardness of hearing. The Ear passages 
 are red and inflamed, the child has fever, suffers from want of 
 appetite, and is very restless. 
 
 The treatment should be the most scrupulous cleansing 
 with tepid water, appropriate nourishment (the milk of the 
 mother or wet nurse), and, in milder cases, simply the appli- 
 cation of the oil behind the Ear ; in more serious cases, several 
 light passages of the Resuscitator in the nape of the neck and 
 on the back. This evil usually lasts a good while before 
 entirely cured, and often leaves behind it a hardness of hear- 
 ing very difficult of cure. 
 
 I might at this place discuss a number more of inflamma- 
 tory affections of the outer Ear, but as they have very few 
 symptoms that are peculiar or characteristic, and as the treat- 
 ment does not essentially differ, therefore the foregoing symp- 
 toms will enable any one to treat every inflammation with 
 success. Hence I proceed to the discussion of other diseases 
 of the outer Ear which do not arise primarily from any simple 
 inflammation. 
 
 (3) FURUNCLE (BLOOT) BOILS) OF THE OUTER EAR PASSAGE. 
 
 Symptoms. — By sufficiently distending the external Ear 
 passage, one may observe an elevated, clearly-defined, dark- 
 red, inflammatory swelling, hard to the touch, and very pain- 
 ful. This swelling is usually the size of a lintel or pea. 
 Gradually the swelling draws to a point, will soften at the 
 point, will open at last, and will issue blood and pus mixed. 
 Sometimes, though rarely, the accompanying symptoms are a 
 slight fever, headache, and, in case of the narrowing of the 
 
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 acoustic passage, hardness of hearing, and rushing and singing 
 sounds in the Ears. The furuncle continues usually about 
 five to seven days, and only in case it develops into a chronic 
 form will it last several weeks. 
 
 Causes. — It is usually difficult to trace this evil to any 
 particular cause. Some persons are very liable to be afflicted 
 by it after contracting very slight colds. At times a morbid 
 condition of the blood lies at the bottom of the trouble. 
 
 Treatment — In order that the entire external Ear passage, 
 and the Ear trumpet, may not be drawn into inffammatory 
 sympathy, it is very necessary that very frequent and thor- 
 ough cleansing of the external Ear passages should take place 
 by means of tepid water or chamomile tea. To shorten the 
 affliction, and also to promote the derivation, the Resuscitator 
 may be applied a few times behind the Ear. 
 
 <4) POLYPUS OF THE EXTERNAL EAR PASSAGES AND THE 
 TYMPANUM. {Pseudo- Meta7norpliosis Polyposa.) 
 
 Symptoms. — The polypus is an abnormal, spurious forma*- 
 tion, which has its seat in the mucous membranes, or in the 
 secreting membranes, closely related to them. The polypus 
 is usually located upon a slender pedunculus, and is always 
 enveloped in a skin of its own. Its form is usually pear- 
 shaped, though sometimes the polypus will part at the point 
 into berry-shaped formations, and, when excited by external 
 causes, are very liable to pass on to suppuration. The poly- 
 pus of the external Ear passages has much resemblance to the 
 caricous tumor (condylomen) which make their appearance as 
 the secondary effects of syphilis, and are seated either upon 
 the tympanum or upon the side walls of the external Ear pas- 
 sages. In every case where the new formation has attained 
 to any size, hardness of hearing follows, and in some cases it 
 is painful. 
 
 Causes. — Running sores of the Ear, with which the tym- 
 panum is drawn into sympathy. Very often no definite cause 
 is traceable. 
 
 Treatment. — If the polypus is situated on the walls of the 
 external Ear passages, then its removal with the knife is 
 associated with no danger, and is the most expeditious ; but 
 
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 if the polypus is rooted upon the tympanum, then we must 
 caution most earnestly against all chirurgical attempts. 
 Here the Resuscitator comes into play, which is to be applied 
 at intervals to the external circumference of the Ear, until 
 the polypus has entirely disappeared. The Resuscitator is 
 indicated, of course, also, in cases where purulence of the Ear 
 of long standing has given rise to polypus, or, where the exist- 
 ence of the polypus has created the purulence, to the radical 
 cure of the latter. 
 
 5. THE TYMPANUM. 
 
 (1) SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF THE DISEASES OF THE 
 
 TYMPANUM. 
 
 Symptoms. — In consequence of the anatomical situation of 
 the tympanum, it necessarily becomes involved in all diseases 
 of the outer Ear passages, the acoustic cavity, and usually 
 those also of the labyrinth. The tympanum is richly sup- 
 plied with nerves and vessels, and herein we discover the 
 cause why the transition of a disease to it usually announces 
 itself with the most violent symptoms : intolerable pain in 
 the head, ringing and rushing sounds in the Ear, feverish 
 pains deep in the Ear, and sudden delirious fainting fits. On* 
 inspection in such cases, it will appear very red, or bluish red, 
 with numbers of clearly defined and darker enlarged blood 
 vessels. 
 
 In case a disease of the tympanum should develop itself 
 in a chronic form, then the symptoms just described appear 
 very gradually, and, as a rule, never attain to the degree of 
 violence as in acute cases. It then presents a slate-colored, 
 gray surface. 
 
 At times the tympanum, in consequence of long-standing 
 purulence, may be covered by papilous or Avart-like excres- 
 cences of the small boils, Avhich may result in perforating the 
 same. The hearing faculty will naturally suffer somewhat 
 when the tympanum is perforated, and yet it does not neces- 
 sarily follow that the hearing is very seriously injured, espe- 
 cially in case of very small perforations, Avhich do not seri- 
 ously interfere with the progress of sound Avaves through the 
 osseous chain of the acoustic duct. 
 
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 In case the morbid excrescences have long existed upon 
 the tympanum, and, in case they have been treated with 
 powerful metallic astringents, then a considerable thickening 
 of it will occur, which, besides considerably diminishing the 
 power of hearing, will, in most cases, produce, also, abnormal 
 acoustic sensations, and painful conditions in general. 
 
 Treatment.— This must be at once most energetically and 
 persistently followed up to a perfect cure of the disease. The 
 external Ear passages must be kept scrupulously clean, care- 
 fully but entirely remove all secretions, by the use of warm 
 water, with which the Ear is repeatedly filled; and when 
 done, in order to guard against cold air, plug up the ear with 
 a wad of cotton. 
 
 The Resuscitator must be freely applied behind the Ear, 
 in the nape of the neck, and, in old and obstinate cases, over 
 the entire back and the calves of the legs. Then avoid every- 
 thing that may occasion a rush of blood to the head, especially 
 all too vigorous exercise, and all exciting intoxicants. Along 
 with this, it is very desirable and proper to have a care that 
 the passages from the bowels be kept easy and regular by the 
 use of mild vegetable cathartics. Be sure to avoid all strong 
 solutions as injections. 
 
 6. DISEASES OF THE DRUM CAVITY. 
 
 (1) ACUTE CATARRH OF THE DRUM CAVITY. 
 
 Symptoms. — We have already stated the fact that only the 
 middle Ear, or drum cavity, is really covered with a mucous 
 membrane, and hence the only part that can be subjected to 
 catarrhal morbid affections. All cases of catarrh are accom- 
 panied by a large increase of secretions, usually of enormous 
 quantities of mucus, or, at a later stage, the mucous matter 
 has changed into purulent matter. Accompanying phenom- 
 ena of catarrh are swelling and puffing up of the mucous 
 membrane ; and, in consequence of the increased secretions of 
 the mucous membrane, caused by the constant irritation of 
 expelling the surface mucus, this surface is brought into a 
 raw and sore condition, which creates the possibility that 
 these mucous surfaces may grow together, or may at least 
 become, as it were, soldered together. When we keep in 
 
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 mind that the entire cubic capacity of the drum cavity is 
 very small, and, that even in a normal condition the surfaces 
 of the mucous membrane almost touch in many places, then 
 we readily comprehend that in catarrhal affections these 
 become cemented, or even grow together, as a natural conse- 
 quence. 
 
 The phenomena of the acute catarrh is characterized by a 
 sudden diminution of the power of hearing, or even pro- 
 nounced deafness, often in the course of but a few days. The 
 patient hears a constant hammering and belling in the Ears^ 
 the surface of the inner mucous membrane of the tympanum 
 is reddened, and usually there are troubles in swallowing, 
 and catarrh of the throat and nose at hand simultaneously. 
 Mainly on account of the close proximity of the meninge and 
 the drum cavity, and, especially on account of the direct con- 
 nection of the vessels of the hard meninges with those which 
 nourish the middle Ear, it is readily perceptible that cerebral 
 phenomena, headache, fever, even delirium, are joined with 
 the acute catarrh, and especially in cases of children it may 
 very easily change into an inflammatory affection of the men- 
 inges (meningetis). 
 
 Cause and Course. — From the anatomical facts just enu- 
 merated, it is easily perceptible that, in consequence of 
 catarrhal affections of the mucous membrane of the throat 
 and nose, catarrh of the drum cavity, by direct transmission 
 through the Eustachian ducts, is not only likely to occur, but, 
 very often, must necessarily follow. Now, as acute diseases of 
 the throat and nostrils (snuffles) are brought about mostly 
 through colds, rarely through syphilitic affections or an 
 immoderate use of the vocal organs, it is self-evident that, in 
 damp, cold weather, already predisposing to catarrh in gen- 
 eral, catarrh of the drum cavity will most frequently become 
 visible. Besides, it is undeniable that the catheterization of 
 the Eustachian tubes, especially when performed in a rude 
 and bungling manner, by inflicting an immediate mechanical 
 injury, may bring about a catarrh of the drum cavity. 
 Finally, we may say that, in very many instances, an imme- 
 diate cause is not traceable. An acute catarrh, badly treated, 
 will naturally pass on into a chronic form. The patint will 
 
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 then, it is true, for a short time, find his hearing restored, but, 
 whether as a consequence of chronic catarrh in itself, or as a 
 consequence of already existing imperforations, it will dimin- 
 ish from year to year, until absolute deafness ensues, if no 
 more serious results will follow, in this, that in the further 
 development of the disease, the meninges of the brain, or the 
 brain itself, becomes involved, and then, in most cases, makes 
 an end of life. With proper treatment, however, the affection 
 is neither of long duration nor of danger to the power of hear- 
 ing, or to life itself. 
 
 Treatment. — It is easy to avoid this evil by avoiding its 
 exciting causes. But if the disease has really made its 
 appearance, then an energetic course of treatment is at once 
 to be adopted. Every nasal or throat catarrh that supports 
 and accompanies this affection must be at once properly 
 treated. The patient must keep his room until the entire 
 subsidence of the disease, and, in order to keep up an adequate 
 transpiration of the skin, his room should be kept well heated 
 both day and night. Warm clothing, plenty of cover, and 
 the liberal use of warm elder-berry tea, must keep up the per- 
 spiration. The Resuscitator must be at once applied behind 
 the Ear, in the nape of the neck, and half wa}^ down the back, 
 and also upon the calves of the legs. Generally, a single 
 application will be found sufficient ; if otherwise, it must be 
 applied again after the effects of the first application have all 
 disappeared. Against the use of medicaments through the 
 catheter I must warn all most earnestly. 
 
 (2) CHRONIC CATARRH OF THE DRUM CAVITY. 
 
 Symptoms. — The anatomical changes that take place in 
 this case are an enlargement or swelling of the mucous 
 membrane of the drum cavity, which swelling will become 
 stronger and more clearly pronounced with every fresh con- 
 gestion. At the same time, an immoderate discharge of 
 white, tough mucus will appear. This simple chronic catarrh 
 is probably the most common of all diseases of the Ear, for it 
 occurs in the tenderest years of infancy as in old age, and in 
 both sexes, with alike frequency. 
 
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 It is not difficult to recognize this process with certainty. 
 The tympanum will become complicated with the process on 
 the surface turned toward the drum cavity. The delicacy of 
 the tympanum makes it possible, however, to discover, with 
 the naked eyes, any disease that may be in progress on its 
 inner surface. In cases of chronic catarrh, the tympanum 
 has a slate color, and only in comparatively new cases does it 
 appear with a feeble gloss, or yellow, to a rusty brown. The 
 color of the tympanum is white, sometimes shining, or resem- 
 bling a mother-of-pearl glossiness, in cases where thin scales 
 of alkali have been deposited on the inner surface of the Ear. 
 Naturally, the tympanum, in such cases, will lose more or less 
 of its elasticity. If, under such circumstances, the very dan- 
 gerous experiment should be made to restore its elastic pro- 
 trusion by means of an air-douche, the brittle membrane, now 
 so easily ruptured, would, in most cases, be torn. A still dif- 
 ferent aspect does the tympanum assume when imperforations 
 and adhesions have taken place, — a very common result of 
 chronic catarrh of the drum cavity. It then presents a rug- 
 ged or puckered appearance, discolored abnormally, and the 
 hammer-helve, which protrudes in a normal state, now pre- 
 sents a sunken appearance. 
 
 An ailment accompanying the chronic catarrh of the 
 drum cavity is, in most cases, a chronic throat catarrh. The 
 subjective phenomena are quite various. Generally the afflic- 
 tion is of years’ standing before the patient will seek for help, 
 and its beginning was almost imperceptible. The most gen- 
 era] complaint is that the power of hearing is gradually but 
 steadily diminishing, and the fact is that it has quite gradu- 
 ally diminished, or, in consequence of some injury, it has 
 quite suddenly decreased very considerably. Besides these 
 most general symptoms, the patient suffers from the greatest 
 variety of ailments, which were heretofore supposed to be suf- 
 ficiently designated and accounted for by being termed “ ner- 
 vousness,” such as vertigo, rushing sounds in the Ears, repug- 
 nance to mental exercise, or even a general decrease of the 
 mental powers ; also fitfulness of temper, headache, etc. It is 
 not difficult to account for these nervous phenomena when we 
 reflect with how many organs of the head or brain the inter- 
 
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 nal Ear is connected by means of nerves or blood-vessels. 
 And this may account, also, for the certainly hereditary pre- 
 disposition of this evil in certain cases, without necessitating 
 the preexistence of some constitutional disease. 
 
 Besides the anatomical changes already described, the 
 chronic catarrh of the drum cavity is productive of yet other 
 pathological effects, which, answering to the fineness and sub- 
 tility of the respective organs, do often, undoubtedly, affect 
 the hearing very greatly, but the special peculiarities of these 
 are b}^ no means reliably analyzed, and are mostly explained 
 only by more or less reasonable conjectures. So, for instance, 
 the ossicles of the cavity of the tympanum may be displaced 
 from their normal situation; the several little bones, by 
 means of pussy or mucous secretions, may become loosened or 
 stiffened in their joints, or even changed into rigid, inflexible 
 connection. The hearing faculty is thus, undoubtedly, seri- 
 ously disturbed, and may be totally lost; but we know very 
 little of how to explain it physiologically with any certaint3^ 
 Degenerations of the round or oval (vide anatomie) windows, 
 and the other still finer organs of the middle Ear, are always 
 followed, undoubtedly, by a great decrease of the faculty of 
 hearing ; nevertheless, we cannot with certainty recognize 
 them in the living subject, nor satisfactorily explain them ; 
 and it is idle, therefore, to enter upon a special discussion of 
 them, the more so as the treatment of the different diseases of 
 the middle Ear is substantially the same. 
 
 Cause and Course. — The chronic catarrh of the drum cavit}" 
 proceeds always from an acute one, and hence we may refer 
 for causes to those given in cases of acute catarrh. The course 
 of it is a very tedious one, and continues, if the sickness is left 
 to itself, usually to the end of life. Should the disease com- 
 municate itself to the neighboring integuments of the brain, 
 life may be brought to an end very suddenly. 
 
 Treatment. — The treatment of this ver^^ prevalent trouble, 
 by the physicians, with medicaments and the Ear catheter, or 
 whatever else the various manipulations may be termed, is, 
 as experience has so abundantly demonstrated, unless for the 
 purposes of either cure or improvement, and it maybe consid- 
 ered a very happy result, if, as a consequence of mechanical 
 
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 injuries inflicted, the evil has not been materially aggravated. 
 The treatment by means of the Resuscitator is able to point 
 continuously to happy results, but is always a verj^ difficult 
 one, and I advise all who suffer from this disease to apply to 
 some competent person who is versed in the Exanthematic 
 Method of Cure. It is particularly necessary that reference 
 should be had to the acute catarrh from wffiich this arose. If 
 any particular cause is not to be traced, then the disease 
 should be treated as prescribed in the case of acute catarrh. 
 In all catarrh of the mouth or throat connected with this evil, 
 it must also be treated with the greatest care. The applica- 
 tion of the Resuscitator should be made freely over the entire 
 region of the Ear, and, according as the cause may be, over 
 the back, the abdomen, and calves of the legs. The applica- 
 tions must be repeated until further improvement ceases to 
 be perceptible. A non-stimulating diet, a careful regulation 
 of the bowels, and keeping the functions of the skin active, 
 are essential conditions of a happy treatment. If the tympa- 
 num has become perforated by ulcerations, then special care 
 must he had to keep the external Ear passages perfectly 
 clean by means of tepid water, and close it up after each 
 cleansing with a cotton wad. 
 
 7. DISEASES OF THE INTERNAL EAR. 
 
 We have now reached the darkest, least explored, and 
 most unapproachable chapter in the entire medical art, and, 
 thank God! according to the present and latest investiga- 
 tions, the direct sickening of the auditor}^ nerve and the 
 organs through which it ramifies, are very rare, and consti- 
 tute, probably, one-tenth per cent, of the Ear diseases in gen- 
 eral. There was a time, and, with most physicians, it still 
 constitutes the rule, to designate more than one-half of the 
 diseases of the Ear as nervous troubles, if for no other reason 
 than to give, for want of better knowledge, a name to the 
 unknown diseases. Exact observations of a pretty large num- 
 ber of dissections and physiological experiments, made upon 
 animals, have brought back the host of supposed nervous dis- 
 eases of the Ear to their correct foundation, that is, traced 
 them to catarrhal difficulties of the drum cavity and its com- 
 
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 municating avenues, and thus proved to a demonstration the 
 rarity of disease in the auditory nerve. 
 
 Symptoms. — The anatomical changes correspond in no 
 wise in importance to the intensity of the pathological phe- 
 nomena. 
 
 In cases of dissections, or post mortem examinations, it 
 has most frequently been discovered that, at the terminal 
 branches of the auditory nerves, and particularly in the semi- 
 circularly formed canals, certain inflammatory exudations 
 have occurred. Less frequently has inflammation of the 
 terminal expansions of the auditory nerve, or its sheath, 
 been discovered. Of instances where new formations, in the 
 expanded auditory nerve, have taken place, but very few are 
 known. Evidently, long-continuing catarrh of the drum 
 cavity must finally result in disturbances to the nutrition of 
 parts of the internal Ear, partly on account of the direct con- 
 nection of both cavities, and also on account of the pressure 
 produced by the plate of the stirrup, in case that mucus or 
 pus are collecting in the internal Ear, on its very tender 
 organs. 
 
 Here, again, we notice, therefore, that the inflammator}^ 
 symptoms are the most prominent. The internal Ear is 
 nourished by blood conveyed to it through the so-called inter- 
 nal auditory arterjq which comes directly forward out of the 
 brain. The blood carried back from the internal Ear is 
 emptied in the large blood duct of the hard integument of 
 the brain. It is obvious, therefore, that disturbances in the 
 circulation of the blood, through the parts of the internal Ear, 
 must influence the circulation of the blood through the brain, 
 and, in reverse, also, that disturbances of the blood circulation 
 of the brain must exert a reflex influence on the internal Ear. 
 This is a fact established by observation. After an exhaust- 
 ive sickness, great loss of blood, with women affected by chlo- 
 rosis, in cases of heart disease, we find almost always abnor- 
 mal sensations of the hearing faculty, such as rushing sounds 
 in the Ear, knells, earache, &c. But all these afflictions dis- 
 appear just as soon as the normal circulation of the blood is 
 restored. 
 
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 Sometimes these disturbances in the circulation of the 
 blood appear quite suddenly, as in cases of apoplexy, or fol- 
 lowing upon a severe cold, also in case of menstruating 
 women, or upon violent mental agitation, and the almost 
 invariable result is incurable deafness. 
 
 Precisely as the optic nerve may be permanently crippled 
 by a sudden burst of brilliant light, so also may violent con* 
 cussions stun the auditory nerve, such as the discharge of 
 cannon; but, happily, these sad occurrences belong to that 
 class of cases which are most rare. Where the auditory nerve 
 or its ramifications is diseased in any manner, then the hear- 
 ing is always deeply injured, and usually entirely extin- 
 guished. It is true, all grades of hardness of hearing, to per- 
 fect deafness, may be observed; but the nature of the disease 
 is such that usually, alas! the unhappy individual affected 
 thereby is entirely deaf. Sudden attacks on the auditory 
 nerve represent at times the precise symptoms of a sudden 
 rush of blood to the head, or even palsy, such as sudden dizzi- 
 ness, vomiting, fainting fits, rushing sounds in the Ears, and 
 obstructed motion, and they result in deafness. 
 
 Floureus has proved satisfactorily, by experiments made 
 on animals, that wounds Infflicted on the semi-circular canals 
 will produce a remarkable unsteadiness of motion, especially 
 in walking and standing; and this is one of the phenomenal 
 facts to be observed in people who are suffering from a sudden 
 attack of the auditory nerve. 
 
 Otherwise, the most general symptom of the diseases of 
 the internal Ear is very serious hardness of hearing, or deaf- 
 ness, which may have come on either gradually or suddenly, 
 while, at the same time, the auditory organs visible to the eye 
 have a perfectly healthy and natural appearance. 
 
 The just-mentioned symptoms are those known to us, and 
 they are the only ones that are even approximately correct or 
 reliable ; but we are firmly convinced that, entirely secluded 
 as the internal Ear is from observation, a certain diagnosis is 
 never — or, at most, in very rare instances — possible. 
 
 Causes. — To these belong, primarily, all the particulars 
 which create a disturbance in the circulation of the blood of 
 the entire system, but more especially of the brain. Then, 
 
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 colds, sudden and very violent concussions of the air, and 
 transmission of diseases of the drum cavity. 
 
 Treatment. — A great and noted aurist has said : In dis- 
 eases of the internal Ear we must rest quietly, and leave it all 
 to the will of God.’’ And, surely, this is an important reflec- 
 tion, as all those will find who would attempt to cure or 
 relieve this evil with the medicaments usually provided 
 the doctors. I will not maintain that I have always met 
 with success in my mode of treatment, but certainly in most 
 cases; and I have this conviction abiding with me, that in 
 the few cases where the treatment was not successful, some of 
 them might yet have been cured had the treatment been fol- 
 lowed up with the proper persistency. If the affliction is one 
 that has been transmitted from the drum cavity, then, ever 
 mindful of the particulars that caused the trouble, the same 
 treatment must be observed as in cases of acute or chronic 
 catarrh of the internal Ear, and followed up energetically. If 
 the probabilities are that the disease is located only in the 
 internal Ear, and has arisen from some affliction of the entire 
 body, such as typhus, colds, exhaustive hemorrhages, &c., then, 
 in all cases where the general treatment is conducted with a 
 proper reference to the original affliction, and if consistently 
 pursued, the evil will be perfectly cured. 
 
 If there is good reason to believe that the affliction is a 
 so-called nervous one, i, ^., that it has arisen from a disturb- 
 ance of the blood circulation of the brain, or in consequence of 
 violent concussions of air, in the form of sound waves or any 
 other cause, from which the auditory nerve, or its expanded 
 ramifications, have been injuriously affected, then our efforts 
 must be directed to a restoration of a normal condition of the 
 circulation to the brain, by producing anti-spastic action, and 
 thus draw off the blood to other parts of the body, at the same 
 time applying the Resuscitator energetically in the nape of 
 the neck, and along the entire course of the spinal column. 
 
 I might here mention many cases of undoubted disease of 
 the internal Ear, which, after years of fruitless treatment by 
 the profession, yielded at last to my treatment, and were 
 either greatly improved or entirely cured. 
 
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 IMPORTANT EXTRACTS FROM MY 
 CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 In conclusion, 1 may yet be permitted to lay before- my 
 friends and patrons some extracts from letters received. In 
 doing this I am obliged to confine myself to but a few of the 
 several thousand letters that I receive every year from all 
 parts of the civilized world. In conclusion I would remark 
 that I never publish letters without the expressed desire of 
 the writer. 
 
 JOHN LINDEN. 
 
 Providence, R. I., December 28, 1876. 
 
 Mr John Linden, of Cleveland: 
 
 “ Wann die Noth am groessten, \ “Man’s extremity is 
 1st Gottes Huelf am Naechsten.” J God’s opportunity.” 
 
 This old German proverb has been verified in my case. 
 When I received the remedies I ordered from jmu about three 
 weeks ago, I had been a sufferer from rheumatism for five 
 months, and was obliged to watch my bed for most of the 
 time. I had very little hope of deriving any benefit there- 
 from, but, to the great joy of myself and family, I was so far 
 restored, after two applications, that I was able to walk tvith- 
 out a cane, and attend to my business. Now I feel better 
 than for ten years. I have become young again, as my wife 
 says. Under God, I owe my restoration to you. I hope you 
 may long continue in the enjoyment of good health, to assist 
 afflicted humanity with your remedies. 
 
 With special respect and gratitude, I remain. 
 
 Yours, truly, Ignatius Ravens. 
 
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 Chicago, 111., Sept. 23, 1876. 
 
 Mr, John Linden — Honored Sir : Will you be kind enough 
 to Bend me six bottles more of your Oleum, for the inclosed 
 seven dollars? You will remember that in the month of May 
 I ordered two instruments and six bottles of oil. I can report 
 the best of results. I have failed in no case as yet. Please 
 send me the Oleum at once. I have thirty patients under 
 treatment, and am waiting eagerly. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, Mrs. Koenke. 
 
 Brenham, Texas, September 3, 1876. 
 
 Mr, Linden: The six bottles of oil, Resuscitator, and Book 
 of Instruction, have duly arrived. To-day I would beg of you 
 to send me, per express, one Resuscitator, one Book of Instruc- 
 tions, and two bottles of Oleum, for a friend residing 5 miles 
 from this place, for which, please find inclosed $9.50. 
 
 After curing my wife of a rheumatism of long standing 
 in ten days, various patients came to me, asking to have the 
 Resuscitator applied, which I did in every case, and with the 
 most astonishing results. Two of our doctors also came and 
 looked at the Resuscitator, inspected the Oleum and shook 
 their heads ominously. One of my neighbors brought his son, 
 who had been suffering for some time from a rheumatic lame- 
 ness of one of his limbs, and after two applications he w^as 
 cured. 
 
 This Method of Cure ought to be known everywhere. 
 Why do you not advertise in our Texas papers ? 
 
 Send the articles I order as soon as soon as possible. 
 
 You will soon hear of me again. 
 
 With greetings I close, Balthaser Schmidt. 
 
 Miser Station, Wyo. Terr., Sept. 11, 1877. 
 
 Worthy John Linden: Herewith I send you $1.75 for a 
 bottle of Oleum. Be kind enough to send it as soon as possible. 
 Perhaps you will remember that two years ago I received 
 from you the Resuscitator, Book and Oleum. It has rendered 
 great good service, and I can recommend it with a good con- 
 science. Please send the Oleum as soon as possible to 
 
 Yours, truly, Chas. Walker. 
 
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 Titusville, Pa., October, 1876. 
 
 Friend Linden: I must again ask you to send me (per 
 mail) two bottles of Oleum, for which please find $3.50 in- 
 closed. Nothing goes ahead of this Method of Cure, introduced 
 by you. Every father of a family should keep the Resuscita- 
 tor in his house. I verily believe that I saved the life of my 
 twelve-year-old boy by the use of it. Be kind enough to send 
 the Oleum at once. I have not a drop left. 
 
 Yours, truly, Mathias Moehrenbrink. 
 
 Staceyville, Iowa, April 25, 1876. 
 
 Dear Sir: Please send me, for the money inclosed, of 
 your highly-valued Oleum. The Resuscitator has paid very 
 well already in my family, as also with others. My brother-in- 
 law had a very distressing attack upon his chest last Fall. 
 He thought his lungs were diseased. I wanted to try the 
 Resuscitator upon him, but he thought the little thing could 
 do no good. He applied to several doctors, but he became 
 constantly worse. Then he went to Chicago and spent $120 
 more in doctoring there, but all to no purpose. At last he 
 took recourse to the despised little instrument. I treated 
 him for two months every ten days, and now he is w^ell again. 
 He cannot sufficiently express his surprise that so small a 
 thing could so quickly extricate disease from the body. 
 
 Yours, truly, Martin Decker. 
 
 Columbia, S. C., May, 1876. 
 
 Mr, Linden: To-day I would only inform you of the fact 
 that I have thoroughly cured my wife and one of my daugh- 
 ters of the fever and ague by means of the Resuscitator and 
 Oleum I obtained from you six months ago, and that, too, 
 after spending much money on doctors and their medicines 
 without any benefit. I have also freed the girl of a very 
 wealthy American, of this place, of the diphtheria. It is 
 truly remarkable what a curative power is possessed by the 
 Resuscitator. Be kind enough to write to me at once whether 
 you have English books of instruction also. The American 
 
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 in question would then order one, besides instrument and 
 Oleum. He says such a discovery ought to be everywhere 
 known. With high regards, Frederick Van Haller, 
 
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 Butler, Montgomery Co., 111., March, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: Your new Method of Cure has proved 
 itself of great use to me and my wife. I would not wish to do 
 without it. On others, also, I have applied the Resuscitator 
 with the happiest results, and the people are amazed at this 
 w^onderful Method of Cure. I consider it the most beneficient 
 invention that has yet been made for the afflicted. For the 
 inclosed $1.75 please send me, by mail, one bottle of your 
 Oleum. Respectfully yours, J. Hamilton. 
 
 Leeds, (England,) April 1876. 
 
 Dear Sir: Please send me again three Resuscitators, three 
 books and twenty-five bottles of Oleum, for which I inclose the 
 amount in a draft payable in New York. As I have succeeded 
 in curing so many by means of the Resuscitator and Oleum, 
 — those, even, that were given up as incurable by th doc- 
 tors — this method of cure is creating a regular sensation. 
 Why have you no repository in England ? You might here 
 obtain a very extensive practice. 
 
 Respectfully, John A. Benedict. 
 
 Deep River, Powsheik Co., Iowa, January 23, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: About a year ago I had Mr. Charles 
 Schneider send,for me, for book, instrument and Oleum. I was 
 then suffering of very sore eyes, and, as they would not 
 improve despite all medicines and steep doctor bills, I applied 
 the Resuscitator, and, after applying it three times, they 
 were cured. I am quite sure the Resuscitator is the best doc- 
 tor in the world. Inclosed you will find $8.00, for which 
 please send me an instrument, book, and Oleum, for my neigh- 
 bor, whose wife I have cured. 
 
 Greetings, in conclusion, from your grateful friend, 
 
 Peter Roth. 
 
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 Bahia, (Brazil,) July, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Highly Esteemed Sir: Eight months 
 ago you sent me one Resuscitator, one book, and three bottles 
 of Oleum, all of which I received in good condition. Never yet 
 did I spend money from which I derived as much benefit as 
 that which I paid you for your remedies. They have cured 
 me, my wife, and three children, of a fever prevalent here, 
 against which nothing else seems to be of any avail. Several 
 of my nearest friends I have also treated for fever and other 
 diseases, and, always, to the great astonishment of the patients 
 themselves, they were cured in a short time. Had I not 
 treated them myself, I should hardly have thought it possible 
 that so small an instrument, with the oil, could possess so 
 much curative power. Send to me, soon, three Resuscitators, 
 three Books of Instruction, and 20 bottles of your Oleum, for 
 which I inclose a draft on London. Some of my acquaintan- 
 ces, whom I have treated, are determined, by all means, also 
 to have these remedies in the house. 
 
 Very respectfully, yours, William Van Dusen. 
 
 Charlotte, N. C., June 2, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: I deem it my dutj^ to add my testimony 
 to the already large list of testimonials in reference to the 
 wonderful results of your Method of Cure. In July, 1874, I 
 was struck by palsy so that I was partially paralyzed from 
 the toes up to the spinal column. My physicians prescribed 
 medicaments to the exhaustion of their art, but no good 
 resulted; on the contrary, I grew worse steadily. At last 
 they advised me to visit some institution where they are spe- 
 cially prepared to treat such cases as mine. Hence I went in 
 November, 1874, to the celebrated National Surgical Insti- 
 tute,’’ at Indianapolis, Ind., and stayed four weeks. I was 
 made to apply various machines, or mechanical contrivances, 
 to support myself, but all to no purpose. When I arrived at 
 my home in Taylorsville, Tenn., I continued the treatment 
 according to the directions given me at the Institute ; became 
 so helpless, however, that I could not move my lower limbs 
 without lifting them with my hands. About this time I 
 became acquainted with your new Method of Cure, and 
 
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 ordered a book, instrument, and Oleum from you. I applied 
 the instrument, at intervals of ten days, since that time, and 
 I am now so far restored that I can walk readily with a cane, 
 and on perfectly level roads I walk without a cane. I have 
 frequently walked from three to four miles without any dij05- 
 •culty. I have described my case thus in detail because I con- 
 sider it an unusual one, and because the Resuscitator has 
 wrought a miracle upon me, exceeding all my hopes and 
 expectations. I am now treating my sister-in-law, who has 
 been sick for a long time, and, according to present appearan- 
 ces, I shall attain as good results as in my own case. 
 
 For the inclosed $8.50, please send, per mail, one Resusci- 
 tator, one book, and Oleum, to Hiram J, Norris, Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, 
 
 Jacob N. Norris, of Titusville, Term. 
 
 Blaifstown, Iowa, December 14, 1877. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: I wdsh you would publish it in the 
 €hristliche Botschafter that there is no surer cure for throat dis- 
 eases than the Resuscitator. Experience has but recently 
 taught me this. H. C. Buehre. 
 
 Lewistown, 111., Dec. 28, 1874. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: I thank you many times for the inform- 
 ation you gave me, how to get rid of my chest disease. I 
 have carefully followed your prescription, and in two weeks 
 after trying it I could resume work in my cooper shop, which 
 I had been unable to do for three months. Your Resuscitator 
 is worth more than any money. I am glad I have one. 
 Farewell. Yours, truly, Henry Burket. 
 
 Naperville, 111., April 14, 1875o 
 Dear Mr. John Linden: Inclosed 3^011 will find $4.50, for 
 which please send me 3 bottles of Oleum. Send them per 
 express. The Resuscitator received from you has already 
 done much good, and should by all means be in every family. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, * Charles Haas. 
 
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 Ludlow, Indo, April 15, 1875. 
 
 Mr, Linden : The open sore on my leg I have treated as 
 you wrote me. Although I had been afflicted for four years 
 by it, yet it yielded to this treatment in three weeks. It is 
 now nine months since I recovered, and since then I have dis- 
 covered no signs threatening a return. I have also operated 
 upon my son with the Resuscitator while he was suffering 
 from the quinsy, and he, too, recovered immediately. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, John Pregel. 
 
 Martagarta, Wis., March 14, 1875. 
 
 My Dear Mr, Linden: I thank you a thousand times for 
 the Resuscitator and the information which you kindly com- 
 municated to me. A young man, aged 19, was so afflicted 
 with cramps that, when attacked, two men had to hold him. 
 The doctors could do nothing for him, hence I tried the Resus- 
 citator, and, after three applications over the entire body, he 
 is now entirely restored. A man struck by palsy w^as also 
 cured by the Resuscitator. It will always be the greatest sat- 
 isfaction to me to recommend the Resuscitator to the afflicted^ 
 and introduce it everywhere. 
 
 Again thanking you, I remain, yours, 
 
 Caroline Fischenich. 
 
 Charleston, Texas, July 30, 1875. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: I have waited, alas! too long with this 
 letter, which I purposed sending four weeks ago. Now I am 
 out of Oleum, and am in great need of it. Please send me, at 
 once, per mail, one bottle, and, per express, send me one 
 Resuscitator, one book, and six bottles of Oleum. The people 
 here are suffering much from a sort of marsh fever, and your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum cure it at once. The one bottle of 
 Oleum you will send me at once per mail, and inclosed you 
 will find $16.00, Yours, &c., John F. Mayer. 
 
 New Orleans, La., May 7, 1875. 
 Dear Mr. Linden: I desire thus to inform you that I have 
 received the Resuscitator, Book and Oleum. I have secured the 
 most desirable results from it in the case of my son, who was 
 
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 cataleptic and weak-minded. I have also applied the Resus- 
 citator on a neighbor woman, in the presence of a physician, 
 and, thank God, she is also recovering. I send you herewith 
 $5.00 in a money order for Oleum, as I am entirely out — have 
 used the last drop. I close with respectfully invoking God’s 
 blessing upon you. Adam Eisenhauer. 
 
 Turnerville, Pa., Nov. 1875. 
 
 My Dear Mn Linden: With the Resuscitator, book, and 
 Oleum, which I received from you ten weeks ago, you have 
 restored hope and joy to my family. I am a blacksmith, and 
 must work hard to support myself and wife, with a family of 
 nine children, of whom the oldest is but fourteen years old. 
 But, by the blessing of God, I never was in want until six 
 months ago, when my right arm was made lame by rheuma- 
 tism. At first I supposed it only a slight cold, but consulted 
 the doctor at once, because it disabled me for work. But, 
 notwithstanding all medicaments and all rubbing-in of lini- 
 ment, it grew worse from day to day, until I could hardly 
 endure the pain any longer. My forge stood there in desolate 
 silence, and I had to combat with w^ant. I then heard of the 
 wonderful cures which your Resuscitator was said to have 
 effected, and at once resolved to have one come. I have now 
 used it for the fourth time according to prescription, and for a 
 week past I am able to work again. I thank God for this res- 
 toration. It appears to me as if I had been presented with a 
 second life. My wife was already in despair in apprehensions 
 for the future, but now she hops and sings about the house 
 like a young girl. All my acquaintances are astonished at 
 my sudden recovery, and everybody wants to see the little 
 wonder-worker. My doctor, to be sure, says it is an accident 
 that I got well again, but I know better. 
 
 I write you this letter, for I thought it would be wrong if 
 1 failed to inform you how happy your Resuscitator has made 
 me and my wife. Now, farewell. My wife desires me to ask 
 you to salute your wife from her, which I would do with great 
 pleasure if I only knew whether you have a wife. 
 
 Sincerely grateful, I remain yours, devotedly, 
 
 Fredolin Haberman. 
 
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 Dysart, Iowa, May 12, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mto Linden: I have used your Resuscitator and Oleum 
 to great advantage, I had almost lost my hearing, but, after 
 frequent applications, the diflSiculty was entirely removed, and 
 I can now hear as well as ever. Be kind enough to send me, 
 for the inclosed $8.00, a Resuscitator, one German book, and 
 one bottle of Oleum. Your new Method of Cure is as yet little 
 known in this neighborhood. 
 
 Most respectfully yours, 
 
 John J. Aschenbrenner, 
 
 Omaha, Neb., Sept. 17, 1875. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: You ask me, in your letter of the 3d 
 ult., what success I had in using your Resuscitator and Oleum 
 in cases of fever and ague. In answer I can onl}" say, with 
 remarkable success ! As I never had success in treating fever 
 and ague before I got my Oleum from you, it is now the more 
 striking that, with your Oleum, I have the most glorious 
 results. In future I shall never use any other Oleum but 
 yours. Your friend. Dr. John Brenner. 
 
 Hudson, No J., Dec. 14, 1875. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Be kind enough to send me 2 bottles of Oleum 
 per express, C. O. D. I bouglit a Resuscitator, book, and 
 Oleum, about three years ago, and after that I got Oleum of 
 you again. In the intervening time I got some from others, 
 but it was not near as efficacious as yours. I shall in future 
 buy Oleum coming only from you, in order to be sure to obtain 
 pure and good Oleum. 
 
 Respectfully, Mrs. M. J. Tanner, M. D. 
 
 New York, July 6, 1874. 
 
 Highly Esteemed Mr. Linden : At the special request of one 
 of my parishioners, i. e.^ of the master carpenter, Mr. Rudol- 
 phi, I would inform you that, after suffering for five months 
 of a very violent inflammation of the eyes, he is entirely 
 cured after applying the remedies you sent him, such as the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum Baunscheidtii, for three times only. 
 This cure is the more remarkable, as three really very good 
 
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 physicians treated him for four months without success, and 
 in conclusion expressed the opinion that he would probably 
 never be freed from his affliction. 
 
 I myself have never been a friend of the so-called patent 
 medicines, and have always had a care that my parishioners 
 should employ good doctors in cases of sickness. But as I 
 read so much in the Welthote of curing diseases by this new 
 method, I persuaded Mr. Rudolphi myself to have the reme- 
 dies come, as obtain information from you how to treat a dis- 
 ease such as his. We followed your directions carefully, and, 
 under God’s blessing, he owes his restoration to you. 
 
 Besides this, following the directions of your Book of 
 Instruction, which I have read with much interest, I have 
 also treated a man that had been for years afflicted with 
 rheumatism. The result was so surprising in this case that I 
 must answer questions almost daily with regard to this new 
 Method of Cure. Yesterday I treated a man for the first time 
 who has the chills and fever. Mr. Rudolphi has given me 
 the use of his instrument. As the Oleum is nearly used up, 
 however, I shall very soon have to send you an order for 
 some, and will then inform you of my success in treating the 
 chills and fever. Mr. Rudolphi and his wife send to you 
 their best thanks for your friendly instructions. May you 
 always meet with similarly good results. 
 
 Wishing you the same most heartily, I remain, yours, 
 with sincerest regard, Herman Stedel, Pastor, 
 
 Sweet Valley, Pa., July 31, 1875. 
 
 Dear Sir: Inclosed you will find $1.75, for which you will 
 send me a bottle of Oleum per mail; but send me a bottle that 
 is just as good as the one you sent me some time since, with 
 the instrument. 
 
 I had been suffering severely of bleeding at the nose and 
 pain in the back, but after I had used the Resuscitator for 
 some time, the difficulties disappeared entirely. 
 
 My nephew, who had been for some time troubled with 
 an affection of the eyes, I cured with tw^o applications. 
 
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 I could mention yet many cases in which I used your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum with great benefit. 
 
 I remain, yours truly, J, Rc White, 
 
 Hancock, Ohio, April 7, 1875. 
 
 Respected Mr, Linden : My little four-year-old daughter was 
 attacked by diphtheria, and as I had already lost one child of 
 it, notwithstanding I had employed two skillful physicians, I 
 was in great fear. My wife went at once to a neighbor’s 
 woman, who had one of your Resuscitators, and who had 
 already cured several children with it, and asked her to come 
 and apply it at once. She applied it to the child’s neck and 
 breast, and anointed the parts with Oleum. In several hours 
 the child had materially improved, and the next morning the 
 woman applied it on the back, and in two days the child was 
 convalescent. 
 
 Now my wife wants an instrument and a bottle of Oleum, 
 and I wish you would therefore send me one with a German 
 book containing the necessary instructions, for which I en- 
 close a money order for $8.00. The neighboring woman has 
 charged me, however, to be sure and order the Oleum made 
 by yourself, and by no means any that comes from Germany. 
 
 As so many children about here have died of diphtheria, 
 and as all those have recovered which were treated by the 
 said neighboring woman, therefore the Resuscitator has 
 gained a great reputation here ; and when I have once got 
 my Resuscitator, many more orders will come from this place. 
 But do not send me any poor, imported oil, but such only as 
 is prepared by yourself. 
 
 With great respect, I remain, yours, 
 
 Gustav Nieman, Architect, 
 
 St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 1, 1872. 
 
 Most Respected Mr, Linden: If you will refer to your corres- 
 pondence and books, you will find that it is a year ago to-day 
 that I ordered six bottles of Oleum from you, of your own 
 preparation, which came duly to hand on the 11th of December 
 following. I made the order at that time, as I did, with the 
 
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 simple intention of ascertaining whether your Oleum would 
 really prove as efficacious as you claimed, and as I heard it 
 eom mended by others. 
 
 I now deem it my duty to communicate to you the fol- 
 lowing in respect to the Oleum you then sent me, and thus to 
 some extent atone for the suspicion which I for some time 
 entertained toward you and your business; which suspicions 
 have been generated by the shameless slanders which had 
 probably been induced by business jealousy, and scattered 
 broadcast through the world in pamphlets and circulars. 
 One of these bottles I kept myself, the other live I sent to five 
 friends, living in five different places, namely, in San Fran- 
 cisco ; in Lawrence, Missouri; in Hamilton, Louisiana; in 
 Charleston, South Carolina; and in Baltimore, Maryland. As 
 these gentlemen are quite familiar with the new Method of 
 Cure, I solicited them expressly to communicate to me the 
 result concerning the efficacy of your Oleum, as compared with 
 that which they had received from other sources, as I was 
 much concerned to ascertain which really was the genuine 
 and most efficacious. I myself have several times used your 
 Oleum in my family, and must confess that it is better, more 
 effective, and in every respect preferable to all other oils that 
 I have hitherto used. As I received this Oleum in the Win- 
 ter, it was especially noticeable that your Oleum remained 
 quite clear and lucid when exposed to the cold, while the im- 
 ported, and several other oils, by the side of yours, became 
 stiff and thick, and looked like lard. From this I conclude 
 that your Oleum is composed of finer and better substances 
 than all others that I have hitherto used. 
 
 As you will see from the accompanying letters, all my 
 friends in question are of the same opinion, and are deter- 
 mined to use no other Oleum anymore. Indeed, it is quite 
 reasonable to suppose that an oil manufactured in Germany 
 cannot possess as much healing power as one prepared with 
 special reference to the diseases and climate here prevailing. 
 Any child can understand this fact. 
 
 While asking you, therefore, for the enclosed seven dollars, 
 to send me six bottles of Oleum of your own preparation (per 
 express or mail), I cannot refrain, at the same time, from ten- 
 
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 dering you my acknowledgments, and expressing my thanks, 
 and wishing you the best of success for the future. 
 
 I remain, very respectfully, yours, 
 
 Ferdinand H. M. Schroeder. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., July 27, 1872. 
 
 Dear Friend Schroeder: Up to this time I have failed to 
 tender you my thanks for the bottle of Oleum which you sent 
 me last December; but as you desired my opinion with regard 
 to its quality, as compared with, more particularly, the 
 imported oils, 1 thought I would wait long enough with my 
 reply until I could answer your question. When I received 
 the bottle of Oleum I at first thought, “ Well^ here is another 
 of my friend SchroedeFs whims,” and had it not been sent by 
 yo% I should have stuck it into some corner and left it uno- 
 pened. But as it was you who made me first acquainted with 
 this Method of Cure, and have since been my instructor in it, 
 I thought I was under obligation to you at least to try it. I 
 had, however, frequently used other oils, both imported and 
 other oils that had been recommended with a great flourish, 
 and not only was it often useless, but highly injurious and 
 detrimental. Hence I would not use this oil on my children. 
 But when, in March, I was myself attacked with rheumatism, 
 I applied it on my own person, and was at once astonished at 
 its fabulously good effects. The effect was so surprising that I 
 applied it on my smallest child, which was suffering from a 
 severe attack of quinsy. Here, also, I met with the same 
 favorable result. In April and May I treat^^d the eighteen- 
 year-old son of my neighbor, who had be<;ri suffering for one 
 and a half years of an inexplicable, painless lameness of the 
 right leg, and whom I had frequently treated with the 
 imported oil, but without good effect. After I had operated 
 upon him for two months with Linden’s Oleum, he was 
 entirely restored, so that for the ten weeks past he is now 
 engaged in the store of his father, which requires him to be 
 on his feet from morning until night. 
 
 These results have forced the conviction upon me that 
 Linden’s Oleum is excellent and unsurpassable, and as soon as 
 my present supply is exhausted I shall order ^15 future from 
 
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 him. Now I have given you my judgment concerning Lin- 
 den’s Oleum ; be kind enough, now, also, to give me yours 
 concerning it. 
 
 With old-time friendship I greet you in conclusion. 
 
 Thaddeus Herman. 
 
 Charleston, S. C., Feb. 15, 1873. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Through my friend Schroeder 
 I received, more than a year ago, some of your self-prepared 
 Oleum. The results I secured with your Oleum were so very 
 favorable that in future I shall draw whatever I may need, be 
 it ever so little, from you. Without desiring to flatter you, I 
 must say that I prefer your Oleum to all others that I have 
 hitherto used. Any one practicing this new Method of Cure, 
 if he once tries your Oleum, will not thereafter desire any 
 other. Inclosed find $5.25, for which you will please send 
 me, per mail, three bottles of Oleum. 
 
 Respectfully, Thaddeus Herman. 
 
 Cleveland, February 21, 1873. 
 
 Mr. Thaddeus Herumn, Charleston — Much Respected Sir: 
 Your friendly letter of the 15th inst., with the inclosed $5.25, 
 I received yesterday. For the favorable opinion you therein 
 express concerning my Oleum, I am sincerely grateful. Your 
 friend, Mr. Schroeder, of St. Louis, had already sent me 
 the letter you wrote to him of July 7, last year. He 
 expressed himself in the most flattering terms concerning my 
 Oleum, and, at my request, has permitted me to publish his 
 letter in the next — ^. 6., the fourteenth — edition of my Book 
 of Instruction. The object of my present writing is simply 
 this, whether you will kindly consent to allow me the same 
 privilege with your letter to him, and also the one addressed 
 to me. If you desire it, I should be satisfied to publish only 
 the initials of your worthy name. The 3 bottles of Oleum I 
 am sending to-day per mail, and hope you will have the best 
 success with them. 
 
 Expecting a favorable answer from you soon, I remain, 
 Yours, devotedly, John Linden. 
 
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 Charleston, S. C., Feb. 28, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden — Dear Sir: The three bottles of Oleum 
 you sent me on the 21st inst. arrived here in good condition. 
 With pleasure do I permit you to publish the letter addressed 
 to friend Schroeder, as well as the one addressed to you; and 
 you are at liberty, furthermore, to give my name in full, for I 
 cannot see why I should hesitate or feel reluctant to express 
 my opinion concerning your Oleum. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, Thaddeus Herman, 
 
 Fielden, 111., July 22, 1875. 
 
 Dear Sir : Inasmuch as the Oleum you last sent me has 
 been all used, and with the very best of results, I therefore de- 
 sire that 3 ^ou send me, by mail, for the enclosed $5.00, four more 
 bottles of the same. I hope you have received my letter of last 
 Spring, which also contained a remittance, and hence it will be 
 unnecessary to indulge in any further eulogies on your Oleum. 
 
 Most respectfully yours, J. Luscher, Prot Pastor. 
 
 Constantinople, (Turkey), Sept. 9, 1876. 
 
 Most Respected Mr, Linden: You sent me, about three years 
 ago, a Resuscitator, Book of Instruction, and 4 bottles of Oleum, 
 to Salonica, Turkey, which arrived here in good condition. 
 Since that time I have been transferred to Constantinople, 
 where I now reside. Although we have celebrated medical 
 men in Turkey, yet I must say this much in favor of your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum, that it has accomplished more than 
 the best doctors. Several cases of sickness, that had been 
 declared incurable by good physicians, I treated, experiment- 
 allj^, and cured them. 
 
 Thus, for instance, the only son of a high oflBcial had 
 been suffering for years from a scrofulous affection of the eyes. 
 After vainly seeking relief from the physicians here, the 
 father traveled with him to Bucharest, Vienna, and Pesth, to 
 consult the best physicians of those places, but, despite of all 
 remedies that were applied, no improvement at all took place, 
 and the father abandoned the hope of ever seeing the evil 
 removed. 
 
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 Now, I had read of a similar case in your Book of Instruc- 
 tion, in which the patient had been cured by your treatment. 
 I spoke with the father, and offered to treat his son, as the 
 treatment could certainly do no harm. After three applica- 
 tions of the Resuscitator, with the Oleum, the inflammation 
 had entirely subsided, but I continued the treatment for four 
 weeks more, and the young man (eighteen years old at that 
 time) was perfectly cured of his trouble. Naturally, such a 
 cure would awaken a great interest among the higher classes, 
 which was greatly enhanced, however, after I had used it 
 with success in curing a case of gout in one of the older court 
 officials. I might refer to the cure of yet many cases of 
 chronic disease, but this may suffice for to day. Your instru- 
 ment and a bottle of your Oleum are now in possession of one 
 of the court physicians, who has used it, according to his own 
 statement, in several instances, with remarkable success. 
 
 I send you to-day a draft on New York for $75.00 in gold. 
 Send me, for it, four instruments, two German and two 
 English Books of Instruction, and, for the balance, of your 
 Oleum. Be kind enough to pack it as solidly as you can, that 
 it may come safely to hand. Three of these instruments are 
 designed for several of my acquaintances. It is a pity that 
 your book is not translated into the language of this country. 
 I expect to receive the goods I herewith order at the earliest 
 possible moment. 
 
 With great respect, I am yours, 
 
 Joachim Van Uslar, Peer, 
 
 Cork, (Ireland,) February, 1875. 
 
 Mr. J Linden — Dear Sir: Accompanying this you will 
 find an order for $16.00, for which you will please send me two 
 instruments, with what belongs to them. This Method of 
 Cure has already helped me and my relations very much, and 
 I am often surprised that it is still so little known here. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, James Richter. 
 
 Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 24, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: I am at present treating a poor man, the 
 father of three children, whose spine has been injured in a 
 
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 coal bank, and suffered the most excruciating pain in his 
 thighs for the space of ten months. An allopathic physician 
 made daily hyperdermic injections of morphine, from which 
 he continued in a stupor two hours, but when consciousness 
 returned, his pains returned also. Once that I was visiting 
 him he begged me to apply the Resuscitator upon him, which 
 I did. Even after the first application he realized considera- 
 ble relief, and now he is, thank God, relieved of all pain. He 
 is so rejoiced over it that he hardly knows how to be suffi- 
 ciently thankful. His wife told me that formerly he could be 
 heard screaming for pain as far as the third neighbor’s house. 
 I have cured many a sick one with your instrument and Oleum, 
 whom the physicians had treated in vain. 
 
 I remain, yours respectfully, Mrs. John Geis. 
 
 Dundee, Mich., January 17, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Your Resuscitator and Oleum has once 
 more made a splendid proof of its efficacy. A girl, twelve years 
 of age, had the jaundice, from which she could not be freed by 
 any remedies that were tried. Being the daughter of wealthy 
 parents, the best doctors were consulted ; but all in vain, and 
 the parents knew not what to do. I told them I believed I 
 could cure her. I showed the instrument to the mother, and 
 told her how to use it. In four weeks she was w^ell, and now, 
 of course, her astonishment was great. I expect to acquire, 
 yet, many friends for this wonderful Method of Cure. I also 
 cured an old man of sixty-three years of podagra that had tor- 
 tured him for years. Now he is quite active, and has had no 
 pain for eight months past. 
 
 Wishing you good health and spirits, I remain. 
 
 Your friend, August Bolden. 
 
 Port Snelling, Minn., May 9, 1878. 
 
 Highly Respected Mr. Linden: For more than a year past 
 my wife has been suffering from pain in her entire body, 
 which drew from one place to another. Operating four times 
 with the Resuscitator and Oleum over the surface of her back, 
 over the region of the stomach, and on the calves of the legs. 
 
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 removed all pain, and she has now been without pain for 
 seven months. 
 
 Gratefully, I remain, yours truly, John Meyerson. 
 
 Naples, (Italy,) July 25, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Passing through Cleveland 
 this Spring, on my way to Europe with my family, I took 
 along, as you will remember, one Resuscitator, one book, and 
 2 bottles of your Oleum. I applied it on my wife, for the first 
 time, who was suffering fearfully of sea-sickness, and, strange 
 as it may seem, she was at once freed from it. The conse- 
 quence was that my wife had to make the operation on other 
 ladies on the vessel, and always with good results. But my 
 supply of Oleum melted rapidly away in this manner, and as 
 my wife is unwilling to go on another vessel without a supply 
 of your Oleum at hand, you will please send, at once, per ex- 
 press, C. 0. D., to the underwritten firm in New York, six 
 bottles of your Oleum, and they will forward it to me with 
 other things I am getting. On my return I shall certainly 
 call upon you. I would never have believed that the little 
 instrument would prove itself so valuable. 
 
 Respectfully yours, Robert M. Dayton. 
 
 Harmony, Pa., Jan. 5, 1877. 
 
 Worthy John Linden: When I ordered the Resuscitator 
 from you I had been suffering for a long time of the intermit- 
 tent fever, had taken much medicine, but without improve- 
 ment. The Resuscitator freed me from it in two weeks, and I 
 have not had a return of it for half a year. This fever is very 
 prevalent here, and as I got relieved of it so quickly, I have 
 been called on to treat four other patients, suffering from it, 
 with the Resuscitator, and all four of them are fully restored, 
 but the result is, my Oleum is all gone. Now, please send me, 
 per mail, two bottles, for which I enclose S3.50. May God be 
 pleased to spare your life, that you may be able to cure yet 
 many sufferers by means of your wonderful Resuscitator. 
 
 Theodore Van Reichen. 
 
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 Fredericka, Iowa, Feb. 7, 1887. 
 
 Mr. Linden: My wife has an attack, regularly, about every 
 two weeks, of the so-called sick-headache,’^ and this had con- 
 tinued for three years, and in spite of all medical treatment. 
 Four applications of your Resuscitator has cured her, and fur 
 nine months she has not had a return of it. 
 
 Herman Goldberg. 
 
 Santiago, (Chili,) March 21, 1877. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden — Dear Sir: I beg you earnestly, for 
 the inclosed $10.00, to send me a supply of your Oleum. I 
 have scarcely half a bottle left, and have to be saving with it, 
 until I can get some more. 
 
 Several months ago I treated an elderly gentleman, who 
 had been suffering for ten or eleven months, according to the 
 statement of his physicians, of a disease of the spine, an^ in 
 six weeks he was entirely cured, so that he had no pains 
 whatever. We should need very few doctors, indeed, if every 
 family were to use your Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 
 Joseph Sarago. 
 
 Greenock, (Scotland,) May 30, 1877. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Linden : Please transmit to me six bottles of 
 your Oleum, for which the money will accompany this. Send 
 it in the same manner as heretofore. 
 
 Respectfully, Henry A. Wise. 
 
 Dundee, (Scotland,) December, 1875. 
 
 Mr. Linden: For the inclosed $12.00, please send me an 
 instrument, one English Book of Instructions, and four bottles 
 of Oleum ; the latter must be as good as that you sent me for- 
 merly. 
 
 One of my friends has always obtained his oil from 
 Germany, but he has now convinced himself that yours is far 
 superior ; for this reason I order four bottles, so as to let him 
 have two. 
 
 Respectfully, John M. Jamieson. 
 
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 Craigsville, Pa., Nov. 25, 1876. 
 
 Miwh Respected Mr, John Linden: I desire herewith to ten- 
 der you my thanks for the good advice you gave me in refer-- 
 ence to my disease. I followed your advice carefully, and in 
 two and one-half weeks I was freed of my sufferings. Now, of 
 course, it might be claimed that the Resuscitator had nothing, 
 to do with my recovery, and that I should have got well with- 
 out it. So the doctor thought, at least, who had treated me 
 for four months, and whom I had paid S70.00 for his prescrip- 
 tions ; but this same doctor had, at the same time, three other 
 patients, whom he had also treated for so long a time without 
 good effects. One after another sent for me, and I applied the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum, three times, and, behold ! they all 
 got better. Then I asked the doctor whether these three also* 
 got better merely by accident, or whether the Resuscitator 
 was a better doctor than he. He got angry, and told me it 
 was nothing but quackery. I replied, “ If the Resuscitator is 
 a quack, and it cures me in two and a half weeks, after you 
 could not cure me in* four months, and for $70.00, what then 
 are you ? ’’ 
 
 These cures have attracted great attention here, and I 
 have been asked many questions concerning them. My three 
 former companions in suffering are now each of them desirous 
 of having a Resuscitator, together with its belongings. Please 
 send me, therefore, three instruments, two English and one 
 German book, and six bottles of Oleum. I inclose a postal 
 money order for $27.00. If this is not enough, I will send the 
 balance next time. 
 
 Yours, gratefully, Matthew Boehm. 
 
 Galveston, (Texas,) December 28, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : My friend, John Mayer, has favored me 
 with your address. Last Summer he had treated me for and 
 cured me of a fever that is here very prevalent, and that, too, 
 after several doctors had treated me in vain. He had also 
 freed my wife of rheumatism. Now, I want a Resuscitator 
 also, with book, and two bottles of Oleum, for which I inclose 
 herewith $10.00. I pray you to send them as soon as possible. 
 
 Respectfully, Herman Saundel. 
 
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 Sandhurst, (Australia,) May 12, 1876. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: Accompanying this I stmd you a 
 draft for £4 sterling on the Bank of England, for which you 
 will send me again two instruments, one English and one Ger- 
 man Book of Instruction, and, for the balance, of your Oleum. 
 If you send the package to a forwarding agent in Liverpool, 
 England, then the freight will be much cheaper than to send 
 it, as you did formerly, through a New York forwarding 
 house. Your remedies have here accomplished much good, 
 and I always rejoice when I am able to do good to my neigh- 
 bors, with them, which is a very frequent occurrence. 
 
 Respectfully, Wentzel Bigeler. 
 
 Odense, (Denmark,) June 19, 1876. 
 
 Mr. Linden: A friend in Copenhagen, whom I had lately 
 visited, has shown me a Resuscitator, and spoken in such 
 high terms of it, that I would like to have one also. Please 
 send me, therefore, a Resuscitator, one German book, and two 
 bottles of the Oleum belonging to it, for which I inclose $10.00. 
 This is the price my friend told me you charged. If the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum are but half as good as my friend says, 
 then it is wonderful that your Method of Cure is not already 
 spread over the entire globe. 
 
 Expecting soon to receive the articles, I remain, 
 
 Yours, respectfully, Erhard Jonason. 
 
 Richland, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : I have treated my daughter in the man- 
 ner you directed. At first I had no confidence in this Method 
 of Cure, but as I had already doctored so much, and as she 
 had been suffering for so long a time of the jaundice, I deter- 
 mined to resort to the Resuscitator. Now I wish to inform 
 you that my daughter is fully restored, she has fresh and rosy 
 cheeks once more, and is so lively that it is an unalloyed 
 pleasure to see her. Any one suffering of jaundice need only 
 use the Resuscitator to get cured of it. 
 
 With respect, Amruosious Hartman. 
 
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 Alameda, Cal., Januar}" 15, 1877. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: For four years I had been suffering 
 of dyspepsia, and at last became unfit to attend to my busi- 
 ness. In spite of all remedies I became constantly worse. At 
 last I became so sick that I despaired of all help. A friend 
 then advised me to try your new Method of Cure, and, in 
 order to go safely, I thought I would first write to you to learn 
 how he ought to proceed in applying it. Three months have 
 now passed since he first applied the Resuscitator, and now, 
 thank God, I am fully restored. I have no pains left what- 
 ever, and feel ten years younger. 
 
 But now I must have such an instrument likewise, and I 
 pray you send me one, with a bottle of Oleum, and a German 
 book, per express. I inclose $8.00. Please send it at once. 
 
 Gratefully and obediently yours, 
 
 Herman J. Wolff. 
 
 Baltimore, Md., December 24, 1875. 
 
 Highly Esteemed Mr. Linden : Inclosed I send you a draft for 
 $25.00 on New York, for which you will please send me, per 
 express, without delay, two Resuscitators, one German and 
 •one English Book of Instruction, and, for the balance, of your 
 own Oleum, hut no ‘‘imported’’; for the latter, if it ever pos- 
 sessed healing power, must have lost it by the time it arrives 
 here. Likewise do I want Resuscitators with gilt needles. In- 
 form me at once with which express company you sent me the 
 goods. Respectfully, Bernhard Van Freien. 
 
 Corfu, (Greece,) January 20, 1876. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: The remedies you sent me about two 
 years ago have proved a blessing to many. You would rejoice 
 if you could see the surprising results produced in the cure of 
 many cases of dangerous disease. It is an object of general 
 surprise to see the never-failing success, especially in cases of 
 rheumatism and gout that are so prevalent here. I have 
 never made a business of doctoring, but when an acquaint- 
 ance comes to me, who has tried everything else, possible or 
 impossible, without good effect, then I cannot say “ No.” But 
 thus it is that my Oleum is running out, and therefore I wish 
 
you would at once send in care of the firm of C. G. & Co., New 
 York, one Resuscitator, one German Book of Instruction, and 
 6 bottles Oleum. These gentlemen will pay you the amount. 
 Yours, truly, Herman Anton Seiler. 
 
 Union Hill, N. J., March 31, 1876. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden : I tender you my sincere thanks for 
 the advice you gave me. Four weeks ago I effected a great 
 cure in the case of a young man, fifteen years old, who, on the 
 last day of the year, fell into the river, and, as a consequence, 
 was confined to his bed for five weeks. When the doctors 
 failed to cure him, the parents sent for me, and, when I got to 
 him, he had inflammation of the bowels, together with a 
 severe cough, and a profuse expectoration day and night. I 
 operated upon him three times, and now he is as well and 
 lively as ever before in his life. 
 
 Be pleased to send me, for the inclosed postal order, six 
 bottles of your Oleum, as soon as possible. 
 
 With hearty good wishes, yours, Jacob Schmitt. 
 
 South Port, Conn., March 17, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: In conclusion, I would yet inform you 
 that my brother, who has been suffering for over a year from 
 the effects of a paralytic attack, has been almost fully restored 
 after four applications of your Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 After I treat him two months more, I expect him to be 
 entirely restored. George Taubmann. 
 
 Muenchen, October 5, 1876. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Please send meat once six bottles of your 
 Oleum, for which I inclose $7.00. The quality of your oil is 
 much better than that of this place. I have much better suc- 
 cess with yours. Please attend to this Oleum as soon as you 
 can, and address the same, as before, to 
 
 Yours, respectfully, Moritz Herman. 
 
 • Natal, (Brazil,) Februafv, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden,: Please send to me, by the addressed 
 undersigned, one Resuscitator, one German book, and, for the 
 
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 rest of the money, of the Oleum. Inclosed 1 send you $15.00. 
 Your Resuscitator and Oleum produce great results. 
 
 Obediently yours, John W. Holz. 
 
 Watertown, Wis., Nov. 8, 1874. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: I consider it my duty to inform you of 
 the marvels wrought by your Resuscitator and Oleum, in my 
 family. Three of my children, aged respectively four, six and 
 eight years, had an attack resembling the cholera, of which 
 many children in this vicinity have died, even in cases where 
 medical assistance was immediately at hand. My three chil- 
 dren had so violent an attack that the doctor who treated the 
 children of our neighbors, across the road, came to see us, 
 shrugged his shoulders, and thought it looked dangerous. He 
 prescribed medicines, which I, however, never had prepared, 
 but simply applied the Resuscitator and Oleum, and now they 
 are all three of them as well as fish in the water. But, of the 
 four children which the doctor treated across the road, two 
 of them died. Without the Resuscitator, I should mourn, 
 to-day, over my buried children. A farmer, living several 
 miles from this place, who has also. got an instrument and oil, 
 hut not of yours., visited us and wanted to know how we treated 
 our children. I explained everything to him, for two of his 
 children were sufiering of the same evil, but told him at the 
 same time that I thought he would better take some of nay 
 Oleum along, as I thought mine was better than his. But he 
 laughed, and replied that he had received a printed circular 
 which convinced him that only the imported oil was genuine 
 and possessed healing qualities, and that Linden’s Oleum 
 was worthless. ‘‘ Well,” said I, “a man’s will is his kingdom 
 of heaven ; my children have been cured with Linden’s Oleum, 
 for which I thank God, and I can only hope for you that the 
 imported oil may prove similarly curative in yours.” But, 
 alas! two weeks after he buried both his children in one day. 
 When, several days after, his youngest child was attacked in 
 the same way, he came to get the use of my bottle of Oleum, 
 and applied it on this one, and in eight days after it was 
 sound and well. Now you may say for yourself whether all 
 this is not w^onderful. 
 
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 With many^ many thanks for your superior Oleum and 
 Resuscitator, from myself and wife, I remain, 
 
 Yours, ever grateful, Peter John Mayer. 
 
 Highland, 111., July 27, 1876. 
 
 My Old Friend Linden : As for two years past I have not 
 sent you any orders, you might believe either that I was dead 
 or angry at you. The latter was about half true, for, in con- 
 sequence of the many and honor-polluting assaults that were 
 made upon you, emanating from Cleveland and also from 
 Baunscheidt himself, scattered broadcast by means of pam- 
 phlets, circulars, and newspapers, I came to the conclusion, at 
 last, that there must be some truth in the charge that you 
 were selling a poor and injurious Oleum; the more so, as 1 
 did not see or know of any steps you took to shut up these 
 base slanderers by legal proceedings. Hence I began order- 
 ing, from other sources, the imported oil, but I found it in 
 
 every respect inferior to yours. Last week the Rev. R 
 
 stayed at mj house, and he explained to me that you were 
 slandered by the Endenich parties, and that the whole affair 
 was simply a case of bread jealousy, and that the parties there 
 were trying everything, and were determined to ruin your 
 business, in order to secure the American field for themselves, 
 without a competitor. Now I am thoroughly convinced of the 
 correctness of Rev. R ’s opinions, and hence you will here- 
 
 after have me and my friends for customers again. But why 
 you should patiently submit to the gross and dishonoring 
 insinuations that are sent forth, day after day, from Cleve- 
 land, I cannot conceive. I suppose you have reasons for it 
 that are not known by me. Perhaps you feel as is said of the 
 lion in the fable : What an ass says of me is of no account to 
 me.” But enough of this. I am sorry that, as an old business 
 friend, T should ever liave been induced to call your integrity 
 into question for a moment. IucIosckI you will find a postal 
 money order for $13.00, for which please send me, per express, 
 12 bottles of the Oleum you prepare yourself. This Oleum is 
 designed for a number of my friends here, and myself. I shall 
 probably soon write to you again. 
 
 Respectfully, your old friend, 
 
 John B. Harting. 
 
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 Louisville, Monroe Co., 0., March 23, 1875. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: Herewith I send you $3.70, for which you 
 will send me, per mail, two bottles of your Oleum. I am well 
 satisfied with the results. Besides other cures which I have 
 been able to make on my wife and children, I have succeeded 
 in curing my seven-year-old son of the jaundice. 
 
 Lewis Stegner. 
 
 Sherman, Texas, Feb. 22, 1877. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: For the amount I herewith inclose, you 
 will please send to me one book, one instrument, and two 
 bottles of Oleum. I have used your Oleum, with the Resusci- 
 tator, for the last seven years, and have always had good re- 
 sults in all cases, except in cases of consumption. 
 
 Yours, Wm. R. Blockamore. 
 
 Clearport, Ohio, Febo 8, 1877= 
 
 Esteemed Mr. lAnden: The bottle of Oleum which I received 
 of you several weeks ago, I have used with the happiest re- 
 sults. Send me at once, per mail, two bottles more, for which 
 you will find the amount inclosed. 
 
 Your friend, Gottlieb Kibler. 
 
 Douglas, Kansas, February 10, 1877. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Send me forthwith two bottles 
 of your Oleum. I have effected some of the most remarkable 
 <cures with your instrument and Oleum, and cases, too, in 
 which it would never have been expected. At the proper 
 time I will write you in detail about the magnificent results 
 achieved in the cases that I have treated. 
 
 Respectfully, L. W. Benepe. 
 
 Sunny Side, Ark., Dec., 14, 1874. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: I herewith send you a postal money 
 order for $36.00, for which please send me a Resuscitator, 
 English Book of Instructions, and Oleum. 
 
 Although I have frequently been offered imported and 
 other cheaper oils, I have allowed myself to be misled but 
 once to buy the imported oil, which is sold for $1.00 a bottle 
 
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 more than you sell yours. I was assured that, as it was cost- 
 lier than yours, it must of course be better also, and by such 
 arguments I was entrapped. After using this imported oil 
 three times, I was convinced that it is by no means equal to 
 yours, and I should not be willing to use it any more, even if 
 I could get no other, for the patients I treated with it became 
 worse instead of belter. C. W. Van Spangeler. 
 
 Hopedale, 111., June 14, 1875. 
 
 Esteemed Mr, John Linden : My last order to you came on 
 the 5th inst., and I had the Resuscitator applied to me at 
 once, as I had for a long time been suffering the intensest 
 pain in the small of the back, so that I could barely stand or 
 lie down. After a sitigle operation I improved materially, 
 and, after the second, I was restored. 
 
 With respect, yours, Cornelius Schroeder. 
 
 Nebraska, Pa., January 13, 1877. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: I would herewith kindly request of 
 you to send me, lor the inclosed money, 2 bottles of Oleum, per 
 express, as I am neither willing nor able to do without it for 
 even a short time; for this noble and highly appreciated 
 Resuscitator has demonstrated its excellence in the great 
 results effected upon myself and family. 
 
 Yours, obediently, Peter Youngh. 
 
 Strawn, Kansas, December 18, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden^ Cleveland^ 0.: I have used the Resusci- 
 tator and your highly appreciated Oleum for a number of 
 years, and in many cases, and it has always rendered good 
 services both to me and my family. I moved last Summer 
 from Missouri to this place, and on this journey my wife con- 
 tracted a bilious fever. I applied the Resuscitator at once, 
 but the fever did not cease; four days afterward I applied it 
 again, and the fever ceased, and has not returned since. At 
 this time I am treating a neighbor’s woman with it, who has 
 been suffering for seventeen years of the hemorrhoids, and a 
 number of doctors have pronounced her incurable. After 
 treating her only so short a time, she is already much 
 
improved; but I shall continue, nevertheless, with the opera- 
 tions, with the hope of effecting a thorough cure. 
 
 For the inclosed $6 00, please send me, per express, four 
 bottles of your Oleum. 
 
 Your friend, John P. Saueressig. 
 
 Cleburn, Texas, January 1, 1877. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: The instrument and Oleum you sent 
 me I have applied freely, and in every case it has cured the 
 disease. For inclosed $1.85, please send me at once, per mail, 
 one bottle of Oleum. Robert W. Ellis. 
 
 Sandusky, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1877. 
 
 Mr. John Linden^ Cleveland^ 0.: You will please send me, 
 for the inclosed $5.00, four bottles of your Oleum, per express. 
 Last Spring I was on North Bass island, where I applied the 
 instrument seven hundred times, at a single sitting, to a lady 
 patient. She was in the highest degree scrofulous, and suf- 
 fered from epilepsy and lameness. Hundreds of dollars had 
 been spent in vain for her relief, before she became epileptic 
 and lame. After this she was taken to the surgical Institute 
 of Indianapolis, where she paid $100.00 before treatment 
 could begin. She was then sent to Cleveland, where she was 
 treated by some of the best physicians, for some time, but all 
 in vain. She was pronounced incurable. I have now treated 
 her for four months, and she is restored. Her nervous system 
 is still weak, but she is strong otherwise, and has the bloom 
 of health in her face. Respectfully, W. D. Lindsley. 
 
 Boone ville. Mo., Dec. 28, 1876. 
 
 My Dear Friend Linden: Send me another Resuscitator, 
 one English Book of Instruction, and one bottle of Oleum, for 
 which I inclose the amount. 
 
 Since I cured my wife, five years ago, by means of your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum, of a disease which staggered every 
 doctor in the county, and defied all medicine, it has secured 
 for itself a most excellent reputation. 
 
 With the best of wishes, your friend, 
 
 J. S. Sturtevant. 
 
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 Rockport, Ind., December 26, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Latelj- I treated a patient with sur- 
 prising success. He was suftering from epilepsy and partial 
 paralysis, and the doctors pronounced him incurable. But 
 the Resuscitator has now cured, and the result is, I have 
 much to do for the little instrument. 
 
 Write to me at once how you will sell me eight dozen of 
 your Oleum. T. M. Smith, M. D. 
 
 Calvert City, Ky., December 15, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Send to me 3 bottles of Oleum, per 
 express, for which I inclose $4.50. I have used your needle 
 instrument and Oleum for 4 years, and I would not like to do 
 without. During this Pall, pneumonia prevailed here to such 
 an extent that, within a circle of one mile twenty persons 
 died of it within six weeks, in spite of all that the doctors and 
 apothecaries could do. Of the ten persons constituting our 
 family, four were attacked by the disease, whom I treated 
 with the Resuscitator, and all became well. The doctors 
 make fun of the Resuscitator, but the cures which I have 
 effected with it they cannot deny. 
 
 Yours, with respect, Elijah Wilson. 
 
 Freetown, Sierra Leone, (West Africa,)) 
 December 15, 1876. j 
 
 Worthy Mr. Linden : May God bless you for the readiness 
 with which you endeavored ^‘to relieve our wearisome labors’^ 
 (as you expressed it) when you last year so kindly made a 
 present to us of the three Resuscitators, two German and one 
 English book, and 12 bottles of Oleum, which I had ordered 
 from you. You can hardly believe how much our weary 
 toils’^ were indeed relieved by the application of the Resusci- 
 tator, and how man}^ thanks I received for the cure of afflicted 
 persons. Often, when we are on our journeys, and the natives 
 know that we are coming, the sick are brought out to meet us, 
 in order to be cured. And then, when we return to such a 
 neighborhood, these persons do not know how sufficiently to 
 express their gratitude. That we secure, by thus curing sick 
 members of families, a very friendly reception and attentive 
 
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 hearers, whom we should not otherwise so readily make our 
 friends. Besides this, we often had opportunity to cure our 
 ignorant and pitiable natives of diseases from which they had 
 been suffering for months, and often for years, and tried in 
 vain to cure them by all sorts of quackery and magic. The 
 Resuscitator has also rendered great service to me. When, in 
 July of last year, I was traveling in the states of Soudan, and 
 was within half a day’s journey of Uje, I was attacked by a 
 sickness connected with violent vomiting, followed by a fever, 
 alternating with chills. In this condition I remained for two 
 hours, lying under a large tree, and was so feeble that I dis- 
 tinctly perceived that the powers of both body and mind were- 
 passing away. My companion, a young native converted to 
 Christianity, whom I had already taught the use of the Resus- 
 citator, took the instrument from my traveling bag and 
 applied it upon my stomach, over my back, upon my arms, 
 and over the region of the heart. Toward evening I felt so 
 much improved that I could resume my journey, and in a few 
 hours we arrived at a hut, the inhabitants of which received 
 us kindly, and entertained us until the following afternoon,, 
 when we resumed our journey, and that same evening arrived 
 at Uje. Since that time your Resuscitator became my insepa- 
 rable traveling companion, and I must frankly confess that I 
 would greatly regret if circumstances should ever compel me 
 to travel without it. Such is also the opinion of the two other 
 missionaries, who are in possession of the Resuscitator. 
 
 We have several converted natives who render us very 
 essential service in the spread of Christianity, who are famil- 
 iar with the use of the Resuscitator, but we have only a few 
 of them, and our Oleum is almost exhausted. We have 
 therefore resolved to send for new supplies. Please send us, 
 therefore, to our mission house in London, twelve Resusci- 
 tators, eight English and four German books, and one hun- 
 dred bottles of your invaluable Oleum. Be careful to pack it 
 thoroughly. The box will not be opened in the English cus- 
 tom house, but will be sent to us just as you have packed it. 
 Our mission house is already informed of this order, and will 
 pay your bill promptly, which you will please send to them. 
 But do not delay in sending, for we shall be anxiously await- 
 
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 ing its arrival. If you wish to do me a special favor, then be 
 kind enough to send along your photograph, for I would like 
 to have a correct idea of the appearance of the man who has 
 rendered us so good an opportunity to become helpful to our 
 fellow men. May God bless your labors to the welfare of a 
 suffering humanity. 
 
 With Christian greetings, I remain, yours, 
 
 Sebastian Gerke, Missionary. 
 
 Warsaw, (Russia,) May 15, 1877. 
 
 Highly Respected Mr. Linden: The two Resuscitators and 
 14 bottles of Oleum I received in due time, and in good con- 
 dition, three months after they were sent. To what the delay 
 w^as owing I cannot tell. Your Oleum has proved efficacious, 
 and better, by far, than that which is sold here, manufactured 
 at Endenich, near Bonn, on the Rhine. The difference is 
 really so striking that several of my friends would give no 
 rest until I suffered each of them to have a bottle of it. But 
 this has now imposed the necessity upon me to make a new 
 order, the more so as three months might again elapse before 
 its arrival. Send me, therefore, twenty-four bottles of your 
 Oleum, 3 Resuscitators, and 3 German Books of Instruc- 
 tion, for which I again send you a draft on Luebeck. Please 
 address the box to the same firm in Luebeck to whom you 
 sent the former one. Your instruments are also preferable to 
 those of German make, as they are more elegant, and have 
 gilt needles. If you were to establish a depository of your 
 remedies in Warsaw, you could not fail of doing a good busi- 
 ness, for, as this Method of Cure is already well known here, 
 and as your Resuscitators, and especially your Oleum, are far 
 more desirable than those of Germany, such an enterprise 
 could not but succeed. If you should deem this proposition 
 worthy of your attention, I should most cheerfully offer you 
 my services for the purpose of introducing negotiations to this 
 end with some good house of this place. 
 
 With great respect, I remain yours, devotedly, 
 
 George Herman Mayer. 
 
London, England, June 19, 1877. 
 Mr. John Linden : Inclosed is a draft on New York for 
 $22.00. Please send me, at once, two instruments, one Ger- 
 man and one English Book of Instruction, and eight bottles of 
 Oleum ; but let it be that of your own preparation. The other 
 I do not want upon any condition. 
 
 Respectfully, Bernhard v. Goltz. 
 
 Trhnble, Ohio, March 27, 1876. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Inclosed I send you $9.50, for which you will 
 please send me one Resiiscitator, one book, and two bottles of 
 Oleum. 
 
 My wife has been suffering for the last sixteen years of 
 the asthma. We employed a number of doctors, but without 
 success; but, on the contrary, she continued to grow worse. 
 At last a neighbor persuaded me to try your treatment, which 
 1 did, and since that time she has grown perceptibly better. 
 If I continue the treatment for some time longer, she will, I 
 doubt not, be quite restored. I desire to communicate this to 
 you, as I had entirely despaired of ever seeing my wife 
 recover. Respectfully, S. H. Johnson. 
 
 Greenville, Wis., Jan. 11, 1877. 
 
 Worthy Mr. Linden: Your remedies have proved them- 
 selves in every case as of extraordinary value. I would not 
 like to be without them, for they have yielded more than a 
 good doctor. 
 
 Send me, per express, three bottles of your Oleum, for 
 which I inclose the amount. Balthaser Green. 
 
 Beardstown, 111., Jan. 16, 1877. 
 
 Honored Mr. John Linden: I have used the Resiiscitator, 
 with your Oleum, in my family, for the last seven years, and 
 it has rendered me wonderful services. I have now applied it 
 on four of my children, who had the scarlet fever, and with 
 great success. But I have four more children, who have not 
 yet been taken with it, but I believe they will also get it, and 
 I am almost out of oil. Send me, therefore, per mail, two bot- 
 
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 ties of your genuine Oleum, but quickly^ quickly ; for I must 
 have it at once. 
 
 With friendly greetings, I close. 
 
 Yours, Henry Hobrock. 
 
 West Union, Iowa, Jan. 16 , 1877. 
 
 Mr, John Linden: The instrument you sent me, with the 
 six bottles of Oleum, have come to hand in good condition. For 
 the inclosed $8.00, please send me one instrument, one bottle 
 of Oleum, and one Book of Instruction. I am now treating a 
 young man of twenty-three years for the epilepsy. His first 
 attack he he had when but sixteen years of age. Since that 
 time he has had an attack at least once a day, without excep- 
 tion, and as high as five times in one day. He is naturally a 
 strongly-built young man, but the doctors have treated him so 
 long that he could at last hardly walk of sheer weakness, and 
 the attacks increased in frequency. When he has his fits he 
 clinches his fists so firmly that no one can open them. His 
 father has already spent several hundred dollars on doctors for 
 him, but all in vain. Since I am treating him with the 
 Resuscitator, he has become able to do as good a day’s work as 
 any one, and has an appetite, he says, like a horse. For 
 twenty days he has had but four attacks, but much slighter 
 than formerly, and by continuous treatment I expect fully to 
 restore him. 
 
 With friendly greetings, I am yours, 
 
 John Heiseman. 
 
 Chicago, 111., February 11, 1877. 
 
 My Dear Friend Linden : If I answer your favor of May 17 
 of last year only to-day, it does not follow that this delay 
 arises from inditference to your wish to inform you concern- 
 ing the success I had with your Resuscitator. But as you 
 yourself then wrote to me that the Oleum you then sent me 
 was of a particularly good quality, and of your own manufac- 
 ture, I thought I would wait and see if a practical test would 
 verify your opinion. The twelve bottles of Oleum you then 
 sent me I have used up, all but one and one-half bottle. I 
 was careful to note the effect of its application, and have 
 
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 arrived at the conviction that your Oleum is to be much pre« 
 ferred to any that I have hitherto used. The advantages of 
 your Oleum consist, according to my mind, in the following 
 points : 
 
 1. Its effect is more powerful and more prompt. 
 
 2. It leaves no scars or indurations, as is often the case 
 with the imported and other oils. And, 
 
 3. Although your Oleum works more rapidly, it does not 
 produce either painful or uncomfortable feelings, as is often 
 the case with the other oils. 
 
 4. It extracts the morbid matter much more rapidly and 
 radically from the body, and thus accelerates the cure. 
 
 6. I have never discovered that the application of your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum produces the slightest injurious effects 
 upon the patient, which has frequently been the case with 
 the imported and other oils, so called. 
 
 6. Immediately following, and sometimes during, the 
 operation, the patient realizes a warming and invigorating 
 sensation, and an instantaneous relief of whatever pain exists 
 follows. This is attested by all the patients who have for- 
 merly used other oils, and my own experience proves it. 
 
 7. With your Oleum I have rapidly cured such diseases as 
 fever and ague, jaundice, and asthma, which was not the case 
 with the use of other oils. 
 
 8. Your Oleum removes the minor disorders of the human 
 body, such as rheumatism, toothache, headache, earache, diar- 
 rhoea, and affections of the stomach, &c., at all times with cer- 
 tainty and promptness, and is for this reason preferable to all 
 others. 
 
 9. If the imported or any other oil is exposed to a cold 
 temperature, it will coagulate, while yours remains bright 
 and clear. 
 
 10. Children, and persons of weak nerves, are often afraid 
 to have the instrument applied, and I have, therefore, made 
 attempts for years to dispense with this by rubbing the parts 
 to be operated with a woolen cloth or stiff brush, and then 
 apply the Oleum. I rarely succeeded with other oils — with 
 yours always. 
 
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 11. Your Oleum is only half as high in price, and twice 
 as good in quality, as the imported. 
 
 12. The quality of your Oleum is always uniform, and 
 whoever uses it once will never desire any other. 
 
 But I close. Sincerely do I wish that your Method of 
 Cure may soon become an indispensable requisite in the 
 household of every man who has his family’s welfare at heart. 
 
 With the most friendly feelings, I remain, 
 
 Yours, Bernhard M. Koenecke. 
 
 Toronto, Ont., Jan. 2, 1887. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : Friendly greetings^ to begin with ! I 
 am sending you, to-day, $15.00, for which you will send me 
 one Resuscitator, one bottle of Oleum, one German Book of 
 Instruction, and then six extra bottles of Oleum. 
 
 During the past year I have treated fifty-three persons 
 according to your method, of whom I still have seven under 
 treatment, and forty-six of them are entirely restored. 
 
 Here follows a list of the cases I have treated, together 
 with the nature of the diseases from which they suffered, and 
 the number of applications that were made : 
 
 1. A young lady of twenty-one years had been suffering 
 for four years of a scrofulous eruption in the face, about the 
 neck, &c. The doctors had treated her for two years without 
 success. Three applications on the back, to the cervical 
 point, on the shoulders, the upper arm, and the calves of the 
 legs, removed the trouble. 
 
 2. A father of seven children had an inflammation of the 
 eyes for twenty years, which badly disfigured him, the eyelids 
 being always red. The same symptoms began to manifest 
 themselves in two of his children. The father I succeeded in 
 curing with eight different applications; while in the chil- 
 dren’s cases I succeeded in curing it with three applications. 
 They were, respectively, fifteen and seventeen years of age. 
 
 S. A lawyer of forty-five years of age was suffering of ner- 
 vous twitching, headache, and inability to concentrate his 
 mind on any one subject for any leng^h of time, as he 
 expressed it. Five applications cured him. 
 
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 4. The cousin of the foregoing, a woman of twenty-five 
 years of age, was relieved, by two applications, of the most 
 violent pains in her limbs, from which she had been suffering: 
 for several years. 
 
 5. A girl, eleven years of age, had been afflicted for a long- 
 time with pain in the neck, which hindered the free motion- 
 of her head. Bleeding, plasters, salves, and mixtures, had all' 
 been tried in vain, but the Resuscitator cured her with three 
 applications. 
 
 6. A man, fifty-eight years of age, had been suffering for 
 all of seven months of hardness of hearing, accompanied by a 
 rushing noise in the ears. Three applications cured him. 
 
 7. A woman of forty years of age, and the mother of nine 
 children, was suddenly attacked with a lameness of the right 
 arm, which was almost painless. As she was pregnant at the 
 time, the doctor, who was unable to cure her, claimed that 
 she could not be restored until after the birth of her child. 
 But, in spite of all, the Resuscitator cured her before the birth 
 of her child, by three applications. 
 
 8. A young girl and a woman I treated successfully for 
 suppressed menstruations, 
 
 9. Three persons were suffering from fever and ague. 
 After three applications, tw^o of them were cured, and after 
 the fourth application, the third was also cured. 
 
 10. A woman of forty-five years had been suffering for a 
 number of years of migrane, or sick headache,’’ connected 
 with vomiting. I applied the Resuscitator upon the back, 
 the shoulders, the calves of the legs, and on the region of the 
 stomach, and, after three applications, the evil was cured, and 
 for five months she is free from it, whereas, before, she suffered 
 for three days from it, every alternate week. 
 
 11. Four persons were freed from violent toothache by a 
 single application. 
 
 12. A very old man had been suffering from very violent 
 pain in the back, so that he could not lie down at night. 
 Two applications cured him. 
 
 13. Of rheumatism and gout I cured five persons of differ- 
 ent ages, by from two to six applications of the Resuscitator. 
 
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 14. An aged woman of sixty-one years had been suflFer- 
 ing of drawing pains through her entire body. Two doctors 
 had treated her for months, and had minutely explained it to 
 a hair whence and how her disease came, what was its Latin 
 name, and treated her with pills, mixtures, plasters, and 
 salves; but the poor woman could not leave her bed. Her son 
 came to me at last and desired me to treat her with the Resus- 
 citator. I explained to my wife what parts should be oper- 
 ated, and she went and treated the bed-fast woman three 
 times. She is now attending to her household duties, and 
 knows no more pain. This cure has attracted particular 
 attention here; the two doctors, particularly, are quite indig- 
 nant, and insist that the woman would have got well without 
 the use of the Resuscitator. But the woman in question her- 
 self says that she felt relief after the very first application. 
 
 15. A youth of fifteen years was freed by a single applica- 
 tion from violent pain in the side, from which he had suffered 
 for weeks, and which the doctor could not cure. 
 
 16. Three persons I have freed of glimmering before the 
 eyes, sinking of the left eyelid, and inflammation of the eyes, 
 by two to three apjDlications. 
 
 17. A merchant tailor of this place was frequently affected 
 by violent attacks of colic in the stomach. As he continued 
 to grow worse in spite of all medicine, I operated upon him, 
 during one of these attacks, upon the region of the stomach, 
 on the calves of the legs, and on the rims of the soles of his 
 feet, and in ten minutes the pain had all left him, which had 
 always continued for eight hours. After this I operated him 
 four times at intervals of two weeks, and since that time he 
 has not had an attack. 
 
 18. A young woman of eighteen years had been troubled 
 for five )^ears with violent palpitation of the heart, making it 
 .at times impossible for her to move. I treated her nine times 
 with the Resuscitator, and, although it has not entirely disap- 
 peared, yet she has ceased to suffer from it. 
 
 19. A clergyman from the country had been suffering for 
 some years of a distended varix, causing much pain and sleep- 
 less nights. For four months he had been able to ascend the 
 pulpit but three times. At last he came to me. After three 
 
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 applications he was able to take a daily walk of several miles. 
 Now I consider him cured, though I have advised him for 
 some time yet to apply the Resuscitator once a month. 
 
 20. A very singular case was that of a young man who 
 came to me last March, affected by an intolerable itching in 
 his feet and legs, as far up as his thighs, and both arms. No 
 irritative eruption could be discovered on his skin, and yet he 
 was obliged continually to scrub and rub himself until after 
 the blood came. Confident in the never failing efficacy of the 
 Resuscitator, I operated him on the rims of the soles of his 
 feet, the calves, the arms, and on the back, and, to my no 
 small astonishment, the itching diminished steadily, and, 
 after three applications, he was cured. 
 
 21. A girl of twelve years was terribly troubled by worms, 
 so as to produce spasms at times. I operated four times on 
 the back, and about the umbilicus. Twenty-four hours after 
 the first application she passed a great mass of so-called stom- 
 ach worms, and also some spool worms of considerable length. 
 The child is now quite well. 
 
 22. A young man of twenty-five years suffered much from 
 affections of the bladder, and the urinary secretions. As all 
 remedies had proved fruitless, he came to me. After three 
 operations with the Resuscitator, he was cured. 
 
 23. Three children I have treated with astonishing suc- 
 cess for croup, cough, diphtheria, whooping-cough, and pneu- 
 monia. In all these cases T operated lightly on the throat, on 
 the cervical point, end on the upper part of the breast. With 
 this I had the children drink freely of hot boiled milk. 
 
 I might tell you of many more cases of interest, where I 
 scarcely dared to hope for success, and yet, to my great joy, 
 your remedies proved their well-earnad reputation every time. 
 
 For to-day, adieu. 
 
 With highest regards, yours, Joachim Rederer. 
 
 Oskaloosa, Iowa, August 22, 1873. 
 Inclosed I send you a postal money order for $3.25, for 
 which you will please send me, at once, 2 bottles of your Oleum. 
 The success which I have had with your Resuscitator and 
 
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 Oleum is so great that it might almost be regarded as fabu- 
 lous. Respectfully, J. S. M. Neilson. 
 
 Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 25, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden. Send me, please, a bottle of your Oleum, 
 for which find inclosed $1.60. Your Resuscitator and Oleum 
 have greatly benefited me, and I shall continue to use them 
 with the greatest confidence. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, Clement Gindici. 
 
 Jackson, Pa., April 23, 1874. 
 
 Highly Respected I here send you $5.00, for Oleum, 
 
 which I would like to have as soon as possible. I am quite 
 out, and several patients are waiting for it. Your Resusci- 
 tator has always proved itself as thoroughly trustworthy; 
 even in such cases as the doctors could not cure, the Resusci- 
 tator has conquered. 
 
 Your friend. Geo. F. Miller. 
 
 San Antonio, Texas, June 2. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : Send me at once, per mail, a bottle of 
 your Oleum. I have regained my health by using your 
 remedies, and hence, with a good conscience, I can recommend 
 them to any one that is sick. Frank Wondracek. 
 
 Hastings, Neb. Nov. 29, 1873. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Inclosed please find $1.75, for which you will 
 send me one bottle of your Oleum, per mail. We esteem your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum very highly, and would not wish to 
 be without your remedies. John W. Potter. 
 
 Greenville, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1872. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Of your remedies I have derived more benefit 
 than from all medicines and doctors. As my Oleum is run- 
 ning low, I w’’ould request you to send me two bottles per mail, 
 for which you will find the price inclosed. 
 
 A. F. Nelson. 
 
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 Suspension Bridge, N. Y., Jan. 25, 1874. 
 
 Mr, J Linden: In the month past I received your Resus- 
 citator and three bottles of your Oleum. Now please send me, 
 for a friend of mine, one Resuscitator, one German Book of 
 Instructions, and six bottles of Oleum, for which I enclose 
 amount. By your remedies I have cured xny wife of very 
 severe cramps, which defied all doctors and medicines for a 
 long time. Besides this, I have also cured other diseases, to 
 the great joy and surprise of the patients themselves. 
 
 Respectfully, Joseph Winter. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y., January 18, 1874. 
 
 Highly Esteemed Mr. Linden: I have lately relieved two 
 sick friends of their suffering by your remedies, with whom 
 the so-called imported remedies proved of no value, after 
 repeated trials. The effect of your Oleum was really so strik- 
 ing that one patient, chagrined that he had paid out so much 
 money for his “ imported oil,’’ and all uselessly, took his bottle 
 containing it and threw it out of the window. Now send me, 
 per express, 6 bottles of your Oleum. Each of my cured 
 patients wants two bottles, and the other two are for me. 
 
 With the old unchanging friendship, I remain. 
 
 Yours, Herman Meyer. 
 
 Trenton, Mo., February 28, 1874. 
 
 Mr» John Linden: The Resuscitator, book and Oleum, sent 
 to me some time ago, have come duly to hand. I treated my 
 wife according to directions, and with very good success. My 
 child was attacked by some throat trouble which yielded to a 
 single application of the Resuscitator. 
 
 Please send me, for the inclosed $1.60, a bottle of your oil. 
 
 Peter H. Yakey. 
 
 St. Peter, Minn., March 2, 1874. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Will you be kind enough to send me, as soon 
 as possible, a Resuscitator, with its belongings? But I would 
 most urgently request you to send me of the best Oleum, for 
 that is the main consideration, if the Resuscitator is to do any 
 good. The Oleum you sent me before was really very good, 
 
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 and rendered excellent service. Among others, a patient who 
 has been suffering from a nervous disease, and given up as 
 incurable by the doctors, was cured. Be sure to send me the 
 best Oleum. E. Mahl. 
 
 Cherry Creek, Neb., Oct. 24, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Send me, per express, C. 0. D., three 
 bottles of Oleum. We have used your remedies in our family 
 with the best results, and have the greatest confidence in 
 them. A lady friend of ours, the wife of our pastor, has been 
 suffering for some time, and the physicians acknowledge that 
 they cannot help her. At her request I treated her with your 
 remedies, but thus far only twice. The lady says that she 
 already feels almost well. I believe that a continuation of 
 the treatment will result in her perfect cure. 
 
 With much respect, Mrs. J. Scofield. 
 
 Herkimer, N. Y., Nov. 9, 1887. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Please send me two bottles of your 
 highly-valued Oleum. We are well satisfied with your 
 Method of Cure. My wife and I are both well advanced in 
 years, and have been sickly for years. In consequence of 
 applying your Resuscitator, we are both well again, and feel 
 young again. 
 
 I wish you long life and good health. 
 
 Paul Starke. 
 
 Bachtown, Neb., Nov. 29, 1873. 
 
 Respected Mr. John Linden: I have effected remarkable 
 cures with your Resuscitator and Oleum. A child had a vio« 
 lent attack of the quinsy, but, after pricking it but once with 
 your Resuscitator, and applying the Oleum, it was perfectly 
 cured. In many cases 1 have succeeded in curing gout, rheu- 
 matism, nervous diseases, neuralgia, &c., far better than the 
 best doctor. 
 
 Send me six more bottles of your Oleum, per express, 
 C. 0. D. 
 
 I greet you with a hearty farewell ! 
 
 Frederick Boas. 
 
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 Alpha, Gundy Co., Mo., July 13, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: I allowed myself to be persuaded, in 
 my practice, to make a trial of your Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 I applied it for the first time on a patient who had been suf- 
 fering for seventeen years of a scrofulous affection of the eyes, 
 and whose cure several physicians had attempted in vain. 
 The second time I tried it in a case of chronic rheumatism, of 
 which the patient had suffered for fifteen years. During my 
 many years of practice 1 have never yet treated patients with 
 so much satisfaction as these, and I never yet met with a 
 remedy to which sickness will so readily yield as to your 
 Method of Cure. 
 
 Send me, at once, per express, one Resuscitator, one Eng- 
 lish book, and two bottles of Oleum. 
 
 Respectfully, James B. Benton, M. D. 
 
 Union Hall, N. J., September 21, 1874. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: Send me, at once, per mail, two bot- 
 tles of Oleum, for which I enclose the amount. 
 
 Of the efficacy of your Method of Cure I can testify as fol- 
 lows. Mary Rossbach, a woman of Newark, has been blind for 
 a year, caused by a gray cataract. After applying the reme- 
 dies twelve times, she is so far restored that she is able to take 
 out her child riding in a children’s wagon. Soon I will write 
 again. Thank God for so much. May the Lord endow us 
 with grace and wisdom to do good. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, Jacob Schmitt. 
 
 Harlem, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1875. 
 
 John Linden — Dear Sir: Inclosed I send you $15.00, for 
 which you will send me an instrument, an English book, and, 
 for the balance, Oleum. 
 
 Permit me to relate to you a remarkable case. My neigh- 
 bor’s wife has been sick for a long while, and neither the doc- 
 tor nor her husband had any hopes of her ever getting any 
 better. I persuaded my neighbor to allow me to apply the 
 Resuscitator. But he thought she would have to die anyhow, 
 and felt disinclined to subject her to the trouble and discom- 
 fort. At last I persuaded him, and I treated her for six 
 
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 weeks. The result : the woman is entirely restored, and per- 
 forms her family duties like any other woman. You may 
 well imagine that the husband and wife, as well as their 
 adult children, all rejoice ; but you ought to see the angry face 
 of the doctor when he is asked about the woman. 
 
 For to-day, adieu. 
 
 Devotedly, yours, Theodore L. Heine. 
 
 San Francisco, Cal., June 12, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden : It has been my intention this long time 
 to inform you how well I am succeeding in my efforts to 
 relieve and cure the sick by the application of your Method of 
 Cure. In my own family I have applied your Resuscitator in 
 several diseases, such as rheumatism, throat ailments, and 
 whooping cough, and with the best of success, and this has 
 induced several neighbors to seek help from me. I gladly 
 complied with these requests, and extended a helping hand, 
 and in all cases applied the Resuscitator according to the 
 directions in the book, but always told them that I was not 
 certain whether the Resuscitator would prove efficacious in 
 this case. But I must say that I have not met a single case 
 as yet that the Resuscitator was not equal to. Thus, for 
 instance, an old man of seventy-two years had an attack of 
 pneumonia (so the doctor said), which could not be cured. At 
 his request I treated him with the Resuscitator, and in two 
 weeks the old gentleman was able to visit his daughter on 
 foot, walking four and one-half miles. A lady of about fifty- 
 five years had been troubled with sensitive eyes for three 
 years, and no doctor or apothecary could help her. The 
 Resuscitator has restored her eyes by three operations. I 
 might continue to give you a long list of cures, but you know 
 already that the Resuscitator conquers almost every disease. 
 
 You will shortly receive several orders from here, for 
 every one whom I have treated and cured is determined to be 
 possessed of this wonderful needle instrument, in order to be 
 ready to tackle disease whenever it appears. 
 
 Send me, per express, four bottles of your Oleum. Inclosed 
 you will find the amount in greenbacks. 
 
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 Go on, by all means, to come to the assistance of suffering 
 humanity with your extraordinary remedies, and you will not 
 want the blessing of God. 
 
 With hearty greeting and shake of hands, 
 
 Ferdinand Hummel. 
 
 Union Hill, N. J., March 13, 1876. 
 
 Respected Friend Linden: Several weeks ago I effected a 
 remarkable cure on a boy of fifteen years of age. A year ago 
 he fell into the river, from which he contracted a violent cold, 
 which refused to yield. I operated him thrice. After each 
 operation he would perspire, and the last time his body was 
 thickly covered with pustules. Now the boy is entirely well 
 again. I also treated an old man for the gout, and, after two 
 operations, it disappeared. 
 
 For the inclosed money order, please send me six bottles 
 of your Oleum per express. 
 
 With hearty greetings, yours, truly, Jacob Smitt. 
 
 Seymour, Ind., Feb. 22, 1876. 
 
 Mr. Linden : Inclosed I send postal money order for $6.00, 
 for which please send me, per American Express, four bottles 
 of your Oleum. 
 
 I have treated a number of serious diseases, in both old 
 and young, which the doctors could not cure, such as fever 
 and ague, neuralgia, rheumatism, heart disease, asthma, &c. 
 As a prejudice exists about here against your treatment, 
 which is kept warm by the doctors, I get to treat a case only 
 occasionally, and not as long as there is any possibility of get- 
 ting help from the doctors’ medicines. But when the gentle- 
 men doctors are obliged to give it up, then they come to me. 
 As I have so far succeeded in every instance, even in cases of 
 nervous fever, I am in hopes that the prejudice will soon 
 vanish. Respectfully, Thomas McCollum. 
 
 Dodge City, Kansas, September 18, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: Many thanks for the desired informa- 
 tion. For me and my children your remedies have been a 
 
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 great blessing. They have rendered us very essential service. 
 Inclosed find S1.50, for one bottle of your Oleum. 
 
 J. Geo. Deiter. 
 
 Springfield, Green Co., Mo., July 17, 1876. 
 
 Mr, Linden: For the inclosed $1.85 you will please send 
 me, per mail, one bottle of your Oleum. My oldest daughter 
 is suffering much from asthma, and thus far I have treated her 
 with the best of success. I have used your Oleum for many 
 years, and in every case has it done its duty. 
 
 Mrs. M. H. E. Neff. 
 
 Quincy, 111., July 18, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden : Inclosed I send you $1.50, for one bottle 
 of Oleum. Please send it to me as soon as possible, as I am 
 waiting for it. 
 
 The Resuscitator I received of you has done us much good 
 already, for it always proves itself a splendid remedy, and 
 cures what all doctors are unable to cure. It ought to be in 
 every family, as many doctor bills are saved thereby, could at 
 last dispense with doctors altogether, and the people would be 
 the healthier for it. For myself, I would not do without my 
 Resuscitator for $500.00, if I could not get another. 
 
 Hoping this will reach you duly, I remain. 
 
 Yours, respectfully, W. L. Heinrich. 
 
 Highland, Ills., Nov. 16, 1872. 
 
 My Dear Friend Linden: Your Oleum has proved first rate. 
 In each particular case it has produced the most astonishing 
 results. I treated two lawyers who had been doctoring a long 
 time in vain. One was suffering of asthma, the other of some 
 affection of the chest. Both were speedily and radically 
 cured. 
 
 I desire you to send me at once two Resuscitators, two 
 English books, and eight bottles of Oleum. The amount you 
 will receive C. 0. D. 
 
 With special regard and greetings, I remain, 
 
 Yours, devotedly, John Ersch. 
 
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 St. Elmo, 111., August 22, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: Your Oleum has rendered most remark- 
 able services in all cases. I have cured several sick persons 
 that had long been treated by the doctors. One of them is 
 surprised that you do not make your Method of Cure more 
 public. In this neighborhood it is now pretty well known,, 
 in consequence of the many cures I effected in really very dif- 
 ficult cases. 
 
 Send me, at once, three Resuscitators, one German and twc 
 English books, with Oleum, and 12 bottles of Oleum extra. 
 The amount I inclose in a postal money order. 
 
 With much respect, I remain, 
 
 Yours, Joseph Comborn. 
 
 Greenboro, N. Y., April 1, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : Please send me, at once, one bottle of 
 Oleum, per express. 
 
 Your Method of Cure has made a splendid record here. 
 My father, who has had several attacks of the palsy, was freed 
 from its evil effects by applying the Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 My child had the croup, and one operation on the neck and 
 larynx has restored it. My wife has been suffering for years 
 of rheumatism. I operated her four times, and now she is 
 cured of it. May God bless your labors. You are doing 
 much good to humanity. 
 
 Respectfully, S. H. Ingham. 
 
 Boston, Mass., April 19, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: With the instrument you sent me about 
 nine months ago, together with 3 bottles of Oleum, I have 
 really effected some very astonishing cures. With the Method 
 of Cure I had already become acquainted in Germany, and 
 had used it in my family. When, in 1870, I emigrated to 
 America, I took a Resuscitator and six bottles of oil with me, 
 but, as these did not last as long as I expected, I had a friend, 
 who came from Germany, bring me along six bottles more. 
 But during the past year my Resuscitator gave out, and hence 
 I sent for one to you, together with 3 bottles of Oleum. Your 
 Resuscitator, with gilt needles, is quite an important improve- 
 
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 merit over the rude specimens made in Germany, and your 
 Oleum I like much better than that which I imported from 
 Germany. Of the latter I still have one and one-half bottles 
 on hand, but have ceased using it since I got some of you. Its 
 effect is more prompt, leaves no disagreeable sores, no indura- 
 tions, as does the German, and cures diseases more readily and 
 thoroughly. Your Oleum renders most essential service in 
 cases of throat diseases. Two of my children were troubled, 
 over in Germany, with quinsy and other throat troubles, 
 which no doctor could cure, and the German oil I had 
 long used in vain. As I had met with such extraordinary 
 success in other diseases with your Oleum, I thought I would 
 try it also in this throat disease ; and, to my great and joyful 
 surprise, it disappeared at once, and has not since returned. 
 I shall in future use only your Oleum, as I regard the German 
 as worthless. 
 
 Please send me, per express, C. 0. D., one Resuscitator, 
 one book, and three bottles of Oleum. A physician of this 
 place, educated in Germany, designs to use it in his practice. 
 
 With respect, Hans v. Hardenberg. 
 
 Atlanta, Ga., August 28, 1876, 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Inclosed find $7.00, for which you 
 will please send me, at once, six bottles of Oleum, per express. 
 
 Two years ago I received of you six bottles of Oleum, which 
 were excellent. I never had the least reason to be dissatisfied 
 with the results; on the contrary, the results were very good. 
 But, as the old saying is, “ When the mule becomes wanton 
 he’ll venture on the ice,” and thus I allowed a friend of mine to 
 persuade me that the imported oil was twice as good as yours. 
 Hence I allowed my friend to send for five bottles of the im- 
 ported oil, for which I paid $12 00. Immediately after tiying 
 it I felt satisfied that your Oleum was much better, and, in par- 
 ticular, your Oleum is unsurpassable as a remedy for fever and 
 ague. Not a single case has yet occurred under my treatment 
 that did not yield when using your Oleum, while I have not 
 succeeded in curing a single case with the imported article, 
 though I tried it in seven. — With friendly salutations. 
 
 Yours truly. Geo. M. Eckstein. 
 
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 Macon Station, Mo., May 23, 1874. 
 
 Mr, John Linden: Please send me two bottles of your 
 Oleum, per express. I have cured my son by your Treatment, 
 who had been suffering for a long time of a spinal affection 
 that defied the skill of the doctors. With five applications of 
 the Resuscitator and Oleum I succeeded to restore him entirely. 
 To the doctors I had paid $200.00, and the medicines 1 did not 
 get for nothing, either. I should have been well satisfied, 
 however, if they had only cured him. But now these learned 
 gentlemen insist that the young man would have got well 
 without your Resuscitator. But why did not they cure him? 
 Besides this, I have cured two other patients, whom one of 
 these doctors had treated for six months, without success. 
 I'he doctor in question looks askance at me now, only, but it 
 does not terrify me at all. I do not believe he can make me 
 sick by any witchcraft, and, if I take none of his medicines, 
 hi) cannot make me sick with them, either. 
 
 Hoping you may preserve your good health, I remain. 
 Yours, Mathias Kirschenstein. 
 
 Springfield, Mo., June 5, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: I inclose $1.75, for one bottle of Oleum, 
 which you will please send per mail. 
 
 My sister had an attack of the intermittent fever in a 
 high degree, and could not get relief until I recommended and 
 she used the Resuscitator. It broke up the fever, and thus 
 far it has not returned. H. Ball, Jr. 
 
 Farlinville, Kansas, January 24, 1875. 
 
 Mr. Linden • I send you $1.60 for one bottle of Oleum. 
 
 We use your Resuscitator as our doctor with the best of 
 success. My husband it has freed of the spotted typhus fever, 
 and me of grastric cramps. It has proved itself a faithful 
 friend in every instance. 
 
 Respectfully, Elmina S. Milton. 
 
 Alta City, Utah, August 12, 1875. 
 
 Mr. Linden : Please send me, per mail, one glass of your 
 Oleum, for which I inclose $1.85. Your Resuscitator and Oleum 
 
have been of great use to me, for I am confident they have 
 saved my life. Yours, A. Pohlston. 
 
 Bristol, Me., September 10, 1876. 
 
 Mr. Linden — Dear Sir: I received of you, about a year ago, 
 a Resuscitator and Oleum, which I used in my family with 
 great success. One of my neighbors, whose wife has, for some 
 inexplicable reason, become’ deranged, or at least temporarily 
 insane, and suffered pain bodily as well, which may indeed 
 have caused her mental derangement, had employed the doc- 
 tors for some years, but without success, and three doctors had 
 pronounced her incurable. Her husband, who had become 
 acquainted with some of the wonderful cures which I had 
 effected with your Resuscitator, now besought me very 
 urgently to treat his wife. At first I hesitated, as I had no 
 confidence that in so critical a case the Resuscitator could do 
 any good. Reluctantly, I at last consented, and treated her as 
 prescribed by the book. After the second application, she 
 was much improved, and, after ten applications, she was 
 entirely restored. This is now fifteen months ago, and no 
 attack has since occurred. She is sound and healthy in body, 
 and her mind is as clear as it is possible to be. Your Method 
 of Cure is comparatively new here, but it will not be long 
 before it will assert for itself a permanent place here. I have 
 now fifteen patients under treatment, and I am doing all I 
 can to introduce it here, to which end these happj^ cures con- 
 tribute largely. 
 
 With friendly salutations, yours, Harvey Gane. 
 
 Allsboro, Ala., June 27, 1877. 
 
 John Linden, Esq . — Dear Sir: I received of you a Resusci- 
 tator, book, and Oleum, in 1872, and I have used the Resuscitator 
 with the best of success. It has done in every instance what 
 you claim for it. It has always cured the patients. 
 
 Send me, per express, three bottles of Oleum, C. O. D. 
 
 John McAllister. 
 
Norma, Mo., May 24, 1875. 
 
 Deav Mt. Jjiudeu.' Send me, for the inclosed $3.00, two bot- 
 tles of your Oleum. We are much pleased with the success of 
 your wonderful Method of Cure. We are all wishing that 
 your Resuscitator might be in every family to bless suffering 
 humanity. We should then have far less of sick and feeble 
 people. I deem it my duty to keep your Resuscitator and 
 Oleum constantly in my house, so that, in case of sickness, 
 prompt assistance can be rendered. T. Y. Kennedy. 
 
 Madison, Wis., Feb. 10, 1875. 
 
 Mr. Linden: Send me one glass of your Oleum. I inclose 
 $1.60 for it. I have used your Resuscitator for a great many 
 different diseases, and it has ever proved itself the best doctor. 
 
 John Stevenson. 
 
 Chicago, 111., June 10, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Please send me, per express, C. 0. D., 
 two bottles of your Oleum, and as soon as possible. The 
 Resuscitator has wrought wonderful cures* of diseases, and 
 even in every case where medicine had been long and freely 
 used in vain. I will not attempt to give you at this time any 
 detailed account of cases ; however, I shall do so at some future 
 time, and show you of the success I had with the Resuscitator. 
 
 Respectfully, your friend. Rev. Peter De Breis. 
 
 Elmhurst, Du Page Co., 111., February 5, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Two years ago I received a Resuscitator 
 from you, with which I am much pleased, as it has already 
 rendered me most excellent service, and saved me many a doc- 
 tor’s bill. I have used two bottles of Oleum. 
 
 Inclosed I send you $3.00, for which you will please send 
 me two bottles of Oleum, per express, as soon as possible. 
 
 Respectfully, Frederick Blume. 
 
 Sun Prairie, Wis., June 5, 1877. 
 Respected Mr. Linden: Herewith $1.50, for which I desire a 
 bottle of your valuable Oleum, as I cannot do without it, for it 
 has proved, in my family, the best method of cure. 
 
 C. H. Jones. 
 
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 My Dear Mr. Linden: May God bless you ! Be good enough 
 to send me one instrument, Oleum, and English book, per ex- 
 press. Dear Doctor, I must yet inform you that 5 weeks ago I 
 treated a man who had been suflfering from rheumatism for 
 twelve years, and no doctor could help him, but the Resusci- 
 tator has cured him. Even after the first application the man 
 was relieved of all pain, and could sleep well at night. He is 
 sixty-six years of age 
 
 Respectfully, John H. Hogrefe. 
 
 Corning, Holt Co., Mo., May 8, 1877. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: May the grace of God be with you. 
 To-day John Miller came to me and desired me to procure the 
 Resuscitator for him. He is suffering from rheumatism. Be 
 good enougd to send me instrument, Oleum, and one English 
 book, and one bottle of oil extra. If you have not as yet sent 
 what I first ordered, you will send them together, to save 
 expense. With hearty good wishes, yours, 
 
 John H. Hogrefe. 
 
 Leavenworth City, April 1, 1871. 
 
 Mr. Linden — Dear Sir: Will you be kind enough to send 
 me two bottles of Oleum ? Send per mail. Address John Beck^ 
 Leavenworth City, Kansas, Box 1238. TheOleum is very good, 
 and answers its purpose. 
 
 Respectfully, John Beck. 
 
 Marshalltown, Iowa, April 1, 1875. 
 
 Dear Sir: Be good enough to send me one bottle of Oleum, 
 for the inclosed $1.50, per express. Although it is but seven 
 weeks since we received the Resuscitator and Oleum from you, 
 nevertheless it has already made itself indispensable, for it is 
 rendering us excellent service. 
 
 Respectfully yours, G. Pageler. 
 
 Mendota, Wis., April 8, 1877. 
 
 My Honored Friend Linden: Be kind enough to send me, 
 for the inclosed money, one bottle of Oleum, as I am entirely 
 
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 out, and do not know what may happen in my family, for 1 
 do not wish to do without the Resuscitator and Oleum in the 
 house. 
 
 I will write you of one case. Last Winter, our daughter,, 
 seventeen years of age, fell sick. She became stiff, and had 
 pain first in one side, then in the other. We went for the 
 doctor, but, instead of improvement, she grew worse, and, with 
 her, we thought we were looking death in the face, and no one 
 knew that she would ever get over it. In our great distress I 
 seized the Resuscitator, saying, If it does no good, it will cer- 
 tainly do no harm.’^ I applied it energetically on her neck 
 and breast, and, when it was well soaked in, we got her into 
 bed again, and directly she felt relieved, and could rest. I 
 now got fresh courage. On the second day I applied it on 
 otlier parts of the body, and, after that, every ten days. She 
 improved rapidly, is now quite lively, and complains only of 
 being constantly tired. 
 
 Some friend here cautioned us not to get of Linden’s Oleum^ 
 and mentioned some one in Cleveland (the name I now for- 
 get) of whom we could get a bottle for a dollar, and it would 
 draw better than Linden’s. But I do not allow myself to be 
 diverted. I always had your Oleum, audit has rendered me 
 good service, and I shall therefore continue to take it in future^ 
 as long as you keep it. 
 
 With many greetings, Adolph Mengbdoth* 
 
 Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Nov. 17, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: It is now about three years since I came 
 into possession of the Resuscitator and your invaluable 
 Method of Cure. I am now fifty-eight years of age, and, when 
 forty-eight years of age, I lost my left leg, just above the knee 
 joint. My trade is a tailor, of which I advise you in advance, 
 that you may know that you are not dealing with a scholar. 
 Three years ago I was attacked by rheumatism, and so terri- 
 bly that I could not move at all, not even turn in bed. I 
 then heard that Mr. Jackson was similarly afflicted, and had 
 been cured by using the Resuscitator. I therefore sent for 
 him to come to me, for I wanted to talk with him, and find 
 
 out what sort of an instrument it was, for I had never heard 
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 of it before. After he had told me all about it, I asked him to 
 be good enough to procure one for me, for I thought he was 
 better acquainted with you than I was. He promised to do 
 so, but told me it would take a week^s time before he could 
 get the instrument, and hence he would let me use his. I 
 was pleased with this, and, at one o’clock in the afternoon, 
 he came with it. When I was ready for the operation, he 
 •observed, You are able-bodied, and can endure a good deal,” 
 and therefore he made three hundred passages on me. When 
 he got through, he ordered me to get up, but I thought he was 
 only joking me, and declined. But he insisted I should try 
 it, and I did, rising from my chair, and, behold! my pains had 
 left me ! I could not understand it, for the change was so sud- 
 den. I now waited with the greatest anxiety for the arrival 
 of my own instrument, and, when it came, I found it accom- 
 panied with books; and, as I had always been a great friend of 
 scientific books, you may readily conceive with what avidity 
 I seized the large book. I have read it not only once, but 
 many times, and, the more I read, the more I became con- 
 vinced of the correctness of its teaching. I had the instru- 
 ment applied once more, and since that time I have realized 
 nothing of rheumatism any more. My son-in-law, at Cincin- 
 nati, was suffering severely from gout in the head, at the 
 same time. He had two experienced physicians attending 
 him, and when they had so far restored him that he could 
 leave his bed, they advised him to go into the country, and if 
 the attack should return, they told him to strip himself, sit in 
 a tub, and have his wife pour cold water over him until he 
 should find relief. I therefore rented a house, and took him 
 out into the country. On Saturday, just one week after they 
 <came, at eight o’clock in the evening, my wife came to me all 
 out of breath, saying that Sigismund had another attack of 
 his sickness. I was just reading in the book at the time, and 
 therefore I turned to the paragraph that treated of this. 
 When I came to him, a pitiful sight presented itself. He was 
 lying on his bed with his clothes on, his head swollen badly, 
 his face was dark and brown, and he was quite senseless. I 
 called on another man to help me; we undressed him, and 
 applied the instrument, as prescribed, about forty times. In 
 
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 half an hour consciousness returned, and on the following 
 morning he felt nothing but a burning sensation on the oper- 
 ated parts. 
 
 A short time after this his oldest child, a girl of six years, 
 was attacked by scarlet fever of a severe type. Many children 
 died of it at that time. I applied the Resuscitator according 
 to the prescriptions furnished by you, and, on the following 
 morning, she was well enough to try to frighten me when I 
 came to look after her, and wanted to make sport of me ; and, 
 before the ten days had elapsed, she was perfectly well. 
 
 Last 3^ear the same child was attacked by nervous fever. 
 This, too, was speedily cured by means of the Resuscitator, 
 and she is now perfectly well. 
 
 My wife had the bilious fever, and, although I could find 
 no specific directions for the case, yet I undertook to treat her, 
 for I could do nothing else. I gathered up all the information 
 I could from the several remarks you made in your experien- 
 ces and treatises, and following the best light I had, I suc- 
 ceeded in thoroughly curing her, and she is now stronger than 
 ever. I have really spent a fortune in doctoring her, for she 
 has gone through with nearly all the known fevers, fever and 
 ague, the dumb fevers, nervous fever, and what ever else they 
 may be called. She also had large glandular ulcerations, was 
 sick for eight years, and now she is so well again that she 
 does her own housework. 
 
 Were I to mention all the cures that I have effected 
 during the past two years, the record would fill many sheets, 
 but I cannot refrain from mentioning two more. A woman of 
 fifty-two years of age became so affected in her eyes that her 
 husband consulted all the oculists of Cincinnati that were rec- 
 ommended to him, but she continued to grow worse, her sight 
 failing steadily. At last she became perfectly blind, and for 
 six weeks had not seen the light of day. Her husbai\d then 
 came to me and implored me to come to the help of his wife. 
 I resorted to all imaginable excuses, as I did not desire to 
 take the case in hand. But he gave me no rest. On the 
 third day, after the operation, light dawned upon her once 
 more ! I advised her to keep her eyes carefully protected, and 
 not at once to look into the bright light. Now, after four 
 
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 operations, she is cured, does her own work, and is able to sew 
 and read. 
 
 The second case was that of a neighbor’s lady. For 
 eighteen years she had a salt rheum encircling her seat. 
 Her husband had taken her into the city and employed, in 
 turn, all the prominent physicians, but in vain. They said, in 
 addition, that she was suftering from diabetes. The Resusci- 
 tator has now cured her, everything having disappeared 
 except a few small spots. 
 
 Yours, respectfully, and with high regard, 
 
 Christian Pechstedt. 
 
 Fond du Lac, Wis., August 16, 1875. 
 
 Highly Esteemed Mr. Linden: To begin with, I must ask 
 your pardon for remaining silent so long. On the 27th of 
 June I returned home, and, as father and mother were both 
 feeble, I soon had my share of trouble. But the Resuscitator 
 soon restored them. 
 
 I take the libert}" to inclose a small poem, eulogizing 
 your Method of Cure. Perhaps you will call it machine poe- 
 try. No matter, here it is : 
 
 [translated from the german.] 
 
 Hail to the honest Teuton! 
 
 Whose skill does banish pain; 
 
 While others scoff* and mock him, 
 
 I’ll praise him all the same. 
 
 John Linden! you have heard of him—’ 
 
 His cures have spread his fame; 
 
 Friend of the sick and suffering, 
 
 He strives to benefit them. 
 
 Many were cured by his skill — 
 
 Quickly and soundly restored; 
 
 Others he counseled, and will 
 
 Help you, if you need, take my word. 
 
 Grouped on his Resuscitator, 
 
 Gome the needles, clad in gold. 
 
 That tlie pain-])acificator • 
 
 Mav not foul of rust or mold. 
 
2Gl — 
 
 And thus improved, as none deny, 
 
 The purer oil as well, 
 
 All now can choose, before they buy, 
 
 The best of those for sale. 
 
 He loves his duty and the right. 
 
 And this his goods attest. 
 
 And I assure you, from what light 
 I have, they are the best. 
 
 Accept, dear Linden, fi-om my heart. 
 
 My thanks and true respect. 
 
 And I shall ever, for 1113^ part. 
 
 Your instrument and oil select. 
 
 And thus convinced that both are good 
 For what the3' did and do 
 On her I loved, J speak this word — 
 
 Pro bo no publico. 
 
 I close with assurance of much respect. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, Anna Lethert. 
 
 Metropolis, Massac Co., 111., May 8, 1877. 
 
 Herewith I would ask you kindly to send to my address, 
 for the inclosed postal order of $1.75, one bottle of yourOleum 
 as soon as possible. 
 
 A physician I need no longer since I have the Resusci- 
 tator in my house. A severe and burning fever attacked me 
 last Fall, but I was cured quickly and thoroughly by two 
 applications following closely one upon the other, and since 
 that time I have steadily enjoyed the very best health. But, 
 notwithstanding this, I desire to follow the directions in the 
 book, and make two more operations upon my body. 
 
 Respectfully, A. Krueger, Pastor. 
 
 Farina, Fayette Co., 111., January 11, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : As my Oleum has suddenly become ex- 
 hausted, and I shall be obliged in the very near future to send 
 for some, I ask of you now, kindly to send me a bottle of your 
 Oleum for the inclosed $1.75, as soon as you can, 
 
 I should not part with the Resuscitator for any price, for 
 I would rather have it than all the doctors put together, as 
 
much on account of its inexpensiveness as on account of the 
 certainty with which it effects cures. 
 
 With much and friendly regard, yours, 
 
 A. Kreuger, Pastor, 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y., February 10, 1871. 
 
 Mr, John Linden ^ Cleveland,, O , — Dear Sir : Inclosed you will 
 find $2.50, for which you will please send me two more bottles 
 of your Oleum, per mail, if possible, and at once. 
 
 I have tried the Resuscitator in various diseases, even in 
 critical cases, and I was really astonished at the results. A 
 member of my congregation had an attack of nervous paraly- 
 sis, but, by using the Resuscitator and the Oleum you sent me, 
 the man was thoroughly restored in a very short time. 
 
 If ever a testimony in favor of yohr Oleum should be cf use 
 to you, I shall be happy to serve you. 
 
 With hearty farewell, I close. 
 
 In hopes soon to receive the Oleum, I remain. 
 
 Yours aflfectionately, Alex. Oberlander, 
 
 No, 215 Lodi Street, Syracuse^ N, F. 
 
 N. B. — Th. Kempter, M. D.,ofRome, where I formerly had 
 a congregation, has received the second Resuscitator of me’, 
 with the Oleum, and finds it also very good. A. 0. 
 
 Halletville, Laracca Co., Texas, April 3, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden: I wrote to you but a short time ago for 
 oil, which I received all right. I had also mentioned the two 
 cures, one of dropsy and the other a snake-bite, and gladly 
 comply with your desire to have it inserted among the testi- 
 monials of your next book. Since that time I have made still 
 other experiences. 
 
 Lately a pregnant young woman came to me and told me 
 she thought she must liave a parasitical worm in her back, 
 which was moving hither and thither, and causing her much 
 pain. She desired to be operated, which I did; found a 
 slightly reddened elevation on the skin of her back, which at 
 times tickled, at other times pained her, and which, when 
 opened, exuded a mixture of blood and water. Several hours 
 after the operation with the Resus(*itator ji ml Oleum, upon a 
 
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 slight pressure, there really did come forth from her back a 
 dead worm^ very soft, and about one-fourth of an inch in 
 length. By means of the microscope, I was enabled to see its 
 form very distinctly. He had a sort of rough bark enveloping 
 him, which, as it approached the belly became elongated into 
 legs, and at the head he had two black eyes. The pain had 
 vanished. Another woman, who has not sufficient nourish- 
 ment in one of her breasts to supply the wants of her babe, 
 has been quite satisfied with the effect produced by your 
 Method. 
 
 Send me a book, a Resuscitator with gilt needles. Oleum, 
 and three extra bottles. You can send the whole, however, in 
 one package. 
 
 Respectfully, your friend, John Traugott Pohl. 
 
 Metropolis, 111., September 16, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr.*Linden : In the extensive practice which I 
 have already attained the Oleum Baunscheidtii which you 
 last sent me will soon run out. Hence I beg of you kindly to 
 send me, for the inclosed $2.70, two bottles of it as soon as you 
 can. 
 
 Our little town, Metropolis, has hitherto been spared, 
 indeed, from cholera and other epidemics, but, in place of 
 them, fever and ague, dysentery, &c., prevail with great 
 power. It is claimed by many that during no previous Pall 
 has the fever and ague prevailed with such violence. It is 
 most gratifying, how^ever, to know by experience that almost 
 every case, where the body has not been too greatly reduced 
 by the disease, that it yields to a single application of the 
 Resuscitator. It is knowui, even in the country, that, with 
 my instrument, I am master of the disease, and hence 
 patients of this kind have already begun to come to me for 
 relief. 
 
 In the course of a few days I have lately succeeded to free 
 my landlord, his wdfe, and daughter, of the fever and ague, in 
 which I have made one grand point, viz., that they seem fully 
 convinced of the excellent qualities of the Resuscitator. But 
 otherwise the cases in which I have effected cures are too 
 numerous to be mentioned here, even briefly in detail. What 
 
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 I have before now written to you is still ever the the same — 
 joy, heartfelt joy — in every case of restoration to health. 
 
 This, and the largest possible introduction of so glorious a 
 Method of Cure, is the only object that I seek to attain in the 
 cures I effect, for all the pay I ever allow myself to take is 
 simply enough to pay for the Oleum. 
 
 With hearty farewell greetings, I remain. 
 
 Yours, A. Krueger, Pastor, 
 
 Evansville, Ind., April 6^ 1877. 
 
 Respected Mr. John Linden: Be kind enough to send me 
 2 bottles of good Oleum. I have one patient who has for five 
 years employed all kinds of doctors, and grew steadily worse. 
 I have the patient under treatment since Christmas, and the 
 Resuscitator takes good hold of him every time. In two min- 
 utes time after the application the needle punctures will 
 appear as large as the ends of knitting needles, and when I 
 then apply the Oleum the needle punctures disappear, and nei- 
 ther itching nor biting follows. When I first tried the Resus- 
 citator, I had still some of your Oleum, and it work^^d very well ; 
 but I afterward bought three bottles of a man in Philadelphia, 
 who assured me it was of your Oleum, but I do not believe that 
 there was a drop of your Oleum in it. I shall in future avoid 
 such liars and deceivers. Be kind enough to send me good 
 Oleum. If I cure the man, it will secure the Resucitator a grand 
 reputation here. Treat me as heretofore, and I shall be satis- 
 fied. Your devoted friend, Carl Kapp. 
 
 Town of Buffalo, Wis., July 1, 1877. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: The Resuscitator which I received 
 from you I have applied with good success. Later I will send 
 you particulars and inform you what the disease was. For 
 the present I beg you to send me another bottle of your Oleum, 
 I have consulted skillful physicians concerning the instru- 
 ment and your method of treating disease. They consider 
 them good, and give me every encouragement. I shall inform 
 you from time to time about my success. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, W. Schladiske. 
 
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 Columbus, Ohio, October 8, 1876. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: I would herewith ask you to send me 
 half a dozen bottles of Oleum, for without the Resuscitator and 
 Oleum I cannot be, I have spent much money in doctor- 
 ing, but all doctors cannot cure me, and I have used a great 
 quantity of patent medicine, but nothing would do me any 
 good. The Resusitator, however, raises me up every time. If I 
 had not used it, I should have been consumed by the worms long 
 ago. Hoping that you will soon send me the Oleum, I remain. 
 Yours, devotedly, Henry Diedrich. 
 
 Potter, Wood Co., 0., October 6, 1874. 
 
 Mr, John Linden : I herewith send you $1.85, for a bottle of 
 your Oleum, which you will please send me as soon as possible. 
 
 I had occasion to use the Resuscitator last month in my 
 family, for throat disease, or diphtheria. I used it in three 
 cases right at the beginning, and conquered it at once. In 
 the first case we waited too long, because we did not know at 
 once what the trouble was, and then we did not use the 
 instrument with sufficient force, and the cure proceeded very 
 slowly. At last we lost patience, the more so because my wife 
 had the care not only of the three-year-old diphtheria patient, 
 but also of four-months-old twins, which had not entirely 
 recovered from an attack of cholera infantum. Hence we 
 called the doctor, who came twice, and the danger seemed to 
 be past. But the child’s throat began to swell again, and we 
 resorted once more to the Resuscitator, to make an end of the 
 trouble. The child is now quite lively again. My wife, her 
 sister, fourteen years old, and the twins, all of whom were 
 attacked, got over it very easily. And now, while I render 
 thanks first of all to our heavenly Father, subordinately I 
 thank the Resuscitator for deliverance from a disease that 
 often proves fatal. I always find it to be an excellent little 
 family doctor, whenever used according to directions. — With 
 greetings, I close. Yours, Gottlieb Ballmer. 
 
 Bell Creek, Neb., April 19, 1875. 
 Honored Mr. Linden: Since I received the Resuscitator I 
 have failed to write you of the cures that I have effected with 
 
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 it. Toothache, earache, these are only trifles. For ten years 
 I have suffered from rheumatism. In this short time I am 
 cured. Mrs. Mathews had suffered for seven years from sore 
 eyes, and for the last two years she was almost blind. After 
 two months^ treatment she was so far restored that she could 
 do housework. 
 
 Send me two bottles of Oleum, per mail, for the inclosed 
 $3.75. Money is still scarce. Many are looking forward to a 
 good harvest, in hopes of being able also to secure a Resusci- 
 tator for themselves. 
 
 Yours, truly, Gerhard Hashoff, Blacksmith. 
 
 Aurelia, Iowa, March 29, 1875 
 Dear Mr. Linden: You will find inclosed $1,85. Please 
 send me, for it, one bottle of your Oleum. In our neighborhood 
 there are many children suffering from pneumonia, and the 
 Resuscitator proves the best doctor. My little son, four years 
 old, had a very severe attack. Two applications of the Resus- 
 citator cured him. Be kind enough to send me the Oleum 
 immediately upon receipt of this. 
 
 With friendly greetings, yours, Peter Meyer. 
 
 Preston, Mo., April 4, 1874. 
 
 Dear ilfr. John Linden : It is a long while since I wrote 
 you, but as the Oleum is being exhausted, I am forced to write 
 again. I am thus far pretty well restored. My rheumatism 
 is gone. One man I cured with the Resuscitator, who had the 
 rheumatism so badly that he was quite bedfast, and often 
 screamed in agony. Three applications have fully cured him. 
 
 Be kind enough to send me two bottles of Oleum for the 
 money contained in this letter. I will send for more here- 
 after. Your friend, Henry Zink. 
 
 Stillwater, Minn., June 8, 1875. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: Once more I come with the request 
 that you be kind enough to send me, as soon as possible, three 
 bottles of Oleum, as we have left hardly half a bottle full of 
 the three which you sent us last Fall, and we are determined 
 not to do a day without it; for since we are using your Treat- 
 
tnent we have never had occasion to call upon a doctor, and 
 heretofore we had to have them very often for our children. 
 Now we cure all ailments with the Resuscitator. 
 
 I would yet report to you how I fared. I was afflicted 
 with sore eyes from my fifth to my fifteenth year. In vain 
 did my dear parents employ the best oculist in Switzerland. 
 I was often almost blind. At last, in my fifteenth year, my 
 eyes were healed. Nature did it, mostly. This Spring, to my 
 great distress, my eyes became sore again, for old complaints 
 are apt to return ; and thus, in my thirtieth year, my sore 
 eyes returned. At once my dear husband applied the Resus- 
 citator on the cervical point of the neck, and behind the ears, 
 and, behold! in two days my eyes were, thank God, radically 
 cured. Also with my husband and our thre^ boys, the Resus- 
 citator has always proved itself most successful. 
 
 With heartiest greetings from us all, I write in the name 
 of my dear husband. 
 
 Respectfully, your friend, 
 
 Rudolph Ruetimann. 
 
 Weston, Neb., Dec. 20, 1871. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Greeting! Be kind enough to send me 
 3 bottles of Oleum to the old address. I alwa 3 "S receive every- 
 thing all right, and must tell you that the Resuscitator always 
 proves itself the best doctor. To God alone I ascribe the honor 
 that he has given man such knowledge. 
 
 Your friend, C. Burkhardt. 
 
 Areum, O., March 16, 1875. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Will you please send me 
 again one bottle of Oleum, one Resuscitator, and one English 
 book, as soon as you can, per express. 
 
 It is the best thing you can have in the house. My 
 uncle was greatly afflicted with the sick headache, and lost 
 his hearing by it, but, by the use of the Resuscitator, he has 
 recovered his hearing perfectly, and is also cured of his head- 
 ache. 
 
 Respectfully, Frederick Miller. 
 
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 Red Bud, Randolph Co., 111., March 27, 1874. 
 
 John Linden^ Esq., Cleveland^ Ohio, — Honored Friend: After' 
 reading your justification in the Wcltbote, I inclose you a proof 
 of my confidence in your Oleum, and you will please send me, 
 for the inclosed money order of $4.75, three bottles of your 
 Oleum, per mail. Since I got the last instrument from you 
 I directed yet several customers to you, and I shall continue 
 to do so as often as I find opportunity, for I have thus farbeen 
 always well served by you. 
 
 With friendliness and respect, I subscribe myself, 
 
 Yours, J. C. Noll, EiK Luth, Pastor, 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 17, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden: Please send me a Resuscitator with gilt 
 needles, an English Instruction Book, and a bottle of Oleum. 
 
 I have been using the Resuscitator for five years in my 
 family, with good effect, and as our family physician has con- 
 vinced himself of its efficacy, he has requested me to order on c) 
 for him. Be kind enough to send it C. 0. D., per express. 
 
 Respectfully, Wm. Bummert. 
 
 Chicago, 111., May 3, 1876. 
 
 Mr, John Linden: I send you good news. Our very sick 
 child, the doctors pronouncing it liver complaint, was almoot 
 dying. It has been thoroughly cured by the Resuscitator. 
 
 Gratefully, yours, Mrs, Koenker. 
 
 Naperville, 111., Oct. 11, 1877. 
 
 Mr, John Linden: The last Oleum we got of you was most 
 excellent, and we can assure you it rendered us the best of 
 services. I wish you would send me yet five bottles more, 
 and be kind enough to send it as soon as possible. 
 
 With high regards, Charles Hass. 
 
 Hopedale, 111., Nov., 1, 1876. 
 
 Respected Mr, Linden: I solicit you kindly to send me of 
 your Oleum for the inclosed money, as I do not wish to be for 
 the shortest time without it, as this noble and highly valued 
 Resuscitator has proved itself with me and family of the 
 
greatest benefit in the various diseases to which we were sut> 
 jected. 
 
 Your devoted friend, Cornelius Schroeder. 
 
 Humboldt, Richardson Co., Neb., September 9, 1876. 
 
 Mr. John Linden., Esq.., Cleveland., 0 . — Dear Sir: Inclosed 
 you will find a postal money order for $1.50, for which you 
 will please send me a bottle of Oleum. The Resuscitator keeps 
 us all in good health, so that we need use it but little, but would 
 not do without it for $600.00 per year. Thus far it has cured 
 everything for which we tried it. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, Louis Waldter. 
 
 Osgood, Ind.^ May 17, 1875. 
 
 Mr, John Linden: Be kind enough to send me, at once, per 
 /idams Express, 3 bottles of Oleum. We bought the Resusci- 
 tator of you in February of 1869, and used it with good results 
 in most all diseases. My wife was very feeble for several 
 years, so that she could eat hardly anything. After several 
 applications of the Resuscitator was had, her appetite 
 improved, and she is now able to digest most all kinds of 
 food. For the gout we have also used it with success. She 
 was almost utterly helpless in one of her arms, but she is now 
 able to perform most any kind of work with it. 
 
 Yours, truly, C. Henry Froelke. 
 
 Tionesta, Pa., May 8, 1874. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: The man that was so anxious to have 
 the Resuscitator was in great distress, as he had an excres- 
 cence on the inner side of the right knee, and had just 
 returned from the doctor with the poor comfort that he had 
 some sort of a bone disease, and the leg must be taken off* with 
 one of his saws, as no medicine in the world could help him. 
 Now the man begged of me to try the Resuscitator, and know- 
 ing it could do no harm, I consented, saying, I am no doctor, 
 but I will do it as well as I can.” The following week he 
 came to me almost crazy with joy, and wanted the Resusci- 
 tator. He showed me his leg, and it was cured. 
 
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 As circumstances force me to write to you, I send along 
 $1.60, for a bottle of your Oleum. Send it as soon as possible. 
 
 Your friend, Sebastian Blum. 
 
 Grayson Springs, Ky,, Feb. 7, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden: lam happy to inform you that your 
 Method of Cure is here bringing forth good fruit. In various 
 cases and persons I have tried the Resuscitator and Oleum, 
 according to directions, and always with the best results. I 
 myself, after suffering for five years from a rheumatic pain in 
 m.y shoulders, am now enjoying pretty good health. 
 
 Please send me 2 more bottles of Oleum, for which you will 
 find the amount inclosed. 
 
 Respectfully, John Lemmik. 
 
 Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 13. 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden: About two months ago I received an 
 instrument, with its belongings, from you. I ordered tlie 
 instrument for the purpose of curing my wife of chronic liver 
 complaint, which has thus far proved very successful. I feel 
 constrained to express to you my thanks, with the desire that 
 mankind in general might be induced to make greater use of 
 the Resuscitator. 
 
 Inclosed you will find $8.00, and I ask of you, kindly, to 
 send me an instrument, an English book, and Oleum. 
 
 With hearty greetings, I am yours, with high regards, 
 
 Henry Heers. 
 
 Monticello, 111., February 15, 1876. 
 
 Mr. Linden: I cannot refrain from the pleasure of inform- 
 ing you of the great things that the Resuscitator, which my 
 brother bought of you, has accomplished. He was afflicted 
 with epilepsy, and had the services of three doctors, but all 
 their efforts were vain. A certain lady then advised him to 
 make a trial of the Resuscitator. He did so, and after four 
 applications he was thoroughly restored, and as well as ever. 
 
These circumstances induce me to order a Resuscitator 
 and two bottles of Oleum from you. Be kind enough to send 
 it to me without delay. 
 
 Very respectfully, yours, John Maier. 
 
 Pinckney, Warren Co., Mo., July 20, 1874. 
 
 Mr, John Linden — Dear Sir .- Herewith I am enabled to in- 
 form you of the power of the Resuscitator and Oleum in cases of 
 venomous snake-bites My son, fourteen years old, was bit- 
 ten by a ‘^Spreading viper” snake on the 13th inst. The bites 
 were inflicted in the left foot, the first near the rim of the sole, 
 the other just below the ankle bone. We Avere in the field at 
 the time, and about one hundred and fifty yards from the 
 house, and as soon as he was bitten he ran^to the house and 
 laid down, for he could not stand. He told me that he felt 
 the pain already over half way up the calf of the leg, and as 
 the distress of mind and the pain continued to increase stead- 
 ily, I seized upon the Resuscitator and operated above the 
 wounds on the calf, crosswise, and anointed freely with the 
 oil. After two or three minutes I asked, and he told me the 
 pain had ceased to ascend, and I then made passages of the 
 instrument close together from the calf downward, where he 
 was bitten, and the pain began to draw downward to where 
 he was bitten; and then I took one of the bottles in which the 
 oil had been, and ground a hole through its bottom, and 
 placing the neck of the bottle upon the lower wound, I sucked 
 until about a quarter of an inch of white, watery matter 
 appeared in the neck of the bottle. This gave him great 
 relief I then anointed once more freely with Oleum, as the 
 former application had all drawn in. In the course of fifteen 
 or thirty minutes I made another close and not dainty appli- 
 cation of the instrument, and applied the oil. Nausea then 
 set in, and I applied the instrument over the stomach and 
 heart region, and then followed vomiting, appearing like bile. 
 About two hours after the bite I set the bottle on the upper 
 wound and sucked until there was about half an inch of water 
 in the neck of the bottle, when the pain ceased ; this was 
 about nine o’clock in the evening. He then rested well the 
 whole night. The next morning I again applied the Oleum 
 
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 while the foot was much swollen and stiff. Next I applied 
 the instrument to his back and shoulders, and rubbed the 
 operated places well with Oleum, and again applied some on 
 the limb, when all pain left for good. 
 
 My son is now perfectly well, and was cured of the snake- 
 bite by the use of the Resuscitator, Oleum, and the operation 
 of sucking as described. He went out again this morning 
 to plow. 
 
 I saw in the manual that up to this time no case of a cure 
 from the bite of a snake had been given. I proceeded as 
 described above, and would hereby request you to inform the 
 public that by the use of the Resuscitator, Oleum — but not 
 sparingly — and sucking, the bite of a snake can be speedily 
 and radically cured. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, Henry Busse. 
 
 Springfield, 111. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden: I can with joy and heartfelt grati- 
 tude inform you that my dear father has been restored by the 
 use of the Resuscitator, and enjoys, at present, excellent 
 health. We are also under many obligations to you for the 
 good and friendly counsel which you have been kind enough 
 to give him. Circumstances will not at present admit of his 
 undertaking a long journey at this time; nor is it necessary if 
 he remains as well as he is now. We can now recommend 
 your Resuscitator in the highest degree. 
 
 J. H. Rudolphie. 
 
 Monticello, 111., August 23, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Inclosed you will find the amount 
 needed to pay for 2 bottles of Oleum, and I pray you to send 
 them to me at once, for I do not like to be a day without it. 
 About a year ago I bought a Resuscitator of you, and I must 
 say that it has meanwhile rendered the most surprisingly 
 good services. I will relate but one case. Recently a man of 
 say fifty years of age was brought to me on a wagon, so badly 
 afflicted by rheumatism that he was barely able to move a few 
 steps. As soon as he came he laid himself down full length, 
 with his face downward, as this, he said, was the only position 
 
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 in which he could lie at all. He told me further that he had 
 doctored for a long while, but that he failed to improve, and- 
 got worse. I used the Resuscitator, following your directions,, 
 and w^hen he came again, after ten days, he was restored; and 
 after applying the instrument a second time, he was as well 
 as before. In this manner does the Resuscitator give testi- 
 mony for itself, and its testimony is true. Why are there so 
 many doctors like the devil ? Because they fight the right. 
 
 W. Haller. 
 
 Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas, January 17, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden : The last goods you sent, on September 
 11 of last year, came safely to hand on the 26th of the same, 
 month. Accept my thanks. 
 
 MORE REMARKS CONCERNING CURES. 
 
 After sending for your Oleum, one of my boys was bitten in 
 the left hand by a copperhead snake of more than two feet in 
 length. I w^as absent at the time, and half an hour elapsed 
 before I knew of what had happened. The swelling had 
 already become hard and far advanced toward the elbow. My 
 wife applied the Resuscitator and Oleum at once to the bitten 
 finger, which had the effect of removing the greatest pain. I 
 seized the whisky bottle, after the old fashion in such cases. 
 An hour after the first operation he complained of nausea and 
 stomach aches, w^hich was folloived by violent vomiting; he 
 now complained of closeness and pain in the chest, and on the 
 left side. I now operated him upon the back, the abdomen, 
 and also the hand of the bitten finger, after which the boy 
 went to sleep. After sleeping about two hours he woke up, 
 had sweated, and felt better; but the application had to be 
 repeated on hand and finger, from time to time. But after 
 each application the painless interval was doubled, and thus 
 I used my last drop of oil to good advantage. Directly upon 
 this 
 
 FOLLOW^S ANOTHER CURE. 
 
 A young woman was attacked by dropsy, which made 
 rapid progress. Her appetite had left her, while her desire 
 for drink had increased. The swelling had ascended from the 
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 toes half way up the thighs, and her hands also began to 
 swell. Meanwhile the oil had arrived. I operated upon her 
 over the back, the kidneys, the abdomen, and calves of her 
 legs, and every needle puncture was followed by a drop of 
 water oozing through. This was followed by a quiet sleep, of 
 which she had been long deprived, and sweated freely. The 
 limbs had lost their death-like coolness, and had become 
 warmer. By the tenth day she had already materially 
 improved, and the second application w^as followed by a great 
 eruption of the small blisters, and several days afterward her 
 periodical courses reappeared. She now felt better than for a 
 long time before. 
 
 These cures I effected by following the instructions of the 
 book, and partly, also, by following my own judgment. If I 
 failed to do the right thing in either case, I should be happy 
 to learn of your judgment also. 
 
 Respectfully John Th. Pohl. 
 
 Cattleville, St. Charles Co., Mo., April 16, 1869. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Linden : It has been my purpose for some 
 time to write to you and acquaint you with the results I have 
 secured from the use of the Resuscitator and Oleum in various 
 diseases, in my own family as also in those of some of my 
 neighbors. 
 
 A severe case of dysentery was cured by a single applica- 
 tion on the back and abdomen. 
 
 A violent attack of diarrhoea, to which I was myself sub- 
 jected, would yield to no medicine which I took, until the 
 application of the Resuscitator on back and abdomen freed 
 me from it. 
 
 Eight cases of fever and ague, and two of bilious fever, 
 which occurred in the course of three years in the same fam- 
 ily^ were always cured in the same week of their appearance 
 by the use of the Resuscitator on back and abdomen. In one 
 of these cases all symptoms disappeared at once after the first 
 application. In the others the instrument was used several 
 times, at short intervals. In none of these cases did the dis- 
 eases return, and the convalescent felt perfectly well again. 
 
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 Diarrhoea, quinsy, and irresistible vomiting of an infant, 
 were cured at once, in every instance, by simply using the 
 Oleum, which was carefully rubbed in either with or without 
 the use of the instrument. 
 
 Besides the foregoing cases, all sickness in my family, of 
 v;hatever name or nature, was successfully cured by 3 "our 
 Method. 
 
 Since 1834 I have resided in this vicinity, and lost 
 during this time seven children, among them a son tweiiity 
 years old, and one grandson. They died in spite of the best 
 medical assistance, and the best care, and I was in constant 
 dread lest sickness should afflict my family. But now I go for 
 the Resuscitator at once, and with the gi'eatest confidence, and 
 the “little black doctor^’ has as yet never disappointed me, 
 but has in every instance been the means of restoring health 
 and vigor. Truly, no money could induce me to be without it 
 in my family. 
 
 A feeble and sickly child of Henry Glocke, one and one- 
 half years old, had a severe attack of pneumonia. I had but 
 little hopes that the child could survive. The application 
 was made upon the back and breast, and on those parts espe- 
 cially where the child seemed to have pain ; so also upon the 
 calves of the legs and the abdomen, as the child was suffering 
 at the same time from a violent diarrhoea. The operations 
 were repeated the fourth day. The disease was entirely 
 cured, the general health of the child improved, and it is now 
 stronger and better than ever before. 
 
 John Schneider, son of Jacob Schneider, aged eighteen 
 years, was attacked at the funeral of his mother by pneu- 
 monia, to which disease his mother had succumbed, despite 
 the best medical skill and treatment. She died. The son 
 was treated by his father with the Resuscitator, and — he lives! 
 
 In violent diseases, in which a crisis comes about the 
 ninth day, which turns either for life or death to the patient, 
 we should not satisfy ourselves with a single application. It 
 is better to repeat the application about the fourth day, for it 
 should be always remembered that liberal cutaneous erup- 
 tions of a scabby or crustlike nature are of the greatest 
 importance during the disease until the crisis is passed. If 
 
these crusty eruptions should not prove abundant after the 
 first application of the instrument, then, in all dangerous dis- 
 eases, where prompt help is necessary, the application of the 
 instrument and Oleum should be made at intervals of three to 
 four hours, until the desired eruption appears on the body. 
 We should never allow the disease to gain full headway, or 
 aggravate its character, when it can be avoided. 
 
 I feel it a duty to write to you thus in detail for the ben- 
 efit of the readers of your new Book of Instruction, for want of 
 experience often results in sad mistakes in using the instru- 
 ment. 
 
 Often a cure can be effected without the use of the instru- 
 ment by simply rubbing in the Oleum repeatedly 
 
 Please be kind enough to send me 12 bottles of Oleum, 
 the pay for which you will find inclosed in a postal money 
 order. Send per express to St. Charles. 
 
 Accept my warmest greetings and best wishes. 
 
 From yours, Christian Fey. 
 
 Dexter, Mich., June 28th. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: I wish you God’s blessing in greeting. 
 For a long time I have been purposing to write to you con- 
 cerning the sickness of my wife. As you will probably 
 remember, I called to see you and consult with you concern- 
 ing her case. The doctors claimed that she was afflicted with 
 dropsy of the womb, or of the ovaries. None of them could 
 help her, however. The Resuscitator alone has cured her. 
 That she now rejoices in good health, she owes to that instru- 
 ment. All honor to God ! 
 
 This Spring a young man came to me who had been suf- 
 fiu’iiig for over a year from inflammation of the eyes, and one 
 eye was almost blind. He had tried many doctors, but none 
 could help him. I applied the instrument four times upon 
 him, and now his eyes are well. And thus has this instru- 
 ment repeatedly effected its purpose with me. 
 
 Will you please, on receipt of this, send me two bottles of 
 Oleum })er express? If nothing hinders, I shall come to 
 Cl(‘V(‘lan<l after harvest, or (dse will send you the money. I 
 
have changed riiy place of residence ; I now live in Michigan. 
 Heretofore I resided in Ohio. 
 
 Respectfully, your friend, John Voegler. 
 
 Salt Lake City, Utah Terr., Jan. 16, 1873. 
 
 Mr. John Linden— Dear Sir: I here send you a money 
 order, payable to John Linden, for SI. 76, to pay for a bottle of 
 Oleum. I am rejoiced, surprised, astonished, at the wonder- 
 ful cures effected with your instrument. If you desire it, I 
 will give you a more detailed report of the cases which I have 
 treated. Respectfully, yours, Wm. Russel. 
 
 Westnutgen, Westmoreland Co., Pa., April 1, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. .*» Please send me another Resuscitator, 
 
 four bottles of Oleum, and one Instruction Book, German. In 
 this letter you will find $13.25. Two bottles of the Oleum are 
 for me, and two are to accompany the instrument. 
 
 My instrument has acquired so good a reputation among 
 my neighbors, that, as soon as they can raise the money, each 
 of them proposes to send for one. Every day increases their 
 convictions of its excellence and utility. For my own part, I 
 desire nO better doctor than it. It will cure all diseases with- 
 out distinction. 
 
 With friendly greetings, Joshua Voegele. 
 
 Metropolis, 111., September 3, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: Your favor of Aug. 26, together with 
 the desired Oleum, I received day before yesterday. To the 
 publication of my former letter, which you purpose in the 
 public prints, you have my hearty consent, for the inspiring 
 thought that it might result in paving the way for the tri- 
 umphant entrance of the Resuscitator into the houses of the 
 sick and afflicted, to bless and comfort them, fills my heart 
 with joy and gladness. May the all-merciful Father add his 
 blessing thereto. I rejoice, truly and heartily rejoice, every 
 time I hear of the recovery of some sick one that has been 
 treated by the Resuscitator. Within the last fourteen days it 
 was our privilege to see this cheering sight in three adult 
 persons and one boy of ten years of age, all of whom were 
 
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 cured, by a single application of the instrument on the parts 
 prescribed, of fever and ague, two of whom bad been pestered 
 with it for several weeks, and one even since the beginning of 
 July, despite of all that the worthy doctors, who had been 
 asked for help, could do. Their well-known poisons could not 
 arrest the fever even for a single day. Most cheering, in 
 this connection, is the circumstance that the carpenter and 
 builder, William Walter, of this place, who had been plagued 
 for two months by the fever, was thoroughly cured, not only 
 of the fever, but, as he himself confesses, of his utter incredu- 
 lity in the efficacy of the Resuscitator. Yesterday my wife 
 returned from the visit of a little patient who had been 
 treated the day before, and brought the news to me v/ith a joy- 
 illuminated countenance that the outward indications pointed 
 to a happy termination. Her own heart was all aglow, and 
 hence I may be pardoned for saying to you, Mr. Linden, that 
 I cannot sufficiently thank God for this merciful Providence 
 which allowed its discovery and its spread in this country, 
 through your instrumentality, and brought it into my hands 
 before I was utterly undone, to effect my own restoration. 
 
 With hearty greetings, I am yours, respectfully, 
 
 A. Krueger, Pastor. 
 
 Meadows, McLean Co., 111., August 26, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Inclosed you will find the amount for 
 2 bottles of your Oleum. Send it as soon as possible, It has, 
 in all cases where it has been tried, proved itself very good, 
 and I would not do without it. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, Charles Klein. 
 
 Hastings, Minn., Ang. 26, 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: I wish you would send me 
 4 more bottles of your Oleum per express. I have one of your 
 needle instruments, for the use of myself and family. About 
 a year and a half ago I wrote to you about my sickness, and I 
 found that this mode of treatment performs all that you prom- 
 ised for it. I have paid, during the last six years, more than 
 a thousand dollars to doctors and for medicines, but I must 
 confess that the use of the Resuscitator has done more for me 
 
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 and my family than anything else. My case is an old one of 
 at least sixteen years’ duration. At first I was lame in my 
 back ; then, five years ago, it drew into my right hip and leg. 
 I was treated by the best doctors of this State, but without 
 success, until I at last got help from your remedies. I was 
 advised to use crutches, but I did not do it; and now it is 
 more than a year past since I have had need of a cane. 
 To-day my leg is as sound and as healthy as formerly, and 
 this result I can only ascribe to you and your treatment. I 
 wish you the best of success, and shall take pains to recom- 
 mend your Method to all sufferers from weakness in the spine, 
 hip diseases, or other chronic evils. 
 
 If I can be of service to you in any way, I shall be happy 
 to do so, and meanwhile remain, 
 
 Your friend, James A. Morse. 
 
 Montagorta, Texas, September 14, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: Ten months ago I received an instru- 
 ment, book, and bottle of Oleum, from you, the application of 
 which lias freed me from a most dangerous disease, for which 
 I am under great obligations to you. I now desire to get 
 iinother instrument, book, and Oleum, for my neighbor, who 
 has repeatedly used the instrument with good results. Please 
 ft?end as soon as possible. Inclosed you will find $10.00. 
 
 Respectfully, Caroline Fischenik. 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1873. 
 
 In this letter I send you $1.60 for one bottle of Oleum. I 
 have an instrument and Book of Instructions of yours. Please 
 send it as soon as possible, for my neighbor has the jaundice, 
 and has had five doctors, but without success. I have there- 
 fore advised him to use the Resuscitator. My daughter was 
 afflicted last year with catalepsy; she has been cured by the 
 Resuscitator. Yours, Fred. Klausing. 
 
 Bethel, October 13, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Be kind enough to send me another 
 bottle of Oleum, for’the inclosed postal order. I prize the little 
 
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 instrument so highly that I would not do without it for ten 
 times its price. 
 
 Respectfully, G. C. Holt, Norik Bethel^ Maine. 
 
 Perry, Pa., Oct. 18, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: I have used your remedy, the Resus- 
 citator, with success, last Winter, but I am not yet thoroughly 
 cured. But it has helped me more than all medicines. Pray 
 send me, for the inclosed $3.20, two bottles of Oleum, soon as 
 possible. 
 
 With kindly greetings, your devoted friend, 
 
 Franz Webel. 
 
 Marysville, Kansas, October 25, 1873. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Please send me six bottles of 
 good Oleum. Inclosed you will find an order for $5.00. The bal- 
 ance I will send you very soon. During the several years 
 past, in which we have used your Treatment in our family, 
 we have not only saved much of money, medicine, and doctor- 
 ing, but also much labor and anxiety, which are never want 
 ing in cases of sickness. 
 
 Respectfully, Chas. F. Koester. 
 
 St. Joseph, Mo., October 29, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Having received a Resuscitator of you 
 two and a half years ago, and the Oleum being now exhausted 
 you will please send me 1 bottle of Oleum for the inclosd $1.60, 
 as you have advertised it in the Botschafter. I would yet say 
 that the Resuscitator has already paid for itself well, for I was 
 afflicted in a manner that no medicine seemed to do me any 
 good ; but the Resuscitator has cured me, and more testimony 
 of the same kind might be furnished, if needed. 
 
 With all respect, I subscribe myself, 
 
 Hermann Koepfel. 
 
 Matagorta, Texas, November 2, 1873. 
 Respected Mir. Linden: Please send us, for the inclosed 
 $13.00, of your Oleum. We are highly pleased with the 
 results of the Resuscitator, and would wish that all, suffering 
 
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 from disease of whatever kind, might use it. We feel in duty 
 bound earnestly to recommend this family treasure to all suf- 
 ferers, those even who have given up all hope of ever recover- 
 ing by the use of medical remedies. 
 
 With much respect, 
 
 Petek and Caroline Fischenik. 
 
 Matagorta, Texas, November 20, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Be kind enough to send me a Resusci- 
 tator, two bottles of Oleum, and one English Instruction Book, 
 My precious instrument has a good reputation, and has 
 already relieved many a fellow man from pain. At first our 
 neighbors laughed at us for using it, as may be readily sup- 
 posed; but now they see that we cure all diseases with it, and, 
 in our family, save all doctors’ bills. 
 
 Your friend, Caroline Fischenik. 
 
 Danville, 111., December 12, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden : Please send me at once one bottle of 
 Oleum. Your little instrument, the Resuscitator, is doing good 
 services in our city. We have cured cases of rheumatism 
 which could not be reached with other medicines, and had 
 been given up by the doctors as inveterate cases. Please send 
 a price-list, also, for instrument, Oleum, &c. 
 
 Yours, truly, John P. Randall. 
 
 Lock port, N. Y., December 13, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. John Linden: Inclosed you will find $1.50, for one 
 bottle of Oleum. Send to the following address: Rev., Freder- 
 ick Lohmeyer, Lockport, N. Y. The Resuscitator received of 
 you has done us much good already, and ought to be in ever}^ 
 family. 
 
 Respectfully, yours, Frederick Lohmeyer. 
 
 St. Louis, Mo., December 25, 1873. 
 
 Honored Mr. Ijinden: As I have now been using a Resusci- 
 tator, that I received of you, for six months in my family, and 
 have found it of much practical utility in cases of sickness, I 
 give it the highest recommendation to all. My wife had the 
 
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 fever and ague for over a year, and the doctors had her almost 
 in the grave. By means of several applications of the Resus- 
 citator she is now, thank God, restored. To me, also, the 
 instrument has rendered excellent service. For some time 
 past I have had a rush of blood to the head (congestion of the 
 brain), blood expectorations, and at times most violent head- 
 aches. As often as I apply the instrument thoroughly upon 
 the calves of the legs and back, the spitting of blood ceases, 
 but the urine turns greenish during these times, and at night 
 I have twitching in my limbs. I therefore would like to 
 know more of you concerning the use of the Resuscitator in 
 my case of blood expectorations. Whatever this may cost, 
 you will please inform me, and I will send pou the pay as 
 soon as possible. 
 
 Respectfully, Jacob Jud, Machinist 
 
 Urbana, 111., January 16, 1874. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: For the inclosed money order 
 of $3.20 be kind enough to send me two bottles of Oleum, at 
 once, per mail. The lady, for whom we ordered the last 
 instrumeut, is now so far restored from her chronic rheuma- 
 tism, of which she suffered twelve years, that she is able to go 
 about without crutches. 
 
 Respectfully, R. A. Webber. 
 
 Fieldon, 111., January 20, 1874. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: The three Resuscitators which you 
 sent me, together with the oil belonging to it, in August, 
 1873, have brought about the most satisfactory results in my 
 own as well as in the families of others. Several days ago I 
 succeeded in saving my thirteen-year-old boy from an attack 
 even of spotted fever {cerehro spinal meningitis) by applying it on 
 neck, back, and shoulders, about one hundred passages, while 
 several patients of this vicinity died of it under medical treat- 
 ment. Your Oleum, which was at first opposed here as spuri- 
 ous and worthless, has forced itself into honorable recognition, 
 and hence I would solicit you to send me, for the inclosed $5.00, 
 a fresh supply, per mail, addressing it to Rev. J. Luescber, 
 Fieldon, J ersey Co , 111. 
 
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 Wishing you the very best success in your vocation for 
 the year just begun, I subscribe myself with much respect, 
 Yours, J. Luescher, Pastor, 
 
 Gardner, Mass., January 25, 1874. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — -Dear Sir: Inclosed you will find the 
 amount to pay for a bottle of Oleum. Mine is eutirely used up^ 
 and I can by no means do witliout it. If anything happens 
 in my family, I go for the Resuscitator, and I am always sure 
 of a favorable result. Please send the Oleum as soon as possible, 
 and thus oblige, yours truly, Joseph Dumas. 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark., January 29, 1874. 
 
 Mr. John Linden: I bought one of your gilt instruments, 
 but the Oleum is now exhausted. Be kind enough to send me, 
 for the accompanying $5.00, a supply of Oleum once more to 
 Hot Springs, Arkansas. I am highly pleased with the instru- 
 ment and Oleum, and would not like to do without it for twenty 
 times its price. Respectfully, Robert Thornton. 
 
 Stacy ville, Iowa, Feb. 8, 1874. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Last Spring my wife was much afflicted 
 with gout, and, as the doctor could give her no relief, I used 
 the Resuscitator, and this has restored her, thank God, to her 
 usual good health, and that in a short time, too. About the 
 same time one of my children, as also a neighbor’s child, was 
 severely attacked with spotted fever. The doctors were una- 
 ble to relieve them, but the use of the Resuscitator saved 
 them, as I and my neighbor firmly believe, from an early 
 death. 
 
 Please send me an instrument, two bottles of Oleum, and 
 a book. I inclose the amount. Martin Decker. 
 
 Nebraska City, Neb., Feb. 8, 1874. 
 
 Mr. John Linden — Dear Sir: Your favor of the 1st of 
 Dec., 1873, with the ordered goods, came safely to hand, and I 
 would ask you to send the following also to the express office 
 of Nebraska City : One instrument, one German book, latest 
 edition, and Oleum, as far as the inclosed money will reach. 
 
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 The error that occurred in the first order, of September 24, and_ 
 the balance of eighty-eight cents due on the last order, of 
 December 1, 1873, you will now adjust. There are people who 
 desire to liave only the instrument, wdtliout either book or 
 Oleum. Be kind enou^?h to inform me of the price of such. 
 
 Your Method of Cure finds a very good reception in this 
 vicinity, and its reputation is rapidly spreading, owing to the 
 many and prompt cures it efiects. I used this Treatment for 
 three years in Germany, and now for five years in Nebraska 
 City, in my numerous family, and with the best success in 
 the most serious cases of sickness, and have also helped my 
 fellow men in distressful and dangerous cases very success- 
 fully. 
 
 The wife of a certain Mr. Miller, of Appleton, Wisconsin, 
 who had been suffering from a serious throat and chest dis- 
 ease for the last seven years, and had been at times danger- 
 ously ill. I treated and cured her with four applications, 
 wiiile she w^as visiting with her parents in our neighborhood. 
 She now whites to me that she is in possession of your noble 
 Method of Cure, having received the remedies from you, and 
 that she now^ enjoys better health since her perfect restoration 
 by means of the Resuscitator than ever before. She says it 
 saved her life, while medical treatment not only failed to cure 
 her, but seemed to lead her on rapidly to certain death. 
 
 I here inclose $14.00, to cover the balance due you, as w^ell 
 as the amount of the present order. 
 
 Hoping you may receive it correctly, I subscribe myself, 
 Yours, respectfully, 
 
 Jos. Kuw^'itzky. 
 
 Liverpool, N. Y., February 15, 1874. 
 
 Respected Mr, Linden: I herewith'^ solicit you kindly to 
 send meOleum for th('inclosed money, asl cannot and wdll not 
 do without it for even a short time, because this noble and 
 invaluable Resuscitator has achieved, in my family, in vari- 
 ous cases of sickness, great and glorious results. Send it to 
 Liverpool, Onondaga Co., New^ York. 
 
 Yours, devotedly. Geo. Rissler. 
 
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 Rock City, Ills., February 18, 1874. 
 
 Dear Mr, J, Linden: I herewith send you $13.00, to pay for 
 the Oleum which you sent me. Thanking you for your 
 punctuality, I remain, yours, Geo. Raymer. 
 
 N. B. — The boy of whom I wrote to you last I have thor- 
 oughly cured, by means of the Resuscitator, of the St. Vitus 
 Dance. What two physicians failed to do, the Resuscitator 
 has accomplished. Honor to whom honor is due. 
 
 Respectfully, G. Raymer. 
 
 Walnut Grove, Martin Co., June 29, 1874. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden : The last Oleum’ after a long journey, 
 came safely to hand at last, together with the desired instruc- 
 tions, for which I tender you my hearty thanks. I would 
 herewith also inform you tliat I was so fortunate as to cure 
 t!ie boy who had the “fits,” together with receded itch; also 
 bis father, who had been suffering from asthma for eight 
 years. The boy was restored by regular applications for the 
 space of two and a half months. These two cures have the 
 tendency, of course, to bring requests from other people who 
 desire to be treated with this Method. With these requests I 
 propose to comply as soon as harvesting and threshing are 
 done, after which I shall be more independent, and have more 
 leisure. We live here in one of the western border counties of 
 the State, organized only a few years ago, and as yet sparsely 
 settled. Physicians are not nearer than from twenty to thirty 
 miles, and are of no special ability at that, and yet it is so 
 expensive to hire them that many a one will drag himself 
 along, in painful suffering, before he will apply to the expen- 
 sive doctor, who will probably fail to help him at last. It is 
 true, I am not a doctor, yet I trust I am possessed of sufficient 
 good sense to understand the directions that are given ; and 
 when more serious cases occur than are here described, I pro- 
 ]X)se to draw on j^our good nature for instruction. I would yet 
 mention that my daughter, who has been suffering for five 
 years from rheumatism, had employed many physicians, and 
 had^ been incapacitated for months at a time from doing the 
 least thing, was thoroughly restored by one application. This 
 
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 gives me courage and confidence to attempt the restoration of 
 health in others. 
 
 Please excuse this writing in detail ; next time I will be 
 more brief. Yours, devotedly, G. M. Wetzel. 
 
 Twin Lake, Martin Co., Minn., Feb. 20, 1874. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: Inclosed I send you $1.75, for which 
 you will please send me a bottle of your Oleum. 1 have suc- 
 cessfully employed your treatment, in my family, for gouty 
 eyes, in a case where I had, up to the time of the arrival of 
 your instrument, employed a so-called good doctor, who had 
 only aggravated the difficulty. My daughter of seventeen 
 years of age had almost become blind, but a single application 
 in the neck and behind the ears has entirely restored her. I 
 have also cured headache and other ailments in my family. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, G. M. Wetzel. 
 
 Arenzville, Cass Co., 111., March 30, 1872. 
 
 My Beloved and Dear Mr. Linden: With the Resuscitator I 
 have here had excellent success in cases of chronic headaches 
 and backaches, toothache, eye difficulties, rheumatism, gout, 
 dysentery, and fever and ague. My opinion of it is, after the 
 experience I have had with it, that I would not exchange my 
 instrument and oil for all the medical science of all the doc- 
 tors in the county, and for the simple reason that in such 
 cases, where medical science is at fault and helplessly leaves 
 the suffering patient to his fate, the Resuscitator comes to 
 prove itself worthy of its name. 
 
 Please send me at once an instrument, with its belong- 
 ings, and one bottle of Oleum, inclusive, for the inclosed. 
 
 With friendly greetings, yours, devotedly, 
 
 Franz Spitzer, 
 
 Teacher of tlie Ev. Lath. St. Peter’' s Church at Arenzville. 
 
 Cuyahoga Falls, 0., March 4, 1875. 
 
 My Honored Friend Linden : I take up my pen for the pur- 
 pose of writing to you, and wishing you, in greeting, the bless- 
 ing of God upon yourself and family. It is now two years 
 since I was in your city last, and since that time I have nei- 
 
ther heard nor seen anything of you. The Oleum which I 
 obtained of you is all exhausted, and I will not and cannot do 
 without it any longer. The Resuscitator is the only doctor 
 for myself and family, and, as I can joyfully assure you, has 
 also proved a life-preserver. As medicine seems to be of no 
 avail for rheumatism, from wdiich I have suffered much on 
 account of the unhealthy climate, I took resort at last to the 
 Resuscitator, and have never yet regretted its introduction 
 into my family. Tw’O years ago my wife was thoroughly pros- 
 trated for three or four weeks by fever and ague, and suffered 
 intensely. All medicine seemed only to aggravate her condi- 
 tion. I was advised to buy the Resuscitator, and did so. 
 After a single application on her back and shoulders, all pains 
 vanished. But as my wufe w^ould not consent to have the 
 instrument applied over the abdomen and stomach, wdiich 
 parts needed to be operated in order to perfect the cure, she 
 w^as seized, about a month later, one night at tw^elve o’clock, 
 wdth terrible cramps in her stomach. She came nigh to suffo- 
 cation. In my first fright I seized upon some medicine and 
 camphor, but it did no good. I then took the Resuscitator, 
 made six or eight passages with it over the stomach, and in 
 fifteen minutes the crnmps had, for a time, subsided. Three 
 or four weeks later, about three o’clock in the morning, the 
 cramps seized her again, but not near so violently. After 
 again applying the instrument, the cramps disappeared, and 
 have not since appeared. For this cure I am indebted to the 
 beautiful and invaluable Resuscitator. 
 
 I remain your friend, J. Geo. Schnabel. 
 
 Olathe, Kansas, March 5, 1873. 
 
 John Linden^ Cleveland^ Ohio — Honored Sir: Thanking you 
 for past services, I here inclose you $8.00, for another instru- 
 ment, book, and Oleum. 
 
 I cured a child of pneumonia by a single application, 
 after the doctors had given it up; also a case of typhoid pneu- 
 monia, three cases of gastric fever, tw^o cases of intermittent 
 fever, several cases of cold in the head and chest, and one case 
 of inflammatory rheumatism, w^here the patient had been as 
 helpless as a child, and on the very next day was able to leave 
 
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 her room, realizing great relief from a single application. I 
 did not lose a single case — had the best of success everywhere, 
 while the so-called doctors, thus far, have failed of success in a 
 single case of typhoid pneumonia. The eyes of the people are 
 being opened by the silent victories of the Resuscitator, and 
 many are acknowledging its merits, with tears of gratitude, as 
 the best of remedies. 
 
 Respectfully, Janp: E. Hambleton. 
 
 Union Hill, N. J., Sept. 2, 1876. 
 
 Dear Friend Linden: With heartiest greetings I would 
 inform you, that, in the first place, I have relieved a girl of a 
 raging nervous fever by one application of the Resuscitator. 
 Secondly, a boy of nine years, who had been given up by 
 three distinguished doctors, I cured with four applications. 
 Tliirdly, I restored, by one application, the for five months 
 suppressed menses of a young woman, and in fever cases the 
 Resuscitator was always sure to cure. Many people are still 
 hesitating about securing for themselves the Resuscitator; 
 but for me you will meanwhile send another instrument and 
 two bottles of Oleum. Jacob Schmitt. 
 
 Mayville, Dodge Co,, Wis., Aug. 8, 1876. 
 
 Dear Bote: It is now eight years since I fell subject, in 
 Spring, to an attack of pneumonia. I employed the doctor, 
 and he got $25.00 out of me, and for ten weeks I could not 
 work. During the Summer I bought of John Linden, of 
 Cleveland, Ohio, the Resuscitator, and when, in the following 
 Spring, I was again attacked with pneumonia, I used it, and 
 in three days I was well again. Eight days ago I was 
 attacked with so severe a headache that I got out of my right 
 mind. But, as the weather was damp, I deferred using the 
 Resuscitator until I could endure the pain no longer, and this 
 is only the second day since I applied it, and I am now quite 
 well again. I could yet mention many cases where the mar- 
 velous power of the Resuscitator has been demonstrated, but 
 this is, perhaps, already as much or more than the desires. 
 
 Yours, truly, Ludwig Grewing. 
 
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 Dundee, Monroe Co., Mich., Jan. 11th, 1876. 
 
 Mr, John Linden^ Cleveland^ 0 , — Dear Friend : Do not allow 
 yourself to be wearied by the absurd and envious assaults that 
 are made upon your integrity through the newspapers. The* 
 remedies you have sent for years have always proved to be- 
 genuine and eflBcacious. In proof of this, I wish you to sendi 
 me, by next mail, one instrument and two bottles of Oleum. 
 
 With high regards, yours, L. F. E. Krause, 
 
 Ev, lAith. Pastor of this place. 
 
 Highland, Clayton Co., la., March 28, 1876. 
 
 Dear Mr, Linden: The Resuscitator which you sent me I 
 received yesterday all correct, also the two bottles of 
 Oleum. The man of whom I wrote you, that the medical doc- 
 tors ere about to amputate his hand because he had been 
 bitten into the finger, I have perfectly restored by means of 
 the Resuscitator. He is full of joy. Formerly he suffered 
 from deafness, and that has also now disappeared since he 
 used the instrument. He is all amazement at the wonderful 
 success of the Resuscitator and Oleum, and their triumph over 
 all medical art, whose practitioners, under plea of necessity,, 
 would have taken off his hand, perhaps his arm. 
 
 I am not a doctor, my dear Linden, but simply a layman ; 
 but, as some one that was cured here said, I have done more 
 good than all the doctors put together. 
 
 Yours truly, John Isch. 
 
 Scott City, la., July 25, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Be kind enough to send me, for the in- 
 closed money, a bottle of Oleum. Four months ago I suffered 
 from rheumatism so that I could not move. Since that time I 
 have used the Resuscitator, and am now so far restored that I 
 can work again, and I have no doubt that, by continuing to 
 use it, I shall be perfectly restored. A young man of eighteen 
 years of age was suffering from rheumatism over his whole 
 body ; his feet were swollen, and he could not, without assist- 
 ance, get off the wagon. After two applications, he was cured. 
 This, as well as my own cure, has created quite a sensation 
 here so that maii}^ are coming to me now and desire to be 
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 cured. I have several other patients under treatment, who 
 are also much better already. 
 
 Yours, devotedly, Wm. Dippe. 
 
 Concord, Wis., March 10, 1878. 
 
 Dr. Linden — Honored Sir: In response to my order of the 
 28th of February, I have received a package containing 
 instrument, book, and three bottles of Oleum, all safely. 
 
 Last year I treated one person with the Resuscitator who 
 had been sick for a long time, had taken much medicine, and 
 grew constantly worse. I applied the instrument on the 
 chest, along both sides of the spinal column, and over the 
 region of the liver. In two weeks the bronchitis was cured, 
 the bilious fever removed, the liver difficulty was annihilated, 
 and dyspepsia expelled. The result was, health ! Drug med- 
 icines have never effected the least cure, and they cannot do 
 it; but the Exanthematic Method of Cure removes the morbid 
 matter from the system in a most astonishing manner, and 
 nature will then help itself. B. H. Couch. 
 
 Honesdale, Pa., Aug. 3, 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden^ of Cleveland., 0 . — Dear Sir: The two bot- 
 tles of Oleum you sent me have come to hand, and I will also 
 write you of its success; at first, however, only in a general 
 way. If you desire to have the names of the persons, and the 
 disease of each one that has been cured, you will please inform 
 me of your wish, and I will gratify it by sending you a list. I 
 will now only remark that your oil has worked successfully in 
 all cases where I tried it, and I have tried it in many cases. 
 
 Send me, as soon as possible, two more bottles of Oleum, 
 per mail. I send you, per mail, $5.00 in money order. If it 
 should not cost so much, you can send me the change back in 
 your return letter. 
 
 Respectfully, Mrs. Bruehlbach. 
 
 Milan, Sullivan Co., Mo., Sept 12., 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Your favor of April 20th, together with 
 Oleum, came to hand. I thank you sincerely for the friend- 
 ship and confidence you have shown me. I was specially for- 
 
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 tiinate with the Resuscitator during this Summer. I have 
 had the best of success in diseases of the eyes, Summer com- 
 plaints, dysentery, and fever. The Resuscitator has gradually 
 acquired a very good reputation in this neighborhood. 
 
 With greetings and much respect, 
 
 Yours, Jacob Hoffman. 
 
 Clinton, Summit Co., 0., April 11, 1878. 
 
 Mr, John Linden. \ I have received the bottle of Oleum. 
 In addition to the $5.00 already sent, I remit the deficient 
 fifty cents for the second bottle. 
 
 I have found the Resuscitator to be a great blessing to 
 suffering humanity. In families where there is much sick- 
 ness it saves the doctor bills ; but many people, who simply 
 look at the instrument, are quite incredulous until the Resus- 
 citator demonstrates its rightful name by proving itself a life- 
 preserver. My neighbor was one of the unbelievers : his wife 
 was sickly, and had a severe attack almost every week, in 
 which the doctor had to be called. At one time it was 
 thought the woman would die ; and thus it continued for a 
 long while. The doctor said it was a nervous disease, but 
 could not help her. At last the woman said she was going to 
 try the Resuscitator. I now tried it on her three times, at 
 intervals of ten days, and she is now perfectly well again. .^It 
 is now four years since that time, and the disease has not 
 reappeared. It was in this manner that her husband became 
 convinced of the excellence of the Resuscitator, and he wished 
 the Resuscitator to be used upon his father-in-law, who was 
 suffering much from headache. It was said, done, and the 
 man was cured. In my family the Resuscitator has rendered 
 good service. Two weeks ago I was attacked with stitching 
 pains in my side. After one application the difficulty was 
 removed. Yours, Michael Simons. 
 
 Gardner, Noble Co., 0., Februaiy 4, 1873. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: Respecting the efficacy of the Resusci- 
 tator, I have the following to report. I was afflicted by a 
 severe cough for nineteen years, used various medicines and 
 remedies for it, but all in vain. Rev. H. Lyons recommended 
 
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 the Resuscitator to me, which I received from you, besides 
 book and oil, in October of last year. I applied it on myself, 
 and also on my wife, who was suffering from some female com- 
 plaint. My cough is much better, and I have increased 
 twenty-five pounds since then in weight. My wife, too, 
 enjoys better health than she did for ten years before. 
 
 Yours, J. M. S. Chessair. 
 
 Arenzville, Cass Co., 111., Nov. 10th, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : For the last ten years I have been suf- 
 fering from asthma, and in such a manner, too, that I could 
 not pass a night without rising four or five times from my 
 bed. In short, my affliction was of the most malignant type. 
 More than thirty physicians, both in Germany and here, tried 
 their skill upon me, and fed me upon laudanum, morphine, 
 stramonium tincture, ether, liver oil, &c., but their skill was 
 all in vain. The highly-eulogized patent medicines of this 
 country I tried in rotation, but all without success. At last 
 our pastor, Mr. Reiss, recommended the Resuscitator to me. 
 But as I had relinquished all hope of ever improving, the use 
 of it was delayed from time to time. A member of our society, 
 Mr. John Roegge, had an instrument and Oleum, and this I 
 borrowed for the purpose of trying it. I took the book in 
 hand, and had myself operated, the first time, eighty passages, 
 and directly I felt, if not much, yet certainly some relief. I 
 concluded, however, that this was not enough, and the second 
 time I had three hundred and ten passages made upon me. 
 The effect was astonishing. I could at once sleep all the 
 night through, and my appetite returned, and I felt my 
 strength increasing daily. The third time two hundred and 
 ninety, and the fourth time two hundred and seventy passa- 
 ges were made. I am now so strong again, that, during my 
 leisure hours I can go hunting, while before this it was a 
 heavy burden for me to walk for five minutes to my school- 
 house. I would, as you might say, stumble over rny own legs. 
 I must yet add tluit my wife was cured by one operation of a 
 violent dysentery; and my eight-year-old daughter, by two 
 
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 operations, was cured of the fever and ague, so prevalent here. 
 
 Respectfully, Franz Spitzek, 
 
 Teacher of the Ev. lAith. St. Peter^s Congregation of Arenzvillej Cass 
 Co.., Illinois. 
 
 In attestation of the above. F. Reiss, 
 
 Pastor of the Congregation, 
 
 Grandview, la. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden : While ordering another bottle of 
 Oleum, I desire to mention that I was subject to tettera or salt 
 rheum, as some doctors call it, and that, after four applica- 
 tions, I am almost cured of it by the Resuscitator. My wife, 
 who had been suffering from that terrible malady known as 
 inflammatory rheumatism, was freed by it, and is now as well 
 as ever, and feels like a new-born person. I have also cured 
 several severe cases of toothache and neuralgia by a single 
 application, and my faith in the little machine is still 
 increasing. Yours, J. S. Wilson. 
 
 Cleveland, 0., August 1, 1877. 
 
 During the past Winter my daughter was attacked by a 
 very distressing affliction in the feet. Her feet were much 
 swollen and inflamed, and she could neither walk nor stand, 
 and was steadily confined to her bed. All medical aid that 
 was invoked seemed only to aggravate the evil, and became so 
 bad, in consequence, as I believe, of the poisonous and sharp 
 remedies and tinctures with which the doctors bathed it daily, 
 that my daughter was really in danger of losing her foot, and 
 the doctor declared he could do no more. 
 
 At last, at the height of our distress, the remedies of Mr. 
 .lohn Linden were recommended to me, and, by the time that 
 three applications were made, her foot was so far restored that 
 she could walk again; and, after three more applications by 
 herself with the Resuscitator and Oleum, she was once more 
 perfectly restored. 
 
 This I testify for the good and benefit of the suffering. 
 
 Carl Eckard. 
 
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 Humboldt, Neb., Aug. 11, 1877. 
 
 To Mr, John Linden,, Cleveland^ 0. — Dear Sir: Inclosed you 
 will find a money order for the amount of 81.75, for which you 
 will please send me a bottle of Oleum. In one of your advertise, 
 monts I see that this is the price you charge, including post- 
 age. 
 
 The Resuscitator proves itself of great value here. As the 
 inhabitants are mostly Americans, it is difficult to introduce 
 this new Method among them, because the American will not 
 believe it possible to be cured without a stomach full of medi- 
 cine. I have radically cured a very difficult case of rose in 
 the face in two months, and the patient did not lose an hour’s 
 time from his usual occupation. One case of gout and liver 
 complaint of a chronic nature, of many years’ standing, I 
 treated, and in five weeks I had good success. Another case 
 of gout, of a very serious nature, I have now, for ten days, 
 under treatment, and with very good prospects. 
 
 A child who had the whooping cough was also cured by 
 the Resuscitator. Also a case of neuralgia. 
 
 A number of persons are speaking of getting the instru- 
 ment, &c. Yours, truly, Louis Waldter. 
 
 Mercer, Pa., August 13, 1877. 
 
 Mr. John lAnden — Dear Sir: I am happily delivered from 
 the effects of a paralytic stroke that fell upon me several years 
 ago. For my restoration I am indebted to the Resuscitator. 
 I wish it were kept in every family. 
 
 In the Fall of 1863 I was elected to the Legislature of 
 Pennsylvania, and while I was there I fell dangerously ill. I 
 doctored for several years Avithout benefit. But after using 
 your Resuscitator only for a short time, I was enabled to walk 
 to my office again by using a cane. You ought to publish my 
 cure far and Avide. By using. your remedies the people. Avould 
 annually save millions of dollars. 
 
 Your friend. R M. De France, Aftorney-at-Ijxiv. 
 
 Sacramento, Cal., August 9, 1877. 
 
 Mr. TAnden : The three bottles of Oleum I received about 
 three Aveeks ago. I Avas quite astonished, on opening the 
 
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 package, to find the bottle so large, with the inscription, 
 blown into the glass itself, J. Linden’s Improved Oleum 
 Baunscheidtii, Cleveland, O. Pat. 1877,” together with a 
 very tasty label. Only after carefully reading the accompany- 
 ing circular did I “smell the mice.” With all my heart 1 
 congratulate you that you hit upon the happy thought of 
 adopting a regular trade mark, and having the same patented. 
 You will soon discover that your Oleum will be the more 
 readily purchased, because every purchaser can see for him- 
 self whether he is buying the genuine (I had almost said the 
 only useful Oleum) or not. You have, in my opinion, adopted 
 the most practical remedy for preventing the many counter- 
 feits and base imitations of your unsurpassable Oleum. Who- 
 ever now allows himself to be humbugged or cheated with the 
 poor oil, has only himself to blame, for no one has the right to 
 imitate your trade mark, and hence no one should buy a bottle 
 on which your trade mark is not to be found. But there is 
 another and no less weighty reason in favor of your Oleum, and 
 that is, that the same quantity of Oleum which you sell for $1.50 
 costs, if imported, $3.42. This I have very carefully reckoned 
 according to the weight of the respective bottles, and therefore 
 I say that your Oleum is twice as good as the imported. Hap- 
 pily we need be no more so exceedingly economical with the 
 Oleum in a})plying it after an operation ; it can now be freely 
 Xised without fear of self-impoverishment. 
 
 With much eagerness I am looking forward for the new 
 edition of your Book of Instruction, which, as you say, is to be 
 entirely worked over. As an old friend and customer, I beg 
 of you to send me one of the first copies of the new edition per 
 express, C. O. D. Don’t fail. 
 
 Again my hearty congratulations are herewith tendered 
 in view of the important increase of your business. 
 
 Your old friend, John F. Burner. 
 
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 A LETTER FROM JERUSALEM. 
 
 My readers will pardon me for laying before them the fol- 
 lowing long letter, as it does not by any means refer solely to 
 the art of healing. I believe, however, that every reader will 
 be pleased therewith, and feel obliged to the writer, as it con- 
 tains much that is desirable to know, and of general interest. 
 
 Jerusalem (Palestine), March 5, 1877. 
 
 My Dear Friend Linden: With hearty and friendly greet- 
 ings I hail you from this distant land. May the grace of God 
 preserve your health and true faith. 
 
 In the first place I would communicate to you the follow- 
 ing: The six Resuscitators that I received from you, and the 
 six doz. bottles of Oleum, have arrived here without the least 
 damage to anything. I have made presents of them to differ- 
 ent cloisters and hospitals, to each an instrument and one 
 dozen bottles of oil, and gave them the necessary instructions. 
 1 was afterward informed that they were rendering most 
 excellent services, and I was obliged to write down your 
 address for each one, so as to enable them to order from you 
 themselves when they need it. The Resuscitator which I 
 took along has also served me very well. On the voyage I 
 was able to free several of the passengers from the sea- 
 sicknessi The captain said he had never yet become 
 acquainted with any remedy that vso effectually cured the 
 sea-sickness as the Resuscitator. He could not, apparenth^ 
 sufficiently admire the little thing, and the physician on 
 board expressed Iiis astonishment, and read your Book of 
 Instruction with much interest. 
 
 At the time of my departure on my journey you told me 
 you also had a great desire to make a journey to Jerusalem, 
 and I then promised you to write to you in detail concerning 
 the holy city and its surroundings. I have failed for over 
 two years to keep my word, and, to atone for this, I will now 
 write the more circumstantially. 
 
 It appears to me as if there was no place on this earth so 
 well adapted to lift up one’s spirit to God, and imbue it with 
 true faith, and those places which have been hallowed by the 
 
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 teachings, sufferings, death, and resurrection of our glorious 
 Saviour. Not only to Christians of all denominations, and to 
 the Jews, is Jerusalem a holy city, but even to the Moham- 
 medans it is the city of God which ranks second only to 
 Mecca. I am now over two years in Palestine, and still I feel 
 as if I could never leave here an}" more. I often visit Mount 
 Olivet, and sit down under the shade of a tree, and each time 
 the thought is forced upon me, that, perhaps at this very spot 
 did our Lord and Saviour rest also. Indeed, it appears as ii 
 the very breezes here were holy. Jerusalem is undoubtedly 
 the most sacred spot for us Christians on the earth, and yet 
 Jerusalem and all Palestine is in the hands of the Mohamme^ 
 dans, who permit Christians to come and live here only 
 because it serves their advanntage. When we remember 
 that almost always, constantly, since the death of Christ, 
 have these regions, so sacred to us been in the possession of 
 heathens and Mohammedans, it is enough to turn our hearts 
 within us in keenest agony. Christian nations should secure 
 Palestine by purchase, or, if they are not willing for this, 
 should take it by conquest. 
 
 I will first say something concerning the building of 
 Jerusalem, as given to us in the sacred record, and in other 
 historical works. 
 
 From the creation of the world to the birth of the Saviour 
 there are 4004 years. Our Patriarch Noah was born in the 
 year of the world 1056, or 2948 years B. C. Noah had three 
 sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah’s oldest son, Shem, was 
 born when Noah was 500 years old. (Gen. 5. 22.) The Deluge 
 came when Noah was 600 years old. (Gen. 7. 6.) To Noah’s 
 sons children were born after the Deluge. (Gen. 10. 1.) Ham 
 was the father of Canaan, who fell under the curse of his 
 grandfather. (Gen. 9. 18 — 26.) Noah died 350 years after the 
 Deluge, or 1998 years B. C. (Gen. 9. 28, 29.) The name cf 
 Ham means, in the original, ‘‘burnt,” “dark,” or “black.” 
 From his numerous descendants some claim that the negroes 
 also have come. His son, Canaan, who had been cursed by 
 his grandfather Noah, and from whom the Canaanites 
 descended, had eleven children. (Gen. 10. 15 — 19.) Among 
 
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 these was Jebus, the ancestor of the Jebusites, and the proba- 
 ble founder of Jerusalem. 
 
 The Patriarch Abraham was born about two years after 
 the death of Noah, therefore about the year A. M. 2008, or 
 1996 B. C. He was 100 years old when Isaac was born. Gem 
 21, 5. While Isaac was siill a lad, Abraham was commanded 
 to proceed to the land of Moriah, and there offer his son Isaac 
 as a burnt offering. Abraham obeyed, went on his journey 
 with Isaac, and on the third day saw the place from a dis- 
 tance. (Gen. 22. 4.) Thus we see that the land of Moriah is 
 nothing more nor less than a mountain. On this mountain 
 of Moriah, Solomon, at a later day, built the Temple. (2 
 Chron. 3. 1.) Thus, the first account we have of the holy 
 place and of Jerusalem, where Solomon’s Temple was built, ift 
 given us in this history of Abraham and his proposed offering 
 of his son Isaac. 
 
 The Jews and many Christians claim that the first name 
 of Jerusalem was Salem,” which means “peace,” and thi^i 
 opinion is based upon the account left us in Genesis 14. 
 18 — 20, as also upon the epistle to the Hebrews, 7. 1 — 3. Who 
 this king Melchisedec, mentioned therein, really was, to whai 
 people he belonged, when he was born, and when he died, wil) 
 always remain a riddle. He was, however, certainly a very 
 upright and God-fearing man, and is called, in the New Testa- 
 ment, a priest of the “ most high God.” He was a cotempa 
 rary and friend of Abraham, and if the city of “ Salem ” was 
 already built, at the time when Abraham proposed to offer his 
 son Isaac upon Moriah (one of the hills on which Jerusalem 
 is built), then certainly this fact would have been mentioned. 
 Salem was undoubtedly situated elsewhere, and probably^ not 
 very- far from the present site of Jerusalem. 
 
 In the first chapter of the book of Judges, viz., verse S 
 that the children of Israel, after Joshua’s death (who died in 
 1426 B. C.), made war against Jerusalem, which, at that time, 
 w^as called after the name of Jebus, and conquered it, slew its 
 inhabitants by the edge of the sword, and set fire to the city. 
 This must have occurred 400 or 450 years after Abraham’s 
 proposed sacrifice, and thus we may conclude that Jebus, 
 afterward Jerusalem, was built about 1400 years before the 
 
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 birth of Christ, and as Rome was built 753 B. C., it would fol- 
 low that Jerusalem is about 650 years older than Rome. It 
 does not appear, however, that the children of Israel inhabited 
 the city of Jebus, or Jerusalem, after this conquest, for about 
 1046 B. C. David proceeded against the Jebusites of Jerusa^ 
 lem, took the city by storm, and made Jerusalem his capital. 
 ''See 1 Sam. 5. 6 — 10.) 
 
 David was born in Bethlehem (1 Sam. 17. 12), in the year 
 1085 B. C., therefore 736 years after the death of Abraham,, 
 and 1263 years after the Deluge. David became king when 
 he was thirty years old, or 1055 B. C. He reigned forty years, 
 and was seventy years old when, in 1015 B. C., he died. 
 
 When David had reigned seven and one-half years, he 
 removed his royal residence from Hebron to Jebus, the subse- 
 quent Jerusalem — the habitation of peace. (2 Sam. 5. 5 — 8; 
 also, Josh. 15. 8; Judg. 19. 10 — 12.) Jebus was built upon 
 two hills at that time. 
 
 We read in the 30th, otherwise the 29th chapter of 1 
 Chronicles, 2 — 8, that David left his son Solomon 3000 talents 
 of the gold of Ophir, and 7000 talents of refined silver, to be 
 used in building the Temple. The princes, also, and promi- 
 nent men of Israel, gave 5000 talents of gold, 10,000 florins, 
 and 10,000 talents of silver; 18,000 talents of brass, and 
 [00,000 talents of iron. 
 
 Solomon was born 1033 B. C. He became king when but 
 eighteen years of age, and reigned forty years, L ^., from 1015 
 to 975 B. C. In the fourth year of bis reign he began build- 
 ing the famous Temple upon Mount Moriah. (2 Chron. 3. 1.) 
 The description of the Temple itself we find in the last-named 
 chapter, also in the 6th chapter of the 1st book of Kings. The 
 iing of Tyre, Hiram, supported him in his undertaking not 
 only with Tyrian mechanics and artisans, which he sent him, 
 but also with the timbers from Lebanon, which he sent him. 
 In seven years the Temple was finished. (1 Kings 6. 27.) 
 The solemn dedication followed, of which we read in 1st 
 Kings, chapter 8, and in 2d Chronicles, 5. 6; and chapter 7. 1, 
 (fee. But, alas! the beautiful Temple was plundered in thirty- 
 three years after this by the Egyptian king, Shishak. He 
 
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 took the treasures out of the house of the Lord, &c. (See I 
 Kings 14. 25, 26; also 2 Chron. 12. 9.) 
 
 In the reign of Amaziah, the king, Joash conquered the 
 city, and destroyed part of its walls. 
 
 Uzziah so fortified and strengthened it that the siege of 
 the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, proved futile. 
 
 During Manasseh’s reign, on the contrary, the city wa^^ 
 taken by the Assyrians. 
 
 The greatest mifortune happened to the city when the 
 Chaldeans, under Nebuchadnezzar, took the city, after a siege 
 of two years, and then razed it to the earth, together with its 
 beautiful Temple. 
 
 The Temple stood, according co the historical chronolegist 
 Usher, 424 years, three months, and eight days. The sacred 
 vessels were carried off to Babylon. 
 
 This took place 587 B. C. (See 2 Kings 25. 9, &c.; 2 
 Chron. 36. 19; Jer. 52. 12.) 
 
 When the Jews were permitted, by Cyrus, to return from 
 their captivity, in Babylon, to their native land, in 536 B. C., 
 then Cyrus gave them the holy vessels, which Nebuchadnez- 
 zar had taken away from Jerusalem. (See Ezra, chapter 1.) 
 The efforts of Ezra and Nehemiah succeeded in obtaining pei*- 
 mission from Cyrus to rebuild their Temple, as we read in the 
 hook of Ezra, and in the 2d book of Chronicles 36. 22, 23. In 
 the second year after their return, the first colony under 
 Zerubbabel and Joshua could already begin the rebuilding of 
 the Temple, according to Ezra 3. 8. 
 
 Jerusalem was yet five times more besieged and taken, 
 The last and severest conquest was that of the Romans, 71 
 years A. D., in which the grand Herodian Temple, which is 
 said even to have eclipsed that of Solomon^ could not be 
 spared. 
 
 On its ruins the emperor Adrian built a new city in A IX 
 126, which he called ^lia Capitolina, but the Jews were for- 
 bidden to enter the same. 
 
 Jerusalem rose to new consideration when Christianity 
 became the state religion of the Roman empire, and Constant 
 tine the Great already built the church of the Holy Sepulcher. 
 
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 Repeated efforts of the emperor Julian to rebuild the Jewish 
 Temple were unsuccessful. 
 
 In 533, A. D., Jerusalem became the seat of a patriarch. 
 
 In 615, A. D., the Persian king, Kosreos, took the city by 
 storm, but held it only for thirteen years. 
 
 More permanent, however, was the possession of Jerusa- 
 lem by the Arabians, after they took it under their Caliph 
 3mar, in 636. Since that time it has remained, with but lit- 
 tfe exception, in the hands of the Saracens, until the oppres- 
 sions suffered by the Christians at their hands brought about 
 the crusades. On the 15th of July, 1099, Jerusalem was taken 
 by Godfrey de Bullion, and made the residence of the Christ- 
 ian king of Jerusalem. 
 
 It was lost again in 1187, when Sultan Saladin took it, 
 and although Emperor Frederic II. abtained the city by treaty 
 in 1229, from the Sultan of Egypt, and had himself crowned 
 tiiere, yet this possession continued only until 1244, when it 
 was conquered and taken by the Sultan of Babylon. 
 
 In the year 1382 the Circassian Mamelukes got possession 
 of Jerusalem, and in 1517 it was con(|uered by the Turkish 
 Sultan Selim I., since which time it has remained under 
 Turkish control, until, in 1832, it fell into the hands of Mah- 
 ined Alis, but who was obliged to restore it to the Sultan in 
 1840. 
 
 Jerusalem was, therefore, for only a very short time, in 
 possession of Christians, and the entire holy land of Palestine, 
 to the shame of all Christian nations, is dominated and pro- 
 faned by unbelievers. 
 
 The word Jerusalem signifies the habitation of peace, 
 and is thirty-six miles distant from the Mediterranean Sea, 
 and fourteen miles from the Dead Sea. 
 
 The old Jerusalem was built Upon the hills of Zion and 
 Akra, between ’which the Valley of the Cheesemakers (Tyro- 
 poeon) runs as far as the pool of Siloam. 
 
 Opposite to the hill cf Akra the lower hill of Moriah is 
 situated, on which Abraham was about to offer his son Isaac, 
 and on w'hich, at a later period, the Temple was built. Under 
 Herod Agrippa I., the fourth hill, Bezetha, lying to the north 
 
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 jf Akra and Moriah, was also incorporated into the city, on 
 account of its increase and growth of its population. 
 
 The city was protected by three powerful walls of fifty 
 feet in height, each twenty feet in thickness, and which had 
 over one hundred and fifty strong towers. The situation of 
 these walls, and the limits of the city, in the time of our 
 Saviour, cannot now be exactly traced. The present wall was 
 built in the year 1543, A. D., and varies in height from twenty 
 to sixty feet. 
 
 Anciently, the city had ten gates. Now, we find the 
 Bethlehem or Jaffa gate in the west, the Damascus or Herod- 
 ian gate to the north, the Stephen’s gate to the east, and a sec- 
 ond, called the Golden gate, has been walled up by the Turks. 
 On the south we find only a small portal, called the Filth or 
 Dung gate. 
 
 The Cheesemakers’ vale has now entirely disappeared, for 
 it is now almost entirely filed up. 
 
 The city, formerly glorious and beautiful, presents a fine 
 view now only at a distance. The houses are built of stone 
 and mortar, low and irregular, with flat roofs and small cupa- 
 los, and rarely have windows toward the streets. The streets 
 are narrow, only partly paved, and the so-called Jews’ street 
 is the filthiest of them all. 
 
 The population, which was reputed tc be about a million 
 at the time the city was destroyed by the Romans, now fluc- 
 tuates between 12,000 and 15,000, of which about two-fifths 
 are Mohammedans, and the balance about equally divided 
 between Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Christians. 
 Protestants there are but very few here — not more than 100. 
 
 The Christians here are mostly of the lower class, igno- 
 rant and superstitious. The Jews are mostly of Spanish orr 
 gin, whose ancestors, at the opening of the sixteenth century 
 moved hither. They still speak a corrupted Spanish dialect. 
 There are, however, some Polish and German Jews here also, 
 poor, and are even more oppressed by the Mohammedans than 
 the Christians. 
 
 The Jews, also, belong, as a rule, to the low and ignorant 
 class. They live in a portion of the city by themselves; the»r 
 houses are badly built, filthy, and overcrowded 
 
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 The Mohammedans are mostly of Arabian extraction, 
 though there are also many Turks here. 
 
 Most of the Greek Christians are also of Arabian extrac- 
 tion, and speak only Arabic. The monks and higher clergy 
 are genuine Greeks, however. The Patriarch of Jerusalem is 
 their head. They have here fifteen cloisters and conventicles. 
 
 The Roman Catholics are, to a great extent, natives of 
 Syria, and have fallen away from the Grecian Church. They 
 speak only Arabic. Their ecclesiastical head is called The 
 Guardian of Mount Zion and the Holy Land.^’ He is always 
 an Italian, and is appointed by the Pope every third year 
 They have several monasteries and convents. 
 
 The streets of the present Jerusalem are narrow, poorly 
 paved, or not at all, very unclean, as is the case in all the 
 cities of Asia. 
 
 The general language is Arabic. There are few schools. 
 
 In the absence of industrial pursuits, poverty prevails. 
 The export and sale of crucifixes and rosaries from the cloister 
 of San Salvador constitutes the most important branch of 
 trade. The pilgrims contribute largely to the support of the 
 inhabitants. The necessaries of life are plentiful. 
 
 The Greeks and Romans have their houses and monaste- 
 ries in the vicinity of the Holy Sepulcher. The Armenians 
 reside on Mount Zion, where their principal cloister is situ- 
 ated. The Jews reside between Mount Zion and Moriah. 
 The Turks and Arabs on Mount Bezetha. The situation of 
 these four hills is as follows : 
 
 On the south is Mount Zion; to the north-east of it the 
 Temple-Mount, Moriah ; easterly from the latter, and north- 
 easterly from Zion, is the hill of Akra ; and north of this and 
 Mount Moriah is the Mount Bezetha. 
 
 On Mount Moriah, where formerly the grand Temple of 
 Solomon was situated, the grand Mohammedan mosque was 
 built by Omar, in 637, A. D., which, for six hundred years, no 
 Christian was allowed to enter, on pain of death. 
 
 The via dolorosa^ which is said to be the way that the 
 Saviour was led out to be crucified on Calvary, begins at the 
 Stephen’s gate, near the healing pool of Bethesda, passes by 
 along the Sakhara, goes through the Judgment gate, and ter- 
 
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 minates, at a distance of 1220 yards, in the north of the city, 
 at the so-called Mount Calvary, or Golgotha. Here is th(v 
 Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The building is in the shape 
 of a cylinder, of seventy-two yards in diameter, and sur- 
 mounted by a cupola. Beneath the opening of the cupola tlie 
 Holy Sepulcher is located, which resembles a grotto cut into 
 the rock, and is built over with a chapel-like structure. The 
 inner walls are covered with white marble, and fifty silver 
 candlesticks, holding burning candles day and night. 
 
 The grave is eight feet in length, seven feet wide and 
 high. The grave itself belongs to the Roman Catholics, and 
 the place of crucifixion to the Greek Christians. 
 
 The building of the Church was begun 326, A. D. It wan 
 destroyed several times, but always rebuilt at the same place. 
 
 The pilgrimages of Greek and Armenian Christians are 
 always most numerous about Easter time, when, often, as 
 many as 10,000 pilgrims come from the remotest regions. 
 
 The Turks demand from every one a small entrance fee. 
 On days of high festival the admission is free. Close by is 
 the Franciscan monastery St. Salvador, where Protestants are 
 also hospitably entertained. 
 
 Numerous objects of antiquarian interest does Jerusalem 
 afford the recollection of the Christian. To the west the cave 
 of Jeremiah is supposed to be ; to the south, opposite Zion, the 
 reputed potters-field ; to the east, where the brook Cedron runs 
 through the rocky valley of Jehosaphat, the pool of Siloam, 
 are numberless rocky tombs of the Jews, where dead are 
 buried even to this day. The tower of Absalom, the bridge 
 that spans the brook Cedron to the Garden of Gethsemane, 
 and not far from this the tomb of the Virgin Mary. 
 
 Ascending the way up through the valley of Jehosaphat, 
 we pass the Turkish groves, and come to the tombs of the 
 kings — death chambers, the walls of which are embellished 
 with the most beautiful architectural work, and in these 
 walls the niches are cut into the rock as coffins. 
 
 As I have already visited most of the noteworthy places 
 in the vicinity of Jerusalem, I will give notice to simply a 
 few more. If I were to give a description of everything of the 
 kind here, it would make a book almost as large as the Bible. 
 
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 Joppa, also called Jaffa, is situated on the coast of the 
 Mediterranean Sea, and is thirty-six miles distant from Jeru- 
 salem. It is the landing-place for pilgrims on their way to 
 Jerusalem and Palestine. It is the oldest known harbor in. 
 the world, and some claim that there was a city here even 
 anterior to the Deluge. But this cannot, of course, be claimed 
 with certainty, though it may be possible. At all events the 
 city existed already at the time when the Jews took posses- 
 sion of Canaan, for it was assigned to the tribe of Dan. (Josh. 
 19. 46.) Here the timber was landed that was brought from 
 Lebanon, which Solomon used in the construction of the Tem- 
 ple at Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 2. 16.) Here the prophet Jonah 
 entered the ship before he was swallowed by the whale. (Jon., 
 chapter 1.) Here the Apostle Peter woke the damsel Tabitha 
 from the dead. (Acts 9. 36, to the end of same.) Here Peter 
 had the wonderful vision when he saw the cloth descending 
 from the heavens, filled with all manner of animals, &o. 
 (Acts 10. 1.) During the war with the Romans it is said that 
 more than 8000 of its inhabitants Avere massacred; and when 
 Napoleon I., in 1799, took this city by storm, he had 1200 — 
 some say even 4000 — Turkish prisoners massacred in cold 
 blood. During the Crusades the city was alternately in the 
 hands of Christians and Mohammedans. It has now about 
 6000 inhabitants, of which about one-fourth are Christians^ 
 from all nations. The houses are anything else but pretty, 
 and the streets narrow and filthy. Large quantities of fruit 
 are sent from this place to all parts of the world. 
 
 Bethany was a small city at one time, near Jerusalem. 
 Now it is simply a hamlet. It is situated about two miles 
 south-easterly from Jerusalem. It was the place where Mary, 
 Martha, and their brother Lazarus, whom the Saviour Avoke 
 from the dead, lived. Here it was that Mary Magdalene poured 
 the precious ointment on the Saviour’s head, Avhich roused the 
 anger of the traitor Judas. Here, at the word of the Lord, the 
 fig-tree was smitten. (Matt. 21. 19.) Our Saviour led his dis- 
 ciples to Bethany, and lifted his hands in blessing them, and 
 it came to pass that Avhile he blessed them, he parted from 
 them, and ascended up before them to heaven. (Luke 24. 51 
 and 53.) 
 
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 Bethlehem, formerly known as Ephrata (Gen. 48. 7), is 
 situated six miles south of Jerusalem, on a vine- and olive- 
 covered hill. It contains about 3000 inhabitants, who are 
 nearly all Christians of various nationalities. Bethlehem was 
 the birth-place of David, and also of our Saviour. Here a 
 great trade is carried on in rosaries, crucifixes, etc. A monas- 
 tery, as also a church, built by Justinian, is erected over the 
 sacred birth-place. A short distance from Bethlehem the 
 place is pointed out where Rachel is said to have been buried, 
 after the birth of Benjamin. (Gen. 35. 16 — 20.) And about 
 two miles south-west of this are the great cisterns that are said 
 to have been built by Solomon. 
 
 Hebron is situated about eighteen miles south of Jerusa- 
 lem. This city is mentioned as early as in the history of the 
 patriarchs. (Gen. 13. 18 ; and 14. 13, etc.) After the conquest 
 of the land of Canaan, it became a Levitical city. (Josh. 10. 
 36; and 37. 21.) Here king David resided for a number of 
 years. (2 Sam. 2. 1 ; and 5. 5.) It has also become famous in 
 connection with the history of Absalom. (2 Sam. 15. 7.) 
 During the Babylonian captivity the Idumeans became mas- 
 ters of it, whom Judas Maccabeus subsequently expelled, and 
 then destroyed it. (1 Mac. 5. 65, 66.) It was one of the cities 
 of refuge among the Israelites, and was again destroyed by the 
 Romans under the Emperor Vespasian. The Mohammedans 
 have nine mosques here, which they have built over the 
 graves of the patriarchs, but no Christian is allowed to enter 
 there. The number of inhabitants is said to be but 2000, who 
 are almost exclusively Mohammedans. In its vicinity are a 
 great number of ruins, from which we may conclude that 
 Hebron was at one time a densely-populated city. 
 
 Nazareth is about sixty miles to the north of Jerusalem. 
 It was the place of residence of the parents of our Redeemer, 
 .and he himself lived here until his thirtieth year. The city 
 has now about 3000 inhabitants, mostly Christians. The 
 place is not named in the Old Testament. Various antiqui- 
 ties are here shown to us. For instance, the school in which 
 our Saviour received his first instructions; also the precipice 
 over which the Jews were disposed to hurl him, in their rage. 
 (Luke 4. 29.) The city does not seem to have had a very good 
 
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 reputation, for Nathanael asked, “Can there any good thing 
 come out of Nazareth?” (John 1. 46.) Now the place is 
 called Nazark. The surroundings are beautiful, and may be 
 compared to a large and luxuriant garden. It is located on 
 the declivity of a hill, and about midway between the Med- 
 iterranean and the Jordan. 
 
 But I have written enough ; though I would like to com- 
 municate to you something concerning the other objects of 
 note. But I must reserve this for a future occasion. 
 
 I hope you will not abandon your intention to pay a visit 
 to the Holy Land. 
 
 Although it was my purpose to remain here only about 
 six or eight months, yet I am still here, after a stay of two 
 years, and do not yet know when I can tear myself away. 
 One life is almost too short to make a visit to all the holy 
 and remarkable places of this remarkable country of Pales- 
 tine. The greatest wonder to me is, that so very few, among 
 all the wealthy Christians of the world, should make a jour- 
 ney to Jerusalem. 
 
 Do you pursue a different course. God has blessed you 
 with abundant means, and a portion of it you should devote 
 to the purpose of st’^engthening a true Christian faith by a 
 visit to the country where our Saviour was born — where he 
 brought to light his divine teachings — where he lived and 
 died for the remission of our sins. May God keep you and 
 your family in his holy keeping, and protect you from all 
 harm. 
 
 In conclusion, I would yet inform you, that, by means of 
 your Resuscitator, I am freed, for one and one-half years, from 
 my old affliction of the eyes, and that since that time I have 
 not had the slightest attack of it. Notwithstanding the fact 
 that I undertook so many journeys on foot, in the brightest 
 sunlight, I can nevertheless say that I never had better eyes 
 than now. 
 
 Once more I would hail you with a hearty farewell. 
 
 On my return I shall spend several days in Cleveland. 
 
 Give my kindest regards to j^our family. 
 
 ^ In warmest friendship, I remain, 
 
 yours, Lorenz Smitke, Misdonary. 
 
 [Continued on page 307.] 
 
308 — 
 
 New York, July 18, 1877. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: In compliance witli your wishes, I 
 wish to inform you of some of the most important cures that 
 I effected by the use of your remedies, and give you the lib- 
 erty to publish it. 
 
 1. A lawyer, fifty-four years of ‘age, had what is called 
 exophthalmy^ or an over-abundance of fat. For nine years his 
 weight was over two hundred and eighty-five pounds, which, 
 in view of the smallness of his height, was an enormous 
 weight, so that he could not take much bodily exercise. It 
 was hard for him to walk, and when he was to ascend the 
 coui’t-house steps, he had to rest for ten or fifteen minutes 
 before he was able to undertake his business. As he had 
 sought relief from several physicians, without losing any of 
 his weight, I advised him to try the Exanthematic Method of 
 Cure, and to this he consented. I applied the Resuscitator on 
 the back, over the gastric region, and on the calves, at inter- 
 vals of twelve to fourteen days, and forbade him eating any 
 farinaceous articles, milk, saccharine food, potatoes, fat meats, 
 butter, and, in short, everything that contained flour, starch, 
 sugar, or fat. But I allowed him to eat toasted bread without 
 butter, lean meat cooked or fried of any kind, all kinds of veg- 
 etables that were not farinaceous or saccharine. Coffee and 
 tea, with very little milk, and without sugar; wine, and, once 
 in a while, a little cognac, but beer by no means. This, with 
 every day a good brisk walk. After following this treat 
 ment for six months, his weight diminished one hundred and 
 ninety-five pounds, and he feels strong once more, and can 
 walk for miles without being fatigued. 
 
 In consequence of effecting this cure, which attracted a 
 gt)od deal of attention, I got quite a number of other patients 
 who are suffering of the like evil. One of these fat gentlemen 
 lives in Boston, another one in Cincinnati, and a third one in 
 New York. These patients report to me, regularly, every 
 two weeks. The New York gentleman, thirty-five years old, 
 pulled down the beam at three liundred and twenty-seven 
 pounds, but, in tlie course of four months of my treatment, he 
 has diminished sixty-four pounds. 
 
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 2. It was very interesting to me to observe the quick and 
 rapid cure of two patients, one of whom was suffering from 
 erysipelas in the head; the other in the face. About a year 
 ago a young man died in this city of erysipelas in the head, 
 who would have been saved, as I think, if he had used the 
 Exanthematic Method of Cure, and 1 so informed the two 
 physicians who were attending his case. But such a remark 
 excited their wrath immeasurably, and, before I was aware of 
 it, they decried me as a quack, and I lost, in consequence, one 
 of my patrons whom I served for years. But this circum- 
 stance turned in my favor at last. 
 
 On the loth of December I was called to a wealthy and 
 widely-known merchant, who was suffering from Cenchrias 
 (St. Anthony’s FircO, and had consulted other physicians in 
 vain. I applied the Resuscitator on his back, shoulders, and 
 calves of his legs, and on the sides of the feet. I anointed the 
 parts thoroughly with Oleum, and covered it with batting. 
 The patient was obliged to keep his bed, because the least bit of 
 draught might have brought on a cold resulting in death. I 
 a,llowed the patient to drink freely of warm mucilaginous 
 drinks, especially warm boiled milk. The result w^as so 
 remarkably favorable that my practice is now much better 
 than ever before. 
 
 The other patient had the erysipelas, or St. Anthony’s 
 Fire, in the face. I treated him the same as the one pre- 
 ceding, only this difference, that I made the passages on the 
 first days upon the calves of the legs, and on the rims of the 
 soles of his feet ; on the second day behind each ear, in the 
 nape of the neck, and on the shoulders ; and on the third day 
 right freely over his back. He began to improve, and in but 
 .a few hours after the operation. The patients were soon 
 entirely restored. 
 
 3. A young man, who had been long suffering from night- 
 mare, and had been under medical treatment for a long while, 
 was cured after three applications on the back, over the stom- 
 ach, and on the shoulders. 
 
 4. I will mention two more cases, which have proved to 
 me most conclusively that your Resuscitator and Oleum ought 
 to be in the hands of every physician, for where the skill of 
 
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 the old-school physician is wrecked, there the Resuscitator 
 comes in as a saving angel. 
 
 Two men, one of them sixty-eight years old, the other 
 forty-three, were sutfering from stone, or gravel. All remedies 
 that were tried proved unavailing. I, too, had treated them 
 to the best of my knowledge. That the Resuscitator should 
 prove efficacious, I could not believe. But as I knew not what 
 next to do, without resorting to a painful operation, I tried 
 the Resuscitator upon the younger of the two. I operated 
 upon his back, the small of the back, over the entire abdomen, 
 and especially with vigor upon the region of the bladder. I 
 allowed him to eat only very easily digested food, and every- 
 thing that had a tendency to produce flatulency, and all pun- 
 gent spices, he was cautioned to avoid. At first he com- 
 plained more than before, yet in the course of three months he 
 was entirely free from his trouble. Hereupon I pursued the 
 same course with the older gentleman, and he, too, was lib- 
 erated. 
 
 I could yet tell you of many a beautiful cure of epilepsy, 
 rheumatism, chills and fever, scrofula, &c., but it would prove 
 superfluous. 
 
 With greetings from your friend, 
 
 Dr. Herman C. Fehring. 
 
 St. Louis, Mo., June 18, 1875. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: For the inclosed $5.00 you will please 
 send me, at once, per express, of your Oleum ; for we are 
 entirely out, and need it much. 
 
 I, too, can give you the finest testimony concerning the 
 healing power of your remedies. My oldest daughter had 
 been suffering for years from chlorosis, and all medical skill, 
 and all remedies, which we employed freely, could bring her 
 no relief; on the contrary, she grew more feeble constantly. 
 My attention was then called to your Resuscitator, by a friend 
 who visited us from Minnesota, who told us the same com- 
 plaint had been cured by the use of it, in the case of a neigh- 
 bor’s daughter. We therefore applied the Resuscitator and 
 oil very lightly, as the girl was very weak, over the back, the 
 
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 abdomen, and over the calves, and on the fourth day the girl 
 manifested a better appetite, and in about five weeks she wavS 
 entirely restored. 
 
 Other cures that we have effected with the Resuscitator I 
 will not mention here ; it might be asking too much of you to 
 read it all. But I am pleased that I can report the above. 
 
 I subscribe myself yours, with respect and gratitude, 
 
 Mathilda Burns. 
 
 New Orleans, September 10, 1877. 
 
 Honored Mr, Linden: You may still remember I ordered, 
 through my brother-in-law, Ernst Weimer, two years ago, a 
 Resuscitator, Book of Instruction, and four bottles of oil; and 
 now I cannot refrain from informing you of the remarkable 
 cures that I have effected therewith. It is well known that, 
 here in the South, especially in low, marshy places, the yel- 
 low fever, commonly called ‘‘yellow Jack,^’ prevails more oi 
 less every Summer; and two members of my family, my neph- 
 ews, were attacked by it. As I had read in your book that 
 the Resuscitator was recommended even for this generall}^ 
 fatal disease, I applied the instrument at once to the patients 
 over the entire back, the abdomen, the region of the liver, 
 spleen, and calves. In an hour afterw^ard, violent vomiting 
 ensued, and a perfect restoration followed rapidly. Three 
 other patients in our neighborhood had the same course pur- 
 sued, for the people borrowed the Resuscitator and Oleum, 
 and they, too, were speedily cured. If your Method of Cure 
 was more generally introduced here, then, certainly, there 
 would not so many fall victims to this terrible scourge annu- 
 ally. 
 
 You will, therefore, be kind enough, for the inclosed 
 $25.00, to send me one more English Book of Instruction, one 
 Resuscitator, and, for the balance, of your Oleum. But I beg 
 of you to send it at once, for in about ten days I expect to 
 leave New Orleans, and go to my home in the neighborhood 
 of Tallahatchie, where there is no express office. 
 
 In expectation, I subscribe myself. 
 
 Yours, William Van der Warft. 
 
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 Burlington, Wis., September 4, 1877. 
 
 Dear Friend: I take up my pen to address a few lines to 
 you in reference to the Resuscitator which I obtained of you 
 about five years ago, and I am glad that I have got it, for it 
 has already done me a vast amount of good. I have also 
 relieved very many of my fellow men of their pains, and saved 
 much money that would otherwise have been spent on doctors 
 and in the purchase of drugs ; for I can assure you I have 
 already spent many a dollar for liniment and oils out of the 
 drug store, and all in vain, for what are we not willing to do 
 when we are suffering pain ? One thing after another is tried, 
 and nothing does any real good, and often aggravates the suf- 
 fering. More than one whole year had I been confined to my 
 bed by rheumatism; but since I got your Resuscitator l am so 
 well that I could not wish for anything better. For no money 
 would I now part with it to do without it. 
 
 But I am now out of oil. Hence I send you the inclosed 
 money for one bottle. 
 
 Recommending you to the grace of God, I am your sincere 
 friend, B. Ebbens. 
 
 Black River Falls, Wis., September 13, 1877. 
 
 Dear Sir: Will you please send me, at once, six bottles of 
 your Oleum, as I am much in need of it ? 
 
 Remark . — My brother-in-law, E. J. Hantzech, in Eau 
 Clare, Wisconsin, sixty miles from here, was sick unto death 
 from liver complaint and jaundice. Three physicians were 
 called, but could render no assistance. By one application of 
 the Resuscitator he was so much improved that in three days 
 I could leave him. To make his case the safer, I shall go t6 
 see him next week once more. 
 
 Expecting a prompt execution of my order, I remain, 
 Respectfully, yours, F. Werner, M. D. 
 
 Montreal, Dominion of Canada, February 2, 1874. 
 
 Honored Friend: According to promise, I would herewith 
 inform you that .my dear wife is, thank God, quite well and 
 hearty again. As I informed you at the time I ordered the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum from you, my wife was suffering from a 
 
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 ^ 5 eve^e affection of the lungs, which the attending physician 
 pronounced to be consumption, and gave us but faint hopes of 
 a recovery. The only remedy that he could yet recommend 
 to us was to seek a milder climate, because we have, here in 
 Montreal, besides a severe Winter, often a very cold or chilly 
 atmosphere in Spring and Fall, which are very trying to 
 those who suffer from pulmonary complaints. But our means 
 would not permit us to follow this advice, and, therefore, as a 
 last resort, we made use of your remedies, having seen an 
 advertisement of it in our almanac. The application on, 
 between, and below the shoulders, and on the breast, brought 
 out a liberal eruption each time, so that the pustules had to 
 be opened with a needle on the third day, and this brought 
 great relief to the sick one ; and the painful cough diminished 
 also. For three months we continued the operation, at inter- 
 vals of from fourteen to twenty days, and kept her constantly 
 in a warm room when it was cold out of doors. The finely- 
 chopped raw beef, with a raw egg, which you advised her to 
 eat, seemed, especially, to do her much good, and she gained 
 strength perceptibly. Also the drinking of hot milk, morn- 
 ing and evening, brought her great relief. In short, my 
 beloved wife has been restored, thank God, to me and my 
 ■children. To God we give all glory, and to you our sincerest 
 thanks. Yours, devotedly, Francis H after. 
 
 St. Charles, Mo., March 1, 1875. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden : Your favor of January 2d, ult., came 
 duly to hand, and, according to your directions, we applied 
 the Resuscitator and Oleum upon our brother-in-law, liv- 
 ing with us at the time, and he was perfectly cured of the dis- 
 ease — diabetes — from which he was suffering, and which had 
 defied all medical skill. It was but a short time before we 
 saw the first evidences of improvement. The first application 
 Ave made, as you directed, upon the lower part of the back and 
 the abdomen, especially over the region of the bladder. On 
 the second day large pustules made their appearance over the 
 bladder, and Avhen, on the fourth day, they were ready to be 
 opened with a pin, the constant tendency to urinate, which 
 he had hitherto realized, also disappeared. The urine, also. 
 
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 became darker, having before assumed a whitish color. The 
 second and third application we made at intervals of from 
 twelve to thirteen days, but we extended the applications 
 over the entire back, and upon the calves, and in about forty 
 days the patient could be pronounced perfectly cured. The 
 idiysicians that had been treating him could -hardly believe,, 
 on learning of his cure, that so small and insignificant an 
 instrument could eflect so great a result. We have since 
 received a number of letters from him, and he informs us that 
 he is now enjoying excellent health. 
 
 So much for the benefit of all who may be similarly 
 afflicted. 
 
 With hearty greetings, I close. 
 
 Yours, J. Brogert. 
 
 Annapolis, (Nova Scotia,) May 4, 1873. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Linden: It affords me much pleasure to 
 inform you that both our oldest children have been cured of 
 hateful and dangerous scrofulous affections, from which they 
 were suffering, bythe use of the Resuscitator and Oleum. We 
 operated them, as you advised us, upon the back, between the 
 shoulders, on the abdomen, and always gave the children hot 
 milk with wheat bread for supper. But we had much trouble 
 to keep them from eating pork, the more so as it is almost 
 impossible always to obtain fresh meat where we live. But, 
 thanks be to our heavenly Father, we are now all once more 
 in good health. 
 
 Be kind enough to send us, for the inclosed $5.00 money 
 order, of your Oleum. 
 
 With hearty greetings, I close. 
 
 Yours, Henry Rief. 
 
 Savannah, Ga., January 6, 1874. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden: When I moved, six months ago, 
 from Chicago, 111., to Savannah, my present home, I took 
 along a Resuscitator, book, and Oleum, and have used your 
 unsurpassed remedies in my family with the happiest results. 
 Indeed, I firmly believe that my wife and two of my children 
 would have fallen victims to the dangerous fever that fre- 
 
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 quently prevails here, by which they were attacked as soon as 
 they arrived, had not the use of the Resuscitator rescued 
 them. A thorough application on the back and over the 
 abdominal region restored them in four days. I must also 
 inform you that the patients were suffering, during the preva- 
 lence of the fever, of a raging thirst, and to pacify this I gave 
 them freely of cool lemonade, with a good deal of lemon, and 
 it seemed to do them much good, and hence I believe this to 
 be very wholesome in fever cases. 
 
 For the inclosed $5.00, you will please send me, per 
 express or mail, of your Oleum. 
 
 With high regards, I remain, yours, J. Faller. 
 
 Philadelphia, February 17, 1878. 
 
 Dear Friend Linden: With heart}^ greetings I desire to* 
 transmit an order to you for one Resuscitator, one German 
 Instruction Book, and one bottle of Oleum, to be sent as soon as 
 possible, per express, to the following address: Fr. Weidner, 
 No. 1637 Cadwalader Street, Philadelphia. Inclosed you will 
 find $8.00, to pay for these remedies, which you will send as 
 above directed. 
 
 At the same time I am constrained to tender you my 
 thanks for the benefits which your remedies have conferred 
 upon my family. My wife had a tumor in the abdomen, on 
 the right side. After a treatment of nine weeks by the doc- 
 tor, she was so afflicted with pain that she could no longer 
 walk across the room. Five hours after the first application 
 of your remedies her pains had all disappeared, and after the 
 sixth application she was perfectly cured, and feels perfectly 
 well and happy now. 
 
 I have eight children, and on these, also, in all cases of 
 indisposition, I have had the very best success. 
 
 Thanking you once more, I will close, hoping you will 
 give prompt attention to the preceding order. 
 
 I am yours, respectfully, Henry Sittle. 
 
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 Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 24, 1878. 
 
 Friend Linden, — During the many years that I have used theResus- 
 citator and Oleum, not a single case has yet occurred to me in which 
 tliey have failed to prove their efficiency in the most brilliant manner. 
 
 I will to-day mention only a few of the cures which I have effected 
 in the circle of my friends by means of your Method of Cure. 
 
 1. My nephew was cured of a rheumatic paralysis of the right 
 leg, from which he had been suffering for years. 
 
 2. In two of my neighbors I cured /ever and ague thoroughly. 
 
 3. Four cases of diphtheria and quinsy were made to yield tc a 
 single application of the Resuscitator. 
 
 4. A young man, residing eight miles from Sacramento, had been 
 suffering for a long time from some affection of the lungs, which de- 
 fied all medical treatment. Although I make no practice or business 
 of it, nevertheless, at the earnest solicitation of his father, I consented 
 to visit him twice and treat him. Within two weeks he was restored. 
 
 6. My oldest daughter was troubled with feebleness of vision 
 from her childhood. For 14 months I applied the Resuscitator, at in- 
 tervals of from two to three weeks, and now, and for several years past, 
 she is perfectly well. 
 
 8. Several cases of dysentery 1 treated with marked success, cui- 
 ing them in a very short time, and in doing so 1 followed carefully tho 
 directions contained in your (new) Book of Instruction, page 65. * 
 
 I might increase this list very materially, but as you are now re - 
 ceiving so many testimonials of this kind, it will not be necessary, anfl 
 hence for the present I close. Send my orders per Express, &c. 
 
 Yours truly, JOHN B. BERNER. 
 
 St. Paul, Oct. 21, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Linden, — I am well up in years, being 71 years of age, and 
 buffered for a long time of pain in the back, so severely that I could not 
 sleep, for both sitting and lying down was painful lo me. No doctor 
 appeared able to help me, but what no doctor could do, my son has 
 accomplished by means of your remedies, which you sent him iast 
 August. He operated upon me three times w ith the Resuscitator, and 
 I was restored ; and for this I now desire to thank you most sincerely. 
 If you wish to, you may publi.'^h my letter. With grateful resnect I 
 am Yours truly, JOHN F. MEYER. 
 
 S. Windsor, Me., Oct. 27, 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden : Dear Sir, — In the use of your remedies I have 
 recently effected several of the most remarkable cures. In scjme cases 
 the patients had been unsuccessfully treated for some time by the al- 
 lopathic physicians, but were soon restored by the use of the Resusci- 
 tator. Among others I believe I have saved the life of one man whc 
 was suffering from a violent attack of vomiting and purging. When 
 I w as called to him he was quite cold already, and his pulse was 
 scarcely perceptible. I applied the Resuscitator pretty en ergetically 
 over the stomach and abdomen, also from the nape of the neck 
 down to the small of the back, also upon the calves of the legs, and 
 then I applied the Oleum on all the operated parts, and covered them 
 with cotton batting. In three hours the patient felt quite comfortably, 
 and in a w eek later he was so far restored that he could walk abro* d. 
 These cures have excited much attention here among the friends of 
 the cured patients, and have secured for your Method of Cure a proper 
 recognition. ResptHdfully, M. E. MASHER. 
 
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 Nebraska City, Nov. 4, 1878. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden, — Please send me twelve bottles of your cele- 
 brated Oleum, at the lowest wholesale pHce. The amount you will re- 
 ceive C. O. D. I am one of those who refuse to be influenced by pre- 
 judice. J believe in trying all things and holding fast to that which is 
 good.^^ I followed this course with the Exanthematic Method of Cure, 
 and have discovered that in cases of rheumatism and all chronic dis- 
 eases it is without a rival. Many years ago I studied homoeopathy in 
 St. Louis, and after that practiced it, and my manifold experience as a 
 pU.ysician has convinced me that your Method of Cure is the most in 
 accordance with nature, and therefore the most reasonable; and that 
 ill iesperate cases, where all remedies seem to fail to take hold, this 
 method has produced the niosi astonishing results. Especially in the 
 West, where a physician, ora drugstore, is not always convenient, your 
 remedies should be in every family. I would yet remark that I re- 
 gard your Resuscitator and Oleum as the most effective remedies 
 against diphtheria and all throat diseases, for both children and adults. 
 
 DR. J. C. JAHN. 
 
 Concord, Wis., Nov. 1, 1878. 
 
 Dear Sir, — Tt is now 13 years past since the first Resuscitator and 
 Oleum were sent to me by you. At later periods I had five more sent 
 me for friends and neighbors. During all those years it has been my 
 family physician. I will relate but a single case, and one in which 
 the Method enlisted my full confidence. It is now 13 years since we 
 had a child in our family, which was not yet seven weeks old. It was 
 attacked with such violent spasms that every hour vve expected it to 
 die. My wife and daughter both urged me Ishould try the Resuscita- 
 tor. I hesitated at first, because the child was yet so young; but at 
 last [ yielded to the urging of my wife, applied it very gently over the 
 entire gastric region, and anointed the parts with Oleum. And, be- 
 hold ! the spasms ceased, and the day following the child seemed to 
 be perfectly well, and began to nurse once more. That infant is now 
 a stout boy of over 13 years of age, and, best of all, he never had an- 
 other attack of spasms. Also as a cure for headache, inflammations, 
 and other slowly dragging diseases, the Resuscitator has proved a suc- 
 cess. (Here follows an order.) 
 
 If you chose you are at liberty to publish the foregoing, for the 
 benefit of all sufferers. Respectfully your old friend, 
 
 LEOPOLD SCHENK. 
 
 Farmington P. O., Jefferson Co., Wis. 
 
 N. B. — I would here remark that in cases of children that are very 
 /oung, the application with the Resuscitator may be omitted, though 
 mtirely harmless; but in such a case the skin so tender yet in infants, 
 nay be rubbed with a brush or a woolen cloth, and then apply the 
 Oleum, and cover the parts thus anointed with cottm batting. 
 
 JOHN LINDEN 
 
 Cottage, Hardin Co., Iowa, Oct. 18, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden, — The Instrument and Oleum you sent me have 
 rendered me excellent service for the cure of gout, whooping coughs, 
 and affection of the eyes, and other chronic diseases, which have been 
 treated by physicians without the least success. Several of these pa- 
 tients had been given up by the doctors, and notwithstanding this 
 they were cured by means of vour Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 
 Yours truly, REV. W. JOHNSTON. 
 
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 Waukegan, Lake Co., 111., Oct. 14, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Linden, — Please send me at once another J^suscitator, one 
 bottle of Oleum and a Book of Instruction. You need not recom- 
 mend your Method of Cure. It recommends itself, and better than 
 you can. If it is used but once in a family it becomes thoroughly at 
 home. Respectfully, MRS. A. SMITH. 
 
 Crocker, Texas, Oct. 23, 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, — In January last I bought your remedies, and 
 in my own family and in those of my neighbors I have effected sever 
 al almost miraculous cures. I was myself suffering severely from neu= 
 ralgia, but this stubborn affliction was forced to yield to your Resusei^ 
 tator. Please send me, per Express, C. O. D., &c. 
 
 Yours truly, L. W. COOPER. 
 
 Poultney, Vt., Oct. 14, 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, — The young lady about whom 1 wrote to you 
 recently as having been given up^^ by the doctors, because they in- 
 sisted that she must have the consumption^ I have treated according to 
 the directions in your book, and she is now almost entirely restored to 
 health. I expect soon to info rm you that she is entirely well. 
 
 Yours, N. C. HARRIS. 
 
 Otter Creek, Iowa, June 12, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden, — I desire herewith to tender you my hearty 
 thanks for the Book of Instruction which you sent me, concerning the 
 Exanthematic Method of Cure, which has become so dear to me. This 
 new edition of the book excels all the former ones greatly, and you, by 
 your revision, rendered to the public a substantial service. (Order, 
 &c.) Your friend, C. EMMER. 
 
 Providence, R. L, Nov. 2, 1878. 
 
 Dear Friend, — “Man^s extremity is God^s opportunity.^^ Thus 
 I wrote to you on December 28, 1876, after I was cured of rheumatism, 
 by which t had been tormented for five months, by your Method of 
 Cure. I repeat the same to-da 3 ^, after having succeeded, by the u-e of 
 your Resuscitator, to rescue two of my children, one a daughter, 1 j’ear 
 old, the other a son of 3 years, from the diphtheria, of which both had 
 a terrible attack. A number of children in this vicinity died of this 
 S.I) d kindred thr )at d iseases, and as the doctor shrugged his shoulders af- 
 ter he treated m.y children a few days, I concluded, against the earnest 
 protest of my wife, to take them in hand m^^self and use the Resuscita- 
 tor ; and, behold ! in 12 hours the disease w^as conquered and the chib 
 ren saved. My wife tlioiight the children w^ere yet too small to be 
 treated in this way, but I had such a confidence in your Method that 
 I felt convinced that I should cure them. 
 
 Gratefully I remain yours, IGNATIUS RAVENS. 
 
 Mr. Linden, — By the application of your remedies I liave been 
 cured of a hateful sore, which the doctor pronounced a Cancer, I did 
 exactly as directed in the book, and the consequence of it was my 
 complete cure. I woiihl only 3 ’et say that these remedies are unsur- 
 passable, for I had before used them in my family with very nice re- 
 sults. What the doctor could not accomplish, the Resuscitator will do 
 Gratefully yours, ANTON SCHALLERN. 
 
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 Grand Ridge, Lasalle Co., 111., Oct. 27, 187S. 
 
 Respected Sir, — My husband has been using your Resuscitator and 
 Oleum for 12 years in his practice, and has made many wonderful cures 
 by it. Other doctors are hostile and displeased with him, for your 
 Method cures the patient so readily and surely. My husband has fre- 
 quently had patients who had been pronounced incurable by other 
 physicians, and has cured them by this Method. This only increases 
 their hostility. He could inform you of many cures that would cer- 
 tainly prove highly interesting to you. Please attend to my order at 
 once and oblige Yours, MRS. B. G. MILLER. 
 
 Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct., 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, — The Resuscitator, Book and three bottles of 
 Oleum which you sent me Smonths ago, arrived in due time and good 
 order. I consider it my duty to inform you that I have been cured of 
 hardness of hearing and buzzing in my ears, from which I suffered 
 since my 39th year, by your Method of Cure. I am now 54 years old. 
 
 May God in future bless your efforts to benefit suffering humanity 
 with like fortunate results, and compensate you for your pbilanthropic 
 labors. You are permitted to publish this letter. 
 
 I remain gratefully yours, FERNANDO GREGOR. 
 
 Leeds, England, Sept. 21, 1878. 
 
 Dear Sir,— Two and a- half years ago I received from you three 
 Resuscitators, three Books of Instruction, and 25 bottles of Oleum. The 
 latter is now entirely exhausted ; be pleased, therefore, to send me a like 
 quantity again, with the same number of instruments and books, and 
 in the same manner as before. I ask again, why have you no reposi- 
 tory ot your remedies in Englaml ? This Method of Cure is known 
 only in limited circles, and the wonderful cures that are wrought are 
 daily securing you more friends. It is true there is a certain “ bogus'^ 
 Oleum sold here; it is indeed very cheap, ami correspondingly 
 worthless. I should under no condition allow myself to use it. If ever 
 you should pass through England again on your way to Germany, I 
 shall confidently expect a visit from you. You will certainly be satis- 
 fied with the reception we shall be prepared to give you. We should 
 all like to become personally acquainted with the man who has spent 
 almost his entire life-time in making so valuable a Method of Cure 
 accessible to the public. 
 
 Respectfully, JOHN S. BENEDICT. 
 
 Hancock, Ohio, May, 1878. 
 
 I herewith certify that I have frequently suffered from colic and 
 miserej and that on the 15th of March 1878 I had so severe an attack of 
 it that my wife, the doctor, and myself had given up all hope of my 
 recovering. Mr. Wendel came along, who is the teacher of our Ger- 
 man school, and applied a small needle instrument, with which he 
 pricked me on the back, over the stomach and abdomen, and then 
 rubbed in a certain Oleum. In 15 minutes the pain had almost disap- 
 peared, and on the following morning I was convalescent. Mr. Wen- 
 del informed me that he had obtained the remedy he used from .John 
 Linden, Cleveland, Ohio. For the good of such people as suffer from 
 colic at times, I have written this testimonial, and hope Mr Linden 
 will give it to the public. I know that Mr. Wendel has already cured 
 many sufferers, who had been suffering from various ailments. 
 
 PETER PREGEL. 
 
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 Beaver City, Furnas Co., Neb., August, 1878, 
 With a heart overflowing with gratitude I desire to inform you 
 that, by the use of your incomparable Method of Cure, I have been 
 entirely freed from the evil effects of a stroke of palsy. I followed the 
 directions you gave me. The happy turn and rapid cure is the more 
 remarkable for having been treated for so long a time in vain by really 
 good physicians. I have tried your remedies also upon my wife with 
 very favorable results, she having suffered for a long time from migrane 
 or sick headache. FERNANDO MILTON. 
 
 A letter very similar to this I received in the beginning of October. 
 1878, from Wheeling, W. Va. A gentleman of that place, Mr. J<»seph 
 H. G., had been suffering for over a year from the effects of an attack 
 of the palsy, and by the use of the Besuscitator and my Oleum he was 
 entirely restored ; so that he was able, at the wedding of his daughter, 
 to open the dance with his wife. Let the reader peruse the directions 
 given on pages 29, 52 and 63 of my Book of Instruction, 14i h edition. 
 
 JOHN LINDEN. 
 
 A minister, who had for several years been suffering from nerv. 
 ous twitching in the face, writes, among other things, under date oi 
 October, 1887, from St. Paul, Minn., as follows: 
 
 "For three years I have been suffering from nervous twitching in 
 my face, which continued to grow worse despite all remedies. Finally 
 it became so bad, and I was so annoyed by it while preaching, tiiat J 
 often cut the sermon short. At last I concluded to resign my office, 
 but my congregation would not agree to this; so I wrought out the 
 sermons, and our teacher would read them to the congregation. To 
 baptisms, marriages and the Holy Supper I attended myself ; but I 
 was truly in a bad condition. At thiM time one of my members told 
 me that he had used your Method against a nervous affection, with 
 great success. He gave me the Instrument, Book anu (Jleum, and m> 
 wife applied it to me, and in two weeks I noticed that my twitching 
 was very much better, and in eight weeks I was entirely freed of the 
 same. Although I am a total stranger to you, I feel, nevertheless, that 
 I ought to thank you, after having derived so much good for myself 
 and family from your Method, for which, (and for my restoration to 
 health) we all daily thank the Lord of Hosts. May God bless your 
 efforts in behalf ot afflicted humanity in future. 
 
 Yours L. MAYER, Pastor. 
 
 Earlville, 111., Nov. 4, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden,— The Resuscitator, Book and Oleum you sent 
 me the latter part of June, came to hand all right ; and I ai)piied the 
 Resuscitator at once, as directed on page 41 of your Book of Instruc- 
 tion. I had for some months been so severely troubled with dgspp/jsfa 
 that I was very weak and miserable, an I excessively hypochondnac. 
 After three applications I was quite a different being, and could eat as 
 I did when I was young, and since that time I have not had another 
 attack. You may publish this letter, for I hope that many whosuffe** 
 from this evil may also find relief by means of your Method of Cure 
 Respectfully and devotedly yours, 
 
 HERMANN NIEMEYER. 
 
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 From Lake Superior a clergyman, who has for a number of years 
 been receiving the remedies from me, writes to me as follows, under 
 aaie of October 20, 1878 : 
 
 If I had not for years been acquainted with the salutary effects 
 of your remedies, and if I had not myself, by the help of God, cured sO' 
 many sick ones, I should hardly believe in the possibility of their pro- 
 ducing such results as they really do. Up to the present time I have* 
 not failed in a single instance. Thus I was called during the past 
 Spring to the bedside of a farmer who lives 12 or 14 miles from here,, 
 for the purpose of administering to him the Holy Supper. I found him 
 very sick, but fully conscious. After a description of his case 1 ar- 
 rived at the conclusion that he was suffering from a violent gastric 
 difficulty and a rheumatic affection, and as he could not retain any 
 food, he was reduced to almost a skeleton. After having received tne 
 Eucharist, he prepared for death. The wife and children were, of 
 course, very di&consolate, and I comforted them as best I could and 
 promised to return next day. The next day I brought my Resuscita- 
 tor along, and operated pretty severely upon the gastr'c region, the 
 abdomen and over the back down to the small. I repeated this opera- 
 tion, at intervals of 12 days, five times; and at the expiration of this 
 time he was fully restored. 
 
 A married lady of my diocese was treated by her husband accord- 
 ing to my directions, for rheumatism in the small of her back, and af- 
 ter three applications she was cured. 
 
 So likewise a young man was cured of a hoarseness which threat- 
 ened to pass on into bronchitis, and was treated as such by the doctor. 
 He had been suffering from it for over two years. 
 
 In all throat diseases, in children or adults, the Resuscitator is the 
 very best doctor. One of my brethren in office had an attack of some 
 pulmonary nature and also a nervous fever. He was so sick that 
 doubts were entertained of his recovery. When I heard of his sickness 
 I visited him and treated him according to the directions of your Book 
 oi Instructions, with the Resuscitator. .Soon after the operation he 
 realized considerable relief, and in five weeks he was able again to 
 discharge the duties or his office. 
 
 I might yet inform you of many more beautiful cures ; for as I re- 
 gard it as my duty to do good everywhere, wherever an opportunity 
 offers, and as I am so familiar with this Method of Cure, ana having 
 so large an experience in the treatment of patients, it always affords 
 me joy when lean make myself useful in treating the sick. Such op- 
 portunities offer themselves here the more frequently, as it often hap- 
 pens that we cannot procure a good physician when he is most needed. 
 
 I am glad indeed to hear your Method of Cure has already found 
 access to many Catholic districts, and especially into our Orphanages, 
 where they are used with very good results. So likewise do I learn 
 that many of the clergy are treating many of the sick with your rem- 
 edies, especially in neglected neighborhoods. 
 
 Friendly yours, G. F., Priest. 
 
 Highly-Respected Mr. Linden,— A thousand thanks for the prompt 
 attention you gave to my order, in sending me the Book, Instrument 
 and Oleum. My wife applied it immediately upon me, as directed on 
 page 42 of the Book. In a few minutes my terrible cramps of the stom^ 
 ach had disappeared. As you directed, I repeated it at intervals of 10 
 days, and since that time I have not again had an attack. I wish you 
 
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 would publish this letter, in order that all similar suffers may know 
 what to do to obtain relief. 
 
 Yours with friendly regard, PHILIP M. NIEMAM. 
 
 New York, Sept. 2, 1878c 
 
 Worthy Sir, — It is my object to-day to inform you that I have been 
 sick for a longtime, suffering from an affection of the chest and lungs, 
 for which the doctors had about 10 different names, but no remedy. 
 My pains were steadily increasing, until one of my church members 
 brought me your Book of Instruction, the Resuscitator and Oleum, and 
 asked me to be allowed to apply the instrument. At first I would not 
 allow it, but after reading in your Book for some time, I had it applied 
 to me, and very soon 1 realized relief; and now, after the thhd applh 
 cation, I thank God I am fully restored. 
 
 I am told that you are the man who introduced these remedies in 
 America, and succeeded, after many struggles, to secure it recogni- 
 tion. I can well imagine that in this land of humbug, quackery, and 
 charlatanry you had great difficulty in introducing this simple and 
 natural Method of Cure, and hence you deserve the greater credit from 
 a suffering humanity. That this curative method will really bring 
 about what you say of it in your Book, I have realized not only in my 
 own person," but also, at a later period, in several other patients. May 
 God in future bless you in your labors for the good of humanity. Be 
 kind enough to send me per Express one German and one English 
 Book of Instruction, four bottles of Oleum and two Besuscitators. If it 
 can be of any use to you, you are at liberty to incorporate this letter 
 with your testimonials. Respectfully, A. SCHUMACHER, Pastor. 
 
 Bridgeport, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1878. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Linden, — The Resuscitator is truly a life-preservei 
 A poor woman who had been suffering for four years from rheumatism 
 and had taken large quantities of the doctors^ medicines, and all with- 
 out success, so that the doctors gave her up, I gave her the Resuscita- 
 tor and Oleum, and by using it she was restored to health in three 
 weeks. She is now free from all pain, and thanks God daily, as well 
 as you, for the precious boon of restored health. Another young 
 woman of 18 suffered also from an affection of the heart, and was 
 given up by the doctors. A short treatment with your Resuscitator 
 and Oleum has brought back to her her lost health. My wife con- 
 tracted a fever last week. We did not call upon any doctor, except 
 to invoke the blessing of God upon the use of the Instrument and 
 Oleum, and now she is, thank God, well again. 
 
 About six or eight weeks ago 1 ordered a Resuscitator for Dr. J. B. 
 W — — n, and the doctor informed me, a few days ago, that he would 
 not do without it any more for any money, for he cured all his cases 
 with celerity and safety. I wish your remedies were known in every 
 family. Yours, REV. E. SCHLAG. 
 
 Cincinnati, O., May 15, 1878. 
 
 Worthy Mr. John Linden, — The Oleum and your valuable Book 
 of Instructions I have received, and tender you my sincere thanks. 
 During the 18 years I have been acquainted with your Resuscitator, it 
 has done great things for us, especially during the time that small-pox 
 was prevailing in my congregation. All who used the Instrument 
 and Oleum were rapidly cured ; and others who used it in time were 
 prevented from getting it. 
 
 Respectfully your friend, G. FRITZ, Pastor. 
 
Johri&on C >J^ > N. Y., Oct. 29, 1878. 
 
 Mr, Linden, — is certainly a most unfortunate occurrence to 
 a man who is obliged to support his family by the labor of his hands. 
 In my younger years I was already a sufferer from it, and the trouble 
 became aggravated year after year. During the past year, however, I 
 have been entirely freed from it, a result of the use of your remarkable 
 remedies, %vhich gave relief in many other cases of sickness in our 
 neighborhood. Thus, one of my children was saved from an attack of 
 ijovphiheria, and our inifant babe needed only to have the Oleum rubbed 
 in to be relieved of the cramps. My old father-in-law, who had been 
 suffering so much from gastric troubles, was also cured by the use of 
 the Resuscitator and Oleum. So also an aged lady, who had been 
 suffering for many years from the dropsy, was cured by it. We are 
 of the opinion that your remedies ought to be domesticated in every 
 family. The Book, Instrument and two bottles of Oleum which 1 
 bought of you in May, 1887, I sent as a present to my sister in Stutt- 
 gart, Germany, and recently I received a letter from her, in which she 
 states that she has cured her husband of the rheumatism^ and her young 
 son of a violent attack of quinsy. She is very happy, and says in so. 
 many words : ‘‘If you had sent me 1,000 marks, they would not have 
 benefitted me as much as the Resuscitator, Oleum and Book.'^ I am 
 glad indeed that with so little expense I was able to render her so 
 much satisfaction. Yours, 
 
 HENDRICK PREGEL. 
 
 Celina, O., July 1st, 1878. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. 
 
 Dear Friend : — As you may yet remember I have received youi 
 remedies for both myself, as well as for others in want of them, from 
 you for many years. With great satisfaction I can say that where- 
 ever they have been used in the right way they have accomplished 
 wonders. 
 
 Of the use of your Resuscitator and Oleum in my own family, 1 
 can report that I have reason to believe that they have saved my 
 wife's life. She was suffering from a painful liver complaint, w’hich, 
 notwithstanding the quantity of medicines taken, turned into a 
 dangerous jaundice. We consulted in turns five of the best recom- 
 mended doctors, but in spite of all, my wife became worse instead oi 
 better, and in our greatest distress we took recourse to your Resusci- 
 tator and Oleum, and behold ! three days after applying them th( 
 severe pains had partially subsided. After a few more applications, 
 strictly following the rules of your book of instruction, my wife's 
 health was, thank God, restored, and she is now v/ell and happy. 
 
 With a few applications I have cured myself of a painful Rheu- 
 matism, and would now under no circumstances be without youi 
 valuable remedies in my family. 
 
 It would certainly be of great benefit to many sufferers, if you 
 would publish the aoove, especially as the public are so often deceived 
 by the highly praised nostrums, and as it has not been neglected, from 
 envy and ill will, to raise the most groundless suspicion against you 
 and your remedies, but fortunately you have now silenced all such 
 
 Truly yours, Rev. JOHN BECK. 
 
 P. S.— Rev. John Beck has of late delighted me with a personal 
 visit here at Clevelnad, and requested me, by special wish of his wife, 
 to publish this. J. LINDEN. 
 
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 Beaver, Pa. 
 
 Mr. Linden, — Please put it into the paper, so that all may find 
 it out, that for months 1 had been suffering from Kheumatism,* being 
 bedfast, so that they had to feed me like a baby. The doctors could do 
 nothing with me, and I began to believe that I should never get bet- 
 ter again. But one Sunday our minister came into our settlement, 
 and when he heard that I was sick, he came to see me, and after 1 
 told him how much and how long I had already suftered, he took a 
 little instrument out of his pocket, which he called a Eesu^citator, and 
 pricked me with it on the back, on the calves of the legs and upon the 
 chest, andanointed the parts with Oleum out of a small bottle which he 
 also carried along. Very soon I feltbetter, and in ten days the pastor 
 came again, and he found me almost entirely well; but he pricked me 
 once more, and again he put the oil on it, and on the following Sun- 
 day I was able, for the first time in seven months, to go to church 
 once more. The minister gave me one of your large German-printed 
 circulars, and hence I write to you, and want you to publish my case. 
 My wife and children send greetings. JOHN MEHNKER. 
 
 From the Christliche Botschafter of March 20, 1878. 
 
 May I be permitted, for the simple purpose of benefiting the many 
 afflicted ones, and constrained by a sense of duty toward the public, 
 to give the following to the readers of the dear Botschafter, My own 
 experience has convinced me that the Exanthematic Method of Cure is a 
 very beneficent one. I would advise every father of a family to pro- 
 cure the new Book of Instruction (the fourteenth edition) from ou? 
 well tried and reliable triend, John Linden, together with his unbur 
 passable Besuscitator, with gilt needles. The Preface^ the Treatise or 
 the Diseases of Children, on the Treatment of Women in Confinement^ 
 on Food, Fresh Air, Exercise, Sleep, and on the Diseases of the Ear, 
 are all worthy of attention. Bead and observe the directions given 
 therein, and you will save many a heavy doctor\sbill and escape many 
 other evils. The oil I last obtained from him seems to be the best and 
 most effective I ever had. 
 
 On behalf of truth and the sufferers, BEV. G, F. SPBENG. 
 
 The original of the foregoing was handed us. — Ed. Bot. 
 
 From the Welthote. 
 
 ^ando’pl), Mo., Oct. 18, 1877. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden, — Three years ago our child had an attack of the 
 measles, and was sick unto death on account of the reversion of the 
 the rash. The doctor we employed gave up* the child, and in our dis- 
 tress we knew not what to do. Fortunately, just at this time our min- 
 ister came along. Pastor M., and he said he would now try the Besus- 
 citator; and oh, what joy ! Our child recovered, and, next to God, 
 we are indebted for its recovery to your Besuscitator and Oleum. Since 
 that time it has helped us in all cases, and I would not do without it 
 in my family for any money. Bend us again, for the enclosed $5, oi 
 your Oleum. With much respect. 
 
 Yours, CHR. SCHMIDT. 
 
 In attestation of the genuineness of the foregoing, Mr. Linden 
 has handed us the original letter.— Ed. of WelthoU, 
 
Frcm the Weltbote. 
 
 Salem, Oregon, Feb. 6, 1878, 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden, — The Oleum 1 desired has come to hand all right, 
 also a Book of Instruction of your latest edition, for which I tender 
 thanks. I will now also relate to you my experience in this Method 
 of Cure. I have been using the Besuscitator in my family, of seven 
 persons, ever since 1865, and during all this time I have had no occa- 
 sion to call upon a doctor in any case of sickness; and I assert, with 
 the fullest assurance, that any disease that is curable at all can be 
 cured with the Resuscitator ; and to accomplish this it is oniy neces- 
 sary to exercise some patience and common sense. I do not make it a 
 business of treating others, but use the Resuscitator only for my own 
 family, and thus far it has helped me out of every calamity. 
 
 My wife was afflicted for eleven long years with a stiff leg^ re- 
 sulting from a case of confinement. The doctors called it milk leg^ 
 and two of them tried their skill in curing it, but without success. Af- 
 ter eleven years I cured it effectually by the simple use of the Resusci- 
 tator. Diphtheria^ which creates so much fear among the people, we 
 cured in our own family, speedily and readily; so also the measles. 
 Small-pox are perfectly harmless when properly treated with the Resus- 
 citator ; and so, likewise, must convuUions of children yield to it. In 
 eases of hard teething or difflcult dentition the Resuscitator will be found 
 without an equal. Hot fevers will lose half their power after an oper- 
 ation. If fevers are very violent, however, after the lapse of twelve 
 hours, rub the operated parts with a woolen cloth and saturate them 
 again with Oleum. In cases where there is acute pain, I always follow 
 the pain with the Resuscitator, and in such cases I observe no time in 
 particular, but operate as required, in case of ague I found it the most 
 effective on myself- -thorough applications on the back, stomach, and 
 abdomen, as often as I felt the chills approaching, and then went to 
 bed. The artificial heat would spread over the body, just as the chills 
 were coming on, and, encountering this, they were obliged to yield, 
 and since then I have been freed from it. As a destroyer of pain, the 
 Resuscitator is without an equal. 
 
 For some years I have been troubled with corns on one of my 
 toes. Now, corns are not a disease, perhaps, but that they can be pro- 
 ductive of much pain every one will admit, that has made their ac- 
 quaintance; I, at least, often wished my toe, corn and all, to any other 
 place than where it was. I then tried to use the Resuscitator, but the 
 needles would not penetrate the thick skin. I then took a razor and 
 peeled the skin off until the blood threatened to come. I then took a 
 small rag, allowed several drops of Oleum to fall upon it, and bound 
 it on the corn. I did this three times, at intervals of eight days, and 
 the corn has disappeared, I know not how or when. But it is gone ! 
 
 As two of my friends desire to have of your oil, I shall have to let 
 them have what I received, and I herewith ask you to send me two 
 bottles more, for which I inclose the money, as well as the deficit for 
 the last order. Thanking you once more for the Book which I re- 
 ceived, I remain 
 
 Your faithful friend, 
 
 A. WIRTH. 
 
 ig^^The foregoing testimony was handed us in the original. — Ed. 
 of Wdtbote, 
 
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 From the Sendbote. 
 
 Cincinnati, O., March 15, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. John Linden, — The Oleum, together with your val- 
 uable book, has come duly to hand, and I herewith tender my best 
 thanks for the prompt attention to my order. 
 
 For a considerable length of time the Resuscitator has been doing 
 great things for us, especially during the time when the small-pox pre- 
 vailed in our vicinity. Many, too, of ray congregation have been 
 saved from the small-pox by the timely use of your Resuscitator and 
 Oleum. In one numerous family a girl contracted this dangerous dis- 
 ease, which created great fear and anxiety ; but as the Resuscitator had 
 been applied to the patient as well as to the other members of the fam- 
 ily, all fears came to an end. On several the application resulted in ex- 
 tracting an extraordinary quantity of morbid matter from the body, so 
 that all were convinced that, but for the application, they would have 
 been subjected to very severe cases of small-pox. 
 
 Respectfully your friend, REV. G. FRITZ. 
 
 Quincy, 111., Feb. 18, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden, — For the Oleum you sent me I desire sincerely 
 to thank you, and the wonderful curative powers create great as^ 
 tonishment. Six more families, from this place, design soon to send 
 for your Instrument, Oleum, and Book of Instruction. 
 
 You will at once send me one Resuscitator, with gilt needles, one 
 bottle of Oleum, and one book, for which you will find enclosed $8. 
 
 I remain, respectfully yours, J. B. HARTWIG. 
 
 J|@“The foregoing testimonials were handed to us in the original 
 copy. — Ed. Sendbote. 
 
 Union Hill, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1877. 
 
 Dear E'riend Linden, — I must inform you of a great cure. Ashoit 
 time ago a woman 20 years of age came home to her parents here 
 to die. During her first confinement she had contracted a very serious 
 disease, viz. : prolapsus of the womb, and a very malignant swelling. 
 The physicians that had treated her gave up all hope. I now took her 
 into my treatment, and after seven applications she was enabled to re- 
 turn to New York in better health than ever before. Another woman 
 had from long confinement become bedsore, and was unable to move a 
 limb. After two applications she was cured. The doctors that had treat- 
 ed her before called me a wonder-doctor. But enough for this time. 
 
 Please send me another bottle of Oleum immediately. With 
 hearty greeting. Yours, J. SCHMIDT. 
 
 JS®* The foregoing testimonial was handed us in its original form 
 
 — Ed. Sendbote. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 17, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Dear Mr. Linden, — With hearty greeting I would ask you to 
 fiend me as soon as possible, one German Book of instructions, one bot- 
 tle of Oleum, and one Resuscitator, to the following address, per express, 
 Fr. W., Philadelphia, Pa., and I inclose, in payment for the remedies 
 ordered, $8. I must also, at the same time, thank you for the good 
 your remedies have done in my own family. My wife had a tumor on 
 the right side of the abdomen. After treatment for nine weeks by the 
 doctor, she had such severe pains that she could not walk aero-s the 
 room any more. Five hours after the first appliration of your reme- 
 dies, her pains had disappeared and after the sixth application she was 
 
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 fully cured, and now feels perfectly well and happy. I have eight 
 children and with them also 1 have had the very best success in cur- 
 ing all ailment thus far. Thanking you again, I beg of you to attend 
 to the order I gave you, with the utmost promptness. I am 
 
 Yours respectfully, H. SITTEL. 
 
 As a matter of information I would say that Mr. Linden handed 
 the original of the foregoing to the editors. D. Ewald, 
 
 Proof-reader in the Publishing House of the Ev. Association. 
 
 From the Sendbote. 
 
 Beardstown, 111., Dec. 14, 1877. 
 
 Much respected Mr. Linden, — Be kind enough to send me, without 
 delay, a bottle of your Resuscitator-Oleum, as I cannot do without it. 
 Six of my children were suffering from the scarlet fever, and they have 
 all been saved by the use of your Resuscitator and Oleum. Thank God 
 for it. Your Resuscitator and Oleum have helped us many a time out 
 of trouble, and saved us many doctor’s bills. Be kind enough to send 
 at once, as Winter has come, with its many diseases that it is likely 
 to bring along. Your friend, HENRY HOBROCK. 
 
 Folsomdale, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1878. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden, — Your highly-prized letter of the 17thinst. 
 bas come to hand. Also the articles I ordered have arrived in good 
 condition, and I thank you kindly for your promptness, and also for the 
 confidence you reposed in me. Your Resuscitator, Oleum, and Bock 
 of Instruction came to me not only promptly, but also in good concili' 
 tion. I used the Resuscitator at once upon my dear wife. I had in- 
 formed you that she suffered much from neuralgia, and gout in the head, 
 which originated from the teeth. My homoeopathic remedies failed 
 this time of their efficacy ; but by means of the Resuscitator we secured 
 this time, thank God, the most satisfactory results. In future I shall 
 do my utmost to recommend your valuable lemedies to my suffering 
 fellowmen. With kind regards I remain 
 
 Yours respectfully, F. C. KOEHLER, Ministek. 
 
 Jg^^The foregoing testimonials have been submitted to us in their 
 original form. — Ed. Sendbote. 
 
 From the Weltbote. 
 
 South Cottonwood, Utah, Aug. 1, 1877. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden, — One of our neighbors, a Mormon preach- 
 er. was suffering so fearfully over the entire body, from rheumatism, 
 that he was at times almost crazed by it. The best doctors from the 
 city, and all the medicines that he used could not relieve him, but on 
 the second day after the application of the Resuscitator and Oleum his 
 pains had disappeared. He is now cured, and will spread the news 
 everywhere, and desires now to have your remedies for himself. 
 
 With much respect, T, SCHENK 
 
 Roan oka, 111,, Aug. 23, 1878 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden, — Be kind enough to send me at once two 
 more bottles of your Oleum. For eighteen years I have been sufferip*^ 
 
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 and at times severely, from rheumatism, but your Eesuscitator and 
 Oleum have cured me. It will brinji: help in all cases where used. 
 
 Yours graterully, S. J, GISH. 
 
 As a confirmation of the genuineness of these testimonials, Mr, 
 Linden has sent us the original letters. — Ed. W elthote. 
 
 From the Send bote. 
 
 New Haven, Mo., Feb. 2, 1878. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden, — Your new Book of Instruction has come 
 to hand, for which accept thanks. With respect to contents, clearness 
 and explicitness, it leaves nothing to be desired. Your Resuscitator is 
 already pretty well introduced in this neighborhood, and as I am myself 
 acquainted with its excellent qualities, I shall do everything I can to 
 increaseits popularity. I recently cured a homoeopathic physician with 
 your Resuscitator and Oleum. He was so permeated by rheumatism 
 that he could not rqove a limb any more. At first he objected seriously 
 to it; but as he has now been thoroughly cured by means of it, he pro" 
 poses to use it himself in his future practice. He is an American. 
 
 With kind regards, yours respectfully, REV. J. C. SEYBOLD. 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 4, 1878. 
 
 Mr. J. Linden : Honored Sir, — Please send me, without delay, two 
 more bottles of your Oleum, as I shall be obliged to use it at once on a 
 young woman of this place, who has been suffering for some time from a 
 malignant ulcer in the nape of the neck. Although I make no busi- 
 ness of it, I still feel in duty bound to help my fellow-men, when and 
 wherever I can. Last winter I was on a visit to Tennessee, and there 
 I cured, by a single application, an old doctor of a chronic complaint. 
 His name is Dr. B., whom I presume, you know, for he has now also 
 ordered a Resuscitator and the Oleum from you, and is performing 
 wonders with it. In my own family your remedies have brought the 
 greatest benefits, and I would not do without them for any price. 
 
 Respectfully yours, MRS. N. M. CLIFTON. 
 
 JI^^The above testimonies were handed us n the original.— Ed. 
 
 From the Weltbote. 
 
 Easton, Pa., July 16, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden, — A few lines from me may be acceptable to you, 
 and will find you, I hope, in the enjoyment of good health. For the 
 accompanying money you will please send me again of your good and 
 salutary Oleum. I shall take the liberty also of informing you concern- 
 ing some wonderful cures that have been brought about by means of 
 the Resuscitator: 
 
 1. A woman, 23 years of age, had the r}ieiimaiis7n so badly, foi 
 three years, that her fiiigers were drawn quite out of shape, and crip- 
 pled ; and after several applications of the Instrument and Oleum, she 
 was freed from all her pains. 
 
 2. A young man 21 years of age was much afflicted by pleuritic 
 pains in tlie side, and fever, and 48 hours after the application he was 
 as sound and fresh as a fish in the water. 
 
 3. My own daughter, 17 years old, suffered from the same com- 
 plaint, and was also cured in a few days. 
 
 4. An old lady of 75 years, a midwife, had a badly swollen limb, 
 from the foot to the knee-joint, highly inflamed and very painful, and 
 
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 no doctors couM help her. She then sent for me, and in three days 
 after the first application of your Resuscitator and Oleum the iimb was 
 again restored, as sound as the other, and all pains had disappeared. 
 And this cure has excited much attention here. Daily I receive visits 
 of sick persons who desire to i)e cured. But as I am a layman, and 
 not a doctor, I do what I can simply from a sense of duty to humanity, 
 and many families will undoubtedly order your Resuscitator, Oleum 
 and Book from you. Yours, Gr. HITZEL. 
 
 fi®"The foregoing testimony was submitted to us in its original 
 form. — Rem. of Ed. 
 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dec. 4, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Linden, Dear Sir: — Send me a bottle of your Oleum for in- 
 closed money. Some time ago I received your new Book of Instruction 
 (14th edition), for which receive my hearty thanks. It has a great 
 many improvements and advatages over the 11th edition, which I 
 have used until now. Especially valuable are the special instructions 
 for eye and ear diseases, at the same time all perplexities are avoided 
 and the whole is clear and comprehensible. When I for the first 
 time saw one of your new instruments, it showed that without the 
 price raised you really wish to benefit the suffering. The instrument 
 is elegant and most practicable. 
 
 The principal thing, at least for me, is your oleum, which far ex- 
 cels in quality and cheapness all oleums that I have ever used. I 
 have until recently always used imported oils, but never with such 
 success. This I write with perfect truth. Wherever I can, I shall 
 always recommend you above all others, whose only object is money, 
 but which do very little good. 
 
 Although your Instrument, Book and Oleum recommend them- 
 selves to all that have once tried them, yet I deem it my duty, for the 
 good of the cause, to publish my convictions. 
 
 Yours in love, L. FEISTNER, Luth. Pastor. 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1878. 
 
 Our 12 year old daughter had the diphtheria in the worst degree, 
 and all the doctors treating her, had pronounced ail hopes of saving 
 her life gone. Then in the last moments of distress Dr. John Lin- 
 den^s remedies were recommended to us, and through the application 
 of the same, and with the Lord's help, our child was saved. 
 
 I feel it my duty to all that are not yet familiar with the Lebens- 
 weeker (Instrument) to make this public. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER SEIFERT. 
 
 Monroe, Wis., Nov. 14, 1878. 
 
 God’s blessing as greeting ! Herewith I enclose the amount for 
 the 4 bottles of Oleum. 
 
 Last week the Diphtheria and Croup intruded upon our family, 
 but both diseases were quickly overcome by using your remedies, 
 while during the time children to our right and left yielded to this 
 dreadful disease. In many cases the Resuscitator is certainly to be 
 called a Life Restorer — of course next to God the Lord, the disposer 
 of life and death. 
 
 Respectfully your devoted friend. Rev. H. UPHOFF. 
 
 The above testimonials 'were submitted to me in the original. 
 
 W. I . SCHNEIDER. 
 
San Saba Co., Texas, Oct. 20th, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Linden. 
 
 Dear Sir : — With pleasure I take my pen this time to let you 
 know where I am at present, and what 1 am doing. I am healing, 
 with your Resuscitator and Oleum, all such patients as have been 
 pronounced incurable by the doctors, and, thank Uod, I have not yet 
 failed in one instance, but my efforts were always crowned with 
 success in every case. 
 
 One very remarkably strange cure which deserves to be extensive- 
 ly known, I will here mention : 
 
 On the 18th of June, this year, I was summoned to a Miss Thur^ 
 man, a young lady 16 years of age, who had been bitten by a large 
 copper-head snake in the region of the ankle of the right foot. Half 
 an hour had elapsed before I arrived, and the patient had already 
 lost her speech, her eyes protruded, her lips were black, and the 
 muscles in the nape of the neck were swollen to the thickness of a 
 thumb. The foot itself was black, and also swollen. I immediately 
 made an operation with the Resuscitator directly on, and eight times 
 around the wound, rubbed the whole well with Oleum, and covered 
 all thick with cotton batting. In the course of 15 minutes the patient 
 had recovered her speech, and after the elapse of another half hour 
 all danger was past. I now look off the cotton -batting, and found ah 
 the poison had drawn out, and settled in the cotton. 
 
 I wiil soon write you of other remarkable cures I have made. 
 For the enclosed amount please send me Oleum immediately. 
 
 I ever remain yours thankfully, J. D. OWEN, 
 
 Jackson, Miss., Dec. 12th, 1878. 
 
 Dr. John Linden. 
 
 Dear Sir : — I take pleasure in saying to you that since I have 
 been using your remedies the insufferable pain in my back has almost 
 ceased. — Although cures of the yellow fever have been mentioned in 
 your book of instruction, I still take the liberty to add a few’ which 
 you may publish for the benefit of the public. 
 
 A gentleman of Weiherford, Texas, staying on a visit at my 
 house, took the yellow fever. The Howard Association sent him a 
 physician at once, but still he grew rapidly worse, the black vomit 
 making already its appearance. At last I ventured, although in- 
 experienced, the cure with your Resuscitator and Oleum, applying 
 your remedies, and the man survived and was saved. 
 
 A short time after my wife was also attacked with the yellow 
 fever of the most malignant type, i treated her in the .same manner 
 as the previous case with your remedies, and, thank God, she was also 
 saved. I also applied them on my two sons to prevent the disease 
 and it spared them. 
 
 I myself had to be with many members of ray congregation who 
 were afflicted with the fever, but in spite of all the toil and fatigue I 
 had to take upon myself, I was spared from this dreadful disease. Please 
 send me Oleum for the enclosed money immediately. Although we 
 are in the month of December, the weather is unusually warm, and 
 the fever has not yet wholly abated. Those who fled from the city 
 are coming back gradually, and business is growing lively again. 
 
 In hopes of receiving the goods soon, I remain. 
 
 Truly yours Rev. E. JOHNSON. 
 
Cottage, Iowa, Dec. L'S, 1878. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden, — God^s blessing as greeting. It gives me 
 pleasure to be able to inform you that the Resuscitator is indeed a life 
 saver. I feel impelled to say here a few words in its favor. My 
 little son was so severely attacked by croup that we considered his 
 case hopeless. However, after two applications of your Resuscitator 
 and Oleum he was restored. He lives ! My neighbor was down with 
 the gout. The doctors could not relieve him any more. The Resus- 
 citator also did good service in this case. The man is well, to which 
 he himself can testify, for he, too, lives ! A lad who suffered from a 
 chronic eye-disease, so that he was nearly blind, was restored in foui 
 days. Whoever suffers in his eyes, let him apply the Resuscitator. 
 God bless you forever. W. JONA8, 
 
 Preacher of the Ev. Association. 
 
 P. S. I shall send more testimonials and you may publish them> 
 in the “ Botschofter^^ or wherever you like. W. J. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to me in the original. 
 
 W. F. SCHNEIDER. 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 8, 1878. 
 
 lilr. Linden. 
 
 Dear Sir ! — Inclosed please find P. M Order for the two bottles of 
 Oleum you sent me. The book I have also received and find it very 
 interesting and instructive. Many thanks. 
 
 Four years ago I got the Instrument from you, and would now 
 not be without it for any price. About that time I contracted a 
 malignant evil by a drink of too cold water. My breast, back, should- 
 ers and stomach pained me very much, and in spite of all help I triec 
 to get from the best doctors, I still remained a helpless and sick man. 
 Now I tried for a time all advertised and known Patent Medicines, 
 but yet remained a sick man. 
 
 My sister-in-law on her visit here, drew my attention to youi 
 Resuscitator, but I could not make up my mind to try it, because 
 everything that had been recommended to me I had used without the 
 least success ; but necessity has no law ; so following the advice of my 
 friends, I ordered the Instrument and Oleum from you, and lo ! what 
 wonder ! Already the next day after the first application I was free 
 from pain, and in the course of two weeks I could resume my work. 
 
 A year later I broke my leg at the ankle ; one of the best Physi- 
 cians replaced it, but assured me that it would keep swollen for seve- 
 ral years, and for life I would feel the changes of the weather in it. 
 But nothing of all this; the foot which was injured is not the least 
 thicker than the other, and there is not a sign of fee ing by 
 change of weather. But this is not to be ascribed to the skill of the 
 lioctor, hut only to the healing power of the Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 The’ applications (every 10th day) did not only reduce the swelling or 
 the injured foot, but also made the skin, which was black and blue, 
 look quite natural again like that of the other foot 
 Another time I applied the Resuscitator on my little son, who had 
 the Diphtheria and had already been given up by the doctor. My 
 son was saved and, thank God, he lives! Your Resuscitator and 
 Oleum take the part of a good Physician in my family now, and 
 wherever I can, I will recommend and praise it, which it deserves. 
 
 Truly Yours, A. BRAUN. 
 
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 Chicago, 111., Oct. 21, 1878. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden, — I will use my pen in order to give yoa 
 the happy information that my dear wife’s sore foot, from which she 
 had been suffering so much, has been entirely cured, and she is now 
 able to perform all her housework again. 
 
 My brother-in-law, who two years ago was stricken with apo- 
 plexy, and in spite of all medical aid remained poor and sick, is now 
 also cured. We used the Instrument and Oleum on him for about 3 
 months, and all who now see him are astonished at his convalescence. 
 
 Sincerely Yours, ANTON SCHAFFNEE. 
 
 North Sandy, Pa., Jan. 6, 1879. 
 
 Lear Mr. Linden, — For the enclosed $7.00 please send nie by 
 Express some of your Oleum. In our vicinity the Diphtheria is 
 raging in its worst form, and many must die. We also lost one child, 
 but the other six, who were also taken with the disease, were curec 
 by the use of your Instrument and Oleum, and as this fact has be 
 come known, I am obliged to make the doctor all around here, and 
 thanks to God, my exertions are crowned with success everywhere. 
 
 Please send the Oleum immediately. 
 
 Yours with highest regards, W. N. NICKLIN. 
 
 Osage Mission, Kans., Jan. 28, 1879. 
 
 Dear Mr. John Linden ! — With this I wish to ask you to send rue 
 six more bottles of your excellent Oleum. For the amount I will send 
 you a Draft on New York, as I did the other time. 
 
 Dr. Robbins, for whom 1 got the last Instrument and Oleum, has 
 been very successful with the Instrument in curing Lung Fever and 
 Suppressed Menstruation. 
 
 My wife gave a young lady 2 applications for the same difficulty 
 after the lady’s doctor had told her that he could do nothing for her 
 in that case. When my wife commenced treatment, the lady wag 
 bed-fast and looked like a corpse ; now after 3 weeks, she is fat and 
 hearty, and has rosy cheeks. She says she never felt better in hei 
 life. 
 
 My health is, thanks to God, restored again, but I must yet allov 
 myself a little rest. I remain with kind wishes 
 
 Yours Truly, ANDY SELCHER 
 
 Moro, 111., Jan. 16th, 1879. 
 
 Dear Friend Linden : — It gives me pleasure to inform you that my 
 dear wife, by the blessing of God and the use of your Resuscitator 
 and Oleum, has been able to be about again since July of last year. 
 All who saw her during , her illness did not believe she would ever be 
 about again. 
 
 My dear Mr. Linden, I had doctored a great, great deal before, 
 and spent over $100 for medicines, but all to no purpose. Through 
 this extraordinary and surprising cure a great many here have been 
 convinced of the great healing power of your remedies, and you will 
 likely receive many orders from this place. For the inclosed $5.00 
 please send me Oleum again. Receive with this the heartfelt thanks 
 and well-wishes from me and my wife. 
 
 Yours, ADAM SCHOEBER. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to us in the original. — W. F. SCHNEIDER. 
 
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 Chicago, 111., Sept., 1st, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Linden. 
 
 Dear Sir : — With pleasure and thankfulness I take my pen to 
 inform you that since May last, our oldest son has not had another 
 attack of Jii ; maJady, the Epilepsy. 
 
 As you will remember, you sent us your remedies in February 
 last, and after two applications with the Instrument and Oleum, 
 according to your directions, at the same time using the medicine 
 you sent along, this dreadful disease has left him, which before 
 attacked hiui every four or five days. He is now healthy and vig- 
 c rous. and promises to become a stout man. 
 
 With gratitude I remain ever yours, A. KRAEMER. 
 
 Crocket, Texas, Oct. 23, 1878. 
 
 Dr. J. Linden, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 Dear Sir, — In the month of January last, I obtained, through the 
 mediation of a friend, your remedies, and it gives me pleasure to be 
 able to inform you, that they have already performed wonders in my 
 family. 
 
 I myself had been sutfering a long time with Neuralgia, against 
 M bich all the remedies I had used, proved fruitless, but a single appli- 
 cation with your Instrument and Oleum removed it entirely. 
 
 For the enclosed draft send me Oleum. 
 
 Your sincere friend, L. W. C., 
 
 Attorney at Law. 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 4th, 1878. 
 
 Mr. Linden. 
 
 Dear Sir :—For the inclosed Money Order for $10 please send me, 
 by return express, some of your Oleum. I myself am out of it and 
 several bottles are also ordered by friends. 
 
 I can likewise inform you that my dear wife has been cured of 
 dropsy by the use of your Resuscitator and Oleum, and is now, thanks 
 to God, quite well again. Last spring almost every member of our 
 family had the fever and ague ; this time we did no^ take quinine, 
 because I have seen the bad consequences which arise from its use. 
 Two applications on the whole back and abdomen have freed all of 
 us from the fever and made us well. With best respects. 
 
 Yours, PETER LORENZ. 
 
 Poultney, Vt. Oct. 14, 1878. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden,— Enclosed you will find M. O. for $26.50, for 
 which please send me 3 Instruments, Books of instruction and Oleum. 
 The young lady, of whom I informed you in my last letter, and who, 
 according to the statement of the doctors treating her, was suffering 
 with the consumption, and was given up as incurable, is now, in 
 consequence of the treatment with your Instrument, recovering 
 speedily. Respectfully Yours, N. C. HARRIS. 
 
 Fayette City, Pa., Dec. 4, 1878. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Linden, — Send me again, immediately, 3 bottles of 
 Oleum. The cures which I am achieving with your remedies, are 
 really astonishing, and I should not know how to get along without 
 them in my extensive practice. 
 
 Yours respectfully, A. B. TRAVIS, M. D. 
 
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 Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 24, 1879. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden : — When you sent me your Instrument. 
 Oleum and Book of Instruction, about thiee months ago, you asked 
 me to give you the results of the use of your remedies, and I am now 
 able to do so in a cheerful manner. When I came here in the month 
 of June last year for the purpose of restoring my health, 1 was poor 
 and feeble, and a 4 months cure, which I had to undergo under the 
 directions of physicians here, I was, if anything, even worse than 
 better. In my disconsolation I intended, sick as I was, to return 
 home, and only by the constant persuasion of a visiting friend, who 
 is acquainted with the healing power of your remedies, I at last 
 consented to try the cure, and lo ! already after the third apf Jication 
 a remarkable change of my condition was visible. The pains in my 
 limbs subsided, my appetite became good, and I could again sleep and 
 think clearly. After a 2 months cure I was able, thanks to God, to 
 feel again what health is, and am now cheerful and happy and pre- 
 paring to return home. Your remedies I shall take with ine, and I 
 will do my best to introduce them wherever I can. I remain with 
 hearty respects and esteem truly yours, ADOLPH METHLER. 
 
 Chicago, 111., Feb. 3, 1879. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : — Please send me again, as soon as possible, six 
 bottles of Oleum, the money for which you will find enclosed. I am 
 able to give you the cheerful information, that the girl who had an 
 open leg, is entirely well and can again walk about without crutches. 
 She sends her best respects to you a thousandfold, and is glad that she 
 did not have her leg operated upon. The man, who was said to have 
 the consumption, and for whom I got the last Instrument, is visibly 
 getting better. With hearty respects yours, 
 
 MRS. KOENLSER. 
 
 1860“ The above testimonial was submitted to us in the original. — W. F. SCHNEIDER. 
 
 Lexington, N. C., Jan. 8, 1879. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden I am able to give you the happy infor- 
 mation that my dear wife has been thoroughly cured of her painful 
 stomach and bowel complaint. My children, who had always been 
 afflicted with a troublesome eruption of the skin, have now also been 
 cured, and all this is accomplished only by your Instrument (the 
 ‘‘little black doctor,^^ as we call it). This “little black doctor” is most 
 always on the way to sick friends and acquaintances, and they 
 all praise him above everything. In consequence of which I use a 
 great deal of Oleum, so please send me another 24 bottles forthwith. 
 The amount is enclosed. 
 
 Yours with hearty respects, A. WELLINGTON. 
 
 Placer Co , Cal., Jan. 6, 1879. 
 
 Mr. J. Linden.— Dear Sir : Please send me without delay anothei 
 vsix bottles of your Improved Oleum, the amount for which is enclosed 
 in P. O. money order. We accomplish much good here with youi 
 Resuscitator, it cures Fever and Ague, Infiammation of the lungs, &c, 
 &c., and in all chronic diseases it almost performs miracles. Please 
 send the oil as soon as possible. 
 
 Truly yours. 
 
 J. REA. 
 
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 {Frcym the Sendbote of June 4 , 1879 ). 
 
 St. Paul, Minn., May 19, 1879, 
 
 Honored Mr. J. Linden : — Allow me to say a word publicly con- 
 cerning the excellent effectiveness of your Improved Oleum. 
 
 As I have lately informed you, the ailment of my wife is very 
 complicated and stubborn. After she had been for a whole year in 
 the hands of many of tbe best physicians of both the Old School and 
 New School, and often suffered more under their treatment than 
 without it, she did not even obtain in the hands of a Magnetizer^^ 
 what she received by a few applications of your above-named valu- 
 able remedy. We used foi several years imported oil from Germany 
 in connection with the Eesuscitator, and probably should use it still, 
 but it had not the desired effect, especially in a case of intermittent 
 fever with which one of our children was afflicted, whereas that 
 which we ordered from you very soon eradicated the evil. In the 
 case of my dear wife, we could, after repeated applications of the 
 imported oil, not even cause a sensation on the spine and shoulders, 
 much less a resuscitative effect. Finally we applied the Eesuscitator 
 once more, but this time used your Oleum. The effect was correspond- 
 ing: namely, resuscitative. As it was Spring we repeated the treat- 
 ment, and every time with desirable success. In connection with it 
 we observed a special diet. Of course she is not nearly restored yet, 
 and it will take a long time if she is ever fully healed at all, still we 
 are under obligations to a kind Providence and to you, Mr. Linden, 
 for the relief afforded her this far. 
 
 J. F. HOEFFLIN, Pastor. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the publisher. 
 
 {From the ChrLstliche Botschafter of June 11 , 1879 ). 
 
 Glasgow, Cloud Co., Kans., April 29, 1879. 
 
 Eespected Mr. Linden : — Please to send me a bottle of your Oleum, 
 I must confess to you that the Eesuscitator has helped me more in 
 my suffering than all the doctors that attended me, and all the 
 medicines that I took. The Eesuscitator is truly reliable. You are 
 at liberty to make any use of my testimonial that you choose. The 
 amount for the Oleum I send to you in a Eegistered Letter. 
 
 Very Eespectfully, 
 
 J. BOND, Pastor 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the publisher 
 
 {From the Ref Kirchenzeitung). 
 
 Mauch Chunk, Pa., May 3, 1879, 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Cleveland. 
 
 Honored Sir: — For enclosed $1.50 please to send me one bottle of 
 Oleum by return mail. Your Oleum is much more effective than 
 that imported from Endenich, and I give you the privilege to make 
 whatever use you wish of this expressed Oleum, which is based on 
 accurate and continued observation. 
 
 Eespectfully, 
 
 WM. WACKERNAGEL, Lutheran Pastor. 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the publisher. 
 
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 Kewaukee, Wis., Nov. 8, 1880. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Cleveland, 0.,— Honored Sir My neighbor, an 
 American, requests me to order a Resuscitator and English book of Instruc- 
 tion for him. 
 
 Your instrument has effected a wonderful cure here. That girl, of 
 whom I wrote to you before, and who was afflicted with scrophulous sore eyes 
 for ten 3'ears, and one of whose eyes was nothing but a gory mass, is, after 
 the use of the Resuscitator for four months, perfectly cured, and her eyes look 
 just as well as my own. The father of the girl, Mr. Ed. Steffen, requests me 
 to tender you his sincerest thanks. This testimonial is also placed at your 
 disposal for publication. In the hope soon to hear again from you I subscribe 
 myself Yours respectfully, 
 
 (Rev.) AUG. PIEPER. 
 
 The undersigned takes the liberty to add that he daily receives numer* 
 ous testimonials concerning his remedies, which, however, he does not pub- 
 lish unless specially desired to do so for the benefit of the afflicted. 
 
 J. Linden. 
 
 The original of tlie above was submitted to us.— Ed. 
 
 Ada, Sheboygan Co., Wis., Jan. 26, 1880. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Cleveland, 0. 
 
 Dear Sir: — The exanthematic treatment of disease has effected 
 a wonder-cure in me during the past year. According to the statement of 
 an experienced physician I was afflicted with Bright^ s-disease which devel- 
 oped into dropsy and all the help that the doctors could afford me was in 
 vain. Your invaluable book of Instruction, Instrument (Resuscitator) and 
 Oleum, especially prepared by you, has freed me from the terrible disease. 
 I have now the honor of addressing you in behalf of other sufferers, and 
 kindly'- request you to send per express to my address lor the enclosed nine- 
 teen dollars, two of your German books of Instruction (14th edition), two of 
 3^our Instruments (Resuscitators), and four bottles of Oleum. Ever since 
 I have come in possession of 3'our invaluable book of Instruction, I have 
 used no other remedies than those prescribed by it. 
 
 Ada, Sheboygan Co., Wis., Feb. 24, 1880. 
 
 Dear Sir: — In regard to 3'our kind request concerning m3' simple but 
 truthful testimonial, I place the same at 3^our disposal at pleasure. 
 
 The bottle of Oleum, which you sent gratis to the poor famil3' w'as 
 accepted with man3' thanks. I told the fainil3’ that that act of yours was a 
 noble one. M3" sincere thanks for the well-meant advice in your valuable 
 letter to me. Yours, most obediently, , 
 
 GEORGE DEXHEIMER. 
 
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 Parkersburg, Iowa, May 10, 1880. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden: — You will recollect that about nine months ago I t&' 
 ceived two bottles of Oleum from you, and that I informed you that I preferred^ 
 it. But there is another man here, who also uses Baunscheidtic remedies, and 
 who was of the opinion that the Oleum used by him was considerably better.. 
 We tried to convince each other, in which we succeeded, and in favor ot 
 your Oleum. I now request you to send by return mail three bottles of 
 Oleum and an Instrument (Resuscitator) for myself, for I believe your instru- 
 ments likewise excel the others. Send the goods per express, C. 0. D., as 
 soon as possible, as we are both out of Oleum. For the book, which you 
 sent me, you have my sincerest thanks. I shall endeavor to introduce your 
 Oleum wherever I can. At first the people were prejudiced against your 
 Oleum, because the other man had always ordered for them, and because 
 they were true to the maxim : “ The world wants to he humbugged'^ Bat 
 
 I believe you will now receive more customers, for I have already achieve* 
 fine results. Concerning my former letter you can use it at pleasure. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 HENRY BEHRENDS. 
 
 Nebraska City, Neb., May 20, 1880. 
 
 Honored Mr. Linden : — It is now again high time to bring things in 
 order, and as my supply of Oleum is considerably diminished, I hasten ra;f 
 request for a fresh supply (three dozen bottles), which you will please to send 
 to my address as, usual. — C. R. Karstens, who lately received an Instni- 
 ment and bottle of Oleum from you, likewise desires a German book of 
 Instruction, which you will please to enclose in the package, and charge to 
 my account. To cover the account sent by you Jan. 15, I enclose you the 
 sum of $20, with many thanks. I would also inform you that Mr. Donisins 
 Streit, whose wife was radically cured of falling-sickness and other ailments 
 by your method of cure, and now enjoys continued health, is about to 
 remove from here to the neighborhood of Columbus, Neb., where the largest 
 settlements consist of Germans. He thinks he will confer a great benefit to 
 the settlers by bringing your method of cure among them, and will then 
 himself apply to you for whatever may be necessary. 
 
 JOSEPH KUWITZKY 
 
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 Webster City, Iowa, March 8, 1880. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden : — I inclose you a P. M. 0. of $3.50 for two bottles 
 of 3 ’'Our Oleum to be sent to my address. I am also under obligations to 
 you for a copy of your beautiful new treatise on the Exanthematic Method 
 of Cure. It is much more easil}^ understood and more instructive than it 
 predecessors. If I had possessed your remedies sooner, we should have been 
 able to save much nlone 3 ^ Ever since we have the Resuscitator, Oleum and 
 book of instructions, we have no more use for a doctor. The diphtheria is 
 very prevalent in our place and 6 of our own children were attacked by it, 
 but by the immediate application of the Resuscitator and Oleum, according 
 to the directions given in your book, the were all speedily restored. Like- 
 wise two other children in our neighborhood were healed by it. I must also 
 inform you that my brother had the misfortune of fracturing his arm and 
 shoulder 5 years ago, and though the bone healed, yet the parts became 
 quite black and blue. He applied your Resuscitator and Oleum and by the 
 help of God the discoloration was made to yield. The doctors wanted tc 
 amputate the arm because, as the said, there was no other way of saving 
 him. I could yet report many other cures to you, but enough for this time. 
 
 With respectful greeting 
 
 Yours gratefully H. WEPEL. 
 
 The original of this was submitted to the editorial management. 
 
 Toledo, Ohio, May 22, 1880. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden : — ITe bottle of Oleum was duly received. — - 
 Thanks. I should also like to give you the following testimonial: About a 
 year ago I sent to you for a bottle of your Oleum for a poor man that suffered 
 from rheumatism. You sent the desired Oleum gratis. The man’s name 
 is F. Mollines and had been afflicted for ti years. He was treated by good 
 physicians in Germany and also here in America, but without avail. He 
 walked on crutches and was unable to perform any labor. He used in all 
 three bottles of your Oleum and has come now for about 5 months every 
 Sunday* to church and that on foot, although he lives IJ miles from it. He 
 is also able now to do work, such as saw wood &c. He is of course ver}" grate 
 ful to me for having recommended to him your method of cure. 
 
 Yours respectfully 
 
 (Rev.) H. PULLMANN. 
 
 The original of this was submitted to the editorial management 
 
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 New Alexanderwohl, near Newton, Harvey Co., Kansas, \ 
 
 Sept. 23, 1880. / 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: — Already some time has elapsed since our cor- 
 respondence ceased, but am now on my part necessitated to resume it. The 
 primary occasion for this is the need of six bottles of your Oleum in our 
 neighborhood. 1 enclose you $7.00 for the above-mentioned six bottles of 
 Oleum, the price as stated by you. 
 
 Specially important cures with the Resusci tutor 1 have not to reiiort tliis 
 time. With thankfulness I have yet to remark that since its entrance into 
 my house the Resuscitator has always been a dear family-friend, who has to 
 make his visits sometimes to this one and then to that one, always gaining 
 new credit to itself If only many more doors would open themselves to it, 
 behind which it might minister to the suffering, new honors would be added 
 to its reputation. This is the wish of 
 
 Yours respectfully, H. RICHhlRT. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 New Alexanderwohl, near Newton, Harvey Co., Kans. \ 
 
 Oct. 7, 1880. f 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden : — Gratefully I acknowledge the receipt of the 
 six bottles of Oleum, &c. As regards the use of my testimonal in favor of 
 the Resuscitator I cheerfully give my consent. May it serve to call the atten- 
 tion of the suffering to the Resuscitator — and if it were only that of one — 
 and in consequence be led to its use, whoever it would be, would find him- 
 self richly rewarded for having made the experience, and taking the risk of 
 befriending himself with it. 
 
 Greeting, respectfully, H. R1 CHERT. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Waterloo, Ont., Oct. 5, 1880. 
 
 Respected Friend Linden : — Cordial greeting and congratulations ! J 
 sent the broken part of my Instrument to you for repairs. You desire to 
 know how my wife and her sister are doing. The Resuscitator has done 
 wonders on her sore face — as you saw it yourself She was thoroughly 
 healed by that one application. She sends her regards to you. 
 
 In love and respect, jmurs, C. F. BRAUN. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Austin, Texas, Jan. 3, 1878. 
 
 Respected Mr. John Linden: — About 3 months ago I received a Resus- 
 citator, Instruction Book and Oleum from you, with which to make a trial. 
 That to-day I am in a position to order another Resuscitator is a sufficient 
 testimony as to what confidence it gained for itself among our sparse popu 
 lation. Please send another Resuscitator (with gilt needles) to me at the 
 above address as well as a German Instruction book and two bottles of 
 Oleum. (N. B. It is to be of your Oleum.) 
 
 For the order I enclose per P. M. 0. (Austin) $10.25, which I hope will 
 cover the bill. Yours, very respectfully, H. PFENNIG, 
 
 (P. 0. Box 305.) 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
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 Auburn, Jah. 7th, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. Dear Sir: — You will find enclosed to you a P. 
 M. 0., for which please send me three bottles of your Oleum. I am out ol 
 the same, and do not feel safe not to have an}^ in the house, for it is the great 
 cure-all, with God’s blessing attending, many times. 1 am sad to see so many 
 healthy children called to fill an untimely grave by diseases, that I am satis- 
 fied your method of treatment would cure ; I am thankful that 1 was made 
 to understand the benefit of it, for I have so little faith in the doctors, that 
 I should not know whom to call; it has been nearly twelve years since I called 
 one. We have seven in our family. Many wishes for your success in the fu- 
 ture. May your method of cure reach every family, so that all may know 
 the benefit of it. Please send by express. 
 
 Respectfully, Mrs. GEO. J. MEYERS, 
 
 Auburn, Cayuga Co., N. Y. No. 15 Foote St. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the editor. 
 
 Herkimer, N. Y., Jan. 26, 1881. 
 
 Highly respected Mr. Linden : — I feel it my duty to write to you be- 
 cause of the two bottles of Oleum you sent me out of kindness— you sent 
 me two bottles more than I paid for, and that surely is worth thanking for. 
 Dear Mr. Linden, it gives me pleasure to be able to inform you that during the 
 
 f )ast year the Resuscitator cured me three times of inflammation of the 
 ungs; the first time in April, the second time in June, the third time in 
 September, and every time with two operations, except in the last instance, 
 when I applied it four times. I was near consumption, I had a continual 
 cough, and decreased in weight. But now I have a good appetite, I increase 
 in weight, and I am well again. My wife was likewise cured of a very 
 dangerous disease by the use of the Resuscitator. If 3^ou desire to publish 
 this testimonial, you ma.v do so with m^^ full name to it, I’ll ever stand b}^ it. 
 I hope my letter will find ^’ou in good health. Again I thank j^ou for tho 
 Oleum. Yours obedientty, PAUL STOCKER. 
 
 The original of the above testimoniaLwas submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Beardstown, Cass Co., 111., Mar. 1, 1881. 
 Respected Dr. Linden : — The Oleum, for which we sent to you, was duly 
 received, and for the present we wish to thank you for the little book, which 
 you enclosed. We have long been acquainted with the health restoring prop- 
 erties of your method of cure, for the Resuscitator, which with the book of 
 instruction you sent fifteen y^ears ago, has already accomplished cures, where 
 the aid of a physician would hardl}’ have been as prompt. Once m^v wife had 
 a severe attack of eiysipelas, which in 36 hours had spread over half of her 
 bod^y, and was as red as fire. All over the surface little blisters appeared, 
 which were very’ painful and left deep marks. As directions are given in y oui 
 book how to treat mortification, we applied the remedies accordingly’, and 
 to our surprise the redness did not extend any* further, and the blisters 
 ceased to eat in deeper. We also applied it in cases of measles and croup, 
 and once our little seven week-old daughter had an attack of severe cramps; 
 we applied the Resucitator, and she has not known anything of cramps since 
 Therefor we are, under God, much indebted to your method of cure, in 
 the meantime 1 remain 
 
 Your faithful friend, JOHN F. CHRISTIANER. 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to tl\e Editor. 
 
Western, Salem Co., Neb., Feb. 9, 1881. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden : — The Resusci tutor, which I ordered in April 
 last year through Rev. J. Haller, has relieved my catarrh ver}- much, which 
 had settled in my head, and robbed me of all hope of ever getting well again. 
 By the help of God the Resuscitator saved me. And also in cases in 
 which my family would have needed a doctor, this little family physician 
 gave efficient aid. I would not be without it at any price. I applied it once 
 on a man for neuralgia, and he told me he felt like newly born. Yesterday 
 I treated my mother for small-pox and erysipelas on the head. To-day I 
 visited her again, and found her without pain. My father and brother-in 
 law wondered very much at this, and asked me if it would also cure rheuma- 
 tism. I. told them that was its principal mission, upon which they besought 
 toe to order likewise a Resuscitator, a German book of Instruction and Oleum 
 for them. 
 
 . I enclose you a P. M. 0. for $11 for a Resuscitator, and for the balance 
 send me of your improved Oleum. God bless you. 
 
 Obediently, ^ W. BRUNK. 
 
 You ma}^ publish this letter if you think it proper. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Durttque, la., Feb. 10, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Cleveland. 
 
 ^ Respected Sir: — Please send me a bottle of Oleum. I 
 must confess ^at the Resuscitator has helped me more in m}^ severe affliC' 
 tion than all the doctors and medicines 1 took. 1 esteem the Resuscitator 
 very highly and as remedy for all suffers. I write this in accordance with 
 truth. Wherever I can I will recommend you in preference to others who 
 are only anxious for the money, but are of little use. Of course your book, 
 instrument and oil recommend themselves to every one who has tried them^, 
 still I believe it right to express my convictions. 
 
 Respectfully your friend, L. H. HAYENGA. 
 
 Student in the German Theological Seminary. 
 
 You may publish this letter if you so desire. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 El Paso, Woodford Co., 111., Feb. 16, 1881. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden ; — Greeting and blessing. Have the kindness tc 
 send me a bottle of Oleum. 
 
 In my family the Resuscitator has done glorious services this Winter. 
 The Lord attends the instrument with great blessing. 
 
 Affectionately yours, (Rev.) C. BURKHARDT. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Ogden, Reilly Co., Kans.,Mar. 24, 1881. 
 
 Mr. Linden : — Inclosed I send you $2.50 for two bottles of your Oleum 
 Allow me to thank you for your valuable method of cure. The 24th ultimo 1 
 received an Instrument, Book andOleum from you ; it has by this time paid 
 itself twenty times. After I had the services of two doctors for five weeks 
 to treat my wife, they had succeeded so far as to extinguish all hope of her 
 recovery or rather life. I took recourse to the Resuscitator, and it has done 
 wonderful services. God grant that you may yet be long spared as a saving 
 angel to suffering humanity. Cordiall.y greeting. 
 
 1 remain yours, Ig. SALER, 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
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 Arnprior, Ont., Feb. 10. 188L 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: — I wish you God’s blessing greeting. You will 
 recollect that I sent for a Resuscitator to you through Rev. V alkener. Accept 
 thanks. I was for a year and a half afflicted with rheumatism all over my body, 
 and could not leave my bed for a whole year. By the application of your 
 Resuscitator four times I was made well. My daughter had very sore eyes, 
 and a young man of twenty had rheumatism so bad that no doctor could 
 help him. I cured them both. The Resuscitator is the best doctor in all 
 diseases — one needle and your Oleum is better than all apothecaries. I 
 desire you to publish this testimonial. 
 
 Obediently, J. D. BERNDT. 
 
 The orginial of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Glencoe, Cook Co., 111., Mar. 1, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden : — Inclosed find $1.50, for which you will please send 
 me a bottle of Oleum. At the same time I must inform you that in four 
 cases of diphtheria, severer than 1 ever saw before in my life, I had the best 
 of success. 
 
 A cordial greeting from your old friend, F. SPITZER. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Fond du Lac, Wis., April 19, 1881. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: — You will pardon me for asking information, 
 We use your Resuscitator, to which we have become very much attached, 
 16 — 18 years. It has done wonders for us and others, who applied it. 
 For intance in attacks of cholera, flux, tumor on the inside of the eye-lids, 
 pain in the breast, toothache, &c. Notwithstanding we have used it so long, 
 it has never failed us. 
 
 I often could not sleep for a whole night ; as soon as I closed my e^ es, I 
 saw all sorts of terrible phantoms, and a weakness came over me that 1 
 started up affrighted all bathed in perspiration, my heart and head shaking, 
 the latter burning with a high fever. I felt a deadly anguish, and had great 
 pain and weakness in the back of my head and neck. One day my chest 
 and throat contracted so much, that I could scarcely breathe. My dear hus- 
 band wanted at once to go for a doctor, but I preferred once more to tiy the 
 Resuscitator, and how thankful I felt to God that it gave me immediate relief 
 I have now applied it three times ; the first time on the chest and throat, the 
 second time over the whole back and calves of the legs, stomach and abdo- 
 men, the third time over the back and calves. After every operation 1 felt 
 worse for several days, excited and affected in the head, but later I found to 
 my joy that the excitement and palpitation of the heart had somewhat sub- 
 sided, and 1 have been able to sleep many a night. Oh, how this refreshes 
 me, and how thankful my heart feels. 
 
 Kind Mr. Linden, I have placed my confidence in the Resuscitator, and 
 1 believe, with your kind aid, 1 shall get better. Pray have the kindness and 
 send me a bottle of Oleum. With a repetition of my kind request for in« 
 struction I remain Respectfully, HENRIETTA WEISE. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the editor. 
 
Independence, 0., Mar. 1, 1881. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: — God’s blessing greeting! As I read in the 
 “ Christliche Botschafter,” No. 5, under the department “ Public Utility,” 
 that it would be a service to suffering humanity to publish a tried cure for 
 rheumatism, I deemed it my duty to give my experience in this disease to the 
 public. But I think my letter was considered too lengthy for insertion, or 
 the thought may have come to the editor while reading my letter that I was 
 interested in the matter, which, of course, would not be for “public utility;” 
 still I am glad that some part of it appeared in No. 8 of the above-named 
 paper, and I hope many sick will avail themselves of the information. 
 
 Still I will not conceal what good service the Resuscitator b^' the bless- 
 ing of God has already rendered in this disease (rheumatism). For instance 
 here in Independence a man by the name of G. Miller suffered severely and 
 painfully from this trouble. He was advised to go to a bath where he would 
 find relief. But he came back on a crutch, for his pain was too great. Then 
 he was counseled to have recourse to a so-called sympath 3 "-doctor, who would 
 help him. This fellow wrote a note which was closed, and the patient com- 
 manded to wear it as a charm around his neck, but this did not help. The 
 charrn-iiote cost him $3.75 and the bath also cost him much mone^^, bul 
 neither of them brought relief Then I told his wife to try the Resuscitator. 
 and I was requested to appl^^ it, and God blessed the operation, and four appli 
 cations cured^him. Last Summer he worked in the fields, and during this 
 severe Winter he also worked, and as a j-ear has passed awa^^ since he 
 put the crutch aside, it is a testimou}^ that b}" the blessing of God, the 
 Resuscitator has thoroughl}^ cured him. When I applied the Resuscitator I 
 tore off the sympathy-note (charm), for I said it had nothing ^common with 
 the Resuscitator, and when it was opened we found a few sill}^ words written 
 on it. I also thoroughly’ cured a child suffering from bloody^ flux with my’ 
 Instrument. 
 
 I would not have written all this, but why should the people suffer wlum 
 the Lord provides remedies to help. This as counsel to suffering humanity, 
 and I hope many will heed it. I have asked Mr. Miller, whether 1 migtl 
 publish his cure, and he told me I could. 
 
 I am no doctor, but the Resuscitator with Book and Oleum, which J 
 bought of you, is the doctor in my family^, and God has gloriously' blessed its 
 operations. 
 
 If the publication of this letter should serve y^ou, it is at your disposal- 
 <i^reeting to you and family. 
 
 Respectfully, J. SCHMIDT. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Richmond, Mich., April 24, 1881. 
 
 ' Respected Mr. Linden : — The blessing of God greeting. Will you have 
 the kindness again to send me six Resuscitators, six books of Instruction and 
 Oil for enclosed amount in P. M. order. I am filled with joy’ and gratitude 
 towards you for the great deeds, which your Resucitator has accomplished. 
 It has done signs and wonders on me, and saved the life of many’ a one. 
 Thanks to God. for your Resuscitator I 
 
 Respectfully and obediently’ yours, WM. KOEUN, 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
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 Austin, Texas, April 6, 1881. 
 
 Mr. Linden: — Your Resuscitator performed wonders upon my wife last 
 Autumn. She had such pain in her back, -that she could neither sit nor 
 stand, but had to take her food while lying down. I had her whole back 
 operated upon with the Resuscitator, but without effect. The third day the 
 operation was repeated, and, thank God, this time it took effect, so that she 
 was able to rise on the third day, and walk about in the room. The opera- 
 tion was repeated three times at intervals of ten days, and well anointed with 
 the Oleum, and from that time on she has been able again to attend to hei 
 household duties. But now my Oleum is gone, and 1 do not like to be with 
 out it. Enclosed find $H.OO, for which please send. If you desire to use the 
 above, you are at liberty to do so. 
 
 Greeting, P. KLEIN. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Tamaroa, 111., April 24, 1881. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden: — Enclosed find $1.50 for a bottle of Oleum. 
 Pray send it as soon as possible. The Resuscitator I received from 3'OU las I 
 year has done great service. My wife had already for five years sufferetl 
 from rheumatism, palpitation of the heart and other ailments. Three appli* 
 cations of the Resuscitator cured her. My eldest son about 20 years of age, 
 had a very severe attack of rheumatism, which pained him so much some- 
 times that he cried out aloud ; two applications cured him. M}- IS-^^ear-old 
 daughter had a swollen limb, suffering almost unbearable pain ; one appli- 
 cation healed her. M3" wife can now attend to her household duties as bt> 
 fore. I had sent 60 miles for physicians, and spent much mone3", without 
 obtaining relief. 
 
 I thank you sincerely for the little Instrument, which rendered suci 
 great services. Respectfully, L. WORMELE. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Union Hill, N. J., April 27, 1881. 
 
 Respected Mr. J. Linden : — I have two important cures to report. 1 
 In the month of March I was applied to for treatment by a painter by tha 
 name of Rolf from Union Hill, who had already been treated b3" a hall 
 dozen doctors for three months. Finally the3" gave him a poison of 22 grains 
 at one dose, but all in vain, death was near. I applied the Resuscitator 
 three times, and now he is healthier than ever before 2. A youth of 18 or 
 19 years of age, whom the best doctor had under treatment for four weeks, 
 but he became worse every day. Finally they gave him morphine, and he 
 became stiff, and they gave him up. They dismissed the doctor, and called 
 me. The name is George Mueller. When I came to him I found him stid 
 from the effects of the poison, afflicted with muscular rheumatism and in- 
 flammation of the chest. After applying the Resuscitator and Oleum three 
 times he is well again. In a word, your Oleum performs wonders, and J 
 rejoice to see them. Please send me Oleum for the enclosed $7 P. M. Order 
 
 Yours, &c., JACOB SCHMITT. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
Neav Bremen, Ohio, May 9, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Cleveland, Ohio:* 
 
 If there ever was a confirmed skeptic respecting tlie efficacy of the Re- 
 suscitator, then surely I was one; although my brother, the Rev. A. Buer- 
 kle, had for the past 8 years been using it with the happiest results in his 
 family, and had often and warmly recommended its use to me. 
 
 But now my doubts have all disappeared. L^ndeniable facts have so 
 established my faith in the marvelous curative power of the formerly much 
 despised Resuscitator, that nothing can shake it any more. 
 
 Without solicitation, therefore, I offer you these testimonials, that othet 
 skeptics may become convinced: and, in order that none may doubt theii 
 genuineness, 1 attach to them, besides my name, also my official seal. Y ou 
 can make whatever use of them you see fit : 
 
 I. 
 
 In the year 1876, while pastor of the German Evangelical Lutheran 
 St. John’s Church, of Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, I became bedfast of 
 pain in the back. Having been pastor of that church for 16 years, I knew 
 all the physicians of the city well, and employed them. I was often un- 
 able to move either hand or foot. But all their lin aments and plasters 
 were useless. 
 
 Then came a simide butcher of Findlay, Louis Karg, who belonged to my 
 congregation, and cured me with a single application of the instrument, 
 after the doctors had for 3 months tormented me in vain. Louis Karg is 
 still living in Findlay. 
 
 In 1878, while x>astor of the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of 
 Crestline, Ohio, my two-years-old son, liOuis, became sick, complaining of 
 violent pains in his stomach. The best doctor of the place, Dr. Charles 
 Jenner, treated him, but could not make out what really ailed him. He 
 grew worse daily; the child was nigh unto death. The doctor said the 
 same, informing me: “ I have done everything in my power for your child 
 but I cannot help him; he must die.” He came no more. Dr. McKean wai 
 called, treated the child a few days, and ended up by giving me the same 
 poor consolation as Dr. Jenner. 
 
 The drowning man catches at a straw. On Sunday morning, when the 
 bell had already called me to Sunday-school— and I had a good distance to 
 go to church— my child was worse than ever. I saw that he would not 
 last long in this way. In despair, therefore, I seized upon the Resuscitator, 
 and would apply it, even if I should be too late to Sunday-school. My 
 child, lying at the point of death, was nearer to my heart. As I was get- 
 ting the Resuscitator ready to use, the child said plaintively, “ O jiapa, I am 
 so sick now, and will you shoot me yet ?” He mistook the Resuscitator for a 
 toy gun which 1 had bought him for Christmas, and from which he used to 
 shoot pieces of wood. How much this remark cut me in the heart 1 would 
 not allow him to see, and only said: “No, my child; but I will, with the 
 help of God, make you well again.” Over the entire abdomen, and over the 
 back, over the shoulders also, 1 applied the instrument, and the child held 
 still and never winced. 1 oiled it well, covered it with cotton batting, 
 clothed him, and commended him to the kindly care of God, and went to 
 church. Returning at 1 o’clock, I found him better; the entire surface 
 which I had operated seemed to be covered as with a scarlet rash. 
 
 A few days afterward the entire operated part of the body was one con- 
 tinuous and connected pus-wound, from which pus was secreted at least Ti 
 
or 14 days, and i judge not less than half a gallon came from him. His little 
 shirt clung to his body everywhere, necessitating several changes daily. 
 
 When this soreness and inflammation began to dry off, his body looked 
 as rough as the bark of an oak tree, and in about three weeks the child was 
 jaealthier than ever before, and is so to-day. 
 
 When afterward Dr. Jenner asked me wiiu had helped the child so 
 quicklv, which he had given up, 1 told him, “ God, by means of the Resuscb 
 tator.’^ 
 
 Jil- 
 in October, 1880, croup and diphtheria prevailed in this vicinity to so 
 alarming an extent that I often had two funerals in one day. 
 
 My three-years-old daughter, Catharine, was also taken with it, in ama* 
 lignant form. At the same time no less than thirty-seven children were 
 prostrated by it. Dr. Wood, a very prominent physician of this place, in- 
 formed me that of all the sick children mine seemed to be worst, and that 
 he had little hope for its recovery. I told the physician that I desired to ap- 
 ply the Resuscitator around and upon the larynx, in order to draw the in- 
 flammation from within to the surface. He was quite agreed, for he is a 
 sensible man. 
 
 Result: My child, sick unto death, recovered and got well; the others, 
 not near so sick, are buried, and I have succeeded to convince two capable 
 physicians of the usefulness of the Resuscitator. 
 
 These testimonials are perfectly in accord with the truth, and any one 
 can make further inquiries at the places above indicated. 
 
 M. BUERKLE, 
 
 Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of New Bremen, 
 Auglaize County, Ohio. 
 
 In addition, I would advise all who desire to obtain the Resuscitate? 
 and Oleum, to get the same of Mr. John Linden, Cleveland, O., if they wish 
 to avoid being cheated. These I did use, and use still. For all the other 
 counterfeits I would not give a cent. A. BUERKLE, Pastor, 
 
 1^" The abo'ce teHtimoniah were mhnitted to us in the original.— Ed, 
 
 . AXOTHEK. 
 
 Woodworth, Iroquois Co., 111., Aug. 4, 1879. 
 
 Mr. J. Lixden: 
 
 Honored Sir:— The two bottles of your Olenim which yo*u sent me, I re- 
 ceived all right on May 12. You may be surprised to learn that my daugh- 
 ter, of whose condition I wrote you, as being so debilitated as to be unal)le 
 to move from one chair to another, that she is now, after the use of your 
 remedies, restored to perfect health. She writes to me that she is growing 
 stronger daily, can do all her housework, even her washing. 
 
 During the four years that I lived here I have been afflicted, every Fall, 
 in October, by malignant hot fever, prostrating and rendering me uncon- 
 scious, while my weeping friends stood around my couch. This year the 
 fever made its appearance as early as June, and a single application of your 
 Resuscitator and restored me at once; and as your remedies have 
 
 done great things in my family, I would not, in future, want to do without 
 them at any price. Please send, by mail, and at once, to the addresses given 
 below, 2 Resuscitators, with Oleum and Book. They are relatives of mine, 
 and many families from this neighborhood will yet send for your remedies, 
 you may make what use you see proper of this testimonial, for I consider 
 it a duty that whatever is good and true should be made known among 
 men. With heartfelt greetings, I remain 
 
 Your well-wisher, Rev. E. T. RANG. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial has been submitted to our in 
 H>ootion in this oflice E. A. Hoffman. 
 
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 Marvel, Bates Co., Mo., Nov. 23, 1880 
 
 John Linden, Dear Sir:— Please find herewith draft for |8. 50, for which 
 send me the Resuscitator, Oleum, and Book of Instructions by mail, and oblige 
 
 Yours truly, N. B. MEEK. 
 
 P. S.— I have not heard from you for nearly two years ; that is, whether 
 you are still at Cleveland o^* not. I send according to your circulars at that 
 time. I then wrote to ascertain the fact, and received circulars. I had then 
 just got up from a bed to which I had been confined most of the time for 
 eight months with “sciatica.** I was afflicted in my left leg and hip and 
 back, had constant medical attention, and had used all the liniments, 
 plasters, batteries and other remedies I could hear of, and had despaired, 
 and was using morpliine to ease the pain, which at times almost distracted 
 me. My leg had wasted away fully one-third. I accidentally heard of your 
 Iiutrument, and as a “drowning man will catch at straws,” and ascertain- 
 in'! that an old doctor, about fifteen miles away, had one, 1 sent my boy for 
 it ind used it, when on the first application it almost relieved the pain, and 
 ii,f ;er the third application 1 was entirely relieved and going about without 
 cr itches, though I had to use a cane sometime on account of my wasted leg, 
 bn t in the course of time it filled up to natural size and is as strong and wel/ 
 as the other. I have had no symptoms of sciatica since, except at changes 
 of the weather during the time the leg was taking the “second growth.** 
 B(;fore 1 was down bedfast, I had been troubled for eight years. You will 
 pardon this unnecessary writing, as business is business Ever since I got 
 (ill 1 have had it in my mind to send for an Instrument the first money I 
 had to spare, and here it is. I want one to keep and also to make an experi- 
 ment in a chronic case of asthma ; and besides I believe it a “ good thing in 
 every family.** God bless you. Yours, &c., N. B. MEEK. 
 
 The original of the abow testimonial teas mbmitted to the Editor, 
 
 9 
 
 Cuyahoga Falls, O., Dec. 22, 1880. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : — Health and God’s richest blessing to you and your 
 worthy wife. 
 
 Your letter and Oleum came to hand; also the Pamphlet with its 
 many testimonials, which I have read with great interest. I too must con- 
 fess that the Resuscitator has indeed proved to be a “ life restorer ** to me. 
 Yes, this with God’s marvelous help and providence, has already added 
 seventeen years to my life. About seventeen years ago 1 was restored from 
 a very severe affection of the liver through this remedy. You will probably 
 remember the poem that I composed at that time and sent you, in which I 
 said : 
 
 “O Resuscitator, gift of God; 
 
 Yes, sent to us from God I ” 
 
 Under God, I am greatly obliged to, and am most 
 
 Respectfully your friend, J. G. SCHNABEL. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 3, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Dear Sir -.—Will you please send by express to my 
 address, C. O. D,, two bottles of Oleum at your earliest convenience? 1 
 regard it as the greatest remedy for rheumatism I have ever known. 
 
 Very respectfully, WM. W. PUGH. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor, 
 
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 Tindbll Post Office, Grundy Co., Mo., Jan. il, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Dear Sir:— It is with pleasure I write to you. My 
 health is still improving. The little doctor has given relief to many of my 
 neighbors who were suffering with great pain. 1 find it to be a sure cure 
 for chills, and it has not failed in a single case. I treated one of the worst 
 cases of erysipelas in the face, which started on the nose, and in twenty-four 
 hours the patient’s eyes were swelled so that he could not see daylight. 1 
 operated around the swollen part, and then on the cheeks and forehead, and 
 in twelve hours the swelling went down. In five days I had my patient up 
 and able to be around. An old friend of mine wants one of your instru- 
 ments. He is an attorney-at-law. Enclosed please find $7.00, for which 
 send one instrument, one English book, and one bottle of Oleum. Send it 
 in my name. 
 
 K. B.— Send me a few circulars to distribute among friends. 
 
 Yours respectfully, JACOB PONTIUS. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was mbmitted to the Editor, 
 
 Auburn, Cayuga Co., 94 North St., Jan. 16, 1881. 
 
 Dr. Linden, My Dear Sir I am in want of another bottle of Oil. 
 The last, though not quite gone, has been doing very efficient work, not only 
 in my own house, but I have persuaded some of my neighbors to try it, and 
 in every case it has helped them. My brother has had the rheumatism in 
 his knee very bad, but since the third application the swelling has gone 
 down, and although it is a little weak, the pain is gone. He probably would 
 have been kept in all Winter without your Oleum. 
 
 The Book is a great help to us, and the Instrument is a splendid one— 
 so much better than the one we had. I have recommended your Oleum to 
 every one who l^s used the other, and given out your papers. 1 am just 
 recovering from a cold settled in the bronchial tubes, and one application 
 has broken it up. We have not had a doctor since the Oleum came. 
 
 Will you please send another bottle by C. O. D., and much oblige 
 
 Yours, very sincerely, MRS. CYRIA DWIGHT. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor, 
 
 Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 25, 1881. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden I can joyfully report to you that after fifteen years 
 of suffering, I have, with God’s blessing, been thoroughly healed with your 
 Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 
 My son-indaw also was very sick and given up of all the doctors, but 
 after a few applications of the Resuscitator and Oleum he was restored. 
 Our children, too, have been cured of diphtheria through your method of 
 cure. 1 co\ild mention other remarkable cures. The Resuscitator is rapidly 
 coming into very general use in our community, to the benefit of suffering 
 humanity. With cordial greetings. 
 
 Yours thankfully, CATHARINE BENDER. 
 
 The original cf the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor, 
 
V'roomanton P. O., OisT., Jan. 23, 1881. 
 Mk. John Linden, Dear Sir I am glad to be able to report to you 
 some very extraordinary cures performed by the Exanthematic Cure. Last 
 Summer a young mau came from the city of Toronto in an almost helpless 
 state, to his aunt, in my parish. As I was well acquainted with him 1 was 
 anxious to do all X could for him. I persuaded him to use your Cure, and after 
 using it twice he was able to work in the fields, and was saved, as all the 
 farmers agreed to, from consumption. 
 
 Also a station-master w’as told by one of the ablest doctors in Toronto 
 ‘if he had any worldly matters to arrange to go home and arrange them.*'’ 
 M e used your “ Cure,” and now everyone wonders how he got better. 
 
 Several other cases I could name, but I deem these sufficient for your 
 satisfaction, and that you have at last found a means to prevent and cure 
 that terrible plague— consumption. It convinces me that if those who are 
 threatened with consumption would use it a few times on their chest and 
 the pit of their stomach, they would surely escape. Keason also will tell us 
 that when a cold is caught it stuffs up the pores and settles most often 
 around the chest. If, then, artificial pores are opened, and the impure mat* 
 ter is extracted from the same spot where it entered, this is far better than 
 internal medicines, which generally only weaken the system when it needs 
 strength tlie most. Therefore, thanking you on behalf of many benefited 
 by your skill and ability, I remain Yours truly, 
 
 FRANCIS F. ROHLEDER, Priest 
 The original, of the above testimonial was mbmitted to the Editor, 
 
 Elkhart, Ind., Feb. 8. 1881. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden : — Enclosed please find ^8.00 for one Resuscitator aiid 
 Book, for one of my neighbors, whose daughter has been sick for ov3r 
 two years, and has been treated by nearly all the physicians Df our city, with* 
 out success. During her last confinement she was brought very low. About 
 seven weeks ago her father came to me and asked me if I would not apply 
 my Resuscitator upon her. 1 replied that 1 would gladly do so. Upon going 
 to her home I found her very poorly, with a chair filled with medicine bot- 
 tles standing before her bed. She complained of pain in her side, headache, 
 and weakness, so that she could hardly live. 1 could not doubt a word of 
 her complaint, for her condition could be plainly read in her eyes and in 
 her countenance. She said the doctor was visiting her daily, and she had 
 so much medicine in her system. I scarcely knew what to do— whether I 
 should interfere with the doctor’s patient or not. But I felt that I could not 
 leave without doing something for her. At last 1 told her to cease taking 
 medicine, to regulate her diet, and keep out of draughts. After applying 
 tlie Instrument andOleum I left her, saying, “You will be better.’* And I be« 
 Reved it, too. Tlie next morning her husband notified the doctor that he 
 need not come again. Six days later she left her bed, and in twelve days 1 
 made another application of the Resuscitator, and she was so joyful over 
 the results that she hardly knew how to express her satisfaction. Now for 
 three weeks she has been doing- her own work, and her husband and father 
 are in ecstasy over her restoration . 
 
 I could relate another instance of a man who suffered greatly from 
 rheumatism, but my letter is too long already. 
 
 Yours most respectfully, H. ECKHART 
 
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 Glasco, KatsSAS, May 26, 1881. 
 
 Es'ieemed Mr. Linden i—You will remember that in 1879, after out 
 crops were destroyed by a hail-storm, you sent me. for general use, one 
 dozen bottles of your Oleum, for whieh I have not yet expressed the thanks 
 due you. 1 did not wish to write till 1 could tell what a blessing the Oleum 
 had wrought. Through the application of the Resuscitator and Oleum 
 one entire family was radically cured of iiillanied sore eyes. Two men who 
 were greatly troubled with rheumatic headache were cured. .ISome that 
 were liard of hearing had tL'eir hearing restored. One woman wliose entiit? 
 constitution was shattered, is at present using your remedy with the best 
 results, d'hese are facts which show that where the Resuscitator is properly 
 applied it will work wonders, and hence should not be wanting in any 
 family. 
 
 But I must also tell you tliat you were the only peison that responded to 
 our cry for help, through the Welthote, /At that time. You know that after 
 the hail-storm in 1879, our crops failed in Kansas, which increased our mis- 
 fortune. This year the prospects are better. This testimonial is at ycur 
 service. Thank you heartily for the Oleum. God bless you for it ! 
 
 Respectfully, J. BOKD, Pastor. 
 
 Tli£> original of the ahom testimonial was suhnitted to the Editor. 
 
 Rochester, Pa., Aug. 17, 1881. 
 
 John Linden, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir The Oleum which I obtained 
 from you last AViiiter has already served an excellent purpose in my family. 
 The Resuscitator has become one of the indispensables in our family. As a 
 faithful friend it has made itself beloved. 
 
 Enclosed please find a draft for ^1.75, for which send a bottle of Oleum, 
 per mail, to Nic. Hartung, Brownsdale, Pa. This order is for a good friend 
 who for a long time has had your Resuscitator in use in his family. 
 
 Respectfully yours, (REY.) GEO. GOETZ. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Rochester, Pa., Aug. 20, 1882. 
 
 John Linden, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir : — Yours of the 18ih is at hand 
 with request for testimonial for the Resuscitator, &c., which I herewith 
 give. I am ready at all times to recommend that which has proven itself as 
 useful to me as the Resuscitator has. 
 
 I remain yours cordially, (REY.) GEO. GOETZ. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was mbmitted to the Editor. 
 
 Cedar Falls, Iowa, Sept, o, 1881. 
 
 Mu. J. Tunden. Dear Sir I must again ask to be excused for my brief 
 letter. Have too little time. 
 
 I am glad to say that of the two Resuscitators which you sent, one has 
 already been used with the best success in a case of diphtheria. A boy uf 
 11 or 12 years had a severe attack of this terrible disease. The success of 
 the Resuscitator in this case makes it the more valuable to us, especially in 
 view of the fact that two other children, who at the same tinie were being 
 treated by doctors (of the Allop((,thic School) died, while a third one is still 
 hopelessly ill with the same disease. Quite a number of children have 
 already died in this neighborhood — Reinbeck, Grundy Co., Iowa— about 11 
 miles from Cedar Falls. Here the Resuscitator must win the more propa- 
 gandists because of its success. Only a short time ago a very severe case of 
 diphtheria was cured in this community by simply applying the Oil, after 
 rubbing with a brush. Many thanks. Yours trulv, 
 
 H. BAUMBACH. 
 
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 IVo PvlVEKS, Wis., Xov. 17, 188J. 
 
 Mk. J. Linden, Dear Sir: — I wish to inform you that our daughter Iff 
 quite well again. After two applications of the Resuscitator her green sick- 
 ness disappeared. She blooms again like a rose. I heiewith send you a 
 draft, for which you will please send me one dozen bottles of Oil. 
 
 Yours respectfully, JOHN MESSERSCHMIDT, 
 
 The original of the above testimonial loas mbmitted to the Editor. 
 
 Alma, Buffalo Co., Wis., Dec. 13, 1881. 
 
 Respected Friend Linden ; — For the benefit of suffering humanity 1 
 would like to have you publish this. Our youngest son, aged about 15 years, 
 has suffered greatly from sick headache. The attack usually came on with 
 sickness at the stomach and vomiting ; then he had to leave school and spend 
 nearly all day in bed. We had learned to know this disease as a very stub- 
 born one, and so my wife and I were greatly distressed about it, and tried 
 various remedies, but without success. Then we tried the Resusciiator a no 
 secured the desired result, with the very first application. 1 don't doubt in 
 the least that any young person that is subject to this disease can fie 
 radically cured by using the Resuscitator. (REV.) G. SCHW ANTES. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Carroll City, Iowa, Feb. 14, 1882, 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden May the Lord bless you and your work to the 
 good of humanity. 
 
 The Resuscitator has a good reputation among those with whom I am 
 acquainted in this community. It has already effected many cures here. 
 By experience I know that it is good to have your Oleum and Resuscitator con. 
 stantly at hand. I would not like to be without it in my family. Althougli 
 my Oleum is not yet quite exhausted, I wish you to send me two bottles. 
 
 Respectfully yours, (REV.) HENRY HIEBENTHAU 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 EiiKHART, Ind., Feb. 21, 1882. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. Respected Friend Since I will not get to Cleve- 
 land as soon as I intended, 1 send you |5.00 for the Resuscitator which I 
 have received. There is no doubt but the Resuscitator is the best preven- 
 tive against small-pox. I convinced myself fully of this fact years ago. 1 
 saw a man apply it to his breast, who was already suffering with the small- 
 pox fever, and the whole disease was drawn to his breast, and in a few days 
 he was well again. I have observed it in three different persons that an 
 operation with the Resuscitator in time is a hundred times better than vac- 
 cination. I only wish all men knew what I know by experience about the 
 Resuscitator in connection with small-pox. 
 
 Yours in love, (REV.) JOHN FFCHS 
 
 2'he original of the above testimonial teas subinitted to the Editor. 
 
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 Rand ALIA, Iowa, March 6, 1883. 
 
 John Linden, Dear Friend God^s blessing as greeting. As we are 
 now out of Oleum, you will have the kindness to send me two bottles, for 
 which you will tind the amount enclosed. 
 
 Since we have the Kesuscitator we have had no other doctor in the 
 house. It has proven a true friend and benefactor in my family. My dear 
 wife was afflicted with quincy for fifteen years, and continually taking 
 medicine, but did her no good. The only consolation that the doctors gave 
 her was that she would have to die, but the Kesuscitator has completely 
 cured her, and in many other cases it has carried olf the palm. We intend 
 to recommend it as much as we possibly can. 
 
 With many greetings and respects, ADG. KEIF. 
 
 2' he original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor, 
 
 Alma Center, Jackson Co., Wis., March 8, 1882. 
 
 Dr. Linden, Dear Sir .-—Enclosed please find eight dollars and fifty 
 cents (^8.50), for which you will please send one Kesuscitator, one book of 
 Instructions, and one bottle of Oleum. Mrs. Godfrey has been afflicted with 
 dropsy and running sores on both ankles for a good many years, and we 
 have used the Instrument on her with such good effect that she wants one 
 of her own. 
 
 The gentleman with rheumatism who got one last Spring thinks it the 
 best doctor he ever had, and 1 think mine worth a thousand dollars if I 
 could not get another. It has saved my life, also the life of our little gir\ 
 My husband has derived much benefit from it. 
 
 rours truly, MRS. HELEl^ O. STAGG. 
 
 Tfw original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor, 
 
 Glandorf, O., March 14, 1882. 
 
 Mr. J. Linden. Dear Sir We have already applied the remedy yc/i 
 sent us, in a number of instances, and can recommend the same as a trie I 
 and successful remedy for many diseases. 
 
 Respectfully, SISTERS OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD. 
 The original of the above testimonial icas submitted to the Editor, 
 
 Greenville, Washington Co., Oregon, March 22, 1882. 
 
 Mr. Linden, Dear Sir : — I write with pleasure to you to let you knosf 
 that your Method of Cure completely cured me. I was helpless in bed with 
 a pain in my side and back when 1 heard of your Method of Cure. I 
 thought it was death anyway, and thought I would try it. I can say that 
 the Kesuscitator has cured me sound and well. I can do all kinds of work 
 and go all day at that. Many thanks to you and your family. 
 
 MINERVA WALKER. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial teas submitted to the Editor, 
 
 Oregon, Mo., April 13, 1882. 
 
 Respected Mr. Linden It is now nearly two years since you received 
 an order from us, but we have not forgotten you yet. Your last Oleum has 
 done myself and all those on whom we have applied it much good, and has 
 again strengthened us in our faith of your remedies. We have never yet 
 seen, when the directions given in your book have been followed, that it 
 has not proven salutary. Enclosed you will find an order for a bottle of 
 Oleum, which you will please send to us as soon as possible. With greet- 
 ings, your friend and well-wisher, C. HERRMAN, 
 
 Pastor of the M, E, Churchy Oregon^ Mo. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
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 OsHANA, April 17, 188‘i. 
 
 Mr, John Linden, Dear Sir:— Enclosed is post office order for ten dol-* 
 lais, for which please send me its value in Oleum. 
 
 I am performing some wonderful cures with the Instrument and Oleum in 
 this vicinity. Operated upon my thi ee children with success for diphtheria,, 
 and am treating several cases of catarrh in the head with favorable results. 
 Operated upon one lady for neuralgia when the doctors had given her up to 
 die. She is able to assist in doing her housework. 
 
 Yours, &c.. E. W. TAPLIN. 
 
 The original of the above tedimonial was mJmiitted to the Editor. 
 
 WisNER, Neb., April 18, 1882. 
 
 Mr. J. Linden. Dear Sir:— Please send me one-half dozen bottles of 
 your Oleum, as 1 cannot be without it in my large family. It has done won- 
 ders among us. Thanks to God, and to your Oleum and Kesuscitator for 
 the health of my family. I wish to present a bottle of Oleum to a poor 
 neighbor, whose wife is suffering greatly from neuralgia. I intend also to 
 give her the use of my Kesuscitator. Enclosed please find ^8.00. Pleas'** 
 s«nd per mail or express to Charles Erxleben, Wisner, Nebraska. 
 
 Kespectfully yours, CHAKLES ERXLEBEN* 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was sulmitted to the Editor. , 
 
 Belleville, III., May 1, 1882. 
 
 Mu. John IVlnden, Dear Sir Enclosed you will find order for five* 
 dollars (|5), for which I wish you to send me three bottles of your Oleum as 
 soon as you receive this order. Our first bottle has run out, and I cannot be 
 without it any more. I think it is one of the best remedies ever found for 
 a long ruMiiilig disease. My wife has been sick now for four years; we 
 have had tlie doctor in the house most of the time, until last November a 
 man came to me o-ne day and told me of your Exanthematic Method of (Tire, 
 and what wonders it had done. I told him that 1 had tiled most every thing 
 else already, so I might try it also. So I asked him if he would send for 
 one for me, which the good man did ; and 1 tell you since we have used it, 
 we are just like life come to a dead person. My wife is gaining strength, 
 and now we have some hope of having her restored to health again. I think 
 that it is the best doctor that you can get in the house. 
 
 Truly yours, JOHN BEAUNERSREUTHER. 
 
 T'he original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
 Naperville, III., May 9, 1882. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. Very Dear Sir ; — With pleasure I can report to youi 
 that I have in no case applied your Resuscitator and Oleum without success. 
 As far as my experience goes your remedy helps more than the best medi- 
 eine. Sometimes the Resuscitator comes into disrepute because simple peo- 
 ple apply it and fail to observe the directions given in your book, often 
 carelessly exposing themselves to the danger of taking cold. But in such a 
 case it is not the fault of the Resuscitator, but the folly of such people. I 
 prefer the Resuscitator to all medicines, and will use the same whenever 
 occasion demands, with confidence. 
 
 With friendly greeting I subscribe myself respectfully, 
 
 8fSTER M. AUGLSTINE, 0. 8. F- 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the Editor. 
 
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 Beverly, Mass., Sept. 23, i882. 
 
 Mr. Linden. Sir !— Will you please send me by express, C. O. D., twi> 
 (2) bottles of your Oleum, as I am about out. The six months prior to my 
 getting your Instrument and Oleum it cost me four hundred dollars fox 
 doctors and medicine, and since 1 got the Instrument last June, i haven’c 
 paid out one dollar for doctors or medicine, and never was better in my life. 
 I am very truly. Yours, S. B. BRAY. 
 
 Jordan Station, Ky., July 17, 1882 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden ! — The 18 bottles of Oleum which I ordered from 
 you last Fall I duly received, for which accept my thanks. 1 have healed 
 very severe cases with your remedies ; among others neuralgia in the head 
 of long standing, earache and a stubborn case of inflammation of the spine. 
 I am now an old man (68 years) and have, thank God, been enabled to cure 
 many difticult cases which were treated in vain with other medicines. My 
 Jays are not many more, and I want to die the 'death of the righteous and 
 wish to do good, and live as long as it pleases God. 
 
 Have the kindness and send me four more bottles of Oleum as soon as 
 possible, and I remain, 
 
 Yours in love, 
 
 J. E. FLOYD. 
 
 Liberal, Barton Co., Mo., Jan. 14, 1883. 
 
 Dear Friend Linden !— I am so anxious to inform you of my wonderful 
 success in the treatment of the case I made mention of, when 1 ordered my 
 Resuscitator about four weeks ago. It was a case of paralysis, you would 
 perhaps call it paralytic lameness or perhaps rheumatic paralysis. The 
 lady is about forty years old, she has been under treatment ever since the 
 first of Sept, last and has had four doctors of difterent schools ; first one and 
 then another. For the two months previous to the time I was called to see 
 her, she had not been able to stand on her feet or feed herself. Her hus- 
 band told me he had no hope of her ever getting any better, but he wanted 
 every thing done that could be done while she did live. I told him I had 
 faith in one thing only, and that was J. Linden's Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 He had never seen such a thing, he said, but if I had any faith in the in- 
 strument I should send for it. I have used it twice, she now walks where 
 she pleases about the house ; she says she shall spend the remainder of hei 
 life praising me and Mr. Linden, the saviors of her life. I have cured 
 several other cases of a different nature with a single application. 
 
 Now, my friend, in order to do justice to my afflicted fellow-beings, I feel 
 it my humane duty to ask you to add this to your great list of testimonials, 
 and oblige 
 
 Your devoted friend, 
 
 I. B. BOUTON. M. D. 
 
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 Knightsville, Me., Oct. 28, 1882. 
 
 Dear Mr. Linden !— I desire to thank you for your Exanthematic Meth- 
 od of Cure. Its wonderful curative powers create great astonishment here. 
 After more than twenty years of poor health I have been relieved by ^our 
 intrument and oleum. I have paid out hundreds of dollars for doctors and 
 medicines all to no purpose. 1 am now able to perform some light work, 
 have a good appetite, and sleep well. Please send me four bottles of Oleum 
 lor the money enclosed, and oblige, EGBERT WILCOX 
 
 Dacota City, Iowa, July 31, 1882 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden !— The remedies (Resuscitator and Oleum) which 
 you sent me last Autumn have restored my health, and I am under great 
 obligations to you.— My ailments were liver complaint, dropsy and jaundice. 
 All the medicines which 1 took had no effect, and if it had not been for 
 your remedies 1 should certainly have died. Again heartily thanking you, 
 I remain, Yours respectfully, J. Leist. 
 
 Eullersburg, Du Page Co., III., Aug. 28, 1882.-. 
 
 Dear Friend ! — Enclosed find |o.00, for which you will please again 
 send me 4 bottles of Oleum. The longer I use the Resuscitator, the more 1 
 learn to value it. It is now twenty years since I practise and know the Re- 
 suscitator, and it has never failed me. Your oil,, too, is the best I have 
 found yet, which testimony I can give it from long years of experience. 
 
 Yours respectfully, FR. BOEDER, M.D. 
 
 Steamboat Rock, Iowa, July 8, 1882. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden !— God’s richest blessing in soul and body to you! 
 Again the Resuscitator has gained a victory. A Mrs. N. had a year ago a 
 stroke of paralysis, and could find no relief from any physician. I asked 
 permission from her husband to apply the Resuscitator on her. After long 
 consideration he consented, and having now applied it only four times she 
 has already considerably improved. For the |8.50 enclosed please send me 
 a Resuscitator and Oleum. With a good conscience I can testify before 
 God and man that your remedies are a blessing to mankind. With hearty 
 greeting, 1 am, Your, ALBERT VON DORNUM, 
 
 Elder of the German Baptist Congregation. 
 
 x\PEX, Tex., Sept 27, 1882. 
 
 Dr. J. Linden. Dear Sir !— A thousand thanks for the relief that yoiv 
 Resuscitator and Oleum have given my mother, one brother, sister and my 
 self. Enclosed find ^5.00, for which please send me Oleum, your mm inaiiLu 
 facture. wouldn’t use any other, if I knew it, under any circumstance. If 
 it is not an intrusion, please write on what parts of the body applications 
 should be made in case of sore eyes of ten years standing, caused by 
 measles. Please fill order immediately. Send by mail. 
 
 Yours with kindest regards, M. E. ROBERTSON. 
 
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 Malcolm, Dec. 11 tb, 1882. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Mindeii !— 1 can inform you that last Soring 1 received 
 througli Hev. M. Enders of Utica, Neb., a Kesuscitator and Oleum of your 
 manufa(.*ture. I suifered from a malady in the upper lip, which tlie doctors 
 termed white swelling or cancer. They refused to give me any more medi- 
 cine, hut proposed to perform an operation upon me. I then used the Ke- 
 suscitator according to direction and immediately found relief. I am, 
 thank God, now nearly fully restored, ^iy Oleum is now all used up. 
 Please send me a fresli supply for the enclosed P. M. O. of ^5.00. 
 
 Yours respectfully, F. BECKMxiN, Lincoln Neb. 
 
 MartiisSBURg, Iowa, Dec. 16th, 1882. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Linden I cannot refrain from informing you about a 
 great cure effected by your llesuscitator and Oleum, On March 28tli, while 
 driving the stage in Col., I was thrown off by the collision of two wagons, 
 hy which I was totally paralyzed and deprived of the use of my limbs from 
 liead to foot. After having spent ^1000 for doctors and remedies, without 
 any relief, I tried in accordance with the advice of i^hysicians the so-called 
 ^tedical Springs of Mexico and Col., still all was in vain. In this helpless 
 condition my friend G. Goepel of Martinsburg called my attention to } our 
 remedies, Kesuscitator and Oleum, and as I read and heard so much of their 
 good qualities I had them ordered through my friend Goepel, and already 
 after the first application I was able to use my limbs, and by continuing I 
 am now, thank God, restored. I shall, wherever I go, recommand your rem- 
 edies, and you are at liberty to make any use you choose of my testimony for 
 the good of the suffering. Yours &c., W. C. YONN ANDEK. 
 
 CiiEVELAND, February 10, 1883. 
 
 Esteemed Friend Linden Inasmuch as I have used the Kesuscitatoi 
 already tliese many years, I have often intended to communicate to you 
 some of its effects in the many cases of sickness in my family, but, somehow, 
 was always hindered ; however, I will now carry out my intentions, as i 
 have had occasion to use it on my own person. Winter before last I was 
 taken with a severe rheumatic pain in my back, which I sought to relieve 
 by the various remedies recommended for ailments of that kind, such as 
 porous plasters, and a variety of embrocations, but without success, until, 
 after four weeks of suffering, I had recourse to the Kesuscitator, which, in 
 a few days, brought me relief, and, in ten or twelve days, entirely removed: 
 tlie pain. Last Winter I passed through the same experience. This Wintei 
 (in the beginning of January, 1883,) the trouble appeared again, but this 
 time I did not allow myself to become confused, but, after suffering two 
 days, 1 at once apiilied the Kesuscitator, and realized the same effect as 
 the two preceding Winters— immediate relief, and total removal of the pain 
 in ten to twelve days. I consider the Kesuscitator the most efficient remedy 
 for ailments of that kind. With high esteem, yours, C. Fistler. 
 
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 St. Morgan, III., July 6, 1883i 
 
 dear Doctor John Linden, Cleveland, 0..*--A year has already passed 
 since 1 received the package with your Oleum. It has all been used, partly 
 in niy own family, and i^artly by friends, but wherever it was applied it 
 cured sickness and diseases. 1 will not omit to mention that I cured one of 
 my colts, a beautiful, two year old animal, afflicted with blood spavin, with 
 your larger sized instrument, for veterinarian use, and Oleum ; it worked 
 so well that not even a scar has been left. We had beforehand used all 
 medicines and the strongest salves, which had been prescribed by the veter- 
 inarian surgeon ; but without success. 
 
 You will please send again six bottles of your precious Oleum to my 
 address, per express, to Trenton, 111. Highland, Clinton Co., 111., is now 
 my post office address.— Please excuse the poor writing, my age is already 
 7i years. f ith best respects from your friend, 
 
 NICOLAUS ZOPP. 
 
 Dardanelle, Yell Co., Ark., March 18, 1883. 
 
 Mr, John Linden, 
 
 Dear Sir: — After a long delay I take pleasure of informing you that 
 X received the Resuscitator, book of instructions, and bottle of Oleum in duo 
 time. I am very proud in the possession of your remedies, as they have al- 
 ready saved us several large doctor bills, and I have never failed to give 
 relief to the sufferers. One application with the Resuscitator and Oleum 
 on the nape of my neck cured me of a catarrh in the head of two years* 
 standing. It was so bad that the discharge was running down my throat 
 day and night. In one case of a girl whose arm was palsied so that she 
 could not use it at all, I had it restored, as good as the other arm, with one 
 application. Your remedies also speedily cure chills and fever, pneumonia, 
 neuralgia, rheumatic pains, toothache, headache, backache, spleen troubles, 
 and diphtheria. I have several cases at present, but my Oleum has about 
 given out, and so I send you enclosed .50 for another bottle of your Oleum. 
 Your remedy is a great thing with the people in this country, and I think it 
 will soon carry the day. Yery truly yours, 
 
 Address as above. WM. BURNETT. 
 
 Burnett, Burnett Co., Texas, Nov. 16, 1882. 
 
 Mr, John Linden, Dear Sir I have received the |40 package in good 
 order. Thanks to you for your care in packing, and for the bottle of Oleum 
 you made up on the other package. It might be of interest to you to know 
 what I am doing with so much Oleum since last Fall. I have ti*eated 14( 
 different, persons afflicted with all manner of diseases, also snake and spidei 
 bites, and I have never lost a case. Please send me four Resuscitators, foui 
 English instruction books, and Oleum, for which you will find enclosed f34. 
 Pay yourself, and return the balance in Oleum. If you have a mind to send 
 me half a dozen or a dozen Resuscitators with outfit, I will sell them foi 
 you. Yours, J. W. FRY. 
 
 The above testimonials were submitted to the editor in the original 
 
Wolf’s Crossing, Burnet Co., Texas, April 17, 1883. 
 J)t. John Linden^ Cleveland, 0, 
 
 Bear Sir ! — Yours of April 3rd at hand. Contents noted. Goods an 
 rived in good condition, as usual. I have for some time been thinking ol 
 giving you a statement of cures I have made with your exanthematic meth- 
 od of cure, which I will now do. 
 
 1st. A little girl, eight years old, was paralyzed in both legs from the 
 knees downward. She had never been able to walk or even stand up alone. 
 After tliree applications she was so far restored that she could stand alone, 
 1 then ordered your remedies for her aunt, Mrs. Mary Sadden, of Field 
 Creek, Llano Co., Texas, with whom the child lives, for self-treatment. 
 Anyone doubting the above will please write to Mrs. Sadden, Apex, San 
 Saba Co., Texas, and learn all about the case. 
 
 2nd. A little girl, eight years old, daughter of Mrs. Kicks, of Valley 
 Springs, Llano Co., Texas, was suffering with white swelling and scrofulous 
 affection of 4 or 5 years’ standing. Seven applications made her entirely 
 well, and she looked rosy and hearty when I saw her lately. 
 
 3rd. A case of neuralgia of eight years’ standing, of a lady, cured with 
 three applications. Anyone doubting this case, please write to Mayor 
 Harris, Valley Springs, Texas. 
 
 4th. James Patten, Wolf’s Crossing, Texas, who had a severe cold of 
 several weeks’ standing, that medicines and doctors failed to relieve, was 
 cured by one application. 
 
 5th. A little child of W. o. Turner, P. O. Packsaddle, Texas, was suf* 
 fering badly with whooping cough ; one application effected a cure at once. 
 
 6th. A little boy of Wm. Lockwood, Wolf’s Crossing P. O., Texas, 
 was suffering with pneumonia. One application made a complete cure. 
 
 Tth. A gentleman, nearly 50 years of age, who was suffering for a long 
 time with chronic chills and fever, and whom physicians and their medi- 
 cines failed to give relief, was cured with two applications of the Kesusci- 
 tator. Anyone doubting the above, will please write to Keden Mets, Wolf’s 
 Crossing, Texas, and learn the facts. 
 
 I could state many others, but time and space does not allow at present. 
 The above are facts no one need take my word for, as the names and P. O. 
 addresses are given. Header, if you doubt it, please take the trouble to 
 write to any or all of them, and your doubts will flee from you. Millions 
 of dollars are annually spent by invalids in the purchase of pernicious com- 
 pounds, under various names made up to catch the eye, and empty the 
 pockets of the victim. Last year England received from owners of patent 
 medicines |700,000 for stamps to place on their worthless compounds, 
 bought by over-credulous persons who, ignorant of the construction of theii 
 bodies, or of medicines, swallow anything offei-ed them, to their own detri- 
 ment. To all such 1 wish 1 could’ say in tones as loud as thunder : Stop, 
 and use a sensible, a harmless, and a never failing remedy. 
 
 Br. Linden, 1 wish you a prosperous and long life, 1 believe you and 
 your remedy to be reliable and worthy of patronage throughout the universe. 
 
 Your friend, AKBKEW J. KIALS, 
 
 Wolf’s Crossing, Burnet Co., Texas. 
 
 Please publish this letter as early as possible, for 1 want the people In 
 this section to understand my views. 
 
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 Bloomington, III., Aug. 26tlL 1H8‘I. 
 
 Mk. John Linden.— Sir: Enclosed you will find $8.00, for which 
 send me by express, without delay, one Kesuscitator, one bottle of Oleum 
 and the latest edition of your Book of Instructions. It is just a year ago 
 that I was paralyzed on my entire right side, so that I could neither move 
 hand nor foot, but through the use of your remedies I was cured so quickly 
 that in one month’s time I could again go to work. The doctors had said, 
 that if I could work again in six months, or a year, I might be glad. I air 
 machinist in the C. & A. E. E. shops. 
 
 Very Truly Yours, E. WINDOLF. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
 Seymour, Ind., Aug. 29th, 1883. 
 
 John Linden, Cleveland, O.—Dear Sir : Please forward to my address 
 four bottles of your Exantheniatic Oleum. 1 have made the Exanthematic 
 method of cure a special study for twelve or thirteen years, and in the 
 meantime have effected several wonderful cures. All sickness, let it be 
 called by wliat name it may, yields promptly to this treatment. 1 treated 
 a very delicate lady that was given up by three doctors ; they said they 
 could do no more for her. She was very low, she was given up to die, but 
 your Eesuscitator, with the blessing of God, stepped in between her and 
 death, and contrary to the expectations of her friends, she is able to go 
 about the house to-day (Aug. 29th). I have now under treatment a veiy 
 difticult case of chronic rheumatism, treated six weeks by the M. D.s with 
 out effect ; it is a very difficult case, but the patient is improving slowly. 
 
 Y^ours, with due respects, THOS. McCOLLUM. 
 
 Tlie above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
 Kellogg, Jasper Co., Iowa, Jan. lOth, 1884. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. — Bear Sir : Enclosed find $1.50 for a bottle of yo\v« 
 unexcelled Oleum, which has never failed to cure me of quinsy, of which 
 1 l have been a terrible sufferer, and which no doctor has ever effected a cure 
 oi' even relief. I obtained one of your instruments from a friend lately, 
 when suddenly attacked with quinsy and could not wait to send for one; 
 but I have no book of instructions, which 1 greatly feel the need of ; wdll yon 
 please to send me, with the Oleum, the price of your book. I can treat my 
 own disease, but I hope to relieve other sulferers also, whom Imay not know 
 how to treat without the book. Yours, Eespectfully, 
 
 MES. MINNIE BEONG, 
 
 <6^ The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
 Union Centre, Juneau Co., Wis., Feb. 5th, 1884. 
 
 John Linden, Esq., Cleveland, O.—Bear Sir: lam out of Oleum. En* 
 closed find $5.00, and have the kindness to forw'ard a supply of your Oleum 
 to Rev. G. Keller, Union Centre, Wis. I cannot be without that Oleum. I 
 WLs sick, and very sick, having the lung fever -all seemed to me like the 
 end, but the Oleum helped, and I got well without any kind of help except the 
 Oleum —no doctor needed. Wishing best success, 
 
 I remain faithfully Yours, Eev. G. KELLEE. 
 
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 Kandalia, Iowa, Oct 22d, 1883. 
 
 Dr. John Linden. —Dear Friend: May God bless you ! As I have not 
 written to you for a long time, I must inform you that we are so far all 
 well, but four weeks ago my daughter was attacked with a malignant form 
 of diphtheria. We applied your Ilesuscitator with the best results. In four 
 days tlie disease was entirely removed without the aid of a doctor. Am glad 
 and thankful that 1 became acquainted with the Eesuscitator, This was 
 the second time that it performed excellent service. The boy, of whom 1 
 wrote you last Spring, who was so laid up with rheumatism that he could 
 Bot move, is again well and lively, and a pleasure to his parents, Novt^ 
 1 beg of you, friend Linden, to send me another Kesnscitator, with an 
 Englisli book, and a bottle of Oleum, as soon as possible, for which you will 
 find the money enclosed. With due respects 1 remain, 
 
 Your servant, AUGUST EEIF. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
 Shermer, Cook Co., III., March 18th, 1881. 
 
 Mr. John Linden.— Sir: I must inform you of two very interest 
 ing cures, which I have successfully performed with your Eesuscitator 
 The first was a young man, named Hermann Fischer, who last Spring hud 
 scarlet fever, and was very likely treated wrong. This Winter he was taken 
 sick, and, as usually, his sickness wrongly judged by the physicians. Hj 
 was given medicine until he became so low that he could not move a 
 r.ingle limb, and two physicians declared that their skill was at an 
 end. As I was personally acquainted with the family, the young man’s 
 father-in-law ca^ne to me and asked me to use the Eesuscitator on his son- 
 in-law. I told him, that if the doctors could do no more for him, it was 
 very likely too late, but still I went. The sight of the young man, whom I 
 had known in full vigor and youthful strength, was terrible. Every jolrif 
 was so swollen, that the use of a limb was impossible. I commenced, in 
 God’s name, to apply the Eesuscitator on the entire body, from head to foot, 
 and on his hands, and had the pleasure, after seven applications with Win 
 Eesuscitator and Oleum, to see the young man, to the joy of his wife 
 and relatives, well and sound. The other cure concerns a case of a neij:h- 
 bor of the former patient, a young man aged 24 years. He comi)lained oi' 
 weakness in his limbs, buzzing in the head, ami at times an entire C(C*s* 
 sation of the blood and heart, always cold feet, no appetite, and sleep- 
 lessness. The doctors said, he had malaria fever, others congestion, and 
 again others, that hi:: blood was impure, poisoned. x\fter having been 
 treated for three months by various and even eminent physicians from 
 Chicago, he g( t, in connection with former symptoms, a shaking of the limbs, 
 like that of a confirmed toper. As his condition continued to grow constant- 
 ly worse, the Eesuscitah.r w'as thought of, and they sent for me. I made a 
 thorough application on hi: >, and now, after repeating the same for the 
 jeventh time, I am possitive, that with two or three more applications, he 
 will be entirely cured. He can eat, sleep, has rest, the shaking has 
 stopped; in short, he is almost compl::toly cured. The last time I saw him 
 he was strengthening himself with a piece of bread and butter and a large 
 piece of meat before the application. Now please have the kindness for the 
 'nclosed money to send me a Eesuseitator, three bottles of Oleum and a 
 German Hook of Instructions, by express to Shermer, Cook Co., 111. AVith 
 friendly greetings, I remain respectfullv and sincerely 
 
 Your Old Friend, FEANK SPITZEE. 
 
 You may r Id this to your many testimonials. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
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 Doylestowx, AVayxp: Co., O., Dec. 4th, 1883. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. — Sir: rours of Nov. 28tli, with package, is 
 received. 1 am surprised at the success I have with your remedies. Have 
 treated a case of paralysis of lower limbs. One of the best i)hysicians of 
 your city, and many others said that the man would never again walk, and 
 be is now well, can walk without crutch or cane. One case of rheumatism, 
 of which two doctors said that the patient would have to die, is without 
 pain and is gaining strength, which is a surprise to herself as well as 
 friends. Have treated sore eyes, and what is commonly called wasting 
 away of flesh, with success. Am treating a case of bronchitis with good 
 results from first treatment. I recommend your remedies wherever I go. 
 
 Very respectfully, Yours, HENRY H. TAWNEY. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
 Quitman, Van Buren Co., Ark., Jan. 7th, T884. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. — Bear Sir: You will find enclosed money for more 
 of your valuable Oleum. 1 will just state some of the good it has done 
 here. First I will inform you that I am midwife. I was called to visit a 
 lady who was suffering from neuralgia in her back and womb; two doctors 
 had treated her with no effect. The pain was so intense as to cause a mis^ 
 carriage, and in vain the doctors tried for two weeks to stop the flow, when 
 her husband came for me. I went and applied the Resuscitator and Oleum, 
 and three days later her husband came to inform me that she was well and 
 has had no more trouble since. Another lady was threatened with the 
 savne trouble, the doctor told her husband she would have to suffer until 
 after confinement, in February. I heard of her case, and said, “1 should 
 like to get a trial at her,” and in an hour she sent for me. I gave her one 
 qiplication, and she has not had a pain since. She had not been able to do 
 her housework since August, but nov' she can and is doing it. Her brother 
 was uffering with heart disease, and had tried different doctors to no good. 
 I asked him to let me try the Resuscitator on him once, which he did. Have 
 now given liiin four treatments, and he is getting strong and fleshy. I think 
 four more treatments will entirely cure him. I have been practicing as mid- 
 wife for thirty years, and find nothing so good to give relief from these 
 neuralgic pains and cramps in my patients, as your Resuscitator and Oleum, 
 Now til's is not half 1 can testify to. I remain. Yours truly, 
 
 MARY CHISlSr. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original 
 
 CuLLOM, Livingston Co., III., Nov. 23d, 188 a 
 Mr. John Esteemed Sir: Received the ordered bottle of Oleim 
 
 in good order, for which accept thanks. Were the eminent superiority 
 of this method of cure, over all others, better known and appreciated by 
 the public, oh, what sums for doctor bills might be saved, how many mal- 
 treatments prevented, and how many a person saved from death ! Myself, 
 for instance, nothwithstanding the hundreds of dollars I paid for doctor’s 
 bills, would hardly be among the living at present. Therefore “ success 
 to your method of cure.” ^V\th hearty respects, and wishing you God s 
 blessing forever, I remain. Yours Sincerely, G. HERTLEIN. 
 
 iS®" The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
CiiAiG, Holt Co., Mo., Jan. 3id, 1884. 
 
 Mr. John Linden. — Dear Sir: Enclosed find a post office nione,v 
 order for ^6.25, for which you will please send me a i-iesuscitator and k 
 bottle of Oleum. A book of instructions 1 received from you about two 
 years ago. A young man was working for me who had tetters. I asked 
 you for advice, and you sent me the book. Jhe man was quickly cured by 
 the treatment. He visited me last Christmas. 1 have your Resuscitatoi 
 over twenty years, and it has amply paid itself in my family, so that it has 
 earned a new one. I think it will please you to hear of some of the good your 
 Kesuscitator has done. It is now three years ago that we had a great deai 
 of snow and terribly cold weather. My wdfe was well all day, but about 7 
 o’clock in the evening she w^as attacked with dysentery. Her bowels 
 moved every five minutes and with every passage the pains increased. In 
 the cold and snow I could not easily get a doctor in a hurry, so I resorted to 
 the Kesuscitator, and made about forty jerks, according to directions in 
 your book, and with the next passage the pains had greatly lessened. The 
 passages came at longer intervals, and the bloody flow diminished. In 
 about three hours I applied the Kesuscitator again, and this stopped the 
 passages. Toward morning my wife, although weak, was well. Already 
 several times I was obliged, to get up at night, when some of my w'orkmen 
 were attacked with colic, so that they yelled out in bed for pain, and had to 
 apply the Kesuscitator. Before I got in bed again they were so sound asleep 
 that I could hear them snore, and next morning they w’ere well. I also used 
 the Kesuscitator on my wife for paralysis. Her mouth and nose were drawn 
 way on one side of the face, and one eye stood motionless in her head. It 
 took some time, but her face got straight again, only once in a while she 
 notices that the eye is not yet quite moveable enough. I thought it'might 
 please you to hear something good concerning my family doctor. This will 
 do for this time, although I could tell you a great deal more. 
 
 With many respects I remain, Truly yours, 
 
 WM. HOPPE. 
 
 The above testimonial was submitted to the editor in the original. 
 
 Beardstown, III., Feb. 2d, 1884. 
 
 Dr. John Linden. Sir: You may probably recall the fact of re< 
 ceiving a letter from me last Spring, asking your advice concerning the usci 
 of the Kesuscitator upon our little niece, not then yet five years old, who 
 was attacked by the St. Vitus’ Dance. Although so young, she was very 
 severely attacked, and as the treatment of the physicians, wliom we called, 
 gave or showed no salutary result, and as we feared to let it become in the 
 least chronic, or rather we did not think she could be sick long, for the attack 
 was so severe, that she could not long have borne up, so we wrote to you. 
 You thought there was much hope for her recovery, and advised us to use 
 your Kesuscitator and Oleum. AVe dismissed the physicians and decided to 
 treat her as follows, and did so: MVq applied the Kesuscitator three or foui 
 times, besides took her out riding very much in a child’s buggy, out in the 
 fresh air down by the river, encouraged her to use her arms and limbs, in 
 duced her to play, so that they should become steady, and gave her to keep 
 her bowels regulated a tea of Manna and Senna. In less than two months 
 from the beginning of her ailment she had entirely recovered — a sur])rise 
 to every one and to the joy of all her aunts, grandparents, parents, etc. So far 
 she has been perfectly cured, and we notice no evil effects of that awful 
 disease. With a thousand thankful feelings for your advice and for tlu^ 
 fact of the Kesuscitator, and ho])ing that other patients may learn of its 
 value, I am Yours, Very Gratefully, 
 
 T. M. MANN 
 
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 Flat Rock, O., Aug. 5, 1884. 
 
 Dear Friend John Linden :—Your greeting was conveyed to me, for which 
 I thank you. This brought to me the intelligence, that you have safely 
 arrived in Cleveland of which I am glad. But having entered upon a 
 journey to my children here and in Illinois 1 was debarred of the privilege 
 to greet you on your arrival, for which 1 am sorry. 
 
 1 desired to give a good testimony to the healing power of your Resuscita 
 tor and Oleum, which 1 would have liked best to have done in you 
 presence. The benefits which I have personally received from the applica 
 tion of your remedies, 1 can scarcely estimate. All other remedies whicli 
 I used proved a failure, and all the physicians that I consulted, and they 
 were not a few, of the different systems could not restore my shattered 
 health, and so your Resuscitator and Oleum accomplished its object in me, so 
 that I have reason to believe that my life has been prolonged thereby. My 
 si<dvness had its source in the too severe application of my mental powers in 
 former years and became worse from year to year till finally symptoms of 
 apoplexy appeared, and i became entirely unfit for mental application. I 
 am now so far i*estorecl as can be expected from a man of 75 years of age, 
 can also bear and do more than I could several years ago, and this I ascribe 
 next to God to your Resuscitator and Oleum, and can therefore recommend 
 their curative properties to those suffering from ailments. You are at 
 liberty to use this testimonial for the benefit of the suffering and publish 
 the same. 
 
 With greeting and best wishes I remain Yours respectfully, 
 
 CHAS. HAMMER, 
 Preacher of the Ev. Association. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the editor. 
 
 Monroe, Iowa, Feb. 15 , 1885 . 
 
 Mr. Jolin Liiuden. Dear Sir Enclosed find |5 for Oleum. ;My daugh» 
 Ufs son, eight years old, is very sick with Inflammation of the Bowels. 
 The doctor gave him medicines for nine days, but he continually grew 
 worse; then the dv^ctor told me to rub some of the Oleum on the abdomen. 
 I did so according to directions in your Book of Instruction. The first day 
 it helped very little; the second day I applied your Resuscitator and Oleum 
 and the child is now improving, although slowly, as he had previously 
 taken too much strong medicine. Two years ago my daughter’s son fifteen 
 years old, had the same sickness, and the doctor had given him up and th€ 
 3hild was nearly dead. But then I took him under treatment, and youi 
 Resuscitator and Oleum proved a life-preserver. I have used your Resus* 
 eitator and Oleum over twenty years with success, and have succeeded in 
 dmry case. 
 
 1 recommend your Resuscitator and Oleum wherever I can and will do so 
 as long as God gives me life and strength. Very truly yours, 
 
 MRS. CATHARINE BENDER. 
 
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 Ogden, Kiley Co., Kans. Sept. 12, 1884. 
 
 Esteemed Mr. Jno. Linden: — It was four years last March when 1 rv 
 ceived a Kesuscitator from you, and I desire to communicate to you some oi 
 the wonderful cures that have been effected by this instrument in my family^ 
 My dear wife was very sick and under treatment of two physicians for five 
 weeks, but all their skill proved futile. The patient had become so weak 
 that food had to be introduced into her system by artificial appliances. 
 After repeated experiments and examinations the physicians came to the 
 conclusion and declared that my wife could not longer survive than about 
 two days, and death might occur at any moment, and advised me to prepare 
 for the worst. Dear reader, it was a sad and sorrowful time for me. There 
 lay my dear expiring wife, the mother of my six children of whom the 
 youngest was only six months and the eldest but eleven years old. But 
 man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. One of my neighbors called my at- 
 tention to the wonderful cures effected by your Resuscitator and Oleum. 
 I at once wrote to your address and already received your remedie'^ the next 
 day, just at the crisis when the physicians had their last consultation. I 
 showed them to the doctors and told them as there was no hope anyway 1 
 was going to use tlie little doctor. The gentlemen derided me and said they 
 thought I had better sense than to believe in such a thing, and went away. 
 I now applied the remedies by making twenty punctures on the exhausted 
 patient and repeated this in two hours just as your book of instructions 
 directs. And oh, praise be to God, my sick wife revived and on the second 
 day she already retained some nourishment on her stomach. In five weel:s 
 my dear wife was able to leave her bed healed, and in a week later she was 
 able to resume her household duties, and now again enjoys good health, 
 having presented me since with a healthy little girl who is now eighhjen 
 months old. Had I been in ijossession of your remedies two months sooner, 
 I would have saved |400.00, and my dear wife would not have been bi ought 
 to the edge of the grave by wrong treatment. When I paid my doctor bills 
 (and they were not small) and communicated the result to the gentlemen, 
 they said, “It is a d— n wonder, a miraculous wonder,” that was nil the 
 praise they had for your Resuscitator. During the teething-period of our 
 youngest child we applied your Oleum several times with care and she kept 
 well and lively all along. I can only wish that every mother might try your 
 Oleum when her dear ones are sutfering from a fever incident to the 
 teething-period, she would then no longer resort to dangerous i)atent med- 
 icines. t could report other cases to you in which your remedies have ac- 
 complished wonders. Please send me for the enclosed §5.09 again some 
 Oleum. 
 
 With hearty greetings, I remain Yours etc. 
 
 IGKATIUS SEILER. 
 
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 Mayka RD, Iowa, Sept. 21st., 1885. 
 
 Mr. John Linden, Cleveland, Ohio: — Dear Sir: The remedies, Resusci- 
 cator. Oleum and Book of Instruction 3 ou sent me last Spring, have been of 
 6 uch value to me, in my profession as Midwife that I could not refrain from 
 expressing my thanks to you. The cures effected the Resuscitator are 
 indeed marvelous, especially in diseases of the womb and other female 
 complaints; every midwife ought to be in possession of your invaluable 
 remedies. Your grateful friend, Mary Younker. 
 
 The original was submitted to the Publishers. 
 
 Milan, Sumner Co., Kan., Sept. 30, 1885. 
 
 Respected Mr. John Linden: — Dear Sir: It gives me pleasure to inform 
 you that m}^ hand, thank God, is now again healed, and that I now can 
 undertake the long planned trip to my dear fatherland, beautiful Switzerland. 
 Will you have the kindness to send me another Resuscitator, bottle of Oleum 
 and a German Book of Instruction. I wish to take them along to Switzerland, 
 and will do my best to convince the people that your Remedy excels all 
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 A Continuation of the Communication about Palestine in my Book of 
 Instruction, ^age 296. 
 
 Jerusalem, Palestine, Dec., 1880 . 
 
 My Much Esteemed Friend Linden: — I only received your letter of la/t 
 August in the forepart of November, because I was away, traveling almost 
 all the time. It afforded me much pleasure to receive a letter once more 
 from an old friend in America. You ask, whether I have not yet become 
 homesick; I assure you that I have not. Any one who has sojourned so long, 
 and is traveling in the holy land- with as much interest and pleasure as 
 I do, is not likely to become homesick, unless family ties drive him awa 3 \ 
 Of course, much depends upon the purpose one has in coming hither. 
 Most people come to Palestine merely out of curiosity, others come be- 
 cause they enjoy traveling, and still others, but only a few, come because they 
 think they can obtain remission of their sins by making pilgrimage voyage's 
 to Palestine. Oh, poor benighted people ! 
 
 Some come, who are naturalists and archaeologists, of whom I also ha\« 
 met quite a number, and stid others, because having made a vow they 
 wish to strengthen themselves in true faith. Sorry *to say, swindlers are aho 
 to be found here, who disguise themselves as pilgrims, only to appropriaie 
 the money of other pilgrims, in which they only too often succeed. This 
 class of people claim to be acquainted all through Palestine, having made 
 previous journeys through the country, and hence they offer themselves, a? 
 guides and counselors, they boast considerably of some old healing relics for 
 which they claim to have paid enormous sums of money, which they finally 
 succeed to sell to some “greenhorn” for as much more. Generall 3 ^ ther^) 
 are two of this class of people that operate jointly, but they appear to lies 
 strangers to each other,, just as the sharpers do both in Germany ari^'. 
 America. Let this suffice on this uninteresting topic, but as y^ou have prom> 
 ised to come to Palestine in 1882, I thought I would give you a timel;? 
 warning. 
 
 If nothing prevents meanwhile, you can meet me here yet, and it will give 
 me great pleasure to accompany y^ou to such sights as are worth seeing. 
 Some places are pointed out, which superstition united to the history^ of our 
 Lord, but they are not mentioned in the Bible. I have frequently’ been dis- 
 appointed in this manner, but now I do not accept anything as truth which 
 does not coincide with the facts mentioned in the Bible. 
 
 You desire that I should write to y^ou about my’ journeys and observations 
 in Palestine, and as my letter of March, 1877, was of so much interest to 
 y’ourself and friends, I will gladly comply with your wish, — but if I should 
 go into details, I am afraid y’ou would soon be wearied. Since then I have 
 traveled \ery much and veiy far, I was even as far as Egypt, Arabia, and on 
 Mt. Sinai, Persia, and on the Lebanon and other places. I will now give you 
 a description of such places as I visited. If my description is not tedious to 
 you, I will write more next year. 
 
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 In the Spring of 1877 I went to Sichem, situated about 33 miles north of 
 Jerusalem. This city is now called Nabulus, also Napolese, and is very 
 ancient; it was already mentioned in Gen. 12, verse 6, chap. 33: 18, 19, and 
 also in chap. 35 : 4. 
 
 Genesis 12 : G, it is stated : “ And Abram passed through the land, unto the 
 ^ place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in 
 the land.'' This was about 1900 years before Christ. We also read about 
 Sichem, Acts 7: 15, IG. Here Abraham built the first altar in Canaan and 
 preached in the name of the Lord. Sichem lies in a long, narrow, fruitful 
 valle}" between the Ebal and Geriziin hills. After Canaan was abjugated 
 by the Jews it was turned into a Levitical city, i. e. it was joined to the tribe 
 of Levi. 
 
 The world has undoubtedly never viewed such a scene as the one after the 
 conquest of Canaan by the Israelities, when, according to the Word of God, 
 six tribes stood on Mt. Gerizira and pronounced a blessing, while the other six 
 tribes were on Mt. Ebal and pronounced a curse. To understand the greatness 
 of this scene one must know that the valle^^ intervening is veiy narrow, and 
 as the air is very pure and elastic, the}^ could easily hear one another. I 
 imagine the people stood in the valley, and the Elders and Priests higher up 
 on the mountain pronouncing the Blessing and the Curse. In connection 
 with this, read also Deut. 11 : 2G-29; chap. 27 : 11-2G, and chap. 28. 
 
 Behoboam, the son of Solomon, was also made king of Jerusalem at this 
 place; it was also here that the ten tribes left him on account of his uncalled- 
 for tyranny. 1 Kings 12. 
 
 Several times the city was devastated. In Christ’s time it was the capital 
 of Samaria. Sichem is to this da}’ the principal city of Samaritans sojourn- 
 ing in it, and also of those scattered abroad. 
 
 The historical Jacob’s well, at which our Saviour held a conversation with 
 the w'oman of Samaria, is in the vicinity of this city, as recorded in St. 
 John, chap. 4: 5. Ov^er this well there is at present an arched covering. 
 The well itself is about 100 feet in depth, but it is at times dry. It is said to 
 have been deeper formerly. The appearance of the well shows its old age. 
 Just outside of the city, the modern Xibulus, there is a small white structure 
 which covers the spot where Joseph is supposed to be buried. Joshua 24 : 32 ; 
 Sirach 49: 18; Exodus 13: 19; Gen. 50: 25, 26. The city now has a 
 population, mostly Mohammedans, of about 8000 or 9000. There are besides 
 Samaritans, also several hundred Christians to be found here, mostly Greeks. 
 A small Evangelical Church is also here. 
 
 xVbout six English miles north-west of Sichem lies Samaria, now a small 
 village, formerly a beautiful city and the seat of several kings. It was 
 built about 900 years before Christ by Omri, one of the kings of Israel. 
 1 Kings 16: 23, 24. Formerly it contained many magnificent buildings, of 
 which beautiful ruins are still to be seen. The situation is grand, the sur- 
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 ire evidence of the once great structures. King Ahab at one time built & 
 lalace of ivory at this place. 1 Kings 22: 39. Of king Ahab we read 
 I Kings 16 : 30-33, as follows: 
 
 “And Ahab did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.. 
 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, whicn he had 
 built in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke 
 'ihe Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before 
 
 1 Kings 21: 21, 22. In connection with this read also 2 Kings 10. Jehu 
 likewise slew all the priest of Baal in the land. In chapter 9 Isaiah, and 
 Ezekiel in chapter 16: 18-28, Samaria is cursed on account of its idolatry. 
 The Syrians besieged the city twice. 1 Kings 20 and 2 Kings 6 : 24 and 7: 
 1-20. The Syrian king Salmaneser besieged the city three years, subdued 
 and laid it waste and took the people as captives to Assyria. 2 Kings 17: 
 3-9. This occurred about 715 years B. C,, but later on it was rebuilt 
 /Ie;rod the Great enlarged and improved it. Phillip, Peter and John 
 preached the Gospel with great success here, as can be seen in Acts 8: 
 
 -25. Afterwards and sometimes now it is called Sebastia. 
 
 The situation of the city (now but a small village) is attractive, healthy 
 and fruitful. A number of ancient pillars can be seen everywhere which 
 remind one of its former greatness and wealth. The cit}" itself lies on a 
 broad, isolated hill. 'J'he pilgrims at one- time built a chapel here, but noir 
 it also is in ruins. The prophecy of punishment against idolatry was als ;> 
 fulfilled in this city, for Micah (720 B. C.) said in chap. 1, verse 6 : 
 
 “Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as planting i 
 ol a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, an I 
 I will discover the foundations thereof.’' 
 
 From Samaria I went to Sidon (often called Zidon and now Said). Thii 
 city likewise lies on the Mediterranean Sea, or rather on a peninsula projec t* 
 ing into the Mediterranean Sea about 25 miles north of Tyre. Sidon is s 
 very old city and is said to have been built by Zidon, son of Canaan, who was 
 a son of Noah. Gen. 10 : 15-19 and 49 : 13. This must have been about 1850 
 years before Christ. The city has two harbors, which are now filled up 
 with sand. Formerly it was quite extensively engaged in commerce. Even 
 in its very early days it was noted for its glass manufactories and its skilled 
 workmen. It was built by Nebuchadnezzar, afterwards it came into the 
 possession of Babylon and finally of Persia. It succeeded iu freeing 
 itself from Persia, but was laid waste by Artaxerxes III. The in- 
 habitants afterwards rebuilt the city and later surrendered it to Alex- 
 ander tne Great. After that, it was at one time subject to Syria and then 
 again lo Egypt. It is said that at the time the Persians were at 
 war with the Egyptians, Sidon was besieged and the inhabitants having 
 become terrified, burnt up their ships and houses in which were so many 
 valuable metals, that later the rubbish of the houses was sold for a high 
 
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 price. At this siege about 40,000 people lost their lives. Man}* people of 
 Sidon came to hear the doctrines of Christ, according to Mark. 3: 7, 8. 
 When Paul undertook the journey to Rome, he embarked on a ship at Sidon, 
 in which place he found a Christian Church. Acts 27 : 3. The city is also 
 mentioned in the New Testament, Matt. 11 : 21, 22; Matt. 15: 21; Luke 4: 
 26; Luke 6: 17; Luke 10; 13,14; Mark 3: 8; Mark 7: 24-31. Sidon at 
 present is a noted commerical city of about 5000 or 6000 inhabitants. The 
 harbor was destroyed about 1600 A. D. by the great Emir Fechreddin to 
 prevent ships of war from entering. Numerous ruins of old Sidon can still 
 be seen, which remind one of its former wealth and beauty. Homer the 
 poet is said to have mentioned Sidon, speaking of its architecture and the 
 wealth of its inhabitants. Sidon had to suffer a severe punishment for its 
 wickedness, as a fulfilment of the prophecies of Ezek. 28 : 21-24. 
 
 As 1 wished to visit Nazareth again, I first went to Mt Tabor from Sidon, 
 which was for a long time incorrectly supposed to be the place of the trans- 
 figuration of Christ, Mark 9 : 2. The mount is frequently mentioned in the 
 Bible and lies about 90 English miles north of Nazareth. It has an altitude 
 of about 1800 feet above the level of the sea, and stands alone, having a 
 rounded shape. In Judges 4: 6 etc. we read that Barak and Judge Deborah 
 went on the mount with 10,000 men and slew the army of Sisera, the general 
 of the Canaanite king Jabin (who was the oppressor of the children of 
 Israel for twenty years) ; and the forces of Sisera fell before the sword that 
 not one remained, although he had 900 iron war chariots. A certain woman. 
 Jael, killed the fugitive Sisera by driving a nail into his head. This mount 
 is also mentioned by the prophet Jeremiah 46: 18 ; Hoseafi : 1 ; Psalm 89: 13. 
 Here also the French General Kleber fought a battle with the English- 
 Turkish army in 1799. Formerly a fortified city was situated on this mount, 
 probably the one mentioned in 1 Chron. 6 : 77. In the time of Christ it was 
 in the possession of the Romans. This fact alone makes it doubtful whether 
 the transfiguration of Christ took place on this mount or not. The view 
 from this mount is beautiful, I don’t believe I ever saw anything more beauti- 
 ful. The sides are all covered with trees, and all kinds of birds and game, 
 even the wild boar, can be found here. The summit is almost perfectly 
 smooth and flat. This surface is about 700 feet wide and 1400 feet long and 
 /Contains about twenty-three American acres. The Crusadors are said to 
 have had fortifications here, ruins and rubbish being found all around. 
 
 From Mount Tabor I went to Nazareth, where I remained longer than 
 before. The inhabitants are mostly Greek Christians, while Mohammedans 
 .and Protestants can also be seen. The latter have a neat little church here. 
 It is very praiseworthy to see that to doctrinal differences of the various 
 Christian sects in Palestine no attention is paid. The bond of Christianity 
 unites them all. The treatment a Protestant receives in the Catholic mon- 
 asteries is as friendly as that towards a Catholic himself. 
 
 About nine miles from Mt. Tabor is a mount called the mount of 
 
Beatitudes in the Bible, and Carmel Hittin, also Hatton by the natives 
 living at its base, and tradition has located this as the place where our Lord 
 preached the sermon on the mount. It is not positively known where it was 
 delivered, but there is no doubt that it took place not very far from here. 
 The mount is not as high as Tabor, but nevertheless offers a fine scenery. 
 The Sea of Gennesaret, Iturea, Trahinitis, and the Desert of Baras, Zebulon, 
 and Naphtalia, the Lebanon, and the hills about Gilead may be seen from 
 here. The battle which took place Jul}" 5th, 1187, on the plains of Hattin, 
 destroyed the Christian hosts and the power of Christianity in PalestiiK 
 through the imprudence of the knight Gerad of Bedford. 
 
 So I went to this mount, so well adapted to speak to so many people, as 
 convened there. My guide here pointed out to me the ruins of a small 
 structure, probably of a chapel, from which, it is said, our Lord preached. 
 Although I well know that all these statements are based upon mere sup 
 positions, nevertheless I must admit that I was overcome with holy awe as I 
 viewed the place I was standing upon. I felt the necessity of being alone, 
 all alone. I therefore sent my guide away, with orders to call for me in 
 three hours. When I found myself alone, I sat down where my guide had 
 shown me, took my Bible, and read attentively and aloud the 5th, Gth, and 
 7th chapters of Matthew twice over. Although I had read these three 
 chapters more than a hundred times before, and almost could repeat them 
 Irom memory, still I must confess, I never comprehended the full meaning of 
 this “ Sermon on the Mount” so full}’, as I did while reading and meditating 
 over it in this place. I felt that my Saviour was very near, I felt my soul 
 lifted up and enlightened by the Holy Spirit, tjie scales fell from my eyes, I 
 got a clear and full insight into the thoughts our Lord expressed in this ser- 
 mon; my heart was filled with joy and gratitude, for now I was full}' con- 
 vinced that I was in the possession of the true spirit of the Christian religion. 
 I knelt down, and w’ith a loud voice thanked God for the mercy he had 
 shown unto me. 
 
 My dear friend, if I am permitted to give counsel to you, it would be, that 
 you and your family might read the 5th, Gth, and 7th chapters of Matthew 
 frequently, ponder over them and seek to find the grand truths set forth in 
 them. If our Lord in his appearance on earth had left us nothing but the 
 “ Sermon on the Mount,” he then would have left mankind as complete a 
 religion as could be found nowhere outside of Christianity. The deep meaning, 
 the truly Divine thought which it contains, outweighs everything ever written 
 or taught by man. If these three chapters were taught and thoroughly 
 explained to all children; w’e would have more live, energetic and true 
 Christians. 
 
 2 Corinthians H: 6. Whoever has taken the spirit of this sermon into 
 himself, and lives accordingly, is a Christian in the full sense of the word. 
 But I departed from the purpose in view, as I wish to tell you about Caper- 
 naum, Jericho, and my trip to the Sea of Gennesaret, and also along the 
 holy river Jordan to the Dead Sea. 
 
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 Capernaum must have been very prosperous in the time of our Lord. 
 The road from Damascus to Sydon, Tyre, Jaffa, and other cities along the 
 coast, lead through Capernaum, wherefore the main customhouse was located 
 here. It is now impossible to exactly locate the once so flourishing Caper- 
 naum, but all indications are that it stood where the small filthy village of 
 Tell Hume of to-day is found. All around can be seen the remains of a 
 previously large city. The ruins bear witness to former wealth and elegance. 
 The prophecy of Christ, Matt. 11: 23, 24, concerning Capernaum, was 
 fulfilled. As before said, the exact location where Capernaum once stood, 
 is not known. But several Scripture passages very clearly prove that it was 
 on the north-western shore of the Sea of Gallilee, where the village of Tell 
 Hume now stands. Buins of great structures can be seen in the surround- 
 ings. There was a school in Capernaum in which our Lord frequently 
 taught. John 6: 59; Luke 4: 33, 38; Mark 1: 21. Capernaum is of 
 great importance to us Christians, because our Saviour lived here almost 
 tliree years and did many miracles. Here he chose most of his disciples, 
 e. g. Peter, Andrew, James, and John, who were fishermen, Matth. 4 : 18-21; 
 likewise Matthew himself, Matth. 9: 9. Capernaum is not mentioned in the 
 old l^estament. 
 
 The Jordan. The river Jordan flows through the beautiful valley of 
 Jordan, which varies from 4-10 miles in width. Within this valley, on 
 either side of the Jordan, lies a somewhat deeper valley, about f to 1 mile 
 wide. The Jordan, with the exception of a few fording places, flov/s below 
 the surface of this valle.y. The depth of the river varies from 3 to 10 feet. 
 In the dry season, when almost all the rivers of Palestine are dry, the Jordan 
 has never been dry. Its width is from 70 to 200 feet. At the mouth of the 
 Jordan, at the Dead Sea, it is said to be 500 feet wide and 3 feet deep. 
 
 It is really the eastern boundary of the promised land (Numbers 34: 11, 
 12.) and is formed by the conjunction of three small rivers a little north of 
 the swampy Sea of Merom. On the shores of this sea, which is 5 miles long 
 and 4 miles wide, and very shallow, lying about 9 to 10 miles north of the 
 Sea Gennesaret, Joshua fought a battle with the united mountaineers, 
 through which he came into the possession of the northern part of Canaan. 
 Joshua 11: 5, and following verses. This place, although very swampy in 
 the wet season, has a luxurious vegetation. From the south end of the Sea 
 of Merom the Jordon flows 9 to 10 miles into the Sea of Gennesaret, which 
 is' also called the Sea of Tiberias, Cinneroth, Cinnereth, or the Sea of Gallilee 
 in the Bible, Josh. 12: 3; Matt. 4: 18; Mark. 7 : 31 ; John 6: 1, etc. 
 This sea is not often mentioned in the Old Testament, but quite frequently 
 in the New. The Sea of Tiberias or the Sea of Gallilee, is about 13 miles 
 long, 7 miles wide and 160 feet deep, is of an oval shape, and lies about 550 
 to 600 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, some even claim 700 
 feet. On the east and west sides it is bounded by beautiful hills from 500 
 to 700 feet high. In Summer the atmovsphere is very hot near the sea, but 
 the water is clear, cool, and very good. It is full of fish as in the time of Christ 
 10 
 
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 There were nc less than 10 cities of considerable size bordering the Sea of 
 Gallilee in that time, among which Capernaum is numbered, which I have 
 already described. From the southern end of the Sea of Gallilee the Jordan 
 Hows south, through the Jordan valley into the Dead Sea, which lies about 
 60 miles south of the Sea of Gallilee. But as the Jordan has so many 
 bends, it travels about 200 miles before it reaches the Dead Sea. In the dry 
 season it is possible to ford the river at several places, such fords being men- 
 "loned in Judges 3: 28; 12: 5. 
 
 The banks of the Jordan are well covered with trees. Many smaller 
 jtreams, coming from the neighboring hills, flow into the Jordan. It is 
 generally supposed that Jesus was baptized by John the baptist in one of 
 these fords a little north of Jericho, Matt. 3 : 13. In the middle of April 
 theusands of pilgrims of various creeds go out from Jerusalem to this place, 
 to see the holy river, to drink of its water, and bathe in it. After tarrying a 
 few hours they return to Jerusalem. After the Jordan leaves the Sea of 
 Gallilee, it has quite a fall and very many rapids, before it reaches the Dead 
 Sea. Above the Sea of Gallilee there is an old bridge called ‘‘Jacob’s 
 bridge,” said to have been constructed by Jacob. At present there are no 
 bridges between the Sea of Gallilee and the Dead Sea, but the remains of 
 three or four old ones can still be seen. The water of the Jordan is clear 
 and good to drink, and is full of fish. 
 
 Jericho. When the Israelites went from Egypt to Canaan (1451 B. C.), 
 Jericho was an old fortified city. Joshua, the successor to Moses, and the 
 brave leader of the Israelites, crossed the Jordan from the east, and Jericho 
 was the first city that was attacked and conquered. The walls of Jericho 
 fell in a miraculous manner, at the sounding of trumpets, Joshua 6. In the 
 same chapter we read that Joshua caused all the inhabitants to be slain, 
 with the exception of a woman, Rahab, and her family, because she had 
 secreted and defended the spies of Joshua. This cit}^ is mentioned the first 
 time in the Bible in Deuteronomy 34: 3. eloshua considered Jericho the key 
 to all Canaan, therefore he destroyed it and pronounced a dreadful curse 
 upon the man who would attempt to rebuild it, Joshua 6 ; 26. This curse 
 fell upon a man named Hiel, about 530 years afterward, who undertook to 
 rebuild it. 1 Kings 16: 34. 
 
 Jericho was situated about 18 miles north of Jerusalem and 7 miles west 
 of the Jordan. The section in which Jericho lay was allotted to the tribe of 
 Benjamin. Its surroundings were very fertile, and because of the great 
 flumber of palm trees, which were growing in its vicinity, it was called “ the 
 city of palm.s.” Deut. 34: 3 ; Judges 1 : 16 ; 3 : 13 ; 2 Chron. 28 : 15. For- 
 merly it was noted for its gardens of balsam, small palmetto groves, &c., but 
 now it has the appearance of a desert. The village Richa, which now occu- 
 pies the place of the formerl^^ so haughty Jericho, is a miserable, dirty look- 
 ing Arab town, inhabited by hordes of robbers. The number of inhabitants 
 is about 2G0. The desert of Jericho, about 5 miles in width, lies between 
 Jericho and Jerusalem, a desolate place, in which Jesus locates the parable 
 
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 of the good Samaritan. Luke 10: 30-37. I must also mention the Rose of 
 Jericho, According to a legend it first grew in the foot-prints of the virgin 
 Mary, while fleeing with the child Jesus to Egypt. The peculiarity of this 
 plant is that it will again unfold, when placed in water for a while, after it 
 has been kept dry for years ; it then has the appearance of a newl}' cut 
 shrub. After the destruction of the city by Joshua and before its rebuilding 
 by Kiel, a new settlement took possession of the ruins. The Moabites seized 
 the place, Judges 3: 13. King David sent the embassadors, which were de 
 spised by Hanon, to Jericho, untillheir beards were grown again. 2 Sam. 10 : 5. 
 
 The school of the prophets was located in Jericho. Here the young 
 people were instructed in religion and sciences. 2 King 2: 4-7, 15-18. 
 
 Elija and Elisha remained here a short time. In the time of the Babylon- 
 ian captivity many Jews were led from here, later on some returned again 
 under Cyrus, 345. Ezra 3 : 34 ; Neh. 7: 36. The inhabitants of Jericho 
 aided in the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Neh. 3: 2. The wonderful ascension 
 of Elijah into heaven occurred not far from Jericho. 1 King 2. Many more 
 incidents could be mentioned in connection with this city. Northwe.st of 
 Jericho is a barren hill, which is supposed to be the place where our Saviour 
 prepared himself for his mission and where he was tempted by the devil. 
 Matt. 4 : 10. There were a great number of priests in Jericho in Christ’s 
 time. It was at that time, as it still is, very dangerous to travel on the road 
 from Jerusalem to Jericho on account of the robbers ; out of this we can see 
 the aptness of the parable of the good Samaritan, for this is the place where 
 our Lord located the occurrence, priests traveled the road from Jericho to 
 Jerusalem frequently. Luke 10: 31, 32. 
 
 Christ healed two blind men in Jericho. Matt. 20 : 29-34. The conversa- 
 tion with Zacchaeus also took place here. Luke 19: 1-10. A ruin is still 
 pointed out as that of the house of Zacchaeus. 
 
 In my former letter I wrote 3^011 about Nazareth, but as I have made 
 another and longer visit, I will write about several other peculiarities. 
 Nazareth was the place in which the parents of Jesus lived (Matt. 2; 23; 
 Luke 1 : 26 ; 2:4; 39: 51.), and where Jesus spent his 3"outhful days, and 
 received his first instruction. Nazareth at present has about 6000 inhab- 
 itants, of whom I are Christians and i Mohamedans, the latter being mostly 
 of Arabic descent. Jews do not live there. Nazareth makes upon the passing 
 traveler, in contrast with the ruins of Syria and Palestine, the favorable im 
 press’on of a vigorous, flourisliing little town, controlled b}^ Christian morals 
 and has considerabl}" increased and improved since m3' last visit in 1876. 
 A German-English Protestant congregation having a church, mission house, 
 and hospital, has existed here now for several 3 ears and grows and flourishes 
 in spite of the opposition of the Turkish authorities. The most beautiful 
 structure is without doubt the Franciscan cloister, which from the outside 
 has the appearance of a fortress. North from the cloister the Franciscans 
 possess a chapel which is to designate the place upon which the car- 
 l)enter shop of Joseph stood. The mother of the emperor Constantine built 
 
a church over the reputed spot where the angel announced to Mary the 
 prospective birth ot Jesus. This church is the most beautiful in Palestine, 
 with the exception ot the church ot the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. 
 
 The house of Mary, the mother of our Saviour, is said to have been trans* 
 ported by angels in 1291 to Dalmatia, and later to Loretto in Italy. A beautiful 
 dome was built over the house in Loretto ; the house being 32 ft. long, 13 ft. 
 wide, and 19 ft. high. The house as it is now shown in the dome is built 
 of brick and ebony wood, and the interior is covered with sculpture in 
 caraibic marble. It has a door and a lattice of silver, behind which Mary 
 with ttie child Jesus are painted. Even the window is shown, through which 
 the angel Gabriel entered and announced to Mary that she should bear the 
 Saviour. It is said that 100,000 persons annually make a pilgrimage to this 
 house. This legend is here accepted as incontrovertible truth, and several 
 pilgrims whom I met here, and who had visited Loretto, thought quite hard 
 of me that 1 doubted the truth of the transportation of the house by the an- 
 gels. 
 
 Here in Nazareth many remarkable things are shown which are brought 
 ill connection with Jesus and his parents, but it requires occasionally a very 
 lively imagination to accept all the various stories as unvarnished truth ; 
 but there is a Mary’s well here which probably alread}^ existed at the time 
 Jesus lived on earth. 
 
 Nazareth is about 800 feet above the level of the Mediterranean Sea, and 
 is one of the most beautiful towns of Syria. It is remarkable that this town 
 is never mentioned in the Old Testament, even the Jewish historian Josephus 
 says not a word about it, whereas it is often spoken of in the New^ Testament. 
 
 The name Nazareth reminds one of a religious sect, the Nazarenes, but who 
 do not take their name from this town. This sect are the oldest temperance 
 people. Moses already gives in Num. 6: 2 &c., a special law for them as 
 follows : “ When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a 
 vow of a Nazarite to separate themselves unto the Lord : he shall separate 
 liimself from wine, and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine or 
 jf strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist 
 grapes nor dried,” &c. In connection with this vow was yet this that no 
 razor was to come on the head of him who was under the vow. Read also: 
 Judg. 13 : 4, 5 ; Amos 2 : 11, 12 ; 1 Sam. 1 : 11 ; Luke 1 : 15 ; 7 : 33. 
 
 In America I never heard or read anv’thing about this religious sect. 
 
 But now I have soon written enough, still will yet, as I promised, communh 
 3ate something to you about Damascus and Babylon. 
 
 Damascus is one of the oldest cities, if not the oldest in the world. In 
 the time of Abram it was already mentioned as a town, nearly 2000 
 years before the birth of Christ (Gen. 14: 13-15 ; 15: 2). It lies in a beauti- 
 ful region about 150 miles north-cast from Jerusalem, 2000 feet above the 
 level of the Mediterranean Sea. The surrounding country is fruitful, salubri- 
 ous and very beautiful. In eastern countries it is looked upon as me Eden 
 or paradise, in which Adam and Eve first lived, and as the name is said to 
 
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 mean “ Blood-Cup” or blood of a righteous man, it is asserted that here is 
 the place where Cain slew his brother Abel. As to the ground on which 
 this assertion is based 1 have no opinion to offer. Damascus is the only 
 city of antiquity which has sustained its ancient glory as a commercial city. 
 In it the Mali or governor resides, ffhe number of inhabitants is estimated 
 at from 100,000 to 130,000, among whom are many Jews, over 15,000 Chris- 
 tians of various confessions with eight churches, also three catholic cloisters, 
 about 6000 Druses, likewise many gypsies with an Aga (chief); besides a 
 number of Beduins lounge about, who subsist mostly by theft. 
 
 About 50,000 strangers visit this place annually. The crusaders built a 
 fortress and castle here, which is at present still used as a citadel. Damas- 
 cus is to us Christians important, because it was here that the apostle Paul 
 was converted, without whose conversion Christianity would scarcely have 
 spread as rapidly as it did. About two miles south of Damascus the place 
 is shown where Paul’s conversion took place. The place is planted with 
 trees and is used as a cemetery by the Christians. (Acts 9: 1-8.) The 
 house of Ananias and Judas is still pointed out (Acts 9 ; 8-12.), as also the 
 street called Straight. The wall over which Paul was let down in a basket 
 is also still shown (Acts 9: 25; 2 Cor. 11: 33). Dam a;5cus is frequently 
 mentioned in the Bible. 2 Sam. 8: 5, 6; 1 Kings 11 : 24; 15: 18, 19. &c. 
 By oriental authors the city is called “ the pearl of the Orient,” the beau- 
 tiful as Eden,” the fragrant as paradise.” In the Old Testament Damas- 
 cus is mentioned as the town to which Abram pursued the three kings who 
 had taken Lot captive, and as the homeof Elieser his servant. Gen. 14; 15 ; 
 15: 2. King David conquered the town (2 Sam. 8: 56.), likewise Jerobeanj 
 11. (2 Kings 14 : 56.) 
 
 Jeremiah the prophet raised his voice mightily against Damascjs 
 (chap. 49: 23.) and is also mentioned by Ezekiel (chap. 27: 18; 47: 16; 
 18: 1). Under the rule of various nations it also came under that of the 
 Romans. A large number of Jews had settled in Damascus, they possessed 
 several synagogues (Acts 9: 2.) and gained many proselytes, especially 
 among the women. During Nero’s reign 10,000 Jews of Damascus were 
 killed, and in the year 1400 Timour devastated it terribly. In 1516 this city 
 was taken by Sultan Selim and has since that time been under Turkish rule. 
 The bloody work done and the devastating torch used in 1860 by the wild 
 Druses and Beduins, joined by the Turkish militaiy, in the Christian quarter, 
 is still fresh in the memory. There are many rich people in Damascus, and 
 the dress of the elite is very artistic and costly, especially that of the Jewish 
 women. These often wear turbans richly bedecked with gold, pearls and 
 jewels; around the arms they wear heavy gold chains &c., this forcibly re- 
 minds one of the women described by Isaiah (chap 3). In consequence of 
 the French expedition of 1860 the city was connected with a wagon road 
 with Beirut, upon which omnibuses drive back and forth daily. 
 
 From Damascus I went to the ancient towui of Babylon. It is situated 
 about 600 English miles east of Jerusalem and 500 miles south-east of Damas* 
 
— 377 — 
 
 cus. About the hardships and unpleasant nature of my journey from 
 Damascus to Babylon and back to Jerusalem, I will not now sa}' anything. 
 Thank God they are past. The great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod, the 
 mighty hunter, was the founder of Babylon and of the tower of Babel (Gen. 
 10: 1-10; 11 : 1-9). The event must have occurred about 2250 years before 
 Christ. At the time of Nebucadnezzar, about 600 years before Christ, it is 
 said to have had over 2,000,000 inhabitants, who gave themselves up to 
 drunkenness, voluptuousness and other vices (Isa. 13: 19; 14: 11, 12-47; 
 51). The city formed a square, each side being 15 English miles long. 
 The river Euphrates flowed through its centre. The town was enclosed by 
 a wall 400 ft. high and 100 ft. thick. The river was spanned by a bridge 
 of stone, on either end of which a beautiful castle was erected. On the 
 wall of one of these castles the hand of Jehovah wrote the words recorded in 
 Dan. 5. Nebucadnezzar brought the sacred vessels from the temple in Je- 
 rusalem and desecrated them. Dan. 5: 1-4; 2 Chron. 36: 7. As stated 
 above the city was square and each of the four sides contained 25 gates, 
 making a total of 100 gates. Between each two gates were three towers, 
 and on each corner were seven towers. The streets were all straight and 
 ran at right angles. Outside of the cit}^ wall was a large ditch, both sides 
 of which were walled up with masonry. At present this city is only a heap 
 of ruins. According to Jeremiah’s prophecy (chap. 50: 51.) nothing re- 
 mains of this great, grand, and proud city of Babylon but debris and stone, 
 infested by numerous wild and savage animals. Large hills of brick, visible 
 already from a distance, show the places where formerly stood magnificent 
 structures; the largest of these hills, lying on the western bank of the 
 Euphrates, by the natives called Bus Nimrod (tower of Nimrod), is without 
 doubt the tower of Babel built by Nimrod, the great-grandson of Noah. 
 These ruins are doubtless the oldest in the world. At the base they have a 
 circumference of 2400 ft. and rise to a. height of 200 ft. Heavy rains have 
 torn up the sides, and wolves, hyenas, lions and c.ther beasts of prey have 
 taken up their abode in them. On the top of this hill stands a pile of ma- 
 sonry 35 ft. high and 28 ft. thick, built of the finest brick, the upper part of 
 which is rent as if struck by lightning. Besides this hill of bricks there are 
 many others similar, though not quite as large. Already in antiquity and 
 during the middle ages whole towns were built of the bricks taken from the 
 ruins of Babylon, as for instance : Ctesiphon, Seleucia, Bagdad, Cufa, Hilla, 
 &c., the latter of which lies within the ruins of Babylon and has about 7000 
 inhabitants. Also a great number of mosques and other structures are erected 
 in distant parts from materials obtained from these ruins, and even at pres- 
 ent shiploads of bricks are daily taken up or down the Euphrates. As many 
 of those bricks were already made about 4000 years ago, it would be good 
 if some American brickmakers would journey thither to study the art of 
 making bricks that would at least last 100 years. Emperor Xerxes destro^^ed 
 480 years before Christ the beautiful Belus temple (doubtless the tower of 
 Babel), and when later Alexam*cr the Great permitted the inhabitants to re- 
 
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 build the same, it required 100,000 laborers for two months to remove the 
 stones and debris, and notwithstanding, this enormous hill of bricks is still 
 found here. — At the time of our Saviour Babylon was already a heap of 
 ruins. 
 
 Babylon was unquestionably the first town which was built after the floods 
 and therefore it is very interesting to thoroughly investigate the place. 
 
 Now, dear friend, I have already written so much that I am afraid you 
 will weary to read it all, but you must know that age makes communicable, 
 and if you do not find everything in regular order, you will please to excuse 
 it. If, however, it will give you any pleasure I shall later write you a long 
 letter, and inform you of my journey to Mount Sinai and many other inter- 
 esting places. 
 
 Your letters you will address as formerl}^, then I am sure of getting them, 
 if it does sometimes take a longer time. 
 
 The safe arrival of the remedies you sent me in March I believe I have 
 already communicated to you. To-day I would request you to send me to 
 the same addres 24 Resuscitators, 18 doz. bottles Oleum, and 12 English and 
 12 German books of instruction. Please to fill this order as soon as possi- 
 ble. I have had much success with your method of cure. I never go on a 
 journey without my instrument and a full bottle of oleum, and have fre- 
 <jaently had the opportunity of treating and curing my traveling companions. 
 On my trips I always leave on my first visit at the various cloisters, where I 
 am by this time pretty well known, a Resuscitator, a bottle of Oleum and a 
 book of instruction, as also verbal directions, and whenever I call again I 
 find to my joy that the monks are highly satisfied with, and very thankful 
 for the remedies. I have told several that you would likely come in 1882 
 and I assure you, you will be gladly welcomed. 
 
 Now, dear friend, a cordial farewell ! May you abide by j'our decision to 
 \isit the holy land and finally carry it into effect. I know you would not 
 I 3gret such a pilgrimage. 
 
 With many cordial greetings to your dear family, I remain in Christian l(»ve 
 Your friend LORENZ SMITKE, Missionary. 
 
 Note. Through pressure of business and for other reasons I have hitherlo 
 been prevented from undertaking the contemplated journey. J. L. 
 
— 379 — 
 
 Mendota, 111., March 12, 1886. 
 
 Bespected Mr. Linden : The blessing of God for greeting ! 
 
 We were in trouble, at least apparently, through the use of the esteemed 
 Resuscitator. A friend of mine visited a young man who had for a long 
 time been suffering from a very sore leg. The physician could not give any 
 help, except advising the amputation of the leg below the knee. My friend 
 went to the patient and applied the Resuscitator accoiding to directions of 
 your book of instructions, and the result has been a happy ow^—the leg imx 
 healed in two weeks^ thanks to your Resuscitator, and the young man is now 
 enjoying the use of his limbs. But now comes the doctor, and tells my 
 friend that he can sue him and put him under severe punishment. Now, 
 my dear Mr. Linden, I apply to you for information. Is a private person 
 actually prohibited from using the Resuscitator, not in the capacity of a 
 physician, but as a friend coming to the relief of his fellow sufferer, especially 
 if the treatment is successful, as is indeed the case in most applications? 
 I ask for information, and a speedy answer. 
 
 Your old friend and well-wisher. Rev. AVm. Goessele, 
 
 Mendota, IlIL 
 
 ^^The above was presented to the publisher in the original. 
 
 REPLY* 
 
 Cleveland, O., March 15, 1886. 
 
 Rev. Wm. Goessele— Friend! Your favor of the 12th inst. is 
 received, and am feeling Jiappy over the successful cure. The mentioned 
 threats of the doctor are ridiculous, for in the first place no one can be pro- 
 hibited to come to the assistance of his fellow sufferer and give him relief ; 
 secondly, by such proceedings of the smart (?) doctor he would disgrace him- 
 self thoroughly, and would rather, for his own interest, abstain from giv- 
 ing the successful cure still more publicity. His remarks are evidently the 
 result of his confounding, envy and jealousy. Most likely the doctor would 
 rather have pocketed the few dollars which he would have charged for am- 
 putation, than to see the young man have the use of the restored limb again. 
 As already said, nobody can prohibit you from aiding the sick ; but according 
 to the laws of most States, a license is required if one intends to practice, e. 
 to ask pay for his services, although one may receim any reward offered foi 
 rendered services, without requiring it. 
 
 Any lawyer can inform you concerning the laws of your State in this re- 
 spect. If, however, the said doctor should attempt to cause you or yoiu 
 friend any trouble, which I doubt— for it was most likely an intimidaiing 
 act on his part to prevent you from gaining further friends for the Resus- 
 citator— then please notify me of it. 
 
 Wishing you furthermore the best of results, 
 
 1 am most sincerely yours, &c., 
 
 J. Linden. 
 
— 380 — 
 
 Mt Vernon, Ind., March 28, 1887. 
 
 Mr. John Linden.— D ear Sir: Following are a few testimonials of the 
 efficacy of your Resuscitator and Oleum. All are of recent date, and truth- 
 ful statements, and you may publish all or any one of them. 
 
 I. An elderly woman was bedriddon f ur months with Rheumatism of 
 the joints, and one side of her body entirely paralysed. The people were 
 too poor to consult and pay a physician. Her husband heard that 1 had 
 your Resuscitator and Oleum, and asked me to apply them. I did so, and 
 ini mediately after the first application i)ain and lameness disappeared as if 
 by magic. 1 must here add, that where patients have not yet taken any 
 medicines, the Resuscitator and Oleum will work much quicker. 
 
 II. A young man, aged 22 years, was taken down with Rheumatism of 
 the h?D-joints. He was treated for weeks by a physician without receiving 
 any benefit. His pains were so severe as to almost drive him frantic. His 
 mother begged me to apply the Resuscitator and Oleum, but tlie physician 
 opposed it, evidently thinking it would injure his reputation. At last he 
 (the physician), after having tried all his skill in vain, consoled the patient 
 by saying that he would get better in course of time. Now I applied the 
 Resuscitator and Oleum. After the first application the young man was 
 able to leave his bed and walk around on crutches. After four applications 
 he is, thank God, almost entirely well. The cure in this case was greatly 
 delayed by the patient having swallowed such a large quantity of medicines, 
 not mentioning all the salves and ointments. 
 
 III. A girl, aged 11 years, had severe pains in her knees, laying helpless 
 for six weeks. One application with your Resuscitator and Oleum cured 
 her entirely. I could still add many similar cures of Neuralgia, etc., but 
 this is sufficient at present. 
 
 I remain, respectfully yours, 
 
 Rev. C. GEBAUER 
 
 The original ol the above testimonial was submitted to the editor. 
 
 Houston, Texas, Nov. 29, 1886. 
 
 Mr. John Linden.— 
 
 Esteemed Friend : Your Oleum received, and inclosed find 
 M. O. for |16, to pay for the same. It gives me pleasure to inform you 
 that your Oleum is all that it is claimed to be. I could inform you of many 
 a case, where, during the many years I have used your Resuscitator and 
 Oleum, they have indeed, with the help of God, been the means of savinp 
 many a life, 'bhat the doctors do not esteem your remedies, is not strange. 
 They know that your Resuscitator and Oleum is their greatest opponent in 
 their practice. 
 
 Wishing you God’s blessings, I remain very truly yours, 
 
 Rev. JACOB BADER. 
 
 The original of the above testimonial was submitted to the editor. 
 
From The Living Epistle, an evangelical monthly, edited by Rev. H. J. 
 
 Bowman, Cleveland, Ohio, September, 1879. 
 
 Manual of the Exanthematic Method of Cure. Thb 
 is the name of a medical book, by Dr, J. Linden, of this city. 
 The 14th edition of this work is before us, with over 300 
 pages of useful instructions respecting this method of cure. 
 In addition to this, the author has published a small book oj 
 testimonials that are not only astonishing, but really inter- 
 esting, especially one connected with a letter from Jerusalem, 
 which gives a fine historical account of that sacred city, and 
 the land to which it belongs. 
 
 But we cannot speak of these books without making 
 favorable mention of the method of cu^e which they teach 
 and advocate. We believe we are only doing the public a 
 favor by saying that we have found the use of this remedy, in 
 our own experience, a grand success. Twelve years ago we 
 first made a trial of it, and, on account of the benefits derived 
 from it in certain ailments, we have not felt safe without 
 having it at our command almost constantly. 
 
 For further information, address Dr. J, Linden, 948 Pros- 
 pect street, Cleveland, 0., who will send the little book above 
 mentioned free of charge to any address. 
 
 The above has been written without solicitation from any 
 one interested in the business. It is our own voluntary testi- 
 monial. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT TO SKIN DISEASES, 
 
 In Milkscab, Achor, Tetters, which are generall}^ accompanied 
 by violent itching and smarting ; in soreness, especially in small 
 children, as well as in all skin diseases ; in redness of the face, 
 pimples, rough, dry or hard skin, etc., washing twice daily with 
 my 
 
 Glycerine Milk of Sulphur Soap 
 
 and luke-warm water, will prove very beneficial. This soap will 
 soften and cleanse the skin, refresh and strengthen it; it will 
 beautify the complexion and preserve the same by continued use. 
 Will make the skin healthy and smooth. 
 
 Price per cake 50 cents. 
 
 FETERS OP CHILDREN. 
 
 (See Art. 13, page 34.) 
 
 Let it be understood, that in sickness, teething, in fact in all 
 instances where thirst is produced, fresh water should be offered 
 occasionally to children. Many children, to whom pure water is 
 never offered, but whom generally are given only sugar-water or 
 milk sweetened with sugar to drink, die of thirst Fresh water 
 should be offered to children several times a day from the first day 
 of life. Mothers should cherish the above remarks. 
 
1 
 
 I^DEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Accouchment of Women G9 
 
 Achor, Treatment 34 
 
 Acidity (Heartburn), Treatment..... 45 
 
 Adiposity, Treatment 51 
 
 xHr, the air we breathe, an essay 124 — 128 
 
 Affections of the Uvala, Treatment 38 
 
 Angina, Treatment (see also ''Quinsy ') 59 
 
 Aphtae, Treatment 49 
 
 Apoplexy, Treatment (Testimonials, 210, and 251) 03 
 
 Apparent Death Treatment 55 
 
 Appetite, Loss of. Treatment 10, 209 
 
 Arteries, Their Function 13 
 
 Arthritis, Treatment (see also " Rkeuincitisin " ) 54 
 
 Asphyxia, Treatment 55 
 
 Assimilation 12, 15 
 
 Asthma, Treatment (Testimonials, 237, 239, 249, 250, 285, and 292).... 51 
 
 Atony of the Bowels, 'Treatment 44 
 
 Atony of the Kidneys, Treatment 44 
 
 Atony of the Liver, Treatment 44 
 
 Atony of the Spleen, Treatment 44 
 
 Bad Appearance, Treatment 52 
 
 Baldness, Treatment 35 
 
 Baunscheidt, Carl, is not the inventor or discoverer of this iMethod 
 
 of Cure VIII 
 
 It has been practiced in (4iina and dapan for centuries v’lll 
 
 European and American ])hysicians have ined this Method of 
 
 Cure long before Baunscheidt was Ijorn IX 
 
 Baunscheidtisrn. The Exanthematic Method of Cure was origiu- 
 ally introduced into this country more than thirty-four 
 3 'ears ago, by and under the name of “ Baunscheidtisrn,.'' 
 because he had become acquainted with this Method in 
 Germany, where it was known by this name at that time. 
 In a large number of medical books this Method of Cure 
 is mentioned as the “Exanthematic Method of Cure,” 
 which is the proper name for it. See pp. VII 1 k IX.) 
 the inventor or discoverer. (See, also, “Baunscheidt, 
 Carl.”) 
 
2 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Bee Sting, Treatment 45 
 
 Bilious Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 2H2, 259, and 274) 50 
 
 Bilious Secretions, Disturbed 79 
 
 Bite of a Snake, Treatment 4S 
 
 Bladder, Catarrh, Treatment (Testimonial, 24.4) 40 
 
 Bladder, Stone or Gravel, Treatment (Testimonial, 410) 00 
 
 Bleeding and Cupping Banished by the Resuscitator VJI, 10, 17 
 
 Bleeding of Patients Is Injurious 16, 104 
 
 Bleeding of the Nose, Treatment (Testimonial, 215) 40 
 
 Blood, Congestion of the Blood to the Head and Chest, Treatment 44 
 
 Blood-Spitting, Treatment (Testimonial, 282) 40 
 
 Blood Is the Real Nourishment of the Body 5 
 
 Blood Is the Life Essence 10 
 
 Boiled Milk Should Be Used in Certain Cases 47, 40 
 
 Bowels, Relaxation of, I'reatment 44 
 
 Bowels, Inflammation of. 228 
 
 Brain, Inflammation, Treatment 50 
 
 Brains, Congestion of the Brains (Testimonial, 282). 
 
 Breast, Congestion of the Blood to the Breast, Treatment 44 
 
 Bronchocele, or Goitre, Treatment 02 
 
 Bronchitis, Treatment (t estimonial, 290) 59 
 
 Burn Scars, Treatment 45 
 
 Cachexie, Treatment 52 
 
 Calves of the Legs, Cramps in. Treatment 44 
 
 Cancer, Treatment... 01 
 
 Cataleps}* Cured 214 
 
 Catarrh in the Head, Treatment 49 
 
 Catarrh in the Bladder (Testimonial, 244) 40 
 
 Chest, Inflammation, Treatment (Testimonials, 208, 21 1, 244, 248, 250, 
 
 200, 275, 284, 287, and 288) 55 
 
 Chicken Pox, Treatment 08 
 
 Chilblains (Perinones) Treatment 07 
 
 Children, On children or persons of weak nerves being afraid to have 
 the Resuscitator applied : it is often sufficient to rub the proper 
 places with a woolen cloth, or stiff’ brush, and then apply the 
 
 Oleum, without using the Resuscitator 249, 2i0 
 
 Children, Diseases of Children that make their appearance eveiy 
 
 year in this country are a real terror to mothers NIII 
 
 Children, To prevent sickness, the rooms should be well ventilated 1 1 1 
 
 Children, Aphtm, Treatment *■ 
 
 Children, Cholera Infantum, Treatment (Testimonial, 205) ■ 44 
 
 Children, Colic, Treatment Mil, 49 
 
 Children, Cramps, Treatment 
 
 Children, Croup, Treatment (Testimonials, 24)1, and 251) 59, 114 
 
3 
 
 PAOE^ 
 
 Children, Diphtheria, Treatment 59^ 
 
 Children, English Sickness, Treatment 51 
 
 Children, Fever, Treatment 34 
 
 Children, Fits, Treatment 49-’ 
 
 Children, Whooping Cough, Treatment (Testimonials, 228, 243, and 
 
 291) 39 
 
 Children, Measles, Treatment ' 37, 114 
 
 Children, Milk-Scab, Treatment 34 
 
 Children, Nettle Rash, Treatment 37 
 
 Children, Putrid Mouth, Treatment 49 
 
 Children, Quinsy, Treatment 59 
 
 Children, Rickets, Treatment 51 
 
 Children, Scarlet Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 237, and 259) 58, 114 
 
 Children, Screaming, Treatment 49' 
 
 Children, Scrofula, Treatment 36- 
 
 Children, Scrofulous Impurity in the Blood of Children 110, 111 
 
 Children, Sleeplessness, Treatment 49' 
 
 Children, Soreness, Treatment 37 
 
 Children, Summer Complaint, Treatment 34 
 
 Children, Teething, Treatment 34 
 
 Children, Thrush, Treatment 49’ 
 
 Children, Vomiting, Treatment (Testimonial, 275) 41 
 
 Children, Whooping Cough, Treatment (Testimonials, 228, 243, and 
 
 291) 39 
 
 Children, Worms, Treatment (Testimonial, 243) 34 
 
 China, The use of China produces Dropsy 114 
 
 Chlorosis, Treatment 53 
 
 Chiragra (see '' Rheiirratismy) 
 
 Cholera (Testimonials, 229, 235, and 310) 3, 29, 53, 95* 
 
 Colic, Treatment (Testimonial, 242) 40 
 
 Colic in Children, Treatment 49 
 
 Congestion 81, 82 
 
 Congestion of the Blood to the Head and Breast, Treatment 44 
 
 Congestion of the Lungs and Heart, Treatment 46 
 
 Congestion of the Brain (Testimonial, 282). 
 
 Constipation, Treatment 4S 
 
 Consumption, Treatment 64 
 
 Contraction of the Sinews, Treatment 33 
 
 Costiveness, Treatment 48 
 
 Cough, Rheumatic, Treatment 38 
 
 Cough, Whooping Cough, Treatment (Testimonials, 228, 243, and 291) 39 
 
 Cramps in the Calves of the Legs, Treatment 33 
 
 Cramps of the Fingers, Treatment 33 
 
 Cramps, Gastric Cramps, Treatment 48 
 
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4 
 
 CJrampveins, Treatment (Testimonials, 212, 245, and 287) 67 
 
 ’Cramps in Children, Treatment 4^ 
 
 Crampveins (“Fanx”), Treatment 67 
 
 Croup, Treatment (Testimonials, 212, 243 and 251 59, 114 
 
 Death, Apparent Death, Treatment 55 
 
 Diabetes, Treatment (Testimonial, 313) 66 
 
 Diarrhoea, Treatment (see also Dysentery") 40 
 
 Diarrhoea, (Summer Complaint) 34 
 
 Diet, Articles of Diet as Disease-producing Agencies 117 
 
 Diet of Patient (see also '^Dyspepsia" ; read pages 117 to 124)... 30 
 
 Digestion, Irregular, &c.. Treatment (Testimonial, 269) 47 
 
 Diphtheria (see '^Quinsy." Testimonials, 208, 211, 216, 243, 248, 252, 
 and 265). 
 
 Directions, General, which should be observed in the Treatment of 
 
 Patients 28, 29, 30 
 
 Directions, Special, how to treat the different Diseases 30 — 73 
 
 Diseases, Without the co-operation of Nature, there is no Remedy that 
 
 is capable of healing Disease 4 
 
 Diseases, The proper care of the Skin by washing, bathing, brushing, 
 
 &c., prevents Disease 6 
 
 Disease, The chief seat of every dangerous Disease is in the Spinal 
 
 Column 29 
 
 Disorder of the Stomach, Treatment (Testimonials 242 and 269) 40 
 
 Dissipations are drafts on longer or shorter time, but they are always 
 
 paid 89 
 
 Disturbed Bilious Secretions 79 
 
 Disturbed Transpiration 77 
 
 Disturbed Urinary Excretions 77 
 
 Dizziness, Treatment 46 
 
 Dropsy, Treatment (Testimonial, 273) 64 
 
 Dropsy, Produced 1^ the Use of China 114 
 
 Dropsy of the Womb 276 
 
 Dysentery, Treatment (Testimonials, 263, 274, 286, and 292) 62 
 
 Dyspepsia, Treatment (Testimonial, 227) See also ?57 & 58 47 
 
 Ear, The Ear, Its Diseases and Treatment by Means of the Exanthe- 
 niatic Method of Cure. 
 
 1. How the Diseases of the Ear may possibly be prevented 174 
 
 2. Diseases of the Ear 179 
 
 (1) The Humid Scall, or King’s Tetter of the Ear-Shell 179 
 
 (2) Simple Tetter of the Ear-Shell 180 
 
 (3) The Cancerous or Creeping Tetter of the Ear-Shell 180 
 
 (4) Bloody Exudations between the Skin and Ear Cartilage... 182 
 
 (5) The Enlargement of the Blood-Vessels of the Ear-Shell... 182 
 
 (6) Inflammation of the Cartilage of the Ear-Shell 183 
 
PAGE. 
 
 3. Diseases of the External Ear Passages and of the Ear Trumpet 184 
 (1) Inflammation of the External Ear passages, in Conse- 
 
 quence of Mechanical Irritation 185 
 
 (2) Inflammation Consequent on Simple Colds 186 
 
 (3) Rheumatic Inflammations 187 
 
 (4) Gouty Inflammations 188 
 
 (5) Scrofulous Inflammations 181) 
 
 (6) Scorbutic Inflammation 1!)0 
 
 (7) Syphilitic inflammation 11)1 
 
 (8) Inflammations from Different Causes 11)2 
 
 4. Febrile Ear Diseases 193 
 
 (1) Inflammation from Acute Febrile Diseases 193 
 
 (2) Inflammation in Infants 194 
 
 (3) Furuncle of the Outer Ear Passage 194 
 
 (4) Polypus of the External Ear Passages and the 1 ympanum 195 
 
 5. The Tympanum 196 
 
 (1) Special Consideration of the Diseases of the Tympanum 196 
 
 6. Diseases of the Drum Cavity 197 
 
 (1) Acute Catarrh of the Drum Cavity 197 
 
 (2) Chronic Catarrh of the Drum Cavity 199 
 
 7. Diseases of the Internal Ear 202 — 205 
 
 Earache and Treatment 32 
 
 When is the most suitable time for the treatment of Chronic Ear 
 
 Diseases (same as Eye Diseases) 99 
 
 Testimonials of Cures of different Ear Diseases. ...214, 239, 241, 266, 289 
 
 Electro-Magnetic Power Is a Humbug 86 
 
 Elucidation 86 — 102 
 
 English Sickness in Children, Treatment 51 
 
 Encephalitis (Inflammation of the Brain), Treatment . 50 
 
 Epilepsy, Treatment (Testimonials, 233, 234, 2i)8, 270, and 294) 51 
 
 Erysipelas 48, 79, 294, 309 
 
 Exanthematic Method of Cure. Why is it called so ? Read pages 
 
 VII, VIIl and IX. It was originally introduced into this coun- 
 try more than thirty years ago, exclusively by John Linden, 
 under the name of “ Baunscheidtism,” because he had become 
 acquainted with this Method of Cure in Germany, where it 
 was known by that name at that time. In a lai;ge number of 
 medical books it is mentioned as the “ Exanthematic Method 
 of Cure,” which is the proper name for it. Carl Baunscheidt 
 has made this mode of treatment more popular in his native 
 country, and gave it wrongfully the name of “Baunscheidt- 
 ism,” and claimed and pretended to be the inventor or discov- 
 erer of this Method of Cure, while in fact it had been used in 
 
 different countries for centuries VIII 
 
 22 
 
6 
 
 PAQIt 
 
 Malliet, a Frenchman, published, in 1694, that the priests in Siam 
 
 practised this Method IX 
 
 Dr. Perkins, an American physician, practised this Method more 
 
 than fifty years ago IX 
 
 Dr. Ferdinand Schrattenholz also applied this Method of Cure 
 
 long before Carl Baunscheidt was known IX 
 
 Dr. Schauenburg wrote the first Book of Instruction on this 
 
 Method of Cure X 
 
 Dr. Faust’s remarks in regard to Doctors of the Old School XII 
 
 Explanation of this Method of Cure 1 — 9 
 
 What does it perform ? XII 
 
 It has banished Bleeding and Cupping VII, 16, 17 
 
 It is the only rational Method of Cure, because it is based upon 
 
 the process of Nature 9 
 
 It expels morbid matter from the body 19 
 
 Primary claims of this Method of Cure 21 
 
 Where should the Resuscitator be applied ? 22, 23, 29 
 
 This Method should be resorted to upon the first appearance of 
 
 Disease 9 
 
 It does not require a deep or thorough knowledge in curing Dis- 
 eases 9 
 
 The operated parts of the body should be covered with a thick 
 
 layer of wadding 28, 29, 31 
 
 Operations with Resuscitator and Oleum should be repeated, and 
 
 how often 28, 29, 30 
 
 The Resuscitator and Oleum can be used in all cases without dan- 
 ger 28 
 
 The Spinal Column being the chief seat of every dangerous Dis- 
 ease, the operations should be made there first 29 
 
 This Method of Cure can never do harm, and can be applied with- 
 out the least danger, even upon the most tender infants 30 
 
 Mode of living of the patient need not be changed materially, but 
 certain xa’ecautions should be used, which are of the utmost 
 
 importance, &c 30 
 
 It does not care for the name of any disease 73 
 
 In critical cases, and in cases of suddqn attacks of dangerous Dis- 
 eases, such as Throat infiammations, Quinsy, Dixfiitheria, Apo- 
 plexy, Cholera Morbus, Cerebral or Thoracic Inflammations, 
 Miserere, Nervous Fever, Yellow Fever, <fcc., where there is no 
 time for long consultation, the Resuscitator should be applied 
 
 after a lapse of three or four hours 29, 72, 73 
 
 Precise (lescri|)tion of the (dfects of the Resuscitator 74, 75, 76 
 
 Excnqion of .Morbid .Matter. (See ''Morbid Matter.^') 
 Exercise, ('oncerning F.xercise, an essay 
 
 128—130 
 
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 PAGE. 
 
 Eye, The Eye^ Its Diseases and Treatment by Means of the Exanthe- 
 matic Method of Cure. 
 
 How the Eye may be preserved in health, and its Diseases avoided 132 
 Specific Directions 139 
 
 1. Inflammation of the Eyes 139 
 
 [а) Catarrhal Inflammation of the Eyes 39, 140 
 
 (б) Rheumatic Inflammation of the P]yes 141 
 
 (c) Gouty Inflammation of the Eyes. 141 
 
 {d) Hemorrhoidal Inflammation of the Eyes 142 
 
 (e) Menstrual Inflammation of the E^^es 143 
 
 (y*) Puerperal Inflammation of the E^'es 143 
 
 (g) Inflammation of the Eyes in Infants 143 
 
 {h) Rose-Like Inflammation of the Eyes 145 
 
 (^) Tetter-Like Inflammation of the Eyes 145 
 
 (k) Itchy Inflammation of the Eyes 14() 
 
 (Z) Scorbutic Inflammation of the Plyes 146 
 
 {m) Scrofulous Inflammation of the Eyes 146 
 
 (w) Venereal Inflammation of the Eyes 147 
 
 (o) Syphilitic Inflammation of the Plyes 148 
 
 (p) Eg^^ptian Inflammation of the Eyes 148 
 
 2. Mucous flow of the Eyes 149 
 
 3. Effusion of Blood in the Eye 150 
 
 4. Watery AJfiuxion in the Eye 151 
 
 5. A flluxion of Pus in the Eye 153 
 
 6. Ulcerations and Swellings of the Eyes 154 
 
 (a) The Plegilops, or Sty 154 
 
 (5) P'estering Blisters of the PR elids 154 
 
 (c) Blood Ulcers 154 
 
 (d) Ulcerations of the Cornea 155 
 
 {e) Milder Swellings of the Eye 156 
 
 (f) Malignant Swellings of the Eyes 157 
 
 7. Turbidity a)ul Obfuscations of the Eefractory Mediums 158 
 
 (a) Obscurations of the Cornea 158 
 
 (b) Crystalline Lens 160 
 
 (c) The Vitreous Humor. 162 
 
 S. Nervous Disorders of the Eye 163 
 
 {a) Paralysis of the Nerves of Motion 163 
 
 (6) Undue Excitement of the Nerves 163 
 
 (c) General Weakness of the Sensational Lid 164 
 
 {d) Excessive Plxcitement of the Sensational Nerves 164 
 
 (e) Excessive Plxcitement or paralysis of the Nerves 164 
 
 {f) The Black Cataract Amaurosis'^) 165 
 
 9. Diseases of the Eye that are either Incurable or Require Sur- 
 gical Treatment 170 
 
8 
 
 1. Absence of the Eyelid IVl 
 
 2 Absence of the Eyelashes or E^ ebrows 171 
 
 3. Absence of the Iris 171 
 
 4. Absence of the Pupil 171 
 
 5. A Split Eyelid 171 
 
 6. Perforation of the Cornea 171 
 
 7. A Split of the Iris 171 
 
 8. Union of the Free Edges of the Eyelids 171 
 
 9. Adhesion of the Eye to the Eyelids 171 
 
 10. Imperfection of the Iris 171 
 
 11. The Hare’s Eye 171 
 
 12. Inversion of the Eyelids 171 
 
 13. Eversion of the Eyelids 171 
 
 14. Hernia of the Cornea 172 
 
 15. Prolapsus or Displacement of the Crystalline Lens 172 
 
 16. Prolapsus of the Iris 172 
 
 17. Prolapsus of the Eyeball 172 
 
 18. Softening of the Cornea 172 
 
 19. Softening of the Hard Tunic 172 
 
 20. Softening of the Vitreous Humor 172 
 
 21. Injuries, whether Mechanical or Chemical 172 
 
 22. Squinting {''Strabismus'') 172 
 
 23. Short-Sightedness ("Myopia") 172 
 
 24. Far-Sightedness (“ Pres 173 
 
 25. Fistula of the Tear-Sack 173 
 
 Stys on the Eyelids 42 
 
 When is the most suitable time for the treatment of Chronic Eye 
 
 Diseases ? 99 
 
 A few Testimonials will be found on pages 209, 214, 215, 220, 240, 
 
 242, 247, 248, 259, 266, 267, 286, 291 and 316 
 Exaphthalmy (over-abundance of fat) 308 
 
 Face, Pimples, Treatment 41 
 
 Face, Faceache, Treatment 45 
 
 Face, Paleness and Bad Appearance, Treatment 52 
 
 Fainting Spells, Treatment 46 
 
 Falling Sickness, Treatment (Testimonials, 234, 238, and 270) 51 
 
 Feebleness ••• 269 
 
 Feet, Swollen 293 
 
 Felon on the Finger, Treatment 49 
 
 Fever, Bilious Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 232, 259, and 274) 50 
 
 Fever in Children, Treatment 34 
 
 Fever and Ague, Treatment (Testimonials, 208, 214, 223, 239, 241, 249, 
 
 252, 253, 263, 274, 278, 282, 28(3, and 293) 42 
 
 Fever, Gastric Fever, Treatment 41 
 
page; 
 
 Fever, Intermittent Fever, (see Fever and Ague”) 
 
 Fever, Marsh Fever 212 
 
 Fever, Miliary Fever, Treatment 37 
 
 Fever, Milk Fever, Treatment 71 
 
 Fever, Nervous Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 259, and 288) 50, 114 
 
 Fever, Putrid Fever, Treatment 52 
 
 Fever, Scarlet Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 237, and 259) 58 
 
 Fever, Spotted Fever 253, 282, 283 
 
 Fever, Typhus Fever 282 
 
 Fever, Yellow Fever, Treatment (Testimonial, 311) 42 
 
 Fever Testimonials, 208, 210, 212, 214, 223, 225, 232, 235, 237, 239, 241, 
 
 249, 252, 253, 259, 261, 263, 274, 278, 282, 286, 288, 293, 3l5. 
 
 Fingers, Cramp of the Fingers, Treatment (see also ''Cramps”) 33 
 
 Finger Felon on the Finger, Treatment 49 
 
 Fits in Children, Treatment (Testimonial, 285) 49 
 
 Flatulency, Treatment 44 
 
 Food, The food we eat, an essay 117 — 124 
 
 Gastric Cramps, Treatment (see also "Cramps”) 48 
 
 Gastric Difficulties, Treatment 46 
 
 Gastric Fever, Treatment 41 
 
 General Directions for the Treatment of Patients 28, 29, 30 
 
 Glands, Swelling of the Glands, Treatment 36 
 
 Goitre, or Bronchocele, Treatment 62 
 
 Gout, Treatment (see also "Rheumatism” Testimonial 221).., 54, 78 
 
 Gravel in the Bladder, Treatment (Testimonial, 310) 66 
 
 Green Sickness, Treatment 53 
 
 Haemoptysis, Treatment 46 
 
 Haemorrhagia (Blood-Spitting), Treatment (Testimonial, 282) 46 
 
 Head, Baldness, Treatment 35 
 
 Head, Catarrh in the Head, Treatment 39 
 
 Head, Congestion of the Blood to the Head 44 
 
 Headache, Neuralgia of the Head, or Migrane, Treatment (Testimoni- 
 als, 224, 239, 240, 241, 267, 282, 288, and 291) ’.. 32 
 
 Heartburn, Treatment 45 
 
 Heart, Congestion of the Heart, Treatment 46 
 
 Heart, Enlargement of the Heart (Testimonials, 242, and 249) 97 
 
 Hemorrhoids {"Piles”), Treatment (Testimonial, 232) 57 
 
 Humbug, A few Specimens of Humbug of some Baunscheidtists... XIV 
 Humbug, Baunscheidt’s claim to be the Inventor of this Method of 
 
 Cure is nothing but Humbug VII, VIII, IX, X 
 
 Humbug, What is the greatest? 86 
 
 Hints on Hygiene 117 
 
 Hypochondria, Treatment 35, 96 
 
 Hypochondriasis, The Inducing Camse of Hypochondriasis 44 
 
10 
 
 Hysterics of Women, Treatment 35 
 
 Incubus Nightmare'')^ Treatment (Testimonial, 309) 41 
 
 Induration 85 
 
 Indurations, Old, Deep-Seated, Treatment 52 
 
 Inflammation 83 
 
 Inflammation of the Ear, Treatment 
 
 183, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194 
 
 Inflammation of the Eye, Treatment oO 
 
 Inflammation of the Brain, Treatment 50 
 
 Inflammation of the Bowels 41, 228 
 
 Inflammation of the Chest, Treatment 55 
 
 Inflammation of the Larynx, Treatment 58 
 
 Inflammation of the Pleura, Treatment 55 
 
 Inflammatory Rheumatism (see Rheumatism^' ). 
 
 Influenza, Treatment 38 
 
 Insanity, 99, 213, 254. Treatment. 50 
 
 Intoxicating Liquors should not be indulged in 30, 115, 119, 120 
 
 Intermittent Fever (see ''Fever and Ague"). 
 
 Introduction 1 — 2 
 
 Itch, Treatment (Testimonial, 243, 285) 36 
 
 Jaundice, Treatment (Testimonials, 222, 226, 239) 41 
 
 Joints, Stiffness of the Joints, Treatment 32 
 
 Kidney Disease, Treatment 44 
 
 Lameness, Paralytic, Treatment (Testimonials, 207, 210, 218, 228, 233, 
 
 234, 241, 262, 279, 294) 52 
 
 Larynx, Inflammation of the Larjmx, Treatment 58 
 
 Lassitude, Treatment 52 
 
 Lebenswecker (see " Resiiscitaior" ) . 
 
 Life, the Love of Life 11, 12 
 
 Limpness, Treatment 52 
 
 Linden’s Oleum Is not Affected by Cold Weather (see also "Oleum 
 
 Baunscheidtii") 217 
 
 Liver, Liver Complaints, Treatment (Testimonials, 268, 270, 294, and 
 
 312) 44 
 
 Lockjaw, Treatment 42 
 
 Lo.ss of Appetite, Treatment 46 
 
 Imngs, Congestion of the Lungs, Treatment 46 
 
 Lung Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 208, 212, 313 and 316 55 
 
 Mania, Treatment 50 
 
 Marsh Fever 212 
 
11 
 
 PAOB. 
 
 Measles, Treatment 37 
 
 Medicinal Diseases, Origin of, &c 1, 2, 3, 16 
 
 Melancholy, The Inducing Cause of. 44, 79 
 
 Menstruation, Suppressed, dVeatment (Testimonial, 241) 69 
 
 Migrane, Treatment (see also ^'Headache") (Testimonials, 241 and 249) 32 
 
 Miliary Fever, Treatment 37 
 
 Milk-Scab, Treatment 34 
 
 Milk. Boiled Milk should be used in certain cases 37, 40 
 
 Milkleg 69 
 
 Mineral Waters 102 
 
 Monopoly in the sale of these Remedies has been broken down by 
 John Linden, which is the reason why his competitors try to 
 
 injure him XV, XVI 
 
 Morbid Matter, Expulsion of 8, 27, 29, 239 
 
 I. Morbid Matter, the Excretion of. 76 — 86 
 
 A. Pathological Preliminary Remarks 76 
 
 (а) Disturbed Transpiration 77 
 
 (б) Disturbed Urinary Excretions 77 
 
 (c) Disturbed Bilious Secretions 79 
 
 B. Its Therapeutics 80 
 
 Necessity of removing the Morbid Secretions trorn the 
 
 body 80, 103, 114 
 
 II. Its Anti-Spastic Action 81 
 
 III. Its Irritative Action 84 
 
 IV. Its Dissolving and Resorbent Action 85 
 
 Morphine should b}* no means be used 31 
 
 Mumps (see ''Sivelling of the Glands'^) 36 
 
 Muscles, Relaxation, Treatment 49 
 
 Nervous Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 259, and 288) 50, 114 
 
 Nervous Diseases, Testimonials, 240, and 291. 
 
 Nettle Rash, Treatment 37 
 
 Neuralgia 81, 82 
 
 Neuralgia of the Head, Treatment (Testimonial, 249) 32 
 
 Nightmare, Treatment (Testimonial, 309) 41 
 
 Nose-Bleeding, Treatment (Testimonial, 215) 46 
 
 Noteworthy Observations. 
 
 Obesity, Treatment 51 
 
 Old Indurations. Treatment 52 
 
 Oleum, as Improved by John Linden, is manufactured exclusively by 
 Jiim in its full purity and efficacy. It is the choicest quality of 
 Curative Oleum, and whoever is anxious to get the very best 
 Oleum, should buy no other than the Oil that is contained in 
 
 bottles to which his Trade-Mark is affixed XIII, 26, 27 
 
 Spurious Oil, or so-called Imported Oil, should not be used.... XIII, XIV 
 
12 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Linden’s Oleum has been counterfeited; the adoption of a trade- 
 mark protects the public aj^ainst imposition 26- 
 
 To be sure of obtaining a bottle of Oleum of absolute purity and 
 assured efficacy, should not buy one that is not provided with 
 
 John Linden’s Trade-Mark 27 
 
 How and on which parts of the body it should be applied... 8, 22, 2J, 2fl 
 
 The effect of its application.. 2T 
 
 John Linden’s Improved can be used in all cases without the least 
 danger; nevertheless, it should be kept out of the eyes, mouth, 
 
 nose, and genitals 28 
 
 How to proceed if the genitals become inflamed 28 
 
 Should be plentifully applied on and between the operated parts 
 with a fine brush, &c. The parts thus operated should be cov- 
 ered with a thick layer of wadding 28- 
 
 John Linden’s Improved Oleum Baunscheidtii keeps perfectly 
 clear in cold weather, while the so-called Imported Oleum 
 
 thickens 217, 239' 
 
 On children or persons of weak nerves being afraid to have the 
 Resuscitator applied, it is often sufficient to rub the proper 
 place with a woolen cloth or stiff brush, and then apply the 
 
 Oleum, without using the Resuscitator 2o9, 276 
 
 Operations with the Resuscitator (see ''Resuscitator''). 
 
 Organism 12 
 
 Overheating, Sunstroke, Treatment 48 
 
 Pain in the Limbs 222, 222, 241, 242, 257 
 
 Paleness, Treatment 52 
 
 Palsy, Treatment (Testimonials, 210, 212, 228, 224, 251, 262, and 294) 21, 63 
 Paralysis (see "Palsy"). 
 
 Paralytic Lameness, &c.. Treatment (Testimonials, 212, 234, 262 A: 294) 62 
 
 Pathological Remarks 76 
 
 Pectoral Spasms, Treatment 43 
 
 Perinones {"Chilblains"), Treatment 67 
 
 Piles {"Hemorrhoids"), Treatment (Testimonial, 232) 57 
 
 Pimples in the Face, Treatment 41 
 
 Pleurisy, Treatment 55 
 
 Pneumonia, Treatment (Testimonials, 211, 234, 243, 248, 250, 266, 275, 
 
 284, 287, and 288) 55 
 
 Pneumonia, Tapping of the Blood in Pneumonia 89 
 
 Podagra (see "Rheumatism"). 
 
 Pollution, Treat)nent 60 
 
 Pores, Artificial made by the Resuscitator 17. 18 
 
 Pox, Chicken Pox, treatment 68 
 
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 PAGE. 
 
 Pox, Small Pox, Treatment — 67 
 
 Preface to the Fifteenth Edition. VII — XVI 
 
 Pregnancy and Its Ailments, &c 6!> 
 
 Prolapsus of the Womb, Treatment 65 
 
 Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Treatment 64 
 
 Purgatives 101 
 
 Putrid Fever, Treatment 52 
 
 Putrid Mouth, Treatment 411 
 
 Quinsy, Treatment (Testimonials, 208, 211, 216, 243, 248, 252, and 265) 50 
 
 Relaxation of the Bowels, Treatment 44 
 
 Relaxation of the Muscles, Treatment 40 
 
 Resuscitator, It is a true Family Friend VII 
 
 It has been improved by John Linden, by having the needhs 
 gold-plated by means of electro galvanism, thereby pro- 
 tecting them from rust, and rendering the operation 
 almost entirely painless, so that the most sensitive person, 
 even the tenderest infant, need not shrink from an opera- 
 tion X 
 
 It has banished the Bleeding and Cupping VII 
 
 It is in itself the representative of an entire apothecary: it 
 warms, vivifies, is an anti-spastic, and regulates the circu- 
 lation of the blood X, 16, 17 
 
 It excretes the morbid matter from the body VII 
 
 It was introduced into this country by John Linden, more 
 
 than thirty years ago Vll 
 
 The discovery of the Resuscitator 18 
 
 John Linden’s Improved Resuscitator is tlie most perfect 18 
 
 It contains more curative efficacy than all remedies put 
 
 together 21 
 
 It should be in every family 1> 
 
 It may safely be used by every adult 1, 21 
 
 Illustrations and descriptions of the Resuscitator 8, 17, 24, 25 
 
 On what parts of the body should it be applied? 22, 23, 29 
 
 How to manipulate the Resuscitator 24, 25 
 
 Needles should be cleaned 25, 28 
 
 The operated places of the body should be covered with a 
 
 thick layer of wadding 28, 29, 31 
 
 Operations should be repeated, and how often 28, 29, 30, 72 
 
 How often to repeat the operation in critical cases 29 
 
 Can be used in all cases without danger 28 
 
14 
 
 Resuscitator, The Spinal Column being the chief seat of every 
 dangerous Disease, the operations should be made there 
 
 first 29 
 
 The Resuscitator can never do harm, and can be applied 
 without the least danger, even upon the most tender 
 
 infant 30 
 
 Mode of living of patient need not be changed materially, but 
 certain precautions should be used, which are of the 
 
 utmost importance, &c 30 
 
 The i)arts of the body operated upon should be covered with a 
 
 thick layer of wadding 28, 29, 31 
 
 Application in serious Diseases 72 
 
 Precise description of the Resuscitator 74, 75, 76 
 
 The Resuscitator is a Life-Prolonger 105 
 
 On children or persons of weak nerves being afraid to h^ve 
 the Resuscitator applied, it is often sufficient to rub the 
 proper places with a woolen cloth or stiff brush, and then 
 
 apply the Oleum, without using the Resuscitator 239, 276 
 
 Resuscitators, which need repair, will be mended and put in good 
 order again at the works of John Linden, if they are sent to 
 him b^" Mail or Express. Charges Reasonable. 
 
 Rheumatism, Gout, Chiragra, Podagra, Arthritis, Fundamental Cause 
 
 of 14, 15, 16, 86, 88, 89, 115, 116 
 
 Pains in the Neck, Arms, and other parts of the Body, Treatment 30, 31 
 
 Rheumatic Inflammation of the Ear, Treatment 187 
 
 Gouty Inflammation of the Ear, Treatment 188 
 
 Rheumatic Cough, Treatment 38 
 
 Rheumatic Inflammation of the Eye, Treatment 39 
 
 Sometimes cause of Insanit}' 99 
 
 Testimonials, 206, 207, 213, 215, 2i8, 222, 239, 241, 247, 248, 249, 
 
 251, 256, 257, 258, 266, 270, 272, 281, 283, 285, 286, 287, 289, 
 
 293, 294, and 312. 
 
 Kieliets or Rhachitis of Children. T’reatment 51 
 
 Ringworm, Treatment 49 
 
 Rose in the Face 294 
 
 Running Sores, Treatment (Testimonial, 212) 62 
 
 Salutifero 61 
 
 Salt Rheum ‘^60 
 
 Scarlet Fever, Treatment (Testimonials, 237, and 259) 58, 114 
 
 Screaming of Children, Treatment 4!) 
 
 Scorbutus ( “Sr;y/rr?/”), Treatment 60 
 
 Scorbutic Inflammation of the Ear 190 
 
 Scrofula, Treatment 
 
 Scrofulous Inflammation of the Ear (Testimonials, 233, 240, and 314) 189 
 
 Scrofulous Impurity in the Blood of Children 110. Ill 
 
15 
 
 PAGK. 
 
 vScurvy Scorbutus" ) ^ Treatment 60 
 
 Sea-Sickness, Treatment (Testimonials, 223, and 296) 45 
 
 Seminal Flux, Treatment 60 
 
 Sick-Headache (see ''Headache'')^ (Testimonials, 224, 239, 240, 241, 
 
 267, 282, 288, and 291). 
 
 Sinews, Contraction of the, Treatment 33 
 
 Skin, The Skin is the most important Excretory Organ 6, 7 
 
 Skin, The Skin is the Organ of Respiration 13 
 
 Skin, Other Functions of the Skin 19, 76, 77 
 
 Sleep, Concerning Sleep, an esssty 130, 131 
 
 vSF’cplessness, Treatment 33 
 
 Sleeplessness of Children, Treatment 49 
 
 Small Pox, Treatment 67 
 
 Snake-Bite, Treatment (Testimonials, 271, and 273) 48 
 
 Somnambulism, Treatment 64 
 
 Sores, Running; Treatment (Testimonial, 212) 62 
 
 Soreness, Treatment (Testiinouials, 212, and 269) 37 
 
 Spasms VIII, 81 
 
 Spasms, Pectoral, Treatment 43 
 
 Special Directions 30 — 73 
 
 Spermatorrhea {''Pollution^' ), Treatment 60 
 
 Spinal Affections 221, 222, 224, 253 
 
 Spinal Column is the chief seat of all dangerous Disease 29 
 
 Spitting Blood, Treatment 46.. 282 
 
 Spleen, Atony of the Spleen, Treatment 44 
 
 Spotted Fever. 253, 282, 283 
 
 Stiffness of the Joints, Treatment 33 
 
 St. Anthony’s Fire 294, 309 
 
 St- Vitus’ Dance, Treatment (Testimonial, 285) 65 
 
 Stings of Bees and Other Poisonous Stings, Treatment 45, 48 
 
 Stomach, Disorders of tlie. Treatment (Testimonials, 239, 242, and 269) 40 
 
 Stomach, Weakness of the, Treatment 47 
 
 Stone or Gravel in the Bladder, Treatment (Testimonial, 310) 66 
 
 Stys on the Eyelid, Treatment 42 
 
 Summer Complaint (see also Diarrhoea'' ) Treatment (Testimonial, 
 
 274) 34 
 
 Sunstroke, Treatment 48 
 
 Suppressed Menstruation, Treatment 69 
 
 Sural Cramps (see also ''Cramps") Treatment-... 33 
 
 Swellings, Treatment 53 
 
 Swelling of the Glands, Treatment 36 
 
 Swollen Feet 293 
 
 Syphilis 68, 96 
 
 Syx)hilitic Inflammation of th > f]ar 191 
 
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 PAGE. 
 
 Tabidity, Treatment 49 
 
 Tape Worm, Treatment 55 
 
 Tetter, Treatment (Testimonial, 293) 35 
 
 Throat Diseases (see ^'Quinsy''). 
 
 Thrush, or Putrid Mouth, Treatment 49 
 
 Toothache, Treatment 31, 32 
 
 'J'rade-Mark, Illustration of. Title Page and 26 
 
 The reason why John Linden has adopted a Trade-Mark... XIII, 26, 27 
 
 The Trade-Mark protects the public against imposition 26 
 
 Each bottle contains the Trade-Mark 27 
 
 No Oleum is the Genuine Improved Oleum unless the bottle con- 
 tains this Trade-Mark 27 
 
 The exclusive use of it is secured to John Linden by Patent issued 
 
 from the United States Patent Bureau, July 3, 1877 26 
 
 Transpiration, Disturbed 77 
 
 Tubercles 96 
 
 Tumor 315 
 
 Typhus Fever 253 
 
 Urinary Excretions, Disturbed 77 
 
 Urinary Incontinence, Treatment 65 
 
 Uvala, Aflfections of the, Treatment 38 
 
 Varioloid, Treatment 67 
 
 Varix Crampveim''), Treatment 67 
 
 Ventilation Ill, 112 
 
 Vital Force 103, 104, 105 
 
 Vomiting, Treatment (Testimonial, 275) 41 
 
 Wadding, The parts of the body operated upon should be covered with 
 
 a thick layer of wadding 28, 29, 31 
 
 Weak-Minded 213, 254 
 
 Whites 33 
 
 Whooping Cough, Treatment (Testimonials, 243, 248, and 294) 39 
 
 Womb, Prolapsus of the. Treatment 65 
 
 Womb, Dropsy of the 276 
 
 Women, Remarks Concerning the Accouchment of. 69 — 
 
 Worms, Treatment (Testimonial, 243) 34 
 
 Worms, Worm in the Back 262 
 
 Worms, Tape-Worm, Treatment 55 
 
 Writer’s Cramp (see also ''Cramps”), Treatment 33 
 
 Yellow Fever, Treatment (Testimonial, 311) 42 
 
 A great number of Testimonials regarding cures are not indexed. 
 
A Word to Daughters. 
 
 I want to talk to-day to you about your mother. Y ou have, 
 perhaps, observed how troubled she looks ; you are the cause of it, 
 but you ought to drive her sorrows away. You must begin it by 
 rising in season to prepare the breakfast, and then, when mother 
 enters the kitchen and is surprised, kiss her and tell her, that it is 
 only proper that you help her. You have no idea how it will re- 
 joice her. Besides this you owe her several kisses yet. Years ago 
 whe<i 5^ou were still a little girl, she kissed your burning brow as 
 you la}^ in a high fever with swollen face, and no one else would do 
 it. At that time you did not look as well as now. And when, with 
 soiled, bleeding or bruised hands, you came from the playground, 
 your mother kissed 3’our pain away. And the thousands of kisses 
 with which she quieted j^ou, when 3"ou w ere restless!}" dreaming dur- 
 ing the night, as she bent over your little head, trying to chase 
 away the evil dreams — those kisses have borne interest these long 
 years, which you ought to pay. It is true, she is not as pretty as you 
 are, but if during these later years you had relieved her of a part 
 of her labor, the contrast would not be so great. Her face is now 
 full of wrinkles, but if you should happen to be taken ill, and she 
 would watch day and night at your bedside, then would her coun- 
 t^enance seem to you as that of an angel, and the wrinkles in the 
 dear old face as so many sunbeams. There is a day coming when 
 she will leave you. If she is not relieved of the cares of the house- 
 hold, she will leave you soon. Then will the hands calloused 
 labor, and which did so much for you, be folded over her breast- 
 and the heart that beat so v/armly for you, stand still. 'The lips 
 which you kissed much too seldom in life, will be forever closed, 
 and the weary eyes will only be open in the other w^orld. Then, 
 3hild, you will appreciate your mother — but it will be too bte. 
 
P^l^JK^SJE NOTIOii:. 
 
 Inasmuch as certain unprincipled persons have had the audacity to 
 counterfeit, or at least deceptively imitate my Circulars, Indices, Super- 
 scriptions, and Directions for use, and under this mask sell their often worth- 
 less and deleterious compounds as though they had received them from me. 
 I have felt myself constrained, for the purpose of protecting both the public 
 and myself from injury, to apply to the United States Patent Office for the 
 patenting of my Trade-Mark. This application has been granted, as shown 
 by the Certificate issued by the Chief of the United States Patent Office, 
 under date of July 3, 1877. The illustration on page 26 is an exact copy of 
 my Trade-Mark, and no one beside myself can use this without making him- 
 self liable to heavy penalties, hlvery bottle of Oleum sold by me has a label 
 with this Trade-Mark upon it, and in the bottle itself the words, “ J. Linden’s 
 Improved Oleum Baunscheidtii, Cleveland, Ohio,” are to be found, and all 
 my Instruments (the Resuscitator) have the words, “John Linden, Cleve- 
 land, Ohio,” engraved on them. 
 
 Whoever, therefore, desires to be sure of obtaining a pure, unadulter- 
 ated and curative Oleum, and an Instrument of unsurpassed excellence in 
 every respect, should under no circumstances buy a bottle of Oleum that has 
 not the above-named Trade-Mark, nor an Instrument that has not my name 
 engraved upon it. Only in this manner can the patient be quite confident 
 of securing the full benefit of this salutary Method of Cure. It is a lament- 
 able yet a well-known fact, that patients often allow themselves to be led 
 astray by pompous recommendations into using a very worthless or even 
 injurious Oleum and Instrument, by means of which this so beneficent 
 Method of Cure is brought into discredit; and generally the x)atient is dis- 
 couraged, by the use of such detrimental Oleum or Instrument, from making 
 any further effort to derive benefit therefrom. Hence this caution. 
 
 As a result of the confidence and good will which I have enjoyed for the 
 last twenty-four years, and the great enlargement of my business, and more 
 especially through the advantageous connections that I have been enabled to 
 make, during my recent tour through Europe, in the purchase of the neces- 
 sary ingredients in large quantities, T have become enabled, to my great sat- 
 isfaction, materially to reduce the price of the Oleum, as J novv send much 
 larger bottles than formerly, containing one-half as much more as those sold 
 heretofore, and yet I charge only the old price, as follows : 
 
 PRICES IIV CLEYELANl). 
 
 For an Instrument, the Resuscitator, with Gilded Needles, a Bottle 
 of Oleum, and a Book of Instruction, Fourteenth Edition, with 
 Dissertation on the Eye and the Ear, Their Diseases and Treat- 
 ment by the Exanthematic Method of Cure $8.00 
 
 Sent Free 8.50 
 
 Price of a Single Bottle of Oleum 1.50 
 
 Sent Free 1.75 
 
 A desirable reduction will be made on large orders. 
 
 Remittances should be made by Post Office Money Order, Draft on New 
 York, or the money should be inclosed in a Registered Letter. The nearest 
 Post Office, as well as the nearest Express Office, should be stated when 
 articles are ordered. 
 
 JOHN LINDEN, 
 
 Special Practitioner of the Exanthematic Method of Cure^ Cleveland, Ohio. 
 Office and Residence, 948 Prospect Street. Letter Drawer W. 
 
THE RESUSCITATOR 
 
 Is a representative, of itself, of an entire apothecary ; it acts as a 
 T epefactor, Invigorator, is an Aperient, and regulates the Circulation 
 of the Blood. Bheurnatic Pains, Headache, Toothache, Cramps, 
 Asthma, Quinsy, etc., must yield to it at once. Diseases of the Eye 
 v.nd Ear, Stiffness of the Joints, Tetter, Jaundice, Hemorrhoids, 
 Chlorosis, Gout in all forms. Inflammation of the Throat, Syphilis, 
 etc., it will certainly cure. In critical cases, such as Paralysis, In- 
 flammation of the Brain or of the Chest, Miserere, Nervous Fever, 
 Cholera, Yellow Fever, Asphyxia, etc., where there is no time for long 
 consultation, but help must be had at once, the Besuscitator has often 
 proved itself a life ver. 
 
 The simple and easy manner with which these remedies are ap- 
 plied, enables any one to use them successfully in his own family. 
 
 In the many diseases to which children, especially in America, 
 are subjected, such as Quinsy of the Throat, Diphtheria, Cramps, 
 Whooping Cough, etc., the Besuscitator has especially proved a bene- 
 factor; and I may boldly claim that no remedy has yet been found 
 that is so certain to cure these diseases as the Besuscitator, in connec- 
 tion with the Oleum, which I alone manufacture iu its absolute purity 
 with special refereuce to this climate. Thousands of testimonials 
 have been sent to me, not only from all quarters of the Union, but 
 also from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, England and 
 Germany, in which the cure of loved children, suffering from one or 
 the other of these maladies, is gratefully acknowledged. I desire to 
 state distinctly however, that I can give assurances of a cure by this 
 treatment of these dangerous diseases, only in cases where the Oleum 
 and Instrument manufactured by myself are used. 
 
 A favorable result from the use of this method of cure depends 
 essentially upon the use of a good, puj-e and unadulterated Oleum, 
 free from all deleterious substances, having only such ingredients as 
 are needed to facilitate the extraction of the morbid matter from the 
 body. Upon this rests the fundamental principle of this method of 
 cure ; and no one can expect a favorable result, unless he uses the 
 true and unadulterated Oleum, and may count himself fortunate if 
 he does not, by the use of a bad oil, (which, I am sorry to say, is often 
 urged upon the public as genuine,) inflict a new and tedious disease 
 upon himself. For more than 25 years I have devoted my entire time 
 and directed all my energies to the introduction and spread of this 
 simple, and yet very beneficent method of cure, which has now hosts 
 of friends in all parts of the world. I may truly say that by my ef- 
 forts alone I have secured it thousands of new adherents : not by per- 
 suasion, but simply by the numerous happy results which I have been 
 able to show, attested by a correspondence extending over the whole 
 Union, and to the lands beyond the seas. I have also had an ample 
 abundance of slander and suspicion directed against me, inspired by 
 grudging envy, endeavoring in vain, through means of circulars, 
 newspapers and pamphlets, to undermine and destroy the confidence 
 of the public which I have for many years enjoyed. The field of my 
 labors is daily expanding, and the number of my patrons is daily in- 
 creasing ; and thus I am able to say, with some allowable degree of 
 seh-congratulation, that the sinister insinuations directed toward me 
 ha\’e effected the exactly opposite result from what they were designed, 
 and that the public are far removed from the probability of leaving an 
 old and well-tried adviser and business friend for the sake of the ob- 
 truding, insolent and loud-mouthed declaimer. 
 
 By prompt attention to all orders, as well as by furnishing only 
 the best and the purest remedies, I shall endeavor to justify the con- 
 fidence so largely reposed in me, and to perpetuate the same. 
 
 JOHN I.INDFN. 
 

 
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