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ous to know how the microbe -killer would act in other 

 diseases, but I had some fears. I thought : ^^ Suppose I 

 give my remedy to some patient who is under the care 

 of a doctor, and suppose he should die from the poisons 

 that that physician would be giving him ; the blame 

 might be charged to my bottle, and I might get indicted 

 for manslaughter." 



I knew such cases had happened, and I was well aware 

 that the doctors or their organization would be but too 

 glad to get hold of me and to put me in just such a posi- 

 tion. They do not tolerate any interference from out- 

 side their own body, and although they themselves may 

 kill, they do not allow other people even to cure if they 

 can help it. I thought so much of my discovery that I 

 dreamed of it, and one night it seemed to me that the 

 people must have it. After that I could not resist ask- 

 ing my workmen if they knew of any sick persons 

 around the neighborhood. ^' Yes," said one, '^ I know 



a man, George P , who has consumption pretty bad. 



His sister will probably die of it soon, for his whole 

 family have died of it." ^^Well," I thought, ^' if that 

 man dies nobody can blame me. " So I determined to 

 take the risk, and I gave orders to have the man brought 

 to me. He came, and I saw a mere skeleton. The man 

 had wasted away. He was pale and bloodless, with 

 sunken eyes and the hectic flash peculiar to phthisis ; 

 he was worn out with a cough and reduced to a terrible 

 degree of weakness. Death was staring him in the face, 

 and he well understood that the doctors held out no hope 

 for him. I talked to him and told him that I would give 

 him something to cure him. I explained that it had 

 cured me, and I was in a condition little better than his 

 own. I advised him how to use the water, and,requested 

 him to come around again soon and let me know how it 

 worked. 



Another of my men told me of a woman who for six 

 months had been under a doctor's care, suffering from a 

 large growth and much pain in one of her breasts, and 

 .she wished also to try the preparation. But I explained 



