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it impossible that I could put up the right medicine 

 without knowing every particular, and perhaps some of 

 them may have felt a little distrust on that account. 

 But if their confidence failed them it was not to be won- 

 dered at. They had been deceived so often that they 

 were naturally suspicious, and when people who wanted 

 all details had failed, and I undertook to cure without 

 such minute information, their suspicions were not likely 

 to be lessened. I often had great difficulty in explaining 

 this, and that I had only one remedy and one way of 

 using it, which is all tha,t is necessary, as there is but one 

 cause of disease. 



Then, again, they could hardly believe that I, who had 

 myself been so long a victim to disease, and who had 

 been so often deceived — I, too, a nurseryman and florist, 

 could have discovered a remedy which thousands of 

 physicians and men of science had been looking for in 

 vain. It perhaps seemed strange. There were men en- 

 gaged in scientific studies, devoting their lives to the 

 treatment of disease, to the examination of remedies, 

 aided with money, power, and protection from the law, 

 with all the resources possible in this world to such kind 

 of research, and they had failed ; while I, a plain man, 

 from a so-called backwoods country, without any such 

 advantages, with very little money, and without any 

 protection, had been able to start a discovery of my own 

 which would revolutionize medical science, upturn all 

 old theories, stop the processes of deception, enlighten 

 the people on matters most important to themselves, and 

 all by a simple and efficacious cure. This was done by 

 simply putting natural proofs before the public, so that 

 they could not fail to believe what they saw, in place of 

 going out of my way to describe some evil spirit that I 

 had not seen. I had raised a foundation that no power 

 in the world can break down, and the reader who will 

 follow me to the end will see that I have been able to 

 ward off all kinds of attacks, some of them of the most 

 infamous and malicious character, absolutely untruthful, 

 and based upon ignorance where they were not inspired 



