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by the worst motives. I have defeated such attacks in- 

 variably, and with the help of the pubHc w^hom I shall 

 have enlightened I can go on and beat down all opposi- 

 tion, whether it comes from a want of knowledge or from 

 evil minds and jealousy. My army of friends, patients, 

 and supporters is growing day by day, and there are 

 hundreds, nay thousands, of physicians assisting me in 

 the exposure of medical science as it is taught in the 

 schools and practised in the hospitals and medical col- 

 leges. 



It was at Austin, Texas, my own home, that the peo- 

 ple first enabled me to introduce this medicine through- 

 out the broad land of America, and they did so because 

 they saw I cured the people who came to me. Many of 

 them had influential friends elsewhere in the United 

 States, and they sent to them accounts of the fame of 

 my discovery. Frequently they forwarded medicine at 

 the same time to persons whom they knew to be in need 

 of treatment, and often my circulars went with it. The 

 only publication I had at that time was a small four- 

 page print, and it brought me hundreds of people who 

 benefited by the treatment and then themselves adver- 

 tised the wonderful powers of my discovery. But my 

 business grew so rapidly, and so earnest a desire was 

 evinced to know more about my medicine, that I soon 

 found it necessary to enlarge my publications, and what 

 was at first but four small pages grew in two years to a 

 large octavo pamphlet of fifty pages. This contains in 

 not the least valuable portion a number of testimonials 

 from persons who have been cured by my treatment, 

 and they are unimpeachable. 



Still the public curiosity was not satisfied. .Intense 

 interest was very naturally felt in the discovery, which 

 was recognized as something not only wonderful in its 

 effects, but evidently calculated to bring about a sweep- 

 ing reform in the management of disease and in the 

 methods of medical men. Further than that, I had in 

 self-defence to protect myself against the machinations 

 of unprincipled people, and for that there seemed to be 



