CHAPTER VIII. 



HISTORY OF MY DISCOVERY. 



I WILL now go back to the first few months while my 

 discovery was before the pubhc. This will necessitate 

 the narration of several interesting incidents which have 

 taken place in the interval. 



It will readily be understood that my correspondence 

 has been large. For some time I was in direct personal 

 communication with my patients. They would write 

 me full particulars with all details of their complaints 

 as far as they could give them, and all such letters I 

 replied to personally, giving advice as to the best way 

 to use the remedy and all necessary instructions. But 

 people soon acquired confidence. They soon learned 

 what to do. The reputation of the medicine spread, 

 and people ordered it without writing any particulars 

 or asking any information. In this way thousands of 

 people have availed themselves of it, but of whose mala- 

 dies I know nothing. The information that came to 

 me was surprising, but it is not necessary to detail it 

 here. Where full statements were given I learned the 

 varieties of the disease that doctors described, the effects 

 of climate, the quantity of medicine that had been swal- 

 lowed, and the large sums of money spent in fees and 

 drugs which had entirely failed to do any good. 



I had letters containing pitiful stories of distress and 

 misery quite unalleviated by the medicines prescribed, 

 and many wrote me who said that they were bedridden ; 

 others, that they were nearly helpless and unable to 

 move ; and others, again, whose powers to work and earn 

 their living had been terribly interfered with. I was at 

 times amazed at the revelations put before me, and 

 found in all an indorsement of the results of my own 



