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aware of the numberless tricks and devices that are 

 used to deceive and take advantage of the sick. There 

 seems to be something very heartless in a system which 

 enables any set of men to avail themselves of the time 

 when a person is suffering, and perhaps in despair, to 

 prey upon his credulities in order to draw money from 

 his purse. Many physicians are more regardful of their 

 own honor and the people's rights, and when they waste 

 time in diagnosis it is done in ignorance. They believe 

 they are enlightening themselves and serving their pa- 

 tient, not knowing that all the trouble they take is 

 unnecessary. 



While expressing this opinion, I cannot be blind to 

 the spirit of charity which abounds in the medical pro- 

 fession, whose members certainly do more for their 

 fellow- men, without thought or hope of reward, than 

 any people who depend upon their own efforts for their 

 livelihood. People owe more to the physician than they 

 acknowledge or perhaps realize. Nevertheless medical 

 science is imperfect, medical ethics are obstructive, and 

 medical men, even when acting up to the fullest re- 

 quirements of their profession, are too often in a rut 

 that leads them to error and militates against the best 

 interests of the sick. 



There is much evidence at hand of the value of my dis- 

 covery. It may not be necessary. I have probably ad- 

 duced enough already to satisfy my readers, but I wish 

 to make this work as complete and as thorough as pos- 

 sible. I must therefore cover the whole ground, in jus- 

 tice both to myself and to the public. I have already 

 mentioned that some of the doctors foretold how my 

 discovery would go the way of quack medicines, by 

 which they meant that in a few months it would be for- 

 gotten. The present state of my business, the facts that 

 there are many factories engaged in making the microbe- 

 killer, that it is already established throughout the 

 United States and is being sought after in Europe, in 

 other parts of the great American continent, and in Aus- 

 tralia, all go to show what false prophets those doctors 



