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What more could be wanted to vindicate an inventor, 

 a discoverer of new theories, than the result of the con- 

 troversy ? What seemed at first persecution proved to 

 be a wonderful benefit. 



The success with which the microbe-killer met caused 

 imitators to become active. In his safe Mr. Eadam has 

 dozens of circulars from quacks who were selling and 

 manufacturing imitation microbe-killers. Some even 

 went so far as to use Mr. Eadam's name and portrait as 

 the name and portrait of the seller of the medicines al- 

 leged to be cures. Some even used jugs identical with 

 those used by Mr. Eadam for the convenient keeping 

 of his microbe-killer. Mr. Eadam has won many suits 

 against these impostors, and has many suits still pending 

 which he cannot fail to win. 



Seven years ago Mr. Eadam knew absolutely nothing 

 about medicine except what he had learned by drawing 

 similes between plant and animal life. By transferring 

 his knowledge of plant life and plant disease to the hu- 

 man system he had accomplished in the simplest manner 

 what regular physicians could never have accomplished. 

 In reality he was the apprentice or the '^greenhorn," 

 referred to in the beginning of this article, who brought 

 about what the master of the prof ession could not. What 

 Edison did for the electrical world, Mr. Eadam did for 

 the medical world, with this difference : Edison's inven- 

 tions were designed to benefit mankind, while Mr. Ea- 

 dam's discoveries were to save the lives of sick people. 



In spite of the fact that Mr. Eadam is not a physician, 

 he knows more about diseases and microbes to-day than 

 any other living man. To the objections and persecu- 

 tions of medical men and alleged scientists who claimed 

 that microbes were not the cause of disease, Mr. Eadam 

 simply said, as Harvey imitated Galileo, ^^ All diseases 

 are caused by microbes for all that." 



Then Mr. Eadam had no actual proof of his theories 

 regarding microbes except his convictions and the cures 

 brought about by his microbe-killer. To-day he is in a 

 different position. During those seven years he has 



