1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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they could not catch the millions of people, 

 and cure them as thev have cured me. Not- 

 withstanding, I do think they might make 

 a smaller price and still get rich. Let me 

 say to their credit, however, that the volu- 

 minous circular or pamphlet they send free 

 on application, telling all about our skin dis- 

 eases, is certainly worth something. In this 

 respect they are doing missionary work. 



Now, while I am about it, I want to speak 

 of poultry remedies. In one of the journals 

 right at hand, about twenty different mala- 

 dies among chickens are inentioned, and a 

 medicine is prescribed for each. The price 

 is 50 cts. a box. There is quite a lot of 

 salves, and diflferent kinds of salve for each 

 malady. 



Now for the last paragraph in friend 

 Keek's letter. Some months. ago I got a 

 box of the remedy he mentions — Yougart. 

 I have been taking two tablets every day, 

 and my digestion has been excellent; but at 

 the same time I have been taking a daily 

 bath, massage, and going without my sup- 

 pers. Was it the Yougart that made me 

 feel so well or these otlier things? As Dr. 

 Miller often says, "I don't know." I have 

 been praying that the heavenly Father 

 would give me wisdom in all these matters. 

 I do not know that I should have mention- 

 tioned Yougart at all; but about two weeks 

 ago I finished the little box, and my diges- 

 tion has not been so good since then. Was 

 the Yougart so beneficial or was it some- 

 thing else? T. B. Terry has recently declar- 

 ed quite vehemently against charging a 

 dollar for this little box of tablets contain- 

 ing concentrated buttermilk or something 

 of the sort. Yes, a great lot of other people 

 think as friend Keck does, that they have 

 been greatly benefited by Yougart. But, 

 listen. Since I have spoken about Oxydo- 

 nor and Oxygenator, a lot of circulars have 

 been sent me. I will mention briefly one of 

 the testimonials. A little girl had fits. Her 

 mother paid doctor after doctor big sums of 

 money, but her affliction became worse in- 

 stead of better. Then she paid $14.00, or 

 perhaiis $40.00 (I can not remember which), 

 for that silly trap about as big as a nest egg, 

 and hitched it to the girl's ankle by means 

 of a wire. She never had any more fits aft- 

 erward, so the mother said, and was getting 

 strong and well. How do I explain it? Well, 

 the most probable explanation to me is that 

 no such mother or little girl ever existed. 

 Some mother may have been hired to fur- 

 nish the above. The Duffy whisky people 

 are accused of doing this kind of work; but 

 if there is such a mother and little girl, na- 

 ture might have got ready just then to help 

 the little girl outgrow her malady. 



Let me repeat an incident of some little 

 time ago. I got a severe "crick" in my 

 back by lifting. Ernest said an osteopathic 

 doctor could fix me out immediately, so I 

 would be all right in the morning. I said 

 I would give five dollars to have the thing 

 done. I was interested in it from a scientif- 

 ic point of view. Ernest telephoned the 

 doctor to come right down; but he was away 



from home, and could not come till the fol- 

 lowing morning. But the experiment was 

 never made, because, after I got a good sound 

 sleep, I was entirely well. In the morning 

 no symptoms remained of the distressing 

 trouble of the night before. Now, in the 

 above I am not saying any thing against 

 the science of osteopathy. I am only re- 

 minding you of what everybody ought to 

 keep in mind — that we get over things of 

 this sort, many times, without doing any 

 thing at all. Had the doctor come down 

 and treated me, I do not suppose anybody 

 could have persuaded me that his treatment 

 had nothing to do with my recovery. 



Now, when you are tempted to buy ex- 

 pensive remedies at the drugstore, think of 

 what I have been telling you. Most of the 

 liniments, witch hazel, etc., direct tliat they 

 be applied with much rubbing, and the rub- 

 bing does the business, not the medicine. 

 The State of Ohio saw fit to send a repre- 

 sentative recently to talk with me about 

 Electropoise, Oxydonor, etc. In speaking 

 of the testimonials from those who have 

 used them, I said to the doctor: "The di- 

 rections for using Electropoise are, after 

 hitching it on the ankle, to lie down on 

 the bed, and remain so for an hour or 

 more — well, does not common sense teach, 

 as well as past experience, that if the aver- 

 age tired nervous woman will go off by her- 

 self in the middle of the day, and take a 

 good rest, after an hour or two she will be 

 greatly benefited?" He assented, and later 

 I submitted the matter to Mrs. Root, and 

 she said she had tested it a thousand times, 

 and found it true; and she did not have any 

 Electropoise hitched to her ankle either, 

 thank God. 



Heigh-ho! Riaht liere comes a testimo- 

 nial in favor of Electropoise. Read it: 



Mv. Root: — In your issue for Oct. 1, p. 642, in your 

 reply to Otto Saurer, you speak of the Oxydonor 

 and Electropoise as worthless, with Mr. Colling- 

 wood, of the Rural Xew -Yorker. I think it is fair to 

 hear both sides, I have no financial interest in ei- 

 ther of these machines: but we have both of them, 

 and either of them will cure (or perhaps I should 

 say relieve) a case of frosted feet quicker than any 

 other remedy I have ever known, and I have had 

 the advice of one of the best physicians in the coun- 

 try too, When, a few winters ago, I used the Elec- 

 tropoise for another ailment at a time when my 

 feet were so swollen and sore that 1 could hardly 

 walk, the feet suddenly got well. I had made a dis- 

 covery, and that without the exercise of any faith 

 in the matter. I have, since that, tested this truth, 

 and twice on cases where the men could not walk, 

 and in every case the feet have got well as fast as 

 possible, and without regard to their faith. Since 

 my discovery I have wanted a chance to make it 

 public. You have made the chance for me. You 

 who have genuine Electropoises or Oxydonors, do 

 not throw them away. Your neighbor may have 

 trouble with his feet this winter. 



Alanson E. Rittenhouse. 



State Road, Del., Oct. 7. 



My good brother, you say in the above 

 your feet "suddenly got well." I believe 

 vou, and I am glad they did get well; but 

 how can you prove that Electropoise had 

 any thing to do with it? See wliat I said 

 about the crick in my back that disappear- 

 ed so quickly that it seemed almost mirac- 

 ulous. 



