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imbibed the same spirit, and now seek the elixir of life 

 in the stale and filthy serums of the lower animals. 

 Yet such delirium will not satisfy the searcher after 

 the eternal truths which underlie all nature, for he 

 will take his stand upon justice, reason and common- 

 sense. He will always regard with abhorrence and dis- 

 gust any so called discovery of science emanating under 

 the cover of secrecy, as in the case with antitoxins, 

 animal extracts, lymph compound, etc. 



Taking filthy extracts from certain glands of the 

 lower animals and injecting them into a human being 

 is revolting, and the practice is disgusting. 



Dr. Roberts is not alone in performing miracles. In 

 Buffalo, N. Y., there is a man who cures people after 

 they have had "eighty-one hemorrhages from the lungs, 

 sometimes spitting five pints of blood at one time." 

 Five times eighty-one is four hundred and five pints, 

 equal to about four hundred and five pounds. The 

 weight of the body is thirteen times the weight of the 

 blood it contains. Thirteen times four hundred and 

 five is five thousand two hundred and sixty-five pounds. 

 People who live in Buffalo must grow very large. 

 Some stories are too thin, but this one is too thick. 



If Dr. Pierce, the advertiser, can cure a man who 

 has had eighty-one hemorrhages of five pints each, per- 

 haps he can cure a man who has had eighty-two hemor- 

 rhages of six pints each. In fact, it is not unreason- 

 able to suppose that all manufacturers of secret nos- 

 trums, whether patent medicines, antitoxins, lymph 

 compound or animal extracts, are playing a game with- 



