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their hearing free instruction in lip reading. A deaf person may use 

 an ear trumpet or some other device for collection sound waves, but 

 such devices do not cure deafness and some may be very dangerous. 

 If one is so unfortunate as to be deaf, learning how to read the lips is 

 about the only method a person has of clearly understanding what 

 another says. 



Some "Deafness Cures'* 



Here are typical advertisements of three worthless or 

 dangerous devices for deafness: The " Morley Ear-Phone," 

 the "Wt'Uon Ear-Dram" and the "Way Ear-Drum." 



None of them will cure deafness! Each of them maj do great harm! 



The WAY "ear drums" 

 sell for $5.OO, 



The amount of damage they 

 may do is incalculable! 



WILSON'S "toireless 

 phones" sell for $5.OO 



As cures for deafness they are 

 not worth five cents! 



The MORLEY "phones" 

 sell for $5.OO 



Four hundred eaually effective and 

 dangerous devices can be made 

 from a few cents' worth of oiled 

 silk and a spool of thread! 



"In all cases of ear disease ..to go to the quack is madness, sheer madness. ' 'Evan Yellon 



FIG, 161. 



Water as a Medicine. A person should drink an abundance of 

 water, as it has a cleansing effect on the body. If taken before 

 eating, it clears out and washes the stomach. Water also dilutes 

 the blood, assisting in carrying off waste matter, such as uric acid. 



There are many so-called mineral waters which, ifc is claimed, 

 have curative value because they contain certain salts and chemicals. 

 In most cases where people have been cured by drinking such waters 

 it is probably because of the air, exercise, and out-door life which 



