Secret remedies : $b What they cost and what they containBritish Medical Association
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Secret remedies : $b What they cost and what they contain
British Medical Association
Patent medicines
Dear Sir,—I have been expecting to hear from you as to
how the treatment I sent you some time ago has affected
you. I sincerely trust that you have derived benefit
from it. As I think I told you before, some cases are
naturally much more difficult to cure than others, and
take longer time, as in most cases the disease has
been for years getting a firm hold on the system, and
cannot, therefore, be eradicated in a few days.
I assure you I should be the last to induce you to
spend money, unless I honestly thought and believed
that the treatment would benefit you. I have been a
fellow sufferer myself, and know what it did for me
by persevering after everything else had failed. If,
therefore, you are not yet cured, I think it is only
my duty to strongly urge you to persevere with the
treatment, and if you hesitate to do so owing to the
money being a consideration to you, I am willing to
meet you as far as I possibly can, and will send you
the complete 6s. 3d. case for 4s. 6d. post free, which
is just cost price, or I will send you the Blood Wafers
for 2s. 2d. per box post free instead of 2s. 10d., or
the Crème for 2s. 2d. post free instead of 2s. 10d., or
the Powder for 7d. instead of 9d. post free.
I am offering you this very great reduction in price
as I am most anxious that you should be cured, as I
am quite certain that you will be if you persevere
steadily.
Do not be afraid of troubling me by writing me fully as
to how the treatment has affected you, as I can assure
you that I am quite as anxious to cure you as you
yourself are to be cured, and I take a special interest
in your case.
Trusting soon to hear from you.
Yours truly,
E. AVICE.
The booklet already referred to contained a sworn statement by Mrs.
Avice detailing her own sufferings and cure, the latter being due to
“a dear old friend, an M.D.” Further paragraphs, not in the sworn
statement, were as follows:
It remained for my old friend, the Doctor, to whose
discoveries I owe my cure, to find the only certain
remedy for this dread complaint. For years he studied
and searched to find a cure for that curse of hot
climates, the “prickly heat,” a very distressing
form of Eczema which is very prevalent in warm
countries, and which few Europeans escape. At last his
perseverance was rewarded, and the long sought for
Remedy found and used with the greatest success both
abroad and after his return to England. Since his death
I have still further improved on and perfected his
ideas, and have evolved my now well-known “Paciderma,”
which has met with the most startling success in every
case in which it has been tried....
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