“Getting
Better—Thank You” by Warren H. Booker, in the April, 1919 issue of The
Health Bulletin, published by the North Carolina State Board
of Health
Last month we
published the picture and told the story of a poor, emaciated consumptive in
the last stages of the disease, who had wasted his time and his chances of
recovery while taking some 20 bottles of “Nature’s Creation,” a patent medicine
fake advertised as a consumption cure.
We have just
received the following letter, regarding the consumptive after he stopped
taking patient medicine and entered a sanatorium for the treatment of
tuberculosis.
“It may interest you to know that the patient who used these numerous
bottles of Nature’s Creation has gained 17 pounds under treatment at the
Sanatorium, and while physicians do not believe that he can recover, his life
will probably be prolonged. At the time of his admission into the institution,
it was our opinion that he would be unable to live for more than a few weeks.
His condition at this time was a striking illustration of the effects of
Nature’s Creation.”
Little comment is
necessary in regard to the value of consumptive cures. Without fear of contradiction,
we unhesitatingly brand as frauds and fakes that great host of patent medicine
consumption cures. The only known cure for consumption is rest, fresh air,
proper food and careful living.
(Nature’s Creation,
like many patent medicines of the time, contained lots of alcohol.)
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