NOW, WHY IS IT.
That after 5000 years of study and practice '. physicians are still nnable to cure such common ailments as Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Kidney and Liver troubles, &c.! Common sense convinces one that something must bo wrong. Other branches ol science, surgery, i dentistry, &c, have achieved wonderful results, while medicino still remains to a great extent an experiment, for a latter-day example of which we have only to look to Dr Koch's alleged consumptive cure. Thinking people are exclaiming: " Why all these injurious drugs 1 Why all these large bills and yet no -cure? Surely the doctor ought to relieve rao after his 5000 years of profound study. Can it bo he is still groping in the dark ? Let us take an illustration : Here is an ordinary headache, known to the doctor since Adam's time, and yet, what physician can cure it ? Now, if a physician, after all the knowledge his profession has acquired in 5000 years, cannot cure a simple headache, how can he undertake to cure the more serious disorders which affect the human family? In 12 months how much do you spend for medicines? How much do you pay your doctor? And yet no cure! Now, will you keep right on spending such sums or will you try, at no risk, a simple, inexpensive, and most agreeable remedy, Electricity —Nature's own cure 1 Those suffering from any pain, ache, or ill-feeling from any cause, those who seem "pretty well" and yet lack energy and do not "feel up to the mark," those who suffer from the inroads of insidiouß ailments for which ordinary medical aid seems to afford no relief, we strongly urge to at once try Dr Scott's Electric Corsets, Belts, and other appliances. These remarkable curatives have been universally approved by leading scientists and physicians as the best, safest, and most effectual remedy for Spinal Complaints, Incipient Consumption, Diarrhoea, Pleurisy, Epilepsy, Lumbago, Debility, Paralysis, Hysteria, Cutaneous Diseases, Nervousness, Backaches, Indigestion, Palpitation, &c, and have cured some of the most obstinate and distressing cases, after all other remedies (so-called) have failed. This persistent use strengthens and tones up the nervous system—the electric circulation of the human frame—and enables it to sta.ve off the incipient inroads of disease. The celebrated Dr W. A. Hammond, of New York, formerly Surgeongeneral of the U.S. Army, lecturing upon this subject, advised all medical men to make trial of these agencies, describing at the same time most remarkable cures he had made even in cases which would seem hopeless. Dr Scott's Electric Corsets are gentle and pleasant supports which encircle the waist with neat and accurate fit, aiding by the vitalising properties of electricity the functions of the nervous organisation. Worn by the principal Royal Families of Europe, and by the elite of American and Continental and Australian society, they are endorsed by over one million ladies, and as they do not exceed in cost the ordinary goods of other makers, without the electric or therapeutic value of any kind, who will refuse to give them a trial ? These Corsets do not differ in appearance from those usually worn, as we substitute our flat steel magnetods in place of the ordinary corsetsteels. They are elegant in shape and finish, made after the best French models, and warranted satisfactory in every respect. Those who have tried them say they will wear no others. Most of the above applies to the Electric Belt for gents. These goods should not be confounded with the many spurious and worthless Electric and Magnetic appliances foisted upon the market by unscrupulous and irresponsible parties. We challenge the world to produce such effective and cheap appliances as our Corsets and Belts, and would caution the public to see that the words Dm Scott and Electric, as well as the name of the proprietors, The Pall Mall Eleotbio Association, is on each article. None other are genuine. Everything that is good in the present day is sure to have a host of empirical imitators, and the inventions of Db Scott are no exception to the rule, and there are many spurious imitations advertised under high-sounding titles. Beware, then, of fraudulent, worthless imitations made up to trade upon our reputation. Do not be deluded by circulars, pamphlets, and letters of unfeeling and unscrupulous impostors, who recommend galvanic or voltaic belts, bands, chains, &c, containing different kinds of metals, which are made to decompose or decay by the application of acids or the action of the perspiration upon them. They invariably cause serious sores, leading frequently to blood-poisoning and possible death. Dr Scott's Electric Corsets and Belts have been universally endorsed as honest and valuable remedies, as, innumerable testimonials, more than sufficient to fill the columns of this paper many times over, unimpeachably prove; and they are more effective than all the magnetic appliances ever invented, however high-priced.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9137, 9 June 1891, Page 3
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