Wore a Torture | BELT. I Suffered Terrible Agany ! From wearing an Electric Be!:, charged by the use of SULPHSEIG iCID, Mr W. Folley, Alfred Woollen Mills, Wilham,~towa, Vie., writing to the Dr M'Laughlin Electric Belt Company, te.Hs how he was scarred aiid burned by the use cf al''r«*fi 3?CSS, which Le bad erroneously been kd to Relieve was as good as theirs. Ho paid £4 for Tho fs c< l /ftßt»i t becausa lie had been convinced tliau by paying this CRish price h-e wjis obtami'ig a similar appliance to Ih- il'Xaugnlin'b Famous Re-ju-venator, which has gained World-mide Fame as a Curative agent. It goc-6 to chow how misleading- are advertisements which seem to ofter something for nothing. Gentlemen. — In answer to your kind inquiries after my health, I beg to state that I have been -completely cured of the Sciatica that has troufod me for years. I cannot thank you enough for your gentlemanly treatment and fair dealing with your patients, as I know from others that their treatment lias been ihc same a? mine. I may ju«3t af woll let you know my experience m seeking a cur-e for my trouble Were I purchased one of your High Grade Belts I hnd been under doctors and received scant relief ; and also tri-ed various quacks, but it was all the same. I tlvcn placed myself in the hands of a specialist (in Melbourne), guaranteed to cure Rheurnatifm aud Kciaticn, hub recoh-ad very small benefit from the tr-eatntsut. I i.hen had mv attention drawn to Electricity. W' 11. [ thouc'it. ''Xover venture, never win," so I PROCURED firtt of all a Belfc far £1, ana \im much disappointed because I was informed that it was r cecessary to take a long ancl cxc&cdin-g'y expensive course cf diug treotincoii. I would not. do this : and then I wrcto for, and obtained i so-called IFr? I**1 ** £i»c*M, with p. most- "■ Wonderful IVdig-rco," at a co^t of £•?■. I wore tho belt accoi'dinj to the iiiar.uctioiis ghen faithfully for a period of five \i s-eks, and by that time I was Timut and BH.nerod so badly that I coald iiot wear it longer, ?.nd still no relief wa^ gained, akhouqli tiis bc-lt guaranteed to Curo Anything in. Sciatica in One Month Yen bet I was vvy lvji-!\ disc-ourpsed in regard to Electric BsUs. However, I v. as persuaded to oonin and ju^t soa you. gentlemen. I then found that I had be-en wearing a Torture Belt and: very "Wrongly Applied, and quit>" enough to give any patient a horror of so-called Electric belt*. AfiiM* the consultation I decided to p'aee myself m your hands. I knew mv caso vrr.e very difficult, as I was comp^Und to fo'low my employment, and standing ac the vyc-p \V3« irksome, and th> complaint -vva.s a very stubborn one. However, gentle men. your Belt, coupled v,?J\ your advif-o, has made mo- a grateful patien". I thank you kindly for Fiipplv.ne mo v ith a remedy v, lnch has Completely Cured M<s, and ttron^iy rccon-nond i r to aU oiid sundry trat I 'find are suffTins; frrni the ai-"-ti risking malady called "Sciatica "' 1 heve not br-^n v,carinq; tl.f> B j !t for tlio pa-.t fcrtniqht. but ha\o ps=- cd it over to my wife, who ba? rc-cc-n cd gr^at bencht for nm-ous tronbl^-. I rc;r.p.in, your gratcf.il patient, W FOLLEY.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2600, 13 January 1904, Page 54
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