The Archive · 1886

Treated for the Wrong Complaint

It is at all ti tard to lose one whom we hold dear, but it is terribly so when we have the consciousness that but for mis+ taken treatment the loved one might have been with us still. In some cases the fact that the sufferer is treated for the wrong complaint is known in sufficient time to admit of the patient being saved, and the following is a case in point A little more than two years ago, a beautiful young Indy in New York was given up to die of consumption, Her fond parents took her to Paris as a last resort, hoping to find some skilful physician there capable of arresting the rapid strides of the supposed dreadful disease. In this their hopes were blighted, but fortunately away in that distant foreign city they met with a description of a new method of treating Dyspepsia, which emanated from the Mount Lebanon Shakers of the State of New York. The thought struck the parents of this helpless young girl that peeps their daughter was afflicted with Indigestion or Dyspepsia, and not consumption; and if so, there might be a chance for her recovery.

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