d at the time, it would naturally get
the credit of causing the favorable change.

However, all of the glowing testimonials of wonderful benefits accruing
from patent medicines are not what they seem to be. Dr. J. H. Kellogg
says in his _Monitor of Health_:--

"The average manufacturer of patent medicines regularly employs
a person of some literary attainment whose duty it is to invent
vigorous testimonials of sufferings relieved by Dr. Charlatan's
universal panacea. In many instances persons are hired to give
testimonials, and answer letters of inquiry in such a way as to
encourage business. The shameless dishonesty and ingenious
villainy exhibited are beyond description."

Recently an advertisement of one of these nostrums stated in the
headlines that said nostrum was used in the Frances Willard Temperance
Hospital, Chicago. The testimonial appended purported to be from a nurse
in that hospital, _but the testimonial did not state, as did the
headlines_, that the preparation was ever used in that hospital. The
president of the hospital board of trustees states that the nurse
positively denies having given any testimonial to the company thus
advertising. She did give one to another patent medicine concern, but
not to this, and never said either was used in the hospital, nor have
they been. Suit could be brought for damages, but unfortunately the
patent medicine people have unlimited money, and the hospital has not.

Early in the present year there appeared in many daily papers a large
advertising picture of a man whose name was appended as a professional
nurse of a western city.

The following testimonial accompanied the picture:--

"Mr. ---- of ----, who is a professional nurse of experience,
writes,--'My friend is improving, thanks to ----, and you. I am
called on to nurse the sick of all classes. I recommend ---- to
such an extent that I am nicknamed ---- (giving name of nostrum)
by nearly everybody.'"

As the writer of this book was acquainted with a physician residing in
the small city mentioned in the advertisement, she wrote to him,
requesting that he investigate this testimonial.

He replied that he found the chief part of the advertisement, namely,
that Mr. ---- was a professional nurse, false; "First, by his own
statement as he told me this morning that he never claimed to be a
professional nurse. And my personal acquaintance with him, as well as
that o