Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Date:: [1911]

Credit: Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$sanciie’s fraternity explained in one sentence “The Fraternity of Duxanimae is a Cosmopolitan Organization of the beneficiaries of the new Method of curing disease and of bracing life to any reasonable requirement, on strictly natural principles, without medication, or electrical devices, or anything previously employed to treat human ills, and without anything except what I have invented and named, ‘Diaductive Connections,’ made with cer- tain Diaductive connectors, connecting the human organism, or any other living thing, with suitable inanimate matter in suitable quan- tity and condition, to form a diamagnetic pair, acting as an arti- ficial Organic Device; and thus converting the organism so con- nected together with the connector and the inanimate matter con- nected with, into a new (hybrid) artificial vegetative apparatus, operating spontaneously and irrepressibly, as soon as made, by the spontaneous impulse of natural forces, according to certain Natural Laws and Principles of which I am the Discoverer, functioning as such an apparatus as soon as the necessary pairing arrangement is properly made, and as long as this arrangement remains the same, vegetating on the same natural principles as certain plants, though twp-thirds artificial, and composed partly of a living human or animal organism, according to the Diaductive qualities of the con- nector employed; and vegetating with any required force and intensity, wholly for the benefit of the only natural one-third living part in the pairing arrangement constituting this hybrid apparatus, I'that is, for the benefits of the living organism attached to one end of the ‘Diaductive Connector which artificial vegetative process, when properly begotten, by the proper arrangement with the proper means, instantaneously arrests the chemical process of disease, and rekindles the physiological Combustion of Life ; and thus rap- idly reanimates the failing living organism, causes it to rid itself of noxious matter by its own functions, according to its own inherent laws, through the energetic, unerring operation of its own organic parts, as soon as adequately reanimated ; which, as already fully demonstrated in many millions of tests all over the World without a complete failure, cures disease in any form, and revital- izes human beings, or animals, or plants, to any required degree, as quickly as if accomplished by magic, while the patient feels little, or nothing, and sleeps sweetly and naturally to wake in health, strong, vigorous, hungry, and more highly animated than usual, physically and mentally, to the amazement of medicators and orthodox reasoners; though absolutely natural, irresistible, and naturally infallible, and though long since effected at the rate of no less than fifteen thousand times daily, ^'very day in the year, scattering all over the World, from a medical standpoint these Diaductive Cures are too astonishing, to permit medicators to trust their own senses and to believe their own eyes, but in the slowest way. who remain incredulous as long as possible, to finally sur- rendjer and admit these diaductive facts.” Thus in a sentence does Dr. Hercules Sanclie, the “only absolute master of diseases on earth,introduce the reader to his Fraternitas Duxanimce. As a fraternity, there was, of course, a vow to be taken—“The Vow of Duxanimm {Votum Fraternitatis Duxanimw)”—and the taking of this vow was “the prime and inflexible condition” to enrolment. While the “vow” is too long and elaborate to reproduce in full, the fol- lowing are its salient points. the vow of duxanim^ “To Almighty God, I solemnly promise the following: “With all peaceful means at my command, I will oppose the sale and use of the Imitations of Diaductive Instruments, Devices and Means [Oxydonors] . . “I will in like manner oppose all existing and proposed legislation everywhere I may be, that givf- preference or any kind of advan-$