WHY SEILER'S PATIENTS WERE ANGRY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 739, 13 March 1877, Page 5 (Supplement)

WHY SEILER'S PATIENTS WERE ANGRY.

rHEY are m the midst of a big lawsuit iiv a Neighboring village between Dr. Smiler and ihe rest of the population of the towiii Che doctor, it seemes, had a large tank )laced on the top of his house, from which o supply his bath room, and so forth, with yatef; The Avater had to be pumped up tbout fifty feet from the cistern m the yard, md the doctor found it would be a pretty #<3d-sized> jpbjand would cause -him , constant expense. ' ,S6, after thinking the matter d vei\ carefully, , one , day an idea struck jim. ,Hb built a room over the cistern, and 1 >ut the word> 'Sanitarium' over the door. Pheh he concealed the pump machinery beleath the floor, and he 'nj»ged up a kind ;of qtnplicatecl apparatus'* jTsMh handles and ' "jes and a crank, so that a man by stand-' •n the middlejpr the machine and pull- * handle up ami down would operate, fhp ..doctqr, got out circulars and A advertisements about "SmileVs lealthtLift,;", v and he secured testif rom a thousand or so of people who ;hat the health-lift was the only 0l& physical salvation of the human Jteity soon people began to call and *urn Smiler would rush them out to '"Sanitarium" and set them to jerking .Aandle. And when a customer had Jnped up 50 gallons or ,so, Smiler would 'urge him a quarter, and tell him that three •nths of that kind of thing would give • muscles like a prize-fighter. 'I he would push the, project among "ts. If a man was bilious, or had or was afflicted with rheun; or measles, or yellow fever • Smiler would turn, him ' and get a quarter each ecame so popularthat iis ia'nk and put m a lie not only got all his . othing, but the-, pepplo ft 1,500 dol^ a year for oe^an to look liko |an ing, and everybody -\vajs r . '■ • S •■ •' ! ■ , old,, Mr. Maginnis jWho ' it the health-lift' every, ;der to ctu*e hiniself of A the handles Idowii a . broke the board upon ding. 1 As the board gave ,]\li'. Maginnis into the i he was shxking for the. •' fislied : him' out with a 5 end of &^.clothes prop. As • 'was drained out of him" you' had a cistern under 'id you do that for ?" tKe' ,'air moist. 'It'sheal/^me'as Ai thei'e wa,s s'opie At under there," ' ' y'said Smiler, " those are only Xof the lift." (ghty queer," said Maginnis, thought>i f* If that isn't a pump, i then I don't /*■ one when; I see it." -^Sdl^few days later Maginnis came around '^hMtotof other patients and found the doow mt» They determined to investigate. iThey W' a couple of boards and ascerlSd tte "feJcte .ftbout that pump. JThey c'ro'te-examtnei Smile^ gervant girl, tend "learned about the truth, and* then £hey went W© mad. A consultation was held, at whicH every bilious and, rheumatic inclividuajL tfjio had been working the -aoctov^ 'mm u^+ violent language, and iaikfld mmf:^o»^-mi : / §44«n, death. .Finally fW*?Q&&to $&w2tS?>& for 'damages -»# obtain^nf^iwiieyfunaer. false pre&esr ' Ifc is. thought by good;, judges that by, the time ito Coui-ts gets Mouffli with SmUer that wiU be about <>he ifflffi^est' liffc for him he was eyer,