Beware of all quack advertisements which frighten you, and then promise cure if you will only apply to them. All they want is your money. These so-called specialists live in all large cities, but, New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Atlanta and other cities in the United States, and London, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham and Aberdeen, in England, as well as Paris, France, are.some of the places from which these quacks send most of their cheap circulars, besides advertising their claims in the daily newspaper.
Clever and nicely worded pamphlets are given away by men who appear to be studying the good of the race. These books are the bait to catch unwary youths. You get into their meshes, they fleece you unmercifully, and then threaten exposure. I have known a great many who have been swindled out of much money, and not one bit better, only wiser, for what they had spent. Beware also of clerical swindlers who profess to have discovered a plant out in Mexico, or some distant land. Another cheat is the person who tells you how he cured himself, and sends you the prescription gratis. Ask any chemist for the herbs and he tells you he knows them not, and it finishes up with you sending 21 shillings for the drugs to the writer of the pamphlet, and you are sold again, as he sends you some worthless stuff you might have bought for a few pence. Beware also of electric belts and appliances, these are often bits of copper and zinc fastened together and guaranteed to cure; they are miserable frauds. Do not let anyone caustic you nor bum the passage or you may suffer all your life in consequence. Learn to live correctly, know that you have got to develop self-control.