INTERVIEWED 
CONCERNING HIS TREATMENT 
AND 
EVOLUTION IN MEDICAL TREATMENT 
OF DISEASE. WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS 
F. /. McKenzie interviewed by a reporter of “The Daily 
Northwestern'1'1 Published Dec. j, i8g2, revised and 
Published in pamphlet January, i8gj. 
It is the mission of the press to call attention of the 
public to thing’s occurring- in their midst which are unex- 
pected, surprising- and out of the ordinary course. The 
spirit of the ag-e is research, discovery and progress, learn- 
ing- and unlearning-, and whoever refuses to g-o ahead and 
keep informed must be content to be left behind and out- 
grown. 
Having- known F. J. McKenzie, one of our leading 
citizens, for many years, and having- heard from time to 
time of the remarkable power he possessed over disease— 
and this paper has frequently called the attention of the 
public to the wonderful cures he has made, while we are 
continually hearing of others, so that these wonders cease 
almost to be surprising and may be classed among the ex- 
pected—a representative of The Daily Northwestern 
paid a visit a few days since at his pleasant parlors in the 
Seymour House, where Mr. McKenzie was found very 
busy, and his waiting room filled with patients waiting 
their turn to consult him. The Northwestern man 
was received courteously, and on stating the object of his 
visit, Mr. McKenzie granted him an hour the following 
day for an interview. At the appointed time The North- 
western representative was punctual, and the following 
conversation took place which may be of interest to the 
many readers of this paper. 2 
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Reporter—Mr. McKenzie having heard of the wonder- 
ful mysterious force coming from your physical organiza- 
tion, which has enabled you to cure disease by simply “the 
laying on of hands,” and the remarkable cures you have 
effected, the publishers of The Daiey Northwestekn 
feel interested in gaining some information direct from you 
in regard to your curative powers and your success in 
treating disease, and it is for that object that this inter- 
view is asked. 
Mr. McKenzie—Very well, sir, I am willing to answer 
any questions you may wish to ask. 
Question—How long have you exercised this power in 
treating the sick. 
Answer—Sixteen years. 
Question—What distinction do you make between your 
treatment and magnetic or electrical? 
Answer—I will answer by comparing the treatment in 
a few well known troubles. Magnetic or electrical treat- 
ment does not arrest or abort inflammation or fevers, they 
do not quickly relieve and finally cure asthma, and while 
often relieving do not cure apoplectic or spinal paralysis, 
all of which I do. I have no intention to disparage mag- 
netic treatment for I am cognizant of the good it does, but 
I prefer not to be defined by a term that does not compre- 
hend what I do and is used to designate an influence whose 
quality I do not possess. 
Question—What name do you give to your treatment? 
Answer—I have seen no mention of others having and 
so far as I am informed I am a sole instance of a force 
which has specific effect in acute process, and whose cura- 
tive influence in all disease processes is as certain as the 
law of gravitation, and like gravitation comes from a law 
of nature and conspicuously consists in my imparting nerve 
energy to the central nervous system and from its person- 
ality and restricted possession can be termed the F. J. Mc- 
Kenzie treatment of disease. wonderful ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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Question—Are there any special diseases where your 
success is greatest? 
Answer—I can tell you what class of diseases I have 
the least success in curing-.. Those known as degenerate 
and malignant diseases, such as pulmonary consumption, 
Bright’s disease and cancer. This class I am unable to 
cure and I do not believe cure will ever be found for them. 
Outside of these most all diseases are equally curable 
where there is not too great alteration in the structure 
of an organ. 
Question—How about your treatment of acute dis- 
eases? 
Answer—Acute diseases afford a sure test to prove or 
disprove curative power. Acute processes have well de- 
fined and characteristic symptoms, and run a definite 
course in each case of the same kind, and symptoms will 
be improved and run shortened according to the measure 
of curative force exerted upon them. To cure acute, or 
for that matter chronic, disease the strength of the nervous 
system has to be increased up to the requirements of vehat 
is necessary to be done to throve off poison and secretions, 
build up tissue and modify cell ekangye. Herein lies the 
whole process and law of cure. Disease processes are gov- 
erned in their origin, progress and termination by natural 
laws whose potentiality resides in energy and inasmuch as 
disease processes are regulated in this way medical art is 
wholly incompetent to subjugate them or even shorten their 
term of existence. Hence the better theraphy is not to 
overwhelm nature with toxic doses which baffle her while 
removing the cause of disturbance but leave her processes 
to go 'on unobstructed, supported by good nursing, which 
course trial shows gives to nature her best chance to set 
the system in order. “So true is it that nature has ca- 
prices that art cannot imitate.” 
The use of antepyretics, antipyrin, salycilic acid, 
phenacetin and salol are greatly in vogue because they 4 
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transiently reduce temperature and relieve pain notwith- 
standing- they may inflict for such relief coma, general 
malaise, catarrhal inflammations of the mucus membranes, 
partial blindness, cerebal congestion, as the lesser, de- 
press the nervous action of the heart which may excite 
inflammation of the lining- membrane causing- valvu- 
lar disease or depress the spinal cord causing- delirium 
and eliptiform convulsions as the greater, and if the patient 
fortunately escape these immediate pathological effects he 
may later find his nervous system shattered, which will be 
laid to the disease when it should oftener be to the drugs 
or the combined effect of the two. Plugging the mouth to 
stop the cry of crushing pain in great bodily injury is in 
line with antipyresis in fever. 
Professor Cantani of Italy, read a paper before the 
Berlin International Congress on antipyresis in which he 
says fever is a necessary reaction and must not be 
repressed for it is better than artificial methods of 
killing the invading germs. The danger is not from the 
fever itself, save very rarely, and we should not give 
internal remedies which prevent the formation of heat. 
When, however, the temperature rises too high the cold 
bath and sponging will greatly relieve the patient while 
they will not check the reaction at all—in fact if anything 
will increase it, thus helping the system in its struggle 
against the enemy and aiding it in its own exertions. Can- 
tani therefore concludes that unless we can attack the germ 
which causes the fever by an internal medicine, and we 
have no germicide that would not kill the patient before 
killing the germ—the best theraphy is cold applications; 
and that all the antipysetics are dangerous because they 
depress the already struggling system and stop the natural 
and best method of cure. 
Quinine is an anti-periodic which checks malarial par- 
oxyisms and in intermittent types of disease is useful. 
In my practice I have been invariably successful in 
controlling acute processes in fevers and inflammations wonderful ACHIEVEMENTS, 
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in one-third of the time of their usual run and in imme- 
diate control of pain. I do this so unfailingly that 
there is no room to hang the medical doubt f>ost hoc or 
ftroftter hoc, for happening does not occur with this uni- 
formity. So far as I know the force which does this is in- 
dividual and evidently indispensible to sequent cure of dis- 
ease. Without it the most useful treatment so far as my 
observation goes is dieting and nursing, magnetism and 
massage, climate and thermal springs with opiates for 
pain, bearing in mind, however, ’tis better to “bear those 
ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of.” 
Except that we have knowledge that opiates upset diges- 
tion by deadening the sensibility of the gastric and intesti- 
nal mucus membranes, thereby lessening the flow of the 
digestive juices, block up secretions, interfere with respira- 
tion which causes decrease in bloody oxygen!|;ation and still 
further from frequent use an opium habit is formed which 
in itself is sufficient reason to avoid their exhibition except 
where it is imperative to deaden devitalizing pain. 
Question—Will not medicine cure disease? 
Answer—I will first give the opinion of men who 
stand among the foremost in the regular medical profession 
and mine as it occurs through the interview. Dr. Moses 
Gunn, late professor of surgery in Rush Medical College 
of Chicago, and recognized as one of the ablest men ever 
connected with that institution, says: “I unhesitatingly 
assert that medicine never cured a disease. There is no 
direct relation between a medicine and a disease. There is 
no mysterious curative tendency in any medicine.’’ 
Albert L. Gihon, A. M., medical director of the United 
States navy says: “Only the sciolist (smatterer) makes 
pretense to cure. At our best we are but care takers.’’ 
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says: “Were it not for the 
happy illusion that his useless or even deleterious drugs 
were doing good service many a practitioner could give up 
his calling.’’ 6 
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The late Sir. Wm. Gull, chief physician to the Prince 
of Wales, and the greatest pathologist of the agfe, almost 
wholly discarded drug’s and did not believe in them. In 
the dangferous illness some years since of the Prince of 
Wales, Dr. Gull stated to his class that in the Prince’s more 
than three months sickness of typhoid fever he was not 
given three doses of medicine from commencement of attack 
to recovery. 
The Philadelphia Medical News in an editorial Oct. 
10, 1891, says: “As we learn more of disease, and as the 
superstitions surrounding- it and its theraputics are dis- 
pelled, the conviction becomes strongfer that with some 
notable exceptions we can do little to overcome the disease 
process.” 
The New York Medical Journal editorially says: The 
man who recog’nizes fully the limitations of medicine is the 
safest and most practical adviser. The time is fast ap- 
proaching- when hygiene and preventive medicine must 
supersede in great degree the methods of the old healing- 
art. Docility not dogrnatism is the spirit of true science.” 
The British Medical Journal, Jan. 2, 1892, editorially 
says: “The more we know of the nature and cause of 
disease, of its origin and its life history, the less we are 
inclined even to expect the discovery of specifics that have 
certain curative effects upon disease. Disease we know 
not as an entity, to be struck down with a club or to be 
expelled by a drug-, but as a process, the chang'e of tissues 
and of fluids, the growth of a microbe, the proliferation of 
a cell, the secretion of a virus.” 
The London Lancet says: “The only advance which 
is claimed for the medical art is exhibited in the general 
disbelief in the specific efficacy of drug’s, and the adoption 
of an expectant plan of treating- acute disease.” In its 
editorial column it says, “we have no antidote for diph- 
theria poison, reliance must be placed on nutrition being- 
maintained. How impotent such conclusions make us WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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feel. What is said of diphtheria is applicable to many 
diseases, perhaps all the specific fevers.” 
The medical editor of the Chicago Tribune, March 27, 
1892, says: “The story that the medical treatment of 
disease in the human system is purely a matter of guess- 
work was strictly true up to a few years ago, and now 
holds good in so many cases that the exceptions may be 
said to prove the rule. In the great majority of instances 
the doctor guesses what is the matter with the patient and 
then guesses at the remedy, unless where the dicta of the 
text books are blindly depended on. It is undeniable that 
the medical man does not feel competent to grapple suc- 
cessfully with disease in its protean forms, and that if 
strictly orthodox he is ever ready to denounce as quackery 
any claim to knowledge of a specific cure for functional 
derangement, yet his own practice is not less empirical in 
theory nor more valuable in practice.” 
J. H. Bridges, M. B., Oxen F. R. C. P., London, in a 
lecture delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, of 
London, Oct. 18, 1892, says: “It is true that the medicine 
now in use offers little that is strikingly useful. But 
though I have no purpose to disparage it, I feel sure that no 
one even if those who now practice it will deny that what 
is known is but a mere fraction of what remains to be 
discovered.” 
Dr. John Osier, of Johns Hopkins University, says: 
“Dieting and nursing have supplanted in great part bleed- 
ing and drugging. We know now that a majority of febrile 
affections run a definite course uninfluenced by drugs. 
We recognize daily the great fact that disease is only a 
modification of the normal process of health, and that there 
is a natural tendency to recover. We cannot claim in the 
medicinal treatment of disease to have made great positive 
advances, still we have learned not to do what we did is 
for the poor patients a great gain. 
“The greatest advance in the medical science of our 
generation is the clearer and more general recognition that 8 
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the power of medicine to cure disease is extremely limited. 
In other words, the aim of the enlightened physician 
should be prevention rather than cure.”—Edinburgh Re- 
view. 
The late lamented Cardinal Manning was a sceptic in 
medicine. His way was to give nature her course. 
These two last opinions, while not medical, are those of 
competent observers. Besides those quoted there are 
many others eminent in the profession who express 
similar sceptical views in medicine, and the circumstance 
that these expressions elicit no controversy or give rise to 
charges of medical heresy indicate that the adherents to 
hypothesis and tradition deem it prudent not to force their 
discussion. Truth evolves slowly and does not, like Aaron’s 
rod, bud and blossom in a night. 
Question—Do you think practitioners generally admit 
the views of Dr. Gunn, London Lancet and others to be 
true? 
Answer—It is well known to the medical profession 
at large that tests have been made for the last fifteen or 
twenty years in the hospitals of this country, England and 
the continent, and it is from the experiences of hospital 
studies that all medical and surgical studies have been 
made and all the literature of the profession has been writ- 
ten, treating a large series of cases having various dis- 
eases, principally acute, as they allow more accurate com- 
parison, with medicine and without medicine, and that 
better average results are obtained where no medicines are 
given. This has deposed medicine as a curative factor to 
even the dullest and most prejudiced medical man. How- 
ever, some practitioners, while not caring directly to contra- 
vene a finding so well attested and so unmistakably proven, 
try to evade its logic and recover lost prestige by an elusion. 
They say medicine will not cure, but “it assists nature.” 
When asked, what do you mean when you say medicine 
assists nature? What does it assist nature to do? The 
reply comes that it assists nature to restore health. When WONDERFUL, ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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further asked if assisting- nature to restore health is not 
the meaning of cure, the admission comes that it is, which 
admission exposes the deceptive artifice of the phrase 
“medicine will not cure but it assists nature.” The mere 
number of remedies show how unsatisfactory any and all 
of them have proven. Had the results of one of them 
been even approximately satisfactory, the profession would 
not be slow to adopt it; the fact that none of them have 
been generally acceptable is but another indication that 
they do not fulfill that which is required of a remedy. 
non habet dare non ftotest (a remedy cannot com- 
municate what it does not itself possess). 
Persons trained in scientific methods of thought 
were led long ago to inquire if the fundamental conceptions 
of medicine were rational. A system of jurisprudence, of 
mechanics, of physics, or what not which is not founded 
on the constant mode of action of a force is a laughing 
stock to science. The regular medical profession has car- 
ried this disregard, nay defiance, of law beyond the border 
line of sanity. Although the doctor, bold and ventursome, 
defies law, drugs, constant in their mode of action, originate 
many of the unaccountable diseases of middle and later 
life which take their start from poisons taken in the system 
in earlier life. The late Dr. Shenich of this city, regular, 
whose good works live after him, is reported from several 
trustworthy sources to have declared “that more mounds 
in our cemeteries were made by medicine than by disease.” 
It is current in hospital dissecting rooms that sufficient 
poison is often found in subjects dissected to destroy life 
independently of disease. “Be not deceived, God is not 
mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also 
reap.” 
Hannemahn’s system of infinitesimals, founded on an 
assumed law of similars, is a safe medical practice. While 
it may have no more influence over disease processes than 
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extent of medical function, and without risk of doing1 mis- 
chief to the system, and also satisfies an established long- 
ing- for teaspoonful doses of something- to take which is a 
custom fastened upon infancy to be continued as a fixed 
habit to age, -My treatment is open to scientific investi- 
gation, and others should be put to the same searching 
test regardless of an assumption of standard authority in 
disease. I make no appeal though I say I know how it 
feels to cut loose from precedents and fight new problems 
in directions which conflict with the interest and preten- 
tions of a class of men who are wont to sway public 
opinion. 
The obstacle besetting this discussion is that men 
generally cling to old convictions even while in doubt of 
their verity, and part with error acquired in youth with a 
pang. We all defer to reason in the abstract, but if each 
of us could be compelled to realize and to confess how 
small a portion of our opinions on things scientific we can 
fairly attribute to observation and reasoning, and how 
many originate in usage, authority and prejudice, we would 
be much startled by the disclosure. 
Physiology teaches that the chemical changes which 
build up the body depend upon energy which passes along 
the nerves into each individual cell; its function, a govern- 
ing cord, the co-ordinating fibre of its life, constitutes the 
organism, a self regulating apparatus, intolerent to the in- 
terference of drugs, so that with few exceptions, the 
poisons administered for medicinal purposes have consider- 
ably increased, instead of decreasing, the sum of human 
misery. Clinical observation and physiological research 
unite in condemning their general use in disease. The 
most direct and sure thing to destroy life, to irritate and 
depress, weaken and destroy the nervous system, upon the 
integrity of which health depends, are drugs. The most 
competent teachers, the men of highest reputation both in 
and out of the profession for learning and observation, 
discountenance their use. I quote Dr. Mason Good, the wonderful ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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learned London professor: “The effect of medicine on the 
human system is in the highest degree uncertain, except, 
indeed, that it has already destroyed more lives than war, 
pestilence and famine combined.” 
From Galen to Hunter the practice of medicine was 
theoretical. Hunter taught, “Do not think but try.” This 
maxim marks the transition from hypothesis to experiment, 
from Galenic theory to Hunterian empericism. This in 
turn has given way to the physiological induction, “nature 
is self-regulating,” which designates the change from the 
tentative of Hunter to the expectant of Gull, from trying to 
waiting, from drugging to nursing! 
Question—Will you mention the names of some of the 
diseases in which you have been particularly successful? 
Answer—In typhoid, malarial and scarlet fevers, pneu- 
monia, erysipelas, dysentery, pleurisy, quinsy, bronchitis 
and congenerous diseases, my work is more mathematically 
certain than in any other class. Convalescence under 
my treatment in nearly every case (I can recall but one ex- 
ception), has been reached by the seventh day without com- 
plications or sequelae. The average run of acute diseases, 
when established, whatever the treatment employed—ex- 
cept mine—drug, herbilist, hydropathic, homeopathic, 
Christian Science, or no treatment at all, is about twenty- 
four days, and there is little or no difference in the time 
which the fever runs, whatever the treatment employed, 
or no specific treatment. The diseases run themselves out, 
and the means used has no direct relation to the disease. 
A practitioner who cannot, in nearly every case of acute 
disease, cut down their run to seven or eight days, shoidd 
make no claim beyond being a care-taker and, as a witty 
French physician said, “amusing the patient, while na- 
ture slowly cures herself.” Acute diseases are the easiest 
and most certain of cure, they belonging to the line 
classified by Dr. John S. Billings, U. S. A., and author 
of the National Medical Dictionary, as tending- to recover 
without any treatment or in spite of bad treatment. 12 
wonderful achievements. 
He says: “In our present state of knowledge there 
are certain forms of disease and derangement of organs 
whose tendency is to recover • without any treatment, 
or in spite of bad treatment.” “There are also certain 
diseases and derangements which are incapable of cure 
either spontaneously or by any known method of treat- 
ment.” “Between these two classes is a small number of 
cases of disease, the result of which depend on the treat- 
ment.” This statement of the course of disease is made 
by one of the most learned men of the regular medical pro- 
fession and is scientifically exact. In my treatment of acute 
cases occurring physical signs—favorable change of pulse, 
temperature, expectoration, etc.—mark every step, and 
puts what I do beyond honest dispute and above empirical 
criticism. “The system can destroy or eliminate the spe- 
cific morbific causes whether they consist of living germs, 
ptomaines or leucomaines or only execretory matter by its 
own metabolic change, if it have sufficient energy to cause 
such change.”—Dr. H. N. Davis, Chicago, president of the 
International Medical Congress held in Washington, D. C. 
I quote this excerpta regarding the power of energy in acute 
processes as explanatory of what I do in them. 
Question—What class do you treat most in your prac- 
tice? 
Answer—Functional disorder and the slighter forms 
of chronic diseases constitute the main body of the class 
physicians has to deal in practice. The readjustment of 
diet and regimen, and the regulation of all the little things 
which concur to make and unmake health, are matters in 
which the medical man can be expected to be conversant. 
It is when these dynamic disturbances drift into permanent 
statical disease that I am consulted. 
Question—What proportion of these chronic diseases 
do you help or cure? 
Answer—My practice of nearly fifteen years shows 
that I have helped ninety-nine in one hundred and, exclud- 
ing degenerate diseases before mentioned, have cured nine wonderful achievements. 
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out of ten. My work is here to confirm or refute this 
statement, and to hit the nail squarely on the head I re- 
quest those whom I have failed to help or cure to inform 
the public of it. It is not difficult to cure four-fifths of 
the ailments met with in general practice; indeed they will 
cure themselves if left to nature with good nursing but 
the remaining one-fifth, of which my practice mainly con- 
sists, require direct action of the strongest element of 
cure. Confidence cannot be put in theory, for if theories 
were any good the legion of the medical profession would 
have routed every ache and pain in America long before 
this. “By your fruits ye shall be known,” and by mine I 
ask to be judged and not by uncandid, dogmatic and busi- 
ness swayed opinion. 
In such diseases as locomotor ataxia, progressive mus- 
cular atrophy and paralysis agitans, I can establish only 
comparative cure; that is to say, cure the symptoms, with- 
out wholly removing the cause. To illustrate, the serious 
symptoms in locomotor ataxia is inability to stand with the 
eyes closed, or to walk without stag'gering. I can correct 
this and other distressing symptoms, thereby making the 
patient’s life useful and comfortable. There is no medical 
or other record of any permanent improvement in these 
cases except those treated by me. Their history is stead- 
ily downward. 
Question—Do patients usually receive immediate ben- 
efit from your work, or is improvement felt only after some 
time has elapsed? 
Answer—Benefit is usually immediate, while cure in 
many serious diseases may take some time, as in nervous 
prostration, while benefit is usually felt with first treat- 
ment, and in the average case improvement goes on uninter- 
ruptedly to cure, yet in extreme cases there occur phases 
of better and worse, hopefulness and despondency for some 
time. Four months is about the limit, before an undis- 
turbed improvement takes place. And in exceptional cases 
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the air cells may have become permanently distended, 
ruptured or attenuated, in which case improvement will be 
gradual and weeks may elapse before permanent relief is 
found, but oftener relief is immediate and cure speedy. 
Disease does not shoot out its phenomenon in an hour 
or two, but it works long, and often silently, is hidden and 
secret in its nature, complex in its affinities, and variable 
in tenacity, and its conditions cannot be instantly changed 
by a sudden explosion or impulse but requires constant 
and continuous effort to effect the profound organic altera- 
tions necessary for the restoration of health. The quick 
and so-called miraculous cures which I effect, are those 
where there is functional impairment without structural 
change, as in spinal paralysis. In spinal paralysis, which 
depends on simple interruption of the motor tracts passing 
from the brain without the destruction of the cells of the 
cord, I promise to cure as they come, in thirty minutes. 
These are the cures one reads reports of in the public press 
as occurring from supernatural causes. I can give the 
names of a number having this trouble whom I have cured 
by one treatment after years of helplessness. 
Question—How do physicians get their reputation for 
curing disease? 
Answer—From the almost total ignorance of the laity 
of the course of disease and of what a curative process 
consists. When a physician is called to a patient the sicker 
he gets and the longer he hovers between life and death, if 
he finally pulls through the physician gains great reputa- 
tion for his skill; whereas if a physician is a source of cure, 
the patient will not continue to “grow worse,” but quickly 
commence to get better; and if he does not it is more than 
presumptive evidence that he is not receiving help, and his 
final recovery due to the fact that his system is able to out- 
live the disease, the recovery coming from the natural in- 
herent tendency of the human body to return to a certain 
normal standard by her own work. In acute diseases the 
force of the attack will be developed in a few days, gener- wonderful, achievements. 
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ally within five, and if a lasting- improvement does not occur 
soon after that it is very certain that the remedy or prac- 
tice employed is of little use. When medicine has masterful 
control of fever and inflammation it will be armed to at- 
tack the citadel of disease, but its present and past failure 
in them betray how scant it is equipped to grapple with 
disease even in its commonest form. 
Unfortunately for suffering- and diseased humanity 
medical treatment is merely palliative and does not sustain 
the dignity which the medical profession assume for it. 
Isolated cases of recovery in serious disease is often 
singled out as a measure of a physician’s ability when it is 
only where in a series of such cases nearly the whole series 
recover, that he should have credit for cure. A treatment 
that actually cures one case will seldom fail in others of 
the same kind. It is a common error to mistake recovery 
for cure, although it is not difficult for those experienced in 
disease to distinguish between the processes. 
A great physician in the professional use of the term 
is he who diagnoses the nature and prognoses the conse- 
quences of disease with greater certainty than his fellows. 
His treatment, the nature being understood, differs little 
from the little physician, and subject to the same liable- 
ness to fail. A practitioner who has not a genius for diag- 
nosis cannot srupply its place by talent or study. 
Question—Do medical doctors commend your work? 
Answer—Those who adhere to dogma as a system of 
cure are silent and sullen, manifesting their resentment 
with sneer, slur and inuendo. They employ ridicule to 
prejudice because knowledge of my work is too general to 
reason against, besides reasoning is not their forte anyhow. 
My work refutes the theories upon which the ortho- 
dox medical practice is founded, therefore it is compul- 
sory that they should ignore evidence which would be 
fatal to their system. They are quick to oppose whatever 
threatens their prestige, exposes their pretensions or en- 
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for the relief of the sick which they can not monopolize 
and control. Quack is their war-whoop! Those who are 
concerned in the acquisition of accurate knowledge of prin- 
ciples by observation and deduction need not antagonize 
any work which brings succor to those who suffer. 
My contention is not with the practical care-taking 
physician but with the dogmatic and theoric particularists 
who, in the language of Bunyan, make of the welfare of 
the public “a stalking horse that they may gain thereby.” 
I would not have occupied time to discuss medical 
practice, but wait the gradual passing to safer methods, 
which already has many suffragants, were it not for the 
persistent and ubiquitous efforts of the orthodox medical 
profession to force through the legislature of this state laws 
protective to their and prohibitory to other practice on the 
ground of the paramount importance of that profession to 
the public. For this reason I deem it proper to acquaint 
the public with their scientific standing, hoping this may 
have an influence to thwart such gtasping and intolerant 
legislation, the intent and effect of which would be to im- 
pose and fasten upon the unwilling sick a class of badly 
equipped care-takers for physicians, whose best medication 
does not hold disease processes in check and whose worse 
hurries to a fatal climax. The medical profession should 
at least be equal to cure a boil, a carbuncle, a whitlow, or 
a quinsy before claiming exclusivism of practice in disease. 
“All they that take the sword shall perish by the sword.” 
Question—Have you any notable case now under treat- 
ment? 
Answer—I have a child from Appleton which may be 
of interest. This child was discovered at three months old 
to be paralyzed in the left arm and leg, and was put under 
treatment as soon as discovered by different physicians of 
good reputation, without any benefit being derived from 
the treatment. The child was brought to me April 22, 
1891, at the age of two years, unable to bear any weight wondereue achievements. 
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on, or to even move or use its leg-, arm or hand, the hand 
being- tightly clinched. On the fourth visit the child 
walked from the stair landing- to my office, a distance of 
forty feet, without help, and after the eig-hth treatment 
opened its hand and moved its arm, and now, after the. 
thirteenth treatment, opens its hand, moves its limbs and 
runs about as well as as any child. 
(It mig-ht be well for the reporter to state that the 
child was seen and Dr. McKenzie’s statement found to be 
correct.) 
I would also mention the case of Mrs. MacKenzie in 
West Alg-oma who had been unable to walk for three 
years, and had g-one about her house on her hands and 
knees. Hearing- of some cures of this nature that I had 
made I was sent for, and found the woman unable to bear 
any weight on her lower limbs. I treated her about thirty 
minutes, leaving her to return two days after, when my rap 
on the door was answered by the woman herself, who 
walked to the door, opened it and let me in. After one 
more treatment she had the use of her limbs as before her 
sickness. 
The representative of The Daiey Northwestern 
visited and made inquiries of a large number of people, 
among them several prominent citizens of this city, whom 
Mr. McKenzie had successfully treated and cured of 
different bodily ailments that had been given up as incur- 
able by other physicians, and all spoke in the highest praise 
of his treatment, and said that their lives were saved by 
him. 
Such work has never before been done by any man, 
and Mr. McKenzie, with the wonderful power that God 
has given him for healing the sick, is indeed a benefactor 
to his race, and may well feel proud of his wonderful 
organism, and the good he has accomplished, the report of 
which has gone all over the United States. He certainly 
has done and is doing cures of a kind that have never be- 
fore been reported to the public, and the small number of 
his failures to help and cure is indeed marvelous. A PROPOSITION. 
To the President of the Wisconsin Medical Association: 
Dear Sir:—As a finale to a discussion of medical mat- 
ters in the daily newspapers, I have the honor of submitting- 
to you the following- proposition: That I will treat any of 
the following- acute diseases, viz.: Quinsy, bronchitis, 
malarial, typhoid and scarlet fevers, pleurisy, pneumonia, 
erysipelas, inflammation of the bowels, measels, dysen- 
tery, whooping- coug’h, articular rheumatism and sciatica, 
in any hospital in this state, or at any reasonably con- 
venient place in the state and that by my treatment I 
will bring- the acute symptoms to a favorable termination 
in all of them in one-half the number of days gfiven by 
Pepper in his “System of Practice,” as the inevitable 
run, whether treated by drug's, hydropathy, expectant 
plan, or other known treatment, and in several of said 
diseases I will abort them in much less than one-half the 
time gfiven by Pepper, without the exhibition of medicine, 
but by placing- my hand upon the patients, and that termi- 
nation of acute symptoms will be reached without compli- 
cations or sequelae. That in neuralgfic pain I will gfive im- 
mediate relief, and in rheumatic pain, nearly immediate. 
“To replace inquiry by mockery is convenient, but not 
very scientific. For my part I think that the strict duty 
of science is to test all phenomena. Science is igmorant 
and has no rig'ht to laugdi, a savant who laug’hs at the pos- 
sible is very near being- an idiot. The unexpected oug’ht 
always to be expected by science. Her duty is to stop it 
in its course and search it, rejecting- the chimerical, estab- 
lishing- the real. Science has but the rig'ht to put a vista 
on facts; she should verify and disting-uish. All human 
knowledg-e is but picking- and culling-. The mission of WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS 
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science is to study and sound everything-. All of us, ac- 
cording- to our degree, are creditors of investigation; we 
are its debtors also. It is due to us, and we owe it to 
others. To evade a phenomenon, to refuse to pay it that 
attention to which it has the rig-ht, to bow it out, to show 
it the door, to turn our back on it,' laughing, is to make 
truth a bankrupt, and to leave the signature of science to 
be protested.” 
Awaiting your reply, I am 
Respectfully 
Oshkosh, Feb. 14., 1889. F. J. McKenzie. 
I have received no answer to this proposition. SAVED FROM DEATH. 
REMARKABLE CASES OF CURE BY F. J. MCKENZIE. 
With recent cases I re-publish cases of cure published 
in The Daily Northwestern some years ago, as will be 
seen from their date, and were written by the then re- 
porter, now editor of The Daily Northwestern. They 
were carefully and intelligently written and represent a 
fair average of hundreds of other recoveries from danger- 
ous and incapacitating sickness both before and since these 
cases were published. 
Many who read the cures here reported may be sur- 
prised that I have not given others they know of which 
are as remarkable as those published. I think I have re- 
ported enough to call attention to what I am doing and a 
little inquiry will bring to light a greater number, suffi- 
cient, if these are not conclusive, to convince the intelligent, 
candid and thoughtful that I possess wonderful curative 
force in treatment of disease. I have not time to collect an 
other series though they be plenty as blackberries in 
August. 
Aggregative facts will not disturb opinions based 
from beginning to end upon prejudice, nor do I expect to 
convince those whose opinions are superior to facts; nor, 
moreover, those who know nothing about what I do or the 
line of my work, assume to know all about it. These 
people know so much that it is a waste of their time to 
learn more or anything correctly. 
Taken From the Daily Northwestern December3, 1892. 
F. J. McKenzie has added to his long list of wonderful cures that of 
Mrs. John D. Thorne, whose home is at Panacea Springs, North Carolina. 
To a reporter of The Northwestern Mrs. Thorne related that about one 
year ago she was seized with la grippe, as was thought by her physicians, WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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and before recovery from that disease found herself helpless from spinal 
paralysis, her lower limbs being without motion or feeling, her arms 
without strength to do up her hair, and her back so weak that in sitting 
she had to have it supported. Her physicians failed to give her help, and 
at the end of nine months treatment her friends, as she is lately informed, 
were told by them “that she would never have use of her limbs and that 
she would gradually fade away, as she was becoming weaker daily.” Her 
friends were unwilling to give up without trying, and were about to take 
her to a sanitarium in Richmond, Va., when her sister, Mrs. Hiram Sted- 
man, of Berlin, Wis., wrote to her of Mr. McKenzie, and she determined 
to come here, and reached Oshkosh in October. She noticed improvement 
after the third treatment, and after the tenth was able to use her limbs 
considerably, and soon after to walk by having a cane or something to 
steady her. And after five weeks she can use her limbs sufficiently well 
to stop treatment. Mrs. Thorne was very enthusiastic and grateful to 
Mr. McKenzie, and in conclusion said: “It is no theory or imagination, 
but a positive fact that experience justifies, when I say I feel as well as I 
ever did and had I the power I would inscribe the name of F. J. McKenzie 
under the keystone arch of fame.” 
The reporter also met at the Seymour House another notable case in 
Miss Ruth Hoffman, who resides at 512 Mineral street, Milwaukee. It 
seems that she had been afflicted with lateral curvature of the spine for 
about four years. She had been in the care of prominent physicians and 
had consulted Drs. Senn, Fox and Thompson of Milwaukee without benefit 
to her spine, while her general health had become worse. Hearing of Mr. 
McKenzie she came here in July and after receiving, during four months, 
forty treatments she finds her general health excellent and her spine 
greatly improved so that she stands nearly erect, increasingher height 
three-fourths of an inch. She said she and her friends were very much 
surprised and delighted with the result. 
Subsequently the reporter met Mrs. Buell of Berlin, who, hearing of 
Mrs. Thorne’s wonderful recovery, came to see what Mr. McKenzie could 
do for her arm, which, from its inflamed condition, had for six months 
hung helpless by her side, unable to be touched or moved, and had given 
most of the time day and night such excruciating pain that she gol no 
rest. She had received medical treatment from far and near, with no 
benefit. After the fourth treatment she returned home and used her dis- 
abled arm to joyfully greet her friends. 
Mr. McKenzie called the attention of the reporter to a letter from Mr. 
S. S. Woodward, a prominent citizen of Watertown, Wis., who was paral- 
yzed by inhaling coal gas, and was brought to him for treatment July 7. 
1892, unable to make any movement with his left arm or hand, or his left 
lower limb, and with his speech impaired. He remained under treatment 
fifty-five days, when he returned home, walking to his carriage. In a let- 
ter dated October 10, 1892, he says: “My arm and hand are steadily gain- 
ing in strength, and I walk, without dragging my leg, several blocks daily, 
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If you wish to put my case among your wonderful cures, do so, and you 
cannot say too much about it.” 
The following letter, which explains itself, is but a sample of the ex- 
pressions Mr. McKenzie is constantly receiving from his patients: 
Appleton, Wis., Dec. 1, 1892 
F. J. McKenzie, 
Oshkosh, Wis. 
Dear Sir:—I enclose herett ith telegram just received and as this is Thursday you will 
see how I am fixed. I must leave for home to-night. Will let you know by Monday when 
I can return, which will be by the 10th at the latest. Trusting that you will appreciate my 
position and assuring you that money could not buy from me the help I have already re- 
ceived, I remain, 
Yours very truly, 
F. L. MURRAY. 
Treasurer Howe Lumber Co., Duluth, Minn. 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of March ig, i8g2. 
A few evenings ago a Northwestern reporter met Henry T. Dircks 
of 234 Eleventh street. The latter had read the recently published articles 
relative to cures performed by F. J. McKenzie and in referring to them 
told a most wonderful story of a recent success by the well known 
physician. The case was that of a four-year-old son of Carl Wollenburg, 
of Eomira, Dodge county, Wis., who stopped, while undergoing Mr. Mc- 
Kenzie’s treatment, at the home of Mr. Dircks. The little child when three 
years old, after a short illness, was found to be entirely helpless from 
infantile paralysis. He could not sit up, had no use of his lower limbs, 
could scarcely move his arms, and when he did only slightly. His hands 
were helpless. The little fellow was a nephew of Mr. Dircks and the 
latter took great interest in him. Mr. Wollenburg had tried many different 
physicians during a period of over a year and the child was given up as 
incurable. Mr. Dircks suggested Mr. McKenzie and acting upon the sug- 
gestion the little fellow was brought here for treatment by him. At that 
time the child’s general health was very poor. He was treated two weeks 
by Mr. McKenzie, showing a marked improvement and his mother was 
allowed to take him home for a short time. Subsequently he was again 
brought here and treated for a time, about four weeks, when he was again 
taken home by his mother. The improvement had been wonderful. He 
could use his arms and hands as well as any child and walked by shoving 
a chair in front of him. From that time on he has steadily gained. And 
since his return home is able to walk without any support as is shown by 
the following letter from the parents just received by Mr. McKenzie: 
Lomira, Hodge County, Wis., March 15, 1892. 
Dr. F. J. McKenzie. 
Oshkosh, W is. 
Honored Sir:—With pleasure.I can now inform you that our little boy has been able to 
walk without assistance for as much as a week and is improving' rapidly. We can not 
help but feel grateful to you for restoring the health of our little boy. So once more accept 
our most sincere thanks. 
Yours very respectfully, 
MR. AND MRS. CARE WOLLENBURG. 23 
WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
The readers will observe that the report of this case comes direct from 
the family interested and that nearly all reports of cases treated by Mr. 
McKenzie as published in The; Northwestern come from the patients 
themselves or in the case of children from their parents. 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of March 5, 1892. 
The following communication printed in the Dallas County News, 
published at Adel, Iowa, will explain itself, and will be of interest to the 
people ol this city and vicinity. 
Editor Dallas County News: 
Since my retnrn from Oshkosh I have been requested a great many 
times to give an account of my case, and F. J. McKenzie’s mode of treat- 
ing disease. I would willingly tell the whole world about him if it were 
possible, and have only hesitated about writing because I have so nearly 
recovered now that I do not like to be reminded, or remind others, of my 
suffering during the three years just past. But as that would not be 
“whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them,” 
I will ignore my own feelings and trust to the merciful forgiveness of my 
friends, and write, as requested by so many to do, hoping some sufferer 
may be benefited thereby. 
In the fall of 1888 I was riding a horse at a rapid rate, when he fell, 
falling on me in such a way that the pommel of the saddle struck me in 
the abdomen, and glanced off over my right hip, cutting my clothing off 
and leaving a red streak as though I had been burnt with a red hot iron. 
The cantle struck me in the small of the back and the horse fell across my 
right hip and leg, smashing my spine and hip, injuring me internally; 
and before I recovered from this injury I ran a piece of fox-tail grass in 
the second joint of the second finger of my right hand, which caused 
blood poisoning, and that settled in my right side, which, together with 
the injury of the saddle pommel, caused an abcess on my stomach, and 
that finished the destruction of all the muscles and circulation on that 
side. And on the 22nd of March, 1889, I lost all power of locomotion, 
neither could I sit up. The whole of my right side was rigid and stiff, 
could not bend my arm, leg, nor body. In the course of several months the 
abcess broke, when the whole of my right side became limp, life return- 
ing to my arm, but my hip and leg were dead, seemingly beyond all 
recovery, and they began to shrink and continued to do so until there was 
no flesh below the knee and scarcely any above the knee on my right leg, 
and my hip was considerably shrunken. For nearly two years I could not 
swallow water without causing nausea, and could eat but a very limited 
variety of food owing to the weakened condition of my stomach, and 
nearly everything I ate caused severe cramping in my right side, inter- 
nally. A sudden move or jar would cause my side to cramp, which it did 
so often that my side was bruised purple continuously for over two years 
as a result of the severe cramping. In the spring of 1891 I gained strength 
enough to be able to move myself (by the aid of many kind friends whose 24 
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many acts of kindness as a debt I never can repay, but always remember 
with pleasure), around in a wheel chair. In the summer of 1891 I heard of 
Mr. F. J. McKenzie and his wonderful power, and on the 3rd of Septem- 
ber started for Oshkosh, Wis. Arrived there the fourth and began treat- 
ments on the sixth. At the time I could not sit up without support for my 
back, could not move my right leg at all, and could scarcely move my left 
one, my right leg and hip being in the aforesaid emaciated condition. I 
took treatment every day, and on the 17th day of November I stood up with 
the aid of crutches and took two steps. From that date on my improve- 
ment was more rapid. My right leg began to fill out, also slight return of 
feeling. On the 4th of January, 1892, I discarded both crutches and 
walked with the aid of a cane, and on the 28th of January I started home, 
being able to walk quite long distances, my right side being quite strong 
and constantly gaining, with sensitive feeling and good circulation. And 
I think in time I will be able to discard the cane. Such is the history of 
my case from October, 1888, to January 28, 1892. While my recovery was 
wonderful, astonishing and beyond all expectation, yet I think I witnessed 
other cures done by Mr. McKenzie that were equally as wonderful as my 
own. 
One of them was the case of Mrs. Albert Jungwirth, 436 Tenth street, 
Oshkosh, Wis. Mrs. Jungwirth’s was a case of inward curvature of the 
spine, and when Mr. McKenzie began treating her in August, ’91, both 
her lower limbs were drawn up so her knees were tight against her breast, 
and her limbs were crossed in such shape that the right heel was pressed 
tight against her left thigh, and the left heel tight against the right thigh. 
And they were compelled, in order to keep the flesh from uniting, to keep 
cotton batting between her knees and breast, and between her thighs and 
the calves of her legs) also where her limbs were crossed, just below the 
knees. Her spine was curved until it pressed against the scapula in such 
a way that it made her right arm useless. She had been in this condition 
for about nine or ten months, and suffered intense pain constantly. She 
was so emaciated and weak that she could scarcely move her head and 
left arm. She took from one to three treatments a week for about four 
months, then less frequent, but was still receiving treatments when I 
visited her last—the 26th of January. ’92. And at that time she was able 
to sit up in a common chair, use booth arms freely to sew, wash dishes, knit, 
or any other work that she could do sitting down. Her spine was almost 
straight, and by placing her hands on the back of a chair she could stand 
up almost straight and walk about the room. She was quite fleshy and 
enjoying good health, did not suffer pain, and had not after the first 
month’s treatment. 
Another case is that of Thomas Hamilton, of Berlin, Wis. Mr. Ham- 
ilton’s was apoplectic paralysis. His speech was seriously impaired, right 
side nearly useless when he began treatment with Mr. McKenzie, October, 
’91. And by the first of January, 92, he was able to walk without arti- 
ficial support and his articulation was good and considers himself almost 
well. 
Mr. Thompson was another hard case, physically speaking, of chronic WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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rheumatism, his knees, ankles and feet were swollen thrice their natural 
size, could not get up out of a chair without some one to lift him when I 
first saw him in September. ’91. He can now get up and down and walk 
miles without a cane. His address is Medford, Wis. 
Mr. M. J. Woodward, of Watertown, Wis., was another strange case 
of spinal irritation and rheumatism. He had been afflicted for several 
years, spent one season in California and another in Florida. Had spent 
some time doctoring at several sanitoriums, viz.: Mt. Clemans, Mich.;: 
Battle Creek, Mich., and Kenosha, Wis. And when he came to Oshkosh 
in December, ’91, he had to be very careful and avoid all draughts of cold 
air, as such an exposure was sure to cause intense suffering, consequently 
he was confined to a close, warm room. He was desperately emaciated, 
had no desire to eat anything, and often the sight and even smell of food 
would cause a distressed nauseous feeling, and in fact was a total wreck 
physically, without use of his right arm and little of his right foot, and, 
from his repeated failures, was without hope of regaining his health or 
strength, and came hoping only to be made more comfortable. He went 
home the first of February for a month’s stay, sufficiently improved to be 
able to change from warm to cold rooms without pain, and take long walks 
out of doors without fatigue, had good appetite and gained several 
pounds in weight and felt himself on the road to health. He was elated. 
I could go on describing case after case of nearly every disease that hu- 
manity is heir to, that I witnessed successfully treated by Mr. McKenzie 
during my five months’ stay in Oshkosh. But I will only tell of one more, 
that of Mrs. M. Wadsworth, of North Dakota. Her case was a complica- 
tion of so many diseases that she simplified the matter by calling it “gen- 
eral weakness.” She spent four months at the Battle Creek, Michigan, 
sanitarium. Went from there to Oshkosh for treatment by F. J. McKenzie 
in October, ’91. She had to be helped from the hack to her room by the 
aid of a man on either side of her. She thought that she would stop there 
for a while and then go on home (as she said) “to die.” She took treat- 
ments about six weeks, gained flesh and strength sufficient to be able to 
walk up and down two flights of stairs quite easily, did her own shopping 
(a good test of endurance) and went on home happy and able to do her 
own work if necessary. 
And now, my kind friend, if you have read this article in full, and do 
not feel any bad effects, such as indicate paralysis, rheumatism and 
sciatica, and was void of such feelings when you began, it would appear, 
and I truly hope you will never need treatment for any of them. With 
sympathy and best wishes to all the afflicted, I am, 
Very truly yours, 
CHARLES A. MARSH, 
Adei,, Iowa. 
John Siewert has recovered so that he is about again. His attack of 
rheumatism, complicated with neuralgia of the heart, was so severe that 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of Sept. 5, i8gi. 26 
wonderful achievements. 
it was feared he would be permanently crippled if he did not lose his life. 
Kote—The above was an uncommonly severe case of sciatic rheuma- 
tism which was attended by F. J. McKenzie from attack to convalescence. 
Attacks of this violence, involving the whole nerve system in inflamma- 
tion and excruiating pain, seldom make a complete recovery. It usually 
leaves the victim crippled for life. Attacks of this extreme severity are 
fortunarely of infrequent occurrence. 
Omro, Wis., Feb. 1, 1892. 
Dr. F. J. McKenzie: 
I came to you in February, 1891, having heart disease which had pre- 
vented my doing labor of any kind for one year previous to that. My 
breathing was difficult and slight effort exhausted me. Oshkosh phy- 
sicians who treated me, told me that I had structural disease of the heart, 
and that they could do nothing more than give me something for tempo- 
rary relief. They also said I would never be able to do work again and 
was liable to drop away any time. This was my condition when I came to 
see you. I was in your care for one month, since which time I have done 
a good man’s work on my farm and felt well. 
Wm. Robbins. 
At this date, his health remains good. 
West Rosendaee, Wis., Sept. 3, 1891. 
Dr. F. J. McKenzie: 
Dear Sir:—I take great pleasure in thanking you for the relief I have 
obtained since taking treatment from yon for progressive paralysis. For 
the four years previous to my taking treatment from you, I had been 
slowly becoming paralyzed. I had but little use of my left hand, and my 
whole left side was partially paralyzed. It was with great difficulty that 
I could hold my head in an upright position, it having a tendency to draw 
one side in a twisted position, which was very painful. Although my 
right side was stronger than my left, that was also somewhat affected, so 
that it was with difficulty that I could feed myself, and I realized that in 
a short time I should be helpless unless I received help. I tried medicine 
and used an electric battery, but grew steadily worse. I began treatment 
with you Dec. 24, 1884, and from that time began to gain. Although I did 
not grow strong very rapidly, I gained steadily during the time I was be- 
ing treated by you. which was nearly two years. Since I have ceased to 
take treatments, which was nearly five years ago, I have not only re- 
mained as well as then but think I have gained some. I feel but little of 
the paralysis and can hold my head up without support. Although I am 
not strong, I am able to do light work and enjoy life. 
Gratefully yours, 
Neceie J. Whitney. 
The case of a young’ lady of Embarrass, Shawano county, was a very 
singular one. She was taken in October, 1890, with fits, the first lasting WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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fifty-two hours, and daily after that, one or two lasting from one to four 
hours, up to the time I visited her in April, 1891. The slightest excite- 
ment or movement of the body would at once throw her into a fit. Soon 
after the first attack, while in a fit, her left lower limb became rigid and 
so intense that the attending physician told me that it could not be bent 
by a yoke of oxen. It would not yield to chloroform, ether or other 
means used to relax. This was her condition when I made my visit. 
I treated her about two hours, after which she was able to flex the left 
limb as easily as the right. Her fits nearly ceased, and she rapidly re- 
covered healih and strength. She came to Oshkosh in June, walking to 
my office a distance of one and one-half miles without difficulty, and after 
taking five treatments returned home and since then she has been in good 
health without any signs of her former trouble, 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of Aug. 29, 1891. 
W. E. Sawyer, of Herndon, Iowa, is one of the guests at the Seymour 
House. Mr. Sawyer is one of F. J. McKenzie’s patients, and he tells a 
remarkable story of his experiences. Three years ago last March Mr. 
Sawyer was afflicted with spinal paralysis. Since that time he has not 
been able to walk a step without crutch and cane. Just a week ago last 
Monday he heard of Mr. McKenzie’s wonderful success in treating paraly- 
sis. Mr. Sawyer came to Oshkosh and placed himself in Mr. McKenzie’s 
hands. After the first treatment he discarded his crutches and cane and 
he has not used them since. When he was seen at the hotel by The 
Northwestern man he was able to walk about the house with ease, He 
goes up and down stairs, across the street, and he has been as far as the 
postofifice. He is greatly rejoiced at his recovery and it is a delight to him 
to walk after he has not had the use of his legs to walk for over three 
years. 
The case is peculiarly in point at the present time. In an interview 
in this paper August 8th Mr. McKehzie promised to cure any case of spinal 
paralysis, in which the muscles were not affected, in one treatment and he 
has done it in this case. 
Taken From the Daily Northwestern December g, i8go. 
Among the guests at the Seymour House last week was E. D. Foote, 
station agent of the C. M. & St. P. R. R. at Waupun. Mr. Foote is con- 
valescing from an illness. East September he received a paralytic stroke 
which left his right side almost useless. He was almost helpless, and his 
right foot was so useless that he was totally unable to walk or bear any 
weight upon it. His family physician could do nothing for him, and 
advised his family that he had but a short time to live. The doctor advised 
him to go to Oshkosh and see F. J. McKenzie, saying: “if there is any one 
in the world who can help you he can.” Accordingly he came to this city 
on the 28th day of October and was taken to the Seymour House where he 
was put to bed. Mr. McKenzie immediately began his treatment and by 28 
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Saturday of the same week he was able to walk to the dining- room, a dis- 
tance of 100 feet, and to use his rig-ht hand in cutting- food. He has been 
g-aining- rapidly ever since, and when he told The Northwestern reporter 
of his case he said he had been attending- to his work for ten days. He was 
treated entirely by F. J. McKenzie, who accomplished the result by im- 
parting- vital power to him by the laying- on of his hands. 
While Mr. Foote was conversing- with the reporter, Mr. Ferson en- 
tered the office and told of the cure of his brolher-in-law, Smith Young-, of 
Elgin, 111. Mr. Young- came to Mr. McKenzie sixteen months ago from 
Elgin, suffering as was Mr. Foote, from paralysis. He was unable to walk 
and could not use his hand at all. Under Mr. McKenzie’s treatment he 
improved so rapidly that he returned home in two weeks, and he is now a 
sound man. Mr. Ferson was suffering from sciatica, so he said he came 
to Mr. McKenzie a week ago. He said he was improving daily, and he 
hoped to return to Elgin in a day or two a well man. 
A Northwestern reporter dropped into the office of C. N. Nygaard of 
the Oshkosh Hogging Tool Co. on a recent occasion and while there heard 
from Mr. Nj’gaard’s own lips the story of three most remarkable cases re- 
sulting from treatment by F. J. McKenzie. Two of these cases were of 
scarlet fever and one that of a swelling of the lower limb. The first case 
mentioned was that of Mr. Nygaard’s little daughter Elsie, aged six years. 
When Mr. McKenzie first came to treat the little one, her temperature was 
105 Fr.. pulse 145. Two hours after the first treatment the scarlet fever 
rash came out all over her body and limbs and a reduction of temperature 
and pulse followed. The second day her temperature came down to 102 Fr. 
and her pulse 1o 115. The third day her temperature had fallen to 100 and 
her pulse to 90. The rash after this began to disappear' and after the 
fourth day of treatment her temperature and pulse were about normal,the 
strawberry tounge disappeared and there was no further trouble. 
The second case was that of Mr. Nygaard’s little son Elmer, aged five 
years. He was attacked in about the same way that his fcister was, 
although not so severely and the fever ran about the same course, he be- 
ing, comparatively speaking, about well on the fifth day of Mr.McKenzie’s 
treatment. The two cases of virulent scarlet fever offered a reinarkab le 
test of Mr. McKenzie’s ability to treat fever and it is Mr. Nygaard’s firm 
belief that had any other physician attended his little ones their recovery 
would have been doubtful. In speaking of Mr. McKenzie he expresses 
great surprise that the gentleman should be able to do so much without 
the use of medicine. But Mr. McKenzie’s methods are too well known to 
demand explanation. His cures are too numerous to mention, and among 
them a large percentage are those of fevers. This has been learned by 
diligent inquiry here or there where Mr. McKenzie has been called upon. 
Mr. Nygaard had not told of the greatest of the cures effected by the phy- 
sician in his family. Perhaps he purposely reserved the greatest sur- 
prise with which to astonish his caller before his departure. Be that a sit 
may he told it freely. 
The third case was that of Mrs. Nygaard. Her ailment was a most 
serious one, consisting of a swelling of the lower limb that had baffled the WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
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most energetic efforts of several different physicians. The pain that she 
suffered was excruciating and the limb was so sensitive to the touch that 
even the slight weight of a sheet laid upon it was sufficient to cause 
terrible suffering. Mr. Nygaard had built a wire screen to lay over the 
limb—which had to be kept constantly in one position—to prevent the 
bed clothes from touching it. This made it almost impossible to keep the 
member warm and it frequently became so numb that her suffering was 
greatly intensified by cold. Mr. McKenzie was called to treat the case. 
At the time of the first treatment the swelling could be seen to gradually 
lower beneath the touch of the physician and from that time on an im- 
provement set in. In a few days the swelling had almost entirely disap- 
peared. The limb became less sensitive and soon could bear the weight 
of a sufficient amount of clothing to keep it warm. Within ten days Mrs. 
Nygaard was able to walk about and use her limb freely. Mr. Nygaard 
is deeply grateful to Mr. McKenzie for the service rendered. 
A father brought to me from Appleton, Wis., his daughter about five 
years of age, who had been unable for several months to use her lower 
limbs, and had only partial use of her arms. Had been under good med- 
ical treatment without improvement. Her legs were as useless as though 
made of dough, her utmost effort causing no perceptible movement in 
them. Could raise her hands no higher than her chin. Two days after 
her first visit she came again for treatment. Could then raise her hand 
above her head. After the fourth treatment she could move her lower 
limbs when lying upon her back on the floor. After fifth treatment could 
creep, after seventh walk with assistance. I insert the postal card re- 
ceived by me from Mr. Schmidt: 
APPEETON, Wis., Oct. 27, 1886. 
Dr. F. J. McKenzie: 
My daughter has improved so she can walk without assistance. Have 
therefore not called on you again ***** as you have 
performed such a wonderful cure on my daughter. 
V. S. Schmidt, Cigar Manufacturer. 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of May 22, 1886^ 
TWO CASES OF TYPHOID FEVER. 
W. F. M., fifteen years of age, No. 155 Ninth street, was taken with 
typhoid fever in September, 1884, was attended by the family physician 
for several days when the symptoms were so dangerous that apprehen- 
sions were felt by his parents that the boy would not recover. The 
physician in attendance told them that there were good reasons for their 
fears. I was then sent for and took the case, from which time no medicine 
was given the patient. In three days the grave symptoms were under 
control, and in eight days from the day I took charge of the case conva- 
lescence commenced and recovery rapidly followed. The boy has been in 
excellent health since. 
F. J. McKenzie. 30 
WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
A well known lumberman of Shawano, now of Denver, Col., to whom 
I was called the first Sunday of October, 1883, finding strong fever. Tues- 
day night the fever had abated; but Thursday morning dysenteric symp- 
toms had set in. On Tuesday following the patient was convalescent, and 
now well. Dr. Sherman was present with me and kept a history of the 
case. No medicine was taken by the patient. 
F. J. McKenzie. 
A CASE OF PNEUMONIA. 
Attended by F. J. McKenzie, reported by Dr. E. Sherman, regular: “I 
attended with Mr. McKenzie Sunday, November 11, 1883, a patient of his 
and, at his request, examined the patient. Found the following symp- 
toms: Patient chilly since Friday, with alternate flashes of heat, pulse 
116, temperature 103.6 Fhar.; skin hot and dry, pain on the left side of the 
chest, patient drowsy. Mr. McKenzie treated the patient one hour, when 
I examined him again. Pulse 96, temperature as before, skin moist with 
less pain in the chest. Monday 10:30 a. m.: Pulse 80, temperature 101.6 
skin moist; patient had been raising sputa mixed with blood; 8 p. m., per- 
spiring, pulse 71, temperature 99, some pain in left side, relieved by treat- 
ment. Tuesday, 10 a. m.: Skin moist, pulse 70, temperature 99; charac- 
teristic sputa, some appetite. Wednesday, 11 a. m.: Passed a good night; 
pulse 72, temperature 99; patient allowed to dress and sit up. Thursday, 
pulse and temperature normal; patient discharged as to regular treatment. 
I regard it is a well marked case of pneumonia. I have conversed with 
several of Mr. McKenzie’s patients suffering with different diseases of a 
chronic nature, and, if their statements can be relied upon, the results 
obtained by his treatment in each particular case are, to say the least, 
surprising. 
E. Shekman, M. D. 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of Sept. 4, 1884. 
T'he marvel of Mr. F. J. McKenzie’s work for the past four years, now 
that public attention is called to it, appears on every hand. Geo. Chase, 
son of James Chase, the well known lumberman, reports a very extraor- 
dinary cure done for him. Mr. Chase says: 
“In 1878, when seventeen years of age, I had pneumonia, and when I 
got around I continued so weak and feeble that my father had Dr. Ross, 
of Chicago, examine my lungs, and he found the upper lobe of my left 
lung hepatized. He told me that I might live some years, but that I could 
not expect better health than I then had, that I would never gain in 
flesh, or be able to breathe through this lobe of my lung. The girth of the 
left lung was 3% inches less than over the right. This was in April, 1880. 
In June following I commenced with F. J. McKenzie, and in two months I 
gained twelve pounds, and felt that I could breathe some through the dis- 
eased lung. In March following I gained thirty-four pounds, from one 
hundred and twenty-two to one-hundred and fifty-six. My lung has been 
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improving, till now there is but one-half inch difference in girth between 
the left and right, and can breathe as well through the left as right 
lung, and my general health and strength have improved so that I feel 
that I am an entirely well man. Thanks to Dr. McKenzie’s marvelous 
power.” 
In an interview with E. G. Mierswa, now at work in Browning’s 
barber shop back of the Commercial bank, he said that he had had the 
asthma from birth, up to March last, when Dr. McKenzie cured him in 
three weeks. “When I went to him I was not able to walk rapidly or do 
any hard labor, or any labor without resting every few moments to get 
my breath. My parents put me to the barbering business as the lightest 
kind of work, but even this work gave me great trouble, as I had no 
strength. I had to sleep with my head raised high, and very often could 
not sleep in any way. For the last five months I have had no trouble in 
breathing and I sleep, run or walk as well as anybody of iny age.” 
Note—It is now seven years since he has had an attack. About eighty 
per cent, of asthma cases are curable by my treatment. 
ASTHMA CURED. 
A MOST WONDERFUL CURE. 
The two and one-half year old daughter of J. C. Dawson, of New 
London, while eating peanuts passed a part of one into her windpipe. The 
physicians of New London, unable to relieve the child, advised taking her 
to Oshkosh, where they could find the best surgical skill of the northern 
part of the state. She was accordingly brought here on the 22nd day of 
July, the day after the accident occurred. Mr. Dawson says he consulted 
the leading medical men and all declined to take her case, saying there 
was no hope of saving the child’s life. One well known surgeon promised, 
when the child should get black about the lips and face from strangula- 
tion, to perform tracheotomy, but when her spasms on the morning of 
August 1st took this form, and he was advised of it, and that she was 
going from one spasm to another, he declined to make an incision, for the 
reason that the nut could not be located with sufficient accuracy to war- 
rant an operation. Hearing of some wonderful cures that Dr. McKenzie 
had done, in his terrible trouble he sent for him, hoping that he might 
afford her such relief that she might die without such great suffering. 
Dr. McKenzie took the case in hand at Ip. m., and in two hours had her 
quiet and raising mucus from the ulcer made by the nut, and under his 
treatment she continued to raise blood and mucous till the 23rd day of 
August when she threw out of her windpipe a large piece of peanut, the 
cause of all her trouble. Dr. McKenzie has the nut in alcohol. “The life 
of my child,” says Mr. Dawson, “is wholly due to the marvelous power of 
Dr. McKenzie, a wonder to all who know of the case.” The child is now 
well. 
Articles have appeared in The Northwestern regarding- the wonder- 
ful cures of F. J. McKenzie of this city, by laying on of hands, through 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of Aug. 29 1884. 32 
WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
what he terms “nerve force.” Several instances were given recently, but 
others have been investigated, and from personal interviews in most in- 
stances, virtually rescued from the jaws of death. Further interesting 
instances have been obtained. 
APOPUECTIC PARAI/VSIS. 
Mrs. Henry Pine, mother of Alderman Kilp, suffered paralysis of 
the left side for two years. She was practically helpless, drawing her left 
side after her, so to speak. Her head was dizzy with a bad feeling about 
it. Recently she took eight treatments from Mr. McKenzie. She now has 
no inconvenience from her paralytic trouble. She goes up and down 
stairs with ease, stepping one foot before the other, has not been better 
as to general health in a long time, and has no more trouble with her 
head. Her family is perfectly astonished at the result. 
While speaking of this matter. Alderman Kilp gave a little experi- 
ence of his own. He was badly wrenched in the hip by an accident on the 
railroad. He grew worse and suffered excruciating pain, that one night 
almost set him crazy. Mr. McKenzie gave him one treatment. The pain 
instantly left, and in two days he was back at work and all over his ail- 
ment. 
REMOVING CATARACT. 
One of the most marvelous results investigated was that of removing 
cataract from the eye, a thing that is never done except by surgical opera- 
tion. Mrs. Krause, 207 Twelfth street, had a cataract on each eye. She 
could barely see the light and outline of objects as she felt her way about 
the house. She took treatments of Mr. McKenzie, the cataracts were en- 
tirely absorbed, her eyes went back into their normal condition, and she 
now sees as well as for the past twenty years before cataracts appeared. 
She said her general health was also improved by it, and she hasn’t felt 
better and stronger in a great many years. 
Note—The eyes were examined by a Milwaukee specialist just before 
treatment commenced, who found the cataract too soft for operation. If 
they had been “ripe” I should not undertaken to remove them. 
SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. 
At the residence of John Monahan, on Eleventh street, was found an 
interesting case. A little boy ten years old, son of Mr. Monahan, was 
three years ago fast declining with, as diagnosed by the attending phy- 
sician, softening of the brain, and was with it laboring under extreme 
nervous excitement. Mr. McKenzie gave him one treatment a week for 
several months, and he improved rapidly until fall when he contracted 
malarial fever. He was successfully brought through a siege of twelve 
days of the fever, which included a relapse that occurred on the seventh 
day from a suddenly lowered temperature of the room. 
About the most peculiar case among- those visited was that of a little 
three-year-old boy of Mike Bourke, on Eighth street. He had just got 
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over a run of diphtheria, some two months ago, which left him with an 
affliction which physicians called carries of the spine. His head was bent 
forward and to one side in a distressed looking manner, and he could not 
speak plainer than a mere mumble, and he could not walk but a few steps 
at a time. Two physicians, after several month’s treatment, had referred 
the case to some one else, saying the boy was doomed to perpetual defor- 
mity. Mr. McKenzie was called in and in five visits so far the boy shows 
evidence of permanent cure. After the second visit the little fellow was 
out at play, and now he looks up into his mother’s face, the swelling on 
the back of his neck having disappeared. The boy talks plainly, sleeps 
well, and is apparently well. His mother’s thankfulness knows no bounds. 
Note—1891, the boy was restored to perfect health. 
CASE OF PERITONITIS. 
A very miraculous cure was that of Mrs. James, wife of the well- 
known lumberman, Ebenezer James. On Sunday night Mrs. James was 
attacked suddenly and severely with peritonitis. She grew rapidly worse 
and suffered terrible agony until the following Thursday evening, when 
all hope was given up and, as Mr. James said: “We had fully made up 
our minds she must die, and had concluded that all we could do was to 
place her under the influence of morphine and have as easy a death as 
possible.” She had not retained a drop of anything on her stomach, and 
lay, according to the accounts of her family, upon her death-bed. Mr 
McKenzie was called as a last resort. After the first treatment that eve- 
ning she retained food in her stomach; after the third treatment during 
the night she slept well; the next day the fever left her and she was soon 
off her bed, recovered rapidly, and now, although feeling weak, don’t look 
much as though she had ever been sick. A happy family reside in the 
James residence. “You can say anything you please,” said Mr. Janies 
vehemently, “you can write any certificate you wish, no matter how 
strong, and I will endorse it.” 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of Aug. 13 1884. 
The wonderful cure of Conrad Frnst of erysipelas by F. J. McKenzie, 
of this city, by what he pleases to term nerve force, was recently men- 
tioned in these columns. This remarkable result of Mr. McKenzie’s 
mysterious power appears to have been one of many astonishing cures in 
this city that have since come to reportorial ears. Impressed with the 
miraculous saving of life that seemed wholly incredible, a Northwestern 
reporter took the opportunity a day or two since of interviewing several 
who fully and firmly declare 1 hey were virtually snatched from 
the grave by Mr. McKenzie’s most potent gifts of “nerve force.” A few 
of the most remarkable of these cases will be interesting to the public. 
MRS. FRANK A. LEACH. 
Last February a brief item appeared in this paper that Mrs. Frank A. 
Leach was very low with pneumonia and her death was hourly expected. 
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any more from her lungs, and had been given up as past all hope, and 
was considered dying. Previous to this she had regular periodical chills, 
in every one of which it seemed she must die. F. J. McKenzie was called 
in, as the friends thought, as the last expedient. After treating her 
-simply by laying on of hands for two hours, ftlrs. Leach began to revive, 
expectoration from the deceased and filled up lungs was renewed, and the 
patient relapsed into the first natural sleep she had had for three weeks. 
When she awoke she raised more from her lungs in three hours than she 
had in the previous seventy-two hours. From that on her full recovery 
was speedy, and now, instead of any chronic affection and serious trouble 
with her lung, that generally follows pneumonia her lung is pronounced 
perfectly sound in every particular. This is Mrs. Leach’s own statement 
as she explained it, and she says she owes her life today to Mr. McKenzie. 
She is now strong and robust, and is doing her own housework. 
MRS. S. OSTERTAG. 
The wife of ex-Alderman S. Ostertag is another who told the reporter 
she would have been in her grave today had it not been for Mr. McKenzie. 
Her ailment was general paralysis. Her fingers were drawn up, numb- 
ness was fast stealing over her, and her whole body was in such constant 
pain that she was fairly driven distracted. Her head, she said, felt as 
though it was swelling to an enormous size and she was at times driven 
insane with suffering. She grew worse even under medical treatment, 
until she actually felt that death was stealing over her. She was certain 
she could not live another day. ftlr. McKenzie was called and laid his 
hands upon her, and in fifteen minutes all her pain had left. In a few 
treatments she was restored to better health than she had enjoyed for 
years, and a happier woman over her present perfect health and youthful 
feelings it would be difficult to imagine. “I tell my husband,” she said, 
laughing, ‘‘that if he mourns because he isn’t a widower, he must lay it 
all to Mr. McKenzie.” 
SAVED A DYING BOY. 
At the Sheridan House, kept by Bruno Martin, was seen a bright little 
lad about ten years of age, Eddie Martin, son of Mr. Martin. He was 
rugged and healthy and looked far from a victim of inflammatory rheuma- 
tism. His case was remarkable. It was given in detail by his mother, 
who said the boy was attacked with inflammatory rheumatism last fall. 
He grew rapidly worse and all winter long he was confined to the house 
and latterly to his bed. His sufferings became excruciating, and he was 
reduced to skin and bones. On Saturday night, May 24th, she and Mr. 
Martin believed he was dying from heart disease. No help had been found 
for him. For twelve nights he had not slept a particle. That night he 
barely pulled through, but it was evident that the end was rapidly ap- 
proaching. As an experiment in their desperation they called Mr. Mc- 
Kenzie on Sunday. He came at 2 p. m. and found the boy’s pulse at 130, 
and beating like a trip-hammer and the boy liable to die at any moment. 
He treated the boy pretty constantly until 7 p. M. The pulse went down 
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boy was so far gone that he wavered better and worse during the follow- 
ing day, but in five days he was able to lie on his left side, and in a few 
days made a complete recovery to the surprise of all who knew of his case. 
Mrs. Martin said she is fully satisfied that' the boy would not have lived 
another day had Mr. McKenzie not been called to treat him. 
CASE OF scareet FEVER. 
A case similar in severity but of a different disease was that of Robert 
Brauer, Jr., son of Robert Brauer, first assistant engineer of the fire de- 
partment. The boy was in the last stages of scarlet fever. His father 
had explained that his case had been given up, and it was considered cer- 
tain that the boy would die. The boy had been out of his head more or 
less for some hours. He called Mr. McKenzie who found the pulse at 140, 
with the pulsations skipping about twenty to the hundred. The boy was 
in a perfect blaze of fever, and was in a very critical condition. After 
a few minutes’ treatment he sank into a comfortable sleep, the pulse low- 
ered, the breathing became regular, and in ten days the boy was out at 
play, with no effects of the disease upon him. 
Taken from The Daily Northwestern of July 24, 1884. 
Mr. McKenzie’s remarkable cures, simply by the laying- on of hands, 
have become so widespread that he is called upon to devote all his time in 
the treatment of people who come to him. An instance of a remarkable 
cure in the city was broug-ht to the attention of a Northwestern repre- 
sentative the other day and he took the trouble to investigate and inter- 
view the patient so wonderfully restored to health. The patient was Mr. 
Conrad Ernst, the well known proprietor of a meat market, and an old 
and prominent citizen of this place. Mr. Ernst stated that he had been 
subject to severe attacks of erysipelas for six years, these attacks lasting 
from two to three months, completely prostrating him with swollen parts 
and excruciating pains. On the tenth of this month he was suffering from 
a most violent attack. His condition was as follows: Eyes were much 
swollen and completely closed, swelling very painful; right arm badly 
swollen and patient unable to move it; one leg terribly swollen and hav- 
ing upon it a running ulcer; patient sat in a chair, unable to move or be 
touched without violent pains. Dr. McKenzie was called at seven o’clock 
in the evening, and by the simple laying on of hands on the diseased 
parts for one hour the following was the result at the end of the hour: 
Swelling of the eyes entirely gone, patient was able to open his eyes and 
see perfectly; swelling of the arm had wholly disappeared, and patient 
exercised his muscles with the remark that he could knock an ox down; 
swelling of the leg also disappeared, and all pain had left the body, so 
that the patient got up and walked about the room, apparently as well as 
ever. In eight days the ulcer in the leg had disappeared, and ever since 
the day of treatment Mr. Ernst has been about his business, saying he 
never felt better in his life and feels like a boy again. This is Mr. Ernst’s 
own statement of the case, as given by him to a Northwestern reporter. 36 
WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS. 
There is something wonderful about it, and unaccountable from present 
imperfect knowledge of the force or power which accomplishes these 
things. Other instances of the kind are reported of Mr. McKenzie’s won- 
derful cures, but this one will serve to illustrate the point alluded to at the 
outset of this article. 
Three cases reported by F. J. McKenzie of easily handled inflamma- 
tory diseases are given by him as typical recoveries under his treatment, 
also one case of hay fever and one of diphtheria. 
Case No. 1—Was called Feb. 26, 1889, to a lady aged sixty, attacked 
four days before with erysipelas on the left side of the face and nose; left 
eye partially closed, left side of face much swollen and inflamed. Con- 
siderable fever, temperature 102 Fhar.; treatment morning, re- 
peated at night. Next morning the swelling much less on the left side, 
but 'swelling and inflammation appeared on right side; treatment twice 
this day. Next day treatment twice, after which swelling and inflamma- 
tion disappeared from face; face normal. Cure. No further treatment. 
Case No. 2—A young man suffering from quinsy called me the evening 
of March 4, 1889. The throat inflamed for two days; in bed. Considerable 
fever, not able to swallow food or water for two days; gave treatment: 
after which patient, with some difficulty, drank water and milk; gave 
treatment again in the morning, in the afternoon patient got up to his 
work. Able to swallow solid food. Cure. No further treatment. 
Case No. 3—Called June, 1889, to Shawano (sixty miles north of Osh- 
kosh) to the wife of a well known physician who was sick with erysipelas 
and thought to be in extremis. Found her with temperature 106, and face 
and eyes so swollen as to destroy their outlines. Gave treatment the 
evening of my arrival, reducing the swollen parts so that in the morning 
her face was quite natural and temperature 102. After treatment in the 
morning I left her quite comfortable to return two days afterwards, when 
I found her convalescent, and further treatment unneccessary. 
HAY FEVER. 
Case No. 4—Called March 10, 1889, to a female patient suffering from 
hay fever. The first treatment gave relief and cure from the attack. 
This case, however, yielded easier than the average of such cases. While 
I seldom have to give more than three treatments to break it for that 
season a longer treatment is necessary to secure permanent cure. 
Case No. 5—Called to a child two years of age of Mr. Michael Burke, 
New street, who was attacked with diphtheria. Two days after commenc- 
ing treatment she threw out a large piece of false membrane and two 
days after that the remaining false membrane. Following this she had a 
paralysis which yielded to treatment in a few hours. She had no further 
trouble and a week after the attack was well. 
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My curative effects in nearly all acute diseases are so 
rapid that most beholders are led to doubt what, before I 
commenced the case, was evident to them, the severe nature 
of the disease. Those who are unfamiliar with disease 
processes suppose that acute disease is more difficult of 
control and cure than chronic, whereas the reverse is true, 
and to an extent beyond what most people seem able to 
understand. A small increase of energy at the start of 
acute disease fortifies the powers of resistance, while in 
chronic a much greater increase is required to build up a 
more or less devitalized system. 
I have treated acute disease the last twelve years 
under the vigdlant eyes of a medical profession, who, had I 
lost one case, would have set going- a howl that would have 
reached to Darkest Africa.