A
BRIEF ADDRESS
TO THE
AMERICAN  PEOPLE,
BT
N.W. SEAT, M, D.
WITH
REMARKS
B Y
ADDISON KENDALL, M. D.
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       NEW YORK:
C. SHIELDS, PRINTER, CORNER PLATT AND GOLD STS.

          1852.
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AMERICAN PEOPLE,
N. W. S EAT, M. D.
WITH
REMARKS
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       NEW YO^RK:

C. SHIELDS, PRINTER, CORNER PLATT AND GOLD STS.
1852. 
      IMP0RTER3 AND DEALERS IN




MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,



     47 Maiden Lane,



        NEW YORK. 
        A    BRIEF   ADDRESS

                BY N.  W. SEAT,  M. D.
     To the Pcblic :—
       In all ages of the world, new inventions, new  discoveries or new
     ideas, have been looked upon with suspicion  or dread  by the
     masses, and opposed  and persecuted  by the leading minds; par-
•     ticularly by those whose opinions  or interests  were immediately
     involved.   Illustrative of the past; Moses, Jesus, Galilleo, Hunter,
     Jenner, Fulton, <fec, stand conspicuous.  In this age however, (par-
     ticularly in this country, where untrammeled thought, opinion and
     expression, are recognized by our  glorious Constitution,)  innova-
     tions upon old established rules, modes of thought and action, are
     freed from physical restraint, and have only to grapple and con-
     tend with ignorance, prejudice and  opposing interests;  over which
     legitimate  truth will  sooner or later  triumph; it can not  be sup-
     pressed.  But he who would succeed  even in this free country, and
     in this enlightened age, in gaining the general confidence and sup-
     port of the public, in any great improvement or innovation upon
     time-honored, and time-sanctioned principles, particularly if upon a
     subject sustained and  pronounced orthodox by a large body of
     learned and  professional men, must  expect ridicule, sarcasm and
     vituperation ; he  has a Herculean  task to  perform; one that  re-
     quires patience, perseverance, and endurance, to a degree  not ge-
     nerally realized by the undertaker in  the onset, but almost univer-
     sally experienced before his  object is accomplished; a thankless
     task; the discoverer or promulgator  being  seldom rewarded, save
     by the consciousness of having done his duty.   These reflections 
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are the result of sad experience.  I  ask the reader's kind attention
for a  few moments, and I will briefly and  as  delicately  as pos-
sible, explain.
   Having been many years engaged in the practice of medicine in
the Western and Southern States, where Fevers of various types,
grades  and peculiarities,  were the  prevailing diseases, I became
dissatisfied with the ordinary modes  of treatment;  I  longed for
some improvement corresponding somewhat with the vast strides in
other departments of Science; something to  correspond with  the
rail-road speed of the present age.   Reflecting thus, I conceived a
new idea of that condition of  the system called fever; partly from
my own reflections and partly  from other sources.  Having  formed
my conclusions, (which it is  not necessary to set forth here, as  I
do not propose to battle with opinions at present, but confine my-
self to  facts,) I instituted a series of  experiments, not confining
myself  to substances known in the  " Materia Medica" to confirm
or explode my new views;  the result surpassed my most sanguine
expectations.  I obtained or  produced a  preparation harmless in
itself, which holds entire and complete control over fevers  of all
types and peculiarities:  having no other effect than to dissipate all
febrile  and nervous  excitement; it  might  appropriately be  called
an antidote to fever.   I have  named this  preparation " Negative
Electric Fluid."   Though this name may appear singular, it will
nevertheless, be found to  fully explain  not only, its nature,  but its
modus  operandi, when man and the real nature of  disease is more
fully understood.
   After becoming  fully satisfied of the  immense value of the dis-
covery,  my next object was to bring  it to public notice.   I soon
found that the proper parties—the Medical Faculty—were, with  a
few exceptions, so far from aiding me, disposed to treat the  whole
subject  with  ridicule or contempt;  many not hesitating to declare 
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my assertions as impossibilities,-  and bonce  would not try it, or
scarcely deign to give it a passing thought;  others when convinced
that fevers might be and were cured in a few hours  by pleasant
means, would not use it in practice, as they thought it opposed to
their interests to do so;  others feared that it  might compromise
their professional dignity, to make use of an article, the composi-
tion or mode of preparation  of which they did not fully compre-
hend ; a few only had the candor and  independence to  use it or
speak in its -favor.  In mechanics  and almost all departments of
Science and  the A.rt3 the inventor is  protected by law, even the
mental labor of the Author is secured by a copyright.   In medi-
cine the Patent Law will not  apply, as by a little simple admixture
or disguise it would be difficult to prove  one's rights invaded, and
I cannot in duly to tha?e  dependent on  me for a subsistence, or to
myself, give the result of the labor  of years, to the public without
some  adequate  compensation.   So  far from being  protected by
law, the contrary exists, and that  to such an  extent as to prevent
even an opportunity of proving in a public way the merits of any
preparation;  a3 the law prohibits the use of anything in the Army,
Navy and all public Hospitals or Institutions ; even the Physicians
in charge of the Quarantine of this City are debarred from all exper-
iment unless  approved by the Faculty;  they in turn will not try it
until the formula is given; when once given it is beyond my con-
trol ;  then what am  I to do ?   Let the  Government  take  it in
hand—this is what I want; but how shall I prove  to  Government
that my pretensions are valid ?   I am forbid by law the opportu-
nity of demonstrating its qualities in an official way, by being shut
out of the Hospitals ; opposed by the Medical Faculty, whose opin-
ions and interests conflict with all it purports, and  when  so many
secret preparations and nostrums are claiming to be a sine  qua
non, suspected by the masses as being a  humbug. 
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   To bring my preparation to the notice of Government in a legit-
imate way, I went  to Washington  in February, 1851.   It was on
the-eve of adjournment of Congress, and but little opportunity was
obtained even in private for exhibition.  I however  treated several
cases of fever, one of which was in the person of the Hon. H. E.
Foot, then Senator from, and now Governor of Mississippi, from
which enough satisfaction was given to obtain letters, (having de-
termined to  visit Europe,) from  several  Senators, and  the  Hon.
Daniel Webster, Secretary  of State, to: our Minister  and other
eminent  men in France.  I  then came to this city;  visited the
Mayor, Quarantine,  <fec, stated my objects, but could get no oppor-
tunity for publicly demonstrating my assertions, for reasons before
named.   I then proceeded to Paris.  As the French Government
had evinced an  anxiety to obtain  a substitute for Quinine by offer-
ing a few thousand  francs premium, and knowing I had vastly its
superior, I thought I should get an opportunity of testing it pub-
licly, proposing to take double the quantity given any one case, as
a security against any deleterious properties  it might  be feared to
contain, but the sacred " -<F)gis" of precedent was there, as at home,
tenaciously held between  me and the object of my desire.
   I -then made a formal proposition, (which was duly and officially
recorded,) to " go into any Hospital in  Europe  and  cure fevers of
aU of any  kind, in  one-seventh of the time ordinarily required and
at half the expense."
 "After  some months delay, Capt. nutton wished me to come as
Surgeon  in his ship, the Duchess d'Orleans, then laying  at Havre,
to Now-York.   As there was a large number of emigrants, and
a'sickly  season  of the year, I consented, hoping to have a good
opportunity of  testing my preparation under circumstances  less
favorable to  success than had before occurred; in this I was not
disappointed, and had  the first  opportunity of testing it in Small 
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Pox.   As I had anticipated, it proved to be a specific—but of this
I wilL let the proper parties testify:

  " We, the unders:gned, certify to the following, viz:—We took passage on
the packet-ship Dutchess d'Orleans, Capt. Hutton, then lying in  the  port of
Havre, France, and  bound for  New-York,   the sailed on the 9th of Aug.,
1851, with over four hundred souls on  board, mostly emigrants.   A few days'
after leaving Havre, the small pox broke out among the emigrants.  Tliey
were  all treated by the  physician in  charge, Dr. N. W. Seat, with a new
remedy of his own, which he  calls Negative Electric Fluid, with which he
seemed to have entire control over the disease, arresting it in a few hours and
curing it in a very short time.
  During the voyage, which lasted thirty nine days, there were about eighty
cases of small pox, some fever, &o., and not a single death.  All  were cured
with unusual promptness.
  From what we saw during  said passage, we are fully convinced that the
medicine used by Dr. Seat  on the occasion,  possesses inestimable  virtues.
We never before heard or read of febrile affections  being controled  with so
much ease, promptness and certainty, or so  little trouble to the nurse.  A
crowded ship, a long passage, small pox and fever on board, and not a death!
The fact speaks for itself.
       Signed,
               E. P. FABBRt, 84 Pearl street New-York.     ")
               E. G. Fabbri.    «•     "       " '         [   Cabin
               J.  A. DeNormandy, Beaver Co., Penn.      (Passengers.
               T. A. DeNormandy, East Liverpool, Ohio.   J
  The above statement is correct.
                                         W. S.  Hutton, Commander.
                                         Wm. Marbton, First Mate."

   Results no less astonishing have  invariably been obtained in all
classes of  febrile  affections, not only by myself, but  by  others in
different  sections  of  country, and  in  different climates;  yet  the
medical  profession in  general seem to regard it  as unworthy of
their attention; though many noble hearts, convinced of the hon-
esty of my purpose and of  the importance of the preparation, have
(I am credulous enough to  believe), with genuine feelings of friend-
ship, and a true spirit of progress, bid me God speed; not so with
the majority ; yet I do not know  as I should complain ;  perhaps a
prejudice against anything  the composition of which they do  not 
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given for the purpose of testing it,  by the agents of Messrs.
Bruno & Cargill, 47 Maiden Lane.
             Very Respectfully, your Ob't Serv't,
                              N. W. SEAT, M. D.
  New  York, Aug.  1852. 
DR. ADDISON  KENDALL'S  REMARKS.
   The foregoing was handed me by Dr. Seat on the eve of his departure for
 Europe.  On perusal I find the Doctor has not told the whole truth.   His
 respect and delicacy to the profession and his own natural modesty have evi-
 dently caused him not only to withold much in relation to the great difficulty
 of introducing his remedy, but much  in regard to  its valuable and peculiar
 properties, the astonishing facility with which cures are effected, the extent to
 which it has been used and consequently the present basis on which its merits
 rest ;  which  evidently renders  it  invulnerable to all  opposition.  Being
 oognizant of the facts, which he has bo modestly witheld  I will endeavor par-
 tially to supply.
   People generally depend upon  the  medical  profession for all  opinions in
 regard to medicines and treatment of the sick:  this is altogether natural and
 generally proper, but in a ease like this, of an  original and great discovery,
 calculated to revolutionize all established rules and views of the treatment of
 one of the most common and universal classes of disease,  that of all Fevers,
 without regard to name, what is  to  be expected from that learned and_res-
 pectable body ?  Let  us  take a natural and common sense view of the pre-
 mises, keeping in mind all past experience respecting parties immediately  in-
 terested in all great discoveries or improvements.
   The  physician is but a man, with self-interests like other men ;  he seeks
 wealth, position and influence ; his profession is his capital, his livelihood, his
 wh ble dependence :  perhaps an Author whose opinions are before the world,
 which  he  protects with paternal care, and thus, he may consider that  the
 " first law of Nature," self protection,  requires  him to use his whole influence
 to put down and discourage every thing likely to effector injure his business.
 The same interests prompt him to keep all  treatment of  the 6iek as much as
 possible in his own hands. He has been accustomed to have full benefit of the
 whole class of fevers that may have occured among his friends and supporters
 or  customers ; and if the Negative Electric Fluid is what it purports  to  be,
 a  specific ;  an  antidote for all  fevers, with  which  the  non  professional,
 the farmer, the meclianic  and the  laborer can  cure himself or his family
 in a  few hours, now it is placed in their hands, what would be the  natural
 course  of the man,  who  sees,  that  as  it is  used or  becomes  known,  he
loses  the most profitable  portion of his whole practice, particularly  in the 
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 West and  South ?  If he  is not  one of those noble souls who values public
 good more than self, (there are such) will he not assail it  in every possible
 manner to prevent  its general  introduction ? As long  as he considers it a
 '• humbug," an '• imposition upon community," his opposition may be moderate,
 knowing that any popularity it may gain through false  statements, will  soon
 subside ; that it will die a natural  death, and he be left in a still  more secure
 possession  of his practice; but the  moment  he is  convinced  that it will do
 what it purports, that  the pretensions of  its  inventor  are real, will he not
 become determined  and  violent in his  oposition?  If  so, misrepresentation,
 ridicule, sarcasm  and vituperation, will be  his main  weapons; heed them
 not;  look to your own interests and act accordingly.
  The physician who will investigate for himself in advance of public opinion,
 has an opportunity to render himself conspicuous in the treatment of  fevers,
 but to this  course  there arises a pecuniary objection in consequence of the
 custom of charging by the visit : if he cures  by a single visit, as he will be
 generally enabled to  do,  he makes  but  a small fee, wherein if he makes a
 dozen visits his  profits will be  proportionally large: this  fact stares him in
 the face and  conflicts  with his self-interests.  What then can physicians
 do to protect themselves ? I answer adopt its use to the extent it may be found
 advantageous in practice, gain the confidence  of the community by superior
 success and thus get an extensive practice to make up the  loss  by small fees
 against each case; or change the custom,  and charge a stipulated sum for
 each  ease,  without regard to the a?nount of services rendered ;  then the in-
 terest of the physician and patient will coincide and if a cure is effected by a
 single visit, it will certainly be advantageous to both.
  There is still another objection to its use by physicians, which, perhaps is
 greater than all others, arising from the  peculiar rules  of Medical Societies.
 The reader may  not  be aware of the  existe»ce of a  regular organization,
 ramifying  throughout the whole Country, from Town, County and State to a
 National Body ; the latter comprised  of regularly appointed  or chosen  dele-
 gates, to  make laws for the Subordinate Societies ;  yet such is  the fact and
 almost every respectable " regular" physician is a  member of that Associa-
 tion.  They usually  hold a Convention annually for  the avowed purpose of
 improvement in practice, but with the especial view" to elevate the  dignity of
 the profession."   At the National Convention held in Baltimore some three
of fours years ago, am jng other  laws  passed  " to elevate the dignity  of the
 profession" was one prohibiting physicians from the privilege  of patronizing
 all druggists who  should keep " patent Medicines or i: secret nostrums" for
 sale 5  this was found impracticable, as the dicta of the Convention failed to in-
 duce druggists to  throw up or lose  so  large a portion  of  their  trade.   The
 object of the resolution however, may  be re:>dily  seen ; it was  to throw all
 preparations designed for family use out of the market  and thus force people 
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to employ a physician on all occasions.  It failed in its effect; but othera
equally despotic and obnoxious to freedom of speech and action, and tending
to the same end, were more effectual.  These not only forbid the  use or en-
couragement of everything or anything of the  kind,  but enjoined the pro-
fession to use their influence  to put them down:  no matter how good, they
must not be tolerated •, nor d d their tyranny stop here, but all members of the
profession were forbid the privilege of  Consulting, or  Associating with the
members of the different  schools; thus, the " regular" physician must not
be sociable even with Homoepathics, Eclectics, Hydropathics, Chrono-Therma-
lists, Botanies, &c. nor encourage anything not pronounced Orthodox, under
pain of being branded and treated as a " quack" by his professional brethren.
Such rules may "  elevate the  dignity" but certainly  closed the door to im-
provement in a great measure,  by shutting out all discoveries  not  deemed
" regular"—not  promulgated  according to their  preconceived  notions  of
" dignity", nor does not emanate and remain in  the circle of their own wall
of prejudices.   Anything not considered Orthodox by them,  is denounced
as " quackery^" and the physician who encourages a  preparation put  up for
family use must as Dr.  Harvey said, " ruu thehazzard of his reputation",  for
he must take the risk  of being denounced and treated as a quack, by the
 whole " regular"  profession.
   I have thus briefly given the character  of the regular Medical Organization
in this country and some of the  prominent  reasons  which have doubtless led
to it.  I have not done so from any ill will towards, or desire to injure the pro-
 fession,  but to explain why physicians appose everything calculated for general
 use.  Their self interest, education and natural prejudice, together with their
 obligations as members  of the  Association, in a great measure prohibit the
 encouragement or adoption of any  preparation which renders the cure of
 fevers simple and safe, to everybody; and hence it becomes every one to judge
 of its merits for himself, independent  of  his  family physician.   Under all of
 these circumstances, the  physician who pursues an upright  and honorable
 course towards Dr. Seat's preparation, certainly deserves the confidence  and
 support of his community, for he  will not  only  prove himself  candid, in-
 dependent and free  from prejudice,  but  above the  sordid  control of the
 " Almighty Dollar" in preference  to the health and welfare  of his fellow
 man.
                MEDICAL  PROPERTIES AND USES.
   The  Negative Electric  Fluid,  is  anodyne, anti-spasittpdic,  diaphor-
 etic diuretic and sedative; and yet none,nor all of these terms convey adefinite
 idea of  its wonderful curative properties.  Its effects are " sui  generis" pecu-
 liar  to  itself: "having  no other visable operation than to change the too
 positive condition of the system to a normal or healthy state, in strict con-
 formity to the universal laws of Nature", " reducing the fever directly with- 
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out loss of vitality."  It is believed that no established  Theory  will account
foi  its  therapeutic or physiological effect upon the vital functions or explain
its  peculiar '"modus operandi."
  With few exceptions no effect is experienced by the patient, other than to
become easy, quiet and comfortable ; no nausea or other disagreeable sensa-
tions are induced or experienced ;  it seems to change the Electrical forces, or
vital functions, by which, the circulation is eaqualized, the various  secretions
and excretions are resumed and a healthy action  and condition of  the whole
system readily established.

            IT  SUPERSEDES THE USE  OF  QUININE
In all strictly febrile conditions ;  will greatly lessen the use of the various pre-
parations of Opium ;  drastic-  purges  and all  ordinary Antiphlogistic means,
while it at once renders all uses of the Lancet as an instrument of venesection
totally  unnecessary.  Under its soothing and penetrating influence, the pulse
becomes full and regular; the skin moist, soft and pliable, and if no consider-
able accumulations in the abdominal viscera have  taken place, nor local or or-
ganic  derangement exist, the patient is well; if such is the case,  however, to
any considerable  extent, they  may  require  a little attention, for which full
directions accompany the medicine.
  It may be considered a specific  for  Bilious, Remittent, Intermittent, Con-
gestive, Yellow, Nervous, Typhus, Ship, Isthmus, (Panama  or Chagres) In-
flammatory, Puerperal, (childbed  Fever,) Pneumonia, Lung or Winter Fever,
&c: Pleurisy, Small  Pox, Measles, and Scarlet Fever ; and  highly  useful in
Acute  Rheumatism,  Neuralgia, Hysteria, Mania a potu ; and in all  nervous
affections; Headache, Colds, Parturition, Painful or difficult Menstruation,
Restlessness, &c, &c.:  indeed it holds such an admirable influence over the
whole Nervous and Circulatory systems as to  be not only applicable, but of
great advantage as an adjunct, in the treatment of almost all diseases to which
the human system is  subject; in almost all of which, it has been fully tested
by a large number of liberal-minded physicians  in both Europe and Ame-
rica.

            OF THE EASE AND FACILITY OF  CURES,
    And the extent the Negative Electric Fluid  has already been used.

   On this subject I scarcely known what to say.  Had I space to relate cases
which  have come under my own  observation the whole would appear in-
credible ;  a  farce; a flight of the imagination. I will however, venture to give
two or three.
   Case 1. A  deck hand on Steamboat Vester, Capt  Fanssett:  A strong
robust man naturally; bilious temperament; aged about 35 :  had  been sick
three days without treatment; no fcecal evacuation for five days  : pulse  133, 
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 small and irregular; skin hot and dry about the head and body ; cool at the ex-
 tremities ; tongue coated, dark  in centre and red edges: a  marked  case of
 Congestive Fever.  I gave a treble portion—three tea-spoonsful—then half past
 12 o'clock. M. At half-past 2 (interval of two hours) pulse 118 ;  fuller :  gave
 the  same quantity : At 6 o'clock ; 5$ hours from first dose : patient asleep ;
 pulse 64 ; full, soft and regular ; temperature equal at head and  extremities ;
 skin moist and cool; respiration free and regular : did not wake him ; called
 down again at 9 o'clock ; still asleep  and free from fever; let him continue to
 sleep ; at six o'clock next morning found  him standing on the after guards ;
 looking bright; expressed himself well; had had no operation of the bowels ;
 his tongue appeared to be cleaning  and  concluded  to wait; cautioned  him
 about eating and exposure ; but about 9 o'clock same day I was sitting on the
 boiler deck, when the Boat landed, he was the first man ashore to tie the line
 and remained on-duty thereafter.  Remarks—It is generally necessary to give
 a cathartio in  such cases, and I should have done  so but for the purpose of ex-
 periment.  He subsequently told me that he had  a copious evacuation  in the
 forenoon of that day ;  " at first very dark but followed with a yellow, healthy
 color, all of considerable consistence and without any appearance of physio"
 —nature had  resumed her sway in natural and healthy secretions.
   Case 2.  Passenger  on  Steam Boat  Chancellor No.  2,  Capt Bacon ; a
 young  man aged  about 21, of robust constitution,  sanguine  Bilious  tem-
 perament ; had never been sick before: had been down 4 days : had drank
 brandy  in  hopes  of feeling better: Dr. Anson Jones, ex-President of Texas
 was on board  and pronounced it an agravated and dangerous Case of Yellow
 f ver : had retchings and all of the  premonitory symptoms of black vomit:
 then  9 o'clock A.  M., gave small portions of " Fluid" to allay the irritability
 of the stomach ; in about an hour, gave a table-spoonful; followed  with some
 common cathartic pills about 11 o'clock ;  repeated the "Fluid" a tea-spoonful
 every two hours ; also the pills alternately, till he became quiet and easy—
 (some 12 hours)—then stopped all treatment; found him in the barber's  shop
 at 6 o'clock next morning.  He had no other treatment and recovered rapidly.
 lee water and lemonade were allowed during the treatment  as  freely as he
 desired, which was the only thing taken not named above.
   Case  3. Mrs.  Stansbury: (4th District,  New-Orleans) aged 67:  tem-
 perament, Bilious nervous; had been confined to her bed about five months,
 with fever differently named as it changed its type: had been treated by fivo
 different physicians, among whom were Drs. Bein, Tiffin,  and Mc'Craeken,
 all of considerable distinction in that oity :  all of whom had discontinued their
 visits of their own accord.  She  had been salivated till she  could not get her
 tongue in  her mouth for about two weeks; had  been  blistered  and cupped
upon  the  raw surface:  indeed judging from her own story and  that of her
family, had submitted to all sorts of treatment that  her physicians could invent, 
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   and all without being sufficiently Jbenefited to sit up an hour.  1 found her of
   course greatly reduced, and with three peculiar symptoms, viz. a seated pain
   in the right side, which had continued from her first attack : a painful burn-
   ing in the feet, the only relief from  which, was  obtained by keeping them
   constantly wrapped in cloths wet in iced water and frequently changed : and
   a remarkable dryness  and harshness of the skin, which had increased from
   the first,  there never  having  been a  particle of sensible perspiration induced
   during the whole treatment.  I ordered a tea-spoonful  of the " Fluid" every
   six hours, and a single  pill  composed of  -£■ grain  of Podophyllin,  2 chains
   Leptandrin and 1 grain Piperin, each, to be repeated once in  12 hours.  She
   improved from the  commencement; rested  much  better : in about 48 hours
   copious bilious stools were induced, when  the side  was relieved : the " Fluid"
   was continued as before but the pills only  once  in  48 hours ; after  the 3rd
   day of the above treatment, she had no fever ; the skin became moist and in
   a short time  soft;  all unpleasant symptoms disappeared, and in two weeks
   from the time of the commencement, she went down stairs and returned with-
   out assistance! soon recovered  her strength and  has  enjoyed good health
•  ever since : now over  20 months.   The Fluid  was used in smaller  portions
   during convalescence.
      It may be said the above are isolated eases ; they are  not  isolated, though
   remarkable.  I have chosen such to show what has  boon done and I see no
   reason why it cannot be done again ; I am at least willing to try.   I have for
   over three years sought the most obstinate and  difficult  cases of fever,  and I
   can assert bufore man and high Heaven, I  have not lost a single case during
   that time, nor  do I know one among many who have used Dr. Seat's remedy
   who has;  nor do I recollect a single case under my treatment, except the one
   just given  of  Mrs.  Stansbury, that fever continued 24 hours from the ad-
   mistration of the first dose.
      Another reason for chosing those ; they wero known to many and the truth
   or falsity  of  the statements readily traced.   But it may be said, that I am a
   physician, and know how to  use  it:—let us sec  what tradesmen and non-
   professional men have done.
      Mr. Briggs (of  the firm of Briggs and Yard  ; merchants of Galveston,
   Texas) was passenger on a Boat going up  the Miss. River, where two others
   were sick : A  Dootor on board who treated them  pronounced both,  cases  of
   yellow fever, and at length gave one of them up to  die,  when Mr.  Briggs re-
   quested an opportunity of trying the " Fluid" in the case, stating at the same
   time,  that he knew  nothing about it, had never seen  a drop used,  but it had
   been given him under  high recommendations ; the  physician replied  that  he
   had no objections; that it did not matter what was given, he would  die in
   less than 12 hours.
      Mr. Briggs administered the medicine and in 4  hours thereafter, the same 
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physician pronounced the dying man convalescent and  out  of d&nger :—it
was immediately given to the other and his fever was broke in 8 hours: both
recovered rapidly,  without further  treatment.   1 had the above  from Mr.
Briggs' own mouth :  I of course believe his statement true, as I have seen so
much, and Mr. Briggs is a merchant of high standing ;  known  to Houses
in this city ;  and one whose word is  his bond.   The  incredulous can consult
him by letter.  It may be asked did that physician  continue to use it ? no;
never deigned to notice it thereafter as I ever heard.
   Mr. T. A. DeNormandy of East Liverpool, Ohio, in  a letter to Dr. Seat,
dated August 5, 1852, uses the following language : " You will recollect you
gave me some of your medicine in New York last fall.  I made a gratuitous
distribution of the most of  it.  At one house where five children were down
with typhus fever, all were up in a day or two; two of my own children had
measles;  I had no difficulty in allaying the fever, in a few days they were
well, without cough, sore or even weak  eyes, while  a number of children in
the neighborhood, who were attacked about the same time, and had the ordi-
nary treatment, are not over the  effects yet, and two months  have elapsed.
My Wife has not been so well, or free from Neuralgic pains  in  ten years as
now.   My brother was attacked with congestive  fever in  my absence, which
had raged fifteen hours when I  returned home ; they had not thought of
giving your medicine ; I immediately gave him a double dose ; the next day
he started on a journey of two hundred miles.   You may  well say it will do
all you represent; it is more precious than gold."
   Mr. Bear, of Dauphin county,  Pa., says:—" It cured bilious fever in every
instance; it acts like  a charm,"  &c.  I might add  proofs without limit; of
Dr. Tryon's and  Mr. H. Noble's success  in Chagres and Aspinwall;  of Mr.
Kirkland's at San Juan, and others in different sections of  the United States,
but deem it useless.  If the foregoing is not enough to induce a trial, a volume
would not be likely to  have the effect.
   I now propose  to go into any public or private Hospital, or  other suitable
Institution, or appropriate place in the United  States, with any properly ap-
pointed or constituted Committee, who shall keep  a proper and correct  record
of each case treated, with the result,  &c;  a copy of which shall be furnished
me, or published  in some journal or  paper by  authority of said Committee ;
and cure any and all febrile diseases, including Small Pox, in  one-fourth of
the time at present required by the " regular " profession or treatment, while
a majority shall be cured in one-tenth.   I will moreover if desired, take dose
for dose of the " Fluid " with any one  case treated, as a guarantee against
any deleterious effects that  may be feared.  The proposition  is open ;  will it
be accepted?  If not, let the  "faculty" stand convicted, and  own that
" quackery " has triumphed over science ; or that Dr. Seat is not a " quack," 
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nor his  preparation  a " quack nostrum."  I shall be pleased to be informed
of the acceptance, and of the necessary arrangement.  In the mean time
                    I remain, Very Respectfully,

                           ADDISON KENDALL,  M. D.

  New-York, October 10, 1852.
  P. S.  I deem it a duty to Dr. Seat and the Public to state, that the fore-
going has been written  since his departure, and is  published  without  his
knowledge or consent, and I alone am responsible for  whatever it contains.
                                                       A. K., M. D. 
    THE "NEGATIVE ELECTRIC FLUID,"

           Or Dr. Seatis Remedy for Fevers\

Is put up in bottles, each in a neat separate box, with full and simple direc-
tions for its use ; containing enough to cure six to fourteen cases of fever,
at One Dollar the bottle ;  six bottles for Five Dollars.
  There are also trial bottles, for a single case, at Twenty-five cents each,
placing it within the reach of the poorest.
  A liberal discount made to Druggists and Dealers, and sales guaranteed.
  We have been acquainted with Dr. Seat for some time as a physician, have
personally used  the preparation, and have known many others to have done
so with the happiest effect, and are convinced that it will do all the Inventor
claims for it.
  Accustomed  to regard such things  as unworthy of the notice of practical
men, we little anticipated having our names connected with a specific  for the
cure of  Fevers,  but being thoroughly and conscientiously convinced that
" The Electric  Fluid " is a certain antidote to Fever, we recommend it as a
speedy, safe, and certain cure for fevers of all kinds.

                                 BRUNO & CARGILL,

   Importers and Dealers in Musical Instruments, 47  Maiden  Lane, N. Y. 
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL AGENTS.
B. BROWN WILLIAMS, 506 Broadway, New-York.
T. A.  DeNORMANDY, East Liverpool, Ohio.
EDWARD MEAD, St.  Louis, Missouri.
BROWN & ANDERSON, Wilmington, North Carolina,
HAVILAND, HARRALL & Co., Charleston, South Carolina.
HAVILAND, RISLEY  <fc Co., Augusta, Georgia,
J. WRIGHT & Co., New-Orleans, Louisiana.
J. C. DAVIS, Columbia, Texas.
J. GARDNER,  Rio de Janeiro, S. A.
    General  Sub-Agencies will be established  throughout the
country, and for Retail  by Druggists and Dealers generally as
fast as satisfactory arrangements  are  made.
          IV. W. SEAT & Co.,  Proprietors. 
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