THE 
Tlpn Ozone Battery 
A New Discovery in Electricity, 
S, R, BECKWITH, M,D„ 
-BY- 
114. FIFTH AVENUE, NEWYORK. 
jFormerlg professor of Surgery . . . . 
TDlninersit£ of Cleveland ®blo ♦ ♦ 
Ipulte /ibebical College, Cincinnati . . . . 
Surgeon to tbe Cleveland Ibospital . . . 
Consulting |pbgsician to tbe Cincinnati 
private Tbospital for flervous Biseases, 
etc., etc., etc 
PRICE, 10 CENTS. CAREFULLY NOTICE. 
ist.—That our method of treatment does not 
cure by ELECTRICITY alone, but by a gentle, 
soothing current, and the conveyance of ozone, 
oxygen and medicine into the venous blood, or 
human sewers, where disease originates. 
2nd.—That it is the first and only battery gener- 
ating a current by heat and cold ; the only electri- 
cal device where the intensity of the current can be 
regulated to the wants of each case. 
3rd.—Its curative value is proved by a greater 
number of eminent physicians than any treatment 
in use by the profession. In addition the invention 
is declared to electrically accomplish what we state, 
by some of the most learned electricians in this 
country, such as W. T. Eckert, T. T. Eckert, Jr., 
Francis Broadnax, E. G. Cargill and others, whose 
letters appear in this treatise. 
4th.—It is especially adapted for family use, be- 
cause with the medicine furnished the majority of 
diseases can be cured at their beginning by home 
treatment. 
sth.—It employs NATURE’S only CURATIVE 
AGENTS, ozone and oxygen, together with such 
medicines as are recommended by the profession. 
THERMO-GALVANISM. 
This force sets free oxygen and sends it into the 
system to make new red blood for the maintenance 
of life and restoration of health. Ozone cannot be 
manufactured, it is a part of oxygen, and electricity 
is the only agent that can set it free and carry it 
into a diseased part, where it destroys the bacteria 
and other germs that produce diphtheria, LaGrippe, 
typhoid fever and other infectious diseases. Med- 
icine sent into a diseased tissue by the battery 
force cures where stomach medication fails. INTRODUCTORY. 
To secure confidence in our discovery in medi- 
cal electricity, it is necessary to furnish evidence 
from the highest medical authority that by its ap- 
plication diseases are cured with more certainty 
and in less time than by any other means. It is 
important to show that when medicine administered 
through the stomach is subject to so many changes 
by reason of diet, disease, and other conditions, 
that its action is not only uncertain but frequently 
produces serious injury. 
The value of any art depends upon results obtained 
by those longest engaged in its intelligent applica- 
tion. At least ninety per cent, of the medical profes- 
sion who have been engaged in practice fora period 
of twenty years are unanimous in their statement that 
medicine as now administered, on a whole, is harm- 
ful. They believe the statement of the late distin- 
guished physician, Oliver Wendel Holmes, who 
said: “It would be better for mankind if all the 
medicine was thrown into the sea, but it would be 
hard on the fishes.” 
Physicians of mature experience give no medi- 
cine to their families, and urge their patients not to 
demand from them the administration of medicine 
through the stomach. 
Is there any other business that would not change 
its course if the same percentage of those longest en- 
gaged in it declared that the course leads to failure? 
After retirement and while enjoying that tranquil 
rest best fitting the wants of advanced age, I reflected 
upon the inefficiency and failure in medicine. 
I believe in the curative effect of medicine. Its 
value can only be determined by its effect upon the 
healthy, and by experiments with the sick. When 
introduced into the stomach it undergoes such a 
variety of changes that its identity is lost when it 
enters the blood circulation therefore it is impossible 
to tell the nature and composition of the drug when 
it reaches, by the circulation, the seat of disease, and 
it is impossible to determine what effect it produces. 
Actuated by the knowledge that Nature is the 
mother of cure, I endeavored to discover a treat- 
ment which would assist Nature in her efforts. It 
increases the rapidity of breathing and the heart’s 
action in every disease for the purpose of taking in 
and distributing a large supply of oxygen. Nature 
only does this, and nothing more. From long practice I was convinced that the 
electric force usually employed in disease, was pro- 
ductive of great harm. I then commenced a series 
of experiments with Thermo-Galvanism and em- 
ployed heat and cold to generate a current that 
could be regulated to meet the wants of each case. 
For four years I have been treating the most 
difficult and obstinate cases by the use of the bat- 
tery, and gave out thousands of the inventions to 
physicians; receiving in return more, and better 
medical testimony than has ever before been given 
in favor of any other method of treatment. 
Domestic remedies are often valueless or harm- 
ful, because they are not selected with special ref- 
erence to the cure of those diseases for which they 
are given. The introduction of medicine into the 
stomach by non professionals is to a certain extent 
a dangerous practice; the danger arises from a 
want of knowledge of drug action and the chemi- 
cal changes produced upon the drug while in the 
stomach. 
For the purpose of introducing a safe and more 
certain method of home treatment, we have by the 
advice of a large number of physicians, selected a 
case of domestic remedies, each bearing the name 
of the disease it is intended to cure. These medi- 
cines are conveyed into the diseased tissue by the 
use of the battery; in this way families can be sup- 
plied with a treatment similar to that of admin- 
istering prescriptions furnished by their physicians, 
and in most cases will prevent the necessity of em- 
ploying medical attendance. 
A moments careful reflection respecting the 
principle of the treatment will convince any intelli- 
gent person of the truth of this statement. To ex- 
emplify: In diphtheria, ozone and medicine are 
conveyed directly into the blood circulation of the 
throat, and in a few moments destroy the living 
germs that cause the disease. The same result is 
produced m typhoid fever, wffien the disks of the 
battery are applied over the glands of the abdomen 
where the typhoid geims breed and multiply. 
Nearly every disease is produced by a living enemy 
of health, so infinitely minute in size that the mag 
nifying power of a microscope is required to reveal 
its existence. Each and every variety of these 
disease producing germs are destroyed by the use 
of the treatment. This can be done at home as 
well as by professional treatment. The Thermo Ozone Battery, 
INVENTED BY 
S. R. BECKWITH, M.D., 
114, sth Ave., N. Y. 
AN EXPOSITION OF ITS THEORY AND MODE OF 
OPERATION; SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS 
USE IN VARIOUS AILMENTS. 
This discovery is of the most vital importance 
to the sick, because it furnishes families with a 
means of curing disease at its beginning by home 
treatment. It consists of a Thermo-Ozone Bat- 
tery, constant in its action, creating currents of 
Thermo-Galvanism by a difference of temperature 
between the battery and its poles. It is the first 
and only electrical invention where the intensity 
of the current can be regulated to the needs of each 
case, by the person using it. It takes from air and 
water in contact with the positive pole, ozone and 
oxygen, and conveys, by the torce of the current 
combined with absorbtion, these natural cura- 
tive agents into the blood circulation of the parts 
intervening between the poles of the battery. The 
ozone, as stated by the Imperial Board of Health 
oi Berlin, “When sent into the blood, destroys 
microbes, bacteria, typhoid germs and other 
forms of disease-producing animalcules, in a few 
minutes.” The oxygen forms new red corpuscles 
of blood, and is the only agent capable of building 
up weak and worn out tissues; it assists the assimi- 
lation of food by its introduction into the blood, re- 
duces its unnatural heat on the same principle as 
water subdues fire. 
It forms red corpuscles of blood which fill up the 
excavation of an abscess or ulcer. It vitalizes the 
brain and nerves, and restores to health those 
afflicted with mental and physical disease. The 
introduction of oxygen by Thermo-Galvanism is 
the only means heretofore employed to assist nature 
in her method of cure. In every disease the 
breathing is more rapid than in health so that an 
3 increased amount of oxygen shall be inhaled; the 
heart then pumps faster to distribute it to the 
diseased part. Here nature's cure begins and 
ends. Physicians without reflecting have recom- 
mended the inhaling of oxygen by various devices. 
The sick in their rapid breathing inspire all the 
oxygen that the heart can distribute, therefore the 
large amounts of oxygen, as given by inhalation 
are objectionable and often harmful. 
Water is composed of 8-9 oxygen and 1-9 hydro- 
gen; air, 4-5 nitrogen and 1-5 oxygen. The oxygen 
can only be separated from its associates by the 
art of chemistry or by the force of electricity. It 
cannot be absorbed or carried into the blood by 
any other force than that of electricity. Every 
other device claiming to cause absorbtion of oxygen 
is a BASE FRAUD. Every statement of cure by 
the use of such a device is a DELUSION AND 
DECEPTION. Testimony given in favor of a 
device incapable of producing any action, is 
additional evidence that a “Do Nothing” treat- 
ment is often better than stomach medication. 
What a lamentable history of the art of medicine? 
What an unfortunate perpetration of the use of 
frauds and humbugs kept up by the recommen- 
dation of men and women of a high order of intelli- 
gence and veracity. Medicine must either mend its 
ways or end. In its introduction into the stomach 
it is so altered by the chemical action of the gastric 
secretions which change with every disease and 
with every variety of food, that no physician can 
determine the composition of the drug when it 
passes from the stomach into the circulation of the 
blood. This statement is true of every drug ex- 
cept Mercury, some minerals and poisonous vege- 
tables. The sick with their faith in medicine ad- 
ministered through the stomach, have resided in a 
fool’s paradise. 
I CHALLENGE CONTRADICTION to the 
statement that 95 per cent, of all physicians who 
have practiced for 25 years, agree in their state- 
ments that the sick are better off without medicine 
than by taking it as now administered through the 
stomach. 
4 Medicine possesses a capability of cure. This 
can only be accomplished by its introduction 
directly to the diseased part by a gentle current of 
Thermo-Galvanism. The first knowledge of elec- 
tricity was confined to its use in transmitting in- 
telligence, production of light, heat and power; to 
accomplish this required the application of a cur- 
rent that was either interrupted, pulsating, or 
undulating. None of these currents will de- 
compose water or send medicine into the blood 
cirulation. A thermo galvanic current is uni- 
form and the only one that can be employed to 
distribute uniformly oxygen and medicine into a 
diseased tissue. This form of electricity in its use 
upon the sick must be furnished from a battery 
where the current can be regulated in its intensi- 
ty to meet the wants of each case. Prof. Seebeck, 
of Berlin, in 1821, found that a thermo current (see 
Ganot’s Physics, page 840) could be produced by 
the application of heat and cold. To this eminent 
physician and teacher is due our method of using 
medical electricity. 
The Principle And Philosophy of Cure. 
First, the current of electricity heretofore used in 
medical treatment produces injury to tissues 
made sensitive by disease; such currents cause 
the products of disease to become collected in a 
bunch, analogous to that which is done in electro- 
plating when the substance to be plated is 
“bunched” if the current is too strong. The 
COLLECTING and HARDENING of disease de- 
posits is caused by a peculiar action of electricity 
known as polarization. 
Second, we discovered that a current of thermo 
GALVANISM PRODUCES AN OPPOSITE RESULT. It 
causes a rapid dissolution of those products which 
are produced in every form of disease, and assists 
nature in carrying these deposits out of the system. 
This is the only current of electricity yet known 
that is always continuous and capable from its 
UNIFORM ACTION OF CONVEYING OXYGEN AND 
MEDICINE INTO A DISEASED PART. 
Third, the construction of a battery which only 
generates a current by the action of chemicals 
upon the zinc and copper elements when there 
exists a difference of temperature between the bat- 
5 tery and its poles. Therefore, the battery is a 
Thermal one, and the only device where the in- 
tensity of the current can be regulated by the per- 
son using it so as to me t the wants of each indi- 
vidual case. This is accomplished by increase or 
decrease of the temperature of the water in which 
the battery is immersed. It has no switches or 
corroding points, is constant in its action, last- 
ing with proper care for years. Positively harm- 
less and adapted to the use of the most sensitive 
person. A continuous or galvanic current of elec- 
tricity cannot be felt. To produce jars and shocks 
a Faradic current has to be employed. The inten- 
sity of a current is not altered, because the current 
is broken so as to produce a sensible force. We 
have often used a galvanic battery to heat a plati- 
num wire to a white heat, and looped it about a 
tumor or other growth for its removal. During 
the amputation no current is felt, nothing but the 
heat. With this fact before the reader we hope he 
will understand that the Thermo Battery gener- 
ates a proper current like other galvanic batteries, 
whose currents cannot be felt. 
Fourth, the air and water in contact with the 
positive pole is decomposed. Oxygen and its pure 
part, ozone, is set free and conveyed into the 
tissues intervening between the poles by the force 
of the current, aided by absorbtion; therefore the 
battery is properly named a Thermo Ozone Bat- 
tery. 
Is Electricity A Harmful Treatment ? 
The application of electricity to disease as 
usually employed is uncertain in its results and 
often harmful. It is well known that nearly all re- 
flective physicians have abandoned its use. The 
reason of its failure is due to a destructive change 
produced upon the soft and vascular tissues of the 
body. J. Althaus, M. D., M. R. C. P., London, 
Eng., illustrates this change, which we here re- 
produce. 
If electricity produced no other result, it should 
never again be used as a medicinal agent. Fortu- 
nately a mild current of galvanism causes an exactly 
opposite result, it stimulates, strengthens a part, 
and its force is conducive to a healthful condition 
of the body. 
6 Fig- 1. The microscopical section of a healthy muscle 
Fig. 2. The same section as it appeared after a current 
of electricity had passed through it for two minutes. 
Testimony of Practical and Scientific 
Electricians. 
We have constructed the first medical bat- 
tery which generates a current of Thermo-Gal- 
vanism by difference of temperature between the 
battery and its poles. Therefore its principle of 
action is not generally understood, and because its 
currents, like other galvanic currents, are not felt, 
its force and. efficiency may be questioned by those 
unfamiliar with galvanism. 
7 The following statements from the highest and 
best electrical authorities, are conclusive proof 
of the scientific construction of the battery 
and its certain production of a galvanic current 
having the force required to accomplish what is 
claimed for it. 
New York, September 20, 1893. 
Dr. S, R. Beckwith, 
Dear Doctor:— 
I have examined the Thermo Ozone Battery, electri- 
cally, and find that the principle upon which it is 
operated is correct, the action of the chemicals therein 
contained generating a current sufficient to meet the re- 
quirements ma,de upon it. As to its curative powers, 
too high a valuation cannot be set upon it. This state- 
ment is made after a large experience with the battery 
in my family, and never did it fail to accomplish the de- 
sired results. Great benefits were derived from its use. 
A proper introduction of this battery to the public is 
all that is required. If I can at any time, explain in de 
tail its principle of action and the work that it has done 
for me, it will afford me great pleasure to do so, and to 
answer any questions with reference thereto. 
Very sincerely, 
(signed) W. H. Eckert, 
Pres. Bi-Metallic Wire Co. 
New York, June 5, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 
Dear Doctor;—ln regard to experiments with your 
battery; lately I have been struck very forcibly by your 
explanation of the temperature of water to be used with 
the battery under different circumstances, and have of 
late made some experiments in that direction. Of course 
it may be that my system is vastly diffei ent from that of 
others, but at the same time I find on asking two or three 
friends who are using the battery, that I am not very far 
wrong in the assertion that the battery is more efficient 
when the temperature of the room is taken into consider- 
ation with the temperature of the water. My experiments 
have shown the following: 
If a room is say 70° F. I find in my case that if the 
battery is in water at 400 F it produces a fullness of 
blood in the head. By increasing the temperature of 
8 the water, I received more beneficial results; was able 
to wear the battery longer. I would advise if you think 
well of the suggestion, to direct parties using the battery 
to vary the temperature of the water in which the battery 
is placed. Yours truly, 
(signed) T. T. Eckert, Jr., 
Electrician of the Western Union Company. 
Mr. Cargill, Electrician of Thompson—Houston Co., 
stated to us that he had taken one of our batteries used 
by his sister to his laboratory where it was carefully 
examined, and found it capable of generating electricity 
of the force claimed for it. The examina'ion was made 
because the electrical principles involved were to them 
new (see page 48 for the remainder of the letter.) 
New York, April 26, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 
Dear Sir:—l have made a careful examination of the 
Thermo Ozone Battery; am thoroughly acquainted with 
the material used in its construction; when used as you 
direct will generate a thermo current of sufficient inten- 
sity to decompose water at the positive electrode, convey 
medicinal agents into the tissues, also accomplish dis- 
integration of foreign substances in the body. 
I have determined by experimentation that when a 
strong galvanic current is carried into a substance capa- 
ble of conducting electricity, its tendency is to polarize 
or increase the substance; but when a feeble galvanic 
current is used in animal, earthy, or mineral substance, 
the effect is to disintegrate or separate the molecules of 
the substance acted upon by the current. It is my opin- 
ion that this will be the effect on deposits caused by 
disease in animal structures. 
Yours truly, 
(signed) Francis Broadnax,)E. E. 
New York, January 5, 1895. 
Dear Doctor:— 
Since April last I have used your battery in treating 
several acute ailments, and in each instance the treat- 
ment was successful. Recently I applied Tinct. of 
lodine for an abscess by carrying the drug into its cav- 
ity by the use of the battery. When it broke I discover- 
ed that the pus was colored by the iodine. This lead 
me to make the following experiments in electric trans- 
9 fusion of diugs by your battery. 1 constructed a box as 
here shown 
DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING 
EIECTRO 
EM DOS MO S I S. 
the partition is rawhide secured so as to make the box 
absolutely tight; the positive pole of the Thermo Ozone 
Battery was placed in apartment “A” negative pole in 
“B.” the battery was immersed in very cold ice water; 
each apartment was filled with warm water distilled from 
snow. In “A” was put the Tr. of Aconite. In a short 
time the water in “B” was so thoroughly saturated with 
the Tr. that when tasted it produced a burning sensation 
in the mouth and throat. I also used Belladonna, Col 
chicum and alkaline solutions; In each instance the 
force of the current carried the drug through the rawhide 
as was shown by taste and chemical test. 
Experiment 2- I used in place of the rawhide, sole- 
leather three-eighths of an inch thick previously soaked 
in warm water. I again put Tr. of lodine in “A” and 
it was forced by the current into “B” in less than 
twenty minutes. I then employed a colored solution of 
Potash; In a few moments the water in “B"’ was dis- 
tinctly colored. Test showed that a fair proportion of 
the potash had been sent through the sole-leather into 
“B.” Dilute acids and other substances were conveyed 
through the leather without difficulty. 
To make this test more satisfactory to you a former 
college class-mate of mine, now a well known Chemist, 
will chemically test for the presence of the drugs after 
being electrically transfused through the partition, and 
send the results to you. 
Yours respectfully, 
Francis Broadnax, C. E., M. E., E. E. 
10 New York City, January 7, 1895. 
Francis Broadnax, E. E. & C. E. 
Dear Sir;— Having made the experiments with the 
“Dr. Beckwith The; mo Ozone Battery” furnished me 
by you, on the lines suggested by your letter of the 2;th 
of Dec., ’94, as well as some others, I am very happy 
to send you the report of the results as I find them under 
the best conditions I can supply at present. I packed 
battery in ice as per directions and applied pulp disks 
to either pole as requested, the positive disk I soaked in 
a solution of Nux Vomica (l part in 7000 in water) 
(Strychnine). The negative I placed in pure distilled 
water, tested for foreign substances of any kind. I then 
took the glass trough containing the rawhide partition 
and filled both divisions with distilled water, tested for 
foreign substance and found no reaction of any kind. 
I then introduced positive pole of batteiy with pulp disk 
containing solution of Nux Vomica as mentioned above 
into one division placing negative pole with disk in the 
other division and passed current for 12 minutes; tested 
with blue litmus paper and found distinct acid reaction 
proving that the Nux V. had passed through the hide 
and entered water in portion of trough holding negative 
pole of battery, the intense bitter taste of Strychnine 
was perceptable. A solution of litmus was introduced, 
and colored the liquid a reddish pink proving the pas- 
sage of the acid, without doubt by action of the battery 
as the time was too short to allow the same to pass by 
the endosmose action set up. Trials with Aconite, 
Napellus, Sulphur in Alcoholic solution, lodine, Bro- 
mai.es and other substances of like nature were all tried 
with success. I then passed the Nux Vomica solution 
through a piece of dog-skin (the substance at hand most 
nearly approaching the human skin) into a beaker of 
water with both poles on the same side of the hide as 
per diagram, as an experiment roughly illustrating the 
action of the battery on the skin, with perfect success. 
Time of action about 15 minutes. All tests applied 
prove the passage of the substance experimented with to 
pass through the dog-skin with ease in sufficient quan- 
tities to be easily indentified upon treating with proper 
reagents. I shall experiment further with a better 
equipment and may be able to give you further details 
in a few weeks. Very respectfully yours, 
(signed) F. C. Burlingame, 
Chemist and Assayer. 
11 “New York Sun”—One of the new features of elec- 
tric medication is the introduction of drugs into the 
human body through the skin. This is done by placing 
solutions of any drug under the positive pole and placed 
against the skin. The current drives the drug into the 
tissues. This property of electricity is known as cata- 
phoresis. 
Extracts from the Press. 
“Boston Transcript”—By the application of the poles 
of a galvanic battery to our bodies, we can introduce 
into the sewers of our system the greatest of all puri- 
fiers, ozone where it will destroy the germs of disease 
and the vast variety of parasites which produce such 
destructive disease as diphtheria, smallpox, cholera, 
typhoid fever, etc. Dr. S. R. Beckwith, of New York, 
has invented a Thermo Galvanic Battery, which when 
applied to the surface of the body liberates oxygen and 
ozone from the water in the wet sponge under the posi- 
tive pole and surrounding atmosphere The 
method is not original, it was discovered by Professor 
Mateucci, as early as 1820. 
ilNew York Mercury”—Dr. Beckwith, of this city, 
has recently discovered that electricity possesses the 
capability of carrying medicine into the blood circulation. 
By this means he has demonstrated that a drug can be 
sent directly to the seat of the disease, thereby saving 
the necessity of administering it by the stomach, whose 
secretions we believe often change the nature of the 
medicine administered so that when it reaches the dis- 
eased point it may be something else than was given, 
We learn that a large number of physicians throughout 
the country are making use of this wonderful invention 
in the treatment of their patients, and find it to accomp - 
lish what the inventor believes it is capable of doing. 
From page 173, Electricity up to Date, by John B. 
Verity, London, Eng. ‘ Galvanism possesses a very 
remarkable property in what is termed “cataphoric ac- 
tion,” this is the ability of a galvanic current to intro- 
duce drugs into the body. It is easily shown that 
medical substances in solution applied to the skin at the 
positive pole, traverse the body and can be detected in 
various ways. The drug is brought to bear on the 
affected part without the destructive effect that drugs un- 
doubtedly have on the process of digestion.” 
We have never claimed to be the discoverer of a 
force in electricity capable of conveying medicine 
12 into the blood. But we do claim to have construct- 
ed the first, and only battery capable of accomplish- 
ing this purpose, and which from its simplicity and 
duration can be used by families. 
Hotv the Battery is to he Applied. 
The following cut shows its application when 
oxygen is conveyed into the blood circulation. 
The battery is immersed in cold water, positive 
pole secured nearest to hand and the negative 
about three inches above. 2, conducting wires. 
3 and 4, wire wood pulp tablets, brown and white 
sides. If the water in which the battery stands is 
40 F. it is 55 F. colder than the surface of the arm 
on which the poles are fastened; this difference of 
temperature generates a more intense current than 
when a less variation of temperature exists. By 
this means the force of the current is regulated to 
the wants of each case. No other battery is so 
constructed as to modify or alter the intensity of its 
currents; quantity alone is changed. It is as im- 
portant to vary the intensity of electricity for medi- 
cal purposes as it is to alter the degree of heat 
when applied for pain. 
The current generated by the battery traverses 
the red or copper wire to the positive pole, 
then conducted by the tissues to the negative pole 
and back to the battery, making what is known as 
an electric circuit. Its speed is about 180,000 miles 
per second. 
13 The water contained in the sponge under the 
positive pole and the air in contact with it is acted 
upon by the force of the current, and the oxygen is 
set free and carried into the tissues intervening be- 
tween the poles, while the hydrogen as in all cases 
where electricity is employed goes over to the 
negative pole. The wood pulp tablets are wired 
so as to concentrate and give off a current at a 
minute point, thereby increasing its electro-motor 
force twice the square root of the diameter of the 
conducting wire. By this means the feeble current 
of the battery is sufficiently strong to carry the 
medicine in a few seconds into a diseased part. 
When the battery is applied for pleurisy, typhoid 
fever and other disease, its poles or disks are ap- 
plied over the affected part; for example, in a case 
of diphtheria the positive pole is on one side of the 
throat and the negative on the other, the current 
passing directly through from pole to pole, carry- 
ing into the part both ozone and oxygen, the for- 
mer destroying every form of disease-producing 
germs brought in contact with it. 
Notice. 
The writers of the following letters will observe 
that we have left out such portions of their valuable 
correspondence as do not refer directly to the 
Thermo Ozone Battery and its capability of curing 
disease. 
The first battery we sold after supplying a num- 
ber of physicians, was to Judge C. K. Smith, for- 
mer ATTORNEY FOR COMMODORE VANDERBILT, af- 
terwards elected judge in this city. He writes 
under date of June 24, as follows: (This letter he 
dictated in our office.) 
“Dr. Beckwith:—My friend, who has used your 
battery for two weeks to-morrow, has so nearly re- 
covered that her physician thinks it safe for me to 
sail for Paris. As you have no knowledge of the 
case, a brief history of it with the good results pro • 
duced by the battery I think will interest you. 
She became dropsical last July; this condition 
followed confinement, accompanied with severe 
hemorrhage- She received treatment in the country 
until December, when she was brought to the city; 
at that time her face was swollen to such an extent 
as to nearly prevent recognition. The physicians 
14 employed stated that in addition to her general 
dropsy she had an effusion in the chest. For a time 
she improved somewhat from the use of digitalis 
and other remedies, until her stomach rejected 
medicine. She was then treated with four or five 
hypodermic injections of morphine daily and the 
medicine was given by suppositories. After a time 
we changed physicians, and Dr. Beck, the present 
attending physician, informed me that the day 
the battery was first applied, her pulse had av- 
eraged 130, and temperature exceedingly high. 
Her body and limbs were enormously swollen, 
breathing very difficult; had at times attacks of 
sinking, which the physicians said was due to a 
feeble condition of the heart. She slept but little, 
and that little was procured by morphine. She was 
deadly pale, no color in her lips, and her ears were 
nearly transparent; urine very scanty. She was 
sustained by taking large quantities of brandy and 
milk. 
During the second application of the battery we 
observed a return of color to her lips, a pinky hue 
under her nails, and her ears were less transparent. 
Your invention must have carried oxygen into her 
blood, as it alone produces red corpuscles of blood, 
and no one could paint under her nails. This is 
what the physician stated. 
We have applied the battery twice daily, and I 
am directed by Dr. Beck to state that at present 
her pulse is 85. temperature normal, dropsy entire- 
ly removed except a slight swelling in the lower 
part of the abdomen. Her appetite is good, her 
nealthy color nearly returned; she has not had a 
paroxysm of pain and suffocation during the last 
week. She takes but little stimulants and mor- 
Chine, Four days after commencing the use of the 
attery, her body became covered with a fine erup- 
tion that lasted for a few days. My physician will 
call in a few days and verify this statement, and 
more fully explain to you her condition.” 
Dr. Beck called in a few days and stated that the 
above is correct; also added many important facts 
in reference to the case. 
I had never known of a cure in a case of equal 
severity, and this cure stimulated me to use every 
endeavor possible to make known the value of the 
treatment. 
15 Enlargement of the Liver, 
The following letter we know to be correct as 
Mr. Day was under our care until he recovered. 
His was a case of sclerosis (hardening ol the liver), 
and the only case of as long standing and equal 
severity that I have ever seen cured. 
West Orange, N. J., November 24, 1894. 
Dear Sir:—ln reply to your inquiry respecting 
Dr. Beckwith’s Battery. In the Spring of 1893, I 
was attacked with some disease of the liver and 
placed myself under the treatment of physicians in 
Orange. I took a very large amount of medicine 
without benefit, and was told by my physicians in 
July in the same year, that I had hardening of the 
liver and would not recover. I met Doctor Beck- 
with on the train between Orange and New York, 
of which I am Conductor, and went with him to his 
office. At that time my right side was very much 
enlarged. I was unable to retain any food, only 
able to take a little coffee and dry bread; I fre- 
quently vomited; was unable to sleep, and suffered 
a great deal of pain. After reaching his office he 
applied the battery over my liver with medicine, 
the first application relieved the pain. I took the 
battery home and applied it daily, and at the end 
of three weeks my appetite had returned and I was 
able to eat three good meals a day, and often took 
a lunch with me for the late train. The swelling in 
my side was rapidly reduced, and in short every 
symptom that I had fully passed away within one 
month. I was so grateful for the recovery that I 
advised my friends to apply the treatment, and 
have recommended the Battery to a number of 
cases, and in each case the treatment has been of 
great benefit. 
In my wife’s case she was entirely cured of a 
tumor which the physicians told me would have to 
be cut out. 
I shall be pleased to answer any other inquiries 
you choose to make. One of my friends, Mr. J. Y. 
Cory, of Forest Hill, N. J., in business on Church 
Street, with the Paterson Silk Company, suffered 
from disease of the liver, debility, and very nervous. 
I loaned him my battery and in a few weeks he was 
so much improved that he bought one for himself. 
16 I do not know how long he used it, but I soon ob- 
served that he improved and in a few months was 
in perfect health and remains so up to this time. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) David Ogden Day. 
Critical Tests and Cures by Eminent 
Physicians. 
When it is considered that the following are not 
MORE THAN ONE-FOURTH OF UNSOLICITED letters 
received, the evidence of remarkable cures by the 
discovery is substantiated beyond question. 
San Francisco, Cal., June i, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—l have successfully treated two 
cases of irregular action of the heart of long stand- 
ing, with the Themo Ozone Battery;also a case of 
chronic inflammation of both kidneys with partial 
suppression of the urine, and other unfavorable 
symptoms. Send me ten more batteries. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) E. B. DeLaMatry, M.D. 
San Francisco, Cal., August 25, 1893. 
Dear Doctor;—l gave out nine batteries to be 
used by different patients; in each case former 
treatment was but little benefit. I required each 
battery to be returned without payment for use if it 
failed to cure, or afforded no relief. Each paid for 
their batteries accompanied with a statement that 
they were cured, and that the battery was too ben- 
eficial in domestic treatment to be without it. In 
one case of nervous and insomnia, the 
patient had used hypodermic injections of mor- 
phine several times a day. The result obtained 
from the use of the battery can best be stated in 
the patient’s words. “I sleep as well as a child, 
am free from pain, and entirely relieved of nervous- 
ness.” 
I have to report the most remarkable cure that I 
ever witnessed. On July, 1892, a young lady fell 
from a loft in a barn, fracturing the pelvic bone near 
the hip joint, and severely injuring internal organs; 
inflammation of the kidneys and bladder followed. 
When I was called to see her on June 8, 1893, no 
urine had passed during the last twenty-four hours; 
her temperature was 104, pulse 130, great swelling 
17 in the lumbar region, difficulty in breathing and 
the limbs dropsical. She had been in one of our 
hospitals for several months before she was 
brought to my institution. On examination of the 
urine its specific gravity was 1.004, thickly studded 
with blood cells and albumen. lat once used the 
remedy which you apply for dropsy, and transfused 
ozone and oxygen into her system for two hours 
daily, and at this writing her kidneys have been en- 
tirely relieved; no swelling of the limbs; she is now 
able to walk with the aid of a crutch. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) E. B. DeLaMatry, M.D. 
921 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 21, 1893. 
My Dear Doctor:—I have cause to congratulate 
you and the profession that out of your suffering 
from becoming poisoned while removing an ovarian 
tumor, you have had leisure to create good. I was 
long ago convinced of the value of oxygen intro- 
duced into a diseased system. I have a full outfit 
of electrical batteries, but your little invention fills 
a want never before supplied, I can give it ouffto 
patients to be used by them at home, with good re- 
sults as shown in the following cases: 
Case 1, A boy who had been paralysed on one 
side for six years, and could use his hand and arm 
but slightly, and dragged his leg when walking. 
After two months treatment by the use of the bat- 
tery, he became able to walk quite well, and has 
nearly full use of his hand and arm. 
Case 2, A lady with a painful milk leg following 
confinement, complicated with chronic inflamma 
tion of the ovary, from which she suffered severe 
pain, has used the battery for several months, with 
great benefit by not only curing her disease but in 
improving her general health. 
Case 3, A lady had suffered for some years with 
chronic inflammation of the stomach, her digestion 
was impaired, rapid pulse, great nervous prostra- 
tion and general debility. By three months use of 
the battery she is now well. 
I have a large practice in disease of the lungs and 
throat where I shall use the treatment. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) C. B. Currier, M.D. 
18 Wakefield, Mass., May 10, 1594. 
Doctor:—The fibroid tumor which i am 
treating with the Thermo Ozone Battery by placing 
the negative and positive disks on each side of the 
tumor, is improving. It has been reduced very 
considerably in its size, and I feel certain that a 
surgical operation will not now be required in her 
case. Yours very truly, 
(Signed) H. B. Cross, M.D. 
2069 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio, May 9, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
114 Fith Ave., New York. 
Dear Doctor:—In reply to your favor will state 
that I have eight batteries in use wish my patients, 
and am having most excellent success with them. 
I believe that the treatment will accomplish ail that 
you claim for it. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) M. L. Stehley, M.D. 
W. T. Plume, Insurance, Newark, N. j. dictated 
the following letter; “I have been a great sufferer 
from catarrhal headaches for twenty years, and 
tried all kinds of medicine and all kinds of applica- 
tions, even burned the skin of my head with chloro- 
form without obtaining any relief from anything. 
Observing that one of my neighbors had been 
cured of headaches by the use of the Thermo Ozone 
Battery, I was induced to try it. I have now used 
it for more than a year, and it is the first time in 
forty years that I have been able to go through a 
wet season of three weeks without suffering a ter- 
rific headache. Recently I loaned my battery to a 
friend who has inflammatory rheumatism, who was 
compelled to take morphine pills to get sleep. The 
battery worked so well that he has refused to let 
me have it back, and I am here to get another.” 
Mansion, Wis., June 24, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—The battery accomplishes better 
results than I conceived possible. I have practic- 
ed medicine for forty-five years and think I have 
had sufficient experience to know a natural from a 
medicinal cure- The treatment must be generally 
adopted, for oxygen passively sent into the blood, 
and medicine into diseased structures, will cure 
where other means fail. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) J. J. Herrick, M.D. 
19 Medical Sanatorium, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
July 30th, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—A description of your invention is 
before me. I think it must be a great improve- 
ment, I would like to have one. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) R. Hamilton, M.D. 
This eminent physician called at our office and 
by his report substantiated his opinion. 
Clarion, Pa., January 8, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
Dear Doctor:—l have suffered from lung trouble, 
neuralgia and headache. The first for about ten 
weeks and the last two indefinitely. I have 
had one of your Ozone Batteries about five weeks. 
Of the lung trouble I can say nothing for I was tak- 
ing medicine from my physician at the same time 
that I was using the battery. I have used it for 
neuralgia and headache with excellent results. I 
have reduced the pulse 14 beats in an hour’s ap- 
plication, I applied it for headache at different 
times on two of my children and it gave relief every 
time. lam very well pleased with the battery. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) J. F. Hackett. 
47 Liberty St., Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—I can cheerfully say that I have 
every confidence in the efficacy of the Ozone Bat- 
tery, having used it in a case of pleurisy of an ag- 
gravated character, which yielded more readily by 
its use than any case I have ever found under the 
administration of medicine by the mouth; the case 
fully recovered after two applications of one hour 
each. I also used it in a severe case of lumbago 
which was entirely cured by one application of an 
hour. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) Jas. C. Harrington, M.D. 
Nashville, Tenn., June 28, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—I write you in relation to how lam 
getting on, have used the battery three times on 
my liver with medicine as you directed in your last 
letter; it has had a most wonderful effect upon my 
stomach and bowels, relieving me of a great deal 
20 of pain. It has mostly removed an accumulation 
of gas in the bowels. I await your directions for 
treatment ot constipation, as this is all that remains 
from suffering since I was injured during the war. 
Yours truly, , 
(Signed) H. H. Hammer. 
Hammer Bros., Real Estate. 
Buena Vista, Va., April 21st, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 
Dear Doctor:—l take pleasure in stating that I 
have used the Thermo Ozone Battery for several 
months for a most violent attack of sciatica, which 
had been proof against any treatment whatever, 
and while I cannot say that I am entirely well, still 
the improvement is so marked that I feel constrain- 
ed to write in terms of the highest compliment to 
the merits of this little instrument. 
I am very truly yours, 
(Signed) Madison H. Hay the. 
Ocean Grove, N. J., Sept. 14, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—Through Mrs. Thomas McClaryJ I be- 
came the possessor of one of your Ozone Batteries. 
My mother Mrs. Elizabeth Sayers, of Wilmington, 
Del., has been for many years a great sufferer from 
rheumatism; after using your battery for a few 
weeks she experienced great relief and now after 
six months she is almost entirely relieved. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed) R. E. Sayers. 
Rahway, N. J., October 16, 1893. 
S- R. Beckwith, M.D., 
Dear Sir: With gratitude and pleasure I want to 
inform you what the Thermo Ozone Battery has 
done for my wife. She was very low for a long 
time. Her skin was yellow and her limbs very 
much swollen and could do nothing at all. She 
had the services of a celebrated New York Doctor, 
who gave her mt dicine, but had no effect on the 
health, in fact we had given up all hope for her 
recovery. She was at Asbury Bark this summer 
for rest, and there by accident she tried one of 
your batteries which seemed to relieve her, and 
on this hope she procured one and used it ac- 
cording to directions. The result was wonderful; 
she grew better; her skin lost all the t yellow 
21 appearance, resuming a healthy color again, and 
the swelling was entirely gone. What one of 
the best doctors in New York city could not cure, 
your battery did with the help of Providence. She 
can now do all the light house work again, and in 
judging from her appearance you woijld take her 
for ten years less of age than she really is at 61. 
A can conscientiously recommend your battery 
to all sufferers and feel assured they will be reliev- 
ed at once, and cured in a short time. 
I remain very respectfully, 
(Signed) Chas. W. Babel, 30 Main St. 
2022 N, Charles St., Baltimore, Md., 
July 30th, 1894. 
Dr. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—Please send me another Thermo 
Ozone Battery. lam quite a convert to the great 
value of your discovery. It is a valuable invent- 
ion. I used it for a cancer of the uterus with good 
effect. It cured me ot malarial fever which has 
clung to me for years. 
The country is filled with humbugs, and people 
are cautious. Your evidence from the medical 
profession must be accepted same as with other 
agents they use. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) Dr. R. J. Hall. 
31 Summer St., St. Johnsbury, Vt, June 5, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Doctor:—Batteries duly received. The 
boy on whom lam using a battery for Exopthal- 
mic Goitre is very much improved. The measure- 
ment of his neck in largest part has diminished two 
inches in about five weeks time. Now his father 
is suffering with Iritis and has been in a dark room 
for four weeks, and it is still very painful at night 
and conjunctiva veiy much congested, and quite a 
good deal of lachrymation. He is poor and feels 
in a great hurry to get back to his work again and 
wondered if the battery could not be used to ad- 
vantage on his eye. There is quite a large opacity 
on the cornea and the neuralgia is severe. I told 
him I would write you about it and get your 
opinion. Please reply soon as convenient, and 
oblige, Yours truly, 
S. H. Sparhawk, M.D. 
22 St. Johnsbury, Vt., July 10, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Doctor:—Your favor of the 6th of June was 
duly received. Many thanks for the suggestion 
made for the use of the battery in the case of Iritis 
which I wrote you about; I have used it once a day, 
and obtained immediate results therefrom; I used 
a solution of iodide of potash on the disk, and the 
action was fine; the patient had a previous severe 
attack of the same trouble, which had left some 
opacity of the cornea, and when this attack came 
on, it was very much increased with great congest- 
ion of the conjunctiva; it was also attended with 
very severe neuralgic pains which were worse at 
night. Very soon after the use of the bat- 
tery, the pain and congestion began to abate, and 
it has been a steady and continued gain until the 
present time; now the opacity has nearly all disap- 
peared, and I am confident that a persistent use of 
the battery will eventually absorb all of the old spot 
which was left from the former attack. 
Very sincerely yours, 
(Signed) S. H. Sparbawk. 
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 7, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—Your principle of cure 1 believe is 
correct. I know from experience that galvanism 
will transfuse medicine into the system. Send me 
a battery and I will give it a fair trial. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) J. C. Hummer, M.D. 
Feb. 19, 1893. 
I have just met Rev. A. L. Kilgore, of West- 
minister, Md., who has used your battery with good 
success in paralysis of several months standing, it 
has entirely cured him of obstinate constipation. 
March 25, 1893. 
I gave a battery to a patient for bronchial 
catarrh. He reports that it aggravated his con- 
dition. I then directed him to use the battery in 
warmer water, not below 55 F. In a short time he 
called and stated that he was very much improved. 
This aggravation shows me that there exists an im- 
portant force in the current. I have had asthma 
and by the continuous use of the battery lam re- 
lieved; it has also removed a trouble caused from 
malaria. 
23 May 24,1893. 
There seems to be no limit of cure by your treat- 
ment. A lady seventy years of age, suffering from 
an organic disease of the heart, was severely injur- 
ed and became nearly helpless; her limbs were 
dropsical. While in this condition she was attack- 
ed with erysipelas. I knew that no remedies could 
benefit her, and tried the battery with proper 
remedies, her improvement has been so marked 
that lam satisfied she will soon recover from the 
attack, 
June 28,1893, 
You state in your circulars that the ozone driven 
into Peyer’s glands, the seat of typhoid fever, will 
relieve this disease. On confirmation of this state- 
ment I will state that I treated H. W. Berry, who 
had typhoid fever, he had been sick several days 
when I was called, his temperature was high, 
pulse very rapid, delirious- I applied the battery 
on the abdomen over the glands in the manner 
you suggest; the fever yielded in a very short 
time, and within three days he was able to be 
taken home, a distance of 60 miles. He has 
written me since that he has had no return of the 
disease, 
I send you a letter from a patient of mine, 
whose statements are correct. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) J. C. Hummer, M.D, 
Baltimore, Md.., May 10, 1893. 
Dear Dr. Hummer:— 
I have suffered for years with a disease of 
the lungs, I have been under treatment by 
physicians of all schools, with no improvement but 
steadily getting worse; my appetite was gone and 
1 could not retain medicine on my stomach. I had 
not improved under your treatment until March 3, 
1893, when I commenced the use of the Thermo 
Ozone Battery by your suggestion. The first 
week of its use I found myself greatly aggravated 
and was about to give it up when I discovered that 
the directions stated that when an aggravation is 
produced the water can be used warmer in which 
the battery is placed. I then used it in water of a 
higher temperature, after I commenced the treat- 
24 ment in this way I began to improve. Ino longer 
spit blood, which I had done during the winter 
months. My cough improved and I gained in 
flesh and*strength- It is just to the treatment for 
me to state that the good results obtained have 
been realized under the most trying circumstances. 
I have been exposed to all kinds of weather, as my 
work has been out of doors connected with the 
railway. I cannot say too much in praise of the 
battery, as this is the first Spring that I have been 
able to work for the last three years. 
I kindly thank you for introducing the treatment 
to me. Yours very truly, 
(Signed) J. A. Perkins- 
We have received cumulative evidence that 
ozone carried into Peyer’s glands destroys typhoid 
germs. The following evidence is conclusive on 
the subject. 
Dr. M. Cameron, of Washington, D. C.. reports 
a number of cures of typhoid fever by the use of the 
battery, and states that no other method of treat- 
ment cures the disease in as brief period of time. 
Dr. Bliss, of Maple Rapids, Mich., and Dr. Day- 
foot, of Rochester, N. Y., have supplied us with 
equally satisfactory evidence in the treatment of 
this disease. 
I 
Dr. McKnight, of Providence, R. 1., in a lengthy 
report details the cure of several cases. During 
the period that the disease was an epidemic in 
Montclair, N. J., we treated a number of cases and 
in no instance more than two days was required to 
destroy the typhoid germs. To show that this 
disease can be cured by home treatment we add 
the following evidence- 
Montclair, N. J., April 26, 1894. 
Dear Doctor: I feel it my duty to write you the 
effect produced by your battery in typhoid fever 
with my husband. He drank every day a quart of 
milk from the Gould farm until its delivery was 
stopped by the Health Board. He was attacked 
with the fever and became quite sick. I know 
that he had typhoid fever, because I am familiar 
with its symptoms, having had the fever myself 
while residing in London, I used the battery as 
directed by Dr. Tiffl Beckwith, of Orange, and in 
a few days he fully recovered. 
(Signed) Mrs. F. K. Roller. 
25 Baltimore, Md., July 23, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—I have been applying the battery 
to a lady who had suffered two surgical operations 
with flexion of the uterus; the operations were un- 
successful and she would not submit to another. 
I have applied the battery twice a day, using prop- 
er remedies to be carried into the enlarged organ. 
The treatment has been so marked that she is now 
able to visit her neighors and attend to light house- 
hold duties. Do not understand that I am com- 
plaining of the surgical treatment, for the operations 
were performed by two of the most eminent sur- 
geons. Fraternally, 
(Signed) J. C. Hummer, M.D. 
August 5, 1893. 
I have the pleasure of reporting a very peculiar 
cure by your battery. Mrs. E. for 16 years had 
suffered severe pain during each menstrual period; 
no treatment had benefitted her. I applied the 
battery over the ovaries, when the pain was violent. 
I carried into the parts a solution of Antikamnia. 
She has been using the treatment now for nearly 
three months, and during the last menstrual period 
she suffered no pain. 
J. C. Hummer, M.D. 
August 25, 1893. 
An old gentleman suffering several weeks from 
inflammation of the foot, which resulted in 
gangrene of the toes, his condition was very feeble. 
I called a consultation for the purpose of ampu- 
tation, it was decided that he was not able to stand 
the operation. After reaching home that night I 
concluded to return and use the battery, for if 
oxygen makes new tissues here was an opportunity 
for trial. In a few days healthy granulations ap- 
peared which improved his condition, until now no 
operation will be necessary excepting removal of 
some of the bones of the toes which are exposed. 
My brother physician, Dr. Morgan, had a severe 
attack of La Grippe, I was called to attend him and 
recommended the battery. His recovery was so 
rapid and he was so much pleased that he will 
write you a letter on the subject. 
(Signed) J. C. Hummer, M.D. 
26 Baltimore, Md., Aug. 27, 1893. 
Dear Friend:—l applied your battery by the ad- 
vice of Dr. Hummer, with most excellent success 
in case of La Grippe. I have been giving careful 
attention to the principle of the treatment, and 
think it is correct. I have taken the liberty to give 
you in detail my opinion of the philosphy of the 
treatment, which I hope will not be uninteresting 
reading to you. 
(Signed) W. L. Morgan, M-D. 
Dr. Hummer has reported up to 1895, more than 
sixty cases which he has successfully treated by the 
use of the battery. Many of these reports were 
accompanied by letters from patients who had been 
cured. 
The well known physician, Dr. Way, of 210 W. 
Franklin St., Baltimore, Md., treats all of his 
patients by our method, and the sick of that city 
can obtain additional information by calling upon 
him. 
Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N- Y., Jan. 5, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—I have used the battery every day 
since my injury, and have constantly improved. I 
suffered from soreness in the lower part of the spine 
with an aching pain between the shoulders; in ad- 
dition I have suffered from chronic ailments which 
have been relieved. 
My friend, Mrs. Vorhies who loaned me the battery 
has been relieved by its use, she purchased one of 
you last week for private use. I certainly have 
reason to speak a good word for the treatment. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) Mrs- H. J. Swazie. 
Omaha, Neb., April 10, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—About five years since I com- 
menced treatment for what was supposed to be 
stone in the bladder, the physician treated me for 
about three months without benefit, I then sought 
the advice of another, who was unable to find any 
stone in the bladder but treated me for a catarrhal 
inflammation. I was hardly able to attend to any 
business. I continued his treatment for a long time 
without any benefit. I then applied to another 
physician who informed me that my trouble was a 
27 disease of the kidneys. I have been through a 
great amount of medical treatment; have had the 
sound used which caused me very severe pain after 
its use; it seems as if my system was palsied. I 
became sick and tired of trying medicine, when 1 
met a friend, Otto Wieck, who told me ofhis being 
cured by the use of the battery. I am improving 
under this treatment and shall be happy to hear 
any suggestions you have to make in regard to its 
use. Yours truly, 
(Signed) John French 
Omaha, Neb., May i, 1894, 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:— 
I have followed your advice for two weeks. At 
first I did not find any relieffromthe treatment, but 
now it seems to be taking hold; the pain and pres- 
sure are being relieved, my suffering is very consid- 
erably less; it seems to give me new vitality. About 
a week ago I had one of my severe attacks which 
the treatment relieved. I believe the treatment 
possesses great virtue, although it works so silent- 
ly that it some times seems to be a wonder what it 
is accomplishing. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) John French. 
Omaha, Neb., June 22, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—In reply to your favor. I have 
followed the treatment as you advised. My suffer- 
ing has been great, but the treatment is overcoming 
it. I now believe that I shall fully recover. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) John French. 
Drakes Branch, Va., May 25, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;— While visiting St. Luke’s Hospi- 
tal in Richmond, a few weeks since I met a lady 
who described to me the great benefit she had re- 
ceived from the use of your Thermo-Ozone Battery. 
She had suffered a long time from rheumatism, 
and the battery was recommended to her by a 
physician in Baltimore, Md. Please send me one 
as soon as possible, and I will report progress. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) Mrs. E. G. Friend. 
Bartow on the Sound, N- Y., April 29, 1894- 
My Dear Doctor;—I have used the battery as you 
directed. When I first applied it I felt a tingling 
28 sensation in my leg under the positive pole; it has 
stopped the exhaustive drainage from which I have 
suffered so long; the dizziness in my head which 
has been very severe has almost disappeared. It 
has affected my kidneys very favorably, causing me 
to pass a large amount of urine. The improve- 
ment is very encouraging. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) C. A. Couch. 
Omaha, Neb., May 6, 1894. 
Dear Friend:—I ought to have written you be- 
fore, telling you of the effect of the battery upon 
mother. She has been confined to her room for 
many years with paralysis. Since using the battery 
she has very much improved, and is able to go 
about a little, Ido not know that she can be per- 
manently cured, but the treatment has not only re- 
lieved her pain but causes her to sleep well. 
Mother states that you and my father, Dr, Clary, 
were great friends some forty years ago, and she 
joins me in thanking you for the kind attention you 
have given her. We have great confidence in 
the treatment. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Miss C. C. T. Clary. 
Appleton City, Mo., May 10, 1894. 
Dr. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—About a month ago I purchased one 
of your batteries on the recommendation ot Dr- 
Platt, of Springfield, Mass. I sent him a full de- 
scription of my disease and he gave it as his opinion 
that the treatment would benefit me. I have now 
used it but a short time and it has helped me in 
many respects. I have long suffered from severe 
indigestion, sick headaches, pleuritic pains in the 
chest, also weak lungs. I am compelled to live 
mostly on milk and old bread. I am using the 
battery in water about 55 F., this seems to give me 
the most relief. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) D. Walls. 
In this case the disks of the battery were applied 
over the stomach and medicine carried through its 
walls. This difficult case has been relieved. 
29 Springfield, Mo., April 9, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D., 
My Dear Doctor:—l have tried the batteries you 
sent me with great satisfaction. The cases on 
which I have applied them have been old and very 
difficult ones, no prompt relief could be expected, 
yet they haye accomplished more than any other 
treatment. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) M. B. Smyth, M. D. 
Parma, Ohio, April 15, 1594. 
Dear Doctor:—l called to day on the young man 
who has been using your battery for a long standing 
case of rheumatism. He is much better than he 
was when he began its use, I have great confi- 
dence in the merits of the battery. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Rev. J. Spencer. 
St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 28, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;—I have all my batteries in opera- 
tion now and they are doing good work. I am 
using one in a case of goitre, another in a case of 
cancer of the breast, another in fibroid tumor of the 
uterus. All of these patients are improving. The 
patients inquire how they are to know that the bat- 
tery is in working order. It is difficult to make 
them understand that a continuous galvanic current 
cannot be felt, whether given by your battery or 
any other. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) S. H. Sparhawk, M.D. 
Waco, Tex., May 21, 1594. 
My Dear Doctor:—I have used the battery, and 
my wife is also testing it for kidney trouble. She 
is not given to taking up any new method of treat- 
ment; she now says she has to admit that the bat- 
tery treatment is very beneficial, it at once stops 
her headaches. lam so well pleased with its re- 
sults that I wish you would send a battery to Mrs, 
A. M. Lots, Shelton, Wash., for her son, as I be- 
lieve it will cure him of epilepsy. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) A. D, Rust. 
Editor of Waco Journal. Pomona, Cal., Sept. 2, 1894- 
Dear Doctor;—I am pleased with the success of 
your battery in the treatment of my case for ner- 
vous prostration, headaches, etc. I have also used 
it' on a rheumatic patient with great success. 
Piease send me another battery as I wish to use the 
treatment in my practice. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) E. C. Armstrong, M.D. 
Birmingham, Ala,, Sept. 5, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;—We are much pleased with your 
Thermo Ozone Battery. Please send another to my 
brother, J. W. Brazeal, Steubenville, Montana. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) B. M. Brazeal. 
Pomona, Cal., Nov. 4, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—l take great pleasure in informing you 
that I am delighted with the good results I have obtained 
from the use of your battery in many difficult cases. 
Enclosed find P. O. for two more batteries, and oblige. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) E. C. Armstrong, M.D. 
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 15, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—l am giving the battery a good trial 
with Mrs. French. She is slow to take up new things 
and here the trial will be more satisfactory to me than 
in any other case. Enclosed find cheque for two Ozone 
Batteries, and oblige. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) E. W. French, M.D. 
Cromwell, Conn., April 9, 1894. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:—Please send another of your 
batteries to one of our patients, and oblige, 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) W. B. Hallock, M.D. 
Aiken, S. C., Jan, 19, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—Enclosed find cheque for another bat- 
tery and box of medicine. Send it to Rev. E. E. Wil- 
son, Finlay, 0., he has been suffering with lung trouble 
and I loaned him my battery while at our cure. lie 
improved by its use and is anxious to continue the treat- 
ment. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) O. B. Cause, M.D. APPENDICITIS, 
(The American Disease), 
The above name is applied to a disease of the append- 
age of a valve that exists in the lower part of the right 
side of the abdomen. This valve is at the point where 
the small intestine enters the large one. Many surgeons 
in this country claim that grape seeds and other sub- 
stances lodge in the valve opening or its worm shaped 
appendage. By this claim they feel justified in per- 
forming an operation which has subjected them to 
RIDICULE BY EUROPEAN SURGEONS. 
The Creator in the completeness and perfection of 
His creation, constructed man with an anatomy so varied 
and perfect, that every function of his body so operates 
as to best maintain health and life. There exists in no 
part of the organism a completeness of construction 
SURPASSING that of this intestinal valve and its append- 
age, which is MADE TO widen, so that a coin or trinkets 
often swallowed by children can readily pass through it. 
For additional safety the parts are covered with extra 
FOLDS of peritonium and when this tissue is inflamed it 
is often more active here than elsewhere; such inflam- 
mation is termed Appendicitis. When surgeons are 
asked why European and old surgeons so very rarely 
found it necessary to operate, they reply ‘‘ the disease 
was not understood.” Such statements dis lay ar- 
rogance and ignorance The heads of the tallest of 
such claimants professionally are below the knees of a 
Sir Astley Cooper, Abercrombie, Mott, Parker, Paul 
Eve, Nathan Smith, and others. I assert from a knowl- 
edge obtained during more than forty years of ex- 
tended surgical practice, that an operation for 
appendicitis is rarely necessary, and the inflamma- 
tion can be controlled by treatment. It is often well 
TO TRUST TO NATURE MORE AND MAN LESS. Byron said 
to his physicians during his last illness, “My mother by 
her prayers and oatmeal, often cured me of a worse 
ailment. I see you stand there a set of butchers; do as 
you like and have done with it.” I hope to be able 
32 TO convince some one that appendicitis is but an in- 
flammation capable of cure by direct medical treat- 
ment. I earnestly hope that the cures here reported 
will lead many to consider the advantage to be gained 
by the use of the benificent force of a gentle cur- 
rent of galvanism in sending appropriate medicine 
into the seat of this disease, thereby preventing AN un- 
justifiable operation. 
In May, 1894, a gentleman of this city, who was soon 
to be operated upon for appendicitis, applied the disks 
of the battery Over the seat of the inflammation, placing 
under the positive pole a wired wool pulp tablet wet 
with medicine useful in controlling an inflammation; 
the force of the current uniformly distributed the drug 
into the most minute portion of the inflamed tissues; in 
a few hours the inflammation was reduced, and his re- 
covery was rapid. This gentleman is no longer afraid 
to eat grapes, seeds and all, or swallow a cherry stone 
as he did when a boy at home on the farm. 
J. H. Lindsey, one of the best known and popular 
architects of New York and Newark, resided in East 
Orange. He had long suffered from chronic inflamma- 
tion of the glands of the abdomen and peritoneum. He 
had employed a number of skillful physicians who 
agreed in their diagnosis and unfavorable prognosis. 
He had become wasted away near to death from want 
of assimilation of food; the valve at thej'unction of the 
small and large intestines was surrounded by lumpy 
deposits, the product of inflammation; at times it failed 
to open when the contents of the bowels and gas accu- 
mulated, which caused a fullness over the seat of the 
valve; this produced pain similar to that which occurs 
from strangulated hernia; the pressure would open the 
trap or valve allowing the accumulation to pass, which 
afforded temporary relief; here was one of the very few 
cases where an operation would have been justifiable, 
if the patient was able to endure it, but he was not; his 
case seemed hopeless. The battery was used two or 
three times a day in the same manner as mentioned in 
the former case. In a short time the deposits were 
removed, he at once commenced to improve, and by 
the treatment he has regained his former strength and 
health. His confidence in the efficacy of the method 
was exemplified yesterday in a visit to Dr. Tifft Beck- 
with, requesting him to employ the battery for the treat- 
ment of an aged friend near to death with typhoid tever. 
lam fully conversant with lie difficulty of determin- 
33 ing A NATURAL from a medicinal cure. 1 have often 
seen wonderful effects produced by the mind upon dis- 
ease, and have become charitable to those certifying to 
cures from faith in some useless device. In these 
cases reported there was no alternative; deposits existed; 
they were readily detected and had to be removed by 
THE KNIFE, Or by MEDICINAL DISINTEGRATION. NO 
STOMACH MEDICATION HAD ACCOMPLISHED THIS, the 
best had been well tried and failed. As I reflect 
upon the truly wonderful results obtained by an un- 
seen, unfelt force, conveying imperceptibly, curative 
agents for relief, as air carries into our bodies the deadly 
GERMS OF CHOLERA AND TYPHOID FEVER, my mind IS 
filled with awe, wonderment and reverence, while 
endeavoring to comprehend the sublimity of created 
wisdom in originating even at the beginning a universal, 
pervading force, waiting man’s intelligence for its appli- 
cation to the relief of suffering and prevention 
OF DEATH. 
Joseph Fitzgerald, former editor of the Forum, Scien- 
tific Monthly, and brother of the VENERABLE BISHOP 
of Arkansas, writes as follows: “My wife was 
cured by three applications of your Thermo Ozone Bat- 
tery of a severe attack of lumbago, which prevented 
movements of her body. She was so much benefited by 
the first application as to be able to walk about the 
room. 
For upwards of fifteen years I have suffered from a 
painful ailment of the muscles of the calf of the right 
leg. During those years I, could not walk at a mode- 
rate pace the distance of a quarter of a mile without 
suffering severe pain in these muscles. About August 
15th I began to use the battery (without any of the 
medicinal preparations), applying the electrodes (with 
wet sponges) at the part affected. I began to experience 
relief in three or four weeks; now (Dec. 20) I daily 
walk more than a mile at a time at a fair pace with very 
little inconvenience. A wholly unexpected and unsought 
benefit has come to me incidentally, viz., a very great 
strengthening of the nerves. When I began to employ 
the battery I was quite noticeably tremulous, and the 
most trivial cause would bring on a trembling of the 
hands sufficient to make my handwriting illegible 
After four or five weeks’ use of the battery I began m> 
self to notice a marked improvement, and the imporve 
rnent was remarked by my friends. Another unexpected 
benefit derived by me from the use of the battery is 
that it has saved me from insomnia during a season of 
34 severe worry and anxiety. Ordinarily, under such cir- 
cumstances, I should have been unable to sleep for 
hours after lying down in bed; but not once since I 
commenced the nightly use of the battery have I lain 
awake more than a few minutes in the first part of the 
night. The same effect is experienced by nearly every 
person that uses the battery, 
This experience confirms me in the belief that the 
mild current of the battery has a specific action on the 
nervous system strengthening it and giving it tone. 
General Nervous Debility, Nervous Prostration, seems 
to be the disease of our century, but this is also “the 
age of electricity,” and perhaps electricity affords us the 
means of coping with that most formidable evil of high 
civilization.” 
J. L. Wardwell, 169 E. 42d St., New York, was one 
year in Andersonville prison, which permanently im- 
paired his health; has had frequents attacks of malarial 
fever. Five years since his physicians informed him 
that he had a tumor on the surface of the liver; has suf- 
fered from frequent attacks of severe pain, indigestion, 
vomiting, unable to attend to business a considerable 
part of the time. Tumor constantly growing; received 
no encouragement of a cure; examination showTed that 
the growth filled the right half of the abdomen; pain 
very severe; great debility and paleness. June 4th, 
prescribed for the pain Antikamnia by electric trans- 
fusion; pain relieved in a few minutes and has not since 
returned. This was followed by transfusion of lodine 
and other prescriptions. June 15th, reports no pain, 
good appetite, sleeps well, the tumor reduced. Sep- 
tember 24th, tumor nearly gone; patient in good health. 
Mr. Wardwell at this date January, 1895, is ,n good 
health, daily attending to his business. 
On June 12, 1893, J. S. Dumas, 114 E. 28th Street, 
New York, retired merchant, applied the battery for 
chronic rheumatism of many years duration; the joints 
of his fingers were painfully enlarged and had a limited 
motion; he had been unable to close his hands for three 
years, had frequent attacks of vertigo, occasional loss of 
consciousness preceded by fullness of the head, flushed 
face; on stooping or looking upward he became very 
dizzy. He continued the treatment until September 25th 
when he writes as follows: “Dear Doctor:—l am free 
from any disease. Have gained 16 lbs. in weight since 
I commenced yottr treatment. Yours truly. 
J. S. Dumas,” 
35 Mr. J. T., East Orange, N. J., has had epilepsy for 
eighteen years, often having several spasms during the 
day. He used the battery for the introduction of ozone 
and oxygen without medicine for six months, when Mr. 
Cory, Linen Thread, Church Street, New York, who 
was cured of nervous prostration by the use of the bat- 
tery, and desired information in regard to the treatment 
in epilepsy, called on him and was informed that he had 
recovered. After three months treatment he reported 
to the office great improvement. We have not seen the 
patient since, but his father nforms me that he is practi- 
cally cured. 
Insomnia, brain fag, exhaustion of nerve force, result- 
ing in infeeblement of mind and body, has increased in 
frequency and severity in proportion to the increase of 
mental affliction. Recently these diseases have become 
so frequent that private hospitals and asylumns are 
established in great numbers to accommodate those 
afflicted with this mind destroying ailment. 
Electricity as usually employed and medicine admin- 
istred through the stomach, have afforded but little 
relief, and physicians in their failures have sent their 
patients abroad to wander away from the comforts 
of home and the care of friends. 
It is time to know what causes this disease. An 
overworked brain produces clogging OF THE veins 
surrounding the cells of the gray matter. Nothing but 
oxygen conveyed into the blood by galvanism can un- 
load the congested veins and permit a return of healthy 
action of the brain and nerve. 
The first case I treated by this means was Geo. Moss, 
residing in East Orange, N. J., manufacturer on Reade 
Street, New York. He had long suffered from nervous 
prostration, general exhaustion, inability to sleep, poor 
digestion, etc. He had been compelled to abandon his 
business, sell his home, and take the doctor’s last 
prescription to go to Europe, when he called at 
our house and there applied the battery. It relieved his 
pain at once, quieted his nervous excitation, and at 
the end of six weeks he had mostly regained his health. 
Since that time I have treated a great number of persons 
similarly afflicted, and have not failed in a single case. 
Among the number is that of Rev. J. Bastow. He 
called at our office on March ist, and stated that he had 
suffered from insomnia for nine years, his nervous 
prostration was so great that it impaired his mind to an 
extent that interfered with his work. He had been 
36 subject to headaches and pains in different parts of the 
body. He had visited Europe twice in search of relief 
without benefit. On March 3d, we received the follow- 
ing letter : 
1818 Morris Ave., Tremont, N. Y., 
March 2, 1893. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith :—I tried the battery last night 
and got a very much better night’s sleep than usual. 
Then too I am far lighter and happier to-day than 1 
have been for a long time. I certainly am very hope- 
ful that I have struck something at last that will enable 
me to sleep and build up the nervous system. Many 
thanks for your kind personal attention. 
I will be in to see you after having given the bat- 
tery a trial. I shall be profoundly grateful for whatever 
you may do for me to put me on my feet. 
Your neighbor, Mr. Morse, of Orange, knows me 
well. 
Yours most gratefully and cordially, 
(Signed) J. Bastow. 
He paid us weekly visits until June 15th, and stated 
that he had fully recovered; was never better in his life. 
His statement was corroborated by his general appear- 
ance. 
I believe I possess the only treatment that can 
relieve the brain congestion produced by over mental 
exertion, often resulting in insanity. Therefore, I 
suggest to those suffering from this cause, to write me 
their symptoms, to which I will reply by sending copies 
of letters furnished by physicians who have with the 
treatment cured similar cases. By this means I believe 
the practice will soon become universal and the 
stigma so long attached to the art of medicine for its 
inability to relieve these cases, will be removed. 
Sewell Depot, W. Va., March 13, 1^93. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith I have chronic dyspepsia, 
suffering from severe pain in my stomach and bowels, 
have acid fermentation, nearly constant headache: also 
have frequent attacks of rheumatism. My nervous 
system is in a horrible condition. 
A friend of mine in Baltimore has recommended your 
treatment. Please send me a battery. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) V. V. Garnett. 
37 On March 27th, Miss Garnett writes: “I have been 
greatly benefited by the nse of your battery.” On July 
26th she writes: “I believe I owe my life to the use of 
the battery while not entirely restored to health, I am 
so much improved that I feel certain I shall soon re- 
cover.” On December 20th she writes: “I remain in 
fair health and my dyspepsia and nervous prostration 
have been cured.” 
East Orange, N. J., December 16, 1804. 
Mr. W. Cummings, 
253 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Dear Sir:—Your note of inquiry on the 12th inst. at 
hand in regard to my experience of Dr. Beckwith’s 
Ozone Battery. 1 feel somewhat delicate about an- 
swering, for it is a very hard matter to tell when 
nature leaves off and artificial means commence. I 
will state my case briefly. My age 70, and for the last 
20 years have been much out of health. I have been 
treated by the best physicians of both schools for 
malaria, liver and kidney trouble, and while I was 
patched up, cannot say that I was any day without more 
or less suffering. About two years ago I commenced 
using the battery and immediately felt its beneficial 
effects, and can truly say to day that I am in perfect 
health, and feel younger than I did 20 years ago. You 
can draw your own conclusions. I give the batteiy 
credit. I have seen wonderful results besides my own. 
I know not what your case may be, but if all other 
means you have tried have failed, would say by all 
means give the battery a thorough trial. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) John Ingersoll. 
Campbell, Tex., December 11, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—l am ready to introduce your medical 
invention in electricity to my patients. After a thorough 
trial I am fully satisfied of the curative value of your 
discovery. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) M. W. Patterson, M.D. 
DelNorte, Colo., Feb. 8, 1895. 
Dear Doctor;— Send me at once three batteries. 
Those I have had have been taken by my patients. 1 
wish you could have seen the cure by the treatment 
in Mr. Meyer’s case. He is one of the best known men 
in the Slate and wishes to write to you. 
In the following case the battery acted like magic. 
38 At this altitude, 7,880 feet, pneumonia is the most 
dangerous disease we have to contend with. The bat- 
tery does its work very speedily. In this case the 
patient was a girl four years of age, and |had a cokf 
followed by violent pneumonia. From the first I used 
the usual remedies and poulticed back and chest, with- 
out benefit. The third day there was active nervous 
congestion; the patches on her face which had been a 
bright red color became livid. For several hours the 
little thing had been in a comatose condition from which 
we could scarcely’rouse her; I applied the battery three 
times during the day. During the first application I 
observed a change for the better, the nails were less 
purple, patches on the face not as livid, breathing 
easier, temperature lower. In the evening after the 
last treatment she had a natural sleep, which continued 
during the night. In the morning she was bright and 
free from fever. It did not seem possible that so simple 
a thing as the battery could have done so wonderful a 
thing, for all who had seen the case believed she would 
die, yet no one doubted that the recovery was due to the 
treatment, for cases in this condition never recover from 
mountain pneumonia. 
(Signed) S. A. Goff, M.D. 
New York, October 13, 1893. 
Dear Doctor :—I commenced the use of your battery 
three months since. I had suffered everything from 
insomnia, and tried everything in vain until I got the 
battery. The effect has been simply instantaneous in 
producing sleep and rest. In about fifteen minutes 
after I apply the battery I feel a tingling sensation at 
the point of application and it produces a general 
warmth over the body. 
Recently I lost my voice, and believed I should be 
unable to fulfil an engagement to sing at a concert. I 
applied the disks of the battery to my throat, resulting 
in a complete restoration of voice within six hours. 
Once since I became very hoarse, which the treatment 
relieved in a short time. 
My sister, who is using the battery, is improving from 
chronic bronchitis. Yours truly, 
(Signed) Lyla Kavenaugh. 
Fort Wayne, Ind., January 8, 1894. 
My Dear Doctor;—Since your kind letter of 
December sth, I have used the battery one hour 
each day on my ankles alternately as per your ad- 
39 vice, I cannot conceive how so simple a thing can 
effect my locomotion; neither can I perceive how a 
trolly pole touching a wire above the Electric Street 
•Car propels the car, but it does it with a vim. Now 
whether this device of yours has done me any good 
or not I cannot say; but one thing I do know as 
well as the man who was born blind, when he was 
asked by what means he had been healed, could 
only say as to who had restored his sight that 
“Whereas I was blind now I see.” I cannot say I 
am cured, but I can say that I walk very much bet- 
ter, and am better than I was six weeks ago, and 
believe it is the Thermo Ozone Battery which has 
helped me- My legs feel stronger and my feet 
more limber. I cannot give any definite result, 
only by saying that I am improving. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) W. F. Barbour. 
Hackensack, N. J., October 14, 1884. 
Dear Doctor:—I have taken three treatments 
with the Thermo Ozone Battery. The first night I 
was restless, but I felt the power of the battery al- 
most instantly after applying the wet sponges; there 
was a decidedly increased action of my heart and a 
peculiar sensation in my head. The next night I 
slept so soundly that my head fairly ached in the 
morning. I had a similar feeling on rising the 
next morning. I feel better generally since I have 
taken the treatment and believe it will be very 
beneficial to me. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) John O. Sherman. 
Blufton, Ohio, April 25, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
Dear Doctor:—I am not mistaken in stating that 
you have something worth the attention of the pro- 
fession. I have great confidence in your ability and 
integrity, and know that any advance you have 
made in the treatment of the sick will prove to be 
beneficial. Enclosed find draft. 
I am satisfied that with your principle of treat- 
ment I shall have more satisfactory results than 
heretofore, 
I remain, yours fraternally, 
(Signed) F. C. Steingraver, M.D. 
P. S. I Graduated in your old College. 
40 Maple Rapids, Mich., April 28, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—Enclosed find draft for two more 
batteries. I have just cured a case of cerebro spi- 
nal meningitis with your treatment. The results 
obtained from sending medicine /and oxygen into 
the diseased structures were marvelous- 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) Geo- C. Bliss, M-D. 
Elgin, Mich,, July 21, 1594. 
Prof. S. R- Beckwith, M.D. 
Dear Doctor:—Please send me by express a 
Thermo Ozone Battery. I have a variety of medi- 
cal batteries and have learned to only use a gal- 
vanic current, merely strong enough to produce a 
metallic taste. You have made a useful discovery, 
and I have confidence in your ability to do so. I 
was among the early graduates of the old Cleve- 
land College, and have not forgotten your instruc- 
tion. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) W- A. Shepard, M.D. 
Clarion, Pa., June 3, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;— Recently I visited a patient, whom 
I think is in the first stages of consumption, has had 
bronchitis for some time, also neuralgia and severe 
headaches. The battery soon cured the nerve pain 
and headache, and the patient is improving other- 
wise, but I think the consumption is hereditary and 
the treatment can do no more than afford tempor- 
ary relief. Yours fraternally, 
E. W. Reed, M.D. 
Clarion, Pa., August 23, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;—I visited my wife’s uncle at St. 
Mary’s, Pa. He has been able to do but little 
work for the past five years, and has not been out 
of the house since last Xmas. He is compelled to 
use a crutch and cane to walk about the house. 
His finger joints are as large as walnuts; and his 
family state that a yellowish fluid oozes from the 
joints. His knee joints were at least one half larger 
than natural. I applied battery during my stay of 
one week and he became able to walk about the 
house without a crutch or cane. Since reaching 
home they have written me that he walks about the 
garden, and walked down street a distance of two 
squares- All this has been accomplished in three 
weeks time, I have never witnessed such results 
41 in a case of equal severity by any other treatment. 
I have no faith in non-professional statements of 
wonderful cures, because in such cures the disease 
is mostly nervous, and faith, in most of these cases, 
produces the presumed benefit. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) E. W. Reed, M.D- 
Newark, N. Y. April 12, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
My Dear Doctor:—Dr. Day foot, of Rochester, 
told me of your Thermo Ozone Battery, and he re- 
commends it highly, and states that he has cured 
several cases of catarrh and other diseases with it- 
I have a good combined Faradic and Galvanic Bat- 
tery, but Dr. Dayfoot told me that you had made a 
new discovery in the action of electric currents. 
Please send me one without delay. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) J. A. Reed, M.D. 
Richmond, Fla., January 9, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D- 
Dear Doctor;—The Ozone Battery came all right 
and we have given it a fair trial. Mrs. Richmond 
has used it thoroughly. Her eczema of long stand- 
ing seems to be changed in its character, but she 
has not used it long enough to know what results 
it will produce, but invigoration was very marked 
within three days from the time of begining its use. 
She was nervous, sleepless and weak, and had 
been so for a long time, and as at once by magic 
she felt her strength returning by using the battery 
one hour a day with ice water. We think highly 
of the invention and are glad that our physicain 
called our attention to it. I shall take pleasure in 
recommending it to those suffering. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Rev- J. F. Richmond. 
1314 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 20, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—Since receiving your Thermo- 
Ozone Battery, I have not been able to procure a 
dog on which to try the experiment you suggested 
of transfusion of oxygen into its blood but 1 have 
made experiments upon myself and am satisfied 
that the current decomposes water and con- 
veys its oxygen into the tissues in the manner you 
42 describe. I think I have given it sufficient test in 
this way, and the treatment of several cases 
warrants me in stating that it is a discovery of great 
value. I have cured one case of rheumatism in less 
than a week, although the patient has been suffer- 
ing for some time, and the pains were violent. This 
patient is a well known lady of this city and desires 
you to send her a battery, address find below. 
I have also treated several cases of nervous pros- 
tration; all have improved more rapidly than I have 
ever seen similar cases do. 
About three weeks ago a gentleman friend ol 
mine was stricken with paralysis of his leftside; he 
was conveyed to the hospital and there treated for 
24 hours; his case was diagnosed passive apo- 
plexy, that is, there was no clot found. On the 
following day he was removed home and treated 
by a well known Homoeopathic physician who 
recommended electricity, and the lady called upon 
me to use the Thermo Ozone Battery. This I ap- 
plied twice a day for one hour each application. In 
less than one week he was able to walk about the 
room with the assistance of a cane. He has now 
been under treatment a little less than three weeks 
and is improved very much, so as to surprise me. 
I shall take great pleasure in applying this method 
of treatment in my practice. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) W. R. Register, M.D. 
120 S. 13th St., Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 31, 1893. 
Dr. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—I am using one of your Ozone Batter- 
ies with most excellent success. Permit me to 
suggest an improvement in the manner of holding 
the sponges. I have found that the current is 
sufficiently active to produce desired results, it the 
water is not below 45 degrees in which the battery 
is immersed. I take the liberty of making a draw- 
ing which exemplifies my ideas. I feel so well 
satisfied with the invention that I would like to be 
supplied with the instruments for the benefit of my 
patients. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) R. Reed, M.D. 
Mr. Sprague, of Liverpool, N- S., procured from 
us a battery for his own use. In an intelligent 
manner he described his case which is that of ner- 
vous prostration, insomnia and general debility, as 
43 well as dyspepsia and constipation; his general 
condition is that of extreme debility. On Novem- 
ber 10, 1894, he writes as follows: “I have used 
the Thermo-Ozone Battery for nine or ten weeks 
and during that time I have felt very much better, 
better appetite, no tired feeling, greater ability to 
work, and I sleep well. I have concluded that this 
improvement is due to the battery, because for the 
past few weeks I perceived no benefit from the 
treatment; on examination I found one of the cords 
broken, having replaced it and screwed it up again 
so that it would work, I renewed the application 
and again derived benefit from the treatment. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed) J. D. Sprague.” 
15 28th Ave., Denver, Colo., Dec. 30, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—Enclosed please find draft for 
two batteries. Mr. J. G. Downs, first mentioned 
the battery to me, saying he had found it of great 
benefit, and suggested that I try it. The one he 
sent me has been tried by two or three parties, but 
not long enough to make it a test, excepting in the 
case of my sister, who has been much benefited by 
its use. Yours very respectfully, 
(Signed) Dr- Van Vleck. 
Rahway, N.J., Oct. 15, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—I am happy to state that by the 
use of one of your Thermo-Ozone Batteries my 
daughter Amelia who had been suffering from ner- 
vous prostration for years, is so far as I can judge 
cured, and would cheerfully recommend it to all 
similarly afflicted. Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) Edward Urban. 
Omaha, Neb., April 30, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—Please send by express one bat- 
tery. The first one I received I gave to a patient 
with a high fever, induced from acute 
orchitis. It broke the fever in a few hours, con- 
trolled the inflammation and reduced the swelling 
more rapidly than I ever observed in any other 
method of treatment. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) H. A. Worley, M.D. 
Berea, O-, Oct. 14, 1893. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:— 
Thirty years ago I was a patient of your’s, and 
44 you advised me to study medicine, which I did, 
and it is to you that I owe what little success I 
have made in life. If I had not great confidence in 
you I should not have telegraphed you to-day, for 
a battery. I have one of the most profoundly sick 
men that it has ever been my painful pleasure to 
treat. He has had for several months dropsy of 
the chest; also at present the surface of the body is 
in a dropsical condition. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) N. E. Wright, M-D. 
Berea, 0., November 25, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—I owe you an apology for not 
writing you before, but I have been waiting until I 
had something to say. My patient, the dropsical 
one, is improving quite rapidly. He did not lie 
down for about six weeks on account of the effusion 
in his chest; his limbs kept up a constant oozing, 
so freely that a cloth had to be changed sometimes 
every one-half hour; the discharge was so acid that 
it burned the skin and produced soreness. I have 
also tried the battery on my daughter, and it has 
given her relief from attacks of severe headaches to 
which she has been subject for many years. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) N. E. Wright, M-D 
Prol. J. Clegg Wright, of Cincinnati, Ohio, writes 
under date of March 30, 1894. “I find in using the 
Thermo-Ozone Battery that in acute nervous pros- 
tration its effect is slow but soothing, and very 
helpful, especially so if the disease is chronic. Its 
action on the heart and arterial system is quite 
rapid. In my experience I have found that it 
readily reduces the heart’s action in fevers. I think 
it a very useful invention. 
Aiken, S. C., February 22, 1894. 
Dear Sir:—l have been a careful student of the 
curative effect of galvanism for some years. So far 
as I have used the Thermo-Ozone Battery I find it 
an advantageous treatment; in some cases I have 
failed, but I am unable to decide whether it is due 
to the insusceptibility of the individual or the bat- 
tery. The last case I tried it on was a case of liver 
trouble that remained after a serious illness which 
originated at the World’s Fair; he was in the hospi- 
45 tal lor weeks and returned in a very poor'health. 
The battery brought him out all O. K. „ . 
Yours with much respect, Si? 
(Signed) O. B. Cause, M.D. 
Nashville, Tenn., December 26, 1893. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
Dear Sir:—I think you do not place sufficient 
stress upon the treatment of children by the use of 
your battery. I have come to this conclusion from 
observing the effects of the treatment in my family. 
My son, five years ot age had whooping cough 
which was very troublesome, especially during the 
night. He vomited frequently during the attacks 
of coughing. I applied the battery in the evening 
and it relieved him at once. The little fellow so • 
readily found relief that he asked to have it applied. 
Our friend, Mrs. Hard, is a great advocate of the 
battery, it having relieved her children. 
too much space cannot be devoted to the treatment 
of children in your writings. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) W. B. Gillespie. 
933 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn,aN. Y., July 18,1893. 
Dr. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—I have not as yet applied the battery 
in acute disease. In chronic cases such as long- 
standing insomnia and headache, it has acted with 
excellent success. Yours very truly, 
(Signed) F. Peele, M.D. 
Hotel Waterson, Boston, Mass., Nov. 6, 1893. 
Dear Doctor;—l have used the prescription you 
sent with the battery for one week. It has helped 
the contraction of the musles of so long standing, 
and the pain has disappeared. 
Yours truly, (Signed) M. B. Pope, 
Clifton Springs, N. Y., October 16, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—Perhaps you may remember sending 
a battery to me at Cleveland about a year ago. I 
was one of your brother’s patients there and used 
it for ovarian trouble, which is now cured. I 
brought the battery here with me, I used it at night 
for sleeplessness. Parties here are interested in 
the battery and would like to know more about it. 
Kindly furnish me with information. 
Yours truly, (Signed); Mrs. L. S. Pot win. 
46 This cure is of too much interest and importance 
to WOMEN HAVING OVARIAN TUMORS and 
who are looking for a cure without the use of the 
dreaded knife, to pass without further explanation. 
Professor Potwin, of Adelberta College, Cleve- 
land, Ohio, in September, 1893, wrote us by the 
advice of my brother, Dr. D. H. Beckwith, respect- 
ing this case- The letter contained a full descript- 
ion of her condition. From time to time I received 
letters stating that she was improving, then the 
correspondence ceased. As she was too feeble to 
stand an operation I inferred that the case had 
terminated fatally. No one but a surgeon familiar 
with this disease can appreciate our pleasure on the 
receipt of her letter of October x6th, 1894. 
From 1853, until I was poisoned when removing 
an ovarian tumor in St. Mary’s Hospital, Cincin- 
nati, I had removed several hundred of this class 
of tumors. I never cut through the walls of the 
abdomen for their removal without sadly re- 
gretting the failure of medicine to accomplish a 
cure. lam truly grateful to kind heaven in mak- 
ing known a force capable of carrying such drugs 
into these growths as will remove by disinte- 
gration and absorption a large proportion of 
ovarian tumors, especially during the early 
period of their existence. 
Boston Highlands, Mass., ]un 13, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—The Thermo-Ozone Battery is 
doing well for Mrs. Paine. She is sleeping better 
and suffers much less pain. 
I have an anaemic patient who has suffered for 
months with severe neuralgia about the head and 
back. Will you kindly send me a battery without 
the medicine. I shall try it upon her with a good 
deal of faith that it will benefit her. I have ex- 
hausted medicine with only temporary relief. 
Please send as soon as possible. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) J. P. Paine, M.D. 
Prof. Paine, M.D., is one of the oldest and most 
eminent medical teachers and physicians in Boston. 
He wrote me several letters subsequent to the 
above, in which he stated that Mrs. Paine was con- 
stantly improving. 
47 Her brother, Mr. Cargill, Electrician wof the 
Thompson, Houston Company visited us during the 
treatment and made the following statement : 
‘‘When seeing your battery which my sister was 
using, I told her that it was impossible to generate 
a current of galvanism by the means you employ- 
ed. Her rapid recovery from an ailment we sup- 
posed incurable, led me to take the battery to our 
works and there with others I examined and test- 
ed it, and found out what I never knew before, 
that electricity could be generated by a difference 
of temperature between the battery and its poles. 
In the examination we ruined the battery; my sister 
needs it and I have come here for another and want 
it sent by the first express. You are at liberty to 
refer to me in reference to the electrical conditions 
involved in the construction of the battery and to 
the good results that I have seen.” 
Mr. C., like the great majority oi electricians 
whose intelligence and ingenuity have been ex- 
pended in the construction of mechanical devices 
for the purpose of creating great force, are not 
familiar with the principles and philosophy of 
thermol currents. If electricians would make the 
same test they would not now occupy the position 
of mere bench workmen under their claim of being 
Electrical Engineers. 
Victoria Fire Ins. Co., 
Hamilton, Ont., April 15, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—For some time I have been using 
your battery for my own treatment of insomnia and 
nervous prostration, the outcome of La Grippe. I 
have received great benefit from its use; conse- 
quently would like to purchase one for my daugh- 
ter. Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Geo. H. Mills. 
Hopkinsville, Ky., December x 6,1893. 
Dear Doctor:—By the recommendation of Dr. 
Gish, I procured one of your batteries. I have had 
stiffness of the knee and ankles for more than two 
years. Have been treated by a number of physi- 
cians a great deal for rheumatism, but found no re- 
lief. I used the battery according to your book of 
directions, and have succeeded in relieving the 
pain. In the short time that I have used it there is 
48 no improvement in the stiffness, but from the effects 
produced I believe I will be benefited by perser- 
verence in its use. 
My son was quite sick last week, high fever, 
restless and nervous at night. I applied the battery 
and in a very short time his fever was controlled, 
and he fell into a quiet sleep. The next night his 
symptoms returned, he was tossing and nervous; I 
applied the battery again with the same result, 
therefore concluded it must be the treatment. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) Mrs. Nanny Moon. 
Mrs. M. P. Minion, of New Orleans, writes as 
follows: “Yesterday I tried the battery in a case 
of severe toothache; I placed the positive pole with 
a hot sponge under it over the painful tooth and the 
negative on the opposite side of the face. The re- 
sult was that in a few moments the pain was reliev- 
ed and the child went to sleep. 
A friend of our s called a few days ago suffering 
with neuralgia of the face; he had long suffered 
from frequent attacks of face neuralgia. I applied 
the treatment the same as with the child and reliev- 
ed him in 45 minutes. He says it is the first time 
the pain has ever passed off after an attack has 
commenced inside of two days. 
I tried it on another case of prostration and gen- 
eral debility following La Grippe and malarial 
fever; this patient was very much reduced but after 
a few weeks treatment fully recovered. I wish the 
medical profession would turn their attention to 
this principle of cure.” 
34 Maple St., Nashviie, Tenn., June 27, 1893. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith: 
Enclosed find draft for one of your batteries. I 
wish especially to try this in a case chronic rheu- 
matism and other complications of long standing. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) J. W. Owen. 
Nashville, Tenn. July 24, 1893. 
Dear Doctor;—The battery I ordered some time 
ago was received. The party for whom I purchas- 
ed it is highly pleased with the results he had in 
using it. Inside of a week the pain was entirely 
relieved. Yours respectfully 
(Signed) J. W. Owen. 
49 DeLand, Fla. , March 13, 1894. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:—While in Gainsville, last 
month I purchased one of your batteries. I first 
tried it on a case of high fever and found that it re- 
duced the frequency of the pulse and heat with 
great rapidity. I have also used it in a case of 
chronic muscular rheumatism and succeeded in re- 
lieving the case in an unexpectedly brief period of 
time. I have tried it in cases of neuralgia, nervous 
prostration and it has done both patients good. 
How long will the battery last? Can they be re- 
charged? I look upon this as a valuable instrument. 
Enclosed find draft for another battery. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) A. S. Munson, M.D- 
1824 N. nth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Nov. 15, ’94. 
Dr. S- R. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—You will recollect my calling upon 
you early last month and stating that I had suffered 
along time from disease of the kidneys and bladder 
and that I had not been able to find relief from 
any treatment I had used. I have applied the bat- 
tery daily ever since with most wonderfully good 
results- It has nearly if not quite relieved the trou- 
ble. In addition to this I have been applying it to 
my temples with the medicine you suggested for 
weak eyes. I have been treated by an eminent 
occulist with only moderate improvement. By the 
use of the battery my eyesight is rapidly improving 
and the chronic inflammation is passing away. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Mrs- J. H. McMonagle. 
Norwood, N. J., Sept. 12, 1894- 
Dr. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—This will introduce Mrs. Birmingham. 
I have recommended your little wonder as some- 
thing that will cure her. I have such faith that it 
will do it that I have advised her to try it. As it 
has done wonders for my wife, I feel that I cannot 
say too much in its favor. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) Allen K. Nayes, 
Del Norte, Colo., January 10, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Doctor:—I have been afflicted with a drop- 
sical leg since 1879, which resulted from a terrible 
50 run of mountain fever. After fourteen years I never 
expected to be cured of it. About six months ago 
ulcers or sores came on the shinbone which were 
almost impossible to heal. About that time I was 
spoken to by Dr. Cassels, who had read of your 
battery and said he believed it would help me. 
Several months after Dr. S. A. Goff, of this place 
who had procured one of your batteries kindly al- 
lowed me to use it and I used it one hour morning 
and evening each day for a week. Then I had to 
leave home and did not get to use it any more for 
eleven days; but my improvement was so marked 
that I am assured of a speedy cure, and I have re- 
commenced its use but a few days. The sores are 
all healed but one and that almost. 
I had a terrible time with inflammatory rheuma- 
tism last summer which went all over my body and 
lasted for several months. I seem to be entirely 
free of it now- Most respectfully, 
(Signed) R. A. Meyers. 
Cleveland, O. May 22, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—For some months I have been fusing, 
with great benefit, your Thermo Ozone Battery, 
under the direction of Dr. D. H. Beckwith. At his 
request, I write you in regard to its effect on my 
arm. which for more than a year has been partially 
disabled by pen-paralysis. At the time I commenc- 
ed using the battery, the entire right side seemed 
to be affected so much so that I could not sleep on 
that side. For some time I have been using the 
battery every night, attaching the rubber band to 
the right ankle, and keeping it on until morning. 
I am now able to sleep on the right side, with only 
occasional returns of the numbness, usually trace- 
able to an overuse of my arm during the day. Even 
if this were all, the battery would be invaluable to 
me, but there has also been a marked gain in the 
use of my arm, in different ways though I cannot 
as yet do much writing with a pen. 
Sincerely yours, 
(Signed) Mary Martin. 
Toronto, Ont., Oct. 27, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M. D. 
Dear Doctor.—About two months ago I came to 
Toronto to be treated for cancer in the breast, have ing been sent here (by the physicians whom I con- 
sulted) to have an operation performed with the 
object of having it removed. 
By the intervention of kind friends whom I met 
here, and who knew about your Thermo Ozone 
Battery, I was led to give it a trial. 
I am thankful to say that I have done so under 
the care of Dr. Danter, who prescribed the medi- 
cine for use on the tablets; and the result has been 
a surprise not only to myself but to every one who 
knew of my case. 
After about two months steady treatment, I am 
able to state that the tumor has very nearly disap- 
peared, the pain gone, and my general health has 
so much improved that I have gained in weight 
twelve pounds, and am stiil improving, and I feel 
that by continuing the treatment, it will wholly 
eradicate the trouble. 
This I think is truly marvelous when I con- 
sider the condition in which I was when I first 
came under the treatment; and I have no hesi- 
tation in recommending your battery to any who 
are suffering. 
I am, gratefully yours, 
(Signed) Ann Jane Hanna. 
Toronto, Ont, August 29, 1894. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
Dear Doctor:—l have been observing for some 
time the effect of your treatment of disease by a 
feeble current of gdvanism, generated by your 
Thermo Ozone Battery. I have in my practice 
employed your method of sending medicine into 
the blood circulation. This observation has been 
extended in the treatment of several cases, and 
it has been found to be successful. I have be- 
come convinced that electricity used in the man- 
ner of your discovery is capable of conveying 
into the system oxygen and medicine and pro- 
duces better results than by any other medical 
treatment. I think it should be used as an ad- 
junct, by every physician, to the art of medicine. 
I have just observed a case of paralysis of Mrs. 
Raymond, who has been employing the battery 
for several months, and her improvement is so 
marked and well defined that I think she will 
fully recover. I have also seen a case of locomo- 
ter ataxia where your treatment was employed, 
52 and it produced better results than I have ever 
before seen. 
I shall take pleasure in recommending the treat- 
ment to the profession. The statements contained 
in Miss Hanna’s letter are correct. lam certain 
that the means employed was instrumental in de- 
stroying the cancer germs. The simplicity and 
safety of the treatment in connection with its cer- 
tainty of cure; makes it a very desirable treat- 
ment in domestic practice. 
(Signed) J. F. Danter, M.D. 
Pres, of American Health Ass’n. 
Remarkable quick cures of a case of [Skin Dis- 
ease. I had a very troublesome scaly eruption 
on the back part of my head for upwards of four 
years. Tried best liniments and salves without 
any permanent benefit;—the eruption still continu- 
ed to extend. 
I applied Dr. S- R. Beckwith’s Thermo Ozone 
Battery, placing positive disk with medicine for 
skin disease directly upon the part affected. After 
three applications and in less than one week a 
complete cure has been effected. 
(Signed) Calvin Raymond, 
Toronto, Ont, August 25, 1894. 
Orange, N. Jan. 22, 1895. 
Tifft Beckwith, M.D., 17 Oakwood Ave. 
Dear Doctor:—l desire to give you a brief state- 
ment of our daughter’s case and the result ob- 
tained by the use of your father’s battery. She 
was taken with scarlet fever in its severest form 
in May 22, 1892. The physicians stated that the 
case was malignant. Her blood seemed to have 
been poisoned as she suffered for a long time 
with a disease that we were told was Bright’s 
disease. 
During the summer she had an attack of nervous 
spasms, for which we employed the treatment of 
several physicians. These spasms continued, and 
in August, 1893, we took her to Philadelphia, and 
put her under the care of Dr. Kline, where she re- 
mained under his treatment until November 13th. 
1893, without benefit. Then we procured one of 
your batteries. She had not menstruated since her 
attack of fever, her spasms were very severe and 
her general health poor. She has used the battery 
53 more or less for one year. The spasms at first be- 
gan to grow lighter, and she has no return of them 
since last summer. She is now in good health, and 
I am very grateful to you and our friends in recom- 
mending the treatment. 
(Signed) Mrs. W. B. Plume, 
16 Hawthorn St. 
We have previously published several cures of 
Epilepsy some of these reports were from physi- 
cians, others we treated and know they were 
cured. We do not pretend that every case of 
Epilepsy can be relieved but we do say that no 
other treatment has ever cured an equal propor- 
tionate number. 
Jersey City, N- J., Sept, x, 1893. 
Dear Doctor: —Having a few moments leisure 
will improve it by telling you what I think of the 
little wonder that I got from you some three 
months ago. My wife was completely run down, 
could not eat or sleep, no blood, but after using 
your battery for three weeks she found that there 
was a great change; and now after using the bat- 
tery three months she is perfectly well. I have 
used it myself and it has done me a world of 
good. I feel like a new man and can eat any- 
thing without distressing me in the least, and 
therefore cannot say too much in its favor. 
I am, Yours truly, 
(Signed) A. K. Meyrs. 
New Rochelle, N. Y., April 24, 1894. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:—Enclosed find draft for an- 
other battery. I must admit that at first I was 
very skeptical regarding the battery, but my 
doubts are vanishing very fast. 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) C. N. Raymond, M. D., C. M. 
New Rochelle, N. Y., May 22, 1894. 
Dear Doctor.—I have used the battery in a case 
of fib oid tumor which I wrote you about. The 
pa'ient was in to-day and states that by actual 
measurment that the size of the abdomen is re- 
duced; also th it she could feel an improvement 
not only in increased weight, but also feels strong- 
er, and she believes that she will recover. 
54 If this little instrument can remove a tumor 
which has defied the skill of some of the best sur- 
geons, I deem it nothing less than a wonder. 
Yours very fraternally, 
(Signed) C. N. Raymond, M. D. 
A letter of later date is as follows : “ I used the 
last battery in a case of dropsy; and think it will 
give improvement if the treatment is continued, so 
I have induced the family to purchase it.” 
As before stated, we constructed batteries at 
first much stronger than at present. We did not 
at the beginning of our investigation comprehend 
the curative value of a feeble current of Thermo 
Galvanism. We did not understand as now how' 
the current usually employed upon the sick would 
aggravate a diseased condition by bunching or ag- 
gregating diseased products. We insert the fol- 
lowing letter to show that our first batteries were 
too strong and it was well to recall them all. 
Medford, Md., April 3, 1893. 
Dear Dr, Beckwith:—I applied one of your 
batteries to my whfe, who had Jong suffered from 
nervous prostration, superinduced by uterine 
trouble which had existed for years. I placed the 
battery in wrater 45Q, sponges under the disks at 
900, applied it on the ankle for 50 minutes Be- 
fore the application her feet and limbs were cold ; 
she has long suffered from coldness of the lower 
extremities, the right leg being especially cold. 
We were very favorably impressed with the 
treatment from good results obtained from the 
first application- On the following day we made 
a second application, using the water colder, when 
it produced vertigo, violent pain in the right 
temple and palpitation of the heart. She cannot 
be induced to use the battery again. 
Your truly, 
(Signed) L. H. Rhinehart. 
This battery was constructed of alternate layers 
of zinc and copper strips, and many times stronger 
than the battery we are now using. The case is 
merely reported to show that our principle of pro- 
ducing galvanism is true; also to demonstrate by 
actual cases that a strong current is harmful. 
55 Lukens, Pa., November 22, 1894, 
Dear Doctor;—I have used the battery as yet 
but in a lew cases. I believe it has afforded them 
relief- I shall give the treatment a severe test- 
Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) J. R. Lefevre, M. D. 
Glen Falls, Md., March 30, 1894. 
Dr. S. R. Beckwith:— 
Dear Sir:—My physician, Dr. Price, ordered one 
of your batteries for me. I have been suffering for 
a long time with nervous prostration and indiges- 
tion. It acted like a charm upon me, and did me 
so much good that I cannot afford to be without 
it. Unfortunately I broke one of the cords, and 
have not used it for some little time. I now return 
the cord to be repaired as I need to use the bat- 
tery, for I dread another attack of nervous trouble 
with inability to sleep. Yours truly, 
(Signed) Mary R. Ireland. 
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 3, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—l am so rapidly improving from 
my great prostration and lung trouble by the use 
of the battery that I feel anxious to be further in- 
structed in its use. 
(Signed) Mrs. M. L. Jackson. 
Del Norte, Colo., December 3, 1893. 
Dear Doctor:—l take pleasure in informing you 
that by the use of your treatment I have cured the 
difficult case about which I wrote. The father is 
so much pleased with the cure that he wants to 
purchase a battery for a New Year’s gift for some 
friend. 
I have another case that I wish to relate : A boy 
13 years of age received a shock to his nerves from 
fright, resulting in chorea. His entire right side 
was in constant motion when awake, so much so 
that he had very little use of his right hand. He 
had been treated for some years with little or no 
benefit. I applied the battery in October ; the 
treatment was given at first every day for one 
hour, afterwards twice a week. The result is a 
complete cure; he uses his right hand as well as 
ever; net only that but it has entirely relieved him 
of a very nervous condition; his nervous system 
seems entirely changed and strengthened. I am gratified to be able to report such extra- 
ordinary cures by the application of your discov- 
ery. Yours fraternally, 
(Signed) S. A, Goff, M.D. 
The following letter from S. H. Platt, A. M., M. 
D., a widely known author and physician, is very 
instructive to those employing our treatment. The 
mass of people unfamiliar with electricity have yet 
to learn that a thermo galvanic current with 
its intensity of sufficient force to decompose water 
and send oxygen and medicine into the blood,can- 
not be felt, because it is continuous and as inap- 
preciable as air when not set in motion. 
Dr. Platt’s sister, Mrs. F. E. Barnes, Long Hill 
Street, Springfield, Mass., formerly residing in this 
city, has been afflicted for many years with tic- 
doleroux of the face. She had necrosis, (ulcera- 
tion) of the cheek bone, and the neuralgia was 
supposed to be due to this disease. The diseased 
bone was removed without lessening the severity 
of the pain. In May, 1894, she stated that the neu- 
ralgia of her face was so violent and persistent that 
she required the daily service of a physician to in- 
ject morphine hypodermically. By the application 
of the battery and its conveyance of medicine into 
the sheath of the nerve, the pain was entirely re- 
lieved in less than four weeks, and there has been 
no return of the neuralgia. 
With this and other evidence obtained by Dr. 
Platt, he writes as follows : 
Springfield, Mass., December 26, 1894. 
S. R, Beckwith, M.D., 
Dear Doctor:—Your battery is a success. I 
have known it to accomplish wonders. It lacks 
only one thing for use in families, namely, some 
sensible evidence that it is working. So many 
patients must see or feel, not merely to believe, 
but to be encouraged to persevere. The lack of 
perserverance many times causes failure, when it 
is not the fault of the battery. 
(Signed) S. H. Platt, M.D. 
489 Communipau Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 
December 27, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—On November 23rd I came to 
your office to procure one of your Thermo Ozone 
Batteries for myself. I had been an invalid for 
57 two or more years suffering with severe head- 
aches, coming on worse at night. Rheumatism, 
especially in the knee joints, and indigestion. I 
employed physicians in Patterson, Jersey City and 
New York, obtained very little relief; taken a great 
deal of medicine. Since I have used the battery 
the pains have lessened, not so frequent, and 1 
feel better than I have in a long while, although I 
cannot say that I am cured of all my troubles, but 
expect to be in a short time. 
(Signed) L. A, Hecht. 
Locomotor Ataxia, 
In closing our reports I hope the reader will per- 
use the following wrh such care as should be be- 
stowed upon a CURE HERETOFORE UN- 
EQUALED IN THE HISTORY OF MEDI- 
CINE. 
Locomotor ataxia is a disease correctly believed 
to be incurable. It is caused by a disease of the 
spinal cord, resulting in paralysis of the muscles of 
motion. 
Mr. Defossez, formerly associated with Mr. Ab- 
bey as managers of Mile. Bernhart, visited our office 
on july 15th, 1894. He was unable to walk with- 
out support; on attempting to step with his eyes 
closed he staggered and fell; could not put his toes 
together or move his hands to any extent without 
assistance. His father died from locomotor ataxia. 
In 1888, he observed that his motion was impaired 
and was treated for two years bv Professor Char- 
cot, of Paris, without benefit. He then spent one 
year under the the treatment of Professor La May- 
er, of Berlin, He has since been treated by special- 
ists in Holland and in this country. From the be- 
ginning he has suffered violent neura'gic pains in 
different parts of the body; also severe headaches, 
inability ro sleep, and all of these symytoms had 
gradually increased in severity until he was com- 
pel It d daily and nightly to take large doses of nar- 
cotics. 
Without hope of relief we applied the battery to 
the spinal column, carrying into it the usual reme- 
dies recommended, and gave this treatment at first 
twice a day. In a few weeks he improved in his 
gait, and at this time he walks into the office in a lively way, without assistance, and it is almost im- 
possible to detect from his appearance that he ever 
had locomotor ataxia. He is free from pain ex- 
cepting in damp weather, and as far as man is able 
to prognosticate the indications are clear that he 
will fully recover. 
Such a cure in a case of equal severity and long 
standing. I have never seen reported from a relia- 
ble so rce. To assure any one similarly afflicted 
of the advantage to be obtained from the treatment, 
I requested the patient to read the foregoing and 
then to add to it his statement which is as follows: 
135 E. 24th St., New York, Feb. 24, 1895. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:— 
I have read the above statement and it is true. 
The description but poorly describes my intense 
suffering during the last six years, and tails to con- 
vey a descripth n of my weak and staggering gait. 
I have gradually improved since employing your 
treatment, and my present condition is such that I 
believe in a few more months by continuing the 
treatment, I shall be fully well. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) A. J. Defossez. 
Morris Park, L. 1., December 28, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;—It is now two weeks that I have 
used the battery with medicine in my daughter’s 
case. She had visited L I. Hospital for treatment, 
and we were lead to infer that the breast would 
have to be removed. The tumor has reduced in 
size daily since commencing the treatment. The 
pains from which she suffered especially in the 
arm pit, has entirely gone. The tumor can scarce- 
ly be detected. (Signed) Mrs. W. B. Parsons. 
E. T. Albra, M.D., age 84, well known asan emi- 
nent Author and Physician, who assisted Dr. 
Morton in the discovery of the anaestheuc use of 
Ether, had suffered from cancer of the cheek, and 
applied different forms of treatment without bene- 
fit. He was treated by Tifft Beckwith, M.D., ot 
Orange, and by the use of the battery sent into the 
cancerous growth lodide of Arsenic and other 
Cancer, 
59 remedies; in a short time as shown by microscopi- 
cal examination not a single cancer baccillus re- 
mained. The wound healed rapidly. 
Dr. A. wrote us: “Your discovery in medical 
electricity is of incalculable value. The sending 
of medicine into an affected part by the use of your 
battery produces cures where every other method 
of administring it fails, as shown in my own case. 
I believe it a safe and useful appliance in family 
practice.” 
Angel Center, Ind., Feb. 3, 1894- 
Dr. Beckwith, 
Dear Sir:—I have suffered from an enlargement 
of the lower part of the abdomen for a long time. 
My physicians tell me that I have a fibroid tumor 
of the womb. My menstruation is extremely pain- 
ful, my general health poor, my limbs swollen and 
dropsical- I have been under the treatment of sev- 
eral physicians, also spent considerable time at the 
Medical Institute- Do you think that your treat- 
ment will be of any benefit to me ? 
Yours truly (Signed) Mrs. A. Kistler. 
March 23, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—l have now applied the battery 
using the medicines you requested for ten days. 
When I apply the battery I feel a bnrning sensation 
under the positive pole, and it causes a slight red- 
ness of the skin. My limbs are not as badly swoll- 
en; I think I feel some better, I certainly rest much 
better. Yours truly, (Signed) Mrs. A. Kistler. 
April 4, 1894. 
Dear Doctor:—I have measured the size of the 
abdomen as you directed and it is now reduced 
two inches, as shown by measurements. Since 
commencing the treatment there is a profuse dark 
yellow discharge. I sleep better and the bloating 
is going down out of my limbs, What do you think 
of my case ? Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Mrs. A, Kistler. 
May 27, 1894. 
Dear Dr. Beckwith:— 
Measurement shows that the abdomen has gone 
down three inches. I suffered no pain during the 
last period, and I am so thankful that I am cured 
of constipation, and no longer compelled to take 
such a large amount of pills. I am daily growing 
stronger and feel that I may recover. 
60 Baltimore, Md., February 20, 1895. 
S. R. Beckwith, M.D. 
Dear Doctor:—Now that I have tried your dis- 
covery in the treatment of several cases, and met 
with unusual good results, I feel that I can con- 
fidently recommend the treatment to my patients 
and others. 
I received the following letters to-day, and the 
parties statements are correct. 
Yours fraternally, (Signed) W. R. Way, M.D, 
1204 Stockton St., Baltimore, Md. Feb. 27, 1895. 
W. R. Way, M.D. 
Dear Doctor:—As you wish to know my exper- 
ience and candid opinion of Dr. Beckwith’s Thermo 
Ozone Battery, I simply say I think it is a most 
wonderful invention. I think I owe my life to it, or 
at least many months from suffering with dropsy, 
for which Dr. Hummer, my physician, applied the 
battery in my case- When I commenced its use I 
was propped up in a bed by four pillows so as to be 
able to get my breath, was perfectly helpless. My 
friends had very little hopes of my recovery or even 
seeing me on my feet again. The battery was put 
on about 9 o’clock at night and at 12 o’clock I took 
my baby and nursed it without assistance. Some 
of my friends who saw the battery put on had 
no faith in it, and thought I could not live the night 
through. They sent around in the morning to see 
how I was, and to their surprise I was alive and im- 
proving. I continued to improve under its use, and 
in less than two weeks the dropsy was entirely 
gone. 
I also found it of great help to me last summer 
when I had typhoid fever. It has proved very val- 
uable in rheumatism. In conclusion Ido not think 
the Thermo Ozone Battery can be too highly re- 
commended, Very respectfully, 
(Signed) Mrs. J. T. Buckhead. 
Clifton Springs, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;—l report progress without going 
into detail. I have increased confidence in the bat- 
tery, I have tested it for partial paralysis, dyspepsia 
and rheumatism. In consideration of the many 
years I have been afflicted, I am able to give a 
good account of the battery. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Rev. S. R. Roseboro. August 20, 1894. 
Dear Doctor;— You will notice by my form- 
er letters that I have constantly improved since 
commencing the treatment, I think I can now safe- 
ly say that lam nearly well. My ysicians tell 
me that they are unable to detect the tumor. lam 
very.'thankful and grateful to you. 
Very truly, 
(Signed) Mrs. A. Kistler. 
Baltimore, Md., February 20, 189s. 
W. R. Wav, M D. 
Dear Sir:—Having a desire to do all that I can 
for the amelioration of suffering of humanity, I 
deem it my duty to say that after much suffering 
from palpitation of the heart and angina-pectoris 
nervous debility, I resorted to the use of Dr. S. R. 
Beckwith’s Thermo Ozone Battery, which I have 
used for more than two years, and have every rea- 
son to believe that it has been of the greatest ad- 
vantage to me. I have recovered from the angina- 
pectoris and greatly improved in other respects. 
When I use the battery I can see the blue veics 
become pink in color, showing that the blood is im- 
proving in vitality; therefore I take pleasure in re- 
commending the battery to others. 
I will here state that I am nearly eighty years of 
age, young people may expect even more benefit 
from its use than I have received. 
Yours truly, Rev. Wm. H. Briggs, 
811 W. Franklin St. 
Conclusion. 
For four years our discovery has been put to the 
crucial test of treating diseases most of which were 
incurable. The test has been made by physicians 
who are most competent to give opinions in refer- 
ence to its value. 
In addition to the letters here furnished, we have 
equally valuable testimony to fill a volume, and 
from which we will send letters from physicians 
when requested. 
The treatment only differs from other methods 
by sending appropriate medicine into a diseased 
part, together with the oxygen and ozone. Its 
real value can only be appreciated by its use in 
62 acute disease, where good results are observed in 
a very short time. 
A treatment that destroys the germs of diph- 
theria, typhoid fever, cancer, and other similar ail- 
ments, is the most valuable and useful discovery 
that has been made in centuries. 
Those employing the treatment are welcome to 
such information as we are capable of giving in ref- 
erence to their case, and the best method of apply- 
ing the treatment. This we earnestly desire to 
have done that but few failures may occur. 
Families using the battery will rarely require the 
service of a physician if they commence the treat- 
ment at the beginning of the disease. 
It is only in acute disease that its great value can 
be appreciated. By its use families are able to 
cure nearly every ailment during its first stage. 
Our discovery that electricity possesses two dis- 
tinct forces dissimilar in their action, is of vital im- 
portance in the treatment of disease. The force 
usually employed as heretofore shown, breaks 
down muscles and other soft tissues, resulting in 
laying the foundation for chronic ailments, fre- 
quently causing death. This assertion is in oppo- 
sition to the accepted theories of electric action; 
but the proof we have offered to substantiate the 
statement is conclusive. It is equally certain that 
the even, unfelt, continuous current generated by 
the Thermo-Ozone Battery produces in the animal 
economy an opposite result, and one most bene- 
ficial in the cure of disease. 
In obedience to the just requirements of the 
medical profession everything connected with our 
discovery is made free for the benefit of the pub- 
lic. We invite rigid scrutiny by physicians and 
electricians, whose duty it is to examine every 
new claim respecting their arts, and expose every 
CHEAT and FRAUD that is introduced. In 
keeping with this duty the distinguished Editor of 
“Electricity,” Nelson W. Perry, with other mem- 
bers of h's editorial staff, commenced last fall to 
expose the many medical and medico-electric 
FRAUDS that exist in this city. These frauds im- 
pose upon the credulitv of the sick by producing 
sentimental testimony of the same value as that 
furnished by hypnotism, mental science, bones of 
departed Saints, and other incomprehensible illu- 
63 sions, which play upon the immagination of those 
unable to distinguish a natural from a medicinal 
cure. “Electricity,” in its November issue, ex- 
posed the Eleciropoise and its counterpart in every 
particular the oxvdonor. It states, “these frauds 
are on a par with Actenia and possesses no capa- 
bility of accomplishing any result whatever.” 
“We declare itto bean outrageous HUMBUG and 
FRAUD, with the full knowledge that many intelli- 
gent and honorable people have testified to its 
cures.” “We readily analyzed its contents and 
found it to contain nothing but a mixture of sulphur 
and black lead. That it costs less than forty cents 
and sold to the sick and poor for twenty-five dol- 
lars. The list of diseases claiming to be cured is 
enough to condemn the thing as an arrant FRAUD 
and stamp the whole scheme as a cheat. It is in- 
capable of producing any possible effect upon ani- 
mate or inanimate matter. Its power for benefit 
or injury is nill.” 
This exposition occupied four columns of the 
issue mentioned, and has been carried on in nearly 
every weekly number up to the present date. 
Mr. Perry visited us February 28, 1895, and. stat- 
ed that he desired to make a full examination of 
our inventions, and was ready to expose and pub- 
lish any wrongful claims that were made respect- 
ing it. The examination lasted for nearly three 
hours, when he stated that the invention was 
scientifically constructed, and capable of generat- 
ing a thermal current of electricity. He procured 
a battery for Mrs. Perry, and requested us to take 
charge of her case. 
He came to find a FRAUD; went away with the 
happy reflection that electricity through our dis- 
covery, furnishes a means of restoring his wife to 
health. His opinion and conclusion are of more 
intrinsic value than volumns of sentimental testi- 
mony. 
We have exposed another error in medicine by 
an Electro-Galvano Battery which is applied to 
medicated porous plasters. The force of the cur- 
rent sends the medicine into the tissues beneath 
the plaster. The claim that unbroken integuments 
absorb medicine is an error. The skin gives off 
but does not take up. The principle is explained in 
a circular which will be sent on request. 
64 Thermo Ozone Battery $lO.OO 
“ “ “ with Box containing 
10 Remedies and Tablets 12.50 
Wired Wood Pulp Tablets, 2)4. dozen 1.00 
1 Plaster, either variety, with Galvanic Battery,|i.00 
Each additional Plaster, without Galvanic Bat- 
tery 25 
3 Plasters in Box, with Galvanic Battery 1.50 
6 “ “ “ “ “ 2.00 
Spinal Plaster, with large Battery 2.50 
Worn out or broken Plates of Battery will be 
replaced by mail for .25 
The battery here represented is a voltaic pile 
composed of 28 strips of copper and zinc. Its force 
is not omy ample to convey the medicine contained 
in the plaster to the parts underneath it but equally 
as useful for other purposes as a more expensive 
battery. 
In addition to these important inventions we 
have a Uterine Pessary, composed of copper and 
zinc, which is readily applied in cases of enlarge- 
ment or displacement of the uterus. Its present 
use in Hospitals and by physicians in private prac- 
tice shows that it often cures this class of ailments 
which have not been benefited by medical or sur- 
gical treatment. To more successfully treat disease with electric 
transfusion than by any other known method, I 
obtained the favorite prescriptions of more than 
fifty physicians for the most prevalent diseases. 
These I have prepared for administering by elec- 
tricity. Each remedy is labeled with the name ot 
the disease for which it is adapted, and accompa- 
nied with the description of the disease and admin- 
istration of the remedy. This is the first and only 
opportunity for families to obtain for domestic treat- 
ment remedies recommended by so large a number 
of the profession. 
When not found at your Druggist send us the 
price named and the case or single remedies will 
be sent by mail. 
S. R. BECKWITH, M.D., 
114 Fifth Ave., New York.