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     AND OTHERS, TO
DR. SAMUEL  B. COLLINS,

            RELATIKG TO

   THE  MOST WONDERFUL  MEDICAL
      DISCOVERY OF THE AGE.


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    •VENINO JOURNAL PRINT, NO. 46 DSARBORM BTRB3
               1870. 
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           AN  ANSWER
                     TO
  " WEAT SHALL THEYDO TO BE SA YET) f "
                ------o------
  Fitz Hugh Ludlow, in  one  of his  brilliant
articles in Harper, says :—" A patient, whom,
after habitual use of Opium for ten years, I met
when he had spent eight years more in reducing
his daily dose to half a  grain  of Morphia, with a
view to its eventual complete abandonment, once
spoke to me in these words :— ' God seems to help
a man in getting out of every  difficulty but Opium.
There  you have  to claw your own  way out, over
red-hot coals, on your  hands and knees, and  drag
yourself by main strength through  the  burning
dungeon bars.' "
  The discovery of a sure Antidote for Opium nas
been the object of many years of careful research
by  some of the most eminent physicians of  all
lands ;—but though they had ranged through the
wide field of materia medica, and exhausted almost
every resource known  to Science, their labors were
not crowned with success.
  Flattering hopes had,  ever  and anon, been flung
out to  the agonizing thousands  of those whom
Op  urn was rapidly dragging down  to the grave;
to  the  thousands who had, all unwittingly  been 
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THE  OPIUM  HABIT.
 drawn by the  fatal allurements of the accursed
 drug into that hell already  prepared for them,
 lying just beyond  life, and just this side of the
 grave',— a hell from which escape seems impossible,
 for even death is denied them;—but they have been
 as the light of the Ignis Fatuus, which shines only
 to deceive.
   But in the mysterious dispensation of an over-
 ruling Power,  it has been  the  fortune  of  an
 humbler disciple of Esculapius, groping blindly "n
 the darkness, but praying  earnestly for the light,
 to find in answer to his prayer, the secret so long
 hidden — the  object  of the search  of so  many
 years.
   How in reality, did he see all around and beside
 him,  the agonized, upturned faces of those for
 whom  there  was  no salvation;  how  harshly
 sounded  in his ears the clanking of those chains
 which  no power save the hand of Death  could
 loosen ; and how, as he dreamed of the future, did
 he see the shackles  struck from  those  millions of
 slaves — how sweetly sounded in his ears the hal-
 lelujahs of the  saved ! ■

  In the  remedy of Dr. Collins can  be found a
 3peedy and a sure  relief for  the Opium Eater —
 a certain and a perfect cure — accomplished with-
out pain and without inconvenience.
  There  need  be no  interruption of the  usual
transactions of  business, during the treatment — 
THE  OPIUM  HABIT.
5
the Antidote serving, for the time being, as a per-
fect substitute  for Opium— and finally removing
sntirely any desire for the drug in any form.
  Nor does the  Antidote in any  way  induce a
iabit of relying upon  its sustaining  power for a
jingle instant after the  need for Opium has dis-
appeared.
  In short:
         It entirely,  and without  pain, removes
           the desire for Opium in any of its  nu-
           merous forms — or for any substitute
           for Opium whatever;
         It builds up  the system, no  matter  how
            low it may have been brought by the
            use of Opium;
    And, It leaves the patient as  nearly as  may
            be in the  same  condition  as  when
           he first took into his system the deadly
           poison.
         It is not a patent  medicine but is com-
           pounded expressly for the  patient for
           whom it is prescribed,  and upon a full
           statement of his case ;
         It is not a  Panacea.    It is  designed
            and adapted only for the cure of the
            Opium Habit, and is not represented
            as curing any other disease or habit; 
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THE  OPIUM HABIT.
    And  It is not, in  the  common acceptation  of
           that word, a Substitute for  Opium —
           it is an entire  cure.
  While  effecting the cure, the Antidote takes the
place of Opium, and insures the patient against any       v
pain, until  he  shall  be able co  forswear Opium
altogether, and feel no desire whatever for it,  or
any substitute therefor.
  There are few cases of the Opium Habit so con-
firmed that the Antidote  of  Dr.  Collins will not
cure without suffering, in from 6 to  20 months.
It is true there may he cases,  which, from the com-
plication  of other  diseases  with the  disease  of
Opium Eating,  may  require a somewhat  longer
period — but such cases are very rare.
  Persons desiring treatment are required to state
  1. The exact amount of the drug used weekly ;
  2. Whether Gum Opium,  Morphia, Laudanum,
or preparations  of Opium  in other forms ;                *
  3. The number of dose3 per day, and at what
hours taken ;
  4. What disease, if any, caused them to form
the  habit;
  5. The present condition of health ;
  6. Sex;
  7. Age;
  8. Occupation ;
  9. Daily habits of life ; 
THE  OPIUM  HABIT.
I
  And upon this diagnosis the Remedy is prepared,
and expressly for that particular case ;  the length
of time required  for  a cure frankly given to the
person,  and a cure gwiranteed when all orders of
the Doctor are promptly carried out.
  It should be remembered that upon the truth as
regards the amount of Opium used, depends in a
great degree, the efficacy of the Antidote
                  -----o----
  It will be aav<sable for patients to  order five or
six bottles of the medicine at a time, as by that
means they save  express  charges,  and  avoid the
danger of getting entirely out of the  Antidote be-
fore they can receive more.  Each  bottle will last
one month, if taken according to directions.
                  ----o----
  Under no  circumstances whatever should any
person taste of the medicine prepared for any pa-
tient — nor should any patient take or even taste
of any medicine prepared  for another patient.
  A patient,  while under treatment, should  avoid
vinegar and all other acids, and if,  at any time
acid  fruits should be eaten, they should  be well
sweetened ; — and all spirituous liquors should be
iarefully avoided.
  Only when all directions are carefully followed,
is a cure guaranteed. 
B
THE  OPIUM HABn
                   TERMS.
   It has often occurred that Opium Eaters who
have been referred to those whom the Antidote has
cured, have ordered their medicine  through those
parties — supposing, perhaps, that it would expe-
dite its delivery and lessen its price.   And it  has
come  to the knowledge of Dr. Collins, that in sev-
eral instances, those patients  have been compelled
TO PAY ONE HUNDRED PER CENT MORE THAN THE
doctor has  charged.  For example : — Mr. F.
of Michigan, ordered, through a reference of  the
Doctor's residing in the East, five bottles of medi-
cine, for which the Doctor charged fifty dollars.
After a great deal of circumlocution the medicine
arrived,  and cost  the patient — as per letter now
on file—One Hundred Dollars.  To avoid this
wrong — and to avoid many  delays and misunder-
standings — the Doctor has  advised all  patients,
when  ordering medicine, to  order directly from
him. 
THE  OPIUM HABIT.
9
Below  is  appended  a scale of prices —
'atients	using				
1 grain Morphia		per	day	$6,00 per	month.
3 «		<(	u	8,00 "	u
6 "		«	U	10,00 "	u
10 "		«	(<	15,00 "	u
15 "		«<	«	18,00 "	(
20 "		<<	<(	20,00 "	«
30 "		<i	«	21,00 "	((
40 "		«	((	25,00 «	(i
50 "		u	<<	28,00 "	«
60 (1 drachm)		« ----<	5------	30,00 "	tt
  Patients using  Gum Opium, Laudanum, Elixir
of Opium, or other preparation of the drug, must
state explicitly the. amount of either — and they
will  be  charged   according to its equivalent in
Morphine.
  All bills payable monthly in advance, by draft
on some National Bank, or Post Office order.

  While  Dr. Collins fully appreciates the motives
which actuate  many of those who are rescued from
the terrible and certain fate of the Opium  Eater,
ir; making known  to suffering  humanity at large
the sure way of their salvation ; —■ and while he 
10             THE OPIUM  HABIT.
refers with pleasure the Opium Eater to them by
name, expecting them to make all  inquiries with
regard to  the truth of that which lies so near their
hearts — he has found, that in justice to himself,—
and injustice to his patients, no orders for medi-       P
CINE SHOULD  PASS THROUGH THIRD HANDS, but
should be  addressed directly to him.
  This will  always  insure  the  speedy  personal
attention of the Doctor, and will protect him  as it
will protect them against many errors^ and  per-
haps MISREPRESENTATIONS.
  All communications are strictly confidential —
as are also all  names — when requested, and all
letters  of  inquiry and all orders for  medicine will
be promptly answered and attended to.
  Address, enclosing stamp for return postage,
              Dr. Saml. B. Collins,
                    LaPorte,
                      LaPorte County,
  P. 0. Jbox, 166.                Indiana.

  Dr.  Collins  refers  to  any citizen of LaPorte
whose own standing in society is good, regarding
his private character and his public standing.
                  ----o----   •
  That the Opium Eater can be cured without suf-
fering— regardless of the amount of Opium which
may have been used, and regardless  of the length
of time to which  the  patient may have been  ad-
dicted to the habit— I subjoin the following m^m- 
THE  OPIUM HABTT.
11
>randa of the amount of the drug  used  monthly
>y a few of my patients whose names I have been
dndly permitted to use.
  I also present a few of the many certificates oi
nires,  which I  have  permission  to publish, and 1
lereby offer  a reward of Five  Hundred (S300)
Dollars  for  the  discovery  of a single  fictitious
lame a^nong any to which I may refer.
  A. P. Andrew, Jr.,  LaPorte, Ind.  Habit of
               20 years  standing.   Used 2 lbs.
                       Laudanum per month.
  J. C. Davrow. Adrian, Mich.   Habit of 6 years
              standing.    Used  270  grains oi
              Morphia per month.
  D. Chapman. Chicago, 111.  Habit of  14 year*
             standing.  Used540 grains Morphia
              per montn.
  Dr. J. H. Clark, Chicago, 111.  Habit of about
             20 years standing.  Used 600 grains
             Morphia per month.
  Mr. W., (No permitted to use name.)   Habit of
             8 years standing.   Used 900 grains
             Morphia per month.
  W.  W. Culver, Bluff Point, N. Y.  Habit of 20
             years standing.   Used 1040 grains
              Gum  O* >ium per monCi..sv 
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THE  OPIUM HABIT.
   Mr. L., (Not permitted to use name.)   Time not
              known.  Used 1500 grains Morphia
              per month.
                ------o------
             TESTIMONIALS.

   A. P. Andrew, Jr., of LaPorte, LaPorte Co.,
 Ind., deposeth  and saith : That he is sixty-eight
 years of age — that previous to July,  1868, he
 was  for twenty years addicted to the use of Opium,
 the last eighteen year3 of which he was confirmed
 in the Habit.  That on  the  18th day of July,
 1868, he commenced  taking  a  Substitute  com-
 pounded by Dr. S. B. Collins,  of LaPorte — that
 be continued to take the Substitute according to
 directions, until the 13th of  December following,
 when he wa3 pronounced cured.   That since which
 time he has not taken Opium in any of its forms,
 nor any substitute therefor — that  he feels no de-
 sire or necessity for the use  of Opium — that  he
 feels entirely cured of the Habit, with good appe-
 tite,  sleeps well,  and his general health is as good
 as he could expect at his age —that he published
 in the Banner of Light, Boston, March 13, 186?,
 a  more particular statement of his  cure  — and
 that he has no pecuniary interest whatever   in the
 cure, but makes this deposition  voluntarily,  for the
 benefit of humanity.       A.  P. Andrew, Jr.
   Sworn and subscribed to before me, the  under-
 signed Justice  of the  Peace, this 10th  day q\
August, 1869.
        Harvey Brown, Justice ef the  Peac* 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
ia
                   A CARD

              Adrian, Mich., April 26, 1868.
   Dr.  Saml. B.  Collins — Dear Sir: Cheer-
fully will  I comply with your request to inform
you how I progress in  the  cure  of the Opium
Habit.  It is  now nine days that I have used your
medicine,  and have worked every day since I  re-
turned home from LaPorte, and have not taken a
particle of Morphine since I took the first dose of
your medicine.   I have  not suffered any rheu-
matic pains or felt anyways uneasy, and have been
enabled to sleep as calmly and  peacefully nights
as I ever did in my life.
  As it is my sincere wish that you will cause this
to be published, for the benefit of those  who are
suffering with this  horrible habit, I will state that
I have been a slave to the habit of using Morphine
for six of the longest years  I ever experienced.
The last year or two I  have taken from  eight to
ten and twelve grains of Morphine per day, enough
to destroy life in the same number of persons.  If
I omitted  taking Morphine one day, I would  be-
come completely prostrated  and nerveless, would
have a flushing and burning sensation one moment,
and be completely chilled the next; there are no
words in the English language suitable to express
the feeling to one not in the Habit, or what I have
had to  endure when I tried to abstain from^taking
th« drug.   During the last three or four years I 
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THE OPIUM HABIT.
have  consulted  several  physicians  of  exte-.-n-^
practice, and  have tried  many  Nervines,  To:;C*
and Stimulants that  I thought would  benefit me,
but found nothing that  would even  answer as  a
substitute, much  less a  cure, until  I  tried Dr.
Collins' treatment.
  I  had  tried so  many different  remedies and
failed, that I had become  completely discouraged,
and had given up  in despair, thinking  there v.-as
no cure for this accursed Habit.   I had not  a par-
ticle of faith in any remedy.   But thanks to Dr.
Collins, ho has discovered a Cure, and it may be
justly considered  the most wonderful  discovery oi
this or any other age, for he is the only doctor uj«
to the present time I have heard of who has dis-
covered a cure for any  person  who  has  become
confirmed in the Opium Habit.   It will take eight
months to entirely eradicate the  effects  of the
Morphine from my system and restore my health ;
but I have felt enough better, by using his  medi-
cine one week, to  amply repay me what he charges
if it was nothing but a substitute.   I  will  further
*tate that I never saw Dr. Collins until  I went  to
LaPorte to be examined for this  Habit, but what
I did  see and hear of him leads me  to consider
him a straightforward,  conscientious, honest man,
and am confident he will do all  that  he piMuns-s
to do in his advertisement.
                      Josipb  C. Darrow 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
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            HOPE FOR THE SLAVS

                Adrian, Mich., July 4, 1869.
  Editors Laporte Argus :  For  over six years
I was a slave to the Habit of using  Morphine,
with not a ray of hope of ever being emancipated,
until  I  commenced  using  Dr. Saml. B. Collins'
wonderful discovery for the Opium Habit.  I have
been under his treatment eleven weeks, have  not
used  a  particle  of Morphia since  I  commenced
taking his medicine, and have been able to work
most of the time.  I have visited him twice in  the
eleven weeks, and  conversed with those  he  has
cured, (and those who are being cured,) and found
them all  highly  pleased,  and perfectly satisfied
that the Doctor has done, and will  do, all  that he
advertises to do.   I sincerely hope  all  those who
are  addicted  to this soul-destroying  Habit,  will
avail themselves of this, their only hope, and  try
his wonderful Remedy which is destined to astonish
the  whole medical faculty — in  fact,  the whole
world.  Patients, in most cases, by following  his
directions strictly can  be  cured at their homes,
without visiting the Doctor,  as he can send medi-
cines by express.
                       Joseph C. Darrow.

                    CURED
   Joseph C. Darrow, formerly  of Adrian, Lena-
wee Co., Michigan, now of LaPorte, LaPorte Co.,
Ind.f deposeth- and saith:  " That  he is thirty-five 
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THE  OPIUM HABIT.
years of age — that previous to April 18, 1869,
he had been addicted to and confirmed in the Habit
of using Morphine for six years.   That  on  the
18th day of April he commenced taking the Rem-
edy lately discovered,  and prescribed by Dr. S. B.
Collins, of LaPorte — that he commenced taking
the Remedy according to directions,  until  the 15th
of November following, when he was pronounced
cured.  That since Nov.  15th  he has had Mor-
phine at his command, with no necessity or desire
to use it, or anv substitute therefor; that  he feels
entirely cured of the  Habit, with good appetite,
sleeps well, and his health is improving daily.
                        Joseph C. Darrow.
   Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th
day of Nov., A. D. 1869.
        Harvey Brown, Justice of the Peace

              LaPorte, Ind., July 30,  1869.
  Dr. Collins — Dear Sir:  I noticed  a letter
from A. P. Andrew, Jr.,  of this city, in  one of
your weekly newspapers in regard to Opium Eat-
ing, and being addicted to the Habit I was  induced
to try the medicine prescribed by you.
  I will state that for the last  eighteen  years  ]
have been constantly in the use of Opium   in dif-
ferent  forms, and for  the last two  years  I have
used two  and a half drachms  of Morphine per
week.
  I commenced taking your medicine the 8d  of 
THU opium habit.            IT
May,  1869, and up to this date, 1 have had no de-
sire to use Opium  in  any form.   Since I began
taking your medicine I have not suffered any pain,
and my general health has improved, sleep  well,
and have  a good  appetite.   Before taking the
above medicine, I  had applied to different- mem-
bers of  the  Medical  Faculty, and tried all the
antidotes I could  find in  medical  works, all of
which did me no good.
  Since I have been taking the  medicine  I  have
seen a number of persons whom  you have cured,
and others who are being cured.
                                *  ♦  *   *


             THE OPIUM HABIT

      Oregon, Holt Co.,  Mo.,  Nov. 10,1869.
  Editor Chicago Journal — Sir:  I desire to
publish to the  world my observations in one case,
wherein  a person who has been addicted to Opium
Eatino-, has been cured of the Habit, without any
suffering whatever.  On the  contrary, the patient
has assured me repeatedly that from the first  day
that he abandoned the use of Opium and began to
use the Remedy, he has been in  better health and
spirits than he ever was during  the time of using
the Opium.                        •
  During the last four years he has used from two
to four  drachms of Morphine per week.   From
two hundred pounds weight he fell to one hundred
and fifty pounds ; for  five years he had not a nat- 
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THE OPIUM HABIT.
  ural operation of the bowels, and it required enor-
  mous quantities of physic to have any effect.  His
  color was that of a dead  person, his eyes  glassy
  and sleepy.   In short, Opium Eater was branded
  on his countenance as  plainly as it  ever  was on
  that of any one.   He could not fix  his attention
  five minutes on  a book, without going to sleep.
  He  was rapidly advancing to  the last stage  of
  Opium  Eatingv   Frequently he tried to  reduce
  the dose, but the less the dose the more stupid he
• became, and the more obstinate the constipation of
  the bowels.  When the doses became considerably
  reduced, he had not energy enough to do business.
  He had no  appetite for  food, save  at breakfast,
  just after his  morning's  dose of from fifteen  to
  twenty grains  of Morphine.
    Hearing that Dr. Saml. B. Collins of LaPorte,
  Ind., had discovered a Remedy for the Habit, by
  which he professed to effect a complete cure with-
  out  any pain  or suffering whatever, and having
  satisfied  myself  by inquiries  that several persons
  had been cured, I advised  him to try it.
    I should  have stated that he had several times
  tried  to relinquish  the  Habit,  but endured such
  awful agony at  each attempt, that  it was more
  than human nature could persist in.   He  seemed
  to have  no confidence  in any remedy, but  waa
  finally prevailed on to try this one.    He 3aid that
  if he felt the least pain or inconvenience, he would
  resume sthe  use  of Morphine, for  that he  would
  prefer to die at once than to e^ dure in any degree 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
iy
          the torments of an abandonment of the habit.  A
          bottle of the medicine was procured, the  regular
          dose of Morphine was omitted,  until  he began to
          suffer from the want of it, and one dose of the
l          Remedy was tried.   In two minutes he  exclaimed:
          " That medicine has hit  the very spot; I believe
          in it."
            Two days  afterward,  he met me, and  said to
          me :  "I have found a  cure at  last; I have not
          touched Opium in any shape for three days.   I
          inquired if he felt sure that there  was no Opium
          in the Remedy.   " Look at me and  see," he ex-
          claimed.  On inspection, I found that his  color
          was much improved, his eyes had a natural expres-
          sion.   This was nearly three months ago.   All the
          marks of Opium  Eating have disappeared from his
          countenance.  The organs of the body all perform
          their natural functions.  From the very first day
          that he tried the  Remedy he has pursued his daily
          business ; light has returned to his eye, and  color
          to hi3 cheek.
            The case has been  under my observation  daily
          from the beginning, and I am  satisfied that the
          Remedy  does just  what is claimed for  it, viz;
          — " cures the Opium Habit without  the slightest
          pain or inconvenience."
            That heretofore there has been no hope for the
          Opium Eaters, that their sufferings consequent on
          an abandonment of the drug " are unparalleled in
          the universe," all who have witnessed, must admit.
          Hence, I consider this one of the greatest discov- 
2*0            THE OPIUM HABIT.
   cries in our century.  As it is but little known, I
   should like to assist in spreading abroad a knowl-
-  edge of the fact that such a Remedy has been
   found.  I  have onlv its effects in this one case,
   yet from its operation, and the peculiar character
   of the case, I  feel  confident it will operate as a
   cure of the Habit in all.
      If my confidence is, well-founded, then, indeed*.
   we have a triumphant answer to the question so
   triumphantly  argued by Dr.  Ludlow, in  a last
   year's  nuuiber of  Harper's  Magazine,  " What
   Shall They Do to Be Saved ? "  it will afford me
   pleasure to assist in giving information to any who
   may inquire.     Respectfully,
                     Matthew Saville, M. D.

               THE OPIUM HABIT CPKED.
       COMMUNICATION  FROM W. W. CULVER.
     In this unparalelled age of reform has already
   been greater  and. more important discoveries to
   benefit and ameliorate the condition  and wTants of
   humanity than  in all recorded previous time.  To
   one especial instance I beg to advert.  It  is the
   remedy of Dr. S. B. Collins, of La Porte, Indiana,
   for the Opium Habit.
     I should be dealing unkindly with my sym-
   pathetic nature to forego an opportunity to make
   publicmy testimony aa an actual expert or demon-
*   sirator of the infallible efficacy of Dr.  ColliiW
   treatment  for the  expulsion of the  destruct'vt 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
21
habit of Opium Eating, and the use of the drug in
any known form.  If there lives a person who has
suffered what I have from the use of Opium, who
oould feel indifferent to the misery of others under
like suffering, or who would be  slow to sound a
timely note of alarm to the  uninitiated, or point
a  means  of salvation for the already enslaved
victim, I can  think of  no punishment  better
adapted to such an one than to subject him again
to the afflictions of the habit.
   Almost twenty years ago I was addicted to the
daily use of Opium, and, but for the timely intel-
ligence  of the discovered  remedy of Dr. Collins,
should this day still be an Opium Eater, or have
sought release from the enthrallment by voluntary
suicide.  Dr. Collins is the  only man known  in
the history  of  the world who ever obtained  a
victory over the  terrible enslavement of Opium.
Under no  other treatment was a patient ever cured
of the habit without enduring  suffering  which
not one organization in a  hundred  oould  endure
unimpaired, if at all, and  never one who would
pass  through  the ordeal a  second time  for the
wealth of  the world.
  I speak with  the authority of experience in this
matter, having made it a subject of demonstration;
and yet I  can conceive of no one capable of being
less credulous in  relation to the discovery of an
antidote for the habit than  I was when the faot
was first announced by advertisement in a publio 
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THE OPIUM HABIT.
journal; for I had been  using  every expedient
against the habit on which I could  predicate a
rational hope of success, and  expended time and
money at  several expensive infirmaries, claiming
to treat successfully the habit, and been baffled in
every undertaking for  relief.   I examined all the
published authorities on  the  subject, but found
nowhere anything to encourage my hopes, but, on
the contrary, ascertained to my  satisfaction  that
there had  never been a cure effected greater than
one in a hundred  could endure and live.
  Having received  such  evidence from the Doc-
tor's patients  as no one  worthy of  cure could
doubt, in  the month of December, 1869,  I left a
comfortable  home and traveled over five hundred
miles  to  visit the Doctor,  then  beginning to be
esteemed as  my prospective savior.   On the  21st
of the month I had satisfied myself of the genu-
ineness of the Doctor's practice.   In the office he
occupied  I  took  the first  dose  of the antidote,
from which  time to the present I  have used in no
form one particle of Opium,  nor have I felt a
desire for it, nor any actual suffering from its dis-
use, and nothing more  than a transient uneasiness
once or twice.
  It is now  four  months and four days  since I
abandoned the habit, and I truly aver  that during
the time  I  have  felt decidedly better than while
indulging the habit.  I should already have dis-
continued the use of the Antidote, but that  the 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
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Doctor advised me to continue its use a few weeks.
I feel no  desire or use for either Opium  or the
Antidote  at this time, and consider myself cured.
I  seem to be  transported into  a new and more
delightful sphere of existence than I have known
for a series of past years.   I find beauties, endear-
ments  and enjoyments, where, under  the  abnor-
malities I was  suffering, I saw  nothing  to  cheer
my  despondency.   The elements that surround
tne all impart a  new inspiration and present  a
changed aspect.   I arn stimulated into the exercise
of a new ambition, and, finally,  " old things seem
passed away, and all things are become new."
  In consideration of the fact that during the last
two centuries the medical faculty have exhausted
their skill in the search for a remedy for the  hor-
rible suffering from   the  Opium habit, without
pretense  of success, I may  well allude to  the
discovery of Dr. C. as standing pre-eminent among
modern discoveries in the field of therapeuties and
materia medica.
  While at La Porte  to visit the doctor, I saw
there, one of his first patients, who had been cured
for  nearly a year, whose  experience, as related in
detail,  was identical with that attending my own.
The medicine  is  a   liquid  decoction, and  not
nauseous or much  unpleasant to  use—not more so
than Opium or Morphine—and can be conveniently
forwarded, by express or otherwise.
  If the foregoing details of Opium  Cure induce 
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THE OPIUM  HABIT.
any unhappy victim to seek relief by the easy pro-
cess of regeneration I  am now enjoying, or should
the uninitiated be put ou their guard against the
insidious seductions by which the habit  is formed,
I will have received a satisfactory requital for my
pains.
              W. W. Culver,
                  Bluff Point, Yates'Co., N. Y.
April 25, 1870.
                  ----o——
            D. CHAPMAN, & CO.,
                 Forwarding and Com.,
                         Foot Wabash Ave.,
                    Chicago, June 26, 1870.
Dr. S.  B. Collins—Dear  Sir:  I feel that T
owe you an obligation  which I  shall never be able
to pay, and therefore take this course to acknowl-
edge it.   One year ago the  24th day of April, I
put myself under  your treatment for the habit of
using  Morphine, which I had used constantly for
fourteen years and was a perfect slave to the ter-
rible habit and supposed  I always would be as I
could  get no relief from the  best physicians; but
from the very first dose I  took of your Medicine I
had no desire for  Morphine,  nor did I suffer half
as much as I did for the want of Morphine  when
I was  taking that habitually.  I never lost a day
at my business, and my health  was good all the
time I was under your treatment, which  was up
to about the first of December, last, when  I left 
THE OPIUM  HABIT.
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off taking anything  and am now all right and
take no more Morphine.  If you wish to use my
name as a reference you are welcome to do so and
I will be glad to tell any that may come my ex-
perience as a Morphine  Eater, for I believe I can
sympathize with any one that is so unfortunate as
to have such a habit.
       Yours truly,
                              D. Chapman.
                  ---o---
               TO OPIUM EATERS,
    EXPERIENCE OP ONE ADDICTED TO THE HABIT.
              St. James, Mo., Jan. 20,1870.
  Editors  Herald:   Will  you  please,  for
humanity's sake, give this letter one insertion in
your valuable and widely-circulated paper?
  I have been a practicing physician in the city
of St. Joseph for  near twenty-three years, during
which time I have done a  very large practice, and
I would say, (not flattering myself,) have  some
reputation as a physician in  Northwest Missouri.
About four years  ago, I fell  into  the unfortunate
habit of taking Opium.  After using the drug that
length of time, (four  years), it began to tell on my
health considerably.   I would at one time  have
given thousands of worlds to have got  rid of the
miserable habit.   I tried some half a dozen times
to break off the habit, but failed in every instance,
so I  had  pretty much given  up  all hopes of
recovery.
  About  this  time,  December  16th,  1869, I 
26            the opium habit.

learned, through  inv  friend Gen. Bassett, of this
city, that there was a physician in La Porte, I ml.,
Dr. S. B. Collins, who put up a Substitute for the
Opium Habit, and like a drowning  man catching
at a straw,  I resolved to try  the remedy at once;
and I do declare, before God and man, that from
the first dose of the Remedy, I have not had the
least disposition  or desire  to  take Opium in any
form whatever, nor did  I suffer  any of those in-
describable, horrid, melancholy feelings which an
Opium Eater experiences after stopping the use of
the drug.   I have now been using the Remedy six
weeks.  When I  first commenced the  use of it, I
was under the necessity of  taking from five to six
f.easpooufuls a  day; now I only require one tea-
= j>oonful  in the  twenty-four  hours, just  before
going to bed, and I have no doubt that in two or
three  weeks more I can dispense with the Remedy
altogether.   1  look  upon  it  as one of the most
remarkable discoveries of the  age, and  the great-
est boon that God  ever  gave to  the unfortunate
Opium Eater.   If there are any Opium Eaters in
ihis city or its  vicinity, (and I doubt not but
there are a  few,) if they  will  call at my office, I
will take  pleasure in  telling them  all  I  know
aXut this wonderful Remedy, and how promptly
it has acted in  my case.

  I would  here  most positively  state  and  affirm
that I  have no interest, pecuniarily, in  this  Medi-
cine, never having seen Dr.  Collins  in my life. 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
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The reason, and the only reason in  writing  this
letter is, that it may be the means of saving some
poor unfortunate person who  has become a slave
to the accursed thralldom of the Opium Habit.  I
would to God that all the newspapers in the city,
yea, in the United States, would  publish and copy
this letter, if it would  thereby  be  the means  oi
saving  one poor  unfortunate  person  from the
miserable and unfortunate habit  of Opium Eating.
                   Jno. B.  Howard, M. D.
   P.  S.—It might be proper to  state that when I
began the use of the drug, I weighed 220 pounds;
during  the use of  the  drug I  lost about forty
pounds in weight, but  now, thank God,  I am
gaining  rapidly  in health,  strength, and  flesh.
My appetite is good, my digestion is perfect, and
I rest well of nights.                J.  B. H.
   A few months later a letter was received from
Dr. Howard, stating that he was completely and
permanently  cured,  but the  letter has been  mis-
laid, and cannot be found.
                   ----o----
           [From thk Lowell (Mass.)  Courier.]
                TO OPIUM EATERS.
   In this paper can be found  Dr. S. B. Collins5
circular, addressed to all that are or have been in
the habit of  using  Opium  in any of its different
forms.   All that is stated by those that have been
cured and that are being  treated by Dr. Collins,
and more particularly what his  patients say of  his 
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THE OPIUM HABIT.
Antidote, I  know from experience to be true.  I
would say  that  for more than six years, prior to
July 17th last, I had been a slave to the constant
use of Morphine—I had increased  its  use  from
©ne-fourth of a grain to ten and twelve grains per
day.  Language would fail me were  I to attempt
to describe the misery  and agony that I experi-
enced for the last two years, and more especially
for the last six or eight months, prior to the date
indicated.  I  had sought advice and cure  from
the best and  most  eminent  physicians  in the
country, an  antidote  I plead for, from them all,
but plead in vain.   I then sought consolation in
books that gave the experience of Opium Eaters,
De Quincy and  Coleridge  in  particular; in fact
every book that I could find, that gave the experi-
ence of  Opium,  Morphine, Laudanum, Elixirs,
etc.; but the more I read the more miserable I
became, as I found that none of the  authors had
been cured or enabled to give up their favorite
drug.  By mere  accident I heard that Dr. Collins
had discovered an Antidote.  I wrote to him, and
several prominent  men and officials  of the town,
(in which the Dr. lived), from whom I learned
that he was a man of integrity in every sense of
the word, and  that his Discovery or Antidote had
performed several remarkable cures.  I sent $25.00
to the Doctor,  with a request that he would  send
me its value in his Antidote, which I received July
17th last.  I did not feel muoh confidence in it, 
THB OPIUM HABIT.
29
but to my surprise, from the first tea-spoonful I
took of it, I was relieved from the indescribable,
horrible, terrible agony that Opium Eaters  know
so well, but cannot describe, and have not  tasted
nor craved Opium in any of its different  forms
since.  I have not lost a meal nor an hour's sleep
since  by reason of leaving off the drug.  My
general health has  improved, my appetite is better,
and in fact I almost  feel myself in a new world.
I  never knew or heard  of  anything so  very
wonderful in its beneficial  effects, and cannot say
enough in  its favor.  To  all who have  been  so
unfortunate as to  have  contracted  the use  of
Opium in any form, I would say lose not a day,
but send to Dr. Collins and give him your age,
the length of time you  have  used it, and the
quantity you take per week or day, and get his
Compound; and just as sure as you follow his
directions, (which are very simple), just so sure will
you be cured,  and  bless the day you first  heard
that there was an Antidote for the alluring drug.
*  *   *  *                  Henry Read.
  Lowell, Mass., Nov., '69. 
30
Mr. Fitzi Hugh Ludlow, New York,
  Sir:—I beg leave herewith  to submit to your
kindly notice this  little Pamphlet of mine, con-
taining, as you will see, your own Correspondence,
and  a few extracts from the many letters  of Mr.
Henry Read,  bearing  upon  the subject  of my
Discovery for the Cure of the Opium Habit.
  As these letters — your own as well as  Mr.
Read's—were  private letters—that is, not  written
with a view to their publication—my thus giving
them this wide publicity,  requires,  perhaps, an
explanation from me.
  Personally, no man could invest a private letter
with a greater degree of sacredness than do  I—
and while I most firmly insist that  my rights in
this matter of the Opium Cure have  been  utterl'/
disregarded;  while the honor of my discovery
has  not  been  given to whom  it is due; while I
have been wronged by design out of that of which
every laborer is worthy; and  while  in  self defense
I have been driven to this  dernier resort, I have
not,  I assure you, listened so  much to those  per-
sonal promptings of pride and of self interest, an
I have to what I firmly believe to be  the voice of
an  imperative  duty which I  owe to Humanity
  Separated widely as we may be, you and  I, Sir,
§till  hold in common a love  for the human race j 
£TTZ HUGH  UUPL0W.          81
my heart as well a9 your own goes out toward the
suffering and the wreak :  we still hold in common
a veneration for the right.

  Our common love for  suffering  humanity was
the ground  upon which  we met—I am  sure we
shall never part because either fails in his venera-
tion for, or his championship of the right.

  Your own letters—Mr. Read's letters—and the
facts in the case are before  you, and I  am  sure
you will see the great wrong that  has been done.
   Your article in Harper admits of but one inter-
pretation—that you had accomplished, in  the dis-
covery of an Antidote for Opium, the life-long
object of your search. The article, viewed, how-
ever, in the light thrown  upon it by your letters,
shows a capability of a much different rendering.
   The specific discovery to which you referred, or
promised to refer, was so carefully concealed that
your  " noble  hearted and philanthropic
friend, Mr. Henry Read, op Lowell, Massa-
chusetts," to whom in your article you gave such
prominence, availed himself of his  opportunity to
turn an honest penny by representing the article to
have been written in behalf of a supposed Antidote
discovered by a  man by the name of Stillman.
The wrong  which  might  thus  have been done
to  thousands  of Opium Eaters who rely upon
the conscientiousness of your opinion is incalcu-
lable. 
'3a
FITZ HUGH LUtXLOW.
  Either all this was pursuant to an understand-
ing between youself and your "agent/' Mr. Read—-
which I cannot believe—or Mr. Read in endanger-
ing  the reputation of bis  friend, has  assumed  a
tremendous responsibility for which he should be
made to answer.
  As between you  and  him, however, I  have
nothing to  do—my  only  object  being to thus
briefly  lay  the matter before you, not  doubting
that your sense of justice will  dictate  to you the
proper  course to be pursued.
         I am, Sir, respectfully,
                      Samuel B, Collinb.

         18 West 14th St., New York, 1
                      Nov.  25, 1869.     /
  Dr.  S. B. Collins—Dear  Sir:  It is possible
that you may know  me by name and have read
some of my published writings upon the subject
of the Opium Habit—perhaps have even read the
book of that name published by  the Messrs. Har-
pers, in which you  will then have had  a good
chance to become  acquainted with me.  I will
only here say that I have for many  years made
this most painful subject a specialty both of study
and treatment—have had, perhaps, a larger circle
of acqaintance with  Opium Eaters than any one
else in  this country, and have been so happy as to
cure a  considerable number of the worst cases on
irecord 
FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.
33
   None of these cases have, however, I frankly
 acknowledge, been  effected  without severe and
 long protracted  suffering—although I  have been
 enabled to mitigate the horrors of the trial by the
 bringing to bear of every faculty upon the judi-
 cious selection of palliatives, to an extent which
 made the agony  far  less than without my aid it
 would have been.
   But I have all my life  been seeking in vain for
 some remedy which  would act as a substitute and
 bring the patient out painlessly.  Last spring I
 was almost ready to  give the search up in despair
 —when two of my large  circle of Opium corres-
 pondents  wrote me  within  a few weeks of each
 other that you had succeeded in  making the dis-
 covery—at  least  that  your circulars  positively
 announced the fact, and that several persons who
 had had recourse to you  had found your assertion
 remarkably corroborated by their experience.
   I can assure you that my heart leapt for joy at
 the  bare possibility  of such a  thing.   I  own I
 should have been glad to have discovered for my-
 self an agent, which, if it does all that you  claim
 for it is one of the grandest—most beneficent—most
glorious discoveries ever made in medicine—but God
 knows that my  pity for  the terrible sufferings I
 have seen is such that all professional pride utterly
 sinks out of sight, and I would most gratefully to
 both God and the discoverer come to learn of any
 one who could confer such an inestimable boon as
 your remedy purports to be. 
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FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
  If it does all that I understand  to  be claimed
for it, and  is itself no form of extract from the
accursed  poppy—then you have  a right  to the
thankful praise—the respect—the honorable tributes
of every man who loves his race:—you have made a
discovery, not  one  whit  exceeded in importance by
Jenner's discovery  of vaccination—one which will
quite as justly entitle you to applause, living, and
monuments  when dead.
  Out of a sincere heart I say this—high praise as
it may seem—for  the suffering  from Opium, in
un-numbered cases, I have seen to be greater than
that  of any other disease  or  physical torture
whatever.
  A  few weeks ago, one of your patients (who cor-
responded with me for the first time after he had
taken  your Remedy), sent me a  2 oz.  phial—
knowing from my writings that I should feel the
truest  interest in  trying the effect upon Opium
Eaters.   I  happened to  have one case in particu-
lar just then  under  my charge,  which seemed
sometimes almost  hopeless  from  the complication
of other difficulties with  the Habit  of Opium, and
I used the small portion of your  Remedy  which
had been sent  me, on that case alo :e—beginning
with very small doses, and at  several day's inter-
val  apart,  and  not  attempting  to cut off the
patient's Opium, altogether, because I knew I had
only  enough of your tincture for a very short and
incomplete  experiment. 
FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
35
  My experience of it however, as far as  it went,
showed me that it possessed some quite  remark-
able powers.   I was able, by its  aid  greatly to
diminish the doses of Morphine and increased the,
interval between them—and although I had no
opportunity to judge whether it  would enable me
to cut off the Opium altogether, I still saw enough
to make me think that possible,  and to*give me a
desire to make the trial on some  case like his.
  I accordingly resolved  to  write you and make
the following  proposition, viz:  that you supply
me with  enough of  your discovery  to make the
complete experiment in one case—and if I find it
result as rny correspondents have said, I will not
only give you my personal thanks, but put you in
the immediate  receipt of many  hundred dollars
custom.
  As I have already said, I am in constant receipt
of a larger number of appeals for help from Opium
Filters than any other man in this country—and
have  a  desk-full of applications  now  which I
could hand over to  you  and which  would most
gratefully be answered  by your Remedy—had I
once a'chance  of satisfying myself of  its  exact
value.  Moreover, my position is such in connec-
tion with th«  press  and  the Medical  Profession,
that I possess facilities  for making you and your
R<-medv widely known—such as no other man in
the country has.  I can  make it most immensely
for your interest to co-operate  with me, if. after 
36           FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.
 the experiment we are convinced that it is for our
 common good and that of suffering humanity.
   At present, I will not go  into further details,
 but will only add that should you  need to learn
 of me further, you can write to Mr. Clarke Irvine,
 Oregon, IJolt Co., Mo., and if you have not got it
 I will cheerfully send you the "Opium Habit"
 book.      ♦
   My  only desire is  to  save  Opium  Eaters—
 pecuniary advantage is a most subsidiary consider-
 ation—but  if there is money to be made ont of
 this Remedy at all, it is but right that you should
 make it.  I hope you will  be able to patent your
 secret, so that you may disclose it to the scientific
 world without pecuniary  loss, for if the Remedy
 does what is claimed for it, it would be one of the
 greatest of human calamities to have its mode of
 preparation die with  its discoverer.  Oblige me
 by an early answer, and if you  think well of my
 proposition, express as much of the Remedy as
 may suffice for the  experiment.   My direction is
 "Fitz Hugh Ludlow,  18 West  14th Street, New
 York."
           I am  yours, truly,
   (Signed)                  F.  H.  Ludlow.
                  ----o----
       18 West 14th St., N. Y., Jan. 23, 1870.
   Dr. S. B. Collins—Dear  Sir: I  regret your
inability to supply me with the means for making
such a test of your remedy as would alone justify 
FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.          37
        any conscientious  man of any  scientific  standing
        in  recommending it.  You  must see, of course,
        that  if such  a  man has  achieved  any position
        where his  good word could be of any  value  to
        you,  that  position would be seriously imperilled
 k       by his advising patients to take a remedy of which
        he himself had no practical knowledge.
          Any person who will  consent to recommend a
        remedy blindfold—simply on agreement that  he
        is to receive a percentage for every customer fur-
        nished—must necessarily be a person whose  opin-
        ion is of no consequence one way or the other.  I
        know a number of practioners  who would gladly
        make an arrangement to procure takers for any
        compound that could be invented, provided only
        that  they were well  paid for the  use of their
        names—but I could not advise anybody to invest
        very largely in  their names who was seeking a
        profitable speculation.
          So I  think it will  be universally found—the
i        man whose influence is weighty and extended, and
        whose  praise really  means  something when  he
        gives it, is a man who never expresses an opinion
        where he has not  the most ample grounds  for  it,
        and who by years of fidelity to scientific tests has
        earned the reputation  of truthfulness, caution,
        mathematical exactness,  experience and skill.   So
        far at, least as conscientiousness and wide acquaint-
        ance with  the subject can make it, my repntation
        is such an one as this.   Whatever good my recom-
        mendation and influence would do your remedy, 
38
FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
I have earned the ability to do for it by conscien-
tiously devoting a large portion of my life to the
study of the  Opium Eater's  unhappy condition,
and the attempt to discover by what means I could
best help or save him—this, not  primarily with a
view to my own aggrandizement, but because my
pity and sympathy for  the  most  agonizing suffer-
ings which humanity is ever called to bear would
not let me rest.
  If any one values my opinion  it is because I
have tried to bring  to this work all the resources
of science, all  the  ingenuity, all the  patience
which I possessed—so  that when  I speak, people
will be sure at least that my conclusions  are  not
vitiated by  any self interest, but are stated  as
honestly  as if I were advising  a brother or a
sister, or prescribing for my own case.
  Understand me, I do not pretend to deny  that
the laborer  is worthy  of his  hire—do not mean
to say that people who are  able ought not to  pay
and pay handsomely in proportion to their means,
for such a salvation as would be comprehended
in their  rescue  from  the hell of Opium—more
especially when  that rescue is painless as yours
professes to be.
  I think no amount of money can begin to repay
the man whose labors have discovered such a sal-
vation as that.   I only hope that sometime  you
will see your  way clear to putting it in the power
of every one to avail himself of that  salvation—
as you would be able to do  if you got a  Patent, 
FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.           39
and could sell rights everywhere.  What a fright-
ful loss to suffering humanity it would be if such
a secret  should die with you!   It  seems  to  me
that I  should  have  to come back  from another
world to declare it, before I could rest.   Of course
you  know  the universal unwillingness among
physicians to use any medicine which is kept a
secret  from the profession.  I,  however,  would
gladly stretch a point—so deep is my desire that
the awful sufferings of  the  many  thousands  of
Opium Eaters should  be relieved—and not  de-
mand  to know  your formula for preparing  the
compound, nor any of its elements—if I  could
only have  the  chance of seeing a patient  go
through  with  the  trial,  I, myself,  administering
the remedy according to your directions.

  Many  scientific men  would blame  me for doing
this—but I have no dearer object than the relief
of human suffering, and  if I find that a  given
thing does relieve it without bringing worse evils
in its own train, I will not refuse to use it  until
I can understand its modus operandi.

  So, if  I by using your medicine, following your
directions strictly, and  seeing the  result come  out
satisfactorily under my own conscientious observa-
tion can ascertain that this medicine will effectually
cure the Opium Habit, I will gladly set peoplo
taking it without waiting to find  out its composi-
tion.   Nor need you fear that I would be a pre-
 judiced judge.  If you have discovered that most 
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FTTZ HUGH LUDLOW
  wonderful thing, a painless, even a  comparatively
  painless Opium Cure, I am as glad of it—I wel-
  come  it  as cordially as  if I  had  discovered  it
  myself.
    My  prejudices are  all in  its favor—I could
  never judge it severely—I shall be only too
  anxious to find it thoroughly fulfil all its promises,
  will help it iu every way, and feel  no discourage-
  ment nor alarm if any symptoms new to practice,
  should arise during the process of cure.  I know
  that giving up Opium, involves a most tremendous,
  upturning, overhauling, reconstruction of the con-
  stitution, and am familiar, through countless cases
  with the appearance of symptoms which any one
  inexperienced  would  have  thought   fatal,  aud
  which would have made them at once desist from
  the effort to save the patient from his hell.
    If,  therefore, I have  a  chance  to  give  your
  remedy a trial,  you  may be sure that it can not be
  submitted to any judge fairer toward it—or rather,
  I should say, more  prejudiced in its  favor, for I
  am ready to hail, with open arms, and give the
  full weight of my influence to anything whatever,
  that  my own  eyes have once  beheld fulfil the
. simple requisition of bringing the  Opium Eater
  out, with little  or no pain.
    As I told you in  my last letter, I am in almost
  daily  receipt of letters from Opium  Eaters cry-
  ing for help—people ready to give all they possess
  for salvation.   People are  constantly  coming tp 
FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.          41
see me—like  the letters,  some  of them from
remote parts of the country—ready to do anything
if only they can get  out of their  hell, without
suffering so much as to lose  life or  reason.  If I
can have your Remedy to try upon a single case—
so it can be wholly under my own eyes, yet treated,
as to  the medicine, according to  your directions
for its use, and that one case  has at all a successful
issue—I will instantly see that all the others use
it, if you are  able to supply it fast enough.   I
could, this very  hour, put you in  the way of dis-»
posing of thousands  of dollars  worth of  yoUr
Remedy, if you  had  already  given me the fair
opportunity I  ask.
   Nobody, I can safely say, could more instantly
make your Remedy universal in  its demand*   I
have, as it were, the country full (represented  by
my desk-full) of customers for you.   The work of
years is done for you already, if you entrust  your
Remedy to my hands  for. a single case.  Moreover,
if the experiment proves  satisfactory, I  possess
the power by using my pen in any  dozen of the
many organs of public information open to me, as
a  literary  man   no  less thau a scientific one, to
make your Remedy  known and  clamored  for,
from  every corner of  this country, and eventually
of the civilized world.
   Nothing of this is boasting, but  the simple
statement of facts which are necessary to be under-
stood between us, for I am seeking not my own 
42           FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
aggrandizement but the  welfare of sufferers, for
whom my  whole  heart has beeu  interested  for
years.  That those who ca:> afford to pay  for help
ought to  do so—that I expect them to do so—that
it is better, both for the benefactor  and benefited,
that they should do so  is beyoud question, and
whenever you conclude to put the matter  in such
a shape that we can talk of  business, I shall be
ready to  do so—and you will find me as fair iu
making  arrangements, as I   am in seeking  the
necessarily  previous experiment now.  My view
of the be~t  way for us to co-operate (should we
arrive at  that purpose) is not  yet fuily formed, but
I  have  thought that  perhaps  the best way to
enable both of us to be useful to each  other and
humanity, might be this, viz : that I should secure
the means  for  the  establishment of a labratory
here in  New York, large enough  to supply the
demand, of the whole country, and that you, if you
are willing, should  come on here  and take the
entire charge of the manufacture of the Remedy:—
1  undertaking   to  manage  the entire -work  of
creating  the demand  for it—making it  known
through  all the journals  and magazines open to
me, and,  if necessary, publishing a supplement to
"The Opium Habit"—a smaller book, to sell at
about cost price, and for  gratuitous distribution
among the most influential practitioners and heads
of sanitary  institutions—devoted entirely to the
enlightenment of the public upon this wonderful
new means  of cure. 
FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
43
   New York is and  always must be the business
centre, and from  here, accordingly, can better be
managed the vast system  of correspondence and
manufacture  and shipment, which  would  be im-
mediately demanded by so thorough  an  adver-
tising of the Medicine as I propose   If you are
not absolutely fastened to La Porte, your removal
to New  York would be, in a  business point of
view invaluable  to you, and could  easily be pro-
vided for.
   Moreover,  your having entire  charge  of the
labratory would keep your secret, if that continues
to be  an object  with you, in /your own  hands,
while the Remedy was still undergoing the widest
advertisement—a thing which would be very diffi-
cult after it became widely advertised,  unless you
limited the amount  of your manufacture.   And
that last would be sure to cause a prejudice against
it.  Here, you could manufacture enough to sup-
ply all demands and  have unequalled facilities for
shipping without entrusting the manufacture to
subordinate hands, at minor centres, all over the
country.   I  am  not, however, so wedded  to this
plan that I do more  than throw it out for your
reflection.
   Finally, then, to come to the point that is essen-
tial :   In your answer to my former note, you say
that at that date you had  not  the facilities for
making the  Medicine fast  enough  to supply the
customers you already had, but  that before long 
44
FTTZ HUGH LUDLOW.
you hoped to be able to send me the first bottle of
the series requisite for the experiment I proposed.
In a letter from Mr. Darrow, to another gentleman
who forwarded it to me—Mr. D. says that  you
told him you had heard  from me  and  that you
were going to send me a package.  I  have not
received any such as  yet—but one or two other
gentlemen who have been Opium Eaters and need
your Remedy, write so earnestly, begging  that I
would co-operate with you  in  making known
what  they regard a great blessing, that I  am will-
ing to waive all ceremony and again propose that
you should enable me try your Remedy.   I shall
be very much pleased if it be within your power
to send me the Medicine at this time.   I  have one
patient who haa used Morphine for several years,
and though not an  extreme case, is still  from the
lack of any unfavorable  complication a  good one
to try the Remedy on.  I am all the more willing
to make the trial with her, because  you will have
a guarantee that I ask you to furnish your Medi-
cine from no  motives of  pecuniary selfishness, in
the fact that she is  in very straightened circum-
stances,  and  I  shall not  charge her for either
Medicine or services a single cent.   Her case has
deeply won ray sympathies, and in  giving me the
Medicine  for her  you  will only  be sharing a
benevolence with me and not aggrandizing me.
Indeed I hope that my friends and  I will be able
to afford her pecuniary aid beyond her cure.
  She is a very  refined and well taught woman, 
FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.
45
who needs only to«be saved to herself to make her
own and an infirm mother's living very comfort
ably.   If you write me on the receipt of this that
you are willing to furnish the requisite Medicine,
I am ready to  begin at  once aud will forthwith
forward you a detailed statement of her case which
will enable you to prepare  the successive bottles,
and will, as I have  said, see that the Remedy ia
administered strictly as you say.
  Here is  as  good an  opportunity as  we shall
have to co-operate, and I shall be glad if you will,
as early as convenient, reply on the subject to
         Yours, very truly,
  (Signed)          Fitz  Hugh Ludlow,
                18 West Uth Street, New  York.
                  ----o----
              18 West  14th St., New York, \
                        Jau. 26, 1870.    /
  Dr. S. B. Collins—Dear Sir: According to
my last note (though without waiting  to receive
an answer) I herewith state to you the case of the
patient whom I desire to treat with your remedy.
  (Here follows the statement of the case.)
  *   *  *  I havcalways found that the length
of time during which the patient has been taking
Opium is a  much more important element  thau
the amount he has reached, in the question of cure.
     *        *        *        *        *
  I do not know of a case among the  hundreds
1  have seen, in which  I would  go to work with 
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FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
more  sanguine  feelings in the «se of a Remedy
which is said to do all yours is, and  there is the
additional motive to select this for an experiment
in the fact that the poor woman is indeed  almost
utterly destitute, and  a most  worthy  object  of
benevolence in every respect.
    *        *        *        *        *
  Hoping to hear from you at an early  date,
           I am yours truly,
    (Signed)           Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

          No. 18 West 14th St., New York, \
                   Feb. 14, 1870.          J
    *****
  But the value of  a Remedy which does as yours
is  deiared  to  is  in the  salvation of the  Opium
Eater without the suffering and the absolute cessa-
tion from all  labor which are necessary with  all
other means and plans of cure.
  I know that  I  can  cure Opium Eaters  and
eradicate the Habit thoroughly, but  I frankly
acknowledge that 1 cannot do it without its creating
more  or  less suffering—sometimes even severe suf-
fering to the patient—and taking  him for  a con-
siderable length of time from his avocations.
  *   *   *  I have sought in  all our  communi-
cations to  deal with  the utmost  fairness  and
oourtesy myself, and I beg that you will not dis-
appoint me.
                Yours truly,
    (Signed)           Fitz Hugh Ludlow, 
FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.
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           * 18 West 14th St., April 4, 1870.
  *  *   *  I regret to learn that your lungs are
diseased.   If you will describe  your difficulty, I
will, (supposing you care to have me), do anything
in my power to advise and help you.  Your life is
now too precious to be lost.  I don't wish to appear
even to preach, but I must say that I  think you
possess the most  tremendous responsibility which
can belong to any  man  upon  the' earth, in being
the possessor of a Remedy which wisely adminis-
tered can do so much for the human race.
     *****
       (Signed)        Fitz  Hugh Ludlow.
                  ----o----
              99 Clinton  Place, New York, V
                      April 20,  1870.    J
  *  *   *  When I have time to tell you my
proposition (before referred to) you will see that
I have a  better and much cheaper plan for making
your Remedy widely known, than  to put into
Harper's  the advertisement  you send—which
would cost a dollar a line.   If you and I agree,
/ will publish a, letter  over my  own name in Har-
per's, calling attention to the fact  of a  wonderful
discovery for the Opium  Cure.
     *****
     (Signed)           Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
                  ----o----
         99 Clinton Place,  New York, \
                  May 10, 1870.         J
  S. B.  Collins—Sir:  The  package  of  five 
48           FITZ  HUGH LUDLOW.
bottles for which I last wrote, came duty to hand.
    *****
  I am going to take a very important case under
my direct charge—the case of a quite distinguished
and eminent man, whose cure will  be the greatest
of triumphs, and who has used Opium very largely
for years.   I shall  probably, as my own health
needs  rest and  recreation after my many  long
years  of  hard  work, take a voyage to England
with  him, and stay iu  Loudon  a number  of
weeks.
    *****
  If you  will furnish me with all the medicine
necessary to treat this case—supplying me with a
sufficient  stock of bottles (say 10  or 12) when I
start, to make sure the case should  be interrupted
by no delays or accidents, at that long distance of
London from  La Porte—I  will  put  into  both
Harper's Weekly and Monthly, over my own name,
two letters  publishing your Discovery and  its
value to   the seve^l millions  who  read those
periodicals.  In no  other way, by paying hun-
dreds  for  advertising, even,  could you reach  so
many people, or so well.   Decide aud let me know
your answer as early as possible.
                 Yours,
  (Signed)           Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

          99 Clinton Place, New York, \
                      June 14,  1870.     /
  S. B. Collins—Sir: Our mutual friend, Mr. 
FITZ HUGH  LUDLOW.
40
Read, has just been paying me a visit and consult-
ing in regard to some  arrangement by which we
can work together for the benefit of the Remedy
and the Opium Eaters.
  I have only to say that I have read the prop-
osition he makes you, over again and again care-
fully—and  fully approve of it.  I stand ready to
assist him in  every way through the press if you
and he make the  arrangement.   Whatever he
says, or may hereafter say, on the subject, I agree
to.  I give notice now, that he represents me  in
every business arrangement with you in my absence.
  I have now put into the  Harpers' hands to be
published in the very first magazine that there is
room for it in, an article recommending your dis-
covery,  that every body Avho has seen it says  is
one of the finest things I ever  ivrote.   Harper's
Magazine is always printed over a month ahead—
so it cannot come out in any shorter time—and I
rely upon you to believe me, aud wait for  it, and
not come down  on Mr. Read  for any money for
those 12 bottles until you have given it the proper
chance and time to be published.  If you do come
down on him for the money—of course  I shall
at once learn of it  by telegraph, and have the
article cancelled and not published at all.  But I
believe you mean to act square.
      M        *        *       *        *
             Truly yours,
  (Signed)              Fitz Hugh Ludlow. 
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HENRY  bead.
  The following extracts  are  taken from  letters
written  and  signed  by Mr. Henry  Read, of
Lowell, Mass.
  While it is true  that  they are only clippings—
and disconnected as such extracts must necessarily
be—the reader is  assured  that  they are verbatim,
and that iu no instance  have the extracts been so
arranged as to change in the slightest,  the obvious .
and unmistaheable meaning of their author, as the
original letters now in the possession of the com-
piler will prove.
                  ----o----
    Bill. BEAD DISCOURSES CONCERNING HIMSELF.
  (1.)   "I have been indorsed by Secretary Bout-
v,rell, our present Secretary of the U. S. Treasury,
and several  Members of Congress, which, by the
way, is nothing very favorable to any man, as many
of the  present Members of Congress  are, in  my
opinion, rather ' small potatoes,' and would indorse
anybody for pay—that is, unless they are belied."

  (2.)   " I have  no  ' horn to blow,'  nor shall I
praise myself.  But  if you care to inquire, you
can ask the Mayor of our  city, the Presidents and
Cashiers of any or all of our Banks here, and of
all or auy Official, or any prominent man or  men
here."
  (3.)   " I can secure the influence of Butler,
Sumner,  Wilson,   Dawes,  Brooks,  Banks,
Boutwell, and  a majority of the Committee of
Ways and Means, if necessary." 
HENRY READ.
01
   (4.)  " I am your friend, Dr. Collins, and have
been, ever  since  the  first  dose I took of your
Compound."

   (5.)  " For if ever one man tried  to  help an-
other, I have tried to help you."
                  ----o-----
MS. READ DISCOURSES CONCERNING FITZ HUGH LUDLOW,
      AND PLACES HOI IN A SINGULAR LIGHT.
   (6.)  " The fact is,  the  Doctor don't want it
knoivn that he and 1 are intending to make a  busi-
ness arrangement with  you—which, if made, must
all be iu my name."

   (7.)  " But before anything  is  done  or agreed
upon, Dr. Ludlow must be away, out of  the coun-
try, and not be known as an interested party at all."

   [%.)  " He, {Dr. L.,) thinks that he better not be
known as being an interested painty,  except  as a
Philanthropist."

   (S.X)  " If we come to any agreement, it  must
not be known that Dr. L. has any interest in it,
save that of Humanity."

   (10.)   " The fact is, brother  Collins,  we must
please and keep sweet Dr. L"

   (11.)   "Dr. L. thinks he could be of most ser-
vice not to be known  as a Partner, but  to act in
behalf of the Compound, by recommending  it to
Physicians, upon its merits." 
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HENRY READ.
   (12.)  Mr. Read, writing from No. 99 Clinton
Place, N.  Y.,—Mr.  Ludlow's  address—under
date of June 13th—after making a sort of prop-
osition to  purchase  an  interest in Dr.  Collins'
Discovery, which proposition  he claims  to have
been written by Mr.  Ludlow, says in explanation;
"and I  have copied it, as he don't  want to be
knoivn as being'interested, as he can do ten times
more good  not to be known as being interested with
me, or in any  way interested, save as a writer and
' talker up' of it in the best literary papers."

   MR. READ DISCOURSES CONCERNING THE SECRET.
   (13.)   "He, (Dr.  Ludlow,) is  the only M. D.
to whom you need to reveal  the secret or articles
from which it (the Antidote), is compounded."

   (14.)   " Should you have any trouble in obtain-
ing a Patent,  he, Dr. L., knows how to manage—
and if a  scientific  man  like he is will indorse it
the Patent  will be granted."

   (15.)   "If you have,  or  arc likely to have any
trouble in getting a Patent for your Discovery, I
can,  with  Dr.  Ludlow's  influence,  help you
amazingly.   I have  a brother-in-law aud  several
relatives in  Congress."

 MR. READ DISCOURSES CONCERNING A PARTNERSHIP.
   (16.)   " I would advise you by  all means to
accept of any terms Dr. Ludlow may offer." 
HENRY REAB.
53
  (17.)   "I do hope that  you and Dr. Ludlow
will arrange So you can receive his influence and
aid."

  (18.)   " I would come on to La Porte, and see
you, if you are disposed to make an arrangement
with me and the Doctor that  would be advanta-
geous to us three."

  (19.)   "I will,  immediatly after he, (Dr. L.,)
is gone, make  you  a good and liberal  proposition
for a partnership or interest in your Antidote."

MS. READ DISCOURSES  CONCERNING THE ARTICLE Df
           HARPER, AND OTHER THINGS.
  (20.)   " (Dr. L.), says: ' that he has decided to
write you one  or more letters and have them pub-
lished over  his own name, in  Harper  and  other
New York papers if you will furnish him with
the compound  necessary for the ewe of one patient
thathe is going to take with him to Europe.' "

   (21.)  " I told you some time ago that Ludlow
had written for Harper or some other Magazine
or paper—and he  did so write, aud not only  re-
ferred to you  but  your  Discovery.   This I know
and have seen extracts from it long and long before
'the piece in Harper appeared."

   (22.)  " The first article I read expressly told
the public that HE WAS NOT THE DISCOVERER OF
 THE  CURE." 
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HENRY READ.
   (23.)  " I am in daily and  hourly receipt  of
 letters from Opium patients  that Ludlow's piece
 is sending me.
   His first article (that, it seems, you did not see)
 —sent me 20 or more letters from Opium subjects."

   (24.)  " Dr. L. wrote a new piece  yesterday, (a
 splendid one), and the Harper's  will put it in the
 next issue.  It is really the best article or notice I
 ever saw written.  He, in this new article, referred
 Opium Eaters in this vicinity to me—so you will
 have  to  send  me a  lot of medicine at  once,
 and at your lowest price,  and I will  charge all I
 can get for it."

   (25.)  '• You will be pleased when you see Dr.
 L.'s article in the Harper's Monthly.    *    *  *
 But such an article as he (Dr.  L.,)  has written,
 (over  his  own name, too,) in favor  of  your
 Antidote,  I  never  saw written before  in its
 favor."

   (26.)  " The piece he (Dr. L.,) wrote last is the
best article I ever saw, and you  may rest assured
it  will be inserted and published."

   (27.)  " I heard  the firm, (Harpers), or  one of
them, say to  Dr. L.  these words: ' Not for one
thousand dollars, Dr.  Ludlow, would we give room
in our Magazine for your article to any other man
than yourself!'" 
HENRY READ.              55
   (28.)  " I will, as soon  as  I  can find  time,
(from  my  present  hurry), write  all those corres-
pondents of Ludlow's, (that  don't  happen to  see
his letter in Harper), and tell them to send for and
take the Antidote—Ludlow requested me to do so."

   (29.)  " That you were not referred to by Lud-
low in his last letter I cannot and do  not under-
stand.   Yet he meant or intended no  slight—else
why should his first article refer to you and your
locality, and as the  Originator  and Discoverer of
this great Remedy ? "

   (30.)  " At all events  you get the benefit of
every word he has said, aud if you  furnish the
Compound  for  the  patients,  wherein are  you
harmed by the  omission of your name, residence,
etc., in Ludlow's last article ? "
                   ----o----
A FEW  REMARKS BEARING UPON THE ABOVE EXTRACTS
          AND THEIR AUTHOR, MR.  READ.
   Mr. Read  comes to us very well indorsed  by
those who  ought to know him, (Extracts No. 1
and 2), and he is very  rich  in Congressional  in-
fluence—though he does not value the latter very
highly—but a careful examination of  his letters—
a  comparison of his statements with  the  known
facts—and  a general knowledge of his acts with
regard to the Discovery of Dr.  Collins, must im-
press upon  the mind of the reader the  belief that
those indorsements  and that influence, which, in 
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HENRY READ.
giving, left the donors no poorer, were of inestim-
able value to Mr. Read—giving him something
upon which he might stand, and without which  he
would be poor indeed.

   The statement of Mr.  Read  that  he was  the
friend of Dr. Collins, (Extract No. 4), arises either
from a child-like innocence  of what a friend is
and  should  be—or from a desire  to deceive—to
cover up under the  guise of a firm  friendship the
deep  wrong he was  doing—for surely  no one
would say that the  facts in the  case corroborate
his statements.
   »Vith an enthusiasm as great as though he were
really uttering a truth, he says: (Ex. 5) " For if
ever one man tried to help another, I have tried to
help you "—forgetting, alas, for his poor memory !
that it stands in proof that he has all  along been
playing a double game—has been false to Mr. Lud-
low—false to Dr. Collins—and last, let us hope
also, least—false to  himself.   He  forgets that it is
in "proof  that  upon  the face of  Mr. Ludlow's
article  in  Harper,  he lias  recommended  other
Remedies  for the cure of the  Opium  Habit, as
being the one referred to by Mr. Ludlow.
   Does the  reader  fancy Mr. Read  knows more
about the suppression of Dr. Collins' name and the
insertion  of  his own in the Harper article, than  he
cares to tell?  (See Ext. 29.)

   J^ext to the great wrong which Mr. Read has 
HENRY READ.              67
done to thousands of Opium  Eaters, is the grev-
ious wrong he has done to his more  than  friend,
Fitz Hugh Ludlow.   He has been  trifling  with
something with which he is not familiar—the hon-
orable name  aud fair  reputation of  a gentleman
and a scholar.
  While Mr. Ludlow is very desirous of forming
a partnership with Dr. Collins, he wishes it to be
distinctly understood that it  must not  be known
that he is  an interested party at all—and all ar-
rangements mast be made in the name of Mr. Read.
(Ext. 6, 7,8, 9,  11, 12.)
  ^He must be known only as being  interested as
a Philanthropist—(Ext. 8}—or for the sake
of  Humanity—(Ext. 9.)  True Philanthropists
—men who really labor for the sake of humanity—
are very hard to find;  but it  would not take long
to flood the market with  such noble hearted  phil-
anthrophy as  that.  But what careful  reader of
the letters  of Fitz Hugh Ludlow will believe that
the heart that dictated them could  be utterly bad—
would believe that  he,  after years  of labor to
build up for himself an. honorable and an endur-
ing name,  would hold that name thus  lightly—
would sell it to the highest bidder!

   All of Mr.  Read's attempts to make himself the
confidante of Dr. Collins, having failed, and the
longed for secret being still beyond his grasp, he
endeavored to persuade  the Doctor  to  patent his
discovery.  Ex. (14, 15.)  The casual reader might, 
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HENRY  READ
perhaps, at once come to the conclusion that Mr.
Read's grand idea in offering to help the Discov-
ery to a Patent, was to obtain for himself a knowl-
edge of the secret—but this, the reader is assured
would be denied by Mr. Read.  He would prob-
ably say that it was for the Doctor's good—or per-
haps for  the good of  humanity—for  has not Mr.
Ludlow called Mr. Read his " noble hearted and
philanthropic friend ?"
   Whether or not Fitz Hugh  Ludlow knew the
man he was honoring by a prominent notice in
Harper, the reader may decide.

   A Partnership was  next strongly urged by Mr.
Read (Ext. 16, 17,  18,) but with his usual  poor
success.  He was not so blind but as to see that
the Antidote was one wdiich was destined  to be
known  the  world  over, and  perhaps Mr. Read
felt that with his influence  it would do much more
good to humanity—for who would dare to say that
the noble hearted philanthropist ever for a  moment
remembered self?
   Does the  reader wonder why  Mr. Read  must
needs have delayed the  announcement of his prop-
osition  until  Mr.  Ludlow had left the continent?
(Ext. 19.)  For philanthropic reasons?

   The article  in the Easy Chair of Harper  for
 August, and the misrepresentations  regarding it,
was the  immediate cause  of  the issuance of this
pamphlet—rand to that part of Mr. Read's letters 
HENRY READ.              59
bearing upon that subject, the  attention of the
reader is requested.
  Mr. R ad says that Mr. Ludlow has decided to
write one or  more letters  for Harper, provided
Dr. Collins would send him an amount of medi-
cine  sufficient to  cure  one patient.   (Ext.  20.)
This amount  of  medicine  was sent  and its receipt
nchiowl&lq"d in  Mr. Ludlow's letter of June 14&h,

  Mr. Read says, (Ext. 21,) that Mr. Ludlow had
written an article in which he referred not only to
D>\ CuMns but to his remedy—and that, (Ext. 22)
in that article Mr. Ludlow expressly  told the pub-
lic that  he, Mr.  Ludlow, was not the discoverer of
the cure.  Now Mr. Read has been requested four
different times to give the name of the magazine or
paper in which that article appeared—but he has
nhvays avoided an answer.
  Mr. Ludlow's  first article (in which he used the
name of Dr.  Collins) sent Read 20 or more letters
from  Opium  Eaters (Ext. 23).   It never sent Dr.
Collins o?»*  letter a fact that might look very
strange had any  one but Mr. Read said that such
an article ever appeared.

  Extracts No.  24, 25, 26 and 27, were all writ-
ten before the article in Harper appeared, and the
idea which they were intended to convey is patent
to the reader.
  The  " new piece"  which  Mr.  Ludlow wroto
was  " the best article Ar notice he (Mr. Read) ever 
60
HENRY  READ.
saw  written,"  and it  referred,  says  Mr.  Read,
"Opium Eaters  in this  vicinity to  me."   The
reader  is  requested  to  examine   the  article
from Harper and find  the words " iu this  vicin-
ity"—or any words to the same effect.
  The reader will  observe that this enthusiastic
paragraph is closed  by an appeal for a lot of med-
icine at the  Doctor's lowest pjrice, and a promise
that he (Read) would charge all he could get for it.
This, too, when Mr. Read knew that every bottle oj
the Antidote was compound 3d for a particular pa-
tient, aud would favorably effect none other.) Mr.
Read's  philanthropy  sometimes  carries him to
great lengths.

    K RECAPITULATION OF  MR. READ'S LETTERS.
  Mr. Read says he is indorsed by Secy. BoutweR.
(Ex.1)
  This gives Secy. Boutwell a large contract

  Mr. Read says he has no " horn to  blow," him-
self.   (Ex.  2.)
  But ho nominates those who "blow" for him.

  Mr.  Read say?  he can necure  the  influence oi
Butler,  Wilson,  Dawes, Brooks, Banks, and  a ma-
jority of the  Committee  of   Ways  and Means.
(Ex.  3.)
  Upon the principal that misery loves company,
this must please Secy. Boutwell. 
HENRY  READ.              61
   Mr. Read says he is the friend of Dr. Collins.
(Ex. 4.)
   This is a mistake, as  the reader may judge.

   Mr. Read says he has tried faithfully to help Dr.
Collins.   (Ex. 5.)
   The reader may judge of the truth of this state-
ment.

   Mr. Read says, in effect,  that  Mr.  Ludlow
disposes  of his reputation for honesty for a con-
sideration.  (Ex. 6, 7,  8, 9,  11, 12.)
   This is for Mr. Ludlow to  answer.  The reader,
in the mean time, forming his own opinion.

   Mr. Read says he is  anxious that  the Discovery
be patented.  (Ex. 14 and 15.)
   This is done  only from  Mr.  Read's Philan-
thropic desire to benefit  humanity.

   Mr. Read says Mr. Ludlow is very anxious to
form a co-partnership with Dr. Collins.   (Ex. 16,
18 and 19.)
  But Mr. Read dare not make any arrangements
until Mr. Ludlow leaves for Europe.

   Mr. Read says Mr. Ludlow has decided to write
an article for Harper.  (Ex. 20.)
   Knowing positively that Mr. Ludlow did finally
write an  article for Harper, we are inclined to be-
lieve that this statement is true. 
62
HENRY  READ.
   Mr. Read says Mr. Ludlow  wrote  an article
in which he referred to Dr. Collins and his Din-
covery—and in which he said that he, (Ludlow), was
not the discoverer of the Care.  (Ex. 21 and 22.)
   Mr. Read  has  failed to give  the name of the
publication in which this article appeared, and so
the reader must again judge of the truth of the
statement.

   Mr. Read says  that the first article of Mr. Lud-
low's,(in which he referred to Dr. Collins), sent him
(Read), 20 or more letters.   (Ex. 23.)
   This is singular.  Perhaps the reader can judge
why they should send to  Mr. Read when  referred
to Dr. Collins.

   Mr. Read says the new piece of  Mr. Ludlow's
was the best he ever saw.  (Ex. 24 and 26.)
   This means, best for Mr. Read, and not, as might
be supposed, the best for  Dr. Collins.

   Mr. Read says he thinks Dr.  Collins will  be
pleased, when he sees Mr. Ludlow's article.   (Ex.
26.)
   Mr. Read was mistaken.

   Mr. Read says he was  requested by Mr.  Lud-
low to advise all Opium  Eaters to take Dr Col-
lins' Antidote.  (Ex. 28.)
   It is in proof that Mr, ReaJ has advised the use
of  other medioines upon the face of Mr. LudloVi
article. 
HENRY READ.
63
   Mr. Read says he does not know why Dr. Collins
was not referred to in the Harper article. (Ex. 29.)
   If the reader can force himself to  believe this
be mav

   Mr. Read says that Dr. Collins receives all tht
benefit arising from Mr. Ludlow's article. (Ex. 30.
   Mr. Read is mistaken.   It is in proof that Mr.
Read  lias  charged Opium Eaters One Hundred
Dollars ($100.) for medicine for which he has paid
Dr. Collins Fifty Dollars ($50.)
   Fifty Dollars a piece for  patients sent to Dr.
Collins, might be called disinterested philanthropy
—but it isn't very often.
                  ----o----
   The following from the facile pen of Mr. Fitz
Hugh Ludlow is taken from Harper's Easy Chair
for August, 1870, and is the article to which refer-
ence has been made in the preceeding pages.
   The reader will be  loth  to  believe that  Mr.
Ludlow saw the false impressions which his article
would  create, and the long list of wrongs to which
it would give rise.  And surely no one can for a
moment doubt that having seen the injustice which
has been done,  he will, to the best of his  ability,
see that honor  is given  to whom it  is due, and
justice done to all.
                  New York, June 15,1870.
   Dear Easy  Chair:—To-day sailing for Europe,
an  invalid, with all the uncertainties of return
which attend such a one, may I ask to say through 
64        extract from harper's.
you a word or two, in parting, to the  class of our
suffering fellow men and women for whom, as you
know, I have spent a  large part of my life—all
that part, indeed, which  is usually the leisure of
a laborious profession ?
   In the book published two years since by the
Messrs.  Harper,  under  title  of " The  Opium
Habit," whose earlier chapters were edited by, and
the two closing ones original with me, I  gave to
the public  as condensed a statement as my limits
made imperative of the course of treatment which
many years' medical and scientific study, together
with an experience  among Opium Eaters scarcely
to be surpassed in  extent, had taught me was the
safest,  quickest, least  painful exit from  a bell
over whose interior penetralia at least Humanity
had for years  concurred to write, with a  sigh,
" Lasciate ogni speranza." There  I  showed the
possibility  of a release, and, so far as  could  be
done in such broad touches, sketched the means.
There I promised a  salvation  I  had repeatedly
seen effected, and accumulated  all  the incentives
and encouragements to seek it which I knew; but
with these  I was obliged to preach a Spartan—
say rather a Christian —courage  such  as few
women and fewer men can  summon to their aid
in the protracted agonies  of the contest by which
the Opium Eater  must win his  freedom, even
under the many palliating and relieving circum-
stances which I there revealed.   I had  not then 
EXTRACT  FROM HARPER'S.        65
found what 1 confess  has been  one of my life's
ruling passions—a very agony of seeking to find—
any  means  of bringing  the  habituated  Opium
Eater out  of his horrible bondage, without, or
comparatively without, paiu.   Thus  far I had
failed iu my wrestling interrogations  of Nature
for the Antidote, the substitute, the  agent, what-
ever it  might be, by which Opium  might be so
gradually replaced  and eradicated as  to  present
the slave, some bright celestial morning, with his
manumission, before  he  could feel  the  blows
which struck the shackles from his feet.
  I ask you, dear Easy Chair, to rejoice with me
that, in  all probability, that wonderful  discovery
has now been  made;  that henceforth the salva-
tion of the Opium Eater, like that from any other
chronic  disease,  may be  accomplished in such a
way that the cure brings not an increase but a re-
lief of the original  suffering; that the process of
giving to him his new  self may now be not a ter-
rible  volcanic throe  that tears soul and  body to
pieces, but a gentle, painless  change,  like  those
milder  forces of nature shown in the progress of
the seasons, the unbinding of the frost, the return
of the sun and  gentle rains.  A year ago I was
almost in despair of such a blessing; but I must
believe—must declare—what my eyes have looked
upon.
   1 have had under my  eyes a  patient who had
jeen an habitual user of opium for years—whoa 
66        EXTRACT FROM HARPER'S.
 daily rations of morphia had now reached the ter-
 rible amount of thirty grains, (a  case  quite  as-
 tounding to minds not experienced among Opium
 Eaters, but having  numerous  parallels  in my ac-
 quaintance)—who abandoned the drug at ouce in
 its every form, and  never  touched  it again from
 that  moment (four  mouths  ago)  to  the present
 time.  I have seen  him going on with his daily
 avocations, suffering no pain which required him
 to lie down for a single day, feeling no temptation
 to seek opiates,  although  he constantly carried
 about his old morphia powders on his  person, and
 had  made the un-Spartan resolve to resume his  re-
 lief  if the new experiment for a moment  failed.
 He  was expecting anguish all  the time for  his
 first month of trial;  but it never came, has not
 come, and is  most unlikely to  come now that,  af-
 ter all these months his digestion has regained its
 vigor, his step its elasticity, his eyes  and cheeks
 the freshness of health.   Besides this  case I have
 seen numerous others, when their various compli-
 cations  are considered,  no less  remarkable, and
 from many more have  had letters, ah  joyfully
 unanimous in  the testimony  that their exit was
 painlessly accomplished, and that the opium-
 craving was  not  only appeased, but quite eradi-
cated, by the process of cure.  I have been com-
pelled to confess that the life-long object of my
search seemed most marvellously accomplished. 
EXTRACT FROM  HARPER'S.        67
   Were I staying in this country, instead of going
 abroad as my  last chance for life and health, I
 would joyfully continue to answer  the corres-
 pondence which floods me on this subject from all
 parts of the Union, and, at any expense  to my-
 self, make known this salvation  to the most sor-
 rowful sufferers of this  world.   Were this an ar-
 ticle, instead of a communication receiving  your
 hospitality, dear Easy Chair, and  were Harper's
 a technical magazine, in  which I could develop
 the  process of substitution and  elimination  by
 which this marvellous blessing is accomplished, I
 would now speak more at length.  It is now suf-
 ficient to say  that the  discovery is  one which
 ranks in importance to human weal and woe with
 vaccination, chloroform, or any grandest achieve-
 ment of beneficent science  which marks an age.
 The many who can bear me witness how willing-
 ly I have responded to  all inquiries  for  help to
 the Opium Eater,  by visit or letter, will be glad to
 know that during my absence such inquirers may
apply  to  my  noble-hearted  and philanthropic
friend,  Mr. Henry Read, of  Lowell, Massachu-
setts, who possess*^ al]  my  information  on the
 subject, and  has  kindly consented to  let  me roll
 off upon  his  shoulders  the  loving  but heavy
 burden of answering such questions as might, if
 I staid here, be addressed to me. 
68        EXTRACT FROM HARPER'8.

  By lettting  me say these  parting words trom
your kindly  elevation, my dear Easy Chair, you
will bless thousands of sorrowful souls, and send
one away to Europe  far less sorrowful, because
most hopeful, for them.     Your friend,
Fnz Hugh Ludlow. 
HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.       69
               OPIUM EATERS, ETC.
   The following letter, bearing date  San Fran-
cisco, Cal., Jan. 26, 1871, contains the personal
experiences of a confirmed  morphine eater, and
exposes, in a clear and forcible manner, the deter-
mined effort of Fitz HugH  Ludlow and Har-
per's  Magazine to wrest from Dr. Collins the
honor and emoluments of his great discovery.
   The Chicago " Times" in  giving place to the
article .says :
   " It exposes a  very  extraordinary  attempt  to
defraud the discoverer of a wonderful remedy out
of the just returns of his discovery, the parties  to
the transaction  being  a well-known  literateur,
who appears, according  to the statements madt-,
to have been  abetted by the  publishers of Har-
per's Alagaziue.   The article  will be perused with
much interest."
   The New Church "Independent," published  at
the home of Dr. Collins, in  giving place to the
article, says :
   " We publish in this  number of  the Independ-
ent a lettur, written by one of the patients of Dr.
Collins, of this  place, in reference  to  his Opium
Antidote unci the Doctor's treatment by the llar-
■uers:  We are assured that it is genuine and not
a mere advertisement as some may suppose.  In
view  of the good which we knoiv has resulted 
70       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
from  this  treatment  for  the  Opium  Habit, we
cheerfully make room for this letter.  As the Doc-
tor is an old citizen of our town and  we have a
personal acquaintance with him  and two  of the
parties  he  has cured, we  cheerfully recommend
him to the slaves of Opium."
   The New York Independent says :
   "In more than four hundred cases the remedy
of Dr. Collins has been thoroughly tested, without
a failure, many of  (he cases treated having been
in the last stages of the dreadful disease."
   "The case of <G. A. T.,' the history of which
appeared in the Chicago  Times,  March 11th, is,
without doubt, the most wonderful case upon rec-
ord.  Sixty grains of morphine was his daily por-
tion ;  and yet  at the first dose of  the medicine all
desire for the drug instantly ceased."
   The Argus, published at La Porte, says:
   "The article in  the Independent  will be  read
with interest,  not only by those who are seeking
relief from the slavery of Opium, but by all  par-
ties who feel that right should prevail  and merit
receive its just reward."

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW  AND  HARPER'S MAGAZINE.
   Twenty-two  years  of age. with a constitution
of  iron, brave of heart and strong  of  limb,
flushed  with the  brightest and highest of ambi-
tions,  and  cheered  on by the smi'le-' and  huzzas
of the loyal people in the staid little town of 
HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.       71
W—:—, J marched, in  1861,  for the battle-fields
of the  South.
  To be in the advance of our great army seemed
ever to be my  fortune,  and until the fall of 186-4
I had never left my command.
  But  worn  out  with the hardships at which}
during the first two years of my service I had al-
ways laughed, I  found myself, in September of
1864, en  route for my home in Illinois.
  But  how was I  changed !   In the rude strength
of youth,  every inch of me a  man, I had, scarcely
three years before, left my home and my  friends.
I was returning to it and to  them a mere wreck ;
an arm left upon the well-fought field of Shiloh; a
bullet near my spine, the parting compliment of
the day.at Stone  River;  constitution  broken,
ambition gone, wasted to a shadow, and only sus-
tained  by the wonderful power of Opium.
  Long weeks and longer months of suffering had  •
so shattered my nervous sy-tem and reduced my
strength, that as a dernier resort my physician had
prescribed Morphia, and  with the most flattering
result-.  Soothed by the  wonderful  power of that
most  wonderful   of narcotics, I forgot my pain,
and if I  did not really enjoy life,  I lived and
"blest the man that first invented Opium."
   From  June, 186 4, until the winter of 1867, my
pain had  been soothed  and  my  strength sustained
bv Morphia,  the daily  dose rapidly increasing
from one grain to twenty-three grains. 
72       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
    Not sufficiently robust to endure the  rigors of
  our northern climate, and having friends  upon the
  Pacific coast, I moved in the autumn of '67 to the
  city of San Francisco, where I was first awakened
  from  the deadly stupor in  which I had so long
  lived.    I had gained somewhat in weight and in
  strength, and the vigor and clearness of my  mind
  had been unimpaired, and, little dreaming of the
  gulf that yawned before me, little dreaming of
  the shackles that bound  me, for I  had  never
  moved to the  full length of my chain,—I never
  hesitated when I put to my lips  in  the  morning
  the drug that  was to give me  the strength for the
  day's labor.  And why should I ?  For years I
  had leaned upon its power; for years it had soothed
  me when my body was racked with pain ;  it had
  been  my strength, my  life.  Why should I fear
  that one day the most  gentle  of servants should
  become   the  most   relentless of masters ?   No
  faithful friend warned me of the dangerous path
  I was treading.   I was to learn the error of my
  way by the bitterest  of all experiences.
    The pursuit of my profession carried me to a
»  small  settlement in  the  interior of  California,
  where, after a long ride of twelve hours, I found
  myself at a  late hour one Saturday night.
    Weary and  cold I retired, only to be  haunted
  by the  most, fearful  of  dreams, and  to  wake
  from them  with a sense of utter exhaustion, and
  an uncontrollable desire  for some thing.    As 
         history of an opium eater.      73

hundreds of times before, I sought my Morphia,
believing that in it I should find relief.   My pock-
ets were  turned inside out, my valise  ransacked
for the precious drug, when, who  shall describe
my  horror ? it was out!
  The late hour of the night, the  insignificance
of the settlement, not large enough, probably, to
support  a drug store, and the wildness  of  the
storm and bad condition of the roads, shutting me
out from  the world, flashed upon my mind in an
instant.
  The house was aroused, and  the country physi-
cian  sent for  in  the  hopes of finding that  for
which I was almost dying, but in vain.
  The long day—the longest I had then known—
was near its close ; the messenger sent forty miles
to procure Morphia  had not  returned, and with
brain oh  fire 1 was raving like a mad man.   The
fearful sufferings of that day I shall not attempt
to describe.   There are those who have expe-
rienced such  agony, whose  pens are more ready
than mine.
  The Morphia came at  last, and in  the thirty
grains which I so eagerly swallowed, I forgot  the
furnace through which I had passed.
  This was my first awakening, and I Avas  not
slow  to  appreciate the  depth of  the gulf into
which I  had fallen;  I was not slow to believe
that I was the veriest of slaves, bound body and
soul. 
74      HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EAfEfi.
  How my soul revolted at such bondage; how I
struggled to free myself from my fetters; how  I
agonized—I pray God none  may know.
  Three different times I endeavored, unaided, to
burst my bonds, but every time  in vain, and  after
each trial I  was compelled to  increase my daily
dose.   Never  relinquishing my desire  to  once
more stand upon my feet a free man, 1 left no
stone unturned  to accomplish the end.  Eminent
physicians were consulted, and  for  different pe-
riods of time their advice followed : but the untold
sufferings  through which  I was made to  pass re-
sulted only in  the lessening of my  strength and
the  chilling of my hopes.
  An advertisement in a Memphis paper attracted
my  attention, and I applied to the advertiser, who
claimed to have discovered a painles*. cure for the
Opium Habit.   His remedy was faithfully tried ;
I lived over again the  terrible  anguish  which  I
can  never  forget, and  seeing the great  gate  of
doom closing upon me, the last  flickering ray ol
hope expired, and takinu sixty grains of Morphia
per  day, I gave myself  over, body and  soul, to
that Tyrant as unrelenting as Death, and  tar less
generous.
             FITZ HUGH LUDLOW,
himself an Opium Eater,  had turned his attention
to the  unhappy condition of the  bondmen and
bondwomen, and had published  in  Harper's his
knowledge upon the subject, under the  title of
" What Shall They Do to be Saved ?" 
HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.       75-
   The article was in the usually brilliant style of
that brilliant man, but  my own experience  had
taught  me the  utter uselessness of his plan when
applied to  a case as desperate iu all its phases as
was my own.
   I read a book, accredited, though  erroneously,
to him, entitled " The Opium Habit,"—but  saw
not one word calculated to arouse in my heart the
shadow of a hope.
   The mouths  went on, aud I was daily growing
weaker under a punishment greater than 1 could
bear, when the  August number of Harper's Mag-
azine was laid upon my table.
   I took it up and  mechanically glanced  at its
contents, as I lazily  cut its'pages.  At last my
eye fell upon an article which has probably been
read by more Opium Eaters in this country than
any other  literary or  scientific article ever writ-
ten.  I read and re-read, until  the hope  long
dead  underwent  a gradual  resurrection,  until,
as I laid  down  the  book,  its wings were wide
spread.
   Ludlow  had  really  found what had been to him
his " life's ruling  passion;" he had unlocked the
door that shut so  many human  beings out in the
darkness of despair;  he had made for himself a
name second to  that  of no great benefactor of
humanity—a name  that our children's children
should rise up and call blessed.  I closed my eyes
and, forgetting  for a moment my misery, I fancied 
.76       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
that I was free.  I rose above the terrible slough
of despond ; I saw the shackles  loosen and fall
off, and, thanking  God   and  Ludlow,  1  was
happy.
  But  I could not always dream, and, waking
once more to the dread realities with which I was
surrounded, I resolved to lose no time in posses-
sing myself of the wonderful Elixir of Life.
  To the friend of Mr. Ludlow, Henry Read, of
Lowell, Massachusetts, all anxious inquirers upon
the subject  were referred.
  Mr.  Reed was written  to—my case minutely
described, and  any amouut of money that might
be  demanded  gladly  tendered—not for  a cure,
that was impossible—but for even temporary relief
from my anguish.
  For  days that lengthened into weeks, I impa-
tiently awaited the mail  that should  bring me,
perhaps, a  word of encouragement—but  it came
not.
  A telegraphic dispatch remaining  unanswered
added to the  terrible  suspense of my condition,
and once more my hope was chilled.
   Ludlow  had  sailed for Europe long  before;
a communication  between  his agent  and myself
could not be established—and what was I to do ?
But I could do anything but remain idle.
  I had seen somewhere an article highly com-
mendatory  of the Antidote, but denying the truh
of the  statement that  Ludlow was its discoverer. 
HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.      77
   Matters were becoming complicated, so I would
write to the Easy  Chair of Harper's—surely it
knew all about it.   I wrote, inclosing return post-
age, earnestly requesting that the name and resi-
dence of the discoverer be given me.
   Weeks passed on, and, receiving no  reply, and
fearful that  the letter had miscarried or been mis-
laid, I wrote another letter—a personal  one—ad-
dressed to the Editor of the Easy Chair by uame.
The fate which had followed my other  communi-
cations did not forget this one, aud an answer was
never received.
   At about this time—November, 1870—there
appeared in  the Easy Chair an " Explanation,"
that explained nothing but served to complicate
still more a.  complicated affair.   It seemed to me
that at  least the  name of the  discoverer of the
Remedy  might have been  mentioned, allowing
Opium  Eaters themselves to have determined re-
garding  the " enormous prices" charged—a fac-
ulty which they possess in perhaps as high a degree
as the occupant of the Easy Chair.
   Painfully  interested as I was, I could  not fail to
see that  something  was  wrong—that  somebody
was  endeavoring, from any motive save a good
one, to withhold from Opium Eaters the name of
their benefactor.
   The conduct of Harper's plainly showed  that
Ludlow was not what he had claimed  to be, and
that the magazine was doing all in its power—not 
7£       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
to rectify a glaring misrepresentation, but. to clinch
a falsehood and perpetuate a wrong.
  Wrought  up  to a  state of desperation which
only a hopeless  slave to Opium may know aud
feel, I  once more wrote  to- the  Easy Chair, en-
treating with all the eloquence and earnestness of
misery that I might know to whom to apply for
relief.
  Fitz Hugh  Ludlow was dead in Switzerland ;
Henry Read  could not  hear my cry ; would the
Easy Chair do this little act of kindness  for hu-
manily's sake ?  But the waste-basket of the Easy
Chair was larger by half than its  heart—and no
reply was vouchsafed me.
  The last week in November brought December
Harper, and  in the Easy Chair appeared an obit-
uary upon Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
  Here, at last, thought I, the mystery will be
solved.  If Ludlow  be really the discoverer  of
this great cure, the fact cannot be omitted, and if
he be not, how,  in sketching his history, can his
connection  with  the great remedy  be  passed by ?
  But  the  Easy Chair was careful  to pass unno-
ticed a  fact  it long had hid, and  the article  to
which  thousands of Opium-Eaters, and scientific
men everywhere, anxiously looked for a  resolu-
tion of the problem amounted to—nothing.
  Mr.  Ludlow's article  was  not frank, said  tho
Easy Chair, but it was not necessary to impute
any ill-intent to  the writer. 
HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.      79
   The real facts in the case, known as they must
 have been to  the Easy Chair, were carefully with-
 held ; the most important event in all the history
 of Ludlow's  life was merely alluded  to—and  the
 mystery remained unsolved.
   Surely, thought  I, there  is a part  of the story
 yet untold; some  motive very deep, if not very
 good, prompts the withholding of a single name,
 the divulging of which would bless  thousands.
   But the mystery was to  be solved by  and by
 —I was to be given to read the whole of the story,
 and to repeat it into listening and eager ears.
  My condition  at this time had become critical.
 Once more I had  become  but the  shadow of a
 man—my brain  and  my body wrere racked  by
 intensest  pain—my days  were full of agony and
 my nights of horror—and  I  had  come  to  fear
 for the empire of my reason.
  My physician and friends, one and  all, had lost
all  hope, and were  waiting for a summons they
 had long expected, and wondered at its long delay.
  Sitting  one day  in the parlor of my home,  for
I had long ago given  up my profession, my mail
was brought  in, and among it I found a  little
book  sent to me   by some  sympathizing  but
unknown frieud.
  The title,  "Theriaki  and Their  Last  Dose,"
rather  attracted  my attention.  Merely  for tho
purpose of whiling away  a  half-hour, I com-
 menced its perusal. 
80      HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
  I soon became deeply interested, and read with
increasing interest the letters of Fitz Hugh Lud-
low, and the clear but astounding relation of the
remarkable cures that had been performed.
  Here then I  had found what I  had so long
searched for—the name of the discoverer of  the
Antidote so carefully tested  and strongly com-
mended by Mr. Ludlow.
  "There remained in my mind  no doubt as to
whom the honor of the discovery belonged.  This
time Ludlow's letters were unequivocal, pointing
directly to  the man whose "thunder he had sto-
len "—with whose honor  he had  clothed himself.
I read, and at once  believed in the wonderful
power of the Remedy, and  believed  that the man
who could so vigorously conduct a warfare—sur-
rounded as he was  by difficulties  almost insur-
mountable—to  a  successful   termination, must
surely have something for which to fight, could
be anything but an impostor.
  Ludlow, then, was not  the discoverer of the
Antidote, but, despite misrepresentations strength-
ened and aggravated by the conduct of the Har-
per's, the real discoverer  had  come to light in the
person of Samuel B. Collins, of La Porte, Ind.
  I  exhibited the book  to several  of my most
intimate friends, expressing my determination of
sending at once for the medicine.
  To this, however,  my friends objected.  I  was
so very low, they said, would it  not be  better to 
         HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.      81

visit the Doctor in his own  home?   He  would
understand then, they argued, the desperate con-
dition of my case.
  Acting upon their earnest advice I prepared for
what seemed to me a long, long journey, and one
from which many of my friends never expected I
would return alive.   I reached Chicago, worn out
by my trip, upon the 23d of December, 1870.
  Needing rest, I concluded to remain one day in
the city, and  resolved, before  I left, to call upon
Mr. Chapman, whose name,  as one of the cured
Opium Eaters appears in "Theriaki."
  I found Mr. Chapman an agreeable gentleman,
and listened  with intense  interest to  his ; elation
of his sufferings and his cure; how for 14 years
he had used  18 grains Morphia per day—and how-
he was completely and permanently cured.   His
assurance that in his opinion  my cure was only a
question of time, gave me greater confidence and
stronger hope.
  I reached  La Porte  Christmas  eve, intending
after a Sabbath day's rest to call upon  the Doctor
and lay  my case before him.
  A. P. Andrew, Jr., whose name also appears in
"Theriaki," lived across the  way  from the hotel
at which I was stopping, and  upon him I called.
He was  the first person  who  ever took a  dose ol
the Antidote, and was  permanently cured in five
months.   Mr.  Andrew corroborated  the  state-
ments of Whitmore, Culver, and Darrow.   Again 
82       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
 I was assured that my cure was  not impossible,
 aud, feeling sure that but a single night separated
 me from the mystery explained, I returned to the
 hotel.
   The excitement which had thus far kept me up
 subsided now that I had reached the end of my
 iourney, and  I  woke,  upon  the  morning after
 Christmas, entirely exhausted.
   Taking twenty-five grains of Morphia before I
 was able to  leave my bed, I dressed, and wearily
 traversed the very short distance between the hotel
 and the residence of the Doctor.
   I was ushered into a cozy little parlor, and in a
 moment the man  in whose hands my destiny was
 held,  appeared.
   Picture to yourself a man,  five feet ten inches
 in height, powerfully built,—long brown whiskers
 and mustache—light hair and  complexion, and a
 light, piercing eye—a  deliberate  thinker and
 speaker—self-made and positive,—and  you have
 the picture of the man who has solved the great-
 est  of all  medical problems—the discovery of a
 remedy  which, in  its power of benefiting human-
 ity, is without a rival.
  My case was quickly explained, and with bated
 breath I asked : " Can anything be done for me ?"
 The Doctor,  in a tone of voice wliich  plainly
showed  his wonderful confidence in  the  power of
his  remedy, slowly replied:  " You have only to
follow carefully all  directions, and you  can  be 
         HISTORY OF»AN OPIUM EATER.       83

cured painlessly—permanently."   He  paused a
moment, as if for a reply, but I could  say noth-
ing.
- " Your nerves, now shattered, will be strength-
ened," continued he, " the organs of your body
resume  their natural functions—and you will be
a man again.   It is only a question of time."
  I was anxious to  take  the first dose of the
medicine that promised  to do  so much for me, so
I  was  requested to return to the office in  the
afternoon.
  At just one  o'clock,  the time at which I usu-
ally took my dose of 15 grains, I returned to the
office, and there took the first teaspoonful of the
Antidote.
  The effect was  most wonderful; my  nerves be-
came instantly  quiet—the  temperature of my
body regular  and natural; in short, that single
teaspoonful of medicine had completely taken the
place of 15 grains of Morphia.
  All that  afternoon,  like one in a  dream, I
wandered about—it surely could not be  a reality
—this freedom from pain!   But two days passed
and  I had touched no Morphia, and  felt better
than I had felt for years.
   Having nothing to call me home, I resolved to
spend a week where I could be under the Doctor's
own  care, and during  my  visit to his home I
related  to him the  many fruitless attempts I  had
made to discover his " habitation and  his name," 
84       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
and how merely by  accident I had finally made
the discovery."
  Evidently interested  in  the rehearsal  of my
trials, he gave me at length the facts of the case,
placing  in my hands copies of  the documents
necessary to substantiate the story.
  That Opium Eaters may know the solution of
a question which long has  puzzled  them, and in
which they have a deep interest; that they may
know the course pursued toward them by Harper's
Magazine, and thus  be  able  to distinguish  their
true friends, I shall briefly  repeat the story :
  The discovery of Dr. Collins was made in July,
1868, and upon the 18th day of the same month
the first dose was taken  by A. P. Andrew, Jr.
  In the fall of the following year, though very
little  advertised,  the fame of the remedy  had
traveled from mouth to mouth, until  the Doctor
had  patients at many  points  distant from his
home.
  In October, 1869, a patient of the Doctor's resid-
ing in Missouri, sent to Fitz  Hugh Ludlow  a
small phial of the Antidote, which  he  carefully
tested.  Mr.  Ludlow then wrote to the doctor,
Nov. 25, and a correspondence, interrupted only
by Mr.  Ludlow's departure for Europe, was the
result.   Mr. Ludlow desired to test the  remedy,
voluntarily promising;, if the test was satisfactory,
to write an article for both  Harper's Monthly aud
 Weekly, setting forth the facts in the case. 
         HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.       85

  Dr. Collins furnished Mr. Ludlow with sixteen
bottles of his medicine, free of charge; the test
was  carefully and  successfully made,  and  Mr.
Ludlow testified to that fact in his article published
in August.
  The article was written in June, and  previous
to its appearance a determined  effort was made to
form a copartnership between Ludlow, Reed, and
the Doctor.
  Negotiations of this nature being still pending,
the long-looked-for article appeared, which  ren-
dered their favorable termination impossible, and
betrayed the well-laid plan of defrauding the Doc-
tor not only out of his hire, but out of the honor
which was his due.
  Believing,  perhaps, in the probability of a part-
nership being formed, Ludlow had written the
article  in such a manner as to completely conceal
the discoverer of the remedy, and place the honor
upon himself.
  So completely was Dr. Collins ignored, that his
name was not mentioned, and  Henry Read was
named  as the person  to whom all inquirers should
apply.
  And to make room for this article, Mr. Ludlow
withheld an advertisement designed for Harper's,
and in which the name of Dr.  Collins appeared.
  But  it is not necessary to impute any ill intent
to the  writer, says the  Easy Chair—his " article
was not as frank as it should have been "—but it 
86       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
was fully as frank as the Easy Chair's " Explana-
tion " in November.
  Then commenced the war with Mr  Reed, who
held,  by the authority of Ludlow's  article, the
destinies of the discovery.
  To  correct the misrepresentations of Ludlow's
article,  and to wrest  from  Mr.  Reed authority
to which  he was  not  entitled, " Theriaki" was
published.
  Mr. Reed, seeing to what his actions threatened
to bring  him, and  tired  perhaps, of the war,
gracefully surrendered, and  went at the work of
righting the wrong.  He used his influence with
the Easy Chair to have the misrepresentation cor-
rected, and the honor given to the real discoverer
of the Remedy.
  This the Easy Chair unconditionally promised
to do, in the following  letter, dated Sept.  5,  1870,
and addressed  to Henry Read:
  " Dear Sir :  I have received  both your last
letters and have  carefully considered what you
say.
  " It is too  late to speak of the  subject in the
next  number  of the magazine, which is already
in press;  but  in  the  following number I shall
state upon your authority  that  Mr. Collins  is the
inventor and proprietor;  that you and Mr. Lud-
low testify to  its efficacy; and  that I, of course,
cannot  know  whether you or he have any other
than  a  philanthropic  interest  in it.   That you 
         HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.       87

have had such  an interest hitherto, yon say in
your letters, although  you also say it  was  for
Ludlow's benefit.   There is no harm in that, but
there is great harm in giving another impression,
which Ludlow's letter certainly did..  Yours,
   " (Signed),
"The Easy Chair of Harper's  Magazine."
   There are two points in this letter worthy of
mention:  The direct promise to  state  that Dr.
Collins was "the inventor and proprietor,"—and
the honest indignation against the wrong impres-
sion  conveyed by Ludlow's letter.
   Mr. Read, having  written  Dr.  Collins to the
effect that the correction would be  made, the doc-
tor forwarded  that portion of the  letter to the
" Easy Chair."
   In the reply the Easy Chair forgets  its  une-
quivocal promise, but still expresses indignation
at the deception:
   " Sept.  27, '70.—The Easy Chair of Harper's
Magazine has* read Mr. Collins' note and  inclo-
sure.
   "Long before, however, it had decided,  upon
further  consideration, not  io advertise Mr. Col-
lins  as  the  proprietor of the Antidote  men-
tioned by Mr. Ludlow in an  article which the
Easy Chair  would not have inserted had it  been
as fully informed upon the subject as it  now is."
   This  much for the promise of the Easy Chair
of Harper's Magazine. 
88       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.

  Although perfectly aware of the deception that
had  been used,—by no  means ignorant of  the
injury that had been done—and still crying  out
against  it,—any just explanation of the matter
was refused
  Well, the November number of Harper appeared
and in it there was an " Explanation."
  Again the name  of  Dr. Collins  was oinilted,
though  the Easy  Chair knew the facts—and an
attempt made to cast an  air of suspicion around the
whole matter—a statement being made in regard
to the amount charged, which was in  letter and
in spirit a glaring  falsehood.   So much for the
promise and  "Explanation"  of the Easy Chair.
to right the wrong.
  The importance  of  the matter,  both  to Dr.
Collins  and  to  Opium  Eaters  everywhere,  de-
manded that at least one more attempt be made.
  Moral suasion  had entirely failed—no appeals
from  suffering  humanity, no  considerations  of
justice or of right, whatever, could move the Easy
Chair—it now remained to try money.
  Dr. Collins then wrote to the Easy Chair, inclos-
ing fifty dollars,—briefly reviewing the facts already
knoivn to its occupant,—and concluding: " 1 have
to request that yon  would, in your own way, and
no matter how briefly, set this matter at rest, once
and  forever,  by giving through the Easy  Chair
the credit of the discovery to whom  it rightly
belongs.   This  no less for the benefit  ot Opium
JSaters than to further  my own interests." 
HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.       89
  The result  was  the  following  letter, which
plainly showed that not money even would incline
the Easy Chair to do a simple act of justice:
  New York, Oct.  24, 1870.—Sir: I  have  a
note from you of the 17th inst., inclosing a money
order for $50, and you request that  certain things
shall be stated  in this department of the magazine.
  " The late Mr. Ludlow wrote a note which was
published iu  that  department,  alluding to an
Opium Antidote, and mentioning Mr. Henry Read,
of Lowell, as the person to be inquired of.
  " What arrangements  Mr. Ludlow and  Mr.
Read  may have had, the  Easy Chair does not
know.  But no assertion whatever has been made
in regard to you, nor does the  Easy Chair  pro-
pose to make any—certainly not in consideration
of money.
  " Advertisements should be  addressed *to the
publisher of the magazine.
  " I inclose to you the money sent by you.
  " Yours,
  " (Signed)
  "The Easy  Chair  of Harper's  Maga-
zine."
  Under date  of September 5,  the Easy Chair
promised to state that Dr. Collins was the discov-
erer of the Antidote.  Under date of  October 24,
no statement whatever had been  made regarding
him.  If consistency be a jewel, the  Easy Chair
would make a  good setting. 
90       HISTORY OF AN OPIUM EATER.
  It became evident that the Easy Chair occupied
a position entirely out of sight  of the Scales of
Justice, and the Doctor, as a last resort, fowarded
to Harper  ct Bros., an  advertisement, which, on
account of its peculiarly objectionable " nature," I
reproduce here:
             " THE OPIUM HABIT.
  " Fitz Hugh LudloAv's letters upon the subject
of the Opium Habit, together with a full explana-
tion of the discovery referred to by him in the Au-
gust number of this  magazine,—" Theriaki  and
their Last Dose,"—will be sent to any address free
of charge.
  " Address the discoverer of the Antidote,
                 " Samuel B. Collins, etc."
  This advertisement  was mailed upon the 1st of
December.   No  acknowledgment  of its receipt
having  been received,  a letter  of inquiry  was
mailed upon the  12th.
  No notice having been taken of either  letter, a
telegram was sent upon  the 19th, which elicited
the following, to which  the attention of Opium
Eaters is called:
  " New York, Dec. 20.—S. B. Collins: Ad-
vertisements of such  a nature, don't  wish  to in-
sert.  (Signed)              Harper & Bros.
  This, then, was the  end of the  whole matter. A
gross  misrepresentation had  been made in   the
columns of the .Easy  Chair—that dipartment of 
history of an opium eater.       91
tire magazine, though entirely cognizant of the
fact, refused to make the  correction,—forcing an-
other misrcpresenation upon the heels of a prom-
ise to rectify—and finally declining to insert for
money an advertisement  on " account of its na-
ture,"—fully as  unexceptionable  as any that has
ever appeared in the columns of that very select
magazine.
  And thus ends the story, interesting  inasmuch
>is it proves the  disinterested humanity  of the
Easy Chair, and its  unfaltering devotion to what
it believes to be right.
  Poorly told as it has necessarily been, it may
furnish food for reflection for those poor souls who
have been  misled as I was misled, and caused to
suffer as.I  suffered,  by an act of injustice, which
a single word could have  made right.
  As for me, the Easy  Chair, in giving place to
Ludlow's  article,  had  brightened my  hope and
lightened   my  heart, but it  cruelly dashed my
hopes, and  I turned  from it with a heavier feeling
at my heart than I had  ever known before.
  For the harbor which I finally reached, for the
smiling sky and  quiet sea above and around me, I
cannot thank Harper—for I reached  that harbor
despite the false  lights that were ranged along the
shore.
  I remained in La Porte one week, and, taking
a supply of medicine sufficient to effect a cure, I
started  for  my home anything  but the* hollow- 
92       HISTORY of an opium eater.
hearted ghost that the quiet  Hoosiers  stared at
with mouths wide open.
   It has now been thirty days since I touched a
grain of Morphia, and I have gained so wonder-
fully in weight, in strength, and in looks that my
friends are  wont to pass me by unrecognized.
   Because  of the  fulness of my he?rt,  and that
other poor souls may know and feel my happiness,
this  letter  is  written—and  that said, my whole
interest in the matter is told.
                                   G. A. T. 
THE OPIUM HABIT.            93
  Since  the  issuance  of the  first  edition of
" Theriaki,"  the  number of patients has steadily
increased, until there now stand  upon the books
nearly six hundred uames.
  Persons  of all  ages and conditions of life—
strong men and  weak  women:—persons afflicted
with almost every ill to which flesh is  heir, have
been treated and cured, and so very  many of  the
questions which patients would be led to ask may
be anticipated in these pages.
  There are some who, when they find that from
the first dose  of the  Antidote  all desire  and
necessity for  Opium  in  any form  disappear,
become fearful that they  are still using in some
form  or other, the drug from whose baneful  in-
fluence they would escape.
  If  the fact that Opium does not antidote itself
be borne in mind, and the patient remembers that
no painless process of gradual diminution has ever
been  discovered, the  idea will  be  at once, dis-
missed.
  To bring the patient from  under  the power of
Opium without pain, requires that the  undue ten-
sion  of the  nervous system be not too suddenly
lessened, and so,  as  the  drug is suddenly with-
drawn,  the Antidote supplies for  the time being,
its place, at  the same time expelling  the  poison 
94
THE OPIUM HABIT.
from the s}'stem, aud restoring ita nervous ener-
gies.
  The Antidote holds the nervous system in  the
same condition of rest or  unrest in which it finds
it—lessening its tension so gradually as to be im-
perceptible to the patient.
  Local  and transient  causes have  their  effects
upon the strongest—there are times when  we all
feel languid and despondent—and to no person do
these uncomfortable  feelings come oftener thau to
the confirmed Opium Eater.
  A patient while  undergoing  treatment most
generally watches  with the greatest anxiety the
progress  of the cure—is particularly sensitive  to
every change of feeling—and so is  very  apt  to
give great prominence  to a  symptom  which  at
other times would pass unnoticed.
  It is  not strange  that  in the great process  of
elimination, and before  the  organs  of the body
have resumed their functions, the patient  should
feel at times a sensation  of weariness—a lack of
ambition.
  But as no actual pain is felt, and as such symp-
toms are always transient, the patient should by
no means lose courage in the efficacy of the Anti-
dote.
  There  have beeu two instances where an over-
sensitive patient, experiencing this feeling of las-
situde, has  laid aside  the Antidote  and  again
resorted to Opium.   A  most unfortunate  combi- 
THE OPIUM  HABIT.
95
 nation of circumstances has at once appeared—for
 while the  Antidote is a  perfect substitute  for
 Opium, Opium is not a perfect substitute for  the
 Antidote.
   It sometimes happens  that  patients, feeling
 under the  invigorating influence of the Antidote
 an increase of  nervous  power to which they have
 long been strangers, labor or exercise beyond their
 strength, thus bringing on a relaxed condition of
 the  nervous system.  At such  times they occa-
 sionally complain that the Antidote has not suffi-
 cient sustaining power.
   Dr. Collins wishes it understood that while  the
 ordinary affairs  of  every-day life  need  not  be
 interrupted during treatment, the medicine is  not
 designed to furnish strength for  unusual  labor.
   While Dr. Collins guarantees a cure .in every
 case in which all directions are  scrupulously fol-
 lowed, he wishes it distinctly understood that he
 neither guarantees a cure, or holds himself in any
 way responsible  for any evil  effects which  might
 result from a violation of his explicit directions.
 Dr.  Collins  wishes here to warn patients from
allowing any parties, whether Opium  Eaters or
 not,  to take, or even taste, the medicine prepared
for another.
   To save a multiplicity of questions, and that
 patients may never  be at a loss  to know what is
expected of them, it is thought best to  give  the
following 
96            THE OPIUM HABIT.
                  DIRECTIONS.
  Opium  in every form  must be entirely discon-
tinued from  the  first  dose  of the Antidote, and
never, under any circumstances whatever, be re-
sorted to again.
  All acids—including, of course, fruits that are
s«»ur,  and  all spirituous or malt liquors, must  be
entirely avoided.
  The use  in any  form whatever of Mercury,
Strychnia, Arsenic  and  Belladonna, is strictly
forbidden
  Mineral  Waters,   Sedlitz  Powders,  Hydrate
Chloral and preparations of Indian  Hemp, are
also forbidden.
  Should it any time become necessary to employ
the services  of a physician, the  patient  should
particularly warn him against the use  of any arti-
cle above mentioned.
  The doses are to be taken with regularity, and
exactly as directed upon  each  label—and  should
never be increased or diminished except by direc-
tion of Dr. Collins.
  Should the patient be  troubled with  constipa-
tion, the action of the bowels may be regulated
by the use of from  one to three of  Tilden's Im-
proved Cathartic Pills.   Where the Pills cannot
be obtained, the patient may use any mild  cathar-
tic which does not contain Calomel. 
               THE OPIUM HABIT.             97

  Diarrhea,  which seldom  occurs during  treat-
ment, may  be checked  with  the following pre-
scription :
  Tinct.  Capsicum..................................... 1 ounce.
  Tinct. Myrrh.......................................... 1 drachm.
  Tannic Acid...........................................10 grains.
  Simple Syrup.......................................... 3 ounces.
  Mix.  Dose : Twenty drops to a Teaspoonful
every three hours.
  Never doubting in the ultimate result of the
treatment,  let  the patient be hopeful—following,
with the utmost care, the directions given.
* 
98
THE OPIUM HABIT.
         TO PERSONS ORDERING  MEDICINE.
   It is not strange that there  are many counter-
 feits before  the public—medicines which, in color
 and taste resemble veiy closely  the medicine com-
 pounded by Dr. Collins.
   Such a medicine, but devoid, of course, of  the
 wonderful  powers  of the genuine  Antidote, is
 compounded in the city of La Porte.
   That patients  may not be imposed  upon,  the
 Doctor has taken  precaution  to have his name
 blown in the glass  of each bottle, and  to enclose
 in each box containing the first supply of medi-
 cine to each patient, a copy of Theriaki.
   The patient, by  remembering this, may avoid
 imposition:   None  genuine  unless  the  words,
 "Opium Habit Cured  by Dr.  S. B. Collins,  La
 Porte, Inda.," appear  blown in the glass of each
 bottle—and a copy  of TheYiaki accompanies each
 first shipment.
   From the price list given in  these pages, there
 will be no deviation, it having  been found neces-
sary to work closely to an established rule.
   In cases of absolute poverty,  the person should
obtain from  near  neighbors a sworn certificate of
his or her circumstances, without which, no appeal
for a reduction of price will be  considered.
   It should be remembered that the person should
state the full amount of the  drug  necessary to 
THE OPIUM HABIT.
99
keep the  nerves  in a* perfectly quiet state, for
when a less amount  is given, the medicine fails to
have any beneficial effect.
   A blank  containing  questions to be  answered
is sent to each patient, with the request that it bo
filled out and returned.
   Five dollars per bottle should accompany each
order when  medicine is to be sent, C. O. D.
   Money sent by Post Office Order is always safe.
When  that cannot be done the  letter should be
registered.
   All bills are payable monthly in advance.
   Patients should alw.:y- give Count, and State
plainly.
   Address
                  Dr. Samuel B. Collins,
                               La Porte, Ind, 
100       THE CRITERION OF MERIT.
  If  individual  success  only awakened  honest
emulation and quickened to honorable  rivalry,
this would be a very pleasant world.   But  envy,
detraction and  double dealing are called into  life
by that same  success, just as the sun that ripens
the corn  gives rank  luxuriance to  the weeds
between.  Now Dr. Collins is  the pioneer in
the cure  of the Opium Habit,  his  merits  are
recognized and rewarded, and  it is wonderful to
6ee  how the little city of La  Porte  is  astir with
philanthropists  who have  given  years,  if  not
whole  ages, to the  discovery  of an  antidote  for
the great enslaver  of the  human  race, to-wit,
Opium, and have succeeded    Pamphlets wi'h as
many pages as there are days in a fortnight, come
out like leaves in spring, proclaiming  a year of
jubilee to the  hopeless victims abroad,  forgetting
all the while that "charity begins at home;''  for-
getting, if  not the injunction  " physician, heal
thyself," at  least the homely counsel, "physician,
heal  TtrrNE own!"  One comes  reluctantly (!)
before  the public, clothed with modesty  as with
a garment, at  the earnest solicitation of friends
who have importuned and worried  him outright
into  rescuing  poppy-eating mankind.   Antique
professors come to  resurrection and declare  the
iu w salvation.   You can hardly turn over a massy
st<t!;o  without finding a  philanthropist under it. 
THE CRITERION OF MERIT.       101
They all bleed for suffering  humanity, and shall
not suffering  humanity bleed a little  in return ?
They extend  bottles of  blessing to the human
race with one hand, but  they throw boulders at
Dr. Collins with the other.   One  name  with
a title at both ends, like an elephant,  asserts that
Dr. Collins is " not reliable," to which  Dr. C.
replies that the name aforesaid cannot be surpassed
for re'lie-ab'iUty.  All persons are not alike gifted,
but Dr. C. is content.  He is glad the old fashion
of sacrificing  a cock to  Aesculapius  is obsolete,
else the philanthropists of La Porte,  each claim-
ing a bird for his especial offering, would be fatal
to the poultry of l.a Porte.
   But  Dr. Collins has work much too  serious
and important to trifle by the way with philan-
thropists who have nothing  to do  but save man-
kind, while Dr. Collins has not only to cure the
Opium  Habit, but. also to make money.  He only
wonders  how  whole  life  times   of  profound
research  for  the  discovery  of  an Opium  cure
should  have  ripened simultaneously, and  only
after Dr. Collins' success was  fully assured.
But there being no  pecuniary  advantage in the
solution of this  mystery, Dr.  C.  leaves it  alto-
gether to the  philanthropists themselves.
   Dr. Collins takes this method of  announcing
that he has  made arrangements  to erect at once a
first class, three story marble front building, con-
taining  a laboratory and  spacious  offices  and 
102        THE CRITERION OF MERIT.

consultation rooms on  East  Main Street, Post
Office Block  in the city of La Porte.  The
vast  increase  of his  professional  business  has
compelled  him  to  devise greater  facilities  for
preparing the medicine and meeting the wants of
his patients.  When the new headquarters for the
cure  of the  Opium  Habit are completed, Dr.
Collins will be glad to welcome his friends, and
if  he can render the philanthropists any  service,
they need only drop the boulders outside the door
while they extend to him the  empty and  friendly
hand, and he will do  any neighborly thing  for
them  except  disclosing  the composition   of  the
only painless and certain  remedy ever discovered
—Dr. Collins' OPIUM CU1U:. 
the critekion of merit.       103
              WHAT PATIENTS SAT.
  The following from A. P. Andrew, Jr., who is
one of the oldest, as  he is one of the most  re-
spected citizens of La  Porte, speaks for itself:
                 "La Porte, April 20, 1871.
  " Dr. S. B. Collins :
  Many persons have  written to me wishing  to
know if the cure performed by the Compound
prepared by you  for the Opium Habit sticks, or
in other words, stands the test of time.
  It is now nearly two and a half years since I
was  cured, during which time  I have not used
Opium in any of its preparations, nor any substi-
tute  therefor—and have no inclination to do so.
My health is good for one  of my age—(seventy
years).  You  can make such use of this as you
please.       Respectfully, etc.,
                        A. P. Andrew, Jr."
         " Hastings,  Mich.,  March 5, 1871.
  " Dr. S. B. Collins—Dear Sir :
  I am most happy to  inform you that through
the agency of your medicine I am at last cured of
the Opium Habit.  I do not feel the least desire
for or need of Opium  in any form ; and it is now
nearly three weeks since I left off taking the sub-
stitute.   I have about a bottle  and a quarter left
from the last three vou sent me.   I weigh thirty 
    104       the criterion of merit.

    pounds more than I did a year ago, and  am still
    gaining.   My  wife  thinks I  had  betler consult
    you about a substitute for  ham and  eggs ;  she
    says I keep  her busy  cooking.  I  hardly know
    how to express myself, I feel so different and so
    much more  like  my old  self; and, above all, I
    feel myself no longer a slave.
      But  no one could  appreciate how I feel,  if I
    could tell  it  ever  so well, except those  who have
    been in a similar situation, and suddenly found
    themselves restored  to life, health, and manhood
    again;  and  that, too, without  any pain or incon-
    venience.       Very truly yours,
                               J. C. Ketchum."
      I hereby certify that the following are true ex-
    cerpta from  original  and genuine letters, now on
    file in  my  office,  from patients whom  I have
    treated, or am  now treating for the Opium Habit.
                           Samuel B. Collins.
      Sworn and subscribed to before me, the under-
    signed Justice  of the Peace, the 24th day of April,
    1871.                 J.  Fradenburg, J. P.
      A  lady  patient in Connecticut writes:
      "My head has not been so clear for years.   I
    rest better nights and have a better appetite.  lam
    entirely weaned from Morphia, and don't think I
    could be tempted to ever taste it again.  You may
    well say that your  medicine is the  most  wonder-
    ful discovery of the age—for it is indeed.  There
i   can't be praise enough for it." 
           THE CRITERION OF MERIT.        105

   A lady patieut residing in Illinois writes :
   "Your remedy  is  more than  in my  wildest
dreams I had  ever promised  myself.   I  find  it
every thing, and if possible more, than you claim
for it.  I am doing very nicely, and  shall ever
hear your name with a throb  of gratitude in my
heart.   I feel  a  deep  interest in this  matter—a
strong desire that the unfortunate  class of beings
to whom I so lately  belonged  may be led  to a
knowledge of the aid you can give them."
   A gentleman from Tennessee writes :
   "I must confess my  astonishment at the perfect
results of the Antidote.  From the first  day to
the present I can see an  improvement in health
and also in mind.   That lost and anxious look
has disappeared,  and  I am  again cheerful  ant
happy."
   A gentleman residing in Michigan,after twenty-
five years' habitual  use of Opium, writes:
   "I am a week old to-day, and behold, all things
are new !   Oh, marvellous discovery!  You have
that  in your keeping more  precious  than  the
* golden fleece'  or the  philosopher's stone, which
were sought for so long and sought in vain ! The
good  hand of our God has put in your  hand  a
very Elixir of Life.   I  was never so happy—
never so well in my life.
   " To no man living have I so graceful  a sense
of debt as to you, for  you cannot  weigh out the
price thereof in gold ;  it is not a debt of dollars." 
106       THE CRITERION OF MERIT.
  A gentleman residing in New York, after taking
one bottle of the Antidote, writes :
  " Your Opium Antidote is the wonder of the
age.   I left off taking Morphia and began taking
the Antidote, experiencing no  bad feelings.  I
slept well each night, and had a good appetite all
the time.  The  half has never been told of the
wonderful  properties ot  the  medicine.   I  had
tried different times to break myself of  the habit,
but failed each  time, and suffered more than a
person with  the delirium tremens.  But I am
fully cured, and  feel an  hundred per cent, better
than when taking Morphia."
  A physician of eminence in Virginia writes:
  " Your compound seems to contain everything
requisite for the  broken down, sensitive system of
the Opium  Eater.   It works  like  magic in  its
sustaining, invigorating, and  tranquilizing effects
upon a worn  out system, all of which  properties
are essential in such  a curative, and are most har-
moniously blended.
   " I regard it as a  substitute,  antidote, and the
finest stimulant  I have ever  known.   It satisfies
and  gratifies the cravings for stimulants without
producing the  usual disagreeable  after conse-
quences."
   A distinguished lawyer of Rhode Island, writes:
   "I  have  never suffered for a single moment,
and the only difficulty I find is to think of it and
take the medicine regularly.   I feel perfectly sat- 
THE CRITERION  OF MEIilT.        107
isfied, and  perfectly well.  The p:ii-.t winter has
been  one of unusual  trial to me.   I  have been in
Court almost, every day without exception, since
I commenced taking the medicine.   I feel perfectly
clear, and can bear any amount of fatigue and hard
brain work.
   "Say to  the world that it  is the greatest, most
wonderful and most priceless  boon and discovery
ever offered to suffering humanity in this or any
other age."
   From Indiana a patient writes :
   " Thanks be to God, dear Sir, for your wonder-
ful and  painless  cure—for it is painless in the
strictest  sense,  I having  felt  better  every way,
from  the  first  dose—much  better  than when in
regular use of the wily drug.  My  skin cleared
up—my eyes  brightened, and what was still  bet-
ter my original  elasticity and clearne^ of intellect
returned to me.  My sleep became  natural  and
refreshing—no more  twitching of my nerves, and
starting up  in my sleep—my appetite constantly
improving, sensibility of my bowels returning—
all my secretions resuming a  normal character.
In a  word, I  feel  like a  new man—am  made
over—becoming young again" 
108          WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.
                WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.
   The remedy of Dr. Collins has  been tested in hundreds
of cases without a single failure,  and Fitz Hugh Ludlow,
after thoroughly testing it, declared it to be the most won-          J
derful  discovery of the nineteenth century.—Buffalo Courier
   Dr. Collins, as the discoverer of a  painless  cure for the
Opium habit, has conferred as great a  blessing upon human-
ity as did Jenner in his discovery of vaccinal ion, or Guthrie-
in his discovery of chloroform. — Chicago  Journal.
   It is known that the greatest efforts haye been put forth
to find some remedy or help by which the terrible victims
of the  Opium habit might  be enabled to get  rid of their
chains.  The result had been, till lately,  like the search for
the elixir of life—all in vain.   Fitz Hugh Ludlow—himself
a victim—says, "it had been his life's  ruling passion,  a very
agony  of seeking to find some  antidote  for the evil."  In
vain DeQuincy, another  illustrious  victim,  wailed  out,
"the chain must be loosed and unwound,  link by link, from
the end back to the beginning; and not one in  ton thousand
is able  to endure the prolonged anguish. Nature has yielded
her secret.   Help has  come,—perfect,  complete, painless.—
Herald, Leslie, Mich.
   Opium.—The honor of the  discovery of Chloroform—
assuredly one of the most beneficent discoveries  ever  made
in medicine—must be shared  between Guthrie, Soubeiran
and Leibig, each having discovered   it at  about the same
time, in the year 1831.
   But in 18G8 a discovery was made which in  its power of
benefiting humanity is not second to Chloroform, and  which
for years has defied the  unwearied search of some  of tho
mosteminent of medical men.
   We  refer to the discovery of Dr. Samuel B. Collins, of
La Porte, Ind., a painless cure for the Opium Habit.—N. Y
Independent. 
WHAT THE PRESS SAYS.          10£
    In the April number of the New Church  Independent is
published a letter from California, detailing a history of the
trials of one of our townsmen, in his efforts to prevent Fitz
Hugh  Ludlow—a  writer  for  Harper's   Magazine—from
swindling him out of the benefits arising from the discov-
ery of a very important medicine, for the cure of the Opium
Habit.  The fact of the discovery is well  known  to  nearly
all of our local readers, but the course pursued by Eastern
sharpers to swindle Dr. Collins is known to but few, and the
article in the Independent will be read with interest, not only
by those who are seeking relief from the slavery of Opium,
but by  all  parties who feel that right should prevail and
merit receive its just reward.   Dr.  C. made this  discovery
in the summer of 1868, but his circumstances were not such
as to enable him to bring it immediately before the public.
By some hocus pocus the great Fitz Hugh Ludlow,  who waa
himself an Opium Eater, learned the efficacy of the  medi-
cine, and deliberately planned to cheat Dr.  Collins  out of
the  honors and emoluments justly his  due.  But we are
happy to chronicle the fact that he met with signal failure.
His schemes were  completely thwarted, and the Doctor
remains in undisturbed enjoyment of the  fruits of his great
discovery.   His  business is  rapidly increasing and he  has
the  perfect confidence of an  immense number of patients
and correspondents.   His success is a feather in the cap of
La  Porte,  and his course  will teach Eastern sharpers to
seek victims elsewhere than in our little  Forrest city.— La
Porte Argus. 
 
m
  Da  Collins has  received  letters from  several patients
enclosing  a small pamphlet  prepared by  somebody in La
Porte, who is ambitious to be  a boon to his fellow-beings.
  Of \he pamphlet and the pamphleteer, Dr  Collins has
only to say that the pamphleteer in question might, perhaps,
find fit subjects for his wonderful skill within his own imme-
diate family.
  But the Doctor deems it an act of justice to his patients
to assure them that however  names have been obtained by
the person in question,  it  has certainly been after the
packages bearing those names have left the Doctor's office
and passed into the custody of the Express Company ; and
to state further  that he has  taken such measures as  will
effectually prevent any tampering with his private corres
pondence in the future. 
KOTIOE.
   NO  MEDICINE  iS  GENUIx^

       UNLESS PUT UP IN BOTTLES UPON WHICH THE WORPS

Opium Habit Cured by Dr. S. B. Gollii s,

                  La Porte, Indiana,

       appear blown In the glass,—and unless a copy of


               THERIAKI

Accompanies eaoh first shipment. All letters of inquiry, and orders for
              medicine should be addressed to

                           Du.  S. B. COLLINS,

                                     La Porte, Ind.



Dr. Collj»9 refers to—
           F. West, Druggist, La Porte.
           Ireland & Mkrritt, Druggists, La Porte.
           A. P. Andrew, Jr. Banker, La Porte.
           H. L. Weaver, Cash. B. Bank, La Porte.
           R. S. Morrison, Cash. 1st Nat. Bank, La Porte.
           Dwight Fraser, Postmaster, La Porto.
           Q  H. Churchill, Express  Agent.
           Geo. M. Dakin, M. D., La Porte.
           R. C. Hall, Groton, N. Y.
           John Darling, Wallaceburg, Canada.
           J. S. Ralston, Indiana,  Pa.
           C. B. Tilden, Washington, D. C.
           Mas. H. S. Davis, Chicago, IU.
           B. F. Taylor, La Porte, Ind. 
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