ELECTRICAL TREATMENT OF DISEASES. 
BY S. W. BECKWITH. 
During more than a hundred years, since the year 1744, 
when a German physician, named Kratzenstein, reported that 
he had cured a case of paralysis of a finger by sparks drawn 
from a common electrical machine, intelligent men have zeal- 
ously sought the way (which they conjectured did exist), to 
cure diseases through the agency of Electricity. Every few 
years some new facts were added to those previously known, 
and although no one of them alone seemed to be important, in 
the aggregate they led men of more than ordinary knowledge 
and mental power to make discoveries in connection with Elec- 
tric force, until the numerous and various facts were system- 
atically arranged and constituted Electric Science. In Ger- 
many, France, Italy and England, as well as in the United 
States, while philosophers were investigating the source or 
cause of electric force and the laws which govern it, others 
were busy in devising machines to render it available in the 
treatment of diseases, especially those which involve disorder 
of the nerve-power, as palsies. The manifestations of nerve- 
force are, in the opinion of some, so analogous to the mani- 
festations of the electric force, that many were prepared to 
admit that the human organism is itself intrinsically, in its 
material constitution, merely a wonderfully complex electro- 
galvanic machine, in which tissues of different composition and 
density react on each other through the medium of the blood, 
and produce nervous or electrical manifestations, very much 
in the same manner as different metals through the medium of 
acid or saline solutions react on each other to produce gal- 
vanic electricity. Then, the idea was added that through the 
agency of nervous force thus generated all corporeal functions 2 
are carried on, until the organism breaks down through dis- 
turbance of the balance between the various parts, or the total 
destruction of some function essential to life, when the soul 
separates from the body. 
Many were the fruitless efforts made to control and direct 
electro-galvanic force in restoring equilibrium to the disturbed 
or disordered nerves; and also many were the surprising res- 
torations to health through this agency. But as knowledge 
of the laws which govern the various and many functions of 
the body was increased, the application of Electricity in the 
treatment of disease became more apparent and more and 
more certain. 
In skillful hands the electric current has become a search- 
ing investigator, wffiich speedily determines the seat of dis- 
ordered action in the body, and then is at once converted into 
an instrument for its correction. But only in skillful or in- 
structed hands is the efficacy of electric force made apparent 
in this sense. One who has not studied carefully, and long 
practiced the various modes of applying the currents, so that 
they shall be precisely adapted to the condition under examin- 
ation, will simply inflict pain and loss of time without any ad- 
vantage, whatever he may hope or promise to achieve. 
The application of Electricity in the treatment of diseases, 
needs time and a certain degree of manipulating skill, which 
special study and familiarity with the apparatus only can im- 
part. Medical practitioners, largely engaged in business, can- 
not give sufficient time to apply electricity, although drilled 
in the use of the machine, even if it could be conveniently 
borne from house to house. But, such cases as may have 
failed to be relieved by the customary prescription, and be- 
come eligible, in their judgment, for electric treatment, will 
be better served, (it is submitted,) by one who devotes himself 
to the manipulation of the electro-galvanic and galvanic ap- 
paratus alone in their applications to the cure of disease, than 
by the practitioner who has had little or no experience in the 
use of these forces. In other words, the administration of 
Electricity is an art in itself as distinct from the practice or 3 
prescribing of medicine, as the preparation of drugs for ad- 
ministration to the sick by chemists and apothecaries. The 
undersigned will be pleased to administer Electricity in all its 
various forms for medical purposes to such patients as practi- 
tioners may do him the honor to confide to his electrical mani- 
pulation, administering either induced or direct currents, as 
the physician may 
The treatment of diseases through the agency of electric 
forces, is not based on fallacious pretensions, nor is it put forth 
to cajole the afflicted to part -with money without expectation 
or hope of returning, in services, an equivalent for it. It 
rests on experiment and careful observation by philosophical 
minds of the highest order both in Europe and this country. 
It is now recognized among the established means employed 
by scientific physicians of the highest reputation.* When 
properly applied no inconvenience or pain accompanies its use, 
* See, A Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology. Bypeorge B. Wood, 
M.D., President of the College of Physicians, of Philadelphia, Professor of the 
Theory and Practice of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, &c., &c. 
Philadelphia, 1856. 
Also, General Therapeutics and Materia Medica, adapted for a medical text- 
book. By Robley Dunglison, M.D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine, &c., 
in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1843. 
Also, The Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. By Jonathan 
Pereira, M.D., F.R.S., L.S. Third American edition, enlarged and improved 
by the author. Including notices of most of the medicinal substances in use 
in the civilized world, and forming an encyclopedia of materia medica. Edited 
by Joseph Carson, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy in the 
University of Pennsylvania, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadel- 
phia, etc. Philadelphia, 1857. 
Electricity as a remedial agent is fully described in the first volume. 
Also, Therapeutics and Materia Medica. A systematic treatise on the action 
and uses of medicinal agents, including their description and history. By 
Alfred Stille, M.D., late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in 
the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, &c., &c. Philadelphia, 
1860. 
In this work the subject is ably presented. 
Also, A Treatise on Medical Electricity, theoretical and practical, and its 
use in the treatment of paralysis, neuralgia, and other diseases. By J. Alt- 
haus, M.D. Philadelphia, 1860. 
Many other works might be referred to, to sustain the statement that elec- 
tricity is regarded as an established means of curing many diseases. This 
fact seems to be overlooked by a great majority of medical practitioners as 
well as by the public generally. 4 
nor is there a case recorded of any evil or disastrous effect re- 
sulting from it. But, on the contrary, very many patients, 
who have been abandoned to their fate by physicians who had 
no knowledge of the wonderful powers of electricity to modify 
the condition of the nervous system, without the agency of 
which system no vital function is performed, have been saved 
from death and restored to vigorous health, to the amazement 
of medical men and other witnesses. 
Recently, M. Ndlaton, a distinguished teacher of Surgery in 
Paris, read to the Academy of Sciences an essay on the mode 
of destroying tumors by Electricity, according to a method first 
proposed by Dr. Tiniselli, an Italian, and related how he had 
destroyed a polypus in the nose by six applications, without 
inflicting any suffering on the patient. In our hands very 
many such benign morbid growths have been removed by simi- 
lar means; and very many malignant tumors, described under 
the terms bleeding cancer, soft cancer, and hard cancer, have 
been promptly and radically cured. 
The malignancy of Cancer in all its various forms is well 
known, and no scientific surgeon regards it other than as a 
most afflicting and dreadful malady. Yet, under a proper ad- 
ministration of Electricity it is forced to disappear, but it has 
never yielded to any other means. We refer to many who 
can testify to the truth of this assertion.* 
Scirrhus or Hard Cancer, may b# known from other swellings 
by the strange hardness of the tumor, by its lancinating or 
darting pain, and also by the cancerous habit of body, known 
by the patient being languid and emaciated, with a leaden or 
wan complexion and a bad digestion. This form of disease 
rarely shows itself before thirty. It attacks the female breast 
and uterus, and also the testes of the male; and in either sex 
it may occur in the skin, stomach and liver. 
Soft Cancer, Bloody Cancer, Fungus Haematodes, Encepha- 
* See page 307, New Remedies: with formulae for their administration. 
By Robley Dunglison, M.D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, &c., in 
the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Sixth edition. Philadelphia, 
1851. 5 
loid disease are various terms applied to a disease which commen- 
ces as a soft, rounded, elastic Tumor, free from severe pain, 
and is attached to the surrounding parts with which it is blen- 
ded at its circumference. It grows rapidly and is full of 
blood, so that the skin covering it soon becomes purple, and 
the veins around it full and tortuous. After a time, throbbing 
pain is felt, but not nearly so severe as that of scirrhus. The 
tumor points and ulcerates, discharging a bloody fluid, and a 
fungus, which grows rapidly, shoots up from the opening, and 
from its surface a fluid is poured out, which is sometimes serum 
slightly stained with blood and pus, or sometimes blood itself 
in large quantities. Generally after the removal of scirrhus 
by the knife, this kind of disease shows itself. It may be 
known from scirrhus by the absence of hardness and darting 
pain, by its quicker growth and larger size, by its being more 
full of blood, and more inclined to bleed, and by its attacking 
persons of all ages. 
All forms of Cancer may be successfully treated by Elec- 
tricity. We have specimens of large growth brought away by 
our peculiar manner of operating, by Electricity, without the 
aid of the knife, ligatures, or any other means, which can be 
seen by those interested. See, also, certificctes of cures by us. 
Indolent swellings and scrofulous enlargement of the glands 
of the neck are dissipated by the same agency. 
Fistula is a long narrow channel which has been left un- 
healed after the formation of an abscess. Fistula in Ano and 
Fistula in Perineo are of this kind. They are curable by 
Electric treatment. 
Diabetes, or an immoderate flow of urine, which may be 
limpid, or sweet-tasting, containing sugar, sometimes in large 
proportion. Diabetes is attended with emaciation and general 
prostration of strength both bodily and mental, together with 
other symptoms of constitutional derangement. See certifi- 
cates in another part of this pamphlet. 
For the benefit of those proposing to undertake Electrical 
treatment, we give the following list of diseases most common 
to our practice, in all of which we are very successful. Those 6 
afflicted with diseases not here given, by application at our 
office or communicating by letter, stating the case fully, will 
receive a candid reply. Consultation free. 
1. Diseases of the Brain and Nervous System.—Epilepsy, 
Chorea or St. Vitus’ Dance, Paralysis (Hemiplegia and Para- 
plegia), Neuralgia, Hysteria, Nervousness, Palpitation of the 
Heart, Lockjaw, &c., &c. 
2. Organs and Tissues connected with the Digestive System. 
—Sore Throat, Dyspepsia, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Obstinate 
Constipation, Haemorrhoids or Piles, Bilious, Flatulent, and 
Painter’s Colic, and all affections of the Liver and Spleen. 
3. Uespiratory Organs.—Catarrh, Cough, Influenza, Asth- 
ma (when not caused by organic disease of the heart), Bron- 
chitis, Pleurisy, Pleurodynia or Rheumatism of the Chest, 
Consumption, in the early stages. 
4. Fibrous and Muscular System.—Rheumatism, Gout, 
Lumbago, Stiff Neck, Spinal Curvature, Hip Diseases, Can- 
cers, Tumors. 
5. Urinary and Grenital Organs.—Gravel, Diabetes, and 
Kidney Complaints, Impotence and Seminal Weakness. The 
atter complaints never fail to yield rapidly to this treatment. 
6. Diseases peculiar to Females.—Uterine Complaints, in- 
volving a mal-position, as Prolapsus, Anteversion, Retrover- 
sion, Inflammation, Ulceration, and various other affections of 
the Womb, and Ovaries, Painful, Suppressed, Scanty or Pro- 
fuse Menstruation, Leucorrhoea. 
Rigidity and contraction of the muscles following acute or 
chronic rheumatism; anchylosed or stiff joints resulting from 
inflammations; and even spinal deformities have yielded 
promptly to this subtle force, as medical records prove; but 
infallibility is not claimed for this, though more can be said in 
its favor than for any other remedy described in works on ma- 
teria medica. It succeeds very often after all other means 
have been industriously but vainly tried. 
In his “Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology, or 
Materia Medica,” Professor George B. Wood, of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, classes Electricity among the diffusible 7 
stimulants. He speaks of faridisation, that is, the employ- 
ment of induced electricity, in the treatment of palsy of long 
duration after cerebral haemorrhage; palsy of the face and 
tongue; palsy of the spine; palsy from wounds; rheumatic 
palsy; hysterical palsy; lead palsy; muscular wasting from a 
general palsy or abatement of nervous power; palsy of the 
bladder; painful urination; incontinence of urine; impotence; 
palsy of the rectum; prolapsus or falling of the gut; “obsti- 
nate cases of prolapsus in children have been promptly cured 
by this treatment,” says Professor Wood; palsy of the larynx 
with loss of voice; loss of sensibility of the skin; amaurosis, 
or blindness from paralysis of the optic nerve; deafness from 
paralytic condition of the auditory nerve; loss of smell; loss 
of taste, and stammering, when dependent on debility of the 
muscles of the tongue; conditions of general relaxation or 
torpor, as of the muscles; dyspepsia; torpid liver; “ constipa- 
tion, dependent on inertia of the bowels, has often been treated 
advantageously by electricity;”* amenorrhoea or suspension of 
menstrual flux; (Dr. Golding Bird, a distinguished London 
physician, states that he has never known Electricity to fail in 
exciting menstruation when the uterus was capable of per- 
forming that function); a cool, inactive state of the skin; 
indolent ulcers ;s neuralgias; excessive cutaneous sensibility; 
excessive sensibility of the muscles; sciatica, lumbago, pleuro- 
dyriia, torticolles, especially when of a neuralgic or gouty 
character; hysteria; epilepsy; chorea, or St. Vitus’ dance; 
spasmodic asthma; and aneurisms. He states that all these 
various forms of disease have been successfully treated by Elec- 
trization, and in many instances, almost as if by enchantment. 
Various affections peculiar to women, are successfully man- 
aged by Electrization, administered by Mrs. Beckwith, who 
has had a large experience in hospitals and elsewhere. 
Physicians or students desiring to have instruction in the 
correct application of Electricity for the cure of disease, can 
apply at the office for terms, &c. 
* Professor George B. Wood—Therapeutics. 8 
In conclusion, the reader is respectfully referred to the 
persons whose names are appended, as they have had an op- 
portunity to judge of the efficacy of Electricity on themselves. 
'There is scarcely any form of chronic disorder which may 
not be cured, and therefore all who are afflicted are invited to 
apply for information to 
DR. S. W. BECKWITH, 
No. 1220 Walnut Street, 
Philadelphia. 
For the convenience of those desiring information, we give 
(by permission) a few names of persons among the best busi- 
ness men and others of this city, whom we have treated and 
cured. Certificates will be found elsewhere to whom applica- 
tion may be made if desired. 
REFERENCES. 
Hon. J. M. Butler, 730 S. Tenth street, Philadelphia. 
J. W. Bradley, 66 N. Fourth street, Philadelphia. 
Col. T. W. Sweeney, Walnut street below Eighth, Philadelphia. 
George 0. Evans, 418 Arch street, Philadelphia. 
Mr. Pelouze, Chestnut and Third streets, Philadelphia. 
Brig. Gen. A. J. Pleasanton, 916 Spruce streets, Philadelphia. 
George Douglass, Fifth street above Chestnut, Philadelphia. 
M. C. Sadler, 639 Arch street, Philadelphia. 
C. S. Emack, 433 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 
Charles Robbins, 1733 Vine street, Philadelphia. 
A. L, Whiteman, corner Third and Market street, Philadelphia. 
William Rowbotham, 1326 Front street, Philadelphia. 
J. B. Andrews, 913 Pine street, Philadelphia. 
M. Errickson, 1322 Pine street, Philadelphia. 
Thomas Stinson, 1314 Front street, Philadelphia. 
W. B. Smith, 1022 Hanover street, Philadelphia. 
George L. Buzby, 913 Market street, Philadelphia. 
Mr. Harris, 1406 Master street, Philadelphia. 
Brig. Gen. A. Pleasanton, St. Louis, Mo. 
Mr. Starr, Camden, N. J. * 
Thomas Gregg, Vineland, N. J. 
Dr. H. P. Baker, Odessa, Del. 9 
CERTIFICATES. 
Rheumatism Cured. 
West Philadelphia, Muywst 27, 1864. 
Db. S. W. Beckwith,—I had been afflicted with Rheumatism since April 
last, very severely, it extending over the entire body, causing the most excru- 
tiating suffering. For several months I was under the best medical care, but 
grew no better, and finally gave you a call, and placed myself under the care 
of your wife. In two weeks I was relieved of all pain, and am now perfectly 
well. I gladly recommend all ladies suffering to her care. 
Mrs. W. E. Rowan, 
West Philadelphia. 
Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured. 
Walnut Street, Philadelphia, April 30, 1865. 
I have been afflicted with Rheumatic pains for the last ten years, and have 
been treated for the same with perfect success by Dr. Beckwith. 
Joseph Collins. 
Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured. 
Philadelphia, Third and Chestnut Streets, Nov. 30, 1865. 
I have, for the last thirty-five years, had attacks of Inflammatory Rheuma- 
tism. A few days since I was again attacked with the same disease, which 
threatened me with a two months’ confinement to my bed, as it had always 
done previously, and learning of Dr. Beckwith’s Electropathic treatment of 
diseases applied to him, and in two applications of ten minutes each was en- 
tirely cured. ’ Lewis Pelouze. 
Cancer of the Stomach Cured. 
Lewisburgh, Pa., Oct. 10, 1865. 
About four years since my health began to fail me. I was taken with a dis- 
tressing dizziness and lightness of the head, ringing of the ears, impaired 
vision, a great sinking, distressed feeling at the stomach, with pain, which in- 
creased to an almost unbearable condition, until finally it was with the great- 
est difficulty I could raise my head from the pillow, and I really despaired of 
my life. Medicines gave me some little relief, for a time, but it returned with 
increased force, and I gave up all hope. At this time my condition was truly 
pitiable. In the midst of my sufferings I learned of your wonderfully success- 
ful mode of applying electricity, through some of your patients, and concluded 
to try you as a last resort. An Electrical examination led to the belief that it 
was Cancer of the Stomach. Your frank assurance gave me hope, which two 
or three applications confirmed into a full belief that you would cure me, and 10 
the result has more than realized my highest anticipations. My dizzy, light 
painful head, my sick, sinking, deathly feeling at the stomach, with its in- 
tensely full feeling, has all disappeared; other pains and aches throughout my 
system have been entirely removed, and I am now thankful to say that I am 
perfectly restored to health and a wonder to myself and friends. I most earn- 
estly recommend it to ladies as a most efficient remedy for all their diseases. 
The treatment has been very gentle, free from shocks or any unpleasant feeling 
whatever. Mrs. J. Y. Cumming, 
Lewisburgh, Pa. 
Cure of Cancer in Three Weeks, 
McDonouoh P. 0., Newcastle Co., Del., Dec. 19, 1865. 
About the last week in June, 1865, I observed, for the first time, a tumor 
over the lower part of my breast bone, about the size of an almond. It in- 
creased in size, grew to be purple or dark red, irregular on the surface, which 
was divided into weals or welts by little furrows. My general health suffered 
and I lost flesh. 
The applications made to it were without avail; and by recommendation of 
my physician I came to Philadelphia and consulted one of its leading surgeons. 
He wrote to my physician, advising that no operation should be attempted, 
and that I should be kept ignorant that I was bearing about with me inevit- 
able death. This I learned some time after it was clear that I was recovering. 
Under such circumstances, a friend recommended a trial of Electric treatment 
by Dr. S. W. Beckwith, No. 1220 Walnut street, Philadelphia. The disease 
was called Bleeding Fungus or Soft Cancer. 
On Friday, November 17th, I began to be treated. On that day, the tumor 
measured four and one-quarter and three and three-quarter inches by three 
inches in thickness. On the 24th day of November, just one week, the tumor 
was three-quarters of an inch smaller, the redness was not so deep, and the 
soreness was almost gone. At the end of the third week, December 8th, the 
tumor had disappeared, there was merely a slight redness where it had been- 11 
I had gained twenty-five pounds of flesh, was hopeful, and felt as well as I 
ever did. 
Now, December 19, the thirty-second day since the commencement of Elec- 
tric treatment, I am perfectly relieved and, as I believe, perfectly freed from a 
malignant disease which, by distinguished medical gentlemen who saw it, was 
considered to be incurable and fatal. 
I am fifty-two years old, reside at McDonough Post Office, in the State of 
Delaware, and follow the trade of blacksmith. 
For the benefit of those who may be afflicted in like manner, I make this 
statement and authorize its publication. John Kirkpatrick. 
Severe Case of Diabetes. 
Odessa, Delaware, Jan. 11, 1866. 
Dr. S. W. Beckwith,—Dear Sir: Permit me to express, in this informal 
manner, my appreciation of your high professional ability as exemplified in 
your attention to me personally while under your treatment of Electricity. I 
consider that I have been rescued from the grave by your valuable remedies. 
I cannot but express my sincere thanks, and assure you of my best wishes for 
your success. My trouble was an old chronic and complicated mass of diseases, 
such as liver disease, diabetes, gravel, ulcerated kidneys and bladder, of nearly 
twenty years’ standing. In August, 1846, I was attacked with the bilious 
fever. I was for several months confined to my bed and room before I could 
get any relief, but never entirely recovered from the attack. During my 
sickness was the first I felt of a disorganization of my urinary organs. I was 
attacked with something like the diabetes; my physician checked it; but im- 
mediately followed a difficulty in urinating, which continued to grow worse 
and worse all the time, notwithstanding I have employed four of the best 
physicians I could get in the neighborhood, but without the slightest benefit. 
I was then attacked with the most excruciating pain in my kidneys, then fol- 
lowed the gravel; my suffering became inexpressible; words are entirely in- 
adequate to express -what I suffered; not a moment, day or night, had I rest, 
except when I was asleep, and that only when nature was completely ex- 
hausted. At that time, if I took the least exercise, particularly riding, my 
discharges would be nearly all blood, which was very painful; then followed 
ulcerations of the kidneys and bladder, with the most awful discharges of mu- 
cus and matter during the night and I presume as much during the day, for I had 
a constant desire to urinate both day and night, attended with the greatest diffi- 
culty in the discharge of my urine and with the most intense pain. Finding 
no relief from our physicians, I then employed a physician in your city but 
with no better success. I then saw advertisements from physicians both in 
New York and Philadelphia. I wrote to both of them stating my difficulties 
and sufferings, but received no encouragement from either of them, supposing 
they considered my case incurable. I then saw your advertisement in one of 
the Philadelphia papers. I then applied to you, and oh! had I words to ex- 
press the gratitude I feel towards you for the great amount of suffering you 
have relieved me of. I feel that you have snatched me out of the very jaws of 
death. Notwithstanding my great relief I do not consider myself entirely 
cured; but could I have continued with you a short time longer, I am satis- 
fied I would have been entirely cured before this. I have no suffering now to 
note, no discharges of this mucus and matter that I have had for years. I am 12 
so well satisfied with your mode of treatment, and the power and force of Elec- 
tricity over all kinds of diseases, that as soon as I can arrange my affairs, I 
will be up for you to make a perfect cure of me. 
I remain, dear sir, yours with the highest regard, 
Jacob Vandegrift. 
Dyspepsia and Nervous Debility Cured. 
329 S. Juniper Street, Philadelphia, Nov. 15, 1865. 
A number of years since, being very actively engaged in business (manu- 
facturing of cotton goods), my nervous system became very greatly exhausted, 
followed by various symptoms, each one adding others, until I found a long 
catalogue of ills, such as great dizziness of the head, reeling sensation upon 
looking up, severe headache, sick stomach, a morbidly diseased appetite, in- 
tense craving for food, costiveness, with great pain and soreness in the stom- 
ach, palpitation of the heart so severe that I could hardly get my breath, un- 
usual restlessness of the whole system, especially at night, inability to sleep, 
continuous coughing for days at a time, numbness of the whole body, with 
cold, chilling sensations, &c., &c. Such a complication of troubles I con- 
sidered beyond the cure of man, and my feelings amounted almost to despair 
at the time of meeting with your advertisement in one of the daily papers. Of 
course it took years for this complication of diseases to fasten itself upon my 
system, but it was all the surer for its gradual inroads on my health. I ap- 
plied to you, and to my utter surprise—and I must say doubt of your ability 
to master so stubborn a case—you told me you could cure me. I ventured 
upon the trial. In one single week one-half my symptoms left; in two weeks I 
was comparatively well, my nerves strong, appetite regular and healthy, dizzi- 
ziness gone, and now I am a well man, strong and hearty, and though fifty 
years of age, feel young in years again. 
I can honestly and heartily recommend all dyspeptics, nervous people, or 
any one troubled with any of my complaints to visit the Doctor, for he can 
cure any one afflicted with any of my diseases when he can cure me of all of 
them. I can heartily recommend the afflicted to his care. E. McClain. 
Consumption Cured, 
Richmond, September 28, 1864. 
This is to certify that about three years ago I was taken with a disease 
which physicians called Consumption. I had a cough, hoarseness, spit blood, 
and became very much reduced. Was under the care of five physicians, and 
have taken a great deal of medicine without relief. In this condition I called 
at No. 1220 Walnut street. After an electrical examination was pronounced 
curable, and under the skillful treatment of Dr. Beckwith, am nearly entirely 
relieved of disease, and expect after a few more treatments, to be entirely re- 
stored to health. I recommend all afflicted to go to No. 1220 Walnut street. 
Solomon May. 
Obstinate Piles Cured in Three Applications. 
Philadelphia, Nov. 25, 1865. 
Some time since I had a very severe attack of Hemorrhoids, or Piles, which 
produced a most intensely agonizing pain and dragging sensation throughout 13 
the whole pelvic region, and especially at the lower extremity of the spine, as 
though it were dislocating every joint and rending every nerve and muscle of 
the parts. Night or day I could find no rest, and was nearly distracted with 
my sufferings. Nothing afforded relief. Finally, after a great deal of suffer- 
ing, I was urged by my daughter, who was under Mrs. B.’s care, to go to Dr. 
Beckwith for his peculiarly effective mode of treating such diseases as mine, 
and to him I applied. He assured me that in ten minutes I would be com- 
paratively free from pain. He fulfilled his promise, for in ten minutes all the 
depressing, bearing-down pain in my back was gone, and I could walk with 
perfect freedom. The next morning there was some return of the pain, but he 
instantly relieved it, and after the third application I was entirely cured. For 
the benefit of those afflicted as I was I give this statement. My residence is 
No. 1327 Front street, Philadelphia, and business the manufacturing of cotton 
and woolen goods. Wm. Rowbotham. 
Nervous Prostration Cured. 
Line Lexington, Montgomery Co., Pa., Jan. 13, 1866. 
Dr. Beckwith,—My Dear Sir: I write to say that now I have been in the 
country over one year, since, broken down and sick, I left my pastorate in your 
city. I feel devoutly thankful to God and to you for my wonderfully improved 
condition. My friends are astonished at the change, no less than myself. I 
look and feel like a new man. My heart has not pained or troubled me a mo- 
ment since you gave me my last treatment. I only wish all the suffering 
knew of your skill and success; and could I do so, I would be glad to pro- 
claim it to the ends of the earth. If any are incredulous send them to me, 
and I feel sure I can convince them of the wonderful power and virtue of Elec- 
trical treatment for the thousand ills humanity is heir to. 
Your sincere friend and brother in Christ, 
N. B. Baldwin, 
Late Pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church, Philadelphia. 
Case of Bronchitis, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Piles and 
Constipation Cured. 
Fox Lake, Wisconsin, July 3, 1865. 
Dr. Beckwith,—Dear Sir: I hardly know how to express, in fitting terms, 
to you my gratitude and thanks for your restoring me to such perfect health 
as I now enjoy. For five years past my health has been in a precarious con- 
dition, and, especially within the past year, I have been very greatly troubled 
with Bronchitis, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Piles and Constipation, 
the latter especially to an alarming extent, and producing other troubles, 
which multiplied so greatly that I despaired of ever recovering my health. I 
had tried medicines and physicians in numbers, and all to no benefit, and when 
all had been tried and failed I accidentally met with your advertisement in a 
Philadelphia paper which had strayed to our village in Wisconsin. Your 
statements bore the impress of candor and truthfulness, and I determined to 
try once more. The result you know. I am now well and hearty, weighing 
more than I have done for a long time, and I thank Electricity—and you, as a 
means of Providence in restoring me. Your mode of treatment is certainly 
original and scientific, and from all I heard and saw of its effects while with 14 
you must say I never saw its equal, as administered by you, in all the medi- 
cines of other physicians combined. Accept my sincere and grateful thanks 
for my restoration to health, and may you be as successful in all other cases 
of suffering humanity. With kindest regards, yours truly, 
R. J. Robertson. 
Case of Dyspepsia, Scrofula, Bronchitis, and Catarrh of Five Years’ 
Standing, 
Mount Holly, N. J., April 6, 1865. 
Dr. S. W. Beckwith,—Dear Sir: Below I have written you a statement 
which you are perfectly welcome to use in any manner you may wish. 
Very truly yours, 
R. A. Semple. 
Having been troubled with Dyspepsia for four or five years past, so much 
so in fact, that I could not eat anything without more of less headache, and 
being a subject also of Scrofula and a Bronchial affection, with Catarrh, which 
was slowly but surely undermining my nervous system, and having tried nu- 
merous remedies without any relief whatever, finally applied last winter to 
Dr. B., who, in less than six weeks, by means of Electricity, entirely eradi- 
cated Scrofula from my system, and relieved all my symptoms of Dyspepsia, 
Bronchitis and Catarrh, and I must certainly recommend him to the afflicted. 
R. A. Semple, 
Mount Holly, Burlington Co., New Jersey. 
General Debility of the Nervous System. 
Philadelphia, Third and Market Streets, Jan. 15, 1866. 
About five years since began a weakening process of body and nervous 
system generally, causing giddiness of the head, palpitation of the heart, liver 
complaint, inflamed kidneys, enlargement of the spleen, dyspepsia, lumbago, 
with various other kindred diseases that follow a general exhaustion of the 
nervous system. I became emaciated and dispirited, and, finally, after trying 
various of the best physicians noted for treating such cases as mine, made up 
my mind that I was becoming a fit subject for consumption. I applied to Dr. 
Beckwith, when I began immediately to improve in health, strength and 
spirits, and am now about free from all my old difficulties, effected solely 
through his system of applying Electricity. 
While under his treatment, I saw many wonderful evidences of his success, 
especially some remarkable cases of Cancer, given up by the best physicians 
in the city as hopeless, which he cured during my attendance upon him, which 
alone speaks volumes in favor of his new discoveries. A. L. Whiteman. 
Absorption of a Tumor weighing eleven pounds. 
Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1865. 
Eight years since I was taken with a severe pain in my right side, which 
developed itself eventually in the form of an immense tumor, weighing eleven 
pounds ! I became so reduced in strength that I could not walk without diz- 
ziness and fainting. Through the painless application of electricity by Mrs. 
Beckwith, I was' entirely relieved of it in a few weeks, it being dissolved by 15 
electrical process. I was at the same time cured of a bronchial difficulty and 
nervous affection. Under God, she saved my life. Frances Gotwalls, 
Teacher in Primary School, Sixteenth street, above Vine, Philadelphia. 
Germantown, Oct. 22, 1864. 
Dr. S. W. Beckwith,—This is to certify that I have been suffering from a 
complication of diseases, which baffled the skill of medical men in Philadel- 
phia and this city. 
After suffering great pain and inconvenience from my diseases, and hearing 
of the many cures performed by you, by means of Electricity, I concluded to 
place myself under your care, and after having had about eleven Electrical 
treatments applied by Mrs. Beckwith, am entirely relieved of disease, and re- 
stored to my former good health. I recommend your treatment to the dis- 
eased. No matter what the complaint may be, go to 1220 Walnut street and 
be cured. S. Vickrey.