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Rh belt could assist, even in the slightest degree, to bring about.

The various owners of these fake cures usually make the same ridiculous claims for their belts as are made by patent-medicine venders, namely, that the mere use of their appliance will effect a cure, that the disease, which in every case is brought about by the violation of the great health laws, can be remedied by merely applying their belts. According to their claims, there is no need to give the slightest attention to the cause of the trouble, since the belts will in every case produce the desired results; though some of the more intelligent give advice, the following of which often effects a cure, that of course, is credited to the electric belt.

Electric belts never have cured and never will cure disease of any kind. They may cure many diseases that have existed in the imagination only, or they may produce benefit by creating a more hopeful mental state, but a condition of actual disease can no more be