| Show USE LIVING SPECIMENS S patent medicine agents are making a now new departure to sell their wares there are indications that the patent medicine medi eine trade like the book trade is falling into the hands of canvassers the medicine vender tender is now frequently met with in maine villages and on the country roads says the lewiston journal another feature tast fast developing ve in the business is the use of the living specimen to furnish convincing proof of the efficacy of the concoction from the old time plain certificate cure the next step was to print the picture of the person on whom the miracle was Tier formed now the foremost in this race for trade are introducing personally to sufferers the cured person whose personal stater statement neit like that of the witness in court is more effective than any certificate could be in one maine village the officers of both agent and witness are united in the same person and he does a thriving business buttonholing button holing the farmers and other visitors to the place exhibiting himself as one rescued from the grave under the new system to be sick may be no misfortune provided one pets gets well and can an attribute his case to a patent medicine it may result in a good salary |
