f a number of other physicians in our little city, and reliable
men and women of this community who are acquainted with him, all testify
to the same thing, namely; that he is not a professional nurse, neither
is he a nurse, or even a reliable man. He is an innocent, ignorant man,
very close to the pauper class. He told me when I read the commendation
to which his name is affixed, that it was all true except the
professional nurse part, and that was entirely false, as stated above."

As the picture was of a fine-looking, intelligent-appearing man it
probably was as _genuine_ as the testimonial.

The following was clipped from a copy of _Merck's Report_, April, 1899,
a druggists' paper published in New York city:--

MANY DRUGGISTS INDIGNANT.

A PATENT-MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENT CONTAINS UNAUTHORIZED
ENDORSEMENTS.

"Fully a score of East-side druggists are up in arms over the
unauthorized use of their names in a full-page newspaper
advertisement of a widely-known specific. This advertisement
appeared recently in certain New York daily papers, and retail
druggists who have made it a rule of their business never to
recommend any particular proprietary article, found themselves
quoted in unqualified laudation of the article so liberally
advertised. The names and addresses of the druggists were given
in full, and when several of the men quoted conferred together
they found that the most barefaced misrepresentation had been
resorted to.

"One of the pharmacists thus misrepresented, happened to be
Sidney Faber, the secretary of the Board of Pharmacy. He was not
selling this particular specific, and had never said a word for
or against it, nevertheless, six or eight lines of endorsement
of the article were directly attributed to him. He called on
some of his druggist neighbors whose names he saw in the
advertisement, and ascertained that they, too, had been falsely
and unwarrantably quoted. Mr. Faber promptly wrote to the
proprietors of the specific in question, and denounced the
published endorsements bearing his name, as a forgery. His
indignation was by no means appeased when he received a letter
from the proprietary concern, couched in the following language:
'We regret to learn that you have been annoyed by any statements
that have appeared in New York city papers.