FE Quigley to Woodrow Wilson
Title
FE Quigley to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
Quigley, FE
Identifier
WWP16369
Date
1921 September 27
Source
Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia
Language
English
Text
My dear sir:
I wonder if I cannot be of some service to you with reference to your physical condition?
First, in order to have my letter considered, may I refer you to Hon. Chas. E. Townsend, US Senator, with whom I am intimately acquainted, and who would be glad to certify to my sanity, etc.
During the last three weeks of my residence in the city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, I purchased a rather crude form of Violet Ray machine from parties in Cleveland, and the first experience I had with it was in treating a neighbor for a severe case of Lumbago. This gentleman had been flat on his back for two or three months at a time for five years and had tried out about every agency for its cure, til I treated him, and I actually cured him in twenty minutes, and the case was so wonderful that this man immediately asked me to go to the home of a business man, who had fallen from his bicycle four years before and following the fall had become paralyzed over his right side. This side of his body was perfectly dead as far as any sense of feeling was concerned. I began treating him with the largest electrode I had, what is known as a Condenser electrode, and together with careful massaging I continued the treatments for about one week when I succeeded in bringing feeling to the knee, and from that point the feeling gradually returned, til after but 22 treatments I had him using his right arm and leg about as well as ever. I gave his face special attention, for it had become expressionless, drooping and apparently dead. I got his face back to normal again. His memory was almost gone. I began teaching him simple sentences, and when I left him at the time of the 22nd treatment, to start for California, he was well on the way back to his former self again.
I secured the services of a young man, a student in the Normal College there, to continue the treatments.
Something like a year after this the man was killed by a second shock, which I am satisfied was superinduced by his methods of diet. He was a very large man, and gluttonous.
But the efficacy of the violet ray was beyond a doubt, and some of the best physicians there thought I had performed a miracle.
You are a different type, physically, and I have no hesitancy in stating that by careful massaging and application of the violet ray in the hands of a person who knows how to use it, that you should beyond doubt recover completely, your normal activities.
I am just a plain rancher out here, but am doing a good many things with my machine in curing lumbago, rheumatism, etc., and am writing you for the purpose of suggesting that your physician give this method a trial. In fact, I wish I were in Washington, in order to give my services, but that is out of the question from the financial standpoint.
I was for two years executive secretary to Governor Warner, of Michigan, and was for several years assistant official stenographer in the circuit court at Ann Arbor, so that you may not consider me just an everyday crank on this matter.
If there is any further information I can give with reference to this matter I shall feel honored if you will indicate it, and I shall be glad to furnish the same with no other desire than that you may become again the fine specimen of physican manhood you once were.
With very best wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
FE Quigley
I wonder if I cannot be of some service to you with reference to your physical condition?
First, in order to have my letter considered, may I refer you to Hon. Chas. E. Townsend, US Senator, with whom I am intimately acquainted, and who would be glad to certify to my sanity, etc.
During the last three weeks of my residence in the city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, I purchased a rather crude form of Violet Ray machine from parties in Cleveland, and the first experience I had with it was in treating a neighbor for a severe case of Lumbago. This gentleman had been flat on his back for two or three months at a time for five years and had tried out about every agency for its cure, til I treated him, and I actually cured him in twenty minutes, and the case was so wonderful that this man immediately asked me to go to the home of a business man, who had fallen from his bicycle four years before and following the fall had become paralyzed over his right side. This side of his body was perfectly dead as far as any sense of feeling was concerned. I began treating him with the largest electrode I had, what is known as a Condenser electrode, and together with careful massaging I continued the treatments for about one week when I succeeded in bringing feeling to the knee, and from that point the feeling gradually returned, til after but 22 treatments I had him using his right arm and leg about as well as ever. I gave his face special attention, for it had become expressionless, drooping and apparently dead. I got his face back to normal again. His memory was almost gone. I began teaching him simple sentences, and when I left him at the time of the 22nd treatment, to start for California, he was well on the way back to his former self again.
I secured the services of a young man, a student in the Normal College there, to continue the treatments.
Something like a year after this the man was killed by a second shock, which I am satisfied was superinduced by his methods of diet. He was a very large man, and gluttonous.
But the efficacy of the violet ray was beyond a doubt, and some of the best physicians there thought I had performed a miracle.
You are a different type, physically, and I have no hesitancy in stating that by careful massaging and application of the violet ray in the hands of a person who knows how to use it, that you should beyond doubt recover completely, your normal activities.
I am just a plain rancher out here, but am doing a good many things with my machine in curing lumbago, rheumatism, etc., and am writing you for the purpose of suggesting that your physician give this method a trial. In fact, I wish I were in Washington, in order to give my services, but that is out of the question from the financial standpoint.
I was for two years executive secretary to Governor Warner, of Michigan, and was for several years assistant official stenographer in the circuit court at Ann Arbor, so that you may not consider me just an everyday crank on this matter.
If there is any further information I can give with reference to this matter I shall feel honored if you will indicate it, and I shall be glad to furnish the same with no other desire than that you may become again the fine specimen of physican manhood you once were.
With very best wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
FE Quigley
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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
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Citation
Quigley, FE, “FE Quigley to Woodrow Wilson,” 1921 September 27, WWP16369, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.