In Quest of Health

That a man may be doctored to death is readily conceded by those who have depended too much upon doctors and less upon their own natural resources for the regaining of their weakened or pain ridden bodies. This shows a business man in his office suffering from a pain in his back, a friend appears and offers him a remedy. He accepts the pills but believing that if the prescribed dose will help him a little the entire box will do him more good. He consequently takes the entire box at one fell swoop and as a result he suffers a pain in his stomach as well as the original pain in his back. He goes home where his women folks, assisted by trained nurses, carry him to bed and after a severe ribbing put a huge mustard plaster on his back. In order to avoid the terrific pain of this plaster he jumps into the bath tub. He is next shown at the door of an open air sanatorium. He is admitted into the secret precincts of this institution and is treated to such a course of doctoring as few men have ever known. He is sent out into the open air and is forced to stand there in a severe rain storm. He is next treated to a mud bath and next to a vapor bath, where, after being locked into the bath box, the audience watches the thermometer rise to the running out point and the victim escapes by sheer force of physical strength. He is at last discharged from the institution. But, oh what a sight he is! He is plastered and bandaged from head to foot and is forced to walk away assisted by two crutches