Miller wrote: “To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health, denotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your…”
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Patent Medicine · Heading 1505; source lines 17048–17057 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health, denotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune, but you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious.
To see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity to positions above your highest imaginings.
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