KING’S THROAT TROUBLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 253, 2 November 1901, Page 1

KING’S THROAT TROUBLE.

ALLOWED ONLY THREE CIGARS A DAY.

London, Sept. 21

The condition of Ring Edward’s throat is causing him increased anxiety and inconvenience. Early last week Sir Felix Somon, the noted throat specialist, who was appointed physician extraordinary to tho King immediately upon his accession, was secretly summoned from London to Copenhagen to make an examination of the King’s throat. This was the reason of the prolongation of the King’s sojourn at Fredensborg, and of tho cancelling temporarily of his arrangmonts to visit Balmoral, where all had been prepared for bis reception last Tuesday. Tho King now limits his consumption of cigars to three a day, a restriction which ho at first strenuously resisted. Although his physicians affirm that the growth in the throat is not malignant, it obstinately resists all attempts at euro and grows steadily worse. It has affected the King’s voice so seriously that he must avoid all public speaking. Some time since the King thought of trying Christian Scionco treatment, but after speaking with some of the aristocratic devotees of the sect here and investigating the circumstances of some of the alleged cures, he concluded that the evidence was not sufficiently strong of the efficacy of Christian Science to induce him to run the risk of popular ridicule and possible hostility by experimenting with it.