GOUT AT THE HOT SPRINGS.
The following story, had it come from America, could easily have been branded on sight as a lie, and one of no mean magnitude either. A gentleman whon we call Captain Spanker Cram for the occasion (says the Adelaide Eegister), went down to New Zealand the other day, and when he came back, said he : "Oh ! yes, 1 enjoyed my trip to New Zealand very much — very much indeed. New Zealand is a fine country — a fine country, sir ; and the hot springs are immense — immense, sir; no other word describes it. Talk about cure for gout ! Why, you have only got to bathe in the hot springs a few times, and it'll draw every particle of gout you have got in your body clean out— A won't leave a remnant. I was there. I saw it, and I tell you it was surprising. Round the sides of those pools were heaped piles and piles of gout — all the gout that has been taken from
the suffering persons of all the Europeans who have bathed there since New Zealand was colonised. There it is in masses like the rocks at Port Victor, and the Maoris saw it out in blocks and build houses with it." When next Baron Munchausen thinks of publishing a book he should make terms with the gallant Captain Cram.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 118, 1 June 1881, Page 4
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228GOUT AT THE HOT SPRINGS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 118, 1 June 1881, Page 4
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