Medical. RSPE E E ' 8 PRIVATE DISPENSARY, OCTAGON CHAMBERS, Opposite the Town Hail. WILL BE IN CHRISTCHURCH FROM APRIL lira to APRIL 30ih. ESTABLISHED FOB THE SCIENTIFIC AND SPEEDY CURE OP CHRONIC, NERVOUS, AND SPECIAL DISEASES, THE EXPERT SPECIALIST Dn SPEER, Is a Regular Graduated Physician, educated at Harvard College, U.B. He has devoted a lifetime to, and is acknowledged to be, the most expert Physician in his specialty in the United States. YOUNG MEN and MIDDLE-AGKD MEN who suffer from Nervous and Physical Debility, Loss of Energy or Memory, Eruptions on the Pace, Mental Depression, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Poralj sis. Pits, Spinal Disease, St Vitus* Dance, Liver Complaint, Asthma, Catarrh, Heart Disease, Gravel, Piles, &o„ and are tired of taking mineral drugs, will do well to come and try the Doctor’s method of cure, as it will, if properly applied, relieve them of their sufferings and restore them to health. The Doctor uses no mineral preparations; his treatment consists wholly in the use of vegetable remedies. Many are they who have implanted in their systems, by improper use of calomel, seeds which produce an annual crop of disease. To such he would say, Come and be healed. It matters not what your trouble may bo, come and let the Doctor examine your cose. IP IT 13 CURABLE, HE WILL TELL YOU SO; IP IT IS NOT, HE WILL TELL YOU THAT—for he will not undertake a case unless be is confident of effecting a cure. It will cost you nothing for consultation, so please call and satisfy yourself thot the Doctor understands your case. Or S. cures Humours and Diseases of the Blood, and Ladies who are afflicted by any of the following complaints Cold extremities, weak stomachs, nervous aud sick headaches, constipation and indigestion, pain in the aide and hack, leuohor rea, Ac., Ac. ALL CASES OF EPILEPTIC FITS TAKEN IN HAND GUARANTEED CURED. HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE. Having been Physician in one of the leading Hospitals of the U.S. enables him to trait all private tio ibles with excellent results. He washes it distinctly understood that he does not claim to perform impossibilities, or to have miraculous power; he claims ouly to be a skilled and Successful Physician, thoroughly informed in his specialty. CHRONIC DISEASES OF MEN AND WOMEN. All applying to him will receive his Honest Opinion of their Complaints. No experimenting. He will Guarantee a Positive Cure in Every: Cate he undertakes, or Forfeit £2OO. Consultation in Office or by Post FREE. CHARGES MODERATE, EXAMINATION AND ADVICE FREE. Call on Address— DR H. J. SPEER, Octagon Chambers, Opposite Town Hall. Office Hours—lo to 12 a,m., 2to 4,6 to 8 p.m, A FEW AMONGST MANY TESTIMONIALS : Newtown, Wellington, February 17,1887. Pacts are truths. For 30 years I have suffered from Chronic Disease which was gra ually killing me. I have tried dozens or Patent M> dicines and any number of Doctors without effect; at last I got so had that I could hardly work. I have been under Dr Speer seven months, and feel like a new man. Let me recommend anyone suffering to call and see him ; if it is possible to obtain relief he will give it. Chableb Richards. The Glen, Dunedin, February 7,1887. I want to ted tuose that are suffering from Headache not to despair, but to get relief from Dr Speer’s treatment. I bless the day he came to Dunedin, Both health and money were gone, as I had tried all the doctors I could think of, until I called on him. Out of his skill and attention lam well and strong, and as this is all I can do 1 think it right to make known hia ability in treating suffaring creatures like myself, Helen Caret. Mount street, Port Chalmers, January 25, 1887. From an accident I had an abcess form in the muscles back. I was 10 months in the Auckland Hospital, where the doctors cut and cut again, but failed to v ive me relief. Previous to this I was four months under a local doctor without effect; at last they could do no more—they said, let it take its course. At this time a probe oou'd be run four inches into the open wound. 1 bad 19 months of this misery. In about two mouths Dr Bpeer has cured me, sound and well. I can run. jump, ana do as I please; am ready for any kmd of work, aud the wound is nealed. If anyone doubts this, they can call and see me, as I am well known in Port Chalmers. I think I am doing nothing but justice iu publishing this as a voluntary act of gratitude to the Doctor. Joskph Jones. St Holier’s Cottage, Frederick street, Dunedin, January 12, 1887. 1 have been ill about six years. I came to New Zealand for the benefit of my health about four years ago, but got worse. I was over four mouths in the Dunedin Hospital, the card over my bed stating my disease to be consumption ; and I was di-charged, ns they could do mo no good. I picked up one of Dr Speer’s handbills in the Hospital grounds, and called to see him. He langh“d at my sod appearance, and said, ’* Be happy, old man; yon are worrying over the past; you have been frightened. Do as I tell yon, and you will soon feel like a new man.” In ton weeks I find he was right. I feel better than I have for yers, and am ready to go to work. Anyone doubting this statement can call and see me at above address, and they will find me smiling and in good health, John Brown, Queen street. North Dunedin, January 6, 1887. Having had a bad face for some years, and tried various kinds of treatment, all ot which failed, I called on Dr Speer. He told me what disease it was, which note of the other doctors could, and has completely cured mo in six weeks. These are foots, and I feel grateful to the Doctor for relieving me ot a very unpleasant complaint, and advise other sufferers to give him a trial. He at least tells you whether he can cure you or not. George Brown. Maori Hill, Dunedin, December 18, 1886. For nearly two years I have been suffering from a variety of diseases, according to the Dunedin doctors, each doctor treating me for a different disease, which ho couldn’t, or rather didn’t cure. Four months’ treatment under Dr Speer has cured me sound aud well. I am willing to swear this before any ju-tice of the peace, I publish this fact to induce those who are now throwing away their money and health to call and see my man. He at least is genuine, A. Little, Witness to signature; Andrew Wilson. Burkes, December 13,1856. I have suffered for five years from a very soro leg, and I have applied to several medical men in Dunedin without effect simply throwing my money away. Dr Speer has cured me sound and well in three months. David Thomson, Witness to signature: Sworn before me this 13th day of Doc., 1886— John T. Wright, J.P. Sawyers’ Bay, November fit, 1886. I have been ill two years and a half with sciatica, weak lungs, nervous prostration, aud generally used up; have been treated unsuccessfully by five doctors in Dunedin and Port Chalmers. Asa last chance I came to Dr Speer to see if he could do me any good. It has taken three months, but he has cured mo sound and well. lam willing to swear to this before any justice of the peace. N. Neilsen, Dunedin, October 23, 1886. 1 have been ill two years, aud have tried Four Doctors in Dunedin without effect. I have been Four weeks under Dr Speer’s Treatment and am nearlv well. I bless the day that ho arrived in Dunedin, ns he has made me another woman; and 1 earnestly recommend others to his care. Kate Sanoster (Her X Mark), George street, St, Kilda. Witness : R. E. Hamilton. Dunedin, October 20, 1886. Five years ago I underwent an operation, since which I have never been clear of the doctors, and have gradually failed in health until I was quite unable to work. Ou seeing the advertisement of Dr H. J. Speer in the paper, I thought I would try him; and I am happy to say that uudor his treatment l am mending rapidly, aud can thoroughly recommend him as a, straightforward, clever man, Mrs Crowe, Market Place. Witness to signature: K. J. Stedwkl. November fit, 1886. I have hoeu suffering for some time with rheumatic gout in my knee, and also from my kidneys. 1 have been under the treatment of Dr fcpecr, and I now certify that I have received a great benefit from him, and 1 strongly recommend anyone suffering from any chronic disease to consult him; I am quite slue they will have every attenti n paid them C. H Stutfield, Foxton Villa Tngeatre street, Wellington. Witness to signature: Miss Cunningham. July 19, 1886. I, the undersigned, do this day make the following statement in hopes that other fathers who may have any children suffering with fits may notice it: —My sou, ogod 14, was suffering from fits nearly three years. 1 tried different remedies without any relief. I called on Dr opeer, Palmerston Buildings, foot of Qneeu street. He examined him, and said ho would treat him. After taking his medicine one week I could see a change in him, and he is still keeping well. I can only, in justice to Dr Speer, recommend other parents who have children suffering from the same disease to use his remedy. Respectfully yours, James Wright, Pukokohe, Wellington, 15th July, 1886. I beg to state that for a long time I have beeh guttering from physical and nervous debility. Some live months ago, when Dr Speer was in Auckland. 1 wrote and placed myself under his tre itmeut, and am now gratified to say 1 am perfectly cur. d, and a sound, healthy man again. I cannot speak too highly of Dr Speer, as be has succeeded when other doctors failed, and that without even seeing me until to-day, when i first had the pleasure ot speaking to him, H. Bannbrman, of Mastervon. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO TEST THE TRUTH OF ABOVE, THE ONLY AUTHORISED MEDICAL MAN ADVERTISING. For Registration, see ” New Zealand Gazette. January 21, IStG, A Friendly Chat Costs Nothing. ONLY ONB INTERVIEW NECESSARY.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 8149, 21 April 1887, Page 7
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