EXTRAORDINARY CURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7270, 7 March 1885, Page 6

EXTRAORDINARY CURE.

TO THE EDITOR. . . . Sib,—Permit me to send you a teitlmoniai i have this day received from a young lady, « » cure (commenced at first at a publio he*W«J. which is probably the first ever known to be nccesaful without the surgical operation c*U» " trepanning," which u effected by meani oi * ■mall horizontal saw, which cuts out a cirooiw diak of the skull, and tha« enable* the iurgeon to insert an initrumont to lift up the fr ?°*s?T part, or remove broken pieces of the ekull. i only healing means employed by myieli «• tkat known as magnetism. The re»tor»tion « the blind eye by similar means it itielf » »™j' der. I knew intimately the late Colonel anougrass, C.8., formerly Lieutenant-Governor* New South Wales, and grandfather of ww Clarke, of Victoria, who had been " trep*nnea in the skull for a wound received daring "" Peninsular war, and was obliged to weir silver plate over the place to the last h«w » hie life. My cou.in, the late Sir George StepßM, Q.C., also had a similar operation of w*k ning" performed on hie head, and wore a Hi"* plate.-I am, &c., G. Milnei BBWn* Vulcan Lane, 2nd March, 1885.