ARE DOCTORS INCREDULOUS!

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8360, 13 September 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

ARE DOCTORS INCREDULOUS!

Mrs. E. A. Higham, 58, Brougham-street, West Gorton, near Manchester, relates a most remarkable incident respecting her daughter, aged 12 years, who fell and injured her knee so badly that her medical attendants, in consultation, decided that it would be necessary to perforin an operation on the knee, to replace certain ligament! which had been severely injured and distended. To this the family strongly objected. She was taken to the Southern Hospital, Clifford - street, Oxford Road, where the combined medical faculty decided it was a case of paralysis of the knee, and that she would doubtless never walk again. She was accordingly discharged as incurable, a confirmed cripple. Some time after this her parents were induced to try St. Jacobs oil, which greatly benefited her. I" a month she began to walk with the aid of a stick, and three weeks later she was able to walk as well as ever, being perfectly cured. This was in June, 1886, but the mother did not make the fact known to the proprietors of St. Jacobs oil until December 10, 1887, as the doctors told her at the hospital that it would not be a permanent cure, but as the child had continued strong and well for over a year and t,-half, she fellperfectly safe in stating that a complete cure had bean effected solely and wholly by the use of St. Jacobs oil. The mother states that the doctors and others who did not think she would ever walk again have called to see her, for they could hardly believe that a cure had been effected.