LECTURE ON 'VITADATIO.'

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11629, 17 April 1901, Page 6

LECTURE ON ' VITADATIO.'

At the Foresters' Hall, Newton, last night, Mr. S. A. Palmer, the representative for Webber's Vitadatio, delivered a lecture entitled, " Fourteen Years' Suffering Cured by Vitadatio.'' There was a large attendance of the public. The lecturer said he came to New Zealand in 1872, and started business at Invercargill. Gradually he began to get unwell, and called in the aid of the doctors, who treated him for many complaints, includinn- indigestion, rheumatism, consumption and dyspepsia, but none of them seemed to do him any good. He became very crossnatured, as people in bad health were bound to become, and while in that state he arranged to have an operation performed to see what was the matter. He went into the hospital, and after remaining a month the authorities told his friends that they might as well take him away. On tho day he was removed he had to be carried out to the cab, and the horse walked very slowly on tho way home. Soon after his (the speaker's) arrival at home, Dr. Young came and said ho had a sad story to tell. " I have to tell you," he said, "that we cannot cure you. When I opened you I found that you had hydatids. You have enough disease in your inside to ■ kill 20 men." lie said there was no cure j and he (Mr. Palmer) could not live long, j He also said that they had never found hydatids in the intestines as they found in him (the speaker). It became known in Invercargill that he was going to die; and, in fact, people heard that he was dead, and came in to attend his funeral. He lay for five weeks till he gathered sufficient strength to enable him to walk half-doubled up, and I many people came to see him and sympathise with him. He said to his friends he could not stand that much longer, and must go into the country. Tho doctor advised him to go to Tasmania, where ho had relatives. He decided to go, and when he reached the Bluff he was so bad that he begged his wife to let him go back and die, but she refused, and said as ho had started ho must carry it through. He arrived at Launceston, whore he was met by his brother-in-law. He (the lecturer) said, "I have come to Tasmaniato die," but his brother-in-law replied, No. We have a medicine sprung up in Tasmania that is curing overyone that is taking it. The lecturer said, "You can't expect your quack medicine to cure me," but his relative replied, " There is no quack about it. It has cured people who live in Launceston to-day." Tho lecturer mentioned that hehad spent ovor £1000 before the doctors had operated upon him, and advised his brother-in-law not to say any more about tho matter. The brother-in-law said ho would give him no peace till he drank the medicine. After three weeks in Tasmania the lecturer became so bad that he said to his sister, ' I can't hang out much longer. It has come to facing death, and I would like to dg buried where my wife mid family can see my grave. Will vou send mo back?" That nearly broke'her up. The brother-in-law said. "I will stand no more of this nonsense. _ I will bring some of that medicine home and make you "drink it." Finally arrangements wore made that tho lecturer should interview Air. Webber, a. merchant, who made the medicine. Mr. Webbor, when asked for his advice as to whether the lecturor should take 't, said tho best thing he could do would ber,o tell about some of the wonderful cures it had effected. Ono man suffered for over 22 years from liver complaint, and ho had been cured by Vitadatio. Mr. Webber then told aim about a young man from Geelong, who had been treated by a great many doctor. He had a complication of disorders, and was completely cured by Vitadatio. xlnothor case was that of a Mr. Miller, suffering from stone- in tho bladder, and discharged from the hospital as incurable. He put himself under Mr. Webber's care. After the first supply of the medicine ho declared himself a little better, and in a month ho wis at work, and telling everyone ho was cured by Mr. Webber. That qate of Mr. Miller's really brought about the starting of Vitadatio upon its career as a medicine. The lecturer asked Mr. Webber how ho oame by Vitadatio, and Mr. Webber, who was a great public speaker, explained that an old gentleman who had frequently attended his meetings had confided the secret of its ingredients to him. when ho felt that he had not much longer to live. Tho old gentleman said he hr.:: cured hundreds of people with the medicine, and could not die happy till he knew Jibe secret was in someone's safe keeping. One. day, feeling run down, Mr. Webber raa'e some of the medicine, and in 36 hours felt a different man. Then he started experimenting upon other people, curing many. It did not. euro everyone with the same rapidity. Some persons took longer to ears than others. At length he (the speaker) said " All right, let me have a bottle. if you can toll me it is not the money you are looking after, and assure me that it will do mo no harm, I will take it." He might oxplain that Mr. Webber was not a doctor nor a chemist, nut simply a tradesman. Talking about the large numbei of different diseases the medicine had cured, Mr. Webber's explanation was that he found nine-tenths of the diseases that people had were caused by impurities in tho blood, and Vitadatio cured impurities of tho blood. It was on May 21, 1896 (a year after he had been operated upon), that he (the speaker) took the first dose. After the third dose he felt very ill, a.nd five days later he discovered that tho hydatids had begun to pass from his system. Mr. Webber then told him that if ho would persevere the medicine would cure him. Imagine the feelings that news inspired in a man who had gone across to die! He made so much progress that the blood began to rise to his chocks, whereas before he had been a skeleton, covered with skin. As he got better he went round making inquiries among the people whose names appeared on trie wrappers of tho bottles as having given testimonials, and heard of some remarkable cures. 1 He went round to Mr. Webber, and told him that ho should be prosecuted for keeping such a medicine in such a small corner. Finally an arrangement was como to by which he (the speaker), who was going back to Now Zealand alive and well, bargained to take 100 dozen cases a month as soon as ho got tho lablo registered in the colony. When ho reached tho Bluff he told his wife that ho had found some medicine that was curinr him. She laughed, and the people of Invercargill laughed, at him for six months, bu'he persevered, and as ho had been walking along the streets he had seen people throw their window curtains back to see him—the man who had been dying—walking in the streets. After that he had gone from town to town telling the message of his miraculous euro. He was now the representative tothe medicine. Money-making was not at the bottom of his journeyings. He must make money to keep going, but he nad cured hundreds of people without money. Detailing a few cures, Mr. Palmer spoke of an 01-' gentleman of over 70, a Primitive Methodist parson, living at 39, Phillip-street, Sydney, who had been cured by Vitadatio. Ho had a number of testimonials, but a lot of persons did not give testimonials. Many ueoplrin Auckland had been cured'. A woudorful euro of gallstone was that of Mrs. Banderson, of Timaru, who had suffered for over 10 years. Another case was that of a young man named Atkinson, who had boon given up by the doctors for consumption, but through Vitadatio ho had been cured, and was now a healthy man at work. Previously he had not boon at work for five years. 'j'na testimonial in this instance was witnessed by four members of the same friendly society. Vitadatio had also cured a great many cases of cancer. At the conclusion of the lecture Mr. Palmor gave an account of a trip from the Bluff to Sydney, illustrated by limelight pictures shown by Mr. Charles l Cooper. The lecture was much appreciated.