SAWS OF AN OLD PHYSICIAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12303, 22 June 1903, Page 6

SAWS OF AN OLD PHYSICIAN.

I.—HOW TO CATCH COLD. "You generally catch cold," said' the doc tor, as he settled himself in his chair, "bj infection from the breath of another persoi who has a cold. " In a railway carriage with a man wh< is sneezing and snuffing, insist on having the window open a little, or you will stanc p. good chance of catching that cold yourself More colds are caught through stuffiness than draughts. " Don't neglect a cold. It may turn t< influenza; or it, may start a cough, that wil tear a wound in your lung. Then you spii blood, and the wound enlarges until you art in the first stage of consumption. Yoiu throat will be husky, your chest sore; you will get thin and perspire more than you ought. All through a cold! " Why does one man catch cold more easily than another? Because some people (especially women) haven't, half enough bloat in their veins. What they have is poor and thin. That lays you open to disease of all sorts; it is a disease —antenna, the Ilovfi'. College of Physicians calls it. Try Dr.' Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Best thing I know for it. We doctors don't like advertised medicines, as a rule, but these pills are not a patent medicine; they are a discovery by one of our own profession, a graduate of my own University—Edinburgh. They mean mere blood in the veins, more vitality, more nervous and spinal power. ' A safeguard as well as a cure. Don't purge yourself: these pills are a tonic, and will do you all the good purgatives are supposed to, without the discomfort." The old physician's candour does him honour. A cold is described, almost in the doctor's own words by the victim of it, Mr. John Collins, of Jenks-street, Foxton.. "Four years ago," says Mr. Collins, "my blood was poor, and my health in a low state. In the winter I caught a heavy cold, which settled on my lungs. livery fit of coughing racked and strained me tremendously* < Then influenza gripped"me, and I was laid up in bed. For weeiejpl wa»s so weak and ill that I could not era a hand's turn. My lungs were sore and tender, and I was afraid of hemorrhage and consumption. I tried all kinds of cough mixtures md medicines to strengthen the lungs, without effect. I lost my appetite, could not derm properly, and was intensely miserable until." added Mr. John Collins, "I tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. In a few days r felt a little better. They made blood for me, and this new blood strengthened my loavt and. lungs. Gradually 1 threw off he cold and influenza. Now my lungs are sound find strong, and ihere is no fear of lemorrhage or consumption. You can find •>ut from my neighbours how bad I was, for I urn known to almost everyone in Foxton." Mr. Collins' case exactly bears out the ruth of the physician's advice. Weak lungs -•an only 1)3 strengthened by new, warm, jure' blood. These pills, besides enriching he blood, brace up the nerves, and in this ,vay they cure hysteria, St. Vitus' dance, icurulgia, sciatica, and nervous prostration n men and women. See that you get the genuine. They are always in wooden boxes, lever in glass bottles. The address, Welingtou, New Zealand, must be on the cuttle wrapper. The pills thus put up haw naed thousands in Wellington, Auckland, Hmedin, Invercargill, Christchurch, Wangami, and elsewhere.

The manager of the Costley Home, Epsom, desires to thank the firms of Messrs. Ross and Anserine and Leltoy and Sons for flags kindly lent for decorating purposes, also Messrs. Murdoch (Mount St. John) and Long (Mount Eden) for papers sent for the use of the inmates. Mr. C. J. Hcmery, late of Sydney, preached at the Albert-street Hall yesterday morning, and the service was thoroughly enjoyed. In the evening Mr. C. H. .'."•. the secretary of the Auckland Provincial Temperance Alliance, gave a. Gospel address, taking as his text Matthew xi. 20: "Then began He to upbraid the cities wherein most of His mighty works were done, because they repented not." Mr. Irvine also delivered an address. A quartette was rendered by Messrs. Sohofield, Unwin, jun., Mrs. Unwin and Miss Thorpe, and Mr. G. Harvey sang a solo. Tucker's Sunshine Jelly Crystals: The sale always growing; the quality always high; 18 flavours, each makes a pint. Boxes 6d, everywhere. Those desiring to buy homos or investments, and requiring monetary assistance, should consult Mr. Thornes, 91, Queenstreet, who has several sums awaiting investment.