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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15553, 7 September 1912, Page 12

Dr \V. I'rjcr, of New York, author of "How to Prolong Life 100 Years," says: "The truss is un instrument designed for tho alleviation or euro of that distressing nnd dangerous physical infirmity popularly known as rupturo, but by medical men as hernia. Tlio extent to which this alarming defect exists is stated to bo ono in every ten of our population. That it should exist at all is only one of tho many ovidonees'of tho physical deterioration of our rare—a deterioration which should not exist, and could not, did our people justly appreciate tho value of physiological science as nn indispensable clement in all sound systems of education, for both males and females. We repeat what wo havo so often said, and cannot say again and again with too much emphasis, that the study of,our bodies and brains should constitute tho'first principal clement in all systems of education. It is through these that all our joys nnd all our woes while tenants of tho,earth, do come; and consequently from an obedience to the laws which govern them that nil excellence results. When tho tru«s was introduced, wo havo no accurate date to determine. We know it could not have ken—

When the world was in its prime, When the first stare had just began Their race of pjorr; airt young xlmo Told hh first birthday by the sun. For this was in the infancy of creation, when physical infirmities vvcro unknown to tho raeo; a period, uccording to tho Book of GoxioJis, comprising the firat 2369 years of human history, " Over all that cxpanso of time—for moro than one-third part of the .duration o( tho human raco-not a single instance is recorded of a child born blind, or deaf, or dumb, or idiotic, or malformed in any way. But as early as tho third generation from Adam polygamy, began, and intcr-mnrriages were all along tho order of the day. About this period wo may suppose ruptures began, anu men then began to devise ways and means for their relief—for the idea of a euro docs not seem to have entered then into tho minds of men. All sorts of expedients havo been tried through the generations, tha lending feature in ail being more or less torture, discomforts, nnd danger, but tho hope has never been allowed to abate that something moro rational and better adapted to not only relievo but ultimately to euro might Iw discovered." Continuing, Dr Pryor says:—"Wo heartily beliovo such a device is now offered to Iho public acceptance in the hernial appliances of Dr J. A. Sherman, of New York; a mechanical contrivance which for beauty, simplicity, comfort, and adaptation to tho end to bo accomplished has never been surpassed— nay. not equalled—by anything in Europo or America."

The value and significance ot tho forepoins tribute to iho efficacy of llto Dr J. A. Sherman treatment of rupturo will bo fully realised when it is cxplaineyl that Dr Pryor was a sufferer from rupturo for 40 years until relieved by tho treatment ho advocates.

Mr A. \V. .Martin, the solo controller of tho Dr J. A. Sherman treatment in Australasia, can now be consulted at Samson's Buildings, Dowling street, Dunedin, daily from 10 to 12 noon, 2 to 5 p.m.; cttra hours Tuesday cvnninßS. 7 to 8; Saturdays, 10 to 12 noon. Booklet containing information respecting Rupturo and its IVcatment and testimonies posted free. Consultations frco.-5/9/12.

Sig'nor Bonei, tho famous Italian tenor, is suing a railway company for £10,000 beeauso be caught ft cold whilo.lraveUinir to Toronto. Ho accuses tho omployccs of tho railway of carelessly shutting off tho heatin); apparatus, although they knew bo wu in tho iltopin? c&rriupo,