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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22830, 14 March 1936, Page 5

BRITISH SCIENTIST'S AMAZING I O nlilil/UlivL iTi,iii,i * Of Vital Concern to the Invalid and the Athlete—the Old and the Young! ASTOUNDING TRIUMPH OVER INFIRMITIES Remarkable Method of Dregless Healing Promises Better Health for all - and Longer Life.

F ever a man was enti to speak with authority on the subject of health restoration that man is Mr 0. Overbeck, the well-known scientist. For to-day, at 74 years of age, Mr Overbeck has the bloom of health, the muscular strength, the buoyant vitality, the contagious optimism of a young man, and he owes his present condition entirely to a health process which he discovered and began to put into practice at a time when he was such a complete physical wreck that his doctor told him to make his will, as he had not long to live. A Romance of Health Recovery. Mr Overbeck's recovery of health and vigour is indeed an astonishing romance. A year or two before the discovery that made such an amazing change in his life he used to spend most of his days stretched out on a sofa. It was painful to see him climbing the staircase to his bedroom on the first floor—a step and a rest, a step and a rest, lest this slight exertion should bring on a heart attack. His piano, upon which he had «o often improvised with masterly execution for the entertainment, of his friends, was all but silent now, for the effort of playing even the briefest and least exacting of pieces was too much For him. As for any really active pleasures, they had to he entirely abandoned. A devoted horticulturist, he no longer dared to stoop over his beloved plants, and the glasshouses, where he had raised some of the rarest plants to be found in Great Britain, knew his care no longer. On the rare occasions when he went for a walk in his home town of Grimsby his halting gait and haggard looks were marked by all his friends, who fully shared his doctor's opinion if the outcome of his illness. Mr Overbeck was, in fact, a prematurely aged man, with an old man's sallow skin and faded eyes, an old man's infirmities and maladies, the victim of chronic kidney trouble and rheumatism, his hair scanty, his sight blurred, his pulse feeble and erratic. But physically broken down as he was, he still retained the mental outlook, at least, of the trained man of science, and a brain that for years had spent its energies in tackling all kinds of difficult and exacting problems, now turned to the most vital problem of all: aow the fires of life, which so obviously were dying down, could be stoked up again and stirred into a cheerful blaze. The Secret of Youth. He began experimenting, and before long he was convinced that he had discovered the real secret of youth, in a new process of cell rejuvenation. In the true spirit of the scientist, he tried his process on himself. Some mistakes had to be corrected. Then one day he was faced with the startling realisation that his pulse was definitely stronger and more regular, his step firmer, his sight clearer. Gradually his hair began to grow thicker, too; the twinges of rheumatic pain subsided more and more, the kidney trouble vanished, and his whole outlook on life changed. In short, he was a new man, and friends who met him in the street were flabbergasted by the change which had taken place in his appearance, for, instead of the stooping, woebegone figure they had glanced at furtively with a shake of the head, they saw before them a man with a firm, elastic stride and that fiery glint in the eye which proclaims an eager, active brain. A New Method of Rejuvenation. Inevitably inquiries were on every lip, and it soon became an open secret in Grimsby that Mr Overbeck had discovered a new method of rejuvenation. The news soon spread farther afield, and before long letters were reaching Mr Overbeck almost every day from such far-asunder places as Canada and South Africa, Spain and Siam, New Zealand and Japan, begging Mr Overbeck to disclose the secret of his marvellous recovery of health and vigour. Presently Mr Overbeck was to be seen upon the public platform, and, at the Savoy Hotel, London, before an enthusiastic audience, which included several medical men, he announced his discovery. A well-known journalist who was present at the meeting afterwards declared that he had experimented with Mr Overbeck's method, and his sight, which before had been greatly troubling him, showed unmistakable signs of improveFrom Decrepitude to Vigour. In the chair on this momentous occasion was Mr W. J. Womersley, M.P. for Grimsby, who vouched for the accuracy of photographs of Mr Overbeck taken before he began his new rejuvenating treatment. These showed Mr Overbeck as a decrepit old man, whereas the Mr Overbeck who stood upon the platform was seen to be a well set-up and vigorous specimen of humanity, to all appearances many years younger.