AN AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR ENGLAND IN 1888.

Otago Witness, Issue 1858, 1 July 1887, Page 27

AN AUSTRALIAN TEAM FOR ENGLAND IN 1888.

The London Sportsman has the following :— Positive information has been received to the effect that another team of Australian cricketers will visit our shores during the summer of 1888. This, the sixth combination, promises (if the names of those mentioned prove correct) to be one of the strongest that has been got together. The undertaking will be under the management and control of the trustees of the Association ground at Sydney, who are also promoting the tour of Shrewsbury and bis confreres in the colonies next autumn, and if possible Mr C. W. Beal, the energetic manager of the 1882 team, the most successful of the five, will again officiate in that capacity. Sir F. S. M'Donnell, the dashing hitter, who captained the Combined Australia sides against Shaw's team in the tour of the latter this winter, will probably act as captain, and among the batsmen upon whom he will rely are said to be that sterling all-round player. George Giffen, the genial S. P. Jones, the stonewaller Alec Bannerman, and H. Moses and R. Allen, the two lastnamed being fresh to English soil, though their names will be remembered as two of the most successful batsmen against our professionals in the trip just concluded. The "prince of wicket-keepers," J. MC. Blackham, cannot of course be spared, and will form one of the team, as he has done of all the previous combinations, while in bowling the side should be especially powerful, as, in addition to Giffen, Garrett, and Palmer, the " demon " Spofforth will, it is said, once more visit the Mother Country. This quartette will, however, by no means prove their chief mainstay in this department of the game,

as it is stated that the management have secured the valuable (or rather' invaluablejrservicbs .of. both Turner and Ferris, the pah; of . New ! South Wales trundlers whose deliveriet-havei worked such .havoc i against our professionals;, now,, .on • their homeward voyage, the, formePfpossessing, >\ the extraordinary average of 6.42 for, 52, wickets in the 10 innings in , which ! he , bowled. H, F. Boyle, whose absence was felt by the Melbourne C.C. team to be such a mistake last ' summer; will also be included, while as' reserves the' three South Australians, Walter Giffen;' ! Gddfrey, and Lyons, are mentioned: ; This ; would : give "a splendid all-round side, as will be' seen from^ a glance at the following summary : — ■ " IPS M'Donheli; N.S.W.' (captain) (1880. 1883, ' 1884) ' " -' R Allen, N. S.W. . , , , , A Bannermau, N.S.W. (1878, 1880, ,1882, 1884). , J MO 'Blaekham, V: (1&T8, 1880. 1882; 1884,: 1886) ■ "• • ' " ; " - ' H,F Boyle, y. (1878,1880,1883,1884) 'J.Kerris, T N.S.W. 1 T W Garrett,' N.S.W. (1878. 1882, 1886) GGiffeh, S.A. (1882, 1884, 1888) ■ WGiffen.S.A. . 3 Godfrey, S.A. S P Jones; N.S.W. (1882, 1886) G L Lyons. S.A. H'Moses.'NJS W.> G X Palmer, V. (1880, 1883, 1884, 1886) F R Spofforth, V. (1878, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886) O J Turner,' N.B.W. 0 WBeal, N.S.W. (manager) (1882). , N.B .—The figures' within parentheses indicate the > years in which the players have visited England. What is Bright's Disease? : > So much has recently been said regarding ," Bright's Disease" that we give our readers a diagnosis of the disease expressly prepared by a medical man :— . j Bright's disease of the kidneys consists, of, such a degeneration of the tissues ,pf the kidney ; that it looses its full power to separate the urea or urine from the blood. The flow of the blood ,' through the kidneys is retarded in the minute , vessels, congestion follows, and, instead of the urine only passing through the walls of these . minute cells, the albumen and fibrine, " the life properties of the blood," escape, ' the poisons remaining. Eventually the entire blood becomes ' thoroughly corrupted, and ruins every Organ in ' the system. There are various names given to disordered conditions of the kidneys, such as albuminuria, uraemia, nephritis, fatty degeneration of the kidney, inflamation of ; the kidneys, &c, &c-, but they are all allied to the dreaded Bright's disease, and will eventually terminate in that' fearful malady. Indeed, many persons , are carried off by. insidious kidney diseases without really ever knowing whatever ailed them. "Bright's disease has no symptoms of its own, but has the symptoms of every other disease you can think of." Albumen and casts may or may not be present, and the speoifio gravity is not an absolute test. If a manjbreaksa limb' he will expect to feel pain in the injured member, but in kidney > disease he may chiefly suffer in, the ■ other •• organs of - the body; The secondary symptoms v of Bright's , disease are , among thecommonest ailments of humanity, and their . ordinary occurrence disarms popular suspicion., , 11 Oh," exclaims the man of acti/e life, , does not feel as well as -he used to, " I haven't, any Bright's disease!" Precisely ! You do not fee] as well as formerly. Your head aches . oftener and your eyesight suddenly proves, faulty. The verdict of a celebrated authority ! on the subject is—" These symptoms are a sure '• forerunner of Bright's disease." You have bad a recent and mysterious attack of' asthma; you have had a hard icold on your 4ungs whioh ; you have been unable to dislodge— ryou have spit bloody mucous ; you. have felt a new and sensation of heaviness, jin the region of the heart; you have a great. depression of spirits without any known cause; you, have found it impossible to eat whatever and when- , ever you wish; your stomach has .been very sore, your appetite feeble, your' bowels irregular ; a mysterious weariness ' comes upon you; your muscular system seems utterly' ' helpless. The highest authorities tell utf that all these symptoms are sure indications of Bright's disease ! „ . j • . - : Whatever disease affects the kidneys produces the same effect in the liver, and the purging, of blood, nausea, vomiting of bile, and . food, indigestion, constipation, piles, dizziness, persistent diarrhoea, coming on to a person who has always been robust, are certain premonitions of Bright's disease. Having made a tour of the body and finding no other organs which it can destroy, then the disease returns to the kidneys; the ' back aches intolerably, the urine is dark, full of brickdust deposit, and ropy;* casts appear, albumen is abundant ; then come muscular relaxation and nervous prostration; puffs appear under the- eyes, the countenance is pale' and wears an appearance of fright, convulsions ensue, the fatal diarrhoea or pneumonia sets in, and death is the end. With' some patients the disease, runs slowly and for years. With others it comes as a thief in the night. Note these facts : — More adults are carried .off in this country by chronic kidney disease than by any other malady except consumption. I—Thompson.1 — Thompson. ' • Deaths from such diseases are increasing at the rate of 250, per cent, a decade,— Edwards. Bright's disease has no symptoms of it* own, and may long exist without the knowledge of the patient or practitioner, as no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity. — Eoberts. In the fatal cases— and most cases have hitherto been fatal— the symptoms of diseased kidneys will first paper in extremely different organs of the body, as stated above. — Thompson. Only when the disease has reached its final and fatal stages may the usual symptoms of albumen and casts appear in the water, and will great pain rack the diseased organs.— Thompson. !

There is but one remedial agent in the world which has ever cured a pronounced case of Bright's disease, and has thus inspired the confidence of the, physician, the patient, and the public, and that is Warner's safe cure.

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