THE DAYS OF MIRACLES ARE NOT YET PAST.

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 37

THE DAYS OF MIRACLES ARE NOT YET PAST.

SCEPTICS MAY DOUBT.

SEVEN SPECIAL SURGEONS AP.E

CONVINCED.

DR WILLIAMS OF PINK PILLS FAME

IS FORCING THIS PACT HOME IN ALL CIVILISED COUNI'RIES EVERY DA¥.

Dr Williams, of Pink Pills fame, is forcJDg this fact home in all civilised countries every day. A case in point, illustrating, comes from Melbourne. So saj s the Advocate : — " The greatest aud most extraordinary miracle which has ever occurred in Victoria is undoubtedly the recovery of Dave Kirk, the popular and dashing ex-champion cyclist, who over a year ago, when training on the track at the Scotch College, Melbourne, was hurled from his machine and thrown with incredible rapidity and violence on to the hard ground. The tire of his leader burst, and thus the fateful accident was occasioned. Kirk was picked up from where he lay in a senseless heap, and was carried quite uu- , conscious to the Melbourne Hospital. All the many resources of that institution were brought into play (or the relief of the patient, but tha grave looks of the surgeons in attendance plainly indicated that they entertained but slight hopes of the young man's ultimate recovery. An eminent member of the profession expressed it as his opinion that Kirk would never again rise from his sick bed. For seven trying months of pain and suffering poor Dave lay 'twixt life and death — unable to stir hand or foot, unable even to move, a victim of spinal disease, pleurisy, e*j*sßf.«?y, (&us£ete fiaxslyais cf the body, »nd.

last, bat Jay no means least, looomotcVataxiat a terrible complaint which utterly prostrates th^ human frame and destroys the power of fhf will ; so much so that the common function? of nature are performed by a power ext"raneous,trf tha will. An idea of the dreadful injuries sustained by the patient may be gathered from the following details gleaned from Kirk" by outf representative. His left heel had to be removed) and 32 stitches were inserted in that part of h;f foot, 18 -being placed in his right leg. The kneecap was smashed, and bad to be lifted. Altogether, suven surgeons- had to do with th« sufferer, who was reduced to a very weak and comatose state after niae operations had been performed on him. ■SorfciQcation set in in parts of tha lower limbs, and artificial means had to be employed to draw off the urine. The system was washed -internally ■ four x times every day with water and carbolic acid, the stomach being cleaned out by means of 'a tube.' Injections were also largely employed. This was a mosl singular case,* and one which must hayt afforded ample play for the physicians' skill and experiment, yet it remained for Df .Williams Pink Pitis to «-fl!ect a . radical and complete cure." '- , . References to the accident appeared in. the Melbourne Herald, Argus, and other papers. - The Herald of October 9, "96, said :— " Dave Kirk, residing ab the Coffae Palace, Victoria street, North Melbourne, sustained severe injuries this afternoon through falling from his bicycle while training on the track at • the Scotch College ground. The tire of his bicycla burst, and Kirk was thrown violently to the ground. He was removed in a cab to the Melbourne Hospital."

The Argus, about a month later, said ; : — •• Everyone has heard of Kirk, the crack racer. About a month ago he met with an accident whilst training, and has-been in tbe Melbourne Hospital ever since. The medical authorities say that he will never ride again, as his spine has been so badly hurt tbat be will likely bs paralysed for life."

Our statements are consequently borne out by press reports. Bat to continue our story :—: —

After seven months of bed-ridden existence in the Melbourne Hospital, Dave Kirk left that institution with faint hopes of ever being able to get about without the aid of crutches, and with all hopes vanished as to his being ' again able to enter the cycle arena, where, prior to his accident, hie had been a prominent form. In May last Kick's friends, being impressed by the numerous and authentic cures effected by Dr Williams' Pink Pills under all conditions, induced him to give them a trial as a last resource. We will give it in his own words his account of the change resulting from theis use. He says : — " Gradually the sense oC numbness began to disappear, and tha extremities acquired by degrees their wonted healthy glow and warmth. WHI3 übder treatment in the hospital the sense of feeling 'entirely disappeared, so much so thai; when the surgeons would put a needle into any part of my body I was absolutely insensible to ■ the fact. To be sure of the absence of the sense of touch, the doctors would conceal my vision, and then question mo as to the part they 'were piercing ; but my answers clearly proved to them that I was absolutely bereft of all sensibility I As a final test as to my sense of feeling, I received a shock from a powerful galvanic battery— a. shock so" strong that the operator: declared it to.be half a volt more than had been given to anyone in the ins,titntion for 40 years— but I was unable to feel its effect. After a month's trial of Dr Williams' Pink .Pills I waa able to throw aside my crutches. .But one of the most powerful effects of the pills was the restora- . x tion of functional Jiealth. Bowel "troubles had been a terrible trial to me ever since the day I met with the accident. - Regularity in. this direction was perfectly set up, and I am now, after four months' taking of these pilla, in the enjoyment of perfect health." 'It wanted no assurance of, this, as those who had seen the subject of this narrative are not slow to express their surprise at ' the picture of health and almost completely resuscitated power of bod? and mind presented in the person of David Kirk.

A short time age Dave gave a practical illustration of his restored vitality by pluckily capturing a yoang fellow (who had stolen one of his bicycles) of heavier build than himself, and after vanquishing him in a willing encounter lodged him in the lock-up. An account of tba capture appeared in the Age of 23rd September. He (Kirk) is able to trench his large garden, , and walks daily two miles two and from his business place. Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine; but are a thoroughly scientific preparation, the result of years of careful study' on the pait of an eminent Edinburgh University physician, and they were successfully used by him in .his every day practice for years before being offered for general sale. They positively cure rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and influenza's evil after-effects, and are a specific for all dieeases of women, such as anemia, poor and watery blood, female ' irregularities, nervous headache, and hysteria.. They > are* not a purgative medicine, but. brace up and perma- , nently strengthen the whole system. Dr Williams' Fink Pilla are obtainable from all leading chemists,' or from the Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington,- N.Z;, who will forward (post paid) on receipt of stamps: or post order, one box for 33, or half a dozsn for 16s 6d.— Advb.

There is a clock in Brussels that is kept going by the wind. - ( The feeling against Englishmen in Cuba is evidently almost as strong as against Americans. The Times correspondent received an intimation that his pretence in the island was not convenient, and that he had better leave before the Government took official action to compel him to do so. , He left for Key West.

In connection with tbe talk about the doubling of the railway running south ffbm Dunedin, thft Wyndham Farmer hears that there has been a suggestion to make the new line round by Sfe. Clair". * Some one has been hoaxing our contemporary, for it adds tbat the reason advanced was to avoid some of the steep gradients. To tunnel through tbe hillf at St. Clair would bean undertaking indeeeU

The excuse offered by a young man who was brought before an Auckland court the other day on the charge of' failing to support his father was that he was ' studying for the ministry, and wanted all his "money to buy books necessary for his course. " I told him," said 'the relieving officer, " that it was an uncalled for act for a Christian man to let h's father be thus dependent on public charity." An order 'was made for the payment of 5s a week.

The Post o£ Thursday lafet records a smart; piece of work done by the cable service. At 8 p.m. on Wednesday night the New Zealand Loaa and Mercantile Agency Company placed a message to its London .office in the Wellington Telegraph Office. By 10.30 o'clock^ the following morning the reply was received, though tho matter involved was of such a nature that there must have been loss of tima on the part of the London agent in communi* Aitigg with hit urisseljjfel before repljinn