A FAMOUS SURGLON.
AITTIOR OF MANY SLOGANS.
EAT AND FEAR NOT."
LONDON, May 29
Sii' James OanUie, the well-known surgeon and founder of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, win; died recently, claimed to have suffered a record number of illnesses, one of which resulted in the lass of an eye. Recently he held classes fey ''physical jerks" fay men over 40.
The deceased invented many medical slogans, such as "Tight hats cause baldness," Eat and fear not," He advocated abstention from dairy produce, believing that eggs were infected with cancer and consumption. Ho said that neglected teeth am! trades unions wore two main causes of physical degeneracy.
Sir James rose at four o'clock in the morning and performed Highland] dances for exorcise, lie said that "Moses, M.D.." had forestalled the scientific discovery that- rats carried, plague. Women knew that rats carried the disease liecause God gave her an, instinctive ah. horn nee of \hm\. Therefore she screamed when, she saw a rat.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 6
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165A FAMOUS SURGLON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 6
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