THE DAYS OF MIRACLES ARE NOT YET PAST.

Southern Cross, Volume 6, Issue 9, 4 June 1898, Page 6

THE DAYS OF MIRACLES ARE NOT YET PAST.

SCEPTICS MAT DOUBT. SEVEN SPECIAL SURGEONS ARE CONVINCED. DR WILLIAMS, OF PINK PILL FAME, IS FORCING THIS FACT HOME IN ALL CIVILISED COUNTRIES EVERY DAY. Dr Williams, of Pink Pill fame, ia forcing this fact home in all civilised countries every day. A case in point, illustrating, comes from Melbourne. So says the Advocate : ‘ The greatest and 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 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 unconscious to the Melbourne Hospital, All the many resources of that institution were brought into play for the relief of the patient, bur. the 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 bis 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 to spinal disease, pleurisy, dysentery, complete paralysis of the body and last, but by no means least, locomotor ataxia, a terrible complaint which utterly prostrates the human frame and destroys the power of the will; so much so that the common functions of nature are performed by a power extraneous to the will. An idea of the dreadful injuries sustained by the patient may be gathered from the following details gleaned from Kirk by our representative. His left heel had to be removed, and 32 stitches were inserted in that part of his foot, 18 being placed in his right leg. The kneecap was smashed, and had to be lifted. Altogether, seven surgeons had to do with the sufferer, who was reduced to a very weak and comatose state after nine operations had been performed on him. Mortification set in in parts of the lower limbs, and artificial means had to be employed to draw off the nrine. The system was washed internally four 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 most singular case, and one which must have afforded ample play for physicians’ skill and experiment, yet it remained for Dr Williams’ Pink Pills to effect 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 at the Coffee Palace, Victoria-street, North Melbourne, sustained severe injuries this afternoon through falling from his bicycle while training on the Scotch College ground. The tire of his bicycle burst, and Kirk was thrown violently to the ground. He was i removed 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 the Melbourne Hospital ever since. The medical authorities say that he will never ride again, as the spine has been so badly hurt that he will likely be paralysed for life.’ Our statements are consequently borne out by press reports. But 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, his had been a prominent form. In May last Kirk’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 in his own words his account of the change resulting from their use. He says : ‘ Gradually the sense of numbness began to disappear, and the extremities acquired by degrees their wonted healthy glow and warmth. While under treatment in the hospital the sense of feeling entirely disappeared, so much so that 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 roe as to the part they were pieicing ; but my answers clearly proved to them that I was absolutely bereft of all sensibility ! 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 institution for 40 years but I was unable to feel its effect. After a month’s trial of Dr Williams" Pink Pills I was able to throw aside my crutches. But one of the most powerful effects of the pills was the restoration of functional health. 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 pills, 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 body and mind presented in the person of David Kirk. A short time ago Dave gave a practical illustration of his restored vitality by pluckily capturing a young 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 the capture appeared in the Age of 23rd September. He (Kirk) is able to trench his large garden, and walks daily two miles to and from his business place.

Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are not a patent medicine, bat are a thoroughly scientific preparation, the result of years of careful study on the part of an eminent Edinburgh University physician, and they were successfully used by him in his everyday practice for years before being offered tor general sale. They positively cure rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, and influenza’s evil after-effects, and are a specific for all diseases of women, such as anaemia, poor and watery blood, female irregularities, nervous headache, and hysteria. They are

not a purgative medicine, but brace up and permanently strengthen the whole system.

Dr Williams’ Pink Pills are obtainable from all leading chemists, or from the Dr Williams’ Medicine Company, Wellington, K\Z., who will forward (post paid) on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 3s, or half-a-dozen for I6s 6d.