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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XIX, 30 October 1897, Page 595

dreailful injuries sustained by the iiatient 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 |>art of his foot. 18 lieing placed in the right leg. The kneecap was smashed and had to Ire lifted. Altogether seven surgeons had to do with the sufferer, who was reduced to a very weak and almost comatose state after nine operations had been performed on him. Mortification set in in parts of the lower lihibs, ami artificial means had to lie employed to draw off the urine. The system was washed internally four times every day with water and carbolic acid, the stomach lieing cleaned out by means of a tul>e. Injections were also largely employed. This was a most singular case, and one which must have afforded ample play for the physicians’ skill and experiment, yet it remained for Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to effect a radical and complete cure. THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE PICTURE. AN ASTOUNDING CHANGE. After seven months of bed-ridden existence in the Melbourne General Hospital, Dave Kirk left that institution with faint holies of ever lieing able to get aliout without the aid of crutches, with all hopes vanished as to his ability to again enter the cycle arena and carry off once more those brilliant laurels, which were at various big wheel gatherings wont to lie his. for he was Victoria's largest scratch crack. In May last Kirk's friends, lieing impressed by the numerous authentic and sjiontaneotis testimonials from persons of Imth sexes, of every age and condition in life, and in all parts of the world, recommended a course of the now worldfamed Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People as a last resource. Marvellous but true, as may lie learned from the jiatient's own lips, no sooner had he begun to take these wonderfully curative pills than Kirk experienced palpable relief. To let him describe himself the returning powers to his limbs and nervous system generally :—‘ Gradually the sense of numbness began to disappear, and the extremities acquired by degrees their wonted healthy glow anil 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 lie sure of the absence of the sense of touch, the doctors would conceal my vision, and then question me as to the part they were piercing ; but my answers clearly proved to them that I was absolutely bereft of all sensibility !

‘ 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 Kirx.

But perhajw the most demonstrative proof or the absolute numbness and ale sence of all feeling in the patient while under treatment in the hospital was the fact that, although he received a shock from a powerful galvanic battery —a shock so strong that the operator declared it to l>e half a volt more than he had given to anyone in the institution for 40 years — Dave Kirk was utterly unable to feel its effect A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF RESTORED VITALITY. A few days ago Dave Kirk, who, by the way, is to l»e found at his hairdressers’ and toliacconists’ establishment. 471, Elizabethstreet north, caught sight of a certain individual to whom he had let out one of his bikes on hire and who, it seems, was possessed of so bad a memory that he forgot to return the machine to its owner ! As showing the restored strength ami vigour of the erstwhile lied-ridden man, Kirk made a dash for the thief, and a hand-to-hand struggle ensued. His op]»onent wa* a Ixjwerfully-built fellow, and a much icavier weight than Dave. Blood flowed freely on noth sides, but Dave proved one too many for his man, and with a dexterous effort managed, unassisted, to get him into a cab, ami took him unceremoniously to the lockup, where a charge of theft was laid against the prisoner. That was. perhaiis, the most practical evidence of restored vitality that could well lie given on the part of the cycle champion. Naturally enough the thousand and one chums of the once-thought-dead, but now very much alive, cyclist are loud in their praise of the world - famed Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and whenever