PLAIN-SPOKEN DOCTORS

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XIX, 7 November 1903, Page 58

PLAIN-SPOKEN DOCTORS

"MELBOURNE AGE” ON MEDICINE. On Saturday the “Melbourne Age” had a sensible leader on “Doctors.” Speaking of the great strides made by Medical Science, the “Age” showed how little

was known after all. “We give a medicine at random,” says Sir Lauder Brunton, vho was knighted for his know-

ledge, “with no defined idea of what it shall da, trusting to chance for good results." Sir William Broadbent, president of the College of Physicians, was nearly as candid when he remarked that too many medicines were given. And Sir John Forbes adds his testimony by saying, “In a very large proportion of diseases treated by doctors, the disease is cured by Nature, not by them.” The best doctors in New Zealand now admit these truths. They know the mistake of giving too many medicines. Tliev have given up the old-fashioned idea that there must be a different medicine for each disease. Common diseases, they have learned, spring from one root—bad blood. They know that good, pure blood is the best cure for most ills, from paleness to paralysis, and from rickets to rheumatism. In nine cases out of ten the only medicine needed is one that makes new blood. This is admitted by the highest authorities in Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand —and Dr. Williams’ pink pills for pale people have just this power of actually making new blood. This new blood sweeps out poisonous impurities, braces the nerves, and carries healing, health and strength to every corner of the body. That is why these blood-building pills cure the very worst eases of anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, headaches, backaches, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, hysteria and the secret ailments of women. There is no mystery in their action. Dr. Williams’ pink pills simply make new, pure, rich, red blood, and then, as Sir John Forbes says, Nature can cure disease without further aid. Here is a case in point, right in New Zealand. Mr. Janies Kelly, Collingwood, says Dr. Williams’ pink pills cured his rheumatism positively and permanently. They did this because they made new blood, which swept out of his system all the rheumatic aciU that had crippled him with paralysing pain. They didn’t try to touch the pain direct, like liniments and doctor’s medicines —but they set the blood right, and then nature soon stopped the pain. “For fourteen years,” says Mr. Kelly, “the muscles of my arms were drawn up in knots. I couldn’t lift my hand above my head, even to put on my hat. And my legs were nearly as bad. In fact, I hadn't a musele, nerve or joint that didn’t ache for all it was worth with rheumatism. I tried liniments, and nearly took my skin off with turpentine —but that didn’t touch the root of my suffering. At last I read in the “Wellington Post” how men and women in the Auckland, New Plymouth, Hawke’s Bay, Canterbury and Otago districts thanked Dr. Williams’ pink pills for curing them of rheumatism, neuralgia, headaches and backaches, after everything else had failed. I got some as quick as I could, and the first box started to fix me up. I kept right on till they drove out every drop of the painful poison and left me without an aching muscle or a stiff joint. Now I feel like a two-year-old. When people marvel at my activity and remark on my healthy look, I just give them the wrinkle for making new, pure, rich, red blood.” Mr. Kelly’s case is just an illustration of what Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir William Broadbent and Sir John Forbes said about the uselessness of ordinary medicines.