MODERN MIRACLES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 31

MODERN MIRACLES.

THE DAYS OF MIRACLES AltE NOT YET PAST. SCEPTICS MAY DOUBT. SEVEN SPECIAL SURGEONS ARE CONVINCED. DR. WILLIAMS, OF PINK PILLS FAME, IS FORCING THIS FACT HOME IN ALL CIVILISED COUNTRIES EVERY DA\ r . Dr. Williams, of Pink Pills fame, is forcing 1 this fact home in all civilised countries everyday. A case in point, illustrating, comes from Melbourne. So says the Advocate :—: — 'The greatest and most extraordinary miracle which h.is c\er occurred in Victoria is undoubtedly the recovery of Dave Kuk, (he popular and dashing ex-champion cyclist, who over a 3 tar ayo, when training on the track at the Scotch College, Melbourne, was hurled from his machine and thrown with incredible rapidity and violence on 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, but 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 his sick-bed. Fur seven trying months of pain and .suffering poor Dave l;>y 'twixt Jii'e anil death — unable to stir hand or foot, unable even to move, a victim of spinal disease, pleurisy, dysentery, complete paraljsis of the body, and last, but by no means least, loeoiuotor 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 ."52 stitches were inserted in that part of his foot, 18 being placed in his right leg. The km ecap was smashed, and had to be lifted. Altogether, seven surgeons had to do with the 6ufferer, 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 urine. 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 wersalso largely employed. This was a most singular case, and one which must have afforded ample play for the physicians' skill and experiment, jet it remained lor Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to effect a radical and complete cure." References to the accident appeared mi the Melbourne Herald, Aryu-t, and other papers. The Herald, of October '.), 'IHi, said .. — • Dave Kirk, residing at the Coffee Palace, Victoria-street, North Melbourne, sustained severe injuries this alternooon through falling from his bicyclo while tidiniiig on the Uack at the Scotch College ground. The tire of his bicycle burst, and Kirk was thrown violently to the ground. He was itmoved in v cab Lv the Melbourne Hospital.' The -1/v/k.v, about a month later, said: — 'Everyone has heard of Kiik, 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 his spine has been so badly hurt that he will likely be paralyse, d for life.' Our statements are consequently borne out by Press"reports. But to continue our story :—: — After seven months of bedridden existence in the Melbourne Hospital, Dave Kirk, left that institution with faint hopes of ever being able to get abuut 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 authetic 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 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 senso of tuuch, 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 1 As a final lest as to my sense of feeling, I received a shock from a pow erf ul 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 ot 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 mo ever since the day I met with the accident. Regularity in this diiection was perfectly set up. and I am now, alter four months' taking of these pill*>, in the enjeu mint of perfect health.' It wanted no assurance of tin-, as tliose who had seen the subject of this narrative are not slow 1o i \ press theii surpri-e at the picture ot health and almost comp eti l.\ risu-i.-ittiied power of body and mind pi evented in the pet -on ot Da \ id Kirk. A short time ago Dave ga\e a practical illustration of his restored - by pluekily captuiing a young fellow (who had stolen one or hi*- bieycKs) ot heavier build than himself, and after van-qui-hi;i him in a willing encounter lodgeel him in the lock-up. An account ot the capture appeared in the Aye of 23rd September. He (K'iik) is able to trench his lurge gaiden, and walks daily two miles to and iroin his business place. Dr. Williams' Pink l'ills for Pale People arc not a patent mtduiup, but are a thoroughly scientific preparation, the result of ye.irs of tareful stuely on the part of an eminent Edinburgh University physician, and they were successfully used by him in his cvi r\d,iy 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 diseases of women, such as aiucmia, poor anel 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. New Zealand, who will forward (post paid) on receipt of stamps or po.st eider, one box for IK or halt-a-do/,cn for Ids. b"d.