HOW A KING'S LIFE WAS SAVED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1679, 5 October 1887, Page 3

HOW A KING'S LIFE WAS SAVED

Once his Majesty was ill for several weeko, really 111, seriously at his age. The doctors, of coarse, oame every day, aometimes twice or more, and they presoribed as usual. Any one who haa been ill for any length of time, and has been aitende i m the ordinary way cnce or twice a day by one doct >r, will know what various medicines are prescribed, and changed aa;ain and again under each phase of the disease, and he would, I believe, be astonished to sea all the medicines he had drank during his illness. Anyone may then conceive whit a quantity was likely to be ordered and what changes were likely to be rang by a bevy of doctors with auch a precioas personage as a king for a patient. As any bottle or powder was brought his Majesty said, ' Pat it m the oapboard.' and again and again it wsb ' Pot it m the cupboard.' Not one drop was touched. Starving and patience were the ODly remedies resorted t3. At last his Majsßty got hfs good torn and began to feel he cculd eat again with a relish, and by degrees nature flung iff the disorder, whatever It wa», which had run its course. His Majesty wa-j ap and dressed early and at bußinee?. ' Get all these' bottlea, ; owdera and pillboxes ont of the cupboard, 1 he eald, • and range them m a row round the room.' It w*b a very small room and they almost made a circle round the walls. The doctors came m smirking and smiling and congratulated the King upon being up again and looking ho well. ' Yep, doctors,' said his Majesty, ' thank God it Is so. But look there — count it up. Don't you think if I bad drank all that stuff I should have been dead long ago V — Court and Times of King Ernest of Hanover.