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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 1760, 27 May 1913, Page 6

Amongst tho habits of excessive toil to which tlio human family is subject, that which the farm labourer lins annually to face, viz., the tossing of sheaves to great heights in the loading of wagons, etc., is perhaps tho one which causes more cases of serious rupture than any other mode of employment. Though wo mention this as a prominent cause of rupture, it.must not.be overlooked that all violent muscular efforts to procure tho necessaries, comforts and conveniences of life, together'with the hereditary weakness under which onr race labours, through a long line of ancestral transgressions, have developed a physical imperfection. l>otli distressing and dangerous, styled hernia or rupture. In a race physically strong we do not believe it could exist. Nor do wo believe, even in tho present type of feeble and depleted | manhood and womanhood, it, could exist if a proper system of physical training ■\vcro carried out through childhood till tlie body was well knit or consolidated, so as to exclude all idea, of weakness or want of strength. Such, habit-, which sound physiological instruction to our sons and daughters would produce, can alone banish this physical curse from our race, and substitute a better, purer, and higher standard of physical perfection. We really think that sufferers from hernia living in the country should give this matter their earnest attention, and, even though it may occasion their taking a day or two off for the purpose, it woulu bo well worth their while to do so for the sake of getting scientific treatment. Hundreds of persons of both sexes who have adopted this policy have loit testimonials expressing their gratification at the result. Mr. A. W. Martin. Sole Controller of the Dr. J. A. Sherman method of treating rupture is now at the Hotel Cecil, Wellington, and may be consulted dailv from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Consultations aro free. Booklet on rupture and its treatment posted free to any sufferer. jrAdvt, ...