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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5169, 24 August 1927, Page 2

“We, of the profession, are charged to do something ; preferably something mysterious or heroic. An operation, an X-ray examination, ;i. cystoscopy, a sigmoidoscopy— certainly : but a policy of ‘wait and see? what Nature can do for herself without the meddlesome hand of man -never. And yet fasting is the simplest {ind safest of all remedial measures. It is Nature’s way. During the first few days, when the expectant stomach, accustomed to stimulation, is made to suffer the sorrows of deferred hope, it may be difficult to discern any blue in the sky. Nevertheless, l>y arousing the fighting instinct latent in most people, even the gloom of these few days may be lightened by the sure prospect of ultimate victory ; and with these days behind him the patient is impelled to wonder why he ever eats anything.”—Dr. Leonard Williams in an address in tho Lancet. Woods’ Great Peopermint Cure. For Influenza Colds.