THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE PICTURE.

Manawatu Herald, 28 October 1897, Page 3

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE PICTURE.

AN ASTOUNDING CHANGE. After seven months of bed-ridden existtioe in the Melbourne General Hospital, Date Kirk left that institution with faint hopes of ever being able to get about without the aid of crutches, with all hopes Vanished as to his ability to again enter the cycle arena and carry off once more those brilliant laurels which were at various big wheel gatherings wont to be his, for he was Victoria's largest scratch crack. In May la3t Kirk's friends, being impressed by the numerous authentic and spontaneous testimonials from persons of both sexes, of •very age and condition in life, and in all parts of the world, recommend a course of She now world-famed Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People as a last resource. Marvellous but true, as may be learned from the patient's own lips, no sooner had he begun to take these wonderfully curative pills than Kirk experienced pa'pable relief. To lat him describe himself the returning powers to his limbs and nervous system generally:—" 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 disappeared, so much so that when the surgeons would put a need'e into any part of my body I was absolutely insensible to tha fact. To be sure of the absence of the sense of touch, the doctors wou'd conceal my vision, and then question me as to thr part they were piercing ; but my answers c'early proved to them that I was absolutely bereft of all sensibility ! " Af'er a month's trial of Dr Williams' Pink Pi Is 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

faefln> terrible trial to nip ever since the day I met with the acdideni Regularity j in this direction was perfectly set tip, and I am now, after four months' taking of these pills, in the enjoyment of perfect health." It wanted no assurance of this, as those who had seen the -subject of this narrative are not slow to express their surprise at the picture of health and almost completely resuscitated power of body and mind presented in the person of David Kirk. But perhaps the mo°t demonstrative proof of the absolute numbness and absence of all feeling in the patient while under treatment in the hospital was the fact that, although he received a shock from a powerful galvanic battery— a shock so strong that the operator dedared it to be half a volt more than he had given to anyone in the institution for 40 years— Dave Kirk was utterly unab'e to feel its effect: