May Banish Hope

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 7

May Banish Hope

"Wellington has been infested with quacks of late, and if the law cannot prevent their operations, it should at least limit them strictly to the cases of nervous trouble where they may possibly do good. • "The prioe that hopelessly ill " persons, or little deformed children, pay m disappointment and disillusionment may leave them absolutely bankrupt of that reserve fund of hope which enables the sufferer to keep going." A case of this may be found m the building where "Wilson works. A tiny, fragile lady, Miss Webb has been so weakenjcl by goitre operations that she is suffering from general neuritis m an acute and painful form. In her anxiety to get well, the little, lady has aprareu^ly !ef: no stone unturned, for she has been visiting, at the same time, a physician, a chiropractor, Sisier Phoebe Marie Holmes, and, finally, Stephen Jeffreys. For three weeks, at least, she thought that Stephen Jeffreys had done the trick. The pain seemed to have left her arms and freedom to have returned to her movements. But m the last few days, she has hod a recrudescence of pain, and it was a very anxious, shadowy-eyed little lady who' tried to speak confidently of hoy "cure." The chiropractor, whose treatment she is still taking, was a surprised man