CAN HE EARN IT ?

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1298, 20 March 1883, Page 2

CAN HE EARN IT ?

Mr Milner Steven, who claims to possess a Heavenly gift of healing, is thus challenged by a well known Christchurch Medico : - “ To the Etht'or. — Sir, : I have a ‘bunion ’ which Is ‘ the plague of my life.’ A ‘ bunion ’ is an enlargement of the joints between the great toe and the foot. I have severe pains in this joint at times, and I am very anxious for relief. The disease is curable, but the exigencies of medical practices will not permit me to undergo the necessary treatment. This is a grand chance for Mr Stephen. I will place myself under nis care, and give him 20 guineas for the cure. Now, to a man who thinks nothing of adding five inches to the length of a thigh hone, provididing muscles, veins and nerves, off-hand, the curing of a bunion will be a mere “ flea-bite.” Should Mr Stephen consider a bunion beneath his notice, I am unfortunately in a position to introduce to him a very near relation as more grievously afflicted. I have a young son who is partially paralysed. If a cure were possible this lad would not be a sufferer to-day. I beg Mr Stephen to cure this youth, and I will make over to him (Mr Stephen) for his sole u&e and benfit one thousand pounds’ worth of cnencumbered freehold property. I will also give him a certificate as strongly worded as Mr Stephen can possibly desire, and I will pay for its insertions in all the leading Australian colonies ; and a certificate from me will be worth all he has in his certificate book. lam an old settler and a well known medical practitioner. The testimony of a medical man will, in the estimation of the public, overweigh a whole book uf others.—l un, &c., S. A. Patrick, Christchurch March 12.” Dr. Patrick, as he says in his letter is well ! known in Christchurch and a cure effected in either of the instances quoted would not only line Mr Stephen’s pockets handsomely, but give him a tangible basis to work on, and assure him of a claim to respect and force an admission of his capability. There is some curiousity to see how the healer will meet Dr Patrick’s offer but we have little doubt on the result.