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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2129, 19 January 1880, Page 1

SPECIAL NOTICE. 5 pEOFESSOE WALLENBERG, Oculist, Auhist, and Specialist (Prom Europe). ■ May be consulted upon all Diseases of the t Eye, Ear, and Throat, Deafness, Noises in the Head, Defective Sight, Cataracts, Amaurosis, Opthalmia, Gutta-Serena, Loss of the Eyelashes, Inflammation, and all Diseases of the Eye, Ear, and Throat, treated upon new and scientific principles, PROFESSOR WALLENBERG, Has arrived in Timaru and may be consulted at his Consulting Dooms, at the Grosvenor Hotel. By request of a great number of Patients he will prolong Iris stay a few days beyond the date previously fixed for his departure. OPINIONS OE THE PHESS. Blindness and Deafness. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 13.) Professor Wallenberg is still kept busy with patients. We on Saturday received a visit from two persons upon whom he had operated. Their names arc Mr Nicholas Power and Mr James McGrath, both of Waimatc. The first-mentioned had been deaf in one car for II years. On Wednesday last he visited the doctor, and obtained some relief. On Thursday he was perfectly cured, a • grass seed and an accumulation of skin which had gathered around it having been extracted. He told us that he could hear better with the car that had been operated upon than he could with the other. The last-mentioned visited the doctor at the same time. He was slightly deaf in the left and totally deaf in the right car. A growth having been cxtracrcd from the right car, he entirely recovered his hearing He told us that he could hear his own voice —a thing that he had not done for 10 years. The case of .Mr Alexander Aitchison is worth chronicling. He had been totally deaf in one ear for four years and slightly affected in the other. He is now perfectly restored, and was so gratified that he to-day introduced a suffering friend to the doctor. Mr Aitchison tells us that he could only hear his watch ticking by means of the diseased car by pressing it tightly to it. Now, he can hear it at a distance of a foot, although his car is stopped with wadding. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 1(5.) I To the Editor. Sin, —About Professor Wallcnburg and his cures. lam glad that in previous issues you have called attention to the work and remarkable success of the Professor in a few days of his residence in this town. I only just'wish to say that I can confirm the truthMlncss of several of the cases mentioned by you, for I have seen the patients myself. I would like to urge on all the people of Oamaru and neighbourhood the importance of having any affection of those parts of the body which he specially treats attended to at once, or when he has gone they will regret that they did not avail themselves of his skill. Such men as he arc a blessing to humanity. Hoping this may lead to the relief of some sufferer or sufferers, I am, Ac. Chas. E. Pauley. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 22.) Mr James Gibson, a shepherd employed at Station Peak called upon us this morning, and requested us to bear testimony to the fact that he has been cured of almost total deafness by Professor Wallcnburg. He had been more or less deaf for JO years, but for the last 20 years his hearing has been getting gradually worse. Ten days ago Mr Gibson placed himself under the treatment of the Professor, and has so far recovered that he experiences no dilliculty in hearing ordinary conversation. At the same time Professor Wallcnburg introduced to us Mr William McKenzie, of Kakanui. He had been so deaf for 13 years that he had been unable to hear ordinary sounds. On Saturday last he became a patient of the Professor's, and _ obtained immediate relief. His hearing is now as perfect as could be desired. (“ Oamaru Mail,” Dec. 211.) To the Editor. Sin, —Permit me through your paper to direct the attention of the public to the following. At the request of a member of my congrc- , gation, unable to pay, and suifering with eyes nearly blind and inllamed many years, I applied to Professor Wallcnburg for advice and treatment gratis. He, with generosity and kindness readily granted the favor. I made the application’ because I had learned from other clergymen that the professor is ever ready to give his services to the poor when asked to do so by any person on whose honesty he can rely in being assured that no deception is being practised on him. This person was under the care of several medical men, but without any beneficial result. Professor Wallenburg has had the ease under treatment for about ten days, and now the eyes are perfectly well and the person is likely to be able to earn a livelihood, to the great delight of all his friends, whose lasting 'gratitude Professor Wallenberg has earned- I know of my knowledge three others who benefited veiy much by the treatment of the worthy Professor. I write this letter without the request of any one; but I consider it a duty owing to the Professor’s kindness; and I reccomond those suffering in eye or car to apply to him whilst they have the present favorable opportunity. I hereby tender my best thanks to Professor Wallenburg for his charity to the alllicted poor, —I am Ac., W)i. Coleman, Homan Catholic Clergyman. The Eye and Ear.—Professor Wallcnburg is effecting some marvellous cures in cases of blindness and deafness. At his invitation we visited the consulting rooms at the Albion Hotel, yesterday morning, when we conversed with two or three out of a total of about thirty patients present. The first case brought under notice was that of James Bobertson, of Morton Mains, who was suffering from heavy films in both eyes. He assured us that for the past six years he had suffered acutely, and during four years of that period he had been under medical treatment without receiving any benefit—in fact he went from bad to worse. Placing himself under Professor Wallenburg’s treatment he speedily came round, and yesterday could distinctly see a hair at the ordinary reading distance Richard Atkinson, of Invercargill, who had been treated in Dunedin and Melbourne for impaired eyesight, also bore testimony to the Professor’s skill. He had been totally blind of one eye, ■ the other being considerably affected, but I could now distinguish the time on a clock a | couple of chains off. Mrs W. Jerrett, of i Riverton, was the next patient introduced. , She stated that she had been suffering from deafness for the last six years, and during that time her husband had expended somelike £1(50 in endeavoring to effect a cure. I Under Professor Wallcnburg’s treatment I she had so far recovered her hearing that she could without dilliculty hear a watch