MEDICAL NOTES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2287, 16 July 1880, Page 3

MEDICAL NOTES.

p. . The “ British Medical journal ” is not generally limnorons, but a recent number lias a charming story. In provincial France, it seems, pens and ink arc not so common as in Paris, and a doctor of Chalons, going to see a country patient, could find no materials for his prescription. He wrote, in charcoal on a barn door. The relations of the sick man being, however, unable to read, far less to transcribe it, were obliged to take the door off its binges, and carry it off to the chemist. His establishment was too small for the barn door, so it was propped up on the pavement while he read the formula, which he entered with particular care in his book, so that, should the medicine require repetition, he need not have to refer to the original prescription. Alleged cures by George 'Miluor Stephen, a leading Syduc} r barrister, professing to have received the gift of healing in answer to a prayer that the divine truths of Spiritualism be made evident, attract attention. Several respectable citizens acknowledged themselves cured, but failures arc also reported to have occurred.