TE AROHA BATHS. REMARKABLE CURE.
A most remarkable find rapid cure of iliemiiatism has >ecen»!y oecuired at To Arohu. The facts uro biiefly as follows : The sufferer. Mr Peter Aiklit.son, n resident of Blenheim (Marlhorou»h) was tnken ill with rheumatics about a year a^o, the result of lonj; continued exposure to wet weather. The attack proved a most severe one, and the sufferer was total 131 3 confined to bed for the fii9t seven months, and incapacitated from fining anvthinu during the whole twelvemonths; -iltln'U'.'li under meiieal tteatment durinir that tim<Captain Wilkinson of the Salvation Aimy ffnimerty stationed aLTljames, and who h.id hiuself received very &reat ben fit from a cnuise of the Te Aroha Baths) hearing of Mr And^ipon's cn<", went to see him, and stionqly advised histiyinu the Te Aroha Spring. Acting on the advice of Captain Wilkinson, (and through hi- kindne^, and that a nnnber of Blenheim resident who snivel ibed a «irn of moivy sufficient to enable Mr Andeison to take the j miney, and to all of whom he exposes himself is deeply grateful for their kind attentions), lie was able to st.v t for Te Aioha, übeic he ;u rived on Xovembei 15th, so ciippled however, th.it it wawith very jrreat difficulty he was able, even with the -issistance of two sticks, to ciawl as far as the b.irhs Th (> ha Mi chief lv used by Mr Anderson w«<s No. 6. No. 2 l>ein»" occasi<>nally resorted to. After nine baths flwo a day) on the fifth day after arrival, Mr Anderson was «o far restored as to be able to dispense wiih the assistance of sticks altogether. He continues to make, patisfactorv pi\>.!?ie v s, and exjieet--, by e(>ntinuin» the tjse of the baths for about anothei foi tniuht, to return home ( ompletely rostor *d in health. As may be supposed, Mr Anderson is loud in raise of the purati\e prouerties of the' IV A ruh 1 n iueial spiings.
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Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 3
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326TE AROHA BATHS. REMARKABLE CURE. Te Aroha News, 26 November 1887, Page 3
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