PROFESSOR WALLENBURG.

Temuka Leader, 26 February 1880, Page 2

PROFESSOR WALLENBURG.

Tim following fully bears out our subleader re the Professor . Professor Wallenburg, the soi disant world-renowned oeenlist,has, through the. medium of flanvng advertisemenMMiul one or two remarkable cures, established for himself a favourable reputation in his repetition in his profeccipn. Dure' »-o a few who® consider the PnJes O’ to be anything but the Simod Pure. We have heard of one or two, whose treatment at the hands of the Professor has resulted ratlm.r unfavourably. An individual from this district paid the Professor a visit in Invercargill, and and on interviewing that worthy was informed that Ins patimt’s case, was a very simjile on- 1 , and a cure could easily he effected, the fee named being fifteen gs. This was objected to on the score of the patient’s impecunious position. Hie question was not then settled, : 'S the Professor had a number of patients awaiting his attention, an ! he from mr. district was requested t: call in an hours time, an appointment rendering it impossible for him to " remain and wait his turn. On calling ag.-dn the Professor in his nntst pompous style in foamed his patient how many cases of a similar nature he had sured, and "thereupon proceeded to operate on the new patient. What he us.d can only be inf-rred from )he results, but having Iren acquainted with the patient for a considerable period ; of time we would, if asktd, foe’ inclined to say that the treatment was similei to fhat which victims of the Spanish Inquisition suffered. Hie eyelashes have been completely burned away, and the eye-balls now appear like balls of fire. This result was brought about by the eye-lids being painted with-a lotion, and the patient ordered to keep his eyes closed far the space of half an hour, all the while enduring frightful Although the Professor had previously asked fifteen guineas, he readily accepted LG in payment of his fie for yerforning the operation and supplying a small bottle containing a lotion. He said, however, he would not supply a prescription sor 1.500 No forth u* supply of the lotion would be required, and the patient’s sight would be thoroughly restored in a day or two. Instead of which the patient’s sight is gradually becoming worse, although he is taking all possible precautions to preserve his vision. One very strange answer given by the. Professor is worthy of note. He said “light would not affect the eyes.” This the eognosconst alaways declare injures the sight, and Is invariably the cause of intense irritation. The patient, we may say in conclusion, did not fail ta give the Professor a bit of his mind, Riling lnm_ that he (Wallenburg) was a Jew, whuaßj iu the Scotch vernacular meant a and a quack, which in plain Saxon .is a rogue. The Profescor and his paljgnt ■ did not part the best of friends, and the' hitter declares he wid not in future be so eager to consult mountebank {professors —Mataura Ensign-