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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 February 1870, Page 7

The- Surgeon's Wife. — Women possess a presence of mind which has often delighted and amazed me. I remember reading of some great surgeon, who came one morning to his wife in tears, because he could not extract a bit of steel from a patient's eye. " I have tried all the means in che power of man," said he, " but all in vain ; my effort to relieve the sufferer only increases his agony — what shall I do ?" " Take a loadstone," replied the wife, " and draw out the metal at once." The surgeon had never once thought of this simple and efficacious plan ; he flew back to the sufferer, and relieved him in an instant.

A Singular Remedy. — Whenever Burke found himself indisposed he ordered a kettle of water to be kept boiling, of which he drank large quantities, sometimes as much as four or five quarts in the morning, without any mixture or infusion, and as hot as he could bear. His manner was to pour about a pint at a time into a basin, and to drink it with a a spoon as if it had been soup. Warm water, he said, would relax and nauseate, but hot water was the finest stimulant and most powerful restorative in the world.