DAVE KIRK AGAIN ON THE WARPATH.

Waikato Argus, Volume III, Issue 224, 18 December 1897, Page 4

DAVE KIRK AGAIN ON THE WARPATH .

HE VANQUISHES HIS OPPONENT. A WONDERFUL FEAT FOR ONE 12 MONTHS AGO CONDEMNED FOR LIFE TO A SICK BED. RESTORED VITALITY DUE TO DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS FOR PALE PEOPLE. He wa° unable to stir hand or foot, unable to move, a victim of spinal disease, pleurisy, dysentery, complete paralysis of the body, and last, but by no means least, locomotor ataxia, a terrible complaint which utterly prostrates the human frame and des'roys the pewer of the will ; so much so that the common functions of nature arc performed by a power extraneous to the will. Such wathe condition of Dave Kirk after h ; s terrible accident on the Scotch College Grounds, Melbourne, about a year ago. His left heel had to be removed, aud 32 stitches were inserted in that part of his foot ; 18 were placed in his right leg. His injuries also included a smashed kneecap, which had to be lifted. ITe was taken quite unconscious from the scene of his accident to the Melbourne Hospital, where everything likely to afford relitf to the patient was brought into play, but the grave looks of the surgeons in attendance plainly indicated that they entertained but slight hopes of the young man's ultimate recovery. Altogether, seven iiirgeons had to do with the sufferer, who was reduced to a very weak and comatose state after nine operations had been performed on him. Mortification set in in parts of the lower limhs, and artificial means had to be employed to draw off the urine. The sjstem was washed intern il'y four times every day with water and carbolic acid, the stomach being cleaned out by means of a tube. Injections were also largely employed. An eminent member of the profession expressed it as his opinion that Kirk would never again rise from his sick-bed. For seven trying months of pain and sufferincr poor Dave lay 'twixt life and death.

How Dave Kirk, Victoria's largest scratch crack, came down a terrible smash whilst training is a matter of history to all lovers and admirers of the whee'. His was a singular case, and one which must have afforded ample play for the physicians' skill and experiment, yet it remained for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to effect a radical and complete cure. For seven months Dave Kirk was bedridden in the Melbourne Hospital. At the expiration of that time he left, and mauaged to get about on crutches, though with great difficulty only. At this juncture his friends, firm believers in the wonderful healing properties of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, bi ought their iufluence to bear, and Dave started on a course. The most satisfactory results followed. "Gradually," said Kirk, when speaking to our reporter, " the sense of numbness began to disappear,- aud the extremities acquired by degrees their wonted healthy glow and warmth. While under treatment in the hospital the ssnse of feeling entirely disappeared, so much so that when the surgeons would put a needle into any part of my body I was absolutely insensible to the fact. To be sure of the absence of the sense of touch, the doctors would conceal my vision, and then question me as to the part they were pie: cing ; but my answers clearly proved to them that I was absolutely bereft of all sensibility ! I received a shock from a powerful galvanic lattery —a shock so strong that the operator declared it to Le halt a volt more than he had given to anyone in the institution for 40 years—but was utterly enable to feel its effect.

"After a month's trial of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills I was able to throw aside 1113' crutches. But one of the most powerful effects of the pills was the restoration of functional health. Bowel troubles had been a tc-riblc trial to me ever since the day I met with the accident. Regularity in this direction was perfectly set up, and I am now, after four months' taking of these pills, in th? enjoyment of perfect health."