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A

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DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS MADE HER WELL;

Civilization is threatening our ayo-sight, we are told by Sir Arthur Keith, in a lecture to the British Option! Association. noar-sighted ancient hunter could UNTIL TONIC TREATMENT, WITH not have survived; concludes Sir Arthur; and he believes that in prehistoric timos casos of pro- nounced myopia must have been unknown or very rare. Modern No lengthy scientific disserta civilization has placed men's tion is required to explain why bodies under conditions alto- Dr. Williams' Pink Pills restore gather now .to them. He so many sufferers from longstand- continued, ав quoted in the ing ill-health for whom other British Medical Journal -

treatments have proved unavail. "Thoughtful men are seeking ing. It is simply that these Pills to understand how our bodies are of exceptional morit as a tonic react under the increasing arti- for the blood and nerves and feality of city life. To the quos- thus for the whole system. In ilon, What is happening to our South Africa, whore Mrs. L. oyes which are now overtaxed by Langnian lives, they have enjoyed dear, work? the snowor returned an enormous popularity for over by ophthalmic surgeons, is that quarter of a century. This civilization is threatening our lady whose home is in Sidelo oyesight. They agree that all Street Klerksdory, Transvaal obildron ara born with eyes says:—

fashioned for distant sight-just "For years I was a martyr to like the young of wild animals. nervousness, indigestion, sick When, however, a thousand Bel-hoadaches and general dobility: tish children ware traced from in- I had no appotits and was almost fancy to adult years, it was found worn out from loss of sleep. My by the end of the fouth year that sufferings would not yield to any some,ton or more of them had treatment or the most careful lost the power of seeing distant dietary. objects clearly; every succeeding "I was in despair until a friend yoar others suffered the same advised me to give Dr. Williams' foss; so that by the age of 20 Pink Pills a trial. After taking about 150 of the 1,000 had become them for a while I felt-such rolief myopic.

I continued the treatment until I In inquiries into the nature of found they had completely cured the disorders which overtake the me. I have not suffered since." bodies of men living under the Chemists everywhere sell Dr, conditions of modern civilization Williams' Pink Bills for Pale -disorders such as contractions People, also direct and post free, of the palate and deformities of $1.50 per bottle $8. for 6 bottles, the jaws-be found that study of from the Dr. Williams' Modicine the normal processes of growth Co,, 60 Kiangeo" Road, Shanghai. threw most light on the manner of their production.. He found no data to suggest that an eye which had remained normal un- could til the twentieth year

thereafter undergo the changes which produced myopin.

DURING GROWTH.

It might be concluded, there- Causes which

AN ANGLO-CHINESE ACTRESS. Ancient Mosaic From Herculaneum.

the ranowned Anglo-Chinese Miss Rose Quong, described as An old mosaic which has been

actress," has appeared in a one- for years in the possession of a

act play called "The Tog on the German family in Wiesbaden

Moor," written by Lady Bell. (who came into possession of it on

Miss Quong appeared as a Dart- the death of Jerome Bonaparte) fore, that the has been lent to the Altos Museum produced myopia were operative moor farmer's wife, who shelters in Berlin, where, besides delight-only in the growing eye, and that an escaped convict-only to find myopia should be ranked among later that he has murdered her ing. antiquarians, it is arousing more interest among schoolboys the disordors of growth. Soma husband. She proved herealf at than the average loan is wont to do. said it was the strain which the opening of the play an ex- According to the Bonaparte accompanied the convergence and prossivo and attractive actress; catalogue of the day it was found accommodation due to using the but her chief chance came in the in Herculaneum, where it must eye for close work. This alone last scene, when she had to express could not be the cause "of the revulsion of feeling which have been buried by the eruption of A.D. 79, It represents the myopia, for thousands of people swept over Anna on hearing of

their sight to strained

the the manner of John's death. death of Archimedes after the!

with no ill-effect on Here, says the Daily Telegraph's, siege of Syracuse during the utmost

their power of vision, Some critic, she showed a vary real' second Punic War-always a mystery, since it was known that said it was muscular exercise, strength and power, which deep- but this alone, whether mild orly impressed her audience. Par- Marcellus had given orders to severe, could not be the cause of haps if she had acted a shade save the mathematician and eng incer whose inventions had been elongation of the eyeball, for more within herself in this last then all athletes and gymnasts scene she would have got oven (partly the means of the city's would assuredly become myopio. more effect. However that may ba, she is an actress to be reckon- holding out so long. Profosur

'Berlin The conclusion Sir Arthured with. Neugebauer, of Museum, believes that this mosaic Keith drew was that if the eye throws light on the tragedy at last. were healthy it would withstand Most people are familiar with unchanged all strains-great or Plutarch's three alternativos of small, continuous or interrupted the manner in which, the great mathematician was killed.

the

THREE VERSIONS.

to which it might be subjected, His argument led him to suspect that the essential cause of myopis must be sought for in the beba- of the fibroblasts, One version was that a Roman viour soldier found him, oblivious of the which were not only the brick- battle raging around Syracuse, layers but also the architoots sunk so deep in a problem that of the sdific enclosing the" struc- he begged for time to solve it tures of the eye. If they laid before obeying the brusque sound material and laid it rightly, demand to follow the legionary then all was well, whatever might to his general Marcellus, and be the use to which the eyes were was slain immediately for his put.

refusal. The second story has it But if the material was unsound that the Roman soldier came and laid wrongly, then it was upon him with intent to kill, and possible that forces which left. was undeterred by "Archimedes' the normal eye unaffected might! appeal to let him finish hie pro- damage the abnormal eye. It' blom first. According to the third was. such grounds that tale, he was on his way to Mar- ophthalmic surgeons instructed cellus, loaded up with bis various patients with high degrees of mathematical and astronomical myopia to avoid eye-strain."

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The Berlin mosaic shows Arch- imodos, with a pair of compasses in his hand, seated at a table upon which a box is standing filled with fine sand. In this sand he drow his figures. As the later Romans no longer used this sand as writ- ing, or, rather, drawing material, but were aware that sand played a part in the story, the logond arose of Archimedes being slaugh- tered while seated on the ground working out his geometrical de- signs. Professor Neugebauer is of the opinion that the mosaic is takon from somo Greek picture of very ancient date, and that the original artist must have boen a tack): "I wish you wouldn't foreigner unaware of the details be so careless in throwing tacks! of a Roman soldier's uniform. about!"

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