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404 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR, 
can be no more suffered to remain without doing injury than 
can the refuse of the food taken into the stomach and bowels 
after the nutrition has been extracted. We all know the 
danger of confined or obstructed bowels, but overlook the 
danger of obstructed perspiration. 
The symptoms are, tightness of the chest, running at the 
nose, stiffness, and soreness of the eyes, sneezing, listlessness 
pains in the head, cough, shivering, &c. Ifthe cold is very 
severe it 1s called influenza, and is sometimes epidemic. 
Some time ago it was very common in Melbourne. An 
amusing story is told which illustrates the power of faith as a 
factor in the healing process. A young man, clerk in a 
shipping office, was coughing and sneezing at a great rate, 
when one of his companions asked him if he had heard of the 
new remedy.» He replied, “No; but I wish I could get 
something that would cure me; what is the new remedy ?” 
The other said, ‘“‘Itis two pills, they are called the genuine 
Mozambique Pills, one shilling each; but you do not want 
any other medicine, as a cure is certain.” ‘Well, I’ll try 
them, will you get me two, here is the two shillings? The 
other replied that he would when he went to lunch. After 
dinner he rolled up two pills out of bread crumbs, called ata 
chemist’s, got a small pink pill-box and a dust of magnesia, 
and took them to the influenza man with directions to take 
them on going to bed. In the morning, when asked how he 
felt, he replied that he was very much better, and he believed 
that the pills had done him a deal of good. It took the joker 
all his time to keep from bursting. However, it leaked out 
during the day how he had been sold& He hit upona plan 
to make it even with his funny companion, so he put ina 
small advertisement, intimating that this cure for influenza— 
the real Mozambique pills—could only be obtained at (giving 
the joker’s address), who, when he had set himself fora quiet 
evening at home, was called to the door to see someone who 
wanted Mozambique pills. We did not learn how he got out 
of the difficulty, but it is affirmed that there was knock after 
