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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1529, 11 April 1887, Page 3

Mr Pugh remarked that his neighbors had taken a kindly and sympathetic interest m his case for many years, but of late their interest had been greatly awakened by a happy change m his condition. What you report as having heard abroad, said he, is substantially true, with one exception. I never understood th?t my case was ever given up as hopeless by any I'hysicia-. 1 have been treated by several Doctors hereabout., ns good as any m Wal.s, but unfortunately no prescription of theirs ever brought the des ; rcd relief. 1" ifteea years ngo, he said, I fust b.cam conscious of a soura'd deranged stomach and loss of appetite, which the Ooccors told me was Dyspepsia. What food I could keep m my stomach seemed to do me no good and was often thrown up with painful retchings. This was followed after a time with hoarseness _and a raw soreness of the throat, which the Doctors called bronchitis, and I was treated for that, but with little success. Then came shortness of breath and a sense of suffocation, especially nights with clammy sweat, and I would have to get out of bed, and sometimes open a door or window m winter weather to fill my lungs with the cold air. About six years ago I became so bad that I could not sleep m bed, but had to take my unquiet rest and dreamy sleep sitting m an armchair. My affliction seemed to be working downwards into my bowels as well as upwards into my lungs and throat. In the violent couching spasms which grew more frequent, my abdomen would expand and collapse, and at times it would seem that I should suffocate. All this time I was reduced ni strength so that I could perform no hard labor, and my spir ts were consequently much depressed. < Early m this last spring I had a still more severe spasmodic attack, and my family and neighbors became alarmed, believing _h«t cer, tainly I would not survive, when a neighborf who had some knowledge, or had heard of the medicine, sent to Aberystwith by the diver of the Omnibus Post, some seven miles distant and fetched a bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. This medicine they administered to me according to the directions, when to their surprise and delight no leas than my own, the spasm ceased, I became at ease, and my stomach was calmed. My bowels were moved as by a gentle cathartic, and I felt a sense of quiet comfort all through such ns I had not before realised m many years. I cuild walk around the house and breathe comfortably m J a few hours after I had taken the medicine. I I have continued to take the medicine daily now for something over two months, and I can lay down and sleep sweetly at nights anc 5 have not sine c had a recurrence of those ten ible spasms and sweatings, l have been so long broken down and reduced m my whole system that I have not (ned to perform any very hard outdoor labor, deeming it best to be prudent lest by over-exertion I may do myself injury before my strength is fully lestored. I feel that my stomach and bowels have been and are being thoroughly renovated and renewed by the medicine. In fact I feel like a new man.