A REMARKABLE CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1776, 25 February 1888, Page 3

A REMARKABLE CASE.

Under the above heading the " Doncaster ' Reporter" of July 6th, 1887, publishes the following m its editorial columns : — • Our readers may recall the circumstance of a young clerk named Arthur RicholJ, falling insens ble on the Wheatley Lane m this town some time ago, and being pickel up, as he continued perfectly helpless, and taken m a cab by two gentlemen to the offlce of F. W. Fisher, Esq., the olicitor who err. t .oyed him. On restoring him to consciousness it was ascertained that he was afflicted with what seemed to be an incurable disease. When he was able to speak he said he had b en to h's dinner and was on his way back to his work, when suddenly his head was m a whirl and he fe.x m the street like a man who is knocked down. O.i coming to his sen es m the solicitor's office he thought what this might mean, and feared he was going to have a fit of il ness, which we all know is a very dreadful thing f:r a poor man with a family to care for.

With this m his mind he at once sought the best medical advice, telling the doctors how h ; had been attacked^ They questioned him, and found that his present malady was exhaustion of the nervous system resulting from general debility, indigestion, and dyspepsia oi a chionic nature. This m turn had been caused by confinement to his ccsk ond grief at the loss of dear friends by death. The coming on of this strange disc s<*, as desciibed by Mr Richold, must be of inttrest both to sick and well. He had noticed for several years previously, m fact, that his eyes and face began to have a yellow lcok ; there was a sticky and unpleasant slime on the gums and teeth m the morning ; the tongue coated ; and the bowe's so bound and costive that it induced that most painful and troub'esome ailment — the piles. He says there w s some pain m the sides and ba k and a sense of fulness on the right side, as though the liver were cn'arging, which proved to be the terrble fact. The secretions from the kidneys would be scanty and high-colore 1, with a kind of g-itty cr sandy deposit a'ter standing. These things had troubled Mr Richold a long time, and after his fall m the street he clearly perceived that the ft of giddiness was nothing more than a sign of the steady and deadly advance of the complaint, which began m Indigestion and dyspepsia. His story ol how he went from one physician to another m seaich of a cure that his wife and little ones might not come to want is very pathetic and touching. Finally he became tco i'l to keep his situation and had to give it up. This was a sad calamity. He was appalled to think how lie should be able to live. But God raised up friends who helped to keep the wolf from the door. lie then went to the seaside at Walton-on-the-Naze, but neither the change, nor the physicians who treated him thee, did any good. /11 being without aval he visited London, with a sort of vague hope that some advantage mi^h happen to him m the metropolis. This was m October, 1885. How -wonderful, indeed, arc tho ways of I'rovidence, which dashes down our highest hopes and then helps us when we least expect it. While m London he sflUed his condition to a friend, who strongly advifed him to try a medicine . which he called Mother Stigd's Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine and honest, and olten cured when everything else failed. lie bought a hollle of the chemist m Pimlico, and began using it according to the directions. He did this without faith or hope, and the public may, therefore, judge of his surprise and plcisure when after taking a few i'oscs he felt great relief. Me could eat butter ; his food distressed him less ; the symptoms we h <ye named nbated ; the dark spots which had floated l>e r o\e his eyes like ' smuts of -soot, gradually disappeared, and his strength increased. Before this time his knees woull knock together whenever he tried to walk. So encouraged was he now that he kept on using Mother SeigcVs Curative Symp until it ended m completely curing him. In speaking of his wonderful ■ recovery Mr Richold says it made him think of poor Hobinson Crusoe, and his deliverance iron» captivity on his island m the sea ; and added, " But for Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup the grass would now be growing over my grave." Our readers can rest assured of the strict truth of all the statements m this most remarkable case, as Mr > ichold (now residing at Swiss cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze) belongs to one of the oldest and most respected families m the beautiful village of Long Melford, Suffolk, and his personal character is attested by so high an authority as the Rev C . J. Marty n, rector of that parish, besides olher excellent names. We have deemed the case of kucli importance to the public as to justify us m giving this short account of it m our > columns .