A REMARKABLE CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1777, 27 February 1888, Page 3

A REMARKABLE CASE.

Under the above heading the "Doncaster Reporter " of July 6th, 1887, pub'ishes the following m its editorial columns : — Our readers may -recall the circumstance of a young clerk named Arthur RichoW, falling insensible on tbe Wheatley Lane m this (own some time ago, and being p : cke 1 up, as he continued perfectly helpless, and taken m a cab by two gentlemen to the office of F. W. Fisher, Esq., the solicitor who employed 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 his dinner and was on his way back to his work, when suddenly his head was m a whirl and he fell m the street like a man who is knocked down. On coming to his semes m the solicitor's office he thought what this might mean, and feared he was going to have a fit of illness, which we all know is a very dreadful thing for 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 hi had been attacked. They questioned him, and found that his present malady was exhaustion of the nervous system resulng from general debility, indigestion, and dyspepsia of a chronic nature. This m turn had been caused by confinement to his desk and grief at the loss of dear friends by death. The coming on of this strange disease, as described by Mr Richold, must be of interest both to sick and well. He had noticed for several years previously, m fact, that his eyes and; face began to have a yellow look ; there' was a Sticky and unpleasant slime on the gums and teeth m the morning j 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 was some pain m the sides and back and a sense of ful-' ness on the right side, as though the liver were enlarging, which proved to be the terr.ble fact. The secretions from the kidneys would be scanty and high-colored, with a kind of gritty cr sandy deposit after standing. These things had troubled Mr Richold a long time, and after his fall m the street he clearly perceived that the fit 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 of how lie went from one physician to another m search of a cure that his wife and little ones might not come to want is very pathetic and touching. Finally he became too ill to keep his situation and had to give it up. This was a sad calamity. He was appalled to think how he should be able to live. But God raised up friends who helped to keep the wolf from the •door. He then went to the seaside at Walton-on-the-Naze, but neither the change, nor the physicians who treated him there, did any good. .All being without avail he visited London, with a sort of vague hope that some advantage might happen to him m the metropolis." This was m October, 1885. How wonderful, indeed, are the ways of Providence, which dashes down our highest hopes and then helps us when we least expect it. While m London he stated his condition to a friend, who strongly advised him to try a medicine which he called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine and honest, and often cured when everything else failed. He bought a bottle 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 pleasure when after taking a few doses he felt great relief. He could eat better ; his food distressed him less ; the symptoms we have named abated ; the dark spots which had floated before his eyes like -smuts of soot, gradually disappeared, and his strength increased; Before this time his knees would knock together whenever he tried to walk: So encouraged Avas he now that lie kept on using Mother SdgeVs Curative Syyup until it ended m completely curing him . In speaking of his wonderful recovery Mr Richold says it made him think of poor Robinson Crusoe, and his deliverance trom captivity on his island m the sea ; and added, 41 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 "P ichoJd (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 Melfbrd, Suffolk, and his personal character is attested by so high an authority as the Rev C. J. Martyn; rector of that parish, besides other excellent names. *Wetiave deemed the case of such importance to the public as to justify us m giving this short account of it m our columns. '