A REMARKABLE CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1871, 19 June 1888, Page 3

A REMARKABLE CASE.

Under the above heading the "Dacetown Reporter" of July 6th, 1887, published the following m its editorial columns :~ Our readers may recall the circumstance of a young clerk named Arthur Richol^, falling insens ; b!e on the Wheatley Lane m this town some time ago, and beinj p'eke 1 up, as he continued perfectly helpless, and taken m a cab by two gentlemen 'to the office of F. W. Fisher, Esq., the ■olicitor who employed him. On restoring him !6 consciousness it was ascertained th?t he was afflicted with what seemed to be an incurable disease. When he was able to speak he said he had b en Jo lvs dinner and w~s 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 conrng 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''ne«s, 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 wg exhaustion of the nervous system resulting rom general debility, indigesti >n, and dyspepsia of a chronic nature. This m turn had been caused by confinement to liis t'e^k and grief at the loss of dear friends by death. The coming on of this strange diseisf, 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 sicky 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 troublesome ailment — the piles. !He says there w s some pains m the sides and bark and a sense of fulness 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 fl'itty cr sandy deposit after standing. These things had troubled Mr Richo!d ong time, and after his fall m the street hea clearly perceived that the fit of giddiness was nothing more thnn a sign of the steady and deadly advance of the complaint, which began m Indigestion and dyspepsia. His story of how he 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. J3ut 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, aid any good, fill being without avail he visited London, with a sort of vague hope that some advantage migh 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 seated his condition to a friend, who strongly advised him to try a medicine which he called Mother Seigd's Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine and ( honest, and often ci:red 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 nis surprise and pleasure when after taking a few doses he felt great relief. He could eat better ; his food distressed him less j the symptoms we have named Abated ; the dark spots which had floated bet-re his eyes like smpts of soot, gradually disappeared, and his strength increased. Before this time his knees would knock together whenever he tried to walki So encouraged he now that he kept on using Mother SeigcVs Curative Sytup 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 irom aptivity on his island m the sea ; and added, " 13ut 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 V ichold (now residing at Swiss cottage, Waltou-on-the-Naze) belongs to one of the oldest and ropst rospected families m {ha hoautiful' village of Long Melford, Suffolk, and his personal character i. attested by so high an authority as the Rev C J. Martyn, rector of that parish, besides otk,e excellent names. We have deemed (he case of such importance to, the public ia,s to justify us. m, giving this shojt account Qf U'in, ou columns,