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Dunstan Times, Issue 1170, 1 August 1884, Page 3

PAWNING A PAIR OP TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.James Francis Thomas lives iu Ponlnewyny el. near Bontypool, Aiomraouthshire, lie is now twenty three ye us of age, living wits his mother, a widow. Some eleven years a to, then a mere hoy, he went to [ work iu the coal pit as a miner, in order to assist liia in ither in rearing her family of l.tt'e children. Soon, however, 'lie little fellow broke down in health ; hot the neoes. si ties of tlie family seemed to rcq lire it, and no con aimed ,u toi in the initios, -uff r« ing all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being am limn, in such a trouh esome form that the boy was unable to lie iu bed. Working tu onsih the nay, and resting as host ho cool I uj? a arm chair during the night, naturally uniermined his oon-.tutioo. Year by year bis health grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatism came wiih all its dreadful agony. One joint after another became swollen and inflamed, so that he was obliged to st .p work. In this sad plight, the ■ now young man was confined to the house for two long years, suffering a'l that niortil could endure One physician after another was called upon to treat his complaint, but with no benefit for the poor fellow contin-/ tied to grow worse and worse. Hoping to find some means of relief, a consultation of doctors was held, when it was decided that an organic disease of tne heart existed in an incurable form, and that medical aid could not afford relief. He was given up to die. These years of expensive medical treatment bad ex "ousted the little savings of the mother, and they had no money to buy even the necessaries of life. But a fond mother never gives up in despair. There was on spark of hope left. Someone had told her of a remedy that cured so many cases—even when as hopeless as this one seemed to be and the mother’s love went out for her dear bo\. Bub bow to get tile medicine was the question. Their money was entirely gone The boy had a new pnr of trousers tuat he had been to ill to we a-, and the mother reasoned within herself, “if the boy is to die be will not nee i them, so I may as well pledge them for medicine with an effort io save his life.” Strange as it may appear, the bottles of medicine procured at the chemist's 'hop in Polity pool with the money obtained from the pawnbroker . fleeted a cure in this hopeless case, which had been pronounced as incurable. But it is only just to say that if the cnemial had known of the wants of the family ihe medicine could have beau obtained without a visit to the pawnbroker. It is now neruly two years since this took place, a id young James Francis Thomas has been working m the coal-pit underground ever since, earning extra pay lor over-wnk, which he is able to perform. Of course, he never had organic disea-e of th ■ heart, is was .suppose . The palpita ion, rheumatism, and ascoim were symptoms of (hemal iliseas6.wh.cn was dyspepsia, or -ndigcsiMii, for which die remedy was- specially adapted. Those woo wish to communicate wiih this young man can write to him at the above address, and ho will vouch for the curative properties of SeigoTs Syrup, the articb that effected this almost miraculous cure. The following letter is from a chemist, who thought ho following fact should be made known:— “James P.ancis Thomas, of Poutnewynydd, near Pontypnol, age twenty-three, collier, was ill for nine years, livable to do any work f o- three years, never lay down m bed for nine years, bad to sleep in a stooping posture, was ti eated by nearly all the doctors for miles around who genera iy state l ills complaint to be rheumatism and heart disease of a chronic nature, and beyond all power to cure. Whoa hope hid nearly died out, he was persuaded to r.ry Seigel’s Syrup ; and, to the delight of his relatives an 1 astonishment of bis neighbours, after taking half a bottle he could lie down in bed. After taking one bottle he went to wo k. Has now taken two bottles, and on with the third, ami is now quite well and strong. His mother is in lapturos, and can talk <d nothing else but this marvelous cure, and wishes mo to make it known.” loth August, 1833. Dear Sir, —I write to tod you that Mr Henry Millier, of Yatvsb-ury. Wilts, informs an-that lie suffmed from a seveieform of indigestion for upwards of four years, and took no end of doctor’s medicine without the slightest benefit, and declares Mother Sri: cl’s Syrup which ho got from me has saved his life. Yours truly, (signed) N, Webb Mr White. Chemist, Caine Scigci’s Operating Bills are the best family physic that has ever been discovered. They cleanse the bowels from all imitating j substances, and leave them iu a hea thy condition. They cure costivoness.