PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1204, 27 March 1885, Page 3

PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.

Jambs Francis Thomas lives iu Ponlnewynyad, near Polity pool, .Vlommouthshire. He is now twenty-three years of age, living with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago, then a mere boy, he went to work in the coal pit as a miner, in order to assist his mother in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in health ; but the necessities of the family seumerl to require it, and he continued to toil in the mines. Miff r» ingall the time from the "if ;cts of indigestion, an agonising symptom being as 1 lima, in such a troub esmne form that the boy was unable to lie in bed. Woiking through thi day, and resting as best he coni I in a arm-chair during the night naturally un lermined his cons ution. Year by year Ins hedth grew worse and worse, until a last rheumatism cime wiih all its dreadful agony. One joint af er another hj came swolen and mfl lined, so tbit he was obliged to stop work. In this sa l p'ight the now young man was confined to the house for two long years, suffering a 1 that n.ortil could endure Onephisiciau after another was called upon to treat his c >mpiaint, b;;t with no belief! s for the poor fellow continued to grow worse and worse. Hoping to find some means of relief, a c msi’ltaJon of doctors was held, when it was decided that an organic disease of the heart existed in an incurable form, and that m alien! aid could not afford relief. He was given up to die. These years of expensive me Heal treatment had exhausted th little savings of the moiher, and they had no money to buy even the necessaries of life. But afou 1 mother nev-rgives up in despair. Toere was on spark of hope left. Someone had told tier of a reme ly that eu ed so m my cases—even when as hopeleis as this one seemed to be and the mother’s love went out for her dear tm. Bit how to get the medicine was the question. Their money wa< entirely gone The b>vha 1 a new pir of trousers t at he ha I been to ill to wear, an I the mother reasoned within herself, “ if the boy is to die he will not nee i th in, so I may as wed pleige them tor med eine with an effort to save nis life. 1 ’ Bvrauge as it may appear, the bottles of medicine procured at tnc chemist’s .-hop in Pontypool with the money obtained from the pawnbroker fleeted a cure in t .is hopeless case, which had beet! pronounced as incurable. Bat it is only just to say that if the cneinist ha l known of the wants of the family the medicine coul I have beeu obtained without a visit to the pawnbroker. It is now nearly two years since this took place, and young James Francis Thomas has hem working iu t e coal-pit uu le ground ever since, earning extra pay for over work, which he is able to perform. Of course, he ever had o-game disease of fch heart-, as was suppo-ed. The palpitation, rheumat sin, and a,stnma were symptoms of the mal diseise, which was dyspepsia, or indigestion, for which the remedy was specially adapted. Those who wish to cnmniantc ite with this y m g man Can write to him. at t .e above ad iress, and he will vouch for the curative propel lies of Seigel’s syrup, the a tide th>t effected this almost miraculous cure. The folowing letter is from a chemist, wlio thought he following fact should be male known: “James FraueisTuom is, of Poutnewyuvdd, near Pontypool, age twenty three, collier, was ill for nine years, u able to do any wor for three yeais, never lay down m bed for nile years, hid 1 1 sleep in a stooping p >s. tun, was treated by nearly all the doctors for miles aronn 1 who genera ly state I his complaint to be rheumatism an I heart disease of a chronic na ure, and beyond all power to cure. When hops had nearly died out, ne was persuade I to try .Seigel’s Syrup ; and, to the delight of his relatives and astonishment ot his neighbours after taking half i bottle he could he down in bed. After taking one bottle he went to wo k. Has now taken two bottles, ami on with the third, ai l is now quite well and s’rong. His uother is in -ajenres, and can talk ot nothing else but this marve'ous cure, and wishes me to make it known.”

15th August, 1883. Deir Sir,—l wnt» to teh you tli.it Mr Homy Hilliir, of Yit a ury. Wins informs ■no tint he suffered from a seve e form of in ligestion for upwards of four yours, ami took no en'l of doc or’s medicine without he slightest benefit, and declares Mother Stitel’s Syrup which he got from mo has saved his life. Yours truly, (signed) N. Webb Mr White. Chemist, Caine Stigel’s Operating Pills are the l est family physic that his ever been discovered. They clause the bowels fro n all inita'ing substances, and leave them in a hea thy condition. They cure costiveness.