PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1214, 5 June 1885, Page 4

PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.

-James Francis Thomas lives in Pontnewynyiid, near Pontypool, Alommouthshire, 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 cf ■litt'e children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in health ; but the necessities of the family seemed to require it, an-‘ he continued to tni in the mines, suffering all the time from the effects of indige*'tion, an agonising symptom being asthma, (in Such a trouh esnme form that the boy •was unab e to lie in bed. Woi king through th. day, an I resting as be it he coni in a arm-chair during - he night naturally under mined his couarutiou. Year by year his -health grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatism came wiih all its dreadful agony. One joint after another n- came swollen and inflamed, so that he was obli.ed to atop work. In this sad plight the •now young man was confined to the house for two long years, suffering a 1 that mortal could endure One physician after another was called upon to treat his complaint, but with no benefit for the poor fellow continued 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 the -heart existed in an incurable form, and that medical aid could nor, afford relief. He was given up to die. These years of expensive medical treatment had ex-austed the little savings of the mother, and they had no money to buy even the necessaries of life. But afoul mother never gives up in despair. There was on spark of hope left. Someone ►had told her of a remedy that cmed so many cases—even_when as hopeless as this one seemed to be and the mother’s love went out for her dear b >\. But how to get tn« medicine was the question. Their money was entirely gone The buv ha t a new p dr of trousers t iat he had been to iii to wea-, an t the nether reasoned within herself, “ if the boy is to die he will not need th m, so I may as well pledge them for medicine with an effort to save bis life.” Strange as it may appear, the bottles of medicine procured at the chemist’s hop iu Poutypool with the money obtained from the pawnbroker ffected a cure in this hopeless case, -which had been pronounced as incurable. But it is only just to say that if the chemist had known of the wants of the family the medicine could have been obtained without a visit to the pawnbroker. It is now nearly two years smee this took place, and young James Francis Thomas has .been working in tue coal pit underground ever since, earning extra pay for over wcik, which he is able to perforin. Of course, he never had organic d isea-e of th heart, as was supposed. The palpitation, rheumatism, and asthma were symptoms of the real disease, which was dyspepsia, or indigestion, for which the remedy was specially adapted. Those who wish to communicate with this young man can write to him at the above address, and ho will vouch for the curative properties of Heigel’s iSyrup, the artieb that effected this almost miraculous cure. The following letter is from a chemist, who tuought he following fact should be made known:— . “James Francis Thomas, of Pontnewynydd, near Pontyp ml, age tuenty three, collier, was ill for nine years, u able to do any wor for three years, never lay down in bed for nine years, had to sleep in a stooping poa--bare, wastumated by nearly sit the doctors

I-Jr uiilc» »r..uD'l who genera ly state! faia complaint to be rheumatism ami hear! of a chronic nature, and beyond all power to cure. When hope-had nearly died out, he wai persuaded to-try Sergei's Syrup j and, to the delight of his relatives and astonishment of his neighbours after taking half a bottle he could ho down in bed. After taking one bottle he went to work. Has now aken two bottles, and on with the third, and is now quite well and strong. His mother is in aotures, and can talk of noth ing else but this marvelous cure, and wishes me to make it known.” I6th August, 1833. Hear Sir, —I write to tab you that Mr Henry Hillier, of Yatea' ury. Wilts informa mo that he s< fibred from a save e form of ndigestion for upwards of four years, and took no end of doctor's medicine without the slightest benefit, a"d declares Mother San el’s Syrup which he got from me has saved his life. Yours truly, (signed) N. Webb Mr White. Chemist, Caloe Seigel’s Operating Villa are the best fami ly physio that has ever been discovered. They e'eanse the bowels fro n all irritating substances, and leave them in a liea thv condition They cure enstiveness.