GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES ABOUT A MARVELLOUS CURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1269, 25 June 1886, Page 3

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES ABOUT A MARVELLOUS CURE.

LIVING SIX YEARS WITHOUT GOING TO BED. Mr. Editor. —While spending a few days at the pleasant seaside town of Aborystwith, Cardiganshire, Wales, I heard related what seemed to me either a fabulous story or a mai vollous cure. The s' ory was that a poor sufferer who had not been able to lie down in bed for six long years, given up to die by all doctors, had been speedily cured by some Patent Me iiciue. It was r.dated with the more imp'ieit confidence from the circumstance as was said, that the Vicar of the Lianrystyd was f.»raidar with the facts and could vouch for the truth of the report. Having a little curiosity to know how such s lories grow in travelling, I took the liberty while at the village of Llanrystyd to call on the Vicar, the Rev, T. Evans, and to enquire about this wonderful cure. Though a total stranger to him, both he and his wife most graciously entertained me in an half hour’s conversation, principally touching the case of Mr Pugh, in which (hey seemed to take a deep and sympa* thetio interest, having been familiar with his suffe.ings, and now rejoiced in seemed t > them a most remarkable cure. '

Th i Vicar remarked that he presumed his name had been connected with the report from his having mentioned ths case to Mr John Thomas, a chemist of Llanon. He said Mr. Pugh was formerly a resident of their pa>ish, but was now living in the pariah of L'andJeinol. He strongly vouched Mr. Wm. Pugh’s character as a respectable farmer and worthy .if credit I left the venerable Vicar with a livelier sense of the happy relation of a pastor and people, feeling that lie was one who truly sympathised with all who are afflicted in mind, body, or estate.

On my return to Aberystwith, 1 was impressed with a desire to see Mr Pugh, whose reputation stood so high. His faun is called Pancom-Mawr signifying “above the dingle,” situated near the summit of a smooth round hill, overlooking a beautiful valley in which is situated the lonely ivy* mantled Church of Llanddeinol. I f>.und Mr Pugh apparently about 40 years old, of medium height, rather slight, with a pleas* ant and inttlligont face. I toll him I had heard of Ids great affliction and of his re* markable and almost miraculous relief, and that I had come to 1 am from his own lips, what there hr the reports. Mr Pug^remftskedHniall''his neighbours had kindly yC\ interest iu Lis ease for mapy yyfira, but of late their interest had been greatly awakened by a hippy change fa my condition. What you report as having heard abroad, said he, is substantially true, with one exception. I never understood that my case was ever given up as hopeless by any Physician. I have been treated by several Doctors hereabouts, as good as any in Wales, but unfortunately no prescription of theirs ever brought the desired relief.

Fifteen yea’s ago, he said, I first became conscious of a sour aid deranged stomach and loss of appetite, which the Doctors told me was Dyspepsia. What food I could hold in my stomacli oeeme I to do me no good and was often thrown up with painful retchings. This was followed after a tuna with a hoarseness and raw soreness of tho throat which the Doctors called bronchitis, and 1 was treated for that bat with lit'la success. Then came shortness of breath and a sense of suffocation, especially nights with a clammy sweat and I would have to open a door or window in winter weather to fill my lungs with the cold air. About six years ago I became so bad that 1 could not sleep in bed, but had to take my unquiet rest and dreamy sleep sitting in an arm chair my affliction seemed to be working downward into my bowels as well as upwards into my lungs and throat. In the violent cou.hing spasms which grew more frequent, abdo neu would expand and collapse and at times it would seem that I should suffocate. All this time I was re* dneed in strength so that I coubl perform no hard labour and my spirits were conse quently much depressed. Early in this last spring I had a sti'l more seve.e spasmodic attack, and my family and neighbours became alarmed, believing that certainly I would not survive, when a neighbour, who had some knowledge, or bad h<*ard of the medicine, sent to Abarystwith by the driver of the Omnibus Post, some seven roiles distant, and fetched a bottle of Mother Seigcl’s Curative Syrup. xhis medicine they administered to me according to the directions, when to their surprise and delight no less than my own, the spasm ceased. I 1 ecame at ease, and my stomach was calmel. My bowels wero moved as by a gentle cathartic, and 1 felt a sense of quiet comfort all through such as 1 had not bef ne r-a'ised in many years. I could walk armud the house and breathe comfortably in a few hours after I had taken the medicine. 1 have continued to take the medicine daily now for something over two months, and I can lay down and sleep sweetly at nights and have not since had a recurrence of chose terrible s .arms and sweatings. I have been so long broken down and reduced in my whole system that I have not tried to perform any very hard outdoor labour, deeming it best to bo prudent lest by over-exertion I may do myself injury before my strength is fully restored. I feel that my stomach and bowels have been anil are being thoroughly renovated and renewed by the medicine. La j fact L feel like a new man.

1 have been mnob congratulate! by my neighbours,especially by the good Vicar of Blanrystyd, who with his sympathetic wife have come three miles to she 1 tears of j >y on nr.y recovery.

1 bade Mr Pugh goodbye, happy that even ouo at least, among thousands had found a remedy for an aggravating disease. Believing this remarkable case of Dyspeptic Asthma should lie known to the public, I beg to submit the above facts as they are related to me. F.T.W.