CREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES ABOUT A MARVELLOUS CURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1292, 3 December 1886, Page 4

CREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES ABOUT A MARVELLOUS CURE.

LIVING SIX YEARS WITHOUT . GOING TO BED. Mr. Editor.—While spending a few days «t the pleasant seaside town of Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, Wales, I heard related What seemed to me either a fabulous story or a marvellous cure. The story was that a poor sufferer who bad not teen able to lie down in bed for six lons years, given np to die by all doctors, ad been speedily cured by some Patent Medicine. It was related with the more Implicit confidence from"' the circumstance as was said, that the Vicar of the Lianrystyd was familiar with the facts and could vouch for the truth of thg report. Having a little curiosity to know how ■such stones grow in travelling, I took the liberty while at the village of Llanrystyd to ‘Call on the Rev, T. Evans, and to wonderful cure. Thongh <^xotali«fmwgr^ f him, both he and his wif? entertained me In anmLfTiour’s oonydreatyfl, principally tonohmf the case or hr which they seemed to Ufhe thetio interest, JfavingJwSn tonSmj/T with his sufferingyand now what seemed to them a most remarkable cure. The VicaT remarked that ho presumed Ibis name had been connected with the report from his having mentioned the case ‘•to Mr John Thomas, a chemist of Llanon. )He said Mr. Pngh was formerly a resident •of their pariah, but was now living in the iparish of Llandleinol. He strongly vouched Mr. Wm. Pugh’s •character as a respectable farmer and worthy of credit. I left the venerable Vicar with a livelier sense of the happy relation of a pastor and people, feeling that ’he was one who truly sympathised with all rwho are afflicted in mind, body, or estate. On my return to Aberystwitb, 1 was impressed with a desire to see Mr Pugh, whose reputation stood so high. Hisfaim 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 found Mr Pugh apparently about 40 years old, of medium height, rather slight, with a pleasrant and intelligent face. I tol I him I had heard oi his great affliction and of his remarkable and almost miraculous relief, and that I bad come to learp from bis own lips, •what there was of truth in the reports. Mr Pugh remarked that his neighbours ‘ had taken a kindly and sympathetic interest in bis case for many years, out of late their ' interest had been greatly awakened by a happy change in 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 np 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 years ago, he said, I first became conscious of a sour and deranged stomach ; and loss of appetite, which the Doctors told me was Dyspepsia. What food I could hold in rrv stomach seemed to do me no good -and was often thrown up with painful •retchings. This was followed after a time ' with a hoarseness and raw soreness of thi ■* throat which the Doctors called bronchitis, and I was treated for that but with lifc-lo success. Then came shortness of breath ; and a sense of suffocation, especially nights with a clammy sweat and I would have to open a dcor 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 I working downward into my bowels as well r ftr upwards into my lungs and throat. In the violent con hing spasms which grew more frequent, abdomen would expand and collapse and at times it would seem that I ■ should suffocate. All this time I was reduced in strength so that 1 could perform ■»ao hard labour aad my spirit? were conse ■ qnently much depressed. Early in this last spring I had a stiff more ' severe spasmodic attack, and my family and neighbours became alarmed, believing ■ that certainly I would not survive, when a neighbour, who had some knowledge, or had heard of the medicine, sent to Aberystwith by the driver of the Omnibus Post, some seven miles distant, and fetched a ► bottle of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. ibis medicine they administered to me according to the directions, when to their surprise and delight no less than my own, the spasm ceased, I became at ease, and my stomach was calms 1. My bowels were, moved as by a gentle cathartic, and I felt a sense of quiet comfort all through such as 1 had not before realised in many years. I could walk around 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 ever two months, and I can lay down and sleep sweetly at nights and have not since had a recurrence of those terrible spasms 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 entdoor labour, deeming it best to be 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 and are being thoroughly renovated and renewed by the medicine. In fact I feel like a new man. 1 have been much congratulated by my neighbours,especially by the good A icar of Llaurystyd, who with his sympathetic wife have come three miles to shed tears of joy «n my recovery. 1 bade Mr Pugh goodbye, happy that even one at least among thousands had found a remedy for an aggravating disease. Believing this remarkable case of Dyspeptic Asthma should bo known to the public, I beg to submit the above facts as they are related to me. F.T.W.