Terrible Burning Accident.

Manawatu Herald, 12 February 1898, Page 3

Terrible Burning Accident.

A SYDNEY MAN FALLS ON A HOT STEAM-PIPE IN A BATH. HIS FLESH ADHERED TO THE PIPE LIKE A STEAK TO A FRYINGPAN. AN AWFUL SIGHT. While in a bath in Pitt-street, a Mr Jarvis had the misfortune to slip and fall on the hot water pipes, and before he could be rescured he was scalded and burnt in a terrible way. The shock of the burning and the fall proved to be very disastrous for Mr Jarvis, and for a number of years after he was a confirmed invalid, suffering terribly from locomotor ataxia and' other forms of paralysis. A few months ago, however, reports began to be circulated in the neighborhood that Mr. Jarvis was getting round again, and that he had had a most marvellous recovery from this apparently incurable malady. It was on account of these rumors that a special reporter from the Sydney Worker was despatched to get all information regarding same, and one afternoon lie madehis way to his house, 45 Crown-lane, Ultimo* Mr Thos. Jarvis was discovered nursing a two-year-old baby, and his face declared him one of the, happiest man in Sydney. He was up and about, and able to answer the knock at the door. Although pale and bearing still a few marks of a critical illness and a period of pain, it was very clear that he was an invalid no more. In reply to thft preiimary questions he said : — " You want to know all about my case ? Well, I aniglad of an opportunity to tell you. The facts may be of value to those who are stricken as I was." " How long were you suffering?" "Well, twelve months ago I got l bq bad that I had to leave off work, and I have done nothing since then. About five years ago next christmas I met with an accident ; I was badly sca'ded while taking a bath in Pitt-street* Sydney. Since the accident I have been in failing health, and after four I years of gradual development of the malady | I was forced to give up my billet at the Glebe Island." " Wha' were the symptoms ?" " Simply indescribable. The pain 3 were something terrible. They were just about as much as I could bear. Thoy wore for i all the world like as if a saw were cutling my bones in two in every part of me. I ' had no control over my bowels or bladder, I and was a nuisance to myse'f and everyone else. I was incessantly sniveling and shaking, and could neither eat nor 9 - eep. On the 23rd March last I saw a well-known doctor, and he told me that ray case was j utterly hopeless. However, he gave me an I order to tne Director of Charitable Institutions." .-.Ji. ■ <:. " Did you make use of the order ?" " No ; I came home and went to bed, and have been pretty we;l in b:d ever, since. Five weeks ago I cou'd not walk across the floor ; in fact, I could not get out of bed. I felt then that it was all over ! with me, and only a question of days when j I would give up the ghost. My doctor waa attending me, and did all he could, by opium and morphia pills, to ease the agony 1 was in. I was under him for five or six weeks. He came to the conclusion that I was suffering from locomotor ataxy, or progressive locomotor ataxy, a disease of the spinal chord, characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coordinating voluntary movements. He told me that I might last for ten years, and that I might never get the use of my legs. (Just then the patient kicked his legs about with energy to show that medical opinion in not infallible.) Well, just as a drowning man wili grasp at a straw, I grasped at an idea conveyed by the advertisement describing the cure effected in the case of another boiler-maker in England, which I read in the Australian Woi-kman, by Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I read in the advetisement of a case which seemed to fit my own. I determinpd to give the pill a trial anyway, and sent for a box. The effect was as marvellous as it was magical. I was able to eat and sleep as though nothing was the matter with me. It was the first appetite and rest I had for many a day. It was incredible. I immediately left the bed and was able to move about. You see those crutches there ? They are perfectly new, and I have never used them. They were made for me before I got Dr Williams' Pink Pills, I was too weak to use them, and now I don't want them." "He is 100 per cent, better," said Mrs. Jarvis, who had come in and aken ihn baby on her knees. " Tho Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People have saved his life, and made another man of him." A friend who called in at this point said that Jarvis looked ten years younger that day than he did a fortn ght previous. " I can now," continued Jarvis, " have a cold bath, and all the feeling has come back into my legs. I ascribe all the change and benafit to Be Williams' Pink Pills. They have saved my lifa. lam in no pain now, whatever, and feel like a new man. On the mantelpiece there is a box of opium and morphia pills which the doctor gave me to deaden the excruciating pain. But they can slay where they are, for I no longer need them. Everybody who knows me has been amazed at the change in me. They can hardly believe their eyes. My being about again has caused puite a sensation oui'here, 1 ' Such is this remarkable history, and it confirms what is said in all the newspapers of this country oP the astonishing cures wrought by Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They cure locomotor ataxy, partial paralysis:, and spinal disease, also the many disorders which arise from an impoverished state of the blood, such as

anaamin, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, indigestion, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, pains in the back, nervous headache, etc. Mr 3. 6; T. M'Gowen, leader of the Labor Party in the N.S.W/ Legislative Assembly, was seen by our reporter in connection, with the remarkable caie of Thomas Jarvi*. Mr M'Gowen says he has known Jams from infancy. He also knew that he had to give up his work at Glebe Island abattoirs twelve months ago owing to a malady which he developed. H« afterwards heard that Javis was bed ridden, and that ther* was little chance of his recovery. He understood that Jarvis was refused admission to Sydney Hospital, as his case had been pronounced incurable. Mr M'Gowen wac, therefore, like everyone else who knew the facta, astounded at the complete reoovajy of Jams. These wonderful pill are obtainable from leading chemists, or from the Dr Williams' Medicine Co , Wellington, N.Z., who will forward, post paid, on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 35., or half a dozen for 15g. 9d. See that the genuine Dr Wil'iams' are gotten.