A REMARKABLE CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1681, 3 January 1888, Page 4

A REMARKABLE CASE.

Under the above heading the Doncaster Reporter of July 6th, 1887, publishes the following iff its editorial columns: —

Our readers may recall the circumstance of a young clerk, named Arthur Biohold, falling insensible on the Wheatley Lane, in 1 ,, this town, some time ago, and being picked up, as he continued perfectly helpless, and taken in a cab by two gentlemen to the office of Mr F. W. Fisher,' Esq., the solicitor who employed him. On restoring him to consciousness it was ascertained that he was afflicted with what seemed-to be.an .inourab'e disease. When he wits able to'ipeak: he said he had been to his dinner, and was on his way back to work when suddenly billhead was in a whir], and be fell in the street like,a man who is knbcked down; On coming to to his senses in the solicitor’s office he thought wh»t this might mean,, and .feared he was going to have a fit of illness,' Which' we all knoijj i» a very dreadful) thing for a poor man with a family to care for. ; i With this in his ! mind, he at once sought the best medical advice, telling the doctors how hehad been attacked. They quostionad him, and found that his present nialady was exhaustion-of the nervous system,; resulting' from general debility, and dyi* pepsia of a chronic nature. Ibis in turn bad been' caused by confinement to his desk and grief at the loss of dear friends by death. The coming'on of this strange disease, as described by Mr Biohold, inust be of : interest to both sick and well.; Me had noticed for several, years previously, infact, that hia eyes and face began to have a yellow-look; there was,a sticky and unpleasant slime; on the gums and teeth in the morning; the tongue coated, and the bowels: so bound and costive that it induced that most painful and trouble • some ailment—the piles. He says there was some pain lathe sides and back, and a sense' "of fulness.on the right side, as though the liver was enlarging, which proved to be the terrible fact. The sberetidhs from the kidneys would be scanty and high-colored, with a kind of gritty or sandy deposit after standing. , These things had troubled Mr Biohold a long time, and after his fall in the street he clearly perceived that the fit of giddiness was nothing more than a sign of the steady and deadly advance of the complaint, which began in indigestion and dyspepsia. His story of bow be went from one to another in search of a cure that hii wife and little ones might not come to want is very pathetic and touching. ’ Finally hei became too ill to keep his situation, and had to give it up. This was a sad calamity, He. was appalled to think how he should be able to live. But God raised up friends who helped to keep the wolf from the door.. : He . then went to the seaside at Waltou>on-the-Naz«, but. neither the change nor the physicians,, who treated him there, did any good. All being without avail, he visited London, with' a ssrt of vague hope that'some advantage might happen to him in the metropolis. This was, in October, 1886, How wonderful, indeed, are the ways of Providence, which dashes down our highest hopes SUd then helps us when 1 we least expect

While in London he stated his condition to a friend, who strongly advised him to try a medicine which he called “ Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup,” saying it was | genuine and honest, and often cured when everything else had failed. He,bought a bottleoff a chemist in Pimlico, and began using it according 1 to the directions, He 'did this without iaith or hope, andthepublio.niay, therefore, judge of his surprise and pleasure when, after taking & few doles, he felt groat relief. He could eat better; bis food distressed him lei's; the symptoms we have named abated; the dark spots which had floated before hia eyes like smuts of soot gradually disappeared, and his strength increased. Before; this time his knees , would knock together -whenever be tried to walk, So encouraged was ho now that he kept on using “Mother Soigel’s Curative Syrup ” until it ended in completely curing him. In speaking of his wonderful recovery, Mr Biohold says it made him think of poor Robinson Crusoe, and his .deliverance; from captivity on his island in the sea, and added, “ But for Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup the grass would now bo growing over my grave.” Our .readers can rest assured of the strict truth of all the statements in this most remarkable case, as Mr Richold (now residing at Swiss Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze) belongs to one of the oldest and most respected families in the beautiful valley of Long Melford,' Suffolk, and his personal character is attested by so high an authority as the Rev. 0. J. Martyn, rector of that parish* besides other excellent names. Wo have deemed the ease of such importance to the public as to justify us in giving a short account of it in our columns.. 3