"THIS MAN WAS FRIGHTENED.”

Temuka Leader, Issue 2132, 2 December 1890, Page 1

"THIS MAN WAS FRIGHTENED.”

And oa reading the facta it will that be bad & reason to be. The man referred to waa Edward Perrin, a guard on the ’Manchester, Sheffidd, and Linoolnihire railway. In September 1887, he met with an accident, which gave a temponry ahook to his system. Not long afterwards he began to feel a pun in the oheit and have difficulty in breathing, ani threw up a great deal of tnuous (phlegm). He at once crno'uded he :h*d aame serious ailment of the lunga, lad •ought medied advice. The doctor said it was to, and added that there waa co cure for it, and be could do no more than give him something to ease the pain and cough. Then the doctor gave Mr Perrin a certificate stating that he wa» suffering from “ Catarrh Phthisis,” which is the professional term for that dreadful malady. Consumption, Further symptoms soon appeared, which seemed to confirm this alarming opinion. The poor fellow experienced great pain in eating and a tightness across the cheat which felt, he said, “as if some strong man was gripping him around the body under the arms.” The rest of Mr Perrin’s na-rative is best related in his own words. Ha says: "I a on commenced to have a brackish taste in the mouth, as if I bad been lucking copper. Then came cold ohilla and aweata in turn, the cough got hollow, and I raised more than I bad done. These terrible symptoms so scared me that 1 went and consulted the late Dr Oaore Fox, who was at that time consulting physician to the railway company and to the infirmary. He examined me carefully and certified as follows:

“* Id the oaie of Q-uard Perrin. This man is evidently frightened. Ha is suffering from phthisis and dyspepsia. Cod liver oil and iron are indicated.’ “ This fully bore out what the other doctor had said, so I now looked upon myself as done for. I took everything I could bear tell of. I have drunk gallons of cod liver I oil an 1 sherry, and have had many quarts of camphorated oil rubbed on the chest, until my wife was sick of rubbing. I was also poulticed continually, but in spite of all this terrific dosing ani medicating I got gradually worse, In half a dozan words my condition was this : I believed myself to be fast going to the grave with consumption ; my friends said so, the doctors said so, and it lo"ked like it if anything ever did. It is understood that consumption is sure death, and I made up my mind for that awful end. I had been off my work from 1887 to 1888. I was ashamed to be away so much, as I was obliged to draw funds from the club all the time to help support my family. " While 1 was thus doing nothing but waiting to die, orawliog about feebly like a man who has virtually done with this world, I happened one day to meet Inspector Rippon, of Ardwiok station, one of the traffic inspectors of our line. He was shocked at my looks, but said, 'Perrin, I don’t know as anything will help you ; but, if anythiog will, it is Mother Scigol’s Curative Syrup.’ I remember that this idea amused me. miserably broken and ill as 1 war. Help me f Could it cure con(umption P Not likely. Impossible! Still it couldn’t make me worse, and so I got a bottle and began to take it. I could scarcely credit my own feelings, but, as sure as truth is truth, before I had used up that bottle of medicine I found relief. Now comes what you may find it bard to believe I took but two more bottles and went bick to work, aid have been sound and healthy ever since I told the doctor about it and, although he saw I was well, beseemed dUplO'Sed. * You say Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup oared you ?’ he said. 'Nonsense. It is only a quack medicine; it is Dotting but stuff and rubbish.’ Well, all right, I said to myself, it may be stuff and rubbish, but it has made a sound man of me tfeer that very doctor had me booked for the graveyard, and said no eft tbly power could keep me out of it. That was enough for me, and will be enough for thousands of others in this country.

" lam expoied to all lOrts o! weather, but have revir had a return of bad breathing, cheat pa ns, nor other symptom* that nearly frightened me out of mj «en es. I eat and enjoy my fooda a well as any man in Eagland Now,what w a he secret of thus getting well? If I ready bed consumption, it was nothing thirt of a miracle; but 1 i ever had conaumplion at all. The doo'ora were all wrong in calling it that. What I actually suffered from was indigestion and dyspepna, which causes the same fymptom* that mark true consumption ; hence lots of people who are supposed to have long complaint might be as easily cured as I wa» if they would let cod liver oil alone and t ke Mother Seigel’s Syrup. Mr Perrin's address Is—No. 36, Gorton Brook street, Gorton Brook, Manchester, England, and be will reply to any letters written to him concerning his ease. It is estimated that there are 4,000,000 Methodists in the Uuited States. Theyouug Duchess of Leinster, who has been called the prettiest woman in England, is tall and slender, stately and calm, with perfectly chiselled features. She is an aristocrat from crown to toe. The best medicine Known is Sander and Sons’ Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent poweiful effects in coughs, colds, influenza, the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scald in gs, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—-no swelling—no inflammation. Like surprising effects nroduced in nroup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, &g., diarrhoea, dysentry diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article, and reject »U other*