"THIS MAN WAS FRIGHTENED."

Temuka Leader, Issue 2135, 9 December 1890, Page 3

"THIS MAN WAS FRIGHTENED."

And on reading the facts it will appear ;hat he had a reason to be. The man referred

to was Edward Perrin, a guard on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire railway, In September 1887, he met with an accident, which gave a temporary shock to big system. Not long afterwards be began to feel a pain in the chest and have difficulty in breathing, ani threw up a great deal of mucus (phlegm). He at once conoluded he had some serious ailment of the lungs, sad sought mediosl adrice. The doctor said it was so, and added that there was no oure for it, and he oonld do fno more than give him something to ease the pain and cough. Then the doctor gave Mr Perrin a certificate stating that he was suffering from " Catarrh Phthisis," which is the professional term for that dreadful malady, Consumption. Further symptoms soon appeared, whioh seemed to confirm this alarming opinion. The poor fellow experienced great pain in eating and a tightness across the ohest whioh felt, he said, "as if some strong man was gripping him around the body under the arms."

The rest of Mr Perrin's narratire is best related in his own words. He says: " I icon commenced to bare a braekish taite in the mouth, ai if I bad been suoking copper. Then came oold ohillsand sweats i* turn, the oough got hollow, and I railed more than I had done. These terrible symptoms so ■oared me that I went and consulted the late Dr Daore Fox, who was at that time oon« suiting physician to the railway oompany and to the infirmary. He examined me carefully and certified as follows.:— "• In the case of G-uard Perrin. This man is evidently frightened. He is suffering from phthisis and dyspepsia. Cod lirer oil and iron areindioated.'

" This f ullylbore out what the other dootor had said, so I now looked upon myielf as done for. I took everything I could hear tell of. I hare drank gallons of cod lirer oil and sherry, and hare had many quarts of oamphorated oil rubbed on the oheit, until my wife was siok of rubbing. I was alio poult iced continually, but in spite of all this terrific dosing and medicating I got gradually worse, In half a doztm words my condition was this: I believed myself to be fait going to the grare with consumption : my friends said ao, the doctors said so, and it looked like it if anything ever did. It is understood that consumption is sure death, and I made np 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 I was thus doing nothing but waiting to die, crawling about feebly like a man who has virtually done with this world, I bap. pened one day to meet lnspeotor Bippon, of Ardwiok station, one of the traffic inspectors of our line. He was shooked at my lookp, but ■aid, 'Perrin, I don't know as anything will help you ; but, if anything will, it is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.' I remember that this idea amused me, miserably broken and ill as I was. Help me f Oould it oure con* ■umption ? 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 hard to believe —I took but two more bottles and went baok to work, and hare been sound and healthy ever linoe. I told the dootor about it and, although he saw I was well, he seemed displeased. ' You say Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup oured you ?' he said; ' Nonsense. It is only a quaok medioine ; it is nothing but stuff and rubbish.' Well, all right, I said te myself, it may be stuff and rubbish, but it has made a sound man of me after that very doctor had me booked for the graveyard, and said no earthly power could keep me out of it. That was enough for me, and will be enough for thouiands of others in this country. " lam exposed to all sorts of weather, but have never had a return of bad breathing, chest pains, nor other symptoms that nearly frightened me out of my semes. I eat and enjoy my fooda a well as any man in Bogland. Now,what was the seoret of thus getting wellP If I really had consumption, it was nothing ■hart of a miracle; but I never had consumption at all. The dootors were all wrong in calling it that. Whit I actually suffered from was indigestion and dyspepsia, wbioh causes the same symptoms that mark true consumption ; hence lots of people who are supposed to hare lung complaint might be as easily oured as I was if they would let cod lirer oil alone and take Mother Seigel's Syrup. Mr Perrin's address Is—No. 36, Gorton Brook street, Gorton Brook, Manchester, Bngland, and he will Teply to any letters written to him concerning his case.

Work for Prisoners.—The Hinemoa leaves Wellington to-day for Milford Sound with a batoh of about fifty prisoners, who will be eogaged on road« making there.