"THIS MAN WAS FRIGHTENED."

Temuka Leader, Issue 2138, 16 December 1890, Page 4

"THIS MAN WAS FRIGHTENED."

And on reading the facts it will appear that ho had a re agon to be Xhe man referred to was Edward Perrin, a guard on the Manchester, Shcffidd, «"d Lincolnshire railway. In September 1887, he met with on accident, which pave a temporary shook to his system. Not long afterwards he begt-n to feel a pain in the chest and have difficulty in breathing, anl threw ap a great deal of muons (phlegm). He at once concluded he had some serious ailment of the lungs, sad sought mediosl advice. The dooter sail it was so, and added (bat there was no cure for it, and he could do no more than t,ive 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, which seemed to confirm this alarming opinion. The poor fellow experienced great pain in eating and a tightness acrors the chest whioh felt, he said, "as if some strong man was gripping him around the body under the arms.” The rest of Mr Perrin’s narrative is best related in his own words. He says: " I s'on commenced to have a brackish taste in the mouth, as if I bad been sucking copper, Then came cold chill* and sweats in i urn, tbs cough pot hollow, and I m»ed more than I bad done. These terrible symptoms so icmd me that I went and consulted the late Dr Daore Fox, who was at that time consulting physician to the railway company and to the infirmary. He examined me carefully and oerifi;d as follows: “ ‘ In the case of Q-uard Perrin. This man is evidently frightened. He is suffering from phthisis and dyspepsia. Cod liver oil and iron are indicated,’ " This fully bore out what (he other doctor had said, so I now looked upon myself as done for. I took everything I could hear till of. I have drunk gallons of cod liver oil and sherry, and have had many quarts of oemphorated oil rubbed on the oheit, until my wife was sick of robbing. I w s alro poul iced continually, but in rpife cf all this t. rrifio dosing an i medicating I ,;ot gradually worse, In half a di z-n words my condition was this: I beli* ved my seif to be fast going to tie gr-vs with consumption; my friends ssM so, the doctors said so, and i; looked like it if anything ver 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 1838:, I was ahaimed to be away bo much, as I wee obliged to draw funds from the club all the dime to help support my family. “While I was thus doing nothing but waiting to die, crawling about feebly like a map who has virtually done with this world, I happened one day to meet Inspector j-Bippon, of Ardwibk station, one of the tfaffic'inipeotors of our line. He was shocked at my looks, but said, ‘Perrin, I don't know as anything will help you ; but, if anything will, it is Mother Stigel'e Curative Syrup.’ I remember that this idea amutsd me, miserably broken and ill as I was. Help me ? Could it cure consumption ? Not likely, Impossible! Still it couldn't make me worse, and eb I got a bottle and rbegan to take it. I could scarcely credit my own -feelings, but,, as sure as truth is truth, befare 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 back to work, and have been sound and healthy ever since. I told the doctor about it and, although he saw I,was well, beseemed displeased. ‘You say Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup cured you ?' he said. ‘Nonsense. It is only a quack medicine;; it is nothing 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 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 thousands 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 senses. I eat and erjoy my food as well as any man in England. Now,what was the secret of thug getting well? If I really bad consumption, it was nothing short of a miracle; but I never had consumption at ell. The doctors were all wrong in calling it that. What I actually suffered from was indigestion and dyspepsia, which causes the same symptoms 'that mark true consumption ; hence lots of people who are supposed to have lung complaint might be as easily cured as I was if they would let rod liver oil alone and take Mother Seigel’s Syrup. Mr Perrin’s address Is—No, 36, Gorton Brook street, Gorton Brook, Manchester, England,.and be .witl reply to any letters written to him concerning bis case.