WE CAN ONLY SAY THAT HIS INITIALS ARE "J.D."

Temuka Leader, Issue 2149, 13 January 1891, Page 1

WE CAN ONLY SAY THAT HIS INITIALS ARE "J.D."

When a woman travels ten milea merely to ask a few questions we may aisume that her curiosity ia excited. , la the year 1883, a story went forth from Leveratock Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, which aroaied great interest In all the region thereabout; People came from various directions to enquire into the matter ; What was alleged to have oooured bad to do mostly with.one man. If the story turned out to be true some good was likely to come of it; if false, it; would only put the community more on their guard against all sorts of wild rumours. Among the women who were bound to get at the foundation of it was one from St. Albana and a cook from Langley. How strangely thing* work out. in this queer world. Seven years have passed and the facts are now to become generally pnblio for the first time. It appears that about the first of Januaiy, 1888, an old resident of the place above named was said, and commonly believed, to be in a dying condition. , For five months an able and clever physician had been attending him constantly, no medical man could have done more. His ailment was decided to be gout and rheumatism, which are now. held to , be practically the same.. malady differently located. Weil, this began back in July, 1882. As the time ran along the patient grew worse. The doctor’s ability and experience didn’t seem to count. The sufferer’s ankles, feet, and hands become badly swollen. We all know this must have been a scary symptom because that the fluids of his body (and the body is nearly all fluid anyway)—instead of being carried off as they naturally should be, were flowing over , their channels. and inundating the parts around them, just as a stream does after heavy rains. The doctor said, the danger of this state of things lay in the fact, that when the Water reached the heart or lungs it might end in sudden death. The came of dropsy the refusal of the kidneys to carry off the water :so much is plain, But what makes the kidney strike work f We now know the reason of that, It is because, .they are praotially paralysed by a poison in the blood arising from undigested food in the stomach. In plain English, a obronio states of indigestion and dyspepsia was responsible for results which now threatened our unknown friend’s life. It was, repotted—and of its truth there isn’t a doubt—that bis abdomea was blown like a bladder on account of , the water which soaked all through his flesh. In conversation a few weeks ago, he said ** All my friends now looked on me as a dying man.” And reasonably enough too j for what obanoe is there for a man who is gradually drowning in this way f —For that is what it was—drowning [ and nothing else in the world. Medicine appeared to be of no use, and the physician suggested that possibly the poor man might be benefited if he could go away from home and try the baths, mineral waters, and change of scene and sir.—But nobody believed in that plan, and ip honeet truth, it is hardly likely that the wise physician belieyed in it himself. At all events the idea wasn’t put into practice. About this, time the patient’s wife happened to be in the shop of a chemist at Hemel Hempstead, and he gave her a little book, a sort of small pamphlet, and said she might like to read it. She did read it, and found in it a fall description of the very complaint that was fast sending her husband to his grave, and also the name of what was asserted to be a remedy for it. After some trouble she got him to consent to try it, and sent for a battle. He began and kept it up for four months, taking twenty-six bottles altogether. , At the end of that time he was a well, sound man, and is so to-day. The whole neighbourhood was amazed. —His recovery, when he had been looked upon as no better than a dead man, set tongues wagging all around. the country.He now says t “ I should not have been here now, if it had not been for Mother Beigel’s Curative Syrup.” Our friend requests ns not to publish his full name, but says we may print his initials, which are “ J.D.” , Address; Lererstook Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Ho will answer letters.