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

Temuka Leader, Issue 2150, 15 January 1891, Page 3

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

When a woman travel* ten mile* merely to a*k a few question* we may aisume that her curiosity is excited. In the year 1883, a story went forth from LuverstockGreen, Hemel Hempstead, Hertr, which aroused great interest in all the region thereabout. People came from various directions to enquire into the matter ; what was alleged to have ooonred bad to do mostly with one mao. 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 fourdation of it was one from St. Albans and a cook from queer world. Seven years have passed and the facts are now to become generally public for the first time. It appears that about the first of Januaiy, 1888, an old resident of thie place above named was said, and commonly believed, to be in a dying condition. Eor 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. Well, this began back in July, 1883. Aa the time ran along the patient giew 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 flaida of hia 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 psrte around them, j asb as a stream does after heavy rain*. 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 is the refusal of the kidneys to carry off the water :so much is plain. But what makes the kidney strike work P 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 chronic states of indigestion and dyspepsia was responsible for results which now threatened our unknown friend’s life. It was reported—and of it* truth there isn’t a doubt—that hi* abdomen was blown like a bladder on account of the water whioh soaked all through his fljsb. In conversation a few weeks ago, he said a Qjy friends now looked on me as a Cl? And reasonably enough too; for what chance is there,for a roan who is gradually drowning in this way f—For that is what it WBB —drowning and nothing else in the world. Medicine appeared to be of no use, and the physioian suggeifced that poisibly the poor man might be benefited if he could go away from home and try the baths, mineral waters, and change of scene and B j r> But nobody belitved m that plan, and in honest truth, it is hardly likely that the wise physician believed in it himself. At all events the idea wasn’t put into pno ioe. 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 full 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 and sent for a bottle. He began and kept it no 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 a* no better than a dead man, set tongues wagging all around the country. He now says; “ I should not have been here now. if it had not been for Mother Beigel’s Curative friend requests u* not to publish his full name, but say* we may print his initials, whioh are " J-D.” Address: Leverstook i 3rees, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Ho will answer letter*.