LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4994, 14 January 1885, Page 4

LISTEN TO YOUR WIFE.

The Manohostor Guardian, Juno 9, 1883,! says: "At one of the windows looking on the woodland ways, with clumps of rhododendrons and great masses of May blossoms, there was an interesting group. It included one who had been a cotton spinner, but was now so paralysed that he could only bear to lie in a reclining position." This refers to my case at the Home for Incurables. I was first attacked 12 years ago, with Locomotor Ataxy (a paralytic disease of nerve fibre rarely ever cured), and was for several years barely able to get about, and for the last five years not able to attend to my business as cotton agent, although many things havo been done for me, the last experiment being r.erve stretching, two years ago. I was voted into the Home for Incurables, Mauldeth Hall, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester, in May, 1882, a Home that ought to be more widely known, where poor afflicted ones have every suitable comfort and a!tention. I am no advocate for anything in the shape of patent medicine, and made many objections to my clear wife's constant urging to try Hop Bitters, but finally, to pacify her, i consented. I had not quite finished the first bottle, when Iffelt a change come over me. This was Saturday, November 3rd. On the Sunday morning, in dressing, I felt so strong oh my legs, I said to my bed-room companions, "I was sure I could walk;" so started across the floor and back. I hardly knew how to contain myself. I was all over the house. After finishing the first bottle I had four days to wait for the second, and by the time it came I had fallen back considerably. : Two days after I began to take the second, my walking came back, and now as the Home are finding the Bitters for me, I am gaining strength each day, and can walk quite safe without stick or any other support. I am now at raj own house, and hope soon to be able to earn my own living again. I have been a member of the Manchester Royal Exchange for nearly thirty years, and was most heartily congratulated on going into the room on Thursday last. Very gratefully yours, John Blackbttbn. 57," Teneriffe St., Higher Broughton, Manchester, December 24,1883. To Hop Bitters Companr, London. P.S, —You will gather much respecting my case from enclosed card. [Copy of Card.} SECOND APPLICATION. Northern Counties Hospital for Incurables. May Election*, 1882. Your "Votes and Interest are respectfully solicited on behalf of JOHN BLACKBURN, Aged 47 years, who for 11 years has been afflicted with Locomotor Ataxy, and for the last three years quite unable to attend to business. This case is recommended by Benj. Armitage, Esq., M.P, The Rev. C. E. Stewart, Rector of St. James', Higher Broughton; John Lowcock, Esq., M. P. Mr John Heywood, Publisher, &c, Manchester. Mrs William Mather, Park Lea, Higher Broughton. Mrs WinserJWoodland-terrace, Higher Broughton. Henry Simpson, Esq., M.D. ,Lond., Physician to theManchester Royal Infirmary. James Ross, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., Assistant Physi cian to the Royal Infirmary. Alex. Hodgkinson, Esq., M.8., 2G King St., Manchester.