BODY SNATCHING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3785, 14 April 1891, Page 3

BODY SNATCHING.

Torn. From tie Brave.

An extraordinarycase hafl lately come under our notice. It appears that Mr H. A. Cranev over this and the adjacent colonies in the interests of one of the largest importing firms in this'city, and therefore is a well-known man all over the colonies, has lately been in very indifferent health. He had suffered from a severe snaking at the Windsor Kailway Smash, and had been under tha treatment of the best physicians in Melbourne and Sydney. The moßt troublesome symptom was Neuralgia, which was excruciatingly painful; he had been a sufferer from this complaint on and off for years, bnt since the accideat he had suffered ten times worse than ever. -He consulted physician after phjhucian.. without benefit; they told tarn amongst them, he had every complaint from atrophy of the liver to heart disease, His 'case was so remarkable" that we give -HK V owa yj*»ion ; vof it in his oW9 words,-: considering that he has had a miraculouß escape from acute Buffering if not fromin untimely grave. He says :— M Forthe;iast seven years 1 have been a-victim to the most excruci ating agdnyilrom vneuralgia, and also suffered from extreme nervousness. I tried hundreds of' so-called specifics, but without avail; and, being a com merci<d traveller, am particularly liable to cold from exposure to draughts, &c,; a slight one even, altays fled to my facial nerves; and caused acute neuralgic pains, preventing sleep, and causing excessive sympathetic headache. I saw i. CLEMENTS' TONIC advertised, procured a bottle, and in two days the pain was completely cured, a con summation I- had never expected, and am deeply' thankful for same. This was four months ago, and from then till now I have' ! never had the slightest twinge of the excruciating torture 1 used to have. . Youmay make what use of this you like. Youra gratefully, HENBY A. CBANE. We also received similar letters from T. Garrett, Esq., M .P.. who says :—" He found Clements' Tonic a great aid to appetite and digestion," and from Mrs Whalley, who w*s quite worn out, tired, weak Bnd unable to move. She took seven battles of Clements' Tonic, and .. now can eat, work, and sleep, and is fc stronger thaneyer before. ' We could go on like this with evidence. ] that proves the value of Clements' Tonic iu acute diseases right down the column, and then for yards over the edge of the so inexhaustive is our supply of > influential and positive endorsement. We i<r -; wQpsend full particulars of the diseases Clemsbts' Tonic is suitable for on receipt of your tame and, address.'-•'" P. M CWM«sx3i Jfowtown Sydney'.

This SCaa vas Frlgliteacl. And on reading the facts-it will appear that he had reason to be. The man referred to was Edward Perrin, apuard on the Manchester, Sheffield, atfd Lincolnshire Railway. In September, 1887, he met with an accident, which gave a temporary shack to his system. Not - long afterwards he began to feel a pain in the chest and have difficulty in breathing, and threw up a great deal of mocus (phlegm). He at once concluded he had some serious ailment of the lungs, and souo-ht medicil advice. The doctor said it ■ was so, and aided that there was no cure for it, and that he could no more than give him something to ease the pain and the cough. "Then the doctor gave Mr Perrin a certificate stating that he was suffering from " Catarrh Phthsis," which is the professional term for that dreadful malady, Consumption, further symptoms soon appeared which seemed to confirm this alarming opinion. The poor fellow j experienced great pain in eating and a tightness across the che3t, which telt, he said, "as if aome strong arm was gripping him arouud the body under the arms."

The re3t of !Vf r Perrin 's narrative ia bes related in his own words. He 3ays : " I soon commenced to have a brackish taste in the mouth as if I had been sucking copper. Then crnio cold chills and sweats in turn, the cough got hollow, and I raised more than I had done. These terrible symptoms so scared me that I went and consulted a doctor. He examined me carefully, and certified as follows ,

In the rase ofGruard-Fcrrin, This man is evidently frightened. He is suffering from t'h'hisis and Dyspepsia. Cod liver oil aud iron are indicated.

"This fully bore out what the other doctor had said so I now looked upon myself as done for. 1 took everything I could here tell of. 1 have drunk gallons ofwd Uver oil and sherry, and have had many quarts of camphorated oil, rubbed on my chest until my wife was sick of rubbing. 1 was also poulticed contihu - ally, but in spite of all this terrific dosing and medicating 1 got gradually worse ; In halt a' dozen words my condition was this: i believed myselt to be fas f . going to the grave with consumption; my friends said so, the doctors said so, and it looked like it if anything ever 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 1888. I was ashamed to be away o much, as I was obliged to draw fuuds srom the Club all the time to help support my family. While I was thus doing nothing but waiting to die, crawling about feeblylike a man who hus virtually done withthis world, I happened one day to meet one of the Traffic Inspectors of our line. He was shocked at my looks, but said, 'Perrin, I don't know ai anything will help you ; but, if anything does, it is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.' I remember that this idea assured me, miserably broken and ill as I was. Help me? Could it cure consumption? Not hkely. Impossible 1 Still it couldn't make me worse, so 1 got a bottle aud began to take it. I could ' scarcely credit my my feelings, but as sure as truth is truth, before 1 had . used up that bottle cf medicine, I found relief. Now comes what you may find it hard to believe —I took two more bottles and went back to work, and have been sound and healthy .ever since. 1 told the doctor about it, and although he saw I was well, he seemed 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, 1 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 he enough for thousands of others in this, country. " 1 am exposed to all sorts of weather but have never had a return of the bad breathing, chest pains, nor any of the other symptoms that nearly frightened me out of my senses. I eat and enjoy my food as well as any man in England. Now, what was the secret of this getting well ? If I really had consumption, it I was nothing short of a miracle ; but I never had consumption at all* The doctors were all wrong in calling it that. I What I actually suffered nxm was indigestion and dypepsia, which causes I the same Bymptoms that mark true consumption ; hence lets of people who are supposed to haye lung complaint might be as easily cured as I was if they would let cod liver oil alone and take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup." Mr Perrin's address is—No. 36, Gorton Brook Street, Gorton Brook, Manchester, England, and he will reply to any letters written to him concerning his case.