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

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 18, 30 January 1891, Page 7

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

. + When a woman travels ten miles merely to a9k a few questions we may assume that her curiosity is excited. In the year 1883, a fetory went forth from Leverstock Green Hemel Hempstead, Herts, which aroused great i iterest in all the' region, thereabout. People came from various directions to enquire into the nutter ; what was alleged to have occured had to do mostly with one man. If the story turned out to be true seme good was likely to com« of it ; if false, it would only put the community more on their gu ird against all sorts of wild rumours. Among the women who were bound to get at tne foundatiun of it was one from bt. Albans an'i a cook from Langley. How strangely things woik out in this queer world. Seven years b*ve p.issetl and the facts are now to become generally public for the first time. It appears that ab^ut the first of January, 1883, an old resident of the place above named was said, and commonly believed, to bo m v dying condition. For five months an able and clever physician had been attending turn constantly, uo me heal nun coulu have done more, dis ailment was decided to be gout and rheumatism, which are now held to be practically the same milady differeutly located. Well, this begau hack in July, 1882. As time r*n along the patient grew worse. The doctor'n ability anj experience didn't seem to count. The sufferer's anklep, fett, and hands, became badly swollen. We all know this must have been a scary symptom because that the fluids of his body (and the body it* nearly all fluid anyway) — instead of being carried off as they naturally should be, were flowing over thuir channels an i 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 fac% that when the water reached the heart or lungs it might end in sudden death. The caus2 of dropsy is the refusal of the kidneys to carry off the water ; so much is plain. But what makes the kidneys strike work ? We now know the reason of tnat. It is because they are pArtially paralysed by a poison in the blood, arising from undigested food in the stomacn. In plain English, a chrome state of indigestion and ojspepsia was responsible for results which now threatened our unknown friend's life. It was reported— and of its truth there isn't a doubt — that his abdomen was blown like a bladder on account of the water which i-o .keJ all through bis flesh. In a conversation a few we<rks ago he saU " All ray Ineads now looked on me as a dying man." About this time the patient's wife happened to be in the shop of a chemist at Hemel Hempfetend, and he gave her a little book, a sort of small pamphlet, and said she might like to read it. She did read v, and lound in i' a full description of the very complaint thai was frtst sending her husband to tue grave, ami also the name of what was asserted to b> a remedy for it. After some trouble she got him to consent to try it, and sent for a bottle. He begun, and kept it up for four months, taking twenty-six bottles altogether. At the end of that time he was v well, sound man, and is so to-day. The whole neigh b urhood was amazed. — His recovery, when hj had been looked upon as no better than a dead man, set tongues wagging all around the country. He now says " 1 should not h<tve been here now, if it had not been for Mother Sugel's Curative Syrup, Our friend requests us not to publish his full name, but says we may prim his initial?, which are "J. D." Address: Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempsteau, Herts. H« will answer letters,