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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 74, 29 March 1899, Page 6

Winter is coining, and you will require extra blankets, eider-down quilts -now is the time to purchase them, we have just opened up our winter stock, beautiful range to select from. —Tonson Garlick Company, Limited. —(Ad.)

THEY CALLIfI MIRACLE! Doctors give him up! Hospitals discharge him INCURABEI, i .11 ! . A DARK AND GLOOMY PROSPECT! A RAY OF SUNSHS?SE and a PERFECT RESTORATION^

(by OUB special EBPOBTKR) What is locally > . Considered a Israel© 'has lately beep performed at Silver Water,. sometimes called " Ibbettown," so many Ibbett? five there, a prettily-situated Ullage near" Auburn, and about 10 miles from Sydney, on the main suburban line. News of the perfect restoration of health to Mr. William Ibbett having got abroad, we dispatched one of our reporters to the district to institute a searching investigation ; into the case, and find out i The Absolute Truth . * ~, ■••■■' , . ~ , from Mr. Ibbett and the neighbours, who appear to have made the case one of general •• - interest in the neighbourhood for some time past, for it = has-been a daily subject of boa versation amongst the many people acquainted with the particulars. "\ The reporter could not make the people he questioned understand which member of ■ the ibbett family he wanted to see till he ' Mentioned the Illness • ■ ... . :. , ~ , "■■., of the man in question, at which the required house wes at once pointed out as that . oi the man the doctors Could not cure, and Hospitals turned OMt as Incurable, but Clements TipniC had Thoroughly Restored, The reporter was fortonat? enpugh tp obtain the interview he sought s when he asked :—"Willyou do metlie Icindnes3, Mr. Ibbett, to tell me how your complaint first started, how it progressed, and how you finally recovered!" ■ "I will," answered Mr. Ibbett. "It commenced with severe pains in the head, and afterwards pains down the neck and sp«e came on. Ihen all at once I lost my ' , appetite. I could'nt look at my food, thp very sight of it turned me J 8 i P k. 'My digestiol went all wrong. What Utt& I Sid eat (and I forced myseli to ea.t sometiling now and then to keep body and soul . together) gave me great pain. I only too^ soft food, but even'this would not digest, ■ ' but Turned Sour and Fermented , , . • a- . . .v, . in my stomach, causing me to suffer terribly . " from wind and flatulence. Besides, I could get no sleep. I did not get, as a rule, more than an hour's sleep a night, and that in disturbed, uneasy snatches, each of short duration, which did me no good at all. I had to v■ ■ Give up my Billet at the^ Auburn Meat Works, and I used tp sit all day long in the chau- feeling nerveless and languid, with no energy or desire tp mpve. The pains in my back got worse daily, especially along the spine. I got most distreesingly wealcj and strangely nervous. I have been accustomed to be iiji the works with the whirl and crash of machinery going ou all round me, and I never suffered the least inconvenience, but . vow every sound went • Through me like a Knife, anrt'would startle and give me such a shock that I should almost fall to the ground, and I trembled like a leaf." g ' " Why did'nt you see a doctor V «I did, and what use was it? T had several, and obeyed their orders, and took their physic. To what end? I only cot worse and worse. Finally they gavenie up, They said they could do nothing more for me, and they had done nothing then ; and one of them told me that he had given me medicines strong enough to kill a horse. This, I believe, was a fact, but it evidently was not the treatment,my disease required, • for it entirely failed to relieve me. • . pressed. Everything ahead Looked Dark and Gloomy to me. My friends tried in vain to cheer me up, but nothing could give me hope, as , every day my disease increased. I got very thin. I was like a skeleton. I fell away in a very short time from 10 stone 4 lbs. to 8 stone 5 lbs., and my face was pale and colourless ' " * »<« F*«? »n« «°Tvj ff • '. i-u "Did you snffer in any other, way that you've not yet mentioned ?" " Yes ; niv kidneys were affected nnd a. dull, d^SrC tWsmalufthe^ was continually dißtressing me (the doctor said this was a sign of kidney disease)^ and my water was 4r> high Jlour^d out I " clon t care to go into further particulars as to my kidney symptoms ; but J can only asaure you they caused me great distrei As a last resort, on my wife's^ suggestion, I >m taken to the Hospital, Sydney. I thought that if it was possible to cure, me at all I sliould have the best chance there. The doctors gave me a very careful examinatiou. They sounded me all over and tool? my temperature, but they ■. could make nothing of my case. I believe that they treated me tlere For Kidney Diae*«e.