SINGER'S FIGHT WITH DEATH.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 27 December 1924, Page 8

SINGER'S FIGHT WITH DEATH.

WONDER VICTORY OVER

CONSUMPTION

A bard some man. lr.etteul'n-ly dressed, who*> liappy. Urunzvd lace was 50- vouihrnl tbu his greying hair seemed almost like a wig. held a gathering i>f notable people spellbound with bis stugtusx ot old 1' reneli and l\-ngli.d"i songs at the Garden Ciitb. .Maytair tsars the London "Daily Ex pros •I. one l-caned over to the Japanese Am'>a>.-iwJor and \\ hi>|>eri>d in. his His grave cvo> opened wine i.u astonishment.. Probably ho luid boon told thai the singer. .Mr Sydney Barracloush. who s; ; tiii and danced with Mixs~Evie Greene"in "Horodom" ninetern rears ago. had once been condemned a-, a hopeless ronsumpt'.\e with a few months t<> live. His singing voice was lost, ins taec livid, and he had to reit a number ot timea when walking up an ordinary hill.^ Then lie began a remorkaMo tight with death. He spurned all known treatments for the -coiirge thai- was sapping his life, ;:,nd rigorously tollowed out a treatment., astonishingly simple, of his own. Tne results seem "i"'vil ble. but the man himself and authenticated icnnrts by doctors sivet'p away every glimmer of doubt- iSvdney Barraclough is today one of the healthiest, men in Ixmdon. He bathes in the terpen tine, every morning, summer and winter, iie can ride a bicycle Jong distances without, fatigue: ho can fence and row — and he can sing again with power and fierfect ea-se. "I was in the Thames litis morning," he said to a "Daily Express" representative. . '''Raining like* billvoh, you know, but it was grand.'' He thumped his hands together with a resounding crack. "Life! Health! They are wonderful, and yem never really know just, how wonderful they are until von have felt death creeping on you.

"Pcor>lo laugh when they hear my story, and when they .are out of e-'rshot turn to a friend and exclaim: 'Of course* the man never had consumption ; it. must have lx?cri a. mistake. 5 I only -irish it had been a mistake, but — read that !"

Mr Barraolcnigh held out a, letter from a specialist who was famous in Harley street in 1906—the dread diagnosis of consumption was given without any doubt. Another letter from the same specialist, dated two years later, read:— "I have examined this day Mr Sydney Barraclough and find that the pulmonary tuberculosis from which he has suffered is arrested, . . . and in my opinion there iR no reason why he should not marrv."

Mr Barra/'lmie;li will nob yet reveal tho details of his treatment. •"[ am keeping it for tho.se who suffered like T did," ho said, ".and I am going to devote the remainder of my life to helping to save consumptives as T can. "There is one thing I wish to make dear. 1 do not olaim that I have discovered a. cure, for consumption 1 merely fttate that ibis simple, rational •treatment, ea.n arrest, the disease."