A DIFFICULT CASE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1024, 9 March 1894, Page 3

A DIFFICULT CASE.

There is a certain learned Judge who sits in one of the London High Courts of Justice' wh says that patent medicines, or what he is pleased to term. them. *' quack medicines," should never be used except on the advice of a medical man. The Judge may be correct as to the large majority of patent medicines, hut there are exceptions to this rule. If our readers will carefully follow the history of the case below, we feel quite sure that they will agree with us. The case in question is .that of the young son of Mr Thomas Buzzard of Belton Cppinghnm, Rutland, who in January, 1881, was attacked with rheumatism in the feet, which rapidly extended over the entire body. The famous ' doctor wss ■ called in who diagnosed the case " rheumatic fever," and attended the patient until October 1882, when he gave up the case as beyond his skill, ordering him to lie sent to the Leicester fnfirmary, where at the end of two weeks, he was discharged a3 .in incurable. From here he was brought horn ; completely cripp.ed and very badly deformed, his feet being drawn up to his hips and seemingly firmly fixed. He was perfectly helpless and suffered most intense pain. As a last resource he was placedunder the care of a celebrated physician in Leicester, where he remained for a long time, but continued to grow worse. Having now been a helpless cripple for over three years and his case being pronounced incurable by some of the most celebrated medical meu iu the Midland counties, his parents were persuaded by Mrs Mary Ann Halls, who lives at TJppingham, to use St. Jacobs Oil, Mr Halls relating to them her own case of having been a cripple for years, and being permanently cured by the use of "this oil. A few bottles were purchased, with the result that after applying the contents, the son was enabled to get about on crutches. Continuing the use of the oil, he became perfectly cured and Mr Buzzard, writing to the proprietors of Sfc Jacobs oil under date of March 16, 188S, says that his son now offcen walks eight miles in a single day, and that he is perfectly cured. The case is regarded by himself and wife, aa well a3 the neighbors, as a ii!ost miraculous cure. From the foregoing, as weH as from many similar cases which might be cited, it is clearly shown that the preparation in question, although under the ban of a patent medicine, possesses wonderful curative properties and it being for outwara application can do no one any harm. While a learned Judge may advise us " not to use patent medicines unless prescribed by a member of the medical profession," there are cases as the above facts clearly show, where St Jacobs oil has accomplished in a very shost period that which the most eminent medical men have vainly tried to accomplish for three years, and then signally failed.