GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES ABODT A MARVELLOUS CURE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7767, 11 June 1887, Page 5

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES ABODT A MARVELLOUS CURE.

LIVING SIX YEA.KS WITHOUT

GOING TO BiSD.

Mr Editoe, — While spending % few days at the p')eas,ant s.eaaid.o town of Aberystw^li, Cardiganshire, Wales, I heard re^ed whftt aeeinod tome either a, fnb,u)on» story or a marvello us care.

The story was that a poor sufferer who had not been able to. lie down in bed for six long yearß, given up to die by all the Doctors, bad been speedily cured by gome Patent Medicine. It was related with the more implicit confidence from the circumstance, as was said, that the Vicar of Llanrystyd was familiar with the facts, and could vouch for the truth of the report. Having a little curiosity to know how Buch stories grow ill travelling, I took the liberty while at the village of Llanrystyd to call upon the Vicar, the Rev. T. Evans, and to enquire about this wonderful cure. Though a total) stranger to him, both he anid'Uis wif.e moat graciously entertained me in a halfhour's conversation, principally touching the case of Mr Pugh, in which they seemed to take a deep and sympathetic interest, having been familiar with his sufferings, and now rejoiced in what seemed to them a most remarkable

cure,

The Vicar remarked that he presumed ; hia name had been connected wi^h' the | report from his having 'wei^fiohed the case to Mr John Thomas, a chemist of LI anon. He said Mr Pugh was formerly a resident of their, pn.rho, but was now living in the parish of fjlanddeinol. He strongly vouched Mr Win. Push's character, as a respectable farmer and i w&rthy of credit. I left Vica^ wUii v liveh'er'g.ense of tho happy relation' ol 1 a pastor and people, leeling that he was oue who truly sympathised with all who are afllioted in mind, body, or estate. On my return to Aberystwith, I was impressed with a desire to see Mr Pugh, whose reputation stood bo high. His farm is called Pancom-Mawr, signifying " above the dingle," situated near tho summit of a staooth round hill, overlooking a' beautiful valley in which is situated the lovely ivy-mantled Church of Llanddcinol. I found Mr apparently about 4,0 jrears o.ld, 'of medium heifjht, rather flight, with a pleasant nnc( intelligent fa,ee. I told him I hndj heard p,f hus great affliotion, and of, his, remarkable and almost mij raculona relief, and that I had come to learn from his own lips what there | was of truth in the reports. i Mr Pu^h remarked that his neigh- > bourß had taken a kindly and sympathetic interest in his case icx nja'uy ye.irs, but of late |hetr interest hud : been greatly awakened by a happy ch'a.ngo in his coudiiion. What yod : , report as having heard abroad, said he, is substantially true, with one ox--1 oeption. I never understood that my

case was ever given up as hopeless by any Physician. I have been treated by several Doctors hereabouts, as good as any in Wales, but unfortunately no prescription of theirs ever brought the desired effect.

Fifteen years ago, he said, I first became conscious of a sour and deranged stomach and loss of appetite, which the Doctors told me was Dyspepsia. What food I could hold in my stomach seemed to do me no good aud was often thrown up with painful Teachings. This was followed alter a time with a hoarseness and a raw soreness of the throat which the Doctors called bronchitis, and I was treated for that, but with little success. Then came shortness of breath and a sense of suffocation, especially nights, with clammy sweat, and I would have to get out of bed and sometimes open a door or window in winter weather to fill my luugs with the cold air.

About six years ago I became so bad that I could not sleep iv bed, but had to take_ my unquiet rest and dreamy sleep sitting in nn armchair. My affliction seomed to be working downward into my bowels as well as upwards into my lungs and throat. In the violent coughing spasms which grew more frequent, my abdomen would expand and collapse and at times it would seem that I ohould suffocate. All this time I was rednoed in strength so that I could perform no hard labour and my spirits were consequently much depressed. Early in this last spring I had a still more severe spasmodic attack, and my family and neighbours became alarmed, believing that certaiuly I would not survive, when a neighbour, who had some knowledge, or had heard of the medicine, sent to Aberystwith by the driver of the Omnibus Post, some seven miles distant, and fetched a bottle of Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup. This medicine they administered to me according to the directions, when to their surprise and delight no loss than my own, the spasm ceased, I became at ease, and my stomach was calmed. My bowels were moved as by a gentle oathartic, and I felt a sense of quiet comfort all through such as I had not before realised in many years. I could walk around the house and breathe comfortably in a few hours after I had taken the medicine. I have continued to take the medioine daily now for something over two months, and I cas lay down and sleep sweetly at nightf and have not since had a recurrence of and bowels have been and are being thoroughly renovated and renewed by the medicine. In fact I feel like a new man.

I have been much congratulated by my neighbours, especially by the good Vicar of Llanrystyd, who with his sympathetic wife have come three miles to shed tears of joy on my recovery. I bade Mr Pugh good-bye, happy that even one at least among thousands had found a remedy for an aggravating disease.

Believing this remarkable case of Dyspeptic Asthma should be known to the public, I beg to submit the above facts as they are related to me.

F.T.W.