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Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12242, 30 June 1900, Page 3

THEY CULL IT A CLE iDoctors'gisie him up! Hospitals discharge him tMCURABEI A DARK AND GLOOMY PROSPECT! A RAY 0F SUNSHINE and a PERFECT RESTORATION.

(BY OTO SPECIAL REPOMES.) What is locally Considered a Miracle has lately been performed at Silver Water, sometimes called “ Ibbettown," so many Ibbetts live there, a prettily-situated village near Auburn, and about 10 miles from ' Sydney, on the main suburban line. \ Newa.of the perfect restoration .of; health) to Mr.;.-W-fUiam. Ibbett.. having got. abroadl we : d Lspatched onerdL-cu r reporters*tO'th<| district, to inslitate:a;flearohing investigation into the case, and find'out The Abaolute truth from Mr. Ibbett and the neighbours, -who appear to have made the case one of geucral interest in the neighbourhood for some time past, for it has' been a daily subject of conversation 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 was at once pointed out as that of the man the doctors *■ Could not cure, and Hospitals turned out as Incurable, o tout Clements Tonic had Thoroughly: Restored.

The reporter was fortunate enough to obtain the interview he sought, when he asked 1 “Will you do me the kindness, Mr. Ibbctt, to tell me how your complaint first started, how it progressed, and hovy. N ypU: ‘ finally recovered ?” ' . > “I will,” answered Mr._ Ibbeth “It commenced with severe pains iu the head, and afterwards pains down the neck and ■ipine came on. Then all at once I lost my appetite. I could’nt look at my food, the very sight of it turned me sick. My digestion went air "wrong. What little I did eat (and I forced myself to eat something now and then to keep body and soul together) gave me great pam. I. only , took soft even this would not digest, but Turned Sour and Fermented in my stomach, causing me to suffer terribly from wind and flatulence. Besides, I could get no sleep. 1 did not get, as' a rule, more than an hoar’s sleep a night, and that in disturbed, uneasy snatches, each of short duration, which did me no good at all. I had to • , ~ Give- up my Blllirt" at-' the' Auburn Meat'Works, and I used to si tail day long in the chair feeling nerveless and languid, with no energy or desire to move. The pains in my back got worse daily, especially along the spine. I got most distressingly weak, and strangely nervous. I have been accustomed to be in the works with the whirl and crash of machinery going on all round me, and I never suffered the least inconvenience, but now every sound went Through me tike a Knife, and would startle and give mo such a shock that ! should almost fall to the ground, and I trembled like a leaf." “ Why.did’nt you see a doctor ?” “ I did, and what use was it ? 3 had several, and obeyed their orders, and took their physic. To what" end? I only got worse and worse. Finally they gave me up. They said they could do nothing more for me, and they had done nothing then ; and one of them told me that he bad given me medicines strong enough to kill a horse. This, I believe, was a fact, but it evidently waa not the treatment my disease required, for it entirely failed to relievo me. “ Yon must have got pretty low-spirited.” *‘of course. I became very much depressed. Everything ahead . , |ktoited Dark ancS Gloomy to me. My friends tried in vain to cheer me up, bat nothing could give me hope, as "every day iny increased. I got very thinT 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.

“ Did you suffer in any other way that you’ve not yet mentioned!” “ Yes ; my kidneys were affected, and a dull, dragging pain in the small of the bade was continually distressing me (the doctor said this was a sign of kidney disease), and my water was very high coloured, but I don’t care to go into further particulars as to rny kidney symptoms; but I can only assure you they caused me great distress. As a last resort, on my wife’s suggestion, I was taken to the Hospital, Sydney. I thought that if it was possible to cure me at all I should have the best chaiice there. The doctors gave me a very careful examination. They sounded me ail over and took my temperature, but they could make nothing of my case. I believe that they .treated. For •