GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES OVER A MARVELLOUS CURE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 770, 3 December 1886, Page 30

GREAT EXCITEMENT IN WALES OVER A MARVELLOUS CURE.

LIVING SIX YEARS WITHOUT GOING TO BED.

Mr EniTOB, —While spending a few days at the pleasant seaside town of Aberystwith, Cardiganshire, Wales, I heard related what seemed to me either a fabulous story or a marvellous cure. The story was that a, poor sufferer who had not been able to lie down in bed for six long years, given up to die by all the Doctors, had been speedily cared by some Patent Medicine. It was related with the most 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 iiow suen stories grow in travelling, I took the liberty while at the village of Llanrystyd to call upon the Vicar, the Rev T. Evans, and to inquire about this wonderful cure. Though. a total stranger to him, -both he and bis wife most graciously entertained me in a half hour’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 his name had been connected with the report from his having mentioned the case to Mr John Thomas, a chemist of Llanon. He said Mr Pugh was formerly a resident of their parish, but was now living iu the parish of Llaaddeinol. . i He strongly vouched Mr William Pugh’s character as a respectable farmer and worthy of credit. I left the venerable Vicar with a livelier sense of the bappy relation of a pastor and people, feeliDg that he was one who truly sympathised with all who were afflicted in mind, body, or estate. On my return to Aberystwith, I was impressed with a desire to see Mr Pugh, whose reputation stood so high. Hi 3 farm is called Pancom-Mawr, signifying “ above the dingle,” situated near the summit of a smooth, round hill, overlooking a .beautiful valley iu which is situated the lovely ivy-mantled Church of Llanddeinol. 1 found Mr Pugh, apparently about 40 years old, =of.medium height, rather slight, with a pleasant andintelligent face. I told him I had heard of his great affliction, and of his remarkable and almost miraculous relief, and that I bad come to learn_ from his own lips what there was of truth in the reports. Mr Pugh remarked that his neighbours had taken a kindly and sympathetic interest in his case for many years, but of late their interest had been greatly awakened by a happy change in his condition. What you report as having heard abroad, said he, is substantially true, with one exception. I never understood that my case was ever given up as hopeless by any Physioian. I have been treated by several Doctors hereabouts, as good as any in Wales, but unfortunately no prescription of theirs ever brought the desired relief. Fifteen years ago, he said, I first became conscious of a sour, and deraDged stomach aDd loss of appetite, which; the Doctors told me was Dyspepsia. ’What-'food I could hold in my stomach seemed to do me no good, and was often thrown up with painful retchings. This was followed after 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 • lungs with the cold, air.About six , y ears ago I became so bad that I could not sleep in bed, but had to take my unquiet rest and dreamy sleep sitting in au armchair. My - affliction seemed 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 should suffocate. All this time I was reduced in strength, so that'l could perform no hard labor, and my spirits were consequently much depressed. Early in the last Bpriug I had a still more severe spasmodic attack, and my family aud neighbors became alarmed, believing that certainly I would not survive, when a neighbor who had some kuowledga, or had heard of the medicine, sent to Aberystwith by the driver of the Omnibus; Post, some seven miles distant, and fetebed a bottle of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. . - , . ' This medicine they administered to me according to the directions, when to their surprised and delight no less than my own, the spasm ceased, I became at ease, and my stomach was calmed. My bowels were moved as by a gentle cathartic, and I feel a sense of quiet comfort all through such as I had not before realised in many years. I could walk around the house and breath comfortably in a few hours after I had taken the medicine. I have continued to take the medicine daily now for something over two months, and I can lay down and sleep sweetly at nights and have not since had a recurrence of those terrible spasms and sweatiugs. I have been so long broken down, and reduced in my whole system that I have not tried to perform any very hard outdoor labor, deeming it best to be prudent lest, by over-exertion I may do myself injury before my strength is fully restored. I feel that my stomach 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

neighbors, especially by the good Vicar of Llaorvstyd, who with his sympathetic wife have come three miles to shed tears of joy on my recovery. . •- ■- - I bade Mr Pugh good-bye. bappy that even one at least among thousands had found a remedy for r.n aggravating disease. Believing this remarkable ca?e of Dyspeptic Asthma should be known to the public, I beg to sutmit tbe°aboi© facts as they, are related to me. ■' 16 T.F.W.