'THEY DROPPED OFFPOISONED BY MY BLOOD.'

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 9319, 13 June 1891, Page 4

'THEY DROPPED OFF—POISONED BY MY BLOOD.'

There is more or less of an impression upon the minds of same people that statements as to the merits and defects of the popular medicines should be received with a degree of allowance. That is to say, people are apt to think the proprietors of these articles often enlarge upon and exaggerate the real facts in order to create a demand for what they have to sell. We are inclined to believe this is seldom the case, as the intelligent persons who own these medicines are aware that any sort of over statement tends to injure their sales rather than to increase them. The public are sure to form a correct judgment as to the value of an advertised article, and any false claims for it are certain to he recognised and denounced. Honesty is the best policy in this as in all other cases.

Therefore the reader need not hesitate to accept as true any announcements of which the following is an example [copy.]

“I. Thirza Daniels, of Wrafton, nr. Barnstaple, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :

1 1 was always a strong healthy woman up to the early part of 1879, when I began to be troubled with my liver and stomach. In July of that year I took a chill from sitting on tome wet grass, and this brought on sciatica and rheumatism. I had dreadful pain in my hips ami legs; it was like knives cutting through me. My appetite left me, and what little X did eat gave me great pain in the stomach and chest. I had a bad taste in the mouth and pains in the sides and between the shoulders. Finally I got so weak I had to bring home my eldest daughter from service to look after the house and my four children. For several months I went on in this way. At first I doctored myself, rubbing my joints with a rubbing bottle and poulticing. Then X sent for the doctor and he said my blood was poisoned. He blistered me and gave me medicine. X was under his care for five months, but I got weaker all the time and went as thin as a skeleton. The pain whilst in bed was very severe, I could scarcely bear it; and I turned and .turned, but could not find an easy place. Sometimes I was lifted to the floor, and lay there to see if any ease could be got. I became so bad I sent for a doctor from Braunton, but, as I got no better my husband got a recommendation from the late Colonel Harding, of TJpcott and X attended at the dispensary at Barnstaple four months and then went as an indoor patient in the Barnstaple infirmary, and was treated by two doctors. They agreed it was blood poisoning, and talked of performing an operation on my thigh, but concluded not to do it, saying I was too weak. They blistered me again, and no relief from this, they applied leeches, but as fast as the leeches were put on they dropped off poisoned by my blood. I was so low-spirited in the hospital that I felt if X did not get home I should die soon, so they made arrangements to take me away. When I got in the open air my senses left me, and they thought I was dying. After reaching home X was in great agony, and sent my husband for our doctor. He said he would come, but it was of no use, as be could do no more than he had done. I lay for weeks and was so bad that when people spoke to me I had not the strength to reply, at this time my nephew, Itobert Daniels, of Pontypridd, sent us word to try Mother SsigeVs Curative Syrup, as it had worked wonderful cures in the district where he lived. So my husband went to Mr Farley’s, the grocer, High Street, Barnstaple, and bought a bottle. Before I had taken all of that bottle, I could eat, and my food seemed to do me good. By degrees I got stronger and stronger, and after taking fourteen bottles I was strong and healthy. My flesh came on and all pain left my and legs, and I have never ailed anything to speak of since. I thank Ucd for making Seigel’a Syrup known to me, I • owe my life to it, and I wish others to know what I say. I consider it the Lord’s doing, and I will be glad to answer any inquiries. *• And X make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act, 1835 (5 and 6 William XY., c. 62).

11 (Signed) Thirza Daniels. “Declared before me, at the") Guildhall at Barnstaple, in the County of Devon, by the —■%. said Thirza Daniels, on 'X ues- f \ day, the 21stday of October,-! f seal. ) 1890. V J “(Signed) Rd. Ashton, ee Deputy Mayor of the Borough of Bamstavle.