A Captain Saved

Otago Witness, Issue 1793, 3 April 1886, Page 22

A Captain Saved

(Hamilton, Ontario. Spectator.)

Some little commotion was occasioned several months ago regarding the experience of a gentleman well known in this city, and at the time the matter was a subject of gcner.il conversation. In order to ascertain all the facti bearing upon the matter, a representative of this paper was despatched yesterday to interview the gentleman in question, with the following result : —

Captain W. H. Nicholls, for seventeen years in her Majesty's service in India, is a mau well advanced in years, who has evidently seen much of the world. Endowed by nature with a strong constitution, he was enabled to endure hardships uuder which many men would have succumbed. Through all privation and exposure he preserved his constitution unimpaired. A number of years ago, however, he began to feel a strange uudermining of his life. He noticed that he had less energy than formerly, that his appetite was uncertain and changing, that he was unaccountably weary at certain times and correspondingly energetic at others ; that his head pained him, first in front and then at the base of the br.iin, and that his heart was unusually irregular in its action. All these troubles he attributed to some passing disorder, and gave them little attention, but they seemed to increase in violence continually. To the writer he said : " I never for a moment thought these things amounted to anything serious, and I gave them little, if any, thought ; but I felt myself growing weaker all the while, and could in no way account for it."

"Did you take no steps to check these symptoms ? " "Very little, if any. I thought they were only temporary in their nature, and would soon pass away. But they did not pass away, and kept increasing. Finally, one day, after more than a year had passed, I notice 1 that my feet and ankles were beginning to swell, and that my face under the eyes appeared puffy. This indication increased until my body began to fill with water, and finally swelled to enormous proportions. I was afflicted with acute rheumatic pains, and was fearful at times that it would affect my heart. I consulted one of our most prominent physicians, and he gave me no hope of ever recovering. He said that I might live several months, but my condition was such that wither myself nor uny of my family had the slightest hope of my recovery. In this con lit ion a number of months passed by, during which tune 1 hnd to sit constantly in an easy chair, not beinsj able to lie down, lest I should < hokc {.«> de.itli. The slight pains I had at first cxperi-'ncfd increased to most terrible agonies. Mv thirst was intense, and a good portion of the time I was wholly unconscious. When I did recover my senses I suffered so severely that my cries could be heard for nearly a mile. No one can have any idea of the agony I endured. I was unable to eat or even swallow fluids. My strength eutirely deserted me, and 1 was so exhausted that 1 prayed day and night For death, The doctois could not relieve me and ] \vi>s left in a condition to die, and that, too, of Bright's disease of the kidneys in its most lerr Isle form. I think I should have died had I not learned of :i gentleman who had suffered very mnch as I had, and I resolved to pursue the' same course of treatment which entirely cured him. I accordingly began, and at once felt a change for the better going on in my system. In the course of a week the swelling had gone from my abdomen and diminished all over my body, and I felt like another man. I continued the treatment, and am happy to say that T was entirely cured through the wonderful almost miraculous power of Warner's Safe Cure, which I consider the most valuable discovery of mode: 11 times.

" And you feel apparently well now ? " "Yes, "indeed. I am in good health, eat heartily, and both the doctors and my friends are greatly surprised at my remarkable restoration, after I was virtually in the grave. My daughter, who has been terribly troubled with a pain in the back caused by kidney trouble, has also been cured by means of this same great remedy, and ray family and myself have constituted ourselves a kind of missionary society for supplying the poor of our neighbourhood with the remedy which has been so invaluable to us."