Great Excitement in Wales About a. Marvellous Cure.

Otago Witness, Issue 1852, 20 May 1887, Page 11

Great Excitement in Wales About a . Marvellous Cure.

LIVING SIX YEARS WITHOUT GOING ' TO BED.

Mr Editor, — While spending a few days atf the pleasant seaside town of Aberystwith, Car* cligansbire, Wales, I heard relatedwhat seemed ' to me either a fabulous story or a marvellous cure. ( , The story was that a poor Bufferer who hacH not been able to lie down in bed for six longs years, given up to die by all the doctors, had) been speedily cured by some Patent Medicine. It was related with the more implicit confidence from the circumstance, as was said, thatthe Vicar of Llanrystyd was familiar with the tacts, and could vouch lor the truth of the re* port. Having a little curiosity to know how such. 1 c 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*, 1 about this wonderful cure. Though, a, total* stranger to him, both he and his wife most; graciously entertained me in a half-hour's con*,, versation, principally touching the case of Mr; Pugh, in which they seemed to take a deep and] sympathetic interest, having been familiar withi ' his sufferings, aud 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 in the parish of Lland-j ' deinol. i

Hg strongly vouched Mr Wm. Pngh's cha-l racter as a respectable farmer and worthy of l of credit. I left the venerable vicar with a. livelier sense of the happy relation of a pastorj and people, feeling that he was one whOitculyj sympathised with ill who are, afflicted in mmd,j body, or estate. ' , On my return to Aberystwith, I, was impressed l with a desire to see Mr Pugh, whose reputation) stood so high. His farm is called Pancom-Mawr,| signifying " above the dingle," situated near the; tmmmit of a smooth round hill, overlooking^ beautiful valley in which is situated the iovetyj ivy-mantled Church of Llanddeinol. I found! Mr Pugh, apparently about 40 years old, cdP medium height, rather slight, with a pleasant and intelligent face. I told him I had heard of. his great affliction and of his remarkable and< almost miraculous relief, and that I had come to learn from his own lips what there was of truth • ' in the reports. Mr Pugh remarked that his neighbours JhadJ " taken a kindly and sympathetic interest in hia ' case for many years, but of late their interest. had been greatly awakened by a happy changei ' in his condition. What you report as havingi beard abroad, said he, is substantially true, 1 with! ■ one exception. I never understood that myj case was ever given up as hopeless by any Phy-| - sician. I have been treated by several Doctors) hereabouts, as good as any in Wales, but unfor-i bunately no prescription of theirs ever brought* the desired relief.

Fifteen years ago, he said, I first became con-! scious of a sour and deranged stomach and loss, of appetite, which the Doctors told me wa^ Dyspepsia. What food I could hold in myi ' stomach seemed to do me no good, and wasi • often thrown up with painful retchings. Tb»[ 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, bu*( with little success. Then came shortness ofj breath and a sense of suffocation, especially; nights, with clammy sweat, and I would have to! get out of bed and sometimes opea » door or window in winter weather to fill my lungs-with the cold air. ! ,

About six years ago I became so bad that-ff could not sleep in bed, but had to take my imqniet rest and dreamy sleep sitting iv an armchair. My affliction seemed to be worfeiag downward into my bowels as well as upwards into my lungs , and throat. In the violent soughing spasms, which grew more frequent, mj^ abdomen would expand and collapse, aud sfc times it would seem that I should suffocate. All' this time I was reduced in strength, so' thai I ( could perform no hard labour, and my spirits were consequently much depressed. Early iv this last spring I had a still mom severe spasmodic attack, and my family and neighbours became alarmed, believing' that cer«\ fcainly I would not survive, when a neighbour,, who had soum 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 Seigel's Curative Syrup. This medicine they administered to me according to the directions, when to their surprise 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 felt a sense of quiet comtwt 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 medioine. I have continued to take the medicine daily now for something over ivrpj, months, and I can lay down and sleep riweetlyj-afc ' nights and have not since had a' recurrence of those terrible spasms and sweatings. j[ 'have ' been so long broken down and redvrcedin my whole system that I have not trieft'to perfbris. any very hard out-door labour, deeming it best to be prudent, lest by over^-exertion'l may do . myself injury before my strength is folly 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 neigh-* bours, especially by the good Vicar of Llanrystyd, who with his. sympathetic wife have corns three miles to shed tears of joy on my recovery, I bade Mr Pugh goodbye, happy that even one at least among thousands had found a remedy for an aggravating disease.

Believjag this remarkable case of Dyspeptic Asthma should be known to the public, I beg to submit the above {acts astf^y are related to me*,