A REMARKABLE CASE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1895, 16 March 1888, Page 15

A REMARKABLE CASE.

Under the above heading the Doncaster Reporter of July 6th, 1887, publishes the following in its editorial columns :—: —

Our readers may recall the circumstance of a young clerk, named Arthur Richold, falling insensibie on the Wheatley Lane in this town some time ago, and being picked up, as he continued perfectly helpless, and taken in a cab by two gentlemen to tho office of F. W. Fisher, Esq., the solicitor who employed him. On restoring him to consciousness it was ascertained that he was afflicted with what seemed to bo an incurable disease. When he was able to speak he said he had been to his dinner and was on his way back to his work, when suddenly his head was in a whirl and he fell in tho street like a man who is knocked down. On coming to his senses iv the solicitor's office he thought what this might mean, and feared he was going to have a fit of illness, which we all know is a very dreadful thing for a poor man with a family to care for.

With this in his mind he at once sought the best medical advice, telling the doctors ho>v he had been attacked. They questioued him, and found that his present malady was exhaustion of the nervous system resulting from general debility, indigestion, and dyspepsia of a chronic nature. This in turn had been caused by confinement to his desk and grief at the loss of dear friends by death. The coining on of this strange disease, as described by Mr Richold, must We of interest both to sick and well. He had noticed for several year « previously, in fact, that his eyes and face began to have a yellow look ; there was a sticky and imajjieasant slime on the gums and teeth in t\ w snorning ; the tongue coated ; and the bowt ik* so bound and costive that it induced that m ftsfc painful and troublesome ailment — the pil ess. He says there was some pain in the sides : uid back and a sense of fulness on the right : »de, as though the liver were enlarging, which \ (roved to be the terrible fact. The secretions fi -ora the kidneys would be scanty and high-coloun id, with a kind of gritty or saudy deposit affrr s tending.

These things had troi. bled Mr Richold a long time, and after his fall :' n the street he clearly perceived that the fit o f giddiness was nothing more than a sign of the steady and deadly advance of the complai nfc, -which began in indigestion and dyspepsia. His story of how he ■went from one physician to another in search of a cure that his wife and little ones might not come to want is very pathetic arid touching. Finally he became too ill. to keep his situation and had to give it up. This was a sad calamity. He was appalled to think how he should be able to live. But God raised up frier ids who helped to keep the wolf from the door. He then went to the seaside at Walton-oj l-tbe-Naze, but neither the changa nor the physicians who treated him there did any good. All being without avail he? visited Lon<J on, with a sort of vague hope that some arivac tage might happen to him in the metropolis. r . r Jhis was in October 1885.

How wonderful, indeed -are the ways of Providence, which d ashes do- wn our highest hopes and then helps v* when v /c least expect it. While in London he s< ated his condition to a friend, who strongly ad' /ised him to try a medicine which he called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine and honest, and oiten cured when ci erything else had failed. He bought a bottle of a chemist in Pimlico, and began using it accord ing to directions. He did this without faith or hope, and the public may therefore judge of hi s surprise and pleasure when id ter taking a few <1< !ses lie felt, great relief. He c ould eat better ; his food distressed him less ; the s;7mptoms we hava named abated; the dark spots which had floated before his eyes like srauts of soot gradually disappeared, and nis st rengtu increased . Before this time his knees w> ?uld knock tog ether whenever he tried to wa Jk. So encouw .ged was he now that he kept on using Mother Sl'ii/cV.i Curative Syrup until it en 3ed in complef ely curing him.

]'n speaking of his wonderful recovery Mr Richold says it rciadehim think of poor Robimon Crusoe, and his deliverance from captivity on his island in tr.e sea; aud added, "But for Mo ther Seigel's Curative Syrup, the grass would no's* be growing over my grave."

Our readers can rest assured of the strict truth of all the; statements in this most remarkable case, as Mi- Kichold (now residing at Swiss •Cottage, Walto n-on-the-NnzeJ belongs to one of •the oldest and most respected families in the Tjeautiful villa; ;c of Long Melford, Suffolk, and his personal character is attested by so high an authority as the Rev. C. J. Martyn, rector of that parish, b asides other excellent names. We Lave deemed the case of such importance to the public as to justify us in giving this short; account of ifc iv our columns.