" THEY DROPPED OFFPOISONED BY MY BLOOD."

Otago Witness, Issue 1947, 18 June 1891, Page 18

" THEY DROPPED OFFPOISONED BY MY BLOOD."

- There is more or less of an- impression upon the minds of some people that statements as to the .merits and effects of popular medicines should be received with a degree of allowance. That is to say, people are apt to think tbe 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 a ware that any sorb of overstatement 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 be recognised and denounced. ' Honesty is the best policy in this as in all other oases.

Therefore tbe reader need not hesitate to accept as true any announcements of which the following is an example : — » [copt.] " I, Thirza Daniels, of Wrafton, near Barnstaple, do solemnly and sincerely declare as ollows: —

" I 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 some wet grass, and this brought on sciatica and rheumatism. I had dreadful pain in my hips and legs ; it was like knives cutting through me. My appetite left me, and what little I 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 poultioing. Then I seat for the doctor and he said my blood was poisoned. He blistered me and gave me medicine. I was under his care for five months, but I got weaker all the time and went 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 Upcott, and I attended at the dispensary at Barustaple four- months, and then went as an indoor patient in the Barnstaple Infirmary, and was treated by two doctors. They aur^ed it was blood poisoning, and talked of p rforming an operation on my thigh, but conclu 'ed not to do it, saying I was too weak* They blistered me again, and no relief from this, they applied leeohes, 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 I did not get home I should die soon, so they made arrangements \o fake me away. When I got in tbe epen air my senses left me, and they thought I was djin£. After reaching home I was in great agony, 'and sent my husband for our doctor. He said he would come, but it was of tio use, as be could do no more than he had done. I lay for week?, and was so bad that when people spoke to me I had not the strength to reply. At this time my nephew, Robert Daniels, of Pontypridd, sent us word to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, as it had worked wonderful cures in the district where he lived. So my husband w£nt to Mr Farley's, the grocer. High street, Barnstaple and bought a bottle. Before I bad 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'oame 00, and all pain left; my thigh and legs, and I have never ailed anything to speak of since. I thank God for making Seigel's 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 I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing tbe same to be true, by virtue of provisions of • The Statutory Declaration Act 1835 ' (5 and 6 William IV, c. 62)

11 (Signed ) Thihza Daniels. " Declared before me, at the Guildhall") at Barnstaple, in the County of j Devon, by the said Thirza Daniels, I on Tuesday, the 21st day of October ! /™. T x 1890. j < SBAI/ ' " (Signed) Rd. Ashton. " Deputy Mayor of the Borough of | Barnstaple." >j