WID CAN ONLY SAY THAT HIS IiNITIAL3*ARG';J. D."

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9046, 2 April 1891, Page 4

WID CAN ONLY SAY THAT HIS IiNITIAL3*ARG' ; J. D."

When a womun travels ten miles merely to tifck 11 few (jueslioDS we may assume that her curiosity is cscitod. In the year 1883, a story wont forth from Laversto'ck Oreen, ileinei fJompstea' 1 .. Hfrts, which aroused great interest in -uil the n>i>ion thereabout. People cauif fro '» various directions to enquire into the matter ; what was alleged to have occurred I'ii'J to do mostly with one man. If the strry tsirced out to be truo 80 me good was likely to come of it ; if: fii'se, it would ouiy put the community more on their guard u.aicsi all sorts of wild rumonra. Among the women who were bound to get at the foundation of it was O3a from St. Albaas uud a cook from Lin i ley. How strangely thia^a work out in thjs que«r world. Sevea jears have passed and luo facts are now to become Kenerally public for the first timo. It appears that about the first of January, 1883, an old resident of tbe place above nauced was said, and commonly believed, to be in a dj iox coadiii?n. For five .months and clever phj-sician h-.id teen attending him confitanth", no radical man could have done more. H:s uiini'.Tjt waa decided to be gout and rheuiuaiisrn, which are now huld to be pract : c.ii!y the same malady differently lJCiited. / Well, this bejiiin b-ick in July, 1882. As ticLe ran alonj; the palient grew worse. Ths doctor's r.hiiiiy aud experience didn't saero to court The guift-rer's ankles, feet, an'! bands, btua::;o badly swollen. We all knO'V tb'w most have been a scar* symptom because ihat the fluids ot his" body (»iiil the bo.iy is nearly all fluid auywaj) — icstta I of being carried off as they naturally ehou!<! be, were flowing over their channels and inunJuting tbe parts around them, just as a stream do9B nfttr heavy raii.B. Tne doctsr said, tbe danger of this state of things lay in tl.e fuut, thnt when tbe water reached the heart or lungs it might end ia sudden death. Ths ouuee of dropsy is the refusil of the kidnejs to carry oft lln water; co much 13 plain. But what makes ths-kiciarjys strike work ? We now kn>w the reason oi that. Jt ia Wccnse tht-y ure pr.rlibily panti^sed by a poison in in* blood, ariainu: from uniij;t sittJ f corl in ibe slooiiioh. In plain Engiieb, a chroiiic state oi indirection and diflp'.pss-.t was responsible tor results which n iiv thr< iileiitd our unkaawu friena'd life. It was icported — ami of its truth Ur re isn't n doubt- -Unit h's abdomen v.as blown H-to ti bladder oa account oi: i lie water winuii eoukud i-.il through his fl -ftt>. In conversation a few wteKs a^o, be eaid *' Ail my friends now looked on mo as a dying man." And reasonably enough too ; for what cbunca is lh>jre for a ruin who is £iadually drowDin^ in this way ? — For tbat is what it A at— drowning and nothing, else in tbe world. Medicine appeared" to be of no use j and the physician suggested that possibly tho poor man might be benetilted if he could go away from home and try the bathsj mineral waters, and change of scene and air. — But nobody believed in that plan, and in honest truth, it is hardly likely that the wise physician believed in it biotSclf. At ail events th-; idea wasn't put into practice. About this time the patient's wife happened to be in the shop of a chemist at fiemnl Hempstead,' and he gave her a little book, a sort of small pamphlet, and said she might like- to read it. She did read it, and found iv it a full description of the very complaint that was fast sending bet husband to the grave, and' also tbe name of what was asserted to be a remedy -for it After uocue trouble she got him to consent to try it, and sent for a bottle. .Hb begun, and kept •it np for lour moatbe, taking twenty -bi'x bottles altogether. At the end of tbat time he was a well, Buund man, and is so to-day. The whole neighbourhood was amazed — His recovery, when he had been looked upon as no bttter tban a dead man, set tongues wagging all around the country. H« to.v su)B : <: I'Snould not hayV been bere now, if it had not been for Alotner Seigel's Curative Sjrup." Our friend requests us not to publish his fall name.'- bat says we way prmt his initials, which are '* J. D." Address : Levtrelock Green, ll.emel Hetnpstead Herts. He will answer letters.