A REMARKABLE CASE.

Thames Star, Volume XXII, Issue 6590, 2 June 1890, Page 4

A REMARKABLE CASE.

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

Our readers may recall the circumstance o a young clerk, named Arthur Richold, falling insensible on the Wheatley Lane in this town some time ago, and being picked up, as he continued perfeotly belplesß,' and taken in a cab by two gentlemen to the office of F. W. Fisher, Esq., tho solicitor who employed him. On restoring him to consciousness it was ascertained that he was affliotei with what seemed to be an incurable disease. When he was able to speak he Baid he had been to bis dinner and was on hiß way back to his work, when suddenly his head was in a whirl and he fell in the street like a man who is kuocked down. On coming to bis senses in 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 Bought the best medical advice, telling the doctors how he had been attacked. They questioned 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 coming on of this strange disease, as described by Mr Eichold, must be of interest both to siok and well. He had noticed for several years previously, in fact, that his ejes and face began to have a yellow look j there was a sticky and unpleasant slime on the gums and teeth in the morning; the tongue coated; end the bowels bo bound and costive that it induced that moat painful and troublesome ailment—the piles. He says there waß some pain in the sides and baok and a sense of fulness on the right eide, as though the liver was enlarging, which proved to be the terrible faot. The secretions from the kidneys would be Bcanty and high-coloured, with a kind of gritty or sandy deposit after standing. These things had troubled Mr Eichold a long time, and after his fall in the street he clearly perceived that the fit of giddiness was nothing more than a sign of the steady and deadly advance of the complaint, which began in indigestion and dyspepsia. His story of how he went from one physician to another in Bearch of a cure that his wife and little ones might not come to want is very pathetic and touching. Finally he became too ill lo keep his situation and had to givo it up- Tbis was a sad calamity. He was appalled to think how he should be able to livo. But Odd raised up friends who helped to keep tho wolf from the door. He then went to the eeaside at Walton-on-the»Naze, but neither the change, nor the physicians who treated him there, did any good. All being without avail he visited London, with a sort of vague hope that Borne advantage might happen to him in tho metropolis. This was in October, 1885.

How wonderful, indeed, are the ways of Providence, whioh dashes down our highest hopes and then hdps us when we least cxpeot iti.

While in London he stated his condition to a friend, who strongly advised him to try a raedioine which he called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine and honest, and often cured when everything else had-failed. He bought a bottle of v chemist in Pimlico, and bogun using it according to the directions. He did this without faith <v! hope, and tho public may, therefore, judge of his surprise and pleasure when after taking a few doBBB he felt great relief. He could eat better;' his food distressed him less ; the symptoms we have named abated 5 the dark spots which had floated before hiß eyes like smuts of Boot, gradually disappeared, and his strength increased. Before this time his knees would knock together whenever he tried to walk. So encouraged was he now that he kept on using Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup until it ended in completely curing bun.

In speaMag of his wonderful recovery Mr Richold says it made him think of poor Robinson Crusoe, and his deliverance from captivity on his island in the sea; and added, "But for Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup the grass would now be growing over my graye 1" Our readers can rest assured of the strict truth of all the statements in this most remarkable caße, as Mr Rfchold (now residing afc ifwiss Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze) belongs to one of the oldest and roost respected families in the beautiful village of Long Melford, Sufiblk, and his personal character is attested by so high an authority as the Roy; 0. J. Marlyn, rector, of that parish, besides other excellentnameß. We have deemed the case of eucli importance to the public as to justify us in giving this short account of it in our columns.