A Remarkable Case.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 521, 15 December 1888, Page 20

A Remarkable Case.

.-.Urider the* above heading the lJoneaster •"'/ ' . Reporter of July 6th, 18S7 publishes" the ( . -'following in its editorial columns— . Our readers may recall the circumstance of a young clerk, named Arthur Richolcl, falling in.?.'/sensible ou.thc Whcatley Lane in this town '\ : some time ago, and being picked np, as he con-'.\-'tinned, perfectly helpless, and taken in a cab by >' two gentlemen' to the office of 3?., W. .Fisher., 'Esq., the solicitor .who, employed, him. \On •restoring hinv to consciousness it was ascertained that lie was afflicted with what .seemed :■ ■' to be aii incurable disease.. When he was able 1 to speak' he said he had been to his dinner and '.' - was on his- way biiclc.tbhis work, when sud- : .; denly hi;* head was in a whirl and he fell in the "• . street like a man. ,who is knocked down; On ", coming to liis 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 : witlva family to care for. With this'in his mind he at once sought the . best medical advice, telling the doctors how ho . ' 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 comiug on of this strange disease, as described by Mr Richold, .' must be of interest both to sick and well. lie had noticed for several years previously, in fact, that his eyes and fade began to have a * yellow look ; there was a sticky and nnpleasant .; slime on the gums and teeth in the morning ; the tongue coated; and the. bowels so bound . ' and costive that it induced that most paiuful ■and troublesome ailment — the piles. He says there was some pain in the sides and back and a .; seuse'of fulness on the right side, as though the /.liver were enlarging, which proved to be the . terrible fact. The secretions from the kidneys ! , would be scanty and high-coloured, Mith a kind I , of gritty or sandy deposit after standing. , These things had troubled Mr. Eichold a long time, and after .lris fall in the street he clearly perceived that the fit of giddiness was nothing ;,- •. more than a sign of the steady and deadly .-'-' advance oT the complaint which began in in- ..', digestion and dyspepsia. His story of how he . went from one physician to another in search of - si cure that Ills wife and little ones might not ■■■■'■•come to want is very pathetic and 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 lie should be able ;.->;< to live. But God raised up friends who helped ";].;■ to keep the wolf from the door. • He then wenfc :';;to the seaside at Walton-on-the-Naze. but ; ',; : , n.either the change nor the physicians who ',0. -.treated him there did any good. All being '•>.; without avail he visited London, with a sort of S\ vague hope that some advantage might happen V to him in the metropolis. This was in October r-;>.1885. &:. 'How, wonderful, indeed, are the ways of ft- . Providence, .which clashes clown our highest ■,■! \.hppes and then helps us when we least expect s?-*' it; • ■ ■ f fj ".", While in London he stated his condition to a friend: who strongly advised him to try a My inediciuc which he called Mother SaiqeVs ■'^f Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine "and \ '■}•' lionest, and often cured when everything else |' v .-.lir.d failelV He" bought a bottle of a chemist in £1 : : Plimlico, and began using it accordii^g to the 'He did this without faith or hope. and. the public may, therefore, judge of his , .surprise and 1 pleasure when after taking a few |f; t >. doses he fe'lfc grearrelief. He'could eat better ; f^liis food distressed him less ; the symptoms we |v;:have named abated ; the dark spots which jg".phad' floated before his eyes like smuts of |v .soot gradually disappeared, and his strength pf increased. Before this time his knees Avould fj'l, knock together whenever he tried to walk. So py .'encouraged was he, now that he kept using $^;,Molhcr Seigel's Curative Sgnip until it ended l^in completely curing him. |p':., l" speaking of his wonderful recovery Mr. H?;. Jlichold says it made him think of poor Eobinsou |||-;.Crusoe,.and his deliverance from captivity on iC% ilis island in the sea ; and added, ' But for, Mother pifSeigePs Curative Syrup the grass would now over my grave.' :<Jxn% I'c-aders can rest assured of the strict ggiyt.ruth of all the statements in this remarkable Please, ,as' Mr. Ej^chokl (now residing at Swiss gpDotfcage, ' Walfon-on-the-Naze) belongs to one of jSp&'c oldest and "most resnected families hi the village of Long'Melford, Suffolk, and pPfs personal character is attested by so high an gpiuthonty as the Rev. C. J. Martyn, rector of »;tlie" parish, besides other excellent names. We lipiaiFe deemed the case of such importance to the Mputd-c as to justify us in giving this short llpiccounfc of ifc -in ouv columns.