A Captain Saved.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5993, 30 July 1887, Page 7

A Captain Saved.

(Hamilton, Ont., Spectator.) Some litcle commotion was occasioned several months ago regarding the experience of a gentleman well known in this city, and at the time the matter was a subject of general conversation. In order to ascertain all the facts bearing upon the matter, a representative of this paper was dispatched yesterday to interview the gentleman in question, with the following result : —

Captain W. H. Nicholls, for seventeen years in Her Majesty's service, in India, is a man well advanced in yearß, who has evidently seen much of the world. Endowed by nature with a strong constitution, he was enabled to endure hardships under which many men would have succumbed. Through all privation and exposure he preserved his constitution unimpaired. A number of years ago, however, he began to feel a strange undermining of life. He noticed that he had less energy than formerly, that his appetite was uncertain and changing, that he was unaccountably weary at certain times and correspondingly energetic at others, that his head pained him, first in front and then at the base of the brain, and that his heart was unusually irregular in its action. All these troubles he attributed to some passing disorder, snd gave them little attention, but they seemed to increase in violence continually. To the writer he said :—

" I never for a moment thought these things amounted to anything serious, and I gave them little, if any, thought; but I felt myself growing weaker all the while, and could in no way account for it."

"Did you take no steps to check these symptoms ?" "Very little, if any. I thought they were only temporary in their nature and -would soon pass away. But they did not pass away, and kept increasing. Finally, one day, after more than a year had passed, I noticed that my feet and ankles were beginning to swell and that my face under the eyes appeared puffy. Thia indication increased until my body began to fill with water, and finally swelled to enormous proportions. I was afflicted with acute rheumatic pains and was fearful at times that it would affect my heart. I consulted one of our moat prominent physi* cians and he gave me no hope of ever recovering. He said that I might live several months, but my condition was such that neither myself nor any of my family had the slightest hope of my recovery. In this condition a number of months passed by, during which time I had to sit constantly in an easy chair, not being able to lie down, lest I should choke to death. The slight pains I had at first experienced increased to mosfc terrible agonies. My thirst was intense and a good portion of the time I -was wholly unconscious. When I did recover my senses I Buffered so severely that my cries could be heard for nearly a mile. No one can have any idea of the agony I endured. I was unable to eat or even swallow fluids. My strength entirely deserted me and I was bo exhausted that I prayed day and night for death. The doctors could not relieve me and I was left in a condition to die and that, too, of Bright' s disease of the kidneys in its most terrible form. I think I should have died had I not learned of a gentleman who had suffered very much as I had, and I resolved to pursue the same course of treatment which cured him, I accordingly began and at once felt a change for the better going on in my syßtem. In the course of a week the swelling had gone from my abdomen and diminished all over my body and I felt like another man. I continued the treatment and am happy to say that I was entirely cured through the wonderful almost miraculous power of Warner's Safe Cure, which I consider the most valuable discovery of modern times."

" And you feel apparently well now ?" " Yes, indeed. lam in good health, eat heartily, and both the doctors and my friends are greatly surprised at my remarkable restoration, after I was virtually in the grave. My daughter, who haß been terribly troubled with a pain in the back caused by kidney trouble has also b.een cured by means of this same great remedy, and my family and myself have constituted ourselves a kind of missionary society for supplying the poor of our neighbourhood, with the remedy which has been so invaluable to üb." "