A Captain Saved.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1858, 16 July 1886, Page 3

A Captain Saved.

( Hamilton , Out , Spectatoi) Some little 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 despatched 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 years 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 his life. He noticed that he had less energy than formerely, that his appetite was uncertain and changing, that he was unccountably 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, and 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, ii 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 ancles were begining to swell and that my face, under the eyes appeared puffy- This 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 effect my heart. I consulted one of our*most promi nent physicians and he gave me no hope of ever recovering. He said that I might live several months, but my condition waf such that neither myself nor any of my family had the slighest Mfcpe 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 tc most terrible agonies. My thirst was in tense and a good portion of the time I wa? wholly unconscious. When I did recovei my senses 1 suffered so severely that mj cries could be heard for nearly a mile. Ni 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 so 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 wh( bad suffered very much, as I had, and 1 resolved to persue the same course of treat ment which entirely cured him. I accordingly began and at once felt a change for th< better going on in my vystem. In the coursi of a week the swelling had gone from m' abdomen and diminished all over my bod\ and I felt like another man. I continued tht treatment and am happy to say that I was en tirely cured through the wonderful almos: miraculous power of Warner's Safe Cure which I consider the most valuble. discoven of modern times.” " And you feel apparently^well now ?” ” Yes, indeed. lam in good health, eal heartily, and both the doctors and my friend.are greatly surprised at my remarkable restoration, after I was virtually in the grave M y daughter, who has been terribly troubled with a pain in the back caused by kidney trouble has also been 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 us.”