POISONED FROM HEAD TO FOOT.

Western Star, Issue 2216, 24 June 1898, Page 7

POISONED FROM HEAD TO FOOT.

We call particular attention to the subjoined statement. No incident of its kind, of equal interest and importance, has occurred of late years. A declaration so startling in its general scope, and so full of corroborative detail, certainly warrants the conclusion that a new epoch in the healing art has dawned upon us. Aside from the force of fchs legal forms which it assumes,the facts as alleged,r j st upon the results of a thorougo and careful investigation. (Copy.) I, George Lack, of 123, Stamford Street, Wsterloo Road, London, do sbletnnly and sincerely declare as follows : “ I was always a strong, healthv man un to April. 1876. ‘At this time, whilst engaged at the Stamford Street Emhioidery Wo'ks, cleaning out a tank which had been used for dyeing purpoes, I slipped and fed in the tank (which was covered with verdigris), cutting both my elbows. The parts became swollen and in a week’s time the flesh was putrid, as if gangrene had set in. My system seemed te be poisoned, and I began to lose str-ngih rapidly, for my appetite left me and I could not boar the sight of food, what little I did eat lav on mv chest like lead. T went to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray’s Inn Road where I was under treatment for five weeks, but f got worse. After this I got an order and went into the Lambeth Infirmary, where I was placed in No. II Ward. At this time tny condition had become serious, for 1 felt so sick and faint that I could only get up for on hour or two each day. Lster largo abscesses formed on m v shoulder, and gradually spread over my face and the upper Dart of my body My face w a s completely covered with the abscesses, which, on healing, left deep marks that I bear to this day. After this 1 hod swelling around the join’s, and large abscesses formed in the calf of my leg, and I bad also running wounds, extending from the .op of zay

ankle to the bottom of my feet. An offensive discharge of matter -ame from the pat ts, and it seemed as if the abscesses were drawing the life out of me. I was now in a hopeless, helpless s' ate, and felt that I did not care how soon ray end came. For days and days I nevsr closed ray eyes, and on one occasion I had hut little sleep for eighteen days and nights together. the doctor’s sleeping draughts having no effect upon me. When I did at length fall asleep I slept from Thursday to Sunday afternoonf From all the doctor’s medicines and applications I only got temporary relief. On one occasion the doctor said that I could not live throughout 'he day. The nurses placed a screen roun I my ted, expecting that I should die dur'ng the day, and my brother was sent, f->r When the doctor called at night he was surprised to find me alive. However 1 took a turn for the better, but for months afterwa-ds I was os it were on the brink of the grave. I had to be lifted in and out of bed and was fed on slops and light food. Sometimes better and sometimes worse I continued n tin’s wretched state for over five yeahs during which time I remained in the hospital. In August, 1881, I became the! of being in the hospital, and was carried to m.f house I was so weak and emaciated that I got a pair of crutches to help me to hobble about the house. My father and friends who saw me weio shocked at my feeble and emaciated • prearance and thought 1 was not long for this world. I lingered on in the same wretched state for two more years, expecting and wishing that I should soon he out of ray misery. In November, 1883, after suffering over seven years, mv father bought me a bottle of medicine called Mother SeigeTs Curative Syrup, and persuaded me to try it saying that it had been of great benefit to him. After I had taken half the contents of a bottle, I felt brighter ard in better spirits than I had been in for years. My appetite improved, and by continuing with the medicine my legs began to heal, and I got stronger and stronger. In le ; 8 than three months I was able to nut aside my crutches and walk with the aid of a stick. After I had taken Mother Seigol’s Curative Synip six months I was ba-’k at my work, as strong as ever I was in my lifa, and have s'aco kept in the best of health. I wish the particulars of my case known' to other sufferers, and the Proprietors have my consent to make what use they like of this statement. And I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true. By virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act, 1835 (Will. IV. c. 62). (Signed) “George Lack.

Declared at No 16, Godliman Street, Doctor’s Commons in the City of London, this 13tb day of A pril 1893, before me ('■'igned) George H Brooks a Commis’oner for Oaths Hers we have a case of profound and persuasive blood poisoning. Verdigris (chemicaily the bibasio acetate of copper) is, when introduced into the circulation a slow poison for which no positive antidote is known. There is no doubt that the physicians of the hospital did all that could be done with the knowledge and resources‘at their command. Unhappilly their treatment at best was only mildly palliative ; the poison continued its deadly work, until it saturated the poor fellow’s entire system and perverted all its functions. What but an ultimately fatal rasult could have beeh reasonably expected ? Mr Lack’s final and perfect recovery, through the use of Seigel’s Syrup, illustrates beyond the need of comment the unprecedented power of that well-known remedy to renew the digestion, stimulate the secretory organs, and thus to purify the blood. In common with all who shall read the details of this case we most keenly regret that Seigel’s »yrup was not taken immediately after the results of the accident first appeared.