The Archive · 1888

A Remarkable Case

Under the above heading the Doncaster Reporter of July 6th, 1887, publishes the following in its editorial colums:—Our readers may recall the circumstance of a young clerk, named Arthur Richold, falling insensible on the Wheatley Lane in this town some time ago, and being Picked up, ashe continued perfectly help-jess, and taken in a cab by two gentlemen to, the ofice fF. Fisher Esq., the solicitor who em] a Fim to. comaoumases it wat secertand that he was afflicted with. what seemed to bean incurable disease. When he was able to speak he said he had been to his dinner and was on his way back to his work, when suddenly his head was in a whit] and he fell in the street like a man who is knocked All being without avail he visited tome advantage might happen to him in thy with a a of vague hope. that:

How wonderful, yndced, are the aye Providence, which dashes down our highest low, indeed, are the ways of

expect i hopes, and then lies us when we ile in London he stated his condition down. On coming to his senses in solicitor's office he thought what this might the to friend, who strongly advised him to try mean, and feared he waa going to have a fit enticing which be celled Msher Sloss Curative Syrup, saying it was genuine and of illness, which we all know. is a very honest, and often cured.when everything dreadful thing for a poor man witha family else had failed. He bought a bottle of a to care for. chemist in and. b ing it With this in his mind he at once sought according to the directions. He did this the best medical advice, telling the doctors without fait how he had been attacked. They questioned him, and found that his present malady was exhaustion of the nervous system resulting relief. He could eat better; his from general debility, indigestion, and dystreated him less; the symptoms we have Fad been caused by confinement to his desk asia of a chronic nature. This in turn fosted before his eyes like smuts of soot, named abated; the dark spots which -had and grief atthe los of dear frien ds by death.

'The coming on of this strange disease, as Ercressed. "Bolero this time this Keeoe Aisappeared, and his strength described by Mr. Richold, niust be of inter-would knock together whenever he tried to est both to sick and well.' He had noticed walk. So encouraged was he now that he for several years previously, in fact, that his ayes and face' began. to have s-yellow. kept on using Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup until it ended in completely curing him, Took; there was a sticky and unpleasant In_ speaking of his wonderful recovery slime on the gums and teeth in the morn-'Mr. Richold says it made him think of ing; the tongue coated; and the bowels Robinson Crusoe, and his deliverance from so bound and costive that it induced that most painful and troublesome ailment—the captivity on hisisiand in the gen and added, "But for Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup sides and back and a sense of fulness on the piles. "He says there was some pain in the the grass would now be growing over my right side, as though the liver were enlarge Our readers can rest assured of the strict ing, which proved to be the terrible fact. truth of all the statements in this: moat The secretions from the kidneys would be remarkable case, as Mr. Richold (now scanty and high-coloured, with a kind of residing at Swiss Cottage, Walton-on-the-gritty or sandy deposit after standing.

Naze) belongs to one of the oldest and most These things had troubled Mr. Richold respected families in the beautiful village a long time, and after his fall in the street of Long Melford, Suffolk, and his personal he clearly perceived that the fit of giddiness character is attested by so high an authority was nothing more than a sign of the stead; as the Rev. C. J. Martin, rector of that and deadly advance of the complaint, whic! ish, besides other excellent names. We began in indigestion and dyspepsia. His we deemed the case of stich importance story of how he went from one physician to the public as to justify us in giving this to another in search of a cure that his wife short account of it in our columns. and little ones might not come to want is (8) alt. o-wf tf 37 very pathetic and touching. Finally he became too ill to keep his situation and had

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