When a woman travels ten miles merely to ask a few questions we may- assume that her curiosity is excited.
Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, In the year 1883, a story went forth from
which aroused great interest in all the region thereabouts. People came from various direc-alleged to have occurred had to do mostly tions to enquire into the matter; what was
with one man, If the story turned out to be true some good was likely to come of it; if false, it would only put the community more on their guard against all sorts of wild rumours. Among the women who were bound to get at the foundation of it was one from St, Albans and a cook from Langley.
How strangely things work out in this queer world, Seven years have passed and the facts are now to Lecome generally public for the first time. Tt appears that about the first of January, 1883, an old resident of the lace above named was said, and commonly lieved, to be in a dying condition, For five months an able and clever physician had been attending him constantly; no medical man could have done more. His ailment was decided to be gout and rheumatism, which are now held to be practically the same malady differently located.
Well, this began back in July, 1882. As time ran along the patient grew worse. 'The doctor's ability and experience didn't seem to count, 'The sufferer's ankles, fect, and hands Decame badly swollen. We all' know this must have been a scary symptom because that the fluids of his body (and the body is nearly all fluid anyway)—instead of being carried off as they naturally should be, were flowing over their channels and inundating the parts around them, just as a stream does after heavy rains.
The doctor said the danger of this state of things lay in the fact that when the water reached the heart or lungs it might end sudden death. The cause of dropsy is the refusal of the kidneys to carry off the water so much is plain, But what makes the kidneys strike work? We now know the reason of that, It is because they are partially ralysed by a poison in the blood, arising m undigested food in the stomach. In plain English, a chronic state of indigestion and dyspepsia was responsible for results which now threatened our unknown friend's Per str. Kobe Maru, for Nagasaki—life.. It was reported—and of its truth there isn't a doubt—that-his abdomen was blown Madame Saubiacand obiid! For Jinsen—Mr: like a bladder on account of the water which
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