On a cold wet day in December, seven years ago, I went to my sister's funeral—a sud enough thing in itself—and one that proved serious to me. I will speak of it simply and briefly as Tean. standing about in the cold and wet I took a chill which developed into a Toroagh violent cold. After a little the coll got better, but left me with severe rheumatic pains in my hands and legs. The way these Pains came on was peculiar and seemed to puzzle the doctors. First my hands aad legs began to swell and got very painful; then spots appeared all over the swollen parts.
"The spots were red at first, then turned purple, then yellow. They came every afternoon, usually between three and four o'clock, and changed colour in the sama At such times I could. not walk across the room without sticks, 'The swelling jand the spots always went away during the night, and in the moroiag Teould get about Jagain' Then again, I would be weak and j helpless in the afternoon; that was my state for six weeks.
"The doctor said I was suffering feom some kidney trouble, and at last I was obliged to go to bed altogether. After being in bed two Weeks the doctor sent me to the Dorchester Hospital, where I remained seven weeks—ia j bed and on a low diet.
"So long as I stayed in bed there were no swellings and no spots, but. the first day I was up they returned, and I had to go back \to bed. In another fortnight I was able to up a little each day, the swelling being less than before.
At the end of seven weeks I came home and then, in addition to che spots and the swelling, I had a sharp shooting pain near the heart—especially when I deew a long breath, At times I screamed with the pain, "All this period I was taking the doctor's medicine an? growing daily weaker and woree, Leonid not move, an therefore remained in bed. It was a sad and hopeless condition for a young girl like me. Should 1 ever get out into the world again! None could say.
"One day my mother asked the doctor if there was any chance of recovery, Madan' said the doctor, if evuld give I havecs chance, but you know I cunuot do your daughter two new kidneys she might
that.'
"On this my friends sent for my father—who was abseut—to come and see me before Idid. As the doctor had given up sending me medicine my grandfather, Mr. Edmund Daniel, who had used Mother' Seigel's Syrup, prevailed with my mother to try that famous Temedy in my ease.
"My mother did so and ina day or two I was better, and iv a week I was able to come downstairs, The swelling and the pots were entirely gone, and ao wore the "This was so wonderful and unex-otod that I continued taking the Syrup, and when I four bottles wore exhausted I was wholly feee from pain: my breathing was easy, regular, and natural; and [felt as well as ever I'did in my life. Since then (seven years) I have never had any return of tke illness which threw so much troubly and fear lover my girlhood."—Mrs. Harriette Kate Wille, Holly Cottage, Owermoigne, ar, Dorchester, -Tanuary 3rd, 1900, The above statement is witnessed, and the facts set forth in it confirmed, by Me. Edmund Daniel, Mrs. Herbert Trevett, of West Stafford, Mrs. Wellman, of Woodsford, and others.
The disease which so distressed the young I liely and so strangely mystified her doctors, \is known to medical science as purpura Juemorrhayica, or—in plain Kaglish—purple spots on the skin, varying in size from a pin head to a large patch. it consists in a condition of tve blood caused usually by torpid liver, and is often attended, as in this in-tance, by acute rheumatism, In the severe form in which Miss Wills had it (it antedated her marriage) purpura is ometinies accompanied by bleeding at the mouth, the nostrils, and into the brain itself. The malady has a strong family likeness to la mental cause is no doubt imperfect due to inactive digestive organs, and the resulting impurity of the blood.
The power of Mother Seigel's Syrup to correct this condition has been again shown ina way to increase—if that were needed—expert treatment is waavailing, Pspular confidence in it in cases where even (1) Bno, 5& de 273
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