"On a cold wet day in December. seven years ago, T went to iny sister's faneral—a sad enough thing in iteelf—and one that proved serious 10 me. I will speak of iv i ely a8 Ten. about in the cold and develop al into a violeat cold.
After a little the col. got better, but left. me with severe rheumatic pains in my hands and legs.
The way these pains came on was p-cntiar and seemed to puzzle the doctors. Fist my hands and 1. gs spots appeared all over the sivoll hogan to swell and got very painful; then
"The spots were red at first, th purple, thea yellow. They came ey afternoon, usually between three and o'clock, and chaused colour in the same order, At such times I could not walk across the room without "Lhe swelling and the spots always wot away during the night, and in the morning I could get about again, Then again, 1 would be weak helpless in the afternoon; that was my for six week-.
The doctor said I was suffering from some kidney trouble, and at last was obliged to go to bed altogether. After being in bed two Weeks the doctor s-ut me to the Dorchest Hospital, where I remained seven weeks—in boil and on a low diet.
"So long as I stayed in hed there wore no swellings and no spots, but the first day I was up they returned, and I had to yo back to In another fortnight I was able to be up a little each day, the swelling being less than before.
"At the end of se weeks I came home and then, in addition to the spots and the elling, I had a sharp shooting pain near the heart—especially when I drew w lon; breath. At times I screamed with the pain, All this period I was taking the doctor's medicine ant growing daily weaker and worse. Leonid not move, anit therefore remained in bed. It was a sid 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.
Madam,' said the doctor, ifT ¢ uld give your daughter two new kidneys she might have a chance, but you know I cannot do that."
"Onthis my friends sent for my father—who was absent—to come and see m2 before Idied. As the doc: or had given up sending Daniel, who had used Mother Seigel's Syrup me medicine my grandfather, Mr. Edmund prevailed with my mother to try that famous in my case.
My mother di and in a day or two I was better, and 'a week I was able to come dowes The swelling and the spots were ely gone, and so were the rheumatic pains, "This was so wonderful and unex-otod that I continued taking the Syrup, aad when four bottles were exhausted I was wholly free from pain: my breathing was easy, regular, and natural; and I felt as well 1 ever I'did in my life. Since then (seven years) I have never had any retura of th illness which threw so much trouble and over my girlhood."—Mrs. Harriette Kate Wills, "Holly Cottage, "Owermoigne, ur. Dorchester, Jaca Bed, 190).
The abov toment is witnessed, and the facts set forth in it confirmed, by Mr. Edmund Daniel, Mrs. Herbert. Trevett, of West Stafford, Mrs. Wellman, of Woodsf-rd, and others.
The disease which so distressed the young lady and #0 strangely mystified her doctors, is known to medical science as purpura hemorrhagica, or—in plain E ylish—parple spots on the skin, varying in size from a pin hheud to a large patch. it consists in a ion of te blood caused usually by torpid iver, and is often attended, us in this in tance, by acate theumatisin.
In the severe form in which Mise Wills had it (it antedated her marriage) ura is sometimes accompanied by bleeding at the h, the nostrils, and into the brain itself.
ie malady has a strong family likeness to senevy.
The fundamental cause is no doubt imperfect nutrition due to inactive digestive organs, und the resulting impurity of the The pewer of Mother Seigel's Syrup to ret this condition has been again shown 'a way to incres tha? were needed p pular confid-nce in it in cases where even expert treatment is unavailing, (1) no, 5& 12d0 2028 fHliscellancous Entelligence.
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