The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-01-05 00:00:00

1 PAWNIITG A. PAIR OF TitOtSERS FOR MEDICI:CR.—Tames
Francis Thomas lives at Pontnewynydcl. near Pc,ntypool,
'Monmouthshire. He is now twenty-three years of age,
' being wir,b his mother, a widow. Some ,ilevela years ago
then a more boy, he went to work in a ce,l pit as a miner.
in o der to assist his reot‘ter in rearing her samily of litths
' children. Soon,however, the little fellow broke down iti
health; but the necessities of the family seemed to require,
4t. and he confine, d to tel in the mines, stiff-lbw, al the
time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom
being asthma, in such a troublesome form that Use boy was
unable to lie le lied. tt.orkine through the day, and rest-
ing as bes 1 e could in an arm chair durin4 the ni eat
naturally undermined his constitrl on. Year by year by
; his health grew worse , ivi woi se, until at bat rheumatism
i came with all its Cireadt,,l iipony. One joint after another
became swollen and intistmed, so that he was obliged to 8t01)
work. In this sad plight the now yonng, man was nfiaecti
to the house for two long years, suffering all that Mirta
could endure. One uhysican after another was called upon
to treat his complaint, but with no cenefit, for the poor,
fellow continued to grew woree and worse. Hoping to find
some means of relief, a consultation of doctors was held
'nen ir, was decided that all organic disease of the heart.
existed in an incurable form, and that medical aid c3tild
not afford relief. He was given up to die. These years of
-expensive medical treatment had exhausted the little
savings of the mother, and they had no money to buy ever
the neceo sea ies of life. But a fond mother never gives un
In desplir. There was one spark of hope left. Someone
had tole her of a remedy that luta cured so many cases—
even when as hopeless as this one seemed to be—and the
mother's lore went out for her dear boy. But how to get
the medicine w,s the question. Their money was entirely
gone. The boy bad a new pair of troumers that he had been '
to ill to wear, and the mother reasoned within herself, "If
the boy is to die he will not need them, so a may as well
pledge them for medi, hie with an effort to save his life." ,
Strange as it may appear, the bottles of medicine procured '
at the chemist's shop in Pontypool with the money obtained ,
at the pawnbroker's effected a cure in this hopeless case,
which hail been pronounced as incurable, tint it is only to
say that if the chemist had known or the wants of the family '
the medicine could have been obtained without a visit to
thc pawnbroker. It is now nearly twe years since this
took place, and young James Francis Thomas has been i
working in the coal-pit underground ever since, earning
extra pay fr over-work, which he is able o perform, Of
course he never had organic diocese of the heart, as was
supposed. The palpitation, rhuematlsm, and asthma were
mere symptoms of the real disease, which was dyspep-na,
or indigestion, for which the remedy was especially adapted
Those who wish to communicate with this young man can
write to him at the above address, tied he will vouch for tie
curative properties of 'teigel's hyrup, the article that
effected this at .oat miraculous cure. The follawing let er
is from a chemist, who thought the facts snould be made
known t—" James Francis Thomas, of Pontnewynydd, near
Pontypool, age twenty-three, collier, was ill for nine years,
unable to de any work for three years, never lay down in
bed for nine years, had to sleep in a stooping posture, was
treated by nearly all the doctors for miles around, who
generally stated his complaint to be rheumatism and hear-
disease of a chronic nature, and beyond all power to curet
When hope had nearly died out he was persuaded to try.
Seigel's Syrup; and, to the delieht of his relatives and
astonishment of his neighbours, after taking half a bottle he
could lie down in bed. After taking one bottle he went to
work. Has now taken two bottles, and on with the third, and is
I quite we:l and strong. His mother is in raptures, and can
talk of unthing else but this marvellous cure, and wishes
me to make it known."