The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-12-10 00:00:00

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k-) Doncaster Reporter of .
Jiiy
6th, 1887, publishes the following
in its editorial Columns :

"Our readers may recall the cir-
cumstances of a young clerk, named
Arthur Richold, failing insensible
in Wheatley Lane in this town some
time ago, and being picked up, as he
continued perfectly helpless, and
taken in a cab by two gentlemen
to the office of F. W. Fisher, Esq.,
the solicitor who employed him.

On restoring him to consciousness
it was ascertained that he was
afflicted with what seemed to be an
incurable disease. When he was
able to speak he said he had been
to lis dinner and was on his way
back' to his work when suddenly his
head'Avas in a whirl, and he fell in
the street like a Man AXIIO is knocked
down.' On coming to his senses in
the 'solicitor's office he thought
what this might mean, and feared
he was going to have a fit of illness,
which we all know is a very dread-
ful thing for a poor man with a
family to care for.
"With this in his mind, he at once
sought the best medical advice, tell-
ing the doctors how he had been
attacked. They questioned hiin,
and fou_nd that his present malady
was exhaustion of the nervous
system, resulting from general de-
bility, indigestion, and dyspepsia
of a chronic nature. This in turn
had been caused by confinement
to his desk, and grief at the loss
of dear friends by death. The
coming on of his strange disease,
as described by Mr. Richold, must
be of interest both to sick and
well. He had noticed for several
years previously, in fact, that his
eyes and face began to have a yellow
look, there was a sticky and un-
pleasant slime on the gums and teeth
in the morning, the tongue coated,
and the bowels so bound. and cos-
tive that it induced that most
painful ailment—hemorrhoids. Tie
says there was some pain.
.in the
sides and back, and a sense of
fulness on the right side as though
the liver were enlarging, which
proved to be the terrible 'fact.
"These things had tioubled Mr.
Richold a long time, and after his
fall in the street he clearly perceived
that his fit of giddiness was nothing
more than the sign of the steady
and deadly advance of the com-
plaint which began in indigestion
and dyspepsia. Clis story of how he
went from cite physician to another
in searer cure, that his wife
and little ~,4,4*1 might not come to
I wall-5, ifi very pathetic and touching.
THE BRIERL. ICA.L BU.A.ttll- AND

_Finally be became too ill to keep his
situation, and had to give it up.
This iiraA a sad calamity. He was
appalled to think how he should be
able to live. But God raised up
friends who helped to keep the wolf
from the door. lie then went to
the sea-side at Walton-on-the-Naze,
but neither the change nor the
physicians who treated him there
did any good. All being Without
avail, he visited London, with a
sort of vague hope that some ad-
vantage might happen to him in the
metropolis. This was in October,
1885.

"How wonderful indeed are the
ways of Providence; which dashes
down our highest hopes, and then
helps us when we least expect it?

"While in London he stated his
condition to a friend, who strongly
advised him to try the medicine
which he called Mother Seigel's
Curative Syrup, saying it was genu-
ine and honest, and often cured
when everything else had failed.
He bought a bottle of a chemist in
Pimlico, and began taking it accord-
ing to the directions. He did this
without faith or hope, and the public
.may therefore judge of his surprise
and pleasure when, after taking a
few doses, he felt great relief.* He
could eat better, his food distressed
him less, the symptoms we have
named abated, the (lark spots which
had floated before his eyes like
smuts of soot gradually disappear,A,
.;and his strength increased. Before
this time his knees would knock
together whenever he tried to walk.
So encouraged was he nOw that he
kept on using Mother Seigel's Cura-
tive Sy-rup until it ended in com-
pletely curing him.
"In speaking of his wonderful
recovery, Mr. Richold says it made
him think of poor Robinson Crusoe
and his deliverance from captivity :41
on his island in the sea; and added,
'But for Mother Seigel's Curative
Syrup, the grass would now be
growing over mj;.- grave.'
"Our readers dan rest pzsured of
the' ,strict truth of all the statements
in this most remarkable case, as Mr.
Richold (now residing a Swiss Cot-
tage, Walton-on-the-Sa' ze) belongs
to one of th:,e oldest and most re-
spected families in the beautiful
village, of Long Melfora, Suffolk,
and his personal character.is attested
by so high an authority as the Rev.
C. J. Martyn, rector of that parish,
besides other excellent names. We
have deemed the case of such im-
poitailee to the public as to justify
us giving this short account of it iu
our columns."