Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-22
RECOVERED!
A Remarkable Story of Government
Official.
A CASE OF SUFFERING WITHOUT
PARALLEL.
Official Endorsement by the United
States Commissioner.



of sixteen, resident in Western New York,
was attacked with what was declared
by the physicians a pronounced case Of
hereditary scrofula. 1t appeared in the
form of a glandular swelling upon the
left side of the neck, which, despite all
of the usual old time remedies, continued
to grow, becoming at, say eighteen,
a seeming fixture of about the size
of a hens egg. The swelling was
frequently very sore and painful, the more
so that it was much of the time raw from
the daily application of iodine. The gen.
eral health became very much broken,
and the prospects in life, for one just verg-
ing upon manhood, were gloomy enough.
A prominent physician in Cleveland,
Ohio, advised a change of climate, with
life of hardship and exposure, as present
ing, in connection with youth, possible
chance of recovery. A removal to the
South and West, and an active, outdoor
life for some years, attested the soundness
of his Judgment. The scrOtulOus swellings
gradually disappeared; the system as grad
uaHy toned itself up; the broken and
dispirited boy became strong
and hearty man of 1S3 pounds. There
was a respite for fifteen years. During
all of this time there was no sign of re-
turn of the dread disease. AS the future
but too sadly proved, however, it was none
the less surely, if slowly, working. In
the spring of 1870, now thirteen years
since, it again put in an appearance, and
in an intensely aggravated form. First, a
single ulcer appeared upon the left breast.
This was but the precursor of more
than ten long years of as miserable
and wretched an existence, with GER
tainly as much of physical suffering as
often falls to the lot of man. The one
ulcer was followed by another, until the
whole surface of the breast was but one
mass of corruption. Some of these ul-
GERS were not less than one and half
inches in diameter, the edges rough,
ragged, and seemingly dead, the cavity
open to the bone. and filled with yellow
ish, waxy, and exceedingly offensive mat
ter. Everything known to the medical
fraternity was tried in vain. The disease
became but the more aud more virulent.
Gradually the bone itself became dis
eased, and then the sutferings began in
earnest. Bone ulcers here and there be-
gan to take the place of those hitherto ON
the surface.
The difference manifest in these was
that the eruptions were of watery ma
ture, were cOpious, and were attended
with almost constant and severe pain.
About the only relief experienced was
found in burning the whole surface of the
breast, night and morning, literally to a
blister, with a strong solution of carbOlic
acid. This served as disinfectant, re-
moving the otherwise intolerable smell,
lOOsened up the matter, and allayed for
the time the intolerable itching. As If all
this was not enough, the ulcers broke out
upon the shoulder blades and extended to
the small of the back, and then, indeed,
the cup of misery was complete.
/ became reduced to a mere wreck; for
months at a time could not get my hands
to my own head because or extreme sore
ness; could not turn over in bed without
first rising to sitting posture; knew not
from the one years end to another what it
was to be an hour even free from pain,
save, as before stated, in the temporary
relief afforded by the burning of the
ulcers with carbolic acid; had reason to
look upon life itself as a curse.
In the summer of 1890, after better than
ten long years of this wretched existence,
| was induced by lady friend to try
box of CUTICURA. / did so, much as /
tried everything else that offered, without
any faith. | was agreeably surprised to
find, at once, that it acted with a wonder
full, soothing effect, in allaying the ter
rible burning and itching of the ulcers.
l was!induced, lailittle later, to try bottle
of CUTICURA RESOLVENT. While L saw
no immediate effect upon the particular
disease, | was encouraged to continue its
use by an unexpected and t1attering re-
suit in quite another direction. l had
been troubled with the Dyspepsia.
| found here at once an agreeable
sense of relief. / continued to
use the CUTICURA REMEDIES. After
some months l began to see a change, and
for the better. The old ulcers began to
discharge far more freely, and relief was
experienced in proportion. The general
tone of the system began to improve;
there was masked increase in the appe
tite, and most decided improvement in
the digestion. kept on with the RENE
dies, and kept or improving. First the
one old ulcer, which had run for more
than ten years, gradually healed. Then
another and still another. There were
new and frequent eruptions. Truly
enough. they were rather encouraging
than otherwise, in that, unlike the old,
they discharged themselves freely and
healed again in comparatively short
time.
Finally. after something better than two
years perslstant use of the CUTICURA
REMEDIES, the last ulcer was healed.
The work of renovation has been slow,
but seemingly sure. The dread disease
has succumbed. All over the breast,
shoulders and back, where for so many
long, long years all was but mass OF cor
ruption, there is now a healthy skin.
The broken-down system has gradually
recuperated, has increased in weight
from 1913 to 1856 pounds; the good work is
still going on; the general health is be-
coming remarkably good; the man of As
years of age, after more than II years of
suffering, feels Himself new man, and
all through the CUTICURA REMEDIES.
make this affidavit uncalled for, and
wholly through a sense of duty to suffer-
ing humanity, that others, perhaps, in
fluenced thereby, may themselves be
healed. / am not altogether unknown,
and there are those in prominent posi-
lions here personally knowing TO much as
here stated. Any interested parties are
at liberty to refer to any of the leading
Federal officials in New Orleans, and
through them, again, if need be, to
JAMES E. RICHARDSON,
Office Special Agent Treasury Depart
ment, New Orleans Custom House.
Personally appeared before me the under
signed authority, James ID. Richardson,
to me well personally known, who de-
poses and says that the matter as con-
tanned in the foregoing affidavit, is true IN
each and every statement contained
therein, In testimony whereof / hereby
set my hand and seal of office, this 9Th
day of April, 1888.
j. ID. CRAWFORD,
Commissioner United States Circuit
sat &c