The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-07
A Remarkable Case.


caster Reporter of July s, 1887, pub
fishes the following in It's editorial col
umns:
Our readers may recall the circumstance
of young clerk, named Arthur RichOid,
falling insensible on the Wheatley Lane in
this town some time ago, and being picked
up, as he continued perfectly helpless, and
taken in 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 his dinner
and was on his way back to his work,
when suddenly his head was in a whirl and
he fell in the street like a man who is
knocked down. On coming to his senses
in the solicitors office he thought what
this might mean, and feared he was going
to have a fit of illness, which we all know
is very dreadful thing for poor man
with family to care for.
With this in his mind he at once sought
the best medical advice, telling the doctors
how he had been attacked. They ques-
toned him, and found that his present
malady was exhaustion Of the nervous
system, resulting from general debility,
indigestion and dyspepsia of 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 this 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 sticky and unpleasant slime on the
gums and teeth in the morning; the
tongue coated; and the bowels so bound
and costive that it induced that most pain
full and troublesome ailment-the piles.
He says there was some pain in the sides
and back and a sense of fullness on the
right side, as though the liver were enlarg
ing, which proved to be terrible fact.
The secretions from the kidneys would be
scanty and high-coloredi with a kind of
gritty or sandy deposit after standing.
These things had troubled Mr.. RichOld a
long time, and after his fall in the street
he clearly perceived that his fit of giddi-
ness was nothing more than sign of the
steady and deadly advance of the COM
plant, which began in Indigestion and dys-
pepsia. His story of how he went from
one physician to another in search of a
cure that his wife and little ones might
not come to want is very pathetic and
touching Finally he became too i'll to
keep his situation and had to give it up.
This was a sad calamity. He was appalled,
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But God raised up friends who helped to
keep the wolf from the door. He then
went to the seaside 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 adj
vantage might happen to him in the me-
trOpOlis. This was in October, 1885.
Nv " 0ffoeiifdf, indeed, are the ways of
roVidence, which dashes down our high :
st hopes and then helps US when we least e
xpect it. L
While in London he stated his condition s
} friend. who strongly advised him to
y medicine which he called Mother f
eigel's Curative Syrup, saying it was gen
inc and honest, and often cured when :;
yerthing else had failed. He bought :
Ottle of chemist in PimlicO, and beganI Z
sing it according to the directions. He
id this without any faith or hope, and Q
he public may, therefore, judge of his /
lrprise and pleasure when after taking a
w doses he felt great relief He could eat K
etter, his food distressed him less, the q
1mptOms we have named abated, the
ark spots which had fioated before his
yes like smuts of SCOT gradually disap- +
cared, and his strength increased. Before
lis time his knees would knock together C.
henever he tried to walk. SO encouraged t
as he now that he kept on using Mother d
eigels Curative Syrup until it ended in b
'mpletely curing him.
In speaking of his wonderful recovery =
n. Richold says it made him think of -
DOR Robinson Crusoe, and his deliver
ice from captivity on his island in the
"a; and added, But for Mother Seigel's d
-rative Syrup the grass would now be e
Wi ing over my grave" b
'ur re eaders can rest assured of the strict
tn OF a. II the statements in this most re- C
rkable :ase, as Mr.. Richold (nOw resid- d
at SWISS Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze,) f,
ongs to Cone of the oldest and most re- G
cted families in the beautiful village of
ng Meltord, Suffolk, and his personal :
lracter is atte' sted by so high an au-
,rity as the Rev. c.. ]. MARTIN. We
We deemed the cease of such importance Il
the public as to Justify us in giving this il
)rC account OF IL Fin our columns. y