The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-13
A Remarkable Case.

caster Reporter" of July 6, 1887, pub
fishes the following in its editorial col
umns:
Our readers may recall the circumstanc
of young clerk, named Arthur RichOid
falling insensible on the Wheatley Lane il
this town some time ago, and being pickeC
up, as he continued perfectly helpless, anC
taken in cab by two gentlemen to the
Office of F. w. Fisher Esq, the solicitor
who employed him. On restoring him t.
consciousness it was ascertained thai
he was afflicted with what seemed to be an
| incurable disease. When he was able tC
| speak he said he had been to his dinner
and was on his way back to his work
| when suddenly his head was in whirl and
| he fell in the street like 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 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-
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 we'll. He had noticed for several
years previously, in fact, that his eyes and
face began to have 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 aiIment-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 enIarg-
ing, which proved to be a 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 a sign of the
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 ill to
keep his situation and had to give it up
This was a sad calamity. He was appalled,
to think OF how he should be able to live
But God raised up friends who helped to
keep the wolf from the door He then
went to the seaside at Walton on-the- Maze
out neither the change, nor the physicians
who treated him there did any good All
oelng without avail he visited London,
With sort of vague hope that some adj
7antage might happen to him in the me-
rOpolis. This was in October, 1885.
How wonderful indeed, are the ways of
Providence, which dashes down our high
st hopes and then helps us when we least
Expect it.
While in London he stated his condition
o friend, who strongly advised him to
ry medicine which he called Mother
eigel's Curative Syrup, saying it was gem
Inc and honest, and often cured when
q
ottle of chemist in Pimlico and began
sing it according to the directions He
id this without any faith or hope, and {
be public may, therefore, Judge of his
urprlSe and pleasure when after taking a
wv doses he felt great relief He could eat I
etter, his food distressed him less, the
ymptoms we have named abated, the
ark spots which had f1Oated before his
yes like SHUTS of SCOT gradually disap- /
cared, and his strength increased. Before
lis time his knees would knock together t
henever he tried to walk. So encouraged t
as he now that he kept on using Mother d
7lgePs Curative Syrup until it ended in b
implicitly curing him.
In speaking of his wonderful recovery ;.
r. RlchOld says it made him think of q,
'or Robinson CrusOe, and his deliver =
ice from captivity on his island in the
a; and added, But for Mother Seigel,s a.
lrative Syrup the grass would now be Il
owing over my grave" h
Our readers can rest assured of the strict
nth OF all the statements i'll this most re- c.
arkable case, as Mr.. Richold (now resid- Il
g at Swiss Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze,l f.
longs to one of the oldest and most re- q
ected families in the beautiful village of
ng Melford, Suffolk, and his personal .
aracter is attested by so high an au- IN
ority as the Rev. G. J. Martyr. We
We deemed the case of such Importance Ill
the public as to justify us in giving this in
0rt account of it in our columns. pe