The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-25
A Remarkable case.

/ OnQer the ABOVE UedulIIS IlS DOII-
( caster Reporter" of July 6, 1887, pub
fishes the following in its editorial col
umns:
/ Our readers may recall the circumstance
| of a Young clerk, named Arthur Richold,
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 T. w Fisher, Esq, the solicitor
! who employed him. On restoring him to
J 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 III whlrl ana
/ 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 1niont 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-
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
IoJ, 10 haH
wears previously, in fact, that his eyes and
face began to have yellow look; there
was a 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 a terrible fact.
The secretions from the kidneys would be
scanty and high-coloredi with kind OF
gritty or sandy deposit after standing.
These things had troubled Mr.. Richold
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
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
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 sad calamity. He was appalled,
tO joly of no 81 ma
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.
How wonderful, indeed, are the ways of
Providence, which dashes down our high
est 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 medicine which he called Mother
Seigel's Curative Syrup, saying it was gen
uine and honest, and often cured when
everything else had failed. He bought a
bottle Of a chemist in PimlicO, and began
using it according to the directions. He
| did this without any 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
| dark spots which had fOated before his
! eyes like SHUTS of SCOT gradually disap-
| peared, 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 Curative Syrup until it ended in
| completely curing him.
In speaking of his wonderful recovery
Mr.. Richold says it made him think of
! poor Robinson Crusoe, and his deliver
ance from captivity on his island in the
sea; and added, But for Mother Seigel's
| Curative Syrup the grass wOul / now be
| growing over my grave"
| Our readers can rest assured - the strict
| truth of all the statements in this most re-
markable case, as Mr.. Richold (now resid-
| ing at Swiss Cottage, Walton-on-the-NaZe, }
| belongs to one of the oldest and most re-
| spected families in the beautiful village of
| Long Melford, Suffolk. and his personal
! character is attested by so high an au-
thority as the Rev. c.. J. Martyr. We
| have deemed the case of such importance
to the public as to justify us in giving this
| short account of it in our columns.