The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-11-01
sxAroznD FROM THE GRAVE!
The Wonderful Cure Of Matte jones
by DR.. Hartman.

Matte Jones, then of Columbus, o., now
Mrs. Wilcox, of Coolvile, o., in the pres
ence of a journal reporter. 1t is hard to
imagine human being enduring so long
such bodily tortures, and being brought so
near to the verge of the grave. and yet not
only living through it all, but being finally
restored to perfect health. Certainly ply
stefan who can cure person so frightfully
diseased and so near deaths door as Matte
Jones was Is man OF rare powers as
healer of human ills. And the physician
who accomplished this is none other than
DIR. Hartman, renowned throughout the
country, not only for his remarkable success
as a general physician, but especially for
his phenomenal skill as an orthopedic sur
geon. And now as to the facts of this al
most miraculous cure.
1t was i'm the fall of 1884 that Miss Jones
was taken i'll. Previous to that time she
had enjoyed perfect health, weighing one
hundred and forty pounds and being in
every way well woman. One day little
sore made its appearance on her left leg.
1t had the pink color of bruise, and such
she thought it to be. Therefore she paid
no attention to it, supposing that it would
soon pass away. 1t did not do so, however,
but steadily grew larger, assuming a dark
purple hue. Finally it turned into most
painful running sore. which ate its way
through the flesh clear down to the bone,
leaving space around it the width of a
mans hand, from which the flesh was en-
tirely eaten away. She then suffered the
intensest pain, but could get no relief.
Three prominent physicisns and surgeons
were called in. They all united in calling
it an ill-conditioned ulcer, and proceeded to
treat it as such. First they pOulticed it
with slippery elm. Instead of getting bet
ter, it only got worse and grew larger.
Then they put the suffering patient under
the influence of ether, and scraped the bone.
Neither did this do any good. On the con-
trary, the sore got steadily worse, while the
sufferings of the patient can better be i'm
were not enough, one affiiction followed
another. After the doctors had scraped the
bone her leg began slowly to draw up into
the shape of square, and as no attention
was paid to the crooked limb it finally be-
came so deformed as to form right angle
a. the knee Inasmuch as they could not
heal the sore, the doctors decided that it
WIS useless to attempt to straighten the leg.
II Al, LODI
end here. The following spring her throat
also became very much inflamed and sore.
Ulcers appeared and did not stop until they
had eaten their way through to the outside
of her cheeks. Inside her throat became so
swollen and liberated that she was unable
to swallow food of any kind. Her nose also
became very sore. Her throat was steamed,
but all to no purpose. To crown all, her
lungs became seriously affected and after a
time her entire system. BY the time sum-
mer had arrived she was suffering with
bad cough, had chills and night sweats, and
was afflicted with shortness of BREATH while |
the slightest exertion would start her heart
beating with alarming rapidity. Miss Jones' |
condition at this time transcends the de- |
scriptive powers of language. The splendid |
physique she had when first stricken down |
had been eaten and Slapped away until all
that was left of it was pale, emaciated,
helpless, suffering mass of skin and bones,
weighing hardly seventy pounds.
Meanwhile the three physicians who had
ai,,1r m cto fho a
the terrible disease that had seized hold of
her system-all of whom were leading ply
sicians in Mansfield, O.-had been COM
PEELED to acknowledge that they were alb
,olutely impotent to cure her, and at last
had given her up as an incurabe and hope
less case. ThereupOn she placed herself in
,he hands of one of the most prominent
and successful physicians of Columbus. He
her carefully, particularly her
lungs, declared that she had consumption,
and stated that he could do nothing what
ever for her, as her case was absolutely
hopeless. Another prominent and success
full physician of the same city was called i'm.
He expressed the same discouraging opin-
ion, and declared himself equally unable to
help her. That the suffering woman and
her relatives and friends now well nigh de-
SPARED of her life is hardly to be wondered
1t. 1t is impossible for the imagination to
picture more terrible or helpless case.
Every breath was torture. Every hour
left her weaker. A mass of sores, and
racked with pain from head to foot, her bed
was not only a bed of torture, but seemed
certainly destined to be her death-bed. and
that in no long time.
AT this critical juncture, when Miss Jones
had been confined to her bed almost two
entire years, being unable most of that
lime to raise her head from the pillow, and
when death seemed ready at any hour TO
,all for his frail and long-suffering victim.
Miss Jones' brother, having heard and read
70 much of the remarkable cures DIR. Hart
nan had effected and of the desperate cases
he had successfully treated, persuaded his
sister to place herself in the doctors hands
md get the benefit of his long and varied
experience and exceptional skill. He was