The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-08
AN 0AEVILLE MIRACLE.
THE REMARKABLE CASE OF
MR.. JOHN w. CONDOR.
A Helpless Cripple For Years-Treated by
the STAFF of the Toronto General Hos
pital and Discharged as Inc urabie
The Story of His miraculous
Recovery as Investigated by
an Empire Reporter.
Toronto Enpirt.)

Toronto EDtpirt.)
For more than a year past the readers Of
the Empire have been given the particulars
of some of the most remarkable cures OF the
10Th century, all, or nearly all OF them, IN
cases hitherto held by the most advanced
medical scientists to be incurable. The par
ticulars of these cases were vouched TOR by
such leading newspapers as The Hamilton
Spectator and Times. The Halifax Herald,
Toronto Globe, LIE Monde, Montreal; De-
troit News, Albany, N. Y; Journal, Albany
Express, and others, whose reputation placed
beyond question the statements made.
Recently rumors have been ailoat OF a re-
markable. case in the pretty little town OF Oak
vile, of a young man recovering after years
of helplessness and agony. The Empire DC.
termined to subject the case to the most rigid
investigation, and accordingly detailed one OF
our best reporters to make a thorough and I'M
partial investigation into the case. Acting
on these instruction our reporter went to
Oakville, and called On Mr.. John w. Con-
dor (who it was had SO miraculously recoyered)
and had not long been in conversation with
him when he was convinced that the state
ments made were not only true, but that the
half had not been told" The reporter found
Mr.. Condor at work in one of the heaviest
departments of the Oakville Basket Factory,
and was surprised in the face of what he
knew of this case, to be confronted by a
strapping Young fellow of good physique,
rudy countenance and buoyant bearing.
This now rugged Young man was he who
had spent a great part of his days upon a
sick-bed. suffering almost untold agony.
When the Empire representative announced
the purpose of his visit, Mr.. Condor cheer
fully volunteered a statement of his case TOR
the benefit of other sufferers. II am" said
MI. Condor, IAN Englishman by birth, and
came to this country with my parents when
nine years of age, and at that time was as
rugged and healthy as any boy of my age. l
am now 30 years of age, and it was when
about IA wears old that the first twinges of
inlamatory rheumatism came upon me, and
during the fifteen years that interviewed Pc
tween that time and my recovery a few
months ago, tongue can hardly tell how mucn
| suffered. NV trouble was brought on, |
think, through too frequent bathing IN the
cold lake water. The joints of my body be-
gan to swell, the cords of my legs to tighten,
and the muscles of my limbs to contract.
a helpless cripple, confined to bed'
and for three months did not leave my room.
The doctor who was called in administered
preparations of iodine of potassium and other
remedies without any material beneficial
effect. After some months of suffering be-
came strong enough to leave the bed but my
limbs were stifened and was UNITED for
any active vocation. l was then hamPered
more or less for the following nine years,
when 1 was again forced to take to my bed.
This attack was in 1886, and was a great deal
more severe than the first. My feet, ankles,
knees. legs. arms, shoulders, and in fact all
parts of nv frame were affected, My joints
and muscles became badly swollen, and the
disease even reached my head. My face
to a great size. l was unable to open
my mouth, my jaws being fixed together. |,
of course could eat nothing. My teeth were