The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-05-01
Terrible Explosion.
A GASOLINE STOVE EXPL ODES
WITH FEARFUL RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora E. Hill.
She is Feafuly Burned lnhaIeS the Flames
and is Seriously Injured but Proper
Medical Treatment Saved Her Life.
From The Chronicle, chicago, III.

Perhaps IN no case as yet recorded has the
efficiency Of q popular remedy been found
20 clearly as In that of Mrs. Nora E. Hill.
While her condition, caused by frightful
and distressing accident, places her beyond
the pale of perfect recovery, she has received
such marked relief that the story Of the &C.
Cidsnt and the sufferings resulting from it,
will be Of more than ordinary interest to
Thousands Of invalids.
Mrs. Nora E, Hill, before September 1893,
was hale, hearty and strong woman, past
the middle age Of life.
She tells the following story;
September /, 1898, while attending to
my duties about the house, gasoline stove
which had used for some time, suddenly
exploded, throwing the burning fluid over
me. Before my clothes which were on fire
could be torn of, my right arm and hand
were fearfully burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury, as had inhaled
some Of the flames, and / found the inside of
my mouth blistered. Ny hand and arm to
the elbow were burned to the. bone, and my
physician believed amputatiOn necessary,
but AFTER weeks Of great suffering, l was
spared the operation, and have fairly good
use Of my hand and arm now.
"ShOrtly after the process Of healing of
arm and hand, my stomach commenced to
give me trouble. did not then realize what
L meant After each meal / was seized
with q cramping sensation, and then in a
few days there were frightful pains, which
threw me into elammy perspiration. For
eight months was under the care of my
physician, battling hard with death. had
lost 9S pounds, was becoming a mere skele-
ton, my appetite was gone, and my nervous
system completely shattered.
lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined to 20 to
my former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and have my old physician make an exami-
nation of my condition. He did so and
found that gastric ulcers Of the stomach had
formed, which he said were incurable, and
we're liable 20 produce cancer at any time.
While In Grand Rapids the ulcers which
had formed in the stomach broke, which
produced vomiting of large quantities of
blood and pus. This confined me TO a sick
bed for several weeks. When / became
sufficiently strong to get up / came back
here 70 die, as the doctor told me / might
last one week, possibly one month. But /
determined to make Is strong q fight as
could, and get all the medical aid there was
al 5Fas taken before a class of one of the
most noted and celebrated medical colleges
here for examination. This examination
proved what my physician in Grand Rapids
told me viz, that there were gastric ulcers of
the stomach. The opinion of the college
physicians was that my chances Of cure
were not one In one thousand. This was in
Nay 1894: IN June / was taken down with
gastric feVer, caused by fresh ulcers forming,
and lay IN bed nine weeks. From June 10
September IA that year / also suffered ad-
ditlonally from thirty Assesses forming on
my arms and shoulders, produced by the CON
dillon Of the stomach and blood circulation.
After this got q little better, and this i'm.
proVement lasted during the fall and winter
an January 1895, when had another siege
81 gastric fever. ] took a great many drugs
and opiates under the physicians directions