The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-22

Perhaps In no case as yet recorded has the
efficiency of a popular remedy been found
DO clearly as in that of Mrs. Nora f. Hill.
While her condition, caused by a ~frightful
and distressing accident, places her beyond
the pale of perfect recovery, she has received
such marked relief that the story of the &C.
cident and the sutferings resulting from it,
will be of more than ordinary interest to
thousands of invalids.
Mrs. Nora f. Hill, before September 1898,
was a hale, hearty and strong woman, past
the middle age of life.
She tells the following story:
September l, 1898, while attending to
my duties about the house, a gasoline stove
which l had used for some time, suddenly
exploded, throwing the burning fluid over
me. Before my clothes which were on fire
could be torn off, my right arm and hand
were fearfully burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury, rs I had inhaled
some of the flames, and | found the inside of
my mouth blistered. My hand and arm to
the elbow were burned to the bone, and my
physician believed amputation necessary,
but after weeks of great suffering. | 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
it meant. After each meal / was seized
with a cramping sensation, and then in a
few days there were ~frightful pains, which
threw me into clammy perspiration. For
eight months ! was under the care of my
| physician, battling hard with death. | had
lost SO pounds. was becoming a mere skele-
ton, my appetite was gone, and my nervous
| system completely shattered.
81 lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined 10 20 to
my former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and nave 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 to 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 to die, as the doctor told me | might
last one week, possibly one month. But ]
determined 30 make as strong q fight as
could. and get I'LL the medical aid there wa.
in Chicago. =
81 was taken before a class Of one Of the
most noted and celebrated medical colleges
here for examination. ms examination
proved what nv physician in Grand Rapids
told me viz, that there were gastric ulcers oil
the stomach. The opinion OF the college
physicians was that my chances of Il cure
were not one in one thousand. This was ir
Nav 1874: in June | WIS taken down with
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming
and | lay in bed nine weeks. FROM June '
September in that year | also suffered ad
ditionally from thirty assesses forming OF
nv arms and shoulders, produced b. the con
dition of the stomach and blood circulation
After this I got a little better, and this i'm
>provement lasted during :hr fan AID winte
till January 1895, when J bad another -i"@
Of gastric fever. I took a greet r3a"' '"""
and opiatcs under the pIys!eiAA. u....,:.)a