The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-04-12
A GASOLINE stove EXPL0DES
With Fearful RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora {. Hill.
She is Feartu|y Burned Inha|es the Flames
and is Seriously Injured, but Proper
Medical Treatment Saved Her Life.
From The Chronicle. Chicago, Ill.

Perhaps in no case Us yet recorded has the
efficiency of a popular remedy been found
20 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 E.. Hill, before September 1893,
was a hale, hearty and strong woman, past
the middle age of life.
She tells the following story:
. "~September 1, 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 f~earfully burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury, as | 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 l have fairly good
use OF my hanu ana arm now.
"Shortly after the process of healing Of
arm and hand, my stomach commenced to
give me trouble. I did not then realize what
it meant. After each meal | was seized
with a cramping sensation, and then in q
few days there were frightful pains. which
threw me into clammy perspiration. For
eight months I was under the care Of my
physician, battling hard with death. | had
lost 80 pounds, was becoming q mere skele-
ton, my appetite was gone, and my nervous
system completely shattered.
81 lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined 10 90 to
my former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and have my old physician make IN exami-
nation of my condition. He did 50 and
found that gastric ulcers of the stomach had
formed. which he said were incurable, and
were 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 mr to a sick
bed for several weeks. When | became
sufficiently strong to get mp | calnc back
here to die, as the doctor told me | might
last one week, possibly one month. But /
determined to make as strong a fight as |
could. and get all the medical aid there was
in Chicago.
~ was taken before n class Of one Of the
most noted and celebrated medical colleges
here for examinrtion. This examination
proved what my physician in G-ond Rapids
told me viz, that there were Gastric ulcers of
the stomach. The opinion of the college
physicians was that my CHARGES Of a "rre
were not one il one thoVsaNi. This was in
May 1894: in jane | was taken down with
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming,
and | lay in bed nine weeks. Fro"f Juneto
September in that year | aiSo suGt"'d adj
ditionally from thirty assesses tGrmtug on
nv arms and shoulders. produced by i've co.,
dition Of the stomach and blood circulation.
| After this I GOT a litt.' better. AMI 'Hr, w.
provement lasted duriny ,or G,n az ! winter
till January 1895, whcr. 7 Iad Other .i"?r
Of gastric fever. ! took n great ma Y d~I"S
and opiates under the p1ysiriAns directions