The Dickinson press., 1897-08-14
. GASOLINE stove EXPL0DES
WITH Fearful RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora E. Hill.
She is Fearfu|y Burned |nhaIes 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
90 clearly as In that of Mrs. Nora Z. 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 sufferings 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 /, 1893, while attending to
my duties about the house, q gasoline stove
which I 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 md hand
were fearfully burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury, as I had inhaled
some Of the flames, and / found the inside of
my mouth blistercd. My 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 l have fairly good
use Of my hand and arm nov
"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 l was seized
few days there were frightful pains, which
threw me into clammy perspiration. For
eight months I wa under the care of my
physician, battling hard with death. I had
lost 90 pounds, was becoming n mere skelc'
ton, my appetite was gone. and my nervous
system completely shattered.
81 lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined to go t.
my former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and have my old physician make an cxami
nation of my condition. He did SO ant
found that gastric ulcers of the stomach hat
formed, which he said were incurablc, ant
were liable to produce cancer at any time
While in Grand Rapids the ulcers which
had formed in the stomach broke, whicl
produced vomiting of large quantities Q
blood and pus. This confined me to a sicl
bed for several weeks. When / becam
here to die, as the doctor told me 1 nigh
last one week, possibly one month. But
determined to make as strong n fight as
could. and get all the medical aid there wa
in Chicago.
81 was taken before n class of one of tn
most noted and celebrated medical college
here for examination. This examination
proved what my physician in Grand Rapid
told me viz, that there were gastric ulcers {
the stomach. The opinion of the collee
physicians was that my chances of a cul
May 1891: in June / was taken down wit
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers formin,
and I lay in bed nine weeks. From June
September in that year I also suffered G.
ditionally from thirty assesses forming {
my arms and shoulders, produced by the CO.
dition of the stomach and blood circulation
After this I got a little better, and this il
provement lasted during the fall md whit
till January 1895, when ! had another sic
of gastric fever. I took a great many druI
and epiates under the physicians directio