The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-10-29
A GASOLINE stove EXPLO DES
WITH Fearful. RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora E. HILL
She is FeafuIy Burned InhaIes the Flames
and is Seriously Injured, but Proper
Medical Treatment Saved Her Life.
From the Chronicle, Chicago, I'LL.

Perhaps in no case as yet recorded has the
efficiency of a popular remedy been found
so clearly as in that of Mrs. Nora f. 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.
cident and the sufferings resulting from it,
will be of more than ordinary interest to
thousands of invalids.
Mrs. Nora E. Hill, before September 1898,
was 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, 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 and hand
were fearfully burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury as / had inhaled
some of the flames, and l 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. l did not then realize what
it meant. After each meal | was seized
with cramping sensation, and then in q
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 mere skele-
ton, my appetite was gone, and my nervous
system completely shattered.
81 lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined to go 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
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 me to a sick
bed for several weeks. When | became
sufficiently strong to get up | came back
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 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
May 1894: in June I was taken down with
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming,
and lay in bed nine weeks From June to
September in that year also suffered adj
ditionally from thirty assesses forming on
my arms and shoulders, produced by the con-
dition of the stomach and blood circulation.
After this I got little better, and this i'm
provement lasted during the fall and winter
till January 1895, when had another siege
of gastric fever. l took great many drugs
md opiates under the physicians directions