The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-04

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 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 hale, hearty and strong woman. past
the middle age of life.
She tells the following story
September l. 1898, while attending tc
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 off, 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
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 cramping sensation, and then in a
few days there were frightfu pains, which
threw me into clammy perSpiraton. For
eight months / was under the care of my
physician, battling hard with death. I 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 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 sick
bed for several weeks. When I 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 to make as strong a fight as I
could. and get all the medical aid there was
II was taken before class of one of the
most noted and celebrated medical colleges
mere Tor examination. MS examination
proved what my physician in Grand Rapids
told me viz, that there were gastric ulcers OF
he stomach. The opinion of the college
physicians that my chances of cure
we're not one in one thousand This was in
May 1894: in June | was taken down with
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming,
and | lay in bed nine weeks From June TO
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litiOnally from thirty assesses forming on
| ny arms and shoulders, produced by the con.
| ltion of the stomach and blood circulation.
| trr this | got little better, and this i'm.
| nrovrmant lasted during the fall and winter
~ T"u,rv 1929, when had another siege
= .''' i"ycr took great many drugs
under the physicians directions