Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1897-04-02
4 GASOLINE stove ExPL0DES
WITH Fearful RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora (. Hill
She is Feafu|y Burned Inhaes the Flames
and is Seriously Injured. but Proper
/. Medical Treatment Saved Her Life.

Psrhape In no case q ut recorded has the
efficiency Of . popular remedy been found
70 clearly ~ in that Of Mrs. Nora E. 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.
sidsnt and the suiferings resulting from it,
will be Of more than ordinary interest to
thousands of invalids.
Nm. Nora E.. Hill, before September 1898,
va hale, hearty and strong woman, past
the middle age Of. life.
She tells the following story: "a
"Septsmbsr I, 1893, while attending TO
my duties about the house, . gasoline stove
which had used for some time, suddenly
exploded, throwing the burning fluid over
ne. Before my clothes which were on Ere
could be torn Of. my right arm and hand
were fearfally burned. This however, was
not my most serious injury, as / had inhaled
some Of the flames, and l found the inside of
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 have fairly good
use Of my hand and arm now.
6uOItky dIJck tuc .PIOCchS VI uCulluB VI
arm and hand, my stomach commenced to
give me trouble. I did not then realize what
Il meant. After each meal / was seized
with . cramping sensation, and then in q
few days there were frightful pains, which
threw tis. me into clsmmy persEPira S - For
physician, battling hard with death. I had
lost 90 pounds, was becoming . mere skele.
ton, my appetite was gone, and my nervous
system completely shattered.
II lost confidence in everything, wal
totally discouraged, and determined to 60 to
and have my old physician make an exami.
nation of my condition. He did 80 and
found that gastric ulcers Of the stomach had
formed, which he said were incurable, and
While in Grand Rapids the ulcers which
had formed in the stomach broke, which
produced vomiting of large quantities O
blood and pus. This confined me to q sick
bed for several weeks. When I becam.
;su . strong tG get up ,s I came Ss 81
last one week, possibly one month: But ]
determined to make a. strong 9. fight a.
could, and get all the medical aid there wa
= HHI'va:e taken before a elias. ef one q tn
here for .. ann rhis saaminscs
proved what my physician in Grand Rapids
told me viz, that there were gastric ulcers o
the stomach. The opinion Of the colleg,
physicians was, that my chances Of cur
were. not one In one thousand. This was il
May 1894; in June was taken down will
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming
Snd Ilay In bed, nine weeks. From June I.
september In that year l also suffered ad
Aitionally from thirty 'absceeses forming oil
ny arms and shoulders, produced BY the con
dition Of the stomach and blood circulation
/: Amer this /; got . little. better, and this i'm
Prov6ment lasted during the fall and white
TIL January. 1895, when had another sieg
ofgastric fever. * took; . great many drug
and opiates under the physicians direction