The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
A GASOLINE stove ExPL0DES
WITH FEARFUL RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora E. Hill.
She is Fearu|Iy Burned -|nha!es 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 a popular remedy been found
80 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 hat the story of the ac-
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 a 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, n 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 | 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. | did not then realize what
with a cramping sensation, and then in a
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 90 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 10 90 to
my former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
and nave my old physician make an cNami.
nation of my condition. He did SO and
found that gastric ulcers Of the stomach had
formed. which he said were inrurah!e, and
While in Grand Rapids toe u .crs which
had formed in the stomach broke, which
produced vomiting of ! r"c quantities. OF
| blood and pus. This confined me to a sick
bed for several weeks. When | became
sufficiently strong to Get up ! came back
here TO die, as the doctor told me | might
last one week, possibly on" month. But
determined 10 make as strong q fight as
could. and 2 t all the medical aid there was
in Chicago.
u was taken h,f,"c f claxz Of one Of tn,
most noted and Crt'hrltel m"di"1l college,
here for evamiH'tion. This "yamin9tio'
proved what M 1hvSirian il Gr,?d Rapid,
told me viz, thar th""c va" Gastric ulcers O
the stomprh. Tl~ opinion Of the college
physicians was that my chances of a ear,
were not one il oIn Thousand. This was j.
Nav 1Snl: in June | was taken Gown viii
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming
and | lay in bed nine weeks. From June I,
September in that year | aiso Suffered al
ditionally from thirty assesses forming or
m u arms AMI Sh1nlHprS DrniIcpi hE he CON