Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-22
A GASOLINE stove ExPL0DES
WITH FEARFUL RESULTS.
The Burning Fluid Falls all Over Mrs. Nora E. Hill
She is FeafuIly Burned IntaIes the Flames
and IS Seriously Injured. but Proper
Medical Treatment Saved Her Life.
Prom tie Chronicle, Chicago, M.

Perhaps In no case as yet recorded has III,
emciency OF popular remedy been fount
% clearly as in that of Mrs. Nora f. Hill
While her condition, caused by O frichtfu
and distressing accident, places her beyont
the pale of perfect recovery, she has receives
such marked relief that the story of the nc
cident and the sufferings resulting from il
will be Of more than ordinary interest Il
thousands Of invalids.
Mrs. Nora +. Hill, before September 1898
was hale, hearty and strong woman, pas
The middle age Of life.
She tells the following story:
september I, 1893, while attending Il
m5 duties about the house, a gasoline stow,
which I had used for some time, suddenly
exploded, throwing the burning fluid owe,
me. Before my clothes which were on fire
could be torn of, my right arm and hand
were fearfslly burned. This however, wa,
not my most serious injury, as had inhaled
some Of the flames, and found the inside OF
my mouth blistered. My hand and arm 10
the elbow were burned to the bone, and my
physician believed amputa,ion 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 IA
give me trouble. l did not then realize what
II meant. After each meal I was seized
with a crnmping 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. I had
lost " pounds, was becoming a mere skele.
ton, my appetite was gone, and my nervous
system completely shattered.
lost confidence in everything, was
totally discouraged, and determined 10 20 10
my. former home, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
and have my old physician make an cxami.
nation Of my condition. lie 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
hal formed in the stomach broke. which
produced vomiting of large quantities of
blood and pus. This confined me to q sick
bed for several weeks. When I became
sufficiently strong TO get up I came back
here to die, as the doctor told me 1 might
last one week, possibly one month. But I
determined TO make rs strong fight as /
could, and get all the medical aid there was
in Chicago.
81 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
tho stomach. The opinion Of the college
physicians was that my chances Of cure
were not one In one thousand. This was in
May 1891; In June 7 was taken down with
gastric fever, caused by fresh ulcers forming
and lay in bed nine weeks From June 10
September In that year also suffered ad.
ditionally from thirty Assesses forming on
my arm. and shoulders, produced by the con.
dition Of the stomach md blood circulation,
Aftcr this ] got n little better. and this i'm.
provement 1astcd during the fall and winter
Gil January 1895, when I had another siege
Of gastric fever. i took great many drugs
ind opiates under the physicians directions