This Man was Frightened'

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2587, 1 December 1890, Page 3

This Man was Frightened'

And on reading the facts it will appear that he had reason to be. The man referred to was Edward Perrin, > a guard on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Kailway. In September, 1887, he met with an accident, which gave a temporary shock to his system. N»fc long afterwards he began to feel a pain m the chest and have difficulty m breathing, and threw up a great deal of mucus (phlegm). He at once concluded he had some serious ailment of the lungs, and soueht medical advice. The doctor said it was so, and added that there was no cure for it, and that he could do no more i thai! give him something to ease the pain ' and the cough. Then the doctor gave Mr Perrin a certificate stating that he was suffering from "Catarrh Phthisis;" which is the professional term for that dreadful malady, Consumption/ Further symptoms soon appeared which/seemed to confirm this alarming opinion* . The poor fellow experienced great pain m eating, and a tightness across the chest, which felt, he gaid, " as if some strongman was gripping .tiiin around the body under the arms." T~he rest of Mr Perrin's narrative is best relatM m his' own words. He says: "I «b<in commenced to have a brackish taste m the mouth as if I had been sucking copper. Then came cold chills and sweats m turn, the cough got hollow, and I raised more than I had done. These terrible symptoms bo scared me that went and, consulted the late I)r Dacre Fox, who was at .that,time Consulting Physician to the Hallway Company and to the Infirmary. He examined me carefully,- arid certified as follows ;— ' "Inishe case of Guard Perriri. This tarn is evidently frightened. He is suffering iiV] n Phthisis and Dyspepsia. Cod' jliver oil and iron are indicated." i'his jjillly bore out what the other doctor hoi said, so I now looked upon myself ias done far. I took everything I cduld hear tell of. I have drunk > gallons oC Cod. liver oil and sherry, and have had many quarts of camphorated oil rubbed on my chest, until my wife was sick of rubbing. I was also poulticed continually, but m "spitti of *1J this terrific dosing and medicating I gofc gradually worse. In i lialf a-dozen words my condition w-as this: I believed myself to be fast goin£ to the grave with consumption; my friends said bo, the doctor said so, and it looked like it, if anything ever did. It is understood that consumption is sure death, and I made up my mind for that awful end. I had been off my work from 1887 to 1888. I was ashamed to be away so mucjt, as I was obliged to draw funds from the Club all the time to help support my family. . " While I was thus doing nothing but waiting to die, crawling about feebly like a man who has virtually done with this Tforld, I happened one day to meet Illsflpeetor Rippon, of, Aid wick Station, one of t|ie Traffic Inspectors of our line. He -was sJjqeVed at my looks, but; said, * Pcrin, I don',fc know as anything will help yoii : but, if anything will, it is Mother Swgel'a Curative Syrup.',, I remember that this idea amused me, mjsefably broken and ill as I was. Help me? Could it care consumption ? Jiot likely. Impossible ! Sfill it couldn't make me worse, and so I got a bottle'and began to take it. I could scarcely credit my own feelings, but as snre as truth is truth', jiefoM % hf*4 s^f 1 ny that; bottle of

medicine, I found relief. Now couie / what .you may.find it hard to believe--I fcaolrbut two more bottles and ..went back, to work, and have been sound and healthy ever since. I told the doctor about it, and, although he saw I was? well, he seemed displeased. "You say Mother Beigel's Curative Syrup cured you V lie said. 'Nonsense. It is only a quack medicine; it is nothing but stuff ard / rubbish.' Well; all right, I said to myself | it may be stuff and rubbish, but it has made a sound man of me after that very doctor had me booked ft* the graveyard, and said no earthly power could keep me out of it. . That was enough for me and will be enough for diousands of others m this country. "I am exposed to all sorts of weathef, but have never had a return of the bad breathing, q^est pains, nor any of the other symptoms that nearly; frightened me.out of my senses. I eat and enjoy my food as well as any man m, England.. Now, what was the, secret of'this .getting well* If I really .had. consumption,, it wfe nothing short of a miracle ; but I never had consumption at aIL The j doctors were all wrong m calling it that;. What I actually suffered from was indigestion and dyspepsia, which causes the same symptoms that mark true consumption ; hence lots of people who are supposed to have lung complaint might be as easily cured as I was if they would let cbjrl liv,er oil alone and take, Mother Seigel's Syrup." Mr Perrin'r address is No. 36, Goiton Brook Street, .Gorton Brook, ; Manchester, England, and he ; will reply to atiy letters written to him concerning his case.