SAVED FROM THE KNIFE.

NARROW ESCAPE.

There are some people who can well afford to be invalids, because they have plenty of leisure in which to be sick. It is true that nobody wants to be sick simply to pass away the time. Yet when prostrating ilness attacks a busy man, whose duties demand a life of constant activity, the disaster is one which involves the giving up of much more than the unemployed person of leisure is called on to give up. Mr. Arthur Yates, who lives in Jersey City, is well known to thousands of business men in the metropolis as one of the most active and successful of canvassers. The occupation of a gentleman in this walk of life calls for a robust constitution and a vigorous state of health. Mr. Yates is now in the enjoyment of excellent health, but he not long ago passed through a remarkable experience of invalidism which threatened to lay him as de permanently, and cripple his success and usefulRheumatism is one of the most obstinate, as well as one of the most painful of all diseases. While many other diseases yield to ordinary remedies, rheumatism defies them, or else seems for a while to be cured, only to appear again in some other form, or to torment some other part of the body than that in which it had first been started.

ness.

One of our New York correspondents, having heard that Mr. Yates had been severely troubled with rheu matism and had recovered from it, visited him, and had from his own lips an account of how it was.

Said Mr. Yates: The trouble came on, not from exposure, as rheumatism often comes, but in a singular way attacking my feet. As I had for a long time been on my feet most of the day, and walking very actively, the soles became sore, and I sought relief from a distinguished surgeon. He gave me a preparation which I applied with wet cloths. I kept these cloths on my feet all night (not by his advice, however) for a number of nights. I felt great pain in my legs, principally in my knees. This was an unpleasant novelty for me, for I had not been laid up by sickness for a long time before that; probably a dozen years. Not only was I in such pain that it was with difficulty that I could walk, but I was almost helpless. Sometimes I was two hours in getting my clothes on. I could attend to business only by taking a carriage; but for my special business this afforded but little practical aid. Walking was almost an impossibility. I was soon greatly reduced in flesh, for the severe pain took away my appetite. The pain went up through my legs and body, and even stiffened the cords of my neck, giving me the appearance of a continual stiff neck. The cords of my right leg were drawn up so that the leg was shortened about two inches, thus causing a continual limp. In the knee joints the pain was so intense that I had to keep swinging my legs as much of the time as I could, for when the joints remained still for a while they felt as if cemented for the lack of lubricating material. The calves of my legs became considerably shrunken. Under one knee was a lump or bunch half as large as my fist, and as hard as a cobble-stone.

"I went to a noted physician to consult him about my general condition, and especially about this lump, for the indications were that unless something were done for it I should be permanently lame. The phy; sician said he saw no other way than to cut it out. I did not relish this advice.

"Then I went to one of our principal hospitals, where I was told by the doctors that the better way would be to burn the lump away. I believe either of these methods would have made me a cripple for life. Think of the muscles and the nerves these men would have destroyed in such operations. I am using those

nerves and muscles now.'

So you gave up the idea of surgery, did you, Mr. Yates, and adopted some less painful and more reasonable remedy?"

"Yes. One day, about a year ago, I happened to make a business call on Dr. John Turner, of the Compound Oxygen Branch Office, 148 Fifth Avenue, New York I had heard of Compound Oxygen, but had not supposed that it would be of any great advantage to me. But here I heard several gentlemen talking of what it had done for them and their friends. Dr. Turner said he thought there was a chance that it would do me good. He sent me a Home Treatment of it. I tried it, and let me tell you in connection with it I tried a pretty thorough change of diet. I lived very simply, throwing overboard pies, pudding, tea, tobacco, and even meat. For some time I lived on rye bread. I took the Oxygen for about three months."

“And with good effect, if I may judge from your pres

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"Yes, with very good effect. That and the diet better. I took at this time no other medicine but the Oxygen. My first gain was in the reduction of the swelling and the departing of the pain. My appetite gradually came back, and I could enjoy moderate eatIng. The swelling went entirely away without the aid of the knife, or other appliances of the surgeons. I gained flesh and strength, and was again able to attend to business as before. I am still improving. I often have to ascend as many as one hundred flights of stairs in the course of a day, and I am now equal to the task. some and obstinate disease as rheumatism is of interSuch thorough recovery as this from such a troubleest to every rheumatic sufferer. Rheumatism is a disease which some have trifled with and others have given up to, in despair, as incurable. Indeed, there are eminent physicians who have admitted that they cannot suffers from rheumatism, or who has friends among cure this malady. But it is important to every one that its victims, to know that Compound Oxygen has cured relied on for many more cures. Unlike many of the many cases of it, is curing others every day, and can be drugs which are given in the attempt to cure rheumatism, Compound Oxygen does not disorder the system. is not unpleasant to take, and leaves no evil effects behind it.

Fom a lady of Worcester, Mass., dated November 15, 1885, came this statement of case:

"Age, 62. For ten years have been a sufferer. When nearly 52 took whooping cough the second time, and have coughed every winter since. Had pneumonia six years ago; until then I suffered terribly with nervous prostration and nervous dyspepsia. When taken with pneumonia my nervousness all suddenly left me. After the pneumonia I could not bear my weight for a year and a half, and it was three and a half years before I could get on my crutches. The ligaments of joints stretched and troubled me that way. The forefinger of my left hand had to be set five times within one year. and that left the joints stiff. The left hip has troubled me by slipping as I could not move it. Rheumatism moves from place to place. Have coughed mornings ever since I had pneumonia till I took influenza, the first of October." The following gratifying report of results from use of one Home Treatment is dated April 4, 1886:

Have a little Compound Oxygen yet. I expect my cough will entirely disappear as warm weather comes: if it don't I shall have to have some more. I never used anything like it. My rheumatism is better, so I can walk for the last six weeks without crutches or cane. I am much better and growing so daily. It is slow, to be sure, but I am surely gaining. A lady who saw me last July for the first time, said she did not think then I could live until cold weather; but now she says I look as well as anybody, only if I was not so lame. I get up with the rest at six, eat breakfast at half past six, sew or knit through the day, and look after my girl in the kitchen. We have six in our family; I do the buying and keep the family account book; go to bed at nine o'clock and sleep nicely most every night Is not that doing well? I think that if it had not been for the Compound Oxygen I should not have been alive now, for I was running down fast when I began to take it."

Mr. B. Ford, of Caldwell, Idaho, in a letter dated April 11. 1886, thus reports confirmed improvement. Readers of our Quarterly Report, Health and Life," will remember that his reports have appeared in previous numbers:

"I have been so busy farming that I have neglected to write to you. I have been hard at work since I wrote you last: plowing, sowing, harrowing, and making fence. I am clear of the rheumatism now. I am gradu lly growing stronger. My back is much better than when I last wrote you. I am not troubled with headache and fullness in my head as much as I was before I began the use of Compound Oxygen, I have been work ing three horses all spring to the plow and harrow. I walk all the time in plowing and harrowing I have stood up to three good horses well fed, all spring. I have gained while my horses have gone down some. Last summer I had to quit work, because I could not stand to work. You ask me what has brought about the change? I must say Compound Oxygen has made me what I am to-day. People are saying you look so much better than you did.' I tell them that Drs. Starkey & Palen's Compound Oxygen has done for me what medicine would not do. It is bringing me gradually to health. Many thanks to you, gentl

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