Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-09-24 | Page 6 | New Cure for Rheumatism

NEW CURE FOR RHEUMATISM Woman Who Had Suffered for Many Years Is Cured by Bolt of Lightning. The medical faculty was put to shame by a bolt of lightning which the other night struck the farmhouse of Charles A. Burdick, on Washington Washing-ton Ridge, says the Berlin (Conn.) correspondent of the New York Herald. Her-ald. The electric bolt destroyed articles arti-cles in all the eight rooms of the house and did damage exceeding $L,-000, $L,-000, but it cured Mrs. Burdick of rheumatism, rheu-matism, from which she had suffered for many years. Mrs. Burdick was about to put wood in the kitchen stove when the bolt struck her, knocking her down and rendering her unconscious. One of her feet was on zinc beneath the stove. The lightning took a nail out of the sole of her shoe and her foot was severely burned. Dr. Thomas Mulligan of New Britain soon revived her. Today Mrs. Burdick, although suffering suf-fering from tiie burns on her foot, was free from rheumatic pains. She does not think the price her husband must pay in repairs to the house too high, but Mr. Burdick is discreetly silent. si-lent.