27 NOVEMBER 1869, Page 3

A man has been cured of rheumatic fever by a

railway collision. At least "L. B." says in the Times he was so cured on the 17th inst. He was travelling on the Midland from Manchester to London, racked with pain. "My weak body was in a profuse perspiration ; flashes of pain announced that the muscular fibres were under the tyrannical control of rheumatism, and I was almost beside myself with toothache," when the train ran into another. His next neigh- bours were thrown against each other, but he was only thrown on the opposite cushion, and he got out perfectly well. In the most ungrateful manner he conceals his name, lest the company should ask him for compensation. It would scarcely, however, do that, lest it should be prosecuted for curing people without a proper licence.