John Lowe Butler's Healing from Severe Inflammatory Rheumatism and Multiple Ailments

From age seven, John Lowe Butler suffered from severe inflammatory rheumatism that spread from his feet to his fingertips in every joint, leaving him in very poor health. Shortly after, he developed what doctors called 'an impostume on his leg,' and when that began to heal, he contracted dropsy in his left eye—it swelled for thirteen days so severely that his vision was lost, and doctors feared they could not save it, saying it 'looked like a hog's eye after it had been scalded.' From age seven to twenty, Butler had twelve hard attacks of rheumatism, often striking twice yearly in spring and fall. In his nineteenth year, pain fell on his left side and his left arm, thigh, and leg began to shrink and fail—he thought he would lose all use of that side. He became so reduced that his mother could carry him from one room to another with ease in her arms. However, through the means used and the Lord's blessing, he began to be restored. By age twenty-two, he had recovered better than he 'ever expected to be' and was able to labor at light work, having regained the use of his limbs.