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In the indus­trial mid­lands of late 19th cen­tury Eng­land, many peo­ple spent their work­ing lives under­ground toil­ing in the coal mines. The daily phys­i­cal trauma resulted in cuts, abra­sions and burns.

Dr. Stew­art, a local GP, found it was dif­fi­cult to treat patients suc­cess­fully with what was avail­able, so he began a quest to find a solu­tion, a skin cream that would both calm and soothe.

After years of inves­ti­ga­tion and test­ing he finally for­mu­lated a salve that proved to be a “mir­a­cle cream”.

After his death Dr Stewart’s grand­daugh­ter, Flo­rence Mary, found the for­mula and once again started production.

Miss Hilda Jones, Florence’s friend, out­lines how she too became involved with the “Mir­a­cle Cream”.

Flo­rence Mary Stew­art began search­ing for her grand­fa­thers books to find the recipe for his famous oint­ment. Even­tu­ally she found it and began pro­duc­tion of the “Mir­a­cle Cream”.

Like her grand­fa­ther Flo­rence used the cream locally with great suc­cess. Flo­rence was advised to put it on the mar­ket, so other peo­ple could ben­e­fit and use the cream. Hence FMS Skin Cream was named, mar­keted and dis­trib­uted by Flo­rence Mary Stewart.

Miss Hilda Jones recalled, “ I wish there was F.M.S in every home, to be used on burns, scalds and bruises etc, it is a fan­tas­tic cream for many problems.”

Three weeks before she died Miss Stew­art asked Hilda Jones to go on mak­ing FMS, reveal­ing the secret recipe.

After mak­ing FMS Skin Cream for 40 years Hilda Jones, now aged 75, Miss Jones was con­cerned that again the secret, known only to her, could be lost when she too would pass away.

Miss Jones chose to pass the secret onto the son of one of her close friends, Don Marsden-Ryle, who had used FMS Cream for var­i­ous rea­sons through­out his life. For the fol­low­ing 40 years Marsden-Ryle pro­duced FMS Cream from his home in Devon, England.

A close asso­ciate of Marsden-Ryle, Dr. Mary Staggs, used FMS to help thou­sands of peo­ple over 25 years at her busy clinic in South­ern Spain, know­ing only that FMS was a totally nat­ural blend of herbs and oils, but never know­ing the secret formula.

With dete­ri­o­rat­ing health Marsden-Ryle asked Dr. Staggs to visit him in Devon, as he was no longer able to travel and in 2005 he passed the for­mula and recipe on again, to Dr Staggs, who took over the pro­tec­tion and pro­duc­tion of FMS Cream.

Mars­den Ryle is still over­see­ing the final results of pro­duc­tion, with the cream now being used in at least 22 coun­tries around the world.

“If only Dr. Stew­art could see what he started for the min­ers of the Black Coun­try and how some­one with a spi­der bite in Aus­tralia or a burn in Bogotá would thank him in per­son if only he was here.”,says Dr. Mary Staggs.

The ‘Mir­a­cle Cream’ F.M.S is still avail­able for the next gen­er­a­tion. It is the same for­mula as devel­oped by Dr. Stew­art in the 19th cen­tury and is still help­ing many peo­ple in the 21st century.

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