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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2321, 6 January 1890, Page 3

EOW PILLS ARE MADE * , The Custom of taking medicine in the form of pills dates far back in history. The object is to enable us to swallow easily in a condensed form disagreeable and nauseous, but very useful, drugs. To what vast dimensions pill taking has grown may be imagined, when we say that in England alone about 2,000,000,000 two thousand million) pills are consumed every y«»'r In early days pills were made slowly by hand, as the demand was comparatively small. To-day they are produced in infinitely greater rapidity by machines especially contrived for the purpose, and with greater accuracy, too, in the proportions of the various ingredients employed. No form ot medication can be better than a pill, provided only it is intelligently prepared. But right here occurs the difficulty. Easy as it may seem to make a pill, or a million of them there are really very few pills that can be honestly commended for popular use. Most of them either undershoot or overshoot the mark. As everybody takes pills of some kind, it may be well to mention what a good, safe, and reliable pill should be. Now, when on<" feels dull and sleepy, and has more or less pain in the head, sides, and back, he may be sure his bowels are constipated, and his liver ucgish. To remedy this unhappy state of things there is nothing like a good cathartic pill. It will act like a charm by stimulating the liver into doing its duty, and ridding the digestive organs of the accumulated poisonous matter, But_ the good pill does not gripe and pain us, neither does it make us sick and miserable for a ievr hours or a whole day. It acts on the entire glandular system at the same time, else the after effects of the pill will be worse than the disease itself. The griping caused by most pills is the result of irritating drugs which they contain, Such pills are harmful, and should never be used. They sometimes even produce hemorrhoids. Without having any particular desire to praise one pill above another, we may, nevertheless, name Mother Seigel's Pills, manufactured by the well known house of A. J. White, Limited, 35 Farringdon Road, London, and now sold by all chemists and medicine vendors, sis the only one we know of that actually posses es every desirable quality. They remove the pressure Opon the brain, correct the liver, and cause the bowels to act with ease and regularity. They never gripe or produce the slightest sickness of the stomach, or any other unpleasant feeling or symptom. Neither do they induce farther onstipation, as nearly all other pills do. As further and crowning merit, Mother Seigel's Fills are covered with a tasteless and harmless coating, which causes them to resemble pearls, thus rendering them as pleasant to the palate as they are effective in curing disease, If you bave a severe cold and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the head, back and limbs, one or two doses will break up the cold and prevent the fever. A coated tongue, with a ] brackish taste in the mouth is caused by foul ' matter in the stomach. A dose of Seigel's Pilis will effect a speedy cure. Oftentimes partially decayed food in the stomach and bowels produces sickness, nausea, etc. Cleanse the bowels with a dose of these pills, and good health will follow. Unl'ke many kinds of pills, they do not make you feel worse before you are better. They are, without doubt, the best family physic ever discovered. They remove air obstruction to the natural functions in either sex withoutany unpleasant effects.

The depu'y of Qaxaca, Mr Prefect Oarrera, las taken to the city of Mexico, a plant that grows in Mexico, whioh the natives call" the herb of prophecy.'' It is taken in various dotes, and in a few moment s a sleep is produce d eimiliar in all respects to, acd we might say identical with, the hyynotic state—for the patient ar,swore closed eyes, question ? that are pnt to him, and is completely ioesneible. The pathologic state induced on whomsove, partakes of the herb brings with it a k.nd of prophetic gift and double eight. Furthermore he lcoses h s will, is * compctt'y under the the control of another to such a degree that the steeping p-r.*on wonld leap from a balcony, ■hoot ox 8t Jt> himsolf with a dagger, at any moment, if ordered to do so, On returning to himself he remembers nothing of what he members nothing of what to bw clone.