Lemon and Hot Water

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 104, 3 April 1888, Page 2

Lemon and Hot Water

A sallow-faced young man stood at the prescription counter of an up-town drug store the other day and surveyed the clerk with heavy, yellow eyes. 'Not feeling well?' observed the latter pleasantly.

'Should say I wasn't,* responded the other gruffly. * What's the matter ?'

( Headache, liver out of order, can't eat, can't sleep, can't think, can't even drink. Life's a gloomy, dismal, dyspeptic fraud, and I don't know what to do. I believe I'd die to-day if I didn't have a business engagement to-morrow, and I hardly think I could get over it in time to meet my man.' ( I'll tell you what to take,' observed the olerk suavely. 'Hit doesn't I don't know what will.'

'What ie it? I don't want any old medical chestnuts. My stomach is educated up to appreciate novelties.' *It is a simple remedy and efficacious/ returned the clerk. 'It is merely lemon juice squeezed into a glass of hot water without sugar or a stick. Drink a glass of this night and morning and see what the effect will be. I recommended it to a friend of mine the other day who was much Bicker than you. He tried it, and found himself better almost immediately. His daily headaches, which medicine had failed to cure, left him, his appetite improved, and he gained several pounds in weight within a few weeks. After a while he omitted the drink, either at night or in the morning, and now at times does without either of them. lam satisfied from experiment that there is no better medicine for persons who are troubled with bilious and liver complaints than the simple remedy I have given. It is far better than quinine or any other drug, and it is devoid of their injurious consequences. It excites the liver, stimulates the digestive organs and tones up the system generally. It is not unpleasant to take either ; indeed, one soon gets to liking it.'— New York Mail and Express,