What Dreams may come.

Manawatu Herald, 7 May 1895, Page 3

What Dreams may come.

It* >'• ■I* 4 , ... zri 4 - ■ * In a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, Drß. W. Rifltiardßon-Bftys*th«fr tfie sleep of health is dreamless. " Dreams," lays Shakespeare, " are children of an idle brain." If both the doctor and the poet are right <-it follows that idle brains are unhealthy brains. No doubt there might faa truth in the inference, but that is not Quite the point. Are all dreams signs of a diseased condition? To this the doctor Sijs " No. 1 '* He divides dreamff into two classes ; those started by noises or- other Onuses outside the sleeper, and those produoed by pain, fever, or indigestion. Here we inject a fact. We receive multitudes of letters containing this affirmation, almost in identioal words : / was worse tired in the: morning than when I went to bed." To this the doctor ha 3an answer. He says, " When we feel wearied in the morniog.veri/ i likelj^it results frojn dreams thai x6t Have forgotten* Quite so.

In other words there is a bodily condition whioh may prevent a person from frorkiag- by day at his usual calling, but Obliges him to labour all night under a mental stimulus of whioh he knows nothing save by.- its resulting exhaustion. These Unhappy wretches toil harder, therefore, for no compensation, when they are ill, than they have to do to earn a living when they are well. * What an infernal and' frightful fact! And this too without taking if to account their physical suffering At all times. " Night," said Coleridge, " is my hell." From one of the letters referred to we quote what a woman Bays of her daughter : •• She |Of» uorse fixed in a morning them when the went fy bed" Poor girl* Those •' forgotten dreams " had tossed her about a? a ship is tossed in a tempest. Night her day of labour. ' The mother's simple tale is this : "In Jane, 1890, my daughter Ann Elizabeth lieoame low, weak, and fretful, and complained of pain in the chest after eating. fjtxt her stomach wai so irritable that she iomited all the food she took. It was twf uV to see her. heave and strain. For three 'weeks nothing passed through her Itomaoh except a little soda water and lime water. Latter on, her feet and legs began to swell and puff from dropsy. She vras now pale as death and looked as though she had not a drop of blood in her body, and was always cold. Month after month 5 by and she got weaker every- day. She could not walk without suppofij xor she had lost the proper use of ber legs, and her body swayed from side to side as she moved.

"A doctor attended her for twelve months, and finally said it was no use giving her any more medicine as it would do no good. In May, 1891, I took her to the Dewsbory Infirmary. She got no batter there, and I thought I was surely going to lose her. She was then thirteen •ears of age. •< One day a lady (Mrs Lightoller) called At my shop, and seeing how ba.d,.my dtughi^wMrßpoke : calied Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and perraided os to try it. I got a bottle from the Tbornhill Lees Co-operative Stores, and she ljegan {aking it. i n two days she {oond a little relief ; the Bickness waß not B o frequent. She kept on, with the Syrup ft n* •ttadily improved. Soon sbe was

string as ever; and has since been in the best- of health and can take any kind of fdofi* After, she had taken the Syrtig only twdtfeeks the neighbours we're surprised at her improved appearance and I told them what (had brought it about— that Seigel's Syrnb had dona What the doctors Codld ijot do; it sav.ed her life: Yours -truly', {Signed)* (Mrs) SahaM Aim SifeAiib. i0; Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dews* bury, October 11th, 1892." — The inciting cause of all this young girl's pitiful suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia, dropsy being one of Us moßt dangerous jiymptoms; It attactts both yotith and age., its fearful and often fatal results beinfodde/ to the fact that physieiails usuaUy^eanhe^ympjtbnis litSte^d of the disease itself. '^'*>H' '--^ "A child's dreirnß," Ba^sJ&Eiciardsbn, " areMg^ns of disturbed health' and should be rjfcarded witfiiknxiety.;^'^e same- is truest. th r e ; dreams of olde«0«ople. ( They, rriean^oisbn in the sto^aoSSLagfl pomt 7 to, the. irtfflediate uae of Bwttier >* Seigel's (Jurattve jSyriip, . „