Seven Pounds in one Week.

Manawatu Herald, 23 July 1895, Page 3

Seven Pounds in one Week.

Not evei'y man who is thin would thank you for fattening him* He doesn't Want to be fat and fot : very gobd reasons. Unnecessary fat is a load to carry about ; it interferes with a man's power to work, shortens his wind, and dulls his wits. Yet on the other hand, a certain amount of flesh is needed for health and 'comfort. For example : A man live feet high should weigh 12011)9 ; and man five feet six inches, 1451b5, ; a man six feet, 1781bs ; It is a : regular ascending scale. The insurance companies allow a variation of 7 per cent, above .ov below it.aud beyond those limits ehavge'an' extra premium. One nhou'dn't be much over or under his pi-opev weight If he wants to be sound and hearty— and we all do wajati tjiat. Now we : will tell you how Mr -Thomas ! Crosby, being under weight, gained seven pounds in a week. He had lost 1$ stone, which is too much off. for a man who was never fleshier than he naturally ought to be. It was this Way. He was right enough up to May, 1801. At that time he began to feel ill and ont of sorts, He had a nasty taste in his mouth — like folten eggs, -he says— and a thick, slimy stuff came on | jiis gums and teeth. His appetite failed, | and .what he did eat was, as yoil might say ■ Under compulsion ', and right afterwards he would have great pain in his stomach ■ and chest. Tiainly, something was amiss with him in that region. He was often dizzy, and cold chills ran over him as | though he were threatened with fever, O| | eoui-Ke we should expect a man who is handled in this way to loge strength. Uv Crosby lost strength. In fact, he got sq weak and nervous that he shook all over, ' and hia hands tremblers, it^a 6lectricii(JN^efe|»jftntno th'rj^bJ^i^JL ?d To uaemsowii words s^ 7 ! rapidly lost 1 ■flesh, waa 1| stona lighter, and could hardly Nvalk bbpuW. -Qma^fr tjfljfents thought I was dvingV&nftaenHfi^haste for the doctor. I saw two doctors in Epworth and one at Haxey, but they were not able j to help tne. Our vicar, Eev. Mr Overton, recommended me to the Lincoln Infirmary, where, I attended for eight %eekjr Ssjftn outdoor patient; without benefit.;VSoon afterwards Mr Sharp,, a chemist, at Epwoith, spoke to me of the virtues of a medicine, known as Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Being interested in what he said, I left off trying other thiugs and began taking this Syrup. In a few days I felt better, and presently I gain el seven ponnds in a week. At that rale I soon got back to my work, and have had the best of health ever since. I tell these facts to everybody, and am perfectly willing they should be published. Yours truly (Signed), Tom Cbosby, Ferry Eoad, Epworth, via Dbncasteif December 23rd, 1892." After reading Mr Crosby's story we scarcely need to ask why he lost flesh. The minute he stopped eating and digesting his usual allowance of food he began to fall away. Trees, they cay, grow aa- much from the air by means of their leaves, as they do froni the soil. But men don't. They've got to be built up through their stomachs. Indigestion and dyspepsia (Mr Crosby's complaiut) stops this process and poisons those who have it, besides. That accounts for all the painful and dangerous symptoms our friend speaks of. The doctors do what they can, but, unluckily, they don't possess the medicine that goes to the bottom of this disease and cures it. The remedy is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and nothing else, so far as we know. It restores digestion, and digestion covers the bones with fat enough for health and good looks.