Only a little at a time.

Manawatu Herald, 13 October 1896, Page 3

Only a little at a time.

There are sound objections to one's knowing too much about his own body. I am going to tell you what they are; not to-day, but soon. To make sure of them you will have to watch these articles sharply in the newspapers. Yet we should know a little ; and a fraction of that little I will serve up now. Please favour me with your attention. Bight aoro«9 the middle of the body is a large, thin, flat muscle, stretched like a canvas awning — the diaphragm. By it you are divided into two large storeys or Compartments. The upper one contains the heart and lungs, the lower one contains (chiefly) the stomach, the intestines, and the liver. The most painfnl (internal) diseases occur downstairs, the least painful upstairs. The entire right side of the lower compartment, from the top down to the short ribs, is filled by the liver, whioh is suspended to a mere point of the diaphragm and shakes about with every movement you make. Now, from the location of the liver we have a word used for ages to ezprees one of the most unhappy conditions a human being can fall into- the word hypochondria (often abbreviated to "hpo"), the word meaning under the cartilages. " For seven years," writes a correspondent, " I suffered from complaint of the liver. I was very bilious, my skin was sallow and dry, and the whites of my eyes yellow. I had much pain and weight at my right side, and was constantly depressed and melanoholy. It seemed to be out of my power to take a hopeful or cheerful view of anything. The effect of this complaint «n the mind was one of the aspects of it hardest to bear. "I had lost any natural appetite, and ate to support life ; but there was no more any genuine relish for food or drink. The bad taste in my month made all that I took taste bad. Sometimes I would be taken sick and throw up all I bad eaten ; and after a meal, no matter how slender and simple, I was troubled with fulness and pain at the chest. I used many kinds of medicines and while some of them may have relieved me tor the moment, none conferred any lasting benefit, and I was soon at bad as ever.

"In March, 1892, 1 read in a small book o! what Mother 'Siegel's Curative Syrup had done in oases similar to mine, and waß •specially interested in the account given in ths book of the nature and duties of the liver, and its disorders. I got a bottle of the Syrup from Boots 1 Drug Stores, and after taking it a few days felt quite like *» b«w man. It seemed to correct nay stomach and liver and dear my syßtem of all bile ; and it le/t me in capital health. Since that time I have kept Mother Siegel's Syrup in the house as a family medicine and nave commended it to all my friends as the best known oure for ailments like the one from which I suffered so miserably and so long. Ton can use this statement as you like. (Signed) John Gent, 59, Coventry Boad, ttulwett, Nottingham, Maroh 21st, 1895."

"In the spring of 1891," writes another, ft I found myself in bad health. I had no appetite, and the little I did eat did me no good, gave me no strength. I had great pain and weight at the cheat and right side, and my Bkin turned sallow and dry. My kidneys also acted badly, andt rom time to time I had attaoks of gravel ; and cold, clammy, weakening sweats broke out all over me. Being only seventeen years old when the trouble began I was greatly alarmed and anxious. No doctor wai able help me, and I continued thus for over three years. In June, 1894, 1 began to use Mother Siegel's Syrup and soon felt better lighter, and more cheerful. And by taking it a few weeks longer I recovered my health and strength. Since then, when I have any stomach, liver, or kidney symptoms I resort to Mother Siegel's Syrup and it Lever fails to set me right. You can publish this letter. (Signed) C. Hanson, 6, New Jnn Lane, Gloucester, May 31st, 1895.'

The stomach, the liver, and the kidneys are all connected parts of the food and digestive system. When disordered (usually through torpidity of the stomach) they cripple the body and throw a gloom as of night over the mind. On the earliest signs of anything wrong with them use Mather Siegel's Syrup at once.