Only a little at a time.

Manawatu Herald, 20 October 1896, Page 3

Only a little at a time.

There are sound objections to one's knowing too muoh about bis own body. I am going to tell you what they are ; not to-day, bat 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 across 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 I the liver. The most painful (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, which is suspended to a mere point of the diaphragm ana shakes about with every movement I you make. Now, from the location of the liver we have a word used for ages to exprees one of the most unhappy conditions a human being can fall into— the word hypochondria (often abbreviated to " hpo "j, the Vfovd meaning wider the cartilages. " For seven year?," writes a correspondent, " I suffered from complaint of the liver. I was very bilious, my skin was sallow and dry, and ihe whites of my eyes yellow. I had much pain and weight at my right side, and was constantly depressed and melancholy. It seemed to be out of my power to take a hopeful or cheerful view of anything. The effect of this complaint on the mind was one of the aspects of it hardest to bear. " I had lost my natural appetite, and ate to support life ; but there was no more any genuine relish for food or drink. The bad taste in my mouth made all that I took taste bad. Sometimes I wouid be taken sick and throw up all I had eacen ; 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 for the moment, none conferred any lasting benefit, and I was soon as bad as ever. "In March, 1892, 1 read in a small book of what Mother: Siegel's Cutativa Syrup had done in cases similar to mine, and was especially interested in the account given in the book of the nature and duties of the liver, and its disorders. I got a bottle of the Syrup from Boots' Drug Stores, and after taking it a few days felt quite like *a new man. It seemed to correct my stomach atid iiver and clear my system of all bile ; and it left me in capital health. Since that time 1 have kept Mother Siegel's Syrup in the house as a family medioine and have commended it to all my friends as the best known cure for ailments like the one from which I suffered so miserably and so long. You can use this statement as you like. (Signed) John Gent, 50, Coventry Boad. iiuiwe.l, Nottingham, Maich 21st, 1895." " In the spring of 1891," writes anoiher, " I found mysplf in bad health. I had no appetita, and the little I did cat did me no good, gave nvj no streDgih. I had great pain aud weight at the ciest and right side, and my skin turned sallow and dry. My kidneys also acted badly, aud( rom time to time I had attacks of gravel ; and cold, c am my, weakening swja s broke out all over me. Behig ouly seventeen years old when the trouble, began 1 was greatly a armed and anxious. No dootor was able help me, and I continued thus for over three years. In June, 1894, I b.gan to use Mother Siegel'3 .-yrup and soon felt batter lighter, and more cheerful. Aud by taking it a few weeks long-r I recovered my health and strength. Since then, wht n I have any stomach, liver, or kidney symp<. Toms I resort to Mother Siegel's Syrup and il Lever fails to Bet mo right. You can publish this letter. (Signed) C. Hanson, 6, New .nn Lane, Gloucester, May 31st, 1895. 1 ! The stomach, the liver, and the kidneys are all connected parts of the food and digestive system. When disordered i (usually through torpidity of the stomach) they cripple the' body and throw a gloom as of night over the mind. On tha earliest signs of anything wrong with them use Mather Siegel's Syrup at once.