Needless Alarm.

Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1896, Page 3

Needless Alarm.

Wbsxheb the suffering whloh people undergo from disease is more physioal than mental is a point not easy to decide. It depends largely on the nature of the disease, and the make-up of the individual. Experience seem to show, however, that in one prevailing disease— "indigestion or dyspepsia, the two kinds of suffering are very evenly divided, and both very great, the mental distress being chiefly due to the illusions and deceptions which attend it. For example, though dyapepsia is solely an affection of the digestive organs it has power to set up disorders in others which always alarm the sufferer, and often perplex his medical advisers. These symptoms or sequences may relate to the bead, the heart, the sight, the hearing, the lungs, or to other organs or functions. Take an illnttration or two.

"In th« spring of 1891," Myi Mr Edward Tath*m, " I fell into a low, weak •t&te of health. I had a foal taita Id tha moath, and wai constantly •pitting up a thick phlegm. My appetite wai poor and after eating I bad f ulnws and pain at the ohest— the latter seemed to be puffed or swollen. What made me most anxious was my breathing, which came to be so difficult and short that at times I could only catch my breath by an effort. I was led to fanoy that something must ail my lungs, especially as so great a quantity of mucus gathered in my throat and mouth, It was usually worse at night, and I got very little sleep on account of it ; sometimes none at all. In a morning I would be quite worn out.

" As time went on I became very weak, and was much pat to it to get about. I took all kinds of medicines and got no proper relief from anything. In February, 1893, Mr William Beardsley, grocer, Cotmanhay, told me how he had been cured of a like trouble by Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup. Acting on his advice I got a bottle of this medicine from Mr Platt's Drug Stores, Awsworth Boad. and after taking it felt quite another man. My breathing was easier, and my food agreed with me. I continued U3ing the Syrup, and got stronger and better every day. When I had taken four bottles I was as well £V 3 ever, being from all pain or discomfort. My wife, who had suffered for years from liver complaint, has taken the Syrup with the same good results as in my case. Tou are at liberty to make any use you like of this statement. (Signed) Edward Tat ham, Tatham's Lane, Cotinanby Road, Ikeston, Derbyshire, March 21st, 1895." "In Ootober, 1888," writes another, " I began to feel weak, heavy, and tired. My appetite was poor, and after eating I had distress at the stomach, together with shorim<B of breath, and a good deal of pain across the chest. Sometimes I would b 8 takea with sudden dizziness, as though I must fall to the ground. Ool|, olammy sweats used to break ont all over ma and I trf mbled from head to loot. Filially, I got w} vyeak I oou!<t scarwly w*lk to »py work.

Indeed, I bad occasionally to leave my work ; I have bepn away as Icfog ft's a month at a time. In this way I suffered for about two years. "In August, 1890, Mr Thompson, the grocer in Church Stivet, urged me to try Mother Siege's Syrup. After taking only one bottle I felt better. My food agreed with me and I was stronger. Continuing wi h this medicine, gradually all pain left m>\ and I comp c ely recovered my health. Since then I have kept the Syrup in the house for use in time of need. You are free to pulilish this statement. (Signed) Wiiliam Mallender, 71. Robinson's Building's. Newhill, Wath, near Sheffield, October 11th, 1895." Gases of supposed disease of the heart, of the nervous system, of the kidneys, Ac, constantly prove to be, not organic affeo- { tions of those parts at all, but merely looal or functional disturbances caused by the toxic or poisonous principles thrown into the blood by the decomposition of fermentation of food into the stomach ; otherwise by dyspepsia or indigestion. But until they, are discovered to be so they are mistakenly treated; and serious, often fataj, results follow* Until pronounced and undeniable symptoms of orgacic mischief show themselves (which is not the case once in a hundred times) you may take it for granted that your ailment is some form of dyspepsia, easily curable by Mother Siegel's Syrup, as demonstrated by the two instances cited above.