Dr. Lamont's Strong Fingers.

Manawatu Herald, 9 November 1897, Page 3

Dr. Lamont's Strong Fingers.

" I was afraid . you teere going to slip through my fing»rs r " said gocd .old Dr. Lamont. The writer was a boy of about seventeen, then. While a student at school, more than 800 miles from home, I was taken down with pneumonia. I had a tough time, and tot two or three weeks my life was despaired of. But youth and good oare won the fight, and one bright morning I wai ready to go home with my dear father who had come for me. I was weak ■till, but well and happy olear op to the brim. Ob. what a ride I Oh, what sweet air! Oh, what a glorious world I had got back into I and what a reception from mother and aiater* at thm familiar houae. Oh, lifel Oh, health! Oh, duke, duke domum ! Snob an illness, if one survives it, only makes the sense of existence and its blessings more keen and delightful. It is good rather than had. Luoky boy, aot to have slipped through the dootor's fingers. Bat when a man with moat of his days behind him has to write a line like this " All my life I have suffered more or less from disease "—why that is another and •-sadder story. It is the odds between an occasional thunderstorm and a sky always c >vered with clouds. We quote what be says, reminding the reader that in this matter Mr. William Hodkinson voices the experience of millions. He says : " I always had a bad taste in the month, no proper relish for food, and after eating had pain and falness at the chest." These sensations are symptoms of acute indigestion. In the stomach there i 9 marked loss of power. The food is neither ro'led over aa it should be so that the whole of it in turn may be presented to the digestive fluid, nor is it duly moved on towards tha outlet into the bowels. Aa a result it ferments and gives off irritating acids and gases, hence the patient complains of pain weight, distension, acidity, and flatulence in that region. Thence the poisons proceed to every other part of the body, and headache, vertigo, gout, rheumatism, depressed spirits, and a score more of ewils follow ; among them, possibly, nervous prostration, progressive anamia, locomotor ataxis, and more or less complete paralysis. " Frequently," continues Mr. Hodkinson, " I was sick, and as time went on I became very weak and feeble. I consulted doctor after doctor, and took various medicines, but obtained no real or lasting relief from any of them. This describes my general condition until the fortunate day when I read about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I was impressed by the statements o hers had made concerning it, and proceeded to try it. After taking one bottle I found relief, and was soon entirely free from my old complaint. Since that time (now eight years ago) I have enjoyed good health. Kaowipg personally of its virtues, I have recommended this remedy to hundreds, and have never heard of it* having failed to give relief. But for Mother Seigel's Syrup I should have been in my grave years ago. (Signed) William Hodkinson. Hoi ington, near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Aiguat 11th, 1893." I Mr Hodkinson is well known and highly respected. He is a local preacher in the Methodist church, and by employment a quarry master Had he gone into the grave

as he feared he should, he would have been missed and lamented by the ooixp inanity in which he h&s long been useful, we hope, for years to come. Now let us repeat oar leading thought. Short illnesses, even fhough Bharp and dangerous, may result in good rather than harmi Bat a disease thai drags its victim through decades of lingering distress— what shall we say of it ? The trouble and suffering it inflicts ia beyond estimate, and its name is indigestion and- dyspepsia. And the name of the medicine that cares it Mr Hodkinson has done you the favour to mention with clearness and emphasis. |