Dr. Lamont's Strong Fingers.

Manawatu Herald, 16 November 1897, Page 3

Dr. Lamont's Strong Fingers.

» " I was afraid you were going to slip through my lingers," said gocd old Dr. Lamont. The writer was a boy of about seventeen, then. While a student at school, more than 300 miles from home, I was taken down with pneumonia. .1 had a tough time, and for two or three weeks my life was despaired of. Bat youth and good care won the fight, and one bright morning I was ready to go home with my dear father who had come for me. I was weak stilt, but well and happy clear up to the brim. Oh. what a ride! Oh, what sweet air 1 Oh, what a glorious world I had got back into 1 and what a recep'ion from mother ar.d sisters at the familiar house. Oh, life! Oh, health 1 Oh, duke, duke domum ! Such an illness, if one survives it, only makes the eensc of existence and its blessings more keen and delightful. It is good rather than bad. Lucky boy, not to have Blipppd through the doctor's fingers. But when a man with most of his days behind him lias to write a line like this •' Ail my lift I have suffered more or lesa from disease "—why that is another and sadder story. It is the odds betwf en an occasional thunderstorm and a sky always oovered with clouds. We quote what he says, reminding the reader that in this matter Mr. William Hodkinson voice; the experience of millions. He says : " I always had a bad taste in the mouth, no proper relish for food, and after eating had pain and fulness at the chest." These sensations are symptoms of acute indigestion. Io the stomach there is marked loss ol pr>wer. The food 13 neither ro led over as it ■ hould be so that the whole of it in iurn may be presented to the digestive fluid, nor is it duly moved on towards the outlet into iho bowels. As a result it ferments and gives oil irritating acids and gases, hnnce t!;f paiient complains of pain weight, distortion, acidity, and. flatulence in that n gion. Thence the poisons proceed to every oth.-r part of the body, and headache, vertigo, gout, rheumatism, depressed spirit 1 , and a score more of evils follow ; among them, possibly, nervous prostration, progressive anaemia, locomotov 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 whin I read about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I was impressed by the statements 0 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. Knowing personally of.its virtues, I have recommended this remedy to hundreds, and have never heard of its having failed to give relief. But for Mother Seigo'.'s Syrup I should have been in my grave years ngo.. (Signed) William Hodkinson. Ho'lington. near Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, August 11th, 1898." Mr Hcdkinson 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 feartd he should, he would have been missed and lamented by the community in which he has long been useful, we hop", for years to come. Now let us repeat our leading thought. Short illnesses, even though sharp and dangerous may result in good rather than harm. But a disease that drags its victim throagh decades of lingering distress — what shall we say of it ? The trouble and suffering it inflicia is beyond estimate, and its name is indigestion and dyspepsia. And the name of the medicine that cures it Mr Hodkinson has done you the favour to mention wiih clearness and emphasis.