Gold and Blood.

Manawatu Herald, 11 January 1898, Page 3

Gold and Blood.

+ Many years ago I knew a man who expended a great pait of a large fortune in buying gold, in coin and in bars. This he melted, and with human blood and other unique ingredients, laboured seoretly to prepare a mixture that should arrest all disease, renew vitality, and prolong life indefinitely. I need hardly say tbat ho failed. Not only did he fail, but one day an explosion took plaoe in his laboratory wbich destroyed the fruita of his toil and left him senseless and badly wounded amid the wreck. The rest of his days were passed in an asylum. Yet he waß not the first man who tried that Bame experiment, not by thousands. To find the elixir of life was one of the main purposes ef the soience of alchemy, the barbaric ancestor of the modern science of cheaaiatrv. But all that ia now diicredited. jNo doctor or student of healing even pretends to possess or to seek an essence of life. What is undertaken, however, and successfully, is to ascertain the truth about nature's functions, and to help her perform them when thoy are impeded by disease. I Illustrations of what can be done on this J -line are plentiful. Here is one : " Twelve years ago," says Mrs Eliza Matcham, of Armitaga House, Sutton-on-Hull, " I had an attack of rheumatic fever. At the same time I had a bad taste in the mouth, poor appetite, and pain and weight at the ohest after eating. I frequently spat up a quantity of greasy, fatty matter. Later I was afihoted with rheumatism in my hands and feet. Then I fell into a state of debility wbich continued year after year. I spent a great deal of money in doctoring, all to no purpose. Finally 1 was induced to try your medicine. In a short time my food agreed wilh me, the sickness ceased, I grew stronger, and the rheumatism by degrees abated. Now by taking your remedy occasionally I keep in good health. (Signed) Mrs liliza Matcham, June 2nd, 1893." "For some time previous to 1887,' writes another, ''I was troubled with a digestive disorder. In the autumn of that j year (1887) I got a severe cold, which oought on rheumatism and lumbago. I ' had great pain in the back and also in the joints. 1 consulted a doctor, who gavo me medicines, and advised me to go to iiuxion. I d.d so, but lam bound to say obtained lhile benefit from it. "In January, 1888, 1 bad another attack of rheumatic fever, which brought me down into a iow and feeble condition. For diys and days together 1 was unable to tai or sleep". It was only by hardships aud paiu that 1 got about at ail. Whilst on a visit to Little Downturn, Cambridgeshire, some friends told me of the medicine furnished by you. I used it, and soon found relief, and gained strength. C'heeied up and encouraged by this, I coniinued taking it, and now, by an occasional dose, I keep wholly free from rheumatism aud otber troubles. (Phil.p JBopkin, 20, Maude Street, Grimsby, November 14th, 1893." The eccentric man alluded to in the first part of this artic.e failed to cure any disease wilh his odd brew. It was costly, too, as I said. Blood ig cheap enough, but ban of gold come high.' He waa a f anatio and a fooL But here we have two instances in whioh rheumatism, a common aad dangerous aitment, was cured by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, a remedy made not fiom blood and gold, but from the the healing herbs of the fields and forest. And why was it cured thus co speedily and and with such seeming ease? Because rheumatism is no a disease of itself, but a symptom of indigestion and dyspepsia. It is this universal plague that the Syrup scatters and drives away, its children following after. Thus we keep our blood in our veins and our gold— if we have any— in our pockets.