Gold and Blood.

Manawatu Herald, 18 January 1898, Page 3

Gold and Blood.

»- Many years ago I knew a man who expended a great part of a large fortune in buying gold, in coin and in bar?. This he melted, and with human blood and other unique ingredients, laboured secretly to prepare a mixture that should arrest all disease, renew vitality, and prolong life indefinitely. I need hardly say that he failed. Not only did he fail, but one day an explosion took p'.aoe in his laboratory which destroyed the fruits 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 was not the first man who tried that same experiment, not by thousands. To find the elixir of life was one of the main purposes of the science of alchemy, the barbaric ancestor of the modem science of chemistry. But all that is now discredited. No doctor or s'.udcnt 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 they are impeded by disease. Illustrations of what can be dono on this line are plentiful. Ehro is one: "Twelve years ago," says Mrs Eliza Matcham, of Armitag * 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 wei ;ht at the chest after eating. I frequently spat up a quantity of greasy, fatty matter. Later I was afflicted with rheumatism in my hands and feet. Then I fell into a state of debility which continued year after year, j I spent a great deal of money in doctoring, all to no purpose. Finally I was induced to try your medicine. In a short time my food agreed wi h 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 Eliza Matcham, June 2nd 1893." "For some time previous to 1887,' writes another, " I wa9 troubled with a digestive disorder. In the autumn of that j year (1887) I. got a severe cold, which j brought on rheumatism and lumbago. I had great pain in tha back and also in the joints. I consulted a doctor, who gave me medicines, and advised me to go to Buxton. I did so, bat lam bound to say obtained little benefit from it. j "In January, 1888, 1 had another attack ' of rheumatic fever, which brought me ! down into a low and feeble condition. For days and days together I was unable to eat or sleep. It was only by hardships and paia that I got about at ail. Whilst on & visit to Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, some friends told me of the medicine furnhhed by you. I used it, and soon found relief, and gained strength. Cheered up and encouraged by thu, I continued taking it, and now, by an occasional dose, I keep wholly free from rheumatism and other troubles. (Phil p Hopkin, 20. Maude , Street, Grimsby, November 14th, 1893." The eoc.ntric man aluded to in the first part of tbi3 article failed to cure any disease with his odd brew. It was costly, too, as I«said. Blood is cheap enough, , but bars of gold come high. He was a fanatic and a fool.But here we have two instances in which rheumatism, a common and dangerous ailment, was cured by Mother Seigel'a 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 thu3 so 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.