Gold and Blood.

Manawatu Herald, 25 January 1898, Page 3

Gold and Blood.

Many years ago I knew a man who expended a great part of a large fortune in baying gold, in coin a&d in bfl.ru. 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 id explosion took plaoe in hiSTlaboratory irhioh destroyed. the fruits of hik{'{oilf|and left him senseless and badly Wounded amid the wreck. .The rest of his days were pasted 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 modern icienoe of chemistry. But all that is now discredited. No 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 they are impeded by. disease. Illustrations of what can be done on this line are plentiful. Here is one : " Twelve years ago," says Mrs Eliza Matcham, of Armitage House, Sutton-on-Hull, " I had an attaok of rheumatic fever. At ihe same time I had a bad taste in the mouth, poor tppetite, and pain ar_d wet-lit at the chest after eating. I frequently spat up a quantity of greasy, Jatty 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. I spent a great deal of money in doctoring, all to no purpose. Finally I was induced to try yeur medicine. In a short time my food agreed With 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 Matobam, June 2nd, 1893." "For some time previous to 1887,' writes another, "I was troubled with a digestive disorder. In the autumn of that year (1887) I got a severe cold, which brought on rheumatism and lumbago. I had great pain in the back and also in the joints. I consulted a doctor, who gave me medicines, and advised me to go to Buxton. I did so, but lam bound to say obtained little benefit from it. "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 'una.ble to eat or sleep. It was only by hardships and pain that I got about at all. Whilst on a visit to Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, some friends told me of the medicine furnished by you. I used it, and |soon found relief, and gained strength. Cheered up and encouraged by this, I continued taking it, and now, by an occasional dose, I keep wholly free from rheumatism and other troubles. (Philip Hopkin, 20. Maude Street, Grimsby, November 14th, 1893," The eco-ntrio man alluded to in the first part of tbia article failed to cure any disease with hi? odd brew. It was costly, i 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 1 which rheumatism, a common and dangerous ailment, was cured by Mother I Seigel's Curative Syrup, a remedy made ; not fiom blood and gold, but from the I the healing herbs of the fields and forest. ! And why was it cured thus so speedily and I and with such seeming ease? Because 1 rheumatism is no a disease of itself, but ' a symptom of indigestion and dyspepsia. . It is this universal plague that the Syrup soatters 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. ! " '