Things Slowly Learned.

Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1898, Page 3

Things Slowly Learned.

There is a man in Scotland who used to write many readable and instructive things. He signed himself " A' Country Parson," and a bright parson he is. One of his essayß is entitled, "Things Slowly Learned," a good line of thought for anybody. Well, here is one of the things slowly learned — that disease doesn't jump on a man like a wild cat oat of a tree, but develops from seeds and conditions, just as roses and weeds do. We who write and print the essays of which these linea are one, have said this a hundred times ; but all the people don't eeem to have thoroughly graßprd the idea yet. For if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had done so, he wouldn't have suff- re.l ten years from attaoks of rheumatic fever. In November, 1891, he says he had a fearful time with it. He tells us in a letter that he had dreadful pains nil over his body, and was co sore he couldn't bear anything to touch him. Even the bedclothes hurt him, like a feather against a sore eye. "I got little or no sleep," he says, " tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift of position. " I had a foul taste in the mouth, and «pat up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down gave me great pain at the chest and sides. For five months I was confined to my room, most of the time unable to leave my bed, and what I suffered during that time I have no words to des* oribe." Any one who has ever been through that sort of thing can easily believe what Mr Treasure says ; for when every muscle and joint in a man's body is throbbing with inflammation, it isn't any common collection of words that can set forth his feelings. It is agony and torment in the supreme degree. Yet we ought to know better than to have it. But we don't — not .yet. " I wa3 perfectly helpless," continues our friend, " and could scarcely move. In fact, the people h^d to move me from one side of the bed to the other. Month after month I was laid up and suffering in this way. I had a doctor attending me, but he wasn't abe to do much to relieve me. "Final'y, to cut the fitory short, I came to hear of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I read about it in a book that was left at ray house. The book said ihis medicine was go -d for rheumatism, and so my wife got me a bottle from Mr Ford, the grooer, at. Oakhill. After taking it for a week I felt great refief. Then I kept on taking it and not loni? afterwards I found it had cured me ; it had completely driven (he rheumatism out of my system. I am willing you should publish these fac's, and you can refer any inquirers to me. (Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon and Horses Inn), Doulting, Shepton Mallett, November 3rd, 1893." Now let's hark baok a moment. To the thoughtful reader Mr Treasure's story may look a trifle confused and mixed. That i«, he desorib^- the symptoms of rheumatism proper in connection with a lot of other symptoms whioh wouldn't seem at the fiist blush to have anything to rto with rheumatism. But there's where Mr Treasure is right and the reader wrong. His acoount shows that he was a \iotim of ohronio indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liv-r — and that covers the whol« ground. Rheumatism [and this the slowly learned lesson) is merely a nasty symptom of a dyspeptic condition of the digestive organs. At the outset it means too much eating and drinking Thisteeults in the formation of a poisonous acid which fills the body and produces the local outbreak called rheumatism. Hence we cure it from within not from without. And this is true idea is also a new idea — do you see ? Try to get this less, n by heart. You can prevent rheumatism by Seigel's Syrup : you can cure it by Seigel's Syrup. But it is more comfortable to prevent it.