They Creep on us Unawares.

Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1898, Page 3

They Creep on us Unawares.

Thousand* of the good people who read these articles have grey hairs in plenty. Are you one of them ? If so, do you remember when you saw the first grey hair — on your head, or in your beard, as the case may have been ? It was natural enough ; time is a bleacher as well as a dyer; yet the discovery was a surprise, perhaps a shock to you. You didn't see thai grey hair comiDg. All at once— it was there.

Now behold how many worse things are like that, and learn a valuable lesson.

"TJp to March, 1891," cays Mr John Murray. " I never had any illness in my life. Then, suddenly, as it were, I felt thai something was wrong with me. At first I had an awful bitter taste in the mouth, and after eating I had a pain at the chest and a horrible sensation at the stomach, as of a hot iron burning me.

" I vomited all the food I partook of, and Bometlmes I threw up blood. Nothing I ate would remain on my stomach more than a few minutes, and I was afraid* 1 to take any solid food. Even milk and' slops distressed me.

" Being unable to leave the house I sent tor a doctor, who said that my stomach was ulcerated. He gave me medicines of different kinds, and reoommended applications ; but nothing gave me any relief, and I grew worse and worse.

" In spite of the soothing drops I took I got no sleep night or day. The pain was so severe I could not lie down in bed.

"After four months' suffering I was removed to the Grantown Hospital, where I had the best medical treatment and diet. I was fed solely on liquid food, and my stomach was so inflamed and sore that I threw up most of it. After five weeks in the hospitial I was worse than ever and returned home. There I lingered on in great pain and weakness month after month. I was now pale as death, and so weakl could not draw one foot after the other.