They Creep on us Unawares.

Manawatu Herald, 25 October 1898, Page 3

They Creep on us Unawares.

Thousands of the good people who read theee articles have grey hairs in plenty. Are you one of them? If so, do you remember when you saw ihe first grey hair on your head, or in your beard, as the case may have been ? It was natural enough ; time i* a bleacher as well as a dyer; yet the discovery was a surprise, perhaps a shock to you. You didn't sea that grey hair coming. All at once— it was there. Now behold how many worse things are like that, and learn a valuable lesson. " Up to March, 1891," says Mr John Murray. " I never had any illness in my life. Then, suddenly, as it were, I felt that 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 sometimes I threw up blood. Nothing I ate would remain on my stomach more than a few minutes, and I was afraid to take any solid food. Even milk and slops distressed me. " Being unable to leave the honse I sent for a doctor, who said that my stomach was ulcerated. He gave me medicines of different kinds, and recommended applications *, but nothing gave me any relief, and I grew worse and worse. 41 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 tne Grantown Hospital, where I had the beßt 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 weak I could not draw one foot after the other. " I had given up all hopes of recovery, and was gradually wasting away, expeoting no relief except in death, wbion I thought could not be far away. "This was in February, 1892. It was then I first heard of Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup, and made up my mind to see whether there could possibly be any virtue in it for so desperate a case as mine. " Not being able to procure the Syrup in our neighbourhood my son wrote to London for a supply. It may seem hard to believe, but it is true, that the first few doses gave .me welcome relief. Continuing to take it I was soon abe to take nourishing food, and felt my strength coming back. After a little all pain left me*, and I have never ailed anything since ; but can follow Hie hound* and— do any kind of work. " J thaiik my Creator for making Mother SeigeVs Syrup known to me, for without it I should now be in my grave. I tell everybody that it saved my life., You are welcome to publish to all the world. (Signed) John Murray, Cragmore Cottage, Abernethey (near Balmora'), Grantown, August 28th. 1893." Mr Murray is a man of high character, and well known in the district. He is in ■he employ of D. Jardine, Esq., of Bairock Lodge. His disease was acute inflammatory dyspepsia, for an attack of which (unconsciously to himself) his systen had long been preparing. What seems a sudden illness," Bays an eminent physician, "is but the climax tf a series of changes which luave. been going oh for a considerable time, the slight warning symptom* not having been noticed by the patient" So grey hairs come. So disease comes. So death comes Watch for the earlier cigns and keep Mother Seigel'a Syrup at hand.