Then it Went on all Right.

Manawatu Herald, 21 March 1899, Page 3

Then it Went on all Right.

• mi m±. The writer of the letter which lam going *•** to copy for you in a moment has a complaint to make. Bather, perhap3, a complaint to place on record, as the reason for it is passed away for the present and she hopes— and we hope with her— that it may not return. The complaint does not refer to any relative, friend, or foe, bat to her own heart. It did not work well. It was weak, and for a long time she was nnable > to find means to make it do better. Which waß a serious matter, inasmuch as the vigor of the circulation of the blood aVaya depends npon the force wherewith the heart drives it. Still, it Beems to me we ought to be a bit indulgent towards the heart in view of t c labour it has to perform. Remember that it never takes a fall minute's rest at one time, night or day. from the instant it begins at your birth until, like a muffled aram, it stops for good and all— life's funeral march to the grave being over. Daring all this while, ten years or a hundred, the heart has got to keep on pumping blood through your body at the rate of from 180 strokes a minute in childhood to 50 or 60 in old age. If you happen to have a j meohanioal turn of mind it may interest ! yon to figure oat how much this stands for in units of horse-power for a given case and time. If not, yon can take my word for it that, merely a* a machine, the heart deserves your respeot. So long as it goes ahead -steadily, up bill and down dale, hammering away softly bnt strongly, you haven't a word to say for or against it ; but when it begins to get weak, maybe skipping a stitch sow and then, yoa call in the doctor, who puts the tip of his finger just below the base of your left thumb, looks wise aniso'emn (as befits the occasion), andsays. •' Ah, yes, yes : I see, I see." But what do»s he see ? He doesn't tel I y ou that ; be leaves medicine, and mentions when he will look in again. Bnt as to the letter I spoke of. "For many years," the lady says, " I suffered from indigestion and weak heart. Very litt'e exertion made me feel weary a d tired. Cold, c'ammy sweats broke over me. I had a poor appettte^and after meals an aching pain at the chest and a miserable sinking Wing at the stomach. I had also much pain at the left side, and my heart would flutter so as to frighten me. At length I became sojraak I was barely abe to get about, being no longer able to do my housework. " Owing to the trouble at my Leart I ob tamed no proper rest at night, and often walked about my bedroom at night. Many timea these attacks were so bad / thought I was dying. During the day a senaa of suffocation sometimes came upon me and I was obliged to go to the door for fresh tir. " Tear after year I snfferpd like this ; now 0 a little better, now as bad as I cou'd be. In November; 1887, while on a visit to Croydon, my son-in-law persuaded me to .try Mother Seigel's Syrup He go me a bottle, and after taking it I experienced great relief. The pain at my heart was easirr, and I felt better «s a whole I could eat well and the food agreed wi h me. 11 1 now felt encouraged to conunue u^ing this remedy. Soon I was in b- ttrr hra'th than for year?, the heart troubles having disappeared altogether. Since that time when I feel any thing ailing mo a fe doses of Mother Seigel's Sy.up never fail to givo the desired ye i*f. I have told many persons of the benefit I have derived from it, and hereby consent to your publishing this statement should you wish to do so."— (Signed) (MrsV Wiltiam Harrington, near Wickford Hill, Clark, Suffolk, "November 12tb, 1897. Now what ai ed Mrs Harrington's heart ? Why, precisely the same 'hings that ailed her lungs, her nerves and her muccles — Weakness. Tberin she is right. It was a weak heart but not a diseased heart. The heart is a muscle, and (seeing the prodigious lot of work it has to do) necessarily a strong, active muscle. But it will not work without pay any more than you or I will. With al the rest of the body|it bns got to be sustained and strengthened by food. Hare we have the point, then. The lady was afflicted with chronle indiestion. For this, reason her whole body grew weak — tne heart, of course, with other parts of ■ - the engine. Hence all the symptoms she .names. He,r immense all-round weakness and pull.down is that sa-ne old dyspepsia. - When Mother Seigel'a Syrup made the digeston of plenty of food possible, the heart went on all right, like a newly-wtmnd dock.