Then it Went on all Right.

Manawatu Herald, 28 March 1899, Page 3

Then it Went on all Right.

The writer of the letter which lam goin^ to copy for you in a moment has a complaint to make. Rather, perhaps, a complaint to pace on record, as ihe reason for it is passed away for the present and she hopes— and we hopn with her— that it may not return. The complaint does not ref-r to any relative, fri- nd, or foe, but to her own heart. It did •ot work wel\ It w.i--weak. and for a long litre she was unab c; to find means to mak ■it do bette-. Which was a serious matter, inasmuch as the vigor of the circulation of the b'ood a'ways depends upon the force wherewith Ihe heart drives it. . Still, it seems to m? we ought to be a bit indulgent towards the heart in view of t c labour it has to perform. Rem rnber that it never takes a fuil minuie's rest a one time, night or day, from the ins- ant it begins at your birth until, like a muffled dram, it stops for good and all— lif 's funeral march to the grave being ov r. During all this while, ten years or a hundred, the hear has got 'o k^ep on pumping blood through your body at the rate of from 130 s rokes a minute in childhood to 50 or 60 in old age. If you happen to have a mechanical turn of mind t may in'erest you to figure out how much this stands for Ir'm units of horsepower for a given ca*p and > time. If not, you can take my word for it that, merely as a machine, the heart deserves your respect. So long as it goes ahead steadily, op hill and down dale, hammering away softly bat strongly, you

; haven't a word to say for or against it ; but i when it begins to get weak, maybe skipping a stitch now and then, you call in the doc- , tor, who puts- the tip of his finger just below the base of your left thumb, looks wise and so eran (as befits the occasion), and says, " .. j, y:'s, yes : I see, I see." But what do»3 he see ? He doesn't tell you that ; he leaves medicine, and mentions when ha will look in again. But as to the letter I spoke of. " J?or many years," the lady Says, "I suffered from indigestion and weak heart. Very litt'.e exeiaou made me Le- Weary a^d tired. Cold, clammy sweats broke over me. I had a poor appetite, and af rer meals an aching pain at the eh' at and a miserable sinking fee ing at the stomach. I had also muoh pain at the left side, and my heart would flutter so as to frighten me. At length I became so weak I was barely able to get about, being no longer able to do my housework. * " Owing to the tronb'e at my Lea v t lob tamed no proper rest at night, and often walked about ray bedroom at night. Many times these attacks were so bad I thought I leis dying. During the day a sensd of puffoca ion sometimes came upon me and I was obliged to go to the door for fresh air. " Year after year I suffered like this 5 now a little better, now as bad as I could be. In November 188?, whi'e on a visit to Croydon, my son-in-law persuaded me to try Jlother Seigel's Syrup He go me a bottle, and after taking it I experienced great relief The pain at my heart was easi-r, and I felt better ?s a whole. I could eat well and the food agreed wi h me. " I now felt encouraged to continue u«ing this remedy. Soon I was in b->tt o r hpa'th than fur years; the heart troubles having disappeared altogether. Since that time when I feel any thing ailing me a fe-v doses of Mother Seigel's Sy.up never fail to give- the desired re iff. I have fold many persons of the benefit I have derived from it, and hereby cons <nt to your publishing this s'atement should you wish to do so." — (Signed) (Mrs) William Harrington, near Wickford Hill, Clark, Suffolk, Novemb-r 12th, 1897. Now what ai ed Mrs Harrington's heart ? Why, precisely the same hings that ail' d , her lungs, her nerves and her muscles — Weahness. Therm 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 stroug, active muscle. But it will not work without pay any more than you or I will. With al the rest of the body it has got to be sustained and strengthened by food. Hers we have the point, then. The lady was afflicted with chronic iudiestion. For this reason her whole body grew weak — tne heart, of course, with o>her parts of the engine. Hence all the symptoms sha names. Her immense all-round weaknes ' and pull-down is that same o'd dyspepsia. When Mother Seigel's Syr ip made the digeaion of plenty of food possible, the heart went on all right,' like a newly-wound c ock.