Two of a Trade.

Manawatu Herald, 25 April 1899, Page 3

Two of a Trade.

.» 1 Two of a trade seldom agree is a common 1 saying. Its weakness, however, resides in the fact that it is a cavilling, sneering saying. The id*a sought to be convened is that the disagreement is the outcome of reciprocal jealousy. While that is likely, it is not necessary, or evan a philosophical inference. Two of a trade may easi y se reasons for an honest difference of opinion to whioh t.e outsider is blind. Again, two of a trada may agree and both be wrongon a point, of course, connected with thenown industry. Some years ago thrte wa high debate aver the question whether a painting, exhibit din Paris, was an origina Veltskuez or a copy. Half the artists and connoisseurs In Europe got hot under the collar about it. It was one or th • other— I 10 they said. Later on t c fact came out. ( It was neither an original nor a copy it was ;

And so runs speculative judgment in everything. Here ia a case of two doctors ; both, doubt ess, competent men. If they were •wrong, or if only one was wrong— but let us have the story first. It c. me 3 from a reputab c source, and ia well corroborated. "In March, 1891," Bays the relater, " I had a severe atack of influenza, which prostrated me for two months. After this I cou d not get up my strength. My appetite was poor, and what little I did eat {rave me much pain at (he chest and erouud the heart. Sharp, cutting pains in tue region of the heart seized m-s every now and again, sometimes bo bad I feared I was going to die. At night I got little or no seep on account of wind, which rose into my throat until I fairly gaaped for breath. During the painful attacks of my complaint perspiration wou'd stind in beads upon my face. " I soon lost strength to that extent I could not stand. Indeed, I was as weak as a child. I was often ao dizzy I had to oa'ch hold of something to keep me from fa ling. Several times these attacks have come oa ma a concerts, obliging my friends to conduct mo home. As time passed on I grew more and more feeble and abandoned all hope of ever being well again. " I had two doc'ors attending me who perscribed medicines ; which, however, eased me only f jr a time and then I wa9 as bad ss ever. " One doctor said I had pleurisy ; the othtr said I had heart dieeaee. " For two and one-half years I lingered along nearly as much dead as a ive, all my relativeg and friends thinking I wou'd not recover. In November 1893, a book was left at my house in which I read of a case like mine having been cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup. My wife procured me a bottle from the Provincial Drug Stores in West gate Sireet, and the first bottle gave me so much relief that I continued with the medicine. I could then eat well and the food agreed with me ; the pain round my heart soon ceasing. "In a short time my strength returned and I got baok to my work well and vigorous, Since then I have been in the best of health. You are at liberty to publish ibis 8 atement and refer to me." — (Signed) William Henry Jervis, 48, Rendlesham Road, All Saints, Ipswich, November, 18 ih 1897> One of Mr Jervis' doctors pronounced ; his complaint to be pleurisy ; the other I said it was heart disease. Where they both right, or both wrong? Or was one right and the other wrong ? In the la' tor case — which one? Judging itarar the symptoms as set forth by Mr Jervis the probability is that both were right— as far a» they went. The sac or bag which surrounds the heart (called the pericardium), and the sac in which the lungs rest (called the pleurae), - are parts of tha lymphatic system ; which is the especial abiding place and stamping of the kind ©f poison, produced" by the diseased digestive system, and the cause of rheumatism, gout, pleurisy, and heart disease. Now, after (if not before) his attack of influenza Mr Jervis suffered from acute dyspepsia with torpid liver, which engendered the poison that set up a mi d form of both pleurisy and heart disorder. When the real and underlying ailment of all — the dyspepsia— was cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup these supplementary or consequential troub es vanished, as might be expected. I So we see that— strange as it may seem —two of a trade can differ and both be right.