Two of a Trade.

Manawatu Herald, 2 May 1899, Page 3

Two of a Trade.

Two of a trade seldom agree is a common saying. Its weakness, however, resides in the fact that it it a cavilling, sneering Baying. The idea sought to be conveyed ii that the disagreement is the outcome of reciprocal jealousy. While that is likely, it ia not necessary, or even a philosophical inference. Two of a trade may easily see reasons for an honest difference of opinion J to which tue outsider is blind. Again, two of a trade may agree and both be wrong — on a point, of course, conneoted with thrown industry. Some years ago there was high debate over the question whether a painting, exhibited in Paris, was an original Velaskuez or a copy. Half the artists and connoisseurs in Europe got hot under the collar about it. It was one or th" orbpr — so they said. Later on t h e fact came out. It was neither an original nor a copy it was a r plica. The experts were mistaken. And so runs speculative judgment in everything. Here is a cane of two doctors ; both, doubt ess, competent men. If they wer* wrong, or if only one was wrong —bd let us have the story first. It c mes from a repntab c source, and is well corroborated. "In March, 1891." say* the re'ater, " I had a severe attack of influenza, which prostrated me for two months. After this I oou d not get up my strength. My appetite was po >r, and what little I did c t gave me much pain at the chest and around the heart. Sharp, cutting pains in the region of the heart seized m ■ every now and again, sometimes so bai I feared I was going to die. At night I got i tie or no sleep on account of wind, which rose into my throat until I fairly ga«ped for .breath. During the painful attacks of my complaint perspiration woud st ni in beads upon my face. " I soon lost strength to that extent I 00Q14 ft) itftDd. Iq4#M, IWM R9 W«ftk A3

a child. I was often so dizzy I had to catch hold of something to keep me from falling. Several timeß these attacks have come on me a 1 concerts, obliging my friends to conduct me home. As time passed on I grew more and more feeble and abandonad all hope of ever being well

again. "I had twodoc'ors attending me who perscribed medicines ; which, however, cased me only f,r a time and then T wai as bad ss ever.

" One doctor said I had pleurisy ; the other said I had heart disease.

11 For two and one-ha f years I lingered R^ong oesriy as much d nd aa a ive, all my re'atives and friend* thinking I wou'd not recover, la November 1893, a book was left at my house in which- 1 read of a case like mine having been cured by Mother S-igel's Syrup. My wife procured me a bottle from the Provincial Drug Stores in West gate Street, and the first bottln gave me so much re ief that I continued with the medicine. I cou'd 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 back to my ' work well and vigorous, Since then I have been in the best 0/ health: You are at liberty to publish this statement and refer to me." — (Signed) William Hpnry Jervis, 48, Rendleaham Road, All Saints, Ipswich, November, 13 h 1897.

One of Mr Jervis' doctors pronounced his comp'aint to be pleurisy ; the oth?r ■aid it was heart disease. Where they both right, or both wrong? Or was one right and the other wrong? In the later case — which one? Judging frora the symptoms aa set forth by Mr Jervis the probability is that both were right— as far as they'xoent.

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 the lymphatic system ; which is the especial abiding place and stamping of the kind of poison, produced by the diseased digestive system, and fie cause of rheumatism, gout, pleurisy, and heart disease. Now, after (if not before) his attack of influenza Mr J rvis stiff red from acute dyspeps a with torpid liver, which engendered the poison that set up a mid form of both pleurisy ond 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. So we see that— strange as it may seem —two of a trade can differ and both be right. ■■