Two of a Trade.

Manawatu Herald, 9 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 is a cavilling, sneering saying. The idf a sought to be conveyed is that the disagreement is the outcome of reciprocal jealousy. While that is likely, it is not necessary, or even a philosophical inference. Two of a trade may easily see reasons for an honest difference of opinion to which the outsider is blind. Again, two of a trade may agree and both be wrong — on a point, of course, connected with their own 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 oollar about it. It was one or the other — so they said. Later on the fact came out. It was neither an original nor a copy it was a replica. The experts were mistaken. And so runs speculative judgment in everything. Here is 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 ernes from a reputab'e source, and is well corroborated.

"In March, 1891," say3 the re'ater, " I had a severe attack 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 gave me much pain at the chest and around the heart. Sharp, cutting pains in the region of the heart seized ma every now and again, sometimes so bad I feared I was going to die. At night I got little or no s^ep on account of wind, which rose into my throat until I fairly gasped for breath. During the painful attacks of my complaint perspiration wou ] d stmd 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 so dizzy I had to catch hold of something to keep me from falling. Several times tbesa attacks have come oa me a', concerts, obliging my friends to conduct me home. As lime passed on I grew more and more feeble and abandoned all hope of ever being well again. " I had two doc'ors attanding me who perscribed medicines ; which, however, eased me only f -t a time and then I wa^ as bad ss ever.

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

" For two and one-half year« I lingered along nearly as much dead as a'ive, a'l my relatives and friends thinking I would not recover. In November 1893, a book was left at my house in which I read of a case like mine having leen cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup. My wife procured me a bottle from the Provincial Drug Stores in West gate Street, and the first bottle gave me so much relief that I continued « ith the medicine. I couM 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 of lizalth. You are at liberty to publish this statement and refer to me." — (Signed) William Henry Jervis, 48, Bendlesham Road, All Saints, Ipswich, November, 13:h 1897.

One of Mr Jervis' doctors pronounced his comp'aint to be pleurisy ; the other said it was heart disease. Where they both right, or both wrong ? Or was one right and the other wrong ? In the latter case — which one? Judging fro-a the symptoms as set forth by Mr Jervis the probability is that both were right — as far as they went. The sac or bag which surrounds the heart (called the pericardium), and the sac in which the lungs rest (called the pleura), are part3 of tha lymphatic system ; which is the especial abiding place and stamping of the kind of 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 J rvis suffered from acute dyspeps'a 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 — wa3 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.