STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK.

Manawatu Herald, 6 February 1900, Page 3

STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK.

«■* Madam," said s wis- old physician to a woman who had brought a feeble, anaemic, and poorly developed d u-jhfcr to bim for examination. " Madam, the Ire tment of this girl should have betn b'gun two huudv d years ago." "Sir," she exclaimed, "1 don't understand what you mean." •"« Probably not, -madam," replied this student of men and of medicine, " and yott wouldn't even shou d 1 try to explain it." Bow do you best pee a pictu c on the wall ? Why, by s° anding back and looking through -ye-u* noUowed fist or 'hroogh a tube. we»l then, let na first n-ad Mrs X, Coombeß' letter, and afterwards get a Utt c > of what painters call perspective on it and w ac if we caa nndewtami the lesson it taifriut. " * "lii^he spring of last year, 1895," she , says, " I had an attack of pleuris*-, which I left me low and weak. Subsequently I could not get np my strength, do what I

would. My appetie was poor, and afte eating I had severe pains about my chest at my side, and bptweeu my shoulders, had muscular paine in my arms and shoul ders-^-in fact all over inc. I got little 01 bo Bleep, and felt quite worn out in th< movning. "As time went tin I g*">t weaker anc weaker ohd Was scarcely abe to get about 1 came to be so low lhat I thought 1 * even should be better axain. I saw a doctor and took medicines," but nothing did me any 'good. "In December (1895) my sister, who liv- s it Oxford told me of tho benefi sh»* had derived from Mother Seigel's Syrup. 1 got a bott'e iir >m Mr CoOpoi*, chemist, 0 abuvy Road, and after t- king I' found great ""relief. I could eat Well, and food agreed J with me. • < ■• _ *" I now ga'ned strong h, and after taking ! four bottles wai well as ever and free from a'l pa n, muscular or otherwise. I know Others who have been benefited by the Ba • c | med!ci»e. You can publish thia.a.a.euieni* : a*** you *.".k*., (Signed) CliiK'ott-3 Ca,.ii.'>. s, j 177,. O'dbury Koad, West Smethwick, Bir mmgLain, October B.h, 1696." That is her etter— a plain, truthful, and well-written letter. But what do we see behind the simplo facts as she sets them down ? Is there anything suggested by that attack of ptedrisy she speaks of ? Was Vuit the beginning ? No. Pleurisy is the name given to an inflammation of tbe spaces or cavities in which the lungs rest. When the inflammation* attacks the lungs themselves we call it pneumonia ; if the bronchial tubes, bronchitis ; and so on. But they are the same thing, from the same cause— namely, impure blood. When the b cod is thus polluted, the smallest provocation— a slight cold — may set up any of the above ailments. Bheumatism (which Mrs Coombes had) belongs to the same group or family of maladies. But how comes that; impurity or corruption of the blood in which these things arise ? I'll tell you> in the hope that you wtll remember it. Indigestion, dyspepsia, i fomentation of food in the stomach, torpid 1 liver, which leaves the bile acids in the blood instead of removing them, poisonous dirt and filth from the stomach getting into the circulation — that's where the trouble comes from. So we see that in cases of p'eurisy, Ac, there is always what the doctors call a " history " of dyspepsia. Although this lady had keen dyspptic symptoms after the pleurisy, a previous imP'rf'ction of her digestion— whether she realised it or not— laid the foundation for the pleurisy, the rheumatism, and all that followed. i Now that is what w« see as we stand baok and look. And this is the practical use you are to make of the' kn wledge : Take care of ihe condi:ion cf your sto-m-ioh, and the first day y.u feel anything wrong with if, resort to Mother Seigel's Syrup without wai ing to find out whether you are go-.ng to b* wor>e or not. When your house takes fire you don't wait to see how bad it is Hkely to be ; you stop it immediate y. Do so with indigestion. The oid doctor was right in what he ssid to the woman about her daughter. The ghl coul n't help tho neglect cf her ancestors; but we can do something towards takiDg care of our-elves.