STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK.

Manawatu Herald, 13 February 1900, Page 3

STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK.

«• Madam m said a wise old physician to a woman who had brought a feeble, anamic, and poorly developed daughter to him for examination. "Madam, the treatment of this girl should have been begun two hun* d " d sS?' B shf exclaimed. "I don't underBtand what you mean." ••Probably not, madam," replied this student of men and of medicine, "and you wouldn't even should I try to explain * 'How do you best see a picture on the wall ? Why, by standing back and looking through your hollowed fistor through a tube "Well then, let us first read Mrs Coombes' letter, and afterwards get a little of what painters call perspective on it and ace if we can understand the lesson it te "ln Bthe8 the spring of last year, 1895," she says, «I had an attack of pleurisy, which left me low and weak. Subsequently I eonld not get up my strength, do what I would. My appetite was poor, and after eating I had severe pains about my chest, smy side, and between my shoulders. I had muscular pains in my arms and shoul-dtrt-in fact all over me. I got little or no sleep, and felt quite worn out xn the went on I got weaker and weaker and was scarcely able to get about. I came to be so low that I thought 1 never should be better again. I saw a doctor and Joof medicines, but nothing did me any B °^ln December (1895) my sister, who lives at Oxford, told me of the benefit she had derived from Mother oeigel's Syrnp. I cot a bottle from Mr Cooper, chemist, O dKry Road, and after taking it found great IE. I could eat well, and food agreed Wi *l™Jw gained streng h, and after taking four bottles was well as ever and free from all pain, muscular or otherwise. I know others who have been benefited by the same med'cine. Yon can publish this sf Cement m you like (Sicned) Charlotte Coombes, r77 y .°OldburyCd, f est Smethwick, Birmingham. October Bih, 1696. That is her letter-a plain, truthful, and well-written letter. But woat do we see behind the simple facta as she sets them down? Is there anything suggested l by that attack of pleurisy ohe speaks of ? Was 5K the beginning? No. Pleurisy is the name given to an inflammation of the Ss or cavities in which the lungs rest. the inflammation attacks the lungs themselves we call it pnenvwnia; if the bronchial tubes, bronchitis] and so on. But they are the same thing. -horn the same cause-namely, impure blood. When Jb7 bSod is thuß polluted, the smallest provooation-a slight cold-may set up KyTthe above ailments. Rheumatism (which Mrs Coombes had) belongs to the same group or family of maladies. ButWcomes that impurity or corruption of the blood in wjricb these things Srise ? I'll tell you. in the hope that you will remember it. Indigestion, dyspepsia, fermentation of food in the stomach, torpid "ver. which leaves the bile acids in the blood instead of removing them. P^onous dirt and filth from the stoaach getting into £c cifoulation-thaVs where the trouble comes from. So we >B ee that in cases of p'eurisy. &c. there is always what the Soctors call a » history » of dyspepsia. Although this lady had keen dyspeptic symptoms after the pleurisy, a pr'fo™ imperfection of her digestion- whether she?eXed it or not-laid the foundation or the pleurisy, the rheumatism, and all tnat followed. . nA Now that is what we see as we stand back and look. And this is the practical use you are to make of the knowledge : Take care of the condilion of your^ stomach, and the first day you feel anything wrong with it, resort to Mother Beigel s Syrup without waiting to find out whether you are going to be worse or not. When your house takes fire you don't wait to see how bad it is likely to be ; you stop it immediately. Do so with indigestion. The old doctor was right in what he ssid to the woman about her daughter, lne girt couldn't help the neglect of her anceston; bat we can do something towards taking care of ourselves.