STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK

Manawatu Herald, 20 February 1900, Page 3

STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK

41 Madam," said a wiso old physician to a woman who bad brought a feeble, anaemic, and poorly developed daughter to him for examination. " Madam, the treatment of this girl should have been begun two bun- ; dr. d years ngo." i "air," she exclaimed, "I don'c understand what you mean." 11 Probably not, madaai," replied this student of men end of medic-ice, " and you wouldn't oven shou d I try to explain ii." How do you best see a pictu.eonthe wall ? Why, by slanding back and looking through your hollowed fist or through a tube. Well then, let us first rad Mrs Ccomhes' letter, end a. r tei\vard3 get a litt'e of what painters ca 1 perspective on it and ' s c if we can understand the lesion it teaches. " In the spring of last year, 1895," she says, " I bad an attack of pleurisy, which ltfc me low and weak. Subsequently I cou'd not g't t;p my strength, do what I would. My appeti c was poor, and after mating I had severe fain-.; about my chest, at my side, and bt»'.een my shoulders. I had musou'ar pains in my arms and shoulders—in fact a'l over nif. I got little or no s!cep, anJ felt oju c worn out in the morning. "As time we t on I got weaker and weaker and was Forcely able to get about. I came to be so low that I thought 1 never should be better a-aiu. I saw a doctor and took nivdicine 3 , but nothing did me any good. "In December (1895) my sister, who Siv s at Oxford told me of the benefit she had derivul from Mother Seigel's Syrup. I got a bottle fivdii Mr Cooper,' chemist, <O'dbury Road, and after taking it found great relief. I could cat weM, and food agreed with me. " I now ga"ned t-treng b, and after taking fun- bottles w we"! as ever and free from a'l pan, muscular or otherwise. I know others who have been benefited by the same medicine. You can publish this statement a'youlik*. (Signed) Charlotte Coombes, 177, O'dbury Ro.id, West Smethwick, Birmingham, Octob t Bth, 1696." 1 That i* her eltcr— a plain, truthful, and wo'l-writtea 'ett i\ But what do we see bel.iud the si - pie fact 3as she sets them d>wn?. Ii >!'.aie anything suggested by j that attack of jdeurisy she speaks of ? Was rA«< the beginning? No. Pleurisy is the | n .me given t> an inflammation of the ! spices or cawtin. in which the lungs rest, j When the inflammation attacks the lungs j i them s e ! vrs we call it pneumonia ; if the' bronchia! tub s. bronchitis ; and so on. j But they are the same thing, from the same ca';s — namely, impure b!ood. When llio b rod is thus polluted, the smallest j 1-rovociithn-a slight co!d— may set up! auy o£ Lh? above ailments. Rheumatism ! (wJsioh Mrs Ooombes had) belongs to the ■ paine pxonp or family of maladies. Uut Inw comes that impurity or corrupti >.i r f ih ? blood in which these thirgs ' aiise ? I'll ell you, in the hope that you ' wii! rsm mber it. Indigestion, dyspepsia, j f nnf nt;:lion of food in the stomach, torpid ; V.'.cv, which leaves the bile acids in the i Ivood instead of removing thorn, poisonous d it and filih from the stomach getting into t:e circulation — that's where the trouble c:m s from. So we see that in cases of p eniisy. &c, there is always what the doctors call a "history" of dyspepsia. A' though this lady had keen dyspeptic symp'oms after the pleurisy, & previous imp rfection of her digestion— whether she realised it or not— laid the foundation for the pleurisy, the rheumatism, and all that followed. Now that is what we see as we stand back and look. And this is the practical usj you are to make' of the knowledge : Take care of the condition of your stom~'ch, 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 said to the woman about her daughter. The girl couldn't help the neglect of her ances* tors; but we can do something towards taking care of ourselves.