Drains Working Badly.

Manawatu Herald, 20 March 1900, Page 3

Drains Working Badly.

The writer of the letter to which I am about to ask your attention lives in Cork, Ireland. If, the next time he visits Dub in, he will lean over the balustrade of any of the bridges that cross the Liffey, his nose will inform him that a very foul Btream runs beneath. In other words, the river is a sort of open drain to the city, and contains what we might expect. The Thames in London is not much better, although no longer used directly for Bewage purposes. The point I want to emphasise is this : that all animal life produces waste matter which, as suoh, is dangerous to health, and must be got rid of as quickly and thoroughly as possible, That is why all well-regulated cities have elaborate and efficient systems of drainage. Very well. So much is plain. Now, the human body has such a system too ; and poisonous stuff (more or less of it) remains in the body and sets going a lot of mischief. If you don't think so, it is because you haven't studied the subject or observed the operations of your own physical machinery. Once upon a time something went wrong with this important apparatus in Mr Cadden'B body, and it lead to an experience on his part which he bad no wish to have repeated. " For over ten years," he goes on to say, " I suffered from disease of tne kidneys. I had excruciating pain in the back and the lower part o! my body." [Of course ; because the kidneys are situated in the loins, the best place for the walk they have to do. There are two of them, connected together, shaped like a' beam, and about four inches long by three inches broad. _ There they lie, imbedded in fat ; and their condition is an important \ index tp the health of the 'owner. They are full of nerves also, and when diseased are sure to cause the keen pain Mr Cadden speaks of.] . "The secretion," he continues, " was very scant, and I suffered great pain in voiding it, sometimes blood coming away I got into a low and depressed condition as year alter year passed by and I found my Belf growing worse and worse. What I suffered it is impossible to decribe, and I sever look d for being well again in thin world." [Our friend's fears were well founded — mach better than he realised, probably. Men die of that complaint almost like the murrain, and even skil'ed doctors are shy of taking charge of a bad case of it.] • "From time to time," Mr Cadd u n says, 11 1 was obliged to leave my work, es the gnawing pain was more than I r ou d be:ir. I saw doctor after doctor, and went into the hospital, but none of the medicines eased me. "In June, 1894, I read about Mother Seigel's Curative v yrup, and got a bottle from the Drug Store?, Pembroke' Street, and after taking it was so much better that I f fit quite another man. I continued with this medicine and all the pain gradually left me. When I had >ak -n tbr< o bottles I was cample 1 ely cured, and have since been in the best of health. I feel truly grateful for what Mother S'ige 's j Syrup has done for me from a life of misery. You can publish this statement, and refer any one to me. (?=ignrd) J. Codden, 2, Buckingham Place, Cork, Ireland, August, 18ih, 1896 " It is the busin ss of the kidneys to take certain waste and worn-out matters from the blood, and expe ; them from the body through the b adder, &o. They are a vital B;rt of the drainage system I spoke of. In r Cadden's case, as in so many others, they partially failed, and retained poisons producing his suffering. Still (and please get a good ho'tl of this point), kidney complaint is only ■One of a series of organic disorders, all of which arise from chronic dyspepsia. It. is so in this instance, the digestive trouble having been set right by Mother Seigel's the kidneys soon became healthy. One — and only one — of the peculiar virtues of this famed preparation is its power to maintain is good working order the delicate and very important excretory, or drainage system of the body.