Drains Working Badly.

Manawatu Herald, 27 March 1900, Page 3

Drains Working Badly.

♦ The -writer of the letter to which 1 am about to ask your attention lives in Coik, Ireland. If, the next time he visits Dublin, he will lean over the balustrade of any of the bridges that cross the Lift'ey, his nose will inform him that a very foul stream 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 sewage 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 thorough "y as possible, That is why all well-regulated cities have elaborate and efficient systems of drainage. Very well. Ho 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's body, and it lead to an experience on his part, which he had no -wish to have repeated. " For over ten years," he goes on to say, " I suffered from disease of tbe kidneys. I had excruciating pain in the back and the lower part of my bpdy." [Of course; because the kidneys are situated in the loins, the best place for the work they have to do. There are two of tbem, 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 importaut index to the health of the owner. They are full of nerves also, and when diseasrd are sure to cause the keen pain Mr Cadden speaks of.] . I " Tbe 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 after year passed by and I found myself growing worse and worse. What I Buffered it is impossible to decribe, and I never look d for being well again in this world." [Our friend's fears were well founded — muoh better than he realised, probably. Men die of that complaint almost like the murrain, and even skilled doctors are shy of taking charge of a bad case of it.] " From time to time," Mr Cadden says, > " I was obliged to leave my work, as the gnawing pain was more than I cou'd ber.r I saw doctor after x doctor, and went into the hospital, but .hone of the medioinos eased me. "In June, 1894, I read about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and got a bottle from the Drug Stores, Pembroke Street, and after taking it was so much better that I felt quite ano thar man. I continurd ♦_ with this medicine and all the pain gradually left me. When I had tak?n thr< c bottles I was completely cured, and have since been in the best of '"health. I feel truly grateful., for what Mother Seige's Syrup has done for me from a life of misery. Ton can publish this statement, and refer any one to me. (.Signed) J. Cadden, 2, Buckingham Place, Cork, Ireland, August, 18th, 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, &c. They are a vital part of the drainage sysem I spoke of. In Mr Cadden's case, as in so many others, they partially failed, and retained poisons producing hia suffering. Still (nnd please get a gcod bod of tbis point), kidney complaint is only one of a series of organic disorders, all of which arise from chronio dyspepsia. It. is so in this instanoe. 'J he digestive troub'e having been set right by Mother Seigel's the kidneys Boon became healthy. One— and only one — of the peculiar virtu -s of this famed preparation is its power to maintain is good working order tbe delicate and very important excretory, or drainage system of the body.