A Coachman's Story.

Manawatu Herald, 22 May 1900, Page 3

A Coachman's Story.

•• BHSiniATiut," said a leading .physician not long since, " may attack anybody, but is especially the disease of age and poverty. The immediate cause is an ir itant poison in the blood, which, becoming lodged in those parts ol the system where the circut&iion has the least force, sets up a more or less violent inflamation. This poison is always aasocia'ed with impaired digestion on the part of the stomach and ;iyer and 'he amount of it in the Bystem is increased by the inaotivi y of the exore'.ive organs, particularly the skin, bowels, and kidneys." Assuming the correctness of this view, the following conc'usion is clearly deduciblefrom it, namely, that to relieve or care a case of rheumatism we should seek first, to prevent the formation of the poisoQ by correcting the impaired digestion and, second to stimulate the skin, bowels, and kidneys, that they may throw it off; or, in other words, we must try to purify the blood. Ori' ward applications, although they may, and do, mollify pain at certain inflamed spots, cannot; in the nature, of things, eradicate the cause of the disease, The following ewe illu trates the truth of thj» theory, and should be attentively Studied 'by all who ar; afflicted with gout and rheumatism— the two ailment? being, under different names, practically the same thing. " Sixteen years ago I had an attack of rheumatic gout which affected all my joints giving in intense pain. My hands, feet, and shoulders were puffed up and swollen, and for many weeks I suffered martyrdom, After this I was from time to time subject to rheumatism, whch moved about my system, sometimes appearing in one part apd then another. For five years I suffered like this. "In the autumn of 1885, whist in the employment of a doctor at Bayswater as coachman, my eyes became affected and I was almost blind, not being able to see either the numbers or names of the streets I drove along. My e.\eswere like a piece of liver, and the doctor I was with sent me first to an eye special t, and afterwards gave me a note, and I went to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where I attended as an outdoor patient for nine months. " I was so bad I bad to give up my employment. The doctors at the hospital made a thorough examination of my eyes and laid they were sound, and that my affection was caused by the rheumatic eont. They gave me medicines and drops for the eyes; also placed blisters behind the ears and on the temples, but I was little better for anything. •»• Some days I was better and then worse md X feared I should loss my Bight

altogether. In Juy, 1886 my brother came to Londo" on a visit, and urged me to try

Moth r Srigo.V Syrup, as he thought it wou'd drive the rheumatism out rf ray sys'eni. I got a bottle of tbi-% medicine from Whiteley's, in Westbourne Grove, and after taking two bottles I was wonderfully better. My sight return d, and/I felt better of my self. When I had taken six bottles I was well as ever, and have since betn well. Yen can publish this 1< (ter, and refnr anyone to me. (Signed) Joseph Park r, 21, Bloemfio'd Stree'. Westbourne Square, B.iyewater, Ju'y Ist, 1806."

Mr Parkor U a respectab'e man and worthy of implicit confidence He is now in the employment of Mr Wh'teley, the famous purveyor, of whom he bought Mother Seigel's Syrup in the time of his necessity. The cmc is certainly remarkable, and demons ratrd th*> truth of the proposition, now admitted by the hi^i.ist meiical authorities, that rheumatism is a disease of the b'ood, caused, at the root of it, by chronic dyspepsia and indigetion. Mother Si'igol's Syrup, lring the most successful medicine in the wcrld for all ailments of the digestion, consequent'? prevents the further formation of the rheumatic poison expels it from all p'aeas where it ha* produced inflammation in the body, and hence cures rheumatism. The reader wM note" that it is now ten jvars since Mr Parker's recovery, during which period he has had no relapse. Therefore the cure was real and radical.