A Coachman's Story.

Manawatu Herald, 29 May 1900, Page 3

A Coachman' s Story.

« Bhotkatibm," said 5 l^s&ig -phypiciau not long since; "may attafcliayjbody, but is especially the disease of apte and poverty. Th« immediate caaae is an ir. itant poison in the blood, whieh, becoming lodged in ,j tb.o3&4»?ts of the' system where tMe cir- r cuteli9B*&as Abe ifiaaMogcexSete ujpitymore or le^s violent inflamation,. .prison ;j is always ite&iatsd^ith ift'pfii^ffJJigeslion on the part; of the stomatfrTOicP^iver and the amount of it in the systsrti is" in-. created tby the inactiviy of -the excreiive brs!WS,vlp»rticularly the skin, bowels, and kldneyi!,^ Assuming the icorrectness of this view, ] the following conc'usion is clearly de- 1 daoible from it, namely, that to relieve or core a case of rheumatism we should seek first, to prevent the formation of the poison by correcting the impaired digestion «nd, second to stimulate the skin, bowe's, and kidneys, that they may throw it off ; p», in other words, we must try to purify the blood. Ouiward applications, although ijiey maj, and do, mollify pain at certain inflamed spots, cannot, in the na'ure of things, eradicate the cause of ihe disease. The following cise illutrates the truth of this theory, and should be attentively studied by all who ar > aniioted with gout and rheumatism— the two ailments being, tinder different names, practically the game thing. " Bix»een years ago I had an attaok of rheumatic gout which affected all my joints rivimt-Wfctteteoaß t*"*^ M y bands, feet, ipi fhouldexs were puffed up and swollen, ind fQiUnaujteebs' I suffered martyrdom, iser^|& jfwaV from time to time subject Jo rh^Oin'fttisjn, "wheh moved about my afatempSOTietimes appearing in one part and then another. For five years I suffered like this.

"In the autumn of 1885, whi'st in the emp'oyment of a doctor at Bay.-water as coachman, roy pyts became affected find I was almost blind, not being able to seo either the numbers or names of the street* I drovo along. My e-eswere like a piece of liver, and the doctor I was with se nt m • first ti an eye specia'i t, and. af'eruards gave me a note, ard I went to St Mary's Ho-pifal, Pr.ddrnirton, -wlirre I att nd<'d as. an on '.door patient for nino months.

" I was so bad I had to give up my «m---ployment. The doctors at ihe hospitai made a thorough examination of my eyes and said they were sound, and that my affection was caused by the rheumatic gout. They gave me medicineE' and drops for the eyes; also, placed blis ers behind the carp a* d on tha terni'ie?, but I was iittle better for anything

" Fome days I was better and then wcrse and I feared I should lose my sigh: altogether. In Ju'y,lßß6, my brother came to Londo i on a visr, and uvgsd me to try Moth r S igo'* Syrnp, ns h2 thought it wou'd drive the rheumatism out <f my system. I got a bottle of tbn medicine from Whiteley's, in Westbourne Grove, and after taking two^ bottles I was wonderfully better. My sight return d, and I fe't better 6f my self. When I had takt n six bottles I was weH as ever, and have since be; n well. Yo l can publish tins Utter, and ref;r anyone to me. (Signed) Joseph Park r, 21, Bioemfie'd Street, Westbourne Bqaave, Bayswater, July Ist, 1896."

Mr Parker U a respectab'e man and worthy of implicit confidence He is now in the employment of Mr Whte'ey. the famou9 purveyor, of whom he bought Mother Sejgel's- Syrup in the time of his necessity. The curCr is certainly remarkable, and demons, rat d thfi truth of the proposition, now admitted by the highest melical authoriti ?, that rheumatism is a disease of the blood, caused, at the root of it, by chronic dyspepsia and indigestion. Mother Stipe's Syrup, being the most s-uecessful medicine in the wcrld for all ai'ments of the 1 digestion, con sequenty prevents the further formation of the rheumatic poison, expels it from fill places where it ha3 produced inflammation in the bedy, and hence cures rheumatism. The reader will nota that it is now sten y am since Mr Parker's recovery, during which period he ha^ had no relapse. Therefore the cure was real and radical.