A Coachman's Story.

Manawatu Herald, 5 June 1900, Page 3

A Coachman's Story.

3* ♦ "Rheumatism," said a leading physician not long since, " may attack anybody, but is especially the disease of age and poverty. The immediate cause is an ihitant poison in the blood, wbich, becoming lodged in tho3e parts of lhe system where the circulation has the least force, sets up a more or less violent inflamation. This poison is always associated with impaired digestion on the part of the stomach and liver and ihe ataount of it in the system is increased by the inactivity of the excretive organs, particularly the skin, bowels, and kidneys." Assuming the correctness of this view, the following cono'usion is clearly deducibie from it, namely, that to relieve or cure a case of rheumatism we should seek first, to prevent the formation of the poison 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. Outward applications, although they may, and do, mollify pajn at certain inflamed spots, cannot, in the nature of things, eradicate the cause of the disease. I The following oase illustrates the truth of this theory, and should be attentively studied by all who an afflicted with gout and rheumatism— the two ailments being, under different names, practically the same thing. " Sixteen years ago I had an attack of rheumatic gout which affected all my joints giving me 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 and then another. For five years I suffered like this. •• In "the autumn of 1885, whi'at in the employment of a dootor 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 c' es were 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 had to give up my employment. The doctors at the hospital 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 medicines and drops for the eyes; also placed blis.ers behiud the ears aod on the temples, but I was little better for anything. " gome days I was better and then worse and I feared I should lose my sight altogether. In July, 1880. my brother came to London on a visit, and urged me to try | Mother StigePs Syrup, as he thought it would drive the rheumatism out of my system. I got a bottle of this medioine from Whiteley's, in Westboarne 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 been well. Yon can publish this If Iter, and refer anyone to me. (Signed) Joseph Parker, 21, Bloemfie'd vStreet, We?! bourne Square, Bayswater, Ju'y Ist. 1896." Mr Parker is a respectable man and worthy of implicit confidence. He is now in the employment of Mr Whiteley, the famous purveyor, of whom he boughtMother Seigel's Syrup in the time of his necessity. The cure is certainly remarkable, and demonstrated the truth of the proposition, now admitted by the

highest medical authorities, that rheu- • matism is a disease of the blood, caused, at tho root of it, by chronic dyspepsia and indigestion. Mother Seigel's Syrup, b*ing the most successful medicine in ih« wcrld for all ailments of the digestion, on sequent y prevents the further formation of the rheumatic nois on. expels it from fil • places where it lias produced inflammation 1 in tlie hotly, and hence cures rheumatism. . '! he render wiil not" that it is now (en [years since Mr i aiJcjr's recovery, during ! v;-hi .h peiiod h.j has had no relapse. Iherefore the cure was real and radical.