A Long Nervous Stow.

Manawatu Herald, 24 July 1900, Page 3

A Long Nervous Stow.

If you ever v/iieWed a dentist chaw a nerve out of a tojth, you will remember how much it lojked like a little snip of wot, white cottoi threat. How can co conteuip ible a thing inflict suoh a mountain of agony ? And why does it do it ? " Dispase," you say. Ah, surely. A simple and obvious answer ; yet in what way dor-s the true nervefibre, wrapped up and coated, as it is, like the wiros in a sub marine cable, get to be diseased ?

Yet, somehow, these soft stings do become fearfu ly out of order, or our frien 1 Miss Hunt, alluding to the neuralgia from whioh she once suffered, would not say, " Sometimes I was almost mad with pain.' 1 Aud that b but om of many forms of torture imposed on us by the nervo; yet with ut these nerves we shou d be hut lumps of o' ay— lacking feeling and power of motion How can we cure these dreadful nervepains? Th^ drug shops abound in soca 1 d rem> dies fo: 1 them, yet th y are ouly as breath lo coo' the air of a torrid summer day. The real cause and cure are among Nature's deeper secrets. Can we find them ?

"Neai'ya'lmy life," saya Miss Hunt, " I have suffered from indigestion of an aggravated kind. I felt low weary and weak, having litt ; e or no energy. My appetite was variable. At one time I wou'd eat voraoiously, and at other times I cou'd not touch a mor-el of food.

" After eating 1 had gr at distivsa at lha che-t aud a'oau.l the sides. I suffered mar yrdom fiom the horrid pain in my s'omach and limbs. As the years passed by my nerves became totally unstrung, and I endured un'.old mi-ory from neua'gia. My Hpa and half my fao* were almost dead fro n thi~ distressing tna'ady." [The lady will pardiu the writer. In the sense of being object of use and pleasure, they were in I ruth pactically dead ; but iv another sense they were horribly alive, as the Eky is when it is pi- repd and rent with the lancea of the 1 ghtiiiag.] " I consulted." she adds, "doctor after doctor, but in spite of all their medicine* and applications I fould li tie or no relief. Sometimes I was almost mad tilth the pain "

[Not a doubt of it. Under such circumstauces the body is a poison-hou3e of keen suffering, and people have, not infrequently taken their own lb es to escape from it. Only acutn rheumatisn or gout can be compared with neuralgia and (please observe) the whole three are forms of the same thing -results of the same cause. Hence sufferers from the former two ailments will be xvise also to read this essay to its end ]

"la June, 1896," continu s the letter, " a bock was left a* my house in which I read of many perions who had been cured by a i: ctiicioe ca'ded Mother S^igel's Syrup. I bought a, supply from .1 chemist in New North Boad, and soon my indigestion got better, the pain in my hi ad and limbs was easier, and I felt stronger than I had dono fcr y- ars. •• I think it on'y right that others should know of what has done so much for ma You have, therefore, m- permission to p ake this s tatement public if you like. (Signed) (Mus) S. Hunt, 57, Dale View Road, irtamford Hill, London, June 30th, 1896."

Our corresp^nden is & schoolmistress, and, as her letter shows, a woman of fine inte ligence. At the outset she names the radical, and only real disease she badname y, indigestion, or, as we indifferently call it, dyspspsia. Starved from want of nourishment, and poisoned by the produces of food constantly decomposing in the stomach, h r nervous system was thrown into wild disorder, and protested and cried out with the thrilling voice of pain. No applica'ion, no emollients are effective to remedy symptoms springing from a cause so profound and firmly seated.

Would we stop the writhing of the trees during a gale ? Ah, they cannot be bound or he : d. We mußt employ, if we possess a power whic i can say unto the wind, "Peace, be sti 1." Something akin to this Mother Seigel's Syru.) did when it abolished the digestive troubV. It enabled the stomach to feed the feeble bo:ly, and with returning strength the nervous storm subsided into the calm and harmony of Heath.