A Long Nervous Storn

Manawatu Herald, 31 July 1900, Page 3

A Long Nervous Storn

If you ever watched a dentist d aw n nerv— out of a to-)th, yo'i w\\ r memb>r ho* much it looked like a 'iltlp snip of wrt, white cottoi threat How can po con-t-rnp ible n thing inflict ?nch a mountain of a ony ? And why doca ft d) it? "Disrate," you say Ah, snre'y- A simple Rnd obvious answer ; y t in what way do s the true r.ervefihre, wrapped up and coated, a? it is, like the wirs in a su>> marine cable, get to be diseased?

Yet, somehow, ih se soft stisjgs do become f»arfuly out of ordtr, or our friend Miss Hun*, alluding to ihe neuralgia from which Bhft once suffered, would no! say, " Sometime* 1 wax almost mad with pain.' And that U but one of many forms of torture imposed on us by the nerves- yr-t witluut these nerves wo shou d be 'mf. lumps of cay—l acking feel ing and power of motion. How cau wn cure these dreadful nervepnins ? The drug shops abound iv soea'l d r^m-dies for them, yet th°y nre O'>ly as breath to coo! the air of a torrid summer day. The real caune acd cure are among Nature's deeper 3 crets. Can we find them?

" Neai'y a 1 my life," sa.vs M'ss Hunt " I have sufferrd from indigestion of an aggravated kind. I felt low weary an^ weak, having litt'e or no energy. My appeiite was variable. At one time I wou'd eat voraciously, and at other imes I cou'd not touch a m- r-el of food.

" After eating I had great distn ss at ih*> clig t and around the sides. I suffered tk'.iv yrdom from the horrid rain- in my s omach and limbs. As the veins passed by my nerves became totally v strung and I endured untold misory from neua'gia. My lips and half my face were almost dead from this distressing ma'ady."

[The lady will pardon the writer. In the sense of being object of use and pleasure, they were in (ruth p>actically dead ; but in. another sense they were horribly alive, as the sky is when it is pierced and rent with the lancea of the lightning.] •« I consulted," she adds, "doctor after doctor, but in spite of all their medicines and applications I fould li tie or no relief. Sometimes I toaa almost mad uith the pain. "

[Not a doubt of it. Under such circumstances the body is a poison-house of keen suffering, and people have, not infrequently taken their own lives to escape from it. Only a.cuta rheumatism or gout can be compared with neuralgia and (plea<e observe) the whole three are forms of the pame thing — results of the same cause. Hence sufferers from the former two ailments will He wise also to read this essay to its end.]

"In June, 1896," continu-s the let'ev, " a book was left at my house in which I read of many persons who had been cured by a medicine called Mother Seigel's Syrup. I bought a supply from a chemist i" New North Road, and soon my indigestion got better, the pain in my head and limbs was easier, and I felt stronger than I had done for years. "I think it only right that others Bhould know of what has done so much for ma You have, therefore, mv permission to lvake this statement public if you like. (Signed) (Miss) S. Hunt, 57, Da^ View Road, Stamford Hill, London, June 30th, 1896."

Our correspondent is a schoolmis'ress, and, as her letter shows, a woman of fine intelligence. At the outset she names the radical, and only real disease she had — name'y, indigestion, or, as we indifferently call it, dyspepsia. 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 tried out with the thrilling voice of pain. No application, 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 held. We must employ, if we possess a power which can say unto the wind, "Peace, be still." Something akin to this Mother Seigel's Syruo did when it abolished the digestive trouble. It enabled the stomach to feed the feeble body, and with returning strength the nervous storm subsided into the cam and harmony of Hea'tb.