HIS LEGACY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 441, 12 November 1908, Page 4

HIS LEGACY.

(Statement of a British Physician.) “ The only thing I inherited from my parents,” said a young fellow to me the other day, “ were poverty and a weak stcmach.” The statement is suggestive. His poverty came with his bad digestion, and remained because of it, for he grew to be a chronic dyspeptic, lacking the ambition so necessary to win a living against the competition of the healthy and strong.” “ During the whole of my professional career,” says one of the most successful physicians in Engl ird, “ I have been telling my patients that, so fa as physical weakness and disease is the cause of failures in life, the responsible ailment in nine cases out of ten is digestive we-akness.” The doctor is right; and fortunately some good work is going on in that direction, as the following case well proves. When Mrs Fitton’s health failed and she became alarmingly ill, her medical advisers told her that she was suffering from general debility and indigestion. Tbe information was doubtless correct ; but it would have been better if Mrs Fitton’s informants had not put the cart before the horse, but said, “indigestion and general debility”—for ol course, the general debility was only a result of the indigestion. “For eighteen monihs,” says Mrs Fitton, “ I was under medical treatment ; but I grew weaker all the time, and was far worse at the end than at the beginning of that period. I could not digest, and was so weak from want of nourishment and sleep that my housework became a burden 100 hard for me to bear. Headaches, too, and pains in various parts of my body, troubled me greatly, so that my condition was pitiable. “ A triend’s advice that 1 should try Mother SeigeTs Syrup was not given a moment to soon. Afler taking that remedy for five days, I was somewhat relieved. The tightness at my . chest which had been almost unbearable, eased somewhat, and there was no pain after eating. Each bottle of the Syrup marked a long step forward in my march toward complete recovery, for which ten bottles proved sufficient. That was in 1898, and I have since continued in the enjoyment of per ect health, recommending Mother SeigeTs Syrup to every sufferer from Indigestion who comes in my way.”—(Signed) Lucy Fitton, 4, Ryder Sir. et, Sin ray Hills, Sydney, N.S.W., March 10th, 1908. The lessonof Mrs Fitton’s experience is this : you must eat to live—you cannot doubt that and your strength and eneigy depend upon the way in which your stomach deals with the food you eat. It must be properly digested, so as to give yon the nourishment it contains. The niore thoroughly this is done, tbe heller will be your health of both mind and body. Never neglect the first signs of indigestion ; if yon do. a cure will be more difficult. Mother SeigeTs Syrup, the famous herbal remedy for all stomach and liver disorders, is composed ot roots, leaves, and barks, of great medcinal value, and may be relied upon to cure indigestion, headache, wind, constipation, and loss of appetite. Try it.