WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1787, 16 November 1895, Page 2

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

In a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, Dr B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of dreamless. * Dreams/says Shake- \[ speare, ‘ are children of an idle brain/ If both the doctor and the poet are right it follows that idle brains are unhealthy brains. No doubt there might be truth in the inference, but that is not quite the point. Are all dreams signs of a diseased condition ? To this the doctor says ‘No.’ He divides dream's into two classse3; those started by noises or other causes outside the sleeper, and those produced by pain, fever or indigestion. Here we inject a fact. We receive multitudes of letters containing this affirmation, almost in identical words: I was worse tired in the morning than when I went to bed/ To this the doctor has an answer. He says, ‘When we feel wearied in the morning very likely it results from dreams that we have forgotten/ Quite so. Tn other words there is a bodily condition which may'prevent a person from work-' ing by day at his usual calling, but obliges him to labour, all night under a mental stimulus of which he knows nothing save by its resulting These unhappy wretches toil harder, therefore, for no compensation, when they are ill, than they have to do* to earn a living when they are well. What ah infernal 'and frightful fact ! And this too Without taking into account their physical suffering at all times. ‘ Night/ said Coleridge, is my hell/ From one of the letters referred to we quote what a woman says of her daughter: She was worse tired in a morning than when she went ; tq bed/ Poor girl. Those ‘ forgotteu dreams ' had tossed her about as a ship is tossed in a tempest. Night was * h r day of labour. • •

The mother’s simple tale is this: ‘ln June, 1890, my daughter Ann Elizabeth became low, weak, and fretful, and complained of pain in the chest after eating. Next her stomach was so irritable that she vomited all the ‘ food she took. It ira» awful to see her heave and strain. For three weeks nothing passed through her stomach except a little soda water and lime water. ; Later on, her feet and lege began to swell and puff from dropsy. She was now as pale as death and looked as though she had not a drop of blood in her body, and was always cold. Month after month dragged by and she got weaker every day. < She could not walk without support, for she had lost the proper use of ltef legs, and her body swayed from side to side as she moved.

- A- docter attended her for twelve months, and finally said it was no use giving her any more medicine as it would do no good. In May, 1891, T took her to the Dewsbury Infirmary. She got no better there, and I thought I was going to lose her. She was then thirteen years of age. ,One day a lady (Mrs. Lightoller) called at ,my shop, and seeing how had my daughter was, spoke of a medicine called Mother Seigel,s Curative Syrup, and persuaded.usto try it. I got a bottle from the Thornhill Lees Co-operative Stores, and'she hewan taking it. In .two days she found a little relief; and sickness was not sp frequent. She kept on, with the Syrup and steadily improved. Soon she was as strong as ever, and has since been in the best of health and can take any kind of food. After she had taken the Syrup ouly two weeks the neighbours were surprised at her improved appearance and I toliJ.Ahem what had brotight it about—that Selgel’s Syrup had done what the docters could • not do, it saved her life. Yours truly, (Singed), (Mrs.) Sarah Ann Sheard,l9, Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury, October 11th, 1892’ The inciting cause of all this young girl’s pitifu 1 suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia dropsy being one of its most dangerous symptoms.JJlt attacks both youth and age, it's fearful and often fatal results being due to the fact that physicians usually treat the sysptoms instead of the disease itself. ~ ‘A child’s dreams, ’ says Dr. Richardson, ‘ are signs of disturbed health and should be regarded with anxiety. ’ The same is true of tee dreams of older people. They mean poison in the stomach and poing to the immediate use of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup*