WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1788, 20 November 1895, Page 2

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME.

In a recent lecture at Dr B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of health is dreamless. ‘ Dreams/ says Shakespeare, ‘ 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 isnot quite the point. Are all dreams signs of a diseased condition ? To this the doctor says ‘ No/ He divides dreams into two classses; 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. In other words there is a ;bodily condition which may prevent a person from working.by day at his usual calling, but obliges hini tb labour all night under a mental stimulus of which "he knows nothing save by its resulting exhaustion. 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 an 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 quota what a woman says of her daughter: She was worse tired in. a morning than when she went to bed/ Poor girl. Those ‘ forgotten dreaihs ’ 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 was 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 legs 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, fbr she had lost the proper use of her 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, .1891,1 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 Bhop, and seeing how bad my daughter was, spoke of a ndedicine called Mother Seigel,s Curative Syrup, and persuaded us to try it. I got a bottle from the Thornhill Lees Co-operative Stores, and she bewan taking it. In two days she found a little relief; and sickness was not so 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 Syrnp only two weeks the neighbours? were surprised at her improved appearance and I told them what had brought it about—that Seigel’s Syrup had done what the doctors could not do, it saved her life. Yours truly, (Singed), (Mrs.) Sarah Ann . Sheakd,l9, Brewery Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dewsbury, October 11th, 1892’ The inciting cause of all this young girl’s pitiful suffering was indigestion and dyspepsia dropsy beihg one of its most dangerous symptoms."lt attacks both youth and age, its 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, ’ sayg Dr. Richardson, * are signs of disturbed health and should he 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-