THROUGH ST. MARTIN’S WINDOW.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2173, 10 March 1891, Page 4

THROUGH ST. MARTIN’S WINDOW.

Alexis St. Martin was a Canadian (rapper. Manjryears ago while out|hunting he received a gunshot wound in-his abdomen. This finally healed in such a strange way as to leave an' opening into the stomach, with a thin akin over ib almost as clear as a. pane of glass. Nothing ho remark able had ever, happened before. Through - (hie window, by the aid of a strong light thrown into it, the doctors could see what went on inside his stomach. So the poor trapper’s bad luck proved to bo good luck for the rest of mankind. Now let us-see bow wb can avail ourselves of the knowledge thus obtained. ' here is a postman by the .name of Frederick Ireen, who lives at 33 Martin’d Srad, Bhortiandi. Kent. Speaking of an occasion about two years ago,, he. lately said : ■ " I couldn’t meat without ex/ernnci g great pair,” What ailed Mr Green f

When the dootora looked into St. Martin's stomach just after ha had eaten a they observed that a liquid of a lightyelloV color was thrown irrgreat quantities from (lelinirg of the stomach in emong the food Then they noticed that'the Whole mass began to turn round and round aa milk does in a revolving' churn. When this process was .over, in.an hour, or two, there v*B nothing to be seen except a gr y fluid, whth looked like broth or soup. The doctors asotqok note of the that when 6ft, Marti} ate much meat the stomaph repaired a longer time and seemed to labor harder *0 turn it into broth-like fluid Then again there ware times when the light yellow liquid hardly came forth at all, the: stomach moved, or churned, slowly, »nd the food lay in St. i Martin’s body until it became rancid, putrid, and souri At such tines he complained of feeling ill and tick, anJ suffering much pain. If JJBt'-reliev'd hi? skin turned a ocpperifh hpe, p apid qrose into nx» mouth, liis heal afhed and grew hot, ho had sharp pains in different parts'of his body, the kidney secretion vyas thick high colored, he slept, fladlr, couldn't work, and was low #p}rftp<3 } yjsijißg, apfj fcueagy. What fle suffered from f as jidigastion ? vybjqh, long enough oontinnedj betotpe* ebronip dyspepsia and neryous prpstratioi. lifow let ui see tow it fared with our friend Mr Orem, the postman. Hu goes on to say: “When I trow my breath it was like a knife running tlrough my chest My appetite was bad, andl fell away to nothing. As I have to walk twoty miles a day in the discharge of my duties, I found the work in my weak state was killing me by inches. Before I was taken illl waa a strong, healthy man, and did my wtrk wjtb ease and pleasure, finally I had to go on tfq tiilf list, and w&a attended by a physician for a fortnight, but J felt none he better. There was a load on my ches , ani when I ate anything the food lay on my stomach like a toa of lead. One day my wifessd to mo; ‘Frederick, my mother used to Bufrr the way you do, and she always found nliof by taking Mother Heigel’s Curative 1 Syrip. Why don’t you •

try it?/’ After; *omepersaasion*l gave ud dootorit.g and got a bottle of ‘‘.Siegel’s V and begun. The - first few r doses made me ;foel, better. I stnok to Mother Siegel’s Curative Syrup, 1 and in'a few weeks I got strong and went back ; to my work. I have never ailed* since, and lye my .recovery, I have to thank God and Mother Siegel’s OurativeSytnp.” : Mr Green has been postman in the Short* lands district for fifteen years, and bears an excellent character. If there had been a window in his .stomach hia physician and friends might have observed the same trouble that occasionally appeared in the case of St. Martin.