Wrecked on the Goodwins.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4056, 7 March 1892, Page 3

Wrecked on the Goodwins.

Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, tho naturalist, inscribed on his seal the significant words," Omnia c,« condiis"— all things arise from oysters. But from what, do oysters arise! What is tho origin of matter? Ah! nobody knows. Yet cno thing is getting plainer" every day. Let the man's story show. He goes on to say: On the 17' h of December, 1872, whilst acting as ship's carpenter on board tho'steamship Sorrento, I was wrecked oil the Goodwin Sands, The shock to my system was so great as to produce an effect 1 never felt before. 1 fell into a low, weak state, and was soized with giddiness and a Eioking, fainting feeling. I had a bad taste in the mouth, weight at tho chest, and great pain after eating, and my face would burn like fire. I had difficulty in breathing and palpitation, and often a pain used to run from the heart through to my Bhoulder. I had a kind of rumbling all over me, and a choking sensation at the throat, with a rush of blood to the head. "1 slept very badly, and after a time I got so nervous and weak that I was] afraid to go about and'would sit in a chair quite powerless. 1 saw a doctor who treated me for a time, and thou sent mo to a hospital in liattlebone place, Loudon, whero I was undertrectment for three months, brtt got no i better. 1 then put myself under a local doctor, who said 1 was suffering from nervous debility. Ho patched me up for a little while, but said to my wife, ] "Your husband is in a critical condition, 1 and may die at any time." " However, I gut to work fbr a short time, and then was as bad as ever, I ! lingored on in this way for years—now I a little better, now worse, but noyer well, "About 1380, whilst working at Messrs Westwood and Bailey's, Millwall, a mate who saw my sufferings told me of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and ho brought mo a bottle, After taking tho fust bottle I found my food agroed with me, and I began to improve. All nervous feeling gradually left mo, and by persevering with the i medicine I was soon cured, From that l time to this I havo been a strong man, 7 and done harder work than ever in tuy 1 life before. 1 have sinco kept Mothei j Seigel's Syrup in the house, and my wife, who was a great sufferer from 1 rheumatism and dropsy, has found more • relief from it than anything else, Ifanj S of my family ever ail anything, a fe« . doses soon sets them right. 0 Tho statement from which tho fore going is an extract was made by Mi . William Hill, ship's carpenter, 108, St '' Annie's Road, London, E, 1 Now, what is the thing that we said ut 8 getting plainer every day 1 Why this r that almost an infinite number of diffen rent results arise ircm a single causo " like" the majority of people in all rank of life, Mr Hill had in his digestivi , organs tho seeds—or what women, whoi they buy dress goods, call ' the makings e ofdispepsia. Up to tho winter of 18S! it it may not have troubled him: much I- but the exoitement and ejposuro of th 19 shipwreck was more than the syster

could bear, We muat remember, too, thai nil shookß to the mind or body, or to both act directly on the stomach; Who can eat when under the influence of a great worry or a great sorrow ? And if this worry or sorrow coninues .loot;, it upsets tho digestion, permanently impairs or destroys the appelito and thus brings on an apparently incurable dyspepsia and nervous debility. Yiby, gracious goodness I tlioro are millions of ivomon and lots of men, cranling about under this thing in England eyery day in the year. And this uto them we are talking ? They ara half dead, and wo want them to come to lifo, and get some good out of r.htir existence.- Whatever tho ailment is called,"you may bo sure indigestion and dyspepsia is at the button) of it, as in Mr Hill's caso, and what cored him will cure you,