Wrecked on the Godwins.
Darwin, grandfather o? Clio faniotlsramle3 Darwin, tho naturalist, inscribed on his seal the significant words," Omnia as eoHrJu's tilings - ariae from oysters. But from what do oysters'arise? "What is tho origin of matter) Ah I nobody knows. Yet cne thing is getting plainer every day. Let the man's story show, Ho row on to say; On tho 17th of December, 1872, whilst actmt; as ship's carpenter on board tho steamship Sorrento, I was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. The shock to my system was so groat as to produce an effect I never felt Before, 1 foil into a low, weak stoto, and was seized with giddiness and a * Hiking, fainting feeling. I had n bad taste in the mouth, weight at the chest. Mid great pain alter 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 shoulder. 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 slopb very badly, and after a time I got so nervous and weak that I was afraid to go about and would sit m a chair quito powerless. I saw a doctor who treated me for a timo, and thon sent mo to a hospital in Rattlebono placo, London, whore I was under treat* rnwil for threa months, but got n» better. 1 thon put mysolf under a local doctor, who said 1 was suffering from norvous debility. Ho patched mo up for a little while, but aaid to my wife, " lour husband is in a critical condition, and may die at any time," " Howevor, I gut to work for a short time, and then was ss bad as over, I lingered on in.this way for years—now a lit'.lo better, now worse, but never well. "About 1380, whilst working at Messrs Westrcuod and Bailey's, Millwall, a m'lto who saw my suffering told me of a medicine called Mother Soigol's Curative Syrup, and lie brought me a bottle, Aftor faking tho first buttle I found my food agreed with me, and I began to improve. All nervous feeling gradually left rue, and by persevering with the medicine I was soon cured, From that time to this I have been a strong' man, and dono harder work than ever in my life bofore, I have sinco kept Mother Soigol's Syrup in the house, and my wife, who was a great sufferer from rheumatism and dropsy, has found moro rsliof from it than anything else. If any uf my family ever ail anything, a few doses soon sets them right." The statement from which the foregoing is an extract was made by Mr William Hill, ship's caipontsr, 108, St, Annie's lioad, London, E, Now, what is the thing that wo said is getting plainer everv day ? Why this: that almust an infinito number of different results arise from a aiugle cause. Like the majority of peoplo in all ranks of life, Mr Hill had in his digestive organs tho seeds—or what women, whon they buy dress goods, call 1 the makings' ofdispepsia, Up tn the winter of 1882 it may not have troubled him much, but the excitement and exposure of the shipwreck was more than tho system could bear. Wo must remember, too, that all shocks to the mind or body, or to both act directly on tho stomach. Who can eat when under the influence of a great worry or a great sorrow 1 And if this worry or sorrow coninues long, it upsets the digestion, permanently impairs or destroys the appetite and thus brings on an apparently incurable dyspepsia and nervous debility. Vfliy, gtacious goodness I thero are millions of women and lots of men, crawling about under this thing in England eyery day in tho year. And this is to them wo aro talking? Thoy are half dead, and we want them to come to life, and get some good out of their existenco. Whataiuo the ailment is called, yon may bo tuu indigestion and dyspepsia is at uuu bottom of it, as in Mr Hill's case, what cured him will cure you.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4059, 10 March 1892, Page 3
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710Wrecked on the Godwins. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4059, 10 March 1892, Page 3
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