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DR. LAMONT'S STRONG FINGERS.

"I WAR afraid you were going to slip through my fingers," said good old Dr. Lainont.

The writer was a boy of about seventeen, then. While a student at school, more than .'SOO miles from home, I was taken down with pneumonia. I had a tough time, and for two or three weeks my life was despaired of. But youth and good care won the fight, and one bright morning I was ready to go home with my dear father who had come for me. I was weak still, but well and happy clear up to the brim. Oh, what a ride ! Oh, what sweet air ! Oh, what a glorious world I had got back into ! and what a reception from mother and sifters at the familar house, Oh, life ! Oh, health! Oh. (1 til re, <1 tiler dom uin !

But w hen a man with most of his days behind him has to writs a line like this '• All vuj life I have suffered more or less from disease " — why that is another and sadder story. It is the odds between an occasional thunderstorm and a sky always covered with clouds.

We quote what he says, remin ling the leader that in this matter Mr. William Hodkinson voices the experience of millions. He says : " I a 1 ways had a bad taste in the mouth, no proper relish ior food, and atter eating had pain and fulness at the chest."

Ihe'-e sensations are symptoms of acute indigestion. In the stoma, li there jsmaikrd 1 ops of power. The food is nuther rolled ovi r a- it should bo so that the whole ot it in turn may be presented to the digestive fluid, nor is it duly moved on towards the outlet into the bowels-. Asa result it ferments and gives off irritating acids and g;is-es. hence the patient complains of pain, weight, distension, acidity, smd flatulence in that region. Thence the poisons proceed to every other part of the body, and headache, vertigo gout, rheumatism depressed spirits, and a score more of evils follow ; among them, po— ibly, nervous prostration, progressive antemia, locoinotor ataxis, and ihorc or less complete paralysi-.

••Frequently," continues Mr. Hodkinson. "I was sick, and as time went on I became very weak and feeble. I consulted one doctor atter another, and took various medicine, bnt obtained no real or lasting relief from any of them. This describes my genereral condition until the fortunate day when I read about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I was impressed by the statements others had made concerning it and proceeded to try it. After taking one bottle I found reli 'f. atid was soon entirely frej from my old complaint. Since that time (now eight years ago) I have enjoyed good health. Knowing personally of its \irtues, I have recommended thasi remedy to hundreds and have never hem d of its having failed to give relief But tor Mothtr Seigel's Syrup I should have been in my grave years ago. (Signed) William Hodkinson. Hollington, near Uttoxeter Stafford-hire. August 11th. ISiCJ."

Mr. Hodkinson is well known and highly respected. He is a local preacher in the Methodist church, and by employment a quarry master. Had he gone into the grave, as he feared he should, he would have been missed and lamented by the community in which he has long been useful, and will live to be useful, we hope, for years to come

>\ow let us repeat our leading thought. Shoit illnesses, even though sharp and dangerous, may result in good rather than harm. But a disease that drags its victim through decades of lingering distress — what shall we say of it .' The trouble and suffering it inflicts is beyond estimate, aud its name is indigestion and djspepsia. And the name of the medicine that cures it, Mr. Hodkinson has done you the favour to mention with clearness and emphasis.

This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.I whakaputaina aunoatia ēnei kuputuhi tuhinga, e kitea ai pea ētahi hapa i roto. Tirohia te whārangi katoa kia kitea te āhuatanga taketake o te tuhinga.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 10 December 1897, Page 27

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DR. LAMONT'S STRONG FINGERS. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 10 December 1897, Page 27

DR. LAMONT'S STRONG FINGERS. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 10 December 1897, Page 27

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