SEVEN POUNDS IN ONE WEEK

Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1819, 30 July 1895, Page 4

SEVEN POUNDS IN ONE WEEK

Not every man who is thin would thank -you for fattening him. He doesn't want to be fat and.for very good reasons. Unnecessary fat' is a load to carry about ; it interferes with a man's power to work, .shortens his wind, and dulls his wits.

Yet, on the other hand, a certain amount of flesh is needed for health arid comfort. For example : A man five feet high should wpight about 1201bs ; and man five feet six inches, 1451bs ; a mahf six feet, 1781bs. It is a regular ascending scale. The insurance companies allow a variation af 7 per cent. ,above or below it, and beyond those limits charge an extra premium... One-ahouldn't be much, over or under his proper weight if he wants to be sound and Jiearty— arid we nil do want that.

Now we will tell you how Mv Thomas Crosby, being under weight,, gained seven pounds m a week. He had lost 1% ■ stone,, which is too much off for .a, man who was never fleshier than he naturally oughtto.be. j It was this way. He was right enough up to May, 1891. At that timejhe began to feel ill and out of sorts. He had a nasty taste m hiß mouth — like rotten eggs, he says— and - a thick,, slimy stuff came on his gums and teeth. His appetite failed and what he did eat was, as you might say, under compulsion ; and righ t afterwards he . . would .have great pain m his stomaclf and chest., Plainly, something was amiss with himjn that region. He was qf ten , d^szy, jrind cold chills ran over him as thottghj he 'were threatened with fever.. Of course we should expect a man who is handled m this way to lose .strength. Mv r .C i .roaby , lost strength. In fact, he got "so'lveak and nervous that he. shook all over, an,d his hands trembled as if a current 1 of electricity were running through him. To use his own words: ' I rapidly lost flesh, was.li stone lighter, and could hardly walk about. Once my parents thought I was dying, and sent m. haste for the doctor. I saw two doctors . m Epworth and one at Haxey, ; but they were not able to help me. Our vicar, Rev. Mr Overton, recommended me to the Lincoln Infirmary, where I attended for eight weeks as an outdoor patient, without benefit. ! ]

" Soon afterwards Mr Sharp', a chemist, of Epworth, spoke to me of the virtues of a medicine known as Mothejr Siegel's Curative Syrup. Being interested m what he said, I let off trying other things and began taking this Syrup, ■In a few days I felt better, and presently I gained seven pounds m a week.. At that rate I soon got back to my work, ancj have had the best of health ever since. I tell these facts to everybody, an<jl am perfectly willing they should be published. Yours truly (Signed), Tom Crosby, Ferry Road, Epworth, via Doncaster, December 23rd, 1892."

After reading Mr Crosby's story we scarcely need to ask why he lost .flesh. The minute he stopped eating and digesting his usual allowance" of food he began to fall away. Trees, ithey say, grow as much from the air by {means of their leaves, as they do from the soil. But men don't. They've got tn be built up through their stomachs. Indigestion and dyspepsia (M!r Crosby's complaint) stops this process and poisons those who have it, besides. That accounts for all the painful and dangerous symptoms our friend speaks of. The doctors do what they can,but, unluckily,, they don't possess the medicine that goes to the bottom of this disease and cures it. The remedy is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and nothing else,' so far as we know. It restores digestion, and digestion covers the bones with fat enough for health and good looks.