ORDERS AND ARROWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2055, 22 May 1896, Page 2

ORDERS AND ARROWS.

When the captain of a ship orders some hands aloft to furl the main royal the men jnmp to-obey, 88 a matter of coulee, a. enlor can climb up on a yard without having a shilling ashore or a penny in his pocket. In fact, Jack seldom signs articles until he has used up both cash and credit. But wien a drc'or—-who is a sort of captain when one is laid up in the dry "ock • £ iflness—o?deiß a patient to go abio >d' lor tLe good of his health, it is quite another thing.. A trip and.SojiV' n away from ho.ie is an expensive prescription, and most of us can't, afford it. If the doctor says it is a choice between that and the graveyard we shall have to settle on the graveyard ; it is handy by, and eisy to get to. But are we really so hard pushed ? That is, as often as the doctors say we are? Let's turn the matter over in our minds for a minute.

. Hete is a case that is pat to the purpose. It concens Mr Afihur Whiddon Mrlhuish, of 8. Regent's Terrace, Polelye Rnad, Exeter ; apd for the det«i's we ate indebted to a letter written by him, dated March 7th, 1893. Hβ mentions that, in obedience to the orders of the dt ctors, he went to Canne3 } in the South ol France, in November, 1890, and spent the wintr there. He also epent the following winter in the same plac ,, . He felt better for the change ; we will Jell you why presently. But he obt ined no ' rjdicsl' benefit, which we will explain later on. It ap'peue that this gentleman had' been weak and ailing marly all his life; not exactly ill, noti wholly well—a condition that calls for constant caution. In March 1890,, he had a severe attack of inflammation ef the lungs. Now I w-mt the reader to honour me with his best attention,as I mustsay in a few words wh it ought properly to make many. Shoot an a* row into the air—ao stra'ght up as you can. You can't tell where it will fall. It may fall on a neighbour's head, on your own. or en a child's, or on the pavement. Everybody's blood contains more or lesa peisonoae elements. These a,re arrows, but unlike your wooden arrow they always strike ■ the weakest spot, tt spots, ia the body. If : they hit the muscles flud joints we may call it rheumatism and gout; if they hit the liver iwe call it liver complaint or biliousness; if 1 they hit the kidneys we call it Bright's. 1 disease; if they hit the nerves we call it ' nervous prostration, epilepsy, or anjr of fifty other names, if they hit the bronchial tubes iwq call it bronchia's. ,&c.; 'if they bit the air cejls we call it inflammation of the lungs/ or by-and-by, consumption. And inasmuch as these poisoned arrows pass through the delicate meshes of the lungs a thousand times every day it would be odd if they didn't hit them—wouldn't it ? . , ! Now wait a bit; it follows that aU the so-called diseases above named are not diseases at all in and of themselves, but merely symptoms of one only disease—namely t bat disease which produces the poison ! Good. Wβ ' will get on to the end of .the story. . . After the attack of•,lung.inflammation Mr Melluish suffeied from loss of appetite, pain in the'sides and stomach,- and dangerous eonstipati in. He could only eat liquid food and had to take to his bed. Jfor weeks he was so feeble that he could not rise in bed. He consulted one physician after another, obtaining , no more than temporary relief from medicine. Then he was ordered abroad as we have r His letter concludes in these words: VWhile at Cannes I consulted a doctor, who said my ailment was weak digestion, and that I need not trouble about my lunge. But I never gained any real' ground unw November 1891, whetf I beipn to, take Mother Seigel's Curative * Syrup.. This helped rae.in one-week and by continuing with , it I got stronger jandstionger and am.now in fair good hedfh. Th's, after my relatives thought I should never lecover. (S»ene+) Arthur WhiddQn'Melluisb-." - * To'suni Up : This geutleinatfs reil ailment was indigestion and dyspepsia, from which the l>l od poison comes that causes neaily all disorders and pains. The air of Sou 1 hern P/abce k«H ed bin temporariiy.'because'it-is milder . than ours : itdid not remoye,*the jpoieon. l>y care staft the rise of MotheV ?eigel'3 Curative :Syrap|he would have done better «tfao:ne, <$ ji-3 tb&»esMltßbo.w3j.-. • ;.■•'.. - ■So <yt: see that it ien t the.chmate that kjlls or saves; It is the condition of the digesthn. If 'therefore yonr doctor orders yon abroad foij you- health, tell him you will first trjr $ Mot!«; Seiget's Cfurative. Byrnp. ■