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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2071, 17 July 1896, Page 3

/A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM IN DIGESTION. They say : that misery loves company, and ' they have bad- it ?o 6f ten it has passed into a : provei b. Yet it ien't an all-ro.md truth. ; Some kinds of misery detest company. They want to be left alone- They hate Io be - >elbowed and questioned and talked to. A '•wounded dog -will always crawl into some >-retired place-by itself, The instinct of badly injured men after a battle 1 is the same. Ailments that are mostly fancy, tend to set 0k ■■ tongues "wagging. B«t real,-genuine and v ' -dangerous diseases don't incite to speech. Crises which are' big wilh fate usually c-sme • and jjo in quiet ■ ■ ,- This is why -M' 3 Scuffhara bad no d3slr ifot the society of even her best fri-nds at"a ■ certain time she is eoing to tell us about •Up to April. 1881,' she writes. •' I never Jkn-w w-hafc it w<">s t? be ill. 'At that time I ** began to> f> el- that something was amiss with < me. i-I had no rel'sh forimy me : Is. and «fter •■ eating »ny chest felt heavy and pain'ul, »ud 'my heari"would boat-and thump as it meant'to leap "ut of its place. ; Presently I *"* > became so swollen ionnd the woist that I was obliged to unloose my clotHnt?. as I could rot anything-to touch thatpa't of my '■body. . • Even the lightest fond gave me pain'; a *i Uitt'e fish-sett'ngmy heat to beat ; ng at a great >ate. My foefwere ■ cnld, and cold 1 el; maiy sweats woulcMjicak out 'ait over me. 'leaving me exhausted and worn out At night I got no sleep to Fp°ak of. and in the •» morning Ifelt wo<se tired than wbenl went '*' vto bed. I also sulfereda great deal from my Sfeet being puffed up and sore. I could ■ carcely get'abr>uf«ihe*-h'"'U i e. When I went •3ho:ping I h'd to ride u> the*town and back •as I -could only walk a few yards. •As time went on I'lo«-t my flesh and strength more and more, and gave up hope of 'ever recovering the pres'ous health I h <J so ■ sadly lost, I tork medicine and consuHed a ■ clever doctor at Derby who examined iw- and * :'S : 'id my heart was weak. H« 7 also gave nre ■ met]ici»es, but ; I only g t temporary ease ifrom them,-and m=a short time \vas s bad as b> fore A ; l this time I w as.si l'ervoiis and ■ thif I hul no flesi c for enmpmy. ** 'On the 1 seemed to want to be alono wit!> my njisery, Even a knock at'thedo' v 'uigl'tened me as lioughl i-xpectccl bad new;, vyetldfdnot really. My• nerves aud farc'cs T-m away with my knowledge and judg«i n , . "Thousands of women who have suffc c. I i;< ; this 'way w til undeistaud wha'-I incau. '"Yfar He - .'year-I remained in this condi- -♦ ition, aud wi'at-I went through I , cannot put ijn wnrds,m rdul wjs!< t>tiy It will answer 'tho. pui-p">e to say that 'I existed thns'for fleven and a half years, ss much dead as alive. ; I spent pounds en-pounds in , physic, but was a» inota whit the bettfrfcr any of it. •InWebber, 1892 a bo6k was'lfft at our 'house, ;: and 'I re v d"in'it of 'case? like mine 'btrag' ciire'd' by Mother Seigel's Syrup. I i'got a bottlefromMr Bardel, the chemist, in i'Notmanton Street, Derby, and when I had itaken this medicine for a few days, my 'appetite was better and I bad less pain. I * l%ept on taking it, and soon my food agreed •with me and I gained strength After this I never looked behind me, but ■steadily got stronger and stronger. When I had taken.three bottles I was quite like a A new woman. All the nervousness had left > me, and my heart was as sound ; as a bell. Since then I have ertjoyed good health, and all those who know me say my recovery is remarkable. I am confident that Mother :Seigel's Syup was the mem 1 ?, in the hands of Providence, of saving my life ; and ont of gratitude, and in hope of doing good, I freely n> con c ent to'the publication of this statement. (Signed) (Mrs) Ann Scuffham, Cooper's Lane, Laceby, Giimeby, May Ist, 1895. This letter is endorsed by Mr William J, Toilet ton, of the same town, who vouches for *t the tmth of what Mrs Scuffham has said, as he personally knew ol the circumstances of her illness at ihe time they occurred. No «i mm'iit can add ayjot to the force of this i pen, candid,-and sincere communication. \Vhosoever'r<?ads it-must needss be moved and convinced by-it. The disease which filled the wrmao's Hfe with pain an.l mi-e'y for nearly -twelve yeari wa? indigestion or dyspepsia an * i,ilmentsy/<>nd cunning ai a in the .g ragg _.. in d {•■s ria r gerous. Send i< r the hook cf w!ich Mrs Scufi'ham speaks,;i;ard read the symptoms m order that ymi what m it is", aud how to deal with it. The book ? C'i't'3 you- n"thing, yet it would be worth bnviiig as if every- leaf were bammoed gol^d