A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM INDIGESTION.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2074, 31 July 1896, Page 2

A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM INDIGESTION.

They say that misery loves Company, and they have had it m often it has passed into a proverb. Yet it isn't an all-round truth. Some kinds of misery detest company. They want to be left a'one. Th»y hate »o 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 is the same. A>l« .ments that are mostly fancy, tend to set tongues wagging. But real, genuine and % dangerous diseases don't incite to speech. Crises which are big with fate usually come and go in quiet This is why Mrs Smffham had no d3sire for the society of eve" her beet friends at a certain time she is eoim* to tell us about 'Up to April, 1881.' she writes, 'I never ku«w what it was to b=; ill. At that time I began to feel that something was amiss with * me. , I had no relish for my me ds. and after eating my chest fe't heavy and painful, nud my hear' would and thump as though it ',' . meant to leap nut of its place. Presently I became so swollen round the waist that I was :**. obliged to unloose my clothing, as I could ' not beir anything to touch that part of my' i ' body. ■ s .

•Even the lightest food gave me pain; a. little fish sett'ng my heat to beating at a £ great rate. My feet were cold, and cold clammy sweats would break out all over me, leaving me exhausted and worn out. At night I got no sleep to speak of. and in the morning I felt worse tired than when I went ** to bed. .I/also suffered a great deal from my feet being puffed up and sore. I could carcely get about the house. When I wen* shopping I had to ride 10 the town and back as I could only walk a few yards. 'As time went on I lost my flesh and strength more and more, and gave up hope of ever recovering the presious Health I had so sadly lost, I took medicine and consulted a clever doctor at Derby who examined me and 'said rhy heart was weak. He also gave me **" medicines, but. lonly got temporary ease from them, and in a short time was as bad as before- AH this time I was so nervous and decreased that I had no desire for company. On the contrary, 1 seemed to want to be alone IB with my misery. Even a knock at the door frightened me as though I expected bad news, yet I did not really. My nerves and fancies runaway with my knowledge and judgment. Thousands of women who have suffered in this way will understand what I mean. • Year af'er year I remained in this condition; and what I went through I cannot put 4t in words, nor do 1 wish to try It will answer the purpose to say that I existed thus for eleven and a half years, 88 much dead as alive. I spent pounds en pounds in physic, but was not a whit the.better for any pf it. * 'In Oc'ober, 1892 a book was left at our house, and I read in it of cases like mi"c being cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup. I got a bottle from Mr Bardel, the chemist, ia Normahton Street, Derby, and when I had taken this medicine for a few days, my appetite was better and I had less pain, I kept on taking it, and soon my food agreed *" with me and Tgained strength After this I never looked behind me, but steadily got stronger and stronger. When I had taken three bottles I was quito like a new woman. All the nervousness had left ** me, and my heart was as sound as a bell. Since then I have enjoyed good health, and all those who know me say my recovery is f remarkable. I am confident that Mother Se'gel's Syrup was the means, in the hands of Providence, of saving my life; and out of gratitude, and in hope of doing good, I freely consent to the publication of this statement. «- (Signed) (Mrs) Ann Scuffoam, Cooper's Lane, Laceby, Grimsby, May Ist, 1895. This letter is endorsed by Mr William J. Tollertpn, of the same town, who vouchos for the truth of what Mrs Scuffham has said, as V he personally, knew of the cirounistances of her illness at the time they occurred.. No comment can add a, jot. to the force of this open, candid, &nd sincere communication. Whosoever reads it must needs be moved and convinced by its. The disease which filled tba woman's life-with pain. and misery for nearly twelve years was indigestion or dyspepsia, an ailment sly and cunning as a snake in tbe grass—and as dangerousT Send for the book of which M/s Scuffham speaks, and read tbe symptoms in order that you may know what it is, and how to deal with it. The book costs you nothing, yet : it'*would be worth buying aa if every leaf were hammered gold.