SEVEN POUNDS IN ONE WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 190, 10 August 1895, Page 2

SEVEN POUNDS IN ONE WEEK.

Not every man who ia thin would thank you for fattening him. He doesn't want to be fat, and for very good reason. Unnecessary fab ia a load to carry aboub; ib inbeiferos wibh a man's power bo work, shortens his wind, anddulla his .wits.

Yet, on bhe other hand, a certain amount of flash is needed for health and comfort. For example: A man five teeb high should weight about 1201bs ; and man five foet bix inches, 1451bs ; a man six feet, 178lbs. It ia a regular ascending scale. The insurance companies allow a variation of 7 per cent, above or below it, and boyond those limits charge an extra premium. One shouldn'b be much over or under his proper weighb if ho wants to bo sound and hearty—and wo all do want that.

Now we will tell you how Mr Tbomaw Crosby, being under weight, gained seven pounds in a week. Ho bad lost 1_ stone, which is too much off for a man who wue never fleshier than he naturally ought to be. Ib was thiß way. He was right enough up to May, IS9I. At bhab time he began to feel ill and out of eorts. Ho had a nasty taste in his mouth—like rotten eggs, he aays — and a thick, slimy stuff cams on his gums and teeth. His appetite failed, and what ho did eat was, as you might say, under compulsion ; and right afterwards ho would havo greab pain in his stomach and chest. Plaiuly, aornothing was amiss wibh him in that region. He was often dizzy, and cold chilla ran over him as though he were threatened with fever. Of course we should expect a man who is handled in this way to looe Btrength. Mr Crosby lost strength. In fact, he got so weak and nervous that ho shook all over, and his hands trembled as if a current of electricity were running through him.

To use his own words : " I rapidly lost flesh, was 1J stone lighter, and could hardly walk about. Once my parents thought I was dying, and sent in haste for tho doctor. I saw two doctors in Epworth and one at Haxey, but they wero 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. 4 Boon afterwards Mr Sharp, a chemist, ut Epworth, spoke to me of the virtues of a medicine known as Mother Seigel'e Curative Syrup. Being interested in what he said, I left off trying other things and began taking this syrup. In a few days I ielt better, and presently I gained seven pounds in a week. At that rate I soon got back to my work, and have had tho beat of health ever since. I tell these facts to everybody, and am perfectly willitigthey shoubj be published. Yours truly (Signed) Tom Crosby, Ferry Road, Epworth, via Doncaster, December 23rd, 1892." After reading Mr Crosby's Btory wo scarcely need to ask why bo lost flesh. The minute he stopped eating and digesting his usual allowance of food he began to fall away. Trees, tbey Bay, grow as muoh from the air by means of their leaves, us they do from the soil. But men don't. They've got to be built up through their stomachs. Indigestion and dyspepsia (Mr Crosby's complaint) stops thia 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 dossbsb the medicine that goes to the bottom of this disease and cures it, Tho remedy is Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and nothing elso, so far as wo know, It restores digestion, and digestion covers the bones with fat enough for health and good looks.