ONLY A LITTLE AT A TIME

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 271, 14 November 1896, Page 3

ONLY A LITTLE AT A TIME

There are Bound objections to one's knowing too much aboub bia own body. lam going to tell you what they are; not boday, but soon. To make sure of them you will have to watch these articles sharply in the newspapers. Yet we Bhould know a little; and a fraction of bhab little I will serve up now. Pleaee favour me with your attention. Right across the middle of the body is a large, thin, flab muscle, stretched like a canvas awning—the diaphragm. By it you are divided into two large storeys or compartments. The upper one contains the heart and lungs ; the lower one contains (chiefly) the stomach, the intestines, and the liver. The most painful (internal) diseases occur downstairs, the least painful upstairs. The entire right sido of the lower comment, from the top down to the short ribs, is filled by the lirer, which ia suspended to a mere poinb of the diaphragm, and shakes aboub with every movement you make. Now, from the location of the liver we haye a word used for ages to express one of the moat unhappy conditions a human being can fall into—the word hypochondria (often abbreviated to "hypo"), the word meaning under the cartilages. "For seven years," writes a correspondent, "I suffered from complaint of the liver. I waa very bilious, my skin was sallow and dry, and the whites of my eves yellow. I had much pain and weight ab my richfe sido, and was constancy depressed and melancholy. It seemed to be out of my power to take ft hopeful or cheerful view of anything. The effec* of this complaint on the mind w&b one of the aspects of it hardest to bear. " I had lost my natural appetite, and ate to support life; but there was no more any genuine rali&h for food or drink. The bad taste in my mouth made all that I took taste bad. Sometimes I would be taken sick and throw up all I had eaten ; and after a meal, no matter how slender and simple, I was troubled wilh fulness and pain ab the chest. I used cany kinds of medicines and while some of them may have relieved me for the moment, none conferred any lasting benefit, and I was soon as bud as ever. "In March, 1892,1 read in a small book of whab Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup had done in cases similar to mine, and was especially interested in the account given in the book of the nature and duties of the liver, and its disorders. I gob a bottle of the liver, and its disorders, I got a bottle ot the Syrup from Boots' Drug Scores, and after taking ib a few days felo quite like a new man. Ib seemed to connecb my etomach and liver and clear my system of ail bile; and it left me in capital htalth. Sinca that timol have kepb Mother Seigel's Syrup in the house as a family medicine and have commended ib to all my friends as the best known cure for ailments like the one from which I suffered so miserably and so long. You can use this statement as you like. (Signed) John Gent, 59, Coventry Road, Bulwell, Nottingham, March 21sb, 1895." 11 In the spring of 1891," writes another, " I found myself in bad health. I had no appetite, and the little I did eat did me no good, gave me no strength. I had greab pain and weight) ah the chesb and right eide and my skin turned sallow and dry. My kidney.-) alao acted badly, and from time to time I had attacks of gravel ; and cold, clammy, weakening sweats broke out all over me. Being only seventeen years old when the trouble began, I waa greatly alarmed and anxious. No doctor was able to help mo, and 1 continued bhus for over 3 years. In Juno, 1594, I began to use Mother Siegel's Syrup, and soon felb better, lighter, aad more cheerful. And by taking it°a few weeks longer I recovered my health and strength. Since then, when I have any stomach, liver, or kidney symptoms, I resort to Mother Seigel's Syrup and ib never fails to seb me righb. You can publish this letter. (Signed) C. Hanson, 6, New Inn Lane, Gloucester, May 31st, 1895." Tho stomach, the liver, and the kidnoys ore all connected parts ot the food and digestive system. When disordered (usually through torpidity of the stomach) they cripple the body and throw a gloom as of night over tho mind. On the earliest signs of anything wrong with them use Mother Seigel's Syrup at once.