HE DID NOT GO TO AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 226, 29 September 1897, Page 2

HE DID NOT GO TO AUSTRALIA.

Nothing is easier than to recommend a man to go to Australia. \ dozen words or so out of your month and you have done it. But for him to act on your advice—that is a grey horse cf another colour. You set, Australia is half-way round (__ e world; and to pull up stakes here and go there—family, interests, and all—is a job no man takes in hand save for the strongest sort of reasons.

Yet that is what Mr Emrys Morgan Price, grocer and tea merchant of Trehafod Road, Hafod, S. Wales,' was advised to do by a doctor at Merthyr. Now, we don't say but that the result, if Mr Price had gone, would have proved the doctor's judgment to be sound; but as it happen: ed Mr Price came out all right in the end by just staying at home.

The facts are briefly these: In August, 1881, the customary choral competition took place at Abergavenny, and Mr Price attended. l D some way—he fails to state how, an-; it doesn't matter —he took cold and had a (.bill. When he arrived home at Dowlais he could scarcely breathe, To draw his lungs full of air was quite impossible. In fact, he felt as if he were suffocating. Of course, there was no more thought of singing; the question was one of.getting breath enough to live on. He at once tried that good old-fashioned remedy mustard plasters, putting them on his chest and perhaps on his back between the shoulder blades. They relieve d him for a time, as we might expect. But mustard plasters do one thing, no more. They draw some blood from the inflamed parts to the surface; that's all. When they have set up a bit of mild counter-irri-tation they are done; they don't get down to deep causes. And here there was a deep cause. We will point it out presently.

There was a constant whistling noise in his throat, he says. Yon hear it in children when they hare the croup. It means that the airpassages are contracted apd the breath has to pass violently through a small orifice. Disease has often strangled people to death that way. "Next,"' he says, "a violent cough set in. I coughed and spat up thick phlegm night and day." ■•.'■■

This meant more and worse inflammation, and shows us the- spectacle of nature trying to get rid of the product—the phlegm or mucus But to cough night and day. Think of it. What becomes of a man's appetite and sleep? You can imagine. No wonder the doctor at Merthyr was anxious and suggested a change of climate. -"^

Still, Mr Price, as we have said, remained at home and consulted other phj'sicians, one at Dowlais and one at Hafod. All the doctors agreed that the patient was suffering from acute bronchitis, and very properly treated him for that. Yet somehow their medicines failed to effect any real and radical good. That they were temporarily helpful we may not doubt. But you see, bronchitis, once seated, is an obstinate and progressive ailment. It has a tendency to take up new ground and to get down on the lungs, the reason being that the lining of the air passages and ol the lungs is all one thing. So an affection of any part of it,* *if not cured, spreads like fire in dry grass.

"As time went on," says Mr Price, "I got weaker and weaker and my breathing became distressing to hear Ail my friends thought I was in a consumption, and as a sister of mine had died cf that complaint, I naturally felt alarmed. Indeed, one night, in July lSf-5, I was so bad that my wife thought I was dying."

Happily the lady was mistaken, yet death sometimes comes with fearful suddenness in that complaint aud her fear was very reasonable. At that time, please remember, our good friend bad suffered about foil* years, and was in a state of low •*.• tality. The whole body was feeble and exhausted, and there would have been rtoihing surprising in a fatal termination. But a better result was in store, as we shall now* see.

Mr Price's letter, dated August 16, !*s?■, cf includes in these words: "'JW* ter and -iMv-se I continued in the p<-wer ot this malady year after year, and had g?ven up all hopes of ever getting b<.t*er. In February, !#'> after having endured it 5$ y.ars 1 r.->.-ii of a person at Pontypool ha.* ing been cited of the same thin? by Mother S.egel's Curative *^yn:p. > got a supply of it, and in a few days I felt relief. I kept on with it and gi-.dually improved. In six n-onih" the cough 1 ad left me an! 1 tva*- i well man S'_.-ce then I have lieen so.-nd as a be.i. If you like yen tnav pa'ji.sh my statement and i will *.!■**' lv answer any inquiries. — (S'g-'"-^) Eiuiys At., gar. Price." (rood! That is pleasant and. che*r ing to hear. One word—au iiif"?' ant word. Bronchitis, pneanwl**' I-rlieumat*.i-*mt gcut, nervous disordei'i li^-r complaint, kidney ir-Hld*., a* raiot of'<ur familiar di*u:*--'*3 »r' en usee] by poison in the hloor1; *■"?' the poison is produced by stoma-'' fermentation, .ndisresii •« aud off** p.-psia. Consumption its*-**- eon**; 5 ™ the same way. Mother Siege-'-** Cur* live Syrup c_.ves out ths po.-**-"**** »>" stops the manufacture of *''"•' iTi*.fs why ie cured Mr I'-i.'C «•" will cure anybody.