A WAS NOT THE CLIMATE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 103, 2 May 1900, Page 6

A WAS NOT THE CLIMATE

"I have been well as to my g-eneral health"—so wrote the late Dr. O. W. Holmes a short time before his death—

"but have had a good deal of asthma. The climate is cold and rough, but I have found much that is delightful about my residence here in Boston (America).. Perhaps, after all, the fault is not so much in latitude 42 ,as in age 62."

That was it. The wise thinker did not deceive himself. He knew that it is the wasting muscles that complain of the steepness of the hills and the thinning blood that fancies the winters are colder than they used to be.

And it was not because Mrs Amy Harvey had losb interest in her domestic affairs that she was led to say everything was a trouble and a burden. No; it was because she had lost her strength. Whether a duty is a burden Or not depends on the back which has to carry it. Ah, dear me, how constantly experience enforces, that lesson upon us. Then what keen concern we feel in the answer to the question: What will strengthen the quivering Jimbs? What will restore the vigour of the mind?

"All my life," says Mrs Harvey, "I have suffered off and on from indigestion and weakness. I felt low and languid, with a disagreeable sinking sensation after taking my meals. I had no energy; everything was a trouble and a burden. As soon as I had partaken of food, no matter how light, I felt a fullness and a gnawing pain at my chest, as if something were tearing it.

"I also suffered much from nei*vous headache, and was often dizzy. My breathing was short, and if I exerted myself 1 was quite out of breath. As time went on I got extremely weak and could not attend to my work.

"I saw doctor after doctor, and was told by them that my ailment was owing to my food not digesting."

[The doctors vreve right. That was the trouble, and the only one. Yet instead of being a comparative trifle, as many shallow persons say, it is the most serious of all diseases. Of course some of her food digested more or loss fully; otherwise she could not have lived a fortnight. But the nourishment was nevex- enough, for the wants of the body. Hence the nervous headaches, the asthma, the sinking sensation, the dizziness, the-gnaw-ing pain, and the disabling weakness. The body under these conditions is like a house abandoned to decay. All goes to rack and ruin.] "I took the doctors' medicines," continues this lady's plain account, "but my ease was an obstinate one, and none of them seemed of any avail. "In May, 1891, a neighbour told me of the benefit she had derived, from Mother Seigel's Syrup. I got a bottle from Messrs W. Fox and Sons, Chemists, Bethnal Green, and when I had taken it two days I felt much relief. I continued taking it, and could eat and enjoy my food ■without having pain. I now gainied strength, and felt brighter than I had ever done in my life.' ''Since then I have kept well, taking a dose or two of Mother Seigel's Syrup when I need it; and I find it always puts me right. You can publish this statement if you think fit, (Signed) (Mrs) Amy Harvey, 19, 'J' Block, Dufferin Street, Bunhill Eow, London, June 26th, 1596." "In March, 1594," writes another, "I had a, severe attack of influenza which left me extremely weak. I was troubled with indigestion and want of appetite. Having read of the wonderful cures made by Mother Seigel's Syrup I decided to try it. I got a bottle from Mr Wm. Hy. Jones, the chemist in Caledonian Road. In two days I felt great benefit. I could eat, and food agreed with me, causing no pain. In a few days I was completely cured and well as ever.

"Since that time I have kept Mother Seigel's Syrup in the house as a family medicine, and it- always relieves when any, of us is suffering from indigestion, etc. I have pleasure in making this statement, and you can publish it if you wish. (Signed) Geo. H. Barker, 44] Montpelier Road, Kentish Town, London, N.W., June 9th, 1896."

These excellent letters call for no explanation. Their sincerity and truth is plain on the surface. And when we remember what the writers affirm of Mother SeigeTs^Syrup is also declared by thousands of others, the value of this remedy is established beyond question.