A Sit of the Truth

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 310, 6 October 1899, Page 8

A Sit of the Truth

. l _#- l The moat, pertinent and startling question ever asked is thia : — " Wihat is trutiiV A Roman Governor propounded it once, under circumstances which greatly wormed and perplexed his official mintt* And he was not the first man or the last— not by myriads. 50 ... far as ;I .know there has been no satisfactory answer. .; Some people ,: (radicals: and come -outers of varioas aorta) fancy that in this, the tail end of a rather braggart and conceited century, they have flushed a fair-rsizad convey of truths by firing speculative shotguns into every wayside bush and bog. But have they done it ? No, gentle reader, no. They have put up crows and sparrows, the same crows that picked the bones of the cave dwellers, and the aame sparrows that sold two for a farthing in the time of Pilate. There were plenty of foois of old, and there are. plenty now. The ancient doctors, indeed, prescribed some horrible stuffs as medicine : — They used electuaries of viper's flesh and recommended pomegranate aeeds for toothache because those seeds resemble human teeth. Very shallow and silly, to be sure, this sounds to us. But if you wanted to find things that come very nearly matching them in modern practice, I could show you where to look. On my table I have a list of about 300 new " remedies " introduced to a buffering world within the past cwelvemonth. " Must be some good ones among them," do you say ? Possibly. Time will tell. Meanwhile let us stick to whatever we are sure of. " We learn how to cure diseases," said Ceisus, " by experience, not by reasoning." " Some ot the greatest truths in medicine,"' said a leavned Scotch doctor, " canv> by the humblest means ; not by synthesis or venesection, but by the observations of peasants and the experiments of motherly women." Concerning a medicine discovered by one such womau, thousands of stories have been told and letters written Here is au example : — " Fur many years I have suffered from indigestion and weakness. I seemed to bnvo uo energy for anything. I had a poor appetite, and what little food I ate caused me violent pains at the chest and between the shoulders. Frequently I had attacks of giddiness, and when 1 stooped I suffered from an unnatural rush of blood to the head. The pain which 1 was called upon to bear was often very severe ; it affected all parts of my body, and at night 1 got little proper and refreshing sleep on account of it. "As time went on and the complaint grew fixed upon me, I came to be exceedingly weak ; and now and again was obliged to take to cay bed. [ lost flesh and became quite thin, living, as I did, only on milk, beef tea, and other kinds of liquid food. It will oe understood, of course, that I had medical care, besides attending the South London Dispensary. Yet I received no benefit, from what was done for me. " It happened that in January, ISB9, a friend, Mr Pullen, told me he had suffered ia a similiar manner and been cured by a remedy called Mother Seigel's Syrup. Acting on ois suggestion I got a bottle, and alter baviog taken it i found great relief. Presently nay appetite returned and food no longer distressed me. Convinced that Mother Seigel's Syrup was adapted to my ailment I continued the use of it uutil it was no longer needed. My health and. strength were reestablished, and I have since been well. This medicine had done what no others had been able to do. My i husband, who suffered from biliousneßß, used it with the came rosult. You have my free consent to publish this brief statement if you desire to do so."-— (Signed) Mrs Julia Massey, 133, Lorrimore Koad, Kennin^ton, .London, S.E., January 20Dh, 1898. There is no royal road to the discovery of truth or knowledge. Anybody may find it anywhere. It is not always he who seeks that finds. Valuable discoveries ate usually made by what, for lack of a better word, we call accident. The medicine that cures is the medicine we want, no matter whether it it old as the earth or was picked up yesterday in the fields by a child. Thai- Mother {Seigel's cSyrup cures is proved by a cloud of witnesses. It is a bit of the truth. Therefore it will not die out, and nothing can take its place.