"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIN HIM."

Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 22 June 1892, Page 4

"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIN HIM."

" After this I never looked behind me. n This is a very common expression. What d» people mean by it? Lot's wife looked behind her and was changed i ito a pillar of salt. A locomotive driver in America looked behind him one day k<fc ' summer and so didn't see an open d <\wbrid^e in front of him. He; ice a wreck aad great loss of life. A m«m in London failed to look belaud iiiin and wra mn down by a hansom. What shall we da as a rule ? Look behind us or not ?

We introds.ee a /nan wlio &xyn he ne^-r looked behind Mm -after a certain time. How are we to take his meaning? Why. by letting him explain it He goes on to say that in one day in February, 1890, ke was suddenly s^zed witti dizziness and pain in his dead. Like all healthy people, umder similar circumstances, he didn't know what to make of it He says he felt strange and queer, he shivered as though the weather had suddenly turned cold, and then flushed with the heat as though it had turned hot again. What ailed him f His doctor eaid he was attacked with influeiiza, and ordered him to bed. He went to bed. A few days later the fever left liiin, but the illness did not It merely assumed another form. Hi-* tongue looked like a piece of brown leather, and liis akin and the whites of his tyes became ye low, like old parchment. We must eat to live, but when this man trie. l to eat, the tood went against him, and after he had swallowed it I>y main force, it caused nuuh pain in th« chost, side, and utoutacli thf^be wished he had etita'one. Then Ids heart be^an to palpitate, a«id he sa?B he felt low, languid, and tired. He hid what he calls a sinking feeiing at the pit of his stomach and a uriviug which nothing satisfied. Being unable to take any but liquid foal he grew so weak that he \va^ barely able to walk, Then his heart troubled him ouee more, and, to quote his owa words, " As I sat in my chair I could hear my heart thumping as if somebody was pounding me on the back. " Tliis 8b owed that the heart had too much work on hand and was struggling under it like a hoi^e trying to carry two meu. " I got very little sleep at uig-it," lie says, " and would lie /iwake for hours tossing about on the bed." This sort of thing ifl very wearing, and we are not surprised to learn that he lost flesh until little wa» left of him but skin and bone. •♦My cheeks," he says, "sank in until they were almost drawn together, and people shook their heads and predicted that my -time in this world was nearly up. Still I had all confidence in ray physician and kept on taking his medicine. From first to last I took some forty or filty bottles of it (of all kinds) without benefit. " Finally one day the doctor sounded niy liMgs and asked me if any of our family died of coiisnm ption. He said that the heart ] palpitation vvas caused by dyspepsia. Then he said X had better take further advice ; he could do no more for me. This was after nine montlm of his treatment I gave up all hopes of getting better, and, indeed, no one ex* peck d me to.

*• It was now winter again, December, 1890. One day I found a little lrook or pamphlet in the house, that I had never seen before. Jt was about a medicine rolled Mother Seigel's Syrup, and described a ease HJce mine having been, cured by it. Without going into ati my hopes an;l fears on the point, it is enough to say that I got a bottle from Mr Kirkman, Chemist, Ellerby Lane. I took the contents of that bottle and certainly felt a little better, 1 took a second and liegaa to eat some food, which agreed with me. " After this I never looked behind me f thought my recovery was a work. of time, for I i,aa very mncli reduced. I stuck to the medicine, and with good re; son, and at hist got back to my work, slrong and well, aud have remained so ever since. When I went back to the works the foreman and others gathered roam, me and asked what had wrought Hi* woh-ler?:'.l efoinge. I answered, " Mother Si'igi-l's Syrup had wrought it." When I said I wished to start work they told me I uiu«t fii^t be examined by a doctor. The doctor said I was fit for work and I went to work the next morning and have never lost a minute since.

** I wish others to know what Seigel'e Syrng has done for me, ai)d I give the proprietors permission to publish this brief account of my case. I am a- cloth preaser by trade and have worked at Messrs Hepworth and Sons, Clay P;t Lane, for four years." Harvey Ask3w, 2, Back Timber Place, Ellerby Lane, Leeds The doctor was right in saying that the apparent heart trouble in *Mr Askew's case arose from dvspep9in, for dyspepsia was his only ailment. And if* he had used Mother Seigel's Syrup in February, 1890, he would nave had no tale to tell, for he would have been ail light direc Ay. As it is we are glad that after he did try it he had no relapse. He never looked behind him.