"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIND HIM."

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2847, 27 June 1892, Page 4

"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIND HIM."

" After this I never looked behind me. a

This is a very common expression. What d« people mean by it ? Lot's wife looked behind her and was chanced into a pillar of salt A locomotive ariver in America looked behind him one day last summer and so didn't see an open drawbridge in front of him. Hence a wreck and great loss of Ufa A mon in London failed to look behind him and was run down by a hansom. What shall we do as a rule ? Look behind us or not ?

We introdmce a man who says he never looked behind him -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 seized with dizziness and pain in his dead. Like all healthy people, umder similar circunistances, he didn't know what to make of it. He says be felt strange and queer, he shivered as though the weather had suddenly turned cold, and then flushed with the beat as though it had turned hot again. What ailed him ? His doctor said he was attacked with influenza, and ordered him to bed. He went to bed. A few days later the fever left him, but the illness did not. It merely assumed another form. His tongue looked like a piece of brown leather, and his skin and the whites of his eyes became yellow, like old parchment We must eat to live, but when this man tried to eat, the food went against him, and after be had swallowed it by main force, it caused such pain in the chest, side, and stomach that be wishod he had let it alone. THen bis heart began to palpitate, and he says he felt low, languid, and tired. He had what be calls a sinking feeiing at the pit of-^is stomach and a craving which nothing satisfied. Being unable to take anybtit liquid t food he grew so weak that he was barely able to walk. Then his heart troubled nlni once more, and, to quote his own words, " As I sat in my chair I could hear my heart thumping as if somebody was pounding me on the back. " This showed that the heart had too much work on hand and was struggling under it liko a horse trying to carry two men. " I got very little sleep at night," he says, "and would lie awake for hours tossing about on tbe bed."- This sort of thing is Vjbry Rearing, and we are not surprised to learn that he lost flesh until little was left of him but skin and bone. ;•• &£ he says, " sank in until they were almost drawn together, and people fibodk^ their heads and predicted i that mv time-in this world was nearly up. Sjfcilll had all confidence in my physician and kept on taking his medicine. From n*r*st to last I took some forty or fifty bottles of it (of all kinds) without benefit* H Finally one day the doctor sounded nrjr lungs, and asked irte if any of our family died of consumption. Se said that tfie jbeart palpitation was caused by dyspepsia. Then he said I had better take further advice j he could do rio more for me. This was after nine months of his treatment. I gave up all hopes of getting better, and, indeed, no one expectdd me to. "It was now winter again, December, 1890. One day I found a little book or pamphlet in the house, that I had never seen before. It was about a medicine called Mother Seigel's Syrup, and described a case like mine having been cured by it. Without going into all my hopes And Tears on tie point, it is enough to say that I got a bottle from Mr Kirkinan, Chemist^ Ellerby Lane. I took the contents of that bottle and certainly felt a lfttlfe. Better, ■ % took a second and began to Sat soitne fodd, which agreed with me. " After this I never looked behind me, thought niy recovery was a work of time, for I was very much reduced. I stuck to the medicine, and with good reason, and at. last got back to my work, strong and well, and have remained so ever since. When I went back to the works the foreman and others gathered rounc. me and asked what had wrought the wonderful change. I answered, " Mother Seigel's Syrup hstd wrought it." When I said I wished to start work they told me I must first 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's Syrup has done for me, and I give the proprietors permission to publish this brief account of my case. I am a cloth fre&er by trade and have worked at Messrs Hepworth and Sons, Clay Pit Lane, for four years." Harvey Askew, 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 dyspepsia, for dyspepsia was his only ailment And if he had used Mother Seiffel's Syrup in February, 1890, be would nave had no tale to tell, for lie would have been all right directly. As it is we are glad that after he did try it he had no relapse. He never looked behind him.