HUMAN LIVES TEN SHILLINGS EACH.
• !'? «T«n-ili3liDgit ■ It tHim '• low price for . '.■ i^ l © life of'any mm or -woman, doesn't it? ;': ■-: Hae anybody ever dared to estimate ' •:. J^iMO. «t k> cheap a rate? , r ,Let «• turn the page* of hUtory end' ! ; ""la 1803 the British Parliament granted (:,;.;,fi£;£dward Jenner £10,000, and" in 1807 I;«'! waJ.OOO nun, an a, reward for his discovery )^ ; ti "wccination. When, the eecond Bill :V'.-,'"!*M under discttsaioa', Admiral Berkeley ,p',-;i ,00/1 that there, wa*''evidence t<» ehow -;.,.':' tttft weciuation had eaved- 40,000 liwii in ■ ■'■' Great Britain alone y and that, assuming r ,***•»» lives to be worth <tcn-shillings apiece, ttfc* doctor tras entitled to £30,000. ,' .' ThuUui to Dr. Jenner, ire have had the ' ..j.':ptoip hand of smallpox for more than a jMßtorr. But k it so with other disease* ? • j9t«tieticß prove that not lew then a fifth of ■■ (w people constantly suffer from dyspep- '' t ; |ik' For age* it has been the despair of ■ : t ''"'• ■•■■"' ■ ,neai A ll emneat physkiian not Ago wrote thus to » professional >!;!, ; tfnend; "I -would rather see a patient with t ; '(iwioit any other disease enter my ©on-p-z-'>pmmg room then. one. afflicted with the «}';■■;'", ,jf»wn devil* of indigestion and dyspepsia," 'it?., '■'.. i.*et it it about this very disease that & J Wiowaiwto of people write thus: "It is now f;;:;jettte more than ten yearn since 1 first be■J.';,ciaie 4 : acquainted with Mother Seigel's fj V'-jQyrap. Uμ to that time I had euffered for ''/■' i** '°0g *» I could remember from ohronio $■ ,!fl»aigewion and liver complaint. I was «; " deeply depressed, and lacked energy to f|: ; extent that the most trifling* task ;J|, //**• burdenaoine to in*. 1 had wwro pains &; ,nn the chest and back, and my nighta were I often, sleepless, especially in summer. My I r Jjppettte, too, was very fickle and uneatis- &..'?■. 'ycterT' A doctor attended me for some V;,. . tune, but iiis treatment was a failure ; And ■|fi/•!: ; .-*V';<uhncnte eontinuod without relief until !«■.■•:? Mrkod, who resides at South Yarra, in- |:■ wed roe to try Mother Seigel'a Srrup. A /av; ,|dj4id<;t improvement in my condition, re- ' rom t^w &"** '* rw ' dosee, and perne-fif-i , ' ! '* t * 1 ? n € w ith the medicine I soon became i|;;s ; \<«te well and strong again. Mother :< ' Wgel's Syrup is now our family remedy. ■rii? w huiband, who was once a mxrtyr to |v ; ; ; ;VWipepik, hae benefibted by it, and there ooe of ue who hae not found it very indeed," Signed (Mrs) Louisa Ward. p;i>',;l* .Ophelia Terrace, Victoria Parade, East January Bth, 1904. i|'-Slv--iW iu own way Mother SeigeTa Syrnp if, '"*.'r:-"V fairly claim to do * service ae valuabk &s:■■<&. ewskind ue Dr. Jenner's discovery. It f%S|jtoiietee heakh, aad health is the foundatef«l of wealth. . ' 8-3 $££■;•■: ~—
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11955, 6 August 1904, Page 9
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