TWO SORTS OF FATIGUE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1974, 29 June 1900, Page 2

TWO SORTS OF FATIGUE.

To be tired is nothing. The bodily powers are more or less exhausted for the time being. No harm is done. The sources of strength are not impareol. Food and rest will set things to right. We shall sleep all the better for having come home under the soothing influence of fatigue. It is nature's narcotic, leaving noheahaches or bewildered brains behind it. It is the highest license to knock oft' work ; it is an order for tomorrow's supply of vigor. The man who was never tired with honest labour has missed one of life's luxuries. But the thing this woman talks of is very different. Rest does not relieve it ; the cheerfulness and refreshment of the evenng meal cannot be used as antidote to it ; t is a sort of weakness which neither welcomes the darkness nor has hope in the dawn. ' Ever since I was a girl of twelve years of age,' she says ' I have been weak and ailing. I had no strength or energy, and was always low and languid. I had a poor appetite, ana the little lood 1 took gave me great pain at the chest and through to my back. 'My skin was yellow, and,l had a constant pain at my right side. "From time to time I was taken with spasms, and for hours was racked with pain. I lost much sleep, and had often to sit up in bed. I j had a gnawing pain and a sinking in the j stomach which made me feel as if I had no strength left. ' In this low state I continued for years, being sometimes better and again worse, but never free from pain. I got so extremely weak that I often thought I should never live. 'ln March, 1893, my mother-in-law told me about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and how it had done her good. I got a bottle form Mr. F. Hudson, chemist, Eccleshall, oncl w hen I had taken it a short time I found great benefit. My food agreed with me and I felt stronger. I kept on taking it, and soon was better than I had been for years. ' Since then I have kept the medicine in the house, and whenever I feel anything of my old complaint it never fails to ease me. lam now in good health, for which I thank Mother Seigel's Curative Syiup. You can make what use you like of this statement. (Signed) Mrs Esther L. Palin, Cotes Heath Bank, Standon, near Crewe, November Ist, 1895." Mr Frank T. Hudson, the chemist whom Mrs Palin names, informs us that he has known her for some years, and vouches for the accuracy of her statement. In the absence of definite information we can do no more than speculate as to the original cause of this lady having become, at so early an age, a victim of indigestion. The unhappy fact, however, is, that there are multitudes of children, usually girls, who suffer in the same way. They are anaemic, pale, weak, low-spirited, short of breath, and generally incapable. Every doctor comes across them in his practice, and plenty of trouble and worry he has in trying—commonly wUh poor success—to cure them. The fundamental defect with these young people is a congenitally bad digestion. The stomach is dull, weak, cold, and torpid—hence f.od dses not nourish, and all the symptoms and results of non-nutrition follow, as described by Mrs Palin. The patient may die—helpless to resist—of some acute disease like pneumonia or quick consumption, or linger along for many years, as she did, bearing a load of illness and pain that is pitiable to see. In these sad cases Mother Seigel's Syrup has made a record of cures, even in advanced life, which stamp it as a genuine remedy. It goes to the root of the trouble the incompetent stomach and liver, stimulates them to normal action, and thus ensures a radical recovery. Despite their dismal past many a woman having used the syrup says with Mrs Palin, * I am now in good health/