"He Wanted to See the Wheels Go Round."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3245, 8 October 1892, Page 4

"He Wanted to See the Wheels Go Round."

There was once a bright baby boy who loved to examine the internal. structure of his nnole'e watch in order, as he remarked, that be might " see the wheels f o round. " Smart and inquiring fellow ! Some day he may make a watch that will keep better time than those which are made to sell and can with difficulty keep up with the days of the week, to say nothing of hours and minutes. But for a hundred persons who know how a watch is constructed how many know what kind of " works '' are inside their own bodies P Not one. Now the heart iB the human pendulum. Sometimes it beats too fast and sometimes too slow. What makeß it act in that way ? Can yoi: ' oil P Probably not. When its irregularity frightens yon, yon see "a doctor ." Why don't you study up the subject yourself ; and learn as much about it as a locomotive driver is bound to know about his engine ? Can'fc ; Ye* yon can. Look here for instance. A man writes thus : "My heart would thump and beat as if it might jump out of its plaoe. " I The •' wheels " were going muoh too rapidly within his body. He was " gainIng time "at a fearf nl rate, and when that happens a man nears his death faster than it is pleasant to think of. What was wrong with the machinery ? Suppose we look into it and try to find tut. He says that up to April, 1890, he had always enjoyed good health. At that date he had an attack of influenza, or the "grip." This left him io a weak condition, as it commonly does. One morning, in the following July, be found a great patch of eruption, resembling ringworm, covering his thighs, which gradually spread until it covered tha 'abdomen and all tbe lower part of his body. After this his appetite failed, and the natural and necessary aot of eating caused him great pain in the chest. He adds : " The wind rolled around my chest and drove all the blood into my head/, No donbt he describes the sensation correctly, bat the fact probably was too little blood in his head rather than too much, and the wind had nothing to do with it. His system was underfed through the disease, and his bodily machine was running too fast from very weakness, not.from surpfne power ; just as a ship rolls and tumbles about on tbe ■ea from lack of ballast. " I would go into a great heat," he says, "and the pain and dizziness were so bad that I should fall down in a fit. At one time my bands and feet were cold and clammy and at other times they wonld burn as if stung with" nettles. For over three months I continued like this, getting weaker and weaker every day." Certainly, what else could be expected? "Peeling now very anxious." he proceeds to say, "I Baw a doctor, who gave me medicines and embrocations, but they were of no use, aifd I got worse. In August, 1890. it was I read in the Freeman's Journal about Mother Seigle'B Syrup, and thought it might possibly help me. I procured a bottle from the Medical Hal], Ballinamore, and to my anrprise after taking it I was much better. Farther ase of the Syrup caused tbe eruption, or rash, to disappear, and my food began to relish. I could soon eat anything. I was completely, cured and was able to work again. I thank God that Seigle'a Syrup was made known to me, and I.am dishful to inform the public of its excellence so that other poor Sufferers may try it." (Signed) William O'Hara, Lannan•rieugb, Bawnboy, Ourloagh, County Cavan, Ireland. Juno stb, 1891. Mr. O'Hara is a farmer, and is well known and respected in his district. The ailment he describes was indigestion and dyspepsia, which produced ' the palpitation of the heart by the pressure against it of the stomach; tbe latter being inflated with gas generated by the fermented food. The poison from the same source also entored the blood and threw the brain and nervous system into disorder, thus assisting tbe general collapsa. When Seigle's Syrup, had expelled the poison, and set the digestive maahinery once more in motion, strength returned as a matter of course, and the heart did its duty regularly and with its natural power. Had Mr. O'Haaa understood that all his various aches and pain bad one and tbe same origin he wonld have been less disconcerted. The inference seems to be that there is nothing like Mother Seigle's Syrup to make the human clock keep time and to repair it when out of order.