WHAT MR. INGHAM TOLD MR. HEYDEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 2542, 28 September 1893, Page 4

WHAT MR. INGHAM TOLD MR. HEYDEN.

It waß a very lucky thing for Mr Heyden 'that Mr Ingham called to see him jußt when he did. But it would have been better still if he had done so long before. For Mr Ingham turned out to be the only man able to give any advice worth a rush. Lots of other people had talked and suggested things, as they do when they see a house on fire. But it is commonly the firemen who put out the blaze after all. And so Mr Ingham happened to h ave a bit of useful knowledge that nobody else had. And indeed the case was very like a fire, although it wasn't a house, you know, it was a man ; namely Mr Eeyden himself. Only the day after Christmas (1891) he told the story in these very words. "Fifteen years ago," he said, "in December, 1876, I met with a slight accident and had great pain in my ankle, which at first I thought I had Bprained. In a few days the pain moved up to my knee, whilst all the surrounding parts became swollen and puffed up. I could not bear to put my foot on the ground to even let the bed sheet touch the leg. A doctor who attended me for two months I lid that it was rheumatism, and treated me accordingly. When I got a little better Le sent me to Southport for three weeks. I returned to my work again but had great difficulty in getting about, from time to time I had to leave work, owing to the intense pain. Later I had exorutiating pains in all of my limbs, and joints of my fingures became enlarged and grew out of shape. "Then I consulted another doctor who attended me in several severe attacks. He said my complaint was Chalk Gout. He gave me medicines but said he could not do much for me, and that in time the disease would kill me. In this way I continued to suffer for fourteen years. During that period I took every gout and rheumatism medicine I heard of, but none gave me more than temporary relief. "In March 1890, I had a bad attack and was bedfast for over two months, when a friend of mine, Mr. James Ingham, of Old Tafford, called to see me. The pain was at its height, and seeing my condition, he said he knew of something that would do me good. He brought me a few doses in a bottle but refused to say what it was. It gave me so much relief that I aent my wife to ask him. He replied, • I will come and tell him all about it.' He soon came and said it was called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Upon this I told him I had often heard of it, but regarded it as a quack medicine. I sent at once to Burgon's stores in Oxford Street and got a bottle, and after twentyfour hours I felt much better. In a few days I was out of bed and at work, and have never lost a day's work since, nor had any attack of my old enemy. I will gladly answer any enquiries." (Signed) Henry R. Heyden, 28, Booth Street East, Oxford Bead, Manchester.

Now this statement of Mr. Heyden,s is surprising. The reader wants to know 'how it can be true, and he has a right to ask. The explanation is this: — Mr. Eeyden was afflicted with rheumatic gout, an almo3t nniversal complaint, very painful and dangerous.

The cause is a poison in the blood produced as folJows: — First the stomach becomes inactive and torpid with indigestion and dyspepsia; more work i 3 thus thrown on the liver than it is able to do -, the overloaded liver fails in the manufacture of urea, leaving it in the form of a solid called urio acid. This acid, a deadly poison, unites chemically with the soda (an alkali) In the ■ blood, fanning urate of sodium, a hard crystal poison. This poison goes round in the blood current until it is finally disposed in the muscles and joints, setting them on fire with inflammation and inflicting fearful agony. Continued, the disease causes chalk stones in the bladder, Brighfa disease of the kidneys, and disease of the heart and lungs. All Bome3 bom the same source, indigestion and dyspepsia, and are properly symptoms of that ailment. "What a pity people don't understand this fact better. ■ _^aJ ■ .