OUR REGARDS TO MR RUSSELL.

Lake County Press, Issue 696, 20 February 1896, Page 7

OUR REGARDS TO MR RUSSELL.

The writer of these lines hereby tenders to Mr W, Clark Russell the assurance of his thanks and appreciation. I have always loved sea stories, and those of Mr Russell stand at the head of their From “ The Wreck of the Grosvenor ” to “ List, Ye Landsmen!” I have read them all. Yet saltwater, and the things thereon and therein, are not the only things he knows about; not by many degrees of latitude. In his last book he makes a sailor talk thus ; “ I bare stiff red from the liver in my time, and know what it is to ha ve/elt wad. I say I have known moments when I could scarce restrain myself from breakwindows, kicking at the shins of all who approached me, knocking my ’.lead against the wall, yelling with the yell of one who drops in a fit ; and all the while my brain was as healthy as the healthiest, that ever filled a human skull, and nothing was wanted huh a musketry of calomel pills to dislodge the fiend,” etc., etc. So much for what Mr Russell’s sailor (or Mr Russell himself, says ; and there are plenty of people who can testify that this is not a bit overdrawn. One fact in particular it helps us to. realise namely, that the life of a sailor does not guarantee good heath. Indigestion and dyspepsia-—of which liver complaint is a sequence and a symptom —is as common among sailors as among landsmen. One of the latter however now tell of his experience. “ All my life,” he says, “ I had suffered from biliousness and sick headaches. I would have an attach about every three weeks. At such times my appetite left me, and I could neither eat nor drink for days together. I suffered from dreadful sickness and (.training, and vomited a green-ish-yellow fluid, Mv head felt as though it woidd hurst. I had a bad taste in the mouth, sallcw skin, and the whites of the eyes turned yellow. I was recommended to adopt a vegetarian diet, and did so, but the attacks were just as frequent and violent. I consulted doctors and took their medicines, but was none the better for it. In this way

I went on year after year. ” Well, we shall agree that there oouhl scarcely be a worse way to go on, and it all came about thus : The overworked stomach put more work on the liver than the latter could do. Indignant and disgusted at ti is the liver refused to do a stroke more than its proper share. Hence more bile accumulated in the blood than the liver was able to remove. This surplus bile acts ns a slow poison—and not so very slow either. The tongue is furred ; the head aches and feels dull and heavy : the eyes and skift arc greenish-yellow ; there is dizziness and nausea ; cold hands and feet : spots before the eyes ; a pungent, biting fluid rises into the throat; constipation ; high colored kidney secretion ; prostrated nerves ; irritability ; loss of ambition ; fears and forebodings, &c., &e. This is “ biliousness ” or ‘‘liver complaint ” in its simplest form. When long unchecked it produces irregu'ar action of the heart, rheumatism, gout, and any, or all, of a dozen other organic disorders. There is no more certain or powerful impulse to misbehaviour ; suicide and other crimes often resulting. What to do ? To get rid of the poison by starting the skin and bowels into energetic action ; then to keep them going at, a healthy and natural gait. How to do bids ? Let our friend Mr F. Widger, 4. Portland Square, Plymouth—whom we have just, quoted—speak on that point. In his letter, dated March 3rd, 1893, he adds ;

“Two years ago, after all medicins had failed to help ire, I first heard of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. I procured it from Mr R. S. Luke, Chemist, Tavistock Road, and began to use it, and nothing else. After having consumed one bottle I found myself vastly better, and by continuing with it I got rid of my old trouble altogether.” We should mention that Mr Widger is a tailor and outfitter at Plymouth, and well known and respected in that community. He permits us to use his name out of gratitude for his recovery. Tho potency of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup over liver disease is due to its ability to cure indigestion and dyspepsia, which is (as we have said) the cause of liver disease. Exery house on the land, and every ship on the sea, should have this remedy as a necessary part of their stock and stores. Perbaps Mr Russell may recommend it in his next book. But no “ musketry of calomel pills.” Oh, no.