ORDERS AND ARROWS

Lake County Press, Issue 700, 19 March 1896, Page 7

ORDERS AND ARROWS

When the captain of a ship orders some hands aloft to furl the main royal the men jump to obey, as a matter of course. A sailor can climb up on a yard without havin'; a shilling ashore or a penny in his pocket. In fact, Jack seldom signs articles until he has used up both cash and credit. But when a doctor—who is a sort of captain wh iac is laid up in the dry dock of a patient to go aboard for the bonefit of his health, it is quite another thing. A trip and sojourn away from home is an expensive prescription, and most of us can’t afford it. If the doctor says it is a choice between that and the graveyard we shall have to settle on the graveyard ; it is bandy by, and easy to get to. But arc we really so hard pushed ? That is, as often as the doctors say we are ? Let’s turn the matter over in our minds for a minute. Here is a case thatjis put to the purpose, It concerns Mr Arthur \Yhidden Melhuish, of 3, Eegent Terrace, Polsloe Road, Exeter j and for the details we are indebted to a letter written by him, dated March 7th, 1893. He mentions that, in obedience to the orders of bis doctors he went to Cannes in the South of France, in November 1890, and spent thi winter there. He also spent the following winter at the same place. He felt the bf*ter for the change; wo will tell you why presently. But, he obtained no radical benefit, which also we will explain later on. It appears that this gentleman had been weak and ailing nearly all his life; not exactly ill not wholly well—a condition that calls for constant caution. In March, 1890, he had a severe attack of inflammation of the luugs. Now I want the reader to honor me with his best attention, as I must say iu a few words what ought properly to take many. Shoot an ar-ow into the air—as straight up as you can. You can’t tell where it will fall. It may fall on a neighbor’s head, on your own, or on a child’s or on the pavement. Everybody’s blood contains more or 1* ss poisonous elements. These are arrows, but uulike your wooden arrow they always strike on the weakest spot or spots, in the body. If they hit the muscles and joints wo call it rheumatism and gout; if they hit the liver we call it liver complaint or biliousness • if they hit the kidneys we call it Bright’s disease ; if they hit the nerves we call it nervous prostration, epilepsy, or any of fifty other names ; if they hit the bronchial tubes we call it bronchitis, etc. ; it they hit the air cells we call it inflammation of the lungs, or by-and bye, consumption. And inasmuch as these poisoned arrows pass through.the delicate meshes of the lungs a thousand times every day it would bo odd if they didn’t hit them—wouldn’t it ? Now, wait a bit; It follows that all the various so-called diseases above named are not diseases ah all in and of themselves , but merely symptoms of one only disease—namely, that disease which produces the poison ! Good. We will get on to the end of our story. After the attack of lung'inflammation Mr Melluish suflered from loss of appetite, pain in the chest, sides, and stomach, amt dangerous constipation. He could eat only liquid food aud had to take to his bed. For weeks lie was so feeble that he could not rise in bed. He consulted oue physician after another, obtaining no more than temporary relief from medicine. Then he was ordered abroad as we have related. His letter concludes in these words : “ Whilst at Cannes I consulted a doctor, who said my ailment was weak indestion, and that I need not trouble about my lungs. But I never gained any real ground until November 1891, when I began to take Mother Seigel’a Curative Syrup. This helped me iu one week, and by continuing with it I got stronger and stronger, and am now in fair good health. This, after my relatives thought I should nevei recover. (Signed) Arthur Whiddon Melluish.” To sum up: This gentleman’s real ailment was indigestion aud dyspepsia, from which the blood poison comes that causes nearly all disorders and pains. The air of Southern France helped him temporarily, because it is milder than ours ; it did not remove the poison. By care and the use of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup he would have done better at home, as the result shows. So We see that it isn’t the climate that kills or saves ; it is the condition of the digestion. If therefore your doctor orders you abroad for your health, tell him you will first try Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup.