ORDERS AND ARROWS

Lake County Press, Issue 701, 26 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, us a matter of course. A sailor can climb up on a yard without having a shilling ashore or a penny in Ids p .cket. In fact, Jack seldom signs articles until he lias used up both cash and credit. But when a doctor—who is a sort of captain wh • jue is laid up in the dry dock of .illness—order a patient logo aboard for the bauefit 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 handy by, aud easy to get to. But are we really so hard pushed ? That is, as often as the doctors say we are 1 Let’s turn the matter ovgr in our minds for a minute.

Here is a case chat is put to the purpose. It concerns Mr Arthur Whid on Mclhuish, of 3, Regent Terrace, Folsloe Road, Exeter ; 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 Ids doctors he went to Cannes in the South of France, in November 1890, and spent tht winter there. He also spent the following winter at the same place. He ful. the for the change; wa will tell yon 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, 1800, he had a severe attack of inflammation of the lungs. Now I want the reader to honor mu with his best attention, as I must say in a feuwords what ought properly to take many. Shoot an ar-ow into tho air—as straight up as you can. You can’t tell where it willfall. It may full ou a neighbor’s head, on your own, or on a child’s or ou the pavement. Everyl ody’s blood contains more or 1< as poisonous elements. These arc arrows, but unlike your wooden arrow they • always strike on the weakest spot or spots, in the body,. If they hit the muscles aud joints we call it rheumatism aud gout ; if they hit the liver wecall it liver complaint or biliousness" if they hit the kidneys we cull it Bright s disease if they hit the nerves we call it nervous prostration,. ep lepsy, or any ot fifty other names if they hit the bronchial tubes we call it bronchitis, etc. ; it then hit the. air cells vie. call it inflammation of the lungs , or by-and bye, consumption. And inasmuch, as these-poisoned 1 arrows pass through the delicate meshes of the lungs a thousand times every day it would be oud if they didn’t hit them—wouldn’t it ?

Now,, wait a bitlt follows that all the various so-called diseases above named are not diseases at all in and of themselves ,. but merely symptoms of oue only disease—namely,, that disease which produces iluspoison ! Good. Wo will get on to the end' of ourstoiy. . After the attack of lung inflammation' Mr Melluish suffered from loss of appetite, pain in the chest, sides, and stomach, and dangerous. constipation, fie could eat only liquid food and had to take to his bed. For weeks he was so feeble that lie could not rise in bud. He- oousulted one physician alter 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 waa weak indention,, and that I need not trouble about my lungs. But I never gained aay real ground until November IS9I, when I began to take Mother Seigcl’s 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 nevet recover. (Signed) Arthur Whiddon Melhish.”

To sum up: This gentleman's real ai mont was indigestion and 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 doc. or orders you abroad for your health, tell him you will first try Mother Beigel’s Curative Syrup.