THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

Lake County Press, Issue 787, 23 December 1897, Page 7

THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

There is a man in Scotland who used to write many readable and instructive things.

He signed himself “ A Country Parson,” and a brig it parson he is. One of his essays is entitled, “Things Slowly Learned,” a good line of thought for anybody. Well, here is one of the things slowly learned—that disease doesn’t jump on a man like a srild cat out ol a tree, but develops from seeds and conditions, just as roses and weeds do. We who write and print tue essays of which these lines are one. have said this a hundred times ; hut all the people don’t seem to have thoroughly grasped the idea yet. For if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had done so. he wouldn’t have suffered ten years from attacks of rheumatic fe; er. In November, 1891, he says he had a fearful time with it. He tells ns in a letter that lie had dreadful pains ail over his i ody, and was so sore he couldn't bear anything to touch him. Even the bedclothes hurt him, like a feu; her against a sore eye. “I got little or no sleep,” he says, “tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift of position. “ I had a foul taste in the mouth, and spat up a great quantity of slimy ph'egm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down gave me great, pain at the ehest and sides. For five months I was confined to my room, most of the time unable to leave my bed, and what I sn fibred during that time I have no woids to describe.”

Any one who has ever been through that sort of thing can easily bob eve what Mr Treasure says ; for when every muscle and joint in a man’s body is throbbing with inflammation, it isn’t, ary common collection of words that can sot forth ins feelings. It is agony and torment in the supreme degree. Yet we ought to know be'ter than to have it. But we don’t—not yet.

“1 wa- perfectly helpless,” continues our friend, “ and could scarcely move. In fact, the people had to move me from one side of the bed to the other. Month after month I was laid up and suffering in this way. 1 had a doctor attending me, but ho wasn't able to do mne • t i relieve me.

F nailv, to cut the story short, I came to hear of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. I read about it in a hook that was left at my house. The book said inis medicine was good for rheumatism, and so my wife got me a bottle from Mr Ford the grocer at Oak hill. After taking it for a week I felt great, relief. Then I kept on raking it and not long afterwards I found it had cured me ; it had completcli/ driven the rheumatism oaf of my system. lam willing you should publish these fact's, and you can refer any inquirers to me. (Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon and Horses Inn), Doulr.ing, Shepton Mallott, November 3r , 1303.” Now let’s hark back a moment. To the thoughtful reader Mr Treasure’s s ory may look a trifle confused and mixed. That :s, he describes the symptoms which wouldn’t seem at the first blush to have anything to do with rheumatism. But there’s where Mr Treasure is right and the reader wrong His account shows that ho was a victim of chronic indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liver—and that covers the whole ground. Rheamatism(a7i(f this is the, slowly learned lesson) is merely a nasty symptoms of a dyspeptic condition of the digestive organs. At the outset it means too much eating and drinking. This results in the formation of a poisonous acid which fills the body and produces the local outbreak called rheumatism Hence we cure it from within not from without. And this true idea is also a neuj idea—do yon see? Try to get this lesson by heart. You can prevent rheumatism by Seigel’s Syrup ; you can cure it by Scigel’s Syrup. But it is more comfortable to prevent it.