DRAINS WORKING BADLY.

Lake County Press, Issue 904, 29 March 1900, Page 3

DRAINS WORKING BADLY.

The writer of the letter to which I am about to ask your attention lives in Cork, Ireland. If, the next time he visits Dublin, he will lean over the balustrade of any of the bridges that cross the Liffey, his nose will inform him that a very foul stream runs beneath. In other words, the river is a sort of open drain to the city, and contains what we might expect. The Thames in London is not much better, although no longer used directly for sewage purposes. The point 1 want to emphasise is this : that all animal life produces waste matter which, as such, is dangarous to health, and must be got rid of as qui kly and thoroughly as possible. That is why all well-regulated cities have elaborate and. efficient systems of drainage. Very well. So much is plain Now, the human body has such a system too ; and when it doesn’t work well, the dead, usedup, and poisonous stuff (more or less of it) remains in the body and sets going a lot of mischief. If you don’t think so, it is because you haven’t studied the subject or observed the operations of your own physical machinery. Once upon a time something went wrong with this important apparatus in Mr Cadden’s holy, and it led to an experience on his part which he has no wish to have repeated. “ For over ten years,” he goes on to say, “ I suffered from disease of the kidneys. I had excruciating pain in the back and the lower part of my body.” [Of course ; because the kidneys are situated in the loins, the best place for the work they have to do. There are two of them connected together, shaped like a bean and about four inches long by three inches broad. There they lie, imbedded in fat; and their condition is an important index’ to the health of the owner. They are full of nerves also, and when diseased are sure to cause the keen pain Mr Cadden speaks of.] “ The secretion,” he continues, was very scant, and I suffered great pain in voiding it, sometimes blood coming away. Ig t into a low and depressed condition as year after year passed by and I found myself growing worse and worse. What I suffered it is impossible to describe, and I never looked for being well again ir. this world.” [Our friend’s fears well founded—much better than he realised, probably. Men die of that complaint almost like sheep with the murrain, and even skilled doctors are shy of taking charge of a bad case of it.] “ From time to time,” Mr Caddeu says, “1 was obliged to leave my work, as the gnawing pain was more than I could tear. 1 saw doctor after doctor, and went into the hospital, but none of the medicines eased in June, 1894, I read about Mother SeigG’s Curative Syrup, and got a bottle from the Drug Stores, Pembroke Street, and after taking it was so much better that I felt quite another man, I continued with this medicine, and all the pain gradually left me. When I had taken three bittles L was completely cured, and have since been in the best of health. I feel truly grateful for what Mother Seieel’s Syrup has done for me, in having saved me from a life of misery. You can publish this statement, and refer any one to me. (Signed) J. Cadden, 2, Buckingham Place, Cork, Ireland, August 18th, 1896.” It is the business of the kidneys to take certain waste and worn-out matters fiotn the blood, and expel them from the body through the bladder, etc. They are a vita! part of the drainage system I spoke of. In Mr Caddeu’s case, as in so ma y others, they partially failed, and the retained poisons produced his suffering. Still (and please get a good hold of this point), kidney complaint is only one of a aeries of organic disorders, all of which arise from chronic dyspepsia. It was so in this instance. The digestive trouble having been set right by Mother Seigel’s Symp, the kidneys soon became healthy. One—and only one—of the peculiar virtues of this famed preparation is its power to maintain in good working order the delicate and very important excretory, or drainage, system of the body.