SHE NATURALLY THOUGHT SO.
Mrs Hicken says site supposes the doctor knew what was the matter with Lizzie. , Maybe he did, and maybe he duin L. How, let me have your ear for a quarter of a minute, as though \ou were a telephone, while I talk a suggestive truth into it. Read any big medical book, intelligently and honestly written, and you will be astonished to find what a lot of diseases therein described ate said to be “ of unknown origin.'" Therefore, the doctor might not have understood what ailed Lizzie Hicken, and no blame to him. As it was, he worked away at the symptoms (the outside presentments, you know) and trusted to luck for results. And he might have struck it right, but he did not, unfortunately ; and it came to pass what Mrs Hicken is going to tell us about. It was in 1896 that the young girl began to suffer terribly with pains which, as she put it, “ ran right through” her, particularly across the stomach and under the shoulder blades. A continuance of this so prostrated her that she would sometimes laid up for a month or six weeks. We fancied it was rheumatism, yet it did not act quite like that complaint. “.She was also greatly troubled with a nasty cough that completely took the power out of her. I called upon the doctor with my daughter, and told him how she had been handled ; and I gyppQSg }.g knew vvlicifc wus tne nicitt*"! with her, but. at all events, I am certtain his medicines did her no good. “Then I bought her all sorts of cough medicines, but they had no more effect than if she had used so much water. “By this time the poor girl could neither eat nor sleep, and you may be sure we were in great woriiment and perplexity to know what to do. “ However, 1 saw one of the Mother Beigel’s Syrup advertisements, and sent to the chemist for a bottle, and before site finished it I could see she was belter. So we kept on giving her this remedy until site was completely cured. « I have used the Syrup myself for indigestion, and it cured, after i had worn out a deal of other medicines to no purpose. “I want to say, so strongly tnat there can be no doubt of my meaning, that the entire credit for Lizzie’s recovery is due to Mothei Geigt ! s Syrup, and also for ray own. “We both swear by it, and are seldom without a bottle in the house. I commend it to everybody.”—Mrs J. Hicken, Graham Street, Auburn, K.S.W., Nov. 27th, 1899.
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Lake County Press, Issue 982, 3 October 1901, Page 3
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