They rolled on the Floor.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1849, 11 December 1891, Page 3

They rolled on the Floor.

On Monday. November 24th, 1890, the American papers published the following new* item :—' -'Mrs SarahS. Hensler, of No. 873, East One-Huudred-and-Thirty-fourth Street, New York, shot and killed herself yesterday morning. She was a lady of excellent character and high social position, and a member of the Rev. Dr. Ramsay's Presbyterian Church. .She was well-to-do and very active in various public and private charities. Since last July she had suffered fearfully from indigestion and dyspepsia, which brought on melancholia and then a kind of insanity, under the influence of which she took her own own life.' - Here is another story, not so tragical, but with the same moral. The narrator tells it of himself. | " Mostly," he says, '' we diead and fear death, yet ' once I prayed to die, and the reason was in this | wise. Up to Christmas, 1888, I had been a hearty | man, but at that time (a period of rejoicing with so many) I felt depressed, languid, and tired. My ] appetite left me, and I was much distressed after j eating the lightest food. My skin and eyes became l tinged with a dark yellow colour, and the kidney | secretion was like blood. The pain in my stomach was almost unbearable and often lasted from 12 to | 14 hours without intermission. Sometimes I was I in pain night and day, and was so bad that my wife j had to sit up with me through the night. 1 was ! constantly sick, and troubled with a stomach cough, i and expectorated a quantity of green phlegm. j " In .spite of warm clothing and every comfort, I was always chilled; thi cold shivers runuing through me as if my hood \vt re thin and poor. I could take no solid food ; I lived on soups, milk, puddings &c, and after each meal I had empty gnawing, windy pains at tiie stomach, which nothing relieved. " After a time an intolerable itching of the skin spread all over me, as if my blood were poisoned. Our family physician attended me for about a year. Acting upon his advice I went to Harrogate, where I consulted another doctor, and drank the waters but feeling worse I returned home. The bath attendant at Harrogate, and others told me I was suffering from blood poisoning, but this the doctors never mentioned. The first doctor said it wan the passing of the gallstones that give me such dreadful Paul- " I now consulted an eminent specialist at Manchester, wdio confirmed what the other doctor had told me, but none of them afforded me any relief. " In this miserable way I dragged on for six months more, and became so much reduced I could scarcely put one foot before the other, and so thin that the ring/ell off my finger and rolled on (he floor. I was in such pain that / prayed to die, and one of the doctors told a friend of mine I could not recover. "In August of last year (1890), whilst my sufferings were at the worst, a book was sent to me by post telling of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrnn. I determined to try it, aud sent to Mr Evans, Chemist, Lymm, for a supply. After taking the first botth, I felt a little betttr, and by perseving with the remedy I recovered my appetite and gradually gained strength. My natural colour is now returned and I feel as well as I ever did in my life ; in fact, as well as I did when a boy. I can eat any kind of food without inconvenience, and have gained 30 pounds in weight during the past three months. I may add that previous to taking this medicine I was so much altered that my friends, and even my pupils, scarcely recognised me. I tell every one what Seigel's Syrup did for me." The gentleman who makes the foregoing statement is a person of position and known to all the people of Lymm. He declines to permit the publication of his name, but the perfect truth of what is here related is vouched for by Mr J. H. Evans, the chemist abovenamed. The case was an aggravated one of the indigestion and dyspepsia and its natural consequenses. The whole system had been poisoned and disordered by the acids engendered by the fermentation in the stomach, and, had no Seigel's Syrup come to the rescue just as it did, a fatal result must have followed in a brief time.