STAND BACK ADN THEN LOOK.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2300, 23 February 1900, Page 2

STAND BACK ADN THEN LOOK.

" Madam," said a wise old physician to a woman who had brought a feeble, ana-inic. aud pooily developed daughter to him for examination. " Madam," the treatment of this girl should have beguu two hundred years ago." "Sir," she exclaimed, "I don't understand what you mean." " Probably not, ti;adam," replied this student of men and of medicine, " aud you would'nt even should 1 try to explain it." How do you best see a picture on the wall? Why, by standing back aud looking through your hollowed fist or througn a tube. Well then, let us rbatiead Mrs Coombes' letter, and afterwards get a little uf what painters call [tenptctict ou it aud see if we cau understand the letson it teaches. In the spring of last Year, 1SU")," she says, " I had an atta.k of pleurisy, which left me low and weak. Subsequently I could not get up my strength, clow rut I would. My appetite was poor, and after eating 1 had severe paius about my chest, at my side, aud between my shoulders, 1 had muscular pains iu my arms aud shoulders—in fact ail over me. I got little or no sleep, and felt quite worn out in the morning.

" As time went on I got weaker and weaker and was scaicely able to get about. I came to be so low that I thought I never should be bttt r again. I saw a docter and look medicines, but nothing did me any good. " Iu December (lSDo) my si.-ter, who liv«s at Oxford, lold me id the benefit gne had derived from Mo.her Stigei's Syiup. I got a hotte f:om Mr Co ipi-r, chemist, Oldbury Road, and aftei taking i; found g:e.»t relief. i cou:d eat well, ami VnA ogreed with me. " 1 iiow bad .Mind strength, and aft«T four b Ulrs «a< well as tvpi and free from all pain, inus.:n.ar ur otl.*rwi:>e. I know others wlin hrt>e b. lii b.'iieti'e 1 by the same m-jdi-iiie. \on can ;,üb!i*ii thi> stat. inent as vou like. (SK'i.d'll bail Ut Coombes, 177, Oldbury hoad, U'eM SmttliwiL'k, iilllliliigun 111, October B.l<, lht;6. *

fii:.t 13 hrr letter—a plait-, truthful, and Well wntti-n le'ter. Hut what do w- sre benind the simple facts as .-he sets them down '! Is tiiere an) tiling suggested by th.it at ack of pleurisy sue speska uf * Was lliat the beginning ? No. PltiirUif is tlie name given iu an inflammation of the spaces or cavities iu wlii. h the luig> re>t. Wnen the in flamniati.n atia.-ks the lun-s themselves we call i )ifi:;nc,„;,i; if the bnnrhial tubes, bron chics; and *>> mi. But they are the same r .mn_, iintn tiie -,niie cause—namely, impure bio..;. When t'ie blood is thus polluted, he smal est |.rovocat!:iti--a slight cold—may .-et i.p aoj >f the abow ailim-nt*. Rheun.HliMl. (1-.:: 1 ■ • ii Ml (' lOnibea had) bi'lon-s to liic s.iine i;!otij: or tai:.il\ i.t maladies. I;, jmw C..111 3 that iiuoiiiity or the blood in wir..'u ti.i-sr things h.l V I'll till y■ 11. in the hop.- th;.t you a ill remember it. Indigestion, djspepeia, (timentation of food in

the stomach, torpid liver, which leaves tho bile acids in the blood instead of removing them, poisonous dirt and filth from the stomach getting into the circulation—that's where the trouble comes from. So we. see that in cases of pleurisy, &c, there is always what the docters call a " history " of dyspepsia. Although this lady had keen dyspeptic symptoms after the pleurisy, a previous imperfection of her digestion—whether she realised it or not—laid the foundation for the pleurisy, the rheumatism, and all that followed.

Now that is what we see as we stand back and look. And this is the practical use you are to make of the knowledge: Take care of the condition of your stomach, and the first day you feel anything wrong with it, resort to Mother Se pel's Syrup without waiting to find out whether you are going to be worse or not. When your house takes fire you stop it immediately. Do so with indigestion. The old doctor was right iu what he said to the woman about her daughter. The girl couldn't help the neglect of her ancestors; but we cm do something towards taking care of ourselves.