HIS LEGACY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 439, 29 October 1908, Page 4

HIS LEGACY.

(Statjimbnt or' a British Physician.)

“ The only thing I inherited from my parants,” said a young fellow to me the oilier day, “ were poverty and a weak stomach. ’’

The statement is suggi stive. His poverty came with his had digestion, and remained because of it, fi r he grew to be a chronic dyspeptic, lacking the ambition so necessary to win a living against the competition of the healthy and strong.’’ “ During the whole of my professional career,” says one of the most successful physicians in England, “ I have been telling my patients that, so far as physical weakness and disease is the cause of failures in life, the responsible ailment in nine oases out of ten is digestive weakness.” The doctor is right; and fortunately some good work is going on in that direction, as the following case well proves. When Mrs Fitton’s health failed and she became alairningly ill, her medical advisers told her that she was suffering from general debility and indigestion.

The information was doubtless correct ; but it would have been better if Mrs Fitton’s informants bad not put the cart before the horse, but said, “ indigestion and general debility’’—for of course, the general debility was only a result of the indigestion. “For eighteen months,” says Mis Fitton, “ 1 was under medical treatment ; but I grew weaker all the time, and was far worse at the end than at the beginning of that period. I could not digest, and was so weak from want of nourishment and sleep that my housewoi k became a burden too hard for me to bear. Headaches, too, and pains in various parts of my body , troubled me greatly, so that my condition was pitiable. “A tneud’s advice that I should try Mother Seigel’s Syrup was not given a moment to ; oon. Alier taking that n - medy for five days, I was somewhat relieved. The tightness at my chest which had been almost unbearable, eased somewhat, and there was no pain alter eating. Each bottle of the Syrup maiked a long step forward in my march toward complete iccovery, for which ten bottles p;oviil sufficient. 1 hat was in 189 S, and I have since continued in the enjoyment of penecl health, recommending Mother Seigel’s St nip to every sufferer from Indigestion who comes in my way.” —(Signed) Lucy Fitton, 4, Ryder Street, Suiray Hihs, Sydney, N.S.W., March 10th, 1908. The lesson of Mrs Fitton’s experience is this: you must eat to live—you cannot doubt that and your strength and energy depend upon the way in which your stomach deals with the food you eat. It must be property digested, so as to give yon the nourishment it contains. The more thoroughly this is done, the betier will be your health of both mind and body. Never neglect the first signs of indigestion ; if you do. a cure will be more difficult. Mother Seigel’s Syrup, the famous herbal remedy for all stomach and liver disorders, is composed ot roots, leaves, and barks, of great medcinal value, and may be relied upon to cure indigestion, headache, wind, constipation, and loss of appetite. Try it.