EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 8 June 1900, Page 6

EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

, You have heard it said that the boy is father to the man. Yes. Very good. Now see what a prodigious deal may be tied up. in that idea. • Youth is the sowing time of life and maturity the reaping time. You agree to that. Very : goodagain. In j'outh nature puts forth evetry effort to build up your body. She absorbs everything she can lay hands on 'for that purpose. The whole body throbs with life as at no other time. Nature scrapes together building material (I mean food) from every direction. You know what eaters healthy children are. Nature is not thinking of the future. She is thiuking only of now— NOW. She is greedy to make you a man, and perfectly careless of what becomes of you after that. Your appetite is gauged by the needs of growth—not by your ability to digest; So it comes to pass that, in no end of cases, young people eattoo much. They eat wrong things, they eat without any thought of regularity. Hence insufficient gastric juice (digesting juice), stomach dis tension, and fermentation. • Bits (small bits,'of course) of undigested food get into the circulation, and' through the right side of the heart into the lungs, where they obstruct the minute blood vessels at the top of lungs. What then? Why, they finally become organised into tubercle or changed into the chalky or cheesy deposits so . often found there. < The; end,' sooner or later, is consumption. Over feeding, irregular feeding, or under feeding, all give rise to indigestion ; and indigestion is, more than anything else, the cause of consumption, and a lot of ailments which we suffer from besides. For example, a woman says : "In ;the spring of 1891 I began to suffer from weakness. I had a bad taste in the mouth, and no desire for food. After eating I had pain at the chest and sides. Nothing would stay on my stomach, and for many weeks I never tasted solid food. I had a bad pain at the back of my head; my sight was dim, and specks floated before my eyes.< 4 I;got very nervous and lostfa deal of-'sleep,- feeling no' bette'h for going to bed. Gradually I got weaker and weaker, and so thin I was nothing but skin and bone.- T got so weak I had to be lifted from the bed to a chair by the lire; and when T felt stronger I went about by the aid of a stick. "

J" I saw doctor after docter and got medicine from the dispensary, but nothing helped me. Aftei two years' suffering-a lady who came to see me said she had been benefited by Mother Seigel's Syrup, and gave me a bottle. After taking it a week I found myself improving ■ my appetite beinsr better, and food agreeing with me. I had less sickness, and felt better altogether: • Continuing with this medicine the pain and nervous feeling soon left me. Since then I have kept in good health, taking a dose or two when needed. I.have told many persons of what Mother Seigel's Syrup did for me, and you can publish this statement as you .vish. (Signed) (Mrs) Hannah Douglas, Main Street, Portarliugton, Queen's Co., Ireland, August 20th, 1896."

Now, this woman did not have consumption of the lungs as commonly understood ; she had something quite as : bad —consumption of the whole body with attendant prostration of the nervous system. Distinct lung disfr~ not have folio wed a little later; The point is! this,, and I want you not to miss it. Consumption arises from the introduction of foreign bodies into the lungs, which come oftener from the stomach than anywhere else, in the way I have described. Hence dyspepsia causes it. But dyspepsia causes wasting (as in this instance) rheumatism, bronchitis, gout, impure blood, thin blood, skin eruptions, and a hundred aches and complaints from top to toe. - As I have said times beyond counting I say again—life begins, life is nourished, and death begins in the stomach. Keep it straight as long as you can with Mother Seigel's Fyrup. That will do for now.