NATURE'S REASON FOR PAIN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIV, Issue 103, 4 May 1900, Page 4

NATURE'S REASON FOR PAIN.

When one of Doctor Abernethy's patiants remarked that it gave him great fain to lift his hand to his head, tho eminent physician responded that, in snch caße, he was a fool to do it. The observation was both brutal and unprofessional. Tho very fact that the act wa.l painful indicated a condition calling for medical treatment ; and to provide that, if he could, was the doctor's duty. Still, one might get on in comparative comfort without lifting his hand to his head, if that were the only source of pain about him. But when a bodily operation which is absolutely indispensable to life, becomes constantly painful, the situation is vastly more serious. And that was what happened to Mrs Emma Elwen, as related in her letter herewith printed for our information. "In the spring of 1890," she says, " 1 began to feel weak and ailing. From being a strong, healthy woman, I gradually lost all tny strength and energy. My appetite was poor, and all fcod gave me pain." Be good enough for a moment to fix your mind on that statement. Naturehas so arranged that all necessary acts or movements of the body shall be painless, if not distinctly pleasurable. Were it otherwise we should avoid them to tho extent of our power, anil so produce incalculable mischief And, above all, the act and consequences of eating were meant to be, and in health, are, one of the highest of our physical enjoyments. This lady having suffered from her food, then, signifies a state of things unnatural and dangerous. " 1 had fulnosfi and pain at tin* olmst," she continues, "between the dors and down my back. 1 had also a deal of pain at my side, and my heart palpitated so much that I got but little sleep or rest on account of it. Jly breathing was short aud difficult. I was unalilc to do any housework, and often wished I were dead." The words "I wish I were dead," are often on the lips of the victims of what seems to hopeless disease, and they aro sad and chilling words to fall on the ears of those of us who love them. They make us look desparingly around for tho help which is so slow to come, and too frequently never comes at all. Is there, then, no medicine which has power to save? "I grew.to be so weak," adds the writer, " that I was from timo to time confined to my bed, and at other times had to lie down on the conch. I lost flesh rapidly, and was like a mere skeleton — my clothes hanging upon me. For three years I suffered in this way, no medicine that 1 took doing me any good. "In lebruary, 189 a, the ttev. Mr Knight, of Biihop Auckland, recommended me to take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Acting on Ins advice I procured a bottls from the Cooperative .Stores at Bishop Auckland, ami after taking it I began to im rove. - My -ppetite returned, and food agreed with me, and 1 ielt ea-ier than I had done for years. Tbe pain at my heart was less severe, and I gained streDgih every day. " beeing this, 1 continued to nse ibis remedy, and gradually I recovered my health, gaining th cc stone w lgtn. Since that time I hare kep in good health. My busbaod ha also bent fitted by the use of Mother Seigel's bjrup when suffering fiom mdi e estiou. You are atlibeit/ to publi h this statement as ;on lik- . iSi^nei) (Mis) Emma Elnerj, Primrose tlil, .- ew field, WillingtOD, near Durham, October 30ib, 1890.' It Mrs Elwen was the only woman in tbo 1 i trict wb.rein slie lives who h* s ileied in this inauntr, the fact should excite the interest of tlu intelligent r. ader, but there are multitudes of others all over the land, all over tbe world. Her aijoient iras up. heait dhease, i w o s not any form of consumption, it was Lot ilie matism. It was dysptpsia the disease that counterfeits most others and has many of their mostpaiofnlsympt as. It ia idle to tay that dyspepsia might be prevented, for we are no, yet wise and careful enough to prevent it. Some day we may be. At present, however, it ia inspiring to know that Mother heigcl's Syrup cur.s it eve 1 iv its wont stages. Still, it is better to cure it when it first appears. Watch yourself, and use the Syrup on the day your food an 1 > v do not agree.