TWO MEN WRONG—ONE MAN RIGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8664, 5 September 1891, Page 3

TWO MEN WRONG—ONE MAN RIGHT.

" 1011 will be in kingdom-come in less than twelve months /" • - " You can't live three years I" " You are not going to die /" These three prophecies were addressed to the same man. The last one had the most comfort in it, yet lie couldn't tell which had the most inspiration. Here's the story. It isn't pleasant reading at first, but it " comes out" all right, as the children say. Perhaps it's better to let our friend tell it himself. We all like the pronoun " 1," that's why an autobiography is never dull. This relator is a butcher of Auckland, N.Z., and his style is so clear and good, it needs 110 editing. • ; . He says : " Some five years ago, when lifting a quarter of beef, I noticed a remarkable soreness in the small of my back. I called 1 doctor, gave up business, and took to my bed. He prescribed a lotion to be rubbed in around the region of the kidneys. This was done, and I remained in bed several days suffering excruciating agony. At lust, having examined the kidney secretions, tlio doctor said, ' You have Blight's disease, and will be in kingdom-come in less than twelve months.' " Never believing I had Bright's disease, I thought, however, it would be as well to insure my life. On examination, the*company's physician refused to pass me for life 7 insurance, saying, 'You can't live three years.' " About three months afterwards I was '•■ again. seized with a severe attack, and went about more dead than alive. Finally I broke down and again took to my bed, as was sup. posed, for the last time. I sold one of my businesses so as not to leave too many affairs for my wife to supervise, made my will, and explained to my wife what to do in case ol my death. 1 can well remember her listening with tears in her eyes to what she believed were my last instructions. I then lingered for some weeks, waiting for death to free me from my sufferings—taking whatever medicines were prescribed, but deriving little or no relief. " One evening a friend called, and we talked over my case and the very serious turn it had taken. Presently he said, 'You are not going to die. Have you tried Seigcl'a Syrup yet?' " I confessed that 1 had not. In fact, 1 had religiously followed the instructions of my medical advisers. My friend persuaded mo to try Seigcl's Syrup, and I began at once, taking twenty-drop doses according to the directions. In about a week I felt a little . more life in me, and after having finished the second bottle I was convinced that improvement had fairly set in. I continued taking the Syrup until I had consumed ten bottles, then went downstairs to work again, still using the Syrup. After having taken from eighteen to twenty bottles altogether, I found myself entirely well. It is now four years since I took my last dose of Mother Seigel's ; Syrup for Bright's disease of the kidneys, and I have suflered no symptoms of ' s kidney complaint since. ■ " (Signed) Robert Hutchinson:, Butcher, Wellington-street, Auckland, New Zealand." We print Mr. Hutchinson's statement aa he wrote it, yet it is not probable that his malady was actually Bright's disease, as that 1 ; ' . is a degeneration or destruction of the sub- * -' stance of the kidneys, and difficult if ■ not impossible, to cure. What he really suffered-from was, 110 doubt, a debilitated " state of the system, originating in indigestion :' * and dyspepsia, with severe kidney symptoms <*\>~ as is often the case. When wo remember that nearly all maladies, including rheumatism, gout, consumption, liver complaint heart disease, etc., are due to poisons in the ,;r bloody arising from : fermented food -in the digestive tract, we can see why Mother Seigel a Syrup is victorious over so great a variety oi apparently diverse diseases. And because of the one source of these complaints, ■ ' serious and often fatal mistakes are made in the diagnosis and in the treatment. The point to emphasise is this : Heart disease, consumption, and Bright's disease arc much ■ rarer than they are supposed to be. Generally what seems like them is a group of symptoms • of indigestion and dyspepsia. It is always - •?,' best to take the advice of Mr. Hutchinson a friend when he said, " You are not going to die j try Seigel's Syrup." ' ; j '%-rvr.y v\.,: : :V.