TWO OF A TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11056, 6 May 1899, Page 7

TWO OF A TRADE.

That two of a trado seldom agree is a common saying. Its weakness, however, resides in the fact that it is "a cavilling, sneering saying. Tho idea sought to bo conveyed is that tho disagreement is the outcome of reciprocal jealousy. While that is likely, it is not a necessary, or even a philosophical, inference. Two of a trade may easily see reasons for an honest difference of opinion to which the outsider is blind. Again, two of a trade may agree and both bo wrong—on a point, of course, connected with their own industry. Some years ago there was high debate ovor the question whether a painting exhibited in Paris was an original Velasquez or a copy. Half the artists and connoisseurs ill Europe got hot under tho collar about it. It was one or tlio otherso they said. Later on the fact camo out. It was neither an j original nor a copy; it was a replica. Tlio | experts wero mistaken. And so runs specu- , hitivo judgment in everything. j Here is tlio easo of two doctors; both, ' doubtless, competent moil. If tlioy were ; wrong, or if only one was wrong—but let us have the story first. It comes from a re- , putablo source, and is woll corroborated. I " 111 March, 1891," sayS the relator, " I had I a severe attack of influenza, which prostrated mo for two months. .After this I could not got up my strength. My appetite was poor, and what little [ did eat gave me much pain at the chest and around tho hoart, Sharp, cutting pains in the region of the heartseized mo every now and again, sometimes so • bail I foared I was going to dio. At night I got little or 110 sleep on account of wind, which rose into my throat until I fairly gasped 1 for broath. During the painful attacks of my complaint perspiration would stand in beads upon my faco. "I soon lost strength to that extent I could not stand. Indeed, I was as weak as a child. I was often so dizzy I had to catch hold of something to keep me from falling. eral times these attacks have come upon mo at concerts, obliging my friends to conduct me home. As time passed on I grow moro and more feoblo and abandoned all hope of ever being well and strong again. " I had two doctors attending me, who prescribed medicines; whioh, howovor, eased ma only for a time and then I was as bad as ever. "One dootor said I had pleurisy; tho other said I bad heart disease. I 1 or two and a-half years I lingered along, nearly as muoh dead as alive, all ray relatives and friends thinking I would not recover. In November, 1893, a book was left at my house in which I read of a caso like mine having been cured by Mother Soigol's Syrup. My wife procured inn a bottlo from the Provincial Drug Stores in Westgato-9treet, and the first bottlo gave me 60 much relief that I continued with tho medicine. I couW then oat well and tho food agreed with mo; tho pain around tho heart soon censing. In a short time my strength returned and I got back to my work well and vigorous. Sinoo then I have been in the best of health. You aro at liberty to publish this statement and refer lo me."~(Signod) William Henry Jems, 48, llendleslmm Road, All Saints, Ip. swich, Xovembor 13th, 1897, One of Mr. Jems' doctors pronounced his complaint to be pleurisy; tho other said it was heart disease. Wero they both right or both wrong? Or was one right and the other wrong? In tho latter ease— one? Judging from the symptoms as set forth by Mr. Jervis the probability is that both wero right—as far ns they went. The sac or hag whioh surrounds tin heart (called tho pericardium), and the sao in Which tho lungs rest (callcd'tho plourao), aro parts of the lymphatic system; which is tho special abiding place and stamping ground of tho kind of poison, producod by tho diseased digestive »} stem, and tho causo of rheumatism, gout, pleurisy, and heart diseaso. Now, after (if not before) his attack of influenza Mr. Jervis suffered from acuta dyspepsia with torpid liver, which engendered tho poison that set up a mild form of both plouriey and hear', disorder. When the real and underlying ailment of all— dyspepsia— iva* cured by Mother Soigol's Syrup tlieso supplementary or consequential troublos vanished, as might bo expected. So we see that—strange as it may seem tv.o of a trade can differ and both be right.