A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM INDIGESTION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 9

A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM INDIGESTION.

They say that misery loves company, and they have had it so often it has passed into a proverb. Yet it isn't an all-round truth. Some kinds of misery detest company. They want to be left alone. They hate to be elbowed and questioned and talked to. A wounded dog will always crawl into some retired place by itself. The instinct of badly injured men, after a battle, is the same. Ailments that are mostly fancy, tend to set tongues wagging, hut real, genuine and dangerous diseases don't incite to speech. Crises which tire big with fate usually come and go in quiet.

That is why Mrs Scuff ham had no desire for the society of even her best friends at a certain time she is going to tell us about. " l'p to April, ISBi," sho writes, " 1. never knew what it was to be ill. At that time I began to feel that something was amiss with me. 1 had no relish for my meals, and nfter eating my chest felt heavy and painful, and my heart would beat and thump as though it meant to leap out of its place. Piesently 1 became so swollen round the waist that I was obliged to unloose my clothing, as 1 could not bear anything to touch that part of my body. " liven the lightest food gave me pain ; a little fish setting my heart to beating at a great rate. My feet were Cold, and cold, clammy sweats would break'out till over me, leaving mo exhausted and worn out. At night 1 g,,t no sleep to speak of, and in (he morning I feltwor.se tired than when 1 went to bed. I. also suffered a great deal from my feet being puffed up and sore. I could scarcely get about tho house. When I went shopping 1 bad to ride to the (own and back, as 1 could only walk a few yards.

" As time went: on 1 lost my flesh and strength more and more, and gave up hope of ever recovering the precious health 1 had so sadly lost. I took medicines, and consulted a clever doctor at Derby who examined me and said my heart was weak, lie also gave me medicines, but 1 got only temporary ease from them, and in a short time was as bad as before. All this time f was so nervous and depressed that 1 had no do.-.ire for company. On the contrary, 1 seemed to want to be alone with my misery. liven a knock at the door frightened me, as though I expected bad news, yt 1 did not really. My nerves and fancies ran away with my knowledge and judgment. Thousands of women who have suffered in this way will understand what I menu.

" l r car after year I remained in this condition, and what 1 went through I cannot put in words, nor do I wish to try. It will answer the purpose to say that J existed thus for eleven and a half years, as much dead as alive. I spent pounds on pounds in physic, but was not a whit the better for any of it, " In October, 1592, a book was left at our house, and J read in it of cases like mine being cured by Mother Soigel's Syrup. L got a bottle from .Mr liardel, the chemist, in Normanton street, Derby, and when I had taken this medicine for a few days, my appetite was better and L had less pain. 1 kept on taking it, and soon my food agreed with me and 1 gained strength. " After this I never looked bohindme, but steadily got stronger and stronger. When J. had taken three bottles I was quite likea new woman. All the norvousDesa had left me, and my heart was sound as a bell. Since then 1 have enjoyed good health, and all who know me say my recovery is remarked". !am confident [hat Mother Sei-'ol's Syrup was the moans, in the hand-; of Providence, of saving my life ; and out of gratitude, and i:; hope of doing good, 1 freely consent to the publication of this statement. (Signed) (.Mrs) Ann Souffham, Cooper's Lane, Laceby, Grimsby, .May Ist. 1895." 'this letter is endorsed by Mr William J. Tollorton, of the same town, who vouches for the truth of what Mrs Seuffhain has said, as he personally know of the circumstances of her illness at (ho time they occurred. No comment can add a jot to the force of this open, candid and sincero communication. Whosoever reads it must needs bo moved and convinced by if, The disease which filled this woman's j life with pain and misery for nearly li' yars was indigestion or dyspepsia, an ailment sly and cunning as a snake iu the grass—and as dangerous. Send for the book of which -Mrs Seuffhain speaks, and read the symptoms in order that you may know what, it is, and how to deal with it. The) k costs you nothing, yet it would be worth hmjiuy as is every leaf were ham- I mered gold. ' ' I