STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK.

New Zealand Mail, 15 February 1900, Page 53

STAND BACK AND THEN LOOK.

jjL£ ” kind'a wise old physician to' Xn who had brought a feeble, a wojjan w , de veloped daughter- “ t sc»Lf this siri.Bbo o »|a^,!|em. "men arid ; of medicine,- M fend to e*-; pl Hot t 'j» JO" hept see a pietije on Ihe d?? Whv by standing back and l«>kw tiloKour'bpllowed fistortbrough ' tube- Well then, let us first read Mrs Coornbes’s letter, and afterwards get a little iof what painters call perspective on it-and see if we can understand the tat/ef. 189 W. Of ,- ve "1 had an attack of pleurisy, which left*me low and weak. T could not get up my strength, do wnat I would. My appetite was poor, and af+er eating I had severe pains about my chest -'ai:my side, and between myshc-ul-ders. ’ I had muscular pains in my anus and shoulders—in fact all over me. I got little .pr no sleep, and feit quite worn out in the morning. “As time went on I got weaker and weaker, and'was scarcely able to get about. I came to be so low that I thought I never should be better again. 1 saw a doctor and took medicines, but nothing did me any good. “In December (1895) my sister, who lives at'Oxford, told me of the benefit she had derived from Mother Siegel’s. Syrup.. I got abottle from Mr Cooper, chemist, Oldbufy road, and after taking it found great relief. ' I could eat well, and’food agreed with me. • / ' “I now gained strength, and after taking four bottles was well as ever and free from .all .pain, muscular or otherwise. 1 know) others who have been benefited by the same medicine. You can publish this - statement, as you like. (Signed) Charlotte,Doombes, 177, Oldbury road, West Smethwick, Birmingham, October Bth, 1896.” That is her letter—a plain, truthful,_ and welbwritten, letter.. But-Avh&t do you see behind the simple facts as she sets them down ? Is there anything suggested in that attack of pleurisy she speaks: ; of? Was that the beginning? No. Pleurisy is the name given to an inflammation of the spaces or cavities in which the lungs rest. When the inflammation attacks the lungs themselves we call it*pneumonia; if the bronchial tubes, bronchitis, and so on. But- they are the same thing, from the same cause—namely, impure blood. When the. blood is thus polluted, the smallest provocation —a slight cold—may set up any of the above ailments. Rheumatism (which Mrs Coombes had) belongs to the same group or family of maladies. But how comes that impurity or cor-* ruption of the blood in which these things ariß6 \„ tell you, in the hope that you will remember it. Indigestion, dyspepsia, fermentation of food in the stomach, torpid liver, which leaves the bile acids in the blood instead of removing them, poisonous dirt and filth from the stomach getting into the circulationmats where the trouble comes from. So we see that- m cases of pleurisy, etc., w hat the doctors call a , of d yfPepsia. Although this i • een dyspeptic symptoms after w a Previous imperfection of net d )f^ t lo a T Wlle i tiler sbe rea hsed it or not~laid the foundation for the pleurisy : t” d ail that . Irckfiriv 3 i a V S Wl , at , we see as we stand A fd this is the practieal Take pur ma^e of the knowledge : SSaM of your stowros h -! first you feel anything Symu wtL res ? i : t ' to Mother Seigel’s * tK th#ut waiting to find out whe- * When vei?^L 8 ° sng be worse or not. - wait i. yt>ur ,^° use takes fire you don’t ■ you step It t W - badlyit is likely to be; ; digest|n. ' mmediatel y- Do so with insaidhte O !L d^ t ° r WaS . right in what he The git]” M l) ia!pf\ a | ]OU , t u her daughter; ‘ her ancesters • belp the of towards taking we , can do something ; ■ taUn S care of ourselves.