SHE NATURALLY THOUGHT SO.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4441, 22 August 1901, Page 3

SHE NATURALLY THOUGHT SO.

Mrs Hicken says she supposes tho doctor know what was tho mutter witli Lizzie. Maybe ho did, and maybo he didn t. Now, lot mo havo your car for a quarter of a minute, as though you were a telephono, while I talk a suggestive truth into it. . .. Hoad any hig medical hook, intelligently and honestly written, and yen will ho astonished to find what a Jot or diseases therein described aro said to ho “of unknown origin.”

Therefore, tho doctor might not havo understood what ailed Lizzie Hicken, and no blame to him. As it was, ho worked away at tho symptoms (tho outside presentments, you know) and trusted to luck for results. And ho might havo struck it right, but ho did not, unfortunately; and it came to pass what Mrs Hicken is going to tell us about.

It was in 1806 that tho young girl bogan to suffer terribly with pains which, as sho put it. “ran right through” her, particularly across tho stomach and under tho shoulder-blades. A continuance cf this so prostrated her that sho would sometimes ho laid up for a month or six weeks. Wo fancied it was rheumatism, yot it did not act quite like that complaint. “Sho was also greatly troubled with a nasty cough that completely took tho power out of hor. I called upon the doctor with my daughter, and told him how sho had been handled; and I suppose ho know what was tho matter with her, but, at all events, I am certain his medicines did her no good. “Then I bought hor all sorts of cough medicines, hut they had no moro effect than if sho had used so much water. “By this time tho poor girl could neither oat nor sleep, and you may bo suro wo were in groat werriment and perplexity what to do. “However, I saw ono of tho Mother Seigol’s Syrup advertisements, and sent to tho chemist for a bottle, and before she finished it I could sco sho was hotter. So wo kept on giving her this remedy until sho was completely cured. “I havo used tho Syrup myself for indigestion, and it cured, after I had worn out a deal of other medicines to no purpose. “I want to say, so strongly that there can bo no doubt of my meaning, that the entire credit for Lizzie’s recovery is due to Mother Sergei's Syrup, and also for my own. “Wo both swear by it, and are seldom without a bottle in tho house. I commend it to everybody.”—Mrs J. Hicken, Graham street. Auburn, N.S.W., Nov. 117 th, 1899.