ORDERS AND ARROWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10619, 14 March 1896, Page 3

ORDERS AND ARROWS.

When the captain of a ihipordarasoaiolutlid* aloft to furl the main royal the men jump to obey, as a matter of course. A-uilor can cfimfc up on a yard withoat having » stiffing ashore or a penny in hit pocket. In fact, .lack «*> dom signs articles until he has u»ed up both cash and credit.

Bat when a'doctor—who-is* net of captata when one i» bid up in the dry dock of ilbwaa—. orders a patient to go abroad for the benefit of his health, it is quite another thing. AWj sad sojourn away from homo i» an expensive prescription, and most of us cari't afford ft. Il the doctor says it is * choice between that sud the graveyard we shall have to settle on the graveyard ; it is handy by, and easy to get to. Bot are we really so hard pushed ? That is, as often as the doctors say we are ? LePa torn the matter over in oar minds for a minuts.

Hera is a caae that is pat to the purpose, ft concerns Mr Arthur Whiddon Melhuish, of 3 Regent's terrace, Fols'oe road, Exeter; and to the details we are indebted to a letter written by him, dated March 7, 1893. He mention! that, in obedience to the orders of his doctors, he went to Cannes, in the south of France, in November 1890, and spent the -winter there. He also spent the following winter at the same place. He felt the better for the change; «« will tell you why presently. But be obtained no radical benefit, which also we will explain later on.

It appears that this gentleman had been weak and ailing nearly all his life; not exaotlj ill, not wholly well —a condition that calb tot constant caution. In March 1890 he had a severe attack of inflammation of the lungs."

Now I want the reader to honour me with hia best attention, as I must say in a few wordi what ought properiy to take many. Shoot; an arrow into fcheair—as straight up as you can. 'Son can't tell where it will fall. It may fall on a neighbour's head, on your own, op on a child's, or on the pavement. Everybody's blood contains more or leas poisonous elements. These are arrows, but unlike your wooden arrow they always strike on the weakest spot or spots.in toe body. If they hit the muscles and joints wa call it rheumatism and gout; if they hit tha livor we call it liver cotnpUint or biliousness; il they hit the kidneys we call it Bright's disease ; if they hit the nerves we call it nervous prostration, epilepsy, orany of fifty other names; if they hit the bronchial tubes we call rfc bronchitis, &c.; if they hit tJie air cells wtcail it inAamnuition. of tlu lungs, or, by-and-bye, consumption. And inasmuch as these poisoned arrows pass through the delicate meshes of the longs a thousand times every day it would be odd if they didn't hit them, wouldn't it ?

Now, wait a bit; it follows that ftU the various so-called dis?asss above-named are not diseases at all in and of themselves, but merer/ lyrapfcoms of one oaly disease—namely, that disease which products the poison! Good. We will get on to the end of the story. After the attack of lung inflammation, Mr Melhuieh suffered from loss of appetite, pain in the cheat, sides, and stomach, and dangerous constipation. He could eat only liquid food, and had to take to his bed. For weeks he wag so feeble that he could not rise in bed. Ha consulted one physician after another, obtaining no more than temporary relief from medicine, Then he was ordered abroad as we have related.

His letter concludes in these words: " Whilst at Cannes I consulted a doctor, who said my ailment wag weak digestion, and that I need not trouble about my lungs. Bat I never gained any real ground until November 1891, when I began to take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. This helped rae in one week, and by continuing with it I got stronger and stronger, and am now in fair good health. This after my relatives thought I should never recover. (Signed) Arthur Whiddon Melhuish.^' To sum up: This gentleman's real ailment was indigestion and dyspepsia, from whidi tht blood poison cornea that causes nearly all dimrden and pains. The air of Southern France helped him temporarily, bse&usa it is milder than ours; it did not remove the poison. By care and the use of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup he would have done better at home, ac the result shows.

So we see that it isn't the climate that kill* or eaves ; it is the condition of the digestion. If therefore jour doctor orders yon abroad for your health, tell him you will first try Clothe! Seigel's Curative Synrp.