ORDERS AND ARROWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10625, 21 March 1896, Page 3

ORDERS AND ARROWS.

When the captain of a ehip orders somaliandl aloft to furl tbe main royal the men jump to obey, as a matter of course. A sailor can ctimk up on a yard without having a shilling aahora or a penny in his pocket. In fact, J»ek set dom signs articLea ontfl be has used upbotfc cash and credit. ,

But when a doctor—who is a sort of osptata when one is laid up in the dry dock of iDjmbs-. orders a patient to go abroad for the benefit of his health, it is quite another thing. A trip and nojourn away from home is an expensta prescription, and most of us can't afford it. H the doctor says it is a choice between that and the graveyard we shall have to settle on the graveyard ; it is handy by, and easy to get to. But are we really so hard pushed ? That a, m often as the doctors say we are ? Lefc'fl turn ths matter over in oar minds for a minuts.

Here is a case that is pat to the pnrpose. It concerns Mr Arthur Whiddon Melhuiah, of 3 Regent's terrace, Folsloe road, Exeter; and fo» the details we are indebted to a letter written by him, dated March 7, 1893. He mentions that, in obedience to the orders of his doctors, he went to Cannes, in the south of France, in November 1890, aod spent the winter there. He also spent the following winter at the same place. He felt the better for the change; w« will tall you why pxesanf.ly. But he obtained no radical benefit, which also we will explain later on.

It appears that fcis gentleman had been •weak and ailing nearly all his life; not exactly ill, cot wholly well—a condition that calls lot constant caution. In March 1890 he bad c severe attack of inflammation of the lungs. Now I want the reader to honour me with hit best attention, as I must say in a few word* what ought properly to take many. Shoot sn arrow into the air—as straight up as you can. Yoa can't tell where it will fall. It may fall on a neighbour's head, on your own, or on a child's, or on the pavement. Everybody's blood contains more or less poisonous elements. These are arrows, but unlike your wooden arrow they always strike on the weakest spot or spots in tbe body. If they hit the muscles and joints we call it rheumatism and gout; if they hit the liver we call it liver complaint or biliousness ; if they hit the kidneys we call it Bright's disease; if they hit the nerves we call it nervous prostration, epilepsy, orany oE fifty other names; if they hit the bronchial tubes we call it bronchitis, &c.; if they hit th air cells wecall it inflammation of the lungs, or, by-and-bye, consumption. And inasmuch as these poisoned arrows pass through the delicate meshes of the lungs a thousand times every day it would bo odd if they didn't hit them, wouldn't it ?

Now,' weit a bit; it follows that all the various so-called diseases above-named are not diseases at all in and of themselves, but merely PS nip tome of one only disease—namely, tluxt disease which products ilu poison! Good. We will get on to the end of the story.

After the attack of lung inflammation, Mt Melhnish suffered from loss of appetite, pain in the chest, sides, and stomach, and dangerous constipation. He could eat only liquid food, and had to take to his bed. For weeks he wai 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 woris! "Whilst at Canoes I consulted a doctor, who said my ailment was weak digestion, and that I need not trouble aboat my lungs. But I never gained any real ground until November 1891, when I began to take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. This helped me in one week, an'd by continning with it I got stronger aud stronger, and am now in- fair good health. This after: my relatives thought I should never recover, (Signed) Arthur Whiddoa Melhnish."

To sum up: This gentleman's real ailment was indigestion and dyspepsia, from ickicli ttte blood poison comes tlutt causes nearly all disorderi mid pains. The air of Southern Fcance helped him temporarily, because it is milder than oars; it did not remove tfca poison. By care aod the use of Mother Seigef's Curative Syrup he would have dooe better aS Lome, as the result shows.

So we see that it isn't the climate that kills or saves; it is the condition of the digestion. If therefore your doctor orders you abroad (or your health, tell him you will firEt,try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. '