THE BACILLUS AND THE LION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11957, 2 February 1901, Page 2

THE BACILLUS AND THE LION.

" I am no more afraid of a boiled bacillus than I am of a well-cooked' lion," says Dr Alexander Hill, Master of Downing College, and Vicc-ehnncellor of Cambridge,

Now, the authorities affirm that out of 900,000 babies born annually in England and Wales, probably not moro than one in twenty lives out his natural life; and the writer thinks that estimate is too high. All the rest die—bar the few accidentally killed—from preventable diseases, such as measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, influenza, consumption, etc., a long and dreary list; all the maladies on it having a family likeness, and all arising from, and propagated by, germs. It is likely that one-third of the cows have tuberculosis, and, of course, people drink tho disease in the milk.

It really does look as though it would be a good idea to boil the bacillus—as early in his career as possible. If necessary., we might cook tho lions later on; .they arc comparatively harmless, anyway.

"Tp sum the' matter up," says another man with eyas in his head, " I have noticed that among the preventablo diseases the greater number are due to mistakes in eating and drinking."

Which brings us to the little story that John K. Orthwein tells. "About three and a-half years ago," ho goes on to relate, " I was in the South Brisbane Fire Brigade service. At that time I contracted dyspepsia—a sharp and positive form of it, with the pains and penalties I lmd often read of, but never realised before.

"It lasted four months, and might have stuck to me as many years but for one thing. My appetite disappeared altogether,. I got constant colds, and my attempts to eat were miserable spectacles for, my friends to witness, and worse still as experiences for me. I used to belch up a sour, acrid fluid, and life was hardly worth the price of it.

" My comrades in the brigade knew the bad form I was in, and, one after another, they told me to try Mother Seiqcl's Syrup.' They were nearly all in the habit of using it for anything that ailed them, and were sure, it would set me to rights.

"Anything to get out of this, I.said, and got the Syrup without delay. The first bottle did splendid work, and when I had finished the third my digestive arrangements were sound as a gold sovereign, and have been ever since. I can cat whatever conies my way, and catch no more colds. And this I owe "to Mother Seigel's Syrup. No wonder it is papular all over Australia. "I am no longer in the brigade, but live at Hubert street, Woolloongabba, South Brisbane, Oueenelund, where I shall he pleased to sec anybody who wishes further details of my case ."—, Tons" K. Oivtiiwein; October 7, 189 D.

. The accuracy of the above statement is vouched for in writing-by Mr R. Cumming, assistant superintendent South Brisbane Fire Brigade, We may kill the bacillus by boiling it, and we may cook a lion if wo can catch him; but the only certain way to get rid of indigestion, and the black flock of ailments which arises from it, is by the u=e of Mother Scigcl's Syrup.