"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIND HIM."

Otago Witness, Issue 1987, 24 March 1892, Page 15

"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIND HIM."

"After this I never looked behind me"

This is a very common expression. What do people mean by it ? Lot's wife looked behind her and was changed into^a pillar of salt. A locomotive driver in America looked behind him one day last summer and so didn't see an open drawbridge in front of him. Hence a wreck and great loss of life. ' A man in London failed to look behind him and was run down 1 by a hansom. What shall we do as a rule ? Look behind us or not ?

We introduce a man who says he nover looked behind him — after a certain time. How are We to take his meaning ? Why, by letting him explain it. He goes on to say that in one day in February 1890 he was suddenly seized with dizziness and pain in his head. Like all healthy people, under similar circumstances, he didn't know what to make of it. He says he felt strange and queer ; he shivered as though the' weather had suddenly turned cold, and then Hushed with the heat as though 1 it, had. turned hot again. What ailed him F '

His doctor said he was attacked with influenza, ard ordered him to bed. .He went to bed. A few days later the fever.left him, but) the illness did not. It merely assumed another form. His tongue looked like a piece of brown leather, and his skin and the whites of hiseyfcs became yellow, like old parchment. -Wo must; all eat to live, but when this man tried to eafc the food went against him, and after he had swallowed it by main force, it'eaused such pain in the chest, side-, and stomach that he wished he had let it alone. Then his heart began to palpitate, and he says ho felt low, languid, .jukJ tired. He had what ho calls a sinking feeling at the pit* of the stomach and a craving which nothing satisfied. ,

Being unable to take any bub liquid foocl lio grew so weak that he was barely able to' walk. Then his heart troubled him onco more, arid, to quote his own words, "As I sttt in my e/«hV I could hear my heart thumping as if so'mcb'ody was pounding me on the hade. This showed that* the heart had 100 much work on hand and was struggling under it likes a horse trying to carry two men. ' ' I got very little sleep at night," he says, "ami would lit) awake for hours tossing about on the bud," This sort of thing is very wearing, and wo are ,nofc surprised to learn that bo lost flesh unt)l'*lit6lu was left of him but skin and bone. "My cheeks," ho says, "sank in until they, were almost drawn together, and people- shook' their heads and predicted that my time in this workl was nearly up. Still I had .all confidence. in my physician and kept on taking his medicine. From first to last I took some 40 or 50 bottles of it all kinds) without benefit. ' •• >' "Finally one day the doctor spunde'dmy lungs and asked me if any of our family died of consumption. He said that the heart palpitation was caused by dyspepsia. Then he saict I had better take further adyioo ; ho could do no more for me. This was after nine months of his treatment. \ gave up, all hopes of getting better,°and, Indeed, no one expected mo to. " It was now winter again, December 1890. One day I found a little boo'c or pamphlet in the house that I had never seen bet'ove. It was about a medicine called Mother Seigcl's By rap, and described a case like mine having been cured by it. Without g/aing into all my hopes and fears on the painb, it is enough to s,iy fcli.ab I got a bottle from Mr Kirkman, Ch«misfc, Ellerby Liane. I took the 'oontents of that bottle a.nd certainly felt a little bettui'. I took ft second and bega,n to eat solid food, which agreed with n\e

" Aftsy '.his I never looked behind mo. though my r-eoovery was a work of tiinu, for 1 was very much reduced. I stuck tj the medicine, and with good reason, and at last gab back to my work, strong and well, and have rem dued so ever sinoo. When I went back to the works the foreman and others gathered round me and i\skcd what had wrought the wonderful change. I answered, ' Mother Seigcl's Syrup had wrought it.' When I said {'wished to' start work they told I must first be examined by it doctor. The doctor said I was fib for work, ancl I went to work the next morning, and have never losb a minute since.

"I wish others to know what Seigol's Syrup has done for me, and I give tho proprietors permission to publish, this brief account of m^ case. I am a cloth, presser by twvde, and have worked a.fc Messrs Hepworth and Sons, Clay Pit lai;e l for four years."— Harvey Askew, 2 Back Timber pla.ee* EUerby lane, Leeds. The doctor was right in saying that the apparent heart trouble in Mr Askew** case a,ros<j from, dyapepsia, for dyspepsia'was his only ajAment., And if he had used Mother Seigel's Syrup in February 189Q he would" have bad no tale to tell, for ho would have been all right directly. As it is, we are glad- that after he did try it he had no relapse. I£e never loo?<e<4 tebimhiw s