"HE WANTED TO SEE THE WHEEL GO ROUND."

Otago Witness, Issue 2013, 22 September 1892, Page 38

"HE WANTED TO SEE THE WHEEL GO ROUND."

There was once a bright baby boy wh,o loved to examine the internal structure of his uncle's watch in order, as he remarked, that he might " see the wheels go round." Smart and inquiring fellow ! Some day he may make a watch that will keep better time than those which are made to sell and can with difficulty keep up with the days of the week, to say nothing of hours and minutes.

But for a hundred persons who know how a watch is constructed how many know what kind of "works" are inside their own bodies ? Not one. Now the heart is the human pendulum. Sometimes it beats too fast and sometimes too slow. What makes it act hi that way ? Can you tell ? Probably not. When its irregularity frightens you, you see "a doctor." Why don't you study up the subject yourself ; and learn as much about it as any locomotive driver is bound to know about his engine ? Can't ? Yes you can.

Look here, for instance. A man writes thus : " My heart would throb and beat as if it might judip out of its place." The "wheels" were going much too rapidly within his body. He was "gaining time" at a fearful rate, and when that happens a man nears his death faster than it is pleasant to think of. What was wrong with the machinery ? Suppose we look' into it and try to find out. He says that up to April 1890, he had always enjoyed good health. At that date he had an attack of influenza, or the " grip." This left him in a weak condition, as it commonly docs. One morning, in the following July, he found a great patch of eruption, resembling ringworm, covering his thighs, which gradually spread until it covered the abdomen and all the lower part of his body. After this his appetite failed, and the natural and necessary acb of eating caused him great pain in the chest. He adds : " The wind rolled around my chest and drove all the blood into my head." No doubt he describes the sensation correctly, but the fact probably was that there was too little blood in his head rather than too much, ar^d the wind had - nothing to do with it. His system was. underfed through the disease, and his bodily machine was gunning too fast from very weakness, not from surplus power ; just as a ship rolls and tumbles about on the sea from lack of ballast. "I would go into a great heat," he says, "and the pain, and dizziness were so bad that I feared I should fall down in a fit. At one time my hands and feet were cold and clammy, and at other times they would burn as if stung with nettles. For over three months I continued like this, getting weaker and weaker every day." Certainly, what else could be expected? "Feeling now very anxious," he proceeds to say, " I saw^ a doctor who gave me medicines and embrocations, but they were of no use, and I got worse In August, 1890, it was I read in the Freeman's Journal about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and thought it might possibly help me; I procured a bottle from the Medical Hall, 1 Ballinamore, and to my surprise after taking it I was much better. Further use of the Syrup caused the eruption, or rash, to disappear, and J began to relish my food. I could soon eat any^ thing. I was completely cured and was able to, •work again. I thank God that Seigel's Syruj\ was made known to me, and) I am wisbinl to inform the public of its excellence so other poo? sufferer may try it." (Signed) William O'Hara, Lannanarieugk, Bawnboy, Curlough, County Cavan, Ireland. June 5,' 1891. Mr O'Hara is a farmer,, and is well known and respected in his district. The ailment ho describes was indigestion and dyspepsia, which, produced the palpitation of the heart by tho pressure against it of the stomach ; the latter bejng inflated with gas' generated by the fer* mented food. The poison from the same source also entered the blood and threw the brain and nervous system into disorder, thus assisting tho general collapse. When Seigel's Syrup had expellee! the poison, and set the digestive machinery once more in motion, strength^ returned as a matter of course, and the heart did its duty regularly and with its natural power. Had Mr O'Hara understood that all his' various acbes and pain had ono and the same origin, he would have been, less disconcerted.

The inference seems to be that there ia nothing like Mother Seigel's Syrup to make the Human clock keep time and to repair it when, out of order ' "'

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