THINGS TO REMEMBER BY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2045, 4 May 1893, Page 35

THINGS TO REMEMBER BY.

If a great fortune were unexpectedly left mo (and it would be unexpected) I'll wagor anything that I should never forget the time or place where I first heard of it. Or if I should go home to-night and find (which God forbid) my house burned up, and everything in it, I'm equally certain that the main circumstances connected with the event would stick in my memory until all the past's pictures fade out in the light of the life that is to be. 'Twould be the same with you, I fancy ? Yes. And here comes a woman who will not soon forget the month of December, 1890. It is not because Christmas comes in that month, for it is what she lost, not what was given her, thai? makes that particular time stand out above other times. And what she lost was her health, a matter worth talking about, as one never can tell when he may be more interested in that subject than in politics or the price of provisions.

She says her illness began with nausea. She could keep nothing on her stomach, and threw up what 6he calls " a dirty green fluid." Now this dirty green fluid is not a thing to be disgusted at, but to be studied and understood. It is bile, and bile is one of the most important agents in the getting rid of the contents of the bowels. It oils the way, so to speak, and helps to make the mass of stuff inside there more liquid and easily moved. The liver gets it from the blood, and when our machinery is all right we don't know there is such a thing in our bodies. But when the liver is torpid and lazy, then the bile stays in the blood and poisons us all over. It makes the head ache, the skin yellow and dry, and finally is expelled from the mouth, as this woman, says. Nature can't use" it the right way, so she throws it overboard the best way she can, which is a bad and sickening _ way indeed. Our lady friend goes on to mention f-'aafefcetr tongue was covered with thick Blim&.her:appetite was poor, she had a foul tast&in the - mouth, and what she ate gave her greaitpain in • the chest and back. All these Bymptyiias were • signs of one trouble, and liable t0,d,0 an im- ■ mense amount of mischief, just as a wild.' animal loose in the streets may do a variety - of mischief before he is oaptured and shut up < again. " I felt cold chills all over me," she says, . " and would sit over the fire for hours, for I felt so chilled and starved. I lost a deal of ' sleep at night, and often had to get up and.} walk about the floor."

This was a miserable state to be in, and no- - body ever experienced it without looking back to it with horror and dismay, That is, if he • ever got over it ; for some never do. They getk • worse and worse, until the doctors shako their- -• heads, and old friends wipe their specs and l think about certain funerals that are going to > come off before long. For this , qisease is the ■ essence and substance of ahnCjjijaj.l, j>he rest, no ■= matter what names they are called, -by. ■ It* scatters death with both hands, and fills you so > full of pain and misery — mind and body — thafc-& you soon don't oare much whether you live ore* not.

Well, let us hear more from our friend. " I had so much pain," she says, " that it took all the power out of my body. At times my breathing almost stopped. I would .gasp for breath, and for hours I was in agony. After any simple food I was so bad I had to lie on the couch, and one night / thought I was dying. " Last April my husband persuaded me to try • Mother Seigel's Syrup, that had cured him oti liver complaint. I got a bottle from Mr Jack v< in High street, and in a few days felt easiecj and after taking three bottles more I was completely cured and have had no pain since. / never felt better than I do now, " Yours truly, "Isabella Liddell M'Ewan, " 78, Fisherrow, Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, September 17th, 1891."

We congratulate Mrs M'Ewen on herrecovery,, and there are thousands who will do the same. Four months of acute indigestion and dyspepsiais enough, though many suffer for years becausethey either never heard of, or won't use, theremedy that cured her. And to enlighten then*, she wants us to publish this little history. Now • she will remember April as- w,ell as December. <

A young girl, an inmate of a hospital nearParis, had been five months in a trance. Prickingwith pins failed to arouse her, but she awoke < on being touched with a hot iron.

Giving evidence in an assault case at Ashburton,, the wife of the accused stated that " it • was easy to live with Murphy whea he was drunk, but sober he was a brute with whom-* there was no living, and she would not live « with him,"