AT A PENNY APIECE-£20,000.

Otago Witness, Issue 2179, 28 November 1895, Page 59

AT A PENNY APIECE-£20,000.

If ycu had as many pennies as there *rs natural holes through your ekin, how many pennies should ycu have ? You would have enough to make £20,000. Now figure up the hole 3 for yourself. Yet you couldu't afford to sell them for a penny each, even in hard times. They are worth more money. These holes, or sweat glands, pour out quarts of sweat every day — water mixed with salt and poisonous humours. Stop these holes, partly or entirely, and the skin's work is at onci thrown on the luugs and kidneys. Then yon fall iil with some disease or other. With what disease depends on the nature and location of your weak spot. A lady, whose name we are permitted to mention, will not toon forget the spring of 1890. It was then that for the first time in her Ufa she was afraid to be left alone ; not from fear of enemifts, but from sheer nervous excitement. She was obliged to have elastic put into her slippers to let them out — her x feet were swollen so ; and her hands were in tbe same condition. In the morning her faca would puff up, and large lumps form under her eyes and on her cineks. Then a rash made its appearance all over her body, vanishing again almost knmei^ ately, as a blueh comes and goes on the mco. The suddenness of this she compares to tha sting of a wasp or hornet. An intense itchtug accompanied it, so she could not lie in bed or ba quiet in any position on account of it. She was in misery night and day, and scarcely knew what to do with herself. Her legs got so paiuful and felt so tired she was put to it to get about. For 18 months (it must have seemed like as many years) she was tormented in this way. Meanwhile she consulted two doctors, and attended succeseively at the Newcastle Infirmary and at the Dispensary. But nothing more than temporary ease came of the treat" ment they gave her. The doctors recommended a change of air, and in August 1891 she wenfcfrj North Sundeiland. She' found relief at that place, but not from the air. Now we must get back to the spring of 1890, and inquire wbat, if anything, preceded fehia strange outbreak. At that time, the lady says, ehe first felt laDguid, tired, and constantly sleepy. She was troubled with bad headaches and attacks of giddiness ; her appetite failed— « she could cat but little, and after eating had a feeling of weight and fulness at the chest and sides ; her whole system was ' depressed, and the life in her appeared to sink, as the water does in a cistern where there exists a hidden leak somewhere. Then cams what has already been described. At North Sunderland, whither she went fora change of air,' she met a gentleman named Cathcart, who expressed a most intelligent, opinion of her case and advised the use of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Convinced by his reasoning she procured a supply of this well-known remedy and began taking it. Her letter concludes in these words : " After I had used the Syrup only a few days I felt a decided improvement in all respects. My appetite revived, my food digested batter, and soon the rash and lumps entirely disappeared, to return no more. I have since enjoyed tha best of health. You are at liberty to make my statement public if you think it may be useful to others. (Signed) Mr 3 Sarah Charleton, 27 John street, Arthur's Hill, Newcastle, February 7, 1893." We congratulate tbis lady on her recovery and thank her for allowing us to publish the above details of her experience. The doctora called her ailment nettle rasb, but it was more than that. Her blood was loaded with the poisonous acids generated by indigestion and dyspepsia — the same as the poieons of gout and of acute inflammatory rheumatism. The irritated nerveß of the skin produced the rash, as the clogged pores were unable to excrete tbe poison. The purifying power of Seigel's Syrup expelled this poison through the kidneys and bowels and by stimulating insensible perspira-> tion over the whole surface of the skin. Of this disease an English physician sayS: " When it becomes chronic all treatment fails." Yes, all treatment except the one which cured Mrs Charleton.

At Condobolin Mr William Gubbins was killed instantly by his pony, which ha was exercising, colliding with a tree, ' The Rangitikei Advocate reports the Qnding of a mushroom measuring 15£ in in diameter, and 47in in circumference. Annuitants live long ! Mr Spencer Walpole, who has just entered upon his ninety-first year, has been drawing a first-class political g^nssxi. (£2OOO ft jear) for more than 28_xear*