A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION

Otago Witness, Issue 2203, 21 May 1896, Page 53

A CASE OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION

RESULTING FROM INDIGESTION. They say that misery loves company, and they have had it so often it has payed into a proverb. Yet it isn't an all-round truth. Some kinds of misery detest company. They want to be left alone. They hate to be elb jwed and questioned and talked to. A wounded dog will always crawl into some retired place by itself. The instinct of badly injured men, after a battle, is the same. Ailments that are mostly I fancy^ tend to set tongues wagging. But real genuine and dangerous diseases don't incite to speech. Crises which are big with fate usually come and go in quiet. That is why Mrs Scuffhain had no desire for the society of evta her, best friends at a contain time she it going to tell us about. "Up to April 1881," she writes, "I never knew what it was to be ill. At that time I began to feel that something was amiss with me. . I had no relish for my meals, and after eating my chest felt he«.vy and painful, and mj heart would beat and thump as though it meant to leap out of its place. Presently I became so swollen round the waist that I was obliged to unloose my clothing, as I could not bear any* thing to touch that part of my body. ' Even the lightest food gave me pain, a little fish setting my heart to beating at a great rate. My feet were cold, and cold, clammy sweats would break out all over me, leaving mo exhausted and worn out. At night I got no sleep to speak of, and in the morning I felt worse tired than when I went to bed. I also sufft-red a grea.b deal from my feet beiug puffed up and sore. I conld scarcely get aboub the house. When I went chopping I had to vide to the town and back, as I conld ouly walk a few yard?. "As time went on I lose my flesh and strength more and more, and gave up hope of ever recovering the precious health I had so sadly lost. I took medicines, and consulted » clever doctor at Derby, who examined me and said my hearb was weak. Ho also gave me. medicines, but I got only temporary eaße from them, and in a short time was as bad as before. All this tima I was ao norvou3 and depressed that I had no desire for company. On the contrary, I seemed to want to be alone with my misery Even a knock at the door frightened me, as though I expected bad news ; yet I did not really. My nerves and fancies ran aw\y with my knowledge and judgment. Thousands of women who have suffered in this way will understand what I mean. " Year after year I remained in this condition, and what I went through I cannot put in words, nor do I wish to try. It will answer the purpose to say that I existed thus for eleven and a-half years, as much dead as alive, f spent pounds on-pounds in physic, but was not a whit the better for any of it. "In October 1892 a book was left at our house, and I read in it of cases like mine being cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup. I got a bottle from Mr Bardel, the chemist, in Normanton otreat, Dotby. and when I had taken this medicine for a few daya my appetite was bfetter and I bad less piin. I kept on taking it, and soon I my food agreed with me and I gained strength. I " After this I never looked behind me, but j steadily got stronger and strongor. When I had taken three bottles I was quite like a new woman. All the nervoasness had left me, and my heart was sound as a bell. Since then I have enjoyed good health, and all who know me say my recovery is remarkable. lam confident that Mother Seigel'a Syrup was the means, in the hands of Providence, of saving my life ; and out of gratitude and in hope of doing good, I freely coneeub to the publication of this statement. (Signed) (M») Ann Scuffhatn, Cooper's Lane, Laceby, Grimeby, May 1, 1895." This letter is endorsed by Me William J. Tollerton, of the game town, who vouches for the truth of what Mrs Scuffham has said, as he personally knew of the circumstances of her ill--ness at the time it occurred. No comment can add a jot to the force of this open, candid, and sincere communication. Whosoever reads it mast needs b9 moved acd convinced by it. The disease which -Qlled this womin'a life with pain and misery for nearly 12 jeara was indigestion or dyspepsia, an ailment sly and cunning e.s a snake in the grass —and as dangerous. Send for the book of which Mrs Scuffham speaks, and read the symptoms in order thai you may know what it is and how to deal with it. The book costs you nothing, yet it would be worth buying as if every leaf were hamrneieJ gold.

tmmammm_______■— A finback whale has been stranded at Allday Buy, near Oamatu, Ib is between 50ft and 60ft in length. Slecbric lighting is coming much into vogue ia Wellington, whilst its value as a motive power is also receiving considerable attention. Mr R. T. Turnbull, the well-knowu electrical engineer of Wellington, has a number of elecirio light plants on hand at the present time, in three of which oil sngines will be usad for fcba generating power.

3ome of the settlers on the State farm at In connection with the recent cancellation of Jjevin have recently been ordered to leave their the license of the Holmesdale Hotel, the Southcomfortable quarters at the farm and proceed land Times explains that there had been no to the railway works in the Hunterville dis- previous convictions against Scofcfc. There were .triob. This has naturally incensed the men, three separate charges, and as each was deemed and one has written a strongly-worded letter to to be proved each counted as a separate conviotae Levin paper. tion, wad the license bad to be dealt with.