GOLD AND BLOOD

Otago Witness, Issue 2310, 9 June 1898, Page 22

GOLD AND BLOOD

Many years a&o I knew a man who expended a great part of a large fortune in buying gold, in coin and in bars. This he melted, and with humau blood and other unique ingredientß laboured secretly to prepare a mixture Iha6 should arrest all disease, renew vitality, and prolong life indefinitely. I ueed'hardly say that; he failed. Not only did he fail, bufr one day an explosion took place in- his laboratory wtjich destroyed the fruits of his toil and left hial senseless and budly wßanded amid fche wreck; The vest of his dayts were passed in au asylum. Yet he was not the first man who tried that Sams experiment— aob- by thousands. To find the elixir of life was one of the main purposes ( of the science of alchemy, the barbaric ancestor' of ths modern science of chemistry. . But all that is now discredited. No doctor or student of healing' evea pretends to possess or to seefc an essence of life.

What is undertaken, however, and snecsaafully, is to ascertain the ferubfa about Nature's function?, and to help her perform them when - they are impeded by* disease.

Illustrations of what can- be done oa this line are plentiful. , ELsre is one: "TweLve years ago," says. Mrs Elizi Matcham, of Acmibag.e House, Sutton-on-Hull, " I had an attack of rheumatic fever. At the same time I had a bad taste in the mouth, poor appetite, aud pain aad weight at the chest after eating. I frequently apafe up a quantity of greasy, fatty matter. Later I was affl'ebed with rheumatism in my hands, and feet. Then I fell into a; state of debility, which continued, year after, year. I aoect a great deal of money in doctoring, ajl to no purpose. Finally 1 was induced to try your medicine. In a short time my food agreed with me, the sickness ceased, I grew stronger, and the rheumatism by degrees abated. Now by taking your remedy occasionally I" keep in good nsalth. (Signed) ftlrg Eliza Blatcnam, June 2, 1893,"

" For some' time prßvioas to 1887," wsites another, " I it&3 troubled with a digestive diiordes: la tbe suhima of that yeac (.1887) t got a severs cold, which brought' on cheumitism and 1 lumbago, t had great pain' in the back and also in 'the joints; I consulted a- doctor, who. -gave jne mediclnes t and advised me' to g.O to BuxbonT I did so, bub atri bound to say ohfc*raed little.berw-fi.fc from' it.

*■ In Jacuacy, 188S, I had another attack c? rb.eurnsfeie fever, which brought me down, into a very low and feeble condition. For days and daya together. I was unable* to eat or sleep. It was only by hardship and pain that I got about at all. Whilst on. a. vi&ib to Little Downham, Cambridgeshire, some friends told me of the medicine famished! by jrou, I used it, am? soon found relief and gained steeogth:. Cheered up and encouraged- by this, T continued takiDg it, and now, by an occasional dose, I keep wholly "free from- rheumatism and other troubles. (Signed) Philip Hopkin, 20 Maude street, Grimsby, November 1.4, 1893." The eccentric mam alluded to in the first part of this article failed to cure any disease with his odd brew. It was costly, too, as I said. Blood is cheap enough, but bars of gold coma high. He was a fanatic and a fool.

But here we have tw-o instances in- which rheumatism, a common and dangerous ailment, was cured by Mother Sergei's Curative Syrup, a remedy made net from blood and gold, but from the healing herbs of the fields and forests-. And why was it cured thus «o speedily and with auoh seeming ease P Because- rheumatism is not a disease of itself, but a symptom of jndi« gesbion and dyspepsia. -It is this universal plague that the syrup, scatters and drives «way , its children following after. Thus we keep ouc blood in our veins and our gold — if we have any — in our pockets.

• Onihearrival at Savaof the R M.S. Aorangi, From New Zealand, three stowaways were dia« co-red and handed over to the police fsays the Fiji Timea). They were sentenced to work In H.M.'a Suva Gaol until the arrival of the next steamer from- Vancouver in about a month's time, wh,en they will be placed on board by tha police and sent back whence they came. Meantime they will bs kept «ctively employed in feeding the pigs and performing whafc sanitary duties maybenecestary within fche derelict precincts of the Suva Gaol. Bxch of tka mail steamers arriving here has one or more staw» a ways on board anxious to obtain, a free paisagQ en route to the Klondike