THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2317, 28 July 1898, Page 17

THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

There is a man in Scotland who used to write many readable and instuirtive things. Ha signrd himself "A Country Parson," aod a bright; parson he is. One of his essays is entitled, " Things Slowly Learned," & good line of thought for anybody.

Well, here is one of the things slowly learned— that disease doesn't jump on a man like a wild cat out of * tree, but develops from seeds and conditions, jusb as roses and weeds do. We who write and print the essays of which these lines are one have ea : d this a hundred times; bub ell the people don't seem to have thoroughly grasped the idea yet. For if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had done bo, he wouldn't have suffered 10 years frora attacks of rheumatic fever, la November, 1891, he«a>s he had a fearful time of it. He tells u» in a letter ths.t he had dreadful pains ail over his body, md «i*s so sote he couldn't bear anything to touch him. Even the bedclothes burfc him, like a feather against a sore eye. •' I gob little or no sleep," hs Bays, "tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift of position. " I had ft foul taste in the mouth, and spafc up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down, gave me great pain at the chest and sides. For five months 1 was confined to my room, taoab oi the time unable to leave my bed, and what I suffered during that time I hare no words to describe."

Anyone who has ever been through that soTfc of thing can ensily believe what Mr Treasure snys ; for when every muscle and joint; in » man's body is throbbing with iuflammr.tion, ib isn't any common collection of words that can set forth his feelings. It is agony and fcormeub iv the supreme degree. Yet; we ought to know better than to have it. But we don't — not yet.

" I was perfectly helpless," continues our friend, •' &nd could scarcely move. In fact, the pnople had to move me from one side of the bed to the other. Month after month I was laid up and Buffering in this way. I had a doctor attending me, but be wasn't able to do much to relieve me. >

•' Finally, to cut the story shorfc, I came to hear of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I read about it in a book that was left at mv house. The book said this medicine was good for rheumatism, and so my wife got me a bottle from Mr Ford, the grocer, at Oakhill. After taking it for a week I felt great relief. Then I kepfc on taking it, and uot long afterwards I found ifc had cured n»e ; it had completely driven the rheumatism out of my system. lam willing yon should publish these tacts, and you nan refer any inquirers to me. (Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon and Horns Inu), DuuHing* Shepton Mallett, November 3rd, 1893." Now let's hark back a moment. To the thoughtful reader Mr Treasure's story may look a trifle coufußcd and mixed. That ie, he describes the symptoms of rheumatism proper in connectiou with a lot of other symptoms which wouldn't seem at the fust blush to have anything to do with rheumatism. But there's whore Mr Treasure is right and the reader wrong. His accouut shows that he was a victim of chronic indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid Uver— • and that coverß the whole ground. Rheumatism {and this is tlie slowly learned lesson} is merely a nasty symptom of * dyspeptic cou« dilion ©t the digestive organs. At the wteeb ifc means too much eating and drinking. Tnia result* iv the formation of a poisonous aci* which Gl's the body and produces the locbl out* break called rheumatism. Hence we cure i 6 from within not from without.. And this tru* idea is also a new idea — do you &cc P Try to geb tliis lesson by heart. You car* prevent rheumatism by Seigel's Syrup ; you can curt ifc by Siegel's Syrup. But it is more com* fortable to prevent it.

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