EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2409, 3 May 1900, Page 56

EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

You have heard it said that the boy is father to the man. Yes. Very good. Now see what a prodigious deal may be tied up in that idea. Youth is the sowing time of life, and maturity the reaping time. You agree to that. Very good —again. In youth Nature puts forth every effort to build up your body. She, | absorbs everything she can lay .hands on for I that purpose. The whole body throbs with ' life as at no other time. Nature scrapes together building material (I mean food) from . overy direction. You know what eaters healthy- children are. Nature is not thinking.of the future. She is thinking only of sow— ' NOW. She is greedy to make you a MAif, and perfectly careless of what becomes of you j after that.

Your appetite is gauged by the needs of growth— not by your ability to digest. So it comes to pass that, in no end of cases, young people eat too much. They eat wrong things, they eat without any thought of regularity. Hence insufficient gastric juice (digesting juice), stomach distension, -and fermentation. Bits (small bits, of course) of undigested food get into the circulation, and through the right side of the heart into the lungs, where they obstruct the minute bloodvessels at the top of the lungs.

"What then? Why, they finally become organised into tubercle or changed into the chalky or cheesy deposits so often found there. The end, soner or later, is consumption. Over-feeding, irregular f eecling, or under-feed-ing, all give rise to indigestion ; and indigestion is, more than anything else, the cause of consumption, and of a lot of ailments which we suffer from besides.

For example, a woman says : "In the spring of 1891 I began to suffer from weakness. I had a bad taste in the mouth, and no desire for food. After eating I had pain at the chest and sides. Nothing would stay on my stomach, and for many weeks I never tasted solid food. I had a bad pain at the back of my head; my sight was dim, and specks floated before nay eyes. I got very nervous, and lost a deal of sleep, feeling no better for going to bed. Gradually I got weaker and weaker, and so thin I was nothing but skin and bone. I got so weak I had to be lifted from the bed to a chair by the fire ; and when I felt stronger I went about by the aid of a stick.

" I saw doctor after doctor, and got medicine from the dispensary ; but nothing helped me. After two years' suffering a lady who came to see me said she had been benefited by Mother Seigel's Syrup, and gave me a. bottle. After taking it a week I found myself improving ; my appetite being better, and food agreeing with me. I had "less sickness, and felt better altogether. Continuing with this medicine the pain and nervous feeling soon left me. Since then J have kept in good health, talcing a dose or two when needed. I have told many persons of what Mother Seigel's Syrup did for me, and you can publish this statement as you wish. (Signed) (Mrs) Hannah Douglas, Main street, Portarlington, Queen's County, Ireland, August 20, 1896."

Now, this woman did not have consumption of the lungs as commonly understood; she had something quite as bad — consumption of the whole body with attendant prostration of the nervous system. Distinct lung disease might or might not have followed a little later. The point is this, and I_want you not to miss it. Consumption prises from the introduction of foreign bodies into the lungs, which come oftener from tho stomach than anywhere else, in the way I have described. Hence dyspepsia causes it.

But dyspepsia causes wasting (as in this instance) /hetimatisrn, bronchitis, gout, impure blood, thin blood, skin eruptions, and a hundred aches and complaints from top to toe. As I have said times beyond counting I say again— life begins, life is nourished, and death begins in the stomach. Keep it straight as long as you can with Mother Seigel's Syrup. That will do for now.

Jhe Gore Borough Council has decided to offer 2d per head for dead rats delivered at' the municipal offices. The first defunct rodent to be brought in was that produced by a young lady, who specially requested thaff the bonus to which she was entitled should, co towards the Indian famine fund.