Nature’s Reason for Pain.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3539, 25 January 1900, Page 3

Nature’s Reason for Pain.

When one of Dr Aberuefchy’a patients remarked that it gave him great pain to lift his hand to his head, the eminent physican responded that, in such case, ho was a fool for doing it. The observation was both brutal and unprofessional. The very fact that the act was painful indicated a condition calling for medical treatment; and to provide that, if ho could, was the doctor’s duty.

Still, one might get on in comparative comfort without lifting his hand to his head, if that were the only source of pain about him. But when a bodily operation which is absolutely indispensable to life, becomes constantly painful, the situation is vastly more serious. And that was what happened to Mrs Emma Elwen, as related in her letter herewith printed for our information.

“In the spring of 1889,” she says, “ I be-o-an to feel weak and ailing'. From being a strong,healthy woman, I gradually lost all my strength and energy. My appetite was poor, and all food gate mo yam,!’ Be good enough for a moment to fix your mind on that statement. Nature has so arranged that all necessary acts or movements of the body shall be painless, if not distinctly pleasurable. Were it otherwise, we should avoid them to the extent of our power, and so produce incalculable mischief. And, above all, the act and consequences of eating were meant to be, and in health, are, one of the highest of our physical enjoyments. This lady having suffered from her food, then signifies a state of things unnatural and dangerous, “ I had fulness and pain at the chest,” she continues, “ between the shoulders and down my back. Iliad also a deal of pain at my side, and my heart palpitated so much that I got but little sleep or rest on account of it. My breathing was short and difficult. I was unable to do any housework, and often wished I were dead.” The words,j ■' X wish I were dead,” are often on the lips of the victims of what seems to be hopeless disease, and they are sad and chilling words to fall on the ears of those of us who love them. They make us look despairingly around for the help which is so slow to come, and too frequently never comes at all. Is there, then, no medicine which has power to save ? “ I grew to be so weak,” adds the writer, “ that I was from time to time confined to my bed, and at other times had ta lie down on the couch. I lost flesh rapidly, and was like a mero skeleton—my clothes hanging upon me. For three years I suffered in this way, no medicine that I took doing me any good.

11 1 u February, 1892, the Rev. Mr Knight, of Bishop Auckland, recommended me to take Mother SeigeTs Curative Syiup. Acting on his advice I procured a bottle from the 00-oporative Stored at Bishop Auckland, and after taking it I began to improve. My appetite reurncd, and food agreed with ms, and I felt easier than I had done for years. The pain at my heart was less severe, and I gained strength every day. “ Seeing this, I continued to use this remedy, and gradually I recovered my health, gainltig three atone weight. Since that time I have kept in good health. My husband has also benefited by the use of Mother Siegel’s Syrup when suffering from indigestion. You are at liberty to publish this statement as you like. (Signed) (Mrs) Emma, Elwen, Primrose Hill, Newlield, Willington, near Durham, October 30th, 1896.”

If Mrs Elwen were tho only woman in tho district wherein she lives who had suffered in this manner, the fact should oxoito tho interest of the intelligent reader, but there are multitudes of others all over the land, all over the world. Her ailment was not heart disease, it was not any form of consumption, it was not rheumatism. It was dyspepsia—tho disease that counterfeits most others and has many of their most painful symptoms. It is idle to say that dyspepsia might be prevented, for we are not yet wise and careful enough to prevent it. Some day we may be. At present, however, it is inspiring to know that Mother Seigel’s Syrup cures it even in its worst stages. Still, it is better to cure it when it Jirst appear*. Watch yourself and use the Syrup on the day your food and you do not agree. ja23