YOUR LIFE IS NOT WARTH A STRAW.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7879, 28 July 1894, Page 1

YOUR LIFE IS NOT WARTH A STRAW.

Vot worth a straw, eh. ? Then it was worth judt, notHina—nothing at nil, Who ha 3 mt us d that comparison a rhoucand times tbexpMß '.ahgoluta worthlessnes.'? A etrau 1 The wind blows it away, fire barns it up, oattle treid itl the mu'l/it r>;ts by the iroadside. What of it?' Who caroa fo* a straw ? -Sfet this is exactly what, a doo'nr reoently said o one of his,_ pitientp,Your life is. Motwwth astraw" How mu:h is a doctor worth who will speak so to one that trusts bim, and has no hope but in his. skill j For myp'irt, if he. were up for sale ac auction, I would bH one straw for himno more. Mve-i if what he said wa3 true, be hid no right to any it. • Sich * doctor 13 more Rely to kill with hii tongue than fo cure witb bis (lru»s.

A woman tells th • story, and she tells it '.. wel If it doesn't sound like the tra f h,then I don't know what ever does. The dates' atid hi facts ate all there, plain attd orderly. '■', ~, ; • • , > v ■ ( 4n the summer! of 1&78." she sayF, "I fontii myself feeling.: tired,- languid, .'..'ow* ;; ~ spirited, and weak-: I f It a< if sorao evil vrere about to happen. My appeti e wae poor, and after eaiin* I had excruoiating ~; pain at my loins and sidea There was a vy horrible go'Winjr pain at the pit of my stomaoh, and a rieing in the th ost as if I should choke.. My as though I had i ton weight nn it. Gradually I sot worse, and for months cou'd take only liquid food, ; At niftht 1 lav awake for hours together, ' i • Later on I suffered grejtly fiom nervoue • prostration. My legs trembled and shook \ Iso I feaipd to fall K » kubok came toßthe; < ! door I trimbled from head to foot. I had : frequent attaoks whieh began with palpitaU v 1 i'ln of the heart and' snddcn stoppage of the ■ breath. •" t times I - wiis speechless •• | and he p'eß*. They flay 1 looked like a';! dorpse, cold a n d blordle»s, my fingernaile .'j and lips' , haviie turned bl ck After a; whi'e th's woold pisa off, ieavina me weak and proairat, 1 cot no emaciated and thin". ] that I was only'a %»f bones, and so weak I had to take hold of tna furniture to steady . myee!raß. I cros-ed the won. : -s time v tvent on the 'nervoa s ne«B »nd forebodings of vvit so iacreaeed t''at I feared I should go oaf of my mind, The'neighbours said it. , would ba a me ov if the Lord wouW release - me from my sofferinve. ; " In th'sci ditionl continafid for over r Jfonr jwb, during which time I comlted five i doctors, bat nothing they- it»n me did any . ' eood. They allsaii zny ai ment was heart diseae«, and one mi',-'Your life is not wortli>. a.ttraw.' ~■■■■''. . ■ •

•. 'la.deepair I gave up taking phrale, as I : | j felt that nothing would sava me. In May, -J | 1882, ten years ago; a hdy (Mrs. Richardson) § | ciiled at my hou<e, told -< eof Ho herPeN I j gel's Curative Syrnp, and strongly advised, I I me to try it. I did s>, and felt Homewbafc I j better after the first bottle; and by the time 'I j I had taken three bottles 1 was completely I j cured. Prom that to this I have had no ||| :e urn of the attacks end am <jo strong lean ||| do any kiad of work But for Feige.'n Syrup M 't should'have bee u dead long r 'go. 1 wieh gl others to know thi , and will answer any I who pail or write." (Signal) Emma Wick-- I ENDEN (wife of William Wickenden, gar. i ldener)Pembr'ka Villas' 123, Motfat Boid, § Thornton Heath, Match 17-.h, 1892 ; , | j So it turned out tha', her life • wa& not i jDly worth a straw, but worth a whole gold-, g ienharveßt of health and better days. Yet -H \no thaoke to the dootora. Her complicated Jg symptoms pnzziert and alarmed them, to be M euro, but why ? la it not the doctor's du'y.,B '6 understand sach th'.ngs? Wγst assuredly; m \ Just as a lawyer should know the law, or a g pilot the rocks; tides, end lights i f a coasts. H ■ad soma of ihese n edic il men known that M Mrs. Wickenden's'maady was ind;gesti6u ;^ and dyepepsia. and not h art disease, they g I might possiblj have relieved her. Bat, oon- I m fueed by the sympio a, the; were blind 'o ||| the cau'e! We may well wonder if there m Mβ many suh doctors in Fn/land. :< .? || Cseelike this >-how th.it f .be dear Bightg helonve to Mother Vege ; and to ~ e-ly ho3is of pe pie in this country are 1 indebred for )ihy* ; cal solvation when, ift 11 very truth, ibe r live« feemed ae st awp, 11 Rein mber this wa' Un years ago, and.tha. 11 malady ba3 not roturnerf, *oiowi g that the m cure was β-permment «nip. ■■^Wμ