ORDERS AND ARROWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5497, 24 February 1896, Page 4

ORDERS AND ARROWS.

■ When the captain of a ship orders some nandß aloft to furl the main royal the men ]ump to obey, as a matter of course. A sailor can climb up on a yard -without naving a shilling ashore or a penny in hie P°* e *- In fact, Jack seldom signs articles until he has used up both cash and credit. But when a doctor— who ia a sort of captain when one is laid up in the dry dock of illness-orders a patient to go abroad tor the benefit of his health, it is quite another thing. A trip and sojourn away trom home is an expensive prescription, and most of us can't afford it. If the doctor says it is a choice between that and tne graveyard, we shall have to settle on' the graveyard ; it is handy by, and easy to ! ,§£ .* But are w e really so hard pushed P That is, as often as the doctors.say we are. ; iietrs turn the matter over in our minds for anunute. „ _ Here is a case that ia pat to the purpose. It concerns Mr Arthur Whiddon Melluish, of 3, Regent's Terrace, Polsloe Eoad, Exeter; and for the details we are indebted to a letter written Jby him, dated March 7, 1893. He mentions that, in' obedience to the orders of his doctors, he' went to Cannes, in the south of 'France, in November, 1890/ and spent the winter there. He also spent the following winter at the same place. He felt the better for' the change; we will tell you why presently. But he obtained no radical benefit, which also we will explain later on. It appears that this gentleman had been weak and ailing nearly- all his life ; not . exactly ill, not wholly well— a condition that calls, for constant caution. In March, 1890, he had a severe attack of inflammationof the lungs! ■ <n ■"'■.; ■ . ■ • rNow ; i want the reader to honou* me ■with. hisbest attention; as J must say-in a few words what ought ": properly to take an arrow into the air— as straight up as 'you can. You can't tell where it will fall. It may fall on a neighbour's head, or on your own, or on a child's, or on the pavement. Everybody's blood contains more or less poisonous elements. These are arrows, but, unlike your wooden arrow, they al ays strike on the weakest spot, or spots in the body. If they hit the. muscles and joints we call it rheumatism and gout; if they hit the liver we call it liver complaint or biliousness ; if they hit ;he kidneys we call it Brightfs disease ; if they hit the nerves we call it nervous prostration, epilepsy, or any of fifty other names ; if they hit the bronchial tubes we call it bronchitis, &o. ; if they hit the air cells we call it inflammation of the lungs, or by-and-by, consumption. And inasmuch I as these poisoned arrows pass through the delicate meshes of the lungs a thousand times every day it would be odd if they didn't hit them — wouldn't it ? Now, wait a bit. It follows that all the various so-called diseases above named are not diseases at all in and of themselves, but merely symptoms of one only disease • — namely, that disease which produces the poison! Good. "We will get on to the end of the story. After the attack of lung inflammation Mr Melluish suffered from loss of appetite, pain in the chest, sides and stomach, and dangerous constipation. He could eat only liquid food and had to take to his bed. For weeks he was so feeble that he could not rise in bed. He consulted one physician after another, obtaining no more than temporary relief from medicine. Then he was ordered abroad as we have related. ,His letter concludes in these words : ?' Whilst.. at Cannes- f consulted a,doctor,' who said my ,was ( weak digestion, and that I need not trouble about my lungs. But I hevet gairied any real ground -until November, 1891, when I began to take Mother . Seigel's Curative Syrup. This helped me in one week, and by continuing with it I got stronger and stronger, and am now in fair good health. This, after my relatives thought I should never recover. (Signed) Arthur Whiddon Melluish." To sum up: This gentleman's real ailment was indigestion and dyspepsia, from which the blood-poison comes that causes nearlif all disorders and pains. The air of Southern France helped Mfrr temporarily, because it is milder than ours; it did not remove the poison. By care and the use of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup he would have done better at home, as the result shows. . So we see that it isn't the climate that Mils or saves ; it is the condition of the digestion. If, therefore, your doctor orders you abroad for your health, tell him you will first try Mother Seigel's Curative j Syrup. /( »-