NEEDLESS ALARM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5740, 7 December 1896, Page 4

NEEDLESS ALARM.

«i Whether the suffering which people undergo from disease is more physical than mental is a point not easy to decide. It depends largely on the nature of the disease, and the make-tip of the individual. Experience seems to show, however, that in one prevailing disease — indigestion or dyspepsia, the two kinds ' of suffering are very evenly divided, and both very great, the mental distress being chiefly due to the illusions and deceptions which attend it. For example, though dyspepsia is solely an affection of the digestive organs, it has power to set up disorders in others which always alarm the suffer, and often perplex his medical advisers. These symptoms or sequences may relate to the head, the heart, the sight, the hearing, the lungs, or to other organs, or functions. Take an illustration or two. " In the spring 1 of 1891," says Mr Edward Tathain, " I fell into a low, weak state of health. I had a foul taste in the mouth, and was constantly spitting up a thick phlegm. My appetite was poor, and after eating I had fulness and pain at the chest — the latter seemed to be puffed or swollen. What made me most anxious was my hreathing, which came to be so difficult and short that at times I could only catch my breath by an effort. I was led . to fancy that something must ail my lungs, especially as so great a quantity of mucus gathered in my throat and mouth. It was usually worse at night, and I got very little sleep on account of it; sometimes none at all. In a morning I would be quite worn out. "As time went on I became very weak, and was much put to it to get about. I took all kinds of medicines and got no proper relief from anything. In February, 1893, Mr William Beardsley, grocer, Cotmanhay, told me how he had been cured of a like trouble by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Acting on his advice I got a bottle of this medicine from .Mr Platt's Drug Stores, Awsworth Eoad, and after taking it felt qviite another man. My breathing was easier, and my food agreed with me. I continued using the Syrup, and got stronger and better every day. When I had taken four bottles I was as well as ever, being free from all pain or discomfort. My wife, who has suffered for years from liver complaint, has taken the Syrup with the same good results as in my own case. You are at liberty to make any use you like of this statement. (Signed) Edward Tatham, Tatham's Lane, Cotmanhay Eoad, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, March 21st, 1895." "In October, 1888," writes another, "I began to feel weak, heavy and tired. My appetite was poor, and after eating I had distress at the stomach, together with shortness of breath, and a good deal of pain across the chest. Sometimes I would be taken -with sudden dizziness, as though I must fall to the ground. Cold, clammy sweats used to break out all over me and I trembled from head to foot. Finally, I got so weak I could scarcely walk to my work. Indeed, I had occasionally to leave my work; I have been away as long as a month at a time. In this way I suffered for about two years. "In August, 1890, Mr Thompson, the grocer in Church Street, urged me to try Mother Seigel's Syrup. After taking only one bottle I felt better. My food agreed with me and I was stronger. Continuing with this medicine, gradually all pain left me, and I comjrtetely recovered my health. Since then [ have kept the Syrup in the. house for use in time of need. You are free to publish this statement. (Signed) William Mallender, 71, Eobinson's Buildings, Newhill, Wath, near Sheffield, October ilth, 1895." Cases of supposed disease of the heart, of the nervous system, of the kidneys, <fee, constantly prove to be, not organic affections of those parts at all, but merely local or functional disturbances caused by the toxic or poisonot.s principles thrown into the blood by the decomposition or fermentation of food in the stomach ; otherwise, by dyspepsia or indigestion. But until they are discovered to be so they are mistakenly treated ; and serious, often fatal, results follow. Until pronounced and undeniable symptoms of organic mischief show themselves (which is not the case once in a hundred times) you may take it for granted that your ailment is some form of dyspepsia, easily curable by Mother Seigel's Syrup, as demonstrated by the two instances cited above.