TAKEN ILL IN THE STREET.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 18 September 1900, Page 1

TAKEN ILL IN THE STREET.

I On the 26tli of January, 1898, a young lady, passing through Bui ton .Street, in Darlinghurst, was suddenly taken ill. Fortnuately, she was seen by the people of a house near by, who conducted her within doors, administered a stimulant, and cared for her until she was able to go home. This, you may say, was hardly an incident worth putting in print. That depends on vhat it signified. To a besieged and starving garrison the sound of it distant bugle is a matter to make the heart jump. On arriving at her house, we are sorry . to say, the young lady had a second seizure, and a doctor was at once called in. No, it was not the nerves, or a rush of blood to the head ; the symptoms pointe '• to a thoroughly disordered state of the di- . gestion; ulcerated stomach, probably. So spoke the medical man, after a careful diagnosis. i Such being tlie doctor's opinion, he piesr ; cribed on tho lines' suggested by the facts; The sequel proved bun right, albeit his i treatment had but little beneficial effect. > For this. he is not to be blamed, as there ; are few diseased conditions more difficult to i correct than the one he met with in tihis ■ instance. Many physicians decline to touch l such cases— sending the sufferers to hospitals. In a letter dated August 20th, 1899, the | young lady describes- the events alluded to ' liere, and informs us as to the final result. "It was early in 1897," she says, "that ■ my health, previously good, began to fail. 1 In spite of all we could do, I got worse, and i in tlie middle of that year my state was dreadful. Not only was my appetite wholi ly destroyed, but I abhorred the very sight 1 of food. From tho most savoury ,and at- , tractive meals that could be put on the table I turned away in disgust. : "That this was unnatural and alarming of course I realised but what could be done .' Hardly a day passed without my suffering : agony' with a. twisting, griping, gnawing ; feeling in the stomach. "Tlie pleasure and comfort went out of ;• my life as completely as the sparkle van- .' isnes from ,a lake on a cloudy day. [ ' "At lepgtli I acted on my mother's ur- • gdnt and repeated advice, and began to use , Mother Siegel's Syrup. She said it had wrought a wonderful cure on her and why \ should it not on me? So I said yes, and • we .went for it. " 'Before I had taken four \ bottles tlwi trouble passed away,, and I have been a strong, healthy girl ever sinceh-and ■ that io now eighteen months." — Maud Mc- '. Guinness, 158, Buiton Street, Darlinghurst, ; Sydney, N.S.W.