ORDERS AND ARROWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 10341, 3 August 1896, Page 4

ORDERS AND ARROWS.

. When the captain of a ship orders some hands aloft to furl the main royal the men jump to obey, as a matter of course. A sailor can climb up on a yard without having a shilling ashore or a penny in his pocket. Jn fact, Jack seldom signs articles until he has used up both cash and credit. But when a doctor — who is a sort of captain when one is laid up in the dry dock of illness — orders a patient to go abro d for the benefit of his health, it is quite another thing. A trip and sojourn away from home is an expensi\ c prescription, and most of us can't afford it. If the doctor says it is a choice between that and the graveI yard we shall have to settle on the J graveyard ; it is handy by, and easy jto get to. Put are we really so hard pushed? That is, as often as the doctors say we are ? Let's turn the matter over in our minds for a minute Here is a case that is pat to the purpose. It concerns VI r Arthur "Whiddon Melhuish, of 3, Regent's Terrace, Po^loe Road, Exeter ; and for the details we are indebted to a letter written by him, dated March i 7th, 1893. He mentions that, in j obedience to the orders of his doctors, | he went to Cannes, in the South of | France, in November, 1890, and spent ; the winter there. Ut- also spent the J following winter at tin- same place. j He felt the better for the change ; we , will tell you why presently. But he , obtained no radical benefit, which also I 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 inflammation of the j lungs. , Now I want the reader to honour me with hib best attention, as I must say in a few word-, what ought properly to take many. Shoot an arrow into the air- ;>s straight up as I you can. You can't tell where it will fall. It may fall on a neighbour's head, on your own, or on a child's, or on the pavement. Everybody's blood i contains, more or less poisonous : elements. These are arrows, but unlike your wooden arrow they always strike on the weakest spot, or spots, in the body. If they hit the musoles ami joints we cull it rheumatism and gout; if they hit. the liver we call it liver complaint oi biliousness ; if they hit the kidneys we call it Bright's disease ; if they hit the nerves we call it nervous prostration, epilepsy, or .■my of fifty other names ; if they his tin- bioncliial tu'jes we caiJ it bronciutio, «fco } if they hit the air aalia wq

call it inflammation of the lungs, or by-and-by consumption. And inasmuch 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 ; Tt 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 tory.

After the attack of lung inflannua tion Mr Melhuish suffered from los of appetite, pain in the chest, side, 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 physicinn 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 1 consulted a doctor, who said my ailment was weak digestion, and that I need net trouble about my lungs. But I never gained 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 would never recover (Signed) Arthur shhid don Melhuish. "

To sum up : This gentleman's real ailment was indigestion and dyspepsia, from which the blood poison comes that catcses nearly all disorders and pains. The air of Southern France helped him temporarily, because it is milder thau 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 kills or saves ; it is the condition of the digestion. If therefore your d ctor orders you abroad for your health, tell him you will first try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.