HOPING AGAINST HOPE!

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11724, 27 November 1905, Page 2

HOPING AGAINST HOPE!

A WOMAN'S SEVERE INDIGESTION .MISTAKEN FOR CANCED&, IS CUBED BY MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP.

In the history of medicine numerous blunders arc recorded of patients suffering from onj disease being treated for another and sometimes with fatal results. Raphael, Italy's greatest painter lost his life in this way at the early age of thirty seven, and it is not too much to suppose that, even iv present days of advanced science, the same kind of thing occurs. Certainly, the case of Mrs Jane Jones, of Hinders Street, East Adelaide, favours such a belief. '"Between eight and nine years ago," says Mrs Jones, in a letter dated March 14th, 1905, "my health, which for a long while had been far from good, broke down, and I was completely prostrated. My appetite* ceased, and what little food I forced myself to eat, instead of nourishing mo, caused only pain and distress. Acute pains in my chest and back deprived me of rest day and night, and almost drove me mad. Gradually I declined into a weak and emaciated condition, and linally reached a state of complete helplessness. 1 was never free from pain. Every breath I drew hurt me like a stab.

"It being generally thought that my sufferings were due to Cancer, I became an inmate of an Hospital. That was in 1897. There the doctors seemed not to understand my case, for after several months of treatment I was discharged as incurable.

"When I returned to my home, my condition was very sad; i do not think a more miserable woman could have been found. There appeared to be no relief for me on this side of the grave, and I resigned myself to hopeless suffering for the few ycara or months that I might live. "But when I was at my worst a friend advised me to make a trial of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and my life was savcl. Though I attached no value to my friend's advice at the time, and, in fact, did not believe in it at all, I agreed to what was proposed, feeling sure that it did not in the least matter what I did. Judge, then, of my surpise when, after taking the syrup for a week I found myself feeling better; the medicine was ad ually doing me good. "As soon as I realised this I persevered with it 3 use, and the result was wonderful. In a few weeks I was qiiite free from pain, could cat fairly well, stand, walk — even do light work. A little more of the Syrup comj)leted my cure, and I felt like a new woman. I am now sure that my complaint was not Cancer, as had been supposed, but an aggravated type of indigestion, such as only Mother Seigel's Syrup will cure. "I am now seventy-two years old, and a woman of those years' cannot expect to get along without a little medicine occasionally. I pin my faith to Mother Seigel's Syrup, and it never disappoints me."