Orders and Arrows.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XIV, Issue 2489, 6 March 1896, Page 2

Orders and Arrows.

When the captain of a ship orders some hands aloft to furl the main royal tie men jump to i ht-y, as a ma’ter of course. A sai or can climb up on a yard without having n shilling ashore or a penny in his pocket. In fact, Jack seldom signs artich s until he has used up both cash and credit.

Bin when a doctor—who is a sort of captain when ono is hud up in the dry d"ck of illness—onbrsa patient to go abroad for the benefit of bis health, it is quite another thing. A trip and sojourn away from home is an expensive prescription, a-d most of us can't afford it. If the doctor says it is a choice between that and the graveyard we shall have to settle on the graveyard ; it is handy by, and easy to get to. But are wo ically 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 c Teems i\lr Arthur WTiiddon Mclluish, of 3, Bcgent’s Tetraco, Bolshie Load, Exeter; and for the details wo are indebted to a letter written bv him, dated Hatch 7th, 1893. He mentions that, ill obedience to the o: dors of the doctors, bo went to Cannes, in the South of Branco, in November, 1890, and spent the winter there. He also spun the following winter at the same p'acc. He felt the l etter for the change; we will tell yon why presently. Bi.l he obtained nora lic.il 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 camion. In March, 1890, ho had a severe attack of inflammation of the lungs. Now 1 want the reader to honour mo with his best attention, as I must say in a few words what ought properly to take many. Shoot an arrow into the air--as straight as 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 contains more or less poisonous elements. These are arrows, hut unlike your wooden arrow they always 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 orhilliousness ; if they hit the kidneys we call it Bright’s disease ; if they hit the nerves wo call it nerves prostration, epilepsy, or any of fifty other names; if they hit the bronchial tubes we call it bronchitis, Ac; if they hit the airctdls wo call it inflammation of the lungs, or hy-and-hyo, consumption. And inasmuch as these poisoned arrows pass through the delicate meshes of the lungs a thousand times every da} - it would he 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 merety symptoms of one only disease—namely, that disease which produces the poison. Good. "Wo will got on to the end of the story.

After the attack of lung inflammation Mr Mellnish 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 ho was so feeble that he could not rise in bed. Ho consulted one physical! after another, obtaining no more than temporary relief from medicine. Then ho was ordered abroad as we have related, His letter concludes in those words : “ Whilst at Cannes I consulted a doctor, who said my ailment was weak digestion and that I need not trouble about my lungs. lint I never gaim d any real ground until November, 1891, when I begair to take Mother Soigel’s Curative Syrup. Tills 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 nearly all disorders and pains. The air of Southern France helped him temporarily, because it is milder than ours; it did not remove tlio poison. By care and the use of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup he would have done better at home, as the result shows. So wo see that it isn’t (lie climate .that kills or saves: it is the condition of the digestion. If therefore your doctor orders yon abroad for your health, tel! him you will first try Mother Scigel’s Curative Syrup. 778mc,13,20