DR LAMONT'S STRONG FINGERS.

Western Star, Issue 2253, 4 November 1898, Page 3

DR LAMONT'S STRONG FINGERS.

" I was afraid you were going to slip through mv fingers, " said good old Dr Lamont. The writer was boy of about seventeen, then. While a student at school, more than 300 miles from home, I was taken down with pneumonia. I had a tough time, and for two er three weeks my life was despaired of. But youth and good care won the fight, and ene bright morning I was ready to go home with my dear father who had come for me. I was weak still, but well am! happy clear up to the brim. Oh. what a ride ! Oh, what sweet air ! I Oh, what a glorious world I had eot back in- . to! and what a reception from mother and sisters at the familiar house. Oh, life! Oh, ' fhealth! Oh, dulc*, dttlce domum! t Such an illness, if one survice it, only makes tue sense of existence and its Vleisings more keen and delightful. It is good rath<-r than bad. Lucky boy not to have slipped through I the doctor's fingers. But when a man with most 01 his days behind him h«8 to write a line like this " All my life I have suffered more or loss from disease "—why that is another and sadder atory. It is the odds between an occasional thunderstorm and a aky always cowed with clouds. We quote what he says, reminding the reader that in this matter Mr William Hodkinson voices the experience of million*. He say*: " I always had a bad taste in the mouth, no proper relish for food, and after eating had j ain aud fulness at the chest." These sensations aro symptoms of acute indigestion. In the stomach there is marked loss of power. The food is neither rolled over as is should be so that the whole of it in turn ms>y be presented to the digestivo fluid, nor in it duly moved o- towards the outlet into the bowels. As a result it ferments and tivee off irritating acid's and gases, hence the patient cowiplairs of pain, weight, dis•ension, acidity, and flatu'ence in that region. Thence the poisons proceed to every other part of the body, and headache, vertigo, gout, rheumatism, rie'-res'ed spirits, and a score more of r-vils follow; among them, possible, nervous prostration, progressive ansomia, locomotor »taxis, Hnd more or less complete paralvsis. "Frequenty," continues Mr Hoikinson, j " I was sick, "and as time went on I beoame very wea* and feeble. I consulted one [ doctor aft r another, and took various medicines, but obtained no real or lasting relief j from any of t hem. Thi- describes my general condition urtil the fortunate day when I read 1 about Moth -r Seigel's Curativ» Syrup. I was \ impressed by the statements others had mad* concerning it, and proceeded to try it. After taking one bottle I found relief, and was soon I entirely free from my old complaint. Since t that tiine (now eight years ago) I have enjov ed good health. Kiowing personally of its * virtues, I have recommended this remedy te hundreds, and have never heard of its having failed to gi«e relief. But for Mother Seigel'syrup I bhould have been in my grave year ( ago. (Signed) William Hodkinson. Holling ton, Bear Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, August llth 1893." Mr Hodkinson is well known and highly respected. He is a looal preacher in the Methokist church, and by employment a quarry master. Had he gone into the grave, as h- feared he should, he would have been missed and lamented by the community in which he baa long been useful, we hope, for years to come. Now let us repeat our leading thought. Short illnesses, even though sharp and and dangerous, may result in good rather than Varm. But a disease that drags its victim through decades of lingering distress—what shall we say of it ? The trouble and suffering it inflicts is beyond estimate, and its name is indigestion and dyspepsia. And the name of the medicine that cures it Mr Hodkinson has done you the favour to mention with clearness and emphasis.