OUR REGARDS TO MR RUSSELL.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue III, 18 January 1896, Page 75

OUR REGARDS TO MR RUSSELL.

Thb writer of these lines hereby tender* to Mr W. Clark Koaseil the insurance of hi* thank* and appreciation. I have always loved sea stories, and those of Mr Russell stand at the head of their elasa. From ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor ’ to * List, Ye Landsmen "’ 1 have read them all. Yet salt water, and the things thereon and therein, are not the only things he knows about ; not by many degree* of latitude. In his last book he makes a sailor talk thus : *1 have suffered from the liver in my time, and know what it is to have felt mad. I say I have known moment* wnen I could scarce restrain myself from breaking windows, kicking at the shin* of all who approached me, knocking my head against the wail, yelling with the yell of one who drops in a fit; and all the while my brain was as healthy as the healthiest that ever filled a human skull, and nothing was wanted but a musketry of calomel pills to dislodge the fiend.’ etc., etc. So much for what Mr Russell’s sailor (or Mr Russell himself) says ; and there are plenty of people who ean testify that thia is not a bit overdrawn. One fact in particular it helps us to realise, namely, that the life of a sailor does not guarantee good health. Indigestion and dyspepsia—of which liver complaint is a sequence and a symptom—is as common among sailors a* among landsmen. One of the latter, however, may now tell of his experience. ‘ All my life,’ he says, • 1 had suffered from bilionsness and sick headaches. I would have an attack about every three weeks. At such times my appetite left me, and I could neither eat nor drink for days together. I suffered from dreadtul sickness and straining, and vomited a greenish-yellow fluid My head felt as though it would burst. I had a haul taste in the month, sallow skin, and the whites of the eyes turned yellow. I was recommended to adopt a vegetarian diet, and did so, but the attacks were just us frequent and violent. I consulted doctors and took their medicines, but was none the better for ik In this way I went on year after year.’ Well, we shall agree that there eonld scarcely be a worse way to go on, and it all eame about thus : The overworked stomach put more work on the liver than the latter could do. Indignant and disgusted at this the liver refused to do a stroke more than its proper share. Hence more bile accumulated in the blood than the liver was able to remove. This surplus bile acts as a slow poison - and not so very slow either. The tongne is furred ; the head aches and feels dull and heavy; the eyes and skin are greenish yellow ; there is dizziness and nansea ; cold hands and feet : spots before the eyes ; a pnngent, biting fluid rises into the throat; constipation ; high coloured kidney secretion ; prostrated nerves ; irritability ; loss of ambition ; fears and forebodings, etc., etc. This is • biliousness ’ or • liver complaint ’ in its simplest form. When long unchecked it produces irregular action of the heart, rheumatism, gont, and any, or all, of a dozen other organic disorders. There is no more eertain or powerful impulse to misbehaviour; suicide and other crimes often resulting. What to do! To get rid cf the poison by starting the skin and bowels into energetic action : then to keep them going at a healthy and natnral gait. How to do this ? Let onr friend, Mr F. Widger, 4, Portland Square, Plymouth—whom we have just quoted—speak on that point. In his letter, dated March 3rd, 1893, he adds : ‘Two years ago, after all medicines had failed to help me, I first heard of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrnp. I procured it from Mr R S. Luke, Chemist, Tavistock R>ad, and began to use it, and nothing else After having consumed one bottle I found myself vastly better, and by continuing with it I got rid of my old tronble altogether.’ We should mention that Mr Widger is a tailor and outfitter at Plymouth, and well known and respected in that community. He permits ns to use his name out of grati tude for his recovery. The potency of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrnp over liver disease is dne to its ability to cure indigestion and dyspepsia, which is (as we have said) the cause of liver disease. Every bouse on the land, and every ship on the sea, should have this remedy as a necessary part of their stock and stores. Perhaps Mr Russell may recommend it in his next book. But no • musketry of calomel pill*.’ Oh, no.