EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XV, 14 April 1900, Page 679

EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.

You have heard it said that the boy is father to the man. Yes. Very good. Now see what a prodigious Ural may be tied up in that idea. Youth is the sowing tl„ie of life and maturity the reaping time Y'ou agree to that. Very good—again, lu youth nature puts “orth every effort to build up your body. She absorbs everything she can lay hands on for that purpose. The whole body throbs with life as at no other time. Nature scrapes together building material (I mean food) from every direction. You

know what eaters healthy children are. Nature is not thinking of the future. She is thinking only of now —NOW. She is greedy to make you a man, and perfectly careless of what becomes of you after t—at. Y'our appetite is gauged by the needs of growth—not by your ability to digest. So it comes to pass that, in no end of eases, you .g people eat too much. They eat wreng things, they eat without any thought of regularity. Hence insufficient gastric juice (digesting juice), stomach distention, and fermentation. Bits (small bits, of course) of undigested food get into the circulation, and through the right side of the heart into the lungs, where they obstr t the minute blood vessels at the top of the lungs. VVhat then? Why, they finally become organised into tubercle or changed into the chalky or cheesy deposits so often found there. The end. sooner or later, is consumption. Over feeding, irregular feeding, or under feeding, all give rise to indigestion; and indigestion is, more than anything else, the cause of eo. sumption, and of a lot of ailments which we suffer from besides. For example, a woman says: “In the spring of 1891 I began to suffer from weakness. I had a bad taste in the mouth, and no desire for food. After eating 1 had p in at the chest and sides. Nothing would stay on my stomach, and for many weeks 1 never tasted solid food. I had a bad pain at the back of my head; my sight was dim, and specks floated before my eyes. I got very nervous and lost 3 deal of sleep, feeling no better tor going to bed. Gradually 1 got weaker and weaker, and so thin I was nothing but skin and bone. 1 got so weak I had to be lifted from the bed to a ehair by the fire; and when 1 feit stronger 1 went about by the aid of a stick.

"I saw doctor after doctor and got medicine from the dispensary, but . olhing helped me. After two years’ r offering a lady who -..me to see me said she had been benefited by Mother Seigel’s Syrup, and gave me a bottle. A.ter taking it a week I -ound myself improving; my appetite being better, and food agreeing with me. I had less sickness,and felt bet’ altogether.

Continuing with this medicine, the l>ain and nervous feeling soon left me. Since then I have kept in good health, taking a dose or two whei needed. 1 have told many persons of what Mother Seigel’s Syrup did for me, ami you can publish this statement as von wish. (Signed) (Mrs) Hannah Douglas, Main st., Portarlington. Quee.’s Co., Ireland, August 20th. 1896." Now, this woman did not have con sumption of the lungs as commonly' understood; she had something quite as bad—consumption of the whole body, with attendant prostration of the nervous system. Distinct lung disease might o.- might not have followed a little later. ’1 he point is this and 1 want you not to miss it. Con sumption arises from the introduction of foreign bodies into the lungs, which come ofteuer from the stomach Mian anywhere else, in the way 1 have described. Hence dyspepsia causes it. But dyspepsia causes wasting (as in this instance) rheumatism, bronchitis, gout, impure blood, thin blood, skin eruptions, and a hundred aches and complaints from top to toe. As I have said times beyond counting. I say again —life begins, life is nourished. and deatl. begins in the stom aeh. Keep it straight as long as you can with Mother Seigel’s Syrup. That will do for now.