The Wolf and the Balloon.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XV, 13 October 1900, Page 698

The Wolf and the Balloon.

“The sleep of the labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much," says the proverb. It depends upon the condition of his digestion, and the character of his last meal for the day. Observation shows that certain forms of dyspepsia are even more common among labouring men. meaning those whose work is chiefly of the hands and largely out of doors, than among the classes who take life more easily. "Whether I ate little or much I felt blown out like a balloon, and exceedingly uncomfortable,” says Mr W. H. Johnson. This gentleman is a stationer. doing business at 252 J Abereombie - street, Redfern, Sydney, A.SAV.

His ailment was just what he calls it in his statement of November 10th, is'j'.i—incipient indigestion. And. too. the faet is worth noting that he was blown out with the same substance which swells a balloon —gas, manufactured by a slightly different process. Taken into the stomach, food must either digest and pass on its way. or ferment and create gas and other products of decomposition. in the latter case we have the condition (often complicated) known as indigestion or dyspepsia. Most of our complaints arise from it, or are aggravated by it. It is subtle as a creeping serpent’ and pitiless as a hungry wolf. In Mr. Johnson’s case had he not had a business of his own, and been, therefore, his own master, he would have been compelled to lie up and abandon his work. As matters were, he humoured himself, and lost nothing except his enjoyment of good health; which, he admits, was an item to make account of.

••After enduring this most disagreeable affection for a time,” says Mr. Johnson, "a confectioner of Annandale, Mr. Cowling, recommended Mother Seigel’s Syrup, which relieved me immediately. I thoroughly believe it cured me, and I commend it to everyone I know. “Whenever I have the least suspicion that I am threatened with an attack of indigestion, I take a dose, and it never fails to ward it off. I am persuaded that if I had not used Mother Seigel’s Syrup in the beginning I should by this time have been suffering severely from this prevalent malady. I trust that the publications of my experience may lead others afflicted with digestive troubles to use the medicine to which I am indebted for my own speedy recovery.” Mr. Johnson puts the point clearly and strongly: Stop the disease at the very outset; don’t let it assume the chronic form which, involving more or less all the organs and functions of the body, is so hard to cure. Remember the adage about the ounce of prevention.