The Bacillus and the Lion.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 58

The Bacillus and the Lion.

“1 am no more afraid of a boiled bacillus than I am of a well-cooked lion,” says Dr. Alexander Hill, Master of Downing College, and Vice-Chan-cellor of Cambridge. Now, the authorities affirm that out of 900,000 babies born annually in England and Wales, probably not more than one in twenty lives out his natural life; and the writer thinks that estimate is too high. AB the rest die —bar the few accidentally killed —from preventable diseases, such as measles, scarlet fever, small-pox, influenza, consumption, etc., a long and dreary list; all the maladies on it having a family likeness, and all arising from, and propagated by, germs. It is likely that onethird of the cows have tuberculosis, and, of course, people-drink the disease in the milk. It really does look as though it would be a good idea to boil the bacillus—as early in his career as possible. If necessary, we might cook the lions later on; they are comparatively harmless, anyway. “To sum the matter up,” says another man-with-eyes-in-his-head, "I have noticed that among the preventable diseases the greater number are due to mistakes in eating and drinking.” Which brings us to the little story that John K. Orthwern tells. “About three and a-half years ago,” he goes on to relate, “I was in the South Brisbane Eire Brigade service. At that time I contracted dyspepsia—a sharp and positive form of it, with the pains and penalties I had often read of but never realised before. “It lasted four months, and might have stuck to me as many years but for one thing. My appetite disappeared altogether, I got constant colds, and my attempts to eat were miserable spectacles for my friends to witness, and worse still as experiences for me. I used to belch up a sour, acrid fluid,- and life was hardly worth the price of it. “My comrades in the brigade knew the bad form I was in, and, one after another, they told me to try Mother Seigel’s Syrup. They were nearly all in the habit of using it for anything that ailed them, and were sure it would set me to rights. “Anything to get out of this, I said, and got the Syrup without delay. The first bottle did splendid work, and when I had finished the third my digestive arrangements were sound as a gold sovereign, and have been ever since. I can eat whatever comes my way, and catch no more colds. And thio I owe to Mother Seigel’s Syrup; Na wonder it is popular all over Australia.

“I am no longer in the brigade, but live at Hubert-Street, Woolloongabba, South Brisbane, Queensland, Where I shall be pleased to see anybody who wishes further details of my case.”-— John K. Orthwein, OM. 7th, 1899. The accuracy of the above statetnwit is'vouched for in writing by Mb R. Cumming, Assistant Superintendent South Brisbane Eire Brigade. We may kill the bacillus by boiling it, and wq may.cook a lion if We can catch him; but’the only certain way to get rid of indigestion, and the blwek floek of ailments which arise from it. is by the use wf Mothe* Seigel’s Syrup.