She Naturally Thought So.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue II, 13 July 1901, Page 57

She Naturally Thought So.

Mrs Hicken says she suppose* the doctor knew what was the matter with Lizzie.

Maybe he did, and maybe he didn’t. Now, let me have your ear for a quarter of a minute, as though you were a telephone, while I talk a suggestive truth into it.

Read any big medical book, intelligently and honestly written, and you will be astonished to find what a lot of diseases therein described are said to be “of unknown origin.” Therefore, the doctor might not have understood what ailed Lizzie Hicken, and no blame to him. As it was, he worked away at the symptoms (the outside presentments, you know) and trusted to luck for results. And he might have struck it right, but he did not, unfortunately; and it came to pass what Mrs Hicken is going to tell us about.

It was in 1596 that the young girl began to suffer terribly with pains which, as she put it, “ran right through” her, particularly across the stomach and under the shoulder blades. A continuance of this so prostrated her that she would sometimes be laid up for a month or six weeks. We fancied it was rheumatism, yet it did not act quite like that compaint.

"She was also greatly troubled with a nasty cough that completely took the power out of r.er. I called upon the doctor with my daughter, and told him how she had been handled;; and I suppose he knew what was the matter with her, but. at all events, I am certain his medicines did her no good.

“Then I bought her all sorts of cough medicines, but they had no more effect than if she had used so much water.

“By this time the poor girl could neither eat nor sleep, and you may be sure we were in great worriment and perplexity to know what to do.

“However, I saw one of the Mother Seigel’s Syrup advertisements, and sent to the chemist for a bottle, and before she finished it I could see she was better. So we kept on giving her this remedy until she was completely cured.

“I have used the Syrup myself for indigestion, and it cured, after I had worn out a deal of other medicines to no purpose.

“I want to say, so strongly that there can be no doubt of my meaning, that the entire credit for Lizzie's recovery is due to Mother Seigel’s Syrup, and also for my own.

“We both swear by it, and are seldom without a bottle in the house. I commend it to everybody.”—Mrs J. Hicken, Graham Street, Auburn, N.S.W., Nov. 27th, 1899.