THIS WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 23, 25 March 1892, Page 29

THIS WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION.

" 1 don't believe there is a word of truth in it." That's the way certain foolish people talk wbea they hear of anything unusual or anything unusual, or outside the limits of their own 0 beer ration or experience. They are of the sort who laughed at Stopnenson when be introduced the railway, and at Morse when he said that we would communicate by means of electricity. Tet they don't laugh at those things now. They make use of them daily. Same months ago the case of Mrs Mary Cuddy was first published. The great public accepted the facts, as they had every reason to do. Others, a very few (professional men perhaps) pretended to doubt, and sent emissaries to enquire of the lady herself whether her allegations had not been added to, or altered, for the sake of popular effect. Here is her answer 1 She repeats what she at first said, and puts a quietus on all who called her words in question. It will bo observed that her statement is aa plain and solemn as words can make it. [COPY.] I, Mary Cuddy, of 28 Catherine street, Richmond, Leeds, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :—: — Ever since I was a girl 1 have suffered from illness. I always had a pain both before and after eating, and never seemed able to gain and keep my strength, and felt that something was pulling m ; down. I had a nasty queer feeling in my stomach. Sometimes food seemed to ease it, and at other times it made me feel worse, and often 1 went without food, for I was afraid to eat. Commonly when food was placed before me I could not touch it, and I often fainted at the very sight of it. After a while I became so weak I could scarcely stand or walk. I thought it was consumption coming on by degrees,, and I took all sorts of medicine to try and get relief, but it was of no nse, and I got tired of taking physic, for I had lost all faith in it. My business was so urgent that 1 was compelled to be at work, otherwise I would have laid in bed, so weak bad 1 become. With the weakness and loss of appetite there were other feelings and signs that were bad and alarmed me greatly. Among them were these :—: — A yellowish colour of the ski a and eyes, sometimes a cold clammy perspiration, pains and aches in the Bides, the cheßt, and back, head* ache, a kind of wind or gas coming up into my throat and mouth that was so sour and sickening I could scarcely bear it. One* in a while I would have a strange fluttering and palpitation that made me think my heart must be affected. My heart would thump so that I feared it would jump out of its place, and I have had to walk about for two or three hours at a time, for I could not Bit or lie. The pain was so Berere tbat 1 have asked my husband if he could not bear my heart thumping as I walked about. I always slept badly at night, and frequently had horrible dreams, and was so melancholy and depressed m spirits tbat I would sit down and cry, for I got no pleasure as time dragged wearily by. I had so little energy or strength th.it it was all I could do to summon courage for the labour upon which the family (at least in part) depended for support. I am a dressmaker, and it will b^ easily understood h'jw hard my life was, for 1 didn't think it would last much longer, Not long ago (May 1887) 1 made up my rmnd to try a medeoiue that is advertised and known all over the country. I mean Mother Seigel's Syrup. I had no faith in it »t first, for how can oae believe in what one knows nothing about i I bought and tried Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup only because of its reputation. How could co many people, I asked myself, praise a medicine sj much if he had no virtue, I can only say that I found what they said to be true. After beginning with the Syrup, relief soon followed. My food digested better and gave me strength, and by persevering with it, all my pains disappeared. I could eat my food with a relish, and everythiDg agreed with me. Now ani again when, through confinement and hard work, I feel a touch of my old complaint 1 take a dose or two of Seigel's Syrup and the trouble goes no farther. Since the publication of my testimonial many persons have called at my house and asked me if all that is published about my case is true, and if the proprietor of SeigeVs Syrup had made additions to my statement, /~ told them all that every word ?vas true and nothing liad been added by the proprietors of the medicine, bitt I could add a good deal more, for no words can describe what my sufferings were during all thoae long years. I never expected being well agrain in this world, Seigel'a Syrup saved my life and I desire other suffers to know of what did so much for me. I will gladly answer enquiries. And I make thiß solemn declaration conscienciously believing the same to be tiue. by virtue of the provisions of the Statntory Declaration Act (Will. IV., c. 62.) CSigned) Mary Cuddy. Declared before me at Leeds, in the County of York, by ~] the said Mary Duddy, on Monday, the 10th day of | August, 1891. v. (Signed) ALF. CooKE, j Mayor of Leeds. J Not a syllable further is needed except to say that her ailment, indigestion and dyspepsia, burdens and saddens toe lives of many other women (and men also), who will read with new hope the outc >me of Mrs Cuddy's case, and place a confidence which no cavilling cio shake, in the remedy which restored to her the health and the happiness which Providence designs for us all.