THIS WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 24, 1 April 1892, Page 31

THIS WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION.

« 1 dtn't believe there is a imrrd of truth in #." That's the way certain foolish people talk when they bear of any* thing unusual or anything unusual, or outside the limits of their own observation or experience. Tbey are of the sort who laughed at Stepbeason when he introduced the railway, and at Morse wheo be said that we would communicate by means of electricity. Yet they don't lHugh at those things now. They make use of them daily. Some months ago the case of Mrs Mary Cuddy was first published. The great, public accepted the facts, as tbey bad erery 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 bad not bseo added to, or altered, for the sake of popular effect. Here is her answer I She repeats what she at first said, and puts a tuietut on all who called her words in question. It will be observed that her statement is as plain and solemn as words can make if. [COPY.] I, Mary Ouddy, of 28 Catherine street, Richmond, Leeds, do solemnly and sinoerely declare as follows :— Ever since I was a girl I bave suffered from illness. I always bad a pain both before and after eating, and never seemed able to gain and keep my strength, and felt that something was palling mi own. I bad • nasty queer feeling in my stomach. Sometimes food seemed to ease it, and at other times it made me feel worse, and often I went without food, for I was afraid to eat. Commonly when food was placed before me I could not touch it, and I often hinted 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 use, 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 beat work, other* wise I would have laid in bed, so weak had 1 become. With the weakness and loss of appetite there wera other feelings and signs th%t were bad and alarmed me greatly. Among them were these : — A yellowish colour of the akia and eyes, sometimes a cold clammy perspiration, pains and achea in the sides, the chest, and back, headache, a kind of wind or gas coming up into my throat and month that was so sour and sickening I could scarcely bear it. Once in a while I would bave a strange fluttering and palpitation that made me think my heart must be affected. My heart wonld thump so that I feared it would jump out of its place, and I have bad to walk about for two or three hours at a time, for I could not sit or lie. The pain was so severe that I have asked my husband if be could not hear my heart thumping as I walked about I always slept badly at night, and frequently bad horrible dreams, and was so melancholy and depressed in spirits that I would sit down and cry, for I got no pleasure as time dragged wearily by. I bad so little energy or strength that 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 bo easily understood how hard my life was, for I didn't think it would last much longer, Not long ago (May 1887) I made up my mind to try a medecine that is advertised and known all over the country. I mean Mother Seigel's Syrup. I had no faith io it at first, for bow can one believe in what one knows nothing about 1 I bought and tried Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup only because of its reputation. How could so many people, I asked my Belt", praise a medicine so much if he had no virtue. I can only say that I found what they said to be true. After beginning with the Byrop, rmief 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 everything agreed with me. Now and again when, through confinement and hard work, I feel a touch of my old complaint 1 take a dose or two of Seigel's Byrupand the trouble goes no farther. Since the publication of my testimonial many persons have called at my house and atked me if all that it published about my case is true, and if the proprietor of SeigeVt Syrup had made additions to my statement. j told them all that erery word mas true and nothing had been, added by the proprietors of the medicine, bid I could add a good deal more, for no words can describe what my sufferings were during all those long years. I never expected being well again in this world. Seigel'a Syrup saved my life and I desire other suffers to know of what did co much for me. I will gladly answer enquiries. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be tine, by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act (Will. IV., c. 62.) (Signed) Maby Cuddy. Declared before me at Leeds, in the County of York, by "") the said Mary Daddy, on Monday, the 10th day of j August, 1891. } (Signed) Alf. Cooks, I Mayor of Leeds. J Not a syllable further is needed except to say that her ailment, indigestion t.nd dyspepsia, burdens and saddens the lives of many other women (and men also), who will read with new hope the outcome of Mrs Cuddy's case, and place a confidence which no cavilling can shake, in the remedy which restored to her the health and the happiness which Providence designs for us all.