SIZE AND STRENGTH NO DEFENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 22, 27 September 1895, Page 29

SIZE AND STRENGTH NO DEFENCE.

Hbrh'sr pointforyoa to think over : Site and development have nothing to do with health. A man may stand six feet two inches in his stock* ings and have the muscles of a prise fighter, and yet be an essentially unhealthy man. His frail-looking wife may be really tbe better of tbe couple ; she may easily do more work, endure more exposure, bear more grief and worry, and outlive her big husband. Tb«re is a mystery in this that nobody can see into. It is a matter of vitality and organisation — not of dimensions. Take, for example, the case of Mr T. B. Staples, of Oakwood, Ontario. He is a blacksmith ; and I well remember how, when a boy, I used to regard a blacksmith with i»we and wonder on account of his strength. It was fe irsime to see him swing those mighty hammers and pick up a heavy cart-wheel as though it were a child's hoop. Yet I saw only in part and understood in part. " Some twelve years ago," writes Mr Staples, *< I became aware that the dreaded disease, dyspepsia, bad chosen me for one of its many victims. It is hardly necessary for me to try to describe all the different feelings that came over me. I have talked with many people suffering with dyspepsia, and they have all had about the same experience. Among the symptoms on which we agreed are the following :— Bad taste in the month ; fnlness and deadness in the stomach after eating ; getting no good from one'i food ; headache and palpitation of the heart ; gas and soar fluids from tbe stomach ; dizziness, especially when one rises up suddenly, or bends over his work ; loss of appetite ; pains in the chest and back, and the weakness that comes from not eating and digesting enough food to keep the body going. All these things I had ; and yon can imagine huw bad they are for anyone, particularly for a man who has got to earn his living by daily bard work, as in my case. " After I found out what was the matter with me I consulted a doctor at once, and began to take the medicine he gave me. lam sorry to say it did me little or no good. Although there is a common opinion that stomach troubles er<3 not very serious and never dangerous, I must say that is not my opinion. No man who suffers from dyspepsia as long as I did (about six years) will ever talk foolishly or lightly about it. Bven the doctors admit it ii tbe hardest of all diseases to keep track of, and to cure. If it does not kill a man right out of hand, it spreads the shadow of death over him all the time he has it, and takes all tbe laughter out of his days. " Well, after the doctor's medicine failed, I kept on taking anything and everything that was recommended to me in hopes of relief. Yet none of them went to the root of tbe trouble. Sometimes I would feel a little better and sometimes worse, and that's the way things went on with me year after year, a dreary and miserable time. There's no money could hire me live it over again. " I was still in this condition when a friend, that I bad been talking to about myself, advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I didn't know the merits of the Syrnp then, bat being anxious to try anything that might help me, I bought a bottle from Messrs Hogg Brothers, and commenced taking it. All I can say is, that I found relief immediately, and by continuing with it a short time, all my bad symptoms abated one by one, and I found myself completely rid of the dyspepsia. Since then I have never had a touch of tbe old complaint. If thera is any other medicine in the world that is able to cure indigestion and dyspepsia as Mother Stigel's Syrup does it, why I have never heard of it. I have recommended the Syrup to other sufferers, and they have been more than pleased with it ; and I write these hasty lines in hope the public ition of them may come in the nick of time to be useful to others still. Yours vtry truly, (Signed) Thos. B. St*ples, Oakwool, Ontario, February 25tb, 1895 " We r>eed add but few woidsto Mr Staples' intelligent and manly letter. Th ; disease which afflicted him attacks both s u xes, all ages, and all classes and conditions of humanity. Neither youth nor strength is proof ogainst it. It imrates other complaints, and so leads to fatal mistakes to treatment. If you are wise you will acquaint yourself with its character, as described in Mother Seigel's a man.c, and kiow what to do ia time of need.