ONLY A LITTLE AT A TIME.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 29, 13 November 1896, Page 11

ONLY A LITTLE AT A TIME.

Theee are sound objections to one's knowing too much about his own body. I am going to tell you what they are ; not to-day, but soon. To make sure of them you will have to watch these articles sharply in the newspapers. Yet we should know a little ; and a fraction of that little I will serve up now. Please favour me with your attention. Right across the middle of the body is a large, thin, flat muscle, stretched like a canvas awning — the diaphragm. By it you are divided into two large storeys or compartments. The upper one contains the heart and lungs, the lower one contains (chiefly) the stomach, the intestines, and the liver. The most painful (internal) diseases occur downstairs, the least gainful upstairs. The entire right side of the lower compartment, from the top down to the short ribs, is filled by the liver, which is suspended to a mere point of the diaphragm and shakes about with every movement you make. Now, from the location of the liver we have a word used for ages to express one of the most unhappy conditions a human being can fall into — the word hypochondria (often abbreviated to " hpo "), the word meaning -under the cartilages. " For seven years," writes a correspondent, " I suffered from complaint of the liver. I was very bilious, my skin was sallow and dry, and the whites of my eyes yellow. I had much pain and weight at my right side, and was constantly depressed and melancholy. It seemed to be out of my power to take a hopeful or cheerful view of anything. The effect of this complaint on the mind was one of the aspects of it hardest to bear. " I had lost my natural appetite and ate to support life ; but there was no more any genuine relish for food or drink. The bad tasie in my mouth made all that I took taste bad. Sometimes I would be taken sick and throw up all I had eaten ; and after a meal, no matter how slender and simple, I was troubled with fulness and pain at the chest. I used many kinds of medicines, and while some of them may have relieved me for the moment, none conferred any lasting benefit, and I was soon as bad as ever. '• In March, 181)2, I read in a small book of what Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup had done in cases similar to mine, and was especially interested in the account given in the book of the nature and duties of the liver and its disorders. I got a bottle of the Syrup from Boots' Drug Stores, and after taking it a few days felt quite like a new man. It seemed to correct my stomach and liver and clear my system of all bile ; and it left vie in capital health. Since that time I have kept Mother Seigel"s Syrup in the house as a family medicine and have commended it to all my friends as the best known cure for ailments, like the one from which I suffered so miserably and so long. You can use this statement as you like. (Signed) John Gent, o'J Coventry Road, Bulwell, Nottingham, March 21, 1893." '• In the spring of 1891." writes another, " I found myself in bad health. I had no appetite, and the little I did eat did me no good, gave me no strength. I had great pain and weight at the chest and right side, and my skin turned sallow and dry. My kidneys also acted badly, and from time to time I had attacks of gravel ; and cold, clammy, weakening sweats broke out all over me. Being only seventeen years old when the trouble began I was greatly alarmed and anxious. No doctor was able to help me, and I continued thus for over three years. In June, 1894, I began to use Mother Seigel's Syrup and soon felt better, lighter and more cheerful. And by taking it a few weeks longer I recovered my health and strength. Since then, when I have any stomach, liver or kidney symptoms I resort to Mother Seigel's Syrup and it never fails to set me right. You can publish this leiter. (Signed) C. Hanson, 6. New Inn Lane, Gloucester, May 31st. 1895." The stomach, the liver, and the kidneys are all connected parts of the food and digestive system. When disordered (usually through toridity of the stomach) they cripple the body and throw a gloom as of night over the mind. On the earliest signs of anything wrong with them use Mother Seigel's Syrup at once.