Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, the naturalist, inscribed upon his seal the significant words," Omnia ex canchis"—all things wrise from oysters. But from what do oysters arise? What is the origin of matter?) Ah! nobody knows, Yet one thing is getting plainer every day. Let this man's story show.
He goes on to say: On the 17th of Decem-Ler, 1872, whilst acting as ship's carpenter on Doard the steamship Sorrento, I was wrecked fon the Goodwin Sands. The shock to system was s0 great as to produce an effect never felt before. I fell into a low, weak state, and wus seized with giddiness and a sinking, fainting feeling. [had a bad taste in the mouth, weight at the chest, and great pain after eating, and my face would burn like fire, Thad difficulty in breathing and palpitation, and often a pain seemed to run from the heart through to my shoulder. I had " kind of rumbling all over me, and " choking sensution ut the throat, with a rash of blood to the head.
slept very badly, and after a time I got so nervous and weak T'was afraid to go about and would sit in a chair quite powerless, I saw a doctor, who treated me for u time, and then sent me to a hospital in Rattlebone Place, London, where L was under treatment for three months, but got no better. I then put myself under a local doctor, who said I was suffering from nervous debility. He hed me up for a little while, but said to wife, Your husband is in a critical con-Gition, and may die at any. tim However, I got to work for a short time, and then was'as bad as ever. I lingered on in this way for yenrs—now a little better, now worse, but never well.
About' 1880, while working at Messrs. saw my sufferings told me of a medicine called Westwood and Bailey's, Millwal, " mate who Mother Seigel's Curative: Syrup, and Yrought me a bottle, After taking the first bottle I found my food agreed with me, and I began to improve. All nervous foehn; gradually left. me, and by persevering with the medicine Iwas soon cured. From that time to this I have been w strong man, and done harder work than et my life before. I have since kept Mother Scigel's Syrup in the house, and my wife, who was a great sufferer from rheumatism and dropsy,. has found more relief from it than frown anything else. If any of my family ever all anything, 'a few doses soon sets them right."
The statement from which the forego extract was made by Mr. William: all, ship's carpent 108, St. Anne's Road, Lon-dou, Now, what is the thing which we said is getting plainer every day? Why this: that Almost an infinite number of different results arise from a single cause. Like the majority of people in all ranks of life, Mr. Hill bad in his" digestive organs the sceds—or, what women, when they buy dress call "the "of d, sia. to the winter may not have him much, wot have troubled itoment and exposure of the ship: wreck was more than the system could bear. We must remember, too, that all shocks to the mind or Lady, or to, both, act directly on the stomach, Who can eat when under the
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