Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, the naturalist, inscribed upon his seal the significant words, Omnia ex couchic"—all things arise from oysters. But from what do oysters arise? What is the origin of matter?" Ah! unbody knows. Yet one thing is getting plainer every day. Let this man's story she He goes on to say: On the 17th of Decomber, 1872, whilst acting as ship's carpenter on board the steamship Sorrento, I was wrecked fon the Goodwin Sands. The shock to system was so great as to produce an effect never felt before, I fell into a low, weak state, and was sized with giddiness and a sinking, fainting feeling, Thad a bad taste in the mouth, weight at the chest, and great pain. after eating, and my face would burn like fire. Thad ditiiculty in breathing and palpitation, and often a pain seemed to run from the heart through to my shoulder. I had a kind of rumbling all over me, and a choking sensation at the throat, with a rash of blood to: the head.
"<1 slept very bully, and after a time T got nervous and weak I was afraid to yo about, and would sit in a chair quite powerless, 1 saw a doctor, who treated me for a time, and then sent me to a hospital in Rattlebone Place, London, where I was under treatment: for three mouths, but got no better. I then put myself under a local doctor, who said I was suffering from nervous debility. He patched me up for a little while, but said to my wife, 'Your husband is in a'critical condition, and may die at any time.'
"However, I got to work for a short time, ud then was'as bad as ever, I lingered on this way for years—now a little better, now worse, but never well.
About' 1880, while working at Messrs, Westwood and Bailey's, Millwall, a mate who saw my sufferings told me of a medicine culled Mother Scigel's Curative Syrup, and he brought me a bottle, After taking the first bottle I found my food agreed with me, and began to improve. All nervous feolin gradually left me, and by persevering with the medicine I was soon cured.
From that time to this I have been a strong man, and done harder work than ever in iny life before, have since kept Mother Seigel's Syrup in the house, and my wife, who was a great sufferer from rheumatism and dropsy, has found more relief from it than from anything else. If any of my family ever all anything, few doses soon sets them right." an extent was made by Mr, William Hill, The statement from which the foregoing is ship's carpenter, 108, St. Anne's Road, Lon: don, 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 had in his digestive organs the seeds—or what women, when they buy dress goods, call the nakings"—of dyspepsia. Up to the winter of 1872 it may not have troubled him much,. but the excitement and exposure of the ship: wreck was more than the #ystem could beat. We must remember, too, that all shocks to the mind or body, or to both, act directly on the stomach. Who can eat when under the And if this worry or sorrow continues long, it always upsets the digestion, permanently impairs or destroys the appetite, and thus. and "nervous debility." Why, gracious good brings on an apparently incurable' dyspepsia ness there are millions of women, and lots of men, crawling about under this thing in England every day in the year. And it is to: them we are talking. They are half dead, and get.
out of their existence. Whatever: digestion and dyspepsia is at the bottom of it, as in Mr. Hill's ease, and what cured limy will cure you.
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