When a woman travels ten miles merely to ask a few questions we may assume that her curiosity is excited.
Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, In the year 1883, a story went forth from
thereabouts. lo came from various direc-which aroused great interest in all the region tions to cone into the matter; what was alleged to have occurred had to do mostly with one man. If the story turned out to be true some good was likely to come of it if false, it would only put the community more on their guard against all sorts of wild rumours. Among the women who were bound to get at the foundation of it was one from St. Albans and a cook from Langley.
How strangely things work out in this queer world. Seven years have pasced and for the first time. Tt appears that. about the facts are now to become generally public firet of January, 1883, an old resident of the believed, to be in w dying condition. lace above named was said, and commonly For five months an able and clever physician had been ing him constantly; no medical man could have done more. His ailment was decided to be it and rheumatism, which are now held to Ee practically the same malady differently local
time ran along the patient grew worse.
Well, this began back in July, 1882. As doctor's ability and experience didn't seem to count. The sufferer's ankles, feet, and hands became badly swollen. We all' know this must have been a scary symptom because that the Suid of his body (and the body is nearly as they nattirally should be, were flowing over all uld anyway) instead of being carried their channels and inundating the around them, just as a stream does after heavy rains.
The doctor said the danger of this state of lay in the fact that when the water reached the heart or lungs it might end in sudden death. The cause of dropsy is the refusal of the kidneys to carry of the water 5 0 much is plain. But what makes the kidneys strike work? We now know the reason of that. It is because they are partially Perslysed by, poison in the blood, arising undigested food in the stomach. In plain English, " chronic state of indigestion dyspepsia was responsible for results which now threatened our unknown friend's life, It was \—and of its truth there isn't a doubt—that his abdomen was blown like a bladder on account of the water which soaked all through his flesh. In conversation a few weeks ago, he said All my friends now looked on me asia dying man."
And reasonably enough too; for what chance is there for a man who is gradually drowning in this way?—For that is what it was—drowning and nothing else in the world. Medicine appeared to be of no use, and the Ian might be benefitted if he could go away physician suggested that possibly the poor
from home and try the baths, mineral waters, and change of scene and air.—But nobody believed in that plan, and in honest truth, it is hardly likely that the wise physician believed in it himself. At all events the idea wasn't put into practice.
to be in the shop of a chemist at Hemel About this time the patient's wife happened Hempstead, and he gave her a little book, a sort of small pampbilet, and said she might like to read it. She did read it, and found i it a full description of the very complaint that also the name of what was to be a was fast sending her husband to his grave, and
him to consent to try it, and sent for a bot remedy for it, After some trouble she, got He began, and kept it up for four months, end of that time he was e well, sound man, taking twenty-six bottles At the
and is s0 to-day. The whole neighbourhood was amazed. His recovery, when he had been looked upon as no better than a dead man, set tongues wagging all around the country. He now says: "I should not have been here now, if it had not been for Mother Seige's Carative Syrup."
friend requests us not to publish his of full name, but says we may print his initials, which are "J.D." Address: Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. He will answer letters.
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