"After this I never looked behnd me."
This is a very common expression. What do people mean by it? Lot's wife looked behind her and was changed into a pillar of salt, A locomotive driver in America looked behind him one day last sunnner and so didn't see an open drawbridge in front of him. Heace a wreck and great loss of life. Aman in London failed to look behind him and was run down 'by hansom. What shall we do asa rule ok behind us or not?
We introduce a man who says he never looked behind him—after a certain time. How are we to take his meaning? Why, by let-tin, "He goes on to say that in one day in Febrahim exp!
ary, +890, he was suddenly seized with dizziness wad pain in his heal. Like all healthy ecole, under similar circumstances, he didn't now what to make of it. He says he felt strative and queer, he shivered as though the weather had suddenly turned cold, and then flushed with the heat as though it had turned hot again. What ailed him His doctor said he was attacked with in-Auenza, and ordered him to bed. He went bed." A few days later the fever left him, but the illness did not. It merely assumed another form. His tongue looked like a piece of brown leather, and his skin and the whites of his eyes became yellow, like old parchment. We must all eat to five, but when this man tried to eat, the food went against him, and after he had swallowed it by main force, it caused auch pain in the chest, side, and stomach that he wished he had let it alone, Then his heart began to palpitate, and he says he felt low, languid, and tired." He had what he calls a sinking feeling at the pit: of the stomach and a craving which nothing satisfied.
Being unable to take any but liquid food he Then hia heart troubled him ogee more, and, rrew so weak that he was barely able to walk, to quote his own words, ' As I'sat in my chair Teould hear my heart thumping as if somebody tons pouring me ov the back."
his showed that the heart had too much work on hand and was struggling under it like horse trying to carry two men. 'I got very little sleep at night," he says, and would lie awake for hours tossing about on the bed." This sort of thing is very wearing, and we are not surprised to learn that he lost flesh until little was left of him but: skin and bone. My cheeks," he says, sank in until they were almost drawn together, and people shook their heads and predicted that my time in this world was nearly up. Still I had all confidence in my physician and kept on taking his medicine. From first to last I took some forty or fifty bottles of it (of all kinds) without benefit.
"Finally one day the doctor sounded lungs and asked me if any of our family died of consumption. He said that the heart palpitation was causal by la. Then said I had better take further advice; he could dono more for me. This was after nine months of his treatment. I gave up all hopes of getting better, and, indeed, no one expected me to, One day T found little bock or pamphlet the house, that 'Chad never seen before. It was about a me divine called Mother Seigel's Syrup, and described a case like mive having deen cured by it. Without going into all my hopes and fer.rs on the point, it is enough to say that I yot a bottle from' Mr, Kirkman, Chemist, Etlferby Lane. I took the coutetts of that bott lo and certainly felt a little better. I took a second and began to eat solid food, which agre ed with me.
After this Enecer looked behind me, though my récove ry was a work of time, for I was very mucla reduced. I stuck to the medicine, and with good reason, ans at lust got back to my work, strong and well, and have remained soever since. "When I went back to the works tiao foreman and others. gathered round me and asked what had wrought the ful change. I answered" Mother Seigel' Syrup had wrought it." When Isaid I wished star t work they told me I must first be exami ied by a doctor. The doctor said I was fit for work and I went to work the next morning and have never Jost a minute since.
wish others to know what Soigel's Syrup has done for me, and I give the proprie!.ors permission to publi this brief" account of my case, "I amacloth presser trace and have worked ut, Messrs. Hepworth Sons, Clay Pit Lane, for four year Foarvey Ackew, 2, Back Timber Pace, Hllerby Lane, Leeds.
The doctor was right in saying that the apparent heart trouble in Mr, Askew's case arose from dyspepsia, for dyspepsia was his aly ailment. And if be hut used Mother igel's Syrup in February, 1890, he would have had no tale to tell, for he would have Wen ull right directly.' As it is we are glad that after he did try it he had no relapse, He never looked behind him, (5) 18, 25mr & lap 37
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