There is " man in Scotland who used to write many reudable and instructive things. He signed himself A Couatry Parson," and a bright parson he is. One of his essays is entitled, Things Slowly Learned," a good me of thought for any body.
_, Well, here is one of the things slowly learned—that disease doesn't jump on a man like a wild cat out of a tree, but develops from seeds and conditions, just as roses and weeds do. We who write and print the essays of which these lines are one, have said this a hundred times: but ull the people don't seem to have thoroughly grasped the idea yet.
For if Mr. Theodore Treasure alone had done so, ho wouldn't have suffered ten years {from attacks of rheumatic fever. In November. 1891, he cays he had a fearful time with it." He tells us in a letter that he had dreadful pains all over his body, and was so sore he couldn't bear anything to touch him. Even the bedclothes hurt him like a feather against asore eye. "I got littleer no sleep," he says, "tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift of position."
"Thad a foul taste in the mouth, and spat up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down gave me great pain at the chest and sides. "For five months I was confined to room, most of the time unable to leave my bed, and what I suffered during that time I hare no w: tds to describe."
Any one who has ever been through that still refused to go away. He then went sort of thing can easily believe what Mr. up to him to try and persuade him to leave Treasure says for, when every. muscle and wh jen he pushed witness and he accordingly joint la a mau's body is throbbing with in-locked him up The reason he said he jammation, it isn't any common collection of wanted to be locked up was that he had an words that can set forth his feelings. It is action pending against Mr. Clifford and he agony and torment in the supreme degree. was going to get thirty thousand dollars out Yet we ought to know better than to have it. of him.
But we don't—not yet.
"Iwas perfectly helpless," continues our P.O, Head was recalled and substantially friend, and could scarcely. move. In fact, corroborated the evidence given by the the Sergeant, remarking in response to 8 the bed to the other. ple had to move me, from one side of Month after month I
Vup and suffering in this way. Thad a doctor attending me, but he wasn't able to do much to relieve me."
"Finally, to cut the story short, I came to hear of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I read about it in a book that was left at my house. The book said this medicine was good for rheumatism, and so my wife got mea bottle from Mr.'Ford, the grocer, at Onkhill, After taking it for a week I felt great relief. Then I kept on taking it and not long afterwards I fouud it had cured me; it hat completely driven the rheumatism out of my system. Tam willing you should publish these facts," and you coa refer avy enquirers to me. (Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon and Horses Lun), Doulting, Shepton Mallett, November 3rd 1893."
Now let's hark back a moment, To the thoughtful reader Mr. Treasure's story may look a trifle confused and mixed. Thatis, he describes the symptoms of rheumatism proper in {connection with a lot of other symptoms which wouldn't seem at the first blush to have anything todo with rheumatism But there' where Mr. Treasure is right and the realer wrong. His account shows that he was of chronic indigestion, dyspepsia, bod torpid liver—and that covers the wools viet
ground. Rhew (and this is the slowly learned lesson) ely a nasty symptom of a dyspeptic condition of the digestive organs, At the outset it means too much cating and drivking. This results in, the formation of a poisonous acid which fills the body and produces the local outbreak called rheumatism. Hence we cure it from withi not from without. And this ¢rue idea also a new idea—do you see.
Try to get this lesson by heart. You can prevent rheumatism by Seigel's Syrup; you can cure it by Seigel's Syrup. But it is niore comfortable to prevent it, (1) 25fe 4 & Umr 224
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