Do you see that locomotive engine standing on the side-track? Something has broken down about it. There is not a hiss of steam from its valves; it is atill and cold as a dead whale ona beach; it can't draw a train; can't even move itself. Now, teil me, do you believe that any amount of tinkering and hammering at it would make it go? Not a bit. Nothing on earth will make it go except steam in the boiler, and even that won't unless the engine is in order. Every body kogws that, you soy. Do they t Then why don't they act on this principle in every case where it applies iseuch a case, Writing concerning is wife, a gentleman says: In the autumn of 1880 my wile fell into a low, desponding state through family bereavement, Her appetite was poor, and no food, however light, agreed with her. After eating she had pum and tightness at the chest, and a senso of fulness as if swollen around the waist. She wax much troubled with flatulence, and had pain at the heart and' palpitation, At times she was so prostrated that she was confined to her room for days together, and bad barely atceogth to move.
first she consulted a doctor at Ferry ill, but getting worse, she went to seo a physician at Newcastle ' The latter gave her Some relief, but still she did not get her strength up; and after being under his treatment for six months she discontinued going him. Better and worse, she continued to suffer for over a year, when she heard of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She began taking it, and soon her appetite revived und the food gate her strength. In a short time she was quite a new woman. Since that time (aow nearly twelve years ago) have medicine in the house, and if any of my family all anything a few doses Watker, "Grocer, &c., Forry Hill, neat at, ts Fight.—Yours truly, (Sigae!) George Darham, October 25th, 1893."
We call attention especially to those words la Mr. Walker's letter which ate printed in italics, You can pick them out ata glance. They show how fully he understands where. human strength comes from—that it comes from digested food and not from avy mediciue the doctor or any one else can give us. Let vs have no mistake or confusion of mind on this important point For example, Walker was ill.with indigestion and dyspepsia. Her symptoms, and bow she suffered, her husband tells na, The disease destroyed her power to obtain any strength from food, and Nature suspended her appetite la order that she might not make bad worse by eating what could only ferment in the stomach and fill her blood with the resulting poisons. The only outcome of such a state of things must be pain and weakness—weakness which, continued long enough, must end in absolute prostration and certain death.
Well, then, she failed to get up her strength under the treatment of either doctor. Why? Simply because the medicines they gave her—whatever they ma; have been—did not cure the torpid an inflamed stomach. If they had cared it then she would have got up her strength exactly as she afterwards did whea shertook Seigel's
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