Do you see that locomotive engine standing on the side-track? Something has broken down about it. jot. n hiss of steam and cold as a dead it can't draw a train; it 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. Everybody knows that, you say. Do they? Then why don't they act on this principle in every case where it applies?
Here is euch a case.
Writing concerning his wife, a gentleman "Tu the autumn of 1880 my. wil into a low, desponding state through family bereavement, Her appetite was poor, and rib food, however light, agreed with her. "After enti che had pain and tightness at the chest, and a sense Of tolness as if swollen around the wai She wax much troubled with flatulence, and had pain at the heart and palpitation. At timos she was 80 prostrated that she was confined to her room for days together, and had barely strength to move.
"At first she consulted a doctor at Ferry Hill, but getting worse, she went to see a physician at Newcastle ' The latter gave her some relief, but still she did not get her strength up; and after bei ne under his treatment for six months she discontinued going tohim. Better an 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 the food gave her strength. Tu a short tim she was quite a new woman. Since that time (now nearly. twelve years ago) I have always kept this medicine in the house, and if any of my family all anything a few doses Pus ts risht.—Yours truly, (Signe!) George Walker, "Grocer, &c, Forry" Hill, neat Durham, October 25th, 1893."
(We call attention especially to those words in Mr, Walker's letter which are printed in italics. You can pick them out ata glance. They show how fally he understands where human strength comes from—that it comes from digested food and not from any medicine the doctor or any one else can give us. Let us have no mistake or confusion of mind on this important point For example, Mrs, Walker was ill with indigestion and dyspepsia. Her symptoms, and how she suffered, her husband tells us, The disease destroyed her power to obtain any stretigtli from food, and Nature suspended: ler appetite in order that she might not ferment in the stomach and fill her blood' with the resulting poisons. The only outcome of such @ state-of things must be pain and weakness—weakness which, continued long enough, mirist end.in absolute prostration 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 may have beea—did net cure the torpid- and inflamed stomach. If they had.cured it then she would have got up her strength exactly as she afterwards did who" she took Seigel's Syrup. But the trouble is this: Medicines that will do this are rare. If the doctors possess them they would use them, and care people with them, of course. Mother Seigel's is one of these rare and effective medicines. If there is another as good the public "has not yet been made acquainted with the fact. But even the Syrup does not impart strength; it is not a so-called " to there is no such thing. It (the Syrup) cures the disease, drives out the poison, repairs the machine.
Then comes the appetite (all of itself) and digestion and strength. You see the order—the sequence. Yes, Well, please bear it in mind. The mechanics set the engine in order; then the stoker gets up the steam, And of the human boay-—the noblest of all machines—Mother Seigel's Syrup is the led mechanic.
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