The Archive · 1893

Things to Remember by

Ifa great fortune were unexpecteilly left me Vit mould be expected) I'll wager an; that T should never forge the time place where I first heard of it.

Or if T should go home to-night and find (whi Sod forbid) by house burned up, and everything in it, Pun equally certain that the main circumstances connected with the event would stick in my memory until all the Past's pi ures fne out in the light of the life that is te be. "T'would be the sume with you, I fancy? Yes.

And here comes " Woman who will not soon forget the month of December, 1890. It is wot because Christinas comes in' that for it is what she lost, not what was given her, that makes that particular time stand out' above other times. And what she Tost was her health, a matter worth talking about, as one never can tell when he may be more interested in that subject than in polities or the price of provisions.

She says her illness began with She could keep nothing on her stomad threw, up win she calls Ssu ditty green il." Now this dirty green fluid is not a thin to he disgusted at but to be studied and understood.

Tt is bile, and bile is one of the most important agents in the id of the contents of the bowels. getting it oils the way, 8 to speak, and helps the mass of stuff inside' there more easily moved.

The liver gets it from the blood, and when owe machinery is all right we don't know there is such " thing in our bodies. But when the liver is torpid and lazy, then the bile stays in the bloc and poise allover. It makes the head the skin Yellow and dey, and finally is expelled from the mouth, as this woman says. nature can't use it the right way, ssu she throws it ove Dourd the best way she cut, which is u bad and sickening way indeed.

Our lady friend goes on to mention that her tongue was covered with thick shu appetite was poor, she bad a foul mouth, and what she ate gave ber great pain in the chest ami back. AI these symptoms signs of one trouble, and liable'to do an immense mount of mischief, just us a wild animal Joose in the streets hay do a variety of mischief before he is captured and shut up I felt colt chills all over me," she says. "and would sit over the fire for hours, for I felt so chilled and starved. Tost a deal of slee at night, and often lad to get up and walk about the floor."

This was a table state to be in, and nobody ever ex} jenced it without looking Duck to it with he ror and dismay. That is, if he ever got over it; for some never do. They get worse and worse until the doctors shake their heads, and old friends wipe their specs and think about certain funerals that are going to come off before long. For this disease is the essence and substance of almost all the rest, no matter what vanes they are called by.' It scatters death with hoti bands, and fills you so full of pain and misery—uind and Weraly and &. E. & €. Gas body—that you soon don't care much wheth-r you live or not.

Well, let us hear more from our friend. "I had so much pain," she says, ' that it took all the power out of my body. At times my breathing almost stopped. T would gasp for any simple food T was go bail Tad to Hie on breath, and for hours I was in. After

the couch, and one night I thought I was dyi "Last April my husband persuaded me to try Mother Seigel's Syrup, that had cured hit of liver complaint. I got a bottle from Mr. Jack, in High Street, and in a few days felt easier, and after taking three bottles more was completely cured and have no pain since. J never felt better than I do now.

"Yours truly, "Tsamen.a Lippett. Mel "78, arrow, Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, September 17th, 1891."

We congratulate Mrs. McEwan on her recovery, and there are thousands who will do the sane, Four months of acute indigestion and dyspepsia is enough, though many" suffer. for years because they either never heard won't use, the remedy that cured her. And enlighten them she wants us to publish this little history. Now she will remember April as well as December.

B) Bap, 5& 12my 91

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