Prevention, says the proverb, is better than cure, So it is, and vastly easier That is. when you know how fo prevent. The town vf London would not have been scourged by the Blagueif the people had known how to prevent it, But they did not, and so they were swept away like grass before the scythe.
And, besides, we must know what unusual events and app-frances meau—what they are the signs of. Otherwise weare as helpless as babies in a burning house, Take a simple example, Tu the early part of 1890 a. woman, whose name I will give presently, noticed that. he: skin and the whites of her eyes were furni yellow. She understood, of course, that this Sigufied ill-health; but the exact she probably did' not understand. Fei us do.
Along with the ugly colour—ha hand with it, so to speak—came a low feeling and great anxiety and meatal depression.
Ina letter dated a few weeks ago, written her home, "Grickstone Cottage, near Chipping Sodbury, Gloucester, Arkwell says:—" What my complain I could not have told you. I had nw appetite and felt a good deal of pain after the slender meals T took. Ina short time f got to be so swollen around the waist that my clothes were too tight for me."
Kho latter symptotn was dropsy, caused by the imperfect action of the kidneys; caused in is tura by the original complaint of the stomach and liver. ut this fact also was sealed book to the suffering woman—as it is to ninety-nine per cent of the people.
"My Ureathing was short and hurried, continues Mrs. Arkwell, *'and Thad pun at the heart and the left side. Rvery morning I began the day tired and miserable from want of rest and sleep. At last I was so weak tha' I had to uve sticks to get about.
For seven months T was confined to my bed, and thought I should never be well again. I was no better for doctors or medicines. After three years of this my husband heard people praising Mother Seigel's Syrup somewhere, and also read about it in the papers. He waz so convinced it would help me be wanted to try it. To please him I did try it, and ina short time I had much less pain," and food began to agree with m kept on taking the Syrap, gradually improving, until I was well and strong as over. All the people in the distriet_kuow of tay case, an you ate welcome ty tell every Bet those signs the yellow skin and eyes, etc. They indicate stoniach ami liver failure. The day yon see them that day take Mother Seigel's Syrup.
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