The Archive · 1905

"<gRsamiNe TRE BOTTOM RUNG."

Ta her letter she. gays:—"' I don't think anyone in the worl has suffered more cruelly from indigestion than [have. For years it poisoned my existence, blotted all the happiness and sunshine out of my life and brought me to the very threshold of the grave. It would take a whole ream of foolscap to describe all the pains, aches, symptoms and miseries it occasioned me atone time or another. Iwas weak, thin, pale, and nerveless, unable to eat, sleep. Work or enjoy any of the pleacurey of society. 'This waa when I was residing at Hyde Park, Adelaide, South Australia, of which city Tam a native. Iwas attended at different times by quite a number of medical men, but my case kept on gain; from bad to' worse. In the end I coul retain, nothing on my stomach, and the mere sight of food often made me retch nnd vomit. The straining from this cause jatly brought on a bleeding from the Jungs which I thought was a sure indica tion of consump ion, I had reached the Lottom rung of the ladder of life, I think two years back, when on a friend's advice T began to take Mother Seigel's Syrup."

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