The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-11-15
THE DOG, THE MAN, AND THE
MEAT.

A FRIEND of mine and were walking to-
gether the other day; dog dashed past us
after something he saw on the pavement. Ii
was big piece of meat. He pounced on it
aud swallowed 1t in two seconds. NV COM
panlon looked at the dog with envious
admiration. "My humble friend" he said,
IN give you 5000 for your appetite and
Your digestion. You are not afraid to eat;
am." But the dog knew what happiness is
made of. He declined the offer and trotted
away.
1t is astonishing how many different peo-
pie use this expression. Il am" or II was
afraid to eat. As the writer pens these lines
hve letters lie on the table before him, every
one of them containing it. Yet the persons
who wrote the letters are not k.own to one
another. There was, therefore, no agree
ment among them. Why should there be-
even If they icere acquainted?
No there is nothing in it to wonder at
They went through the same experience,
and express 1t Ill the most natural way,
that's all.
But what does it mean? Are people sus-
picious of poisoned food? No, no: that is
not so The food is not poisoned before it
Is eaten, but afterwards. An example will
show what really occurs, and why SO many
are afraid to eat.
We quote from one of the letters: "Oue
night. early in 1892" says the writer, 81 va.
seized with dreadful pains IN the pit of the
stomach, and a choking sensation in the
throat. feared | was going to die. Ny
wife called in neighbour. They applied
hot fannels and turpentine, but l got no
relief. Then a doctor cane and gave me
medicine. He said be never saw anyone's
tongue in such condition. 1t WAS of
yellow colour, and covered with a Shiny
phlegm, so thick / could have scraped it
with a knife. | had foul, bitter taste in
tha md ALL 4 II
scarcely see. | had n heavy pain in the side,
and felt so detected and miserable | didn't
know what to do with myself. What little
food l took gave me SO much pain lrds
afraid 10 eat. The doctor put me on starva-
ton diet, and injected morphine to ease the
pain.
Getting no real benefit from the first
doctor l saw another. who said | had en-
largement of the liver. He gave me medicines,
but | got no better. In August ] went to
EImouth to see what my native air would
do for me. but came back worse than ever.
had lost over three stone in weight. and
teIng too weak to move about used to lie
on the couch most Of the time. never ex-
pected to get well, and didn't care much
what became of me.
Zone day in October my wife said; 1T
appears the doctors can do nothing for you, so
an going to doctor you myself! She went TO
the Southern Drug Stores, in Camberwell
Road, and got bottle of Mother Seigel's
Curative Syrup. After taking this medicine
for few days the pain in my stomach left
me, NV appetite improved, and 4 gained
some strength. Soon afterwards was back
at my work. The people in the Office, see
ing how well looked. asked what had cured
me, and answered Mother Seigel's Syrup.
all be glad to reply to any inquiries
about my case. tSignedl Charles Harris,
II, Beresford Street, Camberwell, London,
December LIST, 1892"
Mr. Harris statement goes straight TO the
point. Why was he afraid to eat? Because
his food gave him pain without giving him
strength. This was dead wrong. Ii WAS
exactly the reverse of what il should have
been. When a man is the proper form be
gets vigour and power from his meals, and
eats them with enjoyment and relish. If he
doesn't there is something the matter with
him. What is it?
Now let your thoughts expand Bit so as
to take in broad principle. One mans
meat is another mans poison, they say.
That's SO, but it's only half the truth. Any
MANS meat is any mans poison, under
certain conditions. If grain never got any
further than the mill hopper We should
never have bread, and if bread Tor other
f0od) never got further than the stomach we
should never have strength. See? Well, when
the stomach is torpid. in6amed, and ION
STRIKE" what happens? Why, yonr food H. 3
in 1t and rots. Inc fermentations produces
poisons which get into the blood and kicks
up the worst sort of mischief all over the
body. This is indigestion and dyspepsia,
though the doctors call each and every trick
OF it by separate name. Yet they don't
cure it, which is the main thing after ALL
But Mother SeiRers Curative Syrup does.
as Mr.. Harris says, and as thousands of
others saw