The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-02-28
ORDERS AND ARROWS

When the captain of a ship orders some
hands aloft to furl the main royal the mer
| jump to obey, as a matter of course.
sailor can climb up on a yard without hav.
ing a shilling ashore or a penny in his
pocket. In fact, Jack seldom signs articles
until he has used up both cash and credit.
But when a doctor-who is a sort of a
captain when one is laid up in the dry dock
of illness-orders a patient to go ABROAD for
the benefit of his health, it is quite another
| thing. A trip and sojourn away from home
is an expensive prescription, and most of
us can't affort it. If the doctor says it is a
choice between.that and the graveyard we
shall have to settle on the graveyard; it
is handy by, and easy t. get 10 but sc
we really so hard pushed? That Is, as often
as the doctors say we are? Let's turn the
matter over in our minds for a minute.
Here is case that is pat to the purpose
1t concerns Mr.. Arthur Whiddon M.lhuish
of g. Regents Terrace, Polsloe Road,
Exeter; and for the details We are indebted
to letter written by him, dated March
18th, 1883. He mentions that, in obedience
TO the orders of his doctors, he went to
Cannes. i'll the South of France in Novem-
Der, 1890, and spent the winter there. He
also spent the following winter at the same
place. b. felt the better for the change; we
will tell you why presently. But he obtained
no radical benefit, which also we will ex-
plain later on
It appears that this gentleman has been
weak and ailing nearly all his life; not
exactly i'll, not wholly well-a condition
that calls for constant caution. In March
1890, he had severe attack of inflamma-
ton of the lungs.
Now | want the reader to honor me with
his best attention, as [ must say in few
words what ought properly to take many.
Shoot an arrow into the air-as straight up
as you can. You can't tell where it will
fall. 1t may fall on a neighbours head, on
your own, or on a child's, or on the pave
ment. EverYbody's blood contains more
or less poisonous elements These are ar
rows, but unlike your wooden arrow they
always strike on the weakest spot, or spots,
in the body. If they hit the muscles and
joints we call it rheumatism and govt; if
they hit the liver we call it liver complaint
or biliousness; if they hit the kidneys we
call it hearts disease; if they hit the nerves
we call 1t nervous prostration, epilepsy, or
any of fifty other names; if they hit the
bronchial tubes we call it bronchitis, etc..
If they hit the AR cells zee call it Inflammation
of the lungs, or py-and-by consumption.
And inasmuch as these poisoned arrows
pass through the delicate meshes of the
lungs thousand times every day it would
be odd if they didn't hit them-wouldn'ti
Now, wait a bit; it follows that all the
various so-called diseases above named are
not disease at all IN and of themselves, but
merely symptoms of one only disease
namely that disease iohich produces the poison!
Good We will get on to the end of
the story.
After the attack of lung inflammation
Mr.. Melluish suffered from loss of appetite,
paiA in the chest, sides, and stomach and
dangerous constipation. He could eat only
liquid food ard had TO take to his bed. For
weeks he was so feeble tnat he could not
rise in bed. He consulted one physician
after another, obtaining no more than tenn
porary relief from medicine Then be was
ordered abroad as we have related.
His letter concludes in these words
whilst at Cannes | consulted a doctor,
who said my ailment was weak digestion,
and need not trouble about my lungs But
never gained any real ground until
November, 1891, when / began to take
Mother Siegel's Curative Syrup This
helped me in one week, and by continuing
with it, got stronger and stronger, and
am now in fair good health. This, after
my relatives thought should never recover.
(Signed) Arthur Whiddon Melluish."
To sum up this gentlemen's real ailment
was indigest on and dyspepsia, from ,ohich
the blood poison comes that causes nearly all
disorders and pains. The air of Southern
France helped him temporarily, because it
is milder than ours; it did not remove the
poison. BY care and the use of Mother
Siegel's Curative Syrup. he would have
done better at home, as the result shows.
So we see that it isn't the climate than
kills or saves; it is the condition of the d.
gestlon. If therefore your doctor orders
you abroad for your health, tell him you
will first try Mother Siegel's Curative
syrup.