The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-08-20
HE DID NOT GO TO AUSTRALIA

HE DID NOT GO TO AUSTRALIA.
Nothing is easier than to recommend
a man TO go to Australia. A dozen
words or so out of your mouth and
you have done it. But for him to act
on your advice-that is a gray horse
OF another color. You see, Australia
is halfway round the world; and to
pull up stakes here and go there-fam-
lily, interests, and all-is job no man
takes in hand save for the strongest
sort of reasons.
Yet that is what Mr. Emrys Morgan
Price. grocer and tea merchant, of Ire
hafod Road, Hafod, S. Wales, was adj
vised to do by a doctor at Merthyr.
Now, we don't say but that the result,
if Mr.. Price had gone. would have
proved the doctors judgment to be
sound; but as it happened Mr.. Price
came out all right in the end by just
staying at home.
The facts are briefly these: In Au-
gust, 1881, the customary choral COM
petition took place at Abergavenny,
and Mr.. Price attended. In some way
he fails to state how, and it doesn't
matter-he took cold and had a chill.
When he arrived home at Dowlais he
could scarcely breathe To draw his
lungs full of air was quite impossible
In fact, he felt as if he were suffocat-
ing. OF course, there was no more
thought of singing; the question was
one of getting breath enough to live
on. He at once tried that good old
fashioned remedy, mustard plasters,
putting them on his chest and perhaps
on his back between the shoulder
blades. They relieved him for the
time, as we might expect But mustard
4 plasters do one thing-no more. They
draw some blood from the inlamed
parts to the surface: that's all. When
/ they have set up bit of mild counter
| irritation they are done; they don't
| get down to deep causes. And here
there was deep cause. We will point
/ it out presently.
There was constant whistling noise
4 in his throat, he says. You hear it in
children when they have Group. 1t
means that the air passages are con-
tracted and the breath has to pass
1 violently through a small orif1ce. Dis
/ ease has often strangled people to
/ death that way Next" he says, "a
| violent cough set in. l coughed and
spat up thick phlegm night and day"
This meant more and worse infam-
nation, and shows us the spectacle of
Nature trying to get rid of the product
the phlegm or mucus But to cough
night and day. Think of it What be-
comes of a mans appetite and sleep?
You can imagine. No wonder the doc
tor at Merthyr was anxious and sug-
! gested a change Of climate.
Still. Mr.. Price, as we have said, re-
manned at home and consulted other
physicians, one at Dowlais and one at
Hafod All the doctors agreed that
their patient was suffering from acute
bronchitis, and very properly treated
him for that. Yet somehow their medi-
cines failed to effect any real and rad
| ical good. That they were temporarily
/ helpful we may not doubt. But, you
see, bronchitis, once seated, is an OBJ
/ stinate and progressive ailment- 1t has
tendency to take up new ground and
to get down on the lungs, the reason
being that the lining of the air pas
sages and of the lungs is all one
thing. So an affection of any part of it,
if not cured, spreads like fire in dry
grass.
GAS time went on" says Mr.. Price,
81 got weaker and weaker and my
breathing became distressing to hear.
All my friends thought I was a con-
sumptive, and as a sister of mine had
died of that complaint, naturally felt
alarmed Indeed, one night in July,
1885, was so bad that my wife thought
1 was dying"
Happily the lady was mistaken, yet
death sometimes comes with fearful
suddenness in that complaint, and her
fear was very reasonable At that
time, please remember, our good friend
had suffered about four years, and was
| in state of low vitality. The whole
body was feeble and exhausted, and
there would have been nothing sur
prising in fatal termination. But a
/ better result was in store, as we shall
now see.
Mr.. Prices letter, dated August 10th,
1898, concludes in these words: Bet
ter and worse 1 continued in the power
of this malady year after year, and had
given up all hopes Of ever getting bet
ter. In February, 1887, after having
endured it five years and a half, 1
read of a person at Pontypool having
been cured of the same thing by Moth
/ er Seigel's Curative Syrup. l got a
1 supply of it, and in a few days l felt
relief. / kept on with it and gradually
improved. In sir months the cough had
I left me and icds ieeI man. Since
then 1 have been sound as bell. If
you like you may publish my state
ment, and l will gladly answer any in
quiries (Signed) EMRYS MORGAN
PRICE"
Goodl That is pleasant and cheering
to hear. One word-an important word.
Bronchitis, pneumonia, rheumatism,
govt, nervous disorders, liver com
plant, kidney trouble, and most of our
familiar diseases are caused by poison
in the blood; and the poison is pro-
duced by stomach fermentation, indi
gestion and DYSPEPSIA. Consumption it
self comes in the same way. Mother
Seigel's Curative Syrup drives out the
poison and stops the manufacture of
more. That's why it cured Mr. Price
will or,r1