The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-08-03
A LONG NERVOUS STORM.

| III you ever watched a dentist draw a
nerve out of tooth, you will remember
how much it looked like little snip of
wet, white cotton thread. How can so
contemptible thing inflict such a
mountain of agony? And why does 1t
do it? Disease you say. All, surely.
A simple and obvious answer; yet in
what way does the true nerve. fibre,
wrapped up and coated as 1t is, like the
wires in submarine cable, get to be
diseased?
Yet somehow. these soft strings do
become fearfully out of order, or our
friend, Miss Hunt, alluding to the neu-
ralgia from which she once suffered,
would not saw Sometimes I was al
most mad with pain" And that is but
one of many forms of torture Imposed
on us by the nerves; yet without these
nerves we should be but Jumps of cay
lacking feeling and power of motion.
How can we cure these dreadful nerve
pains? The drug shops abound in So
called remedies for Them, yet they are
only as breath to cool the air of a torrid
summer day. The real cause and cure
are among Natures deeper secrets. Can
we find them?
"Nearly all my life." says Miss Hunt,
II have suffered from indigestion of an
aggravated kind I felt low. weary and
weak, having little or no energy. My
appetite was variable. At one time
would eat voraciously. and at other
times l could not touch a morsel of
food
After eating I had great distress at
the chest and around the 81 'es. / suf-
fered martyrdom from the horrid pain
in my stomach and limbs. AS the years
passed my nerves became totally un-
strung, and l endured untod misery
from neuralgia. My lips and half my
face were almost dead from this dis
tressing malady."
1.-THE lady will pardon the writer. In
the sense of being objects Of use and
peasure. they were in truth practically
dead but in another sense they were
pierced and rent with the lances of the
lightningl
Il consulted" she adds. doctor after
doctor, but in spite of all their ms lcines
and applications | found little or no re-
lief. Sometimes l was almost mad with
the pain.
mot doubt of It. Under such cir
of keen suffering, and peop e have. not
infrequently, taken their own lives TO
escape from II. Only acute rheumatism
or gout can be compared with neuralgia
and (please obsarve) the whole three are
forms of the same thng-resu ts of he
same cause. Hence sufferers from the
former two ailments will be wise also
TO read this essay to''s end.
In June. 1886, continues the letter.
"a book was II at my house in which | |
read of many persons who had been
cured by medicine called Mother Seig-
els Syrup. ! bought a supply from a
chemist In New North Road. and soon
my indigestion NJ better. the pain In
my head and limbs was easier. and
felt stronger than had done for years.
II think II Is only right that Others
should know of what has done so much
for me. You have. therefore. my per-
II you like. (Signed) tMiss) S. Hunt. 81
Dale View Road, stamford Hill. Lon
don. June 30l... 1886"
Our correspondent is a school mis-
tress, and. as her letter shows, a woman
OF fine Intelligence At the outset she
names the radical and only real disease
she had-namely, indigestion. or as we
indifrerenliy call I. dyspepsia. Starved
from want OF nourishment and poison
ed by the products of food constantly
decomposing in the stomach her nerv-
Gus system was own into wild dis
order. and protested and cried out with
the thrilling voice OF pain. No applica-
ton. no emollients are effective To reme-
dy symptoms springing from a cause so
profound ..hd firmly seated.
Would we lp the writhing of the
trees during a gale? All. they cannot
be bound or held. We must employ, II
We possess II. power which can say
unto the wind. Peace. be still"
Something :. tn tia Mother Seigefs
Syrup did when II abolished the digest
i've trouble. IL enabled the stomach 10
feed the feeble body. and with returning
strength the nervous storm subsidized
tnto the calm and harmony OF health