The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-02
A COACHMAN'S STORY

Rheumatism, said a leading nbv-
sician not long since, may attack any
body, but is especially the disease of
age and poverty. The immediate cause
Is an irritant poison in the blood. which
becoming lodged in those parts of the
system where the circulation has the
least force, sets up a more or less yio-
lent Inflammation. This poison is al
ways associated with impaired digest
Ion on the part of the stomach and liver
and the amount of it in the system l.
INCREASED by the inactivity of the ex-
creuVe organs, particularly the skin,
| DOVES ana Kidneys
Assuming the correctness of this view
the following conclusion is clearly ae-
ductlble from it, namely, that to relieve
or curea case or rheumatism we should
seek, HrSf, to prevent the formation o.
the poison by correcting the impaired
digestion, and, second, to stimulate the
! skin, bowels and kidneys, that they
may throw 1T off, or, in other words,
We must try to purify the blood. Out
| ward applications, although they may,
and do, mollify pain at certain inflam-
\
eradicate the cause OF the disease.
l. The following case illustrates the
truth of this theory, and should be at
tentively studied by all who are al
ficted with govt and rheumatism-the
two ailments being, under different
names, practically the same thing.
/ sixteen years ago | had an attack
of rheumatic govt which affected all my
| joints, giving me intense paiR. My
hands, feet and shoulders were puffed
up and swollen, and for many weeks |
suffered martyrdom. After this l was
| from time to time subject to rheuma-
tism, which moved about my system,
sometimes appearing in one part and
then in another. For five years | suf-
fered like this.
I'm the autumn of 1855, whilst in the
employ OF a doctor at Bayswater, as
| coachman, my eyes became affected,
and / was almost blind, not being able
/ to see either the numbers or names of
the streets 1 drove along. My eyes
were like piece OF liver, and the doc
tor | was with sent me first to an eye
specialist, and afterwards gave me a
note and / went to ST. Mary's Hospital
Paddington, where was attended as an
outdoor patient for nine months.
IL was so bad / had to give up my
employment. The doctors at the hos
pital made a thorough examination oil
my eyes and said they were sound, and
that my affection was caused by the
rheumatic govt. They gave me medi-
cines and drops for the eyes; also
placed blisters behind the ears and or
the temples, but | was little better fol
anything.
Some days / was better and then
worse. and / feared / should lose my
sight altogether. In July, 1886, my
brother came to London on a visit, and
urged ito try Mother Seigers Syrup
as he thought it would drive the rheu-
matism out OF my system. | got bot
tie of this medicine from Whiteley's. In
Westbourne Grove, and after taking
two bottles I was wonderfully better
NY Sight returned, and | felt better oil
myself. When I had taken sir bottles
,r0s as rcH as eUer. and have since been
well. You can publish this letter and
re er anyone to me. (Signed) Joseph
Parker, 81 Bloomfield Street. West
bourne Square, Bayswater, July 1st
1896"
Mr.. Parker is a respectable man and
worthy of implicit confidence. He is
now III the thipiOy VI W. " NS'SS' -
famous purveyor of whom he bought
Mother Seige1's Syrup in the time of his
necessity. The cure is certainly re-
markable. and demonstrates the truth
OF the proposition. now admitted by the
highest medical authorities. that rheu-
matism is a disease Of the blood. caus-
ed. at the root Of t. by chronic dyspep-
STA and indigestion. Mother Seigeps
Svrup being the most successful medt-
zine in the world for all ailments OF the
DIGESTION. consequently prevents the
further formation OF the rheumatic
poison. expeIs II from the places where
N has r-odrced Inflammation in the
bodv. and bcHrr c,rcS rteHmH'ism he
reader will rotp that it is now ten uc0rS
since NJ. Parker's recovery. during
which rericd he has had no re'anse.
Therefore the cure ~7s real and radical.