The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-26
A LONG NERVOUS STORM.


If you ever watched a dentist draw a
nerve out of a tooth, you will remember
now much II looked like a Little snip OF
wet, white cotton thread. How can So
contemplate thing infiict such
mountain of agony? Ano why does IL
do it? Disease, you say. An, surely
A simple and obvious answer; yet III
what way does the true nerve fibre,
wrapped up and coated as ii is, like the
wires in a submarine cab.e, get to be
diseasedY
Yet, somehow, these soft strings dc
become fearfuny out of order, or our
friend, Miss Hunt, alluding to the neu-
ralgia from which she once suffered,
would not saw sometimes ! was a.
most mad with pain" And that is but
O..e Oh many forms of torture Imposed
on us by the nerves; yet without these
nerves we snouId be but Jumps OF Cray
iacAiag feeling and power of motion.
How can we cure these dreadful nerve
pains? The drug shops abound in So
called remedies Tor them, yet they are
oniy al breath to cCol the AIR of a torrid
summer day. The real cause and cure
are among Natures deeper secrets. Can
we find them?
"I,early all my life says Miss Hunt,
Il have suffered from Indigestion of an
lageravated kind. l felt low, weary and
weak, having little or no energy. My
appetite was variable. At one time l
would eat voraciously. and at other
/ times 1 could not touch a morsel of
4 food.
! After eating 1 had great distress at
| the chest and around the SIDES. / suf-
fered martyrdom from the horrid pain
n my stomach and limbs. AS the years
passed my nerves became totally un-
strung. and / endured untold 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
lp,easure, they were in truth practically
dead: but in another sense they were
horribly aiive. as the sky is when 1t is
pierced and rent with the lances of the
lhghtning.1
Il consulted" she adds, doctor after
doctor, but in spite of all their medicines
and applications found little or no re-
lief. Sometimes l was almost mad with
the pain
mot a doubt of II. Under such cir
cumstances the body Is poison house
Of keen suffering. and people have, mo-
infrequently, taken their own lives tC
escape from it. Only acute rheumatism
or govt can be compared with neuralgia
land (please observe) the whole three ar,
forms of the same thing-results of iht
same cause. Hence sufferers from tbs
former two ailments will be wise alst
to read this essay to its end.]
I'm June, 1856, continues the letter
"a book was left at my house in which
J read of many persons who had beer
cured by a medicine called Mother Seig
els Syrup. 1 bought supply from
, chemist in New North Road, and sool
my Indigestion cot better, the pain il
3 my head and limbs was easier, and
D relt stronger than | had done for years
Il think it is only right that other
: should know OF what has done so mucl
iOr me. You have, therefore, my per
mission to make this staten mt publ
If you like. (Signed) MISS S. Hunt, )
Dale View Road. stamford Hill, Lon
don, June 3O.h, 1856
I. Our correspondent is a school mis-
!, tresS and, as her letter shows, a woma
Of fine intelligence. At the outset sh
names the radical and only real diseas
she had-namely. Indigestion, or as W
indifferentiy call it, dyspepsia. Starve
from want of nourishment and poison
: ID by the products of food CONSTANT
x 1ecomposing in the stomach. her nerv
JUs system was thrown into wild dis
+ order, and protested and cried out wit
2 the thrilling voice Of pain. No applica
l. lion, no emollients are eff ctive to RENE
: 1y symptoms springing from a cause S
profound and firmly seated.
l., Would we sop the writing of til
trees during a gale? An. they cannC
be bound or held We must employ.
we possess it. a power which can sa
unto the wind. Peace. be STILL
Something ain to this Mother Seigel
Syrup did when it abolished the diges
i've trouble. 1t enabled the stomach
feed the feeble body, and with returnir
strength the nervous storm subside
into the calm and harmony of healt