Widnes Examiner. — 1896-10-31 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OUR REGARDS TO MR. RUSSELL.  The writer of these lines hereby tenders to Mr. W. Clark Russell the assurance of his thanks and appreciation. I have always loved sea stories, and those of Mr. Russell stand at the head of their class. From "The Wreck of the Grosvenor" to "List, Ye Landsmen! " I have read them all. Yet salt water, and the things thereon and therein, are not the only things he knows about; not by many degrees of latitude.  lln his last book he makes a sailor talk thus: "I have suffered from the liver in my time, and know what it is to have felt mai. I say I have known moments when I could scarce restrain myself from breaking windows, kicking at the shins of all who approached me, knocking my head against the wall, yelling with the yell of one who drops in a fit; and all the while my brain was as healthy as the healthiest that ever filled a herean skull, and nothing was wanted but a musketery of calomel pills to dislodge the fiend," &c., &c. So much for what Mr. Russell's sailor (or Mr. Russell himself, says; an thero are p! enty of people who can testify that this is not a bit overdrawn. One fact in particular it helps us to realise—namely, that the life of a sailor does not guarantee good health. Indigestion and dyspepsia—of which liver complaint is a sequence and a symptom—is as common among sailors as among landsmen.  One of the latter, however, may now tell of his experience. " All my life," he says," I had suffered from biliousness and sick headaches. I would have an attack about every three weeks. At such times my appetite left me, and I could neither eat nor drink for days together. I suffered from dreadful sickness and straining, and vomited a greenish-yellow fluid. My head felt as though it would burst. I had a bad taste in the mouth, sallow skin, and the whites of the eyes turned yellow. I was recommended to adopt a vegetarian diet, and did so, but the attacks were just as frequent and vio ent. I consulted doctors and took their medicines,but was none the better for it. In this way I went on year after year." Well, we shall agree that there could scarcely be a worse way to go, and it all came about thus : The overworked stomach put more work on the liver than the latter could do. Indignnt and disgusted at this the liver refused to do a stoke more than its proper share. Hence more bile accumulated in the blood than the liver was able to remove. This surplus bile acts as a slow poison—and not so very slow either. The tongue is furred; the head aches and feels dull and heavy ; the eyes and skin are greenish yellow ; there is dizziness an nausea; cold hands and feet; spots before the eyes ; a pungent, biting fluid rises into the throat; constipatioia ; high coloured kidney secretion; prostrated nerves; irritability ; loss of ambition ; fears , and foredodings, Sze., Ste.  This is " biliousness," or "liver complaint" in its simplest form. When long unchecked it produces irregular action of the heart, rhuematism, gout, and any, or all, of a dozen other organic disorders. There is no more certain or powerful impulse to misbehaviour ; suicide and other crimes often resulting. "What to do ? To get rid of the poison by;starting the skin and bowels into energetic action ; then to keep them going at a healthy and 'natural gait. ..A How to do this? Let our friend Mr. F. Widger, 4, Portland Square, Plymouth—whom we have just quoted—speak on that point. In his latter, dated March 3rd, 1893, he adds: "Two years ago, after all medicines had failed to help me, I first heard of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I procured it prom Mr. R. S. Luke, Chemist, Tavistock Road, and began to use it, and nothing else. After having consumed one bottle! found myself vastly better, and by continuing with it I got rid of my old trouble altogether." We should mention that Mr. Widger is a tailor and outfitter at Plymouth, and well known and respected in that community. He permits us to use his name out of gratitude for his recovery. The potency of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup over liver disease is due to its ability to cure indigestion and dyspepsia,which is (as we have said) the cause of liver disease. Every house on the land, and every ship on the sea, should have this remedy as a necessary part of their stockand stores. Perhaps Mr. Russell may recommend it in his next book. But no "musketry of calomel pills." Oh, no. 

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