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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 368, 28 May 1903, Page 3

A Family Hdrloom UVER *2MUDNET_ DISEASE. UVER SYMPTOMS WELL DESCRIBED.

HfesttW of Mr. B. HODNST. • (Bff-» Dumdin Bcporter.) * ffeexq is no doubt," said Mir. Kiohwd Hfo&aet, of No. 1 Walker Avenue, DunoHa, "that my many years of suffering ton rheumatism completely undermined »y health in every respect. Rheumatism is a legaoy banded down from my forefathers, ail of whom were victim* to MmA complaint. Being hereditary, there » every probability that all the memfcera of. our family will be affected by fehat painful disease. But what I have to apeak about mostly just now is in reference to an attack of kidney and liver disease which I did not get rid of tor about eight years." • " A long term of sickness, Mr. Hoduet. What were your symptoms like?" enquired the reporter. "I commenced to suffer dreadfully with headaches, which had such a blinding effect upon my eyes that I could hardly see to read or write. Each meal was characterised by the most repulsive pains in the stomach, when I always experienced a terrible griping sensation in that quarter, as if the food had turned bad and had no means of escape. Then, quite suddenly, a nasty bile used to rise to my mouth, and the Hour food used to be vomited up. When the stomach was empty I had long spells of belching afterwards, and then the pain would ease a little. These symptoms were sometimes varied by violent itt-aok of windy spasms, which made my heart take to violent palpitations, when f was nearly scared out of my life with he way that organ used to thump igainst my ribs.•Between my shoulders [ had a sensation as though a dozen aeedles were being thrust into me, s-hiist in my loins was an ever-existing Agony which I cannot adequately describe. Whenever I drew a deep breath he agonies in the region of my heart vvere something never to be forgotten, md my breathing was always frightfully bad, owing to a stuffy feejing in my chest, which felt as tight as a drum. Che dainty food that was served up to me was usually difficult to swallow, on account of an extreme soreness of my throat. Added to these maladies, I had an oosasional dry, hacking cough, which sometimes alternated with the expec- | t oration of phlegm. I felt miserable and tired from daylight till dark, without the least inclination for work, pleasure, or anything else. As my kidneys became more diseased with the advance of time, so also did my daily tortures increase. In the lower portion of my back [ had acute pains which made me groan tloud. lib was a matter of impossibilty tor my boots, and f I had dropped a fifty-pound note in he street I could not have succeeded in picking it up. If I walked a little distance I was pulled up abruptly by the harp pains in my heart, which I firmly believed was diseased; but before I had travelled very far I was perfectly exhausted.

"Judging from what yon hare told me yon must hare been very weak." "I should rather think I was weak. I became so debilitated that some days I could scarcely stand whilst I put on my clothes, and aa for doing a day's work —well, I eould not have done it for all the tea in China. I experienced a confinement of the bowels for two or three days ah a sferefcch, and. after that I was seized witfe attacks of diarrhoea; the urine was sosnfcy and high-coloured. The smell of my breath was most offensive, «a 4» combined with the bitter taste in my mouth, made me feel continually inclined to be sick. I could nersr understand how it was that I felt so languid and sleepy all day, and yet I could no* get to sleep at night. My mind was ill at ease as year after year pawed by without any sign of a change for the better, and it was at night mostly that I used to ruminate over the gloomy future that was apparently in store for me.® The unhealthy activity of my brain was a striking feature of the weakening effects of my complaints. I used to lie thinking first about one thing and then another all night n'ong, and when Z had to get up I >-** hard It

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