Another Sluggish Liver.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 3

Another Sluggish Liver.

Gives a Lot of Trouble.

The Casa of MR. H. C. McCREADY.

{By an Auckland Reporter),

A man may be ever so poor without everybody knowing it, provided he has a good exterior. If, however, the coat is but an antiquated relic of better days, it is hard to make believe other than that the threadbare garment is an emblem of poverty, unless the wearer be notoriously rich, as is sometimes the case, in which event it may be regarded .is affording an air of indifference to tjie conventionalities of society. Mr. l|ugh Clyde McCready is a gentleiu^n capable of giving practical expressions of opinion in regard to dress. Being a master tailor, conducting a prosperous business at 398 Queen-street, Auckland, Mr. McCready's views on those > matters are greatly respected by his customers, but the statements given below were supplied for the perusal of the community at large. "I hear that you have invested a lot of capital without receiving adequate returns," said the representative. "So I have," was the reply. " I have spent hundreds of pounds without getting a pennyworth of value in return. I commenced those speculations fifteen or sixteen years ago, when I first became subject to indigestion. I could have saved all those years of terrible suffering, besides hundreds of pounds, if I had only known what I do now. However, t paid dearly for my experience, but I have so much sympathy for those who are afflicted in a like manner that I deem it a duty to make the facts known. I was tortured to death with the most exquisite paroxysms of pain in the chest, and my sides felt as if a knife was penetrating them. Tremendous sick headaches almost blinded me with their violence, and many a time I could not raise my head from the pillow. My back was the seat of much agony, especially behind my shoulders, and I have experienced pain in the stomach which fairly doubled me up. My tongue was covered with a disagreeable moisture, and my mouth had* a continual nasty taste in it. My food lay like a lump of lead, and then turned bad. Windy spasms came on, and set my heart palpitating frightfully. I thought I was going to shuffle off this mortal coil. These spasms were so painful sometimes that I thought they would kill me. I have been four months at a time away from work, being unable to move. When in bed I could only lie on the left side, with a pillow under me. My bones were too tender, and ached too much, to allow me to lie on the bed."

. " I suppose you altered considerably in appearance?" " Well, slightly. I became so yellow in the face that I was almost beyond recognition. My face has been bronze in colour when my disease was at its worst. The agonies were so unendurable that I have had to have my chest and back rubbed alternately when in bed. My appetite was lost completely, and I gradually dwindled away to a skeleton, my bones being distinctly visible through my skin. There was not an atom of strength in my system, which was altogether broken up. I was languid and melancholy, and many a time have I prayed for death to release me from the daily torture which was dragging me down to my grave. A great trouble was constipation; my breath also being bad." " Were you taking medicine regularly?" "I was obliged to, although it was useless to me. My liver was diseased, otherwise the indigestion would not have been so obstinate and distressing. When I lived in the country I used to take ten pounds worth of medicine from Auckland at a time, besides consulting many doctors who could not cure me. I have tried every patent medicine going, besides gallons of doctors' physic, and not one of them did me any good."

"How were you cured then?"

"By taking Clements Tonic. Yes; I had lost; hope, and thought myself an. invalid for life, but Clements Tonic saved me by restoring regularity in every way. My liver was stimulated and made healthy, then the paine in my stomach, back, and chest were relieved. Headaches were cured, and my appetite returned. The food digested thoroughly ; strength and vitality quickly returned. Clements Tonic made a sound, healthy man of me, and you can make the fact known in any way."