The Case of Mr. H. M. KEYEY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 206, 11 September 1901, Page 6

The Case of Mr. H. M. KEYEY.

(By a Sjyecial Reporter.)

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. To promote our personal welfare we balance inconveniences, preferring to give and take in order to attain our ends. We remit some rights so that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy independent citizens than servile tenants. Great sacrifices are made by workers who aspire to become their own landlords for the advantages to be derived from th© attainment of their aspirations. "My illness," said Mr. Henry Moran Kerey, of Garfield-street, Parnell, Auckland," was brought on through working night and day at my sedentary trade of bootniaking. The object I had in view was to purchase a home for my wife and family; but I stuck to my task so closely that it caused me three years' intense suffering. It is eight years ago Bihce my constitution was completely broken down." "You look strong and vigorous now," said the reporter. "And I feel as well as I look.. But there v. as a time when I thought I was going into consumption. My face was a deathly colour, and my eyes were sunk deeply into my head. .You would not have given twopence for my life if yon had seen me then. Before I was struck down I thought of nothing but work, and I took my meals at all hours, sometimes going without them altogether. I felt- myself getting weaker and weaker every day, till I could hardly crawl down to my shop. A few minutes after starting work I felt giddy and faint, and I was obliged to take frequent rests during the day. Then my digestive organs went wrong, as shown by the tightness in ray chest after eating, and also great pain and discomfort in my stomach, which felt as though I had swallowed gome foreign matter which was turning sour and putrid. Indeed, my breath bore out this theory, as it was most objectionable, and my mouth had a very bad taste continually, which made me feel sick. Sharp pains used to dart under my shoulders and down to the end of my ribs, and in ■$ short while I was unable to retain a meal on my stomach. As soon as I ate anything I was seized with violent fits of vomiting, and the pain and distress I suffered was beyond description. I felt tired and miserable, being without enough energy to sit down and read a book. As a matter of fact, my eyesight was too bad, and my eyes seemed to have little spots dancing before them, besides heing hot and swollen." "How did you manage to keep on working in that condition ?" "I could not do a stroke of work at last, and I had to knock off altogether. I felt heavy and drowsy, and suffered greatly from splitting headaches My bowels were irregular. For days they were constipated, then followed a weakening attack of diarrhoea. I found great difficulty in swallowing anything, even such a simple thing as a cup of tea making me conscious of the fact that my throat was very sore. My appetite went right off eventually, and my nervous system then collapsed. An additional complaint in the form of a vile attack of neuralgia now commenced to worry the life out of me. Shooting pains darted from the ear to my eyes, and thence to my forehead. The agony was so acute that I could get no rest day or night. I twisted aud turned from side to side all night long, and in the morning I was too exhausted to get out of bed. This new torture continued for months, till at last I thought I was going mad. A peculiar feature of my dreadful ilness was the way my tongue used to swell. It felt too thick for my mouth, and almost choked ipe. My brain was full of evil-forebodings as I lay throughout the sleepless nights in a state of nervous terror. Many a time I have awakened my wife from her slum-'

her and told her'that the tortures of my complaint were driving me crazy, and in the day time I felt so greatly run down that I used to say to my wife, 'I suppose I will live through this summer, but if I do I am sure I will die during the winter," One night my condition wm so alarming that my wife went straight away for the doctor, who said T had a diseased liver, and that my blood was in a terribly bad state." "Was there anything to show that your blood was impure ?" •'Rather. I will tell you, and then you will know that my blood was poisoned. It happened through wearing a soft woollen hat, the rims of which Used to fall down on my ears. I used to wear a blue serge suit, and my better half told me I ought to get a hat to match the colour. As I always study comfort before appearance I bought the soft one alluded to. The result was that my ears were poispned by the dye out of the hat. My ears swelled and broke out, and my agonies increased ten-fold. I used to pray for death to release me from my sufferings; but no, I had to endure it. The tops of my ears were eaten away, as you can see for yourself, and even when they healed up I believe I had enough poison in my. blood to kill twenty men. I was really on the verge of death by now, without animation, without hope." "Was there any benefit derived from your doctors medicines ?" "Not the slightest. Neither did I receive any benefit from the many advertised remedies I tried; but I was saved by the advice pf a friend, who urged mo to give Clements Tonic a trial. I did so, but I can honestly say that had it not been for Clements Tonic I would be a dead man now. I started on that matchless medicine with a feeling of great anxiety, as I knew my fate depended on it. My anxious fears were soon set at rest, as I felt greatly soothed and stimulated in a few days. My case was a bad one, and I could not expect to be rid of all my ills for 9ome time; but Clements Tonic proved equal to the great task before it. A gradual slackening off of the sharp' pains in my back and loins,' besides the absence of discomfort in my stomach, showed that Clements Tonic was doing the work in first-rate style. My appetite, which had so long lain dormant put in a feeble appearance at first, and then increased every day till I could eat a hearty meal. My h-_d was again free from aches, and every morning I awoke feeling decidedly better for the sleep which resulted through my continuance of Clements Tonic. My nervous system was strengthened and invigorated by the same medioine, which eradicated all _kin eruptions and purified my blood, besides driving away the raking neuralgia, which has never since troubled me. Each day 1 gathered weight and strength, meanwhile shaking off the fit of melancholia which has depressed m_ for three years, amd my work was undertaken with the same pleasure as of old. Clements Tonic gave me perfect health when 'all else failed," "Was the cure a permanent one?" " Yes, and I am anxious that everybody should know that such a grand medicine exists, so you may publish these facts in any way you like."