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Bush Advocate, Volume XII, Issue 1754, 30 September 1899, Page 4

"Struck Down for DeaWfr His Own Words. Experts said he could not be cured HIS PERFECT CURE k SURPRISE TO EVERYBODY;

(From tht Fntman's Jouraat.) (nr our own mtortir.) Mr. J. Hawkes, of Hawkeaview, Guildford, N.S.W., is now one of the strongest and healthiest-looking men one could meet in a day's march. We heard . that for five long years he had been a terrible sufferer, and that a course of Clements Tonic had completely restored his health, so this paper (The Freeman's Journal, Sydney) dispatched a reporter to see him. "You look as though you'd never had a day's illness in your Ufe," said our reporter on seeing Mr. Hawkes. "I may look well enough now," waa the reply, "and My Health is Perfect, ' hut once I was struck down for death. The doctors have given me up, and it seemed aa though nothing remained for me bnt to settle my affairs of this world and prepare for the next." -*' You must hare had a narrow squeak, then. What first caused your illness ?" " It must hare been coming on for a long time before it showed itself. My occupation was very trying. I was a market gardener, and I carted large quantities of vegetables to the Belmore Markets. This necessitated getting up rery early in the morning, and, as a matter of fact, I often waited np all night so as to be first in the field and get the best prices. My meals I got at rery irregular hours. I began to get a Queer, Giddy Feel ine, which I can hardly daaoribe, and one day, after I came baok from the markets, I was seized with a fit. Tbat was the beginning. I temporarily got better of this attack, hut I was a changed man. Shooting pains would suddenly dart through my back and head, after which a feeling of sickness and Faintnes* would Overwhelm me. My digestion went all wrong, and what little I ate did no good, for I got more like a confirmed invalid every day." " Did, you see a doctor T "Yes, several; bat they didn't, know what was tha matter at first ; but some of them said I waa suffering from a sluggish and disordered Krer, and they gave me, a whole host of directions as to diet and how I waa to live, besides any quantity of medioines. K tried hot bandages to my back and ibdomen, but got no relief from them, nor did the doctors' physic do me any permanent good. All day long I was in such a sluggish itate that I eartd for xothing. I waa in a iort of sluggish • Stupor or Lethargy, irhich never left me. I suffered in this way ior ovei* fire years. At last I got into such i. despondent state that when I wished to tee the doctor I waa too nervous to drive to bis house. I was frightened of going offthrough the shaking of the oart, so I was forced to accept what support I could get from a friend, and crawl along with him and ihe help of a stick. I had sot so Weak that I couldn't walk without a stick. My face was drawn, and anyone could see in it bhe pallor of a long-continued disease. What 1 have described waa my usual state, hut every now and again the shooting pains in ny head and back would become more intense, and then I should have another fit. Thinking that perhaps I could obtain better treatment I Went to the Hospital. Three doctors there gave me a long and very careful examination, but they could not tell definitely what was the matter. And all their medicines and attention failed to cure me. Every doctor asked me the same question, ' Wnat ib the matter with you'' This Silly Question, in my enfeebled state, ueed to rouse and irritate me. .. ' That's what I came to you to know,' I replied." " Your oase must have seemed hopeless ?"* " Yes j I had very littlo hope of ever getting better. I became very low-spirited*] . I took w interest in anything, j • '