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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3103, 29 September 1899, Page 1

Public Notices La Grippe and its Heritage. Resulting Liver Trouble Radically Cured. The Case of EVIK. HAKSY SAMUELS. {From the "Suburban Times.") (by our special reporter.) Ivy Lane runs from Cleveland to AberStreets, Redfern, Sydney (Mr. Samuels has since moved to 6 Louis Street), and the other day our reporter might have been seen making his way up that thoroughfare till he arrived at a certain house, whereat he knocked. " Does Mr. Samuels live here ?" asked the newspaper man. " I am he," replied the gentleman who had opened the door, and Mr. Samuels hospitably invited our reporter to come in and be seated. '-'There is no doubt," said Mr. Samuels, referring to his late illness, " but that I was very dangerously ill. People may say what they like about la grippe or influenza, as it is often called, not being much worse than a bad cold, but I know very different. I was unfortunate enough to catch la grippe, and was at once prostrated. An overpowering sense of weariness and heaviness lay upon me. Appetite was absolutely absent, and when I ate the food had no taste to me. Intense frontal headache seized upon me, and soon racking pains laid hold of me in every limb, and it wasn't long before the pain had spread to all portions of my body. Running from the mouth and nose set in. I became very feverish, my temperature going up steadily all the time, and, although I couldn't eat, I was forced to drink large quantities of water to satisfy my intense thirst. I was obliged to lie up in bed. I couldn't sleep, but lay the whole night through in a sort of doze, very often breaking out in a cold, clammy sweat." "That's usual in la grippe, Mr. Samuels." " Yes. By-and-bye I, as I thought, began to slowly recover. The fever gradually abated, a slight appetite made its appearance, and, although weak, I was just able to get out. But I was deceived. I was far from being well. The influenza had indeed gone, but it had left bchiud. it something worse than itself. Again a heavy feeling crept over me ; again my head was tortured with pain ; and again 1 got pains in my body ; but this time the agony was centred between my shoulders, in my side, and across the loins. I was thoroughly alarmed. I saw the doctor ; he examined me, and pronounced my illness to be a derangement of the liver and kidneys— a result of the influenza. He gave me some medicine, which, of course, I took, but I grew no better, and to complicate tilings and make them worse, rheumatism settled in my bones, and fairly crippled me." " What were the pains in the back like ? " " Excruciating. I can"t find words to tell you how bad they were. Sometimes it felt as if so many knives were tearing at ,| my flesh. It was so u.>vful a.t rci^ht — then 4 it always hurt me rnoit— that what little sleep I did obtain I only got in a sitting posture. It was impossible for me to lie down in be-!. In fact, it was as much as I could do to move at all. My tongue was covered with a thick coating of some sub stance, which was very unpleasant to the taste and smell. My skin got of a deadly yellow colour. My sight Mas disturbed, and my limbs and head hung like useless weights upon t!i ••• bed. I was terribly thin ami" weak, and general^ in an awful state." "What medicines did you t:ike ? " » "After having tried doctors' medicines without avail, and many other advertised pills and medicine, information reached me about Clements Tonic, and I made a trial of some." " The result was ?" " I'm not exaggerating in the least when I say that one bottle of that remedy effected a change in me that astonished the neighbours and all my friends. They all had expected to see me mouths getting better, and here I was knocking about again in a week or so ns though I had never been ill. I obtained this result by regularly taking Clements Tonic, anil it soon cured my liver and kidney trouble That remedy also gave me a grand appetite, ami drove the rheumatism clean out of my bones. After I had taken five bottles [ was \v. splendid health, and had no need to take more. I am in perfect health now, and you can refer anyone to me for an opinion of Clements Tonic, and print what I have said to you as much and in any way you like." STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Harhy Samukls, of P.edfern, Sjdney, in the Colony of New South Wales, do solemnly and sincerely declare that I have carefully read the annexed document, consisting of four folios and consecutively numbered /roni one to four, and that it contains and is a true and faithful account of my illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also contains my full permission to publish the same in any way ; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue ofthe provisions of an Act made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled '• An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in the various Departments of the Government of New South Wales, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits." Declared at Sydney this 3rd day of September, 1898, Before me, THO S. JNO. ©UNN, J.P.