Splitting Sick Headaches.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1536, 18 July 1902, Page 2

Splitting Sick Headaches.

MORNING TILL NIGHT. Another Record Recovery.

Tin Case of Mrs. C. TIMMJNCS. J (BT a wmjuitoton reporter. ) I A representative was received with much • courtesy on visiting the homo of Mrs, i Catherine Timtnings, of Charlotte Avenue, £ Wellington. | "I wish to obtain from you the wh>le 1 history of the matter concerning yourself, which it engaging so much public atteu- ; tion," said the reporter. j : "You refer, of oourse, to my fivo long > years of suffering. If I abstained from i) giving the public the benefit of my experl- ! enoe I would be afraid of such an ungrateful action recoiling upon me in some serious way. You are welcome to every detail in connection with my illness. lam sure that my wretched state of debility was brou, lit about, in the first piaee, by the great physical strain »f rearing a large family ; my experience being that mothers of a lot of children are particularly susceptible to being laid up very easily. You see, we have not the in our systems to fight against the many maladies that ate continually going about, unless we fortify ourselves by occasionally taking a good medicine, which must people experience great difficulty in finding. It is to assist others in doing so that I so freely give an outline of my case to be placed at the disposal of the oommunity at large." "Did you suffer from any definite disease, Mrs. Timniings ?" "It was sufficiently definite to nearly kill me, I can faithfully say. My liver was in a dreadful state of disorder. So bad, indeed, that I felt sure it was almost eaten away by disease. I was in such an alarmingly delicate state of health that I could scarcely move from one room to another without catching a severe cold, and when my children were very young, I often had to get up from my warm bed to attend to tin m. Many a violent cold have I contracted through walking about the room at night with my babies, and my lungs eventually became badly affected. I had a dry, hacking cough, which was very distressing aud irritating, and my mouth and throat were very sore." " What symptoms of liver complaint did you have f" " I became very deaf, although my hearing was previously very sli.Tp. People had to repeat things in a loud voice two or three times before I could understand what they were saying. My tongue was thickly coated with a yellowish moisture, and my mouth had a bitter taste in it all day long, I felt lazy and languid, nvitliout enough 'go' in me to straighten np the liou-e. It i* a bad state to get into to hate wo k stating you in the face and yet unable to do it That is precisely how 1 was situated. Tli» only thing that I could do was to lie down, and not b 'ther about anything. I felt toe weak to think even, although I was troubled very frequently with strange imaginations | about something dreadful going to Imppcn." " Were you suffering any pain ? " "I had splitting sick headaches fr<m morning till night, and sharp, twitching puius behind the shoulders never cea ta tormenting me. These pains got worse -nd worse every day, an addition to them appearing l.elow my ribs. I could not lie on my side in consequence of the extreme agony I was in, and many a night I have been obliged to sit up in bed for hours. But '• this did not matter very much in one way, ! as I could not sleep in any position. The whole of the night I used to lie awake, although I was thoroughly fatigued and exhausted when I went to lied. In the mornings my eyes were dim nnd swollen, ! especially after severe vomiting fits, which generally came on as soon as I put my weary, aching limbs on the move. Some mornings I was able to take a little breakfast, which usually consisted of a small piece of toast nnd a cup of tea; but the awful feeling of heaviness and oppression in my chest after such a moderate repast can hardly be d-scribed. My chest felt as if it were w igl ed down by a box of lead after eating, and my stomach was besieged with terribly exasperating pains. '-Th.en a little while after 1 feit myself get ting full of v'nd, spasms of which sometimes made me shriek. Ou numerous occasions I distinctly heard my heart hammering away against my ribs,

and the frightful palpitation continued so long that I often thought it could on'y end in death. My fcehlc appetite at !• ngth flickered away altogether. I could not touch a morsel of food, no matter how temptingly prepared. An unnatural thirst made a cup of weak tea, or 'a drop of milk, tho only refreshment I wanted, hut even these proved uncomfortable when I swallowed them." m. " What a sorry plight to he in !" "Yesitwas. And yet I got worse llian this, which is not unlikely, considering that I was suffering so long, Sly diseaio played havoc with my nervous system. It requir d but little-sometimes nothing at all to set my nerves in violent motion, and as I lay on my bed I felt myself twitching convulsively. Whenever I was in darkness I had a dread that some evil person was in rh>sa proximity, but I daro not get up to strike a match and look. 1 tried a lot of medicines which claimed to be effective in cases like mine, but not one of them was worth the paper they were wrapped in. The) did not even succeed in restoring regularity to my bavrels, neither did they free me from the dizziness and faintness which wore my d.ily torments. My face w«s deathly pule, and there was nothing left of mo but skin and bone." "Don't you think you should have taken to your bed! " "So I did, as a matter of compulsion. I could not keep up any longer. My disease got me down propeily. liesides, I had several doctors attending me, and jet they could not curs me. Heaven only knows liow much of their worthless medicines I drank, hut I do know that my stomach looame so frightfully weak that I could not d ink any more of their stuff. There seemud nothing for me but to drag on a miserable existence till the last spark of life was taken out of me hy my diso^se." " You look as though yon never had an ailment in your life.' " That is how I feel, I am glad to say. The wonderful transformation was accompli'hed through nothing el>e but Clements Tonic, which a lady friend recommended me to take. It appears that she happened to hear what complaint it was that was gradually killing me, bo she kindly came to tel! me how she was one lime nearly dead, and that dements Tonic brought her to 1 fe again. The feeling of despair which had been hanging over me so long gave place to a gleam of hope, and by the time my liist bottle of Clements Tonic was empty, I felt that I was saved from a premature grave. Clements Tonio struck right at tho root of my disease—an evidence of which fact was shown by the gratifying dccaase of the pains in my chest and stomach, and the twitching of my norres soon ceased entirely The acute shafts of agony disappeared from my btck; my headaches also becoming tortures of the past. My family ami friends were astonished and deigned at ih<way I was pulling round. Indeed, I could hardly realise that I was the same woman who, a few weeks back, had lost all interest in life. I ate heartily and slept uell. ami my face soon had a healthy colour. The old feeling* of liatlessncs" and despondency were driven away. I did not neglest one dose of Clements 'lonic till I was made perfectly sound and strong by it. Not one symptom »f my complaint has returned, so I can safely say that Clements Tonic effected a permanent cure. My children have also been built tip by Clements Tonic. Please publish my case many way you tliink best."

STATUTORY DECLABATIOK. I, Catusrikk Timhijob, of Charlotte Avenue, Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, do solemnly and sincere)}' declare that I have carefully rend llio annexed document, consisting of three folios, and coiueoutireljr mimbertd from one to three, and that it contains and ii a true and faithful account of my illnoss and cure by Clements Tonic, and also oonUin« my full permission to publish in any way my statements—which I give voluntarily, without receiving any payment; nnd 1 make this solemn declaration eoimcicntiouely believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provision of an Aot of the General Mneinhly of New Zealand, intituled " The Justicsi ol Peacs Aot, 1882." Declared at Wellington, this 15th day of Novsmkss. one thouiand nine hundred, before me, f.MePARLAND, i.T.