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Clutha Leader, Volume XXIX, Issue 1676, 16 January 1903, Page 6

Splitting 2ac\ Headaches. MORNING TILL NIGHT. % Another Record Recovery.

tin Case of Mrs. G. TIMMINCS. (OTA WEHJNOTOI* BEPORMR.) | A representative was received with nraoh f courtesy on visiting the home of Mrs. I Catherine Timmings, of Charlotte Avenue, | Wellington. j " I wish to obtain from you the while history of the matter concerning yourself, which is engaging 10 much public attention," said thie reporter. t " You refer, of course, te my five long * years of suffering. If I- abstained from i giving the public the benefit of my experi- ! once I woulct be afraid of tuck 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 breu.ht 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 te being laid up very easily. You see, we have not the vitality in our systems to fight against the many maladies that are continually going aboat, unless we fortify ourselves by occasionally taking a good medicine, which most 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 community at large." " Did you suffer from any definite disease, Mrs. Timmings ?" "It was sufficiently definite to nearly kill me, I eanjaifchfully 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 ohildren were very young, I often had to fet up from my warm bed to attend to thf m. lany 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 and irritating, and my mouth and throat were very sore." " What symptoms of liver eomplaint did you have ?" " I became very deaf, although my hearing was previously very sharp. 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 ooated with a yellowish moisture, and my mouth had a bitter taste in it all day- long. I felt lazy and languid, without enough ' go' in me to straighten up the house. It is a bad state to get into, to have work staring you in the face and yet unable to do it That ia procisely how I was situated. Tits only thing that I could do was to lie down, and not bother about anything. I felt top weak to think even, although I was troubled very frequently with strange imaginations about something dreadful going to happen." "Were you suffering any pain ?" C( I_ had splitting sick headaches fnin morning till night, and sharp, twitching pains behind the shoulders never ceased tormenting me. These ptfins got worse ind worse every day, an addition to them appearing below my ribs. I could not lie on my aide iu 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 o»e way, as 1 could not sleep in any position. The whole of the night I used to lie awake, although I was thoroughly fatigued aud exhausted when I went to bed. In the mornings my eyes were dim and swollen, especially after sevete vomiting fits, which generally camo on as soon put my weary, aching limbs on the move. Some mornings I was able to take a little break, fast, which usually consisted of a small piece of toast and a cup of tea; but the awful feeling of heaviness and oppression iu my chest after tmcli a moderate repast can hardly be d scribed. My chest felt as if it were w igled clown by a box of lead after eating, and my stomach was besieged with terribly exasperating pains. -.Then a little while after I fe:t myself getting full of wind, spasms of which sometimes made inc shriek. On numerous occasions I distinctly heard my heart hammering away against my ribs,

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