In Agony After Meals

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2009, 8 October 1906, Page 6

In Agony After Meals

EDWARD MAYSON, NAPIER INDIGESTION FOR YEARS THUMPING SICK HEADACHES HIS WHOLE HEALTH WRECKED TO-DAY STRONG AS ANY MAN DR WILLIAM’S PINK: PILLS. " For ten years and more it was hard for me to know what to eat and what not to eat,” said Mr Edward Mayson, of Raffles Street., Napier. " Every few months I got a bad tit of Indigestion that made life not worth living. 1 was never free from pain for three or four hours after every meal. I was sore and aching all over, and ray head was splitting the whole day. For weeks on end, 1 was as miserable as a man could be. The last attack I had was last Winter twelve-month. After I had been in agony for throe months, I tried Dr Williams’ Pink Pills. Inside a month they set me right, and 1 have never had any trouble with my stomach from that day to this." Mr Edward Mayson has lived pretty well all his life in Napier, since coming to this colony from Lancashire in the early eighties. He is a bootmaker by trade, and his shop is in Market St., off Emerson St., just near the Trades Hall. He has been one of the local leaders in the Reform Movement, and has always been highly respected even by those who opposed him most strongly in politics. Mr Mayson has been a teetotaller all his life, and lias worked harder thai? any other man in the district in the Temperance cause. His f 'flow citizens in Napier describe him as a plain-spoken man of the highest honor —and bis word is as good as his bond throughout Hawke’s Bay. “ When a man gets on for 60, he can t grumble if his teeth g© —and I blame that for all ray trouble, said Mr Mayson. “ Besides I am cooped up in the shop all day, and hardly get a chance to stretch my legs. For some years, I never felt really fit. There was always a sort of half-sick feeling about me. As soon as I took something that disagreed with me, my stomach went back on me altogether. I was never able to tackle my food with any relish. Everything tasted pretty well the same to me. If I forced myself to eat a bit of breakfast, I fetched up gas all morning. The taste in my mouth was as bitter as gall. Down in my stomach, there was a queer heavy feeling —not exactly a pain, hut just as bad or worse. All my food seemed to turn to lead, and it lay on my chest like a ton weight. Sometimes the pain was as much as I could stand. It was worst of all just at the end of my breast bone, and it went clean through to my shoulderblades. Often a smothering feeling came over me. It was all I could do to get my breath. u This used t© pass oft after two or three hours—but the whole thing used to start again with the next meal. 1 felt like going straight from the table to bed. I got too sleepy to keep my eyes open. The strange thing was that I could never sleep well when I did go to bed. For hours I tossed and turned. As soon as I dropped of to sleep, I started to dream —and then woke up with my head aching and a miserable feeling all over me. Next morning I got up worn out ami wretched. Every bone in my body was aching. My shoulders were stiff and sore, and there was a dull dragging pain across the small of my hack. I was worse in the mornings, and felt too bad-tempered to speak to anyone. If anything went wrong in the shop, it put me out of humor for the whole day. The fact was, I had n© right to bo at work. 1 was just able to drag along. Often 1 couldn’t even do that. When one of my thumping sick headaches came on, I had to give up work and lie down for the rest of the day. It is no wonder that 1 was always sick, for my bowels never worked right,' added Mr Mayson. “It was plain, too. that there was something wrong with my kidneys. My blood must have been full of bile. For days at a time 1 always felt that 1 was on the point of throwing up. Then, all of a sudden, the blood rushed to my face, and the sweat poured off me. A mist came over my eyes, and my head started to swim. My heart stopped beating, and 1 fell into the nearest chair. 1 mind one day going up to Brewster Bt., here in Napier, when one of these attacks came on without any warning, i couldn’t go another step, and had to grab hold of the fence to save myself from falling. It was like going off in a dead faint. That weak heart gave me a bigger fright than anything else. “An attack like this always wore me down till I was nothing but a wreck,” Mr Mayson went on to say. “ I dropped weight, and got too weak to take any interest in my work. The last time, this sort of thing went on for three months—and then I made up my mind to try Dr "Williams’ Pink Pills. I was one of those men that don’t believe in medicines yon read about in the paper—but 1 soon learned that Dr Williams’ Pink Pills were no common medicine. After the second box, I started to be hungry for my meals, and I didn’t find my food disagree with me half as much. After I finished the fourth box, I never had another dizzy turn —and my health was perfect before 1 had finished the half-dozen boxes. The best of it is that Dr Williams’ Pink Pills cured m© for good —for I never felt better in my life than 1 have this last two years." Remember, Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People actually make new blood —nothing more. They do not act on the bowels. They do not tinker with mere symptoms. No other medicine strikes at the root of diseases as they do. They have cured the worst cases of Liver Trouble, Indigestion, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sciatica, General Weakness, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, and even Consumption. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills are also good in a special way for the secret blood troubles that ruin the regular health of growing girls and women. If you are not sure whether Dr Williams’ Pink Pills are suited to your own case, write for free medical advice to the Dr Williams’ Medicine Co.. Wellington, From the same address you can order the genuine Dr Williams’ Pink Pills at 3 - a box, or six boxes 16/6, post free.