The Verdict Dreaded. Heart Disease Feared. CLEMENTS TONIC

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

The Verdict Dreaded. Heart Disease Feared. CLEMENTS TONIC

Saves Another. After all Hope was abandoned. The Case of l/lrs. Margaret Me Done 1 1 (From the. "Redfem Times.") (BY OUR SPECIAL ifePORTEB.) "I was very ill," said Mrs. Meßonell, of Bankshire Street, I&tany, to a reporter of this paper, "so ill that I feared) to see the doctor. I dreaded to hear him deliver the fatal verdict — heart disease." " Are you sure it was heart disease. Were you not mistaking some stomach or liver trouble for the more fatal disease ? " "I'm coming to that. Many a lame I was awakened in the middle of the sight by my hearts thundering at my ribs. The noise, of its beating was plain enough for anyone in tho room to hear,, and I often thought] my heart would give ouo last flutter, andf then cease beating for ever. You can gnesa I was terror-stricken. But it "wasn't fccally heart disease, I afterwards found." M I thought not, Mrs. MeDonell." "No, the violent beating of- that organ was only a symptom of my complaint. The seat of my trouble was in a different organ altogether. It was my liver that was diseased ; and it was tho pressure orf my heart, caused by wind in tlie stomach, that caused its palpitation. At least, that i 3 my firm belief ; and when I tell you my^ other, symptoms I think you will agree with ttie." "What were thoy ?" "I first noticed that I couldn't get through my work. I then guessed there was something wrong. My appetite had been doubtful, and my food had disagreed with me for some time past, and now I began to Buffer from severe pain in the sido and chest. I don't care what I ate, if ib were only a mouthful, I suffered afterwards. [ A peculiar foul and bitter taste in tho mouth now made everything I ate taste unpleasant. Then a bad farm of flatulence assailed me, owing to my food turning sour and fermenting. The wind increased- moro aud more till it pressed on my N heart anil lungs, aad, doubtless, caused the painful sense of palpitation I spoke of. Slowly I got thin. , Slowly my strength dwindled away. I became white as death. When I walked a few yards I nearly fainted with exhaustion. As I lost flesh, and my body fot weaker, my nervous system suffered, was continually tormented by foolish fears. I was always fretting, and gradually I fell into a low state— a state of desDondence, despair, and nervous terrorism. Visions of sudden death by heart diseas< were always before me," "A terrible state to get into." "Ah ! yes ; but you, who have not been through it, cannot understand how I suffered. Now, I'll tell you howl got over it, and, mind you, at this time I thought I was done for. I had practically abandoned all hope. One day a lady came to see me. She had heard about the terrible state into which I had fallen, and she came to offer me some disinterested' aud friendly advice. Sho found me in a very despondent mood; but, as she began, to speak, I drank in every word sheuttered'. She told me about her son, and how-he was afflicted with palpitation of the heart, of so acute a nature th&t it continually caused! him to swoon off as though dead. She tol<s me how they had tried everything ; but no medicine could give him relief." i " Ato last," said she, "we tried dements Tonic, and three bottles put him on hia legs again, as sound and healthy & youth as you would wish to see." "YVhab did you do?" asked tW reporter. " Well, I did what any reasonable person would do. Within an hour of that lady leaving me I had commenced on Clements' Tonic, and I found she had only told me the truth. Like a snow-ball rolling down hill*' I gathered strength and weight every day.) My stomachic troubles disappeared. Jays appetite put in its appearance. The-paina in my side and breast went awaY, aud, at 1 about the same time, I got rid- of the most distressiug and painful cause of my illness—^ that is, the flatulence. And when that wenti my heart trouble, of which it was the cause went with it, and I had palpitation no more. I took Clements Tonic, a»ft progressed steadily till I was perfectly well,! and from that day to this my heart has never given au e^tra beat, except, of coarse, on occasions of considerable exertion, and* ] suppose, it is only natural then." \ " Then the whole of the trouble was from the liver?" " VTosj nothing but the liver.'* " May I give the public the benefit o|! your experience through the papers, &c. I* " Please do," replied Mrs. McDonelL, DECLARATION BEFORE A MAGISTRATE. I, Margarkt MoDoxkm,, of Bantahlro Street, Botany, in tho Colony of New South Wales, do solemnly and sincerely deolare that I have carefully read the annexed document, consisting of thtee" folios and consecutively numbered from one to three, and that it contains and is a true undfaifihful account of my illness and cure by Clements Tonic and also contains my f ull permission to publish theuamein any way ; and I make thta solemn declaration volontanly, and without reoeiringanyiwyment, conscjentiously believing the same to be tt-uo. and by virtue ©Ithe provisions of an Act made and passed in Jn* n |n f™. ? ea S ot . th e reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Aot for the more effectual abolition ot Oaths nnd Affirmations taken and made in the £ an ?u 9 ttP? pp * rtm ? nte °* the Government of Now South Wales, and to substitute DecFfcrfctionßin lien thereof, and for the suppression of vohurtary mi extra-judiowl Oaths and Affidavits.* Declared at Botavty *h!g twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand "eight hu«drtd andßinet* .•Jght, before tow. , JAMBS J. 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