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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 178, 29 April 1896, Page 3

A CA*E OF NERVOUS PROSTRATION RESULTING FROM INDIGESTION. They say that misery loves company, and they have had it so often it has passed into a proverb. Yet it isn't an all-round truth. Some kinds of misery detest company. They want to be left alone. They hate to be elbowed and Questioned and talked to. A wounded dog will always crawl into some retired place by itself. '1 he instinct of badly injured men, after a battle, is the same. Ailments that are mostly fancy, tend to set tongues wagcing. But real, genuine and dangerous diseases don't incite to speech. Crises which are big with fate usually come and go in quiet. That is why Mrs Seuffham had no desire for the society oi even her best friends at a certain time she is goiug to tell us about. "Up to April, 1881," she writes, " I never knew what it was to be ill. At that time I began to feel that something was amiss with me. I had no relish for my meals, and after eating: my chest felt heavy and painful, and my heart would beat and thump as though it meant to leap out of its place. Presently I became so swollen round the waist that I was obliged to unloose my clothing, as I could not bear anything to touch that part of my bod}'. "Even the lightest food gave me pain ; a little fish setting my heart to beating at a great rate. My feet were cold, and cold, clammy sweats would break out all over ino, leaving me exhausted and worn out. At night I got no sleep to speak of, and in the morning I felt worse tired than when I went to bed. I also suffered a great deal from my feet being puffed up and sore. I could scarcely get about tne house. When I wont shopping I had to ride to the town and back as I could only walk a few yards. '■' As time went on I lost my flesh and strength more aud more, and gave up hope of ever recovering tho precious health I had so sadly lost. I took medicines, and consulted a clever doctor at Derby who examined me and j said my heart was weak. lie also