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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12968, 8 November 1902, Page 3

A REMARKABLE RESTORATION. A THEME OF GENERAL DISCUSSION. EMANCIPATED FROM DISEASE.

The Case of Mrs. M. TAYLOR. {By a Special Beporter.) The attention of those in search of valuable information is drawn to following dialogue, which took place between Mrs. Mary Taylor, or iNo, 20 Salisburystreet, Christchurch, and a special reporter : “ Will you kindly confirm the statements which I have heard regarding your remarkable restoration to health? ’ interrogated the scribe. “ "With the utmost pleasure,” replied Mrs. Taylor. “I am never tired of talking about the way in which I was raised from my bod of suffering. Previous to my emancipation from disease, I. had been a delicate woman all the days of my life. I have often been so low and weak that I could rot walk about, aud many a day I have been too exhausted even to do a little sewing. Other items of housework had to remain untouched on many occasions, through my inability to attend to them. Even when I was quite a young woman, I was without energy, my vitality having run out completely. People used to think it was, only laziness oh my part, and they said that a b'g girl like me ought bo work hard all day and not feel any effects from it. They could not make me out at all, especially as I. did not complain about any pain.” “Your disease was then insidiously working away at your system. Probably you experienced pain later in life.” “You are right, I did. For yearn I always had a great pain under my right side, as well as in ray back between the shoulders. The agonies were so extreme that I,could not hold myself up straight, being obliged to lie down and keep myself still, as every movement increased the agony tenfold. After remaining quietly like, this for some hours, I became too restless and irritable to stay any longer, so I used to raise myself up, and then I felt so giddy that I foil back on the bed again. I was really helpless and broken down. I always had a fainting feeling about me, and I felt as though my life hung on a thread which was likely to break any moment. On rising in the mornings I was so attended with nausea that I could not keep any food on my stomach. My mouth had a bad taste, making all my food loathsome to the palate. After swallowing a few mouthfuls of food, I was seized with violent windy spasms, which fairly doubled me up. Then followed the repeated belching of viletasbnrg gases which came from the decayed and undigested food in my stomach. My heart used to thunder away at my ribs as rapidly as the beating of an alarm bell. I became' terrified and horror-stricken, every time these attacks came on. I really thought I was going to die, and my friends were a!so greatly alarmed at the way I was now falling away in flesh. Yes, at last they were convinced there was something more serious than laziness the matter, with me. I got so thin and deathly white that you could almost see through 1 me. Continually vomiting brought on severe headaches, which kept tormenting me both day and n ght. Mv eyes were so swollen aud bloodshot with this incessant Strain that I could not see to read if I wanted, a thing which occurred very rarely., as_ I lost all interest in matters concerning the outside world.” “What an unhappy state th be in?” “ Yes; I was most miserable, and I think that a pe:son is better dead than to linger on in such a wrecked aud broken spirited condition as I was in. There was no rest for me at night, for I slept but little; yet I preferred wakefulness to sleep, as whenever I dozed off ray mind was tormented with horrible dreams. I always woke lip with a start, and found myself bathed in perspiration.- I was afraid to go to sleep again for fear of the same horrors re-appearing. ■ My body ached all over, and I have frequently been seized with such intense nervousness that I have had to take hold of the nearest jb.iect to, prevent myself from falling. 1 suffered from a

strange feeling of heaviness in the che*V which made my breathing difficult. ■, MJjh throat seemed to be filled" with some nn«' usual substance which had no means orescape; but in the early part of the day I always expectorated a consider*;, able quantity of phlegm. Constipation* of the, bowels caused me a lot of trouble^ I used to take all sorts of pills, which which were said by the. chemists to DO? infallible remedies for such irregularis, ties, but they did not act at all sawSK . factorily. Year after year dragged without any indication, of my discs** • being cured. I was a confirmed invalid*! and now ceased to expect to be mad*, well. I was worn right out.” “Why were you so discouraged, Taylor?” “Because my doctors could do me nor good. They said I had a sluggish and prescribed -medicine after medicine for me, .but I did not derive any bene* " fit. I also received battery treatment at the hands of my,medical attendant*. It was as useless as their medicines, ana then they said I would have to go to th*r hospital to be operated upon.” “How long were you under the doo* tors’ care ‘ “About six years, so you may imag* ine my disgust, when they told me 1 would have to go to the hospital after squandering so much money upon them in vain. But I did not adopt their advico, as I felt too weak to run the risk of an operation, I was saved in anothe* way, .and it all, happened through hear* i: ing about a lady living in Christchurch! who had been cured of pleurisy by Cle* mcnts Tonic. This lady is a friend of ;i mine, and I know for a fact that she ; was given up by the doctors, who said ’ they could do no more for her, and that she had not long to live. She had five doctors in attendance, yet their skill , and experience was of no avail. She wa* nearly dead when she was given somq Clements Tonic, wliich. after taking it! for several weeks, completely cured her. Many people in this city have heard about the wonderful recovery she effected through Clements Tonic A However,' I am diverting from my own experience. When I heard about my friend’s case, I’ sent an inquiry as to the truth of the statements, which my friend confirmed, ■ and also begged me to bo guided by her recommendation, as she stated she wa* quite sure that Clements Tonic would cure me also. My husband was against the suggestion, having such an anti*' pathy to what he calls “patent medi-, cines”; but I took Clements 'J Tonitt without his knowledge. A week later my husband said he could see a great difference in me, and was quite pleased a but I did not tell him what was work* iug the marvellous change.” # -I <! What were the effects of taking Cl* ments Tonic P” x i“After several doses I was free at those frightful headaches. Clement* Tonic stopped the v vomiting and hear* palpitation; besides, restoring regular-. , ity. My nerves were toped and streng* tliened. _ The appetite I obtained wa« astonishing, refreshing sleep came backhand each week added proof that Clements Tonic was eradicating my di* ease. I was made sound and; strong* v and mv husband and the doctors were amazed when I told them my recovery was due to Clements Tonic, which mader: me healthier than at any previous tim» in mv life.?' You have my permission to publish in any way my remarks.” STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Mary Taylor, of 26 Salisbury-street, ChrmC church.' in the colony of New .Zealand, do solemnly, and sincerely declare that I have carefully read! the annexed document, consisline of three foliost and consecutively numbered from one to three,, and that it contains and is a true and faithful account of mv illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also contains my full permission to publish la any way my statements—which I Rive voluntarily, without receiving any payment; and 1 make thl» solemn declaration conscientiously- believing tue same to be true, and bv virtue of the provisions ot an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled‘‘The Justices of Peace Art. ißia.” t/i/CftnpS Declared at Christchurch, this third day of Decernber, one thousand nine hundred, before me, t i ' C. M. GRAY, J.P.