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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2360, 3 May 1901, Page 8

TWfcNTY YEARS KIDNETsLIVER TROUBLE SICKENING GNAWING ACHES. ENERGY, FLESH & STRENGTH BY CLEMENTS TONIC. /

The Case of Mr. G. HARDIN. (By a Dunedin Reporter.) People who become nauseated with their trades and professions and leave them for the purpose of launching out into a new sphere of action find their paths bestrewn with many obstacles, the existence of which they little dreamed of. Although probably competent to fill positions which ihey apply for, they usually learn that preference is given to those possessing previous e.\ perience. An applicant with live years insight into a business commands an advantage over one' with tweive monihkncwicdgc. und so on; therefore, whe we find a gentleman with twenty year-.' experience on any subject, he is aiway : worth lisicning to. Our reporter held this view when he called on Air. Georg. Hardin, of No. 33 I'orth-street. Dunedin, who stated that he had suffered foi twenty years irom kidney and liver diseases, and that many complications had arisen therefrom. " An account of your troubles ought to be very interesting. Mr. Hardin. Will you please to re'a'.e them?"' '" By all means, as I am sure i am in possession of facts which will prove beneficial to o'hors. It is just as much my duty to put folks on the right track in regard to disease as it would be to direct aright a stranger who was on the wrong road to the destination at which he wished to arrive. To begin with, I may state that I am an engineer by profe sion, and I am of opinion thai throug'j working for so many years in extremely hot atmospheres accounts for my kidneys becoming diseased. My back commenced to worry me with s:cke ;i i; gnawing aehes, and before : cng I fe into a very .'o\v condition. I was afflicted with a distressing sensation which m;:do me fcei as though I would rather lie down than stand up. wak, or anything else. A scalding pa.n was experienced when urinating, the wr.tei being clouded with a pecuiu.r sediment. I used to suffer dreadfully with my head. It was not an ordinary headache wlr'ch continually attacked me. bui a throlbing, thumping pain that throat encd to drive me mad. As a matter o! fact, I do not believe there was one portion of m\ body free from some kind o agony. My faculties seemed to bo deadened by the excessive torture aftei my meals, which I took very irregularly. I have seen myself go for days an•' want nothing to eat. then, quite suddenly. I would sit down and eat like a gormandizer. After these heavy repasts my life was not worth living, for the terrible pains which came behin my neck, close to the shoulders, were more than I could boar in silence. A suffocating feeling very often Bear''. made me faint. This arose from the dead, weighty fulness in my cnest, which felt as though compressed within ■x vynp. Tlrn I again went for day ivithoit food owing to the merciless torture-. I was put to." " Under ihcse circumstances you must hav" boon considerably reduced in "(f rt in'v I was. TVhy. I was a'mos' light as a feather. I did not weigh '-•■ f. as I was not ab'e to walk to o scale. You have no ide•; how weak got. and considering I could not keep iv-hine on my stomach I was not snr-"i-eil. I used to avoid everything that "1 Hi'- lor.<t indication of being incli'bip. yet it wns all the same to mv ; :f >r weak sttmaoh. Up it came again. nio-t h.'torn it \, lown. and then •] were intensipa»i' s '» my Ima-l wore intensified. I was. in «.„•„,. t,.rrih',. state that I was nearly off my h,,„1. All dav one I was sleepy and dull, without anv It «ire to try and -i,v■„ „;y ,u 0 \ " ' a^ r 1 1 , [ ' n ' > f e'inc of despondency und, r wh ;,. h 1 ° ed. I seemed to pivo nmnlf ... for the remainder of mv ",i avs !■ an existence entirely destitute n f happiness, the secret' beina that I had not- enough vitality or will, power to continue to live in hone" Wor-e thnn all. I was unab'e to sleep at night. For days and nights I have seen myself go without getting one hour's sleep, and have been in such a bad state