"There I Lay"

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7631, 24 January 1903, Page 4

"There I Lay"

" Night After Night," "A VICTIM TO INSOBIMA."

The Case of Mr. C. A. THORNE.

{By a Special Reporter.') Th« colonial home of Rugby football is unquestionably in New Zealand, where some of the finest players in the world indulge in the game. When ♦he British football team visited the land of the moa some years ago, the members of that fine combination were astonished at the number of clever exponents of Rugby who were pitted against them in small towns, possessing names which the visitors found difficulty in pronouncing. Gymnasiums arc also freely patronised, concerning whicr. fact Mr. Charles Albert Thome, of Grey-street, Auckland, had something to say to the writer. " I es," saia m". Thome, " I took or gymnastics, and did three nights a week at it afterwards, so that is sufficient proof that I was all right." " Strength and vigour are certainly required for that kind of athletics. But were you very much run down beforehand ?" asked the reporter. "I was, indeed. My health was completely shattered, and I remained ia a terrible state of collapse for full} six months. Four years have elapsed since then, and I hope never to have a recurrence of that dreadful illness, which started in the form of a very bad attack of indigestion. I always had an unpleasant and bitter taste in my mouth, and there was a tight feeling on my chest after eating, combined with severe pains in the stomach, where the food lay heavily and undigested, till it turned sour and fermented. A dull pain began to tantalise me under the shoulders, besides which I had sharp f ricking sensations under the lower ribs, used to do a lot of reading, but now my eyesight became so bad that I could not read. Persistent depressing headaches made me always feel dejected and miserable; but my greatest misfortune was that I could not sleep at night. Whether through over-study or through being so excessively weak and debilitated I cannot say, but sleep refused to give me the solace I so badly wanted. When everybody was soundly asleep, there I lay, night after night, wide awake. I was a victim to insomnia in its most hideous form, and nobody can realise what that means unless they have experienced the same great mental suffering which I endured. Then my appetite failed altogether. '* could not be tempted to eat, and so I lost all my flesh. It took considerable effort on my part to arouse myself from the state of lethargy into which I had fallen.'- Very often I did not succeed, but lay for hours in a listless and exhausted state. If I walked about, or exerted myself ever so little, I was overcome with feelings of faintness, and my limbs ached again from extreme weakness. It was absurd going 'on'-in this way any longer, as I was physically and mentally exhausted, so I determined to go for a long holiday to recuperate my health, in order to'avert being laid up perhaps for life." "And did you go away for a holiday?" '.No; it became unnecessary. Before putting that idea into effect, I was prevailed upon to take a course of Clements Tonic. That was the best advice ever given to me, for by its adoption my health was restored to perfect order. ■ The pains in my stomach and back were quickly eased, and in a few days were entirely subdued. So were the awful aches which had been in my head for months, and when I was rid of those troubles, I had no difficulty in obtaining a little rest, which came to me slowly but surely, until I always relied upon having a good night's sleep, and awoke in the morning feeling the benefit of it. Clemeaia Tonic did all that for me, and more. It gave me a splendid appetite, and braced up ray nervous system. I put on flesh rapidly, and my strength daily increased. In a very reasonable space of time there was not a sign of indigestion left, my brain was stimulated into healthy activity, and I was aa fit and well as before my exhausting iIW ness attacked me. As I before stated. I resumed athletic exercise with a will. l: " Would you like these facts known ?" " Yes, to benefit others, you may publish mj statements."