IN AGONY AFTER MEALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13296, 1 October 1906, Page 3

IN AGONY AFTER MEALS.

EDWARD MAYSON, NAPIER. INDIGESTION FOR YEARS. THUMPING SICK ACHES. HIS WHOLE HEALTH WRECKED. TO-DAY STRONG AS ANY MAN. DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. " Foe ten years and more it was hard for mo to know what to eat and what not to eat," said Mr. Edward Mayson, of Rafflesstreet, Napier. " Every few months I got a bad fit of Indigestion that made life not worth living. I was never free from pain for three or four hours after every meal. I was sore and aching all over, and my head was splitting the whole day. For weeks on end I was as miserable as a man could be. The last attack I had was last' Winter twelve-month. After I had been in agony for three months, I tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Inside a month they set me right, and I have never had any trouble with my stomach from that day to this." Mr. Edward Mayson has lived pretty well all his life in Napier, since coming to this colony from Lancashire in the early eighties. lie is a bootmaker by trade, and his shop is in Market-street, off Emerson-street, just near the Trades Hall. He has been one of the local leaders in the Reform Movement, and has always been highly respected even by those who opposed him most strongly in politics. Mr. Mayson has been a teetotaller all his life, and has woriked harder than any other man in the district in the Temperance cause. His fellow-citizens in Napier describo him as a plain-spoken man of the highest honour— his word is as good as his bond throughout Hawke's Bay. " When a man gets on for 60 he can't grumble if his teeth go—and I blame that for all my trouble," said Mr. Mayson. " Besides I am cooped up in the shop all day, and hardly get a chance to stretch my legs. For some years, I never felt really fit. There was always a sort of half-sick feeling about me. As soon as I took something that disagreed with me, my stomach went back on me altogether. I was never, able .to tackle my food with any relish. Everything tasted ; pretty well the same to me. If I forced ' myself to eat a bit of breakfast, I fetched • up gas all the morning. The taste in my mouth was as bitter as gall. Down in my stomach, there was a queer heavy feeling— not exactly a pain, but just as bad or worse. All my food seemed to turn to lead, and it lay on my chest like a ton weight. Sometimes the pain was as much as I could stand. It was worst of all just at the end ; of my,breast bone, and it went clean through ■ •to' my ' shoulder-blades. Often" a smothering , feeling came over me. It was all I could do to get my breath. " This used to pass off ofter two or three hours—but the whole thing started again with the next meal. I felt like going straight from the table to bed. I got too sleepy to keep my eyes open. The strange thing was that I could never sleep well when I did go to bed. For hours I tossed and turned. As soon as I dropped off to sleep, I started to dreamand then woke up with my head aching and a miserable feeling all over me. Next morning I got up worn out and wretched. Every lxme in my body was aching. My shoulders were stiff and sore, and there was a dull dragging pain across the small of my back. I was worse in the mornings, ■ and felt too bad-tempered to speak to anyone. If anything went wrong in the shop, it put me out of humour for the whole day. The fact was, I had no right to be at work. 'I was just able to drag along. Often I couldn't oven do that. When one of my thumping sidk headaches came on, I had to give up work and lie down for tho rest of the day. „ " It is no wonder that I was always sick, for mv bowels never worked right," added Mr. Mayson. It was plain, too, that there • was something wrong with my kidneys. My blood must have been full of bile. For days at- a time I always felt that I was on the point of throwing up 1 . Then, all of a sudden, tho blood rushed to my face, and tho sweat poured off me. A mist came over my eyes, and my head started to f,wim. My heart stopped beating, and I fell into the nearest chair. I mind one day going up to Brewster-street, hero in Napier, when one of these attacks came on without any warning. I. couldn't, go another step, and had 1 to grab hold of the fence to save myself, from falling. It was like going off into a dead faint. That, weak heart, gave 1119 a bigger fright than anything else. "An attack like this always wore me ; down till 1 was nothing but a wreck," Mr. Mayson went on to say. " I dropped weight, and got, too weak to take any in- ' to rest in my work. The last time, this sort , of thing went on for three months—and then 1 I made up mv mind to try Dr. Williams' i Pink Pills. I was one of those men who : don't believe in medicines you read about ■ in the paper—but I soon learned that Dr. ( Williams' Pink Pills were not any common medicine. After the second box, I started to bo hungry for my meals, and I didn't ; find mv food disagree with me half as much. After I finished tho fourth box, I never < had anothpr dizzy turn —and my health was '< perfect before I had finished the half-dozen boxes. The best of it is that Dr. Williams' ] Pink Pills cured mo for good—for I never 1 felt better in my life than I have this last two years." ' Remember, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for j Palo People actually make new bloodno- 1 thing more. They do not act 011 the bowels. < They do not tinfker with mere - symptoms. ' No other medicine strikes at the rcot of dis- J case as they do. They have cured the worst , cases of Liver Trouble, Indigestion, Neural- J gia, Rheumatism, Sciatica, General Weak- ] ness, Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia, and even i Consumption. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are I also good in a special way for the secret ' blood troubles that ruin the regular health of growincr girls and women. If you are not. j suro whether Dr. Williams' Pink Pills arc suited to your own case, write for free medical advice to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington. From the same address you can order the frontline Dr. Williams' Pink Pills at 3s a box, or six boxes 16s 6d, post free. 2 . . I