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New Zealand Mail, 24 September 1902, Page 70 (Supplement)

Splitting SicK Headaches; MORNING TILL NIGHT. Another Record Recovery,

The Case of Mrs. C. TIMEVHHGS. (by a WELLINGTON REPORTER.) A representative was received with mucn courtesy on visiting the home of Mrs. Catherine Timmings, of Charlotte Avenue, Wellington. “I wish to obtain from you the whole history of the matter concerning yourself, which is engaging so much public attention,” said the reporter. “ You refer, of course, to my five long years of suffering. If I abstained from giving the public the benefit of my experience I would be afraid of such an ungrateful action recoiling upon me in some serious way. You are welcome to, every detail in connection with my illness. lam sure that my wretched state of debility was brought about, in the first place, by the " great physical strain of rearing a large family ; my experience being that mothers of a lot of children are particularly susceptible to being laid up very easily. You see, we have not the vitality in our systems to fight against the many maladies that ate continually going about, unless we fortify ourselves by occasionally taking a good medicine, which most people experience great difficulty in finding. It is to assist others in doing so that I so freely give an outline of my case to be placed at the disposal of the community at large.” „ “ Did you suffer from any definite disease, Mrs. Timmings ? ” “It was sufficiently definite, to nearly kill me, I c-an faithfully say. My liver was in a dreadful state of disorder. So bad, indeed, that I felt sure it was almost eaten away by disease. I was in such an alarmingly delicate state of health that I could scarcely move from, one room to another without catching a severe cold, and when my children were very young, I often had to get up from my warm bed to attend to them. Many a violent cold have I contracted through walking about the room at night with my babies, and my lungs eventually became badly affected. I had a dry, hacking cough, which was very distressing aud irritating, and my mouth and throat were very sore.” “ What symptoms of liver complaint did . you have ? ” “I became very deaf, although my hear ing was previously very sharp. People hac to repeat things in a loud voice two or threi times before I could understand what thej were saying. My tongue was thickly coated with a yellowish moisture, and my mouth had a bitter taste in it all day long I felt lazy and languid, without enougi ‘ go ’ in me to straighten up the house. It ii a bad state to get into to have work staring you in the face and yet unable to do it That is precisely how I was situated. Th< only thing that I could do was to lie down and not bother about anything. I felt toe weak to think even, although I wastroublec very frequently with strange imaginations about something dreadful going to happen. ’ “ Wero you suffering any pain ? ” “ I had splitting sick headaches fron morning till night, and sharp, twitching pains behind the shoulders never ceasec tormenting mo. These pains got worse am worse every day, an addition to then appearing below my ribs. I could not lii on my side in consequence of the extremi agony I was in, and many a night I hav< been obliged to sit up in bed for hours. Bu this did not matter very much in one way fts I could not sleep in any position. Tin whole of the night I used to lie awake although I was thoroughly fatigued and ex hausted when I went to bed. In tin mornings my eyes were dim and Bwollen especially after severe vomiting fits, whiel generally came on as soon as I put mi weary, aching limbs on the move. Som. mornings I was able to take a little break fast, usually consisted of a smal piece of toast and a cup of tea; but tin awful feeling of heaviness and oppression ii my chest after such a moderate repast cai hardly be described. My chest felt as if i were wughed down by a box of lead afte eat mg, and my stomach was besieged witl ternMy exasperating pains, -Then a littl whde after I felt myself getting full of wind spasms of which spmetimes made me shriek On numerous occasions I distinctly heart my heart hammering ouro v acrainst rrfv riha