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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4396, 29 June 1901, Page 2

Splitting SicH Headaches. MORNING TILL NIGHT. Another Record Recovery.

Ths Casa of Mrs. C. TIMMINCS. (BT A WELLINGTON REPORTER.) A representative was received with much 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 ray 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 are continually going about, unless we fortify ourselves by occasionally taking a good medicine, which moat people experience great difficulty in finding. It is to assist others in doing so that 1 so freely give an outline of my case to bo 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 can faithfully say. My liver was in a dreadful state of disorder. So bad, indeed, that I folt 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 bod 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 and irritating,, and my mouth and throat were very sore.” “ What symptoms of liver complaint did you have ? ” “ I became very deaf, although my hearing was previously very sharp. People had to repeat things in a loud voice two or three times before I could understand whet they 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 enough 1 go ’ in me to straighten up the house. It is a bad state to get into to have work staring you ip the face and yet unable to do it. That is precisely how I was situated. The only thing that I could do was to lie down, and not bother about anything. I felt too weak to think even, although I was troubled very frequently with strange imaginations about something dreadful going to happen.” “ Were you suffering any pain ? ” “ I had splitting sick headache* from morning till night, and sharp,' twitching pains behind the shoulders never ceased tormenting me. These pains got worse and worse (every day, an addition to them appearing below my ribs. I could not lio on my side in consequence of the extreme agony I was in, and many a night I have been obliged to sit up in bed for hours. But this did not matter very much In one way, as I could not sloep in any position. The whole of the night I used to lie awake, although I was thoroughly fatigued and exhausted when I went to bed. .In the mornings my eyes were dim and swollen, especially after severe vomiting fits, which generally came on as soon as I put my weary, aching limbs on the move. Some mornings I was able to take a little breakfast, which usually consisted of a small piece, of toast and a cup of tea; but the awful feeling of heaviness and oppression in my chest after nuch a moderate repast can hardly be described. My chest felt as if it were,weighed down by a box of lead after eating, and my stomach was besieged with terribly exasperating pains. Then a little while after I felt myself getting full of wind, spasms of which sometimes made me shriek. On numerous occasions I distinctly heard my heart hammering away against my ribs.

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