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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4407, 13 July 1901, Page 2

Health Better than Wealth TH!M AS A SKELETON. Results of a Sluggish Liver. The Case of W!r. <l. WALLACE. (by a special reporter.) Wealth does not always bring happiness. From all parts of the world many instances have been brought to light bearing on the above theory. “ Better the honest rasher of toil than the gilded homily of luxury,” is a motto, it has been said, very much open to criticism, but to judge by the number of rich men who are unhappy from various causes there appears to be considerable truth in the quotation. Take, for example, the majority of men who follow the [dough from sunrise till sundown. They are cheerful and contented in the enjoyment of their physical strength, without which all the wealth and luxury in existence would be useless to them. Mr. John Wallace, of Express Avenue, Wellington, told onr . - porter ho had done a groat amount of hu:v_ work in his young days, and that he >vas never in better spirits than when capable of performing laborious work. “ I did not know what a care or a trouble was so long as I had my health,” pursued Mr. Wallace, “ but when my constitution broke down I was awfully miserable.” “ How were you originally affected ? ” “ For a long time I felt seedy and unwell, as if the vitality was slowly leaking from my system. I got up from bed feeling just as tired ns I was when I turned in the previous night, and half the day was over before I felt properly awake. Indeed, X was never otherwise than null and drowsy, with a disinclination to stir myself more than was altogether necessary. Many a little thing I saw wantecLdoing about the house or garden, but I had not the requisite energy to fix it up and.save further damage. Severe headaches were my daily torment. The healthy appetite I used to have now left me. T could not eat as much in a week as I used to take in one meal, the consequence being that I became as thin as a skeleton. My face looked drawn and pinched, with my cheeks sunk right in, and my eyes were deep in their sockets. The light food that Was prepared for mo proved too much for my weak and feeble system to digest. The food decayed in my stomach instead of digesting, with the result that sour gases rumbled about my inside, causing intense paroxysms of agony, which left me in a state of helpless prostration. The lower part of my stomach was excessively tender, even the pressure of my clothes” causing a very painful sensation. Under my shoulders and in the loins my complaint showed very trouble-, some symptoms, resembling the pricking of needles and pins. One of nly greatest ailments was the irregular condition of my bowels. For day? I suffered from costiveness, with scanty ami cloddy urine ; afterwards I was greatly weakened by severe attacks of diarrhoea. Try what means I Would, I could never get over this difficulty, which was a new and unpleasant experience for mo. The generation of Wind also caused my body to distend, and my heart palpitated so violently that I often thought my time had come,” ‘‘That is one of the symptoms of a diseased liver.” “ Yes, so I believe ; but I thought at the time Iliad heart disease. 1 rfeally believed I WOuld go right off when those attacks Were otij and one of my doctors told me my heart Was very Weak. I often had ati idea that a cancer, or something of the Sort, Was growing in my ifisidS, in consequence Of feeling something solid and painful in my side. Nearly every morning 1 wat sick. 1 believe it was the vile taste In my mouth on arising from bed which made me so; bilt, at all events, I remember quite cledrly how 1 used to retch and vomit for a long time after getting up. My breath was very bad, too, and my tongue was covered With A dirty, foul coating.” “ How did you sleep at bight ? ” “Don’t ask me. So many nights passed Without sleep that I thought 1 Was a Victim to insomnia for life, end you know a man cannot live long and keep his senses without sleep. To lay awake* night after nlgh't, with the body aching and full of torture, is' the greatest affliction af all, and I have had my share of it. I used to long for the morning to come to relieve my mind from the horrible ruminations which beset my brain during the long and tedious hoars of night; but when the daylight did appear in my room I was no better, for my inability to get up and busy myself made my helpless condition all the more apparent. Another thing I must not forget to mention is this : As I lay tossing and turning in my extreme agony, I used to sweat profusely, and sensations of excessive heat were alternated by cold chill.” “ Do you think you contracted a severe cold ! ” “ I am not quite certain ; but I had indications that my kidney's were in a very bad state. The pains in my back were beyond all human endurance, and they came on so suddenly at times that they made me groan aloud. I had a continual thirst, and although 1 drank large quantirit s of barley water and so forth, I could not appease tue craving I had for more. My nerves Were quite knocked out of time by my disu.'so. I could not hold my hand still for ten seconds if you had given me a thousand pounds for doing so. The slightest sound made me nervous and irritable. In fact, I wan never in a good humour. Whatever Was done to please me failed. I was despondent and melancholy to a degree that. I did not think attainable. A recovery-- in my case seemed impossible, and I really thought my disease would prove fatal.” “ How' long did you have a doctor attending you ? ” “I was under first one doctor, then another, for close on twelve years, and I thought it was a fair thing to leave off hoping against hope after so much useless medical treatment. I gave up the doctors in despair, and started trying to cm c nr/sel with medicines I saw advertised. Jl-eh patent physic was given a good trial*but J may just as well have thrown my money’ in the river for all the benefit I derived. J'ui sure I tried every patent medicine in the country, but they were no earthly good to me. Yet I am now seventy years of nge, and I am ns well and hearty as ever X was in mV life.” “ kVlmt an extraordinary change must have come over you. How did it happen ? ” “ Through the agency of a friend w.iu told me Clements Tonic would make n ncy miin of me. I bought some Clements Tonic u.td porsoVel'id for a while without any apparent alteration, but in less than a week I felt a little better. This encouraged mo to keep going with Clements Tonic, and soon, the agonising pains in my stomach and back died away. From that I improved daily,' my appetite returning, and my head was free from aches. Vomiting and all indigestion symptoms wore cured by Clemcilts Touio; my kidney troubles also disappear, ing. I slept soundly’, and felt vigorous and light-hearted on awaking. I was made heavy and strong by’ Clements Tonic, which" saved my life. X have never been ill since Clements Tonic cured me many years ago.” “Your statement* will appear in ■print, with your permission t” “ You may publish my testimony in any way y r ou please.” . STATUTORY DECLARATION* I. .Tons WALtxCs, of Express Avenue, Wihllnefrn’ iu the Colony of KevV Zealand, do Bolcmnty aid sincerely declare that I ■ Iwye, carefully lend the annexed. document, consirtintr of three folios itml cofiseeiUively numbered from one to throe, and find it Contains arid is a true inn faithful account of rny illness At?d cure by Clements Toiiit, and itleo contain* iay fill! permission to publish it; any way niy statements—which I give Voluntarily, without receiving any payment; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by vfirtde of ilu? provisions Of an Act of the General Assemble of New Zealand, intituled "The justice’s ni Peace Act. 163 i Declared at Wellington this 1 /rti dfcy Of one ihouaiud nine hundred, before me EGBERT ilcKh;N2slE, J.Pi

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