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SicK Headaches. '' ' ' "• # ’ ' MORNING TILL NIGHT. Another Record Recovery.

17,8 Case of Kro. C. TIMMIKQ3. ' (by a wylunotow repoutkr.) A representative was received with much courtesy on visiting . the home of ■ Mr*. Catherine Timmings, of Charlotte Avenue, Wellington ' i /‘I wish to obtain from you the whole history of the matter concerning yourself, which is engaging so. nuuii public attention, ” said the reporter, “You'refer,' ot course, to my five long years of suffering,' If !• abstained from giving ..the. public the benefit of my experience I would bo afraid of such an ungrateful action recoiling upon me in some sarloni way- You are welcome to every detail in connection with my illness.- lam sure thatmy wretched state of debility was brought about, in fhe first place,' by : the greetof rearing a large family j’my experience being., thal mothers of a lot of children are panicularly SusCsptiVi* to being laid up very easily. You see, we have Rotthe vitality in our systtms to fight agidnst the many maladies that are epnUniially going about, unless we fortify, ourselves by occasionally taking a good i.in dicine, whim moat people experience great difficulty in finding. It.'is to assist glims in doing -so - that 1 so freely give an outline of my case to bo placed at the disposal of' the 'community: at large.” Uid you suffer from any definite disease, Mrs. Timinings 7 ” ,“ Ib was sufficiently definite to nearly, kill me, I can faithfully say. My liver was in a dreadful state of disorder. So bad, in- ' deed, that I felt sure it was almost eaten away by disease. I was in snob an alarmingly delicate'slate of health that I could . scarcely move from one room to another with outmatching a severe .colii, and when my ..children wbro very young, I often had to get up from my warm lied to at/fend to/thi.m. Many a violent cold have I . contracted - through walking about the room at night with my baln'es, and my lungs eventually became badly affected. 'I had a dry, hacking cough, which was very distressing and irritating, and pay mouth and,.throat were very sore.” “ What symptoms of liver complaint did you have 7 ” ■ . “I became deaf, although my hearing was previously very, sharp. : People had to i'oprat tilings iri a loud voice two or three - times beforel.could understand what they’ Were saying, i 'My tongue was thickly ooated with a yellowish moisture, and my:: mouth had a bitter taste In it all day long. 1 felt lazy and languid, without enough ■ 1 go' in me to straighten up the iiuu.a. It is a bad state to got Into to lino waik staling you in.the face and yot‘ .unable 1 to do it. That is precisely how ,1 was situated, Tho only thing that I could do was te lie down; and not bvthor, about anything, I felt 100 weak to think oven; although lures troubled very frequently with strange Imaginations about something dreadful going to finn—m, ” “ Were.you suffering any pam 7 ” ."I had splitting .sick headaches from morning "till night, anil aharp, twitching, pains behind the. shoiddenf never ceaum ' tormenting me. These palnsgot worse nini ■ worse every day, an addition to them. appearing below my ribs., I could not Ho, on my side in cotieetjuqiioe of the extreme agony! wnein, and many a night I have been obliged to sit up In bed fop hours, Blit this did not matter very mneh in one way; as I could not sleep iu auy position, The whole pf the night I used to lie awake, although' I was thoroughly fa tlgued and exhausted whan I went tr bed, In the mornings my eyes were dim and swollen, especially after severe vomiting fits, widah generally name pq as seo«- as I put my weary, aching limbs on the,move, Borne mornings I was able to take a HtUebfeaU fast, which usually e W |lst e iJ. e f a small piece M .tsw amf % crip pf tea j but the awful feeling e{.heavfntes im) epurpialou fu my eh**l aftdr sack a modepa* rap hardly be gieeiiM, >fy rib sit fell as If ft ▼ere-w ijb*d down by a tea of lead after eatlur, and m »W»aek STM Wsieged with while tfUr J fait mnVf ggitia* fcflef wind, »asMief giaJl* gie shrink, On AnmeMus aeeUOaas j autfaiitjy heard my haart hammering awpy'agauut giy ilka.

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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4473, 28 September 1901, Page 3

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Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4473, 28 September 1901, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4473, 28 September 1901, Page 3

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