SEVERE SUNSTROKE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2358, 4 May 1899, Page 62

SEVERE SUNSTROKE.

A SICK CRICKETER CURED. . ( i Mr M. P". Ryan, of the Melbourne Chilled " Butter Company, Flinders lane west, Melbourne, is a well-known Victorian cricketer, ] and he invariably handles the willow to no ( mean advantage. Whilst playing at Wilcannia, N.S.W., in the eighties in a three days' match, with the thermometer at 116

degrees in the shade, he received an attack ! of sunstroke or heat apoplexy. Mr Ryan, when seen by our reporter, said : " The attack was a severe one ; so I severe I was totally incapacitated from ' following my clerical duties. All the usual remedies were used, and after a time appeared to have some effect. But from that date annually I was subject to the most agonising pains in the head. Such an . effect did they have that during .warm ', weather mental work was out of the ques- , bion. I was subject to sharp shooting pains in my head and a feeling as if a bolt : tad been driven into my brain, dulling its action. The least effort of the brain induced stupor. 'Three years ago I was at Brighton, and I gentleman, remarking my complete menial exhaustion, recommended Dj Williams' Pink Pills. I had visited doctors out of number, tried all sorts of treatment, electric baths, massage, also hydropathy, but as soon as the heat commenced so did my head troubles. I consumed seven boxes of Dr Willian-.s' Pink Pills in all ; but neither j th« great heat of last summer nor the one : preceding it affected me in the least. You i can publish this. lam well known in Vicioria and N.S.W." (Sgd.) Matthew P. Ryan.