When the Liver Goes Wrong the Whole System Suffers.

Otago Witness, Issue 2403, 22 March 1900, Page 66

When the Liver Goes Wrong the Whole System Suffers.

{From the "JvslrpJian Christian World,"

July Ist, 1533.) ' (BY OUR OWN ItKFOP.TKR. )

" Out cf pure gratitude for my deliverance from a most serious and painful complication of complaints, 1 am willing to give you the whole afternoon if you wish it !"' answered Mrs. Cole, of 2 Purves-Etreet, Forest Lodge, Sydney, to our reporter on hi 3 requesting an inten icw as to that lady"s ca?e. "The whole trouble," said Mrs. Cole, in answer to further questions on the subject, "arose, I firmly i-elieve, from the poison that got into my system through a deranged liver. Soon after that organ got out of order and started to work 'irregularly my appetite began to get very fickle and changeable. Without cause or reason I turned against delicacies which were formerly favourite dishes of mine, and sometimes Isat down to meal after meal and rose again without being able to so much as swallow a single mouthful. In the morning I invariably had a most unpleasant acrid taste in the mouth, together with a dirty coated tongue, and, as time wore on (for I must tell you I was seriously ill for over a year), my liver trouble got worse and worse. When I woke in the mcining I feit giddy, stupid, and dazed, and often made vain efforts to get out of bed, being forced to lie back again on the pillow to collect enough strength before finally succeeding. -At nights I was unable to sleep, and I should lie wide awake restlessly turning about and counting the weary hours as they wore away, till the dawn began to break, when I usually fell i»ito a sort of stupor, — it was not a proper sleep, — and I woke from that half dazed as I have just described. I became very, very thin, not like I am now (Mrs. Cole has now a. particularly heo-ltliy appearance, with a clear eye and that clear freshness of complexion which is never seen with a disordered liver), and, 3s for my complexion • — well, sallow was no £ the word for it. It was as yellow as if I was suffering from yellow jaundice." y ; "All This must have had a very depressing effect upon your spirits ?" ,• "It did indeed, as anyone might expect," answered Mrs. Cole, " though you have not heard the half of my bad symptoms yet. I was moat low spirited and dull and crotchety as well. I couldn't bear the noise,' and the smallest trifles *Fould have a most distressing effect upon my nerves. Nothing could interest me. I didn't care even to hear the news of the day, and the trifling cares of doMestic life drove me into a state of nervous irritation. I was always languid and weary. I went to l>ed every night as fatigued as though I had done some excessive labour, when as a Walter of fact I had done nothing ; but I fcould not sleep, and I rose in the morning aeeling more tired, weary, and,lifeless than S .did the night before. I suffered from "terrible heads ches, and I vomited almost fiaily. More than once, after I had managed •to. walk a short distance to my mother's house, I have had to fling myself upon the 'grass, one. of these sick fits attacking me and •-causing me to vomit terribly, -and being so [giddy that I positively couldn't stand. Then .palpitation of the heart often came on suddenly, and I know of nothing more distressing and terrifying whilst the violence of the fit was on than that." '"You suffered from other complications ?" '" Yes, I regret to say, after a time painful neuralgia attacked me. The attacks «ame on at short and regular intervals. I (should first feel a peculiar tickling sensaition in my face and jaws and then a sudden rand awful whirling sensation over all my :iface and head, just like the mad rushing of :a big .red hot wheel in my head. Ido not think there are words in the dictionary •capable of expressing the exquisite agony I -suffered whilst theEe periodical attacks lasted, h Many doctors attended me, but unfortunately for me they were not able to •either give me relief or effect a cure, although I faithfully followed the treatment they recommended and took the medicines they prescribed. Then my rheumatism "—" —

" W hat ! Mrs. Cole, you surprise me, did you suffer from rheumatism also ?"

"I did, very acutely, too. The pain in my legs was terrible. My feet swelled up to" a prodigious size, and of course it was impossible to put on a shoe, and worse than all my knees swelled. I was quite unable to walk. The pain in my ankles, my kneee. and other joints was unremitting, and gave me no rest neither by night nor by day." "In what way was Clements Tonic brought to your m.tice ?" '' Through a little book that was placed in my hand uhen things seemed at their worst. I supposed I had rr ached the worst. No medicines that I took did me any good, nor were the many doctors who attended me able to alleviate my sufferings. Well, as I said, someone gave me a book that contained an account of a case that in many important particulars was precisely similar to mine, x naturally read it with engrossing interest, and, seeing that Clements Tonic had effected a complete cure for that patient, and being satisfied as to the absolute truth of every word of the account of the patient's illness and cure by Clements Tonic, I commenced to use that remedy myself. Very glad I am, too, that I did." " In what wtvy did it act in your case ?"

"The first thing I noticed, f the very first action of the remedy, was* to make me sleep, and about that there could be no mistake. 2\?.tural sleep came upon me after taking the remedy as regularly as the night follows the day, and from the time I started Clements Tonic my sleep became refreshing and dreamless. After long weary months of nearly sleepless nights, only snatches of sleep being obtained at odd times when the pain troubled me least, I can hardly express to j'ou the priceless boon this sleep was to me. The neuralgic pains in my jaws and head gradually gave way to Clements Tonic, and at the same time the swelling in my knees and ankies became more reduced every day till it Avent away altogether, and I was once more enabled to get my shoes on and to put my feet to the ground _, without pain. I was able to eat again without feeling at all sick afterwards, as I used to, and I have had no sick fits since. Clements Tonic also rid me of that low, depressed feeling, and when I now awoke in the morning I felt bright and cheerful and once more lib to undertake my domestic duties, no longer with a feeling of wt&rhVess, but with positive pleasure. One by one all the complications which beset me- were driven out of my system by Clements Tonic. My headaches were a thing of the past and I was troubled no more with palpitation of the heart. My friends all noticed the change for the be.tter in my health and spirits. Clements, Tonic, in addition to removing the poison that collects in the blood in consequence of a diseased state of the liver, has a marvellous effect in toning up the system, and my natural healthy colour speedily returned and I commenced to get stout. It was not very long before I was completely cured and as well, if not better, than I was before my illness."

"You will consent for the proprietor ofClements Tonic to publish all this '!"

"Yes. You can make what use you like of what I've told you, and I shall only be too happy to answer any enqiuries, if any should be made, in regard to my recovery."

STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Saeah Colb, of 2 Purves-street, Forest Lodge, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales do solemnly and sincerely declare that I have carefully read the annexed document, consisting of eleven folios and consecutively numbered from one to eleven, and that it contains a true and faithful account of my illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also contains my full pc! mission to publifch the same in any way ; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing' the same to be trie, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths r v nd Affirmations talren and made in the -various Departments of the Government of New South Walas, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits." Declared at Sydney, this 13th day of June, 1898, before me. JOHN STRACHAN, J.P.