TWENTY YEARS KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLE

Otago Witness, Issue 2499, 5 February 1902, Page 71

TWENTY YEARS KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLE

SICKENING GNAWING ACHES.

ENERGY, FLESH & STRENGTH RESTORED

BY CLEMENTS TONIC.

The Case of Mr. G. HARDIN.

{By a Dunedin Reporter.}

People who become nauseated with their trades and profession* and leave them for the purpose of launching out into a new sphere of action find their paths bestrewn with m^ay obstacles, the existence of which they little dreamed of. Although probably competent to fill positions which they apply For, they usually learn that preference is given, to those possessing previous experience. An applicant with five years' insight into a business commands an advantage over one with twelve months' knowledge, and so on ; therefore, when we find a gentleman with twenty years' experience on "any subject, he is always worth listening to. Our reporter held this view when he called on Mr. George Hardin, of No. 33 I'orth-street, Dunedin, who staled that he had suffered for twenty years fromTxiduey and hver diseases, and that many complications had arisen therefrom. q,< "An account *of your troubles ought to be very interesting, Mr. Hardin. Will you please to relate them ?" " By all means, as I am sure 1 am in possession of facts which will prove beneficial to others. It is just as much my duty to put folks on the right track' in regard to disease as it would be to direct aright a stranger who was on the wrong road to the destination at which he wished to arrive. To begin with, I may state that I am an engineer by profession, and I am of opinion that through working for so many years in extremely hat atmospheres accounts for my kidneys becoming diseased. My back commenced to worry me with sickening, gnawing aches, and before long I fell into a very low condition. I was afflicted with a distressing sensation which made me feel as' though I would rather }4e down than stand up, walk, or anything else. A scalding pain was experienced when urinating, the water being clouded with a peculiar sediment. I used to suffer dreadfully with my head. It was not an ordinary headache which continually attacked me, but a throbbing, thumping pain that threatened to drive me mad. As a matter of fact, I do not believe thors was one portion of my body freo from some kind of agony. My faculties seemed to be deadened by the excessive torture after my meals, which \took very irregularly. £ have seen myself go foe days and want nothing to eat, then, quite suddenly, I would sit down and eat like a gormandizer. After these heavy repasts my life was not worth living, for the terrible pains- which csme behind my neck, close to the shoulders, were more than I could bear in' silence. A suffocating feeling very often nearly made me faint. This arose from the dead, weighty fulness in my chest, which felt a« though compressed within a ryce. Then I again went for days without food owing to the merciless tortures I was put to." t v Under these circumstances you nrast have been, considerably reduced in weight!" " Certainly I was. Why, I wa3 almost as light as a feather. I did not weigh myself, as I was not able to walk to the scales. You have no idea how weak I got, and considering I could not keep anything on my stomach I was not surprised. I used to avoid everything that bad the least indication of being indigestible, yet it was all the same to my poor weak stomach. Up it came again, . almost before it had got down, and ther. the cruel pains in my head were intensified. I was in such a terrible state that I was nearly off my head. Alt day long I was sleepy and dull, without any de>sire to try and shake off the feeling of despondency under which. I laboured. I seemed to give myself up for the remainder of my days to an existence entirely destitute of happiness, the secret being that I had not enough a vitality or willppwer tp continue to live in hope. Worse than all, t was unable to sleep at night. For days and nights I have seen myself go without getting one hour's

when lying in bed that I have been cony?, pletely doubled up with the paralysing! pains in my back. There was one period in. the history of my sufferings when I? used to go off to steep regularly everW third night, but for all the good it dici me I would have been better awake-it These slumbers were embraced simpl^ through overpowering fatigue, sum while they lasted I dreamt the most horrible dreams. I did not feel the least* bit rested or refreshed on awaking, bu« was always bathed in a cold, clammy perspiration. An extraordinary giddiness used to suddenly seize me, wliea J my hoad seemed to spin round like- »' top and everything became indistinct' before my eyes, which were swollen and | weak. The rest of my ailments were added to- by a total collapse of my nervous system, which made me very sensitive and irritable whenever the least noise was made. I used to feel mjr hands and limbs quivering and trembling like a frightened child's. My tern l per was very excitable and repellent, the most -trifling detail -of imaginary^ neglect being magnified into a serious;' wrong. I was living- in Queens town? when my illness started, but soon afteft I 'came down to Dunedin, where I metii an old friend who said : ' Hello ! Whafci is the matter with you? You look as' if you were dying!" ©' j " You probably felt like it, to judge,' from your sufferings!" remarked fchoj reporter. -j "Indeed I did. Many a time E thought I would never get better. E was wonderfully changed in. appearances being without the least colour in myl face, besides having my cheeks sunfcT right in. My palate had a most dis,-, agreeable flavour, even a glass of water* having a bitter taste, and my tongue was coated white with an odorous moisture. As I grew older the more acute were my sufferings. My doctor said he did not know whether my diseases were getting any worse or whether I felt the effects more severely through, my system getting weaker with the advance of age. He used to say I could not expect to be as well at fifty as I was at twenty ;|. but now I feel as well as ever I aid in." my life." " I am glad to hear it, Mr. Hardiu. How was your health restored ?" "By taking a course of Clements Tonic, even after my doctor's treaty mont was given up in despair. Besides^ I had taken various makes of physic*;; without the slightest relief, and I had long- since concluded there was no hope, for me. A- book was handed to me onev; morning, and on reading some of «tho pages I was struck with astonishment^ at the number of people who testified? to the virtues of Clements Tonic. E thought if other folks could be cure* by Clements Tonic there was still a;' chance for me. You may rest assuretfi I soon got a couple of bottles, and mxi health soon began to mend. The painjs in my back diminished, and the pains which had nearly driven me frantic sabsided* I refer, of course, to the terrible; agony in my head. I ate and slept; sptendidiy, also regaining energy, flesba !ind strength. My nerves were invigor— ' afced, and soon mv kidi:»-y and liver di*< eases were completely cured, by Clements Tonic." ; " Shall I report this in the papers?""! " My statements are perfectly true, s< you may publish them in any way yois like." _ ' i t STATUTORY DECLARATION. • ' I, George Habdim, of $3 Fortn-«treet r Dos* din, la the Colony at New Zealand, do solemn* ty and sincerely declare that I have carefully read the annexed dacument^ocnslstint of three folios and consecutively numbered from one to three, and that H contains and Is a true and faithful account ol my lllnesi and cure by Cleaients Tonic, and ais* contains my full permission to publish in any way my statements— which 1 give voluntarily, without receiving any payment ; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to b« true, and by virtue ol the provisions of an Act of tb« General Assembly oi New Zealand, intituled " Tbt Justices af Peace Act, 1882." Declared at Donedio, this twenty*a!otfe d*T ol December* one. thousand imiulnuL bftfottt qmw-.m

»nd had the run of the town. He walked into M'Garry's one night, and, without a word, smashed a big mirror. "That's not right, Jawnny," said M'Garry. "You oughtn't to do that to a friend." But " Jawnny " had his boots on, and paid no attention to the remonstrances of M'Garry. He left the place without paying for t&e mirroi. Several nights later, after 12 o'clock, M'Garry was going home on Monroe street, then a lonesome thoroughfare. He came up to a dark alleyway and there met Dowling, who stopped him. : - "M'Garry," said he, "I'm going to kill •you." . M'Garry gasped and made out as if he did not understand.

"M'Garry," persisted Dowling, pulling a large pistol out of his pocket, "^au have only five minutes to live."

"Would you have tho blood of an innocent man on your hands?" "M'Garry, prepare to die." M'Garry suffered awful tortures. He thought Dowhng was in earnest, and he pleaded long and well for his life. Finally Dowling let him go, and that was the end of trouble between them.