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Otago Witness, Issue 2520, 2 July 1902, Page 81

DYSPEPSIA, '- PALPITATION, CURE. The Case of Mrs. T. L. SIMMONS. {By a Dunedin Reporter), Calling one day at No. 135 Cumber* land-street, Dunedin, our reporter saw Mrs. Teresa Loral Simmons, who^ in answer to a question, said : " I have gone through a remarkable experience of suffering in my days, and if I tell you how it was adl promptly [ bi aught to a close, I am sure the in-< formation will be of great value to other 3. I used to be one of those frail creatures who are fox ever ailing. Thi memories of my younger days are con; nected with periodical attacks of sick"« ness, each illness assisting to crush the vitality out of my system till I becanre so weak and wretched at last that I had to lie up. For months befoi : e this happened I felt languid^and disinclined to wark. The -lightest portions of housework had an-enervating effect upon me, even to dust the furniture making mo feel as tired as if I had been doing a haxd day's washing. It was too much, trouble for me to eat, because I hadr very little de"sire for food, which, when I did take any, made me feel frightfully uncomfortable in the stomach, where it remained in an undigestedj^ hard lump. I used to swell out terribly with wind, besides suffering muoh pain from spasms which set my heart all of a nutter. Palpitation used to come on regularly after eating, but more especially at night, when lying in bed. and I was afraid to more for fear o£ making it worse, or,, more terrifying still, cease beating for ever. My chest felt stuffed up, thus making it hard foe me to breathe, said there was a terrible pain in my right side and in the uppei part of my back. J ' • ■ - " Did you get any better rfter fest^ ing?" <£>. " Not a. bit. I got wors©, for the absence of plenty of^resh-air and want of exercise did away with my appetitn altogether. However nice the food Tnighi be, tho sight of it turned me siok. As the fumes of cooking reached my, nostrils I almost heaved my heart up.* My complexion was also very bad. Yort would have thought I had some Oriea-. tal blood in my reins if you" had seen my face then, and my eye* were awfulla .dead-looking 1 . - When. I was -just abou^ as week as a woman could be, I waa ■fciHieted ■ witn -another complaint. .Ms 'norrea went- wrong. I used to lie ana ;ehake like ctpe^jrjthvSt. Vitus 1 dancej ~-&ndif;l happenetiftorlie left a'one in thai house ffelt very timid and nervous. 11l a knock came I was too frightened to go to the door. My life 'vrM one perpGtu&B round of agonies and attjrieties. I via* horribly depressed in spirit*, &s if nd^ thing could possibly- cheer me. A peculiar singing noise ran through ears, producing a very distressing effect/, and my mouth, well, the bitter taste^ in it waa something dreadful. Thd howis were neary poking through m% skin, I was so thin. C Following tho^ wreck of my nervouß system came violent attacks of neuralgia. The pain'p which started in the side of my faca and shot up to tho roof of my head sent me nearly mad. These tortures lasted two or three days without ceasing. 1 was unable to go mys&lf, so my. husband brought in a doctor, who said I had no constitution at all. 'Your health is completely broken down,' her said, and so it was, for I was in bed three months a helpless invalid." : " Was the doctor im constant attend^ ance?" * • - "No less than three doctors attended me, each prescribing different medicines,' all of whioh were impotent and worthless. I was thus without a shred o£ hopo to cling to, and I dread to thinfe* of what would have happened if I ha<3 not been recommended by a chemist to take, Clements Tonic, which, quickly^ cured my neuralgia and ga-ve me an appetite. Sweet, undisturbed sleep, came, and gave me tho rest I neededj' nervousness left me, and strength i - etumod. Flesh grow over my frame, a hoaltby colour appeared in my cheeks,' and not a trace of indigestion or debility remained. I was saved by "Cionipnts Tonif, so you may pub;i-h these statements any way you think best." STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Te»?sa I.obal KiM'.tovs. of 135 Cumoerland "street, Dunedin, in the Colony of New Zealand, do solemn I > and sincerely declare that I have cE-efully lead the annexed document con£i«tinfi ot two folios and consecutively numbered froui one to two, and that It contains and is a trua and faithful account of my illness and cure by Clementg Tonin, and also contains my full permission to publish in any way my statements, which I 'give- voluntarily, without receivinßany payment — and I dike this solemn declaration conscientiously believing (bd same to be true, and by virtue ot the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly cf New Zealaai, intituled " The Justices ol Peace Act, laSa." Df-clared at Dunedin this twenty-eiehlh day of December, one thousand nine hundred, before me, J. M. BROWN, J.P.

—1c may seem strange bn. 1 it is a fact that the handwriting of father and son i? often very nu-ci a'uk^, although the father has not tau°h« t-he J=on. Handwriting, acorcUng to Darwin and other authentic, is hereditary. ju-t ij much as disposition and other characteristic s. The theory i= that certain lig;rn.e'its arr> t.herited, and co we arf led to shape ouhitters in the same way. >Soi!.ptnne<- thert i 5 a skip over a generation, a^ ivith maladisw. and marYs, and the writing of arandfathp ■ and grand?on is almost iV'rnt.isl, wheiea 1 . that of the fa-ih&r is aiute discreet