A SEDENTARY LIFE

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 71

A SEDENTARY LIFE

{By a Dunedin Reporter.)

Brings on a Sluggish Liver.

ANOTHER LOCfIL FROOF.

The Case of Mr. "g. HAMILTON.

A story well worth hearing was fold to a reporter by Mr. George Qamirton, of 18 Maclaggan-strect, Dunedin. Thosa who have not already heard it will find considerable interest in reading tha following statements : - - * " For the greater part of my life;," said Mr. Hamilton, " I have been used to plenty of hard work, and I think there is nothing like it for keeping the body in' a healthy condition. When. I n commenced to get up in years a bib I' thought it time to take life a little easier, so I started shop-keeping. It is really marvellous -how the change affected me. The ease and comparative lazi-i ness of my altered career did not altogether agree with me, for I got terribly, stout and my liver went sluggish. My tormer habitual activity was succeeded by a fee. ing as if everything was a burden. I could not go about my duties as I would like to, being hindered b^ a sense of lassitude and fatigue which "precluded all efforts to work from being; satisfactorily carried out. It took a? long time to make up my mind what I would like to eat, and after I sat down; with my food in front of me I could very, rarely eat it. At other times my appetite was a little better, but it did nob make any difference how small a quaii^ tity of food I ate thero was always a kseling of painful discomfort in tha stomach afterwards.' Frightfully sevfe|a pains between my shoulders also came on, and an awful ache- settled itt ifly^ Foreh&ad. My headaches were of tea ~ss' intense that I could hardly see otit, of my eyes, besides experiencing a throbbing in my temples which resulted hv ; fits of giddiness. Everything becanle' blurred and indistinct^ besides apge^^, ng to rapidly revolve. Severe paiHs, appeared in my loins and at th© end of my ribs, sometimes being so acute as to make me gasp for breath." € . " Did ■ the* excess of flesh you had afcj tamed still remain?" queried th'o importer. "Not a bit of it. I was, company tively speaking, reduced to a shadow*; As I could not sleep very well it was only to be expected that my nervous system should suffer, and ib did, with: ai vengeance. My nerves were thorpusliij; run down and out of tone. Occasioni£il|; t got a little sleep but I never felt re?freshed after it. A sure indication Ofmy excessive weakness lay in. the faioj} 1 hat I was always in a state of profuS^ perspiration. I could sit down in $> L-hair and still the sweat would rim out of me. The morning was the timo I generally felt worse, for my limbs ached intensely, and I had a bitter taste ift ray mouth. My cheat felt as though, it were pressed down by a heavy weighj, and the trouble I had in drawing my, breath sometimes cr-n scarcely he im.agined.l- Whether I slept for a, fowi hours at night or not I was in just tho same miserable, drowsy condition all . day, a symptom which I can only attribute to the irregularity of my bowolS. A great amount of agony was caused b^ " the generation of wind in my stomach, which arose to tha heart and made ib ; throb. My mind was over-strained wiUi the thoughts concerning my Bufferings, which were becoming more unbearabl ) every day." * " Did you have any medical adviser in attendance?" "I am pleased to say I did not. I have to thank my own judgment for taking such action which dispenses with* the services of doctors. Reading about several people whose health had been restored by Clements Tonic induced ma to give that medicine a tria), a few bottles bringing me round splendidly. I couid !.oun eat without any painful consequences, and I slept well at night. The fearful pains in my shoulders and loins were gone, and the wind never again formed in my stomach. My bsac--achea wore rerao\ed, elasticity and vitality returning to my iimbs — ail through the splendid properties of Clements Tonic. I took a new interest in life, and felt bright and cheerful. Clements Tonic quickly put me in the pink of condition, and in order that everyone may know these facts you may pub* lish them any way you like."