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rifying effect on my heart, which used to palpitate in such a frightful manner that it bore every symptom of being diseased. The small of my back was affected with acute, darting pains, which, made all the bones in that neighbourhood so sore and tender that I could not lie upon them. I cannot express the despondency of mind which settled upon me.. Suffice it to say that I be-came-BO miserable and fretful that it was aa much as I could do to refrain front weeping over my wretched condition of health." " Were your sufferings any easier at night, Mr. Stenman?" "Not in the least. That is where the trouble came in, because my agonies kept me restless and fidgety nearly the whole time. When I should have been getting ,up I generally dozed off for a while. ■ Then I dreamt all sorts oi foolish, dreams, and I was glad when I awoks again, although I was always in a state of perspiration, and full of nervous - terrors. Fits of dry retching occurred* every morning, thus rendering me weak and jaded for the rest, of the. day .#l got awfully lank and fleshless, probably* through an inability to keep down any food. As I have been used to a seafaring; life ever since I left school, you can easily understand that I am not naturally of a nervous temperament, but my! awful wasting disease resulted in a dreadful nervousness taking hold of my system, my limbs sometimes trembling so much that they were almost powerless. Another thing that I disliked very, much was that my mind was in constant dread of some evil calamity hap*"" pening to me. For two solid months J was not able to do a stroke of work. I was just like a ghost, my face being a£ white aa death, and my cheeks were sunk right in.9 All that remained of ma waa skua and bone, and it was quite a reasonable assumption to make that before very long I would be in my graye 1 , rke symptoms of a diseased heart "became more pronounced every day. Some* times the palpitation was so violent that I feared the end was near. Many, a time I thought I was tottering on ,tha brink of my last resting place,^ and that I would succumb to my ailmen*ta if they, lasted another day. My lips were whita and bloodless, and my eyes showed hardly any signs of life. To tell the truth, the symptoms of my complaint were eumost endless, yet I could not get one of them relieved." "Besides the^docfc tors you have mentioned, did you make any other searches for relief ?" " Well, considering that I consulted a dootor in every town I visited, I consider that I searched far and wido without mooting with any success, and during that time I drank nearly enough medicine to sink a ship. Nevertheless, it was all .to no purpose. It was a toucfii and go with me, and I had almost abandoned hope of ever even getting a littla relief when I was persuaded to purchase a bottle of Clements Tonic, and after using it my health showed signs of improvement, so I got several bottles more. *-By the time they were finished my years of suffering were abolished". The morning retchings ceased, and my food digested, thus stopping the windy spasms and preventing the heart palpitations. . The pains in my head ami body were obliterated, likewise nervousness, and strength was .completely regained. I am grateful to Clements Tonic for curing all my ailments, especially after so many doctors had failed, and what I have said may be published in any way you like." STATUTORY DECLARATION, I, Jacob Stehuan, of Primrose Villa, Gore-street, The Blofl, In the Colony of New Zealand, do solemnly ami sincerely declare that I have carefully read the annexed doenment, consisting of three folios, and consecntively numbered from ons (o three, and tbat it contains and Is a true and faithfnl account of my illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also contains my full permission to publish in any way tny statements — which I give voluntarily, without receiving any payment ; "and I make thissolemn declaration conscientiously believlne the same lo be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled " The Justices of Peace Act, if 82." declared at The Bluff, this seventh day of January, one tbousand ulcc hundred and one, before me, SAML. NICHOL, J.P. J