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Otago Witness, Issue 2603, 3 February 1904, Page 69

AN INSTRUCTIVE NARRATIVE FOR INEXPERIENCED PEOPLE.

The Case of Mr. J. McLEAN. (by a disinterested reporter.) There must be many untold tales of suffering which are pitiful in the extreme — tales into which the actual pathos of Jielpleasneas enter 3 unmistakably, and which demand our sympathy no less because those who might tell them remain silent than because they may be uncharitable and indifferent to the welfare of those around them. Such unthoughtfulness cannot be charged against Mr. John McLean, of 51 Bay View Terrace, Maitland-street, Dunedin, as will be seen by those who read the following :—: — " I have been informed," said a reporter, " that you were once a sufferer from liver troub'es, and that you finally effected a recovery after you had been ailing a good length of time. Will you tell me how it wu.b done ? " "I presume you propose to enlighten athers through placing my experiences before them, and, if that is the idea, I will gladly give you all the information possible, is it should certainly be the means of helping anybody who is struggling against the fates like I was. It was when I was living tn the suburb of Carrington, near Newcastle, Now South Wales, that I dropped across the best medicine I ever encountered in my life, And that was Clements Tonic ; and I may as well tell you that I have had some jxperience with medicines, for my complaint aung on to me for ten years. Occasionally t got a lifide relief, but nothing could shift it out of my system. Not even doctors' medicines nor anything else that I purjhased." " What kiDd of symptoms did you have ? " "All sort?," replied '"Mr. McLean, "and lone of them were very mild ones either, ifou see I was connected with mining in those -days, my work consisting of weighing ;he coal as it reached the top of the pit, and [ daresay the coal dust had a detrimental sffect upon my digestive organs. At any •ate, they were quite upside down, as i 6 ft'ere. During my ten years' suffering you nay depend that I tried more doctors than >ne, but they could not cure me. I blamo ihe long continuance of my indigestion .roubles for resulting in my being subsequently afflicted -with asthma, and it makes ne think what a lifetime of misery could lave been avoided had I known of Clements Conic earlier. My system was terribly veakened, and I used to get palpitation of .he heart very badly. I could actually see ny coat moving up and dowa with the ieavy pulsation of my heart. There is no loubt that my complaint attacked me very avagely, for my appetite was completely vorn out, and there was therefore no pros>ect of my strength ever coming back so ong as I could not eat my food." " Could you always retain what you had ■wallowed ? '' " That was the worst of it. Even the mall amount of nourishment I managed to sonsume did not stay down, and the retchug of it back again used to thoroughly ixhaust me. Before that took place I .lways experienced a terrible fulness in the tomach, and I can explain it to you quite veil. It was the food that fermented and illcd me with wind, and the painful spasm? had to endure were something awful. Chen my chest used to get horribly comn'essed, so tight, in fact, that I could hardly [raw a Lreath, and to make life still more lismal I had attacks of bilious headaches iow ami again. A matter ot deep concern ras my sight, for I could not read with any ♦leasure owing to its being go defective, and here was a heavy, swollen feeling in my ye 3, as if I could hardly open them. My isual condition \va3 — all the. day droway .nd little or no sleep at nights. It was a vretched state cf affairs to go to bed knowng tli.it I would not get ruiy pioper test, .nd to lie thiu\ma a! o v all soits of .nhappy possibilities v. ..-> enough to ni s.ke •uyouQ morbid and dctKwaed. As my