THE AVERAGE CITIZEN THIRSTS FOR KNOWLEDGE

Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 85

THE AVERAGE CITIZEN THIRSTS FOR KNOWLEDGE

HERE ARE THERAPEUTIC FACTS.

The Cat* ••r Mrs. L. A. PARKERSON. (BY A SPECIAL REPORTER.) ' It is not easy for the average citizen to follow the intricacies of public finances, and with those who do study the figures tho memory does not always retain tho details ; but with such a subject as that •poken of below by Mrs. Louisa Augusta Parkerson, of 117 Athol Place, Dunedin, thtra is an individual interest at stake which makes it worth while to remember each utterance, the first of which was : j " My health was in a fearfully debilitated ■tate three yean ago, and it is somethiug that I have to be extremely thankful for that I am her* and in such good condition to-day. Those who saw me then littlo thought that such a remarkable change was possible, for I was thin and haggard and as white a* a ghost." " What had happened," asked the reporter, " to bring you like tkat ? " " My internal organs were all wrong, and had been for a great length of lime, as it i was quite an impestibility for me to digest any food, even if I exercised the utmost discretion in selecting the little I ate, and I assure you it was bub a very small amount* I of nourishment that I took at a time, for my appetite was so dreadfully poor. Gradually I got so weak that it was as much as I could do to walk, and when I did I be- j came so dazed and giddy that I quickly sat down again for fear of falling. It was the "mo-fc unhappy experience ens could have to be so foeble and depressed and not to be able to get any proper rest. I used to go to bed and litton to the clock chiming every quarter of an hour until the daylight sto'e into my room, and as it was quit* useless trying to get any sleep then I would get up feeling really more dead than alive. And when I thought of the long day of suffering and heartache that was again in front or me I felt like one afflicted with utter loss of hope. I was always iateusely languid and tired of everything, as if there were nothing in the. world that could absorb my attention for a moment or give me the least particle of pleasure in life. In every way I was completely out of torts, and my nerves were in a terribly bad state. Sometimes I could not speak to people owing to my extreme nervousness, and often I have tat and felt myself shaking from head to foot, and have ■ot been a-le to do anything for the excessive trembling of my nerves." •' You re&Uy bad a bad time, Mrs. Parkerson." # " It is quite beyond my powers of speech to clearly describe my sufferings, for a nervous terror was continually pervading my mind and making me feel that some tiling dreadful was going to happen at every tiv "• If I chanoed to snatch a few hours' sleep I h&d all sort* of dreams, that seemed to destroy all the refreshing influences of sluuiber, as I felt no better for it, and as for do ng my housework — well, that was not to ue thought of, for I was helpless in the matter. The least thing that went wrong vexed me, and I was up in a state of excitement at the ■lightest cause.* That in itself will tell you how upside-down everything was with me, as I am naturally of an easy-going and philosophical temperament ; but to be daily suffering from acute headaches is enough to make anybody cross. A strange dimness used ta overshadow my eyes, too, and I could see black spots in front of me ; bat my heart was one of my greatest troubles. It was always palpitating and fluttering as though it was diseased. « Upon my word, I 4o not think there was any part of my bedy th&tftWas not out of order, for I suffered with oppression in the chest and very often With flatulence, while the pains between my shoulders were so severe that I could ■oarcely stand them. Orer my loins were Itches that were almost unbearable, and I kad a dry, hacking cough tbat caused mo mo end e< miaex* "

" Were you under medical treatment! 1 * " You may be sure I was, and the doctor* said my liver and kidneys were diseased) and that my system was* completely rut; down. They were very attentive to m% case, but beyond a little ease now and their I did not benefit by their medicines, and it looked as though 1 would have to suffer t« the end of my days. Such was the hopeleia. conviction that cast a gloom over my mind,' which mad* my existence all the mora wretched ; yet in spite of my desperation t could not help thinking, a* I read about Clements Tonic one day, that there may still be hope for me." " Did you give that medicine a trial ? " " I thank God that I did, for without it Ido not kuow what I would have done. Ik is quite certain that I would have furedt very badly, because none of my other medicines could do what Clements Tonic did, and I honestly tell you that my salvation is due to that wonderful remedy. People who had seen me so terribly emaciated and drawn scarcely knew me when I had been taking Clements Tonic a few weeks. They said I look«d twice the woman I had been, and that they had never seen such an extraordinary improvement in all their lives'. But it was myself who had good reason to be surprised, for I felt just v well as people said I looked. Never before in my life had I experienced such earnest feelings of thankfulness as I did whilst Clements Tonic waa doing its work, as each week I felt that I was approaching nearer and nearer to the health that I had so long lost a> Unlike the medicines I had taken before, Clements Tonic did not ease me a little one day and) then do no goad the next, but it kept on relieving my pains from start to finish; Those between my shoulders and across my loins vanished by degrees, and the head* aches which had tort mod me were soon out of existence. A lightness of heart that I h».d ntver thought of again acquiring cams, to me, as I noticed the grand effect Clements Touic had upon my nervous «yslero, for the groundless fears that used to worry me died way, aud I could sleep in peace the 1 whole night through. Another thing thaf pleased me was to find that I was now diV gesting my food, and it was indeed a- great blessing to be able to enjoy my meals and have no thought of after consequences, such as flatulence and the like, and a great load was lifted from my mind when my heart ceased to give me anxious moments, foe Clements Tonic actually had a regulating and stimulating effect upon that organ 1 . The stronger I grew the less troublesome my cough became, and finally it left ma altogether ; and as each of my bodily paina had been removed, and I was feeling as gay as a lark, I only required to take a littls more Clements Tonic to make my recovery perfect, and then I was completely cured." " Such a record ought to be widslj known." "Of course it should, an>4 you may pub« lish my story in any way you thiuk best." STATUTORY DECLARATION. T, Louisa Augusta Paeiukson, of 117 Athol riaot, Dunedin, in the- Colony of Nay Zealand, do solemnly and sinctrely declar* that I have carefully tsjsjsl th« anntxed document, ooniiitiof ol tore* folio*, ana consecutively numbered fMSn an* to thre«, ma that it contains and is a tru* and faithful acoounlof my illneii and cur* by Clement* Tonic, and also contains my full permission to pnblish in any waje my *tat*m*nu— which I five voluntarily, without receivinr any payment; and I tnak* thi* «ol*mn tfsclarauon conscientiously believing in* t»m* tt p» true, and by virtue of the provision! of an Aot of tn« General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled ''To* Jiutict) of Peace Act, 1882." si .xi >^ Declared si Dunejfe this twelfth day ot ll trot, «Cs thouitnd uiaa ha&if td an* torts, ksfore at, WM. D. QAHLOK, J,!*