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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9878, 25 February 1901, Page 4

The Hot Weather and a Malarial Climate generate FEVER AND AGUE. Clements Tonic RESCUES & RECUPERATES A MAN REDUCED TO SKIN AND BONE.

(bt on sraciAi woktik.) Having received information of tk* singular success of Clements Tonic In raring Mr. K.S. Gibb of intermittent:fever, ana general debility arising out of that com* plaint, our special reporter called on tho late sufferer at his residence, No. 21 Francis* street, Sydney. Mr. Gibb was in, ani said he would be pleased to furnish full Particulars of His Illness and.the manner in which Clements Tonio expelled it from his system. " A very obstinate and difficult complaint to deal with is this fever," said Mr. Gibb, in answer to a question put to him' by the reperter; M'net so much the illness itself, but its after consequences an to bo dreaded." ' " Will you bo g—i eno*gh : to toll no where; ana hew yea first centractod'this disease'?!?;,, '•■ .•'••: V' „:.■■.:■■' ' "Certainly I will. It was in Queensland, 800 odd miles np country from Brisbane, and in- a malarial district. Almost any country in that latitude is malarial, if there is plenty of water abort... I was a store an 4 book-keeper en a large sugar plantation in the Northern Districtef Queensland, which is somewhat low. and marshy. Unfortunately, being new' to' tho district, and not taking proper precautions against tho night ™F» • - I Contracted Fever and Ague. J was.forced to go to bed immediately. It was no use. fighting against it. Everynow and again I got a shivering fit, which mads nto shake tike'an Old Man with the Palsy. . Then 'would corns a state of high fever, when my temperature would go up atquitean alarming late. The local doctor Jived some distance off, but drove over to see me_ and ordered me the usual medicines, including •> Inrge qxiantily of quinine.. He.also gars Ttiy special directions as to MJ diet and general treatments" " How did you get onf... "Well, as you see, the fare? didn't kill me, but it left me in r• . A .Very, Bad State. I got over the first heat of the disease, but the^sccoud stage of-my illness was wono bhahtlie vfirst, and I was, a , Victim to Qenerai Detalllty v I was so thin „andu w eak thaV it- was quite as much as I could do to move my limbs. J had taken so much quinine that I positively couldn't take any more—it made me sick and gave me an intense headache and drnmniing in the eais. Everyone up tlu re had a different remedy to recommend ■metbut?none were of any use.: 1 tried hot : baths with plenty of eucalyptus leaves soaked in the water. I tried gentian, cardamoms, and niix rotnica; andiperfiaps some of these things might have strung^me together for a little time, but they were of : SNo tasting Benefit. Wheu the fever had left me; I .thought invself convalescent, and expected to Hay« had an appetite. But just the contrary was the case"; I" had to force niyself to eat, and just lie on the bed staring tit the ceiling with no hope or. desire for anything, and without sufficient strength to , « Brush a Fly Away from my face." . ' " What did the medical man say ?" ,;,, ; "He said mine was a very long and painful :ase, ami as soon as J. .was better*, I ought to j£o away to a hilly district for a change of air One day an old bushman whooame to see me, >ffe«-ed to tell me otaomething that vntild give me *n appetite ; he said he had

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