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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7203, 14 September 1901, Page 7

Liver and Kidney Disease WORN TO A SKELETON.

Tfee Case of Mr. A. N. MORRISON. (By a LyWeton Reporter). A pathetic incident in the history of the Upper Kyeburn, which resulted in the loss of five young lives, has been lu,pidly described in verse, under the title '" Lost in the S.nov?,"' by Mr. Andrew Napier Morrison,, of Berpy-street. Sydenham, vrhp is also the author,- of. other poems of much merit. Our re-^ porter recently interviewed tfee aboverße^itipned gentleman, who fare 9 graphic description concerning % personal i&attex, which is submitted to public notice^ think there must be a, nustake aomewhere, Mr. Morrison,^ expJaJined tho scribe. " Surely you are not the tpl^n who has suffered so greatly as I have been Jed to ' believe ?" "Yes, I am, although I ackftovledige I don't look like it," was the answeiv ' v gut a few years ago I was gqfc, hajf tb^e man lam now. My career has. be^in very varied, you must know,. Being fond of roving from place to place in" my younger days, I was always on the move. I tUye trftv^le^ all v?e* Kew Zealand, and .nave been engaged in aU" kinds of business pursuits, some of \vhics inyplye^ exp^psure tp the wea-. ther/ "' '^ny a 'day.r hivf been out when it has been raining tma blowing a miserable cold wind, and have been too far from civilisation to get a change of dry clothes, besides getting irregula^ meals, with no variety in "my 'diet/ The strongest of constitutions' will go under in time, if a^ person continues with tWs mode of living^ and nw^.sjaEfcem prpjfce down and colfopsecf en\urely/, . | was. frequently out of touch with a tA\fa where I cauld get 6ome^Hng to keep me in regular trim, with the result that I. became a victim to liver and kidney disease, besides having a. hea^yy coyl upon me for a long time." " How did your complaints, manifest themselves?" "I suffered, pains of ao aoute, dart? ing oha^Qte?). wiich always increased in severity when 1 went to bed, particularly if I lay pn mj right side. The symptoms became more aggravated as taae wore on, Tb,e nain>x^ended to papier parts of my body, even my shoulder blades being affected by sharp twitchings of agony, t became so weak that I was incapacitated from going through my daily vocation, I nay-e. always had $ stnong aYersipn. to medk cine of any king, and. fa^ 1 ft lo^s tinie I determined to' allow nature- tq taose her course ; but I found that this doctrine was a fallacy, as ray condition was "getting too serious to trifle any longer with my complaint. Occasionally I took SQBja. medicine whiefe wajß ?u»* posed to be strengthening, and which > some-times partially relieved me ; but . the ease only lasted an hour or aa, and then the pains came back with re? doubled violence. My dfeadi ajlnipnt obtained a firmer hold upon me every day. ~I was drqwsv and heavy, and felt fatigued as if I had beeß .work-; ing hard. My bowels were constipated and excessively relaxed iv turn, and there -was a beastly taste in my meuth. j It was not often I -felt hungiy, but if I did take a few mouthfuls of food 1 suffered for ii afterwards," "In what way, Mr. Morrison?" . -'Horrible pains, in the stomach seized me, the food seeming to turn into lead, and refusing to digest. There it lay till the victuals turned sour, when and? ther torment appeared in the form, of windy spasms, wnicli fairly clpubled me up. A littje relief was obtained when I vomited the food up again, which was a matter of frequent pecurrence ; but, of .course, a man caii'fc live very long without; spmp npurishment, and my in*ability tp keep the fppd down soon w ore . me to. a gkele-toB. My eyos were swollen and almost sightless; a result, I believe, of the racking, blinding headaches which never gave me ajry £-eace, I became sp listless and dreamy that I e.puld not follow a person's converse tion without losing the gist of the subjeofe, besides getting very hard pf bearding. Anybody who came to have a ohat with me must have found rue a most uninteresting individual to talk to, as I tppk very little heed of what transpired. My. thoughts were cpntinually