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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4748, 28 April 1900, Page 4

AN/EMfA & DEB|L!TY. A Richmond Lady Relates her Remarkable Recovery.

.. The Case of Mrs. Sarah Dover, (From the Windsor « Australian.") BY OUB SPECIAL BEPOBTKR. A representative of this , paper in the fcourse of- hia-dnty took A walk in the S^S" of Fr » nois Street, .Richmond, X*.S. W»j add knocked at tne door of Mrs. I^Jm /* W ** opened b J a Tery Peasant' Vital apt»k to Mm Dover ?'* queried tn» newipaper man. *' You do," the answered, with a smile. *'Then will you permit me to make a frcjport of your caae V' " With pleasure," and after aaking our ttporter to come in and take a seat she immediately dived into a relation of tho facts of her illness "I can assign no reason for it," she commtnced, " but I gradually B«gan to Fall Away. Day by day I grew thinner and paler. I was told I was suffering from anaemia, or a want of red blood corpuscles in my veins. A doctor attended me, and prescribed for me. I took his medicine for a long time. His physic, however, was not able to relieve me,.and I. had to give it up. As I got worse the most frightful headaches began to.affectjne... The pain wan like an iron band tightening round my head. Indigestion came on. The fact was, I was too Weak to digest ray food. The digestive fluids in my stomach were too. deficient to break it up and.dissolve it,;and all I ate lay like a heavy suhstanoewitbin me. Instead of digesting it would ferment, causing wind, swelling, and jacute pain. When my meals were placed btfore>me I could only, eat a few mouthfulsj and .then felt quite sick. That bitter taste was always in my mouth, my eyes became deep and sunken, dark lings encircled them, and I began to wear the haggard appearance of „ E**r«mt3: Suffering. My lips were a blue, my cheeks pallid and sunken, and I looked years older than Ido now." „-- *' Did you r sjon"er Irom any thing else f " asked the reporter. Cl- " I did, lam sorry to My.-. You heard the half of my troubles yet ? Sleep. I could not. All night I lay wide awake,' tortured with Frightful N«rvou» Headaches and yet not abla to get a moment's rest. Night after night' 1 was abandoned by sleep. In the day-time I was listless and indifferent to all that was going on around ©••^.%«Js?ling of lassitude was so heavy upon me that it took me some minutes to make up.,a»y.niind-to even, rise from a seat. I wvcoo tired to read,' and that I consider f A Very Bad Sign." *' You couldn't go on like this for long," ■aid the newspaper man ; "yon couldn't live without sleep, you know." " No. I had to get sleep at any price. I was forced to have v Recourse to Morphia to obtain air hour or two's respite, from my, intense headaches. Of course I "needed an increased dose every tune that I wished to go $0. sleep. rJßut my, general health continued to get worse, and 1 was now troubled with the reaction of the sleeping draughts which.l.had^been^tfking.., This. added to roy.w.eakDeqis. At last it was^only with the greatest difficulty that I could walk, or rattier hobble, across the room. My nerves" began to give Way. I was very timorous, and fearful. The least thing would startle me. I ,.wjMi always turningmy head rounrt expecting to see something terrible behind me, and often enough I should be. seized wit* a fancy quite realistic,' and which I rmUd sot dnrf »w»y, that « band wm just