PROSTRATED WITH WEAKNESS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4899, 12 October 1901, Page 4

PROSTRATED WITH WEAKNESS.

Clements Tonic Restores Strength.

The Caie,of Mrs. J. HAND.

(Bf a Sptcial Heporttr,)

No. 13 Leith-street, Dunedin, is the house wherein Mrs. Jane Hand resides. To our reporter Mrs. Hand stated that she had been a great sufferer from bronchitis, a complaint which materially affected her well-being in after life. The statements given below are transcribed as they were uttered : " My case was considered a very bad one by my doctor," said Mrs. Hand, "so much so, indeed, that grave fears were entertained that my disease would develop into chronic complaint. I was everlastingly throwing up large quantities of a thin watery fluid, and I was /quite exhausted ,by a continual cough and excessive expectoration of phlegm. All my strength entirely melted away, my bones being left with nothing but a yellow-coloured skin to cover them. On retiring to bed I usually slept for two or three hours, but never longer, for my sleep was then broken by short but violent fits of coughing, the exertion of which worked me into an uncomfortable state of perspiration. A pause then ensued, lasting, perhaps, for an hour, and then the cough suddenly commenced again, often accompanied by the rejection* of considerable quantities > of phlegm. My throat, felt as if it were completely blocked up, and it was only with the (greatest difficulty that I managed to Ibrealjie. During these attacks there was a feeling of compression of my chest which was so severe that I had to lay hold of any steady object near at hand so that it might assist me in drawing in my breath. My lips were l>iuo and xxny p-tilse so -wesJs t£iai> i*& could h.a.ri\.y be noticed, beating. The distress was so extreme that I often thought I was gomg to die from suffocation."

"I can quite understand you being ,<jrf at y di biiitate^ after such suffering," remarked the reporter. " Yes. I was prostrated with weakness. ' The nicest of dainties could not t«mpt me to eat, as a. rule* though I partook of a little invalid's food occ*siotwvl'y, which always brought on frightful pains in my stomach. Just above. the hip was another place where mucli tenderness , was located ( whilst Hie dreadful twitchings between my aliouf^ers were so painful that I could not lie on my back. The daylight was too btrong for my eyes, as it made them a. most sightless with an awful burning oche. In the warm summer lunnilis my sufferings were at their *roi •}<••. I then felt more tired and languid than ever. Every morning my mouth was in a bad state, with a tongue mrered with a bitter-tasting fur. I got mo »*cityb!e and nervous that I started treiattlfng. ,at anything and everything, fl.fter.Brarris remaining in a state of fear for aj.lpng time. Thus I continued to $jL>.te__a.\va.y for about twelve months, And as ' the .doctor's medicines were <ytii«» inadequate to rheck- the progress n't my disease, I became afflicted with a f«*?'iUg of depression and sorrpw, which mate everything in life look dark and cl *nf ortless. I did not care what happentd, even feeling indifferent as to .whether I got better or not. Indeed, I did not- expect to regain 1 my health am jny complaints seemed invincible against all physics. I could neither eat. «l«ep, nor work, and my head was in a whirf with constant aches."

"No wonder ' you ' were so dejected. .But about your recovery. How did' that .ttranspire ?"

-'Ah,.' That is the bright side of my story. A number of friends recomnwnd'ed m© to try medicine after medicine, each of which made me itick at the stomach, till at last I came across an advertisement in the •paper speaking of the virtues of CleTmtntti Tonic. As a last resource I bought *' bottle 9f Clements Tonic, and I soon had convincing proof that I was going l jte bo _!s»re<! from death. My old w«r© quickly remoT-e^, everyifctng I could wish for being restored tlffloujrh the medium of Clements Tonic. In (Uro or three weeks there was not ,an adhe or pain left. I slept well and v nt7 appetite was good. My strength } a*nd energy returned, and .my com.* j>'aints alfyielded to Clements Tonic — a "medicine which I have frequently re©ommended to other sufferers. The public should hear about the merits of Cksnents Tonic, so you may publish «■ -mny -way my statements."