PROSTRATED WITH WEAKNESS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 361, 9 April 1903, Page 3

PROSTRATED WITH WEAKNESS.

Clements Tonic Restores Strength. The Casa of Mrs. J. HAN&

(By a Special Reporter^ 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 bronchiiis, a complaint which materially affected her well-being in after life, fhe 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 vere entertained that my disease would develop into chronic complaint. I was ayeiiastingly throwing up large quantities of a thin watery fluid, and I. was quite exhausted by a continual cough and the excessive expectoration of phlegm. All my strength entirely melted away, my bones being left with nothing but a yeilow-coloured skin to' cover them. On retiring to bed I usually slept for two or three hours, but never longer, iormy 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 breathe. 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 blue and my pulse so weak that it could hardly be noticed beating. The distress was so extreme that I often thought 1 was going to die from suffocation." " I can quite understand you being greatly after such suffering," remarked the reporter. " Yes. I was prostrated with weakness. The nicest of dainties could not tempt me to eat, as a rulei, though I ; partook of a little invalid's food ocee.lon iist ilst my uld vas ide ful ner leu aittmy »ue got ted ng, eai tc hs, ere •ess hj a ich md apto ed, Ith ble her yased. hat my mv jdime ,&st the :ieght oon ing old ;ryred aic not, and gth am:—B re~ The ! of lish ed!r. and the and and :ount and hj Ir. irily. [bis same i Act tuled