DYSPEPSIA, PALPITATION, CURE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 380, 20 August 1903, Page 3

DYSPEPSIA, PALPITATION, CURE.

The Case of Mrs. T. L. SIMMONS

(By a Dunedin Reporter).

Calling one day a t No. 135 Cumber-land-street, Dunedin, our reporter saw Mrs. Teresa Loral Simmons, who, in answer to a question, said: "I have gone through a remarkable experience of 'suffering in my days, and if I tell you how it was all promptly brought to a close, I am sure the information 'will be of great value to others. I used to be one of those frail creatures who are for ever ailing* JTlie memories of my younger days areconnected with periodical attacks of sickness, each illness assisting to crush the vitality out of my system till I became so weak and wretched at last that I had to lie up. For months before this happened I felt languid and disinclined to work. The lightest portions of housework had an enervating effect jrpon me, even to dust the furniture hiakihgnie feel as tired as if I had been doing a hard day's washing. It was too much trouble for me to eat,. JL had very little desire for food,' which?, when I did take any, made me feel frightfully uncomfortable v in the stomach, where it remained in "an undfgesfted, hard lump. [I used "to./swell out terribly with wind,. beaidjes i! suH*erihg"mucli pain from spasms which set my heart all of a flutter. Palpitation u&ed '"to come on regularlyafter eating, but more especially at night, when lying in,bed { and I was afraid to move for fear of making it worse,: or, more terrifying still, cease beating Tor ever. J My"'chest, felt stuffed up; thug making it hard for me to breathe; and there wag at terrible, pain" in my right side and in the upper part" of my back." . / " Did you get any "better after resting?'- ■-.. ' ' . _.;.. ,J... ...;/ ; " Not a bit. I got worse, for tho absence of plenty of fresh air and want of exorcise did away with my appetite altogether. However nice the food might be, the sight of it turned me sick. As the fumes of cooking reached my nostrils'l almost heaved my heart up. My complexion was also very bad. Yon *'*ukl have thought I had some Oriental blood k> my veins if you had seen my face then, and my eyes were awfully 'lead-looking. When I was just about as weak as a woman could he, I was afflicted with another complaint. My ! nerves went, wrong. I used to .lie and shake like one with St. Vitus', dance, and if I happened to be left alone in the house I felt very timid and nervous. If a knock came I was too. fright ened/to go to thd door. My life was one. perpetual round of agonies and anxieties. I was horribly depressed in spirits, as if nothing could possibly cheer me. A peculiar singing noise ran through my ear.-:, producing a very distressing effect, and my mouth, well, the bitter taste : n it was something dreadful. The boii'os were neary poking through my skin, I was so thin. Following the wreck of my nervous system came violent attacks of neuralgia. The pains which started in the side of my face and shot up to the roof of my head sent me nearly mad. These tortures lasted two or three days without ceasing. ~1 was unable to go myself, so'm"v husband brought in a doctor, who said I had no constitution at all. 'Your health is completely broken down,' he said, and so it was, for I was in bed three months ahelpless invalid." " Was the doctor in constant attendance?" : ' "No less than three doctors attended me, each prescribing different medicines, all of which were impotent and' worthless. I was thus without a shred of hope to cling to, and I dread to think of what would have happened if I had not been recommended by a chemist to take Clements Tonic, which quickly cured my neuralgia and gave me an appetite. Sweet, undisturbed sleep came, and gave me the rest I needed, nervousness left me, and strength returned. Flesh grew over my frame, a healthy colour appeared in my cheeks, and not a trace of indigestion or debility remained. I was saved by Clements Tonic, so you may publish these statements any way you think best**