A Family Heirloc LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, 27 August 1903, Page 3

A Family Heirloc LIVER AND KIDNEY DISEASE.

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LIVER SYMPTOMS WELL DESCRIBED.

Ms Cam of Mr. B. HODNET.

able ♦*> rise. Such a haggard face you | never saw. I had do colour whatsoever, and the black marks under mv eyes and the deep lines in my foiohead bespoke of the mental anxieties and physical sufferings I endured, ik« symptoms of indigesl ion were now more aggravating than ever. The skin over my body was a dirty yellow colour, and j I got as nervous and fretful us a < !,. d. If the butcher or baker announced ilieir arrival in their usual manner bv caii.ug out, I got quite a. 'start,\ arid commenced trembling all over, whilst the conversation of people who happened to call only jarred on my nerve* and made me irritable. Nothing was p ei.saiit or agreeable, and I suffered from a general feeling of discontent which must have had a prejudicial effect upon those with whom I was brought in contact. But my friends pitied me, and indeed, I was deserving of sympathy, for my life was' a living torment. If I had a short doze during the day I was made restless and uncomfortable by frightfully hideous dreams which made me loathe the :dea of falling asleep. My emaciated frame was thoroughly bent up with pain. 1 could not move without suffering acutely, and if death had hailed me I would have welcomed it with joy." " What kind of attention did you receive?" " Considering that I was so bad that I had to go to the hospital you may : '-mow that I wanted the very best at- ■ teiitiori obtainable, and I must say that ! ( got it, but the medical men did not understand my case—-at lc;isj. they could not relieve me, When I left the hospital I was fairly done up and disheartened, but I was soon under the care of another doctor, who said my internal organs were very much diseased. After being under his treatment for a long time without any good results I discontinued his services and engaged another doctor, whose medicines turned out to bo equally unsuccessful- Thus J wont on from one medical man to an> other till I must have keen treated by six doctors altogether, and the wholl lot of them did not do me a penny worth of good. I then thought my dit ease was incurable, and I was so worked up with a feeling of melancholy that I dare not even hope." " Did you try any medicines besides j the doctors'?" ■ " Yes; till I was sick and tired of trying. Ido not think there is a medicine placed upon the market which I have not given a fair chance. They were all the same—not worth the cork they were stopped up with. There is an exception to every rule, however, and Clements Tonic proves the truth of this ;:ying. Yes; a friend told me that Cements Tonic had cured him, and asked me to give it a trial. I bought a bottle of Clements Tonic and it did me ?o much good I was encouraged to keep on with it. I felt the awful stomach and chest pains getting easier and easier till they faded away, and I again looked forward to meal time with a hungry interest. By degrees my back was relieved from f.ie agonies which had so jftcu doubled me up, and my head be came clear. Indigestion troub'es wars stopped and sleep was restored by Clements Tonic, which ultimately cured m\ liver and kidney diseases, and made nip sound." " Will you allow me to report you' case?" "You may publish these staten •'* ,u any way." STATUTORY DECLARATION'. !, Richard Hod*et, of No. i \Va ! l>M- Avium Dnnedin, in ilir colony of New 7 ■•' i ■' Solemnly and sincerely nVrJaic i' • I ' fully ip.id the annp'P'l Honitm-ni; re -..-, ihti'j folios ami consecutively nninlnir-d iriv <>i • three, and iliat it contains anH is n turn am' 'w account of mv s llii"Hsanil mi.- '•■• (">• mv > ■- " sue also contains my fnil prni'lss'-'n m n !> <•: ■>!••• wav my staiempnts- which i !••" «■. •Inn'u ilir-nf rr-fli'V'" <<i : y : - ' »• i ■•• .■ rii-inn ilc.i fa ■-•■■ ■' ■ o -■ ■■■ i ; . •'• ' "■ •■ - ! • he Hup. Mil I. rt- :■>■ I t <• w\ -■:. '* ~l •x-'Ji-PA-.i.i's'j"' -, . y .' nt ! './ii_ oo._i;;i. \

" thans w no doubt.* said Mr. Biebaard Bodaot, of No. 1 Walker Avenue, Dunedin, "that my many years of suffering 'Pom rheumatism completer/ undermined my health in every respect. Ritciiuiatism is a legaoy handed down from my forefathers, all of whom were victims to that complaint. Being hereditary, there is every probability that all the members of. our family will be affeoted by ; that painful disease. But what I have to speak about mostly just now is in reference to an attack of kidney and liver disease which I did not get rid of to about eight years." •] " A long term of sickness, Mr. Hoduet. What were your symptoms like P" mquired the reporter. "I oommenced to suffer dreadfully with headaches, which had such a blinding effect upon my eyes that I could hardly see to read or write. Each meal •vas characterised by the most repulsive pains in the stomach, when I always experienced a terrible griping sen«ation in that quarter, as if the food | had turned bad and had no means oi i escape. Then, quite suddenly, a nasty bile-used to rise to my mouth, and the our food used to be vomited up. When , >he stomach was empty I had long spell >f belching afterwards, and then the paiji would ease a little. These sympoms were sometimes varied by violent tttack of windy spasms, which made my heart take to violent palpitations, when f was nearly scared out of my life with ho way that organ to thump i gainst my ribs.•Between my shoulders [ had a sensation as though a dozen leedlea were being thrust into me, vhilst in my loins was an ever-existing gony which I cannot adequately decribe. Whenever I drew a deep breath he agonies in the region of my heart vere something never to be forgotten, nd my breathing was always frighthtlly bad, owing to a stuffy feeling in ny chest, which felt as tight as a drum. Che dainty food that was served up to ine was usually difficult to swallow, on xccount. of an extreme soreness of my throat. Added to these maladies, I had an occasional dry, hacking cough, which oinetimes alternated with the expecoration. of phlegm, I felt miserable and ired from daylight till dark, without he least inclination for work, pleasure, >r anything else. As my kidneys be•ame more diseased with the advance of ime, so also did my daily tortures inrease. In the lower portion of my back • had acute pains which made me groan •ioud. It was a matter of impossibilty .or metoetooptoputon my boots, and f I had dropped a fifty-pound uote in ho street I could not have succeeded ii picking it up. If I walked a little 'listance I was pulled up abruptly by the >harp pains in my heart, which"! firmly believed was diseased; but before I had travelled vety far I was perfectly exhausted."

"Judging from what you have told oie you must have been very weak." "I should rather think I was weak. I became so debilitated that some days I could scarcely stand whilst I put on niv clothes, and aa for doing a day's work —well, I eosld not have done it for all the taa in China. I experienced a con-fiiic-meat of the bowels for two or thref days at a stretch, and after that I was seized with attacks of diarrhoea; the urine was scanty and high-coloured. The smell of my breath was most offensive, and, combined with the bitter taste in my month, made me feel continually inclined to he sick. I could neves understand how it was that I felt so languid and sleepy all day, and yet I could not get to sleep at night. M.v minE was ill at ease as year after year patted 1 by without any sign of a change for Vtk« better, and it was at night mostly that I used to ruminate over the gloomy future that was apparently in store for me.S>The unhealthy activity of my brain was a striking feature of !h<weakening effects of my comp'aints. [ used to lie thinking first ;ihni f one thing and then another al! night along, «nd when I had to get up I wp.« hardlv