Generally Debilitated.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 10 February 1905, Page 6

Generally Debilitated.

The Case of Mrs. E. WILLIS. (by a local keportto.) A weather-vane, "blown by all the winds," is not more varinble than the experiences of Mrs. Elizabeth Willis, of Randolph-street, Newton, Auckland, who said, when lately interviewed by our reporter :— " I had a very bad time after a confinement some two years since, being left so weak that I coul-,1 just crawl about,, and that's all. As for doing any sort of housework, it was quite impossible, as I could not do a feiv mimUes' dusting without getting so exhausted that for twe or three hours afterwards I would be quite useless, and sometimes I v.'as so fairly done \ip that I too.-; fainting Qts every few minutes. I remember one day having some very parti cular buaiues3 in Grey-street re attend to, and it was compulsory that I should go myself, ill as I was Well, on the way I fainted two or three times, and I thought I would never reach heme again, because I eonld hardly Isold myself up for the terrible weakness that bad overtaken mc. On another occasion I was at a wedding and going into the registry office I fainted three timen, §0 you cau see that my plight was desperate." "You were undoubtedly very far from be : ni; well," remarked the reporter. "I rather think I was," Mrs. Willis replied, "and everybody who saw my pallid complexion and white lips, and my eyes sunk in thfir socket*, thought I was going nto a decline. I was worried with the same belief, for every day saw iae getting thinner and more miserable than ever, ana there was that sinking sensation always within mc which showed that mv health «a3 completely nnderrrtined. It was not only ihe suffering I h.-.d to endure, but the expense I waa uiao put to, for I hid to pet Homebody in to do mv work, as I rras quite nnahle to do the least thing. I thought that if I rcteu ac much as possible it would o a long way towards getting well ; but after taking thin-s easy for several weeks [ could see no improvement in myself at all. I seamed to be drifting slowly, but surely, to my grave, and so far as I knew at the time there was nothing in the world that i-ould save me.' , " Did yoa consult a medical man ? " " I thought that was the only thing to do, but even then I did rot make any progress, ao I deemed it advisable to consult a second doctor, whose efforts, I am sorry to say, were just as unsatisfactory. Neither of them eonld prescribe a medicine to strengthen mc, and the agony I was in was setting really terrible. Pains seemed to have spread all over my body, but those in the small of my back were ver}' severe, and it would have been a surprise to you to see the distress I experienced e.auh time I drew a breath. It -was for all the world as if my chest had received a heavy blow, and at the extreme end of my neck the pain was just as severe. For months my appetite had been as weak as myself, but, of course, I could ' not go on for ever without taking something and didn't it give mc turns ! Before half an hour had gone by my stomach was so painful with wind that I conlii neither lie down nor anything else for two minutes together, and in that agony 1 remained until I commenced to belch it up. Upon my life, it was like being persecuted to death the way I was going on, for I could scarcely move across the room without being struck with such a violent sensation of giddiness that many a time I would have reeled to the ground had not someone been near to catch mc, and I had become so nervous that wherever I went some little thing happened which would nearly scare nieont of my life." "Thinge that perhaps you would take no notice of when you were well?" •'Of conrse I wouldn't; bnt it is so different when one's nerves are unhinged like mine were. Even the children could not walk across the floor but they would

An Experience Worth Noting. I

make mc so frightened with the ionndd their footeteps if they were in another Moej that I dared not move, and some dtyiP Arai so irritable that I could not bear em those I loved most to come near.'me. '-Til truth is, I -was afraid 'the children wouU. knock mc down if they came cleso to at, for there 13 no doubt that I was frail tnoughi and then again, their voices «eehied to pierce my aching he&d aud almost turnm v crazy." ", •' .••';''.'•!''", " It is evident yon were upset nenertllj. "Oh! I was not myself at all, and J* fully twelve months I was lingeriif Kl* this. Every hour's sleep I go6- ; w« <i» ; turl>ed by nasty dreams, but it wmum»l* ; go till morning before I could close mjtytt, and when ihey were opened again UwM always upon a world that was desolate m so rovvful iv the extreme. Eacli morning I had a dirty tongue iwd a similar taitee my mouth, and my eyes seemed fc» swell* j much during the night thar. I conld-jibt «• properly for a while after getting up.-A full year of this mor« than enough; .«. ; mc, and hud I beeu told thai my death war near at hand, were it not for ti.e litUe 00* that I would leave behind, such neTß .*?jJ have been welcome, for I was realiy ; tired ■ life/ '--ft. "Do you regard your existence m w same light now i" , L _« "Not at all, for now I am well .v* happy ; but without dements u Xooic } am sure I never would hvre been so agM» This is :i positive fact, and I can'<To'i»<> .Jβ.. • in return for the remedy which SO -*~~J rai c I mc from tiie .lepihs of iloSpondencf. to* high tableland of hope that) to.jWclaim to the world the statements JJj» making to you. Were it only for the bee* ficial effects of that remedy upon »>£»*}£ I would be placed under a load of obligate to Clements Tonic, for when I was so ill* suffered with palpitation to such an exw» that often I thought I was going to cttOHj and I had to have Doultices pat on to- ew»the pains ; but a few bottles of Clemew Tonic set that organ workingregulary,"? it has never troubled mc einctv Ma^ - rttime during tlie past couple of years A thanked God that I read aboutClemeateOW" in the newspapers, for that medicine. ■£_.. my life when everything else up in despair. Both my husband ana mr self thought I was dying, l>ut a f* I **^ Cleinents"Tonie gave mc a new IIOM life, and for the past couple of }<*« "J health has beeu splendid. My >*<??«7 took a little lime to be accomff'""* . and began by gaining an appetite ana ability to sleep well.' I couldfeelmyn«jj getting steadier, and the pains aDoui were diminishing, while there prov-ement in my digestion which ConUnuH until it w.-w quite sound.'' ■ . • — "Have you had any fainting "*» . SUIW th»n ? " ' i; ftf ,ff 1 " Not one ; so that shows how «""« ■ got; and indeed, Clements Tonic m*" 6 one of the healthiest of women, an "* 1 very grateful for it. Hundreds sillier have done, and I would like them* e-mforted by my story, which ?m publish in any way." i. STATUTOP-y DECLARATION. I, EuzKßKTii AuoLland. in the Colony of New &>£■£& read ftj aud ii cerely dccl.re that I. h«e ««W n g -nnesed docmcont, confuting of tn i" 6bref , W* e.MiMcuiivtly cumbered from iccoej, that it contains and is a true andli« ; t* of my illnes* »nd cure by . ole » , "" W ub ■<■ "?. also contiuns mv full permission to pu* , dIIWl ft way my stateme.its-whicb I 8>y c - d A w# without, reccivii.ij any J be!l, r : thi. solemn declaration MD3WUJ,inc the -ame to be true, and b* bly of W vi>ion« of sn Ao6 of the General A«W£ i Zealand, intituled " XUe Justices 0! re™Declared at Auckland, M*?^&(<>***> : one thousand nine hundred -nd tf.