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Kaikoura Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 35, 24 February 1903, Page 7

A REMARKABLE RESTORATION. A THEME OF GENERAL DISCUSSION. EMANCIPATED FROM DISEASE.

The Case of Mrs. M. TAYLOR. 1 (By a Special Be.porter.} I Tho attention of those in search of valuable information is drawn to following: dialogue, which took place between ( Mrs. Mary Taylor, of ho. Hahsbuiy j street, Christchurch, and a special ie-| you kindly confirm the statements which I have heard regard.ng your remarkable restoration to health. interrogated the scribe. “ With the utmost pleasure, replied Mrs. Taylor. “I am never tired ot talking about the way in which I was railed from my bed of suffering. 1 revious to mv emancipation from disease, £ had been a delicate woman all the days of my life. I have often been so lbw and weak that I could not walk about, and many a day I have been too exhausted even to do a little sewing. Other items of nousework had to remain untouched on many occasions, through my inability to attend to them. Even when I was quite a young woman, I was without energy, my vitality having run out completely. People used to trunk it was only laziness on my part, and thev said that a big girl like me ought bo work hard ail day '.’-.nd not feci any effects from it. They could not mak< me out at all, especially 1 as 1 aid na , complain about any pain.” “ Your disease was then msidimisly, • TBpßlnyse I 1 sfuT7"as every movement increased the agony tenfold. After remaining quietly like this for some hours, I became too restless and irritable to stay any longer, so I used to raise myself up, and then I felt so giddy that I fell back on the bed again. I was really helpless and broken down. I always had a fainting feeling about me, and I felt as though my life hung on a thread which was likely to break any moment. On rising in the mornings I was so attended Tfit-h nausea that I could not keep any food on my stomach. My mouth had a bad taste, making all my food loathsome to the palate. After swallowing a few mouthfuls of food, I was seized with violent windy spasms, which fairly doubled me up. Then folkiwed the repeated belching of viletastuig gases which came from the decayed and undigested food in my stomach. My heart used to thunder away at my ribs as rapidly as the beating of an alarm bell. I became terrified and horror-stricken every time these attacks came on. • I really thought I was going to die, and my friends were also greatly alarmed at the way I was now falling away in flesh. Yes, at last they were convinced there was something more serious than laziness the matter with me. I got so thin and deathly white that you could almost see through me. Continually vomiting brought on severe headaches, which kept tormenting me both day and Tight. Mv eves were so swol-’en and bloodshot with th’s incessant strain that I could not see to read if I wanted, a thing which occurred very rarely, as I lost all interest in matters concerning the outside world.” “What an unhappy state to be in?” “Yes; I was most miserable, and I think that a person is better dead than to linger on in such a wrecked and broken spirited condition as I was in. There wm no rest for me at night, for I slept but little; yet I preferred wakefulness to sleep, as whenever I dozed off my mind was tormented with horrible dreams. I always woke up with a start, and found myself bathed in perspiration. I was afraid to go to sleep again for fear of t-hfi same horrors re-appearing. My body ached all over, and I have frequently been seized with such intense nervousness that I have had to take f hold of the nearest object to prevent i myself from falling. I suffered from a

strange feeling of heaviness in the chest, which made my breathing difficult. My tnroat seemed to be filled with some unusual substance which had no means of escape; but in the early part of the day I always expectorated a considerable quantity of phlegm. Constipation of the bowels caused me a lot of trouble. 1 used to take ail sorts of pills, which which were said by the chemists to be infallible remedies for such irregularities, but they did not act at all satisfactorily. Year after year dragged on without any indication of my disease being cured. I was a confirmed invalid, and now ceased to expect to be made well. I was worn right out.” “Why were you so discouraged, Mrs. Taylor

"Because my doctors could do me no good. They said 1 had a sluggish liver, and prescribed medicine after medicine for me, but I did not derive any benefit. I also received battery treatment at the hands of my medical attendants. It was as useless as their medicines, and then they said I would have to go to the hospital to be operated upon.” “How long were you under the doctors’ care ?” “About six years, so you may imagine my disgust when they told me I would have to go to the hospital after squandering so much money upon them in vain. But I did not adopt their advice, as I felt too weak to run the risk of an operation. I was saved in another way, and it all happened through hearJag..about h lady living in Christchurch MMgkftd bfcn cured of pleurisy by CleThis lady is a friend of 1 r ■ <■ . > 4. l 4. i.. by the doctors, who said no more for her, and that ■EpBBBBtr long to live. She had five BBBBffn. /attendance, yet their skill was of no avail. She waa nearly dead when she was given some Clements Tonic, which, after taking it for several weeks, completely cured her. Many people in this city have heard about the wonderful recovery she effected through Clements Tonic. However, I am diverting from my own experience. When I heard about my friend’s case, I sent an inquiry as to the truth of the statements, which my friend confirmed, and also begged me to be guided by her •recommendation, as she stated she was quite sure that Clements Tonic would cure me also. My husband was against the suggestion, having such an antipathy to what he calls “ patent medicines ”; but I took Clements Tonic without his knowledge. A week later my husband said he could seo a great difference in me, and was quite pleased; but I did not tell him what was working the marvellous change.” “What were the effects of taking Clements Tonic ?” “After several doses I was free of those frightful headaches. Clements Tonic stopped the vomiting and heart palpitation, besides restoring regularity. My nerves were toned and strengthened. The anp.'tite I obtained was astonishing, refreshing sleep came back, ind each week added proof that Clements Tonic was eradicating my disease. I was made sound and strong, and mv husband and the doctors were amazed when I told them my recovery was due to Clements Tonic, which made me healthier than at any previous time in mv life. You have my permission to publish in any way my remarks.” STATUTORY DECLARATION, I, Ma»y Tavlcv, of «r> Sallsbnry-street. Christ, church. In the colony of Now Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely declare *bat I have carefully re d the annexed document, consisting of three folios and consecutively, mnnbered from one to three, and that it contains and is a true and faithful account of mv illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also contains my full (termis'den to publish in any way my statements —which I give voluntarily, wiihotu WOeivlnß any payment; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously- believing tire same to be trim, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of ■ ow Zealand, intituled “The Justices of Peace Act. -sga." // S'/ Declared at Christchurch, tins third day of Decern, bar, one thousand nine hundred, before me, .. . C. M. GRAY, I.P.