ANÆMIA & DEBILITY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222045, 3 February 1900, Page 3

ANÆMIA & DEBILITY.

A Richmond Lady Relates her Remarkable Recovery.

The Case of £lrs. Sarah Dover. (From the Windsor “Australian.”) BY OCR SPECIAL REPORTER. A representative of this paper in the course of his duty took a w«lk in the direction of Francis .Street, Richmond, Is.S.\\\, and knocked at the door of Mrs. Dover. It was opened by a very pleasant-fao.-ti lady. “Do I speak to Mrs. Dover?” queried the newspaper man.. “ You do/’ »he answered, with a smile. “Then will you permit me to make a report of your case ? ” “ With pleasure,” and after asking our reporter to come in and take a seat she immediately dived into a relation of the facts of her illness. “I can asdgn no reason for it,” she commenced, “ but I gradually Began to Full Away. Day by day I grew thinner and paler. I was told I was suffering from ansemia, or a want of red blood corpuscles in my veins. A doctor attended me, and prescribed tor me. I took his medicine for a long time, Ilis physic, however, was not able to relieve me, and I had to give U up. As I got UZ-worse the most frightful headaches began -”to' affect me. The pain was like an iron band tightening round my head. Indigestion came on. The fact -was, I was too yea h to digest my food. The digestive fluids in mv stomach were too deficient to break it up ami dissolve it,, end r,ti J ate lay line it- heP'-.y auljsir.uee within me. Instead cf dige.-/.in;; it would ferment, causing wind, swelling, and acute pain. When my meals were placed before me I could only eat a few mouthfuls, and then felt quite sick. That bittpr taste was always in my mouth, mv eyes became deep and sunken, dark rings encircled them, and I began to wear the brd appearance of Extreme Suffering. I Tv Ups were a palish blue, my cheeks pallid and sunken, and I looked years oider than I do now.” “ Did you suffer from anything else?” asked the reporter. “ I did, I am sorry to say. You haven’t heard the half of my troubles yet? Sleep I could not. All night I lay wide awake, tortured with Frightful Nervous Headaches and yet not able to get a moment’s rest. Fight af/er night I was abandoned by - sleep. In the day-time I was listless and indifferent to all that was going on around me. This feeling of lassitude was so heavy upon ine that it took me some minutes to make up my mind to even rise from a Beat. I was too tired to read, and that 1 consider A Very Bad Bign." «« yon couldn’t go on like this for long,” eaid the newspaper man ; “you couldn’t live without sleep, you know.” “ No. I had to get sleep at any price. I was forced to h»ve Recourse to Morphia to obtain an hour or two’s respite from my intense headaches. Of course I needed an increased dose every time that I wished to go to sleep, But my general health continued to get worse, and 1 was now troubled with the reactiaii of the sleeping draughts -which I had been taking. Jhis added to my weakness. At last it was only with the creaf.-st difficulty that I could walk, or - rather nobble, across the room. My nerves bci;an to give way. I was very timorous and fearful. The least thing would startle 'me. I whs always turning my head round expecting to see something terrible behinu pie, and often- enough I should be seized -frith a fancy quite realistic, and which I »uld not drive away, that a hand was jusr

Declared at Richmond, this 20th day of July, 18t» Before me. W. MiXULELL, J i*.

about to be placed on my shoulder { and often I would fall into A Fit of Trombtinff over nothing at all. I had gloomy fore* boding 3 as to the future. The blessing of good health seemed so far away from me that I never expected to attain it again. I got weaker and weaker. I thought my vital spark was going out* I was laid in bed, liol being strong enough to sit up. The doctor* could do nothing for me, except to continue to dose me with morphia.” “ I wonder you were able to support life so long under these circumstances,” suggested the reporter. “I have a good constitution,” replied Mrs. Dover, “otherwise I should have gone out Like An Exhausted Lamp, “but I was nearly dead. It’s almost ft miracle I ever got off nly bed again.” “And how did you manage it T” “ In this way : I was listlessly letting my eyes wander over a newspaper, and I came across an account of a case where a lady had dwindled into a mere skeleton through Impoverishment of the Blood, but who had ultimately been restored to perfect health through the use of Clements Tonic. Here’s a possible chance for me, I said to myself. God knows but that remedy might contain that something which is lacking in my blood. I consulted a friend, and the result was that I commenced a regular course of Clements Tonic.” “ Did you get an immediate effect?” " Could I expect that in a case like mine ? But in a few days I found I could sleep without the morphia, and I could tell by that, and by the fact that I never trembled now, that my nerves were being strengthened. Then, as my colour improved, I knew Clements Tonic was beginning to pub Vitality Into My Blood, for colour began to show in my skin. . I did away with morphia altogether now—it was no longer necessary. Although st.ill very weak I could soon digest light food, aud began to take quite an interest in what I was to have for dinner. I took no alcoholio stimulant whatever. I found it quite unnecessary. The stimulating properties of Clements Tonic were quite sufficient. My headaches altogether disappeared, and at last there was nothing more for Clements Tonic to do than to put more Flesh On My Bones. My nerves were as true as steel.” “ Then I am to presume that Clements Tonic completed your restoration to health!” “ Most decidedly; I soon became as robust as you see me now, and in perfect health in every way. This is the result of Clements Tonic, and, believe me, I am not ungrateful.” “ Then I can put this- in the Windsor Australian .” “I shall have positive pleasure in seeing It there, for humanity’s sake.” STATUTORY DECLARATION. ■ T, Paratt Dover, of Francls-street, Richmond, tn the colony of New Soulh Walee, do solemnly and sincerely declare that I hare carefully read the annexed document, connistin? of ten folio*, and consecutively numbered from 1 to 10, and that it oontains and is a true and faithful account of my illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also contains my full permission to publish the same in any way; and I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of.au Act made and passed in the ninth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled “ An Act for th# more abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in the various Departments of the Government of New South Wales, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oath# and Affidavits.’