A HOSPITAL FAILURE CURED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 300, 28 December 1897, Page 2

A HOSPITAL FAILURE CURED.

DOCTORS DUMBFOUNDED AND SPECIALISTS STUPEFIED.

The following ease was treated in vain at one of wSydney's large hospitals, but was cured at last by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.

Mr John Burgess resides at 58, Ivystreet, Darlington, has been in business there for a number of years as a greengrocer, and is well known and respected by the inhabitants of that populous suburb.

In conversation with our reporter, he recently made the following interesting and surprising statement: —

'I have been an invalid for over nine years, suffering from hip joint disease and sciatica. The primary cause of my great sufferings was being thrown out of a cab whilst on my way to Botany, the accident being due to the' defective state of the tramway line. Falling- on my side, I seriously injured my hip. I became an inmate of Prince Alfred Hospital for six months, and was at last discharged as incurable. Since then I have had no less than three different doctors, and they all pronounced the same opinion, namely that my case was hopeless; in fact, the last doctor who attended me stated that he did not wish to visit me any longer, as it was simply taking .money out of my pocket to put into his, without being able to afford me the slightest relief. Sciatica then set in with its attendant agonising pains, first in the hip and then appeared to shoot to the calf of the leg and to the foot. I had no desire for food, sleep was a matter of sheer impossibility, and instead of getting better I grew gradually worse. I could not move without the aid of crutches, and at last I was forced to take to my bed. As a drowning man clutches at a straw, I then proceeded to try all sorts of patent medicines and specifics. I might as well have kept the money in my pocket, for none of them did me the slightest good. I feared I was a cripple for life, and hopelessly bedridden. Relief, however, reached me at the eleventh hour, and in the most unexpected manner. A lady residing in this neighbourhood, induced me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I must confess I regarded her advice as a forlorn hope, but it was a fortunate and happy day when I commenced to take these pills, for from the first box I commenced to steadily improve. I must add that my long illness had seriously affected my business, for competition is so keen in this neighbourhood that unless I can drive my horse and cart around I lose my customers, as they will not come to my shop to purchase. After seven boxes of Pink Pills, I was able to get up and dress, and after the eighth box could g-o to market with my horse and cart, and afterwards serve my customers. This speaks for itself, and when a man can conscientiously state that this wonderful recovery is due entirely to the Pink Pills of Dr. Williams, it should silence sceptics and induce other sufferers who endure, the torments that I did to give this wonderful preparation a fair and honest trial, as I can truly state it has succeeded in putting" me on my legs ag-ain.'

'Have we your permission to publish this statement of your illness and recovery, Mr Burgess?'

'Yes. You are quite at liberty to publish it, for I believe in giving credit to whom credit is due, with a fair field and no favour.'

'(Signed) JOHN BURGESS.'

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have a remarkable efficacy in curing diseases arising from an impoverished condition of the blood or an impairment of the nervous system, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration, and the tired feeling arising therefrom, the after-effects of la gTippe, influenza, and severe colds, diseases depending on humours in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills give a healthy glow to pale and sallow complexions, and are a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female system, and in the case of men they effect a radical enre in al] cases arising from mental worry, overwork, and excesses of any nature >

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper (printed in red ink). They are never sold in bulk, or by the dozen or hundred, and any

dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud and should be avoided. See that each box is encircled by a blue warning label, and regard with distrust the man who wants to sell you anything which, he says is 'just as good.' He only wants a bigger profit.

These pills are not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and are sold by all chemists and by Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, New Zealand, who will forward (post paid) one box for 3/, or half-dozen for 15/9. They are unrivalled as a tonic for both sexes.