CRIPPLED AND CURED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 253, 23 October 1905, Page 6

CRIPPLED AND CURED.

Leonard Wills, of Pahiatua, Dying Witli liiseased Bones. Cured After Doctors Failed. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

Leonard Lionel Wills is the eight-year eld son of Albert Stanley Wills, a farmer Ox Mangatainoka. a lew miles out of Paaiatea. This hoy's life has just been saved by Dr. Williams' Pink Pils in a way that is nothing short of a miracle. Mrs Minnl-. , Wills, his mother, gives the history of the case in words that c-airy on their face the stamp of earnesmesp and truth. The facts are known to the doctor and all the neighbours, and anyone is free to test their simple truth for himself.

"Tliree years ago, when Leonard was only five, he got feverish aud I thought he was sickening for the measles." Mrs Wills began. "He soon got worso—and before the week was out we had to call in a doctor. By That time the child was delirous and quite out of his mind with the fever. The doctor brought the fever down —but when Leonard came back to his senses, he complained about his shoulJer being sore. If I happened to take hold of his arm he would scream with the pain. Mr Wills noticed then tiiat his shoulder was a little swollen and inflamed. Soon it got a nasty angry look, and the child cried every time I touched it. I sent word to the doc-tor aud he came asain to examine him. He then said that Leonard had inflammation of the shoulder blndo, and lie ordered mc to poultice it to draw out the inflammation.

'"I did this and it brought the »vhole thing, to a head. It was an awful sight and the doctor made up his mind to operate on it. He then lanced it under the arm pit, aud the poisonous matter poured out of thj wound. The doctor said that he liad never seen such a discharge of i»is in all his life. That wound never healed, thongh 1 used to wash it out every day with antiseptics. It got worse and worse till it was just like a gangrene eating into the llesh. The poor little fellow was just worn out - with pain. Every day he got thinner and weaker and his face was as pale as death.

"Before long an ulcer formed on the top part of Ms aim and then the doctor said that Leonard's bones were diseased. That turned oat to be only too true. The ulcpr got bigger and deeper. Before many days a piece of bone began to work out of the sore. It was as green as grass, and all eaten away by the poison in his blood. After that, little pieces of rotting bone kept working out of the sore every few days. Soon afterwards a small pimple formed on the ontside of his ankle. This spread and then broke. It formed into a running sore and pieces of bone started to come from it too. When the doctor saw that lie said Leonard must go into the hospital at ouee. Nothing could save him unless his bones were scraped. If they didn't get rid of the disease this way, the poison would work all through his system. The tloctor said there was no time to lose. If it wasn't dove at once, it would soon be too late to save his life. But it was a terrible operation—and Mr Wills and I both felt that Leonard could never live through it.

"Prom that time the child got rapidly

worse," added Mrs Wills. "He became a t-omplete cripple. He lay there in his bed, day after day, wrapped in wadding. He

couldn't bear the bed clothes or even his night shirt to touch him. I worried my

heart out over him, for I- felt that I hart taken his life in my hands when I would not let the doctor take him to the hospital.

"It was just at this time that I lead how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills lad cured a little girl in Queensland suffering just the same way from diseased bones. That put fresh hope into mc, ana Mr Wills said we would write to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, and ask them a straight question—whether Dr. Williams , Pink Pills w#uld cure Leonard or not? With, the letter -we sent several pieces of bone that bad worked out of the open ulcers in his shoulder and ankle. In reply they told us of three other cases of the kind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured. So we sent for a supply and decided to give them a fair trial. "A few weeks after starting Dr. Williams , Pink Pills, we noticed that Leonard was always hungry. Soon he began to grow strong, and there wasn't neaily so much, pus coming from the sores. He got so much better that we had a special go-cart made to wheel him about in the open air. Little by little, the sores healed up. All this time he was getting so muchstronger and fatter that he was soon able to get up and walk. But it was slow work, and we had to keep .giving, him Dr. Williams' Pink Pills every day for twelve months. But by that time there was hardly a mark on his anile, and only a few pits on his arm and shoulder where the diseased bone worked its way out. Today he is as strong and well as any boy of his age. He can run like a hare and crack a whip with any of his brothers. To this day the doctor always asks about Leonard, and says that he can hardly believe that he is running about again. But it is eighteen months now since he was cured—so I know he is cured for good. His father and I say it is a down-right miracle." When Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved Leonard Wills after doctors said he could not possibly be cured without an operation it Is no wonder that they can cure so easily little ailments like anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, headaches, backache, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervousness, and the secret blood troubles of women and growing girls. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills do only one thing, but they do it well—they actually make new blood. But the blood is the root of all health. If you are in doubt about your own ease, write for free medical advice to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington. From that address yon can also order by mall the genuine Dr .■ Williams' Piuk PUls— 3/ a box, six boxes' M/ 8, post-free.