JUST SKIN AND BONE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 144, 18 June 1906, Page 6

JUST SKIN AND BONE.

After Bheumati« Fever. Stanley Reeve,/roxton Cripple on Crutch.es Romping School Boy To-day Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "If it hadn't hern for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, Stanley wouldn't lie nl'vc to-day," said Mrs Annie Reeve, -wife of Mr Arthur Keeve, the well to do flax niilUr of (."otey-strcet. Foxton. "When he was 112, Iα? took Rheumatic Fever. After being hed-rlddcn for eight long weeks, he Rot a relapse. The doctor never thought he'd pull through. For days he didn't know a .-mil n round him. It was another two months before we dare lift him out of Ivd. The doctor told mc the ehllfl'a k-arr was so weak, that he was likely to die on my hands nny minute. For Imonths 1 watched him growing: thinner and thinner, till at last he was just a bag

of. bones. He couldn't walk n step nnd had to lie carried, from room to room, lie was on his ileath-bed when we started him on Dr. Williams' Plvk Pills for Tale l'tjnple. saved his life. To-day Stanley is as strong and healthy a lad of 13, as you'll find throughout New Zealand.

•■One morning Stanley got up feeling all out. of sorts," ."aid Mrs Reeve. "He *nid he was aches nnd pains all orer. 1 started -doctoring him. but he got worse nnd worse. My husband called in the doctor. As soon as he fnw the way his knees were swollen he said it was Rheumatic Fever. Hγ was jnst our mass or patn all over. First one wrist swelled up. and then the oth--H\ In fart, every joint in his body ached nnd burred. At night the pain was always worse. The poor little fellow couid not pet a wink of eleep. For eight weeks, he had the same thing to face. Then just when we thought he was on the tnend. he got n relapse. The second attack was twenty times worse than the first. His lemeeratnre went to 10.".. The doctor grave us no hope. The boy was raving mad with the pain. His moans and groans were something awful. At night, my husfcand and I never left his bed-side. We fully expected that he would be dead before morning.

•'Even Tvhen the fever left him, ive never thought to pnll Stanley through," added Mrs Reeve. "His heart was so weak that he couldn't take a drink without gasping. "We used to carry him from his bed to the diningroom sofa. There he would He til! bed time, nis father couldn't bear to look at him. You could count every bone In Ills body. His arms were like sticks. Often I couldn't liolp the. tears coming to my eyes when I wfls dressing him. His backbone stood out till you could see every notch. lie looked lik*> a picture of a famine ihild.

"The doctor couldn't hare done more. hut Stanley went from bad to worse- His muscles were so stiff aud sore that he •couldn't bear iu<; to touch him. When he w-ent to bend his knees he cried pitifully. It nearly killed mc to see how he suffered «Jay after day when I could find no way to ease his pain. The doctor ordered him to be rubbed with liniments—but that was only torture for nothing. Mr Reeve spared 310 money trying to get the boy strong again. After months he was just able to hobble a few steps on crutches. Ho was bent nearly double. He used -to stoop so much that we were afraid that there must, bo wrong with his spine. It. was pitiful to watch him trying to hold himself straight. Some days his heart was so bad that be wasn't able to get up at all. Both his feet were puffed up with Dropsy. "His father nnrl I fought hard against the thought that Stanley would never be .-inythiug biu a cripple—but in a few months wo could see that there was nothing else in store for him,' , Mrs Reeve ■went on. "Then one day I read how Dr. "Williams' Pink Pills had cured a boy over in Queensland, who had been bed-ridden for neariy two years. My husband went straight to Walker's store for some, in a week, we coud hardly believe that there could be such a change in a child. He was always hungry, and the pains weren't nearly so bad when he went to move. Erery day he rn-ended. In a little while ho ■was able lo throw his crutches aside and ♦ake a walk round. At the end of six weeks ■Stanley was going to school again. Its two years now since he left off the pills. hut. there isn't a stronger hoy in the district. Ho- can run Ilk* a deer. Ton have only to watch him in a game of football co ye? how sound his heart is. My husband nnd I both swear by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The neighbours all know what they did for Elsie when Ehe started to slip into a decline."

When Dr. Williams , Pink Pills raised Sittle Stonier Reeve to health and strength after he had bc<?n n bed-ridden cripple, it Is no wonder they cure common ailments 3ike anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, headaches, backache?, kidney trouble, liver •complaint*. nervousness. neuralgia, rheumatism. and the secret illnesses •of sirls and tvomen. whose health depends upon their blood. Dr. Williams , rink Pills cure all these because they strike at the root and cause in the Mood. They dnn't bother with mere symptoms. They don't act on the bowel?. They rto only cm/.- thing, but they do it tvell-they netually make new blood. That is the secret of their success. Dr. Williams' Pink P.Us are E old by chemists and storekeepers or sent, post free, by the Dr Williams' Medicine Co.. Wellington. 3/ a boxes 16/6. Medical advice given free.