SCIATICA FOR 17 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 196, 17 August 1906, Page 6

SCIATICA FOR 17 YEARS.

John Hnnt, Hastings, Crippled and Bed-ridden Half Mad witii Pain Doctors Failed to Cure Him Active as a Boy To-day Dr. Williams' Pink Fills. 'All lhe -neighbours used to watch fur the doctors' coming and going, to hear how 1 was when I wus down with one of my bad attacks of Sciatica," said John Hunt, an old-time drover who has settled clown iv Hastings after having travelled, over and over again, every inch of the Hawke's Bay district. "For seventeen years I never got through a winter without beiiig laid up with it for weeks on end. The pain was awful. Often I nearly went wild with it. I'ou couldn't pay mc to i'ae-3 the agony of that Sciatica a^aln —but, thank God, there's no need. Dr. Williams' link I'ills .cured mc for good live years ago.

•'lt was away back in thai. I started to suffer, about eeven years after 1 oaine out from Scotland," said Mr Hunt. "I was droving at the time—and one night I camped, like a fool, on a heap of wet ferns. Next morning, 1 woke up with a tingling pain in the back of my thigh. That was the start of the Sciatica that came near to uostlns mc my life. The pain spread down my legs and up into my hips and the small of my back. Every more sent a burniiis stab clean throngh mc. No torture could have been worse. I could no more get up into the saddle than I could fly. It was as much as I could do to walk.; My kue« was drawn up, and I could just put my toes to the ground. It would have torn the leg off mc if I had tried to walk straight. The pain was more than. I could stand. It took all the heart out of mc, and I dreaded aa attack like death. As soon as I sot over one attack, I lived in dread of the next. Each time the was worse than it was before. -Day and night. It never let np on mc for a minute. 1 could not even sit up "n a chair, for it just caught the nerve aDd sent the pain tearing np and down my leg. Often 1 was as good as crippled. I conld only hobble along on crutehos. It took mc over an hour to go UK) yards. When a bad turn came on. I couldn't even do that. I went down on the flat of my back in bed, fairly paralysed with the paiu.

"Time unci again, my neighbours.huve sat up 'With mc all night trying all manner of things to ease tny terrible pain," added Mr Hunt. ■ "1 liad tlie best doctors In the Hawke's Bay district, but they couldn't do aie any good. They blistered mc and phyBlckcd me—but the pain was just as bad as ever. I could never tell you how many pounds I spent on plasters and stnff to run into my leg—but it -was just throwing my money away. My mnscles were nil drawn up and twisted, and the agony was cruel. Day and night, I lay there on my back, moaning and groaning, the pain ripping down the fraek of my thigh nnd into the calf of my leg. When it caught mc behind the knee, I had to yell out. No matter if I lay in one position all day without moving a muscle, the Sciatica .still kept gnawing and burning , away at my leg. The nerve was all red and swollen, and 1 uouldn't Lieiir even ilmj. bed cloches to touch mc. At last, the muscles of my l<-s started to waste away, and I made up my mind that 1 was crippled for life.

"That's jusi; what I would have been if : t batlu't been for Hobson, a friend of mine up In Waltotaia. lie .swore by Dr. Williams' I'in'k Pills, and be said thorp wasn't another medicine under Heaven that <-ould ever get Sciatica or Rheumatism out of tlie blood. 1 took bia advice, nnd hobbled up to Ivccle?' chemist shop for half-a-dozen boxes of Dr. Williams' finis Pills—for 1 knew they had no chanoe if I didn't give them a fair trial. The first box gave nit , a great appetite—and before I had finished tho third, the pains eased up a lot. I picked up heart, then, and kepr on taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills steadily till there wa.sn't a pnin or an ache left. I didn't hnvfl to finish The iifrh box before I was on my feet .again, as lively as ever. I felt us fit to jump a barbed wire fence then as I xlid 'M years ago. And what's more. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills enred nic for good. Even in the winter, I never have a twinge of pain now. Ask almost anyone In the Hawke's Bay district what cured. John nunt's Sciatica, and they'll tell you Dr. Williams' Pink Pills."

Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People cured Mr Hunt because they went straight down to the root of his trouble in the blood. They actually make new blood— just that, nothing more. They don't act on the bowels. They-don't tinker with mere symptoms. They won't cure any disease that isn't caused by bad blood. But then bad blood Is the cause of all common diseases like anaemia, headaches, indigeetiou, bad liver, nervousness, neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatism, lumbago, backache, kindney trouble, and the special secret ailments of growing girls and women whose health plainly depends upon the richness nnd regularity of their blood-supply. Dr. Williams" Pink Pills have n marvellous power to cure nil these ailments. But get the genuine pills. Substitutes never cured anybody. You can order the genuine pills by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, at 3/, a box, six boxes 16/6, ■poet free, MedVcal advice (free.