STRANGE RESULT OF A PUNCH IN THE BACK.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9813, 24 August 1897, Page 6

STRANGE RESULT OF A PUNCH IN THE BACK.

REMARKABLE STATEMENT OF A PROVISION DEALER IN NEWTOWN.

Mr Ohas. Green, provision dealer, of 4 Alice street, Newtown, Sydney, stated the other day that he has found great relief from indigestion by having a friend punch him in the back. This is a novel way of getting relief from that dread ailment, and one that the writer has never met with before, however Mr Green, we believe, never found this treatment to benefit permanently. This brings us to the point when Mr Green did get something, which was a much more pleasant treatment, the effect a lasting aud permanent cure. To get the ins and outs of the case our reporter called on Mr Green at his home in Newtown the other day, and, on making himself known, he asked :—

"Ia it true that you have been suffering for over four years from indigestion, Mr Green ?"

" It is, indeed ,* and it has been so bad at times that I have often felt tempted to go up to a stranger in the street and get him to punch mc in the back. I have often had friends to do it, and simple as it was it gave mc relief for a time."

" Did you have any other ailment at the time, Mr Green ?" / *

"Yes, I also suffered from a nasty cough in the summer time; it was also on mc on and off for about the same as the indigestion. As an example, I would cough, and immediately a lot of thick black phlegm would fly up into my mouth. I presume it came from my chest on account of the ticklish feeling I would feel there. For that I have taken numerous concoctions, including codliver oil, which did mc no good ; but now I am thankful to say I feel grand, and hope the cough will not return. In one sense I miss it, as I have been acquainted with it so long, but it is a very welcome miss."

•• To what do you attribute this marvellous happy alteration in your health, Mr Green ?"

"To one medicine alone, and that is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, for from nearly the first pill I felt relief and an improvement in my appetite. I went steadily on taking them until I got as I am now, and there doesn't seem much the matter with mc now, does there ?"

" Indeed, no, Mr Green, you look the very picture of health and strength."

" I feel so, and I assure you that I have such unbounded faith in their restorative properties that I have recommended them to plenty of my customers, numbers of whom are taking them, observing the wonderful improvement in my health and condition. Why, I have actually gained 141b in weight since taking them, and I continue to put on weight daily. I learnt of them first through an advertisement in one of the papers, and I can truthfully state that they have done all and more than I expected chem to do." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are not like other medicines, and their effects are permanent. Nothing else is so prompt in pulling up the system when, from some temporary depression or otherwise, tone is needed. They have cured more than fifty-five hundred cases of disease arising from impoverished blood, such as antenna, pale and sallow complexion, muscular weakness, depression of spirits, loss of appetite, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath,, pains in the back, nervous headache, loss of memory, early decay, all forms of female weakness, hysteria, paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism aud sciatica, scrofula, rickets, hipjoint diseases, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs. The genuine piils are sold only in wooden boxes, about two inches in length, in a wrapper with the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printed in red. They are never sold in bulk or from glass jars, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form should be avoided. In case of doubt it is better to send direct to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., enclosing the price, 3s a box, or six boxes for 15s 9d. These pills are not a purgative, aud they contain nothing that could injure the most delicate.