DYING WITH DROPSY.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12442, 3 March 1906, Page 6

DYING WITH DROPSY.

♦— % AFTER BBIGHTS DISEASE. *T{ HEART FAILING DAT BY DAT. $ MRS SEYMOUR BAKER, BEAUFORT, *%i BUSY ABOUT HER HOUSE AGAIN. , '$ ANOTHER LIFB SAVED. ~ 'Ji DR. WILLIAMS-* PINK PILLS. ' '"£ PLAIN STATEMENT ON OATH. |f"There is not a -woman in Beaufort was }4: has a better right to thank Dr. Williams' >*-*. Pink Pills for saving- her life," says Mrs '■$ Seymour Baker. "For three years I wast % through suffering that makes mc shudder V now to think of it. My strength failed till $S I was almost too weak to sit up. Tho doo- -*>?' tor said at first it was a bad case ol Kidney ' *3£ Trouble—hoit he found out afterwetde that >4a good deal of it cams from my Heart. He -k 1 knew that, when my legs started to swell ~m with Dropsy. There didn't seem to be an ct 1 ' atom of hops for mc. It was just as a % last chance that I tried Dr. Williams' Pink >•& Pills—and they saved my life." ■&» Mrs -Seymour Baker has lived in tha Market ?& square, Beaufort, for tha last thirty yean. '■s'* She ia the mother of fourteen children, and %, thero it no mors highly respected woman 'Mf* in tha whole district beta-en Ballaxat and ?$ Ararat. Her case is so sensational, from first ,'Wt to last, that-Mrs Baker wished to put ths %: facts beyond, all doubt and cavil. With UuV&lv object, aha has mads her statement on oath. Mf' putting it in ths form of a statutory declara- mtton, sworn before J. B. Wotherspoon, J.P.,* *■$$;' ths leading- cituen of Beaufort. *'_}*■ "Up till tha tame my little girl, Edith, was M bom. I always had good hearth," says Mrs jC* | Baker. "After her birth, I got up tob aoan-~ J_i and caught a chill. That brought on Bright's-SP',' Dieeaee. Every few minutes a shiver majjpthrough a» My face got as pal* as Death,«' and my skin was aa hard and dry aa a ooae. W$ Dark hollow* cam* under my eyes,, aad say w eyelids got puffy. All day I was dull *oifm drowsy—tat a* night I couldn't gat a wiak^f of sleep. Two and three times .in ths night A« I.would have to. get up. My kidneys.wsraMs in a terrible starts. *'* . *» "In a few days my back started to ache-.« and I had that <backacha for tha next tans'^ years. No matter wm'o-fa. side 1 lay on st'-W I night, I oould never gat rid of it Som*times'l/M I ii felt as if my baoVfcona was being sawsd inW& two. Other times I fancied there .was soe*e-<t|| I thing crawling and creeping up my eniaa. ' lisaS told the doctor that 1' tfeoogM it' must b*Wk Hydatids. But I don't think I minded 'aay^l| back half as much, as the, haedaohss. ; Dey<"§| and night my poor br_a throbbed sjad-jlj throbbed till I tfewight I would go out of my.s| mind. If one of tha child-* Ist a door alim*"^! it started tha pain thuoaplng aad teariag,^!! through myteniplss. I could never get ridj*|| of, a heavy dull pais sons* my tyas. BsJora J§ Jong my eyssight started to fail , TJba dootor|||s made mc wear a green shads for ovar r afw| year, my eyes were so wask. ' If I warit^j outside into ths sua a sharp pain sh<H iatcjM Imy eyes, and ths. tsars rolled do-a.my cheeking! j with the agony. Tha Hght always issds^g 'my -hsadaoaes worse. Sometimes they trnnrtd^ ito sick headaches—and therti I waa laid up in'S||B bed -for three or four days together. ' '4ff§ffl 1 "No one knows what I suffered during ibaaftgns bilious attack*. I.never had the least nUshjßjJ for-my;food., .My, tongue was coated.-shitejfipf and I know-that my breath was borriMe:fll Sometimes rnyl T»w«ls were" not moved' tot^m nearly'C"wsek'aC a time." There'was>rawysj|| a djull, - gnawing- pain down in tea -pit ol|*K my stcoiaoq. Then a sick feeling camo omj(ffi|| mc, aa if my food waa coming up. I etartsd^^ rrtohing—and there I would go en strtJaJwJill i myself, to ba aick until I waa worn right I Tbay had to undress ms and put. ma to ha3|fgs| 1 When the dootor came, hs gars ms tf&tomffl Ito settle myatomaea; Ha ordered ms braady;fa| 1 and milk, for it waa ths oerly-thing I eo»ldf|§ | keep down, Tar wesks at a,time no m& : WB I food passed-mr lips. Little wonder that tsm. had hardly the strength ol a kitten. M«s'|§ than ooea I ha-».struggled to make myself a *s| cup of tea—and, no aooaar was it poured out ?W than I fell asleep beside H. without so amcha as-putting.my lips to it. Ltet thinner e£i«i| thinner, till I was just a lrnag ekeletoa.) gmt "For a long time the doctor had bees jw-^l easy about my heart,"' added Mrs Beiatffli "Many a night I sat up in bed fawpis*; hrUM breath. My heart thumped snd" iuttsesJ^U^l I thought I would go off into a deed lawK-fl One' day I told tha dootor that my aßkle»T|| ,were a little swollen, riwat's your hewV'^Sl wm all ha said, hot I oonid eee-taat'-he^ffl thought there was ao mon hope. From aWs£|*Ji time on the swelling got "Wfget.tai I wu^fl fairly .waterlogged with Dropay; It «eadSS up my lag- tiir it reached my hip. MyJaA;|i was like dough. If I praasei my «ngs» into iM it, the-dent stayed (Mhtad. ', Just .wham 1;^ .was hi this state I had to go to Court^ssf^ a witness, and I will never forget trying .to-sgH walk into -aha Court-room. - The Drop*yj? &''*£§ my feet waa ao "bad that H feH", iusty.hks ff walking in eof.t «»d ,wiwi, my taie feetj^MrVil legs swelled to a terrible sme. I waa'Jast.J-^ in i and Out of bed for three long years. ' JAM ,"Wbee the-doctor gave mc up at lett mm prayed for Death to ootne," Mrs Baker-.•*»#_'£_ on to say. "u?ut the .neighboun all fcep»|£»f telling mc about Dr. Wilhame* Pink- *PUli,vM| , and so I'Twewht aaalf-dasaii faosea. At 4rst^l they upset my stomaoh, aad made ate tentbly^ ill; But I anew they.had eared others, so IS stuck to them. When'l was'«m the'thirdM -bee: I began to feel as haagiy as a'*cll.-« In another .weak or twa I waa steongef than'S I had been for month* I got a fresh •■Wltl! of Dr. WiUiams' Pink Pilk_a_d kept oa.witagi them. LtKls by iiHU t^Drui-B' in »7.le«e I went down. My headaobes eased up, ami WM I kidneys gave mc so mora trouble. K,was*M , able to eat what I Hked, aad aever hat vtrM I other bilious attaok. ' My heart a* aMl| 1 and steady, and, nd matter what UM i do,-1 never get out of brsath. By *be tuns^ >'J had finished <*?<&%ss I Williams' Pink Pills the last sign of Dwpey| 1 had left mc. My health was auaply perfect. g| From thst day to this I hare atmt had tha;M least return of my illness—so'-thsS.,shojrs^ that Dr.' Williams' Pmk Pills «atwi «•-((«« good. I get up at five o'cloak every atsiung,^ and do all the housework {or tea ol utyherei i in the fsmily.. There isn't as hard s | woman in the whole of Beaufort—and I- ."••'•J | to thank Dr] Williams' Pink Pills far tX*i"fm mc the health and strength to do ft. , y'm ■'■ Dr.- Williams' Knk 'PiUe%.ieorkedv t:^_i miracle by actually snaking new. Wood fcr|| Mrs Baker. They do just this es_;thtag-^i| tmt they d* it well. They, aW_. art oa^ the -howels. They don't "bother to ■•'[J^ fyantrtans. . They just sinks straight at tnfjm roo>, of all Wood diseases liks «u»™^t* k j*J| trouble, hiliouaness, indigestion, lher -__i^ plaint', headache* backaches, kidney tiouWaa^| lumbago, rheumatism, sciatica, neironwaa%^ neurateia geaenrd weakness, decUne, »i«**M Hon (in"its'.early stages), looomotor *^^Sh and the eecret ailments met jeoma to .P*SB ' a_d women when their blood heooos * *f f **a«w impure, or irregular. Bwt, of, t «~»a«, 'T^Sia TOUEt get the geimjns Dr. .^""•^,,. :Pi *SO -Pills. Sold by retailers and the Dr. w-l**fmm Medicine Co., Wellington, at 3s a '^•fgmM : boxes for lfls «d, post free. same address you can get free medical ™ n< *jm£