WATCH NERVOUS CHILDREN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16210, 13 May 1918, Page 3

WATCH NERVOUS CHILDREN.

St. Vitus's dance is a disease easier to prevent than tn cure. Nervous children should therefore be carelulty watched ior symptoms of the approach of this disease.

Long before the child becomes awkward and begins dropping things there is a period in which the appetite is fickle and the. patient is tired and listless. The jerking movements characteristic ol the disease cotne much later. . , In the early stages a good tonic for the blood and nerves will go far towards preventing the development of the disease. . But the tonic must be free from alcohol and opiates, for these make the nervous condition much worse. When your child appears listless, prefers to sit and read rather than go out and play, and requires altogether too much time to get bis or her lessons, give her a course _of treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

These pills build np the blood, nourish the starved nerves and improve the general health.

There has been no increase in the price of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Your own chemist sells them, or you can order direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Box 545, G.P.0., Wellington. Price 3s per box, six 16s (3d. Booklet on nervous disorders free. 6

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