A BAD CASE OF ST. VITUS' DANCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 4

A BAD CASE OF ST. VITUS' DANCE

Doctors Said one of the'Wofst They had Seen. « Cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills-The Mother's Story. A distressing case of St. Vitus' dance — one of the worst they had ever seen, said the hospital doctors where the little Sufferer was an inmate, has been cured .by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. These pills are recommended in complaints caused by weak or watery blood or run down nertfes, and they have in a great many instances received very high endorsation from the medical profession. The cure of this case of St. Vitus's Dance is a striking example of their tonic action to cure even the most serious nervous disorders. The patient in this case was Charlie, the eleven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stanshall, of 72, Raglan-street, Waterloo, Sydney. Giving an account of the pure to a reporter, Mrs. Stanshall said :—: — "Charlie was rather delicate as a child, and at last we noticed St. Vitus' Dance had attacked him. His hands began to twitch and then his face and gradually it spread to every muscle in his body. For more than six months he was this way. I had him under a homeopathic doctor for four months but couldn't find a cure. He got quite helpless and had to leave school. He would reel and stagger in walking like a drunken man. He had to be fed and dressed and waited on like some infant in arms. It was painful to see him. His eyebrows and lips and mouth would twist and contort. At night he would struggle and could hardly be held down. His eyes would look staring, and after these delirious turns ho would_ be quite exhausted and the perspiration would pour off him. His shoulders and arms would jerk about and his legs twist and turn. We kept him in bed when we could. He would fall down when he got out, and for months he could not walk outside of the house. H« was as weak as a kitten, and so nervous we could hardly speak to him. Some nights he had to be strapped down and given chloroform. He would tear his > lothes to ribbons if he tried to put L>m on. He could not sit still if he were paid for it. He could not speak plainly or, clearly. He wasted till his limbs were like sticks. He looked as iche hadn't a drop of blood in his veins. His father used to rub him from head to foot, and use liniments to brace his muscles and improve the circulation, but he showed no improvement. I did not think he would pull through. At the hospital, where he was for a- while, they said that it was the worst case they had ever seen. He got worse instead of better, and we were at our wits' end. It was a fortunate day when we tried Dr. Williams' .fink Pills. By the time he was on the second box the improvement was marked, and the third box cured him. He began to eat and to fill out and to sleep more restfully. Not a sign remains, he can go back to school, and is as robust and lively as any boy — thanks entirely to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are 3s a box, 6 boxes 16s 6d, of all dealers, or from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. of Australasia, Ltd., Wellington. — Advt. — — — — — — «^___ i