BROKE DOWN AT SEVENTEEN.
Tliis Girl hadn't enough blood to keep going, Became pale, weak and languid, She tells how she cured herself, ■n inn n m '■'■■-. "1 we* never & «trong w healthy girt, but «t the age of seventeen I bfecamo much worse thwi 1 had ever been befow," wtid MiM C. E. Bmythe, 868. Armagh-street, Chrißtdiurch. "My ken was a deathly white, the whites of my eye» turned _ft bluish colour, and my Sums And lips became Very pale. I ad no appetite even for the dftlntioet kind of food. The palpitation of my heart was very bad, and often made me think I was going to di&. 1 suffered much from breft-thleeeneAi, and when walking 1 had to hold my arms tight across my chest owing to the pain in my chest &nd #ho«ld«». t had headachee, principally in the forehead «hd crown' of the head. I wae dreadfully nervous, and Buffered with ncitiaJeic pain* m various parts of the body, the tyaans nt times being co bad ft* to k«sp me* awake for hour* at ft time, 1 waa very low-spirited e-nd irritable; &t times 1 could not bear anyone to apeak to me. " t was sent into the Chri&tehui'ch hospital, where I remained for" come weeks, and from there t& Mode* Convalescent Home, Cashmere Hills. The treatment 1 received had no perma.n6nt goed effect on me. I subsequently went ty the Wellington hospita.l. where l'wa« a patient, for about three months, t left it without being cured of the &n»mi«. . tfive year* after that I had to go into the liunedin hoepita.l, where the doctor? said 1 hod very little blood in my body. The doctors told me they could not do anything for me ; they told me the only remedy they could suggest was my going on to ft foam whei& 1 vonla get the beat, of nourishing food, plenty of milk and eggs, port wine, and eto-vvt. and lmvo nothing to do. T left the Dutiedm h(Vpilft.l jubl bcfole itm laot Chr{i»t«hmtti Exhibition. T came home, ajnd was for six month* completely invalided. While t wa*o bo bftd, & pAmphloi wm left. nt. my home. In reading it t noticed wcoiinte of othew hftv-ing suffered a> t was, and having been cured by Dr. Williftnw' Pink Pillrs, andt eot mrtte. t had not used one box whf>n T found a, wonderful changp. The colour came tonck to nn' cheolw, ftnd t looked l«?althier than T had done for yews, &M by the tiniß 1 had taken tte \w*<x I felt. ftoSolutely bptter tlmn 1 ltfld rver Mi in my life. Remember, only the genuine Dr. Wi! li&ma 1 link Pills cure. ■ Don't be gulledinto taking something »Aid to be just *^ good. Of all deakt* &t S« per box, si* boxes Ids fid, or from the Br. Williame* Medicine Co. of Atwtra.k^ie., l,td., Wemngten.—Adn.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 50, 28 August 1911, Page 2
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479BROKE DOWN AT SEVENTEEN. Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 50, 28 August 1911, Page 2
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