A TASMANIAN MIRACLE.

Evening Star, Issue 10783, 18 November 1898, Page 4

A TASMANIAN MIRACLE.

FACIAL PARALYSIS ANQ WHOSE PROSTRATION ENTIRELY jCtTREDs 1 J>E WaLIAMS’S HNK PILLS GEEATE A SENSATION IN HOBART. [From the Hobart 1 Clipper.’] Henry Dixon Clarke, a native of Hobart, Tasmania, tells a story of a cure effected by the use of the now famous Dr Williams’s Pink Pills for Pale People, which, in its marvellous details, proves the adage that truth is stranger than ffetion. Twelve years ago he fell from the scaffolding of a building in course of erection in Collins street, Melbourne, and was taken to the hospital insensible. He recovered, and was' sent home. The next morning he was too stiff to go to work, and resolved on resting awhile. The-nejjk day he was worse, and in addition to feeling feverish and unwell was seized with twilcliing pains iu the back whenever he attempted to straighten Ifcmself. These increased in virulence, and were accompanied witli intense pains in the head. He lost the use of his left arm and partially that of his left leg, as woll as feeling a numbness all down the side, extending from the shoulder to the region of the abdomen. Electricity was tried amongst other tilings, but without relief. So much was be insensible to outward agencies -Hint ho could bear Hie application of the battery to his arm to any degree without feeling it. To use his own expression, “ You could jab a noedlc into my arm and I could not feel it.” He was given up as a hopeless paralytic bv Hie medical fraternity of Melbourne after he had spent his last shilling in trying No get better. He then resolved on coming over to Tasmania at the request of his relatives iu the faint hope that the climate might perhaps give him relief. But years dragged on, and his sufferings were without end. “ I thought,” said he, “ frequently of COMMITTING SUICIDE

rather than continue to be a burden upon my friends, for my miserable plight was exceedingly depressing, as well as painful. I found refief in a sense of the word by sitting on the verandah in the sun; but when I saw my friends go past to work it only made me the more miserable, for I was always a very active man. There are not a few who remember the pale and wretched object I was, seated in the verandah of my mother’s house in Macquarie street, and many can testify to the marvellous cure which look place. I got hold of Di Williams’s Pink Pills for Pale People, and took four boxes of them. One morning I found 1 could lift my arm quite easily. It all came or iu tho night, and then I began to feel bettei right off. In about a week from when tlu change set in the pains had left me altogether, and 1 cannot describe to you the relief I felt both in body in mind. A fortnight later, and I could walk about and eat welt. I had anothei sensation then, which was new to me—tlu feeling of hope. Only those who have passer an ordeal like mine can tell what that actual!; means.”

“ What doctors did you have to attend you?’ “ I would tell you, but perhaps they wouldn’t care to have their names mentioned in a cast like mine, which they turned up as hopeless. But I spent in all £l7O, and, being then r. beggar, came home to die. Now there is nt fear of my being reduced to beggary again and, as for dying, I’m not going to throw i seven yet for a long while, I can assure you. I am going to work naxt week round at the W(»;t Coast—a job a friend got for me; so yon see what Dr Williams's Pink Pills for Pali People have done for me. I say—and I say it advisedly—and all who know me say so too that it is the most marvellous thing of tlu kind that is going. You are welcome to makt what use you like of this. I can tell you that I am heartily thankful for my recovery—more than I can describe to you.” Dr Williams’s Pink Pills for Pale People have cured paralysis, locomotor ataxia, rheumatism, aud sciatica; also all diseases arising from impoverishment of the blood, scrofula rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of tlu bowels and lungs, anosmia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache, early decay, all forms of female weakness, and hysteria. These Pills are a tonic, not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr Williams’s Pink Pills for Pale People, and are sold by chemists and storekeepers generally, or the Dr Williams Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., wil; forward, on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 3s, or half-dozen for 16s 6d.[Advt.]