INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

Evening Star, Issue 12769, 23 March 1906, Page 7

INFANTILE PARALYSIS.

LITTLE LOUISA NEWBURY, , CRIPPLED AFTER DIPHTHERIA. MUSCLES WASTED AWAY. LEGS AND FOOT DEFORMED. SEVEN DOCTORS GAVE HER UP. CURED AT LAST. DR WILLLAMS’ PINK PILLS. HEALTHY SCHOOL GIRL TO-DAY. “ A healthier child than my little Louisa rou. coaid not wish to see till she took Diphtheria,” said Mrs James Newbury, Alma Dane, near Stanley street, Rockhampl'on". “ The doctor sent'away for Antitoxin to inject into her veins, for wc made up our minds that the poor child was to have the very best and latest treatment, no matter what it ( ost. The doctor himself worked with her day and night till she was out of danger. But it looked as if all his labor was to go for nothing. Before she was well enough to leave her bed Infantile Paralysis set in. In despair we called in seven of the leading doctors in the State, ■one after another—but in spite ot all thoy could do sire remained a helpless cripple. She wasted away till she was just ■ skin and bone. Eveiyone said she looked like a child dicing from famine. If ever anvone was_ saved from death, it was our little Louwa—and every bit of the credit goes to Dr Williams’ Pink PUL for Pale People, they cured her Paralysis after seven doctors and every other treatment failed. To-' day sh© is as strong and healthy as anv girl of fourteen in Rockhampton. Only *a toother can understand how much wo owe to pr Williams’ Pink Pills. We were living at Clermont when ti° wsa took the Diphtheria,” said Mrs New,.‘Sfo 'T as between seven and eight. Iho first sign I got of her Paralysis was the morning that the doctor said I might let her up for a while. I was struck with the trouble it was for her to get out of bed. one could not put her foot down flat on the ground. She could only limp a step or two on her toes. Every day after that she grew worse. She could not hold her head used to fall from fdde to sido. this made me feel frightened, and so I sent for the doctor. Ho said it was Paralysis, and in a very bad form too. In a few days Louisa could not sit up unless I held her. And all tho power was goin<r out of her lege and arms. After treating her seven months, the doctor gave her case up as hopeless. “My husband called in two other Clermont doctors. When Louisa wits at licr worst they came to see her day and night. Sometimes they came to the'house three limes a day. They ordered her hot baths and told mo to rub her legs and arms and back for throe or four hours every day This eased tho pains a little— but fclult’.s all’ Her legs and anna got no more life in them. oli 01 ]- was netting: weaker and thinner all the time. Tho doctors themselves could not make head or tail of her case. They brought the travelling Physician of the A.M.P. Society to see her—-ho said her case was hopeless trom the first. Then the local Government aoctor was called in—and he took no end oi interest in her case. No doctor could nave worked harder or done more f cr her. He got a Galvanic Battery and treated her witn that three times, a dav. He uacd to strap the poor,child down in m-I, and teen turn the current on.’ But it was all useless. Every week she got worec. T.ien the doctors thought that sea baths might, hUp her, a little. Her father said that we must not lose any chance of curing her, no matter what it cost. So I brought Louisa down from Clermont to Emu Pa.k so tnat she could be near the eca. We spent nearly every penny we had trying m va.n fcr a cure. “ But it was money thrown awav. The child grew weaker and weaker, and the Paralysis spread. The muscles in the , b er thin little legs drew up in hard knoto Her Ws and arms wasted away till they looked like dry sticks. She used to be the finest and plumpest of all my children—-but now she was just a framework of skm and bones. I dreaded to turn her ip bed. Every time I touched her she lined out with the pam. It mafic my heart ache to see. my little girl so crippled and paralysed. Mr Newbury’s hair turned white with the worry and anxiety. Besides five other doctors, h© called in two specialists in Rockhampton. But, in spite of all worse COU < I do * tile Paralysis kept getting * 50 hel P ler - ; n< >w that she could’ aot hold a cup to her lips. I had to feed her with a spoon, just as if she were a 3n , armfi- • A - t times I had hard work getting her to eat anything. She could not touch meat. For months she lived pretty well on fish food. And all this time the Paralysis was getting a firmer hold. Louisa jnst looked as if all tho blood was drained from her body. Her face wqs ashy grey, j *i.i i 1 ® f>bms were the same doathiy color. It looked as if the poor child wasn’t long for this world. Her voice failed till she could not speak above a feeble whisper. I had the hardest work trying to make out what she was sayirro boon she could not utter a word. When the last oi seven doctors found that her speech was paralysed, he said it was a hopeless case. ‘lf she, lives at all,’ he said, 8 ... 1 116 able to walk or talk ’ We were broken hearted when the doctors owned up in this way that they could do nothing more,” added Mm Newbury. Then. oae day, just by chance, I picked up a little book telling.all about Dr Williams’ .Pink Pills. The more I read, the more I was convinced that these pills would cure Louisa, I got some from my old chemist, and gave her half a pill three times a day. The first two boxes did not do her much good, except make her eat bette-. After the third box she was able to use her arm a little* In a dav or two more she could feed herself—and you can’t think how delighted I was. New life started to come in her left aim—and she said she could feel like pins and needles sticking in her legs. This must have been the new blood made by Dr Williams’ Pink Pills. After that she gained with every dons. Her eyes grew, bright again. Her cheeks filled out, and go t a good color in them. Little by little the pains in her muscles lessened, and the hard knots in her calves went down. She kept on getting stronger, until she could walk again by herself. Imagine Mr Newbury’s surprise, when ho came home one night, to find Louisa skipping up and down the verandah. Now ahe is back at school, and as strong as any child can be. ru ,n a ] )OU ‘ an d play with the best ot them. To look at her to-day you would never think that seven doctors gave her up as a hopeless cripple. Every one of them must admit that Dr Williams’ Pink Pi Us saved her life,” . Dr Wiliams Pink Pills work these wonderful cures, after, doctors and common medicines have failed, because they actuary make new blood. That one thin* is afl they do—but they do it well. Thev dont act on the bowels. They don’t tinker with mere symptoms. They strike right at the cause of disease in the blood, and so cufe indigestion kidney and liver diseases palpitation of the heart, nervousness, neu-rheumatism,--.-sciatica, partial paralysis, and , the. ailments that fill the lives of ao many women with misery. Do not take any pills without,tho full name, “Dr Williams* Pink PiHa for Pale People,” <m the wrapper -round the box. Sold by all ohenustp and storekeepers, or sent post free by- the-Dr-Wiliiams’ Medicine Go., Wellington, at Sb a box, six boxes 16e 6d. Medical •drice given free.— [AdvkJ