BAD BACK FOR YEARS.

Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 1

BAD BACK FOR YEARS.

WML S. BARR, OF PAHIATUA. CRIPPLED BY A FAIL. EIGHT SOLID YEARS OF PAIN. STRONG AS EVER AGAIN. DR WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.

I had a fall once that near broke nw back," said Mr William Stewart Barr, of Pahiatua; ." They had to cany me to bed, and it was a good few years before I was fit for hard work again. My stomach turned on me. I'd vomit till my head was ready to split. In fact, my whole health was smashed up. I lost all my nerve, and anylittle scare set me shaking all over. I was so weak and gone in the back that I could barely walk. At last I took to Dr Williams' Pink Pills, and they cured me in a month."

Mr Barr is a son of Dr Thomas Barr, of Hawthorne, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, and was born in Calcutta. He lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, for some time, afterwards coming to Australia with his people. He hasbeen well educated, and it was intended that he should be a doctor like his father. But the young fellow, taken with the restless desire to live in the open, struck out for * himself. He has put his hand to many things since, and for over ten years held a good position in Martinborough. Mr Barr is now engaged as a storeman at Pahiatua, "It was while I was working at Martinborough that I came by my accident," said Air Barr. "One day I was bringing up a heavy log on my shoulder, when my foot caught in a root, and I fell heavy. The ugly way I went down, with all the weight atop of me, gave mo a terrible rick in mv back. I was stiffened out. When they went to lift me to carry me to tho house it took me all I knew to keep from yelling. The pain was something awful. *' Every time I tried to move in bed it was likegetting the muscles of my back torn'out. When I got up again at last I was left with a weak back that kept mo off anything but the easiest work.

So sure as I tackled a bit of lifting, the pain came on again. It was all I- could <io to crawl home of a night. For a (rood spell I kept at light- jobs, and the pain cased up a lot. In fact, I thought I was getting all right, and took on shearing that year, but the old trouble found me out so soon as I-got down on the board. There's nothing like a day's shearing to try a man if he's at all weak in the back. From the first tally it told on me. When I let my sheep go, and stood up to stretch myself, the pain caught me like a spike being driven into my spine. I had a hard job to hang out till smoke-oh. But I had my cheque to make, and I stuck to it. There's no man ever put an edgo on a shears' that suffered more than I did. It knocked me clean out when a spell of cold weather came on. In the early morning I was too crippled to get aboiitC All down my back I was as stiff as a rail. Every timo I moved the pain cut into me. it tore across my hips and round my rihs. I was all screwed up. It gripped me in the innscles of my back till I had to veil out.

"In the end I couldn't either sleep or eat," added Mr Barr. "First one thing and then another turned on nie. Every bite tasted the same, and stuck like a, lump of lead on the top of my chest. After a feed I got that, drowsy that I\l drop off to sleep, and then wake with a start. A dull burning pain took mo in the middle of the chest, and I felt that something was crushing my ribs in. Sour stuff kept bursting up into my mouth every few minutes, and I got as sick as a dog. 'When I stood up I went dizzy, and things started to swing round. I turned cold,- and the sweat broke out all over'rne. Then I just sot to and vomited.

"My heaji ached fit to burst The top throbbed as if I'd been hit with a .hammer, and my nerves were jumping all roads. My back started to bother me more every week. ' It hadn't been so bad for close oil four years. Every chill settled just above my hips, and kept me in agony day and night. Often I was as good as crippled with it. When I stooped, a terrific pain caught me through my back and fairly stretched me out. In the end I had to take on another doctor. Ho sounded me all over. ' Why, man,' ho said. ' your heart's all strained. Have you ever been in a bad accident?' Then I up and told him about the- tune the log laid me out. 'Well,' he said, 'that fall nearly cost yon your life Your heart's all pulled out of place. If you're not careful you'll go out one of these days before you know if.' He sail that was the cause of all I'd gone through the last eight years. He couldn't make out how I kept out of the hospital, with my back crippled tlte way it was. He told mo straight that I'd never be right again. '"And neither I would if I'd stuck to doctors. But I threw them over, and cot six boxes of Dr-Williams' Pink Pills. [ began to pick up after the first box. 'You'd find me waiting for my meals every time. Id soon done with the pains in mv chest smd the bilious attacks let up on" me aa well. I kept at Dr Williams' Pink Pills steady, and within a fortnight my back began to mend. The pains weren't'half so bad. In fact, it wasn't long before thev had left mo for good. I can do a hard days work now, and never feel a bit t-h<i worse. I'm "cured, and it was Dr Williams' Pink Pills did it for me. Inside o( a month I could lift a weight with any man in Pahiatua," , Dr Williams' Pink Pills, by making new blood, strike straight at the cause of all blood diseases such as rheumatism, lumbago, backache, kidney trouble, liver complaint, indigestion, biliousness, debility, and special spinal weakness, ' But, 'of course, you must be sure to get the genuine Dr Williams'-Pink Pills for Pale People. They're always in boxes—-never in bottles. Don't bo cheated with any cheap substitute. You can always get the genuine from the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, 3s a box, six boxes 16s 6d, postage paid. Medical advice given free.—[Advt ]