AGONISING SCIATICA

Evening Star, Issue 13047, 15 February 1907, Page 1

AGONISING SCIATICA

F. W. CUDBY, TARANAKI. DRIVEN HALF MAD WITH BAIN. LEG WASTING AWAY. GIVEN UB BY THREE DOCTORS, ACTIVE AS A BOY TO DAY. DB WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS. “ 1 had Sciatica so had that three of the best doctors in New Zealand could not do a tiling for me. They could not even ease my pain, let alone cure me,” said Frederics William Cudby, of Warwick road, Stratford, Taranaki. “ For three months I wasn’t able to do a tap of work. Nearly everyone in the town knows how crippled I was. When I was able to iiobble about at all 1 had to drag my leg alter me, like a man with Paralysis. Doctors said 1 was crippled for life. I would have been, too, but lor Dr Williams’ Pink Bills. Inside of two months they cured my Sciatica, and left me as active as a lad of ten. My cure is nothing less than a miracle. “ I took this Sciatica one afternoon when I got wot through to the skin,” Mr Cudby said. ■' I felt all right next morning—but that night I was dog-tired, and lay on the sofa while my wife sot the table. When she called out that dinner was ready, I went to jump up—hut a sudden stab of pain caught me in the hip, and npped right down tho muscles of my leg. 1 101 l hack on tho couch with a groan. 1 thought 1 was paralysed. My wile heard me ciy out, and rushed in from the kitchen. There f lay in, agony. She had a terrible time getting" me to bed, and I never left it for weeks. I stood the pain for three days ami three nights before 1 would have the doctor near mo. My leg went numb, and all tho muscles were pulled tight. All down the back of my thigli was so tore and tender that I couldn't bear to let even the Ud-cJothes touch me. When the doctor was examining me my wife could not stop in the room and listen to my groans. “Tho doctor told me to bathe his leg with water as hot as my hands could bear, and then rub it with the liniment he ordered,” Mrs Cudby broke in. " ] did this threo times every day—but it was only giving him fresh torture. Ho was getting worse and worse. I did not know wlierc to turn to find some way of casing Iris pain. I had to keep moving ins leg from one position to another. And, no matter how gentle I was, he couldn’t iieip crying out every time. For weeks he lay as helpless as a cripple. When he got up at last, his leg trailed behind him as if it were, dead. I never thought he would work again.” “ Sometimes the pain was like a cram]), and sometimes it seemed to gnaw clean imo my bones,” Mr Cudby resumed. “My blood must have been to blame, for the pun was all over my body. The muscles in my back began to stiffen up, and a dull acfte settled just above my lujis. It felt as if a great rock had fallen on me- there and crushed me. No matter which way 1 lay in bed, 1 could never get rid of that dull, braised pain in the small of my back. My thigh was always worse at nignt. Toe pain kept shooting up and down my leg till 1 couldn’t get a wink of sleep. There wasn’t a nerve in my body that wasn't on edge. Each day 1 seemed less able to stand the pain. 1 was not half the man 1 was a few weeks before. My muscles started to waste away, and I knew that I was done for. It looked as if I was going to bo a cripple for life.” “I called in two more doctors, but they could not ease tho pain,” said Mrs Cudby. “They tried tho electric battery on him, and spared no trouble or expense, but it was no use. At last the whole three doctors told me Unit Mr Cudby would never be able to do another day’s work. Still 1 would not give in that my husband was going to cad his days a cripple. I got Idm six boxes of Dr Williams’ Pink X’ills, for X had more faith in them than in all the doctors in New Zealand.” “It was merely to please Mrs Cudby that I started Dr Williams’ Pink Pills,” Mr Cudby went on. “ The first box gave mo a great appetite—but that was all. After the second, tho pain eased a bit. While 1 was taking the third box 1 felt so much better that 1 was able to go out for a few hours one day. A sudden storm came on, and I got another wetting. Next day 1 was as bad as over. The agony in my leg was something awful. Thao took all the heart out, of me- X wanted to throw the rest of Dr Williams’ Pink Pilin out of the window, but my wife wouldn’t hear of that. She said that 1 must finish the six boxes—• so I kept on. The pain cased again, and my muscles loosened. Every day there was a change for the better. 1 could fed the new blood tingling in my leg. Little by little it brought it back to life. The muscles got strong again, and soon I could walk about fairly well. When 1 had finished six boxes of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills I didn't even limp. It’s over five years from that day to this, and I’ve never bad a twinge of Sciatica all that time. That proves that I am cured for good.” Dr Williams’ Pink Bills actually make new blood —nothing more. But, of course, you roust get the genuine Dr Williams' Pink Bilk, made by tho Dr Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington. Sent by mail fpom this address, or sold by all chemists and storekeepers at cs a cox. six boxes 16s 6d. ■ Write for Uinta os to diet, etc.—LAdvtJ