NEURALGIA AND POOR BLOOD
There are very .few cases of neuralgia that are not caused by a thin, run-down condition of the blood. Almost, the first thing th 3 doctor looks for in neuralgic patients is the aaremic appearance. There are two things to do for any form of neuralgia. Apply heat to the affected part to soothe, the pain, and feed the nerves by taking a tonic containing ■the elements needed by them. Heat, as afforded by hot flannel, hot-water bags, etc., hails the inflamed nerves into temporary quiet. It does not cure. Not until the nutrition of the nerves is restored will the inflammation subside and the neuralgic state be remedied. Never under any circumstances should drugs to deaden the pain be used. . Dr Williams' Pink Pills furnish to the blocd the needed elements, and the blood conveys them to the nerves. The only way of getting food or medicine to the rorves is through the- blow]. Remember rhat. Neuralgia, is a general term. It means inflammation ol a nerve. It :'b given differe t names according to the nerve affected. ScUtica is neuralgia of the soi tic i.erv». Applications of heat will frO'..«he the .am in »;'■ f ,rms ol .lenraJcia '■"*" I>* W-'»-'*' Pmk Pills vail correct vne condition that causes it. It j0... have neuralgia, you can send to your fitter »t oneo for a box of I)r Williarwr Pink Pills. A useful booklet on ' D:sea*na of Uie Narvous System' will be 6»..<t Jaw to any address by the Dr Willmrtiaf Medicine Co., [Adttk 1 B '
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Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 7
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259NEURALGIA AND POOR BLOOD Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 7
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