JUST SKIN AND BONE.

Grey River Argus, 25 June 1906, Page 4

JUST SKIN AND BONE.

After Rheumatio Fever. Stanley Reeve, Foxton. Cripple On Crutches Romping School Boy To-day

DR WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.

''If it hadn't been for Dr Williams' Pink -Pills, Stanley wouldn't be alive to-day,' said Mrs Annie Reeve, wife df Mr 'Arthur Reeve, the well-to-do flax Miller of Coley street, Foxton. {When hi- was twelve he took Rheumatic Fever. After being bed-ridden for eight long weeks, he got a relapse. The doctors never thought he'd pull through. For days he didn't know a soul around him. It was another two months before we dare lift him out of bed. The doctor told me the child's heart was so weak that he was likely to die on my hands any minute. For 1 twelve months I watched him grow thinner and thinner, , till at last he was just a. bag of bones. He couldn't walk a step, and had to be carried from room to room. He was on His death-bed when we started him on Dr Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People. They saved his life. To-day Stanley is a strong and healthy a lad of 15 as you'll find throughout New Zealand. One morning Stanley got up feeling all out of sorts,'" . said Mrs Reeve. "He said he was aches and pains all over. I started doctoring him, but he got worse and worse. My husband called in the doctor. As soon as he saw the way his knees were swollen he said it was Rheumatic Fever. He was just one mass of pain all over. First one wrist swelled up, . and then the other. In fact, every joint in his body ached and burned. At night the pain was always worse. The poor little fellow could not get a wink of sleep. For eight weeks he had the same thing to face. Then just when we thought he was on the mend he got a relapse; The second attack was twenty times wx>rse than the first. His temperature went to 105. The doctor gave us no hope. The~"boy was raving mad with the pain. His moans and groans were something awful. At might my husband and I never left -his bedside. We fuly expected that he~V/ould be dead before morning. , "Even when the fever left him we never thought to pull Stanley thro- ( ngh, tc added Mrs Reeve. "His heart j was so weak that he couldn't take a . drink without gasping. We used to j carry him from his bed to the dining- ] room sofa. There he would lie till ] bed-time. His father couldn't bear to j look at him. You could count every bone in his' body. His arms were like sticks. Often I couldn't help the tears coming to my eyes when I was dressing him. His backbone stood out till you could^ see every notch. He look- . ed like a picture of a famine child. "The doctor couldn't have done 1 more, but Stanley went from bad to worse. His muscles were so stiff and sore that he couldn't bear me to touch him. When he went to bend his knees he cried pitifully. It nearly killed me to see how he suffered day after day C when 'l could find no way to ease his *" pain. The doctor ordered him to be rubbed with liniments — but that was only torture for nothing. Mr Reeve spared no money trying to- get the boy -strong again. After months he 1 was just able to hobble a few steps ' on crutches. He was bent nearly double. He used to stoop so much tHat we were afraid that there must be something wrong with his spine. It was pitiful to watch him trying to hold himself- straight. Some days his heart was so bad that he^ wasn't able to get up at all. Both his feet were puffed up with Dropsy. "His father and I fought hard ag- ~ ainst the thought that Stanley would never be anything, but a cripple — but in a, few months we -could see th'at^ .here was nothing else in store for lim," Mrs Reeve went on. "Then one Jay I read how Dr Williams' Pink Pills had cured a boy over in Queens- J and, who had been bed-ridden foi an wo years. My husband went straight re) o Walker's store for some. In a week ye could hardly believe that there 'o'uld have been such a change m a gj :Hild. He was always hungry, and gj h|e pains weren't nearly so bad when q x ii went to move. Every day he mend- gj .4. In a little while he was able to p r :h!row his crutches aside- and take, a valk round. At the end of six weeks sc Stanley _ was going to., school , again jl [t*s two years now since he left off he Pills, but there isn't a stronger \ty oOy in the district. He can run like fj ( i 'deer. You have only to watch him ir, R ( a] game of football to see how sound jsj bis 'heart is. "My husband and I both c< swf'ar -by Dr "Williams' * Pink Pills. Ri The- neighbors all know what they "> did , for Elsie when she started to slip M nito a' decline." sa 'When Dr Williams', Pink Pills ~- raised little Stanley Reeve to health and strength after he had been abedridden cripple, it "'is no wonder they cute "common ailments like anaemia, . indigestion, biliousness, headaches, A backaches, kidney trouble, liver complaint, nervousness, neuralgia, rheu- -■ matism, and the secret illnesses of J girls and women, whose health depend £. upon their blood. Dr Williams' Pink t \ Pills cure all these because they strike n at' the root and cause" in the blood. , a They ..don't bother 'with mere symp- , toms, they don't acf on the bowels, a They do one thing only, but they dpi & ir well— they actually make new bloodf This is the secret of their succesf| Dr Williams' Pink Pills are sold IP , chemists and storkeepers, or seJI post free, by- the Dr. Williams' W<k _ dicine-Co., Wellington, 3/- a box, sir ' boxes 16/6. Medical advice giveni free. «* T

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