MENINGITIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13465, 18 April 1907, Page 3

MENINGITIS.

LITTLE PEAII!. LAWS CURED. 1)11. WILLIAMS' PINK TILLS.

11 ' Nothing short of a miracle, can save your little girl, Mrs. Laws, and miracles don't happen nowadays.' That's what three doctors told me alter they had a consultation on I'earl when sho was lying in tho hospital with Water on tho Brain," said Mrs. "Win. Laws, who lives just off Ciarencestrcet, not far from tho Grafton Gas' Works. "So it is no -wonder that I bless the day that. 1 started Dr. Williams' I*ink Pills for Palo People. They alone saved her life. "Pearl was delicate from her birth," said Mrs. Laws. "She never seemed to thrive, and she used to cry by the hour. At five months old, I had to take her to the doctor. He said she had Water on tho Brain. ;6ho was under his care till she was 15 months of ago. After that sho picked up a little, but. .-ho -was all out three years before she could walk a step. No ono knows what a handful sho was. Sho had to he carried about as if she were no more than a few weoks old. Just, before her fourth birthday sho took a bad turn. I really thought that she was going. We got the doctor, and ho said the only place for her was the Hospital. After they examined her there, they thought it was a case of Pneumonia. She was so bad that we had a separate room for her. I had a feeling that J could not bo away from mv little girl, so I stayed there day and night for three whole weeks. There was a bed made up for me, so as I could help to nurse her. At the Hospital the Nurses and Doctors did everything in their power. As a very last resource, they had her head packed in ice for twelve hours together. Then they decided to hold a consultation. It was after this that they told mo that. Pearl had Meningitis, and that they were forced to give the case up—they could do nothing. " My heart dropped when I heard that," Mrs. Laws went on. " I was at my wit's end to know what, to do. At last, my hu->-band and I decided to bring the child home. Tho doctors said that for nil the time she was for this world, we might as well leave her where she was. They said it would lie no time before we would have to bring her back again. But. my mind was made up. Wo got a phaeton, and drove her homo very gently and slowly. For days after, she hovered between life and death. Her little checks were red as roses with the fever, and her eyes wero that unhealthy bright. After a lot of care she rallied a little—but. only a little. Her legs were quite powerless. She couldn't stand tin. She couldn't even sit up unless I propped her with pillows. Her head was very much larger than it should have been at her age. It- seemed to be too heavy for her shoulders, and it was always aching. Often slit? had darting pains all over her. She couldn't bear to be fondled or lifted. She was a brave little thing, and it made my heart ache to sec the way sho tried (<> keep back the tears. Her little hands trembled piteouslv. If ever a child suffered agonies it was Pearl.

" She couldn't take anything, not even beef tea," wont 011 Mrs. Laws. "All .she could have was a little milk. .She wasted away to skin and bono. Hor little wrists and ankles wore like sticks, and her face seemed to ho going away to nothing. On the doctor's advice I had lici photo, taken as p memento when she would bo gone. I'll never forget that day. She could only sit tip for it with groat pain. It was a few days after this that. I picked up an English paper and read of a cure like hers by Dr. Williams' Fink Fills. T lost no time in setting my brother to get some from Mr. who had the chemist's shop that Mr. Harris has now. ! gave Pearl one-third of a pill in jam three times a day. Before the box was empty she was a lot bettor. I increased the dose, and got a second bow She kept on getting better and hotter, and I got a third box. But it turned out to he just a stand-by. for she didn't need to take more than a dose or two. By that time there wasn't a thing ailed her. Dr. Wii)in 111s' Pink Fills certainly worked wonders for our little girl. .Vow, if the heat tries her at a!!, or she looks a bit, dicky. T give her half a pill after every meal, and she is soon herself again. Now to see the way sho is playing out there, would you ever think that three doctors gave her tin? Every day she is off to school, and never misses once going to Sunday-school. .She eats well, and causes me no worry. Wherever T tro Til have a good word to say for Dr. Williams' Pink Fills. I owe Pearl's life to them."

Dr. Williams' Fink T'ills nr sold by ill chemists and storekeepers, or sent post free b.v the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, at 3s a box, six boxes 16s 6d. Write for hints as to diet, etc.