INVALID AND CRIPPLE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1749, 13 September 1905, Page 43

INVALID AND CRIPPLE

DROPSY AND HEART DISEASE AFTER YEARS OF RHEUMATISM. MRS BOWIE OWES HER LIFE TO DR WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS. "Rheumatism took me in the prime of life,” said Mrs S. A. Bowie, wife of Henry; Buwie, caretaker of the Otago Rowing Club Sheds, Jetty street, Wharf, Dunedin. "For twenty years it did not let me have one single solitary day free from pain. For five years I was an absolute cripple with it. No words can tell the agony I went through. Many a time I prayed for death. Four doctors agTeed that I could not stand the torture for more than two years at the outside. Tho pain alone would kill me. I thanked Heaven with all my heart when dropsy and heart disease came to put a stop to my terrible sufferings without waiting aljl that time. I had given up all hope when Mr Bowie read about a case nearly the same as my own which was cured by Dr Williams’ Pink Pills. I tried them—and here I stand to-day completely cured. It is a positive miracle. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills snatched me from the very edge of the grave. "When Rheumatism first attacked me I was then living on the West Coa ab, OobdeoL, near Greymouth,’’ said Bowie. "My .ankle suddenly swelled up and the pain was frightful. The treated me for a bad sprain, but I got worse and worse. At last I was a confirmed invalid. The swelling spread ui> one leg and then began, in the other. That showed it was no sprain. It must ' have been in my blood. I cannot find words to describe what I suffered. The pain broke down my nerves and under, mined my whole health. I had no appetite, and my back was always aching. But, worst of all, was my heart. The least noise made it jump and thump like mad for a few mimites—and then it seemed to stop beating altogether. I never knew Avhen I might drop dead with it. "All this time I was growing worse and worse. I hated the sight of food, and began" to lose all strength. I used to wake up in the dead of night in a cold sweat. Often the bedding was soaked through. Somebody had to keep wiping the sweat away. I was so. weak front it that I could hardly lift my hand. All this time I was suffering untold torture from Rheumatism. For five yeans I drifted on in this low weak state, and the doctors told me I could not live another two years. "They ordered me away to a better climate, so Mr Bowie brought me ovey here to Dunedin, where he soon built up a business in shipping circles. But th£ change did me no real good, I Was a hopeless case. My legs swelled bigger and bigger. It must have been dropsy. Mv flesh was as soft as dough. When I pressed my finger on my legs, I could actually bury them in the flesh. I could not get my boots on. Walking was out of the question. I could only crawl at beet. My life was one miserable round of pain. I saw nothing to live for, and often prayed to God that the pain -would kill me. "By this time I had given up all hope/' Mrs Bowie went on. "Of course, I had often read of Dt Williams’ Pink but I only smiled at the thought of using them. Then, one day, when suffering more than ever, Mr Bowie read of a case almost exactly like my own. He read it over and over again to me, and it gave me fresh hope every time. "It was in November, 1903, that I sent to the grocer’s for my first box of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills. I fancied that even that first box did me good. Certainly it gave me an appetite. I got more, and kept taking them till February, 1904, Little by little the dropsy in my legs went down. The piercing Rheumatic pains eased up in my joints and muscled. My heart became sound and strong. My nerves were braced up wonderfully. In. a few weeks, instead of looking like a corpse, I got a clear skin and fresh colour. As my strength came back, I war able to get up and walk. Now lam in the best of health, and just delight to keep going all day with my housework. There’s no doubt but Dr Williams’ Pink Pills worked a miracle when they cured me.” Dr Williams’ Pink Pills worked this miracle by actually making new blood for Mrs Bowie. They do just this on* thing—but they do it well. They act on the bowels. They don’t bother with mere symptoms. They just strike straight at the root of all blood diseases like anaemia, skin trouble, biliousness, indigestion, liver complaint, headaches, backaches, kidney troubles, lumbago, rheumatism, sciatica! nervousness, neuralgia. general weakness, decline, consumption (in its early stages), locomotor ataxia, and the secret ailments that come to girls and women when their blood becomes weak, impure, or irregular. Through the blood Dr Williams’ Pink Pills cure all these just as surely as they cured Mrs Bowie. But, of course, you. must get the genuine kind —always in boxes, never in bottles. Sold by retail, ere, and the Dr Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, at 3s a box, six boxes for 16s 6d, post free.