A TASMANIAN MIRACLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3262, 20 October 1897, Page 4

A TASMANIAN MIRACLE.

PARTIAL PARALYSIS AND WHOLE PROSTRATION ENTIEELY CUBED. DE WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS CREATE A SENSATION IN HOBART. ; (From the Hobart Clipper .) , Henry Dixon Clarke, a native of Hobart, Tasmania, tells a story of a cure effected by the use of the now famous Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People which in its marvellous details proves the adage that truth is stranger than fiction. Twelve years ago h'e fell from tha scaffolding of a building in course of erection in Collins .street, Melbourne, and was taken to the Hospital insensible. He recovered and . was sent home. The next morning he was too stiff to go to work, and resolved on resting awhile. next day he was worse, and in addition to feeling feverish and unwell, was seized with twitching pains in the back whenever he attempted to straighten himself. These increased in virulence and were accompanied with intense pains in the head. He lost the use of his left arm, and partially that of his left leg, as well as feeling a numbness all down the side, extending from the shoulder to the region of the abdomen. Electricity was tried amongst other things, but without relief. So much was he insensible to outward agencies that he could bear the application of the battery to his arm to any degree without feeling it. To use his own expression, " You could jab a needle into my arm and I could not feel it.” He was given up as a hopeless paralytic by the medical fraternity of Melbourne after he had spent his last shilling in trying to get better. He then resolved on coming over to Tasmania at the request of his relatives, in the faint hope that the climate might perhaps give him relief. But years dragged on, and his sufferings were without end. ■' I thought,” said he, " frequently of

COMMITTING SUICIDE rather than continue to be a burden upon my -friends, for my miserable -plight was exceedingly depressing, as well as painful. I found relief in a sense. of the word by sitting on the verandah in the sun; but when I saw my friends go past to work it only made me the more miserable, for I was always a very active man. There are not a few,who remember the pale and wretched object I was, seated in the verandah of my mother’s house in Macquarie street, and many can testify to the marvellous cure which took place. I got hold of Dr "Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People, and took four boxes of them. One morning I found X could lift my arm quite easily. It all came on in the night, and then I began to feel bettor right off. In about a week from when the change set in the pains had left me altogether, and I cannot describe to you the relief I felt both in body and mind. A fortnight later and I could walk about and eat well. I had another sensation then, which was new to me —the feeling of hope. Only those who passed an ordeal like mine can tell what that actually means.” " What doctors did you have to attend you?” “I would tell yon, but perhaps they wouldn’t care to have their names mentioned in a case like mine, which they turned up as hopeless. But I spent in all £l7O, and being then a beggar, came home to die. Now there is no fear of my being reduced to beggary again, and as for dying. I’m not going to throw a seven yet for a long while, I can assure you. I am going to work next week round at tha West Coast—a job a friend got for me —so you see what Dr Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People have done for me. I say—and I say it advisedly—and all who know me say so too, that it is the most marvellous thing of the kind that is going. You are welcome to make what use you like of this. I can tell you I am heartily" thankful for my recovery—more than I can describe to you.” x Dr Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People have cured paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism and sciatica; also all diseases arising from impoverishment of the blood, scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas. consumption of the bowels and lungs, anaemia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache, early decay, all forms of female weakness and hysteria. These pills are a tonic, not a purgative. They are genuine only with the full name. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for. Pale People, and are sold by chemists and storekeepers generally, or the Dr Williams’Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z., will forward, on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 3s, or half-dozen for 15s 9d.