CRUELLY ATTACKED

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3883, 28 October 1899, Page 2

CRUELLY ATTACKED

: A NARROW ESCAPE.. .>Bacchus Marsh, Vic; j <■ News has ; reached 'here of an attack made upon a 'resident of Toolorn, near Melton. Readers will regret to hear that Hhe victim is •Mr Frederick William ißyrnes, -a; young gentleman - of great •popularityin the-district. • The .pleasing intelligence;, about tile! whole affair is that Mr. Bymbs fortunately escaped' with his -.lifer 'Mr •B^es;/updn ü beiiig'-ih.ter--viewed, said to your reporter“YesjT have had a -very narrow escape, and congratulations have ooured in from all parts of the district. ~My family and friends are particularly jubilant'.-! Sb'bad was I that-1 had to be removed to the Melbourne Hospital, where several leading surgeons performed a difficult operation on. my hip, which however did not result: as was wished. After the operation, the physicians recommended my removal to the Austin Hospital for Incurables, as no pne thought I would recover. The complaints which had attacked me so violently were galloping consumption and tuberculous affection of the hip. One of the worst symptoms was a continual racking cough which wrenched my frame whenever, a fit overtook me. I lay in bed perfectly prostrated, almost too weak to move, a victim to night sweats, feverish--ness, inability’to eat) and all the other

(Mr W. F. BYRNES, who narrowly escaped death).

symptoms which • come with galloping consumption. No expense was spared in consulting doctors, and obtaining medicines for me, but nothing that I took seemed of benefit. I was looked upon by all as a dying lad. When given up at the Melbourne Hospital, imy relatives removed me home, as they wished to. be, present at my death-bed. . My, face was drawn' and pinched, my hands pale and.bloodlesSj.and .after aiituf coughing.' r,;wb^ i l%:back.^pon l 'mpr; Ph ff'i <9 death' was T[ sbat the minister was'cailed in :i: Jluhshdrtly) after, tins Jlheayd, of, Drj procured for me.- -One box r improved me, and two more boxes proved of the greatest; .imaginable benefit. jin all it took eight boxes to raise me from my. seeming death-bed to the full possession of robust health and strength. , Now I have recovered, the cough and night sweats have' left me, I eat well and am strong. Igo on my shooting excursions just as I used to do, and am.out for days together. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills saved me when on the po'int of ; death.” Now testimonials i: We ihaye. tip any similar. testimonials showing .Ihofcit;suchi diseases' as", p araly s is, i-brdri ch it is, -as t bin a, chronic dyspepsia, rheumatism, nervous, exhafistidi,‘ ‘’ladieS’*' 1 , ailihents, WhSQt buying,' oh?“J red- ink,oh tthe-swhite outsides wrapper? Sold ,by the Dr Williams’. Medicineu.dliompanyv d ,i ibh&e r ißhiliihgs per box, boxes and Lists of ’Cases; y| ( beenj,cu^e^wijlv‘pJ J J ydu free t>y.t4ffißP.hig usa post card.