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WRECK WITH HIS NERVES

C. HOUGHTON, FBATHERSTON. AGONISING PAIN'S IN 11 BAD. COULD NOT WORK. HEALTH RIGHT AS RAIN AGAIN. DR WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS. “My wife and I have every reason to speak well of Dr Williams’ Pink Pills,” said .Mr Charles ' Houghton, of Pox street, Peatner&ton, “lor when I was utterly rim ciowu, and so weak that I thought that my brain was giving way, they cured mo m a uuie over, a montu, and X vo been as right as die bank ever biuce. * j. was feeling out of sorts in a general way tor some uuie, ‘ uuued -ur xj.ougaton, ‘ and my vvue nomcea now i nad gono olf my mod. Lveu waen she got my favourite ensues, 1 couiun t loucu mom. 1 got peaKy and turn, and looked fairly miserable. Day in ana day out, i was tired out—it was too muon trouble for me to do anything. At nomo, instead of puttering about the garden, or doing odd jobs about the house, i lounged about, lying down whenever I could. Hy blood must have been as poor us water, for I hadn’t an ounce of strength left in me. “Then, all at onco, one day I was seized with agonising pains in my head. It was just as if red-hot wires were piercing my brain- Tho pains went down my spine, and into my back. • If I moved, they caught mo across the shoulders. After that first bad attack, I was always having them off and on, and while they lasted they nearly drove me out of my senses. W hat worried the wifo and me most of all was that I lost my memory altogether. If I put a thing down for a moment, I couldn’t, for tho life of me, remember what I’d done with it. I’d have to bo reminded of the same thing over and over again, for I d clean forget about it. I actually couldn’t recollect anything that had happened from ono day to the next. Night and day, I was worried with noises in my head. Sometimes they sounded like tho roaring of the sea; at other times just like the buzz and whirr of a tram. I didn’t seem able to think clearly. Often I’ve hold my head in my two hands, cud tried to steady my thoughts. My norves went to rack and ruin. I used to shake like a frightened girl if \ got a bit of a start. Try as 1 would 1 couldn’t steady nerves—they were all unstrung. I looked and felt nothing better than a wreck. My face got a haggard hunted look, and I used to go about in a half demented way. “As you can guess. t my poor wife was worried out of her life about me, said Mr Houghton. “For ever so long sho had been at me to try Dr Williams Pink Pills. Sho was a firm believer in them. Then a friend of mine backed her up, and the two of them wouldn’t give me any peace till I got some from one ot the stores in town and started them, Tho first box eased the pains in my head and back wonderfully. Then my appetite picked up first rate, and soon my wife used to laugh and say sho couldn t 'give me enough to eat. I gamed ground steadily, and when I’d been taking them for a month or so. you wouldn t have known me for the same man. how my nerves are as steady os a rock, and, thank Heaven! I don’t know what it is to have a headache. In fact, my general health has been splendid ever since, and 1 rmt it all down to Dr Williams Fink Williams’ Pink Fills actually moke new blood. Anoemia and irregularities are both caused bv bad blood, and so nro indigestion, headaches, backaches, kidney trouble, lumbago, sciatica, neuralgia, nervousness, failing powers, . general weakness, decline and the special seciet ailments that woraon-folk know. Ky st.Gkim* at the one cause in the blood. D r *Williams’ Pink Pills cure all these. Sold bv chemists and storekeepers, or •amt direct t-om the DrW,ll,«s- Medi. ■•ine Co Wellimrton. Price 3“ a box: six boxes Ids fid. post free. Write for hints os to diet. etc.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 3

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WRECK WITH HIS NERVES New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 3

WRECK WITH HIS NERVES New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 3

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