A NEIGHBOURLY ACT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7867, 1 August 1911, Page 9

A NEIGHBOURLY ACT

To a Little Girl Crippled by ’’ St. Vitus Dance. j o 7 Showed her Mother how Another Child was Cured. After little Hilda Duthie, of Boulder City, W.A., had beon given up by doctors in an extreme case of St. Vitus' Dance and no one expected the child to | get better, a neighbour brought to her ' mother a clipping from a newspaper. ' The article described the case of another | child who had been cured of St. Vitus' ■! Dance by Dr Williams’ Pink Pills. With j little hope and as a last resource, Mrs *' Duthie decided to give them to her child. . 1 She began to mend and is now one of the !: brightest young girls in that part of •{ Boulder City, St. Vitus’ Dance is one of those nor- ’ vons disorders that require to be treated by building up the nerves. That is why Dr Williams* Pink Pills arc of such high value. They aro a blood maker and a tonic. Tho Duthie family .has lived in tho same block, corner of Vivian, and Hamilton streets for ten years and it was there Mrs Duthie, gave a reporter an account of her daughter's cure. "Hilda got a fright as a little girl and St. Vitus dance set in," said Mrs Duthie. “Her face began first to twitch violently, every muscle would twist. It spread to every limb after, and she grew so bad I had to wheel her about everywhere, it was impossible for her to walk, ’ She had to bo tied in the perambulator and other I times she would lie on a rug on the floor. She was rubbed all over with brandy and had shocks and warm baths, and then a douche of ice water down her spine. All her food had to be liquid form'; if it were solid she would work it out of her mouth, for her tongue was never still. She was months practically speechless, and, of course, could not go to school. She could not even stand on her feet. She was hs white as death, there was hardly a trace of blood in her veins. Her head would acho nearly all tho time. At night she would twitch tho bed clothes olf, and once for three nights I was up all tho time putting on hot flannels. She was as cold as icc and cramps would come on. None of the neighbours thought she would ever pull through. At night'she would wear such .a wistful look in her sleep and looked so pinched and wasted it was pitiable to see her. Winter and summer X would take her out at 4 a.m. till 10 a.m. for the fresh air and to get her away from people's notice, as she was always more upset if people said how ill she was. She would begin to cry, it would fairly upset anyone's nerves to sec her. she looked so dreadfully ill. Sho could not do the smallest thing for herself or hold anything at all. She had to be fed every quarter of an hour night and day, and the food always varied. Even then she could barely take a spoon* ful at a time. It was no use dressing her. I just slipped a coat over her in tho day. She was a more feather weight to lift. The doctor gave her up and said she could not pull through. However, a neighbour'brought a clipping from a newspaper describing a case that had been cured by Dr Williams* Pink Pills. It was soHiko Hilda's that I got some. I started with half 6. pill three times a day, and after some weeks I .increased tho dose. Then when she was getting distinctly better I reduced the dose and finally was able to discontinue altogether when she had taken about twelve boxes. It was a great day when she could go to school again and a great treat to see her eating well. No one over thought to sec it, but the twisting and : twitching ceased; formerly there was not one part of her body that was not on the go." Remember only the genuine Dr ‘Williams* Pink Pills cure. Don*t be gulled into taking something said to be just as good. Of all dealers at 3s per box, six boxes 16s 6d, or from the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., of Australasia, Ltd., Wellington. i