A Miracle in Sydney.

Opunake Times, Volume VI, Issue 289, 15 June 1897, Page 3

A Miracle in Sydney.

CAfcE INVESTIGATED BY A SCORE OF PEOPLE AND VOUCHED FOR BY A PROMINENT MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA LONG CONSIDERED INCURABLE BY THE FIRST PHYSICIANS OF THE WORLD HAS AT LAST BEEN CONQUERED. A GREAT VICTORY FOR DR. WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS. (From the “ Australian Workman.” On Thursday afternoon, our representative made his way to the humble home of Mr Thomas Jarvis, 45 Crown lane,' Ultimo. He was discovered nursing a two-year-old baby, and his face declared him to be one of the happiest men in Sydney. He was up and about and able to answer the knock at the door. Although pale and bearing still the marks of a critical illness and a period of pain it was ▼ery clear that he was an invalid on the rapid road to convalescence. .In reply to the preliminary questions, he said ; “ You want to known all about my case ? Well, I am glad of an opportunity to tell you. The facts may be of value to those who are stricken as I was,” “ How long were you suffering, Mr Jarvis ? ” “ Well, twelve months ago I got so bad that I had to leave off work, and I have done nothing since then. About five years ago next Christmas, I met with an accident: I was badly scaldeifcile taking a bath in Pittstreet,""Sydney. Since the accident I have been in failing health, and after four years of gradual developement of the the malady, I was forced to give up my billet in Glebe Island.” “ What were the symptoms ? ” “ Simply indescribable. The pains were something terrible. They were for all the word like as if a saw were •utting my bones in two in every part of me. I had no control over my bowels or bladder, and was a nuisance to myself and everyone else. I was

incessantly shivering and shaking, and could neither eat nor sleep. Ou the 23rd March last I saw a wellknown physician and he told me that my case was utterly hopeless. However, he gave me an order to the Doctor of Charitable Institutions.”

“ Did you make use of the order, Mr Jarvis ? ”

“ No; I came home and went to bed, and have been pretty well in bed ever since. Five weeks ago I could not walk across the floor; in fact, I could not get out of bed. I felt then that it was all over with me, and only a question of days when I would give up the ghost. My doctor was attending me, and did all he could, by opium and morphia pills, to ease the agony I was in. I was under him for six weeks. He came to the conclusion that I was suffering from Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy, a disease of the spinal oord, characterised by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in co-ordinating voluntary movements. He told me that I might last for ten years, and that I might never get the use of my legs. (Just then the patient kicked his legs about with energy to show that medical opinion is not infallible). Well, just as a drowning man will grasp at a straw, I grasped at an idea conveyed by the advertisement describing the cure effected in the case of another boiler-maker in England, which I read in the “ Australian Workman,” by Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I read in the advertisement of a case which seemed to fit my own. I determined to give the Pink Pills a trial anyway, and sent for a box. The effect was as marvellous as it was magical. I was able to eat and sleep as though nothing was the matter with me. It was the first appetite and rest I had lor many a day. It was incredible. I immediately left the bed and was able to move about. I have taken four boxes of Pink Pills during the past four weeks, and am now taking the fifth box. I can walk about with the aid of a stick, and am gradually, but surely, recovering my former vigor and vitality. You see those crutches there ? They are perfectly new, and and I have never used them. They were made for me before I got the Pink Pills, but I was too wqak to use them, and now I don’t want them. All 1 want is this stick, and I hope soon to do without it. You see lam rapidly regaining my strength.” “He is 100 per cent better,” said Mrs Jarvis who had come in and taken the baby on her knees. “ The Pink Pills have saved his life, and made another man of him.”

A friend who called in at this point said that Jarvis looked 10 years younger that day than he did a fortnight previously. “ I can now, continued Jarvis, have have a cold bath, and all the feeling has come back in my legs. If I keep on going the way I am I hope to be able to resume work as a boiler-maker and you know I have to be in the very pink of health and strength to work at that trade, I am better today than 1 have been for five years I ascribe all the change and benefit to these Pink Pills. They have saved my life. lamin no pain now, whatever, and I feel like a new man. On the mantel piece there is a box of opium and morphia pills which the doctor gave me to deaden the excruciating pain. But they can stay where they are, for I no longer need them. Every body who knows me has been amazed at the change in me. They can hardly believe their eyes. My being able to get about again has caused quite a sensation out here.”

Such is this remarkable history, and it confirms what is said in all the chief newspapers of this country of the astonishing cures wrought by Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, They cure locomotor ataxy, partial paralysis, and spinal disease, also the many disorders which arise from an impoverished state of the blood, such as ancemia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, indigestion, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, pains in the back, nervous headache, dizziness, sciatica, &c. They are a purgative medicine, but brace up and permanently strengthen the whole system. They invigorate the system after overwork, worry and indiscretions of living. Mr J. S. T. M’Gowen, leader of the Labor Party in the N.S.W. Assembly was seen by our reporter in connection with the remarkable case of T. Jarvis. Mr M’Gowen says he has known Jarvis from infancy. He also knew that he had to give up his work at Glebe Island abbatoirs twelve months ago, owing to a malady which he developed. He. afterwards heard that Jarvis was bed-ridden, and that there was little chance of his recovery. He understood Jarvis was refused admission to the Sydney Hospital, as his case was pronounced incurable. Mr M’Gowen was therefore like every one else who knew the facts, astounded at the complete recovery of Jarvis. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, are obtainable from all leading chemists, and from the Dr Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z., who will forward (post paid) on receipt of stamps or post order 1 box for 3s, or six for 15s 9d.