ACUTE RHEUMATISM CURED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2263, 15 July 1897, Page 44

ACUTE RHEUMATISM CURED.

TORTUKE IN YORKSHIRE. The Wakefield Express publishes the extraordinary investigation which has followed a local rumour. The wife of a miner at a village near Wakefield was being tormented night and day by the most poignant anguish of body and limb, and had been rendered unable to move without aid. The Express reporter hunted up the woman in question — a Mrs Thompson, of 30 Crossley street, New Sharlston — but she was to all appearances perj fectly well and sound, and candidly admitted herself to bo so. Further questioning yielded the following details : — About 14 years ago Mrs Thompson contracted a severe cold, which rapidly developed into rheumatism of the most acute kind. She was known all over the neighbourhood as one of the greatest sufferers in England. Her hands and arms were so distorted with pain that she was unable to cut a slice of bread. Her appetite failed, and the once buxom young woman became a mere shadow, her weight falling off to the extent of three stone. A long course of baths and mineral spring treatment at Buxton, and afterwards at Matiock, proved unavailing. Askern and Harrowgate were also tried in vain. She retm-ned home in despair, and suffered for many years. But a great change was in store. One day, about two years ago, Mr Thompson purchased for his wife a box of Dr Williams's Pink Pills for Pale People, and from *the time she commenced to take these Pills she immediately improved. To-day she is in better health than she has been for the past 13 years. "No doubt," says the Wakefield Express, " certain people will designate this 'an advertising puff,' but we can assure our readers, on the authority o f our reporter — a journalist of 40 years' experience — and on the evidence of many of the residents i n Sharlston, that the above statement is liter- i ally true, and by no means exaggerated. Mrs Thompson said, ' I feel thankful that I was ever led by the hand of God to try this remedy. My appetite has returned, and my weight has gone up ; from six stone ten pounds to about nine stone.' " The husband fully confirmed his wife's statement. Dr Williams's Pink Pills are praised among all classes as a strengthening and tonic medicine for men, women, and children,