SCIATICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 4

SCIATICA.

Tortured Day and Night. F. W. Cudby, Stratford. Cured After Doctors Failed. Dr Williams' Pink Pills.

" I had Sciatica so bad that three of the best doctors in New Zealand could not do a thing for me. They could not even ease mv pain, let alone cure me," said Frederick William Cudby, of Warwick load, Stratford, Taranaki. " For three months I could not do a tap of work. Nearly everj one in the town knows ho*v crippled I was. When I was able to hobble about at all I had to drag my leg after me, like a man with Paralysis. Doctors said I was crippled for life. There's no doubt that I would have been, too, if I had not taken Dr Williams' Pink Pills. Inside of two months they cured my Sciatica, and left me as active as a lad of 10. My cure is nothing less than a miracle. " I got this Sciatica one afternoon when I got wet through to the skin,"' Mr Cudby went on. " I felt all right next morning, but towards evening I started to get feverish. That night £ felt dog-tired, and lay on the sofa while my wife was setting the table. When she called out that dinner was ready, I went to jump up, but a sudden stab of pain caught me in the hip, and ripped right down ths muscles of my leg. I fell back on the couch with a groan. I thought I rras paralysed. My wife heard me cry out, and rushed in from the kitchen. There I lay in agony. She had a terrible time getting' me ta bed, and I never left it for weeks. I stood the pain for three days and nights before I would have a doctor near me.. My leg went numb, and all the muscles were pulled tight. All down the back of my thigh was so sore and tender that I couldn't bear to let e>en the bed-clothes touch me. When the doctor was examining me my wife could not stop in the room and listen to my groans." ''The doctor told me to bathe his leg with water as hot as my hands could bear, and then rub it with the liniment le ordered," Mrs Cudby broke in. " I did this three times every day, but it was only giving him fresh torture. He /'as getting worse and worse. I did not know which way to -"turn to find some way of easing his pain. I had to keep movlr.g his leg from one position to another. And, no matter how gentle I was, he couldn't help crying out; every time. For weeks he lay as helpless as a cripple. When he got up, at last, his log trailed behind him as if it were dead. I never thought he would work again." " Sometimes the pain was like a cramp, and sometimes it seemed to gnaw right into my bones," Mr Cudby resumed. "My blood must have been to blamo, for the pain was all over my system. The muscles in my back began to stiffen up. and a dull ache settled just above my hips. It felt as if a great' weight Lad fallen on me there and crushed me. No matter which way I lay in bed, I could i. ever get rid of that dull, bruised pain in the small of my back. My thigh vas always worse at night. Sometimes the pain kept shooting up and dovvn my leg till I couldn't get a wink of sleep. Fvery, nerve in my body was on edge. Kach day I seemed less able to stand the pain. I was not half the man I was a few weeks before. My muscles started to waste away, and I felt that I was done f or. It looked as if I were going to be a cripple for life." " I called in two more doctors, but they could not. ease the pain," said Mrs Cudby. ''They tried the electric battery, on him, and spared no trouble or expense. At last the whole three doctors told n-e that Air Cudby would never be able to do another day's work. Still I would r.c t give in that my husband was going to end his days a cripple. I got him six boxes of Dr Williams' Pink Pills — I had more faith in them than all the doctors in New Zealand." '" It was merely to please Mrs Cudby that I started Dr Williams' Pink Pills," Mr Cudby went on. "I never dreamed they would cure me. The first box gave me a grand appetite; but that was all. After the second the pain eased up a. bit. While I was taking the third box 1 felt so much better that I was able to go out for a few hours one day. A' sudden storm came on, and I got another wotting. Next day I was as bad as ever. The agony in my log was &omething awful. That took all the heart out of me I wanted to throw the rest of Dr Williams' Pink Pills away, but my wife wouldn't hear of that. She said that I must finish the six boxes, so I kept on. The pain eased up again, and my muscles loosened. Every day there was a change for the better. 1 could feel the new blood tingling in my leg. Little by little ifc brought it back to life. The muscles got strong again, and soon I could walk about fairly well. When I had finished six bcxes of Dr Williams' Pink Pills I didn't even limp. It's over five years from that day to this, and I've never had a twinge of Sciatica all that time. That pio^es that I am cured for good." Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People cured Mr Cudby because they went right down to the root of his tiouble in the blood. They actually mlke new blood — ■ just that, nothing moic. They don't tinker with mere symptoms. They won't cure any disease that isn't caused by badblood. But then, bad blood is tho causa of all common diseases like anaemia, headaches, indigestion, bad liver, nervousness, neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatism, lumbago, backache, kidney trouble, and the special seen aiiments oE growing jrirls and' vvorion, .^iiose health plainly depends upon the richness and regularity of their blcod-supply. Dr Williams' Pink Pills have a man ellous power to cure all thr-se aibnents. But get the genuine- pills. Substitutes never cured anybody. You ran older ihe genuine pills by mail from Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, at 34 a box, or sis boxes 16s Od, post free.