RHEUMATISM IN HIS WHOLE SYSTEM.

Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 24

RHEUMATISM IN HIS WHOLE SYSTEM.

EVERY JOINT RACKED NIGHT

AND DAY WITH PAIN,

THIS MAS WAS MAEVELLOTTSLY CUBED, AND GIVES HIS EXPERIENCE FOE THE BENEFIT OF OTHER SUFFERERS.

" 1 had an attack of rheumatic fever, and after- that I caught a chill." eaid Mr Thos. Reid, care of Mrs E. M. Thomas, Semaphore road, GranvUle, Pt. Ade4aid,e, S.A. "I was leaning against a hot boiler and caught cold after. I noticed the rheumatism first in the ankles, then it spread to my knees, then to my arm?, and finally it went right through me. I Was ip bed twelve weeks, amd off work for much more, The pain was agonising ; I could not raise my arms up. All my back and .shoulders were affected. I didn't like anyone n>ear me. If 1 moved I'd scream out with the agony. My hands were not affected, fortunately. I could not eat with such pain in my system and I began to fail away. .The presure of the bedclothes was too much for me, an-d vet I couldn't push even the sfieefc off by .nyself. I hid c grinding gnawing pain ;n; n every .muscle, and when I moved the pain woulr" simply lack me. The pair, was always worse from 5 in the morning, r real jumping pain, and it was impossible k close ar eye: I dare no f prees the affected parts, I'd feel the least touch. I lived on beef tea and bread and milk and such like. I couldn't caff anything else. I fell away and lost nearly a stone in weight. My only relief was to lie absolutely still. If 1 crooked a finger, I'd feel a pain running through my shoulder and down my arm. Every joint seemed creaky and rusty. All these weeks I was in bed practically helpless, and the pain never absent for more than a couple of minutes or so at a time, except when I'd 1 fall off to sleep exhausted: I'd wake up groaning with the pain running through me. At lpst I decided to give Dr Williams' Pink Pills a trial, and I' .ft trla-d to say they completely cured zne""-