ASTOUNDING LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA CURE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 552, 4 October 1897, Page 4

ASTOUNDING LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA CURE.

Doctors Pronounced Case Hopeless. Held to be so by Medical Men the World Over. A Prominent Sydney M.L.A. Bears Testimony. (From the Australasian Workman.) Uur representative made hi.s v.iy to the homo of Mr Thomas Jarvis, 45 Crown-lane, Ultimo. Mr Jarvis i ono of the best known residents of that thickly populated suburb. He was discovered nursing a baby, and his fac * declared him to bo one of the happiest men in Sydney. In reply to the preliminary questions, be said : “ You want to know all about uiy ? We!!, 1 am

glafTof an opportunity to tell you. The facts may be of value to those who are stricken as I was.”

“ How long were you suffering ? ” “ About five-and-a-half years ago I met with an accident; I was badly scalded while taking a bath in Pittstreet, Sydney. From the date of the accident my health began to fail, and after four years of gradual development of Locomotor Ataxia I was forced to give up my billet at the Glebe Island."

“ What were the symptoms ? ” “Simply indescribable.. The pains were something terrible. They were for all the world like as if a saw were cutting 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 every one else. I was incessantly shivering and shaking, and could neither eat nor sleep. 1 saw a well-known doctor, and he told me that my case was utterly hopeless. “ I came home and went to bed, and have been in bed pretty well over since. A few 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 five or six weeks. He came to the conclusion that I was suffering from Locomotor Ataxia, or Progressive Locomotor Ataxy, a disease of the spinal chord, 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 opinien is not infallible.) “ Well, just as a drowning man will grasp at a straw, I grasped at an idea conveyed in an advertisement describing the cure effected in the case of (another boilermaker 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 Dr Williams’ Pink Pills a trial anyway, and sent for a box. The effect 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 for many a day. It was incredible. I immediately left the bed and was able to move about. When taking the fifth box I was able to walk about with the aid of a stick and was gradually but surely recovering my former vigour and vitality. You see those crutches there ? They are perfectly new, and I nave never used them. They were made for me before I got the Pills, but I was too weak to use them, and now I don’t want them.” Mrs Jarvis, who had come in and taken the baby on her knees, said Dr Williams’ Pink Pills saved his life and made another man of him. A friend who called in at this point said that Jarvis looked ten years younger that day than he looked a short time back.

“ X can now,” continued Jarvis, “ have a cold bath, and all tho feeling has come back in my legs. I expect shortly to resume work as a boilermaker, and you know I have to Le in the very pink of health and strength to work at that trade. I am better to-day than I have been at any time during the past five years. 1 ascribe all the change and benefit to these Pink Pills. They have saved my life. lamin no pain now whatever, and feel like a new man. t>n the mantelpiece 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. Everybody who knows me has been amazed at the change in me. They can hardly believe their eye 3. My being about again has caused quite a sensation out here.”

WHAT MR LABOR - LEADER M'GOWEN KNUWS.

Mr J. 8. T. M'Gowen, M.P., leader of the labor party in the N.B.W. Ascembly, was alson seen in connection with tho remarkable case of Mr Thomas Jarvis. Ho says he has known Jarvis from infancy. He also knew that ho had to give up his work at Glebe Island abattoirs owing to a malady which he had developed. He afterwards heard that Jarvis was bedridden, and that thore was little chance of his recovery. He understood Jarvi3 was refused admission to tho Sydney hospital, as his case had been pronounced incurable. Mr M’Gowan vas, therefore, like everyone else who knew the facts, astounded at the complete recovery of Jarvis. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People do not stop short at tho euro of locomotor ataxia; they positively cure rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, and neuralgia, and influenza's evil after effects, and area specific for all diseases of women, such as amcmia, poor and watery blood, female irregularities, nervous headache and hysteria. They are not a purgative medicine, hut brace up and permanently strengthen tho whole system. Dr Williams’ Pink Pills are obtainable from all loading chemists, or from the Dr Williams’ Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., who will forward (post paid), on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for fls or half-dozen for log 9d.