Nature's Alarm Bell.

Southland Times, Issue 16052, 2 June 1902, Page 4

Nature's Alarm Bell.

What Doctors Tell Us About A Common

New Zealand Diseask.

Wonders never cease. The more a man learns the more convinced he becomes that he is fearfully and wonderfully made. Thus the highest authorities in medical science have jnst brought to light a fresh and highly interesting provision ot nature. From their latest researches it appears that common neuralgia— the complaint from which so many New Zealauders suffer every winter — is really a clever physical alarm bell, rung by nature to tell a person that his vital energies are at a low ebb. The story of the discovery is interesting. The physicians, to whom the credit is due, happened to notice that sufferers from neuralgia were generally people with pale eheeke, dull eyes, and languid figures. As these are symptoms that generally arise from anaemia, they were led to suspect some connection between the painful neuralgia and disorders of the blood. The connection was soon apparent. Neuralgia, whioh old doctors thought was simply a disease of some particular nerve, was proved to be really the result of bloodlessness and a general run-down constitution. Thiscrustitutional weakness may take the form of dyspepsia in this mao, or rheumatism in that man, or St. Vitus' dance in one, or paralysis in another, or consumption in another— out the chief cause in each case is bloodlessnees. If you allow your strength to slip away, your energies to decay, your blood to grow impure, or your neives to become unstrung or disordered, you have no power to resist the diseases that constantly surround you. It is then that neuralgia, with all its excruciating pains comeß to warn 3'ou of the danger in which you stand. It is an auto j matic alarm bell that warns you of approaching peril. Those who understand the warning can easily save themselves — those who understand it not, and neglect it, will ail and ail until they slip away in a decline. This discovery is not only interesting but practical. Probably its geatest value i that it suggests at lasta sure and scientific cure for neuralgia. If the neuralgic pains are due to bloodleesnefis andageneral low gtate of health the only proper cure, of course, ie to enrich the blood and build up the constitution. For this Surpose there is no remedy to compare with >r Williams' pink pills for pale people. They strikeright at the rootof disease. They purify and enrich the blood, nourish the tissues, strengthen the muscles, stimulate the energies, soothe and tone the nerves. They make sallow cheeks rosy, pale lips red, dull eyes to sparkle, drooping figures to become erect and sturdy. Their effect upon neuralgia is clearly demonstrated by the recovery of M rg Mary Anderson of Main Bt. s Temaka, Canterbury. " About three years ago," she sayß, " I was attacked by neuralgia in the face and head, and by neuralgia of the heart— the latter, an especially dangerous complaint. The attacks were periodical, and the shootiug, nagging pains seemed to dart from the heart right up iDto the head. My life was made miserable. I suffered from nervous weakness and general derangement, and grew so ill that I feared to stay alone in case a bad attack would come on. 1 was undor a doctor's treatment for some time, and, finally, on his recommendation, went away for a change. But the result was not satisfactory. About eight months »go I heard that Dr Williams' pink pills were a good nerve tonic, so I began taking them. One boxful benefited me: three boxes cured me. From the first they seemed to build up my blood and strengthen the nervei, and they continued to exert this good infl.u\3Doe until 1 was once more strong and robust, and free from every twinge of neuralgia." These pills are obtainable from chemists and storekeepers, and the Dr Williams' medicine co, Wellington, three shillings per box, six boxes sixteen and six, post free. They have been especially beneficial to Mrs Auderson's family, as it appears her daughter had a'so obtained great benefit from their use. Mrs Anderson is 50 yearn of age, and came to New Zealand 24 yeais ago from Hertfordshire, England. She lived in Duriedin for 11 years, and since then has lived in Temuka. If these scientists are correct, neuralgia must be regarded no longer a 8 a fiendish device for bringing agonies and tortures upon the human race. It is simply a stern but kind method of warning people in time to escape from a far worse fate.