CRIPPLED AND CURED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8280, 23 October 1905, Page 6

CRIPPLED AND CURED.

LEONARD WILLS OF PAHIATUA. DYING WITH DISEASED BONES. CURED AFTER DOCTORS FAILED DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS.

Leonard Lionel Wills is the eight-year-old son of Albert Stanley Wills, a farmer of Mangatainoka, a few miles out of Pahiatua. This boy's life has just been saved by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in a way that is nothing short of a miracle. Mrs Minnie Wills, his mother, gives the history of the case in words that carry on their face the stamp of earnestness and truth. The facts are known to the Doctor, and all the neighbours, and anyone is free to test their simple truth for himself.

" Three years ago, when Leonard was only five, he got feverish and I thought he was sickening for the measles," Mrs Wells began. "He soon got worse—and before the week was out we had to call in a doctor. By that time the child was delirious and quite out of his mind with the fever. The doctor brought the fever down—but when Leonard came back to his senses, he complained about his shoulder being sore. If I happened to take hold of his arm he would scream with the pain. Mr Wills noticed then that his shoulder was a little swollen and inflamed. Soon it got a nasty angry look, and the child cried every time I touched it. I sent word to the doctor and he came again to examine him. He then said that Leonard had inflammation of the shoulder blade, and he ordered me lo poultice it to draw out the inflamation. " I did this, and it brought the whole thing to a head. It was an awful sight, and the doctor made up his mind to operate on it. He then lanced it under the arm-pit, and the poisonous matter poured out of the wound. The doctor said that he had never seen such a discharge of pus in all his life. That wound never healed, though I used to wash it out every day with antiseptics. It got worse and worse till it was just like a gangrene eating into his flesh. The poor little fellow was just worn out with pain. Every day he got thinner and weaker, and his face was as pale as Death.

Before long an ulcer formed on the top part of his arm and then the Dr. said that Leonard's bones were diseased. That turn out to be only too true. The ulcer got bigger and deeper. Defore many days a piece of bone began to work out of the sore. It was as green as grass, and all eaten away by the poison in the blood. After that, little pieces of rotting bono kept working out of the sore every few days. Soon afterwards a small pimple formed on the outside of his ankle. This spread and then broke. It formed into a running sore and pieces of bone started to come from it too. When the doctor saw that, he said Leonard must go into the Hospital at once. Nothing could save him unless his bones were scraped. If they didn't get rid of the disease this way, the poison would work all through his system. The doctor said there was no time to lose. If it wasn't done at once, it would soon be too late to save his life. But it was a terrible operation and Mr Willis and I both felt that Leonard could never live through it

"From that time the child got rapidly worse," added Mrs Wills. "He became a complete cripple. He lay there in his bed, day after day, wrapped in wadding. He couldn't bear the bed clothes or even his night shirt to touch him. I worried my heart out over him, for I felt that I had taken his life in my own hands, when I would not let the doctor take him to the Hospital.

" It was just at this time that I read how Dr. AYilliams' Pink Pills had cured a little girl in Queensland suffering just the same way from diseased bones. That put fresh hope into me, and Mr Wills said we would write to the Dr. AYilliams' Medicine Co., AA r ellington, and ask them a straight question whether Dr. AYilliams' Pink Pills would cure Leonard or not ? With the letter we sent several pieces of bone that had worked out of the open ulcers in his shoulder and ankle. In reply they told us of three other cases of the kind that Dr. AYilliams' Pink Pills had cured. So we sent for a supply and decided to give them a fair trial. " A few weeks after starting Dr Williams' Pink Pills, -we noticed that Leonard was always hungry. Soon he began to grow strong, and there wasn't nearly so much pus coming from the sores. He got so much better that we had a special gocart made to wheel him about in the open air. Little by little the sores healed up. All this time he was getting so much stronger and fatter that he was soon able to get up and walk. But it was slow work, and we had to keep giving him Dr AYilliams' Pink Pills every day for twelve months. But by that time there was hardly a mark on his ankle, and only a few pits on his arm and shoulder where the diseased bone worked its way out. To-day he is as strong and well as any boy of his age. He can run like a hare and crack a whip with any of his brothers. To this day the doctor always asks about Leonard, and says that he can hardly believe that he is running about again. But it is eighteen months now since he was cured—so I know he i 3 cured for good. His father and I say it is a downright miracle." When Dr. AYilliams' Pink Pills saved Leonard AVills, after doctors said he could not possibly be cured without an operation, it is no wonder that they can cure so easily little ailments like anar-mia, indigestion, biliousness, headaches, backache, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervousness, and the secret blood troubles of women and growing girls. Dr. AYilliams' Pink Pills do only one thing, but they do it well—they actually make new blood. But the blood is the root of all health. If you are in doubt about your own case, write for free medical advice to the Dr. AVilliams' Medicine Co., Wellington. From that address you can also order by mail the genuine Dr. AVilliams' Pink Pills— 3;'- a box, six boxes IG/G, post free.