DEATH IN THE HEART.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11729, 2 December 1905, Page 6

DEATH IN THE HEART.

Life Hanging by a fhraad. Three Leading Doctors Fall. Michael Clayton's Life Saved. Dp Williams' Pink Pills.

."For five years my heart was so weak that my life was just hanging by a thx-ead. All this time I was crippled with Rheumatism. The three best doctors in Launceoton could do nothing for me. After they faiieu, 18 boxes of Dr Williams' Pink Pills cured me for good. ' My case is a downright miracle." . . That is 'Che statement of Michael Ciayton, who lives at 9 Cypress St./ off Elphin Rd., Launceston. l<or 25 years he worked in the Waverley Woollen Mills, and the facts of his case are well known to Mr Hogarth, one of the leading citizens of Laimceston. Mr Clayton himself has solemnly sworn to the facts before Senator D. Storrer — and it goes without saying that Senator Storrer would not lend his name to a statement that was not true in every detail. "It was in 1895 that I first felt the Rheumatism in my shoulders," said Mr Clayton, going back to the beginning of his illness. "It was a dull gnawing pain that stiffened all my muscles. I could not raise my arms to my head. Little by little the pain worked down my left side and around my heart. My loft arm was worst of all. It was so swollen and sore that I could not button my waistcoat. Many a night I did not get an hour's sleep, and my 'nerves were all undtrung. Often I was sick on my stomach in the mornings. I gradually lost weight and my whole health went to pieces. "One day when I was working in tho Factory, a sudden smothering feeling came over me, and I feli down in a half faint. When my mates found me, I was gasping for breath. They thought I was dying from Heart Disease. After that, I never knew when one of these attacks would come on. Whenever my heart jumped or fluttered I was in mortal drea*. Day and night, I always had a queer feeling around my heart. It was not ex-, actly a pain — it was just a stuffy choking feeling as if the very breath were being crushed ont of me. My face used to flush, and then my head would swim and my ears ring. A feeling of faintness would corao over me, and a cold sweat would stand out on my face. Often I thought my last hour had come. "There are not' three better doctors in the whole. of Tasmania than the three who treated me all through my illness, 1 ' Mr Clayton went on to say. ''But they were not able to do me one atom of good. When I was nearly mad with the Rheumatism, they injected morphia into my veins — but the pain was ten times worse afterwards. And all this time my heart was getting weaker. At last, one of the doctors found a lump ,on my left side, just over my heart. Little by little it grew and spread. 1 tackled the doctor, and he told me 1 had Fatty Degeneration of the Heart. When I asked him what that meant, ho said that the muscle of my heart was gradually turning into fat. It was so soft that my heart might ' burst at any time — or the fat might get so thick that my heart would not have room to beat at all. From that day on, I knew that I might drop dead any moment.

"The doctors tried to work the lump down by rubbing it — but that only seemed to make it spread. Then they tried to molt it with hot flannels arid oil — but that did no good either. Every month I found it harder to breathe. Oi'len I ha<t to crawl homo from tho Factory more dead than alive. Sometimes I honestly wished that the Heart Disease would put an end to all I was suffering. Tho Rheumatism seemed to be all through my system,- eating iato every joint and muscle. The asrony was something awful. My faco got all drawn and haggard with suffering. 1 soon gi'ew so helpless that I could not cut myself a pipe of tobacco. At last I had to knock off work altogether. For three months I was absolutely crippled. The doctors could not even ease my pnm — so my daughter got me to try Dr Williams' 'rink Pills. She thought they might euro my Rheumatism — but neither of us ever dreamed that they would do my heart any good "At first I thought that Br Williams' Pink Pills were going to tail like ail the doctors' medicines." Mr Clayton added. "All I noticed after the first box was that 1 had a grand appetite. During the third box. I fancied my Rheumatism was a little easier — and before I finished the next box I was sure of ft. After the fifth box, 1 did nob want any move morphia. In a few weeks I was able to button my own shirt and lace my boots. Then I noticed that the lump around my heart was going down. I could hardly believe my eyes. Before long there wasn't a sign of it left. I lost that stuffy smothering feeling, and my heart began to beat in a healthy way. It was a long up-hill fight —but, "in the end, I was completely cured with 18 boxes~of Dr Williams' Pink Pills. They actually saved my life. % I can jump about like a boy now, and my heart is as sound as any man's. I have never had a pain or an ache since Dr Williams' Pink Pills cured me 5 years ago — so that sliows I am cured for good. My daughter here will tell yoxi that every word I speak is Gospel Truth.'" Dr Williams' Pink Pilb work these won-, derful cures, after doctors and common 7nedicines have failed, because they actually make new blood. That one thing is all they do — but they do it well. They don't action the bowels. They don't tinker with mere symptoms. They strike right at the cause of disease in the blood, and so cure indigestion, kidney and liver diseases, palpitation of the heart, nervousness, neuralgia, rheumatism, sciatica,: partial paralysis, and the., ailments that fill the lives of so many women with misery. Do not take any pills without the full name . "Dr Williams' Pink Pills fpr Pale People" on the wrapper round the box. - . Sold by all chemists and storekeepers, or sent post free by the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, at 3s a box, six boxes l(?s 6d. Medical advice given free.