AN OPEN LETTER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 251

AN OPEN LETTER.

FROM A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN. A REMARKABLE CURE OF CONSUMPTION IN ITS LAST STAGES—IS THIS ONCE DREAD DISEASE CONQUERED?—IMPORTANT FACTS TO ALL SUFFERING FROM DISEASED OR WEAK LUNGS. Elmwood, Ont., Aug. 21st, 1894. Dear Sire, —I wi-h to call your attention to a remarkable cure of consumption In ,March, 1893, I was called in my professional capacity to see Mies Christina Koester, of North Brant, who was then suffering from an attack of inflammation of the left lung. The attack was a severe one, the use of the lung being entirely gone from the effect of the disease. I treated her for two weeks, when recovery seemed assured. I afterwards heard from her at intervale that the progress ot recovery was satisfactory. The case then passed from my notice until June, when I was again called to see her, her friends thinking she had gone into consumption. On visiting

her I found their suspicions too well founded. From robust health she had wasted to a mere skeleton, scarcely able to walk across the room. She was suffering from an intense cough and expectoration of putrid matter, in fact, about a pint each night. There was a burning hectic fever with chills daily. A careful examination of the previously diseased lung showed that its function was entirely gone, and that in all probability it was entirely destroyed. Still having hopes that the trouble was due to a collection of water around the lung I asked for a consultation, and the following day with a prominent physician of a neighbouring town again made a careful examination. Every symptom and physical sign indicated the onset of rapid consumption and the breaking down of the lungs. Death certainly seemed but a short time distant. A regretful experience had taught me the uselessness of the ordinary remedies used

for this dread and fatal disease, and no hope was to be leoked for io this direction. 1 had frequently read the testimonials in favour of Dr. W illiams' Pink Pills in wssting diseases, but not knowing their composition hesitated to use them. Finally, however, I decided to give them a trial, and I am free to say thst I only used them at a stage when I knew of absolutely nothing else that conld save the patient’s life. The test was a most severe one and I must also admit an unfair one, se the patient was so far gone ae to make all hope of recovery impossible. A very short time, however, convinced me of the value of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Although only using an ordinary soothing cough mixture along with pills, within a week the symptoms had abated so much that it was no longer necessary for me to make daily calle. Recovery was so rapid that within a month Misa Koester was able to drive to my office, a distance of about six miles, and was feeling reasonably well, except for weakness. The expectoration had ceased, the cough was gone, and the breathing in the diseased lung was being restored. The use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pink Pills was continued until Ihe end of October, when she ceased to take the medicine, being in perfect health. I still watched her case with deep interest, but almost a year has now passed and not a trace of her illness remains. In fact, she is as well as ever she wae, and no one would suspect that she had ever been ailing, to say nothing of having been in the clutches of such a deadly disease ae consumption. Her recovery through the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, after having reached a stage when other remedies were of no avail, is so remarkable that I feel myself justified in giving the facts to the public, and I regret that the composition of the pills is not known to the medical profession at large in order that their merits might be tested in many more diseases and their usefulness be thus extended. I intend giving them an extended trial in the case of consumption, believing from their action in this case (so well marked) that they will prove a curative in all cases where a cure is at all possible—l mean before the lungs are entirely destroyed.—Yours truly, J. EVANS, M.D.