DEADLY DROPSY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue VI, 6 August 1904, Page 53

DEADLY DROPSY.

Give* V» l»y all the Daetoaa. A Young Life Saved by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. “Yes, all the doctors gave me up,” said Miss Alice Sycamore, of 122, Crown fit., Invercargill. “They held out absolutely no hope. ‘We can do no more for you,’ they declartd. My legs and body swelled up with dropsy till I was twice my ordinary size. Often I heard people say, ‘Poor little woman! She won’t be with us much longer now.’ Yet here I am to-day as healthy a young woman as you can find in the South Island—and I owe my very life to Dr. Y'illiams’ Pink Pills for Pale People.” Miss Sycamore certainly is to-day the picture of health. Until recently she lived in Melrose St., Christchurch, and scores of well-known people there can prove that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills saved her life after all the doctors had given her up. “It all started when I was 15,” Miss Sycamore went on to say. “I was just passing from girlhood into womanhood and my blood supply was overtaxed. I grew pale and bloodless. My appetite vanislied, and I slipped into a decline. I was always tired, and my back was always aching- Several times I fainted when out walking, and had to be helped home. Once I was driven nine miles over a rough road to my brother’s at Forest Hili, Winton, and the continual jolting made me spit blood. I fainted at the end of the drive. For 48 hours I’ lay in a trance, as cold as ice and as rigid as iron. Tho doctor could not bring me to my senses for two days. When I came to, I was weaker than ever and my memory was gone. Everv,one thought I was going into consumption. My lungs were so weak that the least exertion made me gasp for breath. My heart was diseased too, and any little exertion made it flutter like a terrified bind in a eage. In fact, my whole health failed. A peculiar stomach disorder made my breath very foul and destroyed all my taste for food. My teeth decayed, and I had to have a false set made. I. could digest- nothing, for even a morsel of meat gave me frightful pains under the breast bone. “And all these years,” said Miss Sycamore, “I was attended by several doctors. ‘Your daughter’s case is a mystery,’ the last one said to mother; ‘I cannot understand it at all, and I must give her up as incurable.’ “Then syunptoms of deadly dropsy came on. My legs and body swelled up with water. I could not close my eyes, and used to sleep with them staring wide open. During my decline I had got terribly thin and frail —but the dropsy spread so quickly that I soon weighed list 21b. My nerves broke down, often I had hysterics, and terrible splitting headaches nearly drove me mad. . “All this went on- for twelve years. Every month I got worse. I lost all hope* of ever getting better. I read so much in the papers about Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills that I had great faith in them —but I never saw a ease where they cured dropsy. However, I decided to try them. By this time I was too weak to be taken- upstairs. The first two or three boxes of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills gave me a wonderful appetite, and strengthened me. It was three or four weeks, however, before the dropsy to go dbnn. After that I took Dr. Williams’- Pink Pills regularly after every meal, and lost 2st 91b in three months. Every dose helped to work the water our of my blood. Ten boxes of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cured me completely when I was within the very shadow of death. I am cured for good too—for I have never had the slightest relapse since.” Miss Sycamore's case is almost a miracle. She never saw it advertised that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cured dropsy—but they curtail diseases thajt are ca,us. ed by bad billed and so they cured her, Ju fact, they factually make new blood. They do just that one thing, but they do it well. They don’t act on the bowels. They don’t bather with mere symptoms. They won’t curb any disease that isn’t caused originally by bad blood; that is the eause of all common ailtnentS sue!! ns anaemia, decline, general weakness, backaches, headaches, indigestion, rheumatism., neurab

gia, sciatica, partial paralysis, and locomotor ataxia. But you must get the genpine—made from the special formally to suit the N.Z. climate —always in boxes, never in bottles* If offered a substitute; send for the genuine to the Dr- Williams’ Medicine Co., Wellington, 3/ per box, six boxes 10/0, post free. Eetters asking for medical advice will bp answered free.