AFTER ERYSIPELAS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17, 27 April 1907, Page 17

AFTER ERYSIPELAS.

Too Weak to Stand Mrs. Newsome, W. Coast Cured Dr. Williams 9 Pink Pills. “Every otic iu the Grey district knows me, ami anyone of them wifi fell you what a slate I was in with Erysipelas, a few years ago. It had me so thoroughly run down ami weak that It was touch and go If I ever got better. Nothing but Dr. Williams* Pink Pill* {Milled me round and today I woudn’t change places with many women of my age In all New Zealand,” said Mrs Eliza News<*nie« an old lady of Blaketown, who has lived Tor many years at Greyinouth. “I (*aughl a seven' cold that settled Im my eyes and turned to Erysipelas,” added Mrs Newsome. “For twelve months It had me nearly blind. I couldn’t move out of my room for all that time. The agony 1 went through was terrible. Yellow matter gathered under the eyelids at each corner of the eyes. Sometimes It poured down my cheeks in one continuous stream. The pain in the eyes themselves nearly drove me frantic. Night and day I had no peace with It. If a ray of light shone into my eyes it seemed to pierce straight through to my brain. For months the room that I was in was kept as dark ns a cellar. Even when I was over the worst of it. I couldn’t stand anything hut a glimmer of light. For a long time I bad to wear dark glasses to shade my eyes. Altogether I was a pitiful object for al! the good my eyes wore to me, I might as well have been stone blind. “The Erysipelas drained every bit of strength out of my body. It left me as weak as a sick cat. ami as for pain why I was never free from it. Ache, ache, ache all up ami down my legs and arms, as if I had been beaten with a heavy stick. Ail down my shins, and in my collarbone It was worse than anywhere else. I couldn’t ('at a morsel, so I went on getting weaker and weaker, losing ground every day of my life. The constant pain anil the weakness wore my nerves clean out. 1 was always on the jump, and in a flutter with some thing or other. When I was in the dark 1 was worse than a frightened child. I<l start imagining all sorts of things till I got worked up into a dreadful stale. My heart would give one leap, ami then stand still. A dreadful spasm would dart right through it. I had to hold my hands light against it, and daren’t itiiive ham! or foot till the spasm passed off. Thon I would collapse iu fact, I’d be so weak that 1 couldn’t stand. “Even when I was out ami about again after the worst of the attack had passed over. 1 was a mere shadow. I was as thin as a lath, and haggard ami careworn with tiie pain. If I hold up my hand to the light you could count every bone iu it it was like a skeleton hand with the skin stretched over it. People who had known me for years hardly recognised me when they saw me wot owe of my old friends ever thought I’d pull through. “Am! it wasn’t for the want of trying to gel well either,’’ Mrs Newsome went on. “When the Erysipelas was bad. I had pretty well every doctor for miles round, and took every single bottle of medicine that they gave me. When 1 saw that they did me no real good, I got disheartened, and gave them up. After that 1 tried everything that you can think of, for everybody that I knew had something to roe<»m mend, and I really believe 1 tried them all. So you see, I couldn’t say that I didn’t give doctors and medicines a fair trial. When they all failed, I was so broken down and miserable that I didn’t take a bit of interest in my life. In fact, I was so wretched that 1 longed to die and end my suffering. “Then, quite by accident. 1 came across Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. I was gathering up some pieces of paper that were blowing about the garden, ami on one of these 1 saw’ an advertisement about these {dlls, it gave an account of a wonderful cure of a case very like mine, so I made up my mind there and then to try them. J got some from Mr Perkinsou, the chemist, hi Greymouth. By the time 1 had finished the second box I found that I was eating my food heartily a tiling that I hadn’t done for over a year. 1 slept well at night, and my general health got better in every way. My eyes improved so much that I left off tire glasses altogether. As I got stronger, the miserable low spirits all went away, and a few more boxes put me right in every way. Now, considering that I’m over my three score and ten, Tm hale and hearty. So many people know how wretchedly ill I was that 1 think ft Is only fair to let them know what a change Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have made In me for my part I can’t say enough in praise of them.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills actually make new blood. They don’t bother with mere symptoms. They go down to the very cause of disease In the blood, and cure that. But you must Insist on getting the same kind as cured Mrs Newsome. Bold by retailers and Hip Dr. Williams' Medicine ('O., Wellington, at 3/ a box, or six boxes 16/d. post free. Write for hints as to •to.