INFLAMED & SWOLLEN JOINTS

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 20, 19 May 1909, Page 55

INFLAMED & SWOLLEN JOINTS

CHRISTCHURCH WOMAN'S BAD TIME WITH RHEUMATISM. COULDN'T BEND HER KNEE OR DO HER HOUSEWORK. HOBBLED ABOUT WITH A STICK. CURED JbY DR. WILLIAMS’ PINK PILLS. "1 used to do a. good deal of laundry work, and I suppose my hands being‘always in the water and. my getting wet often brought on the rheumatics.’’, said Mrs. John Cockle. 28, Brougham-street, Sydenham, Christchurch. New Zealand. "It appeared first in the right hand, and then the left began to surfer, though never quite as acutely as the other, and gradually the poison spread through my system. T got worse and worse. My right knee got very bad. it swelled up troinemlousiy.’ and became inflamed and angry looking. I (oimln't bend it. and to kneel was out of the question. 1 rubbed tha parts with every liniment I could hear of. but the pain always came back. I felt so sore. I’d scream if anyone qame near me. I’d feel as if the muscles and nerves were being drawn up into tight knots, and like lightning a spasm of pain would dart through each limb. I couldn't do any housework; my daughter-in-law had to help me. and often I hud to ge't in my next door neighbour, who knows how much I suffered, to perhaps fasten my dress, or do a little trifle, for I couldn’t put my arms behind me.- or raise them to do my hair. 1 couldn't walk outside, and I could only hobble about the house by means of a stick, or by taking hold of the furniture; 1 didn't lay up.’ but I could easily have done so. as on some days I was quite helpless. At night I .sometimes wouldn’t close my eyes tijl daybreak with the pain. It was always worse when 1 got warm, and I'd lie in torture, ami often have to call out for some one to lift me into a fresh position, and in the mornings I’d have to be helped, up. I could not dip my hands in cold water for fear of getting another attack My fingers got knotted up and rhe knuckles swollen. I couldn’t close my right hand. It was a bother to hold a needle. This, attack lasted several months, ami then became less acute. I came back from a holiday at Gisborne. I felt better while I was there, but the rheumatism .returned. when I got back to Christchurch, and I was always subject to attacks off ami on. especially in cold weather. I'd have twinges all over me first in my shoulder blades, then if would g> up my arms, then on my shoulders till, really. I was quite a martyr. Some .days my feet would have an attack, and I'd be afraid to put them to tho groiiud. and I’d have to take to wearing slippers. I got no lasting benefit from the doctors', treatment, so I started Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. My son Had tried them as a tonic, and found them so good.' l he asked- me io give them a trial. I- fancied 1 with a. shade better when I had .finished the first box, so I got some .more. I took three pills, a day at first, then I doubled the dose, and gradually got* the poison .out of: my syfetem. I, begqn to feel brighter aqd- stronger. The # aml inflammati«Mi slowly loft my. knop. ami, the limbs got /more supple. I could ‘ sleep much easier and got about and go <Si>t without troUblfr. r lf<evor 1 felt another attack coming. on- I si ton Id take, another course of Dr. Williams' Fillk Pills with confidence.'*