ACUTE SCIATICA EVERY YEAR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 26, 28 June 1911, Page 11

ACUTE SCIATICA EVERY YEAR.

Crippled in Bed in Helpless Torture.

» — Neighbours had to do Everytliina for him. ♦ —

A Marvellous Cure by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. To cure Sciatica and Its torturing shotting pains, treatment to restore the nenes to their proper state of tone is required. Medical men all agree that Sciatica is a neivous disorder. It may be caused by an injury or blow to the Sciatic nerve, but often occurs in a run down nervous condition. There are on record a great many cures of Sciatica by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. They are a blood making machine, and direct nerve tonic, and the record of euies of Sciatica is so lengthy that their value in this complaint is certain. After suffering severe attacks uf Sciatica annually for many years Mr F. Sylvea, Hallam Street, Tennyson, Port Pi tie, S.A., found that rubbing liniments and outward treatment gave him piactically no relief. Mr Sylvea was finally cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. lie made the following statement to a reporter: “I was always getting wet when in my boat out fishing, and Sciatica came on me gradually, and 1 began to suffer acutely, and for four years it was in my system. From September to January in every year it was never absent, and I would often get twinges of it in other months. I was taken tjo bad once on stepping ashoie about 4 am. I actually had to crajvl home on my hands and knees. I was practically in bed then for four months, and had to be looked after by my mates. Occasionally I would dress myself, and it would take me nearly ah hour to put bn my clothes, and hobble with a stick to the door to sit in the*sun. These yearly attacks would go away in‘the Japuary, and I would get back to work, but only to be laid up in bed the same way the next September. At times I could not get out of bed to go as far as the kitchen. I was seven weeks in the hospital here, but got no relief. 1 crawled home, and had to sit down quite a dozen times on the road. The left leg was affected fiom the hip to the ankle. I would feel every nerve and muscle on lire, and pains would dart up and down like lightning, or shocks from a battery. At night I might be reading hi bed. and with the slightest movement the attack would come on, and there would be no more rest for me that night. Perhaps when I did fall off to sleep, if I happened to move, the pain would start, and wake me up for certain, often when 1 would try to get out of bed in the morning an attack would come on. and I would fall flat. I novel' dared to put my foot to the ground with any weight on it. I always bad to hobble with the aid of a stick. I tried all softs of liniments and quantities of eajapiit oil, but got no relief. In the hospital my hip was blistered and poulticed, but nd benefit camo. The leg got shorter and more shrunken than the other, and I never dared stretch it out straight. I would think something was gnawing at my flesh. For a long time I could not even bear the weight of the bed clothes on my foot. I went off in flesh and appetite. I was as wretched as any man could bo. Occasionally 1 wont out and just pointed the best grounds; but I never did any work. My mates and neighbours all know what I have been through. One day a neighbour came round and read mo an account of a ship’s mate being cured by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and the case was so like mine that I sent for a couple of boxes. I actually found some relief from them, so I gladly sent for some more. I noticed the pains det-:easing, and nil the stiffness and stabbing getting decidedly less. I could hardly credit It; it seemed too good to be true, but It is an absolute fact that five boxes drove out every pain and ache. I was afraid that next year it would return ns usual; but not once

has it put in an appearance.” The price is 3/ per box, six boxes 10/6, and if you have trouble In getting them pend a postal note for the amount to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. of Australasia, Ltd., Wellington, and they will be sent post free by return mail.