A DEATH-BED RESURRECTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1898, Page 15

A DEATH-BED RESURRECTION.

* ANOTHER PRESENT-DAY MIRACLE. DOCTORS BEWILDERED; FRIENDS DUMFOUNDED.

SENSATION IN PEARL BAY

OUR reporter called at the home of Mrs. Nilson. wife of Mr. J. D. Nelson, proprietor of the popular Pearl Bay (Sydney) pleasure grounds, and lessee of Clontorf and it--, fine pavilion and surroundings. Mr. Nelson's name is admirably know nin this p \rticular. and his Wednesday evening excursions to Clontarf. and his Sunday trips to both there and Pearl Bay are not only always well attended, but are conducted with the greatest degree of good management nnd eclat. Our reporter's mission was to find out if the reports he had heard respecting Mrs. Nelson were true. Mrs. Nelson's tuneful voice at once proclaimed her hearty welcome to the scribe, and he was forthwith at ease with this most kindhcarted ot hidief. "Do you know that in the past 15 years," she observed. '• I have spent £200 in tonics, cures, and patent medicines without receiving the slightest benefit or surcease of pain." •' It's a large snm," we remarked. " Yes, indeed," was the reply ;'• but I spent every penny of it. Although I have been taking these medicines for !."> years, it was not until ISBS — or eight years ago— that I felt myself becoming completely prostrated and unnerved through the severe and continuous attacks of acute indigestion and general nervous debility. There was no mistaking the symptoms, and day by day I sank nearer the grave, until the family have been actually gathered round me expecting me to die. So weak and enfeebled did I become that every partical of physical strength deserted mo, and for IS hours together I have lain helpless and even unable to speak. For two days and

nights at a time without cessation I used to suffer from the most fearful throbbing headaches, until the agonizing strain was so severe that I hardly knew where I was, and c ireil not whether I lived or died. " A burning hot feeling spread round my throat", just as if I had swallowed boiling water ; the pain w:is excruciating and wort-e than the vilest attacks of hcartbi 'ii. There wa& always a repug-

nant taste in ray mouth as if I'd been sucking a penny. You know how horrible that is ! During this time I had hundreds of people to entertain, but it was sad work for me trying to do it. I frequently experienced the sorest of pains in the chest and stomach, and so hot and irritable did my skin become that I couldn't even bear to wear my night-dress, whilst I was so weak that the bedsheet on top of me was too much, and even that had to be dispensed with. lam passionately fond of oysters, but I couldn't take one ; and as the indigestion and nevous debility got worse and worse, I could neither even drink milk or water. All solids had been longout of the question, and it would have absolutely killed me had I taken any. Several doctors well up in their profession, and in whom I have great confidence, examined and prescribed for me. They did not tell me what they thought of the ca<e, out of kindness to me, but I knew well enough that their ideas were all expressed in twos hort but significant words : Hopeless ! Incurable ! They unsuccessfully treated me for acute indigestion, and they lett me no better than they found me, although once or twice I obtained a little temporary relief. At last I came to as near crossing the line between life and death as ever a woman did. I was now too weak to even walk, and I could only stagger falteringly along the room, holding on by chairs and tables, thus drawing myself along. As my malady increased, so did my want of rect, and night or day I was utterly unable to sleep. Insomnia pursued me like a fiend. Then I became even worse, and the crisis arrived, heightened and accentuated by serious domestic sorrow. For five long days and nights I lay helpless and entirely prostrated, utterly unable to swallow the softest particle of food or the smallest drop of moisture. My husband just kept me alive by moistening- my lips with brandy. All could see the crisis had come, and that the end was near. Grief, alarm, and resignation were painted on the faces of those around me. One day, however, one of my sons brought homo a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and said, ' Ma, these pills are for pale people ; you must try them. I've heard they've done a lot of good to others.' To please him I consented, because I knew they would at least do me no harm. I took the pills. The result was most astounding, and to me miraculous. A short time after taking them I commenced to improve. My appetite returned, and I ate ravenously. My family was amazed. If 1 had forced food down my throat before 1 had taken the Pink Pills it, would have killed me," she explained impressively. " But from then I rapidly improved. First 1 took one pill at a time just before each meal, and after that two before each meal. My appetite completely returned, and I reli&hcd all sorts of food. I was able to sleep soundly and well, the pains left my stomach and chc-t, the severe headaches became spectres of the past, the coppery taste left my mouth, and my cheeks became pink instead of pallid. In two short weeks atter just taking the pills I was up and about and able to attend to my duties, and I was absolutely and completely cured of every malady I had suffered from in three short weeks and two days. In addition to the total absence of indigestion and nervous debility, the irritation in my skin vanished, and I was able to once more wear my corset and ordinary clothes with comfort. Now I can eat raw fruit going to bed withoafc ill-effect," remarked our sprightly an J entertaining narrator. In conclusion she '"Please recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to everyone. lam sure they will cure almost anything and I'm only too glad to give you every particular of my ca--e for publication. Anyone who wants to sic me will alv\ajs rind me at Pe.irl Bay. where I shall be very happy to tell them what I've told you " Thousands have been cured of paralysis, locomotor ataxia, spinal disease, rheumatism, and sciatica : also diseases arising irom impoverished and vitiated humours of the blood, which cause scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowls and lungs, anaitnia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache, early decay, all iorms of female w<_akne.-s, and hysteria by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The genuine Pills are sold only in wooden boxes about two inches in length, each of which is encircled by a blue warning label. The outside wrapper has the full name, Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, punted in red on w hir.c paper. Incase of doubt it is bet f er to send direct to Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington. N.Z . enclosing the price, .'is a box. or si\ boxes lor 15s 9d. These Pills are not a purgatne. and they contain nothing that injures the most delicate child.