EVERY STEP WAS TORTURE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 505, 12 May 1909, Page 4

EVERY STEP WAS TORTURE.

WELLINGTON MAN CRIPPLED WITH; : v : : RHEUMATISM. . ~ " Had to Crawl up stairs to bed. Often in Bed Owing ■ :-to the.Pain.XCured by Dr. Williams's Pink Pills. "I became''subject to attacks of Eheumatism-, some time" back," John Christopher, 'U Pirio Street, Wellihgfori)': Now Zealand. ''Tho pain 'first Showed itself'in,;the. left ankle, and presently: spread ■up the limb as far asitho knee. A little while after the fight leg became affected in the samo way. ; Tho Eains increased, and I felt twinges in my. arms.-and ngers, though not as in my lower limbs.-' The attack's would last fully a week at a time,'and I'd have to'stay ill bed at least two days , in caoh of those weeks .suffering acutely. - I couldn't put on haa'js, I' have tho easiest of slippers while the pains were in my system; I had to often tako a spell l'rom business and-come home. . I'd have to walk with a stick,.or'rather,hobble along slowly, ami every step or movement caused: me pain. As to getting up stairs to-bed, it'was torture. I'd have to crawl up on my'hands and knees somotimes. I used to rub tho parUwith vaseline aud methylated spirits togetalittlo temoorary ease. : At times I simply couldn't put my feet to the ground, tho agony .was unbearable. The ankta- was as stiff as iron, and red aud inflamed.' Shai'p.twinges'would-dart up each leg, as if every muscle and nerve wore. red hot. At night I'd ]ay awake for hours. I'd have to keep my knees almost up.to my chin; I couldn't put my legs out straight. After perhaps a weelC'Of these tortures tlio naiiia would ease olf and I-might bo free for a couple of months, and then be attacked again. : '■-.. ■I dreaded a cold windy day. l.was always in fear of another attack..coming on. I used to notice my ankles' were very swollen. I would dread anyone bumping, up against mo, and as to the parts being

touched, that wasn't to be thought, of.; If I were restjiu,l-dreaded the least movement, as even rising out of a chair was difficult, and the pain would treble itself. After,a little exercise in the daytime the pains might .lessen, but: nover went away. I felt thoroughly pulled down with it.,; I fell off jut looks and weight, and the attacks .began? to come 1 on more often and'last longer,.and get more, acute. At last seeiag v that Dr. Williains's Pink Pills "cured rheumat'ism, early this year, I tried, a box. < Before that was finished I felt the pain lessoning. Thought another and another after that and gradually the rheumatism loft, my system. The twinges lessoned with each doss.' After the first box : was ■ empty the, stiffness and swelling went : away, and the inflammation lessened. I g O t about much more.'•'easily;-\and could .put my feet to tho ground and walk firmly and without pain, and of courso sleep much better : at night. I shall always be glad to recommend, this-medicine, it has been'of the greatest benefit to me.".. -;