INFLAMED AND SWOLLEN JOINTS.

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

INFLAMED AND SWOLLEN JOINTS.

CHBISTCHURCH WOMAN'S BAD TIME WITH ; RHEUMATISM. Couldn'tbend her knee or do her housework. • Hobbled about with a stick. Cured by Dr. Williams's Pink Pills. " '. : - "I used to do a good deal of laundry work, and 1 suppose my hands being always in the water and my getting wet often brought on the rheumatics," said Irs..John Cockle, 28 Brougham Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand. "It appeared first in the right hand, and then the left began to suffer, though never quite as acutely as the other, and gradually the poison' spread through my system. I got worse and worse.- My right knee got very bad, it swelled up tremendously, and became inflamed and angry looking. I couldn't bend it, and to kneel was out of the question. I rubbed the parts with every liniment I could hear of, but tho pain always came back. I felt so sore, I'd scream if anyone came 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 had to-get 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. I couldn't walk outside, and I could only nobble about the house by means of a stick, or by taking hold of the furniture. I didn't lay up, but I could easily have done so,.as on somo days I was quito helpless. At night I sometimes wouldn't closo my eyes till daybreak with tho\pain. It was always worse when I got warm, and I'd lie in torture, and often have to call out for soineono to lift mo into a fresh position, and in the mornings I'd havo to bo helped up. I could not dip my hands in cold water for, fear of getting another attack. My fingers got knotted up and the knuckles swollon. I couldn't close my right hand. ;It wae a bother to hold a needle. This 'attack'.lasted;several'months and then became less acute. I came back from a holiday at Gisboino. I felt better while I was there, but tho rheumatism returned when I got back to Christchurch, and I was always subject to attaoks oil and on, especially in cold * weather. I'd havo twinges all over me, first in my sTiouldor blades, then it would go up my arms, then on my shoulders till really I was quite a martyr./ Some (lays my feot would havo an attack, and Id bo afraid to put them to tho ground, and I'd havo to tako to wearing slippers. I got no lasting benefit from tho doctors' treatment, so I stai'te-l Dr. •Willinms's Pink Pills. • My son had tried them as a tonic and found them so good, ho .asked mo to t'iyo them a trial. I fancied I was a shade better when I had finished tho first box, so I got somo more. I took three pills a dayat first, then I doubled tho dose, and gradually got the. poison out of my system. I began to feol brightor anil stronger. The swelling and inflammation slowly left my kueo and tho'limbs got more supple. I could sleep much easier, and got about and-go out without trouble. If over I felt another attack coming on I should tako another course of Dr. Williams's Pink Pills with confidence." ■ • , .;