A NEIGHBOURLY ACT

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1198, 5 August 1911, Page 12

A NEIGHBOURLY ACT

3 To a Little Girl Crippled by [ St. Vitus. Dance, 3 0 ; Showed her Mother how | Another Child was Cured, I After littlo Hilda Duthio, of Bouldel City, W.A., had been given up by doctors in au extreme case of St. Vitus' Danco I and no one expected tho child to get better, a neighbour brought to her mother a clipping from a newspaper. The article described the case of another child who had been cured of St. Vitus' Banco by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. With little hopo and as a last resource, Mrs. Dutliie decided to give them to her child. She began to mend, ami is now one of tho brightest young girls in that part, of . Boulder City. St. Vitus' Dance is one of those nervous disorders that require to be treated by building up the nerves. That is why Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are of such high value. They are a blood maker and a nervo tonic. Tho Duthio family has lived in the same block, corucr of Vivian and Hamilton Streets, for ten years, and it waa there Mrs.'Duthie gavo a reporter au account of her daughter's cure. "Hilda got a fright ns a littlo girl, and St. Vitus' Dancc set in," said Mrs. Duthio. "Her face began first to twitch violently, every muscle would twist. It spread to every limb after, nnd she grow so bad I had to wheel, her about everywhere, it was impossible for her to walk. She had to bo tied in tho perambulator and other times she would lie oh a rug 011 the floor. She was rubbed all over with brandy, nndhad shocks and warm baths, and then a douche of ice water down her spine. .All her food had to he in liquid form; if it were solid she would work it out of her mouth, for her tongue was never - still. She was months practically speech- • less, and of course could not go to school. She could not even stand on her feet. Sho . was as wliito as death, there was hardly a trneo of blood in her veins. Her head * would ache nearly all the lime, Atnight she would twitch the bed clothes off, and, once for three nights I was up all the timo putting 011 hot flannels. She was as cold as ico and cramps would come on. Nine of the neighbours thought sho would ever pull ■ through. At night she would wear such a wistful look in her. sleep and looked so pinched and wasted it was pitiable to see her. Winter and summer 1. would take her out at 1 a.m. till 10 11.111. for the fresh air and to get her away from people's notice, as she was always more upset if people said how ill she was. She would begin to cry, it would fairly upset anyone's nerves to we her, sho looked so dreadfully ill. She . could not do the smallest thing for herself /ir hold anything at all. She luid lo be fed every quarter of an hour night and day, ana the food always varied. Even then .she could barely (alee a spoonful a! a time. It was 110 use dressing her. 1 just slipped a coat over her in the day. She was a mere leather weight to lift. The doctor gave her up and said she could not pull through. However, a neighbour brought a clipping from 1 newspaper describing a case that had been cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. It,was so like Hilda's that I got si'.mc. I started with .half a pill three times a day. and after souio weeks 1 increased the do-e. Then when she was getting distinctly betfer I reduced the do-**, ! end finally wa- ab'c'lo discontinue nltoI pother when she had taken about twelve b-'xes. It was a gre:it day wlkmi --lie oonld go to school again and a givat treat to see her eating well. No one ever thought to see it, hut Ihe twisting and twitching coated; formerly there was not one part of her bidy that was net on the ?t>." Remember i.nly the genuine Dr. WilHams' l'iuk Pills cure. Don't be gulled into taking something said to lx! jns.t as good. Of all dealers at Its. per box, six lmxcs His. lid., or from the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., o£ Australasia, Ltd.. Weiiinglou,