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TORTURED AND CRIPPLED BY SCIATICA.

This Man Suffered Agony for Three Years,

Cured by Treatment that Restored his Nerves to their proper condition,

To cure Sciatica ami iU torturim shooting pains, treatment to reitovoth nerves.to their proper state of tone .1, c diiiml. Medical men agree that fecialie; is a nervous disorder. It may bo causoi bv an injurv or blow to the Sciatic nervt jut often occurs in a run-down nervou audition. There are 011 record a fjrea nam- cures of Sciatica by Dr. \) illiams 'ink Pills. They are a blood-niakni; aedicine, and direct nerve tome, am heir use in scores of cases ot bciatic; las proved that they restore the nerve 0 their proper staUs of tone and bainsl ho complaint. After suffering severely with Scialici or threo vears, Mr. ,'Edwanl West, wh ives in Belialla, Victoria, at the corner o Imythe and M'Kellar Streets, was curei ly these pills. Mr. Vest made tno iol owing statement to a reporter:— "I was droving and sleeping out, am ho exposure at last told on me; a pan radually cauio in the right hip, 1 though t first it was Rheumatics, it grew wors ,nd worse till at last I was just in agony 'or weeks and weeks I would have t ivo/up work. Then the complaint.migh nil a trifle, but the least change of wea her laid mo up again. All the right le, rom the hip to the ankle, was affected )ccasioually I was rubbed with wea' urps or had flannels sprinkled with thou >ut on. I would havo the leg blisterc rom hip to calf, and the skin was paintc nth iodine, but nothing gave me lastin, elief. The leg was so bad that I couli larely feel the hottest flannels. Many imo'l could not got in or out of bed l>, nyself, and when there I would lie <iuit inable to move and racked with pain. 1 .•as impossible for mo to close niycye ill the■ paroxysms eased a little. Knife ike thrusts would dart through the vcr, lones themselves. I did not want any no to speak to mo or bother me. Ircadcd nightfall as I always felt worse would havo to give up sometimes and ,-ould groan with the agony; it wa nough to make any man however hard; ell out sometimes as I did. Some day would struggle ont to work, and if 1 rere a fino day I might work a bit of lb lain off and feel easier for the time being mt when knock off time came it was 1 ip.inful job to hobble homo. The log fcl tiff and I could not put the. full weigh f the body 011 the heel. My mate ,-ould often givo me a hand's turn will ny work, they could see how crippled . ras. I would often havo to knock ol rork and get home and perhaps then rould bo sitting about the house for day ir weeks unable to go out. Ono docto njected morphia into the calf to try am >nso 1110. I tried various remedies, bu hey did 1110 no good. After reading 1 ittlo pamphlet through I wns to convinc d that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills wouli lo me good that 1 told my sou (0 go ant my me a couple of boxes for a trial. lie aughed at the idea, but I said I wotih rawl out myself if he didn't go. I was n bed at (ho time laid up. The twt loxes acted wonderfully, lly the -linn he fourth box was through 1 felt fit foi mything, and I could have jumped over he house. I went back to work a cured nan, and I've kept free from sciatica ever inco. I would never feel the day's work t all, I might be working in water and ret to the skin or out in a storm, it made 10 difference. My males were Kin-prised I. the change in looks and health and ;ept asking mo the reason." The price of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills 5 3s. per box, six boxes Ills, fid., and if 011 havo trouble in getting them send a loslal note or tho amount lo the Dr. .Villiams' Medicine Co, of Australasia, -td., Wellington, and they will bo Bent loit tint hj return pull.

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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 3

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722

TORTURED AND CRIPPLED BY SCIATICA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 3

TORTURED AND CRIPPLED BY SCIATICA. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 3

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