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JOINTS STIFF 110 SWOLLEN. ' — 0 Pelone Man Crippled with Severe Rheumatism. Couldn't Lift his Arms above his Head. How he 'Found a Cure. $ Sir. John Robert, Smith, 21 Gear Street, Petone, near Wellington, recommends Dr. Williams' Pink Pills far and wide. He tolls how they, cured him of a bad attack of Rheumatism, which crippled him so. that he. could not even raise his arms abovo bis head or dress himself without his .wife's help. Jfr. Smith says:— . "I had a very bod bout of Rheumatism, when in Invercargill, some time back, and it lasted for months. At last I shook it off, but when I was over on the West Coast, which is very wet, it came on me, again. My shoulders became affected and the pain gradually spread down as far as the calves of my legs. For months I was crippled. We had a hotel at the time, an:l it was a great trouble to even eet about. I could not have done any laborious work. . For nearly two years my arms were so stiff I could not raise them above the shoulders. Mrs. Smith had to heln me on with my coat and vest when T hail to no to town. All ray joints swfllrd and my 'arms and wrists and hands puffed up, Jly fingers got so stiff I could hardly hold a pen. T often woke .with Hio pains perhaps in the i*»cV and shoulder': bofore ,-Mie day was doiie the pain would l>nvi> flnwn to (be calves and ankles My knees were always free. but the attack passed right down the back of the less to the ankl.es. The affected parts joked for? nnrl shiny. I used all sorts cf'lijiam-nts but they did to I cure me. I could a 1 wnvs feel orery change in the we-ither. The sbao(ing pains all through me oft?u kap'r n'o awake at nisht and I lav there afrnid. to liirii. 11l the nicrninis T 'always felt, stiff' and worse: towards "veiling I lie pain mi"ht lull a bit. The pain and weakness often made me break out in a profuse perspiration. When my ankles and insteps were affected T found am' walking excessively painful. An arrinoii'.f'M!!-'' Nl>l iV? abiut T)r. Williams' Pink Pills and after a lengthy trial thry drive out air thr-symptom'. I have re->-oinni n nded this medicine far and w<"de: all through the West Coast, and here as well, and I give this statement as a duty. I u'-r'l to suiter so much. but sine* I fin-i-he,:l the course T'ye not. had a touch of this pninful eornr'aint." T)r. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by ! „[] (l/nlprc, but if in doubt send to the f)r. William-' Medicine Co. of Australasia', Ltd.. Wellington, ,Is. one box, six boxes IG-. (i',l. Fatal accidents on. railways in the United Kingdom must by law be reported to the Board of Trade within 21 hours of their occurrence. From north to -soulh Hip length of the Atlantic Ocean is S-iOfl miles.. For Br6nclij.il Coughs and Colds, Woods' Cheat Cui9, Is. 6d."

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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 28 August 1912, Page 5

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Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 28 August 1912, Page 5

Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 28 August 1912, Page 5

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