A Miracle in Sydney.

Manawatu Herald, 24 June 1897, Page 3

A Miracle in Sydney.

CASE INVESTIGATED BY A SCOBE OF PEOPLE AND VOUCHED FOB BY A PROMINENT , MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA LONG CONSIDERED INCURABLE BY THE FIRST PHYSICIANS OF THE WORLD HAS AT LAST BEEN CONQUERED. A GREAT VICTORY FOB DR WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. (From the " Australian Workman.") * On Thursday afternoon oor representative made hia way to the humble home of Mr Thomas Jarvis, 45 Crown-lane, Ultimo. He was discovered nuriaing a two year-old baby, and hia face declared him to be one of the happiest men in Sydney. He was up and about and able to answer the knock at the door. Although pale and bearing'still the marks of a critical illness and a period of pain, it was very clear that he waa an invalid on the rapid road to oonvalesoenoe. In reply to the preliminary questions, he said • " Yon want to know all about my case? Well, lam glad of an opportunity to tell you. The faots may be of value to those who are etricken as I was.' •• How long were you Buffering ?" « Well, twelve months ago I got so bad that I had to leave work, and I have done nothing since then. About five years ago, next Chiistmas, met with an accident; I was badly scalded while taking a bath m Pitt Street, Sydney. Since the acoident I have been in failing health, and after four years of gradual development of the malady, I was foroed to give up my billet at the Glebe Island.' •• What were the symptoms ? » Simply indescribable. The pains were something terrible. They were jußt about a? much aa I could bear. They were for all the world like ac if a saw were cutting my bones in two in ever/ part of me. I had no control over my bowels or bladder, and was a nuisance to myself and everyone else I was incessantly shivering and shaking, and oou'd neither eat nor sleep. On the 28rd March last I saw a well-known doctor and he told me that, my case was utterly hopeless. However, he gave me an order to the Director of Charitable Institutions." •• Did you make use of the order ?"

'•'No; I came home and went to bed, and have been pretty well In bed aver since: frve. weflq^a|o?Lo£ti& not walk aorossfthe floor ; fk ' f Hot, I oodld not get oat oWed. I felt therf that it was all over with me, and only a qaefti6np£ days when I Would give up#W ghosts Mysdootor was attending me, and did all he could, bj opium and morphia pills, to ease the agony I was in* ■, I was ,under Him for five or six weeks. He oame to the conclusion" that I was suffering from JLocomotor atasU, or Progressive looomotor >at»xy> a disease of the spinal dord, characterised by ptfuliaT disturbances; of gait/ *nd> difficulty ia 00---ordinating voluntary movements. Ha told' me that I might never get the use of my legs. (Just then 4he patient kicked his legs about with energy to Bhpw that medioal opinion is not infallible.) Well, just as a drowning man will grasp at a straw, I grasped at an idea conveyed by the advertisement, describing the oure effected in the ease of another boiler-maker in England, I read in. tHe" Australian Workman," by Dr Williams' PinkPills for Pale People. I read in the advertisement of a case which seemed to fit my own. I determined to give the Piqk Pills a trial anyway, and sent for a box. The effect was aa marvellous as it was magical. I. was able to eat and sleep as though nothing was the matter with me. It was the, first appetite and rest I had for many a day. It was inoredible. I immediately left the bed and was able to move about. I have taken four boxes ofPink Pills during the past four weeks, an* am now taking the fifth box. I can walk about with the ail of a stick, and am gradually, but surely, recovering my former vigor and vitality. You see those crutches there? They are perfectly new, and I have never used them. They were made for me before I got the Pink Pills, but I was too weak to use them, and now 1 dbn't want them. All I want is this stick, and I hope soon to do without it. You see I am rapidly regaining my strength." "He is 100 per cent better," said Mrs Jarvis, who had come in and taken the baby on her knees. " The Pink Pills have saved his life, and made another man of hsm.»

A friend who called in at thiß point, said that Jarvis looked ten years younger tb»t day than be did a fortnight pmiouilv;

" I can now," continued Jarvis, " have a cold hath, and all the feeling has come back in my legs. If I keep on going the way Im. I no?C **» » We to J«J" work as a boiler maker, and you I?? w 1 have to be im the very pink of health and strength to work at that trade. I am better to-day than I have been at any tine during the past five years.' I ascribe all the change and benefit to these Pink Pills. They have saved my life. lam in no pain now, whatever, and fee} like a new man. On the mantlepieoe there- is a box of opium and morphia pills which the; doctor ; gave me to deaota the excruciating pain. But they can stay where they are, for I no longer need them. Everybody who knows me has been amazed at the change in me. They can hardly believe- their eyes. My being about again has caused quite a. sensation out here."

Such is this remarkable htftory, and it confirms what is Bald in all the chief news* papers of this country of the' astonishing cures wrought by Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They cure locomotor ataxy, partial paralysis, and spinal disease, also the many disorders which arise from an impoverished state of the blood, such as anaemia, pale and sallow complexion, general mußoular weakness, indigestion, loss Of appetite, shortness of breath, pains in the back, nervous headache, etc.

Mr J. 8. T. M'Oowen, leader of the Labor party in the N.S.W. Assembly, was seen by our reporter in connection with the remarkable case of Thomas Jarvis. Mr M'Oowen says he has -known Jarvis from infancy. He also knew that he had to give up his work at Glebe Island abattoirs twelve .months ago, owipg to a malady which lie developed.. He afterwards heard that Jarvis was bed ridden, and that there was little chance of his recovery. He understood Jarvis was refused adroission to the Bjjdney Hospital, as his case had been pronounced inourable. Mr M'Govren was, therefore like everyone else who iknew the- facts, astounded at the complete recovery of Jarvis. . ' Dr Williams' Pink Pills are obtainable from all leading chemists, or from the Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., who . will forward (post paid} on receipt of stamps or post order 1 box for Bs., or $ dozen for 15s 9d.