Strange Result of a Punch in the Back.

Manawatu Herald, 4 September 1897, Page 3

Strange Result of a Punch in the Back.

REMARKABLE STATEMENT OF A PROVISION DEALER IN NEW' TOWN.

Mr Chas. Green, provision dealer, of 4 Alice-street, Newtown, Sydney, stated the other day that he has found great relief from indigestion by having a friend punch him in the back. This ia a novel way of getting relief from that dread ailment, and one that the writer has never met with before, however Mr Green, we believe, never found this treatment to benefit permanently. This brings as to the point when Mr Green did get something, which was a much more pleasant treatment, to affect a lasting and permanent cure. To get the ins and outs of the case our reporter called on Mr Green at hi a home in Newtown the other day, and, on making himself known, he asked : — " Is it true that you have been suffering for over four years from indigestion, Mr Green?" "It is, indeed ; and it has been so bad at times that I have often felt tempted to go up to a stranger in the street and get him to punch me in the back. I have often had friends to do it, and simple as it was it gave me relief for a time." " Did you have any other ailment at the time, Mr Green ?" " Yea, I also suffered from a nasty cough in the summer time ; it was also on me on and off for about the same as the indigestion. As an example, I would cough, and immediately a lot of thick black phlegm would fly up into my mouth. I presume it came from my chest on account of the ticklish feeling I would feel there. For that I have taken numerous concoctions, including codliver oil, whioh did me no „'ood ; but noiv T am thankful to say I feal grand, and hope the cough will not return. In one sense I miss it, as I have been acquainted with it so long, but it is a very welcome miss." " To what do you attribute this marvellous happy alteration in your health, Mr Green ?" " To one medicine aione, and that is Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, for from nearly the first pill I felt relief and an improvement in my appetite. I went steadily on taking them until I got as I am and there doesn't seem much the 'matter with me now, doe 3 there ?" "• " Indeed, no, Mr Green, you look the very picture of health and strength." " I feel so, and I assure you that I have such unbonnded faith in their restorative properties that I have reooramended them to plenty of my customers, numbers of whom are taking them, observing the wonderful improvement in my health and condition. Why, I have aotually gained 141 b in weight sinoe taking them, and I continue to put on weight daily. I learnt of them first through an advertisement in one of the papers, and I can truthfully state that they have done all and more than I expected them to do." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are not like other medicines, and their effects are permanent. Nothing else is so prompt in pulling up the system when, from some temporary depression or otherwise, tone is needed. They have cured more than fiftyfive hundred cases of diseases arising from impoverished blood, snob as anemia, pale and sallow complexion, muscular weakness, depression of spirits, loss of appetite, palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath, paint ia tbe back nervous headache, loss of memory, eatly deoay, all forms of female weakness, hysteria, paralysis, looomotor ataxy, rheumatism and sciatica, scrofula, rickets, hip joint diseases, ohronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs. The genuine pills are sold only in wooden boxes, about two inches in length, in a wrapper with the f nil name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printed in red. They are nev«r sold in bulk or from glass jars, and any 3ealer who offers substitutes in this form should be avoided. In oase of doubt it is better to send direct to the Dr. Williamß* Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., enclosing the price, 3s a box, or six boxes for 15s UJ. These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that could injure the most delicate.