That False Alarm.

Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1898, Page 3

That False Alarm.

How frequent "false alarms" are becoming. It would certainly seem time for enquiry to ba made into the circumstances conneoted with them. It must not be taken for one moment that we would like to see a real good flare up for every alarm that is given ; on the contrary our object iB to save a great deal of unnecessary work and toil to those whose mission it is to battle with the flames. It wa3 our duty to enquire into a case of false alarm quite recently. Mrs J. D. Nelson wife of the Proprietor of the popular Pleasure Grounds at Pearl Bay, and Lessee of Clontarf and its spaoious pavilion, Sydney, gave us the following particulars : "It is not co long ago," said she, " that my husband, children, and friends considered that ray time had come. I had been very, very ill from aoute Indigestion and general Nervous Debility. However I am here now, and it proved to be a false alarm, thanks to the marvellous curative properties of Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, but I will tell yon the whole case if you care to to listen. Although I have been taking these roedioines for 15 years, it was not until 1888 — or eight years ago— that I felt myself becomming completly prostrated and unnerved through the severe and continuous attacks of aoute indigestion and general nervous debility. There was no mistaking the symptoms, and day by day I Bank nearer the grave, until the family have been actually gathered round me expecing me to die. So weak and enfeebled did 1 become that every particle of physical Btrength deserted me, and for 48 hours together I have lain helpless and even unable to speak. For two days and nights at a time without cessation I used to suffer from the most throbbing headaches, until the agonizing strain wa3 so severe that I hardly knew where I was, and cared not whether I lived or died. I frequently experience the sorest of pains- in the chest and Btomach, and so hot and irritable did my skin become that I couldn't even bear to wear my nightdress, whilst I was so weak that the bed-sheet on top of me was too much, and even that had to be dispensed with. A burning hot feeling spread" round my throat, just as if I had swallowed boiling water ; the pain was exoruoiating and worse than the vilest attacks of heartburn. There was always a repugnant tat-te in my mouth, as if I'd been sucking a perny. I'm passLnately fond of oysters, but I couldn't take one ; and as the indigestion and nervous debility got worse and worse, I could neither drink milk or water. All

solids had been long oat of the question and it would have absolutely killed me bad I taken any. Several doctors well up in their profession in whom. I had great confidence, and who now reside and practice in Sydney and suburbs, examined and prescribed for me. Out of kindness to me they did not tell me what they thought of the case. I knew well enough that their ideas were all expressed in two short but significant words— Hopeless ! Incurable ! They unsuccessfully treated me for acute indigestion, and they left me no better than they found me, although once or twice I obtained a little temporary relief. At last 1 came to as near crossing the line between life and death as ever a woman did. I was now too weak to walk , and I could only stagger, falteringly, along the room, holding on by chairs and tablet, thus drawing myself along. As my malady increased, so did my want of rest, and night or day I was utterly unable to sleep Insomnia pursued me like a fiend. Then I became even worse, and the crisis arrived heightened, and accentuated, by serious domestio sorrow. For five long days and nights I lay helpless and entirely prostrated, utterly unable to swallow the softest particle of food or the smallest drop of moisture. My husband just kept me alive by moistening my lips with brandy. All oould see the ! crisis had come, and that the end was near. Qrief, alarm, and resignation were painted on the faces of those around me. One day, however, one of my sons brought j home a box of Dr Williams 1 Pink Pills for Pale People, and said, 'Ma, these pills are for pale people ; you must try them. I've heard they've done a lot of good to others.' To please him I consented, because I knew they would at least do me no harm. I took the pills. The result was most astounding, and to me miraculous. A short time after taking them I I commenced to inprove. My appetite returned, and I ate ravenously. My family were amazed. If I had forced food down my throat before I had taken Dr Williams' Pink Pills it would have killed me. But from then I rapidly improved. First I took one pill at a time just before each meal, and after that ' two before each meal. My appetite com- j pletely returned, and I relished all sorts of j food. I was able to sleep soundly and , well, the pans left my stomach and chest, j the severe headaches became spectres of I the past, the c tppery taste left my mouth, ; and my cheeks became pink instead of pallid. In two short weeks after just taking the pills I was up aud about and able to attend to lny duties, and I was absolutely and completely cured of every malady ' I had suffered from in three short weeks ' and two days. In addition to the total , absence of indigestion and nervous de- i bility, the irritation in my skin vanished, and I was able to once more wear my ; corset and ordinary clothes with comfort. Now I can eat raw fruit going to bed with- ''■■ out ill effect. During the past 15 years I have spent £200 in tonics, cures, and . patent medicines without receiving the I slightest benefit or surcease of pain." In conclusion she said, " Please recommend Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to everyone. I am sure they will cure almost anything, and I'm only too gad to give you every particular of my case for publication. Anyone who want 9 to see me will always find me at Pearl Bay, whore I shall be very happy to tell ijhera what I've told you." Thousands have been cured of paralysis, locomotor alaxia, spinal disease, rheumatism, and sciatica ; also diseases arising from impoverished and vitiated humors of the blood, which cause scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs, anremia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations? pains^ in the back, nervous headache, early decay, all forms of female weakness, and hysteria by Dr Williams' Pink Pills. The genuine Pills are sold only in wooden boxes, about two inches in length, each of which is encircled by a blua warning label. The outside wrapper has the full name, Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printed in red on white paper. In case of doubt it is better to send direct to the Dr Williama' Medicina Company, Wellington, N.Z., enclosing the price, 3s a box, or six boxes for 15s 9d. These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that injure the most delicate child.