IN BED FOR SEVEN MOUTHS.
In Absolute Torture the Whole Time with Rheumatism.
Every Joint Swollen and Angry— Marvellous Cure of a Timaru Woman by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.
After being crippled in bed for seven months, in what she terms absolute torture, Mrs George Uently, of 14, Hatton street, Timaru, was marvellously cured of rheumatism by Dr Williams* Fink Pills.
“The rheumatism came on after a wetting 1 got," said Mrs Bcntly. “It set in in my feet and knees and presently spread to every joint in my tody. I. be gan to suffer absolute torture. The joints swelled past belief. My ankles and knees were twice their proper size and my thumbs and fingers the same. Tho pain would run from limb to limb. After two or three months like this I had to lay up altogether and for over seven months I was not out of my bed. I could not have got out, I was absolutely helpless and crippled. 1 always felt cold all over even on a summer's day. Tho neighbours would ask if 1 had not too many blankets on me, but 1 said no, 1 could not got warm. 1 was pa relied with thirst and by the doctor's oideis drank as much lemon water as I could. My thumbs would go red and sometimes slimy. Many days I was so bad that i could not feed myself, they would have to use a cup to give me anything. Other days pornaiis I would make a shut to use one hand, and another day try the other hand, whicnever happened to bo the less crippled at the time. My mother-in-iaw had to look after tho house and I had tf employ a woman and sometimes a neighbour would do a kind turn. Sometimes when tho pain was at its worst i could hardly bear any- weight on me in bed. 1 could not hold a pen to write to my mother in Melbourne. I was not able to use my bicycle for two years, it was put away for gold, but 1 can Use it easily now. 1 uieadcd anyone to come near me. 1 never thought i would ever gee better though everything possible was tried. 1 would get such gnawing attacks in my hips and then cuey would fly like a shook from a galvanic battery to my knees and ankles. 1 was put on low diet, but whether or not 1 could not eat much or enjoy a single meal. 1 became as thin and blanched as could be. liven my lips got blanched. Before X had been plump and freoh coloured. They put mustard poultices on and they would not even leave a mark on the thin unless they touched a part that was not affected. 3fou could press down the swellings and leave a red dent in the llesh. Liniments did me no good, and the veins on my hands would rise and stand out like whipcord. 1 got so lowspirited, suffering month after mouth as Jt did, that 1 would have to give way and cry,, and tho pain itself would make me groan with it. If it had not been for my husband aud child I would have been glad to give upt life. Wo sold our old home and came to this oue thinking the change might help me, but alter a week or so 1 was just as bad as ever. Oue aay a knock came to the door and as no one was about I struggled along anu answered it. The caller must have ucUoed how 1 looked and how crippled 1 was for he asked if it was sciatica or rheumatism. I told him, and he said Dr Williams’ Pink Pills had cured him, and I ought to try them, so after _thinking I sent for a box. Before it was mushed 1 was able to sit down and dry the dishes ami then I did a bit of ironing, still sitting, and X could feel then every day the pain and stiffness lessening and‘passing out of me and the swellings going down. I have not had a twinge since I finished the course. I have gained colour and flesh and can do every bit oi housework, however heavy. I ought to feel thankful, just two boxes did it, and I was as bad as could be when 1 started/' Dr Williams' Pink Pills aro sold by chemists and storekeepers or sent by mail on receipt of price, 3s per box, six boxes 16s Gd. by tho Dr Williams’ Medicine Co. of Australasia, Ltd., Wellington.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 2
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773IN BED FOR SEVEN MOUTHS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8339, 28 January 1913, Page 2
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