ACUTE SCIATICA EVERY YEAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10272, 27 June 1911, Page 6

ACUTE SCIATICA EVERY YEAR

Crippled in Bed in Helpless Torture. . —. Neighbours had to do Everything for him. A Marvellous Cure by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. To cure Sciatica and its torturing, shooting pains, treatment to restore the nerves to their proper state of tone is required. Medical men all agree that Sciatica is a nervous disorder. It may be caused by an injury or a blow to the Sciatic nerve, but often occurs in a run-down, nervous condition. There are on record a great mjany cures of Sciatica by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. They are a blood-making medicine, and >direct nerve tonic, and the record of cures of Sciatica is so lengthy that their value in this complaint is certain. After suffering severe attacks of Sciatica annually .for many years, Mr F. Sylvea, Hallam Street, Tennyson, Port"Pirie, S.A., found that rubbing liniments and outward treatment gave him practically no relief. Mr Sylvfea was finally cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He made the following statement to a reporter: — "I was always getting wet when in my boat out fishing, and Sciatica came on me gradually, and I began to suffer acutely, and for four years it was in my system. From September to January in every year it was never absent, and I would often get twinges of it in other months. I w,as taken so bad once on stepping ashore at 4 a.m. I actually had to crawl home on my hands and knees. I was practically in bed then for four months, and had to be looked after by my mates. Occasionally I would dress myself, and it would take me nearly an hour to put on my clothes, and hobble with a stick to the door to sit in the sun. These yearly attacks would go away in the January, and I would get back to work, but only to be laid up in bed the same way the next September. At times I could not get out of my bed to (go as far as the kitchen. I was seven weeks in the hospital here, but [ got no relief. I crawled home, and 1 had to sit down quite a dozen times on the road. The left leg was affected from the hip to the ankle. I would feel every nerve and muscle on fire, and pains, would (Jart up and d9wn ;Kke' lightning-, or shocks from a/bats tery. At night! might be reading in bed, and with the slightest movement the attack would come on, and there would be no more rest for me that night Perhaps when I did fall off to sleep, if I happened to move the pain would start, and wake me up for certain. Often when I would try to get out of bed in the morning an attack would come on, and I would fall flat. I never dared to put my foot to the ground with any weight on it. I always had to hobble with the aid of a stick. I tried all sorts of liniments and quantities of cajaput oil, biit got no relief. In the hospital my hip was blistered and poulticed, but no bene.lt came. The leg got shorter and more shrunken than the other, and I never dared stretch-it out straight. I would think something was ghawing at my flesh. For a long time I could not even bear the weight of the bed clothes on my foot. I went off in flesh and appetite. I was as wretched as any man , could be. Occasionally I went out and just pointed the best grounds; but I never did any work. My mates and neighbours all know what I have been through. One day a neighbour came round and read me the account of a ship's mate being cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and the case was so like mine that I sent for a couple of boxes. I actually found some relief from them, and so I gladly sent , for some more. I noticed the pains decreasing, and all the stiffness and stabbing getting decidedly less. I pould hardly credit itit seemed to good to be true, but it is an absolute fact that five boxes drove out every pain and ache. I was afraid that next year it would return as usual; but not once has it put in an appearance." The price is 3s per box, six boxes 16s 6d, and if you have trouble in getting them send a postal note for the amount to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., of Australasia, Ltd., Wellington, and they will be sent post free by return mail.