INFLUENZA PREVALENT.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 339, 10 September 1898, Page 4

INFLUENZA PREVALENT.

INCREASING MORTALITY. Official statistics show that considerably over one death per day from influenza is taking; place in N.S.W. alone, and that it is equally in evidence in the sister colonies our contemporaries there disclose. Deaths from influenza have, and are playing no small part in swelling; the mortality list. Very frequently these deaths are in the first place due to carelessness, for the primary cause of influenza is cold in the- chest and lungs. If these simple ailments were attended to in timo, the trouble would possibly end there ; but cold in the head and lungs, unless carefully watched, brings on fever and debility ; fever and debility lead to prostration and heart disease, and prostration and heart disease lead to—death. No wonder is it that at so many inquests lately the coroners' verdict has been " Death resultant from influenza." Having explained the evil after-effects of this dangerous ailment, we have now to chronicle their cure. Mr Tate, of " Ithica Cottage," Illawarra Road, Marrickville, will tell us : " Influenza," says Mr Tate, " was the malady with which 1 had to struggle. Prior to this I had never experienced sickness at any time in ray life. But, after thirty years' immunity from trouble, influenza gripped me pretty tightly. Without warning, I suddenly became ill. I always had a first-class appetite : it left mo altogether. Positively I could eat nothing at all. Heavy headaches attacked me, and they continued to increase in violence. A spasm shot across my chest, and an overpowering weight oppressed me there. I felt a sickening contraction of the skin, and an ominous gathering of phlegmatic matter that checked free respiration. My whole chest, once firm and sound, became wore, tender and irritable. I found myself unable to sleep, whilst on top of all thee strange aud unaccountable sensations came a sharp and persistent cough, that sucked up all my strength and stirred the phlegm hut failed to move it. Dull, heavy, restless, faint and aching, I w r ent to work, and got through somehow. How I got through, and how I felt afterwards, you can imagine : I—can remember "'Take a few boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People,' said a friend, ' aud yoirll be saved.' A VICTIM OF INKLUENZ.\. "I did so, and after a few boxes had been taken, I was, honestly, completely cured. I kept on taking them a little longer, just to make doubly sure, but there was no necessity. Yes," ho said, deliberatingly, " the marvel has been quicker than even I had anticipated. In fluenza. headaches, sleeplessness, want of appetite, listlessness, racking cough, chest pains, weakness and phlegm, all disappeared as if under a magician's wand. I am as right, as fresh, as healthy aud as high-spirited as I ever was in my life." What stronger testimony could we show ? Thousands of sufferers in fill parts of the world have been cured of measles, influenza, rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, severe biliousness, liver and kidney troubles, ansemia, nervous prostration, jaundice, sleeplesssness, pleurisy, lumbago, eczema, skin troubles, pimples, St. Vitus' dance, vital ailments, paralysis, locomotor ataxy, debility. &3., & :., by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Sold by chemists and storekeepers, and by the Dr. Williams'Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z. Price—six boxes.sixteenand sixpence ; one box, three shillings. This includes postage. See that the full name —Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People is printtd in red on the white outside wrapper.