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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12636, 25 October 1905, Page 2

CRIPPLED AND CURED. Leonard Wills of Pahiatua. Dying of Diseased Bones. Cured After Doctors Failed. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Leonard Lionel Wills as the eight-year old son of Albert Stanley Wills, a farmer of Mangatainoka, a few miles out of Pahiatua. This boy's life lias just been .saved by Dr Williams' Pink Pills in a way that is nothing short of a miracle. Mrs Minnie Wills, his mother, gives the Mstory of the oa&e in words that carry •on their face the stamp of earnestness and truth. Th© facts are known to the Doctor and all the neighbours, and anyone is free to test their simple truth for himself. " Three years ago, when Leonard was only five, he got feverish and I thought 3ie was sickening for the measles," Mrs Wills began. " He soon got worse—and l)efore the week was out we had to call in a doctor. By that time the child was ■delirious and quite out of hsis mind, with •the fever. The doctor brought the fever down—but when Leonard came back to his senses he complained about ~his shoulder being sore. If I happened -to take hold of his arm fhe would scream -with. pain. Mr Wills noticed then that lis shoulder was a little swollen and inflamed. Soon it got a nasty angry look, and the child cried every time I touched it. I sent word to the doctor and he came again to examine him. He then .said that Leonard had inflammation of the shoulder blade, and he ordered me i:o poultice it to draw out the inflamanation. " I did this and it brought the whole thing to a head. It was an awful sight, and the. doctor made up his mind to ■operate on it. He then lanced it under -the arm pit, and the poisonous matter poured out of the wound. The doctor ■said that he had never seen such a discharge of pus in all his life. That would never heal, though I used to -wash it out every day with antiseptics. Tfc got worse and worse till.it was just like a. gangrene eating into his flesh. "The poor little fellow was just worn out ■with pain. Every day he got thinner and weaker and his face was as pale as Death. " Before long an ulcer formed on the "top part of bis arm and then the doctor said that Leonard's bones were diseased. That turned out to be only too true. The ulcer got bigger and deeper. IBefore many days a piece of bone began -to work out of the sore. It was as green •as grass, and all eaten away by the poison in his blood. After that, little pieces of rotting bone kept working out >of the sore; every few days. Soon after■wards a small pimple formed on the outside of !bis ankle. This spread and then broke. .If formed.into •«ore a<nd pieoes-btJkkneXstarted to come from it too. When the doctor saw that lie said Leonard must go into the Hospital at once. , Nothing could save him unless his bones were scraped. If they •didn't get rid of the disease this way, the poison would work all through his •system. Th© doctor said there was no •time to lose. If it wasn't don© at once it would soon be too late to save his life. But it was a terrible operation— and Mi* Wills and I both felt that Xeonard could never live through it. "Prom that time the child got rapidly worse," added Mrs Wills. 'MSe be--came a complete cripple. He lay there in his bed, day after day, wrapped in ■wadding. He couldn't bear the bed •clothes or even his night shirt to touch him. I worried my heart out over him, for I felt that I had taken his life in ray own hands, when I would not let the ■doctor take him to the Hospital. " It was just at this time that I read how Dr Williams' Pink Pills had cured a little girl in Queensland suffering just •the same way from diseased bones. That pub fresh hope into me, and Mr Wills said we would write to the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, and ask them a straight question—whether Dr Williams' Pink Pills would cure Leornard or not? With the letter we sent .several pieces of bone that had worked out of the open ulcers in his shoulder and ankle. In reply they told us of three other cases of the kind that Dr TVilliams' Pink Pills had cured. So we -sent for a supply and decided to give them a fair trial. " A few weeks after starting Dr Williams' Pink Pills we noticed that Leonard was always hungry. Soon he began "to grow strong, and there wasn't nearly ®o much pus coming from tiie sores. He got so much better that we had a special go-cart mode to wheel him about in the open-air. Little by little the -sores healed up. All this time he was getting so much stronger and fatter" thai ne was soon able to get up and -walk. But it was slow work, and we Thad to keep giving him Dr Willams' Pink Pills every day for twelve months. IBut by that time there was hardly a anark on his ankle, and only a few pits on his arm and shoulder where the diseased bone worked .its way out. To-day !he is as strong and well as any boy or ius age. He can run like a hare and <arack a whip with any of his brothers. To this day the doctor always asks about Xeonard, and says that he can hardly believe tihat he is running about again. ."But it is eighteen months now since ho "Was cured—so I know 'he is cured for isood. His father and I say it is a •down-right miracle." When Dr Williams' Pink Pills saved Wills after doctors said he could not possibly be cured without an operation it is no wonder that they can cure so easily little ailments like anaemia, indigestion, biliousness, headaches^ backaches, rheumatism, neuralgia, mervousness, and itihe secret- blood troubles of women and grooving girls. Dr Williams' Pink Pills do only one -thing, but they do it well-^they actually make new blood. But the blood is the root of all health. If you are in doubt About your own case, write for free medical advice to the Dir Williams' 'Medicine Co., Wellington. From that address you can"also order by mail the genuine Dr Williams' Pink Pills—3s. a box, six boxes 16s 6d., post free.

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