The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-02-26
To-DAYs' ADVERTISEMENTS.
UVRHAR Nr FUP FMnF
HUM0R OF The FACE
and Headlcured-AIterrible Case.

MEssRs. WEEKS g. POTTER: Gentlsmen,-To say
thatI am grateful, is only poor expression OF my
feelings, but it Is the best word can use. for
feel it in every sense of the word. 1 have been a
great sufferer with skin diseases for the last twelve
(l2) years. My head and face being covered with
sores, could not rest with the burning heat and
Itching or the parts affected, and confined to
my house for weeks at a time. My disease has
been called Eczema, OF most aggravated type, by
many physicians, but doubt if ever fully uuder-
stood by any of them. 1t was more like combi-
nation OF several skin humOrs / have spent
much money seeking cure, and in 1867 went TO
Europe, and consulted some of the best physicians
in London. | received temporary relief only for
in the spring it would break out as bad as ever
When came back to Boston, / was told by many
friends that DR.. -, (whose reputation for tue
cure of those diseases was of the hig hest order)
could cure me. waited on the doctor; he pre-
scribed for me, | followed his advice for six
months, and can safely say, without any improve
ment. tried other physicians, and among them
DR.. - of East Boston, and Dr. -, Cf city
proper, but all to no purpose. They did me no
good; their remedies were so Intellectual that at
time did feel that cure would resultfrom them
/ have swallowed five hundred arsenic pills, $40
grain and taken bottle after bottle of internal rem
edies, besides all the external applications l have
used, but the effect was the same. became salts
fed tina | could not be cured, but might be kept
from getting worse.
Now. about three months ago, Mr.. Meehan. a
gentleman we'll known to Boston people, called
my attention to your CUTICURA, and promised
wonderful results If would only make trial.
He told me of his own experience with 1t, and so
persevered on me that went with him to drug
and some Soap. and commenced to use it accord
ing to the directions There was so much humor
lodged within the skin, that as soon as | COM
menced the use of CUTICURA it came to the sur
face and festered, until vast quantities had come
out and greatly intensified my sutferings for about
two weeks But | did not mind this, ss l felt that
1 was going to get rid Of the humor when saw it
coming the surface in such large quantities.
After the first two or three weeks use OF this rem
edy. was greatly encouraged by gradual les
sening of the Inflammation of number of painful
sores l carefully, faithfully, and cheerfully fol-
lowed the directions to the letter, feeling each
week nearer a cure, until at the present moment,
after three months use of CUucURA, and twelve
years OF as constant suffering ever endured,
| / can say that am cure1, and pronounce my case
| the most remarkable on record. have been 80
eIated with my success that have stopped men on
the street who were afflicted and told them to get
the CUTICURA and it would cure them. This is
why am so grateful to you for believe it to be
the best and greatest discovery OF the age and that
it will cure all who suffering with these dis
eases. may add that took no internal medicine
but the CUTICURA REsoLvENT.
| WILLIAM TAYLOR
| BosToN, Aug. %, 1878