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Special Correspondence Atlanta CGa.) Constitution

Special Correspondence Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
July 10, 1888.
portion of last week in Macon, and was acct
dentaly thrown with Mr.. j. A. May, an employe
of Schofeld's extensive iron-works, who startled
your reporter by remarklng to him. 81 feel
kindly towards everything and everybody that
comes from Atlanta, because
I OWE MY LIFE
to firm in your city, and will gladly give you
history of my case.
"It was discovered" he said, "when was three
years old, that had inherited from some of my
ancestors a ScrofulOus Blood Poison OF the worst
type. AS l grew older the disease continued to
grow worse. L had tried in turn q score OF the
best ana most noted physicians and had taken
medicine until it seemed a farce. Before I was
twenty L mad swallowed, 1t seems to me, two or
three drug stores, and was a living proof that
there was no virtue in medicine for my disease.
The disease and medicine combined had taxed
my system until was a mere physical wreck. |
was sallOw, had no appetite had lost flesh until
l was nothing but sores, skin and bones. The
sluggish blood which flowed slowly through my
veins was full OF poison, and was in such fearful
condition that even a pin-scratch would result
In an liberated, running sore that would take
weeks to heal. had taken Mercury until my
joints were stiff, and suffered so from
MERCURIAL RHEUMATISM
that I was laid up every winter; and the mercury
had soaked into the marrow of my bones until |
was an infallible barometer, and could foretell
to a certainty the approach of rain by the ach-
ing in my joints. Hearing of Swift's Specific l
determined to try it. but without any faith.
SPEEDY AND EFFECTIVE CURE.
al commenced improving with the first bottle
ana in short time the stiffness had left my Joints
and the sores had disappeared from my body.
l passed through last winter without o faint of
rheumatism, and have had no appearance of the
terrible disease since. My general health I'M
proved Swifts Specific drove out the monster
which was eating my life away, and / gained
in flesh until weigh so pounds, which is nearly
double what IL was when began the use of the
Specific. For the first time in years | enjoy my
food. AS an evidence that Swift's Specific has
eliminated all the poison from my system, cut
off one of my fingers few months ago in he ma
chine, and in less than Two weeks il had healed
up. nicely; and few days ago mashed nv
thumb with hammer, and you can see IL is
healing up fast. i Ter of thess accidents
had happened yeIr ago the chances are
that would have lost my nand Ia summing
up, Will say that nay experience proves beyond
the shadow of n doubt that Swift's Specific will
cure the worst cases of Blood Poison, even
when it descends inheritance that it
will cure Mercural Rheumatism, and drive the
mercury out of the bones, joints and system;
amt that it will build up the general health,
and is the best medicine in the world. My case
alone is enough to convince anybody; but have
known it used in number of cases. and it has
never failed in a single instance"
Mr.. May will take pleasure in answering any
letters In regard to his case. Y. NJ l.. A.