Daily Republican., 1883-08-23
VISIT to MACON, GA.
Valuable Testimony Well Worth
Reading.

Valuable Testimony Well worth
Reading.
Especial Correspondence Atlanta tda.l Con
stitution, July 10, 1881
A representative of the Constitution
spent q portion of last week In Macon
and was accidentally thrown with Mr.
j. A. May, an employee Of Schofield''
extensive iron works, who startled you
reporter by remarking to him I"
feel kindly towards everything an,
Everybody that comes from Atlanta
because
LOWE MY LIFE
to a II rm in your city, and will gladly
give you "A history Of my case.
=" II was discovered, he said "wheI
| was three year. old, that had inner
ited from some OF my ancestors ScrOf
ula Blood Poison of the worst type. Al
grew older the disease continued u
grow worse. had tried in turn a score
Of the best and most noted physicians
and had taken medicine until 1t seemed
"A farce. Before | was twenty | had
swallowed, it seems to me, two or three
drug stores, and was Il living proof that
there wa, no virtue in medicine for my
disease. The disease and medicine
com bined had taxed my system until
was a mere physical wreck. was
sallow, had no appetite, had lost flesh
until was nothing but sores, skin and
bones; The sluggish blood which flow
ed slowly through my veins was full Of
poison, and was in such fearful cOndi
ton that even pin scratch would re-
suit 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 | was laid up every winter and
the mercury had soaked into the mar
row of my bones until was an infalli-
BILE barometer, and could foretell to a
certainty the approach of rain by the
aching in my joints. Hearing of swift's
Specific, determined to try it, but
without any faith.
A SPEEDY AND EFFECTIVE CURE.
| commenced improving with the
fl irst bottle, and in short time the stiff
ness had left my joints and the sores had
disappeared from my body l passed
through last winter without a taint OF
rheumatism, and have had no appear
ance of:he terrible disease since. My
general health improved as Swift's Spe-
citiic drove out he monster, which was
eating my life away, and | gained in
flesh until weigh l5O pounds, which
is nearly double what it was when ]
began the use of the Specific. For the
first time in years enjoy my food. As
an evidence that Swift's Specific elm
mated all the poison from my system, ]
cut off one of my fingers few months
ago in machine, and in less than two
weeks it had healed up nicely; and a
few days ago mashed my thumb with
a hammer, and you can see it is healing
up fast. If eith i Of these accidents
had happened year ago, the chances
are that | would have lost my hand
lIsumming up, will say that my ex-
pcrience proves beyond the shadow of a
doubt that Swift's Specific will cure the
worst cases of Blood Poison, even when
it descends as an Inheritance; that it
will cure Mercurial Rheumatism, and
drive the mercury out of the bones.
joints and system and that it will
build up the general health, ana is the
b st medicine in the world. My case
alone is enough to convince anybody (;
but have known it used in a number
of cases, and it has never failed in a
single instance
Mr.. May will take pleasure in an
swering any letters in regard to his case.
Y. NJ. l.. A.