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CANCER or TEE TONGUE.
A Case Which Resembles Gen. Grants
COmditiOn---The Wonderful Cure
of Mrs. Conner. Of TrOGp
Comfy, Georgia.
LAGRANGE, GA, May IA, 1855.


! Some ten years ago had scrofulOus sore
on my hand which gave me great trouble. 1t
was treated and seemingly disappeared. Some
years after an ulcer made its appearance on
my left knee. This, too, under the old time
treatment was healed up, and I supposed l
was well. found, however, that it had only
been driven into the system by the use of Pot
ash and Mercury mixtures, and in March,
1882, it broke out in my throat, and cOncen-
trated in what some of the doctors denom-
mated cancer. l was placed under treatment
for this disease. Some SIX or seven Of the best
physicians IN the country had me at different
times under their charge, among them three
specialists in this line, but one after another
would exhaust their skill and drop me, for 1
grew worse continually. The cancer had
eaten through my cheek. destroying the roof
of my mouth and upper lip; then it attacked
my tongue and palate, and lower lip, destroy
ing the palate and under lip entirely, and half
my tongue eating out to the top Of my left
cheek bone, and up to the left eye. From a
hearty, robust woman of $50 pounds, was
reduced to a mere frame of skin and bones,
almost unable to turn myself in bed. 1 could
not eat any solid food, but subsisted on liquids,
and my tongue was SO far gone that could
not talk. The anguish of mind and the horri-
BILE su1erings of body which ! experienced
can never be revealed. Given up by physi-
clans to die, with no hope of recovery upon
the part OF friends, who sat around my bed
side expecting every moment to be my last;
in fact my husband would place his hand
every now and then on me to see whether |
was alive or not, and at one time all decided
that life was extinct, and my death was re-
ported all over the country. such was my
wretched and helpless condition the first Of
last October, 1884, when my friends COM
menced giving me Swift's Specific. 1t was
the only straw left in sight of a frail and sink
ing heart. was so feeble l could not take it
according to directions, but they gave it to
me as best they could. In less than a month
the eating process stopped and healing COM
menced. And that fearful aperture in my
cheek has been closed and firmly knitted to-
gether. A process of a new under lip is pro-
crossing finely, and the tongue, which was al
most destroyed. is being recovered, and it
seems that nature is supplying new tongue.
l can talk so that my friends can readily I'M
derstand me, and can eat solid food again,
and am able to walk about wherever please
without the assistance of any one, and have
gained fifty pounds of flesh. All this under
the blessings of mercifulIy Heavenly Father
is due to Swlft's Specific. l am a wonder and
a marvel to all my friends, hundreds of whom
have known my intense suaerings and have
visited me in my Affections. While l am not
entirely well yet, my gratitude is none the
LEGS devout, and L am confident that perfect
recovery is now in sight. If any doubt these
facts, l would refer them to Hon. John II.
Taylor, State Senator Of this district, who is
my neighbor, and to DR.. I. S. Bradfeld, of
LaGraDge, Ca, or to any other person living
in the south part of Troup county, Ga.
1 most cheerfully and gratefully subscribe
myself, MRS. MARY L. CONFER.