The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-01-12
4 DEsUGGESTs MISTAKE
4 sick vlau'sW lie Disregntds the Drug
gist AdN,cc and so saves the Life ot
Her Husband.

Her Husband,
| am n wood carver by trade and il
is out OF my line to- write letters; but
my wife tn ought 1t was no more than
right that should lie you koow what
your remedy has done Tor me, aud |
think s. too
live in East 18th street, west OF
Third avenue, aud have lived there
for about TWEEN -'hree years, where
own real estlte. Up 10 the time |
am about to mention l had been a
strong, well man. There was al ways
more or less malaria i'll the ueighbDc-
hood, but | h d not personally suffer-
ed from it. IL was in 1880 | had my
first attack 1t cane on AS such com
monty do, with headaches, loss .!
appetite and ambition, chilly sensations
with slight fever af crwards,a disposi-
ton to yawn and strcctb, AID so forth.
was employed at that time mt X l.
laDs II Brothers. furniture ma ute
turers, in West SD street hoped
the attack would wear of, but rs 1t
didu't consulted wellknown and
able physician i'll orrisanla, who
gave me quinine and told me what to
10. can sDm up the first tour and
hal or live years of my experience
in few words. Occasionally
WAS laid up for y day or two, bu' on
the whole trust to my work. kept
taking quinine, il larger doses from
year to year, and Kept on git ny
weaker and worse, slowly but surely,
all the time. My trouble was NOW
w II defined aud it's symptoms were
steady and regular. had dump ague
| i'll its worst torn. and ii was grinding
| me down in spite OF all ,hHt could do
or the doctors could do. 1t hclh me
i'll grip like fire in burnt Z coal
mine. The poison had go all
through aud over me and nothing
| was able 10 touch il. | was fast To-
my flesh aud strength, and about
Marcn, 1854, | Knocked of WORK en-
| tirely and went home to be dow
,ick, aud to die for al could tell.
ran dowh o rapidly that soon b
| came una le TO walk any distance.
Latcr | went from room II room N
my own house Only by friends hold
ing me up by each arm. Ine
doses OF quinine were increased un-
til often 10 k Thirty grams at dose.
The effects OF this tremendous INA
atiOn WAS to III Ike the II arly wild
1t broke my sleep all up, and oft II
walked the floor, or staggered about
it, all night long, scarcely able to bear
any noises of or even human speech.
My temper was extremely irritable,
As to food, one of my little children
would cat more i'll meal than |
could in Il dav.. would order food
and then turn from it Ill disgust
lived o. quinine and other stlmuia"ts
and on myself, like bear III
winter. The quinine set my head III
whirl, and the liqnor-g,ven "a =
medicine made my stomach SO SICK |
could not tolerate 1T.
From Us pounds (my proper
weight | ran down 90 81 pounds the
weight of hight girl-}ud was scarce
ly better than u skeleton.
If anybody had taken hatch t aud
knocked me down and killed M
should have been better OIL.
During the latter part o this peri d
early III 1886 my physician said: mi
Ter, there's no use IL my taklIiG a"N
more money of you, can't do you
any good. | might pour pounds OF
quinlne down your throat aud II
wouli't help you.
Or the s,rong of this | gave up
the use Of qulnene altogether, aud
made up my mind 10 DO nothing
more and take my chances.
Three weeks afterwards about the
asst OF May--my wife saw an adver'
tisement OF Kaskine in New YORK
paper She told me of it. SAID
Stuff aud nonsense! it can't do ms
any good" But she went to q drug
gist's neyerthclcss, to get it., 1h'