The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-10

pains in my stomach from indigestion
lasted two and three days at time.
lost considerable flesh, and before long
noticed that my kidneys were affected.
This came from my work on tho engine,
l know, as many railroad men are
troubled in the same way. had awful
pains in the small Of my back, and was
obliged to make water many times dur
ing the day.
II resolved to go back to the doctors
again, though their treatmenJ had done
me no good before. was told that
medicine was no good for me, that what
l needed was a long rest. could not
take too long vacation, being com
PEELED to work for my living, and SO
kept along, taking what stuff the doc
tors prescribed, but feeling no better,
except for day or two at time.
Finally my legs and hands began TO
ache and swell with rheumatic pains,
and l found couldn't sleep at night.
If lay down my heart would go pit.a-
pat at great rate, and many nights l
did not close my eyes at all.
II was broken down in body and dis
couraged in spirit, when, some time in
February last, | was reading in the
Montreal Family Herald and Weekly
Star, which I'VE take every week, of the
great cures made by d Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. got a couple OF
boxes for my wife to see if she would be
helped any by them, and then tried
them myself did no, put much stock
in them at first, but before had fin
ished the first box noticed that was
feeling better. The palpitation of my
heart, which had bothered me so that I
couldn't breathe at times, began to i'm
prove. saw that in going to my home
on The hill from the depot. which was
previously an awful task, my heart did
not beat 80 violently and I mad more
breath when 1 reached the house. After
the second and third boxes grew better
in every other respect. My stomach be-
came stronger, the gas belching was not
so bad, my appetite and digestion i'm
proved, and my sleep became nearly
natural and undisturbed. I have con-
tin ed taking the pills three times a
day ever since last march, and to-day I
am feeling better than at any time dur
ing the last eight years.
81 can confidently and conscjentiously
say that they have done me more good,
and their good effects are more perma.
nent than any medicine have ever
taken. My rheumatic pains in legs and
hands are all gone. The pains in the
small of my back, which. were so bad at
times that couldn't stand up straight,
have nearly all vanished, and find nv
Kidneys are we'll regulated by them.
This is an effect not claimed for the pills
in the circular, but in my case they
brought 1t about. / can now 90 up any
hill without the slightest distress or
palpitation or loss of breath, and am
feeling 100 per cent. better in every
shape and manner.
They have been a saving of money to
me, for since / began their use have
not been obi ged to lose much time away
from work. | am still taking the pills,
and mean to continue them until / am
certain my cure is thorough and last.
ing one"
After talking with Mr.. Voss at the
depot, where nis engine was in waiting,
the reporter went to the house where
Mrs. Holt, the other patient for whom
the pills have done so much, received
him and gave an extended account of
her experience with thein. Mr.. Holt
said:
II am 81 years old, and for IA years
past have had an intermittent heart
trouble. Three years ago had nervous
prostration, which left me with a mum.
Der of ailments, for which l have been
doctoring unsuccessfully ever since.
My heart trouble was Increased so badly
by the nervous prostration that had to
lie Gown most OF the time. Mystomach
also gave out, and L had continual and
Intense pain from the back of nv neck
to the end OF ny backbone. went to
physicians in Jeffrey, Newport, Alsted,
acton and here in Peterboro, but my
health continued SO miserable that /
gave up doctors in despair and lost faith
in medicine altogether. began to take
Dr. Williams Pink Pills last winter,
more from curiosity than because | be.
lieved they could help me. but the first
pox made me feel ever so much better.
l have taken the pills since February
last and they have made me feel like q
nav woman. The terrible pains in nv
spinal column and in the region of nv
liver are gone, and l believe for good.
My palpitation has only troubled me
three times since commenced
using the pills, and my stomach
now performs its functions
without giving me the great
distress which formerly followed every.
thing ate. The pills have acted diff.
ferently from any medicine ever took
in my life. have tried everything
doctors medicines, patent medicines.
sarsaparillas and homeopathic doses.
In fourteen weeks three years ago |
spent $500 for doctors bills and medi-
cines, and since then have put out as
much more money, but the relief
obtained, If any, was only temporary.
With these pills, however, the et-
fects are different. They are not
cathartic like other pills / have taken,
but seem to act directly upon the
stomach and liver without any loosen.
ing OF the bowels. My sleep. too, has
wonderfully improved since | began
their use. For long time before I
took these pills lost sleep night after
night with my heart and pains in my
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