The Progress., 1893-10-07
HOW A BABY WAS SAVED.
AN INTERESTING STORY FOR
PARENTS.
A Child that was Born with a Terrible
Af1iction - Pronounced Incurabls
by the Leading Physicians
OF Hahnemann College.
Saved by q Miracle
,r-oro ,bs PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.)

From time to time there nave "P
peared in the leading and most repu-
table newspapers of the country mar,
yelous accounts of many wonderIul
cures that have been affected Dy
medicine called DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. These state
ments have been made by some OF the
best known men in business circles
church circles and even medical CIR
cles. and have been backed up by
.heir affidavits.
The Inquirer is pleased to add an
other to the list and gives the story
below, properly vouched for.
Little Ettie Moncrieff is the daugh-
ter OF Mrs. Helen Moncrieff, who re-
sides with her sister. Mrs. Nj. u.
Meek. at 748 Wharton Street, which
is q neat little bakery. The reporter
found Mrs. Meek herself behind the
counter and she said:
my sisters daughter, who IS now
a wear old, was afflicted from her
birth with a spinal affection, and the
doctor who attended her said she
could not live. We had two other
doctors to attend her. They also said
she could not live. Finally took her
to the Hahnemann College. That was
four months ago, when she was 5
months old. The examination was
made in the presence of room full OF
physicians and students. The Pro-
/ lessor lectured on her case, saying II
was q very rare one. He said that IN
such cases there was very seldom
recovery. 1t was, he remarked, the
most peculiar case that was ever
brought to his attention.
81 brought the child home immedl-
ately, believing, as the Professor and
others had said, that she couldnt live.
In fact, at one time we thought she
was entirely gone. She was uncon-
scious, with scarcely perceptible pulse
or breath. Several times she was in
an almost equally helpless condition
and we looked for her death hourly.
Then / called to mind how DIR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
had once cured me, and the miracu-
lous recoveries l had heard OF and
read about of people cured from pa
ralysis in various stages, and even
from physical deformities. | told my
sister that since all the doctors had
abandoned the child, and she seemed
to have no chance for life, it could
certainly do no harm to try the Pink
Pills to see if they could possibly re-
peat their other wonderful cures.
Neither my sister nor | had the faith
that they would do so in case so
nearly gone as the child's and we
agreed that it would be miracle iu-
deed if she should be saved. She
couldn't move at that time, both her
arms and legs being affected. But we
began that very night giving her the
Pink Pills, letting her have one pellet
a day divided into three parts. On
the third day we could see that she
was improving. Before that it was
hard to get her to take food. At the
end of two weeks we saw great i'm
provement in her. We continued CIV
ing her the pills more than month.
After we ceased giving her the Pink
Pills, however, she seemed little
less happy and healthy and we began
using them again. Now she is a
cheerful, beautiful child in splendid
health. She has entirely recovered
from her spinal and other troubles.
She sleeps well and takes her food
well. For a child of her age she seems
20 be as strong and healthy as could
be expected. When we hold by the
arm or she is at our knees she can
stand, and for child who was once
deprived of all power of spine, arms
and legs, this seems wonderful. We
cannot have the slightest doubt now
that she will grow up strong. healthy
child"
Mrs. Meek then told how she had
herself been cured by DR.. Williams
J Pink Pills.
Three years ago l had a very Sc
we're attack of grippe. / thought
would lose the use of my right arm.
There was a strange numbness in it
and l would have to drop everything.
1t felt as if it was asleep all the time.
had doctors and they told me it was
| bad circulation of the blood, that
was run down and needed rest. / took
, only ono DOX vi Iluh HIS anu leit
myself getting better. | took the
second box and have never had pain
or ache since. Everyone who knows
what work | have to do is astonished.
1t is certainly wonder that with my
work | am so strong and have never
had a return of the trouble"
Mrs. Meek's remarks were reduced
to writing, after which she, accompa-
MED by her sister. Mrs. Moncrieff and
the child. made the following affidavit
Sworn and subscribed before me
this sixth day of May, A. d., 1898.
JAMES +. Rooney.
SEAL. Notary Public.
The proprietors of DIR. Williams
Pink Pills state that they are not a
patent medicine, but scientific prep