Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-09-01
|THE Silence OF. MEDICINE.
Great Advances Made In the Last
Few Years.
The Story of a Man Who Has Lately
Been Cured of That Terrible Dis
ease, Locomotor Ataxia.
From u Phlladelphia Record !

ease, Locomot0r AtaXia.
From the Philadelphia Record
Very little Is heard by the general
public of the great discoveries In medi-
eine, and the countless scores of lives
that are saved by the advancing know.
edge of medical science. Diseases
which few years ago baffied the most
eminent physicians and were believed
70 be absolutely incurable, succumb to-
DAY as readily as the most triflinp all.
pent. No one, perhaps, has better
PAUSE to appreciate this than Richard
a. William, of Bustletou, Pa. Mr.
William is retired calico print mann.
6a turer, and before his health began To
EJuble him he carried on an extensive
business, both 10 Bustleton and
johannesburg. He is fifty-three years of
age, has travelled widely, and is a man
u more than ordinary education and
Y telligence. A reporter who visited
Pun fDund him sirolling lsisurely
through tue grounds surrounding his
pleasant home. MIR. William was at
2irst decidedly averse to the unwelcome
ppblicity which he felt would follow
tDe story OF his case in the newspapers
Reallzing, however, that 1t might b,
the means of bringing relief to other,
\ VINO were suffering as he had suffered
be finally consented.
"lf 1t had not been for one of Tn.
fecent discoveries of medical science T
pelieve l would be lying helpless in
PED Instead OF enjoying this STROLL he
Degan. MY troubles really date back
20 several severe falls received when n
Toung man, but / suffered no great in
9onve1 ience until 1888. My first sensa.
Ven was great difficulty In walking.
AZ this feeling became more intense I
dnally called in a well-known pbysi.
eian, of Hoimesburg, who immediately
told me that | had locomotor ataxja.
md placed me under active treatment
1pstead of getting batter | seemed To
HrDw worse and was scarcely able to
gen around. A year after | became his
pRiieut he IOId me that he would have
n give me up. He gave me to under
ftand that must resign myself to a
qondition OF utter helplessDess until
4eath came TO my relief. At last | got
g. that L could not walk at all: nv
hmbs went back on me entirely, and 1
was just able to sit up. / then
casled in Dr. Bull, then in Philadelphia,
anu now resident of Chicago. He
reeommended sun baths. and had q
sun -parlor erected for the purpose, but
my trouble did not yield to- such treat.
s1ent and finally abandoned il. In
April last, l received letter from
Mr. Grantier, friend of mine in Ell
mira N. Y, telling me how new
medicine called DR.. Williams Pink
Pills was performing astonishing cures
In The severest nerve diseases, and ad
vising me to try them. Not knowing
the soientitic nature of DIR. Williams
remedy and believing that it was an
ordinary medicine, was at first in
fiiped not to bother with 1t. But
rejected that in my miserable condi-
t7op 1t could do me no harm at least.
antl sent to the drug store and pur.
1haeed one box. After the third box
began to feel some benefit. MY whole
eystem seemed better. 1 kept taking
the pills. and one day to my great ioy
discovered that could walk a little,
From that time oD my recovery has
been rapid. Now, after using Pink
Pills for five months, from condition
9f bitter helplessness am able to walk
one mile every day without incon-
tenlence. ] take my one-haIf mile
epln around the house every day
now. L have not walked that dis
lance before for three years. / find
that / can ascend the hilly road which
teHde to our house with ease. L noticed
a3eneral 4 improvement in my health
week to week, and nay feet no longer
zeei ae ifthey were weighted down with
]eN1. ascribe this wonderful change
solely to Pink Pills My mother is
very enthusiastic over the pills, and
thInks DIR. Williams ought to have his
great discovery proclaimed from the
N9usetops."
An analysis of DR.. Williams Pink
fiils shows that they contain, in con-
4eneed form, all the elements necessary
to give new life and richness TO the
N|eod and restore iha tered nerves.
They are an unfaiiing specific for
e1s'n diseases as locomOtor ataxia, par
kIsI paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, sciatica,
neufhlgia, rheumatism, nervous head
ache, the after effect of la grippe, palpi-
{Nt|on of the heart, pale and saliow
toMplexions, all forms of weakness
e'kner In male or female, and all dis
eatfe resulting from vitiated humors In
nv Mood. Pink Pills are sold by all
NHhiers, or will be sent post paid on re-
ff.pt of price, $50 cents q box, or six
uokfe for $2.50-they are never sold In
Nt|h or by tfe 1907 by addressing DR..
W'|'lAms' Medicine Co., Schenectady,